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Hare Krishna! Nityananda Gauranga! Jai Srila Prabhupada! I have a question: Is mundane education helpfuul in Bhakti? Read these worrds: Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.14 -- Mayapur, April 7, 1975: So our only request is that take shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, chant always śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda, and Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. (devotees chant also) Thank you. So it is not very difficult task. Anyone, just like the children, the boys, two years, three years old, they are also doing the same thing. Where is the difficulty? Young man can perform the same thing; old man can also perform; everyone can perform, it is so nice. So do not forget this principle, pañca-tattvātmakaṁ kṛṣṇaṁ bhakta-rūpa-svarūpakam bhaktāvatāraṁ bhaktākhyaṁ namāmi bhakta-śaktikam Bhakta-śakti, everything requires strength, so we can derive strength by chanting Caitanya Mahāprabhu's name, and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. You don't require very high education, neither you require to take your birth in very high family. Ahaitukī. Execution of devotional service is independent, completely. It has nothing to do with material condition. Ahaituky apratihatā. No material condition can check. Who can check it? If all the world over they chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, who can check? No government can check, no communist party can check. Go on chanting; that is the principle. So ahaituky apratihatā yenātmā suprasīdati, and you will get individually and collectively Where is he? Haridāsa, he went to Moscow? He has gone (indistinct). He was chanting in Moscow. So people could not understand, they were asking, "What you are doing?I am singing some cinema song." (laughter) He was telling like that. Very clever. (laughter) "I am singing because the Muscovites, they are after Indian culture." So he said that "This is Hare Kṛṣṇa cinema song." But Srila Prabhupada has said to spiritualize everything. I am in Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.14 -- Mayapur, April 7, 1975: So our only request is that take shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, chant always śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda, and Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. (devotees chant also) Thank you. So it is not very difficult task. Anyone, just like the children, the boys, two years, three years old, they are also doing the same thing. Where is the difficulty? Young man can perform the same thing; old man can also perform; everyone can perform, it is so nice. So do not forget this principle, pañca-tattvātmakaṁ kṛṣṇaṁ bhakta-rūpa-svarūpakam bhaktāvatāraṁ bhaktākhyaṁ namāmi bhakta-śaktikam Bhakta-śakti, everything requires strength, so we can derive strength by chanting Caitanya Mahāprabhu's name, and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. You don't require very high education, neither you require to take your birth in very high family. Ahaitukī. Execution of devotional service is independent, completely. It has nothing to do with material condition. Ahaituky apratihatā. No material condition can check. Who can check it? If all the world over they chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, who can check? No government can check, no communist party can check. Go on chanting; that is the principle. So ahaituky apratihatā yenātmā suprasīdati, and you will get individually and collectively Where is he? Haridāsa, he went to Moscow? He has gone (indistinct). He was chanting in Moscow. So people could not understand, they were asking, "What you are doing?I am singing some cinema song." (laughter) He was telling like that. Very clever. (laughter) "I am singing because the Muscovites, they are after Indian culture." So he said that "This is Hare Kṛṣṇa cinema song." But Srila Prabhupada has said in many of his books to dovetail everything. Can we spiritualize mundane education? I am in Class XII. I am frustrated with mundane education. It simply teaches polished sense gratification and not devotional service. We are not taught to chant names of Lord to please him. Words from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada:- Life is for the glorification of topics on Hari. If that is stopped, then what need is there to carry on life. We are simply taught how to decorate our dead body. [TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD="class: m"][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Canto 2: The Cosmic Manifestation[/TD] [TD="class: m"]Chapter 3: Pure Devotional Service: The Change in Heart[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam SB 2.3.16: Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva, was also full in transcendental knowledge and was a great devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva. So there must have been discussion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is glorified by great philosophers and in the company of great devotees. SB 2.3.17: Both by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of everyone, except one who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the all-good Personality of Godhead. SB 2.3.18: Do the trees not live? Do the bellows of the blacksmith not breathe? All around us, do the beasts not eat and discharge semen? SB 2.3.19: Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the deliverer from evils. SB 2.3.20: One who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous acts of the Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord is to be considered to possess earholes like the holes of snakes and a tongue like the tongue of a frog. SB 2.3.21: The upper portion of the body, though crowned with a silk turban, is only a heavy burden if not bowed down before the Personality of Godhead who can award mukti [freedom]. And the hands, though decorated with glittering bangles, are like those of a dead man if not engaged in the service of the Personality of Godhead Hari. SB 2.3.22: The eyes which do not look at the symbolic representations of the Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu [His forms, name, quality, etc.] are like those printed on the plumes of the peacock, and the legs which do not move to the holy places [where the Lord is remembered] are considered to be like tree trunks. SB 2.3.23: The person who has not at any time received the dust of the feet of the Lord's pure devotee upon his head is certainly a dead body. And the person who has never experienced the aroma of the tulasī leaves from the lotus feet of the Lord is also a dead body, although breathing. SB 2.3.24: Certainly that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one's chanting the holy name of the Lord with concentration, does not change when ecstasy takes place, tears fill the eyes and the hairs stand on end. SB 2.3.25: O Sūta Gosvāmī, your words are pleasing to our minds. Please therefore explain this to us as it was spoken by the great devotee Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who is very expert in transcendental knowledge, and who spoke to Mahārāja Parīkṣit upon being asked. WHAT SHOULD I DO? I AM ALSO NOT ABLE TO CHANT MAHAMANTRA DUE TO ENGAGEMENT IN MUNDANE EDUCATION, MY IMPURITY AND NON-DEVOTEE FAMILY ASSOCIATION. MY FAMILY IS SO UNFORTUNATE THAT THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD NAMES OF SRILA PRABHUPADA AND OTHER VAISHNAVA ACHARYAS OF ANY VAISHNAVA SAMPRADAYAS, NEVER HEARD ABOUT CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU, NITYANANDA PRABHU AND OTHER GAURA ASSOCIATES. THEY HAVE JUST HEARD NAME OF ISKCON, BUT THEY ARE MORE INTERESTED IN HOUSEHOLDER FAMILY LIFE. THEY BELIEVE VERY FIRMLY IN KARMA KANDA. THEY EQUATE DEMIGODS WITH LORD KRISHNA AND HAVE NO SORRY FOR REMAINING IN WORLD OF MAYA. ONLY DUE TO MERCY OF FOLLOWERS OF SRILA PRABHUPADA, I AM ABLE TO READ MANY DEVOTIONAL BOOKS. I WANT TO START CHANTING HARE KRISHNA MAHAMANTRA FROM 1 ROUND TO 10 ROUNDS IN NEXT YEAR AND THEN 16 ROUNDS. PLEASE GUIDE ME. NITYANAND GOURANGA JAI RUKMINI DVARAKADHISH

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