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Lect BOS 1969-05-01 Krishna Conscious ... Very Kind
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ANNOUNCER: The
following is a lecture,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 1st of May,
1969, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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PRABHUPĀDA: So Nṛsiṁhadeva has
appeared to convince the atheist
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that there is no God.
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This is a lying propaganda
that nobody has seen God.
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Everyone has seen God.
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The devotee sees within his heart,
in the temple, and everywhere.
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And the atheist sees when he’s…
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when the clock, the handles
in the clock are over.
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You see?
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Prahlāda Mahārāja was seeing
always, constantly Nṛsiṁhadeva.
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Mahābhāgavata.
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premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti
[Bs. 5.38]
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Those who have developed love of
God, prema, premāñjana-cchurita…
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When one’s eyes are anointed
with the, what is called?
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VIṢṆUJANA: Salve.
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SATSVARŪPA: Ointment.
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No, no.
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There is a technical name.
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Kajal?
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BRAHMĀNANDA: Make-up?
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Yes.
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DEVOTEE: Mascara?
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Huh?
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Anyway, the ointment which is
applied to the eyes for clear vision.
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So when the ointment of love of
Godhead will be applied in our eyes,
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then with these eyes we
shall be able to see God.
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God is not invisible.
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Simply just like a man with cataract or
any other eye disease, he cannot see.
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That does not mean the
things are not existing.
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He cannot see.
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God is there, but because my eyes
are not competent to see God,
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therefore I deny God.
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God is there everywhere.
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So in the material condition
of our life, our eyes are blunt.
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Not only eyes, every sense.
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Especially eyes.
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Because we are very proud of our eyes,
and we say, “Can you show me God?”
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You see.
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But he does not think that whether
his eyes are competent to see God.
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That is atheism.
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He does not consider his
position, “In what position I am.”
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Even one cannot see a big
man like President Nixon,
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and he wants to see God
without qualification.
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That is not possible.
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nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya
yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ
[Bg. 7.25]
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Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā
that “I am not exposed to everyone.
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There is a curtain of yogamāyā.”
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The yogamāyā will
not allow to see God.
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Just like we have our condition that if
anyone wants to see here in the temple,
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we ask him that “First
of all take your shoes.”
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Just like a little condition.
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Similarly, to see God, there
must be some condition.
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That condition is that unless you become
a lover of God, God is not exposed to you.
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Otherwise God is there, always.
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premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu…
[Bs. 5.38]
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Sadaiva means always.
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Not that simply when we come
to the temple we see God.
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No.
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God is always visible
to the devotee.
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Sadaiva.
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Sadā.
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Sadā means always,
twenty-four hours.
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That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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The same example which I gave you,
that the woman who has got a lover,
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and she’s very busy in her duties, but
she is always thinking of the lover,
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“When I shall meet him.”
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This is an example given by Rūpa
Gosvāmī that her mind is always engaged
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in the form or the
activities of the lover.
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If that is materially possible, when
you develop your love of Godhead,
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at that time you’ll see God
everywhere, always, twenty-four hours.
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That was the position
of Prahlāda Mahārāja.
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He was seeing always God, Kṛṣṇa,
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but his father was not seeing
because he was atheist.
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He was asking, challenging,
“Where is your God?
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You are talking of so,
so many times God.
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All right, I shall teach
you a lesson today.”
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So he took his sword and wanted to
kill his own son; atheist is so unkind,
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cruel, that he is prepared to kill his
own son, beloved son, five years old.
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That is atheism.
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And theism, the father
who tortured him so much.
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So after the death of his father,
he’s praying to Nṛsiṁhadeva,
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“Please excuse my father.”
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This is theism.
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So that is the difference between Kṛṣṇa
consciousness and ordinary consciousness.
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They’re very kind, everyone.
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vāñcā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca
krpā-sindhubhya eva ca
[maṅgalācaraṇa prayers]
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You utter this prayer, krpa-sindhubhya
eva ca [maṅgalācaraṇa prayers]
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Vaiṣṇava is the ocean of mercy.
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There is no end.
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As you cannot, I mean to say, draw
all the waters from the ocean,
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it is not possible.
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Similarly, a Vaiṣṇava, a
devotee, ocean of mercy.
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You can draw from it as much
mercy as you like; still, it is full.
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So Prahlāda Mahārāja is the
symbolic representation of Vaiṣṇava.
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So try to be not
imitator, but follower.
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Don’t try to imitate: “Oh, Prahlāda
Mahārāja was thrown into boiling oil.
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Let me try, fall into the boiling oil.”
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No.
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That is imitation.
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[indistinct] …first of all you
become like Prahlāda Mahārāja,
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then that will be possible.
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Don’t try to make experimental.
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That is not good.
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But follow, try to follow.
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mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ
[Cc. Madhya 17.186]
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Mahājanas, great personalities, what they
have done, you cannot imitate them.
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You have to follow them.
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You have to follow the instruction
of Kṛṣṇa or His representative,
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but you cannot imitate them.
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Then you’ll fall down.
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Anusaraṇa.
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Not anukaraṇa.
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Anukaraṇa means imitation;
but anusaraṇa, follow.
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So what Prahlāda Mahārāja did,
that we have to follow his example.
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His example was that in spite of
continuous torturing by his father,
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he never forgot Kṛṣṇa.
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This we have to follow.
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In spite of all kinds of inconveniences
and torture by the atheist class of men,
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we shall never forget
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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There were many examples.
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Just like Lord Jesus
Christ, he was tortured.
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So he was crucified, but he never
agreed that there is no God.
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So that should be our motto.
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This is following.
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Either you be Christian or be Hindu
or be any, but be God conscious.
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Kṛṣṇa conscious is God conscious.
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And in any circumstances
do not forget.
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That is called śaraṇāgati.
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That is surrender.
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So Prahlāda Mahārāja is protected by
Nṛsiṁhadeva, and… Now, it is a fact
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that an atheist like Hiraṇyakaśipu,
who denied the existence of God,
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so he was shown God
at his last stage of life.
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So the atheist will see God, but
when he will see, his life is finished.
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That means death.
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Atheist will see God
in the form of death.
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And theist, Kṛṣṇa conscious
devotee, will see God
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twenty-four hours within his heart.
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That is the difference.
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Nobody can avoid death.
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So atheist will see God.
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If he denies God, but he will
see God in the form of death.
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That is explained in
the Bhagavad-gītā,
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that every moment our things
are being taken away by time.
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It is not difficult to understand.
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Just like my age, seventy-four years,
seventy-five, that means seventy-four years
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from my whole duration of
life is already taken away.
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Therefore everyone of you
should think that every moment,
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whatever asset you have got, the most
valuable asset is the life, duration of life.
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That is being taken away.
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That is the law of nature.
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And the last taking away is death.
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So Kṛṣṇa says that mṛtyuḥ
sarva-haraś cāham [Bg. 10.34]
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Mṛtyu, or death, takes
away everything.
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Your education, title, M.A,
Ph.D, D.A.C, your bank balance,
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millions of dollars, your good
name, your house, your family,
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your friends, your
country—all taken away.
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All taken away.
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So for atheist, this is God.
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When He’ll take away everything,
he’ll understand, “Yes, there is God.”
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Yes.
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Just like a civil disobedient person,
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when he’s arrested and he’s put into
the bars and given severe punishment,
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then he understands,
“Yes, there is government.
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There is government.”
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So government is there.
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For a nice citizen,
government is there;
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he’s taking all advantage
offered by the government
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and he’s obeying the
laws of the government.
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No trouble.
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But one who says
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“I don’t care for the government.
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I am free.
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I shall become naked…”
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Just like that John Lennon;
he exposed himself naked,
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and government stopped
immediately, that “You cannot do this.”
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So things are going like that.
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Atheist class of men, they’re
declaring themselves free, no God,
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and that is all nonsense—mūḍha.
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They have been
described as mūḍha.
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First-class fool.
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na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhā
prapadyante narādhamāḥ
[Bg. 7.15]
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Study Bhagavad-gītā;
everything is there.
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Those who are narādhama,
lowest of the mankind.
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As the lowest of the mankind is atheist,
similarly, the highest of the mankind
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is Kṛṣṇa conscious.
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So try to be the highest
kind of mankind.
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The world is suffering for want
of highest kind of mankind.
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And be an example.
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So you’ll learn this lesson in this day
of the advent of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva.
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Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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