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He says: "My dear King, I have explained to you the difficulties and miserable condition of this age, Kali-yuga. But there is a great opportunity." Asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ: "A very nice thing is there," mahān guṇaḥ, "very great opportunity, great boon."
And what is that? Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51): "Simply by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, one can become freed from all contamination, and he'll be eligible to be promoted to the spiritual param." Param means beyond this dark region.
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[[Vanisource:690915 - Lecture at Conway Hall - London|690915 - Lecture at Conway Hall - London]]
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In our Society, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, perhaps I am the only Indian. Perhaps. Perhaps I am the only Indian. Perhaps it is fact. But why . . . how they are taking it? Because it is there, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is there within you, within me, everyone. Simply we have to invoke it. That's all. And that invoking process is the saṅkīrtana movement. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12, Śikṣāṣṭaka 1]]). If you chant this simple process, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, you'll very quickly clear up your heart, and you will understand, vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). You'll understand that Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva, is everything. So this movement is neither manufactured nor bogus nor bluff, but it is genuine. It is authorized and it is natural, constitutional. Try to understand this philosophy. We are teaching nothing . . . no new philosophy. Bhagavad-gītā as it is, that's all.

Unfortunately, Bhagavad-gītā is read all over the world, but there are many rascal interpreters. They have spoiled the whole thing. Simply spoiled. So we are struggling against them. You try to understand Bhagavad-gītā as it is, and you get the thing. The thing is immediately delivered to you. That is our request.

And in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is stated by Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he says, kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 12.3.51|SB 12.3.51]]). "My dear King . . ." He was explaining Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to King Mahārāja Parīkṣit. So he says . . . he, before saying this, he described about the condition of this Age of Kali. It is very . . . at the end of this age the condition will be very horrible. So . . . of course, there is no much time; otherwise I would have explained something. But you know. You are experiencing about this age.

So after explaining the difficulties of this age, Kali-yuga, of which five thousand years we have already passed, and still, 427,000's of years are still remaining . . . so we have to pass through. So he says: "My dear King, I have explained to you the difficulties and miserable condition of this age, Kali-yuga. But there is a great opportunity." Asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ: "A very nice thing is there," mahān guṇaḥ, "very great opportunity, great boon."

And what is that? Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet ([[Vanisource:SB 12.3.51|SB 12.3.51]]): "Simply by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, one can become freed from all contamination, and he'll be eligible to be promoted to the spiritual param." Param means beyond this dark region. This material world is called tamaḥ, dark region. Just like there is no sun now; it is dark. We have to illuminate by electric light, by moonlight, by so many things. Actually the nature is dark. Therefore the Vedic injunction is, tamasi mā jyotir gama: "Don't try to remain in this dark region. Go to that effulgent region." Tamasi mā jyotir gama. The Bhagavad-gītā also says the same thing: yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6 (1972)|BG 15.6]]). Paras tasmāt tu bhāvo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 8.20 (1972)|BG 8.20]]).

Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. So our request is that you read Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. Here there are many Englishmen and Indians. That is my request. I am not charging anything. I am not making a profession. This saṅkīrtana movement, we are chanting freely. You can hear. There is not . . . not that it is a secret thing—if you pay me something, then I shall disclose. No. It is open secret. Anyone can take, and there is no loss. If you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, there is no loss, but there is great gain. You can try it.
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