Spoken February 4
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: I remember those days immediately when I see the sea. Haṁsadūta: You were getting seasick? Prabhupāda: No, I liked it. Although I was sick, still, I liked it. Day and night, for thirty-five days. Haṁsadūta: I came to America in the same way, but I was always sick. I didn’t like it.Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpa:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpa:Prabhupāda:Gurukṛpa:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Gurukṛpa:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Gurukṛpa:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhup…
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: ...Then, in the morning, it rises reddish. So why it does not look reddish always if it is fixed? Huh? Harikeśa: Well, the material scientists say it’s because of the atmospheric condition. It refracts the light in such a way that it becomes reddish. ThatPrabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhavānanda:Prabhupāda:…
Arrival Lecture
Prabhupāda: " śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā- śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau yuktasya bhaktaṁś ca niyuñjato ‘pi vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam" So who has decorated? Abhirāma: Pūrṇaprajña dāsa. Purnaprajñā: My wife and I [indistinct]. Prabhupāda: Very good. So this is the injunction of the Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: So to approach a puffed-up man, falsely puffed-up man... Just like sometimes father begs from the son, “Oh, my dear child, oh, you are very... Give me this hundred rupees’ note. You’ll spoil it.” But the child does not know that father is not beggar. The child thinks, Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda…
Letters February 4
The Registrar of Joint Stock Companies Uttar Pradesh---Lucknow. All Glory to Sri Guru and Gauranga. Dear Sir, With reference to my interview with your honour on the 3rd instant, regarding registration of the Memorandum of Association and Rules and Regulations of the League of Devotees (alias Sarbabhouma Bhagavata Samaj), I beg to inform you that I have deposited the fee RS 50/- (Rupees Fifty only)...
My dear Sripada Tirtha Maharaja, Kindly accept my humble dandabats, I am in due receipt of your kind letter of the 1st instant and I am glad to note that you will get the Exchange sanction on receipt of the letter of the donor. The donor is a big business magnet of India and as required by you I am enclosing here with the letter of Sri Padampat Singhania of the J.K. Organizations, Kamla Tower, Kanpur...
Hansadutta New York My dear Hansadutta, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated January 1, 1968; and I am so proud to have such spiritual sons and daughters like you, who are so humble in their dealings but who are so high in their spiritual understanding. Lord Caitanya instructed us to be more humble than the grass on the street, and more tolerant than the trees,...
Labangalatika New York My dear Labangalatika dasi, Please accept my blessings. I have received your nice letter of January 28, and I thank you very much for it. The proper spelling of your spiritual name is LABANGALATIKA. The meaning of Labangalatika is delicate, sometimes Radharani is addressed as Labangalatika.
My dear Aniruddha, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated January 29, 1969, and I am pleased to learn that everything is going nicely with full cooperation of all of your godbrothers. Our center of activities is Krishna, and if we are actually Krishna Conscious there will always be full cooperation between ourselves for the satisfaction of Krishna.
Berkeley My dear Hansadutta, Please accept my blessings. I hope you have safely reached your place. I have received letters from London that they are organizing World Sankirtana Party very seriously; therefore, it would be better if you go first to London and see how things are going on, then you may go to Germany if it is needed. They have asked me to send Visnujan, but I think if Visnujan goes...
London My dear Murari, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letters dated 1st and 6th January, 1971, and I thank you for the copies of Krsna Book payments made to Dai Nippon. I have been doing extensive touring recently and my mailing is not always received or dispatched timely, so this late reply. I think by now your good wife is with you in London once more. I am confident that...
Atreya Rsi My dear Atreya Rsi, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your very nice letter of January 10, 1972, and I am very much pleased by the sentiments expressed therein. It is not so much that because there may be some faults in our godbrothers and godsisters, or because there may be some mismanagement or lack of cooperation, that this is due to being impersonalists, no. It is...
Houston [To Hrdayananda] “So as President, now you will be forced to advance in Krishna Consciousness because you must always set the highest example yourself, and I think that this is Krishna’s special favoring you. Try to always see the highest purity is maintained in all respects, become yourself very convinced of this Krishna philosophy, be always preaching and trying to understand some basic...
My dear Madhucara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 1/25/72, and so far we have record, we have not received your letter of 1 1/2 months back containing check; so you may cancel that check and issue another if you wish. As we are always moving , it is not unusual for the mail to become diverted, sometimes for months.
My dear Sankarsana, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 22, 1972, and I am very much encouraged that you want to remain in Austin city because the people there are in desperate need of Krishna Consciousness. Actually, that is the mood of the devotee, that he is always concerned for the general mass of people, that they should stop their sinful activities and become...
My dear Sri Galim, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 17, 1972, and I am pleased that, despite some difficulties, you are progressing steadily in pushing this Krishna Consciousness Movement in the Austin city. Actually, all such hardships should be understood as Krishna
My dear Sudama, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 21, 1972, and I am especially glad that Karandhara is there and that you are working conjointly to print many books. that is my greatest pleasure, to see books being printed and distributed profusely. Without books, how can our preaching go on? I will be very glad if you can print
My dear Vaikunthanatha and Patita Pavana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of December 27, 1971, and I am very much pleased that your all programs are going on nicely. If you are living in an old Hindu Temple, that is very nice. Yes, actually this Hindu religion is a dead religion. In India, too, and in Africa, we have been offered many empty Hindu temples to...
Dr. Channa Reddy Governor of Uttar Pradesh Raj Bhavan, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh INDIA 51 Coelho Way, Honolulu, Hawaii Personal. My dear Dr. Channa Reddy, Please accept the blessings of Lord Krishna. The copy of your letter dated Jan. 23rd, 1975 is forwarded to me by my secretaries in Bombay and I thank you very much for your kind letter. I left Bombay on Jan. 26th, 1975 and on my way to U.S.A....
Bombay My dear Giriraja das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of the two copies of the Governors’ letters but nothing from you. I do not know how far you have advanced in the matter of constructing of the building as sanctioned by the municipality. I hope everything is going on nicely there and please send weekly reports as I am anxious to know.
Aditya Bombay My dear Aditya, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 28th January, 1976. The spirit soul is equal in either a man or woman. One who is actually engaged in the service of Krishna, there is no such distinction as man or woman. In the Bhagavad-gita, 6th Chapter, 1st Verse it is stated(Bg. 6.1)
Sravanananda, Bhavabhuti Madras My dear Sravanananda and Bhava Bhuti, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated January 30th, 1976. In Madras we have to construct a very gorgeous temple. In Nellore the owners of the land are putting so many impossible conditions that we cannot construct. So that foundation stone can be brought to Madras and used for the Madras temple....
Sri Kashinath Mullick President, Srimat Udharan Dutta Thakur Samity 39 Jatindra Mohan Avenue, Calcutta 5 3 Albert Road, Calcutta, 17 Dear Kashinath Babu; With reference to your letter dated 25 January 1977 and your personal interview, I beg to submit that without Krsna Consciousness the disturbances of the world will increase. The disturbances by some ruffians in the vicinity of Udharan Dutta...
Mark Anson 30 Inglebar Ave. Allambie Heights, N.S.W. Australia 2100 3 Albert Road Calcutta 17 Dear Mark Anson, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter undated and have heard the contents. Your attraction to Krsna Consciousness is a very rare achievement for a human being, and you are right to think yourself fortunate to associate with the devotees, and to follow the instructions...
His Holiness Tusta Krsna Swami PO Box 82, Mairangi Bay, Auckland New Zealand 3 Albert Road Calcutta 17 Dear Tusta Krsna Maharaj, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter of January 19, and have heard the contents. Certainly we are opposed to abortion, and we can advise that it is not good, but do not take an active part in this political agitation against abortion. We are not...