This is from Srimad-Bhagavatam, instruction given by Narada Muni to Pracetasas. Those who have read Srimad-Bhagavatam, they know how he was explaining. So this example is very nice. Yatha taror mula-nisecanena. If you water on the root of the tree, automatically the trunk, the branches, the twigs, the leaves, the flowers, fruits, everything is refreshed. Another example is also there in the next line: pranopaharac ca yathendriyanam. As by supplying food to the stomach all the indriyas, all the senses, become refreshed, energetic, similarly acyutejya, by loving Krsna, Acyuta... Acyuta is another name of Krsna. Senayor ubhayor madhye ratham sthapaya me acyuta [Bg. 1.21]. Krsna is addressed as Acyuta. So acyuta-ijya, by worshiping Krsna, by satisfying Krsna, you can satisfy everyone. This is the process.

So to practice this yoga, any yoga, you have to take shelter of somebody who knows how to practice this yoga. Mad-asrayah. Then the result will be asamsayam samagram mam yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu [Bg. 7.1]. Then, without any doubt and in complete awareness, you'll understand the process. And in complete awareness of Krsna, your life is successful. Simply if you know Krsna, if you try to understand Krsna, and fortunately if you know Krsna, then your life is successful.

We are transmigrating from different bodies. Jalaja nava-laksani sthavara laksa vimsati, krmayo rudra-sankhyakah. In Padma Purana, the gradual process of evolution is there. This evolution theory put forwarded by Darwin, that is nonsense. Because the Darwin's theory is evolution of this body. In one sense, it is... But it is incomplete. Actually we are getting different types of body according to our association with the different modes of material nature. The material nature is being conducted by three modes: sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. So those who are in the modes of material nature, in the modes of goodness, their body is different. Just like brahmana. Simply getting the body of brahmana is not sufficient. One has to learn how to become brahmana. Satyam samo damas titiksa. But there is opportunity. If one is born in a brahmana family, he has got the opportunity to develop the brahmana qualities. Similarly, if one is born in the family of a ksatriya, he gets the opportunity of ksatriya spirit. Similarly vaisya. Catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah [Bg. 4.13]. But the quality and actual action. Just like a boy is born of a medical practitioner. He has got greater chance of becoming, becoming a medical student, medical practitioner. But simply by getting birth as a son of medical practitioner is not sufficient. He has to take education. So catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah [Bg. 4.13]. Krsna does not say "By birth." By acquiring the qualities and action. One must have the brahminical qualities and act as a brahmana; then he'll be accepted as brahmana.

So you have to keep always Krsna within your heart. Krsna is already within your heart. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna [Bg. 18.61]. He's already there. Simply you have to qualify yourself to see that Krsna is here. That is called krsna-yoga, or bhakti-yoga. So there are many instances.

Those who have developed this mayy asakta-manah, means to develop your love for Krsna. As Caitanya Mahaprabhu said: prema pum-artho mahan. Generally people are attached to four principles of salvation: dharma, artha, kama, moksa [SB 4.8.41, Cc. Adi 1.90]. But actually you have to go beyond moksa. Beyond moksa means brahma-jnana, aham brahmasmi: "I'm not this body. I am spirit soul, Brahman." Krsna is Param Brahman, and we are all Brahman, part and parcel of Krsna. We are not Param Brahman. That is not possible. Param Brahman is Krsna. As we'll find in the Tenth Chapter: param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12]. Krsna is addressed as Param Brahman. Arjuna is never addressed as Param Brahman. That is the difference between Krsna and the living entity. He's para. He's Paramesvara. Isvarah parama-isvara, isvarah paramah krsnah [Bs. 5.1]. There are two words, atma, Paramatma. Isvara, Paramesvara. So Krsna is para. Brahman, Param Brahman.

Prahlada Maharaja recommends, kaumara acaret prajno dharman. Children, kaumara... Kaumara means from fifth year to the fifteenth year. These ten years, the boys and girls, especially boys, they should be instructed about religion. Now our government is secular. There is no question of teaching the children about religion, dharman. Because dharmena hinah pasubhih samanah. If you don't teach your children from the beginning of life about religion, then you are creating so many animals. Dharmena hinah pasubhih samanah. Not only here, everywhere, the whole world, they are, their universities are producing some animals. That's all. Therefore there is so much chaos and confusion all over the world. Varna-sankara. So if you want to be happy, really, if you want to make your life successful, human life, then you have to take this principle of mayy asakta manah. You have to increase your attachment for Krsna. This is the meaning of Krsna consciousness movement. It is not a sectarian religion. It is the fact. Unless the human society takes to this principle of increasing their attachment... We have got... At last, we increase our attachment for dogs and cats.

If you want to know Krsna or God by the speculative process, not only for one year, two years... Panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara-sampragamyo vayor athapi. Not mental speculation, but on the aeroplane running on the speed of vayu, or air, or mind, the speed of mind, still, by traversing many crores of years, you cannot reach. Still it, it remains avicintya, inconceivable. But if you take to the process of this krsna-yoga, or bhakti-yoga, then you can become aware of Krsna very easily. Bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah [Bg. 18.55]. To understand Krsna superficially, that is not sufficient. That is also good, but you must have tattvatah, what is Krsna actually. That knowledge can be achievedbhaktya, by this krsna-yoga. Otherwise,

There are so many human beings all over the world, Mostly, they're like animalswithout culture. Because, according to our Vedic culture, unless one takes to the institution of varna and asrama, he's not a human being. He's not accepted. So therefore Krsna says manusyanam sahasresu. Who is accepting this varnasrama? No. Chaotic condition. So in that chaotic condition you cannot understand what is God, what is Krsna. Therefore Krsna says manusyanam sahasresu. Out of many, many thousands and millions of people, one takes to the scientific institute of varnasrama-dharma. That means followers of the Vedas, strictly. Out of these persons who are following the Vedic principles, mostly they're attached to karma-kanda, ritualistic ceremonies. So out of many millions of persons engaged in ritualistic ceremony, one becomes advanced in knowledge. They are called jnanis, or speculative philosophers. Not karmis, but jnanis. So out of many millions of such jnanis, one becomes mukta, liberated. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati [Bg. 18.54]. This is liberated stage. One who is Brahman realized soul, he has nothing to lament or nothing to hanker. Because in the karmi stage we have got two diseases: hankering and lamenting. Whatever you have got, if it is lost, then I lament. "Oh, I got this and that and it is now lost." And whatever we do not possess, we hanker after. So for possessing, we hanker, we work so hard. And when it is lost, we again lament and cry. This is karmi stage. So brahma-bhutah stage... Jnana stage means he has no more lamenting or hankering. Prasannatma. "Oh, I am, aham brahmasmi. What I have got to do with this body? My business is to cultivate transcendental knowledge, brahma-jnana." So in that stage, brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu [Bg. 18.54]. That is the test. He has no lamenting. He has no hankering. And he's equal to everyone. Panditah sama-darsinah.

He has no distinction. So in this way, when one is situated, then mad-bhaktim labhate param [Bg. 18.54], then he comes to the devotional platform. And when he comes to the devotional platform, bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah [Bg. 18.55], then he's able.

These are the bhakti processes. Sravanam. The first business is hearing. Tad-vijnanartham. Vijnanartham. If you want to know some science, you must hear from the authorized person. Similarly our process is to hear from Krsna, the most authorized person. Not only our... All the acaryas. Mostly acaryas, they advented in your country, South India: Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Sankaracarya, Visnu Svami, all of them. So in your country, in your part of India, they are very fortunate. And they can... Sometimes it is described the Srimad-Bhagavatam is South Indian literature. I think in my Bhagavad-gita one professor Dimmock, he has given an introduction of this Bhagavad-gita, and he has mentioned Srimad-Bhagavatam as South Indian literature. Actually it is not. It is Vedic literature. It is meant for everyone. But because from South India, all the acaryas, especially Vaisnava acaryas, Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, they distributed the Vaisnava philosophy, people, they understand this Bha..., Srimad-Bhagavatam is from South India. So anyway it doesn't matter.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu, within these five hundred years, He inaugurated the sankirtana movement, Krsna consciousness movement, from Bengal. You know. So His order is... It is not that because Caitanya Mahaprabhu advented Himself in Bengal, He requested the Bengalis. No. He said, especially to the Indians: bharata-bhumite haila manusya-janma yara [Cc. Adi 9.41]. Anyone who has taken birth on the land of Bharatavarsa as human being, he should make his life perfect and distribute the knowledge to the others who are in ignorance. Because transcendental knowledge, spiritual knowledge, that is only in India. That is a fact. That is nowhere else. Even one Chinese educationist, he has admitted that "If we want to know what is religion, then we have to approach India." There is no other source.

Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam, dharma-samsthapanarthaya [Bg. 4.8]. Krsna came to establish what is real religion. Not cheating religion. Cheating religion will not help us. Why I say "cheating religion"? Because it is said in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo 'tra [SB 1.1.2]. Kaitava means cheating. You cannot make people happy by presenting some cheating religion. That is the injunction of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Real religion. What is the real, real religion? Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. Dharma means the codes given by God. That is dharma. You cannot make this dharma, that dharma. Dharma is one. God is one. And you have to follow that one principle, how to approach Krsna. That is bhakti. So dharma is to approach Krsna, and the process is bhakti. And Krsna is the Supreme God.

He's the cause of all causes. This is the shastric injunction. So if you take this movement very seriously, the world will be happy, we'll be happy, personally or socially or economically, politically... That's a fact. Therefore Krsna says: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. If we accept Krsna, simply Krsna, then you understand everything. Asamsayam, without any doubt. Samagram, in fullness. Kasmin vijnate sarvam idam vijnatam bhavati.

So join sankirtana movement. It is very important. Param vijayate. If you want victory of your life, join this movement. Param vijayate sri-krsna-san... Kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet [SB 12.3.51]. These are the recommendations. So the simple truth is, you be, become Krsna conscious, and your life is successful. Not only your life is successful, if you preach in your family, in your society, in your community or internationally, they also become benefited.

Krsna says that "I am the origin of everything." And in Vedanta says the Brahman, Absolute Truth is that, janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1], wherefrom everything is emanating. And here Krsna says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [Bg. 10.8]. All the acaryas, they have admitted this. Even Sankaracarya, who is not Vaisnava. Still he accepts: sa bhagavan svayam krsna devaki-nandana. He has admitted. So Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is no doubt. If you want to know Krsna, the Supreme Lord, here is Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Try to understand, and your life will be successful.