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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Prahlāda Mahārāja is teaching to his class friends that, "My dear friends, you try to understand this bhāgavata-dharma." What is bhāgavata-dharma? This is Sanskrit word. Bhāgavata means pertaining to God. Bhagavān means God, and bhāgavata, pertaining to God, that is called bhāgavata. So bhāgavata-dharma means . . . the purpose of bhāgavata-dharma means pertaining to my . . . you have to test the success of your activities by pleasing God. That is bhāgavata-dharma.
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[[Vanisource:680610 - Lecture SB 07.06.01 - Montreal|680610 - Lecture SB 07.06.01 - Montreal]]
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There are five causes—the land, labor, capital, organization, and Bhagavad-gītā accepts daiva, another cause. Daiva means godly. You may arrange everything, but if God is against you, in spite of your all arrangement, everything will be failure. That is described in the Bhagavad-gītā. They have searched out five causes for successful. So out of the five causes, daiva—daiva means the favor of God—that has been taken as the means for any successful thing.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja is teaching to his class friends that, "My dear friends, you try to understand this bhāgavata-dharma." What is bhāgavata-dharma? This is Sanskrit word. Bhāgavata means pertaining to God. Bhagavān means God, and bhāgavata, pertaining to God, that is called bhāgavata. So bhāgavata-dharma means . . . the purpose of bhāgavata-dharma means pertaining to my . . . you have to test the success of your activities by pleasing God. That is bhāgavata-dharma.

Just like in your office you want to satisfy your boss. In your school or college you want to satisfy your teacher or principal. Similarly, the supreme teacher, the supreme boss, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.13|SB 1.2.13]]). This is the sum and substance of bhāgavata-dharma, that one has to test the success of his activities. It doesn't matter what it is.

Now at the present moment in a godless civilization, if some great scientist proves . . . just like Professor Einstein, he also said that as we are making advance in science we find that there is a big brain behind this cosmic manifestation. That is acceptance of God. What is that big brain? That big brain is God. The Vedānta-sūtra says, janmady asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). Just like when you see a wonderful bridge or wonderful engineering work, you must think that there is a brain behind it. This nice construction, there is a brain behind it.

Similarly, those who are sane men, they'll see that with this cosmic . . . in this cosmic manifestation, so wonderfully working. The sun is rising in due time, the moon is rising in due time, the seasons are being changed in due course, the rain is there, the produce is there, the fruit is there, everything is nicely arranged. So don't you think that there is a brain behind it? Must be. The Bhagavad-gītā says, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram ([[Vanisource:BG 9.10 (1972)|BG 9.10]]). Don't think that this material nature is working automatically or independently. There is a brain behind it.

The other day there was some difficulty in my Dictaphone, and the mechanic man came. He opened. So many arrangements of different kinds of wire. Similarly, we have got this body, a similar arrangement. The veins are so nicely arrangement, the intestines are so nicely arranged, just like the same way as in a machine the wirings are very nicely arranged.

So if for that machine there is a brain, don't you think that in this machine, behind this, there is no brain? There must be brain. This is commonsense affair. So this godless civilization means people have lost even common sense. Even common sense. Otherwise, you may, if you use in a harsh word, that they have become fools and rascals, that's all. They have lost their common sense.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja is stressing that this God consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, should be learned from the very beginning of life. Kaumāra ācaret prājña. Prājña means one who is intelligent. So children, they have no intelligence. They have intelligence, but they have to be put into intelligence by the guardians.

So if the guardian, if the father and mother is intelligent, if the teacher is intelligent, if the government policy is intelligent, then the process should be to teach the small children from the very beginning of life God consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise this world is going to hell. It has already gone, and it will go. The result will be that I'll kill you, you'll kill me. So both of us will be killed.

And this human form, or the facility of this human form of life, which was given to us by grace of God or by the mercy of material nature, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that "Don't misuse it. Don't misuse it like animals, simply eating, sleeping and mating and defending." Durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma ([[Vanisource:SB 7.6.1|SB 7.6.1]]). Don't be assured that your next life is going again to be a human form of life. It may be . . . there are 8,400,000 species of life, and according to my work I may enter into any type of body. Durlabhaṁ.

Therefore this rare opportunity that we have got this human form of life, mānuṣaṁ durlabhaṁ janma . . . durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma tad apy adhruvam. And it will not exist for very long time. But if you utilize it properly, then you can achieve the greatest boon. What is that? Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can achieve the greatest boon. So Prahlāda Mahārāja is recommending that, "From the very childhood, my dear friends, you learn what is God consciousness or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise, if you advance in age, then you'll be more complicated, more complicated."

Actually, we are experiencing. We have got about eight branches of our this movement. Not only this movement, any movement. Generally, these youngsters, they are being attracted. Any nice movement started, the youngsters, they become more attracted. Not the, I mean to say, elderly people. Because elderly people, whatever they have understood, it takes to forget for some time. But if they try they can also understand. But Prahlāda Mahārāja is recommending that before growing very old, from the childhood, receptive state, one should learn this Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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