Everything is there in our literature, this Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . . . (indistinct) . . . your life will be successful.
So here, one thing is suggested: nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā (SB 1.2.18). Daily. Daily read Bhāgavatam, and try to serve the person bhāgavatam, your spiritual master, and study his order. Whatever he will say, just try to do. Otherwise life is spoiled. Ādau gurv-āśrayaḥ (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu). Our bhakti-mārga is, the first business is, ādau gurv-āśrayaḥ. Sad-dharma-pṛcchā. So first beginning is to accept the spiritual master and inquire from him about advancement of spiritual life, and abide by this. This is called bhāgavata-sevayā. Nityaṁ bhāgavata. So it is to be done regularly, nityaṁ bhāgavata.
Then, bhagavaty uttama-śloke. Uttama. Uttama means "transcendental." Ut means "transcending," and tama, tama means "darkness." Tama means "darkness of ignorance," also this material world. Tama. It is dark. Because it is dark, therefore this . . . Kṛṣṇa has given us the sun or the moon. Without sun, without moon, it is dark. Just like at night, it is dark. That is its natural position. Therefore it is called tama. Tama means "darkness of ignorance." So bhagavān is uttama. Uttama means "above this darkness." Paras tasmāt tu bhāvaḥ anyaḥ (BG 8.20). There is another kingdom, or another nature, which is not tama, darkness. That is stated in the Upaniṣad. There is no need of sunshine. There is another nature. This nature, there is need of sunshine. Na yatra bhāsayate sūryaḥ: where there is no need of sunshine, there is no need of moonshine, there is no need of electricity. There is.
- na tad bhāsayate sūryo
- na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ
- (BG 15.6)
You will find this, Bhagavad-gītā. There, there is no need of these things, lighting, because as here within this universe we have got only one planet shining, the sun planet, the . . . in the spiritual world all the Vaikuṇṭha planets, they are shining. And because all of them shining, the whole nature there is shining. That is called brahmajyoti.
So we have got all the information, that what is the spiritual world, what is the material world, why we are in the material world, why we are subjected under birth, death, old age and disease. So as we go on hearing, nityaṁ bhāgavata . . . in the Bhāgavata, you will hear everything, complete, full knowledge.