750910SB.VRN                    Lectures                   229589/530501 … Therefore it is said janma koti… We are passing  through many forms of different forms of life. We are creating one  family, that “I belong to this family.” But what about my other  families? Because janma koti, in every family, when I enter,  there must be father and mother and family members. So which family I  am especially concerned? That is our ignorance. We become interested in  the particular family where we are at present. But we do not know  that in the past we had to pass through many hundreds and millions  of families. So which family is correct? And again, if I do not  correct myself at the present moment, I have to go through many millions  of families until we come to the point: vasudevah sarvam iti sa  mahatma sudurlabhah. This is the point.

….. It is said that if by sentiment one takes to Krsna consciousness,  tyaktva sva-dharmam Everyone has got his occupational duty. The  brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, or anyone–everyone has got some  particular duty, obligation. But Krsna says, “There is no need of  executing all this obligation. Simply surrender to Me.” Krsna says. So if  somebody, out of sentiment, if one thinks that “Simply by surrendering to  Krsna, I will be perfect? Why not take it? Let me give up my so-called  religious principle.” So that is confirmed in the Bhagavata. Tyaktva  sva-dharmam caranambujam hareh. He is giving up. Just like these European,  American boys, they belong to Jewish religion, they belong to Christian  religion, but out of their pious activity or even by sentiment, they have  given up. Now they have taken to Krsna consciousness. But they are perfect.  You may say that some of them are fallen. So sastra says that “Even one  has fallen, where is the wrong there? And another person, who has not taken  to Krsna consciousness, who has not fallen, what is the benefit there?”  Even one has not fallen, sticking to his own particular religious  system, he is not gainer. But a person who has taken to Krsna  consciousness even by sentiment and has fallen, he has great benefit because  once he has taken to Krsna consciousness, Krsna becomes attached to him.  That

is ajnata-sukrti. Therefore, in all circumstances, we should  accept the Krsna’s instruction, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam  saranam vraja, and surely we shall be benefited.

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So this process of Krsna consciousness is so nice that svalpam apy
asya  dharmasya, even slightly executed in due time… Because the
process is  we are educating people to chant Hare Krsna to practice, so
in due time, Hare  Krsna at the time of death especially, if we can
chant this holy name of  God, Hare Krsna, then our life is successful.
So unless we  practice, how it will be possible to chant at the time of
death? Because at  the time of death the whole system,
anatomical-physiological system, becomes  disturbed, in bewilderness,
in coma, in unconsciousness. But still,  if one has practiced, there is
possibility of chanting the holy name of the  Lord, Hare Krsna,
Narayana. Then that is success of life. In a Bengali there  is a
proverb, bhajana kara sadhana kara murti janle haya(?), that  “Whatever
you are executing as a bhajana, sadhana, that’s all right, but it  will
be tested at the time of your death.” It will be test. Just like  a
parrot is chanting, “Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna,” but when some cat  comes
in, “Kaw, kaw, kaw.” No. Then missing. So parrot life will not  help
you. You must be really chanting without any offense. Then it  is
possibility that at the time of death… Death will be there. You  may
be very proud of your body, that “I am permanent.” No. “As sure  as
death.” And after death you have to change your body.