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{{terms|"The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me"|"bodhayantah parasparam"|"kathayantas ca mam nityam"|"mac-citta mad-gata-prana"|"their lives are fully devoted to My service"|"they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me"|"tusyanti ca ramanti ca"}}
{{notes|VedaBase qeury: "10.9" or "The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me" or "bodhayantah parasparam" or "kathayantas ca mam nityam" or "mac-citta mad-gata-prana" or "their lives are fully devoted to My service" or "they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me" or "tusyanti ca ramanti ca"}}
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 7 - 12"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3>
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<div id="BG109_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="100" link="BG 10.9" link_text="BG 10.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.9 (1972)|BG 10.9, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Pure devotees, whose characteristics are mentioned here, engage themselves fully in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Their minds cannot be diverted from the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Their talks are solely on the transcendental subjects. The symptoms of the pure devotees are described in this verse specifically. Devotees of the Supreme Lord are twenty-four hours daily engaged in glorifying the qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Their hearts and souls are constantly submerged in Kṛṣṇa, and they take pleasure in discussing Him with other devotees.</p>
<p>In the preliminary stage of devotional service they relish the transcendental pleasure from the service itself, and in the mature stage they are actually situated in love of God. Once situated in that transcendental position, they can relish the highest perfection which is exhibited by the Lord in His abode. Lord Caitanya likens transcendental devotional service to the sowing of a seed in the heart of the living entity. There are innumerable living entities traveling throughout the different planets of the universe, and out of them there are a few who are fortunate enough to meet a pure devotee and get the chance to understand devotional service. This devotional service is just like a seed, and if it is sown in the heart of a living entity, and if he goes on hearing and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, that seed fructifies, just as the seed of a tree fructifies with regular watering. The spiritual plant of devotional service gradually grows and grows until it penetrates the covering of the material universe and enters into the brahmajyoti effulgence in the spiritual sky. In the spiritual sky also that plant grows more and more until it reaches the highest planet, which is called Goloka Vṛndāvana, the supreme planet of Kṛṣṇa. Ultimately, the plant takes shelter under the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and rests there. Gradually, as a plant grows fruits and flowers, that plant of devotional service also produces fruits, and the watering process in the form of chanting and hearing goes on. This plant of devotional service is fully described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya-līlā, Chapter Nineteen). It is explained there that when the complete plant takes shelter under the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, one becomes fully absorbed in love of God; then he cannot live even for a moment without being in contact with the Supreme Lord, just as a fish cannot live without water. In such a state, the devotee actually attains the transcendental qualities in contact with the Supreme Lord.</p>
<p>The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is also full of such narrations about the relationship between the Supreme Lord and His devotees; therefore the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is very dear to the devotees, as stated in the Bhāgavatam itself (12.13.18). Śrīmad-bhāgavataṁ purāṇam amalaṁ yad vaiṣṇavānāṁ priyam. In this narration there is nothing about material activities, economic development, sense gratification or liberation. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the only narration in which the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord and His devotees is fully described. Thus the realized souls in Kṛṣṇa consciousness take continual pleasure in hearing such transcendental literatures, just as a young boy and girl take pleasure in association.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.3.12|SB 2.3.12, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Transcendental knowledge in relation with the Supreme Lord Hari is knowledge resulting in the complete suspension of the waves and whirlpools of the material modes. Such knowledge is self-satisfying due to its being free from material attachment, and being transcendental it is approved by authorities. Who could fail to be attracted?</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>According to Bhagavad-gītā (10.9) the characteristics of pure devotees are wonderful. The complete functional activities of a pure devotee are always engaged in the service of the Lord, and thus the pure devotees exchange feelings of ecstasy between themselves and relish transcendental bliss. This transcendental bliss is experienced even in the stage of devotional practice (sādhana-avasthā), if properly undertaken under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master. And in the mature stage the developed transcendental feeling culminates in realization of the particular relationship with the Lord by which a living entity is originally constituted (up to the relationship of conjugal love with the Lord, which is estimated to be the highest transcendental bliss).</p>
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<div id="SB2942_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="320" link="SB 2.9.42" link_text="SB 2.9.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.42|SB 2.9.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Nārada is the spiritual master of many famous devotees of the Lord. He is the spiritual master of Prahlāda, Dhruva and Vyāsa, down to the forest animal hunter Kirāta. His only business is to turn everyone to the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Therefore all these features of Nārada make him the dearmost son of his father, and all this is due to Nārada's being a first-class devotee of the Lord. The devotees are always anxious to know more and more about the Supreme Lord, the master of all energies. As confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (10.9):</p>
:mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā
:bodhayantaḥ parasparam
:kathayantaś ca māṁ nityaṁ
:tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca
<p>The Supreme Lord is unlimited, and His energies are also unlimited. No one can know them completely. Brahmājī, being the greatest living entity within this universe and being directly instructed by the Lord, must know more than anyone within this universe, although such knowledge may not be complete. Thus it is the duty of everyone to ask about the unlimited Lord from the spiritual master in the disciplic succession of Brahmā, which descends from Nārada to Vyāsa, from Vyāsa to Śukadeva and so on.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.29.17|SB 3.29.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Bhagavad-gītā there is reference to bodhayantaḥ parasparam, "discussing among themselves." Generally pure devotees utilize their valuable time in chanting and discussing various activities of Lord Kṛṣṇa or Lord Caitanya amongst themselves. There are innumerable books, such as the purāṇas, Mahābhārata, Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad-gītā and Upaniṣads, which contain countless subjects for discussion among two devotees or more. Friendship should be cemented between persons with mutual interests and understanding. Such persons are said to be sva jāti, "of the same caste." The devotee should avoid a person whose character is not fixed in the standard understanding; even though he may be a Vaiṣṇava, or a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, if his character is not correctly representative, then he should be avoided. One should steadily control the senses and the mind and strictly follow the rules and regulations, and he should make friendship with persons of the same standard.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Renunciation Through Wisdom"><h3>Renunciation Through Wisdom</h3>
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<div id="RTW212_0" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="24" link="RTW 2.12" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 2.12|Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.12]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Only when one is free from the influences of māyā can one perceive the transcendental opulence, power, fame, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation of the Supreme Lord. With this transcendental realization one can fathom the Supreme Lord's own words in the Bhagavad-gītā (10. 8-10):</p>
<p>I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in my devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts. The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me. To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG647AhmedabadDecember121972_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="225" link="Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972|Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These are the steps, krama. Krama  means one after another. So our, this Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement is enacted just to create little faith. In Kṛṣṇa. Then the person whom we are trying to help, his business is to associate with sādhu. Satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 3.25.25|SB 3.25.25]]). Satāṁ prasaṅgāt. If we discuss Kṛṣṇa consciousness... Boddhayantaṁ parasparaṁ tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. Everywhere, the same thing. So śraddhā is required. Then sādhu-saṅga ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.83|CC Madhya 22.83]]), then bhajana-kriyā. If anyone actually seriously associates with sādhu, the next stage will be bhajana-kriyā. How to worship. Bhajana-kriyā. Tataḥ anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt. Then anartha. Anartha means unnecessary things.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB231415LosAngelesMay311972_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="383" link="Lecture on SB 2.3.14-15 -- Los Angeles, May 31, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.3.14-15 -- Los Angeles, May 31, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.14-15 -- Los Angeles, May 31, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.14-15 -- Los Angeles, May 31, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). In the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find. Tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. We require some satisfaction and some enjoyment, because that is our nature. Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). Spirit soul. God is also blissful, and we part and parcel of God, we are also blissful. We want simply ānanda, pleasure. That is our nature. But that ānanda, pleasure, you cannot enjoy independently. That is not possible. You must enjoy with Kṛṣṇa. That is called rāsa-līlā. Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs, they assemble together. Similarly, we are part and parcel ... Just like part and parcel of big machine. They are assembled, then it works. If the part and parcel are scattered, oh, then it has no meaning. It is simply scrap of iron, that's all. But when they are assembled together, that is meaning. Similarly, we are all part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. So we must assemble together. Central Kṛṣṇa. Central Kṛṣṇa. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is...</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB2325LosAngelesJune231972_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="398" link="Lecture on SB 2.3.25 -- Los Angeles, June 23, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.3.25 -- Los Angeles, June 23, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.25 -- Los Angeles, June 23, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.25 -- Los Angeles, June 23, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śuśrūṣubhiḥ, those who are serious about understanding about the Supreme Absolute Truth, so for him, immediately God becomes entrapped within the heart. God is there, but especially... Hṛdi avarudhyate, kiṁ vā paraiḥ... Avarudhyate means you capture God. If there is discussion between devotees... Tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. In Bhagavad-gītā it is said. Tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. When Bhāgavata discussion is there amongst devotees... It is the business of the devotees, not the business of the nondevotees. Unfortunately, India, it has become a profession.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32221TehranAugust101976_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="421" link="Lecture on SB 3.22.21 -- Tehran, August 10, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.22.21 -- Tehran, August 10, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.22.21 -- Tehran, August 10, 1976|Lecture on SB 3.22.21 -- Tehran, August 10, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, who was magistrate. But it is not for a magistrate to write so many books—siddhānta-pūrṇam. So he was in a different transcendental platform. So that is possible. The mind may be absorbed in Kṛṣṇa's thought, satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]), tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. That is possible by practice. Here Kardama Muni is a living example. And there are mahy other examples, that we can remain fully Kṛṣṇa conscious in spite of being engaged in so-called material activities. That is possible.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32523BombayNovember231974_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="445" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.23 -- Bombay, November 23, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.23 -- Bombay, November 23, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.23 -- Bombay, November 23, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.23 -- Bombay, November 23, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The same thing is described here: śṛṇvanti kathayanti. So Prahlāda Mahārāja said that "I know how to become happy." How to become happy? "Now, simply hearing about You and chanting about You, that's all." Śṛṇvanti kathayanti. Just like here two business is going on: you are hearing, and I am speaking. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam. Mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ, bhajanti ([[Vanisource:BG 9.13 (1972)|BG 9.13]]). This bhajana means śṛṇvanti kathayanti. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]])—this is bhajana. You simply hear about the Lord, you talk about the Lord. That is bhajana. Śravaṇam means you can further make progress. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam is going on all over the world. Some is hearing about some politician, other is speaking about some politician or some other man, some important man in the society. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam is going on. But they are suffering. But when the śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam is pertaining to Viṣṇu, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, then you will not be suffering. This is the... It requires experience. It requires advancement.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32535BombayDecember41974_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="456" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the previous verse it is said, anyonyato bhāgavatāḥ prasajya sabhājayante mama pauruṣāṇi. Those who are devotees, they assemble together. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, "They discuss about the glories of the Lord." Bodhayantaḥ parasparam. That is sādhu-saṅga ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.83|CC Madhya 22.83]]). We have also discussed this. Satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 3.25.25|SB 3.25.25]]). When things are discussed about the Supreme Personality of Godhead amongst the devotees, it becomes a different thing than the discussion in the debating club of the nondevotees. The kṛṣṇa-kathā is not a subject matter for debating club. It is meant for the devotees. Without devotees, nobody can understand. The others who are not devotee, they simply waste their time in reading Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, such literature. They simply waste their time because these subject matters are for the devotees.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB555VrndavanaOctober271976_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="540" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This word is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. That is mahātmā. Bodhayantaṁ parasparam. Not the abodhayantam. The other rascals, they are abodha, those who are bodhayantaṁ parasparam. What is that verse? Mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam ([[Vanisource:BG 10.9 (1972)|BG 10.9]]). This is called sat-saṅga. Sat-saṅga. People should be engaged always inquiring about progress of spiritual life. That is advancement. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam. There should be constantly discussion. Everything is there in the books. Just like this word abodha-jātaḥ. We can discuss on this point, abodha-jātaḥ.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB555VrndavanaOctober271976_6" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="540" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.5 -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That was the inspiration of understanding. Why he should be like that? Why one should become old man? Why he should walk on sticks? So these inquiries made him Buddha, Lord Buddha, by meditation. That is his pastime. That means one should understand by nature study, why this man is diseased, why this man is old, why this man is suffering. Then bodhayantaḥ parasparam, then the inquisitiveness can lead him to the proper knowledge. And where to get that proper knowledge? That is guru. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). But if there is no inquiry, if one is dull like stone and tree, then how there will be inquiry?</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Lectures" text="Nectar of Devotion Lectures"><h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionBombayJanuary111973_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="25" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 11, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 11, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 11, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 11, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And in the Bhagavad-gītā also you'll find,</p>
:satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
:yatatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
:namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
:tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca
:([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]])
<p>Satataṁ kīrtayanto mām. Anyone who is chanting, he's mahātmā. He's mahātmā. Chanting. So these, these boys, although they're very young, but because they're chanting, always, they're mahātmās. Mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ, bhajanty ananya-manaso ([[Vanisource:BG 9.13 (1972)|BG 9.13]]). Kṛṣṇa says, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65 (1972)|BG 18.65]]). So this is the process in this age. You can chant. There is no loss, but there is much gain. Why don't you try it?</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember21972_2" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="30" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 2, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 2, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 2, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 2, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This conversation goes on. Similarly, natural flow of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is that as soon as one sees a person in Vaiṣṇava symptoms, he should be eager to welcome him. He should be very much anxious to talk with him about Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa-kathā. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. Kṛṣṇa conscious people should be so nice that as soon as they meet together, they talk about Kṛṣṇa, they try to understand about Kṛṣṇa, and they feel pleasure in that way. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness society. We are trying to make a Kṛṣṇa consciousness society to give this opportunity to these people, how one should be engladdened by seeing one devotee and talk with them, one another, about Kṛṣṇa, forgetting their designations. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Go on.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionCalcuttaJanuary311973_3" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="48" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The impersonalists take it, this chanting, as means to attain liberation. They do not know that the chanting is the, real chanting begins after liberation. Not that by chanting one reaches liberation. No. That's not a fact. Satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). Satatam. Satatam means after liberation also. This chanting will continue after liberation also. Not that after liberation chanting will finish. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, satatam. Satatam means after liberation also. Before liberation and after liberation. Therefore it is nitya. Nitya means it does not stop, never stops. Satataṁ kīrtayananto māṁ yatantaś ca, tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. Dṛḍha-vratāḥ. So the, when you actually go to Goloka Vṛndāvana, the same chanting will go on before Kṛṣṇa. Chanting will never stop. Go on.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila21110NewYorkJanuary31967_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="103" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.1-10 -- New York, January 3, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.1-10 -- New York, January 3, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.1-10 -- New York, January 3, 1967|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.1-10 -- New York, January 3, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is the qualification of the devotees. In spite of their inability to understand His supremacy, the expansion, the extension of the Supreme Lord, still, by discussing about the Supreme Lord, hearing and chanting, they take transcendental pleasure. It is not that anybody can understand Kṛṣṇa, but still, it is a transcendental pleasure to try to understand. Not that we shall be able to understand Kṛṣṇa fully; it is not in our power. But still, bodhayantaḥ parasparam, tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. Mahātmā, those who are great souls, in their society, in their spiritual society of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by discussing about Kṛṣṇa in terms of the Vedic literature and authoritative literature, they enjoy transcendentally. This is transcendental pleasure.</p>
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<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila211349NewYorkJanuary41967_1" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="104" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.13-49 -- New York, January 4, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.13-49 -- New York, January 4, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.13-49 -- New York, January 4, 1967|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 21.13-49 -- New York, January 4, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So for a living entity, a small living entity like us, we cannot know. The only thing is that, as stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, that satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ, tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). The subject matter is so nice that the devotees who are engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the transcendental loving service, they like. And in the association of pure devotees these topics become palatable. There are many instances in the Bhāgavata also. When Śaunakādi Ṛṣi, sages headed by Śaunaka Muni, was hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by Sūta Gosvāmī, they also uttered this, vayaṁ tu na vitṛpyāma. "You are reciting about the glories of the Supreme Lord, His activities, so please continue.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonMahamantraNewYorkSeptember81966_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="2" link="Lecture on Maha-mantra -- New York, September 8, 1966" link_text="Lecture on Maha-mantra -- New York, September 8, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on Maha-mantra -- New York, September 8, 1966|Lecture on Maha-mantra -- New York, September 8, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">hese are different, nine processes. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam. Śravaṇam means hearing, and kīrtanam means chanting, chanting. So by this process... Just like I chant and you hear, and you chant and I hear. Parasparam. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam. This is the factual activities of devotion in devotional society. This bodhayantaḥ parasparam: I chant, you hear, and you chant, I hear. So by this process, the transcendental name, the sound incarnation of the Supreme Lord, becomes manifest, manifest so that we can realize God simply by chanting and hearing.</p>
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<div id="ConwayHallLectureLondonSeptember151969_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="61" link="Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969" link_text="Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969|Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for coming to this meeting, saṅkīrtana movement. This saṅkīrtana movement is very authorized, according to Vedic literature. Most of you are well acquainted with the studies of Bhagavad-gītā. And in the Bhagavad-gītā also you'll find,</p>
:satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
:yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
:namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
:tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca
:([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]])
<p>Satataṁ kīrtayanto mām. Those who are mahātmās... Mahātmā means great soul. Mahātmā is not created. Mahātmā means... That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, who is mahātmā. Kṛṣṇa says, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]) "After many, many births." Of course, at the present moment they do not believe whether there is birth after birth. But it is not the question of whether you believe or not believe. The truth is truth. So there is birth after death.</p>
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<div id="ConwayHallLectureLondonSeptember151969_2" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="61" link="Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969" link_text="Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969|Conway Hall Lecture -- London, September 15, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This bhajan, that is the sign of mahātmā. You cannot create a mahātmā by rubberstamp or by votes. Mahātmā's symptom is that he's fully surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead and always engaged in glorifying His activities. His activities. Satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). He's always very much careful about executing devotional service. Namasyantaś ca mām. He's always offering obeisances. Tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. In this way they enjoy, tuṣyanti, and they're satisfied. These are the signs of mahātmā.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationNovember31973NewDelhi_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="84" link="Room Conversation -- November 3, 1973, New Delhi" link_text="Room Conversation -- November 3, 1973, New Delhi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- November 3, 1973, New Delhi|Room Conversation -- November 3, 1973, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: "In association with pure devotees." So if you are karmīs, then where is the..., What is the value of this association? Sat-saṅga. Sat-saṅga means assembly, discussion. Bodhayantaḥ parasparam, tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca. If you are not interested in association, discussion, then you are finished. So... karmīs, they are fools and rascals. When you have got this center, it is not that you should be engaged from morning till you go to bed for sense gratification. That is not life. That is karmī's life. You have no time for sat-saṅga, for association. You cannot make any progress by this sort of karmī's life. We have to work for organization, but not that whole day and night engaged and no sat-saṅga. That is a misguided policy, and it will spoil the whole structure. In Los Angeles, they regularly assemble during ārati and class. If this regulative principle is lost, then you are karmīs. They must come back by six o'clock, suspending all other duties, and assemble by seven o'clock. Joint mess program is not good. "You bring some money, you bring some money and spend us jointly for eating, sleeping." That is called joint mess. You know the joint mess? This word? What is that, meaning?</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember151973LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="101" link="Morning Walk -- December 15, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 15, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 15, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 15, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (laughing) It is not like that, but we can say, wherever Kṛṣṇa topics are there, it is as good as Vaikuṇṭha or Vṛndāvana. (break) ...prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ. By association, bodhayantaḥ parasparam. These things are there in the Bhagavad-gītā. (break) ...enjoy and be satisfied in the association of devotees. (break) ...article on the subject of "Kṛṣṇa, the supreme scientist," and let us publish it. That article is very nice. If he writes such articles, the conclusion, if Kṛṣṇa, the supreme scientist, Kṛṣṇa, the supreme economist, Kṛṣṇa, the supreme philosopher, Kṛṣṇa, the supreme chemist, Kṛṣṇa—everything, the conclusion is Supreme, Kṛṣṇa—then his activity is fulfilled. He becomes successful. The conclusion should be Kṛṣṇa. That's it.</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril31974Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="53" link="Morning Walk -- April 3, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 3, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 3, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 3, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Patel: Budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Bhāva, bhāva. Bhāva means love, feelings, feelings of love, "Oh, Kṛṣṇa is so great."</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇāḥ.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And that is being described.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Bodhayantaḥ parasparam, kathayantaś ca māṁ nityaṁ tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ramanti ca, yes. So instead of talking of Kṛṣṇa, they talk of politics, sociology, all nonsense. Simply waste of time.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Mad-gata-prāṇāḥ.</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithReporterofTheStarOctober161975Johannesburg_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="217" link="Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg" link_text="Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg|Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Harikeśa: He lived underneath the ground in one cell. You know that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Just make a show.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: You've said, "Yes, if someone can only speak nonsense, they shouldn't speak. But if they can speak about Kṛṣṇa to glorify Kṛṣṇa-kathayantaś ca māṁ nityam—then always they can talk about Kṛṣṇa."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He said?</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoLynneLudwigLosAngeles30April1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="159" link="Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973|Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Adorable Objectality, the Supreme Friend, the Supreme Master, the Supreme Lover—then, oh, he shall never again become disappointed or unhappy. Rather, because his loving propensity is rightfully placed,</p>
<p>mac-citta mad-gata-prana, bodhayantah parasparam</p>
<p>kathayantas ca mam nityam, tusyanti ca ramanti ca,</p>
:([[Vanisource:BG 10.9 (1972)|BG 10.9]])
<p>the devotee, one whose life is surrendered to Krishna, is always enjoying "great satisfaction and bliss" and he is constantly "enlightened", always positive, not negative as you say. The advanced devotee is the friend of everyone: yoga-yukto visuddhatma, purified soul engaged in loving devotional service to Krishna, sarvabhutatmabhutatma, he is dear to everyone and everyone is dear to him; and in another place Krishna claims that: yo mad bhakta sa me priya, that His devotee who is very dear to Him, advesta sarva-bhutanam, maitah karuna eva ca, is not envious but is the kind friend to all living entities. The devotee is supposed to be, furthermore, equal to everyone, panditah sama-darsinah ([[Vanisource:BG 5.18 (1972)|BG 5.18]]), never discriminating; this one good, this one bad, no.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRadhaKantaVrindaban20August1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="350" link="Letter to Radha-Kanta -- Vrindaban 20 August, 1974" link_text="Letter to Radha-Kanta -- Vrindaban 20 August, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Radha-Kanta -- Vrindaban 20 August, 1974|Letter to Radha-Kanta -- Vrindaban 20 August, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This life is very flickering. At any moment you may die so we must cling very close to the instruction of higher authorities, the spiritual master and Lord Krishna in Bhagavad-gita. So I think that you can follow the instructions. You are intelligent hard working boy. In the meantime until you get stronger, you should remain in the association of devotees. In this way you will get a taste for spiritual life. In Bhagavad gita it is stated: mac-citta mad-gata-prana/ bodhayantah parasparam/ kathayantas ca mam nityam/ tusyanti ca ramanti ca  ([[Vanisource:BG 10.9 (1972)|BG 10.9]]).</p>
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