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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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You are hankering after happiness. That happiness, brahma-sukha, eternal happiness, you will get by practicing tapasya. So don't believe, don't make friendship with your restless mind. This is the instruction. Don't make friendship. Simply beat the mind with shoes and broomstick, otherwise cannot bring in control. And other alternative is kevalayā bhaktyā. So if you can engage your mind at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then it is possible. Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ (SB 9.4.18). Then Kṛṣṇa will control. Kṛṣṇa means light. Darkness . . . you are suffering in the darkness. So somehow or other if you bring a light, there is no darkness.
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[[Vanisource:761125 - Lecture SB 05.06.03 - Vrndavana|761125 - Lecture SB 05.06.03 - Vrndavana]]
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It is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]]), and you have to practice tapasya if you want to get out of it. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattva ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). We are now accustomed to this miserable condition of life. If you want actual happiness, then you have to undergo austerity, tapasya. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam. You are hankering after happiness. That happiness, brahma-sukha, eternal happiness, you will get by practicing tapasya. So don't believe, don't make friendship with your restless mind. This is the instruction. Don't make friendship. Simply beat the mind with shoes and broomstick, otherwise cannot bring in control. And other alternative is kevalayā bhaktyā. So if you can engage your mind at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then it is possible. Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 9.4.18-20|SB 9.4.18]]). Then Kṛṣṇa will control. Kṛṣṇa means light. Darkness . . . you are suffering in the darkness. So somehow or other if you bring a light, there is no darkness.

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:kṛṣṇa-sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra
:yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra 
:([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.31|CC Madhya 22.31]])
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If you keep always within your mind Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet . . . you can see Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, Deity, Baladeva, Balarāma, how He is nicely standing. You can see the nice lotus feet. Don't try to see the face all of a sudden. Try, practice to see the lotus feet constantly. Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāra . . . this is a chance. This temple means to practice how to think of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, Balarāma's lotus feet, always. Man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65 (1972)|BG 18.65]]). Immediately you become bhakta. And as soon as you become a bhakta, kecit kevalayā bhaktyā vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ, dhunvanti aghaṁ kṛtsnam ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.15|SB 6.1.15]]): all kinds of disturbances will be subsided, dhunvanti. Nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ. This is the śāstra injunction.
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