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Vaishnava Tradition Endures Through Chanting, Sex Desire Requires Strict Regulation

📅 May 8, 1977 📍 Rishikesh ⏱ 71 min
The soul transmigrates through bodies; therefore, prepare through Krishna consciousness, not politics or prestige.
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Prabhupāda: Nobody knows God. The whole Christian world, they do not know what is God. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ [Bg 7.24]. And they are these ajānantaḥ, must fall down. cyavanti te.

The very word means "falldown." Without any understanding of God, religion means falldown. Everyone has fallen down. So many religions crying out. Now these Ārya-samājīs... Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Now it's not very big. Prabhupāda: Who cares for them?

For some times they can do, jumping. It will not stay. But the Vaiṣṇava religion is going on. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ [SB 7.5.23]. As many...

So we may take it since the time of Kṛṣṇa, five thousand years, this has been going on, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, Deity worship, going on. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: One thing I saw in Rishikesh. They have... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The dictaphone fell over. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: They have a lot of big statues displaying Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, dioramas. I just saw. Prabhupāda: Where? Trivikrama: Here. So many places along the way.

From the very birth, then all the activities, Aghāsura demon, all of them, all of them. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Even though it's Māyāvādī, still, they are displaying Kṛṣṇa's pastimes. Gītā ślokas are on the walls everywhere.

Trivikrama: Yes. It seems they can't get away from Kṛṣṇa.

Trivikrama: They can't get away from Kṛṣṇa.

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