Knowledge of Krishna Through Divine Grace

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Surat · 1970

Chapters

Opening prayers and divine nature

Oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā, cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ.

Vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca, śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam, sādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ, śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca.

He kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho dīna-bandho jagat-pate, Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare, Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare. Īśvaraḥ

paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam.

Kṛṣṇa Bhagavat, bhose bhavare, vidisāk colour darsanishanyame dhikata bhagwan chatiya bhagwan haiki me Oh, Anaek Pratai, Bhagavat Shintam, oh, Malasa Samarva Chalu.

Parandu oh Ah, Patamika De Atati deva-pādāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānu-gṛhīta eva hi, jānāti tattvaṁ bhagavan-mahimno, na cānya eko 'pi ciraṁ vicinvan. Bhagavan ki

kripa, hadaran let's see uh bhagwanko suman naip by the head either bhagavan Eka Vaishnava Kobi Sash Siddhanta Krishna bhuli' gela jīva bhogavāñchā kare, pāśate māyā tāre jhāpaṭiyā dhare. Jab mansa

Relationship between Krishna and the soul

Bhagavan bhulyata Krishna bhulyak or Krishna hulkha asoda kid dunya kumai hokkar. Yo karmilo hai. Unka idhichara hai ya djahata samalho my dunya koha sita sevokaruva.

Krishna ghulyaji po bhokata bhavana, kabod Gitana Bhattara, bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram, suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ, jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati. Yekamilok shaw sadamai hoktao, majumiakavokarova.

Mr. Vanta minister van nikili so, bhakti, eggmastra mistraha, uvawam sha, suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām. Yda mistra hai. Yeah, I've now done button high with him it's a hair. But look hair.

Subdam it's no And a subdamitra hota to janwak or keo slacken house and this time Mr. Ninghota what not for you down for Jamka Hota des I Samta mitra ta bhavabam prasha suhṛdaṁ sarva bhūtānāṁ yidha samandha yahamanajam mitsra hai atala, what about this Goal may have county means?

Attaining liberation from material suffering

But one cook that three days Mahājana, Prahlāda Mahārāja, Śuka Mahārāja, all Bhagavān-upāsaka. Udyamaikaṁ mat-bhita-nānaka, abna-kita yikovinay mittravana, the sa-Prahlāda. Well, Bhagavad-bhaktim. Sabhita gopila.

Bhagavad-anupatti-mani. I saw bhiki Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavān kṛpā-niṣṭhā or Bhagavān kī kṛpā binā Bhagavān ko ye sambandha. Viṣāda-meṣāda of gṛhīta yibahi jānāti tattvato. Bhagavān kahlāyā huā, Bhagavad-tattva jān letā.

Bhagavad-tattva-jñāna labha niśāpu javoga, yalavhoga, yivi Bhagavān kuta-bhattara.

Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te, yo bhakti hamānā janma-karma ca me divyaṁ ya evaṁ vetti tattvataḥ, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti. And truth, the yes are janma naiti, it's so higher than janma.

Oh, Bhagavān kṛpā, janiśity labhutai, pui labha, mām upetya punar janma duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam, nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ. You got bhita Bhagavad-gītā mahā. Ah, it tagabaji, Bhagavad-gītā śikṣati.

Paniya, sabhuryay, the Bhagavad-tattva-jñāna.

And Bhagavad-tattva-jñāna hone se, yeah, pata hotā hai ki is mṛtyu-mānuṣa-paṅkti hotā hai, kyā hotā, kail, ye sabhī jīva, ye alag-alag pṛthak-pṛthak ko śarīr hai, or jo pṛthak-pṛthak sanā, or pṛthak-pṛthak us duḥkha so.

It's miss. Lenā, college lenā, university, find. What is this material science?

Limitations of science and materialism

If you do not know your bhāgavata, parābhava-sāvad-abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Didna that vata janmasse sab-mūḍha janmanā jāyate śūdraḥ, śūdra tathā tamasā janini. Ah. So parābhava-sāvad-abodha-jāto.

Jitne idun-jñāna sab-jñāna. Or jo śūdra pusamad ye parābhava. Uh, harā-jarā. He's being defeated. He's not conquering. And duniyā me samatānā. So hamana samastaha hello.

United States of America, utha President, Mr. Kennedy, both bhutya pasha khastarke, uh, lookahanti yellows of the president, Minister Mantea Kitna Bushitna. Maha Paditiya Maha Sar ek second make katamadhi.

Ek second jadade. Islam of me samashi. Aur ek second with the, uzkava persenta or Billa Chilla Pushana. Uzkawato yomsa apa auret savilla.

Universal mission of Krishna consciousness

Agarra futaka is a kamtia to futaka sarila, or the devuttaka kantya, to dev takasar.

Is we the Krishna consciousness movement hai, Krishna-bhakti dasamhabitavati, is the igma tru this hair, jo Bhagavad-gītā aditi, is kapitakam. Bhagavad-gītā me Krishna Bhagavān. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat.

«Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya» — on the Muse vargate arkoi sathay. Krishna svayaṁ bhagavān, svayaṁ bhagavān bok. Krishna utah bhāva Prabhupāda vilash murphy.

Who Krishna, kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. Or Krishna is a many hawakwa bharatiki liya yeah, hinduya, ne? Ah stop, don't you? Krishna, tatahe, «sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ». Sarah, sudasilajoni, murtiya.

Sabkha majita, is me bhagavanihokta. Sabki tha bhavana, sub bhagavan, khaksha, gival bharatukir, leia, and nukaniya, yeah, Hindu dharma, Muslim dharma, Krishna dharma, Krishna dharmiya savaram. Isives are dunya grandikara.

Abhoka vujita, k yahapa desmai maham, Krishna-chandra, udai veta, abhidib bhhar, it's the hapa visak.

Ah, Yaśodā Gujarat, uh lock uh Mathurā dongka matulalaya, the janmuhata, but unkopitra, she would like so you have dhaduan Krishna phoy vanska hane paranto Krishna kripa tarke jaha avidla bhate ukevi kway dhidlavata hai uka namha um this is some king uti hai.

Devotional reciprocation and highest yoga

This year Bhagavān says «ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham». Mat-stha, sad-dharmam asita, says with our... uchita śikṣā. Kṛṣṇa ko hi, I can Bhagavan.

So Bhagavan ka jo japa, yeah, a... divine... half a lakh, that you go below, who Brahmā ka... Kṛṣṇa ka, Kṛṣṇa ka. Isliye unka nām Kṛṣṇa hai, unka guru Kṛṣṇa hai. Aur unka upāsanā hai, Caitanya Mahāprabhu ka kathā.

Aur dekhiye, ek bhagavān ko, kevala... bhagavān ko is dānti, aur kām-inī, bhagavān, uh, Gautama, uh, mṛṇāla... aur Vedānta is kīrtanam, kīrtana-pāṭha, naṭa-nāgara, aur Bhagavan taklīf... jarūr ho rahā hai, he is so short kind of Bhagavad.

Kṛṣṇa ka santāna. Kṛṣṇa, maybe Kṛṣṇa ka hi mere kuch bhakta hai. Samsmṛtya Kṛṣṇa-cintana-karana-puṇya-satyābhyāsa-yoga. Bhagavad-gītā vaiṣṇava-bhāva.

Jitne yogī hai, bhāva-re yogī, who sab yogiyo se baṛā... yogī kaun hai? Yogi sarva-samaye, antar-ātmā me, Kṛṣṇa-cintana, jaise gopī log thā.

He is something but cintana me dṛḍha-samādhi ko ho jāye, sab samaya, unhi log jāke, aṣṭāṅga-dhyāna-praṇāma karte hue karte. How is that kevala to Kṛṣṇa?

This nice way, yeah, I did the church, jungle me thā aur hamāre cintana. So yeah, uh, Kṛṣṇa-cintana, aur Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta, aur Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanā-snāna, guṇa-pūta.

Practical application of devotional service

Kṛṣṇa-cintana karne ka svarūpa hai. Sab samaya Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare, Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare.

Hamāre prati-sthāna, yah, abhi Bhagavad-abhyāsa-kūṭa-śraya, uh, ye pratyeka mandir me, kam se kam, prati-dina, prati-din, thank you, aur yād hai, as you bhadra, you have to sampūrṇa... aur inka sabere chār baje se mṛdaṅga, ab log jānte hai, śāstra me amala-kara hai, amala-kathām, tyāga-karma śrūyate hai, sabere chār baje.

Uh, Gautama, as a meeting or ārati, uh, dopahar me, sampūrṇa, sab logo ko phala-prasāda, itne department, bhakta-gītā, you could have all the Gītā chapters. Iska bhakti unlimited ho sakā.

Ab logo ka service me yogadāna 24 hours kām hai. May please. Bhagavan ka priya hai, kevala manasā-vācā-karmaṇā true.

Oh, yes, sarva-rūpāya, Kṛṣṇa-bhakti ka pracāra ki, apne jīvana se, dhana se, vacana se, buddhi se hi apna jivan saphala. Thank you very much. Speech that was recorded on the area.

December twenty-fourth, nineteen seventy, Surat, India.