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King Sudyumna Becomes a Woman
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benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious.”
Therefore, the best performance of  yajña  given to us is the  saṅkīrtana-yajña .  Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ  ( Bhāg.  11.5.32). Those who are intelligent take advantage of the greatest  yajña  in this age by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra  in congregation. When the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mantra  is chanted by many men together, the chanting is called  saṅkīrtana , and as a result of such a  yajña  there will be clouds in the sky ( yajñād bhavati parjanyaḥ ). In these days of drought, people can gain relief from scarcity of rain and food by the simple method of the Hare Kṛṣṇa  yajña . Indeed, this can relieve all of human society. At present there are droughts throughout Europe and America, and people are suffering, but if people take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement seriously, if they stop their sinful activities and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra , all their problems will be solved without difficulty. In other processes of  yajña  there are difficulties because there are no learned scholars who can chant the  mantras  perfectly well, nor is it possible to secure the ingredients to perform the  yajña . Because human society is poverty-stricken and men are devoid of Vedic knowledge and the power to chant the Vedic  mantras , the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra  is the only shelter. People should be intelligent enough to chant it.  Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ . Those whose brains are dull cannot understand this chanting, nor can they take to it.
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यूयं ब्रह्मविदो युक्तास्तपसा दग्धकिल्बिषाः ।
कुतः संकल्पवैषम्यमनृतं विवुधेष्विव ॥१८॥
yūyam brahma-vido yuktās tapasā dagdha-kilbiṣāḥ kutaḥ saṅkālpa-vaiṣamyam anṛtam vibudheṣv iva
yūyam —of all you;  brahma-vidaḥ —completely in awareness of the Absolute Truth;  yuktāḥ —self-controlled and well balanced;  tapasā —by