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[kīrtana] [poor recording]

[00:45] [break]

Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yayātmā suprasīdati

[SB 1.2.6]

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Translation = "The supreme occupation, dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service …

Prabhupāda: So we are reading chapter, the Second Chapter of the First Canto, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, "Divinity and Divine Service." So just …

iti sampraśna saṁhṛṣṭo viprāṇāṁ raumaharṣaṇiḥ pratipūjya vacas teṣāṁ pravaktum upacakrame

[SB 1.2.1]

There was a great meeting, and... Meeting means... In those days, there was no political meeting. Political meeting was not …

So the democracy has proved a farce. It has no meaning, because people are not educated. People are mostly śūdras. …

So there was no need of this democratic meeting, but there was meeting of the first-class brāhmaṇas. For the benefit …

So the question was that "After departure of Kṛṣṇa, who was guiding the fates of the human being?" The last …

brūhi yogeśvare kṛṣṇe brahmaṇye dharma-varmaṇi svāṁ kāṣṭhām adhunopete dharmaḥ kaṁ śaraṇaṁ gataḥ

[SB 1.1.23]

Dharma, religious principle... Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [Bg. 4.7]. Glāniḥ means polluted. …

At the present moment, they do not know what is pollution and they do not know what is religious principle. …

So the normal condition of life is described by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When Sanātana Gosvāmī inquired from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu that …

Ātreya Ṛṣi: Turks.