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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees …

[SB 1.8.43]

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Prabhupāda: Word meaning.

Pradyumna: śrī-kṛṣṇa---O Śrī Kṛṣṇa; kṛṣṇa-sakha---O friend of Arjuna; vṛṣṇi---of descendants of Vṛṣṇi; ṛṣabha---the chief; avani---earth; dhruk---rebellious; rājanya-vaṁśa---dynasties of the kings; …

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Prabhupāda: So Lord Kṛṣṇa is addressed here as kṛṣṇa-sakha. Although Arjuna is Kuntī's son, subordinate, but she knows that Kṛṣṇa …

Vṛṣṇy-ṛṣabha. Ṛṣabha, the chief. The best man is called ṛṣabha. So in the Vṛṣṇi dynasty, Kṛṣṇa is the chief. Because …

So ṛṣabhāvani-dhrug rājanya. Avani-dhruk. Dhruk means rebellious. Actually a..., a king should be representative of God. Representative of... The king's …

The spiritual master should not be, I mean to say, taken as ordinary human being. And the king also, practically …

Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa is maintainer, eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13]. "God" means the supreme …

So the impersonalists, they cannot adjust that we are individual person, and how the Supreme, the original cause of everything, …

But that is not the Vedic instruction. Vedic instruction is He is also a person. God is also a person. …

Now, why one person should be worshiped by so many persons? Because the one person provides so many person. Eko …

So how God is providing everyone with everything. We require light, we require heat. Just like in ordinary life also, …

Therefore original supplier is God. Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. He's person. He has got brain. He knows that all …

And because the kings---formerly every country there were kings, monarchy---they violated, they rebelled against God, they became themselves God, that …

So the representative must be very obedient. Then his position will go on. And... Just like so-called spiritual master. They …

Then is spiritual master as good as God? The next line is, kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya. A spiritual …

The Māyāvādī, they cannot understand it, that "Because a spiritual master has to be accepted as God, therefore I have …