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

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

[SB 1.2.7]

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

Prabhupāda:

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

[SB 1.2.7]

So the mission of human life is to acquire knowledge, jñānam, and vairāgyam, detachment. Jñānam means real identification, "What I …

So this is not jñānam. This chance is available when we are no longer cats and dog but human being. …

But in the human form of life, that is not the business. Therefore the Vedānta-sūtra says, athāto brahma jijñāsā: "This …

In the śāstras this is warned again and again. Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye [SB 5.5.1]. …

In Bombay we have got now six buildings full of tenants. So they are little disturbed because now we have …

So actually, there is no scarcity of food. Kṛṣṇa is so kind. God is so kind. Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti …

So this can be done, as it is prescribed here, that,

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

[SB 1.2.7]

The first thing, jñānam and vairāgyam... This human form of life is meant for jñāna and vairāgya. Jñāna means vairāgya, …

This whole world is going on on the basis of sense gratification. A man and a woman, or a male …

In this way the living entity becomes entangled, and his sense of aham, "It is my... It is..., I am …