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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1968]]
[[Category:Questions On... God Realization, Self Realization, Enlightenment]]
[[Category:Questions On... Knowledge]]
[[Category:Questions On... Preaching, Spreading Krsna Consciousness]]
[[Category:Questions On... Scripture, Mantras]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1966 - 1977]]
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
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<div class="heading">The real secret is... That is stated in the Vedas. Unflinching faith in God and spiritual master. Then things will be revealed from within. How much strength we have got to study all these books?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Six Gosvamis Lecture, Sri Sri Sad-govamy-astaka -- Los Angeles, November 18, 1968|Six Gosvamis Lecture, Sri Sri Sad-govamy-astaka -- Los Angeles, November 18, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Will we know Kṛṣṇa as well by thinking always how can we spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Is this the . . . be good to know Kṛṣṇa as much as if you study thoroughly the ''Vedas''?

Prabhupāda: Yes. ''Siddhānta boliyā citte nā kara alasa'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.117|CC Adi 2.117]]). You have to understand the science of Kṛṣṇa. There are so many books. The Gosvāmīs were doing that. In the next verse . . . I have explained one verse. The next verse is ''nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau'' (''Śrī Ṣaḍ Gosvāmy Aṣṭaka'' 2). They were very much expert in studying very scrutinizingly all Vedic literatures. So, of course, reading or hearing. You may not have time to read, but try to read. If you have no time, you are hearing. We are publishing, we are publishing literature, books. I am trying to speak to you. That is also understanding, studying Kṛṣṇa science. Rather, hearing is better reception. 

If you hear . . . that ''Vedas'' are therefore known as ''śruti. Śruti'' means it is received through hearing. Real process is hearing. And this age, Kali-yuga, people cannot study so much. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu, when He was called by Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, He presented Himself that, "What can I understand, ''Vedānta-sūtra''? I am a fool. Therefore My spiritual master has ordered Me to simply chant." 

So this chanting will help you. ''Yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau '' (''Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad'' 6.23). Simply by studying, becoming bookworm, you cannot advance. The real secret is—that is stated in the ''Vedas''—unflinching faith in God and spiritual master. Then things will be revealed from within. How much strength we have got to study all these books? But ''Vedas'' says, ''yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau'': if one has got unflinching faith in God and similar faith in the spiritual master, ''tasyaite kathitā hy arthaḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ'', to him only the Vedic knowledge becomes revealed. 

And this is also confirmed in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''. The Lord Kṛṣṇa says, ''teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajataṁ prīti-pūrvakam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 10.10 (1972)|BG 10.10]]): "Those who are engaged in My service with love and affection," ''buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam'', "I personally give him intelligence," ''yena mām upayanti te'', "by which he can come to Me." In another place, it is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā, teṣām evānukampārtham'' ([[Vanisource:BG 10.11 (1972)|BG 10.11]]): "In order to show these devotees special favor," ''teṣāṁ evānukampārtham aham ajṣāna-jaṁ tamaḥ nāśayāmy'', "I personally dissipate their darkness within the heart." 

Everything, the mind is full of darkness; therefore we are conditioned. So Kṛṣṇa, from within, He drives away the darkness of ignorance. ''Aham ajṣāna-jaṁ tamaḥ nāśayāmy . . . aham ajṣāna-jaṁ tamaḥ nāśayāmy ātma-bhāva'', just like that.

So He is within you. If you are sincere to Him and to the instruction, following, then everything will come out automatically even if you don't read. This is the special significance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that we want simply sincere soul; then everything is there, you study or no study. 

But for preaching work, studying required. If you are . . . because you have to meet so many opposing elements, so if you can give some reference from books of authority. But even if you don't give references, you can speak logically, you can place arguments logically. 

So Kṛṣṇa will help. Kṛṣṇa is within you.</p>
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