So, svayaṁ bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa, kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28]. We have many times explained the word bhagavān. Bhagavān means six opulences: riches and…, aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya, potency; vīryasya yaśasaḥ, fame, reputation; aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ, beauty; jñāna, knowledge; and vairāgya, detachment. When one is full with all these six opulences, He’s God. So people try to get the opulences. Everyone is trying by karma, jñāna, yoga. But nobody can attain the opulences in full strength. That is not possible. So the simple definition of God is that one who is in full six opulences, He’s God. That has been analyzed by great saintly persons, including Lord Brahmā, and it has been decided that the all the six opulences can be found in Kṛṣṇa.

Kṛṣṇa… This is to be understood, that everyone thinking that He is born in the Yadu family, He is born of Vasudeva, or He is the son of Mother Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāja. This is Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes. When the impersonalist says, or there are many philosophers, that “God has no name,” actually that is a fact. God has no name. But He has name according to His activities. Just like when He acts as the chariot driver of Arjuna, His name is Pārtha-sārathi. When He plays as the child of Mother Yaśodā, He is called Yaśodā-nandana. When people say that He is born of Nanda Mahārāja, He is called Nanda-nandana. When people say that He came to protect Vasudeva and Devakī, He is called Vāsudeva, or Devakī-nandana. Or when He is in the Yadu dynasty, He’s said as Yādava. In this way, Kṛṣṇa has unlimited pastimes and unlimited names. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam. Ananta. Ananta means unlimited. He has got unlimited because so many devotees, not one devotees, and He has to satisfy everyone—as Nanda-kumāra, as Yaśodā-nandana, as Vāsudeva, as Yādava, as Pārtha-sārathi. So in this way, when one becomes bewildered that how many names He has got, so one should understand He has unlimited names or no name, but because He has to act unlimitedly, therefore He has got unlimited names.

There are eight million four hundred thousand forms of living entities. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi. In the water there are nine hundred thousand forms of living entity. Then, jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati [Padma Purāṇa]. Sthāvarāḥ means the living entities who cannot move, just like the trees, plants, grass, vegetables. They are standing in one place. They are also called “having no leg.” Ahastāni sahastānām apadāni catuṣ-padām. This is nature’s law, that the living entities which have no hands, they are eatable for the living entities who have hands. Ahastāni sahastānām apadāni catuṣ-padām. And the living entities which cannot move, they are the food for the living entities which has got four legs. Phalgūni mahatāṁ tatra jīvo jīvasya jīvanam. In this way, the weak is the food for the strong. This is the law of nature, that one living entity is the food for another living entity. So when a person eats another living entity, it is not unnatural. This is nature’s law. But when you come to the human form of living entity, you must use your discrimination. Just like one living entity is food for the another living entity, it does not mean… In the lower animals sometimes the father-mother eat the offspring, but in the history of human society it has not come into notice that the father-mother eating the offspring. But time has come when the mother is killing offspring. That has come already. This is due to Kali-yuga. ...

Prabhupāda: Sahajananda has written very frankly that “All the svāmīs and yogīs, they are deriding Kṛṣṇa. You are the only person pushing on Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world, single-handedly.” Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, that’s a fact. Prabhupāda: He has very much appreciated this effort. Everyone will do that. I am the single man speaking of God. Nobody speaks. All big, big leaders, politicians, philoso…, who is speaking of God? We are stressing only God consciousness. As soon as you speak of God, “Oh, it is old-fashioned to bring in God. These are primitive. Now we speak of science. There is no God. That is very nice.” As soon as you speak of God, “Oh, you are useless. You have no advanced knowledge.” Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They are challenging, then, the authority. Prabhupāda: Huh? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They are challenging the authority. Prabhupāda: There is no authority. And Vivekananda says, “You manufacture your own God, whomever you like. Even you can worship stool as God.” They say like that. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But now the Indian government—if this is true—they are giving visas to the devotees, and that means they are favorable towards the movement more and more. Prabhupāda: Yes. It may be due to my interview with Indira Gandhi. I appealed to her that “No Indians are joining, and these European, American, they are helping me. And if they are asked to go away, then how shall I maintain the establishment? ...

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So then the point is that they criticize that how we can preach such a civilization to the Western countries if even it’s not working in India today. Although theoretically it’s perfect, practically it’s not working. Prabhupāda: No. Practically, because you have preached your culture in India, therefore they have lost their own culture. The Western, the Britishers, were for two hundred years, and they preached. Their policy was to kill the Indian culture. Because that report of Lord Macaulay, after studying Indian situation, the report was to the Parliament that “If you keep India as Indian, then you will not be able to rule over them.” So therefore there was regular policy to kill Indian civilization. And because they were on the governing power, they could do it. Therefore India lost its own culture, and victimized by the Western culture. This is the position. Just they are learning how to eat meat, how to drink wine, how to dress them with coat and pant, how to go to the hotel, illicit sex—these things are… Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Imported. Prabhupāda: In India it was unknown. They did not know. In our childhood we have seen that they did not know how to drink tea even. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Tea? Prabhupāda: Yes. Nobody would drink tea, no family. We have seen it. And for drinking, for drinking tea, drinking wine, regular propaganda was done. There was a tea sets committee. Men, these foreigners, they began to grow tea in India ...

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[visit with Prabhupāda’s Godbrothers, Bengali] Prabhupāda: [Bengali] And Doctor Stillson, what he has called me? Name? Carmons… What is that? C-h… Hari-śauri: I can’t remember, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Prabhupāda: It is a common word. [Bengali with Bhakti-caru] It begins with c-h. Spiritual master. Hari-śauri: I can just find out from Tamāla Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: [Bengali guests comment] Yes. Thank you very much for your coming. Guest (1): Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hari-śauri: He described you as charismatic. Prabhupāda: Yes. [laughs] What is the meaning, that? Hari-śauri: It’s someone who has, by his personality, who has very attractive power or influence. Prabhupāda: [Bengali] “Charismatic spiritual master.” [Bengali] You have got that book?

Prabhupāda: [Bengali with Pisimā and Bhakti-caru] [kīrtana] [break] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Purī Mahārāja. Prabhupāda: Ah. [Bengali] [meeting with Purī Mahārāja, Āśrama Mahārāja, Ānanda Prabhu and others—Bengali] [kīrtana led by Purī Mahārāja] Purī Mahārāja: [Bengali discussion with Prabhupāda and others] [break] Prabhupāda: Nārāyana Mahārāja? Purī Mahārāja: Nārāyana Mahārāja. [Bengali] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He’s in Mathurā. Purī Mahārāja: Yes. He came today. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He came yesterday as well. Purī Mahārāja: Well, he came here today, during feasting. Just now he left. He told me also, you should go there, his [indistinct]. Prabhupāda: [Bengali]

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This… At noontime you seemed to be getting a little taste. Did you have a little? You said gradually. Prabhupāda: And now… Just now, I have no taste. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So I don’t think there is any problem. I mean, what you ate today was more than I saw you eat in three months, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You ate a Love Feast today. So whenever we eat a Love Feast, we never have much appetite in the evening. Usually we simply chant. Prabhupāda: So I am trying to drink a little fruit juice. Bhakti-caru: Prabhupāda wanted to drink some of this sweet lemon juice. Prabhupāda: What do you think? Bhakti-caru: [Bengali] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Maybe your sister can suggest some good drink. Bhakti-caru: Mosambi? [Bengali]