“Platform of working on pure Consciousness”

Prabhupada, New York, April 5, 1966: You’ll be glad to hear that once begun, this process of spiritual realization, one is guaranteed to have next life as human being. You’ll find in the Bhagavad-gita that sucinam srimatam gehe yoga-bhrasto ’bhijayate. You’ll find in course of this discussion with Arjuna and Krishna when Krishna will describe about the yoga system, how to act it. This is also yoga system, yoga-sthah kuru karmani. This is karma-yoga. This is karma-yoga.

So any yoga, either karma-yoga or dhyana-yoga or jnana-yoga, any system of yoga, once begun in this life, that will continue. That will continue. Yoga-sthah kuru karmani. The Bhagavata says, Srimad- Bhagavata says, tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam harer bhajann apakvo ’tha patet tato yadi yatra kva vabhadram abhud amusya kim ko vartha aptah, aptah abhajatam sva-dharmatah [Bhag. 1.5.17]. This is speech by Narada to his disciple, Srila Vyasadeva, that “You should try, people, to connect them in spiritual life, in conducting spiritual life. It doesn’t matter even if he fails to complete the course; still, he’s not loser. Read More