Spoken July 5
Ratha-yātrā Lecture
Prabhupāda: My dear boys and girls, those who have come here, I welcome you on behalf of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared five hundred years ago, and He introduced this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This Ratha-yātrā is one of the item of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Jagannātha, just try to understand Jagannātha.
Initiation Lecture [partially recorded]
Lecture [partially recorded]
Prabhupāda: ...He was traveling in South India. He saw one brāhmaṇa reading Bhagavad-gītā. And persons who knew him, that “That man was illiterate,” it was not possible for him to read Bhagavad-gītā... But still, he was trying to read it, and crying also. So while others were criticizing, Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to him,
SB 1.8.19
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.19 Prabhupāda: [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] " māyā-javanikācchannam ajñādhokṣajam avyayam na lakṣyase mūḍha-dṛśā naṭo nāṭyadharo yathā []" [01:20] Hmm. So, Kṛṣṇa is covered by a curtain, Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda…
Morning Walk
[in car] Prabhupāda: ...encouraging the professors. Brahmānanda: In Eastern Europe. Jayatīrtha: He’s a graduate of Princeton University, a very big, big university. Brahmānanda: I think he was the president of his class. Jayatīrtha: Maybe. Prabhupāda: He is president? Brahmānanda: Of his class. Jayatīrtha: He was the president of his class at Princeton.Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Brahmānanda:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhup…
Room Conversation with Mr. & Mrs. Wax
[Mr. and Mrs. Wax are the parents of Puṇḍarīka dāsa] Śrī Govinda: They would like to interview you and tape record possibly for using in one of their magazines. Prabhupāda: Hmm. [break] Jayatīrtha, you can come here. If required, you will reply. What is that? Jayatīrtha: This is the article that Mrs. Wax has written, and it was published in Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Mrs. Wax:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Mrs. Wax:Jay…
Room Conversation with Lt. Mozee, Policeman
Śrī Govinda: Lieutenant Mozee. Prabhupāda: Hmm. Yes. [indistinct] Śrī Govinda: He’s with the Chicago police department, and he’s in charge of developing their relationship with the media. And I was thinking there could be nice discussion with him concerning your ideas stopping crime.Prabhupāda:Jayatīrtha:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupāda:Lt. Mozee:Prabhupād…
Cc. Madhya 20.100
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting, etc.] " āpanāra hitāhita kichui nā jāna! grāmya-vyavahāre paṇḍita tāi satya māniPrabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Vipina:Mr. Deyani:Prabhupāda:Mr. Deyani:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Woman devotee:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:…
Morning Walk
[in car] Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, as young children we used to have to put our hand over our heart and say a pledge to the flag, in America. And if one didn’t say it, they were thrown out of school. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They changed that law now. It’s not required. It used to be.Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Hari-śauri:Vipina:Prabhupāda:Vipina:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Rūpānuga:Prabhupāda:Hari-śauri:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Yadubara:Prabhupāda:Bṛṣ…
Conversation with Dr. Shaligram Shukla [Part 1]
Prabhupāda: Everyone is engaged in the business of sense gratification. Just like last night millions of men went to see the firework. So the firework, as well as the people went to see there, the expenditure was very heavy, I think, total? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: You mentioned that with all of the cars going and what not, it probably amounted to ten million dollars.Prabhupāda:Rūpānuga:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:PrabhupādaSB 4.8.4Cc. Ādi 1.90Mr. Loomis:Prabh…
Conversation with Dr. Shaligram Shukla [Part 2]
Dr. Shaligram Shukla: There are certain hymns in Vedas which are so personal and [indistinct]. And I don’t find anything in Vedas impersonal. As a matter of fact... Prabhupāda: No, no, impersonal there is. Impersonal means negation of this material thing. Neti neti, “Not this.Devotee (1):Dr. Shaligram Shukla:Prabhupāda:Dr. Shaligram Shukla:Prabhupāda:Dr. Shaligram Shukla:Prabhupāda:Dr. Shaligram Shukla:Prabhupāda:Dr. Shaligram Shukla:Prabhupāda:Dr. Shaligram Shukla:Prabhupāda:Dr. Shaligram Shuk…
Room Conversation
[Prabhupāda is being massaged] Prabhupāda: First try to point out as many as you can. And our view is they are wholesale mistaken. They are imperfect, speculating. Svarūpa Dāmodara: There’s one strange point here calculating this that dawn of Brahmā two billion years old. Now strangely, these geological calculations, they also claim that at that time the first free oxygen in the air appeared, for first time. The beginning there was no free oxygen.Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhup…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: One, the origin of life, and the other, planetary system. There is no knowledge. They are simply speculating. Rākṣana: It is correct that the illumination of the moon is caused by the movements of the vegetation on the surface? Prabhupāda: Hmm? Rākṣana: The illumination? Prabhupāda:Rākṣana:Prabhupāda:Devotee (1):Prabhupāda:Vipina:Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Devotee (3):Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Rūpānuga:Hari-śauri:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Hari-…
Discussion about Bhū-maṇḍala
Prabhupāda: So what is the difficulty? Bhakti-prema: First we are interested to know... Prabhupāda: [aside:] Take from the middle. [break] It is something new? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. This is the first drawing we did. This is Jambūdvīpa. This is Bhārata.... Bhakti-prema: This is Bhārata-varṣa, Bhūrloka. Now, this is Himalayan mountain going from east to west. This is India.Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Yaśodā-nandana:Prabhupāda:Yaśodā-nandana:Pr…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: “Probably,” “perhaps.” Why Darwin’s theory is full of this “perhaps,” “probably,” “millions of years”? What is this nonsense? Is that knowledge? A mortal man is suggesting “millions of years” and “perhaps,Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Upendra:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāl…
Letters July 5
The Secretary The Board of Trustees of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial National Fund, New Delhi. Dear Sir, With reference to the invitation issued by your Board, for suggestions for the administration of the Fund, I beg to inform that Gandhiji’s memorial can fittingly be perpetuated by a continued effort to keep in motion his spiritual movements. I beg to suggest most humbly to your board that Gandhiji,...
My dear Giriraja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 2, 1969, sent along with your beads. I have chanted on them and your initiated name is Giriraja. Giriraja is the name of the Govardhana Hill on which Krishna used to tend His cows. In Vrindaban the Govardhana Hill is worshiped as a representation of Krishna. Sometimes devotees take stone from Govardhana...
My dear Kirtanananda, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter of July 3, 1969, sent along with the cheese. But the cheese has gone bad. Perhaps you did not note it what I said that this cheese should be made into sandesh; that is 1/4 part of cheese should be mixed with sugar and fried in a pan, constantly stirring till it is almost hard. Then after taking it down, knead it...
My dear Sacisuta, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated June 23, 1969, and I have carefully gone over the contents. I am so pleased to learn that you are feeling very nicely in Buffalo temple and you are working hard and sincerely to push on this sublime movement of Krishna Consciousness. Regarding your question marriage, the thing is that as I am a sannyasi, I am...
My dear Upendra, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 1, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. I am glad to inform you that I will be arriving in San Francisco around the 25th or 26th of July, and I will see you there during the Rathayatra Festival. Regarding your questions,
Gainesville My dear Anangamanjari Devi Dasi (Elaine), Please accept my blessings. I have just recently received one letter from your good husband Hrdayananda Prabhu and he has recommended you highly for initiation. So I have gladly consented to accept you as my duly initiated disciple and have given you the spiritual name Anangamanjari Devi Dasi. Anangamanjari was one of the gopis and younger sister...
Gainesville My dear Hrdayananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your letter dated 2nd July, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. You will be glad to know that I have consented to initiate your good wife, Elaine, as well as [name redacted], and have given them spiritual names Anangamanjari Devi and Radhaballaba Das, respectively; their beads and letters are enclosed...
Gainesville My dear Radhaballaba Das ([name redacted]), Please accept my blessings. At the request of Sriman Hrdayananda Prabhu, I have gladly consented to accept you as my duly initiated disciple. Your beads are chanted and they are enclosed herewith. I have given you the spiritual name Radhaballaba Das Brahmacari. Radhaballaba means Krishna, who pleases Radharani. Only Krishna can please Srimati...
Bhagavata Calcutta My dear Bhagavata das: Please accept my blessings. Tripauri Swami is starting his bus preaching program, and you are required for this purpose. You are a good preacher. I very much like these bus programs. They are greatly increasing the scope of our book distribution and many new men are being attracted. So you should immediately come here to USA. You may hand over the management...
Svarupa Damodara Atlanta My dear Svarupa Damodara das: Please accept my blessings. I have read Dr. Wolf’s letter addressed to you dated July 1, 1975. I think he has given you good, sane advice. I think you should not think of relinquish your job without meeting me and discussing the matter deeply. Don
Internal Revenue Service United States of America Dear Sir: This is to certify that Miss Elizabeth Luise Reuther contributed the amount of U.S. ,000 (fifty-thousand) to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust which is a registered charity whose head office is in Bombay. This contribution was made in March, 1975, and these funds are being used for religious-charitable work.
New Orleans My dear Nityananda dasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 1, 1976, and I have noted the contents carefully. On your recommendation I am accepting Jvarajit das Brahmacari for second initiation. Hold a fire sacrifice and after the fire sacrifice a tape recording of the gayatri mantra should be played into his right ear. Enclosed is one brahmana...
Ramakrishnaji Bombay My dear Sriman Ramakrishnaji, Please accept my greetings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 1, 1976, and I have noted the contents with care. I shall be returning to Bombay on or August 14, 1976, after which time I shall be able to attend the Coordinating Committee meeting when the date is fixed up. After visiting our Washington, D.C. centre I shall be going on...
Ranadhira Los Angeles My dear Ranadhira dasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 17, 1976, and I have noted the contents with care. This is to certify that you should send the Back-to-Godhead magazine regularly to Sridhara Swami in Navadvipa as already requested. I am glad to see that you are now conscientiously executing your duty. Always check with me first...