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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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One has to understand himself. That is the basic principle of spiritual life. Unless we understand who I am . . . You go to the spiritual master, our first business is inquiry. That inquiry is "Who am I?" This is the . . . That is the beginning of inquiry. So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is authorized. We have printed one pamphlet, "Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement Is Authorized." It is not a sentiment, fanaticism. No. It is scientific, authorized. I am very glad that you European and American boys, you have taken so much trouble to come here, but you'll be benefited if you come here and try to take lessons from Caitanya Mahāprabhu as He gave it to Sanātana Gosvāmī.
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[[Vanisource:760311 - Lecture SB 07.09.33 - Mayapur|760311 - Lecture SB 07.09.33 - Mayapur]]
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Everyone, fools and rascals. How we can say? On the strength of Vedic knowledge. This is our power. Otherwise how we can challenge the United Nation that "You are all assembly of fools and rascals"? This is Vedic knowledge. We can say, and prove it, that they are all fools and rascals from the spiritual point of view, because they do not know their identification. This is the first education: to know one's identification. That is being taught by Sanātana Gosvāmī and Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He was prime minister. He knew himself, Sanātana Gosvāmī, that he was prime minister of Hussain Shah, and he's coming of very learned brāhmaṇa family. He knew it. Then why he's asking, ke āmi: "Who I am?"

This is knowledge. This is knowledge. One has to understand himself. That is the basic principle of spiritual life. Unless we understand who I am . . . You go to the spiritual master, our first business is inquiry. That inquiry is "Who am I?" This is the . . . That is the beginning of inquiry. So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is authorized. We have printed one pamphlet, "Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement Is Authorized." It is not a sentiment, fanaticism. No. It is scientific, authorized. I am very glad that you European and American boys, you have taken so much trouble to come here, but you'll be benefited if you come here and try to take lessons from Caitanya Mahāprabhu as He gave it to Sanātana Gosvāmī. Sanātana Gosvāmī inquired, "Who am I?" and He replied very simple thing: jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa dāsa ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.108-109|CC Madhya 20.108]]). This is the beginning of our lesson, so we must understand very nicely this point.
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