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<div id="LectureonSB1727VrndavanaSeptember241976_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="182" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.27 -- Vrndavana, September 24, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.27 -- Vrndavana, September 24, 1976">
<div class="heading">At least we Indians we are trained up like that. Not only trained up, we are born devotees. Anyone who has taken birth in India, that is special facility. In their previous birth, they had performed many austerities, much austerities. Even the demigods, they desire also to take birth in India to get this opportunity. So India... Don't think... India means this planet, Bhāratavarṣa.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.27 -- Vrndavana, September 24, 1976|Lecture on SB 1.7.27 -- Vrndavana, September 24, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So at least we Indians we are trained up like that. Not only trained up, we are born devotees. Anyone who has taken birth in India, that is special facility. In their previous birth, they had performed many austerities, much austerities. Even the demigods, they desire also to take birth in India to get this opportunity. So India... Don't think... India means this planet, Bhāratavarṣa. There is good opportunity. So we should not think. If we think that "Here is a stone statue," then it will not prolong many days. It will not... Galagraha. No more vigraha, but galagraha. Suppose I have established this temple. Now under my direction, my disciples are worshiping vigraha. Vigraha means the form of the Lord, rūpa. But if there is no following of the regulative principles, then after my death it will be galagraha, a burden, that "Our rascal Guru Mahārāja established this temple, and we have to worship, early rise in the morning, all botheration." This will be... That is called galagraha, a burden, "He has left with us a burden." This is the risk. Then this, such a big temple will be mismanaged, and you'll find that "This is breaking" and "This is unclean," and there is no attention. This will be our... That is called galagraha. "The rascal has given us a burden."</p>
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