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Prabhupāda: Hmm. [aside:] The flies are disturbing. How we are...

parīkṣito 'tha rājarṣer janma-karma-vilāpanam saṁsthāṁ ca pāṇḍu-putrāṇāṁ vakṣye kṛṣṇa-kathodayam

[SB 1.7.12]

This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is another Purāṇa, history. We have already explained. So sometimes a class of devotees known as sahajiyā, they …

[break] ...directly taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa or to take shelter of a pure devotee who is under the shelter of …

So how this is possible, if we cannot understand... Because Lord Viṣṇu's energy is inconceivable. Inconceivable, acintya. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī …

Therefore we have to learn it from,

tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ

[Bg. 4.34]

We cannot understand directly. It is not possible. So we have to approach tattva-darśī. Just like Śukadeva Gosvāmī, tattva-darśī. He …

We use this word "omnipotency," but we do not know actually what is that omnipotency. Omnipotency means He has got …

It is confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā,

sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā icchānurūpam api yasya ca ceṣṭate sā...

[Bs. 5.44]

So prakṛti. Icchānurūpam api yasya. That prakṛti, Durgā, is acting under the direction of Govinda. Icchānurūpam api yasya ca ceṣṭate …

So this material nature is nothing but machine. It is not God. Those who are with poor fund of knowledge, …

sthāvara-jaṅgama dekhe nā dekhe tāra mūrti sarvatra haya nija iṣṭa-deva-sphūrti

[Cc. Madhya 8.274]

One has to become advanced devotee to understand how Kṛṣṇa's direction is going on. They can understand. Don't think that …

So anyone who takes in that way, mukti-pade sa daya-bhāk: his going back to home, back to Godhead, is guaranteed. …