Vishnuduta Protect Devotees - Conquer Sleep and Preach Actively

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.3.18 — February 11, 1971, Gorakhpur 710211SB-GORAKPHUR [41:13 Minutes] SB-06.03.18_710211SB-GORAKPHUR Devotee: [introducing recording] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [indistinct] Prabhupāda: ...rakṣanti tad-bhaktimataḥ parebhyo mattaś ca martyān atha sarvataś ca [SB 6.3.18] So invisible Viṣṇudūtas, they are always traveling. Just like Viṣṇu, Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is all-pervading, He is everywhere, but our present eyes cannot see Him, material eyes.

Just like we cannot see even the living entity when he is passing through this body, leaving this body aside, very small. We cannot see. Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.136]. By the dint of your..., by the strength of your senses, the present material senses, it is not possible to appreciate śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi.

Beginning from Kṛṣṇa's holy name... [mike noises!] [dog howling] [aside:] Where is this dog? No. Your dog. Your dog?

This is your dog? Guest: No, no, no. Prabhupāda: Why it is barking? [indistinct comments with others] So invisible Viṣṇudūtas, they are always everywhere. Just like police constables, Yamadūtas are there and Viṣṇudūtas are there. Civil guard and the police constables, both are there.

So Yamadūtas' business is to arrest the sinful. That is their... Here, everyone is sinful. Nobody is free from sin. That is the position of this material world.

So Yamadūtas are searching or taking away. Just after leaving this body, one is taken away by Yamadūta to the place of Yamadūta. There is a planet described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So those who are very sinful, they are dragged through hot desert. They cannot...

They fall down. Such persons fall down, but still, he is dragged through the desert. These descriptions are there. Sometimes we feel like that.

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