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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful and so nice that if you increase your love for Kṛṣṇa, then you have no more any attachment for anything, any beautiful thing of this world. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). Just like Kṛṣṇa and these gopīs. They came to Kṛṣṇa, giving up their all engagements. (break) . . . were engaged in, I mean to say, loving children, some of them were engaged in serving their husband, or unmarried girls, they were engaged to serving her father, brother. But as soon as Kṛṣṇa blew His flute, they came, all.
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[[Vanisource:680710 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Montreal|680710 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Montreal]]
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So you cannot . . . the jṣāna system, the yoga system is by force they are trying to detach. That is not possible. It may be possible for the time being. Just like Viśvamitra, a great sage. These are the historical references. He was a very great king, and he wanted to realize self, and he began to meditate in the forest alone, as it is, this yoga system, that "He must be in secluded life. He must make his seat in a very sacred place and sit in this posture." There are . . . so he followed everything completely, perfect yogī.

But as soon as Indra saw that, "This man is performing a great yoga system. He may not acquire my position," so he sent one beautiful girl, Menakā, to entice him. So she came, she began to dance before her (him), and there was tinkling sound, and at once his meditation broke. And she was very beautiful, coming from heaven, so he became attached, and the woman became pregnant. Then she got a child, Śakuntala, and then Viśvamitra came to his senses: "Oh, I left my kingdom, I came to forest for meditation. Again I am going to be another kingdom." So he decided that, "I shall go away."

So Menakā tried to entice him, "Oh, why you shall go? You just see how nice girl you have got. Just see." There is a picture; perhaps you have seen. And Viśvamitra is doing like this: "Don't show me anymore. Let me go away." Of course, he was very much advanced. He could go. But this allurement is always there.

But Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful and so nice that if you increase your love for Kṛṣṇa, then you have no more any attachment for anything, any beautiful thing of this world. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate ([[Vanisource:BG 2.59 (1972)|BG 2.59]]). Just like Kṛṣṇa and these gopīs. They came to Kṛṣṇa, giving up their all engagements. (break) . . . were engaged in, I mean to say, loving children, some of them were engaged in serving their husband, or unmarried girls, they were engaged to serving her father, brother. But as soon as Kṛṣṇa blew His flute, they came, all.

So similarly, if our attachment becomes very nice, very mature, for Kṛṣṇa, then this viraktata, or detachment for material things, will automatically happen. But that is required, viraktata. And maunam. Mauna. Mauna means don't talk; grave. This is also very good qualification because generally, when we talk, we simply talk nonsense. That's all. We shall sit together, and some friends or family, some useless talks, we shall go on for hours together. But if you are called to talk about Kṛṣṇa or Bhagavad-gītā or Bhāgavata, this philosophy, nobody will come. So better not to talk. It is better not to talk than to talk nonsense, foolish.
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