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It is very difficult at the present moment to undergo all these processes (dharmajnah, sraddhayanvitah & tapasa brahmacaryena), but if you take to devotional service of Krsna, just like these boys & girls are taking, immediately everything is finished

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"it is very difficult at the present moment to undergo all these processes, but if you take to devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, just like these boys and girls are taking, immediately everything is finished"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

We have given this that, "Godhead is light and māyā is nescience. Where there is light, sunshine, there is no māyā." Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ (BG 7.14). So it is very difficult at the present moment to undergo all these processes, but if you take to devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, just like these boys and girls are taking, immediately everything is finished.

Because you are part and parcel of God, you are as pure as God, but now you are put into this material condition. You are being contaminated in so many ways; therefore you are suffering, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9). And if you want to stop this, then you have to adopt this process. And then Śukadeva Goswāmī says:

kecit kevalayā bhaktyā
vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ
aghaṁ dhunvanti kārtsnyena
nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ
(SB 6.1.15)

And somebody, somebody is going step by step this, by this process. And somebody, he recommends . . . kecit. Kecit means "somebody." Kevalayā bhaktyā: simply by discharging pure devotional service, kevalayā bhaktyā. Who can do so? Vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ: who has become devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. Vāsudeva-parāyaṇāḥ. Aghaṁ dhunvanti: he also cleanses all sinful reaction. How? Totally. How? No, nīhāram iva bhāskaraḥ. Just like fog. In the fog you are in darkness; you cannot see anything. It is very difficult. There is some accident, in water, in air; the fog is very dangerous. But if somehow or other sun rises, immediately fog disappears. So Kṛṣṇa is sun:

kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra
yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa
(CC Madhya 22.31)

We have given this that, "Godhead is light and māyā is nescience. Where there is light, sunshine, there is no māyā." Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ (BG 7.14).

So it is very difficult at the present moment to undergo all these processes, but if you take to devotional service of Kṛṣṇa, just like these boys and girls are taking, immediately everything is finished.

ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
(BG 18.66)

So take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be saved from the pitfalls of sinful life; otherwise nature will not allow you to go out. Thank you very much.