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Harikeśa: ...Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Seventh Canto, Sixth Chapter, ninth verse. [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

[SB 7.6.9]

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Prabhupāda:

[SB 7.6.9]

The point is discussed, how one can get out of the bondage of material existence, vimocitam. But people do not …

[SB 7.5.31]

Again the same thing. Īśa tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ.

We are bound up, hands and legs, by the tantryām, the shackles or ropes of nature, or God. We are …

So how we become detached? We are so much attached; how we can become detached? That is also given. The …

Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya explained this verse in connection with Caitanya Mahāprabhu's activities, that "Who is this personality?" So he explained. He …

The material education means attachment education. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has said, 'yara vidyā sa māyā boyba: our attachment for this material …

So actually we should not increase our foolishness. Human life is meant for utilizing our intelligence. That is human life. …

So this is vairāgya. And the whole Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means vairāgya-vidyā, the education of vairāgya, detachment. Vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yogam [Cc. Madhya …

In the material world there cannot be anything good. It is bad. If there is real goodness, that is spiritual …

Therefore here cannot be pure goodness. Pure goodness is Kṛṣṇa consciousness platform, devotional service. If you keep yourself rigidly on …

Gāḍha means ass. Uṣṭra khara. Śva-viḍ uṣṭra khara [SB 2.3.19].

So this so-called advancement of civilization means the living entity is always compared as an ass, mūḍha. So instead of …

So people are increasing more and more and becoming under the clutches of māyā. That is janma-mṛtyu-jāra-vyādhi [Bg. 13.9]. Clutches …

Therefore the Vedic civilization is voluntarily accepting poverty. Voluntary. Big, big kings, they voluntarily accepted poverty. Rūpa Gosvāmī. Don't go …