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Any Devotional Work Keeps One in KC, Soul Transmigrates as Body Changes

📅 June 9, 1976 📍 Los Angeles ⏱ 30 min
Krishna never abandons His devotees; His strength alone sustains all existence and grants eternal redemption.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: "...afraid of me, what kind of child? [laughs] Where you got so much strength?" And the answer here, na kevalaṁ me bhavataś ca rājan sa vai balaṁ balināṁ cāpareṣām pare 'vare 'mī sthira-jaṅgamā ye brahmādayo yena vaśaṁ praṇītāḥ [SB 7.8.7] "Prahlāda Mahārāja said, 'My dear King, the source of my strength, of which you are asking, is also the source of yours, by which you are challenging. Indeed, the original source of all kinds of strength is one. He is not only your strength or mine, but the only strength for everyone.

Without Him, no one can get any strength, whether moving or not moving, superior or inferior. Everyone, including Lord Brahmā, is controlled by the strength of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.' " so 'haṁ vikatthamānasya śiraḥ kāyād dharāmi te gopāyeta haris tvādya yas te śaraṇam īpsitam [SB 7.8.13] "All right, let me see how your strength is coming. Now I shall kill you. Come on.

Let me see [laughs] how your God is coming to save you." This is atheism, challenging. And when He appeared, the Hiraṇyakaśipu became a fly [laughs] in front of... Eh? Where is such language?

Even there are many Sanskrit scholars now, they cannot produce such language. That is not possible. And five thousand years before, Vyāsadeva presented this unique language.

Rāmeśvara: This is the twentieth volume of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam now printed. Twentieth volume.

Rāmeśvara: So you have already finished two more volumes at least.

Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda says out of sixty volumes, twenty are already printed, and...

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