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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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There was another devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has written another nice song. He says, śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhārata manye bhava-bhītāḥ (Padyāvalī 126). Well, people are taking shelter of the Vedic literature who have become afraid of this conditional life. What is the end of Vedic literature? Just to get oneself liberated from this material entanglement. So he says that "People, those who are afraid of this material life, material entanglement, let them worship śruti, Veda, or smṛti, or Mahābhārata. Let them be engaged in that way." Śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāḥ.
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[[Vanisource:670107 - Lecture CC Madhya 22.05 - New York|670107 - Lecture CC Madhya 22.05 - New York]]
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Purāṇādyā ye vā sahaja nivahās te tad-anugā. So all these Purāṇas, they are called śruti. There are eighteen Purāṇas, the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and there are so many, Vedānta-sūtra . . . they are called . . . Upaniṣad is Veda; it is śruti. That is the gist of Vedic knowledge. But Purāṇas, they are called smṛti. So this śruti smṛtir, according to Indian theistic scholarship, there are two kinds of literature: śruti, smṛti.

So there was another devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has written another nice song. He says, śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhārata manye bhava-bhītāḥ (Padyāvalī 126). Well, people are taking shelter of the Vedic literature who have become afraid of this conditional life. What is the end of Vedic literature? Just to get oneself liberated from this material entanglement. So he says that "People, those who are afraid of this material life, material entanglement, let them worship śruti, Veda, or smṛti, or Mahābhārata. Let them be engaged in that way." Śrutim apare smṛtim itare bhāratam anye bhajantu bhava-bhītāḥ.

"Then? What is that?" "Now, I am not going to do that." "What you are going to do?" Aham iha nandaṁ vande yasyālinde paraṁ brahma: "I shall worship Nanda Mahārāja." "Why? You have left all Veda and Purāṇas, everything? Why you are going to worship Nanda Mahārāja?" "Because he has captivated the Supreme Lord playing as a crawling child in his courtyard. So I shall worship Nanda. Nanda Mahārāja is so great that God is obliged to come to him to play as a child and crawling in his courtyard. So I came . . . Nanda Mahārāja." So if you approach such a devotee who can bring God to crawl in his courtyard, oh, that is all perfection.
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