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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this was heard by Mahārāja Parīkṣit. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was cursed by a brahmin that he would die within seven days. So he simply heard this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for seven days very seriously, and he was fully conscious of Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he described also the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to Mahārāja Parīkṣit for seven days only. He also became fully Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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[[Vanisource:690331 - Lecture SB 07.06.09-17 - San Francisco|690331 - Lecture SB 07.06.09-17 - San Francisco]]
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Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not a thing to be learned. It is to be revived. Just like the matches: there is already fire. If you simply rub the stick, the fire will come. It is not that ordinary stick, if you rub, there will be fire. The fire is already there.

Similarly, Prahlāda Mahārāja recommends that you have to change your association: "My dear daityas, boys of the demons, please change your asso . . . give up the association of the demonic people and please take the association of nārāyaṇa-parā, those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, or God conscious." Upetya nārāyaṇam ādi-devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito 'pavargaḥ: "If you take up that association, then gradually you will be advanced to the highest goal of achievement, or spiritual life."

So in this way please try to understand us. Don't misunderstand us. And we shall try to serve you with our greatest service motive. And in the meantime, if you have got any question, you can ask. (devotees offer obeisances)

Any question? Yes?

Umāpati: Swāmījī, is there degrees of Kṛṣṇa consciousness? I thought of an example of walking through a dark tunnel, and it's getting lighter and lighter, and all of a sudden you're out in light. Is there degrees of this?

Prabhupāda: Degrees of Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

Umāpati: Yes. Do you work up to it, and then all of a sudden achieve it, or do you . . . is it blackness up to light?

Prabhupāda: Yes. There are degrees according to the degrees of understanding. If Kṛṣṇa consciousness is accepted immediately, there is no question of degrees. But that acceptance is not possible in a second or in a minute. But if it is accepted that, "This is the nicest thing," then there is no question of degrees; it is immediately realized also.

Just like there is an example that one king, he joined with the demigods to fight with the demons. He helped. And the demigods were very pleased with that king, and the demigods liked to give him some benediction, material benediction, that "You have helped us so much, so much so we want to give you something. What do you want?"

So he first of all asked that, "How long my duration of life is there?" So they replied: "Oh, your life is not very long. It is for so many hours now." So he immediately took the opportunity and took to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is a very nice example. That means within very short time he realized Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

And this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this was heard by Mahārāja Parīkṣit. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was cursed by a brahmin that he would die within seven days. So he simply heard this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for seven days very seriously, and he was fully conscious of Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he described also the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to Mahārāja Parīkṣit for seven days only. He also became fully Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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