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Śāstrījī: [chants slokas] Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.46. [Prabhupāda …

mauna-vrata-śruta-tapo-'dhyayana-sva-dharma- vyākhyā-raho-japa-samādhaya āpavargyāḥ prāyaḥ paraṁ puruṣa te tv ajitendriyāṇāṁ vārtā bhavanty uta na vātra tu dāmbhikānām

[SB 7.9.46]

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: [chants synonyms; devotees respond] [break]

[03:56]

Translation = "O the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there are ten kinds of prescribed methods on the path of liberation, …

Prabhupāda:

mauna-vrata-śruta-tapo-'dhyayana-sva-dharma- vyākhyā-raho-japa-samādhaya āpavargyāḥ prāyaḥ paraṁ puruṣa te tv ajitendriyāṇāṁ vārtā bhavanty uta na vātra tu dāmbhikānām

[SB 7.9.46]

So Prahlāda Mahārāja, indirectly he is declining all these ten processes for liberation. Those who are actually interested in liberation, …

So that is also a kind of vrata, vow. But our process is different = sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor vacāṁsi …

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Thirty years.

Prabhupāda: Thirty years. And where is unity of the nation? It is not possible. And here we are talking about …

Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says this stoppage of talking is better than to talk nonsense. If you cannot talk of Kṛṣṇa, …

Here it is said, apavarga. Apavarga. Apa. A-pavarga. A means just the opposite, a, "not." And pavarga, pavarga I have …

So how it is possible? That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:

satataṁ kirtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā nitya-yuktā upāsate

[Bg. 9.14]

Dṛḍha-vratāḥ. There is word, dṛḍha-vratāḥ. If you simply take this vow, determination, that "I shall do nothing except serving Kṛṣṇa..." …