November 9
Spoken November 9
Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā, Lecture
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Govindam, Lord Kṛṣṇa, ādi-puruṣa, the original person. In the Vedānta-sūtra it is said that Brahman... athāto brahma jijñāsā. What is Brahman? In this human form of life this is the business, to understand what is Brahman. Therefore Parīkṣit Mahārāja says that
The Nectar of Devotion
Pradyumna: [reading:] “Furthermore, a person engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, acting in devotional service, can develop all the good qualities that are generally found in the demigods.” Oh. Prabhupāda: Read, “In Kṛṣṇa consciousness...” Pradyumna: “ ‘Happiness In Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.Prabhupāda:Acyutānanda:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:
SB 3.25.9
Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " ya ādyo bhagavān puṁsām īśvaro vai bhavān kila lokasya tamasāndhasya cakṣuḥ sūrya ivoditaḥ []" [break] [01:42] “You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the origin and the Supreme Lord of all living entities. You have arisen to disseminate the rays of the sun in order to dissipate the darkness of ignorance of the universe.Prabhupāda:Yaśomatī-nandana:Prabhupāda:Devotees:…
Cc. Madhya 20.100-108
Prabhupāda: [aside:] [Hindi] Give him seat. So read. You have no other book? So, last Sunday we were discussing Sanātana Gosvāmī’s meeting with Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Sanātana Gosvāmī was the finance minister of Nawab Hussain Shah, the then Pathan government of Bengal. So he resigned his office. The Nawab was reluctant to give him release. He was arrested, but somehow or other he released himself by bribing the superintendent of jail, and he met Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Benares, or Vārāṇ…
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? So a letter came. One boy, he wrote me a letter. When I was going to go to China a while ago, before you told me not to, this boy was working with me. And his name is Jita-rati. So he went to China, and he’s written a report. Should I read it to you?Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Pr…
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: “...your letter with enclosures as on reverse. Kindly accept yourself and convey my humble obeisances to my ailing father, and Lord Kṛṣṇa will protect and we have nothing to worry . 2] Without touching details right now, as desired by you, I beg to submit that a meaningful Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamā…
Room Conversation
[kavirāja arrives---Hindi discussions with Prabhupāda] [break] Prabhupāda: [Hindi with Bhagatjī; Prabhupāda asks Puruṣottama Gosvāmī] Kavirāja: [Hindi with Bhakti-cāru and Prabhupāda] Bhakti-cāru: It’s less now, this restlessness and the pain.Kavirāja:Bhakti-cāru:Bhavānanda:Prabhupāda:Bhakti-cāru:Prabhupāda:Bhakti-cāru:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Bhagatjī:Prabhupāda:…
Room Conversation
Nitāi-cānda: [Hindi with others] Kavirāja: [Hindi] Bhakti-cāru: He gave a medicine yesterday to control the stool, so we have to get it today. Kavirāja: Pulse still ninety. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Ninety. That’s not bad. But is it strong or weak? Kavirāja: Not stronger. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Stronger. Your pulse is stronger now, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Shastrijī says that your pulse is normal rate and stronger. I think the Kavirāja:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Kavirāja:Bhakti-cāru:Bhavānanda:Bhakti-cāru:Bhavānanda:Bhakti-cāru:Ka…
Letters November 9
My dear Rayaram, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated. Oct. 28, 1967. It certainly is very good news that MacMillan Co. may now agree to publish Gita Upanisad in a soft cover edition and is considering the hard cover very seriously. In one other letter Brahmananda writes that there is not yet contract signed. So I do not know what exactly is the position. But under...
My dear Bhagavan das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 26, 1969. It is very encouraging that from the very beginning of your center you are successfully executing your entrusted duties. Krishna will be very much pleased upon you and your wife, Krishna Bhamini. In our society we want to see some ideal householders as you are, so that preaching may...
San Diego My dear Tulsi das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 28th Sept, 1970 and I have noted the contents. I am glad to see that you are taking seriously to spreading this Krishna Consciousness Movement to all your fellow Americans. Try and increase Sankirtana Party more and more to new areas and ever-larger circulation of our literatures. I am glad...
Baltimore My dear Vrindaban Candra, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated 30th Sept, 1970 and I am glad to see how nicely you are reading my books. Please continue to do this. We need so many preachers who are soundly versed in the scriptures to convince the world to take to Krishna Consciousness. I am glad that you and the others are each writing one...
My dear Dinesh Candra Sarkar: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 21/10/73 in Bengali and have noted the contents with thanks. At present I am in Delhi. I left Bombay on the 1st after finishing the land dispute there and shall return to Bombay again on my way to Nairobi by the 23rd instant. Then I shall return back to USA via Rome and shall come back to India in the...
Melbourne My dear Bhurijana das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letters dated September 19 and October 17, 1975 with enclosed checks for and respectively. So this is very nice that your checks are getting bigger. You are one of my older experienced students and I am always praying for your advancement in Krsna consciousness. As the husband of your wife, you should see that...
Vrindaban My dear Dhananjaya das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 5, 1975 and have noted the contents. Regarding the Krishna Balarama Gosala, so let them arrange the meeting of the Trustees. I am in India, so let them arrange the date, time, and place, and I shall go there. There is no difficulty for me to attend. But, let them do it.
Los Angeles My dear Hayagriva das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 23, 1975 with the proposed Table of Contents for the philosophy book. By the grace of Krsna you have got a special capacity to do this work. I am very glad that you have revived your activities in the editorial work. So Krsna will certainly help. Do not neglect chanting 16 rounds at least....
Dallas My dear Jagadisa das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 10, 1975, together with enclosures. Regarding the Dallas Army base property, you can forward this offer to Svarupa Damodara and in this connection you may correspond with him. We may require it for the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies. Do not reject this military base. We can use it...
Sri Kapoor ji International Foundation of Meditation 44 Kailash Mandir Kanpur 208001 My dear Kapoorji, I thank you very much for your letter dated September 30, 1975 and also the one on the 22nd which has been forwarded to me. Yes, I left Vrndavana and went to Delhi, then Ahmedabad, then Bombay. And then I went to Mauritius, South Africa and again Mauritius where I met with a major motor accident...
Karunasindhu Los Angeles My dear Karuna Sindhu das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 24, 1975 and I have noted the contents. I am very glad to receive your letter. I can understand this cunning Purusottama das has taken advantage of your simplicity. So any one of my godbrothers cannot help me in this way of book writing because they are unfortunate in...
Amsterdam My dear Lokananda das, and Ramesvarai dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated October 17 and October 20, 1975. With regard to your son, let him see the Deity and ask him to offer obeisances. He will see and learn it. Yes, the body is received according to karma, still it is not an impediment to advance in Krsna consciousness by being deaf. Just...
Rupanuga Dela Plain, Virginia My dear Rupanuga das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 21, 1975 and have noted the contents. It is not good that all of the temples are spending more than they are receiving. They should rather save more and not exceed on the expenditures. I do not think that the jewelry business should be encouraged. We are after preaching,...
Los Angeles My dear Satsvarupa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 11, 1975 from Boston along with enclosed clippings and enclosures. You are doing solid work. Krsna will be pleased with you. You are a sincere student from the very beginning of your spiritual life and I wish that you may advance more and more.
Honolulu My dear Sukadeva das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 3, 1975 and have noted the contents. Regarding your question prosecuting Manasvi, this is a local management problem. Do I have to say on this matter? So Gurukrpa has given you the instruction. So therefore you should issue some warrant. But why has Gurukrpa advised you if you are unable to...
Trivikrama Ohaza, Japan My dear Trivikrama Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 30, 1975, and I am glad to hear from you, that you are carrying out my order there in Tokyo. What is this stealing and violence. This is not good. By stealing, did Gurukrpa Maharaja collect that money? Stealing is not our business. Our business is to become Krsna conscious....
Albany, New Zealand My dear Tusta Krsna Swami, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 16, 1975 along with the enclosed letters from persons you are recommending for initiation. I have no objection to your recommending these devotees, but whether you are acting as a sannyasi and observing all the rules and regulations and keeping yourself in sannyasi dress? On...
Toronto My dear Visvakarma das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 3, 1975 with the enclosed statement Van Maharaja. So I have now issued orders that all my disciples should avoid all of my godbrothers. They should not have any dealings with them nor even correspondence, nor should they give them any of my books or should they purchase any of their books,...
My dear S.N. Sharma, I am in receipt of your letter dated 6/11/76 and have noted the contents carefully. Yes, if you want to give us this land we shall be willing immediately to invest in developing a project there. We have long been interested in developing something in Delhi, but we were waiting for the opportunity. What Krishna preaches is meant for the weaker section. If they feel weak and abide...