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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Simply by chanting or hearing or meditating upon Kṛṣṇa, yad-anudhyāsinā yuktāḥ karma-granthi-nibandhanam. This asinā . . . just like we require a knife to cut the knot, similarly, if we want to cut the knot of this material existence . . . unfortunately, people do not understand that what is the wrong in the material existence. They haven't got even the simple knowledge. They think it is all right. They are ignorant, so much ignorant that dehātma-buddhi, they consider . . . the bodily concept of life: the body is finished and everything is finished.
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[[Vanisource:721026 - Lecture SB 01.02.15 - Vrndavana|721026 - Lecture SB 01.02.15 - Vrndavana]]
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So here the same thing is explained, that yad-anudhyāsinā yuktāḥ. Simply by chanting or hearing or meditating upon Kṛṣṇa, yad-anudhyāsinā yuktāḥ karma-granthi-nibandhanam. This asinā . . . just like we require a knife to cut the knot, similarly, if we want to cut the knot of this material existence . . . unfortunately, people do not understand that what is the wrong in the material existence. They haven't got even the simple knowledge. They think it is all right. They are ignorant, so much ignorant that dehātma-buddhi, they consider . . . the bodily concept of life: the body is finished and everything is finished.

This is the philosophy going on, all over the world. Big, big professors, philosophers, scientists, they are on this platform of thinking. I met one big professor in Moscow. He is Professor Kotovsky. He said: "Swāmījī, after finishing this body, everything is finished." Just see. He is a professor. He has no knowledge that there is life after death.

So world is going like that. They do not know what is karma-granthi, what is transmigration. Nothing. Simply superficial. Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ. Blind men, they are leading other blind men. Therefore they are kept in ignorance, and the world is suffering therefore. They do not know what is the goal of life. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). They are trying to adjust things by illusory energy. That's all. Therefore, andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ. It is exactly like the . . . a blind man is trying to lead other blind men. This is going on.

Therefore this is the process, yad-anudhyāsinā. You have to take one knife. This is knife. What is that? Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]]). This is knife. If you want to get rid of this entanglement of material existence, one body after another, then this is the only instrument by which you can unknot the knot and come out of the entanglement. Chindanti. This very word is used, chindanti: "It cuts." Chindanti kovidās tasya. Kovida means very intelligent person. Unless one is very intelligent, he cannot take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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