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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Unless one becomes a perfect devotee, he cannot become a bhadra, gentleman. That is not possible. Narādhamāḥ, Kṛṣṇa says, unless one is devotee, he is a duskrtina, most sinful man, narādhamāḥ, and the lowest of the human being. These are the qualification. So one has to become devotee. If you want to become bhadra, gentleman, you must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise it is not possible.
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[[Vanisource:760407 - Lecture SB 07.09.52 - Vrndavana|760407 - Lecture SB 07.09.52 - Vrndavana]]
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So without being devotee a man will become cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel, cruel; in this way go to hell. And devotee cannot tolerate. We have studied in the life of Lord Jesus Christ. When he saw that in the Jewish synagogue the birds were being killed, he became shocked. He therefore left. Jes . . . He inaugurated the Christian religion. Perhaps you know. He was shocked by this animal-killing. And therefore his first commandment is "Thou shall not kill." But the foolish Christians, instead of following his instruction, they are opening daily slaughterhouse.

So unless one becomes a perfect devotee, he cannot become a ''bhadra'', gentleman. That is not possible. ''Narādhamāḥ'', Kṛṣṇa says. ''Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ''([[vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). Unless one is devotee, he is a ''duskrtina'', most sinful man, ''narādhamāḥ'', and the lowest of the human being. These are the qualification. So one has to become devotee. If you want to become ''bhadra'', gentleman, you must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise it is not possible. Otherwise it is not possible. You are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, at the same time gentleman—that is a false thing, pretender.

A ''bhadra ''. . . Here it is said, ''bhadra''. ''Prahlāda bhadra bhadram te ''([[vanisource:SB 7.9.52|SB 7.9.52]]). ''Bhadram te''. And when you become ''bhadra'', gentle, perfect, qualified gentleman, then everything is auspicious for you. There is no inauspicity. ''Bhadram'', everything. The ''bhadram ''. . . Here Vīraraghavācārya, he explains this word, ''bhadram aniṣṭa-nivṛttiḥ'': "no more anything inauspicious." ''Bhadram''. ''Aniṣṭaṁ nivṛttiḥ iṣṭaṁ prāptis ca''. Two things, that is ''bhadram''. Very nice, Viraraghavācārya's explanation. ''Bhadram aniṣṭa-nivṛttir iṣṭaṁ prāptiḥ''. ''Iṣṭam ''means "whatever you desire," because a ''bhadra'', a gentleman, cannot desire anything which is bad. A gentleman will not pray to Kṛṣṇa, "Please give me facility for eating meat." He'll . . . Devotee never prays like that. Therefore ''abhadra-nivṛttiḥ''. He never prays to Kṛṣṇa, "Please give me facility of drinking." No. Because he's ''bhadram''.

But ''abhadra ''will pray, will go to the goddess Kālī, "Mother, give me your ''prasādam ''meat." ''Abhadra''. Why should we eat meat? ''Abhadra''. Therefore this explanation is very nice, ''bhadram aniṣṭa-nivṛttiḥ''. ''Aniṣṭa ''. . . If you eat meat, that means you become implicated in sinful activities. You have to be killed by your enemy, and he will eat you, or enemy . . . or you become a goat or a hog or a cow, and your other person will kill you. 

Just like nowadays this contraceptive, abortion, killing the child is going on, so the same man, again he is killed by the so-called father and mother.
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