| 132 THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION

In the present age, however, if you want success in practical yoga, take
to the chanting of Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/

| Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and feel for yourself
| how you are making progress. One should know for himself how much
he is progressing in yoga practice.

In the Bhagavad-gita this practice of Krsna consciousness is.described
as rdja-vidya, the king of all erudition; rdja-guhyam, the most confidential

: system of spiritual realization; pavitram, the purest of all that is pure;
susukham, very happily performed; and avyayam, inexhaustible.

Those who have taken to this most sublime bhakti-yoga system, this
practice of devotional service in transcendental love of Krsna, can testify
to how they are nicely enjoying its happy and easy execution. Yoga
means controlling the senses, and bhakti-yoga means purifying the
senses. When the senses are purified, they are also, automatically, con-

trolled. You cannot stop the activities of the senses by artificial means,

. but if you purify the senses not only are they kept back from rubbish
engagement, but also they become positively engaged in transcendental
service to the Lord.

Krsna consciousness is not manufactured by us through mental
speculation. It is prescribed in the Bhagavad-gita, which says that when
we think in Krsna, chant in Krsna, live in Krsna, eat in Krsna, talk in
| Krsna, hope in Krsna, and sustain in Krsna, we return to Krsna without
any doubt. And this is the substance of Krsna consciousness.
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