Only remembrance of Krishna as the supreme controller liberates all beings from material fear and endless struggle.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.5 — June 13, 1974, Paris 740613SB-PARIS [33:09 Minutes] SB-02.01.05_740613SB-PARIS Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] tasmād bhārata sarvātmā bhagavān īśvaro hariḥ śrotavyaḥ kīrtitavyaś ca smartavyaś cecchatābhayam [SB 2.1.5] [break] [03:11] Translation: "O descendant of Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries." Prabhupāda: tasmād bhārata sarvātmā bhagavān īśvaro hariḥ śrotavyaḥ kīrtitavyaś ca smartavyaś cecchatābhayam [SB 2.1.5] So who does not want abhayam?
Abhayam means fearlessness. Everyone wants. Because by material nature we have got four positions. One position is always fearful, "What will happen next?" Even the big man, President Nixon, he is also fearful, "What will happen next?" Because so many charges are being brought against him, although he is on the very exalted position, president of USA, but he has..., he is also always fearful.
This is the nature, material nature. Can anyone say that he is not fearful? Is it possible? Then what to speak of us.
As you require to eat something... This is material existence, eating. Then after eating, rest, sleeping. Then after rest, sex indulgence.
Similarly, fearfulness. So here it is recommended, icchatām akuto 'bhayam: "One who desires to be free from all miseries or fearfulness, for them." Those who are accustomed to this fearfulness, and they do not make any arrangement how to get out of this fearfulness, they are not human being. Human being is always..., takes precaution how to save oneself. Although it is natural, everyone is fearful, but at the same time, it is the effort of the human being to see that he may be saved from the cause of fearfulness. Therefore it is said, icchatā abhayam.
Abhayam means no fear. If anyone wants no more to be fearful, then for him the prescribed duty is mentioned here that tasmāt, "Therefore," bhārata, "O the descendant of Mahārāja Bharata." Parīkṣit Mahārāja belonged to the dynasty of King Bharata, King Bharata, from whose name the Bhārata-varṣa, the word Bhārata-varṣa, has come. This planet is called Bhārata-varṣa. This planet, earthly planet, is called Bhārata-varṣa because it was ruled over by the King Bharata.
Gradually, the original Vedic culture lost, Āryan, Āryan family... You French people, you are also Āryan family, but the culture is lost now. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is actually reviving the original Āryan culture. Bhārata.