Continuous hearing and chanting about Krishna's activities alone grant liberation from the endless cycle of birth and death.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.36 — April 28, 1973, Los Angeles 730428SB-LOS ANGELES [30:42 Minutes] SB-01.08.36_730428SB-LOS ANGELES Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and evotees repeat] śṛnvanti gāyanti gṛṇanty abhīkṣṇaśaḥ smaranti nandanti tavehitaṁ janaḥ ta eva paśyanty acireṇa tāvakaṁ bhava-pravāhoparamaṁ padāmbujam [SB 1.8.36] [break] śṛṇvanti—hear; gāyanti—chant; gṛṇanti—take; abhīkṣṇaśaḥ—continuously; smaranti—remembers; nandanti—take pleasure; tava—Your; īhitam—activities; janāḥ—people in general; ta—they; eva—certainly; paśyanti—can see; acireṇa—very soon; tāvakam—Your; bhava-pravāha—the current of rebirth; uparamam—cessation; pada-ambujam—lotus feet. [02:48] Translation: "O Kṛṣṇa, those who continuously hear, chant and repeat Your transcendental activities or take pleasure in others doing so certainly see Your lotus feet, which alone can stop the repetition of birth and death." Prabhupāda: So in the previous verse it is explained that bhave 'smin kliśyamānānām [SB 1.8.35]. Anyone who has come to this material word, bhave, in this material world, asmin, in this, kliśyamānānām, they are all working very hard or taking trouble very much like ass working, kliśyamānānām. He cannot bear the so much burden.
Still he's loaded with so much burden. That is kliśyamānānām. If you..., if you can bear some load, that's all right. But if you cannot, if it is overloaded, then it is very difficult to go on. So in the previous verse it was suggested that śravaṇaṁ smaraṇam arhāṇam [SB 2.4.15].
To get out of this troublesome life, kliśyamānānām avidyā-kāma-karmabhiḥ... They have created kāma-karmabhiḥ, kāma, lusty desires, desireful. They have created work, heavy work. Therefore kliśyamānānām, always in trouble.
So to mitigate that trouble, the recommendation is, smaraṇa smaraṇam arhāṇam. So Kṛṣṇa comes to introduce the system by which one can get relief from this continuous, troublesome life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir, glānir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. Just like you suffer when you create some disturbance in the law. Then you suffer.
We have got experience. If we violate the state laws, then you have to suffer. Similarly, religious... Religion means God's laws.
They do not know. "Religion means faith." Faith, you may have faith something. I may have faith something. I may believe you or you may not believe me.
That is not religion. Religion... "I do not believe in God." Just like this big mission, they say, "You can manufacture your own way." Yata mata tata patha. "Whatever you think right, that is right." This is their philosophy. But that is not science.