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[Bg. 10.12]

[Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal …

Pavitraṁ means purest. So if we want to approach Kṛṣṇa, then we must observe the purificatory process. Being impure, we …

You have seen that cakra of our Gauḍīya Mission? You remember, Rāmadāsa? So one side is called… Caitanya Mahāprabhu is …

So bhāgavata side is very difficult. Unless one is purified from the pāñcarātriki side, it is very difficult to go …

Five things: vaiṣṇava-sevā, to serve the Vaiṣṇava pure devotee; and to hear; chanting; and to worship the Deity; and to …

So the vipra stage…, we are talking of how to come to the vipra stage. The first stage, everyone is …

And the sacred thread means that one, he…, one who has attained the second birth, saṁskārād dhi bhaved. And after …

Veda-pāṭhād means to understand Kṛṣṇa. Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo [Bg. 15.15].

[I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am I …

Because Vedic knowledge means to understand Kṛṣṇa. The more you understand Kṛṣṇa, then you will become vipra. And when you …

[If a brāhmaṇa has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications [as they are stated in the book called Sanat-sujāta] but …

Twelve items, just like controlling the senses, subduing the mind, subduing the tongue—sāma, dama, titikṣā—to be tolerant, then simplicity, then …

So Mahārāja Prahlāda, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that even one is qualified with these twelve qualification and has attained the stage …

So Prahlāda Mahārāja says, viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha. Aravinda-nābha. Aravinda-nābha, aravinda means lotus, and nābha means this navel. That means Viṣṇu. …

If one becomes avaiṣṇava, not devotee of the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, but he has all these qualifications, aravinda-nābha-pādāravinda-vimukhāt [SB 7.9.10]. …

So one who is detached from the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whose abdomen a lotus …

manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha- prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ

[SB 7.9.10]

[If a brāhmaṇa has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications [as they are stated in the book called Sanat-sujāta] but …