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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So being pleased, He came before him. He came before him as if angry, but not . . . He was so pleased that, "You wanted to break My promise. I have broken it! Please save Arjuna, that is My request to you.' " He promised that, "Now tomorrow I shall fight in such a way that either Kṛṣṇa has to break His promise, either . . . or His most intimate friend, beloved friend, Arjuna, will be killed." So this person is determining to kill Kṛṣṇa's friend, most intimate friend, and he's a mahājana. Just try to understand. Bhīṣma is accepted here as mahājana, as authority. And what was his business? He wanted to kill Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna. Just try to understand. Therefore, we have to follow only the instruction of mahājana; otherwise, we'll be bewildered.
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[[Vanisource:710214 - Lecture SB 06.03.20-23 - Gorakhpur|710214 - Lecture SB 06.03.20-23 - Gorakhpur]]
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Therefore those who are sahajiyās, they simply go to the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa with the gopīs. Other things, "Oh, no, no. That is not Kṛṣṇa's pastime. That is not Kṛṣṇa's pastime." That is, they differentiate the absolute activities of the Absolute. That is called sahajiyā. The sahajiyās will never read Bhagavad-gītā, will never read. Because they have been elevated to the mellows of conjugal love.

Therefore they have no interest in Bhagavad-gītā. They say. Or when you discuss Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam on the philosophical point, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]), they also do not attend. If you discuss on the philosophy of Upaniṣad and Vedānta, they'll not attend.

I have seen it. In Rādhā-kuṇḍa, sometimes in 1934, my Guru Mahārāja was living, and he was discussing Upaniṣad. He was discussing Upaniṣad regularly. And the bābājīs—there are many bābājīs in Rādhā-kuṇḍa—first of all they came, that "Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura has come, such a learned scholar and the establisher of Gauḍīya Maṭha."

So out of curiosity they came. And when they saw that he was discussing Upaniṣad, gradually they stopped coming. So my Guru Mahārāja recommended that, "These people are not living in Rādhā-kuṇḍa. They are living in Naraka-kuṇḍa." I have heard it personally.

So those persons distinguish. Just like Bhīṣma. Bhīṣma is stated here as one of the authority, mahājana. But what did he do? He fought against Kṛṣṇa and pierced with his arrows. You know, in the . . . we have stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Kṛṣṇa became so much disturbed that . . . not disturbed, that is also another . . . He's pleased. He became pleased, rather. Being pierced by the arrows of Bhīṣma, He became pleased. That I have described in my translation.

So being pleased, He came before him. He came before him as if angry, but not . . . He was so pleased that, "You wanted to break My promise. I have broken it! Please save Arjuna, that is My request to you.' " He promised that, "Now tomorrow I shall fight in such a way that either Kṛṣṇa has to break His promise, either . . . or His most intimate friend, beloved friend, Arjuna, will be killed."

So this person is determining to kill Kṛṣṇa's friend, most intimate friend, and he's a mahājana. Just try to understand. Bhīṣma is accepted here as mahājana, as authority. And what was his business? He wanted to kill Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna. Just try to understand.

Therefore, we have to follow only the instruction of mahājana; otherwise, we'll be bewildered. Vaiṣṇave kriyā mudrā vijñeha nā bujhaya ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.39|CC Madhya 23.39]]). We cannot understand what are the activities of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees. We have to simply follow their instruction. That's all. The sahajiyās, they do not follow the instruction. They imitate only, "Kṛṣṇa has made rāsa-līlā; so why not we also make rāsa-līlā?" It is going on, regularly.

So etāvatālam agha-nirharaṇāya puṁsāṁ saṅkīrtanam ([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.24|SB 6.3.24]]). If you actually want to become free from the contamination of this material world, then you should always be engaged in chanting, saṅkīrtanam. Not only the holy name, but reading the Kṛṣṇa book, The Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Caitanya.

If you feel tired chanting, you read these books. Sometimes there is psychology, transfer. You are reading some book, you want to read another book. So we have got so many books. If you feel tired this book, then transfer your attention to another book, or another book, or chant. Find out. Simply, not to waste a single moment.
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