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Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]

[SB 1.2.20]

Prabhupāda: [aside] Not required.

Pradyumna: [break] [leads chanting of synonyms] [break]

...of the association; jāyate---becomes effective.

[01:45]

Prabhupāda:

[SB 1.2.20]

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Those who are contaminated with tamo-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, they can create their own God. There are different types of "God" also. …

Therefore one who can understand God must be free from the contamination of this material nature. Mukta-saṅgasya. This is also …

[Bg. 18.54]

When one has realized Brahman, prasannātmā, prasannātmā, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā... Here also it is said, evaṁ prasanna-manasaḥ. The same thing you …

So how one can become prasannātmā or prasanna-manasa? That is described here = bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ. Evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ [SB 1.2.20]. If …

Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī says, utsāha: we shall be always enthusiastic. But we cannot become enthusiastic artificially. There must be bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. …

And from five o'clock or before that, three o'clock, they are enthusiastic. They are not sleeping very nicely. That means …

Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore says,

[Aruṇodaya-kīrtana II]

Sleeping is very dangerous. It is to be understood that I am under the clutches of māyā the more we …