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Srimad-bhagavatam amalam puranam. You have got Srimad-Bhagavatam. Read very carefully. All these things are already explained there

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"Śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇam." |"You have got Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Read very carefully. All these things are already explained there"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: Govinda dāsī? Where is Govinda dāsī? You take these two fruits, offer, cutting, and distribute prasādam. Gargamuni: Thank you for chanting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Prabhupāda: Śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇam (SB 12.13.18). You have got Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Read very carefully. All these things are already explained there. (aside) Cut it into pieces and distribute. Devotee: Swāmījī? Should we read, like, one chapter a day or . . . Prabhupāda: It is very nice if you read one chapter Bhāgavatam daily. It is very nice. You make it a point to read one chapter daily. That is very nice. Devotee: No more? Prabhupāda: No, if you can do more, that's all right. Just like I ask everybody to chant sixteen rounds. But if you can chant sixteen hundred rounds, then who prohibits you? You can do that.

Prabhupāda: What is your main business? Jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā nārtho yaś ceha kārmabhiḥ. Your only business is to understand what you are, what God is, what is this world, what is your relationship. This is your main business. This is your main business. Not that you earn money and employ it for sense gratification, as it is going on in this materialistic way of life. Nobody is inquisitive to know what he is. How can he? Very big businessman or very rich man or so-called advancement, can you say what you are? What is your duty? Nobody can say.

So that is the main business, that jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā nārtho yaś ceha kārmabhiḥ. By your . . . by the result of your activity . . . or your main activity should be inquiring about your spiritual existence. So this should be our inquiry.

I think we should stop here.

Yes. (break) (devotees offer obeisances)

Govinda dāsī? Where is Govinda dāsī? You take these two fruits, offer, cutting, and distribute prasādam.

Gargamuni: Thank you for chanting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Prabhupāda: Śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇam (SB 12.13.18).

You have got Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Read very carefully. All these things are already explained there.

(aside) Cut it into pieces and distribute.

Devotee: Swāmījī? Should we read, like, one chapter a day or . . .

Prabhupāda: It is very nice if you read one chapter Bhāgavatam daily. It is very nice. You make it a point to read one chapter daily. That is very nice.

Devotee: No more?

Prabhupāda: No, if you can do more, that's all right. Just like I ask everybody to chant sixteen rounds. But if you can chant sixteen hundred rounds, then who prohibits you? You can do that.

Devotee: What I meant is that . . .

Prabhupāda: But we should make a regulation of our life, that "So many times I chant. One chapter I shall read. I shall go to the temple at this time." In this way we must have routine work. Then we'll get practiced automatically. Yes. And Gosvāmīns, the six Gosvāmīns, they were following routine work. Even they . . . sāṅkhyā-pūrvaka-nāma-gāna-natibhiḥ (Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka).

Page Title:Srimad-bhagavatam amalam puranam. You have got Srimad-Bhagavatam. Read very carefully. All these things are already explained there
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-03-23, 13:39:05
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1