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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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For devotional service nobody should be anxious to get some material power. Rather, we should be always anxious to acquire how we can advance our anxiety, our eagerness, to serve the Lord. Just the other day I explained the Rūpa Gosvāmī śloka, verse, that the . . . to purchase these feelings of devotional service, the attitude of devotional service, is to become too much eager how I shall be able to serve the Lord. That is the only price; not this material acquisition.
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[[Vanisource:690310 - Lecture SB 07.09.08-10 - Hawaii|690310 - Lecture SB 07.09.08-10 - Hawaii]]
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We want to satisfy the Lord. That is our . . . Kṛṣṇa conscious movement means our life is dedicated how to please the Lord. So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that material acquisition cannot please the Lord. Simply devotional service. "Because I have been engaged to please the Lord, that means I have no material acquisition." That too will also be explained. Material acquisition his father had, but that was finished within a second. So material acquisition has no value for spiritual profit. That is being explained by Prahlāda Mahārāja.

Bhaktyā tutoṣa bhagavān gaja-yūtha-pāya ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.9|SB 7.9.9]]). So gaja-yūtha-pāya. There was one elephant, he was in danger. He was not even a demigod or brahmin or learned, but still, he could satisfy the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu by his devotional service, and he was saved. That example is given. Then he says:

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:viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha-
:pādāravinda-vimukhāt śvapacaṁ variṣṭham
:manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha-
:prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ 
:([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.10|SB 7.9.10]])
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Therefore for devotional service nobody should be anxious to get some material power. Rather, we should be always anxious to acquire how we can advance our anxiety, our eagerness, to serve the Lord. Just the other day I explained the Rūpa Gosvāmī śloka, verse, that the . . . to purchase these feelings of devotional service, the attitude of devotional service, is to become too much eager how I shall be able to serve the Lord. That is the only price; not this material acquisition.

Prahlāda Mahārāja further explains that viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.10|SB 7.9.10]]). Vipra, vipra means those who are advancing to be brahmin. The intermediate stage before becoming a brahmin is called a vipra.
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