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The process is there, but if we waste time by intoxication
we will never see Him, the unconquerable Lord. Follow the
principles and slowly but surely, without doubt, you will know.
“Yes, I’m making progress,” you’ll say. And it is very easy, and
you can execute it and be in a happy mood. Study, take part
with music, eat prasadam. And no one can cheat you by this
process. But if you want to be cheated—go to the cheaters.

Try to understand it from the authoritative source and apply
it in your life. Amongst the dying mortals, you will become the

most intelligent because you are freed from sinful actions. If
you act only for Krsna, then you are freed from all reactions.
You will have no anxiety over what is auspicious or inauspi-
cious because you will be in touch with the most auspicious.
This is the process. Ultimately, we can get in touch with Krsna.
Life will be successful. Anyone can adopt it, because it is very
simple.

Here is a nice formula presented by Krsna Himself: one
should understand the position of Krsna. He is unborn and
without any cause. We have experience, all of us, that we are
born, and we have a cause; our father is our cause. If someone
poses himself as God, he has to prove that he is unborn and
uncaused. Our practical experience is that we are born. Krsna
is not born. We have to understand this. Understanding this is
to be firmly convinced He is the cause, but is not caused; and
since He is not caused He is the proprietor of all manifestation.
One who understands this simple philosophy is not illusioned.

We are generally illusioned. We are claiming ownership of the
land. But before my birth the land was here, and after my
death it will still be here. How long will I go on claiming, in
body after body, “This is my land! This is my land!’’? Is it not
nonsense? One has to be out of illusion. We should know that
whatever we are doing in the material concept of life is illusion.
We have to understand whether we are illusioned or not.
And all conditioned souls are illusioned. He who learns to be
