The process is first of all you try to understand Krsna. Without understanding Krsna, which is very difficult subject matter . . . Krsna says that yatatam api siddhanam kascid vetti mam tattvatah - BG 7.3

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"The process is first of all you try to understand Kṛṣṇa. (coughs) Without understanding Kṛṣṇa, which is very difficult subject matter . . . Kṛṣṇa says that yatatām api siddhānām kaścid vetti māṁ tattvataḥ"

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General Lectures

So try to understand the Bhāgavata. Try to understand Vedānta philosophy. Unfortunately, when we study Bhāgavata we immediately jump over kṛṣṇa-līlā with the gopīs. That is not the process. The process is first of all you try to understand Kṛṣṇa. (coughs) Without understanding Kṛṣṇa, which is very difficult subject matter . . . Kṛṣṇa says that yatatām api siddhānām kaścid vetti māṁ tattvataḥ (BG 7.3). (coughs) So the preliminary study of Kṛṣṇa is Śrīmad, er, Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa explains Himself.

720318 - Lecture - Bombay

So living for many, many years is not success of life. Live for a moment, but live for . . . with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is success of life. Live for a moment. It doesn't require to live for thousands of years. Because there are many trees . . . I have seen in San Francisco, one great tree is standing for seven thousand years, this tree, and standing in the jungle. Do you like such kind of life, living? Live. Live for worth living. Don't live like cats and dogs. That is life. Janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1).

So try to understand the Bhāgavata. Try to understand Vedānta philosophy. Unfortunately, when we study Bhāgavata we immediately jump over kṛṣṇa-līlā with the gopīs. That is not the process. The process is first of all you try to understand Kṛṣṇa. (coughs) Without understanding Kṛṣṇa, which is very difficult subject matter . . . Kṛṣṇa says that yatatām api siddhānām kaścid vetti māṁ tattvataḥ (BG 7.3). (coughs)

So the preliminary study of Kṛṣṇa is Śrīmad, er, Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa explains Himself.