Thakura Bhaktivinoda, the humble servant of the Lord, says, “The holy name of Krishna has fulfilled all my desires by vibrating on everyone’s tongue.” Bhaktivinoda therefore prays at the feet of Sri Rupa Goswami that the chanting of harinam may continue like this always. (Translation, verse 5)

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We can start with the bhūta-śuddhi, which means śuddhi, means to purify. Bhūta means the elements. So the idea is, and this is done for the beginning of starting Deity worship. There's a way in which sitting down to do japa can have a prelude or preface. Let's try reading it together.

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Also, please make a concerted effort to read Prabhupāda's books again and again. He said, 'Everything I had to say, I said in my books.' And there's even more than just gathering information. When you read Prabhupāda's books, you're getting his association. So make it something that, even if it's just a little bit every day, try to hear something from Prabhupāda's books and go through them as much as possible. The kids will benefit too, from seeing you and hearing you reading out loud, and that's one of the ways to stay strong in spiritual life, along with your chanting.

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I was thinking, so many people are going to the Kumbh Melā, everyone's looking for that one-time place where they can dip in and then be like, 'Okay, I'm elevated, I'm rectified,' whatever motive there is. But this felt to me like the perfect Kumbh Melā. It's coming together to chant. You're hitting the exact spot. There is no point at which one can be more perfectly situated than chanting japa, especially in the association of devotees. So don't worry if you didn't make it to the Kumbh Melā this time, because you're here, and you can be there at any time just by uttering the holy name of the Lord. That's one of the main points of the śāstra.

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Wi-Fi, the farther away you are, the less you get a connection. So by the pure faith and in the Holy Name and having sādhu-saṅga and chanting the primary names, one can very quickly become advanced. But if our chanting is weak or distracted or influenced by aparādha, covered by offenses, then the process is very slow. And that's dangerous, because there's a way in which I might think, "Well, it's not working, therefore it doesn't, it's imagination." Fifth defense.

So Rūpa Gosvāmī says that we have to be careful of this. Niyamāgraha said, "Don't just chant for the sake of chanting without getting a result." In other words, we have some responsibility, not that. How come the name didn't deliver me? I have to also be eager and attentive and very enthusiastic to chant. And then we'll feel the reciprocation from Kṛṣṇa, and we'll be able to overcome the fifth offense, or thinking that it's imaginary. And maybe I'll just do something else. I'll read the encyclopedia, or something.

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It was seventh and eighth grade. I don't know about you all, but that's what we had back then. And at Fairview, there was a fellow student of mine named Steve Rau. I don't know if he's still on the planet or not, but I remember when Steve Rau decided that he was going to get straight A's, he was going to be the valedictorian, and he was also going to be the top athlete in school. I remember he made that decision, and Steve Rau did no-nonsense. Steve Rau would run to school and back just to get in his miles, and he would not go out and carouse as he was home studying to get straight A's and so forth. I saw that by his determination, Steve Rau achieved all those things because he decided he was going to do it. This is called dṛḍha-vratāḥ.

And don't get me started with Dave Dibbern. I've mentioned him before: he was a flutist, and he wasn't making as much progress on his flute playing as he wanted to. And one fine summer night circa 1969, he lived nearby. He was a fellow student in high school. He came running to our house and burst through the front door with his flute, and he had his head shaved, which was taboo in 1969. Nobody but the Hare Kṛṣṇas shaved their heads back then. He said, "That's it. No more fooling around. I'm going to get good on the flute." Then he slammed the door and ran home, and he became an excellent flute player. This is called dridha vrata. Remember the Dave Dibbern or Steve Rau principle.

And so in the Bhagavad Gita, Kṛṣṇa says that if you're careful about the way you organize your life and you don't intermingle with people who are not serious—not serious means they think it's okay to be stupid, making themselves unnecessarily stupid through some of the activities that I mentioned earlier. It's one of the tenets of spiritual practice: don't dabble in things that will make you stupid or lose your reason, or become so attached unnecessarily that you'll lose your reason. At the same time, if one practices the tenets of bhakti, it's compared to lighting dry firewood.

If one tries to practice spiritual life while at the same time contaminating one's consciousness by the lower modes of material nature through ill-advised activities, it's compared to trying to light a fire that has become moistened by the fog, or, even worse, by a heavy rainstorm. It may take a lot more fire to start the kindling in that case. So two things go together. Therefore, the sages gave this advice: lead a clean life and, at the same time, practice bhakti and then this verse comes to life (BG 7.28) :

yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ

janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām

te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā

bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ

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Wherever we are, whether it's Goloka or here, we're still eternal servants of the Lord. So in the beginning stages, we understand by hearing sambandha-jñāna that we're not Kṛṣṇa, that we're actually His servants, then that's a beginning position to chant from. The antithesis of that is mentioned by Bhaktivinoda Thākura and by Haridās Thākura in the Harināma Cintāmaṇi. That idea which contaminates the chanting is Māyāvāda, which is the idea that "I am God." "I'm just chanting. I'm temporarily inconvenienced by being in the material world, but I'll realize my godship again by chanting, and I'll merge." Sorry, everybody, but this is the antithesis of sambandha-jñāna, which means a relationship. I have a relationship. How can you have a relationship if you're one and the same? So it starts with understanding that I'm an eternal servant. I'm not the master.

Later on, one's relationship with Krishna will be realized by the mercy of the holy name. We can't artificially know our relationship with Kṛṣṇa in Goloka Vṛndāvana. There are some people who have a premature way of offering this to others and saying that, "This is your relationship; now meditate on it." But in our line, we first meditate on the holy name and the fact that we're eternal servants, and the Holy Name reveals to us gradually what our relationship is. That comes to be known to us by Kṛṣṇa's arrangement. This you can substantiate this by reading the last song in the Saranāgati by Bhaktivinoda Thākura, in which he describes how the holy name comes to him, takes him by the hand, and introduces him to Kṛṣṇa and his relationship with Kṛṣṇa in the spiritual world.

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I was thinking about how today, in the world because people don't know this. This means they don't know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everything emanates from Him. They try to solve the problems of life through their own devices. They make adjustments—politically, economically, physically, socially—and all of them create more complications.

That is, when we try to solve our problems through our own intellects, we always create more problems. This is something Prahlād Mahārāj mentions in his prayers to Lord Nṛsiṁhadev, that the so-called remedies of this world are often times worse than the disease itself. And so, while I was reading the Puruṣa Sūkta, I was thinking how the ultimate solution to life always traces back to what Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā: "man-manā bhava mad-bhakto (18.65) – Just remember Me."

In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Kavirāja Gosvāmī mentions that if you remember Lord Caitanya, then difficult things become easy. And if you forget Him, then what should become simple becomes very complicated (CC Adi 14.1).Near the end of the Puruṣa Sūkta, it is mentioned in a benedictory verse that anyone who becomes aware of The Supreme Puruṣa, who is the source of this manifested world, becomes liberated. It's something that Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā also, everything's there in the Gītā, right?

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Anybody need an attitude lift? Yes, lift your attitude. One, two, three, lift. So much of our progress has to do with our attitude, and it's easy to get pushed down by the three modes of material nature. The way to rise above it is by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.

And I'm going to repeat the first verse that came from the Antya Līlā, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, written by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī. Simply by chanting The Holy Name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one can be freed from all undesirable habits. Simply by chanting The Holy Name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one can be freed from all undesirable habits.

That's what everybody's talking about and preparing for: how can I overcome undesirable habits? There are millions of self-help books, courses, psychology majors, everything. How can I overcome undesirable habits? But this one process, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is the way to rise above it.

Correct. Who can prove it with śāstra? Give me a Sanskrit verse. Why does it work? Because we're not blind followers. We need evidence.

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