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SB 7-06-14 NV 1976-06-28 The Problem of Family and Belly
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a
class on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
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7th canto 6th chapter,
text number 14,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on June 28th, 1976, at the
New Vrindaban farm community,
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in West Virginia (USA).
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PRABHUPĀDA:
…poṣāya viyan nijāyur
na budhyate ’rthaṁ vihataṁ pramattaḥ
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sarvatra tāpa-traya-duḥkhitātmā
nirvidyate na sva-kuṭumba-rāmaḥ
[SB 7.6.14]
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So more we become implicated
in this material world,
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more we suffer from the threefold miseries,
adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika.
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But by the grace of
māyā we forget them,
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on account of our pleasing atmosphere
in the family, kuṭumbha-rāmaḥ.
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Therefore it is said,
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ramante yoginaḥ anante.
[Śata-nāma-stotra 8]
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Those who are yogis…
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There are many
different types of yogis.
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Of all of them bhakta-yogis,
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ramante yoginaḥ anante.
[Śata-nāma-stotra]
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The difference between yogi
and bhogī—there are two classes.
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Bhogī means those who are trying to enjoy
this material world, they are called bhogī.
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And there is another word, rogī.
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Rogī means diseased;
neither yogi nor a bhogī.
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Yogi means transcendentalist,
trying to go back to home,
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back to Godhead,
they are called yogi.
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And those who are only interested
with this material happiness,
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they are called bhogī.
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And those who are neither
of them, they are called rogī.
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So those who are yogis,
they are first class.
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yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
mad-gatenāntarātmanā
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śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
[Bg. 6.47]
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“Of all the yogis,”
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yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
mad-gatenāntarātmanā
[Bg 6.47]
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“always thinking of Kṛṣṇa,” śraddhāvān,
“very faithful,” bhajate mām,
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“always engaged in My
service, he is first-class yogi.”
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So our business is how to
become yogi, bhakta-yogi.
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That is the mission of life.
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Unfortunately, we are not
given the opportunity.
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It is the duty of the guardians, family,
natural guardian, father and mother,
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and political guardian, the
government, the teacher, the guru;
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it is the duty to give facility, facility for
achievement of the highest goal of life.
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Unfortunately, it is always… But at the
present moment, on account of Kali-yuga,
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they do not know what is the aim of life,
how the dependents should be trained up.
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It is the duty of the king
to train up the citizens.
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This is… Everything is explained
in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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And the first business
is how to lead men,
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to the highest perfection
of life; that is called siddhi.
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Siddhi.
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Siddhi means highest
perfection of life.
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saṁsiddhiṁ paramaṁ gataḥ
[Bg. 8.15]
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There are different
kinds of siddhis. [splice]
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The yogis, the mystic yogis,
they also try to possess some
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siddhi—animā, laghimā, mahimā,
prāpti, īśitā, vaśitā.
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Eight kinds of siddhis.
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But such siddhis, all material.
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So in the modern age, advancement
of material civilization,
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they also do not care for
these siddhis, material siddhis.
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Just like laghimā.
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Laghimā-siddhi, the yogis, they become
so light that they can float in the air.
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So nowadays you
have got airplane.
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The yogi can float alone in the air.
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Now five hundred passengers,
they can float in the air.
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So there is no need of
such yoga, yoga-siddhi.
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The science, the material science
of craftsmanship, mechanical,
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they have done it.
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Or formerly these things
were very magical.
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Still, the so-called yogis, they are
trying to achieve such perfection.
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Sometimes they can float in the
air, they can walk on the water,
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they can get anything
they desire, prāpti.
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Prāpti, in my childhood
there was my teacher.
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He said that he had
his guru, a yogi.
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So he told me that his
spiritual master, yogi,
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he inquired from his disciple,
“What do you want to eat?”
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So he said that “We want to eat
some pomegranate from Kabul.”
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So he said, “Yes, you can get it;
go into the room and you’ll find.”
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So they found a bunch of pomegranate
just fresh taken from the tree.
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This is called prāpti.
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The yogis, they can
get all these facilities.
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Prāpti siddhi.
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Īśitā, they can keep
anyone under his control.
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Īśitā, vaśitā… There are
eight kinds of aṣṭa-siddhi.
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But that is not perfection of life.
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Caitanya-caritāmṛta kaja says,
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bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī
—sakali ‘aśānta’
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kṛṣṇa-bhakta—niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’
[Cc. Madhya 19.149]
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Bhukti means karmis, they are also
wanting something, material success.
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Mukti, the jñānīs, they want liberation,
to merge into the existence of Brahman.
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And siddhi, the yogis… So
everyone wants something.
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Therefore they cannot get
peace, that is unfortunate…
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If you want something, then,
you have to struggle for it.
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But… kṛṣṇa-bhakta niṣkāma.
[Cc. Madhya 19.149]
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Kṛṣṇa-bhakta does
not want anything.
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They simply want to be engaged
in the service of the Lord.
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That is their satisfaction.
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That is the aim of life.
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Unfortunately we are not educated,
we are not given training.
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Prahlāda Mahārāja’s
subject matter is that…
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kaumāra ācaret prājño
dharmān bhāgavatān iha
[SB 7.6.1]
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From the very beginning of life,
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the children should be
educated in bhāgavata-dharma.
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That is the subject matter.
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So he’s explaining
in different ways.
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kuṭumba-poṣāya viyan nijāyur
na budhyate ’rthaṁ vihataṁ pramattaḥ
[SB 7.6.14]
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So without fulfillment
of our life’s mission,
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generally we become involved
in maintaining the family,
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and all of a sudden, death appears,
then finished all our attempts.
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According to karma, we have
to accept another body,
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maybe human body
or not human body.
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In this way we become
entrapped, and…
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sarvatra tāpa-traya-duḥkhitātmā
[SB 7.6.14]
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Tāpa-traya, traya means three and
tāpa means tribulation, suffering.
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So tāpa-traya, three kinds of tribulations:
adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika.
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Pertaining to the body, we feel so many
troubles due to the body, due to the mind.
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Then adhibhautika, troubles
offered by other living entities,
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and adhidaivika, troubles offered
by nature or the demigods.
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In this way, sarvatra.
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It is not that in India
there is tāpa-traya,
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and in America there is no tāpa-traya;
no, in America there is tāpa-traya.
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“All right, I shall go to the heavenly
planets;” no, there is also tāpa-traya.
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Anywhere you go within
this material world,
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as soon as you get this material
body, then tāpa-traya will be there.
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So therefore our mission of life is
how to get out of this tāpa-traya,
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and Prahlāda Mahārāja
is giving description
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how we remain
involved in tāpa-traya.
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sarvatra tāpa-traya-duḥkhitātmā
[SB 7.6.14]
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Repeatedly, tāpa-traya, still na nirvidyate
sva-kuṭumba-rāmaḥ. [SB 7.6.14]
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Especially those who are
family men, it is very difficult.
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Therefore according to Vedic
civilization, after fiftieth year,
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one should give up the family
responsibility, vānaprastha.
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From vana, vana means forest.
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And from vana the
word vana has come.
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Prastha means “who has gone.”
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pañcaśordhvaṁ vanaṁ vrajet
[Kala-viveka?]
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Vanaṁ vrajet means to free
from all family responsibility,
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and prepare for going back
to home, back to Godhead.
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But those who are too much
attached to family life, na nirvidyate,
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being repeatedly frustrated,
repeatedly they are put into trouble.
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Still.
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But if one wants regular
advancement of spiritual life,
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he must retire at the age of fifty.
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That is Vedic civilization.
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Not that unless one is killed,
he’s not going to retire.
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Even great personalities like Mahatma
Gandhi, he was seventy-eight years,
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and still he would not retire from this…
Political life means greater family life.
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A family man is interested
with his family members,
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and a political leader is interested
with the whole, a group of family.
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The principle is the same.
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Ordinary family man, he’s looking after
three, four members of the family,
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and a political leader is thinking that he’s
responsible for so many millions of men.
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The idea is the same:
the extended family.
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But extended or diminished family,
sva-kuṭumba-rāmaḥ, [SB 7.6.14]
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he’s thinking, “I have to
do something for them.”
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But when death comes,
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so you are unable to do anything, you
have to immediately leave the scene,
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and according to
the laws of nature,
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you’ll have to accept a body
according to your karma.
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This is the law of nature.
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So we should be very careful.
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This education is recommended
by Prahlāda Mahārāja,
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should be given, just like these
children, they are getting education,
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this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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It will not go in vain.
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It is being impressed
within the mind.
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Very fortunate children, they
have got this association.
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Automatically, they
are being trained up.
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That is Prahlāda Mahārāja’s
mission; he was talking among his,
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class friends who were as small as
these boys were there, five years old.
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So they were very much eager to play,
but Prahlāda Mahārāja was asking them,
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“No, don’t waste your time.
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Just be trained up in bhāgavata-
dharma or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.”
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Bhāgavata-dharma means
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Thank you very much
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