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This devotional service means practicing how to become qualified. Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ..., sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. You have to become …

Devotees: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. [end]

Harikeśa: Translation = "The devotee should first concentrate his mind on the Lord's lotus feet, which are adorned with the …

Prabhupāda: Sañcintayed bhagavataś caraṇāravindam [SB 3.28.21]. This is the beginning of meditation, sañcintayet. It is not nirviśeṣa, nirakara meditation. What …

Harikeśa: Driving rod?

Prabhupāda: No. It is called aṅkuśa in Sanskrit. It is like this.

Harikeśa: Hook.

Prabhupāda: Maybe, whatever. So aṅkuśa. Vajra, thunderbolt; then aṅkuśa; then dhvaja, flag; and saroruha, lotus---these four things are there. You …

This material world, we are living in darkness, hṛdayāndhakāram. Our heart is dark. We do not know what is what. …

So anyone's heart is always clouded with ignorance and rubbish knowledge. If you want to drive away this knowledge... Ajñāna-timirāndhasya …

That is described in the śāstra. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koti [Bs. 5.40]. Kṛṣṇa's body is bluish, or blackish; therefore you …

Therefore our knowledge is very, very limited, poor. Poor fund of knowledge, and still we are proud. Sapari phora-phorayate.[?] Just …

So actually we are in the darkness. This whole world is dark. It is... It requires, therefore, the sunlight, the …

Brahmānanda:

na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama

[Bg. 15.6]

"That abode of Mine is not illuminated by the sun or moon, nor by electricity. One who reaches it never …

Prabhupāda: Yes. So we are inviting or, rather, trying to go to that world where there is no need of …

So at least one life try to going back to that place. Then your whole problem will be solved. Here …

What is this foolishness? Why should you pay the electric bill? Go there and live there. There is no need …