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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.14 — September 17, 1975, Vṛndāvana 750917SB-VRNDAVAN [28:44 Minutes] SB-06.02.14_750917SB-VRNDAVAN Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto, Second Chapter, verse number fourteen.
[leads chanting of verse, etc.] sāṅketyaṁ pārihāsyaṁ vā stobhaṁ helanam eva vā vaikuṇṭha-nāma-grahaṇam aśeṣāgha-haraṁ viduḥ [SB 6.2.14] [break] [02:18]
Prabhupāda: All right. Sāṅketyam, "indication." sāṅketyaṁ pārihāsyaṁ vā stobhaṁ helanam eva vā vaikuṇṭha-nāma-grahaṇam aśeṣāgha-haraṁ viduḥ [SB 6.2.14] Everyone should know, viduḥ. Generally we do not know what is the power of vaikuṇṭha-nāma. nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ [Cc. Antya 20.16, Śikṣāṣṭaka 2] Caitanya Mahāprabhu regretted that the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is so powerful that all the potencies or all the energies in the Absolute Person, the same thing you'll find in His name, in His form, but these things are not understood by less intelligent class of men.
To understand these things means to know Kṛṣṇa in truth. manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścid vetti māṁ tattvataḥ [Bg. 7.3] This is tattva, truth, that Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person, His holy name, His form, His attributes, His pastimes, His paraphernalia, His dhāma... Just like we are in Vṛndāvana-dhāma. So why Vṛndāvana-dhāma is worshiped? Because the Vṛndāvana-dhāma is not different from Kṛṣṇa.
When you take little dust of Vṛndāvana-dhāma and take it, that means you are taking the dust of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, and you take it. Vṛndāvana-dhāma, so important. So Vṛndāvana-dhāma, ordinary man cannot see. Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, rūpa-raghunātha-pade haibe ākuti kabe hāma bujhabo śrī yugala-pīriti viṣaya chādiyā kabe śuddha ha'be mana kabe hāma herabo śrī-vṛndāvana Vṛndāvana, if you come from anywhere by the train and aeroplane and see Vṛndāvana, that is not seeing Vṛndāvana.
Vṛndāvana-seeing means, viṣaya chādiyā kabe śuddha ha'be mana kabe hāma herabo śrī-vṛndāvana When we shall be free from viṣaya... Viṣaya means āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam [Hitopadeśa 25]. So who can give up viṣaya unless it is a great devotee? Others cannot.
Viṣaya, it is very difficult. But if one is advanced devotee—paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate [Bg. 2.59]—they can give up. So if you come to Vṛndāvana and arrange for a viṣaya-bhoga—āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam—then Vṛndāvana is far away. Viṣaya chādiyā.