One Attraction to Krishna Protects Even in Dreams - Yamaraja's Agents Cannot Touch a Devotee

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.16–20 — August 2, 1971, New York 710802SB-NEW YORK [50:41 Minutes] SB-06.01.16–20_710802SB-NEW YORK Prabhupāda: [aside] So you require some fans. They are, the devotees, they are very inconvenienced. So you're… From next time you just arrange for some fans. Whatever facility you have got, you can use them for Kṛṣṇa’s sake.

Nirbandhe kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yukta-vairāgyam ucyate [Brs 1.2.255]. Dry renouncement is not recommended by our ācāryas. na tathā hy aghavān rājan pūyeta tapa-ādibhiḥ yathā kṛṣṇārpita-prāṇas tat-puruṣa-niṣevayā [SB 6.1.16] So this verse we have been discussing, that… The beginning of the discussion was that people are suffering, just like a man suffers from disease. There are different types of pains. So this material world is a place where we have to suffer different types of pains by different causes.

That is our position, actual position. Tridhāpa-jantrama[?]. They are called… Tri means "three." The Sanskrit word tri and the Latin "three," almost… [loud thunder] Now here, this thunderbolt is another pain. This is called ādhidaivika—pains or miseries offered by the demigods.

According to Vedic conception, this thunderbolt is thrown by Lord Indra, the king of heaven. He is in charge of cloud and rains. So when the thunderbolt is there, it is very painful. The other day one of our student was telling me a story that on the plane, Mr.

George Harrison, he was descending by the modern jumbo plane, but there was lightning and thunderbolt, and the plane was in very great danger when it was descending on New York. So he began to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. [laughter] So every passenger was surprised, "Why this fellow is chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa?" So some way or other, he said, that "We are saved." That is a fact, of course. You believe or not believe, that is a different thing, but it is a fact, [loud thunder] that taking shelter of this mahā-mantra, if you always keep yourself in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra...

It is not very difficult task. Simply you have to agree, that’s all. It is not difficult. Just like our boys and girls, they are chanting always, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare.

What is your loss? You are not losing anything. But if there is gain, eh? Why don’t you try it?

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