Spoken March 27
Morning Walk at Stow Lake
Prabhupāda: Chant. Devotee [1] [girl] [sings]: Śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. Prabhupāda: Yes. You learn this song. " śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda" Chant this when dancing. " śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda[I offer my obeisances to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Prabhu Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa and all others in the line of devotion.]Syamasundara:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Devotee [2] [boy]:Prabhu…
Lecture [partially recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...ignorance, this is ignorance. Therefore jñāna and vairāgya is stressed here. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.... Śrī Kṛṣṇa, our original father, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pita [Bg. 14.4], He is not very happy to see that we are struggling very hard within this material world for sense gratification. Only our objective is sense gratification. Therefore He comes out of compassion:
Morning Walk
Dr. Patel: ...first thing they did was the tower. Prabhupāda: Why they could not make otherwise? Why like a bird? Indian man (1): God only knows. Dr. Patel: Kṛṣṇa knows. Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa knows. He has imitated Kṛṣṇa’s plan. Kṛṣṇa has made so many birds. So you cannot make any other size. That is the version of the 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:P…
Roof Conversation
Prabhupāda: So in the beginning, before the creation, God is existing; and after the creation, when the creation is annihilated, He will be existing. This is called transcendental position. Pañcadraviḍa: Purport: The position of the Lord is always transcendental, because the causal and effectual energies required for the creationPrabhupāda:Bhava-bhūti:Prabhupāda:Bhava-bhūti:Prabhupāda:Bhava-bhūti:Prabhupāda:Bhava-bhūti:Prabhupāda:Bhava-bhūti:Prabhupāda:Bhava-bhūti:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupā…
Cc. Ādi 1.3
Conversation with the GBC
Ātreya Ṛṣi: ...has done, and what everyone likes to do. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. Prabhupāda: That’s all right. Ātreya Ṛṣi: And then we will decide. Jayatīrtha: That’s nice. That’s nice. So I can go on and read these...? Prabhupāda: Yes. Jayatīrtha: I hope this isn’t, er... Anyway, this is discussing the responsibilities of the GBC men in their zones. So wePrabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tam…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] So if you combine together and go to any scientist, you challenge and prove scientifically. And still he sees it mistake. You do not know what is life’s position, but we shall. Life is different. Yayedaṁ dhāryate jagatSvarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Gargamuni:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Gir…
Room Conversation
Hari-śauri: Once this scientific basis is established, then everybody will be finished. Prabhupāda: It is very easy. There is a superior element---life. On account of that superior element, the inferior element has got meaning. Otherwise it has no meaning. Hari-śauri: No one serves a dead body. Push it in the ground and let it rot.Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Pra…
Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda (Member of Parliament)
Girirāja: I told him that you had agreed to wait to meet him. He said, “This is wonderful. I have been pining for his darśana.” Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This guy? Girirāja: He said, “Now we must have rāma-rājya.” He said, “That is why I must meet your Guru Mahārāja before I go back to Delhi tomorrow.Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Girirāja:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Girirāja:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Girirāja:Prabhupāda:Mr. Rajda:G…
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: If these men will give a little bit of aural reception, then they can get their misgivings, misunderstandings, cleared away by speaking with you. But they will have to be ready to hear submissively, and they have to be intelligent. Before I ever came to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, I would have always understood that religion meant sectarian. That is a common idea. Someone sees a Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:…
Letters March 27
Brahmananda My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. As there are so many engagements in L.A. and in S.F. now I fix up my program as follows: The meeting in City College instead of on the 8th, Tuesday, push it to the 10th, Thursday, and up to the 15th or 16th of April you can make other engagements if possible. On the 18th Rupanuga wants me there in Buffalo. He wants to stay me there until...
Jayagovinda My dear Jaya Govinda, Please accept my blessings. I thank you for your letter of March 17, 1969, and I have received the bank receipt for the money deposited there. I have received one letter from Atma Ram and Sons that they have already dispatched the books to Calcutta and handed over the R.R. receipt to you. but you have not mentioned anything this. I hope you have the matter handled...
Bank of Baroda Delhi Dear Sir: Re: My S.B. Account No. 1452 with you. I shall thank you to close my above Savings Bank Account with you and transfer the entire balance with interest to your Reclamation Branch for the credit of my Savings Bank Account No. 4966 with them. The relative passbook is enclosed herewith.
Jagadisa Toronto My dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated February 15, 1972 and March 11, 1972 and I have noted the contents. I am so glad to hear how you are expanding the book distribution program so rapidly. The more this literature is read and distributed, the more the world will be filled with auspicity. Please continue this program with...
My dear Koumadaki, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter, undated, and I have noted the contents. Thank you very much for the nice poems you have written. They are very well done, and you can submit them to Iskcon Press for publication in Back to Godhead. I am glad to hear that you and your husband are happy in your work for Iskcon Press. The distribution of our literatures...
Mukunda Dear Mukunda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 21 March and I have examined the contents. That the standard of Krsna Consciousness deteriorated while you were away two weeks, and three brahmacaris have left Bhaktivedanta Manor is not good. But neither do I think your proposals are very good for organizing a strong center by stopping Revatinandana...
Adelaide, Australia My dear Citta Hari das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 18 March, 1976 with enclosed daksina and I thank you very much. Now the new devotees must all be trained very nicely how to render devotional service by chanting 16 offenseless ds daily, and following the 4 regulative principles. Kindly set a nice example yourself for everyone and in...