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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So, so long we are in the service of māyā, duṣkṛtinām, engaged in sinful activities, it is not possible. But if you engage the positive and the negative . . . the Māyāvādī, they are simply trying to be negative. There is no positive engagement. But here in the bhakti-yoga, negative is there and positive is there. Therefore there is electric light bulb, negative and positive. Therefore there is enlightenment. Simply negative will not help you. And if you don't care of the negative sides, simply positive also will not. But bhakti-yoga is so strong, if you take to the positive side of service of Kṛṣṇa, the material service, or māyā's service, will automatically become negative.
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[[Vanisource:741127 - Lecture SB 03.25.27 - Bombay|741127 - Lecture SB 03.25.27 - Bombay]]
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So why don't you do that? Why you are so much eager to serve the modes of material nature? Why not serve Kṛṣṇa? Here is Kṛṣṇa. Where is the difficulty? No difficulty at all. Just there's Kṛṣṇa. Just give Kṛṣṇa nice foodstuff. Just chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. You eat sumptuously and keep your health very good, nicely. Where is the difficulty? Mām eva ye . . . this is very difficult? The only difficulty is that I cannot give up all these sinful activities. I cannot give up smoking. I cannot give up drinking. I cannot give up meat-eating. I cannot give up gambling. I cannot give up illicit sex. That is difficulty. Otherwise, to serve Kṛṣṇa is not at all difficult. There is no difficulty. But I cannot give up the service of my sinful activities.

Therefore here it is said, asevayāyaṁ prakṛter guṇānām. That you have to learn. That you can learn very easily if you turn your attention to the service . . . therefore this bhakti-yoga service. We are simply insisting: get up early in the morning, do this service, do that . . . in this way, if we engage ourselves in the service of Kṛṣṇa, gradually we shall forget the service of māyā. The service of māyā means sinful activities, that's all. So, so long we are in the service of māyā, duṣkṛtinām, engaged in sinful activities, it is not possible. But if you engage the positive and the negative . . . the Māyāvādī, they are simply trying to be negative. There is no positive engagement. But here in the bhakti-yoga, negative is there and positive is there. Therefore there is electric light bulb, negative and positive. Therefore there is enlightenment. Simply negative will not help you. And if you don't care of the negative sides, simply positive also will not. But bhakti-yoga is so strong, if you take to the positive side of service of Kṛṣṇa, the material service, or māyā's service, will automatically become negative. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt ([[Vanisource:SB 11.2.42|SB 11.2.42]]). That is called vairāgya. The bhakti-yoga means vairāgya-yoga.

Vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yogam. This was composed by Sarvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When he understood Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he wrote this verse, vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.254|CC Madhya 6.254]]). Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is that purāṇa-puruṣa, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the original. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravar . . . ([[Vanisource:BG 10.8 (1972)|BG 10.8]]). Everything has come from Kṛṣṇa; therefore He's purāṇa, the oldest. Oldest. Nobody can be older than Kṛṣṇa, but He's always young. That is Bhagavān. Advaitam acyutam anādi. Anādi. He has no ādi. He's ādi. Ādi means the original.
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