Spoken February 22
Lecture to Railway Workers
[audio speeds up] Prabhupāda: Ladies and gentlemen I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This is the religion of the religions, there are hundreds and thousands of religious principles all over the world but this is the basic principle of religion. Religion means to understand God that is the short description of religion. Because from the
SB 7.9.43
Prabhupāda: " ...mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ śoce tato vimukha-cetasa indriyārtha- māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān []" Here is a verse spoken by Prahlāda Mahārāja. Prahlāda Mahārāja you know, a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa. From the very beginning of his life he was a great devotee. From the womb of his mother, he was a great devotee. It is possible. When his mother was pregnant, the demigodsDevotees:
Bg 7.7 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 7.7 Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁPrabhupādaSB 4.8.4Cc. Ādi 1.90Pradyumna:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Morning Walk
Nitāi: [testing tape] " Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare" " Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare HareIndian man (1):Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Indian man (1):Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr. Patel:Prabhupāda:Dr…
Initiation Lecture
[translated throughout by Hṛdayānanda] Prabhupāda: Ladies and gentlemen, devotees, and boys and girls. So it is great opportunity to see the beginning of initiation of how to begin the understanding of God. This is called initiation. This evening we were discussing with some learned psychiatrist to solve the problems of the world. So we have tried to convince them that the problems of the world are due to ignorance of our spiritual life. So this body
Room Conversation with Psychiatrists
[translated thoughout by Hṛdayānanda] Hṛdayānanda: ...cannot tell them they were God. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Hṛdayānanda: I was explaining to him that a real spiritual master cannot lie to them and tell them they were God. Prabhupāda: Yes. Spiritual master is the servant of God. He is not God, although he is respected like God. Psychiatrist:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Psychiatrist:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Psychiatrist:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Psychiatrist:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛday…
Morning Walk [partially recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...by prakṛti, how intelligently. Acyutānanda: Even if they can make chemical colors, it’s not as nice as the flowers. Prabhupāda: That... Apart from that, everything... Sarva-kāma-dugdha-mahī. From the earth, everything is there. This green color is there, this red color is there, the pink color is there, this white color is there
SB 7.9.15
Letters February 22
My dear Mrs. Cline, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your kind letter dated February 18, 1969, and I am so glad to go through it. Certainly you are blessed by Krishna, otherwise you could not write such nice things although your connection with our movement is very recent. When you write to say
My dear Bali Mardan, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your very encouraging letter dated 18 February, 1970, and I have noted the contents carefully. It is also very much pleasing that you have liked the company of Upendra, and both of you combined together will surely carry successfully our Australian Yatra.
Washington, D.C. My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15 February, 1970, along with a check .00 for my maintenance account. Thank you very much for it. I am very pleased to learn how things are going on very well in Washington center and that you are nicely celebrating the various Advent days of our great Acaryas. But I am especially glad...
Boston My dear Pradyumna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 18 February, 1970, along with one sheet enclosure, and I am very much pleased with your work. The minor mistake which you committed on the first verse of Isopanisad I marked, but I ignore it as very insignificant. I am very glad to know that you are so much repentant even for this insignificant...
Rukmini Boston My dear Rukmini, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your gift of Lugloo Mahaprasadam and the enclosed kind note from you, and I thank you very much for these. I have immediately tasted these lugloos, and I can understand also how you are happily advancing in the service of Lord Krsna, they are prepared so nicely.
c/o ISKCON “New Vrindaban” RD. 3, MOUNDSVILLE, West Virginia, U.S.A. Tridandi Goswami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Box 387, Fort, Bombay-1 INDIA (Attached to letter to Kirtananananda Maharaja, Febuary 22nd, 1971) My dear Devakinandana, Please accept my blessings. Thank you for your letter of March 1, 1972, and I am especially happy to see the pictures of such nice cows, so I shall pay the...
Dear Dr. Baltwant Singh, Please accept my greetings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter No. 2/2/3 dated 22nd January, 1971. I thank you very much for your kind invitation to our organization for visiting your place. Since a very long time I was thinking of going to your place but there was no opportunity to do so. Now as our movement is spreading all over the world and I am working at...
My dear Niranjana, Please accept my blessings. I am glad to receive your letter dated 15th Feb. 71. I am so glad that you are performing devotional service seriously by chanting 16 rounds daily. Do not be agitated with the criticism of your friends because Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that one should be humbler that a blade of grass and should be more tolerant than a tree for chanting Hare Krishna Mantra....
Chief Controller of Foreign Exchange Reserve Bank of India New Delhi Dear Sir: I beg to inform you that on account of the Krishna Consciousness Movement started by me in the Western countries I have got many thousands of disciples. These disciples want to pay me something as a matter of etiquette and I want to utilize this money for printing different kinds of books on this Krishna Consciousness...
Houston My dear Visnujana Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your encouraging letter dated 1st February, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. The pamphlet enclosed by you is very nice and I am translating it into Hindi. You have very diligently collected all the purports in Srimad-Bhagavatam and have presented very nicely our missionary activities, especially in reference...
Brooklyn My dear Rupanuga, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 9, 1972, along with two copies of the MacMillan Co. contract. As per your instructions, I have initialled same, wherever your own initials have appeared. I noticed that on the carbon-copy contract you neglected to initial the last clause (b) of Section XX Special Provisions, although...