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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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To be less influenced by the material modes of life, one has to come to this platform of jñāna, vairāgya and bhakti. Otherwise it is not possible. And that, the same process is being stressed again: na yujyamānayā bhaktyā bhagavati . . . bhakti, where it is to be applied? Somebody says: "I have got bhakti." Where you have got bhakti? "Now, I have got very much bhakti to my wife. I love her very much. I take care of her. If I do not see her, I become mad." So this kind of bhakti is not explained here. "I have got bhakti for my family. I have got bhakti my, for country. I have got bhakti for Goddess Durgā. I have got bhakti for the so many demigods . . ." No. That kind of bhakti will not do. Therefore it is particularly said, bhaktyā bhagavati.
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[[Vanisource:741119 - Lecture SB 03.25.19 - Bombay|741119 - Lecture SB 03.25.19 - Bombay]]
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It is by Kṛṣṇa's, mean, Lord Caitanya's mercy that we are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world, and the fortunate, those who are very, very fortunate, they are coming to it. Otherwise, it is not very easy thing that people are interested in brahma-siddhaye. And brahma-siddhaye means complete self-realization, or perfect self-realization. That is called brahma-siddhi. To understand first of all Brahman . . . jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena. That is also bhakti-yuktena. In previous verse we have discussed that:

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:jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena
:bhakti-yuktena cātmanā
:paripaśyaty udāsīnaṁ
:prakṛtiṁ ca hataujasam 
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To be less influenced by the material modes of life, one has to come to this platform of jñāna, vairāgya and bhakti. Otherwise it is not possible. And that, the same process is being stressed again: na yujyamānayā bhaktyā bhagavati . . . bhakti, where it is to be applied? Somebody says: "I have got bhakti." Where you have got bhakti? "Now, I have got very much bhakti to my wife. I love her very much. I take care of her. If I do not see her, I become mad." So this kind of bhakti is not explained here. "I have got bhakti for my family. I have got bhakti my, for country. I have got bhakti for Goddess Durgā. I have got bhakti for the so many demigods . . ." No. That kind of bhakti will not do. Therefore it is particularly said, bhaktyā bhagavati. Bhagavati, "unto the Supreme . . ." What kind of Bhagavān? Now, nowadays there are so many Bhagavāns. No, not that kind of imitation Bhagavān, but what kind of? Akhilātmani. You ask this so-called imitation Bhagavān that, "Are you akhilātmā? Are you present in everyone's heart? Can you say what I am thinking now?"

So Bhagavān means He must be akhilātmā. Don't be misled by so-called Bhagavān. Everything is there.
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