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[[Category:Approaching God]]
[[Category:God Is Lord Visnu]]
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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
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Everyone is engaged in his duty. They are not interested to hear about kṛṣṇa-kathā—that is the real business of life—because they are engaged in duty. Duty. So why they do that? Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum (SB 7.5.31). They do not know the real duty is to approach Viṣṇu, svartha-gatim, interest. They are thinking, "This is my interest." But real duty is svārtha-gatim. Everyone should be interested in his business, but the real business is, human life, that approach Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanty surayaḥ. Those who are actually advanced Āryans, their business is how to approach Viṣṇu. That is the Ṛg-mantra.
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[[Vanisource:730106 - Lecture NOD - Bombay|730106 - Lecture NOD - Bombay]]
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:dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ
:viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ
:notpādayed ratiṁ yadi
:śrama eva hi kevalam 
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.8|SB 1.2.8]])
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So they do not know this. They are doing their . . . everyone is engaged in his duty. They are not interested to hear about kṛṣṇa-kathā—that is the real business of life—because they are engaged in duty. Duty.

So why they do that? Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). They do not know the real duty is to approach Viṣṇu, svartha-gatim, interest. They are thinking, "This is my interest." But real duty is svārtha-gatim. Everyone should be interested in his business, but the real business is, human life, that approach Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanty surayaḥ. Those who are actually advanced Āryans, their business is how to approach Viṣṇu. That is the Ṛg-mantra. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). They are thinking by these bodily comforts they will be happy. No. That is not possible.

The real happiness is different. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ. Andhā yathāndhaiḥ. And anyone who will give him false hope that "If you get independence, then overnight you will become like this, like this, like that," that leader is very nice. If there is some political meeting giving only bluff, lots of bluffs only, and people gather there by thousands and millions to hear the bluff . . . because . . . my Guru Mahārāja therefore used to say that this present human society is a society of the cheaters and the cheated. Somebody is being cheated and somebody is cheater; a combination of two things: cheater and the cheated, because they do not know the real interest of life. And anyone who will speak all nonsense and bluff, he will be very much adored. This is going on.
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