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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Unless one is disciplined . . . this is the only qualification, that Nārada Muni was disciplined—so much disciplined that he's a small boy, still, he would not talk anything nonsense. He was so disciplined. So the more we become disciplined . . . as it is stated in the śāstras, utsāhād dhairyāt niścayāt tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt (Upadeśāmṛta 3). These are discipline. The more we become advanced . . . and naturally we get the mercy of the spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa. Through the mercy of spiritual . . . guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpā. There must be mercy both of them, guru and Kṛṣṇa. Without guru's kṛpā, one cannot reach Kṛṣṇa, and without Kṛṣṇa's kṛpā, one cannot get a bona fide spiritual master. This is correlative terms.
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[[Vanisource:740805 - Lecture SB 01.05.24 - Vrndavana|740805 - Lecture SB 01.05.24 - Vrndavana]]
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This Bhaktivedanta title was given on this vedānta-vādī because in our society there was no Vedānta. So some of the Vaiṣṇavas selected me to get this title Bhaktivedanta. Vedānta means bhakti, understanding bhakti. Because vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]]). So who can understand Kṛṣṇa unless he has bhakti? So this is the bhaktivedānta. So (reading), "Vedānta-vādī or the bhaktivedāntas are impartial in distributing the transcendental knowledge of devotional service. To them no one is enemy or friend, no one is educated or uneducated, no one is specially favorable, and no one is unfavorable. The bhaktivedāntas see the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish the lost relationship with the prayojana, lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead. By such endeavor even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhaktivedāntas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization. So the vedānta-vādīs initiated the boy even before he became self-controlled and was detached from the childish sporting, etc. But before the initiation, he (the boy) became more and more advanced in discipline, which is very essential for one who wishes to make progress in the line. In the system of varṇāśrama-dharma, which is the beginning of actual life, small boys, five years of age, are sent to become brahmacārī at the guru's āśrama just to learn discipline."

So unless one is disciplined . . . this is the only qualification, that Nārada Muni was disciplined—so much disciplined that he's a small boy, still, he would not talk anything nonsense. He was so disciplined. So the more we become disciplined . . . as it is stated in the śāstras, utsāhād dhairyāt niścayāt tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt (Upadeśāmṛta 3). These are discipline. The more we become advanced . . . and naturally we get the mercy of the spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa. Through the mercy of spiritual . . . guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpā. There must be mercy both of them, guru and Kṛṣṇa. Without guru's kṛpā, one cannot reach Kṛṣṇa, and without Kṛṣṇa's kṛpā, one cannot get a bona fide spiritual master. This is correlative terms. So we should follow the disciplinary methods sincerely under the guidance of spiritual master. Then it will be very, very easy to go back to home, back to Godhead. Nārada Muni . . . Nārada Muni, next life became Nārada, means he went back to home, back to Godhead. He was promoted in the Vaikuṇṭhaloka. Then in the next creation, to distribute this bhakti-mārga, he took birth as the son of Brahmājī, and his business was to convert only all others to devotional life. You'll find Nārada Muni's name in connection with Vālmīki, in connection with Prahlāda Mahārāja, long, long ago. And still, we are also following Nārada Muni's path, Nārada Pañcarātra. Our method is Nārada Pañcarātra.
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