Krsna Consciousness—

| The Yoga for the Modern Age

“It is not that this movement is simply a sentimental movement. Don’t think
that these boys are dancing out of some religious sentiment or fanaticism. No.
We have the highest philosophical and theosophical background. . . . But it is

all simplified. That is the beauty of this movement. Whether one is a great
scholar or a child, he can take part without any difficulty.”
ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-mahddavagni-nirvapanam
Sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhi-jivanam
dnandambudhi-vardhanam pratipadam ptrndmrtasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate Sri-krsna-sankirtanam
All glories to the sankirtana movement. Param vijayate Sri-krsna-
| sankirtanam. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He was only a sixteen-
: year-old boy, introduced this sankirtana movement five hundred years .
ago in Navadvipa, India. It was not that He manufactured some religious
| system, just as nowadays so many religious systems are being manufac-
tured. Actually religion cannot be manufactured. Dharmam tu saksad
bhagavat-pranitam. Religion means the codes of God, the laws of God,
that’s all. Certainly we cannot live without obeying the state laws, and
similarly we cannot live without obeying the laws of God. And in the
Bhagavad-gita [4.7] the Lord says that whenever there are discrepancies
| in the prosecution of religious activities (yada yada hi dharmasya glanir
bhavati bhdrata) and there is a predominance of irreligious activities
| (abhyutthanam adharmasya), at that time I (Krsna) appear (tadatmadnam
srjamy aham). And in the material world we can see the same principle
| demonstrated, for whenever there is disobedience of state laws, there is
: the advent of some particular state officer or policeman to ‘‘set things
right.”
: Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is worshiped by the Goswamis. There were
| six Goswamis: Ripa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami, Raghunatha Bhatta
Goswami, Jiva Goswami, Gopala Bhatta Goswami, and Sri Raghunatha

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