November 5
Spoken November 5
The Nectar of Devotion
Pradyumna: [reading:] “...committed criminal acts but is not yet arrested for them. Now, as soon as he is detected, arrest is awaiting for him..., is awaiting him. Similarly, for some of our sinful activities we are awaiting distresses in the future, and for others, which are mature, we are suffering at the present moment. In this wayPrabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotee:
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Viśvāso naiva kartavyaḥ strīṣu rāja-kuleṣu ca. She’s both. [laughter] Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, “Never trust woman and politician,” and she’s both. [laughs] Gurudāsa: But she’s actually better at telling a lie than the other people. ShePrabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Prabhupāda:Gurudāsa:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Prabhupāda:Guest:Pr…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: Abodha-jātaḥ. Sadah. That the, the bodily, external duty, done exactly to the point, but did not take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, abodha-jātaḥ. Just like people say, “What is the use of this saṅkīrtana? We are doing our duty. We are living very honestly.Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Prabhupā…
SB 3.25.5-6
Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " maitreya uvāca pitari prasthite ‘raṇyaṁ mātuḥ priya-cikīrṣayā tasmin bindusare ‘vātsīd bhagavān kapilaḥ kilaPrabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Nitāi:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Room Conversation about Gurukula
Prabhupāda: The modern education means... Just see what is the disastrous condition. For 531 posts, three lakhs people have applied. How the unemployment... This application means they are all educated. Uneducated, they do not apply for any post. That means educated unemployed. This is IndiaJagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabhupāda:Jagadīśa:Prabh…
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: One thing I feel, that while there hasn’t been any great improvement, on the other hand, I do not find that there has been any negative reaction or any regression since the time the kavirāja‘s treatment began. Of course, Your Divine Grace says that you feel weaker now than you did a week ago. If thatPrabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhakti-caru:Prabhupāda:Bhakti-caru:Prabhupāda:Bhakti-caru:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla …
Room Conversation
Girirāja: The construction is going on. And this man Mr. Lord, from England, he’s getting more active. And... Prabhupāda: England? Girirāja: He’s fifty-year-old gentleman who was the manager of a big club in London. So he had been associating with the devotees in London, and they suggested he come to India and help manage our restaurant and guesthouse. So he was the aide-de-camp of the viceroy of India when he was a young man.Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Girirāja:Prabhupāda…
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...the medicine can be given for ten or twelve days, and everything will go exactly according to some plan. This was my point from the beginning. It’s not a very difficult thing. The kavirāja probably can adjust it very easily to stop stool from passing. Naturally, if you stop the medicine, maybe the stool will stop, but that doesnŚatadhanya:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:…
Room Conversation
Bhakti-caru: [Hindi] Kavirāja assistant: [Hindi] Śatadhanya: Finished with the urine, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Prabhupāda: Hmm. [Bengali] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bhakti-caru, Prabhupāda is talking to you. Bhakti-caru: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Prabhupāda: [Bengali] Bhakti-caru: [Hindi to kavirāja assistant] Śrīla Prabhupāda wants him to come every day, once a day, and check him out. [Bengali to Prabhupāda]Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Bhakti-caru:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:B…
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: ...notarized copies of everything. This registrar was not the real registrar. He’s only a clerk. The registrar is on leave. So because this man is not so experienced, it takes a little extra time to do everything with him. So Girirāja and I have had a little bit of experience, so we had to teach him some things. Now everybody understands clearly. Everything is now completed. Your signatures were quite good, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Your signatures were not bad.Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prab…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: San Diego, we have got a temple? Jayādvaita: Oh, yes. We have... They just moved to a nicer location, nicer building. They have, oh, maybe seventy devotees. It’s quite large temple near the ocean in San Diego. They have... Every year at Govardhana-pūjā they have a very nice festival in the park. They have chanting and discourse and distribute Pañca-draviḍa:Jayādvaita:Prabhupāda:Jayādvaita:Prabhupāda:Jayādvaita:Prabhupāda:Jayādvaita:Prabhupāda:Jayādvaita:Prabhupāda…
Letters November 5
My dear Blanche, Please accept my blessings. I am so glad to receive your letter appreciating Krishna Consciousness movement. As stated by you, it is truly a happy movement. Lord Caitanya said that the ocean of Krishna Consciousness increases daily and it is never experienced in the case of mundane ocean. In other words, nobody is static in Krishna Consciousness and everyone becomes a dynamic force...
My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. Replying your letter dated Oct. 21, I quite appreciate your statement and I am happy that you have now taken care of the Gita Mss. I have already written to Hayagriva that the instructions which I impart are not dogmas. Our instructions are all based on sufficient logic and philosophy. The thing is that while conducting missionary activities it is quite...
My dear Rayarama, Please accept my blessings. In replying your letter of Oct 21, I offer to you my sincere most blessings for the most kind words that you have sent me as a sincere devotee. This attitude of service will help you progress in Krishna Consciousness and perfect Krishna Consciousness will help us to go back to home, back to Godhead. I have already sent you my congratulations for improving...
Manager of The Bank of Baroda Manager The Bank of Baroda Chandni Chowk Delhi-6, INDIA Dear Sir; Kindly refer to my letters dated September 7, 1969 and September 30, 1969. I am surprised that I have not as yet received the shipping documents of two consignments to be dispatched by BINA MUSICAL STORES and INDO CRAFTER. Please let me know immediately at my above address what is the actual position...
My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 30, 1969 with enclosures. I will keep the court documents in your file. Regarding BTG printing, I have already written to Brahmananda that this must be printed in our own press. So far as my books are concerned, I think there are materials for at least ten books which are ready for printing. Now...
My dear Govinda dasi, Please accept my blessings and offer the same to Gaurasundara. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 5th, 1970. Now I am in India, extensively touring all over the land. From Calcutta I have come to Bombay, then from Bombay to Amritsar, then again down from Amritsar to Bombay, for the last two months. I am trying to establish a center in Bombay along with some influential...
Calcutta My dear Hansadutta, Please accept my blessings. I have not received any letter from you since I left Calcutta---neither from Kirtanananda Swami nor Acyutananda Swami. I do not know how things are going on there. I shall be glad to hear of your activities and enrollment of life members. In the meantime, I
Paris My dear Bhagavan, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 11, 1972, and I have noted the contents with great pleasure. I am very glad to see the things are going on well in France and other places, and that you are there in Europe is a great relief for me. Now I am sure there will be some solid work in Mediterranean zone and the preaching work will...
St. Louis My dear Hrdayananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 4, 1972, which I have only just now received, due to travelling these past weeks. Yes, your plan for travelling and preaching was very much approved by me, but now I understand from Satsvarupa that he has gone to Dallas to manage things there because Stoka Krishna has left to Los Angeles....
ISKCON Vrindaban (after Nov. 15th: c/o Hariprasad Badruka, Ghasiram Building, Mahbub Ganj, Hyderabad, A. P., India) My dear Puri Maharajji, Please accept my blessings. Thank you for your letter dated October 26, 1972, which has reached me here at Vrindaban. Yes, the programme is going on very nicely, and all the devotees are enlivened by our discourses daily in morning and evening in the Samadhi...
My dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 24, 1972, and I have noted that you have returned to Gurukula to take over the managing because Stoka Krsna has left to go to Los Angeles at his whim. This is not good, this unsteady position. I have never been in favor of this practice of many times changing the responsible officers, three times...
New York My dear Sudama, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 27, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully. So far the Road Show and this Yoga Village are concerned, these things should be stopped. Simply perform our kirtana. If we divert our attention in this way, the whole thing will gradually deteriorate. He is going far away. All these things...