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<h3>General Lectures</h3>
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Unless you become blissful, very happy, you cannot dance. It is not . . . artificially, you cannot dance. These dances, they are not artificial. They feel some transcendental bliss, therefore they dance. It is not they are dancing dog. No. They dance from the spiritual platform.
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[[Vanisource:730909 - Lecture Gurvastakam at Uppsala University - Stockholm|730909 - Lecture Gurvastakam at Uppsala University - Stockholm]]
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Meditation means dhyāna, dhyāyato. So kṛte, in the Satya-yuga, when people used to live for 100,000's of years . . . the Vālmīki Muni, he got perfection by meditation after meditating for sixty thousands of years. So there is no guarantee whether we are going to live for sixty years or sixty hours. So meditation is not possible in this age. That was possible in the Satya-yuga.

Then the next path is performing rituals as they are enjoined in the Vedic śāstra. Kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ. Yajato makhaiḥ. Makhaiḥ means performing big, big sacrifices. It requires huge lots of money. They, in this age, people are very poor. They cannot perform. Dvāpare paricaryāyām. And in the Dvāpara-yuga it was possible to worship the Deity in the temple. But nowadays, in this Kali-yuga, that is also very impossible fact. Therefore, the general recommendation is, kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt: "In this age of Kali, simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord you can get all perfection." All perfection.

That is the . . . our this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is meant for that purpose. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu—the picture is there, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, here, ṣaḍ-bhūja—so He inaugurated this movement five hundred years ago, chanting. Chanting and dancing. So this is going on for the last five hundred years. In India it is very popular, but in the Western countries, we have just introduced five or six years ago, and people are taking to it, and they are feeling happy. So this is the only process. Therefore, the guru, is always engaged in chanting. Mahāprabhoḥ kīrtana-nṛtya-gīta, chanting and dancing. Unless he performs himself, how he can teach his disciple?

So his second symptom is . . . first symptom is that he will give you such instruction that immediately you will feel relief from all anxieties. And the second symptom is that he's personally engaged also always in chanting and dancing the holy name of the Lord, mahāprabhoḥ kīrtana-nṛtya-gīta-vaditra-mādyan manaso rasena, and enjoy the transcendental bliss within the mind by chanting and dancing.

Unless you become blissful, very happy, you cannot dance. It is not . . . artificially, you cannot dance. These dances, they are not artificial. They feel some transcendental bliss, therefore they dance. It is not they are dancing dog. No. They dance from the spiritual platform. Vaditra-mādyan manaso rasena. Romāñca-kampāśru-taraṅga-bhājo: and there are sometimes transformation of the body with spiritual symptoms—sometimes crying, sometimes there is, I mean to . . . swelling on the end of the hairs. There are so many symptoms. These are later. These are not to be imitated. But when one is spiritually advanced, these symptoms are visible. This is the second symptom of guru.
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