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<div class="heading">I am getting reports from outside that some of our family disciples, they are not very much attending temples regularly. So if they do not attend temples, do not take to the service, then gradually they'll become gṛhamedhī, just like ordinary karmīs.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:700702 - Lecture SB 02.01.01-4 - Partial Recording - Los Angeles|Lecture SB 02.01.01-4 - Partial Recording - Los Angeles]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So ''ātma-tattvam''. Those who are not interested what is self, for them there are different thousands and millions of topics. ''Śrotavyādīni rājendra''. Everyone is hearing. Somebody is talking, somebody is hearing . . . even there is politics, conspiracy, there is also hearing and talking. But these talkings, thousands and thousands of talkings of different subject matter, for whom? For them who are unable to see what is soul. For them. ''Apaśyatām ātma-tattvam''. Why they have become so? ''Gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām''. They want to be packed up within this material package, and they have made their life in that way. ''Gṛheṣu''.

Just like ordinary man, he is interested with his apartment, family. ''Dehāpatya-kalatrādiṣu'' ([[Vanisource:SB 2.1.4|SB 2.1.4]]). That ''śloka'' is next explained. He's interested with these things: how his nice apartment is maintained, how his wife is nicely dressed, how his children are nicely educated. So much. That's all. They are called ''gṛhamedhī''. These words. ''Gṛhamedhī''. So those who are married disciples, I request them specifically that because you are married, you don't become ''gṛhamedhī''. Then you lose this chance. I am getting reports from outside that some of our family disciples, they are not very much attending temples regularly. So if they do not attend temples, do not take to the service, then gradually they'll become ''gṛhamedhī'', just like ordinary ''karmīs''.

So as soon as one becomes ''gṛhamedhī'', he becomes blind to see what is self-realization. So Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that those who are blind, those who have been encaged in the materialistic way of life, for them, there are thousands and thousands of topics to hear and to chant. But those who are seeing to the self . . . self is one. ''Ekaṁ brahma dvitīyaṁ nāsti''. For them, one talk only, about Kṛṣṇa.

So I'll request you, all my beloved disciples present here, that don't turn to that point, ''gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām''. Stick to this point, Kṛṣṇa. Then you'll be happy. Don't talk, create . . . thousand . . . as soon as we go out of the scope of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there will be so many talks. And that will mislead you. That is ''māyā''. And if you stick to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no secrecy, there is no duplicity, there is no diplomacy.

One talk, Kṛṣṇa: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma . . . that will make you satisfied. ''Yayātmā suprasīdati''. If you want actually happiness, then you stick to these Kṛṣṇa consciousness topics. Don't bring in anything other, else. Then that will become ''gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām, apaśyatām ātma-tattvam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 2.1.2|SB 2.1.2]]).