Spoken January 15
Cc. Madhya 22.27-31
Prabhupāda: This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Eleventh Canto. It is very nicely compared with the body of the Supreme Lord and our situation in that partic..., body, in different positions. Now, this verse says that the highly intellectual class of men, they are situated on the mouth of the Supreme Lord. The intellectual persons are considered the mouth of the Supreme Lord. And the next, the administrators, or the protector class of men
SB 6.1.19
Prabhupāda: " sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor niveśitaṁ tad-guṇa-rāgī yair iha na te yamaṁ pāśa-bhṛtaś ca tad-bhatān svapne ‘pi paśyanti hi cīrṇa-niṣkṛtāḥ []" We have been discussing sinful activities and their reaction for the last three weeks. So here, Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that there are many different processes for counteracting our sinful activities, but he summarizes that
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatām 6.2.9-10
Haṁsadūta: Sixteen heads arrived at the Kumbha-melā, January 5, 1971. Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived on the morning of January 13, 1971, and the following lectures were recorded beginning January 15, 1971, at the Kumbha-melā, crossing of Kali and Yamunā roads, just across from the Hanumān Mandira, a temple which is said to be at least one million years old. Prabhupāda said it was standing since the time of Lord Rāmacandra. [break]Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Gue…
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: ...one poster. Satsvarūpa: ...select [break] ...real leaders don’t spoil life. Bali-mardana: Yeah, I saw the plan. It’s nice. Prabhupāda: Huh? Bali-mardana: I saw the plans for it; it’s very nice. [break] Prabhupāda: Also clear water like this. Bali-mardana: Oh. Prabhupāda: Juhu beach is better than this. Bali-mardana: Yeah, this is rocky. [break]Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-ma…
SB 1.16.19
Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] " dharma uvāca kaccid bhadre ‘nāmayam ātmanas te vicchāyāsi mlāyateṣan mukhena ālakṣaye bhavatīm antar-ādhiṁ dūre bandhuṁ śocasi kañcanāmba []" Prabhupāda: Yes. Go on. Pradyumna: Synonyms? Prabhupāda: Hmm. Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Devotee:Prabhupāda:
SB 3.26.40
Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " dyotanaṁ pacanaṁ pānam adanaṁ hima-mardanam tejaso vṛttayas tv etāḥ śoṣaṇaṁ kṣut tṛḍ eva ca []" [break] [01:27] “Fire is appreciated by its light and by its capacity to cook, to digest, to destroy cold, to evaporate, and to give rise to hunger, thirst, eating and drinking.Prabhupāda:
Morning Walk
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...real ones agree. Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think this is their hospital here. Prabhupāda: This is? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: One of them, yes. I think they have... This is... [break] Prabhupāda: These trees are brought from somewhere else. Harikeśa: Transplanted. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, they weren’t here last time. Prabhupāda: No. [break] Just see how they are doing.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Madhudviṣa:…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: So, of course, those days also not costly, 1945. I was paying only 200 rupees. Now you cannot get one room. So because it was famous, that ghost-hauntly house, nobody was taking it. So I took it. [laughs] I don’t care for ghost. Actually there was ghost. And all the servants, they said, Bhavānanda:
Speech [partially recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...So the greatest pleasure in this [indistinct] is that Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s aspiration that the Europeans, Americans and Indians all together dance jubilantly and chanting “Gaura Hari.” So this temple, Māyāpur Chandrodaya temple, is meant for transcendental United Nation. What the United Nation has failed, that will be achieved here by the process recommended by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
Morning Lecture at Kumbha-melā
Prabhupāda: So people do not understand that there is life after death. But Bhagavān says, “Yes, there is life after death.” Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ [Bg. 2.13]. So dehāntara-prāpti, two kinds of dehāntara-prāpti: either towards the hell or towards heaven; towards liberation and towards bondage. So liberation means
Conversation in car
Prabhupāda: ...in Western countries, fifty years. Twenty years in Durban and thirty years in England. Gurudāsa: Twenty years in...? Prabhupāda: In Durban. South Africa. Fighting with General Smuts to give Indians equal rights. They are very conservative. At heart they want “Indians may go away.Rāmeśvara:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Rāmeśvara:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Rāmeśvara:Gu…
Letters January 15
My dear Hayagriva, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated January 10, 1968; it is very nice. I do not find any basical difference of philosophy. From the very beginning I have always preached that basically we have no difference between the Christians, the Mohammedans, the Hindus, or the Buddhists, the four principal religionists in the world. But there is a class, Impersonalists,...
My dear Dhindro and Vanalata Mullick, Please accept my blessings. I hope by this time you have safely reached your home and everything is going well. When you were here I requested you to connect with me some of your tenants at Natoon Bazar selling brass utensils. I want many pairs of Navadvipa-made karatalas, so please introduce to me some of your very reliable tenants, and I shall send you the money...
Jadurani My dear Jadurani, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 6, 1969, and I have noted with pleasure that you are almost done with the first five Krishna pictures which I have suggested to you. I think that you may immediately send these pictures to me in Los Angeles. So far as photographing these pictures for the book, I think that it is essential...
My dear Kanupriya das Brahmacari, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 9, 1969, and I am pleased to send herewith your beads duly chanted upon by me. Your spiritual name is Kanupriya das Brahmacari. Kanu means Krishna, and priya means dear, so Kanupriya means one who is very dear to Krishna.
My dear Krishna Das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated January 8, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. The statue which you have received is not Visnu Murti. Visnu Murti is never to be found in fighting spirit with anyone. When the Lord incarnates within this material world, He does not come in Visnu Murti. Lord Nrsimhadeva although Visnu Himself, fighting...
My dear Rupanuga, Please accept my blessings. I was very much anxious to receive your letter since I did not hear from you for a long period. But I always know that you are doing your duty nicely. Recently, Hayagriva came from Columbus, and he remained with me for more than a fortnight. He was assisting me in editing
My dear Sripada Sraman Maharaja, Please accept my humble dandabats. I thank you very much for your kind letter dated December 31, 1968, I am so much grieved to learn the news of our revered god-brother, Swami Bhakti Sadhak Niskincana Maharaja, and I am so glad to learn that he passed away in full sense chanting
Boston My dear Bhavananda, Aravinda, Pradyumna and Patita Uddharana, Please accept my blessings. I am so much thankful to you all for sending me the first blue print copy of “Isopanisad”. It is so nicely done that I am fully satisfied although there are certain discrepancies which I hope will be revised in our next issue. On the whole it is very nice considering the attempt being all first adventure...
Madhudvisa My dear Madhudvisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5 January, 1970 and I am glad to learn that your process of approaching the Supreme is in order. Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s philosophy is that we will neither try to become equal with the Lord nor we should attempt to approach Him directly. That will make us successful.
Madame Sangupta Detroit Madame Sangupta, Please accept my greetings. I am in due receipt of your Bengali letter dated 29-12-74 and have noted the contents. The grievances of family life are always the same everywhere. There is nothing new in your case. I am very glad you have taken shelter there at our Detroit temple. You can remain there without any hesitation and learn how to become a devotee....
Sridhara Maharaja Navadvipa My dear Sripada Sridhara Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. I beg to inform you that I have arranged for the opening of the temple in Vrndavana on Sri Ram Navami day by the 20th of April 1975. Perhaps you know it that the ceremony was to take place on last Janmastami, but as the temple was not finished at that time, it could not be. Therefore,...