Spoken February 28
Talk with Bob Cohen
[loud loudspeaker with Giriraja giving lecture in background] Prabhupāda: You are feeling warm? Bob: Just tight. Prabhupāda: Too tight. Bob: I was cold before. [break] Thank you so much for allowing me to ask my questions. Prabhupāda: No, that is my mission, that people should understand the science of God. Because I am convinced that itBob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:Prabhupāda:Bob:P…
Lecture
Prabhupāda: " ...na tvaṁ neme janādipāḥ na caiva na bhaviśyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param [Bg. 2.12]" This verse partially I explained last night, this is very important subject matter. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead... Bhagavad-gītā is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore the knowledge is perfect.
Morning Walk
[poor audio] Amogha: Yes. Easy Journey, Topmost Yoga, Back to Godhead. Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa trilogy, you have got? Amogha: I have volume 1 and volume 3, but my volume 2, they are all finished. But I’ve ordered them from Karāndhara. [pause] [break] [on walk] Prabhupāda: He doesnAmogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Amogha:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee …
Room Conversation
[poor audio---microphone too far away] Prabhupāda: You learn this local language [indistinct] and try to take classes in [indistinct]. Amogha: What did you take? Guest: Hindi. Prabhupāda: He has written that poetry. Guest: Yes, yes. Amogha: Yes. He’s very nice. Actually he wants to become initiated, but he canPrabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Pra…
Room Conversation
[poor audio] Japanese Guest: ...[indistinct] born in Tokyo. Prabhupāda: We have got our branch in Tokyo. Japanese Guest: [Japanese] Prabhupāda: So you are trying to understand our philosophy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Japanese Guest: Philosophy of, yes, yes... Hong Kong branch. [Japanese] ...not in Japanese language. Now you have some Japanese language also?Prabhupāda:Amogha:Japanese Guest:Prabhupāda:Japanese Guest:Prabhupāda:Japanese Guest:Prabhupāda:Japanese Guest:Prabhupāda:Japanese Guest:Pra…
Arrival Address
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] So I am very glad to see you, and I am coming first of all Mexico City? Hmm? Śrutakīrti: Yes. Prabhupāda: So Mexico City, then Caracas, then... Śrutakīrti: Miami. Prabhupāda: Miami. So I see your temple is the best. Devotees: Jaya! Haribol! Prabhupāda: So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is very kind. Parama karuṇa, pahū dui jana.Devotees:
Purport to Parama Koruṇa
Room Conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara
Prabhupāda: ...Is it not fact? If sexual intercourse is the beginning of life, then why it is not always successful? We say that when the life, living entity, is there in the semina and it is put into the woman’s womb, then body develops. Therefore, the beginning is the life. This is practical. And this life is the part and parcel of the supreme life. Therefore the beginning is God. Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Sv…
Morning Walk [partially recorded]
[low level audio] Prabhupāda: So anyone who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he’s māyayāpahṛta-jñāna [Bg. 7.15]. He’s a [indistinct]. He’s madman. Actually everyone is mad. That is the medical report. [pause] Prabhupāda: Do they give some present? No. Kīrtirāja: Not some present, but evenPrabhupāda:Kīrtirāja:Prabhupāda:Kīrtirāja:Prabhupāda:Dayānanda:Prabhupāda:Dayānanda:Kīrtirāja:Prabhupāda:Kīrtirāja:Prabhupāda:Kīrtirāja:Dayānanda:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Kīrtirāja:Prabhupāda:Kīrtirāja:Prabhupād…
Room Conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara
Prabhupāda: ... make there the varṇāśrama established, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra---division, scientific division of the society. Ideal state. Just like the legislative assembly, they should be composed of men with complete brahminical culture. And the ministers, president, they should be Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Pra…
Conversation with Italian Woman with Translator
Prabhupāda: ...otherwise we are all part and parcel of God. [translated into Italian throughout for woman guest] When we realize this, then our life is perfect. Italian woman: [Italian---translated into English by translator throughout] Translator: She’s saying that after rediscovering of last past lifePrabhupāda:Translator:Prabhupāda:Translator:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Translator:Prabhupāda:Translator:Prabhupāda:Translator:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Translator:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa…
Room Conversation
Hari-śauri: [chuckling] I was thinking there’s a verse in one of the Vedas that describes a woman’s heart is like a razor. [break] The chief guest was here. Prabhupāda: Yes? Hari-śauri: Yes. Prabhupāda: Who was he? Hari-śauri: He was the man that offered you his obeisances when you just got out the car, just before we entered thePrabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa…
SB 7.9.8
Pradyumna: Translation: “Prahlāda Mahārāja prayed: How is it possible for me, who have been born in a family of asuras, to offer suitable prayers to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Even until now, all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, and all the saintly persons could not satisfy the Lord by streams of excellent words, although such persons are very qualified, being in the mode of goodness. Then what is to be said of me? I am not at all qualified.Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Letters February 28
Hon. Sardar Dr. Vallavbhaiji Patel Deputy Prime Minister, Government of India, New Delhi. Revered Sir, May your honour accept my humble namaskara. Your honour is well known as the iron man of India but I know that you the most practical man who can take things as they are. With this idea in view I venture to approach your honour for submitting the following few lines for your consideration and...
My dear Rayarama, Please accept my blessings and offer the same to all your Godbrothers for your doing the respective duties nicely. I am in due receipt of the copy of Back to Godhead dated 15th February 1967 and I am glad that it is nicely done. The only defect is that picture which is wrongly put there without asking me. There was no need of interpretations and why you have interpreted the picture...
Mukunda, Janaki San Francisco Dear Mukunda and Janaki, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letters of Feb. 24 and 25, 1968, and I have noted the contents. Yes, if you can find out some distributing agent for our Back to Godhead, that is very good. Please do it. I have received both dictaphone machines, and the new one is working nicely. The foreign one I have yet to test at...
My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 26, 1969, and I have carefully noted the contents. Regarding the distribution of Teachings of Lord Caitanya, the principle will be that 60% will go to the book fund, and the rest will go to you as the distributer. So you may offer to the temples whatever is suitable. But you will be the sole...
Agent Bank of Baroda 86 Chandni Chowk Branch Mohan Mansion Delhi-6, India Dear Sir: Re: My savings bank account No. 1452 With reference to your letter No. FEX.22/-277, I beg to inform you that your Calcutta office denies to have received any amount from your transfer of Rs. 6,000 as per your debit note dated 22.1.70. Their letter Number is SB/34/1109, dated 18 February, 1970.
My dear Hit Sharanji, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. DJT/, dated 21 February, 1970. In the meantime, I have sent you one reminder dated 24 February, 1970, in this connection. So as advised previously, I may again repeat the same that if Scindia Steam Navigation Co. has not as yet replied my letter or your letter, then the Murtis should be dispatched without...
Satsvarupa Boston My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I am just now in receipt of five tapes collected from Detroit. So I think all the tapes that were sent to Detroit and Boston are now within your jurisdiction. In the meantime, I also sent you L.A. Tapes #12, 13, and 16, and today I am sending #17. This means all the tapes recorded in L.A. are now in your custody. So instead of sending...
...show you all these things and try to follow as far as possible. Acyutananda. His address is as follows: 35 Satish Mukherjee Road, Calcutta-26, WB, India. We are not arranging to print the Krsna Book in our own press. It will contain 48 color pictures. Sudama has written me from Japan that they have got very good opportunity in Tokyo for spreading the Sankirtana Movement, so they are moving from...
to the international unabridged, the same principle is there. Similarly in mathematics beginning from 1,2,3, adding and subtracting, etc. up to higher mathematics, just like calculus, the 1,2,3, adding and subtracting is still there. But basic math taught to children and higher math to the college man. In this way by Krishna Consciousness we can solve all the dogmatic confusions and speculations. This...
Aksayananda Vrindaban My dear Aksayananda Swami, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 23rd February, 1976. If we get chance, we must open a center in Kanpur. It is a very important city in India. I heard that there was someone who was willing to give us a house. Kanpur is the third most important city in India next to Calcutta and Bombay. We must open a...
Sahitra Ratra Azamgarh, U.P., India My dear Srinath Das Khanna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15th January, 1976. It is too bad that you are suffering too much. However this may be taken as the mercy of the Lord. If the Lord gives us some inconvenience then we may take it that He has reduced our actual punishment and just given us a token punishment....
Sri Mayapur Chandradoya Mandir Guest House, and Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir Guest House (Vrindaban) Sri Mayapur Chandradoya Mandir P.O. Sreedham Mayapur, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal. Please give Sri Brahma Gopal Dutta and his family free accommodation in a private room in our guest house whenever he comes as well as Prasadam. If he wishes to stay beyond three (3) days, he will pay the normal guest...