Practicing Yoga in the Age of Quarrel 155
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha
| ‘In this age of Kali there is no other religion than glorifying the Lord by
utterance of His holy name, and that is the injunction of all the revealed
scriptures. There is no other way, there is no other way, there is no other
way.”? This verse appears in the Brhan-ndradiya Purana. Harer nama
harer nama harer namaiva kevalam. Simply chant Hare Krsna. There is no
other alternative. Kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha. In this
age, Kali, there is no other alternative for self-realization. So we have to
accept it.
There is another similar verse in the Srimad-Bhdgavatam. In the
Twelfth Canto, Third Chapter, Pariksit Maharaja was informed by
Sukadeva Goswami of the faults of this age, and now all the symptoms of
the age of Kali are apparent. In the conclusive portion, however,
Sukadeva Goswami said, kaler dosa-nidhe rajann asti hy eko mahan gunah:
‘‘My dear king, this age, Kali, is full of faulty things, but there is one
good opportunity.” What is that? Kirtandd eva krsnasya mukta-sangah
; param vrajet: ‘‘Simply by chanting this Hare Krsna mantra one can
become liberated and go back to Godhead.”’
This is practical and authorized, and one can also test himself to see
| how he is advancing simply by chanting. This Krsna consciousness
[ movement is not something new, something that we have introduced or .
| manufactured. It is authorized on the Vedic principles, authorized by
acaryas like Caitanya Mahaprabhu and others. And the method is very
simple; there is no loss. We are not charging anything, we are not asking
for fees and giving the people some secret mantra and promising them
that within six months they will become God. No. This is open for every-
one—children, women, girls, boys, old people—everyone can chant and
see the results.
To further this end we not only are establishing New Vrndavana, our
farm project in West Virginia, but are establishing other spiritual com-
munities, such as New Navadvipa and New Jagannatha Puri. We have
already started New Jagannatha Puri in San Francisco, and the Ratha-
yatra festival is going on. This year there will be a great ceremony of
Ratha-yatra in London also. There will be three cars, for Jagannatha,
Subhadra, and Balarama, and they will be taken to the River Thames.
And America has imported New England and New York, so why not
New Vrndavana? We should especially establish this New Vrndavana be-
cause Lord Caitanya recommended, drddhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas
