Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.23

[Kīrtana]

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Prabhupāda: If there are people who cannot understand Hindi, so what is the decision? [indistinct]. Hindi or English?

Amogha: English.

Prabhupāda: English is all right? There are many foreigners.

Amogha: Yes. I think there are many foreigners, they will understand.

Prabhupāda:

brūhi yogeśvare kṛṣṅe brahmaṅye dharma-varmaṅi svāṁ kāṣṭhām adhunopete dharmaḥ kaṁ śaraṅaṁ gataḥ [SB 1.1.23]

This is a question made by the great saintly persons who assembled in Naimiṣāraṅya to hear about bhāgavata-dharma. Real dharma, as I have already explained yesterday... Dharma means bhāgavata-dharma. Bhāgavata-dharma is not a faith. It is a fact, characteristic of the human being. Bhāgavata means in relationship with God, Bhagavān, bhāgavata-tattva. This word... From bhāgavata-tattva there is bhāgavata. The root is the bhaga, and from that root this word is derived, bhāgavata. It is pertaining to the Personality of Godhead and His devotees. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the book of knowledge which is dealing with the Supreme Personality of Godhead with His different devotees. That is called Bhāgavata.

There are two kinds of bhāgavata. One Bhāgavata is this book, book Bhāgavata. This book Bhāgavatam is the sound incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And there is another bhāgavata, who is spiritual master or the Vaiṣṅava, a devotee of the Lord. He's also called bhāgavata. A great devotee is called mahā-bhāgavata. So there are two kinds of bhāgavatas. The mercy representation of God is book Bhāgavata... No. Sound vibration, sound representation of God is from the book Bhāgavatam. And the mercy representation of God is called the devotee bhāgavata.

So here the question is that "After Kṛṣṅa's departure..." Kṛṣṅa lived or stayed in this planet for 125 years. After that, He went back to His own abode. Here the question is, brūhi yogeśvare kṛṣṅe. Yogeśvara means the controller of all mystic power. Yoga is mystic power, and Kṛṣṅa is the master, or the controller, of all mystic powers. Therefore He's called Yogeśvara. Lord Śiva, he's called Yogīśvara. He's the best amongst the yogīs. And Kṛṣṅa is called Yogeśvara. This yogeśvara word is also in the Bhagavad-gītā: yatra yogeśvara hari. So Kṛṣṅa is the controller and master of all mystic power; therefore He's called Yogeśvara. Brūhi, "Kindly let us know," yogeśvare kṛṣṅe, "when Kṛṣṅa went back to His abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana," yogeśvare kṛṣṅe brahmaṅye. Brāhmaṅa, brahmaṅya means He's the original brahminical culture or He's worshiped by the brāhmaṅas.

Viṣṅu, or Lord Viṣṅu is worshiped by the topmost class of men. So in the human society the topmost class of men are considered the brāhmaṅas. As it is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, cātur-varṅyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṅa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ [Bg 4.13].

[According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me. And, although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.]

The human society must be divided into four classes of men. That is perfect human society. First-class men, second-class men, third-class men and the fourth-class men. And after these fourth-class men, they're all fifth class, pañcama.

So the first-class men are the brāhmaṅas, qualified brāhmaṅas, śamo damaḥ titikṣava, ārjava. And the second-class men are the kṣatriyas. The third-class men are the vaiśyas. And the fourth-class men, they are called śūdras. And the fifth class, below the fifth class, they are called pañcama or caṅḍāla. This is Vedic division of human society.

So Kṛṣṅa is worshiped by the brāhmaṅas; therefore He's called brahmaṅye, or who gives protection to the brahminical culture. When Kṛṣṅa is offered obeisances, respectful obeisances, He's offered like this:

namo brahmaṅya-devāya go-brāhmaṅa-hitāya ca jagad-dhitāya kṛṣṅāya govindāya namo namaḥ [Viṣṅu Purāṅa 1.19.65]

So Kṛṣṅa, first business is go-brāhmaṅa-hitāya ca: He's the protector of cows and brāhmaṅas. Why? Why He's specially giving? Nowadays it has become a fashion, daridra-nārāyaṅa-sevā, to give protection to the daridras. That is good idea. But why you should bring Nārāyaṅa amongst the daridras? Nārāyaṅa is not daridra. Nārāyaṅa is the husband of Lakṣmī, Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṅa. Not only one Lakṣmī; millions of Lakṣmīs. Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam. Cintāmaṅi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs 5.29].

Surabhīr abhipālaya. In the transcendental world, in Kṛṣṅaloka, there are..., there that is called goloka. Goloka means that planet is full of many cows, and those cows are known as surabhi. Surabhi. The Kṛṣṅa is habituated to take care of the cows. Just like nowadays any respectable gentleman is supposed to take care of dog, similarly, Kṛṣṅa... As dog means a hobby, take it as hobby, so He has got the hobby of giving protection to the cows. Surabhīr abhipālayantam.

Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam. And Kṛṣṅa is worshiped by many, many thousands of Lakṣmīs, these gopīs. The gopīs, they're all Lakṣmīs, expansion of goddess of fortune. They're not ordinary. Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyā.

Here in this material world, everyone is worshiping Lakṣmī, or goddess of fortune. In the beginning of the year everyone worships Lakṣmī so that Lakṣmī may be pleased and money may come. But here we are worshiping Lakṣmī—of course, we should—but there in the spiritual world, not only one Lakṣmī, but thousands of Lakṣmīs are worshiping Kṛṣṅa. This is Kṛṣṅa's position. Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama. And they're worshiping with all respects. So Kṛṣṅa, Viṣṅu or Nārāyaṅa, They cannot be daridra. This is a misconception. This is manufactured concoction, daridra-nārāyaṅa. How Nārāyaṅa can be daridra? He's worshiped by many, many thousands of Lakṣmīs. How He can be daridra?

So Kṛṣṅa is brahmaṅya-deva and is surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs 5.29]. The surabhi cows.... Why they're called surabhi cows? Surabhi cows mean you can take that milk from surabhi cows as much as you require and as many times as you like. Here in the material world the cows are there, you can take milk from the cows utmost twice, and not as much as you like; as much as she likes to deliver, you can take.

But surabhi cows, because they are in the spiritual world, you can draw as much milk as you can, and as many times as you can. But such cows are taken..., what is called, tendered by Lord Kṛṣṅa, surabhīr abhipālayantam. These are the description in the Vedic literature about Kṛṣṅa. Kṛṣṅa is not an imagination. As the Māyāvādī philosophers, they think of imagining the form of God—Kṛṣṅa is not that type of God. He's described in the Vedas, Kṛṣṅa: kṛṣṅas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28].

[All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṅa is the original Personality of Godhead. All of them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists.]

rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu kṛṣṅaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yo govindam ādi-puruṣam... [Bs 5.39]

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who manifested Himself personally as Kṛṣṅa and the different avatāras in the world in the forms of Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Vāmana, etc., as His subjective portions.]

Kṛṣṅa is the parama-pumān, the Supreme Personality. And rāmādi-mūrtiṣu, an incarnation—Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, there are thousands and thousands of incarnations. Here also Kṛṣṅa's incarnation.

So here it is said that when Kṛṣṅa departed from this world to His abode, because He's dharma-varmaṅi... His whole existence is from dharma, religious principles. Kṛṣṅa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [Bg 4.7]: whenever there are discrepancies in the matter of executing religious principles... Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata, abhyutthānam adharmasya. One side, if religion is neglected, then irreligious principles will develop. That is the nature of everything. If you neglect this side, this side will be prominent.

So Kṛṣṅa also says that dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya, "I come, I appear, My only business is to reestablish the religious principles." Kṛṣṅa does not come to this planet for making some money. He has got enough money, because He's worshiped by the goddess of fortune. His business, coming down on this planet: to reestablish the religious principles. Dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya.

And what is that religious principle? The religious principle is not man-made. Just like we have manufactured so many religious principles: "This is Hindu dharma," "This is Muslim dharma," "This is Christian dharma," and this is this, this is that. So many. Kṛṣṅa does not come to reestablish the principles of this man-made religion. No. He has nothing to do. Because they are manufactured, concocted by imperfect men, they are not religious principles. The religious system means, dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṅītam [SB 6.3.19].

[Real religious principles are enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although fully situated in the mode of goodness, even the great ṛṣis who occupy the topmost planets cannot ascertain the real religious principles, nor can the demigods or the leaders of Siddhaloka, to say nothing of the asuras, ordinary human beings, Vidyādharas and Cāraṅas.]

Religion means the principles which is given by God Himself. That is religion. You cannot imagine. Just like already I have explained: you cannot make law at home, that "I am a big man. I make my own law." That you can do. You may go on amongst some of your friends or your servants, but that law will not be accepted by everyone. But the law given by God, that will be accepted by everyone. Just like law given by the state government is accepted by everyone. So religion means dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṅītam. The principles of religion means which is given by God.

So what is that religion? That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā very clearly: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṅaṁ vraja [Bg 18.66].

[Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.]

This is religion. Your man-made, so-called, manufactured religion you give up. [indistinct]. It has got some temporary value. It has no permanent value. The permanent value of religion is that religion which is given by God. And that is... What is that? Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṅaṁ: you simply surrender unto God.

When I speak of "Kṛṣṅa," we mean God. And Kṛṣṅa is the best name of God. Kṛṣṅa means "all-attractive." God must be all-attractive. God cannot be attractive for a few men or few..., for a..., by a community. No. God must be attractive by everyone. That is God. So Kṛṣṅa, by His opulences, by His strength, by His beauty, by His knowledge, by His renouncement—everything complete. Therefore He's God. You study. These are the attractive features. If one is very rich, he's attractive. If one is very powerful, he's attractive. If one is very beautiful, then he's attractive. If one is very wise, he's attractive. If one is in the renounced order of life, first-class, he's attractive. So Kṛṣṅa has all these opulences; therefore He's accepted as God—not superficially—by great, great saintly persons.

When Arjuna accepted Kṛṣṅa as the Supreme Lord, paraṁ brahma, paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān [Bg 10.12],

[Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala, and Vyāsa proclaim this of You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.]

it is not that because he was Kṛṣṅa's friend, therefore, out of his sentiments he accepted Kṛṣṅa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He accepted on the authority of the Vedas. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. So according to Vedic system, all the sages, all the great saintly persons, all the great kings, everyone accepts Kṛṣṅa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are many instances.

Now here it is inquired by the sages, saintly persons, from Sūta Gosvāmī,

brūhi yogeśvare kṛṣṅe brahmaṅye dharma-varmaṅi svāṁ kāṣṭhām adhunopete dharmaḥ kaṁ śaraṅaṁ gataḥ [SB 1.1.23]

"After the departure of Kṛṣṅa... So long Kṛṣṅa was here, these religious principles were being properly executed. Now, after His departure, who has taken charge of this religious department?" This is the question. "Who has taken charge of this religious department?" This is the question by the great sages, saintly persons at the Naimiṣāraṅya. You have heard the name of Naimiṣāraṅya. Then this is the last śloka of the First Chapter of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Then in the next chapter, Second Chapter, vyāsa uvāca, Vyāsadeva said,

iti sampraśna-saṁhṛṣṭo viprāṅāṁ raumaharṣaṅiḥ pratipūjya vacas teṣāṁ pravaktum upacakrame [SB 1.2.1]

The Sūta Gosvāmī was very much engladdened that they had questioned about Kṛṣṅa. The question was, "Who has taken charge of the religious system after departure of Kṛṣṅa from this planet?" This is the question. So because the question was about Kṛṣṅa, therefore Sūta Gosvāmī was explaining bhāgavata-dharma in that great assembly. He became very much engladdened, "Ah, you have put questions about Kṛṣṅa. Very nice." Because if we simply question about Kṛṣṅa and hear the answers about Kṛṣṅa, our life becomes very [indistinct] life. This is the process. To become spiritually advanced means, "Just try to question about Kṛṣṅa and try to understand the answers about Kṛṣṅa." Then your life is successful. It is so nice.

So we can make so many questions—intelligent questions must be, of course—about [indistinct], and the answers are there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or Bhagavad-gītā. So every effort of our [indistinct] this Kṛṣṅa consciousness is there, that not just in this meeting we shall discuss about Kṛṣṅa, but at every home, every family, you can sit down together at the end of their work and simply question about Kṛṣṅa and try to understand the answers. The books are already there. Answers are already there.

So this is our Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement. It is simple. Because people are contaminated by the three qualities. This material world is running on under the influence of three qualities of the modes of material nature: sattva-guṅa, raja-guṅa, tamo-guṅa. There are three qualities.

[break] Therefore you do not find one kind of living entity, because there are three qualities, and again multiplied three by three, it becomes nine qualities, then again multiplied nine into nine, then it becomes eighty-one qualities. Just like an expert artist, he's using three colors: blue, red and yellow. You mix the colors and he will manifest thousands of colors. Thousands of colors.

So actually the basic position of this material world is the three qualities: sattva-guṅa, raja-guṅa, tamo-guṅa. Now they are mixed up. Here you cannot find out purely sattva-guṅa. Sattva-guṅa is the topmost quality in this material world. But here in the material world also, you cannot find pure sattva-guṅa. When you come to the pure stage of sattva-guṅa, that is transcendental stage, spiritual life. Pure sattva-guṅa means there is no more attack by the other two guṅas. That is pure, śuddha-sattva. That is called śuddha-sattva, pure goodness. In that stage one can understand what is Kṛṣṅa.

First of all one has to come to the goodness quality platform. Then he has to transcend that quality of [indistinct], and that position means no more attacked by the other two lower qualities, namely passion and ignorance. So sattvaṁ viśuddhaṁ vāsudeva sarve. That stage is called vasudeva. Vasudeva means that Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṅa, appears. Just like Kṛṣṅa's father's name was Vasudeva.

So he was very... Iti sampraśna saṁhṛṣṭo viprāṅāṁ raumaharṣaṅam. Sūta Gosvāmī, he's called Romaharṣaṅa. His father's name was Roma [indistinct]; therefore he's called Romaharṣaṅa. Pratipūjya, when they inquired... Just like we say, "Thank you very much." So pratipūjya, he also offered his respectful obeisances, put very nice proposal, Kṛṣṅa. Kṛṣṅa question he asked. It is very nice. Pratipūjya vacas teṣāṁ pravaktum upacakrame: began to speak, began to answer the question of the sages that "Unto whom the charge of religious principle has been given after the departure of Kṛṣṅa from this planet?"

So he's speaking again, nārāyaṅaṁ namaskṛtya [SB 1.2.4]—these are all formalities—"Before speaking anything one should remember the mercy of Nārāyaṅa." Nārāyaṅaṁ namaskṛtya naraṁ caiva narottamam, devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vyāsam. Vyāsadeva is the guru of Vedic knowledge. Therefore Vyāsadeva or his representative, they are... Therefore, according to our system, when you observe the birthday anniversary of spiritual master it is called Vyāsa-pūjā. Actually the worship is going to Vyāsadeva, and his representative is accepting the pūjā. The honor offered to the spiritual master is transferred to Vyāsadeva, because Vyāsadeva is the original guru. Therefore it is stated, devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vyāsam. Sarasvatī-devi, knowledge, or the goddess of education, devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vyāsam tato jayam udīrayet. After offering respect to Nārāyaṅa, then Vyāsadeva, Sarasvatī-devi.

So he's answering the question, munayaḥ sādhu pṛṣṭo 'ham [SB 1.2.5]: "My dear sages, great saintly persons, I'm very much honored that you have inquired so nicely," sādhu. Sādhu means [indistinct], that is the explanation. [indistinct]. That is called sādhu. So this question about Kṛṣṅa is sādhu because Kṛṣṅa is discussed among the sādhus, not amongst the rogues. And who is a sādhu? That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā: sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ [Bg 9.30],

[Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service, he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated.]

he is sādhu. Bhajate mām ānanda-bhāk. Anyone who is purely devotee of Kṛṣṅa, he's sādhu, not anyone else. Sādhu means he's mahātmā.

That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gītā: mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ, bhajanty-ananya manaso [Bg 9.13].

[O son of Pṛthā, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.]

He's mahātmā, who is unflinchingly, without any deviation, engaged in the service of the Lord. He's called mahātmā. Mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtiṁ āśritāḥ. They are not under the influence of this material qualities. Daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ. They're under the influence of the spiritual energy. Therefore they're called daivīm.

So what is the symptom that one is under the spiritual energy? Bhajate mām ananya-bhāk: always engaged in the service of the Lord. That is the symptom. Therefore anything about Kṛṣṅa, that is sādhu. One who is questioning, he's also sādhu. One who is answering, he's also sādhu. And what to speak of one who is always engaged in the service of the Lord. He must be a sādhu. Sadhava sarva-bhūtānām. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṅikāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarva-bhūtānām..., sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṅāḥ [SB 3.25.21].

[The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.]

Sādhu means he's tolerant. He's tolerant, titikṣavaḥ. At the same time, kāruṅikāḥ, very merciful.

Now these persons, because they are sādhus, they are so much tolerant. Anyone who's preaching about God, they're sādhu, because they have to meet so many dangerous persons. Just like Lord Jesus Christ. He was killed, but he faced... Haridāsa Ṭhākura, oh, he was so much tortured. He was a Muhammadan, and he was chanting Hare Kṛṣṅa mantra. The Muhammadan magistrate called him, "Why you are chanting this Hindu Hare Kṛṣṅa mantra?" Haridāsa Ṭhākura replied, "Sir, what is the wrong there? Just as so many Hindus, they have also become Muhammadans, so suppose I have become a Hindu. So what is the wrong there?" "Oh, you are talking before me? [indistinct] ...cane." He was ordered to be caned in twenty-two bazaars, because he was chanting Hare Kṛṣṅa. Similarly Prahlāda Mahārāja, he was a devotee, and his father chastised him so many ways.

So as soon as we become a sādhu, there is some danger to be tortured by the asādhu. Just like in our this movement, there are so many [indistinct]. Somebody is preaching that this movement is the hippie movement. The hippie movement is discussed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā? Just see the foolish propaganda. In India they manufactured a film, so much propaganda against this movement. We have to meet such enemies. What can be done? This is the nature of this world. As soon as you have become a sādhu, a devotee of the Lord, you will create so many enemies—Communists, Nationalists—but we don't care. Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja didn't care, even his father was so [indistinct]. Haridāsa Ṭhākura did not care.

So therefore those who are preaching Kṛṣṅa consciousness, despite all kinds of impediments, they are [indistinct] sādhus. Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ [Bg 18.69]. Kṛṣṅa said, "Nobody is dearer than him who is preaching," because he has to face so many impediments, so many obstructions. And he has to face, and he has to still [indistinct]. Therefore it is said, sādhu, munayaḥ sādhu pṛṣṭo 'ham [SB 1.2.5]: "Oh, your question is very nice." Sādhu. Munayaḥ sādhu pṛṣṭo 'haṁ bhavadbhir loka-maṅgalam. "We have put this question, but it is loka-maṅgalam." When you discuss this question and answer, it becomes very much auspicious to the whole human society. Loka-maṅgalam. Bhavadbhir loka-maṅgalam. Why loka-maṅgalam? Yat-kṛtaḥ kṛṣṅa-sampraśno, because it was questions about Kṛṣṅa; therefore it is loka-maṅgalam, auspicious. Anyone who will hear about Kṛṣṅa... How is that simply by hearing... [break] ...hear. Hearing is also so auspicious. Śṛṅvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṅaḥ puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ [SB 1.2.17].

[Śrī Kṛṣṅa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.]

If you hear, śṛṅvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṅaḥ... When Kṛṣṅa sees that you are hearing about Him, immediately you become pious.

Śṛṅvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṅaḥ puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ. To hear about Kṛṣṅa, to speak about Kṛṣṅa, to glorify about Kṛṣṅa, they are all pious activities, puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ. So if we begin simply hearing about Kṛṣṅa, talking about Kṛṣṅa, then you become pious. Śṛṅvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṅaḥ puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ hṛdy antaḥ stho hy abhadrāṅi. Kṛṣṅa is situated in everyone's heart. He's simply making the opportunity why the [indistinct], the individual souls are trying to approach Him. That is the yoga system. Yoga system means the jīvātmā, the soul, individual soul, tries to understand the Supersoul, Paramātmā. That is yoga system.

It is not... It is mistaken idea that the Paramātmā and the ātmā, jīvātmā, is the same. They are same in quality, but Paramātmā is worshipable and jīvātmā is the worshiper. Paramātmā is the predominator and jīvātmā is the predominated. To understand this philosophy, that is yoga. Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yad yogi. Yoginaḥ paśyanti. That means the seer. The seer is different from the person who is seen. Yad yoginaḥ paśyanti. The yoga system means that when the jīvātmā concentrates his mind, dhyānāvasthita, by meditation... Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā, by the mind, paśyanti taṁ yoginam. This is the position of the Supreme Lord. He can be seen by the yoga practice.

Yoga practice means..., first-class yoga practice is bhakti-yoga practice. By bhakti-yoga practice, that is recommended in the Bhagavad-gītā. Yoginām api sarveṣāṁ. There are many yogīs. Out of many thousands of such yogīs.

yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatena āntarātmanā śraddhavān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ [Bg 6.47]

[And of all yogīs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.]

He's first-class yogī who is always seeing Kṛṣṅa within the heart. And who can see? Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti [Bs 5.38].

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṅa Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love.]

Premāñjana. If you develop love for Kṛṣṅa, then you'll see Kṛṣṅa within your heart always, twenty-four hours. Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena, when your eyes are smeared with the ointment of love of God, you realize [indistinct], see God. You see God.

This morning I have explained, you see God. It is not very, I mean to say, impossible. It is possible by everyone, even by child, what to speak of grown-up. Simply you have to follow the instruction. Just like Kṛṣṅa said how to see Him, how to practice to see Him:

raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ śabdaḥ ke... praṅavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu śabdaḥ ke pauruṣaṁ nṛṣu [Bg 7.8]

[O son of Kuntī [Arjuna], I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.]

Kṛṣṅa said that "If you find difficulty to see Me, then try to see Me in the water, or any liquid thing." That's all. In every liquid, the water is there. That liquid, there is some water. Now you taste. That is [indistinct]. Even the drunkard, they have developed a kind of rasa, a kind of taste, in the wine. So Kṛṣṅa says, "All right, when you taste wine, you see you taste Kṛṣṅa. I am [indistinct]." So who cannot see Kṛṣṅa? Everyone can see.

Even greatest drunkard can see Kṛṣṅa, what to speak of a devotee. Kṛṣṅa says, raso 'ham apsu kaunteya. If you are tasting something... It is just like the drunkard, they take wine. "All right, that taste is Kṛṣṅa." To practice this, not to speak of the ordinary man, they're drinking water, but those who are drinking wine... If you think, "Now I am drinking wine, I am tasting; it is very nice taste. This is Kṛṣṅa." Then one day he'll come out a great devotee.

So where is the difficulty to see Kṛṣṅa? There is no difficulty. Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya [Bg 7.8]. That Kṛṣṅa is so nice that every stage of life, if you practice Kṛṣṅa consciousness your life will be sublime. [break] ...[indistinct] padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadām [SB 10.14.58].

[For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murāri, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoof-print. Their goal is paraṁ padam, Vaikuṅṭha, the place where there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step.]

Just like [indistinct] to hear about Kṛṣṅa, that is the only thing.

śṛṅvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṅaḥ puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ hṛdy antaḥ stho hy abhadrāṅi vidhunoti suhṛt satām [SB 1.2.17]

[Śrī Kṛṣṅa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.]

Kṛṣṅa is there within your heart. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg 18.61].

[The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.]

As soon as you become little sincere to hear about Kṛṣṅa, then everything becomes [indistinct] automatically. This is our Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement.

Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṅa.

[aside:] Any questions?

Amogha: So any questions? Anyone have a question they can ask?

Guest: [indistinct]

Amogha: He asks that you speak something about reincarnation [indistinct].

Prabhupāda: [indistinct]

[58:30] [kīrtana] [end]