# Ratha-yatra, Philadelphia, 1975 **Location:** Philadelphia (1975) **Duration:** 58:34 <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/mGG_cu8rlTM" 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=mGG_cu8rlTM) --- ## Transcript **[07:22]** So I am very much obliged to you. I am especially obliged to the American boys and girls who are **[07:30]** helping me so much in spreading this Krsna consciousness movement in the Western countries. **[07:39]** I was ordered by my spiritual master to preach this Krsna consciousness in the Western countries. **[07:52]** So in 1965 I first came in New York. Then in 1966 this society was regularly registered **[08:11]** in New York, and from 1967 this movement is regularly going on in America, Europe, Canada, **[08:25]** and south of Pacific Ocean, Australia, and throughout the whole world. **[08:36]** So I may inform you little about this movement, Krsna consciousness. **[08:45]** Krsna, this word, means all-attractive. Krsna is attractive to every living entities, **[09:01]** not only human being, even the animals, birds, bees, trees, flowers, fruits, water. **[09:12]** That is the picture of Vrndavana. This is material world. **[09:20]** We have no experience of the spiritual world. But we can get an glimpse idea, what is spirit and **[09:34]** what is matter. Just try to understand the difference between a living man and a dead body. **[09:46]** The dead body means as soon as the living force within the body is gone, then it is dead matter, **[09:59]** useless. And so long the living force is there, the body is very important. **[10:08]** So as we experience in this body, there is something as dead matter and something as living force, **[10:21]** similarly, there are two worlds: the material world and the spiritual world. **[10:31]** We living entities, every one of us, we belong to the spiritual world. **[10:40]** We do not belong to the material world. Some way or other, we are now in contact with this **[10:50]** material world and material body, and the business is that although we are eternal living force, **[11:03]** on account of our contact with this material body, we have to take four tribulations: **[11:14]** birth, death, disease and old age. That we have to undergo. **[11:22]** In this material world we are getting one type of body, and it is ended at a certain stage. **[11:35]** Just like any material thing. You take, for example, of your dress. **[11:41]** You are dressed with a certain type of garment, but when it is worn out, no more usable, **[11:50]** then you throw it, you get another dress. So this material body is the dress of the spirit living force. **[12:04]** But because we are attached to this material world, we want to enjoy this material world, **[12:15]** we get different types of body. It is explained in the Bhagavad-gita as a machine. **[12:24]** Actually it is machine, this body. In the Bhagavad- gita it is said, **[12:32]** isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya **[12:44]** So we living entity, we desire. "Man proposes; God disposes." God is very kind. **[12:56]** Whatever you desire, He will fulfill. Although He says that **[13:07]** "This kind of material desires will never satisfy you," but we want. **[13:14]** Therefore God supplies us, Krsna, different types of body to fulfill our different desires. **[13:25]** This is called material, conditional life. This body, change of body according to desire, **[13:34]** is called evolutionary process. By evolution we come to the human form of body through many **[13:48]** other millions bodies. Jalaja nava-laksani sthavara laksa-vimsati. We pass through 900,000 **[14:01]** species of form in the water. Similarly, two million forms as plants, trees. **[14:10]** In this way, by nature's way, nature brings us into this human form of life just to develop **[14:22]** or awaken our consciousness. Nature gives us the chance, "Now what do you want to do? **[14:30]** Now you have got developed consciousness. Now you again want to go to the... **[14:38]** ...We have got fifty-seven books for convincing the philosophers, scientists. **[14:40]** If you want to know the value of this movement through science, philosophy, **[14:47]** we have got enough ingredients to supply you. Otherwise, it is simple, very simple. **[14:58]** Simply chant this mantra, **[15:01]** Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare **[15:09]** Then everything will be manifest to you. Ceto-darpana-marjanam. **[15:15]** This chanting of Hare Krsna mantra means cleansing the core of your heart. **[15:22]** Because our heart or mind or consciousness is now covered with so many dirty things. **[15:34]** So if we chant this Hare Krsna mantra, then these dirty things will be cleansed. **[15:41]** Then we shall be able to see "What I am, what is my position, what is my goal of life, **[15:50]** what I have to do." This is human consideration. The dogs, cats, they cannot do that. **[15:58]** But a human being, they can do it very nicely. **[16:04]** So on account of this, you will find that these young men, not only from your country **[16:13]** but in other countries also, in Africa, in Australia, in Canada, in Europe, in Asia--everywhere-- **[16:26]** as soon as they are understanding this philosophy, they are joining this movement. **[16:33]** And it is not very difficult. We don't charge anything for selling Hare Krsna mantra. **[16:42]** We are chanting everywhere. That you saw, this Ratha-yatra. **[16:49]** Now, our only means is chanting Hare Krsna. **[16:54]** And these thousands of men are following simply by chanting Hare Krsna mantra. **[17:01]** So you can understand what is the potency of this Hare Krsna mantra. **[17:05]** We do not pay anything, you ladies and gentlemen, to follow us. **[17:11]** But we simply chant Hare Krsna. So it is very potential. Narottama dasa Thakura, **[17:22]** a great acarya of Vaisnava sampradaya, he has sung, golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana. **[17:33]** This Hare Krsna movement, or chanting of Hare Krsna, it is not anything material. **[17:42]** Therefore you will never feel tired chanting Hare Krsna. You see practically. **[17:50]** You go on chanting twenty-four hours; you will never feel tired. Therefore it is said, **[17:57]** golokera prema-dhana. This chanting vibration is coming from the spiritual world. **[18:06]** Just like you receive material sound vibration in the radios or television from distant place, **[18:17]** there is another machine which can receive the vibration in the spiritual world. **[18:24]** So that vibration is Hare Krsna mantra. **[18:30]** golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana, rati na janmilo kene tay **[18:36]** "Oh, I am so unfortunate that I did not get any attachment for chanting this Hare Krsna mantra." **[18:44]** Samsara-davanale, diba-nisi hiya jwale. The samsara, this material world, is very uncomfortable place. **[18:56]** Everyone is always full of anxiety. However rich you may be, however powerful you may be, **[19:06]** but the anxiety must be there. You can understand, your president Nixon, **[19:12]** how much anxiety he had when all people wanted him to come down. **[19:19]** So this material world means in whichever position you may be situated, it doesn't matter. **[19:27]** It is full of anxiety. This is called blazing fire, always burning the heart. **[19:35]** if you want to get relief from this uncomfortable position of anxiety, **[19:42]** then you must take to this Hare Krsna mantra. This is our request. You can try for it **[19:51]** and you will see the practical result. It will not cost you anything; there is no loss about it. **[20:00]** So our only request is, with folded hands and begging you, so many flatterings, **[20:12]** we simply request... Dante nidhaya trnakam padayor nipatya. This is our process. **[20:19]** We are not very violent pushing. Now, you see our procession came, so many, for three hours. **[20:29]** There was no violence. And the police department of your country, they very much appreciate **[20:35]** because they have got experience whenever there is some procession, there is violence. **[20:41]** "Win-breaking crowd," they say. But these people are not win-breaking crowd. **[20:47]** So this Krsna consciousness movement... You have already accepted it, this movement, **[20:56]** your so many young men. So we request. This is another occasion to invite you. **[21:02]** So our only request is that you chant Hare Krsna mantra, and you will feel very much happy. **[21:14]** There will be no anxiety. And then you can do your work. It doesn't matter what you are doing. **[21:21]** But chanting of this Hare Krsna mantra will make you more and more happy, **[21:30]** free from material anxieties, and if we continue this process, then everything will be clearly **[21:39]** understood about spiritual life, and very easily we shall be able to go back to home, back to Godhead. **[21:48]** Now, this occasion I may explain little bit. Here you see Jagannatha and Balarama and Subhadra. **[22:02]** They are Krsna and His elder brother and His sister, Subhadra. **[22:12]** There is a place in India about ninety miles north of Delhi. You have heard the name of New Delhi. **[22:24]** The place is named Kuruksetra. It is accepted as the holy place, pilgrimage. **[22:33]** People still gather there, especially during the eclipse, solar and lunar eclipse. **[22:42]** So there was once, five thousand years ago, there was a solar eclipse, and all people, **[22:51]** from all parts of India, they came to Kuruksetra, and Krsna at that time was prince at Dvaraka, **[23:04]** He also came with His elder brother and sister. Krsna in His childhood, **[23:12]** He was raised as the foster son of Maharaja Nanda and mother Yasoda in Vrndavana. **[23:22]** Then, when He was grown up... You will find this history in the Krsna book. **[23:29]** So the incidence is that Krsna was the beloved personality in Vrndavana. **[23:38]** So when He left Vrndavana, all the people there, they were very, very unhappy. **[23:47]** So when Krsna came to Kuruksetra from Dvaraka with His brother and sister, **[23:54]** these people in Vrndavana, they got news that Krsna is coming there. **[24:01]** Vrndavana is about the same distance. Kuruksetra is greater distance. **[24:09]** Anyway, they came to see Krsna out of their love. And the most beloved personality, **[24:21]** Srimati Radharani, She was requesting Krsna that "You are the same Krsna. **[24:29]** I am the same Radharani. But the place is not the same. **[24:35]** You are here in Kuruksetra in royal opulence, and we are coming from the village. **[24:45]** So if You again please come to Vrndavana." This was Radharani's request. **[24:53]** And it is very ecstatic feeling. Those who are advanced devotee, they can enjoy. **[25:02]** So we observe this incidence annually in as many places in the Western countries. **[25:12]** At the present moment we hold this ceremony in London, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, **[25:21]** and where else? Buffalo, Melbourne, yes. So this is a very feeling festival. **[25:33]** So I thank you very much. You have come here. And try to understand our philosophy. **[25:39]** You are all educated boys and girls. We have got fifty-seven books. **[25:45]** Try to read, and try to understand. And take it very seriously, and you will be happy. **[25:52]** Thank you very much. (end)