Therefore the yoga system is not recommended for the first-class men. First-class men, they know that by gymnastic process of exercising the material senses, one cannot understand God or religion. Visuddham. It is beyond. Therefore another name of Krsna, or God, is Adhoksaja. Adhah. Adhah means falls down, and aksaja, aksaja means... Aksa means direct experience, direct seeing, direct touching. And ja means born. Knowledge born of direct perception of the sensesthis is called aksaja. And adhah means where aksaja, the direct perception of material senses, is cut down. (curbed?) There is no possibility. He is called adhoksaja. Therefore, Krsna's another name is Adhoksaja, "beyond the sense perception knowledge." Panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara-sampragamyah. We cannot understand God or religion by our mental speculation even by the speed of mind, manasa. Panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara. And the speculation continues by, continues to hundreds and hundreds of years. Panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara. Sata means hundred, and koti means ten million. So ten million into hundredunlimited time. If you go on speculating, by speculation, panthas tu koti, still, your conception of God or religion will remain incomplete. Panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara-sampragamyo vayor athapi [Bs. 5.34]. By airplane, with the speed of the mind... There are different airplanes, and they have got different speeds. Now, if you manufacture an airplane which runs with the speed of the mind... You know the speed of the mind. Within a second, you can travel millions of miles. So an airplane running on, on that speed, and thinking for millions of years, still, you cannot approach the abode of Krsna or understand Krsna. Only you can understand by His mercy. Only by the mercy of... Bhaktya mam abhijanati. Bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg. 18.55]. Just like Krsna is voluntarily offering Arjuna to understand Bhagavad-gita. He's not going to canvass anyone. "Arjuna, you understand it. You'll be able to understand because you are My devotee."

So for a devotee only, the door of God is open. For others, there is no possibility. Therefore, He's called durbodham. Durbodham yam jnatva. But somehow or other, if he can understand the principles of religion and God, then immediately he becomes immortal. Immortal means he's no more going to accept any material body. That is also stated in the Bhagavad-gita:

So if somebody says, "If everything is Bhagavan, why not worshiping the Goddess Kali and Durga becomes bhakti?" No. That is not. Here it is distinctly stated, bhakti-yogah bhagavati. Bhakti-yogah bhagavati. And that bhakti-yoga, how it begins? Tan-nama-grahanadibhih. Tan-nama, His name, His holy name, grahana, chanting. The method is very simple. Tan-nama-grahana-adibhih. Adibhih means beginning is chanting. There are other processes. Chanting, sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, arcanam vandanam dasyam... [SB 7.5.23]. There are different processes, but the beginning is chanting and hearing. Tan-nama-grahanadibhih. Nama-grahana. Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, nama saya sari tako apana karya.(?) So this, our process, first of all, we give the chanting process. Sixteen rounds. That whole process of bhakti-yoga begins from that point. And the more you become experienced and more you relish the chanting, the more you become advanced. Other things will automatically come and make you perfect. Tan-nama. Therefore we should be very much, I mean to say, strict in the principle of following the regulative principles and avoiding offenses and chant the mantra faithfully. That is the beginning of religion, and that is the beginning of liberation. And Caitanya Mahaprabhu blesses that iha haite sarva-siddhi haibe tomara. If you chant the holy name of Krsna in faith and according to rules and regulations... Even rules and regulation fails, but chanting may not be stopped. Even sometimes we fail. There is possibility of failing, because we are conditioned, and there is every chance of falling down. So despite you are fallen down, still, you should go on chanting.

This verse Narada Muni's instruction, we were discussing the last meeting. Tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam harer bhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi [SB 1.5.17]. One has taken to this Krsna consciousness cult and is chanting as far as possible, but there is possibility, because one is not mature, there are so many attraction of maya, he may fall down. But Narada Muni says, "Still, he is not in loss." It is so powerful. "Still he is in gain. And one who does not take to Krsna consciousness, if he is following the religious principles... Everyone has got some religion. Still, what does he gain? He does not gain anything." That is the verdict of Narada Muni. A person who has taken to Krsna consciousness, giving up his all religious principles and occupations, even he falls down on account of his immature position, he is much gainer than the person who is sticking to his religious principle, so-called religious principle, but does not know what Krsna consciousness. He does not gain anything. That is the verdict of Narada Muni.

Therefore those who are sahajiyas, they simply go to the pastimes of Lord Krsna with the gopis. Other things, "Oh, no, no. That is not Krsna's pastimes. That is not Krsna's pastimes." That is, they differentiate the absolute activities of the Absolute. That is called sahajiya. The sahajiyas will never read Bhagavad-gita, will never read. (sarcastic:) Because they have been elevated to the mellows of conjugal love. Therefore they have no interest in Bhagavad-gita. They say... Or when you discuss Srimad-Bhagavatam on the philosophical point, janmady asya [SB 1.1.1], they also do not attend. If you discuss on the philosophy of Upanisad and Vedanta, they'll not attend. I have seen it. In Radha-kunda, sometime in 1934, my Guru Maharaja was living, and he was discussing Upanisad. He was discussing Upanisad regularly. And the babajis... There are many babajis in Radha-kunda. First of all, they came, that "Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura has come, such a learned scholar and the establisher of Gaudiya Matha." So out of curiosity they came. And when they saw that he was discussing Upanisad, gradually they stopped coming. So my Guru Maharaja recommended that "These people are not living in Radha-kunda. They are living in Naraka-kunda." I have heard it personally.

So those persons distinguish. Just like Bhisma. Bhisma is stated here as one of the authority, mahajanas. But what did he do? He fought against Krsna and pierced with his arrows. You know, in the... We have stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Krsna became so much disturbed that... Not disturbed. That is also another... He's pleased. He became pleased, rather. Being pierced by the arrows of Bhisma, He became pleased. That I have described in my translation. So being pleased, He came before him. He came before him as if angry, but not... He was so pleased, that "You wanted to break My promise. I have broken it! Please save Arjuna; that is My request to you.' " He promised that "Now tomorrow I shall fight in such a way that either Krsna has to break His promise, either, or His most intimate friend, beloved friend, Arjuna, will be killed." So this person is determining to kill Krsna's friend, most intimate friend, and he's a mahajana. Just try to understand. Bhisma is accepted here as mahajana, as authority. And what was his business? He wanted to kill Krsna and Arjuna. Just try to understand. Therefore, we have to follow only the instruction of mahajana; otherwise, we'll be bewildered. Vaisnave kriya mudra vijneha na bujhaya [Cc. Madhya 23.39]. We cannot understand what are the activities of Krsna and His devotees. We have to simply follow their instruction. That's all. The sahajiyas, they do not follow the instruction. They imitate only: "Krsna has made rasa-lila; so why not we also make rasa-lila?" It is going on, regularly.

So etavatalam agha-nirharanaya pumsam sankirtanam [SB 6.3.24]. If you actually want to become free from the contamination of this material world, then you should always be engaged in chanting, sankirtanam. Not only the holy name, but reading the Krsna book, The Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Caitanya. If you feel tired chanting, you read these books. Sometimes there is psychology, transfer. You are reading some book, you want to read another book. So we have got so many books. If you feel tired this book, then transfer your attention to another book, or another book, or chant. Find out. Simply, not to waste a single moment. Kirtaniyah sada harih [Cc. Adi 17.31]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says sada. Sada means always. So we have got materials for engaging ourself always in Krsna consciousness. Not that we have got only this one item. No. We have got so many items. That is also accepted.

The sahajiyas, they do not know it. They think that "We shall sit in a secluded place and chant, imitating Haridasa." We have seen it. Their imitation is useless. They fall down. Therefore, they must be always engaged in some activities. Otherwise, he'll be attracted by the modes of ignorance and passion. Etavatalam agha-nirharanaya. Agha means the reaction of sinful activities. Every one of us, anyone who is in this material world, he is sinful. Without being sinful, nobody is here in this material world. If he's not sinful, then he'll be immediately transferred. Yesam anta-gatam papam jananam punya-karmanam. Immediately transferred to the spiritual world. He has... Just like a person who has finished his criminal punishment, immediately he is released from the prison. Similarly, a person who is freed from the resultant action of sinful activities, he immediately becomes liberated. Therefore anyone who is in this material world engaged in fruitive activities... Not the devotees. That is another mistake. The devotees are also here, but they are always in Vaikuntha. Brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. So anyway, the general process is that instead of, I mean to say, following the religious rituals for diminishing or getting out of the sinful reaction, one is recommended to accept bhakti-yoga, beginning with the chanting of the holy name of Krsna. That is the conclusion.

Thank you very much. Hare Krsna. (end)