In the Gītā-māhātmya, there are descriptions of the miraculous benefits one gets from hearing the Bhagavad-gītā. Of course, we're not interested in miraculous benefits other than attracting Krishna's attention and gaining more service. Nonetheless, the Gītā-māhātmya describes and sees if hearing even one chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā, vignette about those who have died then somebody read the Gītā and they came back to life, and so forth. Each chapter has some unique story in the Gītā-māhātmya.

There are also descriptions of the ways in which, even by hearing one verse, then it says, no, half a verse, no, even in one pada, just one word from the śloka, what to speak of chanting the whole Bhagavad-gītā on an ekādaśī. We live for austerity, right? Yeah, it's what makes life. We just read it in the last chapter about daivī-sampāt. There's a way in which we must become greedy to collect this daivī-sampāt that we can use in Kṛṣṇa's service, become more effective in teaching others, and so forth.

I congratulate everyone for coming out. When I went out for a brief walk, there are even devotees in cars out there listening on the radio. I told them they're sitting in the Luxury Box Seats. In any case, Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive. His words are all-attractive, and we're really lucky to be here. So, I know it's a little sad, but we're going to have to finish up the last two chapters. There's no bar. Anybody can go on chanting the Gita any time, every day, and enter into this same feeling of protection and envelopment by the internal energy of the Lord. It's available.

What to speak of getting out there to the world, people have got a little hitch in their getalong right now in the world, so it's nice if we're able to make an intervention by making this vibration widespread as much as possible. We have the power to do it right from this vantage point of Silicon Valley. We're growing, and we've been growing organically for many years. And because we have community here, and we have like-mindedness—community means like-mindedness, it's common, what we have in common.

We can pray in these last two chapters that we may be empowered to unlimitedly expand here to make our mark on the planet.I heard the other day that many of the big buildings that are being constructed all over the world are slowing down the spin of the earth, and we want to slow down the spin of Kali-yuga by the mass distribution of the Bhagavad-gītā. So, let's do the last two chapters, starting with Chapter 17, "The Divisions of Faith."

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