Spoken April 25
Bg Lecture [partially recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...because we are now encumbered with this material body, and as soon as we become free from this material conception of life, that is called mukti. That is called brahma-bhūta. Brahma-bhūta [SB 4.30.20]. Generally, Dr. Mishra is teaching this, that you, what you think of you, what I am, I am not this body. That is the whole process of his teaching. So we have already discussed. The same point is being described nicely in
Lecture
Prabhupāda: When I was in Buffalo, my last lecture was at Buffalo University college. So I began a series of lecture for the young boys and girls. This series of lecture is not manufactured by me. Our process is not manufacturing. The Vedic process is not personal opinion. Our process is simply to carry the transcendental message to the people. Our system is so nice that we haven
Prabhupāda Listening to Recording of His Own
[Following is a transcription of the recording being played back as Prabhupāda listens.] Prabhupāda: So if you have got any question, you can ask. Student (1): My question, that one child [inaudible]...Kṛṣṇa conscious... [Break] ...I don’t know... Prabhupāda: I told you that I do not expect that everyone will be Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is not possible. But if there is one moon in the sky, that is sufficient to eradicate the darkness. You donStudent (2):Prabhupāda:Student (2):Prabhupāda:Student …
SB 2.9.1-8
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.1–8 Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verses] " śrī-śuka uvāca ātma-māyām ṛte rājan parasyānubhavātmanaḥ na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ svapna-draṣṭur ivāñjasā [SB 2.9.1]" " bahu-rūpa ivābhātiPrabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Bhūrijana:Prabhupāda:Bhūrijana:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Sudāmā:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupā…
Morning Walk
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So they’ll say, that, some scientists, that that science deals with the matter, or the physical matter, and so they try to... Prabhupāda: No, physical matter, wherefrom the physical matter comes? Unless you come to that point, you are not a scientist. Wherefrom the matter comes?Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupā…
SB 1.8.33
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.33 Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya rādhā-mādhava] [04:31] [prema-dhvāṇī prayers] [break] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat]Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Lecture [Hindi]
Pradyumna: [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] " kāmasya nendriya prītir lābho jīveta yāvatā jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā nārtho yaś ceha karmabhiḥ [SB 1.2.10]" [01:28] Translation: “Life’s desires should never be aimed at gratifying the senses. One should desire to live only because human life enables one to inquire the Absolute Truth. This should be the goal of all works.Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:
Morning Talk
Prabhupāda: ...said that “This is our mission. Now whether you’ll cooperate?” We cannot make any compromise. [break] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He’s going to have to hold regular kīrtanas and ārati. Prabhupāda: You have to teach them. But so far these young boys who were there, they were very much impressed.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣ…
Conversation: Bogus Gurus
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...been seeing this one person there by the name of Bhagavan Shringari Das, Bhagavan Shringari. He’s the pūjārī of Lord Jagannātha. So he’s claiming that when anyone goes to a holy place like Jagannātha Purī that they have to get initiated by a Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:P…
Letters April 25
My dear Advaita, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated April 23, 1969, and I think your deliberation is right. I am advising Brahmananda to submit the manuscripts to Messrs. Dai Nippon under suitable arrangement, and whatever you can all get together for contributing to this purpose may immediately be handed over to Brahmananda for deposit in my book fund account. Your...
My dear Balabhadra, Please accept my blessings. Both Gaursundara and Govinda dasi have highly spoken your service attitude, and I am so glad to hear your activities. Krsna has sent you to our association, and I am sure you are intelligent enough to understand our philosophy. Please try to understand us without any doubt. If there is any question, you can send it to me, and I shall be very glad to...
My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. Advaita and his press contemporaries have agreed to pay me 10,000 per year for the printing of my books. So you can print at least two books, 5,000 copies each by that money. I hope you have by now settled something with Dai Nippon, and if they have agreed, you can hand over the Second Canto,
My dear Dinesh, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 22, 1969, and I have carefully noted the contents. I have already acknowledged receipt of your nicely taped kirtana recording. I think that the mrdanga sound should be a little more increase, and the tampura sound should be decreased. When the chorus is chanting in response to the leader, the mrdanga is not...
Govinda, Gaurasundara My dear Govinda Dasi and Gaurasundara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letters dated April 17, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. I am very much anxious that Govinda Dasi has fallen sick. Similarly, I am also from yesterday feeling little uncomfortable on account of backache. I think the constant change of climate in Buffalo has affected my...
Lilavati My dear Lilavati, Please accept my blessings to yourself as well as to your good husband and nice daughter, Subhadra. I beg to thank you for your letter dated April 18, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. Regarding your question the relationship between the living entities and Krishna, the answer is that qualitatively we are one with Krishna: There is no qualitative difference,...
My dear Vibhavati, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated April 23, 1969 sent along with the Panca-tattva painting, and I am so glad to learn that you are also a good painter. Your first attempt has been almost successful, so I request you to continue to practice so that excellent paintings may be drawn by you. We require so many pictures for our temples which are already...
My dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 20th April, 1970, along with a Canadian money order for , and thank you very much for this. I am very glad to know that your Maha-sankirtana. with coordination of Buffalo are so successful. Please continue this program as you have suggested and surely Krishna will see that your more vigorous efforts to...
Sudama Tokyo My dear Sudama, Please accept my blessings. Regarding Tosho Printing Company, what has happened?---it is very urgent. I have not as yet received any reply whether these people are agreeable. I want to settle up this thing, so let me know definitely their decision taken from them in writing. If our regular printing is done there, whether you will be able to supervise it? Either yourself...
Toronto My dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 16th April, 1971 and have noted the contents. I have seen the copy of the newsletter drawn up to send to influential people, etc. there in Canada and it is very nice. So you can send such newsletters to all our life members in India also. I have already instructed Bhagavan das in this connection...
My dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your two letters both dated 22nd April, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. Also I have received your telegram acknowledging receipt of the second check for Rs. 9700/-. So far as the power of attorney requested by you, that I have already sent and you should have received it by now.
Balavanta Atlanta My dear Balavanta, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your invitation dated April 8, 1972, inviting me to come there for Lord Caitanya’s Festival, and I thank you very much for it. Unfortunately, I got the invitation quite late, in New Zealand, and by then our program had been fixed to go to Japan. So we shall be here until 6th May, then we are going...
My dear Giriraja and Cyavana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 16, 1972, along with sketches and plans, etc. Thank you very much. The report is quite encouraging to me, and I think that the way you are proceding is nice. But one thing is, I have included one photograph of our proposed skyscraper to be built up in Los Angeles at ISKCON World Headquarters,...
Vrindaban My dear Gurudasa and Yamuna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of Gurudasa’s letters dated 8th April, 1972, and nil, respectively, and Yamuna’s letter dated 9th April, 1972, and I have noted the contents with great pleasure. I am much very happy to hear that hut and fence are finished. You may submit the bill to Gargamuni with my approval that he can pay it. I...
My dear Madhavananda Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 3, 1972, and I have noted the contents with pleasure. I am very much engladdened to hear that you are arranging nice engagements in Calcutta, especially in the schools. This is a very important program, so do it nicely. So far the report of other things, it is all very good news. Especially you...
Mayapur My dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 20th April, 1972, and I have noted the contents with great pleasure. It appears that things are going very nicely there in all respects, and I am very much relieved. I did not hear from you in Sydney, as you have mentioned, but anyway I was also writing to you and Acyutananda that my godbrother...
My dear Caitanya Dasi, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 23, 1973, and I have noted the contents. I am very much disturbed to hear of Kanupriya’s activities, and I advise you that so long he is engaged in these nonsense activities, you should not have any association with him. Best thing is that you remain in the association of devotees, and take part in...
My dear Dinatarini, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 29, 1973 and I have noted the contents. I have received also the photograph of Radha-Kalachandji and they are looking transcendentally beautiful. Always keep to this high standard of Deity worship, never become neglectful. Everything must be done very timely, and the temple must be immaculately cleansed...
My dear Mahajan and Sharanagata, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your note along with the .00 daksina, and I thank you very much. Now you have taken this initiation, and it is a very serious matter. You must always keep very strongly to the principles of Krishna consciousness; rising early, taking bath, attending mongol aratrik, chanting at least 16 rounds on the beads daily, reading...
Swiss Credit Bank P.O. Box 60900 Los Angeles, Cal. 90060 Att: Mr. Leo C. Helfenberger Dear Mr. Helfenberger: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 23, 1973 and have noted the contents. In your Zurich head office the manager told me there would no charges for depositing checks. So there is no difficulty to send you Cashier
My dear Sri Govinda Das Adhikari: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 24, 1973 with enclosures. Your report has given me unbounded pleasure and I very much appreciate your activities. Your university program has given me much satisfaction, so you try to continue it. Yes, they must appreciate my Bhagavatam because it is nothing business but is a matter...
Dear Tejyas, Please accept my blessings. Just as I was leaving for Tirupati from Hyderabad I received your telegram reading as follows: “Require checks Rupees Twenty-one thousand seven hundred in favor Punjab National Bank for Steel and rupees Fifteen thousand to PNB Delhi for transfer to Vrindaban.