Spoken October 6
Meeting at University
Co-ordinator of event: Languages and literatures Professor van Buitenen. On the left Professor Jhani, Professor Staal, Professor Goldman. Mrs. Staal, Mrs Jhani, Paṇḍita Derbhatta. Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Paṇḍita? Co-ordinator of event: [laughs] Paṇḍita Derbhatta who is with our department this year and the Professor Judah from the Theosophical Union is also with us. We have asked the Svāmī to be with us this evening to discuss some of the social aspects of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa …
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] then why you are so much proud of seeing? Therefore Vedānta-sūtra says, śāstra-cakṣuṣā we have to see through perfect book of knowledge. Not this eyes... So our proposition is that Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead the knowledge He has given us is perfect and if we follow this perfect knowledge then everything will be perfect. That is our position.Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest (2):Prab…
Tour
Prabhupāda: Well. Devotee: [indistinct] [sounds like a big empty room] Prabhupāda: I have heard the chanting. Karāndhara: They have, instead of chain they have made this a rail. Prabhupāda: Very nice. So this is our own home. Karāndhara: Yes it is owned. Prabhupāda: How you can change it? Covered with so much dust. Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Karāndhara:Prabhupāda:Karāndhara:Prabhupāda:Karāndhara:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prab…
Morning Walk
[in car] Prabhupāda: English, economics, philosophy or..., mostly Scottish... I was educated in Scottish Churches College. The philosophy professor, Dr. W. S. Urquhart, he was very friendly to me, very kind, just like father. [break] ...he became vice-chancellor. He was a very learned man, and very nice man, W. S. Urquhart.Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Prabhup…
SB 1.7.47-48
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.47–48 Pradyumna: ...vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate [break] vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [chants verse] " mā rodīd asya jananī gautamī pati-devatā yathāhaṁ mṛta-vatsārtā rodimy aśru-mukhī muhuḥPrabhupāda:Devotees:Pradyumna:Hari-śauri:Pradyumna:Hari-śauri:Pradyumna:
Room Conversation & arrivals from New Vrindavan
Prabhupāda: ...for printing? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Prabhupāda: In Australia there is good field. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Prabhupāda: So why you are not printing more books and send there? Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: We’ll print more. Now we are printing more books for them. We are printing as many books as they order. So as they increase their order, we increase our print.Hari-śauri:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Hari-śauri:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Hari-śauri:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Gopāla Kṛṣṇ…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Of course, if I die, there is nothing to be ruined. You are all participants. So organize this farm project, simple living. Human life is meant for God realization. Try to help them. This is my... Paramānanda: We’re always feeling your presence very strongly, Śrīla Prabhupāda, simply by your teachings and your instructions. WePrabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Prabhupād…
Letters October 6
My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter of 29th September 1967 and have noted the contents very carefully. The letter which you have enclosed therein to facilitate my permanent Visa appears to be nice but if an invitation or provisional appointment as lecturer is possible, I think that will be still nicer.
Alan Ginsberg Mr. Alan Ginsberg R.D. 2 Cherry Valley New York My dear Ginsberg, Please accept my blessings. HARE KRISHNA! Mukunda has sent me a copy of the letter you have sent him on Sept. 23, 1968, and I thank you very much for your so much sympathy for this Krishna Consciousness movement. And Krishna will certainly bestow His Mercy upon you, and I pray that you will live long for chanting HARE...
My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Oct. 1, 1968, and some of the important points that you have tried to discuss, I am replying as follows: The first thing is that in the meeting of Dr. Spock, you should eat there. But you simply eat vegetarian dishes, like fruits, nuts, boiled potato, biscuit, milk, etc., and remembering Krishna. As you will...
My dear Dinesh, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Oct. 3, 1968, and have noted the contents. I am preparing for going away from this place for somewhere else by the end of the next week. So you can come and see me at once on receipt of this letter and we shall talk in detail. Bring the following things also along with your film tapes, namely:
My dear Purusottama, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Oct. 2, 1968, as well as your telegram dated Oct. 3, 1968, reading as follows: Have obtained UN office. monthly. Letter follows. Isokrishna Purusottama. In the meantime it is understood that everything is complete, and it is all Krishna
My dear Uddhava, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 3, 1968, and I am so pleased to learn that you are now going to be photographic expert also for our press. It is all Krishna’s arrangement. Please learn the art very nicely. So far financial assistance for starting our press, I am sure Krishna will help us. Don
My dear Gaurasundara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 1 October, 1969, and I am so glad to hear from you. You write that you have sent me some letters recently and also the examination papers, but I have received no such letters or papers. I have asked Tamala Krishna to keep the test papers that were sent to him in Los Angeles there with him to save postage,...
Krsna dasa Hamburg My dear Krsna das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your two letters dated August 31st, 1970, and September 28th, 1970. I am very encouraged to hear of your Sankirtana Party activities and your program of visiting different cities weekly is very nice. Krsna is giving you very good intelligence. In the future you may maintain a permanent Sankirtana Party...
Bombay My dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I do not know where you are now, probably you are in Bombay. So, I am sending one copy to Bombay and one to Vrndavana. The Bombay dealing has been muddled by the tactis of Mr. Nair and Diwanji. Giriraja is in trouble. He is a child in these worldly dealings so immediately go to help him. The present position is that Mr. Nair wants more money....
Los Angeles My dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 26th, 1973, and I have noted the contents carefully. Yes, you can go on with your book distribution as you were doing before, there is not any harm. I thought that our men were becoming like hippies, but now I understand from you that that is not the case. So I have no objection....
London My dear Mukunda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 30th September, 1973, and I have noted the contents. Regarding printing BTG locally in England rather than taking from Los Angeles, you are right, you should not print it in London for the time being. Syamasundara is always utopian. This idea of his is not possible.
East Brighton, Australia My dear Bhurijana Das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 15, 1974 from Singapore and have noted the contents. So wherever you find a suitable place you can go, always keeping sure to follow the regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds. Whatever service you can render that is welcome. Do not deviate from the principles.
Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Madhavananda Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 2, 1974 with enclosed pictures. Regarding Hansadutta, you cannot criticize him. Hansadutta is liquidating the debts. You were there but you could not liquidate, but Hansadutta has come and he is liquidating. Canakya Pandit says that a happy man is he who lives at home...
My dear Revatinandana Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Sept. 19, 1975 and I have noted the contents carefully. It is best that you travel with Visnujana Maharaja and Tamala Krsna Goswami. Our mission is a continued effort and we need not give up the association of devotees simply because there is a difference of opinion how to preach our philosophy. If...