Spoken June 29
Lecture [Partially Recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...ātmā and Paramātmā the same, but quantitatively ātmā and Paramātmā different. So the Supersoul is present everywhere. Supersoul is present within you, Supersoul is present within me, Supersoul is present in all ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls present here. But Indian man:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:
Arrival Lecture
Prabhupāda: So I am very happy to see you again after eight months, or nine months. Ānandambudhi vardhanam. This movement is not hackneyed. Increasing the ocean of happiness. You have no experience of the ocean increasing. If the ocean increases, then the whole planet will be again overflooded. But this is an ocean of happiness. By chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Some time must be taken, but unlimited time, unlimited expenditure, that’s not good. Ten percent. You produce books. Take ten percent. You may have more than 1,500. You may have more than that. They were to send me one card. There are no letters from them?Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Śyāmasundara:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Śyāmasundara:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhu…
Arrival Interview
Interviewer: My daughter is a member of the Los Angeles temple. Prabhupāda: Oh. [laughs] What is the name of your daughter? Interviewer: I don’t know what her Kṛṣṇa name is. Prabhupāda: [laughs] Oh, very good. So we have got so many girls very nice, reforming their character. Interviewer: [aside:] Ah, can you get a head-on shot there?Photographer:Interviewer:Assistant:Interviewer:Prabhupāda:Interviewer:Prabhupāda:Interviewer:Prabhupāda:Interviewer:Prabhupāda:Interviewer:Prabhupāda:Interviewe…
Bg 7.1 Lecture
Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] " śrī-bhagavān uvāca mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu [Bg. 7.1]" Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse again]Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Lecture at San Diego University
Spokesman: [introduction] We wish to welcome all of you to the University of San Diego tonight, and to this auspicious occasion of having Bhaktivedanta Swami as a guest of the Ecumenical Center for World Religions. The Ecumenical Center for World Religion on the campus of this university was founded for the purpose of meeting people of other religions, and Bhaktivedanta Swami comes to us from India tonight, representing what is known as the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.Prabhupāda:Spokesman:Prabh…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: You cannot say that “I have got a different faith. I do not care for the laws of God.” It it is a law... Just like, for example, here in the state, if you kill somebody, then you have to pay for it with your life. So if that is the law in your state, why a similar law in broader sense is not there in the courts of God, lawĀtreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi…
Bg 9.10 Lecture
Prabhupāda: ...Nobel Prize. He came to California University. So he was lecturing on his theory that life has begun by combination of certain chemicals. He has mentioned those chemicals. But in that meeting, there was a member, he’s my student, my disciple. HeDevotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Bg 7.1 Lecture
Prabhupāda: So here it is said that asaṁśayam. Asaṁśayam means without doubt. Without doubt. And samagram, samagram means in complete. Those who are philosophers, speculating what is God, what is the Absolute Truth, they cannot know. That is stated in the Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Devotee (1):Devotee (2):Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:
Reporters’ Interview
Prabhupāda: ...comfortable, it will never be. Do you understand this? Fish is taken from the water and you put on the land, so you may give the fish very velvet cushion and anything, all nice thing, but will the fish will be comfortable? Reporter (1): No. Prabhupāda: Similarly, if youReporter (1):Reporter (2):Prabhupāda:Reporter (1):Prabhupāda:Reporter (1):Prabhupāda:Reporter (1):Prabhupāda:Reporter (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Reporter (3):Prabhupāda:Reporter (2):Prabhupāda:Reporter (3):…
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: ...in the beautiful tomb. Then how do you go? Either hell or heaven, that doesn’t matter. So how do you go there? Madhudviṣa: They say that the material body and the soul join back together again at the end. Prabhupāda: Eh? Madhudviṣa: They say that the material body and the soul join back together again.Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Madhudviṣa:Prabhupāda:…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: ...dollar, three quarter. Satsvarūpa: Yes. Prabhupāda: And in your country... Satsvarūpa: That would cost around fifteen dollars or something. Prabhupāda: Just see. Still, India, I am surprised. Devotee: It’s good quality as well. Prabhupāda: Formerly we were paying two rupees. Two rupees, and if it is this name, utmost three rupees. Now the things have increased price. Forty years ago that black Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Satsva…
Room Conversation with Bishop Kelly
Bishop Kelly: Are you feeling the cold in Melbourne, Your Grace? Prabhupāda: This heating is there. [laughs] Bishop Kelly: Ah, yes. But when you go outside do you feel...? Prabhupāda: I go outside. Bishop Kelly: Yes, but when you go out, do you feel it? Prabhupāda: I feel... I cover sufficiently, that’s all. Bishop Kelly: Ah, yes. How long are you staying here for?Prabhupāda:Bishop Kelly:Prabhupāda:Bishop Kelly:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Bi…
Morning Walk
[in car] Prabhupāda: ...yes, very nice. When maṅgala-ārati takes place? Brahmānanda: Four-thirty. Devotee: Four-thirty. Prabhupāda: Four-thirty. [japa] [break] Coca-Cola is fifty cent? Brahmānanda: Well, that’s a very big glass of Coca-Cola. Prabhupāda: Ah. In India also, it is huge consumption. " harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Satsvarūpa:Pr…
SB 6.1.16
Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto, First Chapter, text number 16. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " na tathā hy-aghavān rājan pūyeta tapa-ādibhiḥPrabhupāda:Devotees:
SB 1.2.6, Sunday Feast
Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] First Canto, Second Chapter, text number 6. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣajePrabhupāda:
Bhavan’s Journal, Answers to a Questionnaire 1
Prabhupāda: Beginning. From the beginning. You can add something. Hari-śauri: Read out what it is and everything, as well. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: This is a questionnaire which was sent to us by one journal, a cultural and religious journal in Bombay. It’s called Bhavan’s Journal. And they are questioning different religious leaders, especially in India, trying to get the answers to some of these important questions which are perplexing especially the Indian public today. So therePrabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Pr…
Room Conversation
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Now what we’ve been doing with the dead cows is burying them. There’s no..., everything’s wasted. Śrīla Prabhupāda is proposing that why not the butcher take, we give free, he simply returns us the skin of the cow, and with the cowhide we properly tan it, we can make Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Dhṛṣṭadyumna:Prabhupāda:Dhṛṣṭadyumna:Prabhupāda:Dhṛṣṭadyumna:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda…
SB 7.6.15
Pradyumna: Translation: “If a person too attached to the duties of family maintenance is unable to control his senses, the core of his heart is immersed in how to accumulate money. Although he knows that one who takes the wealth of others will be punished by the law of the government, and by the laws of Yamarāja after death, he continues cheating others to acquire money.Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Letters June 29
My dear Rayarama, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated June 26, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. Regarding Nectar of Devotion, the balance tapes will be completed today, and he is going to send you the copies by Tuesday. Regarding
My dear Syamasundara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of June 19, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. Here in Los Angeles I have arrived on the 23rd of June from New Vrindaban. I received your telegram for a loan of
My dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our books and literatures is our major propaganda program....
My dear Hansadutta Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our books and literatures is our major propaganda program....
My dear Harer Nama, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our books and literatures is our major propaganda program....
Jananivasa My dear Jananivasa, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our books and literatures is our major propaganda...
London My dear Ksirodakasayi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 17th May, 1970. I hope everything is going well with your family and the temple, and perhaps you are already in touch with the Rathayatra festival arrangement.
Madhusudana My dear Madhusudana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your letter dated 24th June, 1970, with your check for , for which I think you and your good wife, Kancanbala. This kind of letter is very encouraging to me because there is enclosure of a nice check. So we have to pay immediately some bills of ISKCON Press as well as Dai Nippon, so it will be very much...
ISKCON CENTER: 3764 Watseka Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. 90034 My Dear Ranadhira, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our...
My dear Rupanuga, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our books and literature is our major propaganda program. ...
My dear Sridama, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distribution of our books and literatures is our major propaganda program. ...
Hansadutta Heidelberg, West Germany My dear Hansadutta, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 21 June and I have carefully studied the contents, including photos of posters from the festival in Heidelberg.
Los Angeles My dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 6/19/73 and I have carefully studied the contents. As far as the ,000.00 due from Syamasundara, he has come to me in Mayapur and he has promised to pay in July.

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