constantly hear and chant

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SB 1.2.14

tasmad ekena manasa

 

bhagavan satvatam patih

 

srotavyah kirtitavyas ca

 

dhyeyah pujyas ca nityada

 

 

TRANSLATION

 

Therefore, with one-pointed attention, one should constantly hear about,

glorify, remember and worship the Personality of Godhead, who is the

protector of the devotees.

 

PURPORT

 

If realization of the Absolute Truth is the ultimate aim of life, it must

be carried out by all means. In any one of the above-mentioned castes and

orders of life, the four processes, namely glorifying, hearing, remembering

and worshiping, are general occupations. Without these principles of life,

no one can exist. Activities of the living being involve engagements in

these four different principles of life. Especially in modern society, all

activities are more or less dependent on hearing and glorifying. Any man

from any social status becomes a well-known man in human society within a

very short time if he is simply glorified truly or falsely in the daily

newspapers. Sometimes political leaders of a particular party are also

advertised by newspaper propaganda, and by such a method of glorification

an insignificant man becomes an important man -- within no time. But such

propaganda by false glorification of an unqualified person cannot bring

about any good, either for the particular man or for the society. There may

be some temporary reactions to such propaganda, but there are no permanent

effects. Therefore such activities are a waste of time. The actual object

of glorification is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has created

everything manifested before us. We have broadly discussed this fact from

the beginning of the "janmady asya" [sB 1.1.1] sloka of this Bhagavatam.

The tendency to glorify others or hear others must be turned to the real

object of glorification -- the Supreme Being. And that will bring happiness.

 

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