750901SB.VRN                    Lectures                   229374/530501 Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised,  grama-katha na sunibe, bhala na khaibe na bhala na  paribe. This is vairagya–“Don’t indulge in gramya-katha.” Therefore  we always advise, “Don’t read newspaper. Don’t read any other book,” because  it is full of gramya-katha, gramyaih. So to avoid it as far as possible.  There is no need.

What is the news of a gramya-katha newspaper? The same thing repeated.  “Here there is flood, where there is train disaster, where there  is accident, and political, and one politician is giving speech,  another politician is giving speech.” These are the gramya things. So  we should save ourself. Gramyair manoramaih. These externally  very attractive news, we should avoid it completely. We shall simply  talk of Krsna. That is the safest method. We shall simply talk  krsna-katha. And krsna-katha means what Krsna has said. That is krsna-katha.  Or what is spoken about Krsna. So Bhagavad-gita means krsna-katha,  what Krsna has said. And Srimad Bhagavatam is also krsna-katha  because everything said about Krsna. So we don’t We should not indulge  in gramya-katha. That will mislead us. And if  we do not indulge in gramya-katha, but if we make advancement on Krsna-katha,  then we are always situated on transcendental position. We are no more  affected by

the modes of material nature. Sa gunan  samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate. So we should stick to this principle.  Then we shall be saved. Otherwise, either I become man or woman,  we are all condemned because we are implicated with  gramya-katha.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das