Kali-yuga as an Ocean of Faults

0:00Prabhupāda: ...kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann...

Kali yuga as ocean of faults

0:16SB 12.3.51कलेर्दोषनिधे राजन्नस्ति ह्येको महान् गुण: ।कीर्तनादेव कृष्णस्य मुक्तसङ्ग: परं व्रजेत् ॥ ५१ ॥kaler doṣa-nidhe rājannasti hy eko mahān guṇaḥkīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasyamukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajetMy dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.

0:26After describing all the faults of Kali-yuga, Śukadeva Gosvāmī is saying, "My dear King, rājan, this Kali-yuga is full of faults just like the ocean." Kaler doṣa-nidhe. Doṣa-nidhe means this ocean of faults.

0:31Doṣa-nidhe. kaler doṣa-nidhe rājannasti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ

Chanting as the special advantage

0:43This is very nice verse. What is that? SB 12.3.51कलेर्दोषनिधे राजन्नस्ति ह्येको महान् गुण: ।कीर्तनादेव कृष्णस्य मुक्तसङ्ग: परं व्रजेत् ॥ ५१ ॥kaler doṣa-nidhe rājannasti hy eko mahān guṇaḥkīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasyamukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajetMy dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.

0:53Simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa one can become free from all his contamination and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the special advantage of Kali-yuga. This advantage is not...

1:10So if one has taken to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, chanting, then he is saved.

Returning to the spiritual world

1:16Not only saved; he goes back to home, back to Godhead. Not only saved, but he is dispatched in another place, where there is no danger. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām SB 10.14.58

1:33One is transferred to the spiritual world, for them, this nonsense material world, where danger is there in every step, it is not for them. They cannot come.

1:45Just like here is epidemic, so a family is transferred to another place. So by this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa will transfer to the safety place, go back to home, back to Godhead. It is so nice.

Necessity of Krishna consciousness movement

2:16Otherwise, you become victimized. You see? So it is not a fashion; it is compulsory. If one does not take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, then he is doomed. Now let him consider whether to take to it or not.

2:30That is his business.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu as munificent distributor

2:38Kṛṣṇa is still giving the opportunity, and He has come personally, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, to distribute. That, Rūpa Gosvāmī understood.

2:43CC Madhya 19.53নমো মহাবদান্যায় কৃষ্ণপ্রেমপ্রদায় তে ।কৃষ্ণায় কৃষ্ণচৈতন্যনাম্নে গৌরত্বিষে নমঃ ॥ ৫৩ ॥namo mahā-vadānyāyakṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya tekṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ“O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṇa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṇa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.

2:43"Oh, You are so munificent! To save us You have personally come to distribute kṛṣṇa-prema, love of Kṛṣṇa. So I offer You my respectful obeisances." Kṛṣṇa came personally, and He advised,

2:43BG 18.66सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।अहं त्वां सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ॥६६॥sarva-dharmān parityajyamām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vrajaahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyomokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥAbandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.

2:43People did not care. Then Kṛṣṇa came as devotee, Caitanya Mahāprabhu = "You do like this. You take it." So even if we, after hearing so many things [indistinct],

2:43SB 1.1.10प्रायेणाल्पायुष: सभ्य कलावस्मिन् युगे जना: ।मन्दा: सुमन्दमतयो मन्दभाग्या ह्युपद्रुता: ॥ १० ॥prāyeṇālpāyuṣaḥ sabhyakalāv asmin yuge janāḥmandāḥ sumanda-matayomanda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥO learned one, in this iron Age of Kali men almost always have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.[indistinct]

2:43So anyone who does not take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, he is most unfortunate. Ātma-hā: he is killing himself. Just see. If one kills himself, who can save him?

Consequences of neglecting spiritual life

4:01You keep your knife within the pocket, and as soon as there is nobody, you kill yourself, then who can save you? So anyone who is not taking to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is killing himself, that’s all.

Duty of Krishna's servants

4:27And we are canvassing, "Please take to this. Free yourself." That is our duty as servant of Kṛṣṇa. He may take or not take; it doesn’t matter. It is our duty as Kṛṣṇa’s servant to speak. [pause] [end]