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Srila Prabhupada, San Francisco, March 16, 1967: […] Krishna comes before the devotee as spiritual master just like sun enters your room by the sunshine. Although the sun does not enter your room or your city or your country—he is so many millions and millions of miles away—still, he can enter everywhere by his potency, the sunshine.
Similarly, Krishna enters everywhere by His different potencies. And to receive this light from Krishna, one has to hear. Hearing is so important. Therefore Govinda dasa says, sravana. Sravana means hearing. And one who has heard nicely, his next stage will be kirtanam. Just like our boys who have heard a little nicely, now they are very eager to chant, going from street to street.
This is natural sequence. It is not that you hear, but you remain stopped. No. The next stage will be kirtanam. Either by chanting vibration or by writing or by speaking or by preaching, the kirtana will be there. So sravanam kirtanam, first hearing and then chanting. And hearing and chanting about whom? About Visnu, not for any nonsense. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh [SB 7.5.23].
These things are stated in the sastra. The ordinary people, they are also engaged in hearing and chanting. They are hearing in the newspaper of some politician, and the whole day they are discussing and chanting, “Oh, this man is going to be elected. This man is going to be elected.”
So hearing and chanting is there everywhere. But if you want spiritual salvation, then you have to hear and chant about Visnu, nobody else. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh. So the poet sings, Sravana, kirtana, smarana, vandana, pada-sevana, dasya re. So there are different processes: hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping in the temple, engaging oneself in the service.
So he is desiring all nine kinds of devotional service. Ultimately, pujana sakhi-jana. Sakhi-jana means those who are confidential devotees of the Lord, to please them. And atma-nivedana. Atma means self, and nivedana means surrender. Govinda-dasa-abhilasa. The poet’s name is Govinda dasa, and he expresses that his desires are only this. He wants to utilize the opportunity of his human form of life in this way. This is the sum and substance of this song. (end)
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