# Program after Ratha-yatra, Melbourne, 1974 **Location:** Melbourne (1974) **Duration:** 8:25 <div class="video-container" style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nYkpWXyMTnA" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; pointer-events: auto; z-index: 10;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkpWXyMTnA) --- ## Transcript **[21:01]** Sri Bhagavan uvaca. In every chapter, you'll find this word. **[21:01]** Sri Bhagavan uvaca, Bhagavan means....Bhagavan means The Supreme Personality of Godhead. **[21:01]** Bhaga..."Bhaga" means opulences and "van" means one who possesses. **[21:01]** So, God means, who possesses all opulences, in fullness, He's called Bhagavan. **[21:01]** The definition of God is...He is the richest, the strongest, the mosy beaituful, He's the wisest, **[21:01]** He's the most renounced...In this way, you analyze that there are many rich men **[21:01]** but no one can say that "I'm the richest so far." That's not possible. **[21:01]** Because there's competition. If I am rich, you are richer than me, another richer than you, **[21:01]** another richer than him. So, nobody can say "I'm the richest of all." **[21:01]** That only God can say. **[21:01]** In this way, where you find the Supreme, the Supreme Being? **[21:01]** The one God is defined in dictionary as the Supreme Being. **[21:01]** We're very technologically advanced but there's a lacking in society **[26:01]** which Srimad-Bhagavatam is filling. That lacking is in spiritual knowledge. **[31:01]** Actually Prabhupada says it's a vacuum and it is. There's a spiritual vacuum in society. **[38:01]** Everybody is doing so many things but there is no real spiritual understanding of the... **[43:01]** The whole basis should have that spiritual understanding behind it. **[48:01]** If it's not there you'll find frustrated people everywhere like in today's society. **[54:01]** We're so much advanced, you yourselves teach people and they learn things, **[00:01]** they become very expert in mathematics, and so many different sciences or grammar. **[06:01]** But if that grammar and that science and those different aspects of education **[11:01]** aren't centered around God consciousness then they're all for naught. **[26:01]** We are part and parcel of God, or Krishna. We are not enjoyer. **[34:01]** We asked Jadurani devi dasi, one of the artists at ISKCON press, to **[38:01]** tell us about her involvement in the Hare Krishna movement. **[48:01]** So I met Srila Prabhupada in 1967. I was up in his apartment... **[48:01]** So, in this world of fools and rascals who do not know what is perfection, **[48:01]** they are simply thinking: "So long I live, let me live very opulently, **[48:01]** and let me dance like the dog. That is is (their) perfection. **[48:01]** No! Perfection means you must stop birth, death, old age and disease. That is perfection! **[48:01]** So, out of many thousands of people, one is expert how to stop this imperfect. **[48:01]** And out of many of such persons who are actually tring for perfection, out of many thousands of... **[48:01]** Krishna says: "One who has attained perfection, and, out of many such people, many ancient thousands, one may know me." **[48:01]** Just see! How to understand Krishna is so difficult! **[48:01]** That Krishna is being delivered by Sri Caitanya Mahapranhu. That Krishna! Immediately! **[48:01]** Chant, dance and take prasadam, and eat prasadam and go on... **[48:01]** Just see! How much efficient this movement is! Immediately! **[48:01]** Therefore, it's called... **[48:01]** Yes, Go on chanting and dancing. They are realizing! Why? Because Krishna himself is delivering! **[48:01]** All right! Take it! It's very difficult to understand me by... **[48:01]** But I give myself to you! Come on! This is krishna Consciousness! Try to understand it! **[48:01]** And it's not difficult! Even a child can take it!