So that is a kind of vrata, vow. But our process is different: sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayor vacamsi vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane [SB 9.4.18]. We do not stop talking, but we talk for preaching Krsna consciousness. That is wanted. So there are many, you'll find, they take credit by not talking. Sometimes you go to them and ask some question, they'll write in pencil on the paper, "We will not talk." And what is the meaning of his silence? If I put some questions and you write in paper, what is the difference between talking and writing? I am using the senses. For talking I am using the senses, tongue. Instead of using the sense, tongue, active senses, I am using my hand. So this is also sense gratification. The real fact is that you cannot stop the tongue working. Engage the tongue in Krsna consciousness. That is wanted. Don't talk material subject matters. In big, big meetings the politicians, the United Nation, they talkingbut talking all nonsense, simply going there for passing resolution that "Now we have to do this. Then the world will change." No, it will never change. By such kind of foolish talking, it will never change. Better close this United Nation organization because it has not given any practical effect. But talking about Krsna, just see how it is giving practical effect. Here you are assembled here from Europe, America, and Africa, Canada, and practically all over the world, but you are united nation. You are united nation simply by talking Krsna. This is the remedy. And if you keep yourself as American, as Indian, as Canadian, as African, and go to the United Nation and talk for years and years, there will be no more United Nation. It will be... More flags will increase because this is nonsense talking. It is practical. The United Nation is talking for the last thirty, forty years?

Therefore Prahlada Maharaja says this stoppage of talking is better than to talk nonsense. If you cannot talk of Krsna, better don't talk. Therefore this maunam is recommended for the persons less intelligent who cannot talk about Krsna. Better stop. This is called mauna. Otherwise Srila Rupa Gosvami says that "I have got only one tongue and two ears. So how can I enjoy or serve Hare Krsna only with one tongue and two ears? If I had millions of ears and trillions of tongues, then it would have been possible." It is meaning... Tunde tanda... I forget that verse now. He is feeling like that, that "How shall I chant Hare Krsna mantra by one tongue only and hear, sravana-kirtana, by two ears?" So he is expecting so many ears and so many tongues to chant Hare Krsna mantra. And so far we are concerned, conditioned soul, even sixteen round becomes very, very difficult job for us because we are practiced to talk nonsense. We cannot find out little time, say for two hours, for chanting Hare Krsna, but we can find twenty-four hours for talking nonsense. Therefore one who cannot chant Hare Krsna mantra, he should stop his talking. That is called mauna. Don't talk any more. Better remain silent. This is recommendation by Prahlada Maharaja. And vrata also compulsory. It is meant for persons who are desiring to be liberated.

Here it is said, apavarga. Apavarga. Apa. A-pavarga. A means just the opposite, a, "not." And pavarga, pavarga I have several times explained to you. Pa means parisrama, laboring, working very hard. This material world, everyone is working very hard-man, animal, bird, beasts, everyone. It is meant for that, just opposite of the spiritual world. In the spiritual world there is no question of working, what to speak of hard working. There is no question. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. This is the definition of God: na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. He has nothing to do. You see. Krsna is simply enjoying. He has nothing to do. He hasn't got to go to the market. We are servants. We go to the market and prepare food for Krsna. Krsna's simply playing on His flute. And if you, with devotion, offer Him food, He will eat. He has nothing to go. So similarly, those who are servants of Krsna in the spiritual world, they also haven't got to do anything, what to speak of hard work. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29]. Everything automatically is there. We haven't got that idea; therefore sometimes people accuse that I am poisoning so many young men; they are doing nothing. We are practicing that prema, that we haven't got to do anything; still, it will come, everything. That is real practice. We haven't got to do business, we haven't got to go to the office, but still, things will come. That is Krsna consciousness. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate.

So how it is possible? That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita:

So therefore sastra says, "Don't try for this destined gain or loss. You are working so hard to making some gain. Even if you do not work hard, you will get that gain. Don't try for it. Better utilize the time for chanting Hare Krsna." That is the injunction of sastra. Tasyaiva hetoh prayeteta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah [1.5.18]. The people do not understand. They think that these young men are being induced to escape. No, it is not escape. This is the only path of liberation, apavargya. To make the pavargas, pa, pha, ba, ba is vyartha, and bha... Bha means bhaya, fearfulness. In spite of working so hard, everyone is afraid: "What will happen next? What will happen next?" Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithuna. This is the nature. And then, after working so hard, bringing out foam in the mouth, disappointment, then fearfulessat last die, mrtyu, ma. Pa pha ba bha ma, these five, pavarga. In Sanskrit grammar there are vargas: ka-varga, ca-varga, ta-varga, like that, five vargas, the pa-varga. So this word is used generally in the Vedic literature, apavarga. Dharmasya ca... Eh?

So therefore dharma means the rules and regulation or the law given by Krsna if you want release from this bondage of material suffering, apavargasya. Dharmasya hi apavargasya na arthaya artho upakalpate. Generally we go to the temple for artha, some material gain: "O God, give us our daily bread." This is material gain, either bread or rice or something. It is also good because arto artharthi. Catur-vidha bhajante mam janah sukrtinah. Sukrtinah. Anyone who goes to the temple or church for begging bread, they are also good because they are coming to the temple. In that respect they are good. But one who thinks that "What is the use of going to the temple? God is everywhere. Even in the wine shop there is God. Let me go there instead of coming to the temple..." That is their philosophy. God is everywhere. He goes to the wine shop for realization of God. But to come to the temple is forbidden. This is their philosophy.

So anyway, dharmasya hy apavargasya na arthaya upakalpate. And to gain money, material gain, does not mean we shall satisfy our senses. Now, what is that? Arthasya. Artha is not meant for sense gratification. Jivasya tattva-jijnasa.

So in order to... Dharmasya. Dharma, artha, kama, moksa. Kama is also required for whom? Ajitendriyanam, one who cannot control. But one who can control... If one is trained up properly, he can control. He doesn't require anything. Because any activities of this material world, they may be utilized for systematic proper peace, peaceful condition of the social, political. But after all, they are material. Material means unwanted. Krsnadasa Kaviraja has said, dvaite bhadrabhadra sakali saman. In this material word we sometimes say, "This is very good, and this is very bad." Kaviraja Gosvami says, "This 'bad' or 'good,' it has no meaning. They are simply mental concoction." Because in the material world everything is bad. The so-called good is bad, and bad is bad. Therefore we have to search out how to get out, apavarga. This is there, how to make these material activities null and void. They are useless. That is the recommendation of Prahlada Maharaja, and that can be done directly simply by becoming Krsna conscious. It is not Prahlada Maharaja's own word, but Krsna says.

So Prahlada Maharaja recommends that, that there are so many processes how to get out of this material world, but Prahlada Maharaja and all the devotees, especially Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He has recommended that "Chant Hare Krsna."

Thank you very much. (end)