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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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In every religion there is recommendation to go to the place, holy places of pilgrimage. This is one set-up. Another set-up is that bhāgavatās tīrtha-bhūtāḥ. Those who are devotees, they are themselves mahā-bhāgavata. They are first-class devotee. They themselves are the holy place. Not only they are themselves holy place, but wherever they go, they make that place holy place, pilgrimage.
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[[Vanisource:740601 - Lecture SB 01.13.10 - Geneva|740601 - Lecture SB 01.13.10 - Geneva]]
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Nitāi: Translation: "My lord, devotees like your good self are verily holy places personified. Because you carry the Supreme Personality of Godhead within your heart, you turn all places into places of pilgrimage."

Prabhupāda:

:''bhavad-vidhā bhāgavatās''
:''tīrtha-bhūtāḥ svayaṁ vibho''
:''tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni''
:''svāntaḥ-sthena gadābhṛtā''
:([[vanisource:SB 1.13.10|SB 1.13.10]])

So ''tīrthī, tīrtha. Tīrtha'' means holy place of pilgrimage. In every religion there is the system that the followers, they go to the holy place of pilgrimage. Just like in India, there are many holy places: Gayā, Prayāga, Mathurā, Vṛndāvana, Haridwar, Rāmeśvaram, Jagannātha Purī, Navadvīpa. Many. Some of them are very prominent, and still there are many nonprominent. Similarly, the Muhammadans, they go Mecca, Medina. The Christians, they go Jordan . . . what is that?

Bhagavān: Jerusalem.

Prabhupāda: Jerusalem. So human society, there must be some religious process; otherwise, it is animal society. And in every religion there is recommendation to go to the place, holy places of pilgrimage. This is one set-up. Another set-up is that ''bhāgavatās tīrtha-bhūtāḥ''. Those who are devotees, they are themselves ''mahā-bhāgavata''. They are first-class devotee. They themselves are the holy place. Not only they are themselves holy place, but wherever they go, they make that place holy place, pilgrimage. This is the idea.
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