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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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There are many so-called scholars, politicians, they declare that "I read Bhagavad-gita daily, three times," but the result is no faith in Krsna. This is called useless waste of time. If you do not get the faith which is required by studying Bhagavad... Bhagavad-gita is the ABCD reading for understanding God. That is ABC. So if you do not understand even the ABCD, how he'll advance in higher studies? That is not possible.
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[[Vanisource:760214 - Lecture SB 07.09.07 - Mayapur|760214 - Lecture SB 07.09.07 - Mayapur]]
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Just like if I offer you that if you do this work, I shall give you immediately fifty thousand rupees. So who will believe me? "This man is a beggar, ''sannyāsī'', how he'll give fifty thousand rupees?" So there is no ''śraddhā''. But we cannot do so with reference to Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa says, ''ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi ''([[vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]), that is a fact. That is not a bogus promise. Because Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all-powerful, whatever He likes, He can do. This is called faith.

So after reading ''Bhagavad-gītā'', if one does not get this faith in Kṛṣṇa, then it is useless waste of time. That's all. There are many so-called scholars, politicians, they declare that "I read ''Bhagavad-gītā ''daily, three times," but the result is no faith in Kṛṣṇa. This is called useless waste of time. If you do not get the faith which is required by studying ''Bhagavad ''. . . ''Bhagavad-gītā ''is the ABCD reading for understanding God. That is ABC. So if you do not understand even the ABCD, how he'll advance in higher studies? That is not possible. So even we cannot understand ''Bhagavad-gītā'', the ABCD, Kṛṣṇa says one thing, and they make, I mean to say, interpretation in a different way. Kṛṣṇa says, ''aham ādir hi devānām ''([[vanisource:BG 10.2 (1972)|BG 10.2]]), ''mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate ''([[vanisource:BG 10.8 (1972)|BG 10.8]]). They do not believe it. ''Śrama eva hi kevalam ''([[vanisource:SB 1.2.8|SB 1.2.8]]).
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