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== Opening Invocation ==


ॐ जननीम् शरदाम् देविम् रामक्रिष्णम् जगत् गुर्म्

पादपद्मे तयोः स्रित्वाः प्रणमामि मुहुरुमु

Oṁ jananīṁ śaraḍhāṁ deveṁ rāmakriṣṇam jagad-gurum

pādapadmetayosritvā pranamāmi-muhurumuhu

= Narada Bhakti Sutra Lecture =

== Why Narada Bhakti in Kali Yuga ==
According to Sri Ramakrishna, why Narada Bhakti? Because in Kalikala, manush, anna gatha prana - means in this iron age. Iron age means what? In the age of body consciousness. We are highly body orientated, body identified.

Anna means what? Body orientated. So what is spiritual life? To say "I am not the body, I am not the mind" in the beginning.

Later on, body mind also is part of Brahma only, because it has not come from different place. It has not come from Saturn. It has come from God only. But to get rid of our attachments, we will have to slowly get rid and then identify with everything else.

The reason why we do not identify is because of our deep attachment: "This is only this is me. And nothing else."

== Superiority of Bhakti Yoga ==
So according to Narada, "Bhakti Yoga is Sadhu, Karma, Jnana, Yoga, Adhika, Tara." So Bhakti Yoga is superior to all other Yogas. So he is specifying it. He saw this Bhakti Yoga to definitely Karma - Karma Yoga, Jnana - Jnana Yoga, Yoga.

Yoga means Raja Yoga, because all these paths only end with Yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga. So here he did not "Karma, Karma Yoga. Jnana, Jnana Yoga." But Yoga means what? It does not include Bhakti. It is Raja Yoga. It is superior.

So the reason is, why do you say that? Just because you are saying it? No, there is a reason. What is the result? So if you are having Karma, you go beyond Karma. If you are practising Raja Yoga, you go beyond Prakruti. If you are practising Jnana Yoga, again your Jnana will go.

What is Jnana? Identification with the body and mind. You will get out. But all the three ultimately will give only Bhakti.

== The Nature of Bhakti Yoga ==
Whereas Bhakti Yoga starts with Bhakti, grows in Bhakti, and ends also in Bhakti. So the beginning Bhakti is called Gauna Bhakti, Vaidhi Bhakti. Gauna means preparatory devotion.

But that is also devotion only. Or it is also called Vaidhi. Vaidhi means Vidhi. Vidhi means you have to do this much Japa, you have to do this pilgrimage, you have to offer these things to God, you have to worship God at this time, etc. with these items. This is called Vaidhi. So do's and don'ts.

=== Beyond Rules in Para Bhakti ===
But when a person attains Parabhakti, he goes beyond all rules. So the question is raised: if he goes, supposing you say, he may do some murder. For a preparatory devotee, "Don't think of harming, Ahimsa Paramo Dharmaha." But here he goes beyond rules, he can do whatever he likes.

Then the answer is no. He goes beyond rules doesn't mean he will do something wrong. Why? Because many lives he has been practising this Vaidhi, not doing something, not doing something. So it has become so habituated.

Sri Ram Krishna gives a brilliant example: An expert trained dancer cannot take a wrong step. Let him try, he cannot take a wrong step because his training doesn't allow him to take a wrong step. Just as we cannot take a right step because we have been trained. This is not a funny example.

=== Definition of Upasana According to Shankaracharya ===
While defining what is called Upasana, Shankaracharya tells, how do we know a person has become Siddha in Upasana, Upasaka? So if a person has become... Upasana means what? He is not thinking of a particular deity.

Ultimately he says, "I am that deity. I am not worshipping the deity, I am that deity." And that knowledge is so firm, he says, just as for us to think "I am not the body," how impossible it is to think "I am not the body," so also it is impossible for them to think "I am not God."

Natural, it becomes very natural. "I am God" becomes natural. Not only that, to think "I am you" is impossible. I cannot think I am you, you can't think I am you, even though you can't think I am my mother. You can't think. She can't think, she wishes to think, but she cannot think "I am my daughter."

You know what I am talking? She wishes she is younger and beautiful like you. Wishes. And she can't do that because her identity with her own body is so strong and so natural.

Muslims, tell them, "Why don't you be a little bit more liberal? Why don't you feel that all religions..." It is impossible, almost impossible for them because so many janmas, janmas, you know, a samskara is coming.

== Bhakti as Its Own Result ==
But bhakti is its own result. So a small bhakta becomes a bigger bhakta. A bigger bhakta becomes the biggest bhakta. And what is the parakastha, the supreme peak of this bhakti? Do you know what it is? It is called Mahabhava. Mahabhava.

Radha is an embodiment of Mahabhava. What is Mahabhava? Absolute identity with God is called Mahabhava. And Gopis attained to that Mahabhava.

=== The Story of Gopika Gita ===
You know what happened? This Gopika Gita came. Before that, Gopi, Sri Krishna promised, "You come on the moonlit night in Atami, full moon," and then all the Gopikas went there. And then Sri Krishna told, "What is this? This is adharma. You left your husband, etc., etc., came here to meet me, a parapurusha, another man."

They said, "No, you are not another man for us." So Krishna was pleased. Then pride entered into them. Pride. Immediately Krishna disappeared, because the moment ahankara comes, the whole world disappears. God disappears.

Then they became repentant. Then they started searching. And while searching, their intense thinking on Krishna, it was so deep, that one lady, "I am Krishna, you are Gopi, come, let us dance." She forgot she is a Gopi.

While thinking of Krishna, then another lady was telling, "Do you know how beautifully I play the venu? Look, like that," she started playing. So everybody was totally identified with Bhagavan Krishna through intense meditation upon Krishna. So that is the upasana phala. That is the phalaroopatva.

== Characteristics of Mahabhava ==
The biggest, the highest peak of devotion is called Mahabhava. And there are certain characteristics, like the hair stands, and incessantly, tears will come out of the eyes. This in great mass we will see. Like that, every now and then, like that. Then the person is unconscious. Then whatever he is looking appears to be only Ishtadevata. These are some of the lakshanas.

=== Jayadeva's Gita Govinda ===
That is what is beautifully described by Jayadeva in Gita Govinda. Radha had an appointment with Krishna, and then she was expecting "Krishna will come, Krishna will come," like that. Because of the wind, a little bit of this leaf has fallen. Again due to wind, a little bit of this movement is there.

That movement, "Oh, I think Krishna is coming. The footsteps are coming. I think Krishna is coming," because their whole expectation is like that. So that is the Jayadeva. They see Krishna, they hear Krishna, they smell Krishna.

=== Sri Ramakrishna's Example ===
So once Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is going through a village, Sri Ramakrishna describes. Then while going, "Are you coming here? You can come and sit here. Special promotion."

You see, he is so much attached to you, only a monk. One son was asking, he visited one Egyptian museum, came back and asking his father, "Dad, where from did you get mummy?"

So Sri Ramakrishna was waiting. Keshav Chandra Sen had to come. Some small sound was there, some servant was going there. "See whether Keshav Chandra Sen has come." "You don't know, sir, he is a servant."

After a few minutes, somebody else goes. Somebody else. Five, six times, you know, somebody goes. Then Sri Ramakrishna was quoting this. By the way, you heard about Geeta Govinda? All the time, melee flu, yes, Sanskrit language. Swamiji adored Jaya Devas, Geeta Govinda, and that Dasavatarastotram.

== The Unity of Bhakta and Bhakti ==
So that is called Bhakti through sadhana, what is it? The bhakta. And he starts with bhakti. And he progresses in bhakti. And he ends up in bhakti.

And then the difference between, the distinction between bhakta and bhakti, they become totally eradicated. Ultimately, what is bhakta, what is bhakti, can never be understood. Distinction cannot come.

== The 28th Sutra - How to Obtain Bhakti ==
So, how to obtain it? That's where we are looking, 28th sutra. This is called sutra, not shloka. Bhagavad Gita is a shloka, but this is called sutra.

And I told you, what is a sutra? A guru, to his disciples, he expounds some subject, maybe days and days, maybe months, and then the disciple has to remember the whole thing. For that, he gives a mnemonic, a clue. And that clue is called a sutra.

Like, you know, "peepoo peesoo." Like that, one sutra he will give. But only the persons who have that background, this is just a reminder. Like that. So, this is how the sutra...

But later on, when that disciple dies, and the parampara stops, only sutras remain, and the vyakhyana is totally gone. That is how Brahma Sutras, and these Dharma Sutras, and many of these Darshana Sutras, most of them have been lost.

So, even if somebody had written, also those books are gone. Great acharyas like Shankaracharya, he comes and then he gives the comment. So, even here also, this Garga. Nobody ever heard of Garga. Only Narada Bhakti Sutra we hear about Garga.

Sandilya Bhakti Sutra is there, which our Swami Harshwanandaji had translated beautifully, commentary. Narada Bhakti Sutra is there. Fairly simple language, and there are acharyas who expound them to us.

== Palaroopatva - The Result of Bhakti ==
So, Palaroopatva. Then, what is this Palaroopa? What is the Palaroopa? A person becomes Bhakta. The moment he becomes a Bhakta, what happens? What does a Bhakta...

It is like, you know, Sri Ramakrishna used to say, that you take some frogs and make a paste and put it on your eyes. What do you see? Only snake. Only snake. A frog sees what? Frogs see only? Snakes. Everywhere he sees snakes only.

So, like that, a person who has got this Collarium of Jnana, Jnana Anjana, Vimala Jnana. So, when Sri Ramakrishna always puts on the Collarium of Jnana, what does he see? Only God. God means what? He sees himself.

That's why some people call him Super-Egoist. Super-Egoist means, excepting me, nothing exists. He is Super-Egoist because there is nothing else excepting Brahma, God. "Aham Brahmasmi." So, therefore, "Sarvam Kalvidam Brahma." Therefore, "Sarvam Ahameva Asmi." Everything is me only. That is the conclusion.

== The Devotee's Ego ==
So, this is that Ahamkara will come. A devotee will have that real Ahamkara. What is that Ahamkara? "I am a devotee of God." That is the only Ahamkara.

Like a child. What Ahamkara he will have? A child, a baby. Do you know what Ahamkara a baby has got? Mother. Only mother. Who is he? Ma. Ma.

Like that means what? For everything. For Srishti, for Sthithi, for Laya, everything only mother. Mother has to come.

So, a baby doesn't have Separate Ego. A devotee also will not have a Separate Ego. But he will say, "I, I belong to God. I am a servant of God. I am a devotee of God." Like that, that relationship for enjoyment.

== The Devotee's Vision and Humility ==
So, when a person becomes like that, what does he become? He sees God. When he sees God, what do you think he will think about himself? And the humblest "Trinadapi Sunichena Taroriva Sahishnuna Amanina Manadena Kirtaniya Sada Harihe."

Did we discuss about it? Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had written eight verses, shlokas. It is called Sikshastaka. Astaka means eight. And one of them is this verse. How we should take God's name? Simply you can't go and take a Japa Mala and "Guru Guru Guru, Hare Rama, Hare Krishna." Is not going to do. One has to acquire that yogyata, fitness.

=== Who is Fit to Take God's Name? ===
Who is fit to take God's name? Very very wonderful verse. Who is fit to take God's name? Why he says, "Taroriva," no no, "Trinadapi Sunichena." One should consider oneself as humbler than a blade of grass.

Why humbler than a blade of grass? When a big wind comes, huge trees get toppled. You know what is that tree? "Kuchka fellow, what can you do to me?" The wind says, "Fellow you are talking to me like that. You will see what I will do. I will do like that." Immediately it falls.

And then the wind comes to this grass, blade of grass. "Hey fellow, I am going past you." "Yes yes. Whichever way the wind, okay you are greater than me, you walk over me, all over me. I don't mind." So what can the wind do to that? It cannot do.

Therefore, "Trinadapi, Sunichena," a devotee must not have any Ahankara. Why? Because whatever a devotee has, who has given? God. Only God has given. That knowledge is there all the time. Mahatmya Jnanam is there. What is Mahatmya Jnanam? Whatever I am, whatever I have, belongs to? God. Only God. This is otherwise "Jaranamiva." Otherwise, like a public woman.

What is public woman? They don't love the customers. They love only money. There is a profession for them.

=== The Second Characteristic: Forbearance ===
So, The second characteristic of a person who wants to take God's name: "Taroriva sahishnuna." Forbearance. He has to forbear. And, like what? Like a tree. What is the tree? What does it do?

You know, people do all sorts of things. They cut, they climb, they break the branches. We are all for our Pratakritya. And this neem tree and other trees, we just break and then do it. And then fruits, leaves, like that.

Everything it gives. The bark, the root, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the flowers, and the fruits. Kumalakai. Pumpkin. Pumpkin gives beautiful flowers. Yellow flowers.

You know that? Have you ever put it in besan and fried it? In Bengal, this is the common thing. So, they cut it and then fry it with besan. First class, tele bhaja. Tele bhaja. It is so tasty. Like that, in so many ways.

Of course, some are allowed. So, they will become fruits. And that fruit is called "Athidesharanya." In the village, they grow this pumpkin creepers. And the creeper goes over the hut. And there, it will be there, exposed to the sun.

And then this big kumalakai. So, this is called emergency ration. Because sometimes athides will come. Without announcement, in those days, ten people will come. Because they always come in groups only in those days. So, the yejimana will get up and bring one kumalakai.

And really, it is prepared. So tasty. You know, very sweet. So, like that, any number of days, they can entertain. That is why it is called "Athideshatkara," the best.

So, in so many ways, trees have to bear. And do they protest? No. The ultimate service they render. They say, there is a sandalwood tree, and a person is taking an axe and cutting it. The deeper he is cutting, the more it is making the axe fragrant, sandalwood fragrance. That is why you have to be forbearing like a tree. "Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshwar Kshama Roopena Samsthita," Our Holy Mother.

=== The Third Characteristic: Giving Respect Without Expecting It ===
Okay. Then, what is "Amanina Manadena"? Third character. The first one is "Pranadapi," humbler than a blade of grass. The second is more forbearing than even a tree. And the third is "Amanina." Means, you will not expect respect from anybody. Not even from a child, not even from an animal.

But, you will respect everything. "Manada" means one who gives respect to everything else. "Amanina" means he doesn't expect himself. You treat him in any way, he will not be unhappy. Ramakrishna was like that.

How did he make devotees? Somebody came, like that, like that. So, he did like that. So, the other person, he also did like that. Ramakrishna did like that. And that is how they learnt how to fall on the...

That's why Girish Chandrakosh used to say, this time, Ramakrishna had conquered the world by his humility, "Vinayena." He's called Vinaya.

So, "Amanina Manadena Kirtaniyaha Sada Harihi." Hari should be adored, sung, meditated, do japam, but with these three qualities.

So, don't think you sit in the meditation and say, "I have come half an hour before you and I am also leaving half an hour after you. So, who is the great devotee? Me. I am the great devotee." Do you understand? Those who sit in the front, they think they are better devotees than those who sit in the back. All sorts of Mahamaya exhibition is there.

== The Story of Rakhal and Latu Maharaj ==
So, that is how a person gets rid of Ahankara, Abhimana. So, what is the first characteristic of real Bhakti? Ahankara becomes less and less completely disappears. But he will have the greatest Ahankara. What is the Ahankara? "I am a child of God, I am a devotee of God," etc. That is the real.

And the funny story is there. The story, funny story. Rakhal, Shri Ram Krishna was in his room and he used to consider Rakhal Maharaj as his own son. And Latu Maharaj, what is his relationship with Shri Ram Krishna? Dasya Bhava. "I am the servant, the master." Rakhal Maharaj, "I am your child, you are my father."

So, one day, this Rakhal Maharaj was lying on Shri Ram Krishna's bed, which Latu Maharaj would never even dare to think because that was not the relationship. So, Rakhal Maharaj was lying down, Shri Ramakrishna said, "Hey, Rakhal, get me one paan." You know paan? Betel.

So, he said, "I don't know how to prepare betel paan." Shri Ram Krishna said, "Do you need to go to college to prepare betel preparation?" He said, "I don't know."

And Latu Maharaj was witnessing the whole thing. He got very angry. "My Guru is telling and this person is not doing." So, he is addressing Rakhal Maharaj, "Thinning gold chain, he is asking you, why you are not obeying?"

Rakhal Maharaj looked at him very cool. He said, "If you are getting headache, why don't you bore yourself?" And Latu Maharaj, you know, he came, "agun hoi gach" means "agni ho gaya." So, burning with anger, "My Guru is telling and he is not obeying. What type of devotee he is?" That was the attitude.

Shri Ramakrishna immediately called Ramlal, "Hey Ramlal, come here." Ramlal was the nephew of Shri Ramakrishna. He came, "Come here. Now, this is what happened," incident, graphically described. "Now, tell me, who is the greater devotee?"

Immediately, Ramlal Dada said, "Of course, Rakhal is the greater devotee," which is true also. So, Rakhal is. Hearing this, lot of Maharaj, absolutely, you know, was burning.

Then, Shri Ramakrishna became brave and said, "Is it Guru Bhakti to show so much anger in front of one's own Guru?"

=== Lessons from the Story ===
Great lesson for us to learn, because if you become angry in front of the Guru, is the Guru Guru or Guru? Is it the Guru? You lose, you know, when a young person becomes angry in front of parents, he can beat the parents, he can throw them down, he can even kill them. There are so many instances we are getting.

One child, if you ask them, how could a child do it? Child is not doing. The angry person is doing. So long as the anger lasts, that person is possessed by a demon, like that. It is a demon. Anger is a demon. It possesses you.

When you are showing it in front of your Guru, immediately, Bhattu Maharaj, you know, Guru Kripa, he understood. Tears started. "I will never again show my anger in front of you." Like that, he learnt his lesson.

Now this was the incident. What is the lesson? Why am I telling you? Because, did Raghav Maharaj refuse to obey? He thinks, "I am a child. I can do whatever I like to my parents. I can kick them." In fact, that is what happens. "I can kick them."

When a mother is suckling the baby, what do you think the baby is doing? This Raghav also must have done the same thing. When he was a baby, you know, he was kicking the mother left and right. Is it not? And the mother mind You have to know this.

== The Story of Bhrigu Rishi and the Three Gods ==
How Venkateshwara came there on the hill? You know? Tirupati Venkateshwara. Who did he come? So there was a question rose among the Rishis. Who is the greatest God? Brahma or Vishnu or Maheshwara? So they sent Agastya. Agastya Rishi. That "You test them and come and tell us who is the greatest God? Brahma or Vishnu?"

So he went to Brahma. So Saraswati was playing and Brahma knew everything. "This fellow is coming." And with closed eyes and he was moving like that. Then Guru Vasudev became very angry. Because he was a very proud man. He had tremendous knowledge because he had an eye in the Feet. Here. Soul. His foot. He had an eye.

So he could. He has tremendous power. Siddhis. So he thought "I was a great Rishi." So he cursed. "You came. I came. You did not show me respect for a Rishi like me." He was cursing Brahma. "Grandfather I came to you and you did not respect me." Like that. "So may you never be worshipped by anybody."

So then he went to Shiva. What happened? Shiva and Parvati was in his lap. He said "Abba." There at least Saraswati was separate. Here like super glue they are having. Shiva and Parvati. They did not observe him at all. Though they knew. Then he cursed Shiva also. "May you live only in Mashanas" like that. Durvasa.

Then he went to Vishnu. Mother Lakshmi was messaging his feet. And then Vishnu did not see at all. Then Bhrigu, sorry not Durvasa, Bhrigu Rishi. Bhrigu Rishi went and then kicked him. And who is on the chest of Narayana? Lakshmi. She became very angry.

So Narayana as if "Oh Bhrigu Maharishi you have come. What a apparatus we householders are doing." So he took his feet and gently started messaging. And then slowly he pressed that eye. The eye had become like you know like the eye of a lizard. It has come out. One fruit is there. It looks like the eyeball. Lychee. Lychee. Yeah, it looks like his eyeball like that. Bengal people love it. It has a special flavour also.

So then all the powers are gone. Then Bhrigu came to his senses. He said, "Lord please forgive me." Vishnu said, "What is that? You are my child. And if a child kicks me, what does it really mean?"

But Lakshmi was not willing. He says, "He kicked you. He kicked me. And how could you tolerate?" Then Vishnu is telling, "Lakshmi, when a baby is being suckled by the mother, what do you think? In his great joy, he wants to dance. The dance of the baby is called the kicking of the baby all over the body of the mother who is suckling him. So will the mother take offence at that? Or she will be even more happy? My child is healthy, happy and dancing with joy like that." This is the Swarasya, you know.

But Lakshmi doesn't listen. So she came here to earth. Because this she thinks her mother's house. Here. So she comes here. Now without Lakshmi, Vishnu cannot do his business. What is his business? Stethi. There is no money. How is he going to do?

So he comes down to the earth and he is born in some family. It's a big story. So ultimately they are married. Then as soon as they are married, and immediately Bhudevi also comes. "My lord, my lord, I have been searching." Now how many wives? And they started pulling both his hands. And immediately they left him and started fighting with each other.

God said, "The only way I can get peace of mind is turn into a stone." That is how Venkateshwara This is Stala Purana, you know. You have to understand this Stala Purana.

== The True Nature of Devotion ==
So what are we talking about? A devotee. The more devotion we get, what do we realise? Everything belongs to God. I belong to God. The whole universe belongs to God. So that Abhimana becomes less.

But if anybody says "I am a Bhakta," like Vishwamitra, and then outside "I am a humble devotee," inside is like an Indian worker, you know. Before applying, while applying for a job, you are the most humble servant. The moment he gets a job, a large Zanda. Understand? You have to understand.

A person who has that Ahankara, he can never really be a real devotee. He is only a fake devotee. So even God hates such kind of egotistic people. That's being said here. Abhimana means Ahankara. He hates.

== Does God Really Hate? ==
Does God really hate? Is it possible for him to hate? Hatred is possible only towards somebody who is different. We are all what? Part of God. Can a mother really hate if she has got five, six children? "This child is a troublesome child." Does she hate? She can never hate. It is impossible for her to hate.

Then what does Narada mean? Reshitwas means the more Ahankara it looks as though God is far away from me. Even though he is near, like Hiranyakashyapu, he can't see. This is what we are talking about.

Prahlada was asked by Hiranyakashyapu, "Where is your God?" Who asks "Where is such and such a person?" A person who doesn't see won't be such a person. If I am seeing you, will you ask "Where is Swami Dayatma?" He will never ask.

So a person who has got Ahankara, he can't see God because whom does he see? Me. Everything belongs to me. Everything in the context of me.

So "Ishwara hates" means Ishwara is not available for such a person. But Ishwara is very near to a devotee who has less and less of Ahankara. That is why God loves humility. Why? Because he will enter anywhere inside the devotee.

"This house belongs to whom?" A devotee says "This house belongs to God. This property belongs to God. This body belongs to God. This mind belongs to God."

== A Humorous Anecdote About Sardarji Shops ==
But some Sardarjis, they tell like that. When I was in Delhi, as a Brahmachari, I used to go for shopping. My ashram is in Paharganj. Paharganj, Chitragupta Road. Pahar... Paharganj. So Paharganj is very near. You step outside, in five minutes you are in all Sardarji shops.

So one day I went there and then it's a big shop, Sardarji. "Come Maharaj, come." Sardarji, "Whose shop is this?" "Yours Maharaj." "It is yours?" Then suddenly one small girl was running. So I saw her without thinking. "Sardarji, a ladki kiska?" "Aapka hi hai Maharaj."

Then a young woman was going. In time, I did not ask to say that. Like that this fellow says, "Aapka hi hai Maharaj." But he will not reduce the prices. "Aapka hi hai mera, tera, mera, tera, tera, mera, mera."

Gaana hai na? "Sabhi Ram hai." The Sharma brothers, they sang, "Mera, tera, tera, yehi maya hai. Yehi Ramji ka maya." Beautiful song. You heard? "Aap sune the? Aap sune the? Bhot accha gaana hai. Mera, tera, tera, mera yehi Ramji ka maya hai."

Beautiful. Sharma brothers. Two brothers called Sharma brothers. "Bhot accha gaana hai. Bhot accha gaana hai." You heard that song? The song was very beautiful. "Jaan ki sakhi kripa" You've never heard this song?

== God's Love for Humility ==
So, God loves Dainyat, Deenabhava. What is Deenabhava? Deenabhava means, "I am nothing, God is everything. And I belong to God."

And what is Abhimana? That is, "I own everything."

So God naturally is He is very far and He is very near. To whom He is far? To a person who has got Abhimana, He is very far. As though He is... And then to a person who is having very little practical impact to God has given. For such a person, God is right. God is nowhere.

One nastika was telling, "God is nowhere." One nastika was replying, "You don't know how to pronounce English properly. Not nowhere, God is now here."

Same thing, but beautifully. This is the difference between devotion and without devotion. We will discuss it further.

== Closing Prayer ==
ॐ जननीम् शरदाम् देविम् रामक्रिष्णम् जगत् गुर्म्

पादपद्मे तयोः स्रित्वाः प्रणमामि मुहुरुमु

Oṁ jananīṁ śaraḍhāṁ deveṁ rāmakriṣṇam jagad-gurum

pādapadmetayosritvā pranamāmi-muhurumuhu
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