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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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<div id="SB2513_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="134" link="SB 2.5.13" link_text="SB 2.5.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.5.13|SB 2.5.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The illusory energy of the Lord cannot take precedence, being ashamed of her position, but those who are bewildered by her always talk nonsense, being absorbed in thoughts of "It is I" and "It is mine."</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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<div id="SB32652_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1097" link="SB 3.26.52" link_text="SB 3.26.52">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.26.52|SB 3.26.52, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The space within the hollow of the universe cannot be measured by any human scientist or anyone else, and beyond the hollow there are seven coverings, each one ten times greater than the one preceding it. The layer of water is ten times greater than the diameter of the universe, and the layer of fire is ten times greater than that of water. Similarly, the layer of air is ten times greater than that of fire. These dimensions are all inconceivable to the tiny brain of a human being.</p>
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<div id="SB33110_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1277" link="SB 3.31.10" link_text="SB 3.31.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.31.10|SB 3.31.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs that press the embryo during the weeks preceding delivery. Like the worms born of the same filthy abdominal cavity, he cannot remain in one place.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 4"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3>
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<div id="SB42527_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1084" link="SB 4.25.27" link_text="SB 4.25.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.25.27|SB 4.25.27, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear lotus-eyed, who are those eleven strong bodyguards with you, and who are those ten specific servants? Who are those women following the ten servants, and who is the snake that is preceding you?</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 5"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3>
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<div id="SB5132_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="33" link="SB 5.1.32" link_text="SB 5.1.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.1.32|SB 5.1.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The names of the islands are Jambū, Plakṣa, Śālmali, Kuśa, Krauñca, Śāka and Puṣkara. Each island is twice as large as the one preceding it, and each is surrounded by a liquid substance, beyond which is the next island.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 6"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3>
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<div id="SB6526_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="212" link="SB 6.5.26" link_text="SB 6.5.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.5.26|SB 6.5.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Every Vedic mantra is called brahma because each mantra is preceded by the brahmākṣara (aum or oṁkāra). For example, oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Lord Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (7.8), praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu: "In all the Vedic mantras, I am represented by praṇava, or oṁkāra." Thus chanting of the Vedic mantras beginning with oṁkāra is directly chanting of Kṛṣṇa's name. There is no difference.</p>
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<div id="SB68Summary_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="299" link="SB 6.8 Summary" link_text="SB 6.8 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.8 Summary|SB 6.8 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This mantra should be distributed all over the front and back of the body. The twelve-syllable mantra, which begins with the praṇava, oṁkāra, is oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. One syllable should be placed on each of the fingers and should be preceded by the praṇava, oṁkāra. Thereafter, one must chant oṁ viṣṇave namaḥ, which is a six-syllable mantra.</p>
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<div id="SB687_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="303" link="SB 6.8.7" link_text="SB 6.8.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.8.7|SB 6.8.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Then one should chant the mantra composed of twelve syllables (oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya). Preceding each syllable by the oṁkāra, one should place the syllables of the mantra on the tips of his fingers, beginning with the index finger of the right hand and concluding with the index finger of the left. The four remaining syllables should be placed on the joints of the thumbs.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_7" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 7"><h3>SB Canto 7</h3>
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<div id="SB752324_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="200" link="SB 7.5.23-24" link_text="SB 7.5.23-24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23-24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Deity worship should be continued along with hearing and chanting. Therefore every mantra is preceded by the word namaḥ. In all the mantras there are specific potencies, of which the gṛhastha devotees must take advantage. There are many mantras preceded by the word namaḥ, but if one chants the holy name of the Lord, he receives the result of chanting namaḥ many times. By chanting the holy name of the Lord, one can reach the platform of love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB71116_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="492" link="SB 7.11.16" link_text="SB 7.11.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11.16|SB 7.11.16, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As an alternative, a brāhmaṇa may also take to the vaiśya's occupational duty of agriculture, cow protection, or trade. He may depend on that which he has received without begging, he may beg in the paddy field every day, he may collect paddy left in a field by its proprietor, or he may collect food grains left here and there in the shops of grain dealers. These are four means of livelihood that may also be adopted by brāhmaṇas. Among these four, each of them in succession is better than the one preceding it.</p>
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<div id="SB71426_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="603" link="SB 7.14.26" link_text="SB 7.14.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.14.26|SB 7.14.26, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For Kali-yuga, the śāstras enjoin that saṅkīrtana-yajña be performed always: kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ  ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.31|CC Adi 17.31]]). All the ritualistic ceremonies recommended in the śāstras must be preceded and followed by saṅkīrtana. This is the recommendation of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 8"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3>
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<div id="SB81938_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="681" link="SB 8.19.38" link_text="SB 8.19.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.19.38|SB 8.19.38, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One might argue that since you have already promised, how can you refuse? O best of the demons, just take from me the evidence of the Bahvṛca-śruti, which says that a promise is truthful preceded by the word oṁ and untruthful if not.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_101_to_1013" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3>
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<div id="SB10621_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="243" link="SB 10.6.21" link_text="SB 10.6.21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.6.21|SB 10.6.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Nyāsa-mantra includes ācamana, or first drinking a sip of water kept in the right hand. There are different viṣṇu-mantras to purify the body. The gopīs, and in fact any householders, knew the process for being purified by chanting Vedic hymns. The gopīs executed this process first to purify themselves and then to purify the child Kṛṣṇa. One executes the process of aṅga-nyāsa and kara-nyāsa simply by drinking a little sip of water and chanting the mantra. The mantra is preceded with the first letter of the name, followed by anusvāra and the word namaḥ: oṁ namo 'jas tavāṅghrī avyāt, maṁ mano maṇimāṁs tava jānunī avyāt, and so on.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi156_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="57" link="CC Adi 1.56" link_text="CC Adi 1.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.56|CC Adi 1.56, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">From this and the preceding three verses of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, which have been selected from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the missionary activities of Lord Caitanya can be understood.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi329_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="255" link="CC Adi 3.29" link_text="CC Adi 3.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.29|CC Adi 3.29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The prathama-sandhyā is the beginning of the age. According to astronomical calculation, the age is divided into twelve parts. The first of these twelve divisions is known as the prathama-sandhyā. The prathama-sandhyā and śeṣa-sandhyā, the last division of the preceding age, form the junction of the two ages. According to the Sūrya-siddhānta, the prathama-sandhyā of Kali-yuga lasts 36,000 solar years. Lord Caitanya appeared in the prathama-sandhyā after 4,586 solar years of Kali-yuga had passed.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi389_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="315" link="CC Adi 3.89" link_text="CC Adi 3.89">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.89|CC Adi 3.89, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Everything covered by the influence of māyā is within the limited boundaries of space, time and thought. Even the greatest manifestation we can conceive, the sky, also has limitations. From the authentic scriptures, however, it is evident that beyond the sky is a covering of seven layers, each ten times thicker than the one preceding it. The covering layers are vast, but with or without coverings, space is limited. Our power to think about space and time is also limited. Time is eternal.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17123_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2060" link="CC Adi 17.123" link_text="CC Adi 17.123">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.123|CC Adi 17.123, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The International Society for Krishna Consciousness now has its world center in Navadvīpa, Māyāpur. The managers of this center should see that twenty-four hours a day there is chanting of the holy names of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, with the addition of haraye namaḥ, kṛṣṇa yādavāya namaḥ, for this song was a favorite of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's. But all such saṅkīrtana must be preceded by the chanting of the holy names of the five tattvas—śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. We are already accustomed to chant these two mantras—śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda and Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Now, after these, the other two lines—namely haraye namaḥ, kṛṣṇa yādavāya namaḥ/ gopāla govinda rāma śrī-madhusūdana—should be added, especially in Māyāpur.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya8294_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1697" link="CC Madhya 8.294" link_text="CC Madhya 8.294">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.294|CC Madhya 8.294, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the conversations between Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rāmānanda Rāya replied to five questions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and these questions and their replies are recorded in verses 57–67. The first answer is compared to copper, the second to a better metal, bell metal, the third to a still better metal, silver, and the fourth to the best metal of all, gold. But the fifth answer is compared to the most valuable gem, touchstone, because it deals with unalloyed devotion, the ultimate goal of devotional life, and illuminates the preceding four subordinate answers.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10186_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2265" link="CC Madhya 10.186" link_text="CC Madhya 10.186">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.186|CC Madhya 10.186, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Kāśīśvara used to usher Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu into the Jagannātha temple. He would precede the Lord into the crowd and keep the people from touching Him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya14130_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3069" link="CC Madhya 14.130" link_text="CC Madhya 14.130">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.130|CC Madhya 14.130, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The palanquin was also surrounded by people carrying umbrellas, cāmara whisks and flags, and it was preceded by musicians and dancing girls.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15107_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3303" link="CC Madhya 15.107" link_text="CC Madhya 15.107">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.107|CC Madhya 15.107, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Out of the nine processes of devotional service, kīrtana is very important. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī therefore instructs that the other processes, such as arcana, vandana, dāsya and sakhya, should be executed, but they must be preceded and followed by kīrtana, the chanting of the holy name. We have therefore introduced this system in all of our centers. Arcana, ārati, bhoga offering, Deity dressing and decoration are all preceded and followed by the chanting of the holy name of the Lord—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19135_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4374" link="CC Madhya 19.135" link_text="CC Madhya 19.135">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.135|CC Madhya 19.135, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In his earlier life, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was a government officer and a gṛhastha. He was not even a brahmacārī or sannyāsī. He associated with mlecchas and yavanas, but because he was always eager to serve, he was a qualified recipient for the Lord's mercy. A sincere devotee can therefore be empowered by the Lord regardless of his situation. In the preceding verse from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has described how he was personally empowered by the Lord.</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="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<div id="TLC1_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="7" link="TLC 1" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 1|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the fourth stage, called vātsalya-rati, the fraternal affection evinced in the preceding stage develops into paternal affection. At this time the living entity tries to be the parent of God. Instead of worshiping the Lord, the living entity, as a parent of the Supreme, becomes an object of worship for the Supreme Person. At this stage the Lord depends on the mercy of His pure devotee and puts Himself under the control of the devotee to be raised. The devotee in this stage attains the position wherein he can embrace the Supreme Lord and even kiss His head.</p>
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<div id="TLC13_1" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="19" link="TLC 13" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 13|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 13]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are two characteristics by which the seeds of love of Godhead can develop, and these are known as rati, or attachment, and bhāva, the condition immediately preceding love of Godhead. It is by such attachment and bhāva that the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is conquered by His devotees.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<div id="NOD19_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="104" link="NOD 19" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 19|Nectar of Devotion 19]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The affection and the dealings of love that are different branches of the original tree of love precede many varieties of affectionate manifestations that will not be discussed here. These different manifestations have been described by Sanātana Gosvāmī in his Bhāgavatāmṛta. Although the subject of such affections and dealings of love is very confidential, Sanātana Gosvāmī has described them very explicitly.</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="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="LectureonSB11636TokyoJanuary301974_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="347" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.36 -- Tokyo, January 30, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.36 -- Tokyo, January 30, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.36 -- Tokyo, January 30, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.36 -- Tokyo, January 30, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who has actually seen the truth. And, how to approach him? Tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena. By surrendering, by giving service, and questioning. Question must be preceded and followed by..., preceded by surrender, and followed by service. In the middle, there may be question. Therefore, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ **, we have to please the spiritual master by service and surrender, and then it will be very nice position.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32647BombayJanuary221975_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="503" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.47 -- Bombay, January 22, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.47 -- Bombay, January 22, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.47 -- Bombay, January 22, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.26.47 -- Bombay, January 22, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And in the Vedānta it is stated, śabdād anāvṛtti. By chanting the spiritual sound... The impersonalists, they chant oṁkāra. Praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu. All Vedic mantras are preceded by the spiritual oṁkāra. That oṁkāra... Kṛṣṇa says, akṣarāṇām akāro 'smi. Vedeṣu, praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu, A, U, M, These are described in the Bhagavad-gītā. So either you vibrate oṁkāra or Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, they belong to the spiritual world.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB631819GorakhpurFebruary121971_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="723" link="Lecture on SB 6.3.18-19 -- Gorakhpur, February 12, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.3.18-19 -- Gorakhpur, February 12, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.3.18-19 -- Gorakhpur, February 12, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.3.18-19 -- Gorakhpur, February 12, 1971]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Oṁkāra is Kṛṣṇa also. Kṛṣṇa is everything. Why not oṁkāra? So tat tvam asi means "You are the same." Tat tvam asi. That means you are spirit soul. So what is the objection? And for every Vedic mantra, the oṁkāra is there. Praṇāma. Every Vedic mantra. Just like we also chant oṁ tad viṣṇoḥ paramam. Oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyam. So every Vedic mantra is preceded by the oṁkāra.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononHegel_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="4" link="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Hegel|Philosophy Discussion on Hegel]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: He's using it as a rational form which precedes the material form or physical form. Just like I can think in my mind that e equals mc squared...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Anyway, that you are speculating. We don't accept that.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: No, but I can put that into practical form.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, practical form we can know. Just like we understand what is God, that Kṛṣṇa, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1), Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is vigraha, He is a form. He is a form but what kind of form-sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. He is sat-cit-ānanda.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononHegel_1" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="4" link="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Hegel|Philosophy Discussion on Hegel]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: When we were discussing Plato, Plato has this idea also that the ideal precedes the physical representation and you said yes, that the ideal was in spiritual realm, it exists in the spiritual realm. Because of that we are able to conceptualize some idea.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not that that idea is like this. Just like we have found that in the spiritual world and this is perverted reflection so in the śāstra we hear, cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu, the houses are made of touchstone. So we have never seen touchstone, neither you have seen a house made of touchstone. We have seen house made of bricks or wood. So this is, this may be an idea but that idea comes by hearing from authority. Not that we manufacture that spiritual world must be made up. Like this.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononHegel_2" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="4" link="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Hegel|Philosophy Discussion on Hegel]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: No, but millions of years ago before there was any house... Suppose I am the first man on the planet, there has never existed any other house, then I get an idea to build a house, does that idea precede the substance?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, according to our philosophy, just like Brahmā. Brahmā, he created another universe in his previous birth, but in this birth he forgot. So therefore he underwent tapasya for one hundred years, is it not? It is stated. So it is called... Just like you know something, so you think (indistinct). This is like that.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononHegel_3" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="4" link="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Hegel">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Hegel|Philosophy Discussion on Hegel]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śyāmasundara: So you say that form precedes idea.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Form precedes idea, not idea precedes form.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, we accept that. Form precedes idea.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJeanPaulSartre_4" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="19" link="Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre|Philosophy Discussion on Jean-Paul Sartre]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: Probably the most famous of the French philosophers. Perhaps the most well known philosopher in this century. He calls himself an existentialist. He calls himself an atheistic existentialist in that he believes existence precedes essence. That the essence of man... According to creation by design, God has the essence of man in His mind, and He creates man just as a paper cutter creates some kind of a figure. Sartre doesn't believe this. He says, "Atheistic existentialism, which I represent, is more coherent. It states that if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being who exists before he can be defined by any concept, and that this being is man, or human reality." So that for Sartre a human reality is all in all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So wherefrom the human reality comes? There are no realities also, so why he is stressing on human realities?</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononKarlMarx_5" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="22" link="Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx|Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: He says, "Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. I am sure only of my own existence." He feels that material life precedes consciousness and gives rise to consciousness. He says li...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But he does not believe in spirit soul, is that not? Hayagrīva: He says, "Life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So what is that life? When the life is absent why this body, the used body, is dead stone only? Has he got any understanding of that, what is that life?</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="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="MorningWalkMay201975Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="83" link="Morning Walk -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne|Morning Walk -- May 20, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: Is this the reason why others who have preceded yourself earlier on, is this the reason why they were not successful, because they were trying to judge the results?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Others who have come before yourself? When they tried to preach in the Western countries?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They did not try. They came officially, and that's all. Not even tried to preach this.</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="AnswerstoaQuestionnairefromBhavansJournalJune281976Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="169" link="Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana|Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: Then... You said we must know God before we can love Him. So that means devotional service is preceded by knowledge.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Yes, that is the process in the Bhagavad-gītā. There are 18 chapters. The whole 18 chapters is the education how to know God. And when Arjuna completely in awareness he accepted, "Kṛṣṇa, You are paraṁ brahma, paraṁ dhāma ([[Vanisource:BG 10.12-13 (1972)|BG 10.12]])," that is understanding. Then surrender, sarva-dharmān parityajya ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). Unless you know God, how you'll surrender?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationWithScientistsJuly61976WashingtonDC_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="188" link="Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Actually, in water also, all these, most of these earth materials are there, because it dissolves in water. Water is so many salts and elements, in a dissolved form.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I told you, that in the earth all other five elements are there.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: So water precedes earth in the creation. Water comes first.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, ether.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationWithScientistsJuly61976WashingtonDC_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="188" link="Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rūpānuga: Yes, because it precedes, and earth is being created from water, so you'll find earth in water originally.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: But still water is one element less than earth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, earth is full of all elements.</p>
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<div id="CommentsonBhagavadgitaPlayJuly121976NewYork_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="207" link="Comments on Bhagavad-gita Play -- July 12, 1976, New York" link_text="Comments on Bhagavad-gita Play -- July 12, 1976, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Comments on Bhagavad-gita Play -- July 12, 1976, New York|Comments on Bhagavad-gita Play -- July 12, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sudāmā: The precedence of our work, Śrīla Prabhupāda, should definitely be that the message of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is clearly understood by all, is that correct?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Along with it, if you, the same thing, more demonstrative, if you put some movies...</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Slides.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Slide or movie, that will be.</p>
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<div id="EveningConversationAugust81976Tehran_4" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="250" link="Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran" link_text="Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran|Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Terry: I have a question about this particular age. The world seems to be dividing itself between two kinds of materialists, the one which pays lip service to spiritual precedents but really devotes itself to self-aggrandizement, and the other which establishes an atheistic doctrine in the name of moral struggle with that greedy self-aggrandizement. In fact this atheistic moral doctrine has now taken over virtually the entire Sinic world—China, Tibet, Indochina. Is there some way that, the question is, what is the cosmic purpose for this and how should one come to terms with this prevailing, this increasingly prevailing notion that justice can be established in a material state or a material dimension?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: In the material world there cannot be any peace, justice, morality. It is not possible. You may try to make some adjustment, but it will never be possible. So, by their concocted imagination, they are thinking, "This way will be beneficial," but unless they come to the spiritual platform, there is no question of peace, prosperity, justice. It is not possible.</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="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrotherUnknownPlaceSeptember1955_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="24" link="Letter to Brother -- Unknown Place September 1955" link_text="Letter to Brother -- Unknown Place September 1955">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brother -- Unknown Place September 1955|Letter to Brother -- Unknown Place September 1955]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hold this meeting regularly for one hour in your home or any other suitable place near about your home, and chant the hymns or slokas of "Bhagavad-gita" with reverence &amp; devotion. If possible the reading of Bhagavad-gita may be preceded &amp; followed by a congregation chanting of the holy name of God as mentioned below—Hare Krishna . . . Hare Hare.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles29December1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="520" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 29 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 29 December, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 29 December, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 29 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In distributing the "perfection in yoga" leaflet, when people come to your temple you may explain to them the principles of yoga as they are described in the Bhagavad-gita. Such instructions by you may be preceded and followed by Krishna kirtana. If they are interested, you may show them how to sit, concentrating the eyesight on the tip of the nose. The concentration should be on Lord Krishna or Lord Visnu, as is explained in Bhagavad-gita As It Is. So if they come to know about hatha yoga you can show them in the authoritative scriptures how it cannot be successfully practiced in this present age of kali.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaLondon18November1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="683" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- London 18 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- London 18 November, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- London 18 November, 1969|Letter to Hamsaduta -- London 18 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Questions and answers is the relationship for the Spiritual Master and disciple. The only thing is that questions should be put, as it is advised in the Bhagavad-gita, preceded and followed by submission and service. With this, all questions are bona fide.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaHonolulu18June1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="346" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 18 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 18 June, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 18 June, 1975|Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 18 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">To help the preaching work, that is also preaching. If you can get money to help expand our preaching activities, that is preaching. We require money. Laksmi is the immediate assistant of Narayana. Narayana is always preceded by the word Laksmi. The Mayavadi philosophers do not touch laksmi, but we accept for the service of Krishna.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoYamunaDinatarineCalcutta13January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="40" link="Letter to Yamuna, Dinatarine -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Yamuna, Dinatarine -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yamuna, Dinatarine -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976|Letter to Yamuna, Dinatarine -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your engagement should be chanting and worship of the Deity Jiva Goswami advises that in the Kali-yuga sankirtana is the principle worship. Even if one chants many mantras it must be preceded by glorious sankirtana. Sankirtana is the maha-mantra.</p>
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