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<div class="heading">Anu means repetition, and anu means following the footsteps of authority, spiritual master, anu. Our process is anu. We don't manufacture anything. We simply follow. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]). Mahājanas. Great personalities, great authorities, that is our process.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Mayapur, February 19, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Mayapur, February 19, 1976]]: </span><div class="text" style="display: inline;"><p style="display: inline;">
Once you have committed mistake, immediately nature's law reacts, and it is very difficult to come out of it. ''Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā''.

But there is only one way. That is ''anuvarṇitena'', repeatedly chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, repeatedly. That is the only way. ''Harer nāmaiva kevalam''. That is recommended by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. ''Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet ''([[Vanisource:SB 12.3.51|SB 12.3.51]]). This is the simple . . . Kali-yuga, this is the only way. ''Kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann hy asti eko mahān guṇaḥ''. This is the greatest qualification of Kali-yuga. Great personalities, they very much eulogize Kali-yuga that there is simple method and so sublime: simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'', one becomes completely purified. ''Pūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena''. ''Anu ''means repetition, and ''anu ''means following the footsteps of authority, spiritual master, ''anu''. Our process is ''anu''. We don't manufacture anything. We simply follow. ''Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ ''([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]). ''Mahājanas'', great personalities, great authorities, that is our process. ''Guru-mukha-padma-vākya'', ''cittete kariyā aikya'', ''āra na koriya mane āśa''. This is the process. The ''guru-mukha-padma-vākya'', whatever is coming out of the mouth of the spiritual master . . . Because he'll never speak nonsense. He'll also speak the same thing which he has heard from his ''guru''. That is called ''anu''. ''Anu'', following. So this is very easy. We don't manufacture things. What is the use of manufacturing things? We are imperfect; what we can manufacture? Whatever we shall manufacture, that is imperfect because we are imperfect. The modern scientists, they are manufacturing some ideas. I manufacture, and you manufacture some idea. You defeat me; I defeat you. So ''tarkaḥ apratiṣṭhaḥ ''([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]). In this way—I defeat you; you defeat me—that will not solve the problem. The problem will be solved when we follow the authority. ''Anuvarṇitena''. Then the problems will be . . .

So Prahlāda Mahārāja, he's already purified. His head was touched by Nṛsiṁha-deva. He's completely pure. Therefore, although he was only child, five years old, he is speaking the, I mean to say, gist conclusion of the ''śāstra''. ''Anuvarṇitena''. He understood that "I am not born in a ''brāhmaṇa ''family. I am born ''nīca'', low-grade family, ''asura ''family. My father was a ''asura'', so I am born of him. So I have no prestigious position. Still, Kṛṣṇa is satisfied simply by devotional service." That has been already explained. "So let me offer my prayers to the Lord sincerely." ''Yathā manīṣam'': "As far as I have got my intelligence . . . I am not supposed to be very intelligent, because I am lowborn. I am not born in a ''brāhmaṇa ''family, neither I am old enough, educated. Still, I have to offer my prayers. So let me try to offer my prayers by following the authorities, ''anuvarṇitena'', without any," what is called, "doubt." ''Tasmād ahaṁ vigata-viklava'': "without any doubt." Why? That is the perfect way. If we follow the previous ''ācāryas'', then there is no question of lamentation. ''Anuvarṇitena''. Simply . . . This is very nice method. Caitanya Mahāprabhu's philosophy is there, ''yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa upa ''. . . You haven't got to manufacture for preaching. You haven't got to. This is nonsense. You simply follow what Kṛṣṇa has said. ''Yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa upadeśa ''([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.128|CC Madhya 7.128]]). Then you become ''guru''.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja became ''guru''. Out of the twelve ''mahājanas'', he is one of them.

:''svayambhūr nāradaḥ śaṁbhuḥ''
:''kapilaḥ kaumāro manuḥ''
:''prahlādo janako bhīṣmaḥ'' . . .
:([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.20-21|SB 6.3.20]])

They are ''mahājanas''. So we have to follow Prahlāda Mahārāja. He is our ''guru'', ''pūrva-ācārya''. Nārada is ''pūrva-ācārya''. He is disciple of Nārada. Therefore he is ''ācārya'', and his disciplic succession . . . There are ''sampradāyas'': Brahma-sampradāya, Kaumāra-sampradāya . . . Anyone who is bona fide ''ācārya'', he can create his own disciplic succession; but one disciplic succession and the other disciplic, they are not different - they are of the same conclusion.</p>
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