Kirtan & Lecture in Hindi

Prabhupāda: Chanting Hare Kṛṣṅa, the holy name with me will give you peace.

Hare Kṛṣṅa, Hare Kṛṣṅa, Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa, Hare Hare Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

[Śrīla Prabhupāda asks everyone to clap their hands.]

[05:06]

I shall speak in Hindi. Translate it.

I thank you all because you chanted the Hare Kṛṣṅa mahamantra along with me. This Hare, the Lord and his potency, just like Rādhā-Kṛṣṅa, Sītā-Rāma, Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṅa. The Lord and his potencies. It is there in the Vedas,

na tasya kāryaṁ karaṅaṁ ca vidyate na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate svā-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca

The Lord does not need to engage in any work. Just like we see that a rich man or a big man or a minister, they do not do any work themselves. But they have many servants and helpers. Similarly the Lord does not have to do any work with His own hands.

na tasya kāryaṁ karaṅaṁ ca vidyate

And na tat-samaś, the Lord samaś, we are just like the Lord--this is demoniac mentality. There is no one equal to the Lord and there is no one above Him also. na tat-samaś adhikaś. Everyone is below the Lord. So this Rādhā-Kṛṣṅa, Hare Kṛṣṅa, this is a prayer to the Lord, "Oh Hara! The potency of the Lord, You and Oh Kṛṣṅa, Oh, my Lord! Both of you together, please engage me in your devotional service." Because the living entity’s constitutional position is to serve the Lord. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: jīvera 'svarūpa haya-kṛṣṅera 'nitya-dāsa. Every living entity is by constitutional position an eternal servant of Kṛṣṅa. But having forgotten his constitutional position, he wants to lord it over in the material world. That is why he is suffering. parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate [Cc Madhya 13.65, purport].

So we in this material world are called conditioned souls, who have forgotten our eternal servitorship to the Lord. Our time is lost in serving māyā, the illusory energy. So by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṅa, we can get rid of this illusory energy.

ceto-darpaṅa-mārjanam.

I think we will continue Hare Kṛṣṅa, otherwise they will go away. Therefore I begin Hare Kṛṣṅa. Let them sit down and chant Hare Kṛṣṅa.

Chant Hare Kṛṣṅa and get them to join in. Take this. [end]