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| [[Category:Simply]] | | [[Category:Simply]] |
| [[Category:Cultivation of Krsna Consciousness]] | | [[Category:Cultivating Krsna Consciousness]] |
| [[Category:Favorable]] | | [[Category:Favorable for Krsna Consciousness]] |
| [[Category:How Can]] | | [[Category:How Can]] |
| [[Category:Can Become]] | | [[Category:Can Become]] |
| [[Category:Lover Of God]] | | [[Category:Krsna As a Lover]] |
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| <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB2314LosAngelesMay241972_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="376" link="Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972"> | | <div id="LectureonSB2314LosAngelesMay241972_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="376" link="Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972"> |
| <div class="heading">If everything is śūnyam... Śūnyam means zero. No, we are not zero. We are positive. What is that? Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanam (CC Madhya 19.167). Simply cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness favorably: "How I can become a lover of Kṛṣṇa?" That is wanted. Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā. This is first-class devotion service. | | <div class="heading">If everything is śūnyam... Śūnyam means zero. No, we are not zero. We are positive. What is that? Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanam. Simply cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness favorably: "How I can become a lover of Kṛṣṇa?" That is wanted. Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā. This is first-class devotion service. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Here, strī-kāma, beautiful wife, kāma, one who wants, devīm, he should worship goddess Durgā. This is recommended here. But it is kāma. But those who are devotees, they have no kāma. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam (Brs. 1.1.11). Anya. Anya means other than Kṛṣṇa's service. They have made all, everything zero. We don't want all these things. We simply want to serve Kṛṣṇa. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.167|CC Madhya 19.167]]). Jñāna means knowledge. Karma means fruitive activities. Uncovered by or untouched by fruitive activities and jñāna. Just like in Vṛndāvana. All the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, they never tried to know Kṛṣṇa, whether He is God. That was not their business. Jñānam, the jñānīs, they want to know. Just like Brahmā wanted to test whether Kṛṣṇa is God or not. Indra wanted to test whether... The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, they never did it. They think, "Kṛṣṇa is our very intimate friend, my beloved son, my lover, my master." Everyone's concentrated love for Kṛṣṇa in different mellows.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Here, strī-kāma, beautiful wife, kāma, one who wants, devīm, he should worship goddess Durgā. This is recommended here. But it is kāma. But those who are devotees, they have no kāma. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam (Brs. 1.1.11). Anya. Anya means other than Kṛṣṇa's service. They have made all, everything zero. We don't want all these things. We simply want to serve Kṛṣṇa. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.167|CC Madhya 19.167]]). Jñāna means knowledge. Karma means fruitive activities. Uncovered by or untouched by fruitive activities and jñāna. Just like in Vṛndāvana. All the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, they never tried to know Kṛṣṇa, whether He is God. That was not their business. Jñānam, the jñānīs, they want to know. Just like Brahmā wanted to test whether Kṛṣṇa is God or not. Indra wanted to test whether... The inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, they never did it. They think, "Kṛṣṇa is our very intimate friend, my beloved son, my lover, my master." Everyone's concentrated love for Kṛṣṇa in different mellows.</p> |