Nanu sakrd ucaritena namabhyasena katham sarva-papa-ksayah syat, sraddha-bhakty-avrtyad eva vidhanah. Tatha hi, sayam pratar grnan bhaktya duhkha-gramad vimucyate. He's giving quotation from many scriptures in which it is stated, sayam pratar grnan... Sayam tri-sandhya, morning, noon, and evening, pratar grnan, daily chanting Hare Krsna mantra. Sayam pratar grnan bhaktya, with devotion and faith, duhkha-gramad vimucyate. Duhkha-gramad means volumes of miserable condition of life. One can avoid volumes of miserable condition of life simply by chanting. Anudinam idam adarena srnvan iti. When it is stated anudinam adarena, with great care and attention one should chant. Not that we should utilize the chanting of holy name for my sense gratification, that "I commit sin, and again I chant, and it will be counteracted. So again I chant, again I commit." No. That is not allowed. Anudinam. Sridhara Swami... Anudinam idam adarena srnvanti. Or srnvan adarena, with great care. Because the name, the holy name, and the person KrsnaKrsna and Krsna's namethey are identical. So one should be so much careful and, I mean to say, faithful that as soon as you are chanting, you should know that "Krsna is dancing on my tongue." Therefore how much careful and respectful we should be. It is very responsible(?).

Suppose Krsna is here... Just like we offer so respectful obeisances to the Deity. Similarly, as the Deity is arca-vigraha, incarnation... This Deity which you are worshiping as the arca-vigraha, arca means worshipable incarnation. Because we cannot see Krsna with our present eyes, material eyes; therefore it is Krsna's mercy that He has appeared before us in a form which we can see. That is Krsna's mercy. It is not that Krsna is different from this Deity. That is mistake. Those who cannot understand what is Krsna's potency, they think that this is idol, and therefore they say "Idol worship." It is not idol worship. The same example, as I have given many times, that the postbox, or mailbox on the street, it is post office. If somebody thinks, "It is a box..." It is a box, but it is a post office at the same time. Similarly, Krsna is everything. The bhumir apo analo vayuh kham... [Bg. 7.4]. Krsna says, "My energy." As you cannot separate energy and the energetic, Krsna is everything. So Krsna can accept your service through everything. Don't consider that "This is metal." The metal is also Krsna. Therefore we should know bhumi..., bhumi... Metal, what is metal? Metal means earth. Krsna says, first of all says, bhumir apo analo vayuh: "They are My all energies." So from argument's point of view, Krsna is everything. Therefore Krsna can accept service through everything. So this Deity, vigraha, either made of wood, made of stone or earth or metal or painting, they are not different from Krsna. Krsna has got the potency to accept your service through this medium. So they are not pictures or they are not ordinary idols. You should never... Similarly, a sound vibration. Krsna is present through sound vibration because the five elements, akasa, the sky... Sky, within sky, there is sound. So from argumentative point of view also, nobody can deny that this chanting of the holy name of Krsna is not identical. It is identical. Because identical... Everything is identical.

So as soon as you approach the Deity or the name, you should know fully well that Krsna is present. Krsna is... Therefore we should worship the Deity with great attention, as much as Krsna is present. And similarly, we should worship the holy name with great attention. We should not be inattentive. Suppose Krsna personally comes, personally He is here. Suppose personally, as you think of personally, personally comes. If you do not become respectful, is that all right? No. You should be very much respectful. Even a respectable person, ordinary person, a big man or a rich man or a king comes, we become so much respectful. And what about Krsna when He's present as arca-murti or as the holy name? These are the realization point of view: Krsna, His name, His form, His quality, His pastimes. When you hear about Krsna, that is also Krsna. Actually, when you are reading Krsna book, Krsna is fighting with demons, that is also His pastime. So Krsna is present. So you should be very attentive and worship this hearing. Unless we come to this point, there is lack of realization what is Krsna.

Anudinam adarena srnvan iti sravanam kirtanam dhyanam harer adbhuta-karmanah. Here also, explicitly mentioned, harer adbhuta-karmanah. Krsna's activities are all wonderful. As you read from the Krsna book, He is fighting with many demons, and His activities are wonderful. Just like Kaliya-damana. A boy of five years old or six years old jumping in the Yamuna, and the great snake immediately coils Him, as if it will devour Krsna. And from the shore, all the members of Vrndavana, they become fainted: "Now Krsna is gone." But He was fighting with him and kicking on the head, and blood was oozing out from the mouth of the serpent. So these things are wonderful thingsBakasura, Aghasura, Sisupala, Kamsa. Krsna was boy of sixteen years old when He was combating a very powerful wrestler, Canura. Everything... Everyone present, they thought it unlawful that "Krsna is so young, and such a big stalwart and strong wrestler is engaged with Him for wrestling. This is not good. This is not good." In protest, so many people left the arena. And Nanda Maharaja began to think, "I should have locked up Krsna in Vrndavana instead of allowing Him to come here. Oh, so much injustice." But Krsna killed them. Not only killed them, the wrestlers who were engaged by Kamsa, He immediately dragged Kamsa from his throne and simply by fisting He killed him. There are so many wonderful. Therefore Krsna's activities are called adbhuta-karmanah. It is never expected to be done by any human being. How it can be done by a human being? He's all-powerful. He can do anything and everything. And because the persons with poor fund of knowledge, they cannot understand Krsna, therefore these Krsna's activities are to them as allegories or mythology. Because they are rascals, they think it is mythology. It is not mythology. It is actual fact, but they are wonderful, because it is being enacted by Krsna.

Therefore it is stated here, harer adbhuta-karmanah, janma-karma-gunanam ca tad-arthe akhila-cestitam ity adi asmin eva purane tatra tatra pathyate. Janma-karma-gunanam ca. Hearing about Krsna, about Krsna's appearance, His so-called janma... Janma means birth. So Krsna is unborn. He is nityo nityanam. He's... Just like we have no janma, we have no appearance. It is simply change of dress. It is not death. As it is explained in the Bhagavad-gita that vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya [Bg. 2.22]if I change my dress, that is not my death. This is easily understood. Similarly, transmigration of the soul from one body to another, that is not death. But because we have no eyes to see the soul, how it is changing from one body... Just like we cannot see how the baby is coming to another body, childhood, boyhood. We cannot see. We see that the body is changing. No. He's changing from one body to another. That is the version of the Bhagavad-gita. But we say that body's growing. Why body's growing? If the body has got any growing power, then why the body of a dead child does not grow? The body has no growing power. It is actually changed. But because... Just like in the spool of your film, there are many pictures. But because you see under certain condition, you see one picture. It is very easy to understand. Actually, the pictures are changing, different pictures, and we are seeing one picture. We are seeing the picture is moving in one picture. Similarly, this body is continuously, every moment, there is different body, different body, different body, every moment, but we are seeing one body. This is our ignorance. But we are changing body. Every moment we are changing body. The spool is going on. The exact example is that, like that, the film. Every second, changing one picture, one picture, one picture, one picture. And it appears that it is only one picture. One who does not know how the machine, cinematographic machine is workingthe foolish personsthey say, they think that the picture is one and it is moving. No. It is changing. Similarly, the body is also changing. The exact example is changing of dress. Vasamsi jirnani. That is the exact word used in the Bhagavad-gita. So even for an ordinary living being, we cannot see how the body is changing, how the living entity is changing from body to another. It is so swiftly, every moment, every second, it is taking place. How you can see? So there is no death; it is simply changing.

So if for ordinary living entity there is no death, how Krsna can be appearing and dying? No. Therefore, janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvatah [Bg. 4.9]. One who knows in truth how Krsna is appearing, how Krsna is disappearing, he is learned. He is learned in the spiritual science, and for him, as soon as he becomes learned, well-versed in the spiritual science, Krsna science, he immediately becomes liberated. Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirms, yei krsna-tattva-vetta sei guru haya [Cc. Madhya 8.128]. Because one who has understood Krsna in truth, he is liberated person. Therefore he is guru. Guru cannot be a conditioned soul. Guru must be liberated. Because without complete knowledge of Krsna, without being free from the contamination of the three modes of material nature... One cannot understand Krsna on account of his being engrossed with these three material modes of nature. And Krsna says, "One who understand Me rightly, he becomes immediately free." Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. Just like we are changing our dress or our different bodies every moment, so Krsna says, tyaktva deham. The last change, last change... Ordinarily, those who are not liberated, those who are conditioned still, they die. Die means they change this body and accept another material body. Another material body. But one who is liberated by understanding Krsna, one who is fully Krsna conscious, he also changes his body and he accepts immediately a spiritual body. And so long he lives, that is also spiritual body. That is spiritual body in the (this) sense because that body is engaged in spiritual activities only. There is no material activity; therefore that is spiritual. The same example: the iron rod, although it is rod, because it has become red hot it is no longer rod; it is fire. Similarly, this material body becomes spiritualized when one is completely Krsna conscious, because he has no more activity of this material body. His actions are... The same example, try to follow. When it has become so hot, red hot, that it is no more acting as iron rod, it is acting as fire. Similarly, and when he changes this body also, he immediately... Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. Then he does not come in material body. Immediately, a spiritual body develops. As this material body has developed from the spirit soul, on the platform of spirit soul, similarly, what is the difficulty to understand a spiritual body can also grow? There is no difficulty. So our, this material body, everyone knows that it grows or it changes from one body to another because the spirit soul is there. Similarly, one who is fully Krsna conscious, as it is said by Krsna, tyaktva deham: as soon as this body is given up, immediately, another, spiritual body is offered.

That spiritual body... Sanatana Gosvami has said that those who are being liberated from this material world, they are offered a spiritual body where Krsna-lila is going on. Krsna's pastimes, Vrndavana-lila, or as Krsna manifested His different pastimes when He was present, that is going on eternally. As soon as He leaves this universe, in another universe His lila becomes manifest. Krsna is born... Krsna is born here at Janmastami, and as soon as Krsna is taken to Gokula by Vasudeva, Krsna is seen in another universe, born again. Just like our sun. As soon as it rises at six o'clock or, say, five o'clock... So as soon as here five o'clock finished, in another place five o'clock begins. But it is going on. Ananta-cakra. The five o'clock is permanent. Anywhere, there must be some five o'clock. Anywhere, there must be six o'clock. Anywhere, there must be seven o'clock. Just like the twenty-four hours is going on. You cannot say that the sun's rising at five o'clock, because it is finished within your view, it is finished. No. It is not like that. The five o'clock is permanent to the sun. If it is so possible to a material thing, why not Krsna? Therefore it is called nitya-lila. Nitya-lila means eternally Janmastami is going on. Eternally everything is going on, eternally. So one who is liberated from this world and he is given the spiritual body, he's immediately transferred to the place where Krsna's lila is going on. Just like in Vrndavana, when Krsna was present, all the Vrndavana-vasis, they were not ordinary men; they were liberated. They transferred to associate with Krsna, practice. And after this complete practice, they were transferred to the Goloka Vrndavana. So therefore, Sukadeva Gosvami says about the boys, cowherd boys, playing with Krsna, krta-punya-punjah. Krta-punya-punjah. "Oh, how much these boys have accumulated their pious activities! Now they are transferred here to play with Krsna." Krta-punya-punjah.

So this is possible. So... And Krsna says, mad-yajino 'pi yanti mam. Yanti deva-vrata devan pitrn yanti pitr-vratah mad-yajino... [Bg. 9.25]. "Those who are cultivating Krsna consciousness, they come to Me. They come to Me." So where is the difficulty to understand the whole philosophy of Krsna consciousness? It is very simple. Everything is there. We have to understand, and we have to be very serious and sincere. The thing is there.

Thank you very much.

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