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Human life is meant... This is an opportunity to understand Kṛṣṇa.

hari hari biphale janama goṅāinu manuṣya-janama pāiyā rādhā-kṛṣṇa nā bhajiyā jāniyā śuniyā biṣa khāinu

This is Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura's song. Anyone who is not trying to understand Kṛṣṇa... Not even trying, what to speak …

So... Actually, that is the fact. We cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. But still, whatever Kṛṣṇa says about Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā, …

manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin vetti māṁ tattvataḥ

[Bg. 7.3]

Nobody can understand, even if he is siddha, perfect. Perfect means not spiritually perfect; means materially perfect. Or even spiritually, …

Karmīs are..., they are rascals. Jñānīs, they are partially perfect because they can understand the eternity portion of the Supreme …

Because when one comes to the understanding of personal God, there is ānanda. In other features, there is no ānanda. …

These ānandas, these pleasures---flickering, for few minutes, for few hours---that is not ānanda. Ānanda means satyānanda, real ānanda. Real ānanda. …

Therefore those who are actually yogīs, bhakti-yogīs---there are different types of yoga---so they ramante, they enjoy, ramante yoginaḥ anante, along …

Join with Kṛṣṇa. Then you get ānanda, real ānanda. Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12]. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1]. That is the description …

So that opportunity is there in bhakti-yoga. Kṛṣṇa is anxious to take you back. Why you are wasting time, economic …

But they are all material. They are destined. Whatever you have got by pious or impious activities, that you cannot …

Therefore our endeavor should be how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Other things we cannot change. This is not possible. Sarvatra.

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukhaṁ kālena sarvatra gabhīra-raṁhasā

[SB 1.5.18]

Kālena, by time, whatever you are destined you will get. Don't bother about so-called economic development. So far food is …

This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. "I have taken so much, life after life, from Kṛṣṇa. Now this life let me dedicate …

Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.