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Prabhupāda: [sings]

[quotes]

This is a prayer offering obeisances to the six Gosvāmīns, direct disciples of Lord Caitanya. Vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau. The six …

According to whole Vedic system, there are four castes: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras. So this Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī belong …

So the six Gosvāmīns...

[child making noises] [pause]

Vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau. So Sanātana Gosvāmī, Rūpa Gosvāmī, and two Raghunātha Gosvāmī, and three, four, and then Jīva Gosvāmī …

On the basis of those eight verses, the Gosvāmīns wrote literatures, volumes of books. From Vṛndāvana they were dispatched after …

So these Gosvāmīns were engaged, kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana, chanting and dancing. Kīrtana means chanting, and nartana means dancing. Kṛṣṇotkīrtana, utkīrtana. Utkīrtana means …

When Caitanya Mahāprabhu was introducing this kīrtana system, so many brāhmaṇas of Navadvīpa, they complained to the Muhammadan magistrate—at that …

Caitanya Mahāprabhu was that time seventeen-years-, eighteen-years-old boy, but He was very popular by introducing this saṅkīrtana, Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting …

They prescribed so many ritualistic performances, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu was saying simply by chanting one can achieve the highest perfection. …

So that magistrate, Chand Kazi, was very learned scholar, not only in Muhammadan scriptures, but he was a great scholar …

One Mr. Woodruff, Justice Woodruff, Englishman in Calcutta high court, oh, he was very great scholar, Sanskrit scholar, and he …

So this Chand Kazi was a great scholar, and the brāhmaṇas lodged complaint that "This boy, Nimāi Paṇḍita..." Caitanya Mahāprabhu …

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a great scholar. He was scholar in logic especially, nyāya. So He was known as Nimāi …

Perhaps you've heard his name, Nehru. He came to your country, I think, during President Eisenhower's time, and in some …

So Nimāi Paṇḍita... Nimāi Paṇḍita, yes, so complaint was lodged against Him, and He disobeyed the order of the Kazi, …

[door opens, people enter]

The Gosvāmīns are coming. [laughs] Hare Kṛṣṇa.