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[Govindam prayers playing]

Prabhupāda: [sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much.

Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. [devotees offer obeisances]

Prabhupāda: Hmm.

Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

Text number 20. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]

evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate

[SB 1.2.20]

Prabhupāda: Now ladies. Ladies. [ladies chant] That's all. Now read the word meaning.

Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms]

evam---thus; prasanna---enlivened; manasaḥ---of the mind; bhagavat-bhakti---the devotional service of the Lord; yogataḥ---by contact of; bhagavat---regarding the Personality of Godhead; tattva---knowledge; …

[12:34]

Translation = "Thus established in the mode of goodness, the man rejuvenated by loving service to the Lord gains liberation …

Prabhupāda: Hm. So bhagavat-tattva-vijñānam. Vijñāna means science. It is not concoction, speculation; it is a science. Just like mathematic is …

This bhagavat-tattva-vijñānam, this truth, this science, can be understood by a person who is mukta-saṅga. Mukta-saṅga, means freed from material …

When you are enlightened, engladdened... Because so long we are in the jurisdiction of ignorance and passion, there cannot be …

tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye ceta etair anāviddhaṁ...

[SB 1.2.19]

Cetas, everything is working within the heart, the whole thing. Heart is the central point of this body. So when …

The human life is meant for understanding what is God. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This life is meant for simply understanding …