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HARE KRISHNA He was chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra very loudly. Some brāhmaṇas from Navadvīpa, they lodged complaint to the magistrate, Kazi, that "This Nimāi Paṇḍita has discovered a new type of religion, chanting loudly Hare Kṛṣṇa. This is the period of..., sleeping period of Nārāyaṇa, and He's chanting so loudly. So Nārāyaṇa will be disturbed and there will be so much catastrophe. So kindly stop...

HARE KRISHNA You are experiencing that our only business is to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, but there are so many enemies also. There are many friends we have got more friends than enemies; still, there are so many enemies also, criticizing.

HARE KRISHNA So sarvātmā is Bhagavān, the Personality, Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, who takes away all our miserable condition. Hari. And īśvara, controller. Tasmād bhārata sarvātmā bhagavān harir īśvaraḥ. So He's to be always remembered. Satato smārtavyo viṣṇuḥ. Always we have to remember Viṣṇu. Nityada, always.

HARE KRISHNA The practice of devotional service means so that we may be so accustomed to chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra that at the time of death we may remember it. Otherwise... Not like parrot. The parrot also imitates chanting. But when the cat catches, he does not say "Hare Kṛṣṇa." He says [imitates parrot sound], "kanh, kanh." So not that kind of... We should be accustomed to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa ...

HARE KRISHNA Kṛṣṇa recommends, māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ [Bg. 9.32]. Kiṁ punar brāhmaṇāḥ puṇyā bhaktā rājarṣayas tathā [Bg. 9.33]. Even pāpa-yoni, it doesn't matter. Any material condition cannot check Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Anyone can take bath in the Yamunā. It is open for everyone. There is no prohibition that those who are low-born, they cannot take bath in the Yamunā...

HARE KRISHNA It is so nice. Any condition, any circumstances, without any check, we can remember Kṛṣṇa. Satato smartavyaḥ..., smartavyo viṣṇuḥ. Kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [Cc. Ādi 17.31]. These are the instruction.

HARE KRISHNA We shall mold our life in such a way... This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, International Society, on this process they are acting. They're publishing, they're going to saṅkīrtana party on the street even they are arrested, they cannot forget Kṛṣṇa. Even they are put into the jail, there also, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa or remembering Kṛṣṇa, that "For pushing on Kṛṣṇa consciousness movemen...

HARE KRISHNA Dhyānāvasthita tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ [SB 12.13.1]. Yogī, those who are real yogīs, they always observe the Viṣṇu form within the heart. That is the process of meditation and samādhi.

HARIBOL Otherwise, we shall be put into the cycle of birth and death.

HARE KRISHNA After death we do not know our destination, because we are completely under the control of the laws of nature. Only Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is controller over the laws of nature. Therefore, if we take shelter of Kṛṣṇa seriously, there will be no fear of being thrown back into the cycle of so many species of life. A sincere devotee will surely be transferred to th...

HARE KRISHNA There are so many things after death, but there is no education. Therefore they are in darkness. So this human form of life is misused in darkness. If anyone does not know the value of life, then it is misused. In the śāstra it is called ātma-hā, committing suicide. The same quotation from Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura: hari hari biphale janama goṅāinu manuṣya-janama pāiyā, rādhā-kṛṣṇa nā...

HARE KRISHNA Others, however, are always vanquished. Vanquished means that after getting this human form of life, a person does not come out of the entanglement of birth and death and thus misses his golden opportunity. Such a person does not know where he is being thrown by the laws of nature."

HARE KRISHNA That is our business.

HARE KRISHNA similarly, for serving Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme, the whole, it doesn't matter whether one is a brāhmaṇa or kṣatriya or vaiśya or śūdra; everyone can be engaged. Sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya [Bg. 18.46]. One has to worship the Supreme by his own work. The leg has to work in his own way, the head has to work in its own way. But the aim should be to survive, to maintain this body. That is the ...

The brāhmaṇa is considered to be the mouth of the total body

B..-gītā that the four social orders and the four spiritual orders are created by the Lord Himself,

Similarly, the sannyāsīs have come out from the head; the vānaprasthas from the arms;

brāhmaṇas have come out from the head; the kṣatriyas have come out from the arms;

Practically the basic principle is chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra

We enforce the regulative principle when a student is serious to become initiated.

Any material condition cannot check Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be checked in any condition of life, provided we are serious

satato viṣṇuḥ vismartavyaṁ na jātucit. This is this is the principle of Kṛṣṇa conscious life.

This is called dhyāna, or meditation always remembering Kṛṣṇa.

So the best utilization of this human life is to elevate oneself to Kṛṣṇa consciousness

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If we actually take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then māyā, the laws of nature, will not act.

After death we do not know our destination,

cycle of birth and death involving 8,400,000 species of life