Prabhupada, Los Angeles, February 15, 1969: […] Now, suppose you have to find out a sacred place. In this age, how many people is prepared to find out a sacred place? For his livelihood he has to live in a congested city.
Where is the question of sacred place? So if you don’t find a sacred place, then how you can practice yoga? That is the first prescription. Therefore this bhakti-yoga system, the sacred place is this temple. You live here, it is nirguna, it is transcendental. The Vedic injunction is that the city is the place of passion.
And the forest is the place of goodness. And the temple is transcendental. If you live in a city or a town, that is a passionate place. And if you don’t want to live in a passionate place, you go to a forest. That is place of goodness. But a temple, a God’s temple, is above this passion and goodness.
Therefore temple is the only secluded place for this age. You cannot go in a secluded place in a forest. It is impossible. And if you make a show of yoga practice in a so-called class and indulge in all kinds of nonsense things, that is not yoga practice. Here is the prescription how to practice yoga. Go on.
Devotee: “Therefore, in the Brhan-Naradiya Purana it is said that in the Kali-yuga, the present yuga or age, when people in general are short-living, slow in spiritual realization, and always disturbed by various anxieties, the best means of spiritual realization is to chant the holy name of the Lord. In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is to chant the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way to success.”
Prabhupada: Yes. That is the prescription in the Brhan-Naradiya Purana.
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