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

etāvān sāṅkhya-yogābhyāṁ sva-dharma-pariniṣṭhayā janma-lābhaḥ paraḥ puṁsām ante nārāyaṇa-smṛtiḥ

[SB 2.1.6]

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"The highest perfection of human life, achieved either by complete knowledge of matter and spirit, by practice of mystic powers …

Prabhupāda: Ante nārāyaṇa-smṛtiḥ [SB 2.1.6]. At the time of death, if you can remember Nārāyaṇa---Nārāyaṇa or Kṛṣṇa, the same thing---then …

Because that is the point = at the time of death what is your mentality. At that time, if your …

[reading purport:] So "Nārāyaṇa is the transcendental Personality of Godhead beyond the material creation." Nārāyaṇa is not a person... The …

That... In another place it is said that,

dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ notpādayed ratiṁ yadi śrama eva hi kevalam

[SB 1.2.8]

That is also referred here, that etāvān sāṅkhya-yogābhyām. Big, big sannyāsīs, they are discussing Sāṅkhya yoga, metaphysics, or analyzing what …

So Sāṅkhya yoga, either you take this Kapiladeva's philosophical principle or that Kapiladeva, that's all right. But after analyzing, if …

An interesting story has been described by our Satsvarūpa Mahārāja in the Back to Godhead: The learned scholar and the …

So this is the point. So you are trying to understand the whole analytical study of the material world. That …

This janma-lābhaḥ paraḥ. Janma-lābhaḥ. Janma-lābhaḥ means getting a type of birth. So there are different types of birth. The so-called …

janame janame sabe pitā-mātā pāya kṛṣṇa guru nahi mile bhaja hari ei

[Prema-vivarta]

Everywhere, either you take birth as man or cat or dog or insect, there is father, mother. Father, mother you …

Therefore this birth is meant for achieving guru and Kṛṣṇa. Father, mother you will get, anyone. Even you become a …