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Prabhupāda: [leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani]. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Gaura-Premanandi. Hari Haribol.

yadā saṁharate cāyaṁ kūrmo 'ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā

[Bg 2.58]

[One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, …

How we shall know that one is situated in the pure consciousness? Simple imagination that "I am situated in pure …

Just now we are engaged in the Second Chapter. These are the contents, contents, the how a, I mean, a …

This vairāgya, or detachment from material attraction, is very easily done. As it is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,

vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam

[SB 1.2.7]

[By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the …

"If somebody engages himself in the devotional service of Vāsudeva, then very quickly this detachment develops. And knowledge." Knowledge also. …

That is the formula given in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Vāsudeve bhagavati. Vāsudeve bhagavati, "in the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa." Vāsudeva is Kṛṣṇa. …

This, all these Vedic scriptures, they are interrelated. They are not contradictory. If somebody says that "We find some contradiction …

Although superficially we may see that Lord Buddha is speaking something which is contradictory to Lord Śaṅkarācārya's teaching or Rāmānujācārya …

Just like Lord Buddha's teaching. Lord Buddha's teachings is... That is also detachment from matter, nirvāṇa. Nirvāṇa. But he does …

Similarly, Śaṅkara... A little more than Buddha. He said, "No, no. Matter is not all. The spirit is real thing. …

Then Śrī Rāmānujācārya came. He described the actual position of spiritual life. These are gradual development. Your, I mean to …

So these are gradual development so far the human society is concerned. As the position is. The whole process is, …

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

[Bg 4.7]