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So this temple, we are inviting everyone to live here, to live with us, and practice tapasya. Then your life will be advanced

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"So this temple, we are inviting everyone to live here, to live with us, and practice tapasya. Then your life will be advanced"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So this temple, we are inviting everyone to live here, to live with us, and practice tapasya. Then your life will be advanced. Then you'll understand what is your constitutional position, what is God, or Kṛṣṇa; what is your relationship with Him; what is the aim of life; how to execute it, how to make life successful. These things are taught here.

Just like we are doing. Here, in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, in every center, everyone, at least who are living within this temple, must get up at four o'clock to perform the ārātrika. This morning I was asking somebody that "If you cannot rise, then you cannot live in this temple." Because this temple is meant for tapasya, not for extravagancy. Unless you follow the life of tapasya, you cannot make progress.

So this temple, we are inviting everyone to live here, to live with us, and practice tapasya. Then your life will be advanced. Then you'll understand what is your constitutional position, what is God, or Kṛṣṇa; what is your relationship with Him; what is the aim of life; how to execute it, how to make life successful. These things are taught here. This is called tapasya. And in the Vedas it is said that those who are executing the regulative life of tapasya, they are brāhmins.

Etad viditvā yaḥ prayāti sa eva brāhmaṇaḥ. Etad aviditvā yaḥ prayāti sa kṛpaṇaḥ. These are the Vedic injunctions. One who is dying . . . everyone is dying. Nobody can live here permanently. That's a fact. But one who is dying after executing the life of tapasya, he's a brāhmin. And one who is dying like cats and dogs, without any execution of tapasya, he's called kṛpaṇa.

The two words are there in the Vedic literature: one is brāhmin and one is kṛpaṇa. Kṛpaṇa means miser, and brāhmin means liberal, broad-minded. Brahma jānāti iti brāhmaṇaḥ, or one who knows the Supreme, the Absolute Truth, he's brāhmin. And one who does not know, that is animal. This is the difference between animal and man.

Page Title:So this temple, we are inviting everyone to live here, to live with us, and practice tapasya. Then your life will be advanced
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-11-09, 15:11:56
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