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Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat]

evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate

[SB 1.2.20]

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"Thus established in the mode of goodness, the man rejuvenated by loving service to the Lord gains liberation from material …

Prabhupāda:

evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate

[SB 1.2.20]

Bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ. It is not sentiment; it is vijñāna. Vijñāna means science. To become a devotee does not mean a sentimentalist. …

So bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ.

jñānaṁ parama-guhyaṁ me yad vijñāna-samanvitam

[SB 2.9.31]

Kṛṣṇa said to Brahmā, jñānaṁ me parama-guhyaṁ. To know about Kṛṣṇa, it is very, very confidential. It is not ordinary …

So it is a science. Otherwise, why Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has devoted eighteen thousand verses for understanding? Hmm? In the beginning of …

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

[Bg. 7.3]

So this truth is understandable through the..., through Kṛṣṇa or through Kṛṣṇa’s representative. In Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says,

mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ

[Bg. 7.1]

Mad-āśrayaḥ. Mad-āśrayaḥ means "Under My..., under Me." Actually it means, mad-āśrayaḥ means, one who has taken the shelter of Kṛṣṇa, …