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Whole Vedic sastra is called sruti. It is a process of hearing. This is the disease of old age. These are the warnings that the body is getting rotten

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"whole Vedic śāstra is called śruti. It is a process of hearing. This is the disease of old age. These are the warnings that the body is getting rotten"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

You read the transliteration. The thing is, hearing the meter and repeat. That's all. The writing is already there, transliteration. Simply you have to hear the written. Just like you have chanted so many verses, songs, by hearing. The hearing is very important. A child learns another language simply by hearing, pronunciation, hearing. That is natural. If we hear one thing repeatedly, you will learn. You will learn. So one has to hear little attentively. Then it will be easy.

You will have no difficulty. Just like you are singing our song in tune, (sings) saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka. This is by hearing. So simply you have to hear. Therefore whole Vedic śāstra is called śruti. It is a process of hearing. This is the disease of old age. These are the warnings that the body is getting rotten.

Prabhupāda: You read the transliteration. The thing is, hearing the meter and repeat. That's all. The writing is already there, transliteration. Simply you have to hear the written. Just like you have chanted so many verses, songs, by hearing. The hearing is very important. A child learns another language simply by hearing, pronunciation, hearing. That is natural. If we hear one thing repeatedly, you will learn. You will learn. So one has to hear little attentively. Then it will be easy.

You will have no difficulty. Just like you are singing our song in tune, (sings) saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka. This is by hearing. So simply you have to hear. Therefore whole Vedic śāstra is called śruti. It is a process of hearing. This is the disease of old age. These are the warnings that the body is getting rotten. Go on.

Next man. To give next man. Each one of you. Na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ. (devotees repeat) Next. Each one of you. (recitation continues) Na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ, (devotees repeat) svapna-draṣṭur ivāñjasā. (devotees repeat) What is the añjasā spelling?

Devotee: I-v-a-n-j-a-s-a. Ivāñjasā.

Prabhupāda: That long a or short a?

Devotee: Long a.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Ivāñjasā. Añjasā. Añjasā means wholesale. Go on. (recitation and corrections continue) Na ghaṭeta artha sambandhaḥ, combined together it becomes na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ. Tārtha. What is the spelling? Tārtha?

Devotee: T, long a, r-t-h-a.

Prabhupāda: Uh? Tha? What is the . . .?

Devotee: T-a-r-t-h-a. Na ghaṭa . . .

Prabhupāda: T-h-a. There must be r.

Pradyumna: Yes. Ghaṭetārtha. G-h-a-t-e-t-a-r . . .

Prabhupāda: T-a-r. Yes. T-a, artha. So you were missing that r. Na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ. All right. Next. Next. (recitation and correction continues) Get it next. Come here.

So you have to study like that. So many ślokas; I am taking so much labor. If you do not read it carefully . . . it is not for that I am making business, for selling only, and not for my students. You must all read like this, practice.

Page Title:Whole Vedic sastra is called sruti. It is a process of hearing. This is the disease of old age. These are the warnings that the body is getting rotten
Compiler:Soham
Created:2024-01-25, 07:23:46.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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