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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This material world is one-fourth portion of the whole creation of the Lord. And the three-fourth portion is the spiritual world. And in this one-fourth portion there are innumerable universes. And in one of the universe... This is one of the universe. And in each universe there are millions of planets. And this planet, earthly planets, is only a small planet in that universe. And on this earthly planet, there are so many cities. And in each city, there are so many newspapers. And each newspaper has got so many editions. This is the position of the material world. Now, think over the spiritual world.
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[[Vanisource:731225 - Lecture SB 01.15.47-48 - Los Angeles|731225 - Lecture SB 01.15.47-48 - Los Angeles]]:
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''Viśuddha''. ''Viśuddha'' means purified. Our consciousness is not purified at the present moment, but if we purify it . . . that purification also is possible simply by becoming in touch with Kṛṣṇa always. And this touch is very easily made possible: ''śṛṇvatām''. This is the chance, ''śṛṇvatām. Śṛṇvatām'' means by hearing, by aural reception. Simply those who are coming here, even they do not know anything about it, but God has given this ear, and let him hear about Kṛṣṇa.

We are therefore discussing so many . . . we have written so many books simply about Kṛṣṇa. Not all books published—we have published about twenty books—but we have to finish it. It cannot be finished, but at least, to some extent, it will be finished by sixty books. And what is that subject matter? Kṛṣṇa. That's all. People cannot imagine that about God, sixty books can be written. There is no, I mean to say, system of religion where you can find . . . not only . . . sixty is the minimum. So minimum sixty books of four hundred pages can be written simply on God. So there is possible . . . if we divert our attention to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we can chant Kṛṣṇa—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare. ''Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya'' ([[vanisource:SB 12.3.51|SB 12.3.51]]). We can read about Kṛṣṇa whole life, such big literature. Whole life. If you read twenty-four hours daily—that you cannot—still, you have to devote your whole life to finish this literature.

So we have got enough material to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. My Guru Mahārāja was questioned by one big politician. He came to see him. So my Guru Mahārāja . . . he was asking, "What are your activities?" So at that time he was publishing one paper. I think it is still published in Māyāpur. It is called . . . what is called? ''Dainika''? Daily news, it was a daily newspaper, small. ''Navadvīpa Prakash'', like that. ''Nadiya Prakash. Nadiya Prakash''. So daily. So this politician inquired from Guru Mahārāja, "You are publishing a daily paper about God consciousness?" "Yes." "No, what you are writing?" He was surprised. The politicians think that newspaper can be filled up with rubbish political news only. That's all. They cannot think that newspaper can be filled up by news from spiritual world. Yes. They have no idea. They have no idea there is spiritual world.

So my Guru Mahārāja explained that, "Why you are thinking of only one small newspaper? You do not know what is spiritual world. This material world is one-fourth portion of the whole creation of the Lord. And the three-fourth portion is the spiritual world. And in this one-fourth portion there are innumerable universes. And in one of the universe . . . this is one of the universe. And in each universe there are millions of planets. And this planet, earthly planets, is only a small planet in that universe. And on this earthly planet, there are so many cities. And in each city, there are so many newspapers. And each newspaper has got so many editions. This is the position of the material world. Now, think over the spiritual world. It is . . .

The spiritual world is three-fourth, three times bigger than this material . . . and there are so many planets, so many universes, and so many activities. So we can produce not one newspaper daily, but every minute a newspaper. We can produce. Unfortunately, there is no customer. You see? This is the difficulty. For material news, there are so many customers, but when we put something spiritual news, no customer. This is the difficulty. Otherwise . . . you are thinking of one newspaper daily. We can issue every second a newspaper about spiritual news." So this sixty book is not sufficient. It is simply an introduction to the spiritual activities of the spiritual world. People have no interest. They do not know. We are simply trying to introduce it.