Śāstra is amazingly relevant to our lives. One realization I've had about reading Śrīmad-Bhāgvatam, especially at Kārtik time when we were able to read long sections at a time and hear the whole canto in a month, is that it solves all problems, which originate in the mind.

There are very psychological anomalies that arise in the minds of humans, especially in mine, and by hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgvatam, they become resolved. That's a practical application, and you don't have to do a lot except be there and hear it. That's one of the principles that you were mentioning about Kṛṣṇa coming and sweeping—it's the vidhunoti principle that He's there actively cleaning the heart if we're actively listening with devotion, and that's very practical also.

People are always trying to position themselves in the world so that they don't suffer. It's the main thing everyone does—try to avoid suffering. But when you hear Śrīmad-Bhāgvatam, it's the natural way that your suffering diminishes because of the way it resolves the psychological anomalies, which are under three general categories: rāga, bhaya, and krodha. And then there are subsections of those, ad infinitum, and the combinations and permutations of those are all dealt with in the Bhāgvatam so expertly like nobody else can do it like that. So that's very practical also.

You'll notice that if you do, then you'll start to see your life as a real project rather than drudgery, that you have to go through these things. You feel that there is a resolution to everything, and chanting is very practical also, which is recommended in the śāstra.

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