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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Your desires and your propensities will be according to your society. Just like in English language it is said: "A man is known by his company." So we have to change our company.

This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is another chance for changing the company, the society. Here in the temple, those who are coming and associating with us, now, we chant, we talk about God, we hear authoritative scriptures like Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and we distribute prasādam, and we chant, we dance, we restrict ourself, we restrain ourself. We do not allow illicit sex. We do not, I mean to say, take any intoxicants. We do not indulge in gambling. We do not indulge in meat-eating. Similarly, we are trying to form character and God consciousness, 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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Even in this planet, those who are devotees of the Lord, those who accept the supremacy of God and those who are devotees, they are called demigods. And those who do not accept that, those who defy the existence of God, they are called demons.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja recommends that tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā. Vidūrāt: "From distance, from long distance, please give up the association of the demons," upetya nārāyaṇam ādi-devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito 'pavargaḥ, "and take the company of . . . accept the society of devotees." Then it will be very easy. Saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.62 (1972)|BG 2.62]]).

Your desires and your propensities will be according to your society. Just like in English language it is said: "A man is known by his company." So we have to change our company.

This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is another chance for changing the company, the society. Here in the temple, those who are coming and associating with us, now, we chant, we talk about God, we hear authoritative scriptures like Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and we distribute prasādam, and we chant, we dance, we restrict ourself, we restrain ourself. We do not allow illicit sex. We do not, I mean to say, take any intoxicants. We do not indulge in gambling. We do not indulge in meat-eating. Similarly, we are trying to form character and God consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So therefore it is not that this Society is opened for exploiting others. This Society is for giving good association to the, I mean to say, misguided people, this Society, so that by association they will gradually develop godly qualities. The godly qualities are already within you. It is dormant. Not that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is being injected in you.
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