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Prabhupāda: We are all in ignorance, in the darkness of ignorance. Ajñāna-timirāndhasya. So the disciple is praying that "I am... …

"One who has opened my eyes in that way," tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ, "I offer my respectful obeisances unto my …

So in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also it is stated that parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ [SB 5.5.5].

We are all born ignorant. Either in human society or in animal society, we are born all ignorant. Therefore, in …

Śrīmad-Bhāgavata says that "Nobody should desire to become a father, nobody should desire to become a mother, unless one is …

So what is that impending death? Impending death means... Because we are spirit soul, we have no death. But impending …

So how to save? That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. Lord Kṛṣṇa says,

[Bg. 8.15]

"Anyone who comes to Me, he has no more to go back to the miserable material existence." Therefore it is …

Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg. 8.19].

Here, everything in the material world, everything is born, it remains for some time, it grows, then dwindles, then vanishes. …

Lord Jesus Christ also said like that, that "If one gains everything and then loses his own soul, what does …

The Bhagavad-gītā, therefore, they stress on this point. Lord Kṛṣṇa stresses that janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9]:

"You are very much proud of your knowledge, but if you want to be at all a man of knowledge, …

So we have spoken many times in various meetings in this hall about these things. Whole Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is …

"This body is perishable." Nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ: "But the proprietor of the body, that is eternal."

[break] ...vāṇī and vapu, and vapu means the physical body, and vāṇī means the vibration. So we are not concerned …

Just like the statue of Kṛṣṇa, to consider that "This is a stone..." Similarly, arcye śilā-dhīr guruṣu na... Guruṣu means …

You'll see these pictures. This movement was started by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, and then it was entrusted to Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. …