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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Don't take books that "I am member. It is my duty to take books and keep it in the almirah." No. Read it thoroughly. Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā. By regular reading of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, then our this material contamination becomes vanquished. Naṣṭa-prāyeṣu. Naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā (SB 1.2.18). As soon as it begins to diminish, then it will diminish finally, and then you will be situated in your pure, original constitutional position, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, bhakti-yogataḥ.
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[[Vanisource:750116 - Lecture SB 03.26.41 - Bombay|750116 - Lecture SB 03.26.41 - Bombay]]
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So we are teaching from the very beginning ''Bhagavad-gītā'' and ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', and they are learning. That is the way. If you simply learn ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', you get so much knowledge how things are developing, how tongue is developing, how the taste is developing, how touch is developing, how fire is working, how heat is working; from the interaction of heat and touch, how things are devel . . . Everything is explained there. Physical and spiritual, everything is there. So this is ''bhāgavata-dharma'', to study ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' very carefully. Everything is . . . Every knowledge is there. ''Kiṁ vā parair īśvaraḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.2|SB 1.1.2]]). There is no need of reading any other book. ''Kiṁ vā paraiḥ'', in the beginning it is said. Why? ''Sadyo hṛdy avarudhyate īśvaraḥ''. The perfection of life is to understand God. So by reading ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, sadyaḥ'', immediately, ''hṛdy avarudhyate īśvaraḥ'': "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by simply reading ''Bhāgavatam'' . . . He is already there, but immediately He is realized." That is perfection of life.

So ''Bhāgavata'' is so powerful that ''nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā'': we have to read ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' daily, and twenty-four hours. That is the injunction: ''nityam. Nityam'' means "always." So our members especially, I mean to say, those who are inmates, they, and those who are becoming members, ordinary member or patron member, we are giving them books. Please read them carefully. Don't take books that "I am member. It is my duty to take books and keep it in the ''almirah''." No. Read it thoroughly. ''Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā''. By regular reading of ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', then our this material contamination becomes vanquished. ''Naṣṭa-prāyeṣu. Naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.18|SB 1.2.18]]). As soon as it begins to diminish, then it will diminish finally, and then you will be situated in your pure, original constitutional position, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, ''bhakti-yogataḥ. Evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.20|SB 1.2.20]]). By cleansing the heart we become ''prasanna-manasaḥ'', very jubilant. ''Bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ''. Therefore this ''bhāgavata-dharma'' should be practiced from the very beginning of life, and it should be studied. We have got so many books. One can read . . . Whatever already we have got, books, one can read for fifty years continually and get new enlightenment one after another.

So ''bhāgavata'' means the complete knowledge. ''Bhāgavata'', from ''bhagavān'' it is called ''bhāgavata''. From ''bhagavat-śabda'' it is called ''bhāgavata''. So in the association of ''bhāgavata'', devotees, if we read ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . . . Sajātīya snigdhasya''. ''Sajātīya'': when people thinking in the same way. So that means devotees who are interested in ''bhagavad-bhakti'', to understand Bhagavān, they should read ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' in the association. We should have regular classes, just like school and colleges, eight hour, six hour. Be engaged always in reading ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', discussing amongst yourself. Then you'll make progress. Otherwise, if you take it as an official routine work . . . You should take as routine work, but with consciousness that "We have to learn something," not simply attending the class, but to learn something. In this way make your life successful.
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