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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This is the sum and substance. Unfortunately, people have no idea of God, who is God, what is His form. Generally, they think God has no form. If anyone has advanced little in spiritual life, they come to the point of nirākāra, or nirviśeṣa-brahman, formless. That is the first step in Brahman realization. We have already described this.
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[[Vanisource:721023 - Lecture SB 01.02.12 - Vrndavana|721023 - Lecture SB 01.02.12 - Vrndavana]]
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Just like these boys, these girls, European, American boys and girls who have taken to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, just see how their bad habits have been altogether stopped. Sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ. All good qualities will develop. You see practically. You see practically. These young boys and girls, they never asked me that, "Give me some money. I shall go to cinema," or "I shall purchase a packet of cigarette. I shall drink." No. This is practical.

And everyone knows that from the very their birth, they are accustomed to eat meat, and . . . I do not know from the very beginning whether they are accustomed to take intoxicant. But actually they were habituated to these things, but they have altogether given up. They don't drink tea even, coffee, cigarette, anything. Sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate . . . this is the test. A man has become devotee, at the same time smoking—this is ludicrous. This is ludicrous. A devotee cannot smoke, cannot indulge in intoxication, nor illicit sex or meat . . . they cannot. That is disqualification. That means he's not dis . . . on the platform. This is the practical.

So tat śraddadhānāḥ. The first thing is śraddhā. Ādau śraddhā. That is the beginning of Kṛṣṇa conscious life. Rūpa Gosvāmī has given this formula that in order to attain to the perfectional stage of life, how to love God . . . Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means that we are try . . . teaching people how to love God. This is the sum and substance. Unfortunately, people have no idea of God, who is God, what is His form. Generally, they think God has no form. If anyone has advanced little in spiritual life, they come to the point of nirākāra, or nirviśeṣa-brahman, formless. That is the first step in Brahman realization. We have already described this.

But beyond that they don't want to proceed. They think this is fac . . . this is final; to realize the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth, that is final. That is Māyāvāda philosophy. No. That is not final. Still you have to advance, realize Paramātmā. Still you have to advance, realize God, the Supreme Personality of God.

So we are teaching people how to love the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That means one who has surpassed the realm of Brahman and Paramātmā, they can realize, they can understand what is the process of loving God. If they have no idea of God, then whom to love? You cannot love air or sky. You must have form. But they have no idea what is the form of God.
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