Todays Srimad-Bhagavatam Class By His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada " Hear Krsna's Glories--Be Cleansed "1974, Calcutta

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" Hear Krsna's Glories--Be Cleansed "

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.18

September 26, 1974, Calcutta

 

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Bhagavata: "By regularly hearing the Bhagavatam and rendering service unto

the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is practically destroyed,

and loving service unto the glorious Lord, who is praised with transcendental

songs, is established as an irrevocable fact."

 

Prabhupada:

 

nasta-prayesv abhadresu

nityam bhagavata-sevaya...

[sB 1.2.18]

 

(sound of small children)

 

Bhagavata: Go! Celo.

 

Prabhupada: Hm.

 

...nityam bhagavata-sevaya

bhagavaty uttama-sloke

bhaktir bhavati naisthiki

[sB 1.2.18]

 

Naisthiki. Nistha. From nistha... Nistha means "firmly fixed up." Firmly

fixed up. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sango 'tha bhajana-kriya tato

'nartha-nivrttih syat tato nistha. Srila Rupa Gosvami has explained how one can

be fixed up, nistha. This nistha stage comes when one is freed from anartha.

Adau sraddha. Just like you all have come here out of sraddha, some faith, that

"Let us go to the Hare Krsna temple, see the arati, or hear from the swamis."

This is the beginning, sraddha. To create sraddha, little faith, these centers

are established. And one takes to faith, then he gradually advances. Adau

sraddha. And that sraddha has been explained by Kaviraja Gosvami, what is

sraddha.

 

That sraddha, he has said, sraddha-sabde visvasa kahe sudrdha niscaya.

Sraddha means firm faith, visvasa, sudrdha niscaya, unflinching. What is that

sudrdha niscaya? Krsne bhakti kaile sarva-karma krta haya. This is the beginning

of sraddha. Sraddha means... As in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, sarva-dharman

parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [bg. 18.66]. If one is agreeable to this

condition, that krsne bhakti kaile, if one agrees, "Yes, if I surrender to

Krsna, my all perfection of life is achieved," this is sraddha. Not that "Krsna

is also good, and this demigod is also good, you are also good, I am also good.

You are also God, I am also God." There is no sraddha. Just like a chaste woman

cannot say that every man is good. She'll say, "Only my husband is good." That

is chastity. If some woman says that "Any man is good..." Similarly, sraddha

means to become chaste, pure krsna-bhakta. That is sraddha.

 

sraddha-sabde visvasa kahe sudrdha niscaya

krsne bhakti kaile sarva-karma krta haya

 

Now practically you can see. These American and European boys, they began

with sraddha. I told them that "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam." They accepted it. They did not present so many

rascals,

 

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