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Imported quote 13920 In the execution of devotional service, sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ is especially stressed. This means that bhakti, or devotional service, begins by hearing and chanting about Visnu. When we speak of Visnu, we also refer to that which relates to Visnu. In the Siva Purana, Lord Siva recommends Visnu worship to be the topmost worship, and better than Visnu worship is worship of the Vaisnava or anything that is related to Visnu. The fact is explained herein that hearing and chanting about a Vaisnava is as good as hearing and chanting about Visnu, for Maitreya has explained that anyone who hears about Prthu Maharaja with attention also attains the planet which Maharaja Prthu attained. There is no duality between Visnu and the Vaisnava, and this is called advaya-jnana. A Vaisnava is as important as Visnu, and therefore Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura wrote in his Gurv-astaka:
(More...) Imported quote 18720 So this is the only process. Let us hear from Srimad-Bhagavatam, not these professional. But just like here Kapiladeva is explaining Sahkhya philosophy. Every word of Bhagavatam, sublime. And this is given to us by Vyasadeva, because we do not know how to get out of this entanglement of material envelopment. Anartha upasamam saksat. Anartha. On account of being entangled in this material modes of nature, we have accumulated so many unwanted things, anartha. That is called anartha. Artha means substance, and anartha means illusory things. So many things. So that is our material condition of life, and the only remedy is become Krsna conscious, and that is... How we can become Krsna conscious? Sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ [SB 7.5.23]. Visnu means Krsna. Simply hear and speak about Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness.
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