Dandavat class and hearing class

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.....So dharmah svanusthitah pumsam visvaksena-kathasu yah, notpadayed yadi

ratim [sB 1.2.8]. This hearing process is very, very important. But people

are not interested in hearing. They are simply busy in some other duties. My

Guru Maharaja used to say... One who was not interested in hearing, he used

to call him a dandavat-class. Dandavat-class of men. That means simply he

knows how to make dandavats, that's all. (laughter) Anyone who will come to

him, he would see whether he is a dandavat-class of man or hearing class of

man. So dandavat is nice, but by offering dandavat, if one does not develop

the intent of hearing, sravanam, then he is not making very much progress.

As you know, because I was little interested in hearing, my Guru Maharaja,

he accepted me as his disciple. He marked this. "This boy is interested in

hearing. He does not go away." Actually, I do not know. I could not

understand what he was speaking in the beginning, but still I was very much

interested to hear him, out of curiosity or something like that....

 

.....Therefore our Krsna consciousness movement is to give chance to the

people in general hearing about Krsna, that's all. Either hearing Hare Krsna

mantra or hearing Bhagavad-gita or hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam, anything you

like, hear about Krsna. Try to hear about Krsna in meek and humble attitude.

Then gradually, everything will be revealed....

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.8 -- Vrndavana, October 19, 1972