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[[Category:God Consciousness]]
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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This God consciousness movement is increasing because it is natural. Everyone is part and parcel, just like father and the son—there is natural affinity due to blood relationship. Just like that child. Because the child of a certain mother, she has got natural affection for the mother. Always, I mean to say, walking with the mother. Similarly, you are all sons of God.
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[[Vanisource:690328 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Hawaii|690328 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Hawaii]]
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If you try to understand something seriously, there must be questions. Just like a child who wants to understand something from the parents, always enquiring, "Father, what is this?" "Daddy, what it is?" "Mummy, what it is?" That is the intelligence. That is intelligence. You see? A child who always questions the parent, that means that he is going to be very intelligent in future.

So question: tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). But at the same time you should not simply make the learned man to whom you question as dictionary, but you must give your . . . tender your service also; then you will be able to understand. These three things required. One must find out a suitable person where to put your question, and the question should be put by surrender and service. Then the science of God will be learnt.

So you are welcome to put questions. We shall be very glad. And if you like, you can take our books. We have got many books, this Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, our magazine Back to Godhead. We are printing twenty thousand magazines. They are being distributed principally from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and London.

So this God consciousness movement is increasing because it is natural. Everyone is part and parcel, just like father and the son—there is natural affinity due to blood relationship. Just like that child. Because the child of a certain mother, she has got natural affection for the mother. Always, I mean to say, walking with the mother. Similarly, you are all sons of God.

We have got natural affinity for God. Unfortunately, you have forgotten. This is our position. This is called māyā. Therefore you are unhappy. As the child out of the protection—not exactly out of the protection; out of the vision—of the parents, he is not very happy, similarly we are being out of contact with God; we are not very happy. The whole world is unhappy. There are so many problems due to this lack of God consciousness. This should be revived.

This is most important thing. People should join. This is a very scientific movement. They should try to understand and spread. That is necessary. That is a fellow feeling. If you want to tender the highest humanitarian service, you should all be conversant with God consciousness and raise people to understand this philosophy.
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