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mediately remember the child: ‘‘Oh, these are my child’s shoes. These
are my child’s playthings. This is his garment.’ This is the nature of love.
So if one actually loves God, Krsna, one can remember Him always.

It is not difficult to remember Krsna. Here Kuntidevi describes Krsna
with reference to lotus flowers. Similarly, when Krsna describes Himself
in Bhagavad-gita, He says, raso ‘ham apsu kaunteya: ‘‘I am the taste of liq-
uids.’” So one can remember Krsna by tasting water. Even if one is
drinking liquor, if he thinks, ‘‘The taste of this drink is Krsna,”’ he will
one day turn out to be a great saintly person. So I can request even
drunkards to become Krsna conscious, what to speak of others, because
Krsna says, raso ‘ham apsu kaunteya: ‘‘I am the taste of liquids.”
Generally in this context ‘“‘liquid’’ is taken to mean water. But liquor is
also liquid; it is only sugar and molasses or some other combination fer-
mented and distilled. Of course, it is bad because it creates intoxication.
Although in one sense nothing is bad, liquor is bad because it creates bad
effects. In America there are many drunkards. There is no scarcity of
them. But I may request even the drunkards, ‘‘When drinking wine,
kindly remember that the taste of this drink is Krsna. Just begin in this
way, and one day you will become a saintly, Krsna conscious person.”’

So Krsna is available under any circumstances, if we want to catch
Him. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (10.10):

tesam satata-yuktanam
bhajatam priti-purvakam

dadami buddhi-yogam tam
yena mam upayanti te

‘To those who are constantly devoted and who worship Me with love, I
give the understanding by which they can come to Me.”’ If one is actually
very serious in searching for Krsna, Krsna is everywhere. Andantara-
stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham govindam ddi-purusam tam aham bhajami
(Brahma-samhita 5.35). Krsna is present within the universe, within our
hearts, and even within the atom. So it is not difficult to find Him, but
one must know the process by which to do so. This process is very sim-
ple, and by the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu we are distributing this
process to everyone, without charge. The process is to chant Hare Krsna.
As soon as one chants Hare Krsna, one will immediately understand
Krsna.

Similarly, simply by hearing or chanting the verses of Srimad-
Bhdgavatam, one can be purified. Whatever knowledge exists in the
