..then he says, sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhir (SB 10.14.3), that from your position, hear about Kṛṣṇa and use your ears. So check and see if you have them. Did you remember you had ears when you woke up this morning? No, you didn't. Don't tell me you did. You didn't remember. And we barely ever remember what assets we have. This is like, Oh, I don't look good, you know, I don't like this shirt, but you know, remember, you're born with ears. So he's saying that's your biggest asset if you use them to submissively hear the transcendental vibration about Kṛṣṇa, then you'll come to the perfect stage. Now, my point, and I heard this from Prabhupāda, why did Caitanya Mahāprabhu say that sarva-dharmān parityajya is external? Of course, it's an important verse, and we go to it all over and over again, surrender to Kṛṣṇa. But Prabhupāda said, after Kṛṣṇa said this, nobody did it. The Bhagavad Gita was there for 1000s of years, but who said, sarva-dharmān, okay, I'll just do that, right now. That's why Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to show practically how to do it, and he's revealing it in this conversation and elsewhere, but especially here, what that means how to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. So Prabhupāda said the reason it's external is because most people can't do it from the position that we're in at the time when there are so many obligations to the world, and we feel perhaps that my practice of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is intermittent, or whatever it may be. The idea of, okay, I'll just drop everything and do this, it doesn't seem so practical. Therefore it's external. However, because you have two ears, and you can take time, as you're doing right now, to listen to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and anyone can do that. And this is one of the points of why it's an effective process. You can sit and listen and you can know everything. Now that's amazing, because sometimes one might think that it would require much more than that to know everything you need to know, but God has made a provision for every living entity..

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Questions discussed in the talk :

How can the soul become detached from the mind rather than the mind from senses?

Is the intelligence material or spiritual, and how does it relate to spiritual practices?

What is the difference between dreamless sleep and deep sleep in terms of modes of nature?

How can one use their independence to align with Krishna consciousness and spiritualize intelligence?

What is the meaning of "chitta" and how does it differ from intelligence?

How can one make decisions in line with Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

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