mahatma

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So mahatma's business is: ananyas cintayanto mam ye janaḥ paryupasate [Bg 9.22]. A mahatma has no other business than devotional service, sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ, always hearing about the Supreme Lord, always glorifying the Supreme Lord, sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ. Visnu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But that we do not know. Na te viduḥ svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. That we do not know. And because people, they do not know it, therefore this mission, Krsna consciousness, is there, just to make people enlightened: "Know it now. Know it now. In the other, previous lives, cats, dogs, trees, and fishes and insects and all so many other-there are eight million, four hundred...-you could not know it. Now you have got this human form of body, take advantage of this knowledge. Take advantage of the information given in the Vedic literature." Uttisthata jagrata prapya varan nibodhata [Katha Upanisad ]. (More...)

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So we have to revive this old consti... That is the whole subject matter of the Sahkhya philosophy, Kapiladeva, how we are becoming degraded from the original state of Krsna consciousness. So our only business is how to revive again. That revival is possible only by this process, bhaja vasudevam. Vasudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhaḥ [Bg 7.19]. (More...)

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