Punya-sravana-kirtana

[Guest guest]

In a lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam (1.8.22) in Los Angeles on

4.14.73, Srila Prabhupada said:

 

"So we want to create a new generation in your country so that in

the future there'll be fluent speaker in Srimad-Bhagavatam and preach all

over the country, and your country will be saved. This is our program. We have

come here not to exploit your country, but to give you something

substantial. This is Krsna consciousness movement. So read Bhagavatam,

pronounce the verses very nicely. Therefore were repeating. You hear the

records and try to repeat. Simply by chanting the mantra, youll be

purified. Simply by chant... Even you do not understand a single word of

it, simply if you chant, this vibration has got such power. Srnvatam

sva-katha krsna punya-sravana-kirtana. If you simply chant and vibrate

this verse, these verses, these slokas, it is punya-sravana-kirtana. There

is, there is no question of understanding. Punya-sravana. Punya means

pious, and sravana means hearing, and kirtana means chanting. One who is

chanting this verse, and one who is hearing this verse, he is becoming pious

automatically. Pious. To become pious one has to endeavor so much, do this,

do that, but if you simply hear these verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-

gita."

"Therefore, as a rigid principle, in every temple there should be class

for hearing and chanting. Without hearing and chanting, to become leader it is

impossible. You can, you can become leader in the material world, but not

in the spiritual world."

[Guest guest]

"My dear Uddhava, narrations of My pastimes and qualities are

all-auspicious and purify the entire universe. A faithful person who

constantly hears, glorifies and remembers such transcendental activities,

who through dramatic performances relives My pastimes, beginning with My

appearance, and who takes full shelter of Me, dedicating his religious,

sensual and occupational activities for My satisfaction, certainly obtains

unflinching devotional service to Me, the eternal Personality of Godhead."

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.11.23-4