May 12
Spoken May 12
Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University
Allen Ginsberg: The amazing thing was that everybody was able to shake their own ass and get up and dance after..., a long time, and not knowing what to do. When ancient rhythms were floating through, everybody thought and certainly everybody desired to dance and sing rather than be frozen. But such is the nature of our condition, in this, which is called the Kali-yuga, according to Hindu fairy tale, Hindu mythology, Hindu religion, Hindu belief, Hindu metaphysics, Hindu cosmography, probably co…
Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg: It becomes more and more widespread and is more and more acceptable to people... Prabhupāda: A Bengali woman is here, that Lekha? She can come and you can give. Devotee: Prabhupāda, may I ask you one question? I know that [indistinct] here is an astrologer. I can do astrological charts. Do you consider that Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Kīrtanānanda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:…
Lecture at Boys’ School
[kīrtana] Prabhupāda: ...very beautiful boys. Why did you not join us, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa? Is it very difficult? Will you try to chant? Hare. Say Hare. Audience: Hare. Prabhupāda: All of you chant, Hare. Audience: Hare. Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa. Audience: Hare. [Prabhupāda leads them through whole Prabhupāda:Audience:Prabhupāda:Audience:Prabhupāda:Audience:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:Bali-mardana:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:Boy:Prabhupāda:…
SB 1.8.50
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] " naino rājñaḥ prajā-bhartur dharma-yuddhe vadho dviṣām iti me na tu bodhāyaPrabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Morning Walk
[in car] Prabhupāda: They have not gone to the moon planet. Paramahaṁsa: [laughs] Really? Prabhupāda: Yes. It is far, far away. Their calculation is wrong. They are going to a wrong planet. Paramahaṁsa: It must be the Rahu planet. Prabhupāda: Yes, or something else. Not moon planet. Paramahaṁsa: How many... Prabhupāda: It is above the sun planet.Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Gaṇeśa:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:…
Room Coversation with Psychiatrist and Indian Boy
Amogha: [to guest] I understood that you approach psychiatry, psychology, from the point of Eastern philosophy? Prabhupāda: So, what can I do for you? Psychiatrist: I have no question. Prabhupāda: He has no question? Amogha: No. Prabhupāda: Then, what shall I say? Amogha: [laughs] I don’t know, Śrīla Prabhupāda. He had told me that he has read your Psychiatrist:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Śrutakīrti:Prabhupāda:Psychiatrist:Prabhupāda:Gaṇeśa:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Ś…
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: ...made of grass? Rādhā-vallabha: They make plastic grass. Prabhupāda: Eh? Rādhā-vallabha: They make it out of plastic. Prabhupāda: Even plastic, they can cover big land like this? Rādhā-vallabha: Almost this big. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They cover football fields. They can cover big areas, but it’s artificial. [break] ...flowers also.Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Prabhupāda:Rādhā-vallabha:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣ…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Where did he get this idea, not to trust me? [indistinct] Govinda dāsī: So that’s what I was trying to ask. Prabhupāda: Huh? Govinda dāsī: That’s what I was trying to ask. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Govinda dāsī: That was the reason that I was trying to ask those questions. Prabhupāda: He has become impersonal. He is simply out of the jurisdiction of personal care. The Govinda dāsī:Prabhupāda:Govinda dāsī:Prabhupāda:Govinda dāsī:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Govinda dā…
SB 6.1.11
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.11 Prabhupāda: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto Six, Chapter One, verse number twelve. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Eleven? Prabhupāda: Thirteen? Eh? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Eleven? Prabhupāda: Eleven. No, eleven I have discussed. Yes. You have got eleven there?Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Evening Darśana
Prabhupāda: Come here. Sit down. Hare Kṛṣṇa. [Hindi] Devotee (1): We kindly request all of you to please move in a little more down. Indian man: [Hindi] Prabhupāda: Ācchā. Ah, Vṛndāvana. So we are publishing these books, altogether eighty-four books, to prove that kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam.Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Prabhupād…
Letters May 12
My dear Balabhadra, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated May 6th, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. I can understand that you are working very nicely and sincerely for helping our movement in Hawaii, and this is very encouraging to me. Please continue with this attitude and surely Krishna will provide you from within the intelligence of how you can serve...
My dear Colin Jury, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your nice letter (undated). Practically, our Krishna Consciousness movement is based on transcendental pleasure. Music, dancing and feasts are the chief items for pleasure, and this pleasure is originally on the transcendental realm. They are simply reflected pervertedly in the material world, and every living entity has natural...
My dear Gaurasundara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 6, 1969, and I have noted the contents. I think you should send United Shipping Corporation the price in advance of the sitar, and for the balance they can make their invoice. The balance may be deposited in the Hawaii bank, and ask the United Shipping Corporation to send the documents to the Hawaii bank;...
My dear Bhagavan das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5/8/72, and I have noted the contents. Regarding the zone redistribution, others have also pointed out the discrepancy in middle USA zone, so we have changed that zone to include also all centers north of the Ohio River, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana. If there is still any objection, you can...
Brooklyn My dear Jadurani, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated May 8, 1973. I have noted the contents carefully. I hope that by now you have received my letter of 2/5/73 in answer to your letter of April 25. I have not received any letters from you since then.
Devaprastha Hong Kong My dear Devaprastha, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated May 4, 1974 and have noted the contents. I understand that you are now taking over affairs in Hong Kong. I received the letters from Bhurijana and have referred the matters to GBC, to Madhudvisa Maharaja. I regard Hong Kong as an important center and I agree with your statement...
My dear Lilavati, Please accept my blessings. As for your questions you have asked for clarification in the KRSNA Book when Maha Visnu says to Krsna and Arjuna that you are my incarnations in my appearance as Nara-Narayana. So you are asking how this can be so. The answer is when Krsna comes all the incarnations are within him. Actually this is a very intricate question. So not be so concerned it...
Melbourne My dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I understand that you are preparing for my arrival for your Rathayatra. I am not sure of your Rathayatra date but I think it is at the end of June. However at this time I will be in Europe. I am to arrive in Rome on the 23rd, then on the 30th to Geneva, then June 6 to Paris. On June 15 I go to Koln where Hansadutta has arranged a...
New Delhi My dear Tejyas dasa, Please accept my blessings. Enclosed is one letter addressed to Acarya Prabhakar Misra. Please find. I do not know his address in Delhi, but I am sure that you know it. Please meet him and hand this letter over to him or forward it by post as is convenient for you. Please also keep in constant contact with Laxman S. Agarwal and his genius wife also. Try to encourage...