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# Bhagavad-gita Lectures Total lectures: 466 ## 1966 [[spoken/1966/660219bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā Introduction [Gītopaniṣad]]] — February 19, 1966, New York Now, the purport is that Bhagavad-gītā is a treatise which is specially meant for the devotee of the Lord --- [[spoken/1966/660302bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.7–11]] — March 2, 1966, New York When the parting is here, in the middle, then that girl has her husband and she is coming from respectable family --- [[spoken/1966/660304bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11]] — March 4, 1966, New York And I have given in the Introduction that how one man changes his body - [[spoken/1966/660307bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — March 7, 1966, New York So last day we had been discussing that difference between the conditioned soul and liberated soul is that a conditioned soul is imperfect in four ways - [[spoken/1966/660309bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — March 9, 1966, New York In abnormal condition sometimes we can see one thing into two, divided into two - [[spoken/1966/660311bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — March 11, 1966, New York So that pleasure you can have only when you are spiritually realized soul - [[spoken/1966/660325bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.44–45]] — March 25, 1966, New York So Lord Kṛṣṇa says that bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānām - [[spoken/1966/660328bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.46–47]] — March 28, 1966, New York So we are discussing for the last few days on the constitutional position of ourself, myself, yourself—the soul, pure soul - [[spoken/1966/660401bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.48–49]] — April 1, 1966, New York Now, from studying Bhagavad-gītā or deeply thinking over the matter, I come to understand that I am not this body - [[spoken/1966/660405bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.49–51]] — April 5, 1966, New York So unfortunately, because we are in contact with this matter, we are hampered in so many ways - [[spoken/1966/660406bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.51–55]] — April 6, 1966, New York So here we should always understand that if we sincerely and seriously take up the message of the Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any, I mean to say, adulteration - [[spoken/1966/660408bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.55–56]] — April 8, 1966, New York In the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā, Arjuna, in the battlefield, he was perplexed whether to fight or not to fight - [[spoken/1966/660413bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.55–58]] — April 13, 1966, New York Now, this \"Yes, I shall fight,\" this \"I\" and the former \"I\"—\"I shall not fight\"—so there is vast difference - [[spoken/1966/660415bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.58–59]] — April 15, 1966, New York So indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā - [[spoken/1966/660418bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.59–69]] — April 18, 1966, New York So here, Bhagavad-gītā says that viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ - [[spoken/1966/660520bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 3.8–13]] — May 20, 1966, New York We can see from great sages and ācāryas that whatever we earn - [[spoken/1966/660523bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 3.13–16]] — May 23, 1966, New York So for making that mission fulfilled, we have got developed consciousness than the animals - [[spoken/1966/660525bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 3.16–17]] — May 25, 1966, New York So he has to learn it, and he can get rid of this material existence by the process which is prescribed in authoritative scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Vedic literatures - [[spoken/1966/660527bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 3.17–20]] — May 27, 1966, New York Therefore Kṛṣṇa comes and He presents Himself just like ordinary man acting - [[spoken/1966/660530bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 3.21–25]] — May 30, 1966, New York Now, what are the things we, generally, people aspire after? - [[spoken/1966/660711bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1 and Review]] — July 11, 1966, New York We have got cheating propensity, we are prone to commit mistake, and we accept illusory things - [[spoken/1966/660713bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.3–6]] — July 13, 1966, New York Now, in the inductive process you have got some defects - [[spoken/1966/660715bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.6–8]] — July 15, 1966, New York Now, now the principal religions of the world—Hindu religion, Muslim religion, Christian religion and Buddha religion—most of them believes some supreme authority or personality coming down from the kingdom of God - [[spoken/1966/660718bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.7–9]] — July 18, 1966, New York So that constitutional position, which cannot be changed, which is called dharma, in order to pre - [[spoken/1966/660720bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.9–11]] — July 20, 1966, New York So by understanding the transcendental activities of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can become liberated - [[spoken/1966/660722bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.11]] — July 22, 1966, New York So there is a very nice verse in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam - [[spoken/1966/660725bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.11–12]] — July 25, 1966, New York Supreme leader, the leadership is accepted, but we do not know that the supreme leader is the Supreme Lord, or Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1966/660727bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.12–13]] — July 27, 1966, New York Now here is a chance to stop this nonsense of transmigrating from one body to another and suffer the material miseries - [[spoken/1966/660729bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.13–14]] — July 29, 1966, New York So when we are in the healthy condition, that is called Brahman - [[spoken/1966/660801bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.14–19]] — August 1, 1966, New York So if we study Kṛṣṇa science with great attention, then the result will be that we shall be free from the reaction of our activities - [[spoken/1966/660803bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.19]] — August 3, 1966, New York So this is the process of ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam - [[spoken/1966/660805bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.19–22]] — August 5, 1966, New York This process is being described by Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna - [[spoken/1966/660808bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.20–24]] — August 8, 1966, New York Now, from the Bhagavad-gītā we understand that two energies are working - [[spoken/1966/660810bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.24–34]] — August 10, 1966, New York Now, Kṛṣṇa is concluding these different types of yajña - [[spoken/1966/660812bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.34]] — August 12, 1966, New York Now, we have given the list, the author of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, but all these incarnation of Godhead, they are either plenary manifestation or manifestation of the plenary manifestation, like that - [[spoken/1966/660817bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.37–40]] — August 17, 1966, New York So my point is that the living entity has got the tendency to move freely - [[spoken/1966/660819bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.39–5.3]] — August 19, 1966, New York So suppose you do not believe, that \"Oh, they have been written, so many things for Kṛṣṇa, just to make Him very great - [[spoken/1966/660824bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 5.3–7]] — August 24, 1966, New York Sometimes it is advertised that \"Such-and-such saint, he does not touch money - [[spoken/1966/660826bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 5.7–13]] — August 26, 1966, New York So one who is always thoughtful of Kṛṣṇa, such person, yoga-yukta, yoga-yukto munir brahma na cireṇādhigacchati: he, very soon, he becomes situated in his Brahman conception of life - [[spoken/1966/660829bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 5.14–22]] — August 29, 1966, New York Of course, in logic also, human being is called rational animal - [[spoken/1966/660831bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 5.22–29]] — August 31, 1966, New York So that prescription is given, nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe - [[spoken/1966/660902bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 6.1–4]] — September 2, 1966, New York In the Sixth Chapter you'll find the process of yoga - [[spoken/1966/660905bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 6.4–12]] — September 5, 1966, New York So, so far nirukta, or dictionary, is concerned, body, mind and the spirit soul, everything is called self - [[spoken/1966/660907bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 6.11–21]] — September 7, 1966, New York In India there are some selected places, very sacred place, and the yogīs, generally they go there and sit there alone in a sacred place and, as prescribed in the Bhagavad-gītā, and perform there - [[spoken/1966/660914bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 6.21–27]] — September 14, 1966, New York So here, in the Bhagavad-gītā also, it is said that buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam - [[spoken/1966/660916bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 6.32–40]] — September 16, 1966, New York Now, after hearing the system, Arjuna is replying - [[spoken/1966/660919bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 6.40–43]] — September 19, 1966, New York Now, in the heavenly kingdom, it is said that our six months is - [[spoken/1966/661003bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 7.8–14]] — October 3, 1966, New York And in the spiritual world there is no need of sun and moon - [[spoken/1966/661005bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 7.11–16]] — October 5, 1966, New York Something misery are due to the body, something miserable due to the mind, something miserable due to the nature - [[spoken/1966/661007bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 7.15–18]] — October 7, 1966, New York So therefore jñānī—one who understands the science of God - [[spoken/1966/661010bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 7.18–20]] — October 10, 1966, New York So now here in the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord Kṛṣṇa says that bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate - [[spoken/1966/661021bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 7.28–8.6]] — October 21, 1966, New York So Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa says, jarā-maraṇa-mokṣāya mām āśritya - [[spoken/1966/661023bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.5–8]] — October 23, 1966, New York Because soul is now covered by the subtle body and the gross body - [[spoken/1966/661026bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.12–14]] — October 26, 1966, New York So Bhagavad-gītā is describing what should we do at the, at the point of our death, when we are giving up this body, this present body - [[spoken/1966/661028bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.14–15]] — October 28, 1966, New York Satatam means always, twenty-four hours, cent per cent, without any deviation - [[spoken/1966/661031bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.15–20]] — October 31, 1966, New York So Kṛṣṇa says that in the Brahmaloka, in the highest planet of this universe, even you enter there - [[spoken/1966/661102bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.20–22]] — November 2, 1966, New York So there are many volumes of knowledge of this material sky and spiritual sky - [[spoken/1966/661104bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.21–22]] — November 4, 1966, New York Because it is spoken in the Bhagavad-gītā and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is speaking Himself, there is no cause of doubting - [[spoken/1966/661107bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.22–27]] — November 7, 1966, New York So there, in the spiritual sky, there are spiritual planets, and on each planet the Lord is manifested - [[spoken/1966/661109bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 8.28–9.2]] — November 9, 1966, New York Now, this process of knowledge or this process of activities which we are trying to propagate as Kṛṣṇa consciousness - [[spoken/1966/661111bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2]] — November 11, 1966, New York A man who is liberated, his signs are explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā - [[spoken/1966/661116bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2–4]] — November 16, 1966, New York It is accepted by authorities, great authorities just like Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī and Lord Caitanya, all authorities of India - [[spoken/1966/661118bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.4–7]] — November 18, 1966, New York The Lord says that \"All the universal planets, they are resting on My energy - [[spoken/1966/661121bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.7–10]] — November 21, 1966, New York Sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām - [[spoken/1966/661123bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.11–14]] — November 23, 1966, New York So Kṛṣṇa says, avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam - [[spoken/1966/661125bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.13 [Partially Recorded]]] — November 25, 1966, New York We are all engaged in studying temporary, small things, problems, small problems - [[spoken/1966/661128bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.14–15]] — November 28, 1966, New York So, one who comes to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is compared with a nice flower - [[spoken/1966/661130bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.15]] And hearing is so powerful that simply by hearing from authoritative source, you can become completely perfect, simply by hearing - [[spoken/1966/661202bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.15–18]] — December 2, 1966, New York So those who are impersonalist, they prefer these three processes - [[spoken/1966/661205bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.18–19]] — December 5, 1966, New York So na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ - [[spoken/1966/661207bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.20–22]] — December 7, 1966, New York Now, Lord Kṛṣṇa has described different types of transcendentalist - [[spoken/1966/661209bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.22–23]] — December 9, 1966, New York So those who are in the sense of his real constitution - [[spoken/1966/661212bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.23–24]] — December 12, 1966, New York Now, worship of the Supreme Lord and worship of other demigods, that is being discussed in this verse by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1966/661214bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.24–26]] — December 14, 1966, New York So in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find that the Lord advises people in general that sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vra - [[spoken/1966/661216bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.26–27]] — December 16, 1966, New York So here the ultimate, even the poorest of the poorest, he can offer these four things - [[spoken/1966/661219bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.27–29]] — December 19, 1966, New York So here it is said, Lord Kṛṣṇa says, śubhāśubha-phalair evaṁ mokṣyase: \"If you dovetail your activities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you become liberated from all reactions, either good or bad - [[spoken/1966/661221bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.29–32]] — December 21, 1966, New York Na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati: \"Anyone who has taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he will be never destroyed - [[spoken/1966/661226bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 9.34]] — December 26, 1966, New York It is said in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā - [[spoken/1966/661228bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.1]] — December 28, 1966, New York Śrī-bhagavān uvāca, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said - [[spoken/1966/661230bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.1–3]] — December 30, 1966, New York In, in the market you'll have so many commentaries of the Bhagavad-gītā ## 1967 - [[spoken/1967/670102bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.2–3]] — January 2, 1967, New York So, na me viduḥ sura-gaṇāḥ prabhavaṁ na maharṣayaḥ aham ādir hi devānām - [[spoken/1967/670103bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.3]] — January 3, 1967, New York You can dictate some of your followers, that's all - [[spoken/1967/670104bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.4]] — January 4, 1967, New York Because the spirit does not die—eternal—so spiritual knowledge continues - [[spoken/1967/670106bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.4–5]] — January 6, 1967, New York Therefore in the present education there is hardly a few persons who are actually in knowledge, because they have neglected the spirit side of the activity - [[spoken/1967/670111bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.8]] — January 11, 1967, New York If you are careless of your body, your health, you don't care for your finger - [[spoken/1967/670331bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 10.8 [Partial Recording]]] — March 31, 1967, San Francisco This faith, ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅga ## 1968 - [[spoken/1968/680317bg.sf|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — March 17, 1968, San Francisco So Kṛṣṇa says mayi, \"unto Me\"; āsakta, \"attachment - [[spoken/1968/680326bg.sf|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — March 26, 1968, San Francisco Kṛṣṇa's name is Yogeśvara, and Lord Śiva's name is Yogīśvara - [[spoken/1968/680522bg.bos|Bhagavad-gītā 8.5–8]] — May 22, 1968, Boston - [[spoken/1968/680603bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3]] — May 22, 1968, Boston This is not only in this age, but in the material world that is the disease - [[spoken/1968/680610bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 4.5]] — June 10, 1968, Montreal So far appearance and disappearance is concerned, Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa are on the same level - [[spoken/1968/680613bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 4.7]] — June 13, 1968, Montreal That is explained in the next verse, that yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati - [[spoken/1968/680614bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 4.8]] — June 14, 1968, Montreal So duṣkṛtina means a person who does not believe in this - [[spoken/1968/680619bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 4.9]] — June 19, 1968, Montreal This continued repetition of accepting different kinds of body is finished simply by understanding what is God, how He appears, how He disappears, what are His activities - [[spoken/1968/680720bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītāLecture [Partially Recorded]]] — July 20, 1968, Montreal Avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate - [[spoken/1968/680824bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1]] — August 24, 1968, Montreal Everything has scientific process of understanding - [[spoken/1968/680910bg.sf|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — September 10, 1968, San Francisco This is the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that you have to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa in either of these aspects, and you have to develop your attachment for either of these aspect - [[spoken/1968/680911bg.sf|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2]] — September 11, 1968, San Francisco vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam sādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān - [[spoken/1968/681014bg.sea|Bhagavad-gītā 2.19–25]] — October 14, 1968, Seattle That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām - [[spoken/1968/681025bg.mon|Bhagavad-gītā 13.6–7 [Distorted audio]]] — October 25, 1968, Montreal Now, of course, we can theoretically accept that this is the position, but actually to understand this position, to acquire the requisite knowledge, that requires many stages of development - [[spoken/1968/681123bg.la|Introduction to Bhagavad-gītā As It Is]] — November 23, 1968, Los Angeles Most of you must have read some editions of Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1968/681125bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.1–10 and Talk]] — November 25, 1968, Los Angeles I think in our apartment also somebody must remain - [[spoken/1968/681127bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.8–12]] — November 27, 1968, Los Angeles You'll find, avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam - [[spoken/1968/681129bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13–17]] — November 29, 1968, Los Angeles I told you that we shall play, and still you forgot? - [[spoken/1968/681202bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — December 2, 1968, Los Angeles So in reply to that mode of yoga, Kṛṣṇa is directly speaking here, mayy āsakta-manāḥ - [[spoken/1968/681206bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.26]] — December 6, 1968, Los Angeles They do not believe in soul, transmigration of the soul - [[spoken/1968/681211bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.27–38]] — December 11, 1968, Los Angeles Because people have no idea what is the soul, therefore they think that stopping war will help us in peaceful condition of the society - [[spoken/1968/681213bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.40–45]] — December 13, 1968, Los Angeles The exact Sanskrit word is, bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛta-cetasām, vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ - [[spoken/1968/681216bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.46–62]] — December 16, 1968, Los Angeles The long-standing system in India in the villages - [[spoken/1968/681219bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.62–72]] — December 19, 1968, Los Angeles The real purpose of yoga is to control the senses - [[spoken/1968/681220bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 3.1–5]] — December 20, 1968, Los Angeles Sometimes it appears to the student contradictory - [[spoken/1968/681223bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 3.6–10]] — December 23, 1968, Los Angeles This material creation, you'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā that - [[spoken/1968/681227bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 3.11–19]] — December 27, 1968, Los Angeles So in this age it is very difficult to satisfy all the demigods differently - [[spoken/1968/681230bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 3.18–30]] — December 30, 1968, Los Angeles We work because we need something, but what need He has? ## 1969 - [[spoken/1969/690101bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 3.31–43]] — January 1, 1969, Los Angeles Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ - [[spoken/1969/690103bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1–6]] — January 3, 1969, Los Angeles If we want to study Bhagavad-gītā, then we follow the principles - [[spoken/1969/690106bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.7–10]] — January 6, 1969, Los Angeles In the Bhāgavatam it is said, dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam - [[spoken/1969/690108bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.11–18]] — January 8, 1969, Los Angeles God realization, there are three aspects: brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate - [[spoken/1969/690109bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.19–25]] — January 9, 1969, Los Angeles Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find there is a statement, kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānā yajanti anya-devatāḥ - [[spoken/1969/690111bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.31]] — January 11, 1969, Los Angeles So because you are transgressing the law, one day you will have to suffer - [[spoken/1969/690112bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.34–39]] — January 12, 1969, Los Angeles Where you cannot submit, if you think that \"Oh, what is this spiritual master? - [[spoken/1969/690113bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.26–30]] — January 13, 1969, Los Angeles I want unrestricted sex life, but I obey the order of the śāstras, or the law, that \"No, I shall not have sex life with anyone else without my married wife or husband - [[spoken/1969/690114bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 4.39–42]] — January 14, 1969, Los Angeles Because the subject matter of Bhagavad-gītā is to know five things: to know what are these living entities, what is God, what is nature, and what is time and what is work - [[spoken/1969/690122bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 5.1–2 [radio interference]]] — January 22, 1969, Los Angeles \"Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, first of all You ask me to renounce work, and then again You recommend work with devotion - [[spoken/1969/690208bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 5.17–25]] — February 8, 1969, Los Angeles Generally we accept a thing pleasant when it satisfies our senses - [[spoken/1969/690212bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 5.26–29]] — February 12, 1969, Los Angeles Therefore in Bhagavad-gītā you will find, paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ - [[spoken/1969/690213bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.1 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 13, 1969, Los Angeles So Kṛṣṇa consciousness engage means working, activity - [[spoken/1969/690214bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.2–5 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 14, 1969, Los Angeles There are two stages: one who is practicing yoga to reach to the perfectional platform, and one who has attained the perfectional platform - [[spoken/1969/690215bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.6–12 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 15, 1969, Los Angeles Therefore in the Padma Purāṇa says that you cannot understand about the form, name, quality, paraphernalia of God with these material senses - [[spoken/1969/690216bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.13–15 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 16, 1969, Los Angeles Yes, that I have explained, that you are to simply serve Him, then He will reveal - [[spoken/1969/690217bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.16–24 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 17, 1969, Los Angeles In the material field you cannot keep your mind in equilibrium - [[spoken/1969/690218bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.25–29 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 18, 1969, Los Angeles Therefore the preacher devotee is the most dearest devotee of Lord - [[spoken/1969/690219bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.30–34 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 19, 1969, Los Angeles So if you practice your life in this way, never lost to Kṛṣṇa, so at the time of death you are sure to go to Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1969/690220bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 6.35–45 [Sāṅkhya Yoga System]]] — February 20, 1969, Los Angeles Of course, if meditation is focusing the mind on Viṣṇu, that is very good - [[spoken/1969/690222bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — February 22, 1969, Los Angeles If one simply hears, simply by hearing sincerely, seriously, he becomes perfect - [[spoken/1969/690509bg.col|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1–2]] — May 9, 1969, Columbus So do you think that Kṛṣṇa is playing joke or speaking something lie, that he said to Vivasvān, the present presiding deity? ## 1971 - [[spoken/1971/710328bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–2]] — March 28, 1971, Bombay So these are saṁśayam, or doubts: whether there is actually God or not, whether God is dead or alive - [[spoken/1971/710329bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3 Paṇḍāl Wedding and Initiations at Cross Maidan]] — March 29, 1971, Bombay Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu - [[spoken/1971/710330bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.4–5]] — March 30, 1971, Bombay So this material world is separated energy from Kṛṣṇa, but it is energy, His energy—His energy, acting under His direction - [[spoken/1971/710401bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.7]] — April 1, 1971, Bombay So here Kṛṣṇa says that \"There is nobody greater than Me - [[spoken/1971/710405bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.11–13]] — April 5, 1971, Bombay The wife was very sexually agitated, and she requested the husband to have sexual intercourse - [[spoken/1971/710407bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.16]] — April 7, 1971, Bombay They are, according to śāstra, that striya-sūnā-pāna-dyūta yatra pāpāś catur-vidhā - [[spoken/1971/710408bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 16.2–7]] — April 8, 1971, Bombay Bhāgavata also says māyāśritānāṁ nara-dārakeṇa: \"Those who are under the protection of māyā, illusory energy, for them Kṛṣṇa is ordinary person or human being - [[spoken/1971/710717bg.det|Bhagavad-gītā 6.41]] — July 17, 1971, Detroit When Arjuna asked Kṛṣṇa that \"Persons who are trying to make perfection in the bhakti-yoga - [[spoken/1971/710718bg.det|Bhagavad-gītā 6.40–46]] — July 18, 1971, Detroit Therefore, Lord Kṛṣṇa says that a person who is spiritually advanced for him there is no miseries even in this world and what to speak of on the other world - [[spoken/1971/710729bg.gai|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 University of Florida]] — July 29, 1971, Gainesville This simple formula is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1971/710804bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3]] — August 4, 1971, London So even though you cannot see eye to eye Kṛṣṇa, you can execute this yoga system, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, through the agency of His bona fide representative - [[spoken/1971/710913bg.mom|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — September 12, 1971, Mombasa dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati - [[spoken/1971/710925bg.nai|Bhagavad-gītā 13.2]] — September 25, 1971, Nairobi So long we are in this bodily concept of life, then as long as we are feeling like that, all our activities are our defeat - [[spoken/1971/711110bg.del|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1]] — November 10, 1971, Delhi by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, five thousand years ago ## 1972 - [[spoken/1972/720214bg.mad|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — February 14, 1972, Madras So unfortunately, God is canvassing Himself personally, and still we are unaware of Him - [[spoken/1972/720223bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 16.5]] — February 23, 1972, Calcutta So these things are required for the material body, not for the spiritual body - [[spoken/1972/720307bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2]] — March 7, 1972, Calcutta So long he is not surrendering to Kṛṣṇa, he is trying to become Kṛṣṇa or he is posing himself as equal to Kṛṣṇa or sometimes above Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1972/720308bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2–3]] — March 8, 1972, Calcutta Soul is one—that is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—but according to karma, according to desire for material enjoyment, we have taken different dresses, and we are wandering all over the universe, according to our karma - [[spoken/1972/720309bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.4–6]] — March 9, 1972, Calcutta Therefore Kṛṣṇa particularly says avyakta-mūrtinā - [[spoken/1972/720325bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā Lecture]] — March 25, 1972, Bombay The real thing is that the soul, individual soul, because the individual soul has passed away, therefore the body is dead - [[spoken/1972/720326bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.9]] — March 26, 1972, Bombay So in the Bhagavad-gītā it is also said, yānti deva-vratā devān - [[spoken/1972/720327bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.10]] — March 27, 1972, Bombay For generating, there are two parts: the male part and female part - [[spoken/1972/720328bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.11–13]] — March 28, 1972, Bombay So here Kṛṣṇa says, balaṁ balavatāṁ cāhaṁ: \"I am the strength - [[spoken/1972/720329bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 in Hindi]] — March 28, 1972, Bombay So, to attain the Supreme Personality of Godhead the path has been enunciated by the Lord Himself when He says mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha - [[spoken/1972/720405bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 13.2]] — April 5, 1972, Melbourne When a man comes to inquire this point, that \"Why I am forced to leave my comfortable position? - [[spoken/1972/720415bg.auc|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 [Public Lecture]]] — April 15, 1972, Auckland Well, you are in my front. You are a soul. What is the difficulty? Everyone, you are all souls. You are in my front. Simply you are dressed only. Suppose you come in a dress. You are my friend. Do I see your dress or you? Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ - [[spoken/1972/720513bg.hon|Room Conversation on Bhagavad-gītā 6.11–14]] — May 13, 1972, Honolulu Samprekṣya nāsikāgraṁ svaṁ diśaś cānavalokayan - [[spoken/1972/720629bg.sd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — June 29, 1972, San Diego All respectable gentlemen, rich men, board on it and drowned - [[spoken/1972/720630in.sd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 & Initiations]] — June 30, 1972, San Diego So in the beginning, in order to increase your attachment for Kṛṣṇa, you have to follow the regulative principles, \"Don't do this - [[spoken/1972/720702bg.sd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — July 2, 1972, San Diego Here is positive proposition, that you concentrate on the form of Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1972/720801bg.gla|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11]] — August 1, 1972, Glasgow So actually, long, long years ago there was no division of this planet - [[spoken/1972/720817bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 [Staged before Camera]]] — August 17, 1972, Los Angeles The purpose of saying Bhagavad-gītā as it is, explained, that there are many editions of Bhagavad-gītā, they have interpreted in their own way, giving up the spirit of Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1972/720908bg.pit|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — September 8, 1972, Pittsburgh So this body has been given to us by material nature as our field of activities - [[spoken/1972/721012bg.man|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — October 12, 1972, Manila So we have to accept these things that we are prone to commit mistake, we are illusioned, we cheat, and our senses are imperfect - [[spoken/1972/721117bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — November 17, 1972, Hyderabad \" So it is millions and millions, at least, four hundred thousand millions of times, millions of years ago, according to the calculation of Manu - [[spoken/1972/721118bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — November 18, 1972, Hyderabad In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ - [[spoken/1972/721119bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — November 19, 1972, Hyderabad So Kṛṣṇa in the beginning said that \"You are lamenting on the point that your brothers, your grandfather, they will die - [[spoken/1972/721121bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.15]] — November 21, 1972, Hyderabad So here in the Bhagavad-gītā gives you a nice formula - [[spoken/1972/721122bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.17]] — November 22, 1972, Hyderabad Unfortunately, the so-called scientist, he has no idea - [[spoken/1972/721123bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.18]] — November 23, 1972, Hyderabad they are serving the whole body, similarly, Kṛṣṇa is the supreme whole and we are His parts and parcels; therefore our duty is to serve Him - [[spoken/1972/721125bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.20]] — November 25, 1972, Hyderabad Therefore we make some plan in this life, and my this material body, this gross body, is finished; that is dead - [[spoken/1972/721126bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.22]] — November 26, 1972, Hyderabad Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ - [[spoken/1972/721127bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.23]] — November 27, 1972, Hyderabad That is explained in the next verse, that nainaṁ chindanti śastrāṇi: you cannot cut the spirit soul by any weapon, knife, sword or pistol[? - [[spoken/1972/721128bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.24]] — November 28, 1972, Hyderabad Prārabdha means you are enjoying the fruits of your past activities - [[spoken/1972/721129bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.25]] — November 29, 1972, Hyderabad Kṛṣṇa is sanātana, and His dealing with His devotees, that is also sanātana - [[spoken/1972/721129le.hyd|Rotary Club Lecture Bhagavad-gītā 3.21]] — November 29, 1972, Hyderabad Rotarians and Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kindly inviting me in this important meeting of very respectable gentlemen of the city - [[spoken/1972/721130bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.26]] — November 30, 1972, Hyderabad Therefore our śāstra says, acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvāḥ - [[spoken/1972/721205le.ahm|Rotary Club Lecture "Sanātana-dharma" Bhagavad-gītā 2.24]] — December 5, 1972, Ahmedabad So the statement of Bhagavad-gītā is sarva-gataḥ: \"Living entities everywhere - [[spoken/1972/721206bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 2.1]] — December 6, 1972, Ahmedabad Now, in the First Chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā, the - [[spoken/1972/721207bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 2.1]] — December 7, 1972, Ahmedabad So the attachment of this material world is very strong - [[spoken/1972/721209bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 18.67–69]] — December 9, 1972, Ahmedabad about Kṛṣṇa's forbidding Arjuna not to speak this Bhagavad-gītā to a person who is not very much advanced in austerity and penance - [[spoken/1972/721210bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 18.67]] — December 10, 1972, Ahmedabad Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna - [[spoken/1972/721211bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 2.2–6]] — December 10, 1972, Ahmedabad So this Āryan system, progressive system, is cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ - [[spoken/1972/721212bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 6.47]] — December 12, 1972, Ahmedabad In Second Chapter, the Lord has very elaborately explained the constitutional position of the living entity, and the whole first portion of the six chapters - [[spoken/1972/721213bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — December 13, 1972, Ahmedabad Because the other yoga system, they will disagree, that \"Simply by thinking of Kṛṣṇa within one's heart, how one becomes perfect? - [[spoken/1972/721214bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3]] — December 14, 1972, Ahmedabad It is knowledge, and practically applicable in life - [[spoken/1972/721219bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.4]] — December 19, 1972, Bombay , there are so many subtle laws of material nature, or God - [[spoken/1972/721229bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–2]] — December 29, 1972, Bombay \"Arjuna said: O my dear Kṛṣṇa, I wish to know about prakṛti, nature; puruṣa, or the enjoyer; and the field and the knower of the field; and of knowledge and the end of knowledge - [[spoken/1972/721230bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.3]] — December 30, 1972, Bombay Therefore here it is said, kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata - [[spoken/1972/721231bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.2–4]] — December 31, 1972, Bombay \" Knowledge means to understand the owner of the body and the body ## 1973 - [[spoken/1973/730101bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.13 Hindi]] — January 1, 1973, Bombay - [[spoken/1973/730113bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — January 13, 1973, Bombay Aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya, strength, influence - [[spoken/1973/730127bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — January 27, 1973, Calcutta We are reciting from Bhagavad-gītā, Seventh Chapter - [[spoken/1973/730211bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 3.36–37]] — February 11, 1973, Melbourne atha kena prayukto 'yaṁ pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ anicchann api vārṣṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ - [[spoken/1973/730216bg.syd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 Engagement]] — February 16, 1973, Sydney So the Bhagavad-gītā is the basic principle of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement - [[spoken/1973/730222bg.auc|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — February 22, 1973, Auckland So Kṛṣṇa also said that if you want to enter this group, yānti deva-vratā devān, you can do so - [[spoken/1973/730225r1.jkt|Room Conversation, Bhagavad-gītā 9.34]] — February 25, 1973, Jakarta When Kṛṣṇa says, man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ - [[spoken/1973/730226bg.jkt|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12 [Hindi]]] — February 26, 1973, Jakarta - [[spoken/1973/730305bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — March 5, 1973, Calcutta First of all, He's the Supreme Personality of Godhead - [[spoken/1973/730306bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 10.1–3]] — March 6, 1973, Calcutta \" Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is very easy, at the same time it is very difficult - [[spoken/1973/730408bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 4.13]] — April 8, 1973, New York Now, Kṛṣṇa says: catur varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ - [[spoken/1973/730411bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — April 11, 1973, New York So they have no this knowledge; the bodily concept of life, they're absorbed, and still they're authority of Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1973/730629bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.10]] — June 29, 1973, Calcutta So he was lecturing on his theory that life has begun by combination of certain chemicals - [[spoken/1973/730630bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 9.11]] — June 30, 1973, Calcutta Therefore Kṛṣṇa warns this: avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ - [[spoken/1973/730707bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.1]] — July 7, 1973, London So the general regulation is that woman should remain under the protection of husband, er, father, husband and children - [[spoken/1973/730709bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.2–3]] — July 9, 1973, London So Dhṛtarāṣṭra inquired from Sañjaya, kim akurvata: \"After my sons and my brother's sons assembled together for fighting, what did they do? - [[spoken/1973/730710bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.4–5]] — July 10, 1973, London This is a subtle form of philosophical understanding - [[spoken/1973/730711bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.6–7]] — July 11, 1973, London So formerly, five thousand years ago, the same system, military—ordinary soldiers, then the captain, then the commander, the commander-in-chief—as there are gradation in the modern age, the same thing was there - [[spoken/1973/730712bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.8–10]] — July 12, 1973, London Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate - [[spoken/1973/730713bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.11–12]] — July 13, 1973, London So Duryodhana was doubting, that \"My grandfather, Bhīṣma, is more affectionately inclined to the other party - [[spoken/1973/730714bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.13–14]] — July 14, 1973, London But because He comes just like a human being and acts also just like human being, those who are less intelligent, avajānanti, they think of Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being - [[spoken/1973/730715bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.15]] — July 15, 1973, London So anyone within this material world, they are prisoners - [[spoken/1973/730716bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.16–19]] — July 16, 1973, London So the grandfather, the grandsons, all of them were present, because they were allies - [[spoken/1973/730717bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.20]] — July 17, 1973, London Therefore they interpret foolishly, speculate, and demonstrate their rascaldom - [[spoken/1973/730718bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.21–22]] — July 18, 1973, London Senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me acyuta - [[spoken/1973/730719bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.23]] — July 19, 1973, London To usurp others' property is durbuddhi, mischievous - [[spoken/1973/730720bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.24–25]] — July 20, 1973, London Actually Sañjaya, the secretary of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, he is relating the activities in the battlefield - [[spoken/1973/730721bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.26–27]] — July 21, 1973, London So some of the family members on the other side, and some of the family members this side - [[spoken/1973/730722bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.28–29]] — July 22, 1973, London But still, dehātma-buddhi, the bodily concept of life is so strong that Arjuna admits, dṛṣṭvā tu svajanaṁ kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1973/730723bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.30]] — July 23, 1973, London Nobody thinks that there is no happiness within these three worlds, beginning from Brahmaloka down to the Pātālaloka - [[spoken/1973/730724bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.31]] — July 24, 1973, London So wherefrom we got this idea that I cannot enjoy alone? - [[spoken/1973/730725bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.32–35]] — July 25, 1973, London So Arjuna is thinking in terms of his own sense gratification - [[spoken/1973/730726bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.36]] — July 26, 1973, London Pāpam means sinful activities, and puṇyam is pious - [[spoken/1973/730727bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.37–39]] — July 27, 1973, London So other party, Duryodhana's party, they were not considering all these pious or impious, sinful or vicious activities - [[spoken/1973/730728bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.40]] — July 28, 1973, London So when we study things from material point of view, these things are to be taken care - [[spoken/1973/730729bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.41–42]] — July 29, 1973, London So unwanted children, as we have discussed in the previous - [[spoken/1973/730730bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.43]] — July 30, 1973, London Manuṣyāṇāṁ, those who are human being, they have got family and family rituals, kula-dharma, jāti-dharma - [[spoken/1973/730731bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.44]] — July 31, 1973, London So, sometimes Arjuna is accused, Bhagavad-gītā is also accused, that \"There is violence - [[spoken/1973/730801bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 1.45–46]] — August 1, 1973, London Material world means step by step, simply danger - [[spoken/1973/730803bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.2]] — August 3, 1973, London Actually, these Māyāvādī philosophers, they are so great rascals they sometimes say like that, that Vyāsadeva is also mistaken - [[spoken/1973/730804bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.3]] — August 4, 1973, London So just see how Kṛṣṇa is inducing Arjuna to fight - [[spoken/1973/730805bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.4–5]] — August 5, 1973, London \"Bhīṣma is a great devotee, and similarly, Droṇācārya also, a great personality - [[spoken/1973/730806bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.6]] — August 6, 1973, London So here the position is that Arjuna is to fight not for himself, but he is only thinking in terms of himself - [[spoken/1973/730807bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.7]] — August 7, 1973, London Doṣa means fault When one does not act according to his position, that is fault, and that is called miserly - [[spoken/1973/730808bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.8]] — August 8, 1973, London Therefore he has approached Kṛṣṇa, śiṣyas te 'ham - [[spoken/1973/730810bg.par|Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–2]] — August 10, 1973, Paris Just like the materialist scientists, they are simply trying to know the prakṛti, but they do not know the puruṣa - [[spoken/1973/730811bg.par|Bhagavad-gītā 13.3]] — August 11, 1973, Paris So Arjuna inquired from Kṛṣṇa six things: kṣetra, kṣetrajña, prakṛti, puruṣa, jñānam, jñeyam - [[spoken/1973/730812bg.par|Bhagavad-gītā 13.4]] — August 12, 1973, Paris Idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate - [[spoken/1973/730813bg.par|Bhagavad-gītā 13.5]] — August 13, 1973, Paris So the Europe and America, they have enough of material enjoyment - [[spoken/1973/730815bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.9]] — August 15, 1973, London So in this way, evam uktvā, \"saying this, 'So there is no profit in fighting,' \" evam uktvā, \"saying this,\" hṛṣīkeśam - [[spoken/1973/730816bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.10]] — August 16, 1973, London So even Arjuna, Kṛṣṇa's direct friend, māyā is so strong that he also becomes a rascal, what to speak of others - [[spoken/1973/730817b2.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11–12, Engagement]] — August 17, 1973, London So wealth, strength, reputation, beauty and knowledge - [[spoken/1973/730817bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11]] — August 17, 1973, London So Kṛṣṇa says this body, either in living force or without living force - [[spoken/1973/730818bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — August 18, 1973, London This is the first lesson to understand, what is spiritual life, what is spiritual knowledge - [[spoken/1973/730819bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — August 19, 1973, London Therefore it is mentioned here, dhīras tatra na muhyati - [[spoken/1973/730820bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.14]] — August 20, 1973, London In the previous verse it has been described, dehino 'smin yathā dehe - [[spoken/1973/730821bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.15]] — August 21, 1973, London So the whole scheme is—Vedic scheme, not otherwise—how to become immortal - [[spoken/1973/730822bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.16]] — August 22, 1973, London Similarly, material world, matter, is not false, but it is nonpermanent - [[spoken/1973/730823bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.17]] — August 23, 1973, London Now it is very clearly enunciated, the nature of the soul - [[spoken/1973/730824bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.18]] — August 24, 1973, London Therefore in the Vedānta-sūtra it is said that you want to see or perceive directly anything - [[spoken/1973/730825bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.19–20]] — August 25, 1973, London So, in different ways, Kṛṣṇa is trying to convince us how the soul is immortal - [[spoken/1973/730826bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.21–22]] — August 26, 1973, London If during maṅgala-ārati we feel laziness, that means I'm not yet spiritually advanced - [[spoken/1973/730827bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.23–24]] — August 27, 1973, London Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam - [[spoken/1973/730828bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.25]] — August 28, 1973, London So Kṛṣṇa began this teaching to Arjuna first of all, aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase - [[spoken/1973/730829bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.26–27]] — August 29, 1973, London So the decision of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ - [[spoken/1973/730830bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.28]] — August 30, 1973, London Antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ - [[spoken/1973/730831bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.30]] — August 31, 1973, London This topic began, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā - [[spoken/1973/730901bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.31]] — September 1, 1973, London So Kṛṣṇa is advising Arjuna that \"This fight is not ordinary fight - [[spoken/1973/730902bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.32]] — September 2, 1973, London So, it is the duty of the kṣatriya to see that everyone is executing his proper professional or occupational duty - [[spoken/1973/730903bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.33–35]] — September 3, 1973, London Our great leader, Mahatma Gandhi, he wanted to prove from Bhagavad-gītā nonviolence - [[spoken/1973/730904bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.36–37]] — September 4, 1973, London Some rascal has killed some man giving the reason that killing is not sinful, because in the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated there - [[spoken/1973/730905bg.lon|Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī's Appearance Day Bhagavad-gītā 18.5]] — September 5, 1973, London There are four stages of spiritual life: the brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa - [[spoken/1973/730907le.sto|Lecture at Uppsala University Faculty Bhagavad-gītā 13.1]] — September 7, 1973, Stockholm So Arjuna preferred to take Kṛṣṇa on his side, and the other party, Duryodhana, he decided to take Kṛṣṇa's soldiers - [[spoken/1973/730907bg.sto|Bhagavad-gītā 18.41 Uppsala Student Assembly]] — September 7, 1973, Stockholm Therefore the Vedānta-sūtra philosophy, that begins with the word athāto brahma-jijñāsā - [[spoken/1973/730908bg.sto|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 At Uppsala University]] — September 8, 1973, Stockholm Just like riches, reputation, strength, beauty, knowledge, renunciation, these are called opulences - [[spoken/1973/730910bg.sto|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3]] — September 10, 1973, Stockholm This is a verse from the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā which we have published: Bhagavad-gītā As It Is - [[spoken/1973/730912bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.39]] — September 12, 1973, London Kaṁsa, just like; he was simply thinking of Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1973/730913bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.40]] — September 13, 1973, London Tyaktvā sva-dharmam—he was meant for something else, but he joined Kṛṣṇa consciousness - [[spoken/1973/730924bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–2]] — September 24, 1973, Bombay \" This is the Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1973/730925bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–2]] — September 25, 1973, Bombay So Kṛṣṇa replied, idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate - [[spoken/1973/730926bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.3]] — September 26, 1973, Bombay So as soon as our consciousness becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious - [[spoken/1973/730927bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.4]] — September 27, 1973, Bombay Yesterday we have discussed that two souls, the individual soul and the Supersoul, both of them are living within this body - [[spoken/1973/730928bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.5]] — September 28, 1973, Bombay So therefore Brahma-sūtra is called nyāya-prasthāna - [[spoken/1973/730929bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.6–7]] — September 29, 1973, Bombay We are using Kṛṣṇa's property, but we are claiming \"our - [[spoken/1973/730930bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12]] — September 30, 1973, Bombay People are searching after īśvara, \"Can you show me God? - [[spoken/1973/731002bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12]] — October 2, 1973, Bombay Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanāḥ sarvair guṇair tatra samāsate surāḥ - [[spoken/1973/731003bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12]] — October 3, 1973, Bombay Vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini - [[spoken/1973/731005bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12]] — October 5, 1973, Bombay So we have been discussing for the last few days about the process of knowledge - [[spoken/1973/731006bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.13]] — October 6, 1973, Bombay So this chapter is explanation of the knower and knowledge - [[spoken/1973/731007bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.14]] — October 7, 1973, Bombay So, we are now discussing jñeyam, the object of knowledge - [[spoken/1973/731009bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.15]] — October 9, 1973, Bombay Therefore we have to make our eyes cleansed so that we can see - [[spoken/1973/731010bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.16]] — October 10, 1973, Bombay Now this sun globe, it is very powerful planet within this universe - [[spoken/1973/731011bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.17]] — October 11, 1973, Bombay This is another statement of Bhagavad-gītā, that the Lord, Supreme Lord, He is situated in everyone's heart, hṛd-deśe, particularly pointed out - [[spoken/1973/731012bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.18]] — October 12, 1973, Bombay So this Vedic civilization is meant for Brahman realization - [[spoken/1973/731013bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.19]] — October 13, 1973, Bombay Every one of us, a little body of a child, then little grown-up body of a boy, then youthful body, then this old body - [[spoken/1973/731014bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.20]] — October 14, 1973, Bombay So it is the duty of the part and parcel of God to help Him enjoying - [[spoken/1973/731015bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.21]] — October 15, 1973, Bombay This is very funny, that you get the body according to your karma, but the - [[spoken/1973/731020bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.22]] — October 20, 1973, Bombay [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc - [[spoken/1973/731022bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.23]] — October 22, 1973, Bombay So the other body, which is described here, Paramātmā - [[spoken/1973/731023bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.24]] — October 23, 1973, Bombay Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ya evaṁ vetti puruṣaṁ prakṛtim - [[spoken/1973/731025bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 13.26]] — October 25, 1973, Bombay So, again Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is stressing on the point how to avoid death - [[spoken/1973/731026bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 [Hindi]]] — October 26, 1973, Bombay Bhagavad bhakti, Bhagavad-gītā means bhagavad bhakti, devotional service - [[spoken/1973/731028bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 15.1]] — October 28, 1973, Vrndavana Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ - [[spoken/1973/731029bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 Hindi]] — October 29, 1973, Vrndavana God had inspired me and I was instructed by my Guru Maharaja that there should be some preaching in English language in the western countries - [[spoken/1973/731030bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 Hindi]] — October 30, 1973, Vrndavana - [[spoken/1973/731031bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3]] — October 30, 1973, Vrndavana So long you are in material condition, you have to suffer all these miseries, either you become rich man or poor man - [[spoken/1973/731103bg.del|Bhagavad-gītā 3.9]] — November 3, 1973, Delhi which produces some result which binds us in karma ## 1974 - [[spoken/1974/740131bg.hk|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–5]] — January 31, 1974, Hong Kong So how you can understand whether Kṛṣṇa, or God, is satisfied by discharging your particular type of duty? - [[spoken/1974/740206bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 3.9–14]] — February 6, 1974, Vrndavana So long we are in ignorance, we do not care for these four things: birth, death, old age and disease - [[spoken/1974/740207bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1]] — February 7, 1974, Vrndavana Anything attempting to understand the Absolute Truth, it is called yoga, yoga system, mainly - [[spoken/1974/740208bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.2]] — February 8, 1974, Vrndavana [indistinct] So we have explained rājarṣi, the big kings just like Manu, Ikṣvāku coming from the sun god - [[spoken/1974/740210bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.3]] — February 10, 1974, Vrndavana So this verse we discussed last night, that this bhagavad-bhakti-yoga is not a new thing - [[spoken/1974/740212bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.4]] — February 12, 1974, Vrndavana This is the misgiving of ordinary human being—to misunderstand Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1974/740213bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.5]] — February 13, 1974, Vrndavana The Supreme Personality of Godhead says that the distinction between God and the living entities - [[spoken/1974/740218bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3]] — February 18, 1974, Bombay That means out of millions and trillions of persons - [[spoken/1974/740219bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.4]] — February 19, 1974, Bombay So from the Supreme Soul all these material elements have come - [[spoken/1974/740220bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.5]] — February 20, 1974, Bombay Just like a child is seated on the car, and the car is moving - [[spoken/1974/740222bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.7]] — February 22, 1974, Bombay So the material and spiritual world, everything is manifestation of two energies - [[spoken/1974/740223bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.8]] — February 23, 1974, Bombay So you can perceive Kṛṣṇa's presence, Kṛṣṇa's all-pervasiveness, even while you drink water - [[spoken/1974/740224bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.9–10]] — February 24, 1974, Bombay The same manure, same water, the same gardener, but according to different flowers, the fragrance is different - [[spoken/1974/740225bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.11–12]] — February 25, 1974, Bombay In the śāstra it is stated that jīvo jīvasya jīvanam - [[spoken/1974/740226bg.cal|Bhagavad-gītā 15.1]] — February 26, 1974, Calcutta Just like from the root the tree grows and becomes expanded - [[spoken/1974/740321bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.1]] — March 21, 1974, Bombay So we are beginning today speaking on Bhagavad-gītā, the preliminary scientific study of this science of God - [[spoken/1974/740322bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.2]] — March 22, 1974, Bombay From the material standard, gradually we have to go upwards and come to the point of understanding Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1974/740323bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.3]] — March 23, 1974, Bombay This is very important verse to understand Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1974/740324bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.4]] — March 24, 1974, Bombay \" They cannot understand that Kṛṣṇa spoke this Bhagavad-gītā millions of years ago to the sun-god - [[spoken/1974/740325bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.5]] — March 25, 1974, Bombay So Bhagavān is individual; we are also individual, part and parcel - [[spoken/1974/740326bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.6]] — March 26, 1974, Bombay Therefore ajo 'pi san: Kṛṣṇa has no birth, no death - [[spoken/1974/740327bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.7]] — March 27, 1974, Bombay This is very important verse in the Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1974/740328bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.8]] — March 28, 1974, Bombay So, the routine work of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, how and when He appears - [[spoken/1974/740329bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.9]] — March 29, 1974, Bombay Our problem is this transmigration of the soul, one body to another, this is going on - [[spoken/1974/740330bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.10]] — March 30, 1974, Bombay This is another explanation of Kṛṣṇa's greatness, that by His one plenary expansion, eko 'py asau racayitum, one plenary expansion is maintaining the whole material creation—eko 'py asau racayitum—just to create this material world - [[spoken/1974/740331bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.11]] — March 31, 1974, Bombay So it requires a little qualification, how to go to the sun planet - [[spoken/1974/740401bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.12 Appearance Day of Lord Rāmacandra]] — April 1, 1974, Bombay Antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ - [[spoken/1974/740402bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.13]] — April 2, 1974, Bombay Kṛṣṇa says, \"These four varṇas are created by Me - [[spoken/1974/740403bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.14]] — April 3, 1974, Bombay Therefore the karma should be systematized, and it should be regulated by brahminical culture, by kṣatriya culture, by vaiśya culture, by śūdra culture - [[spoken/1974/740404bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.15]] — April 4, 1974, Bombay Now, in this verse three times, four times, the word has been used, pūrvataram, pūrvatamaiḥ - [[spoken/1974/740405bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.16]] — April 5, 1974, Bombay So again the same beginning: cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ - [[spoken/1974/740406bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.17]] — April 6, 1974, Bombay Now, when we act something on account of my persistence by the sanction of the Lord, then I become subjected to the fruits of such resultant action, and we get a different type of body - [[spoken/1974/740407bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.18]] — April 7, 1974, Bombay So the ultimate goal of life is to understand Viṣṇu - [[spoken/1974/740408bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.19]] — April 8, 1974, Bombay Mahārāja Ikṣvāku is the first king of the sun dynasty, sūrya-vaṁśa, kṣatriya, the forefather of the dynasty where Rāmacandra, Lord Rāmacandra, appeared - [[spoken/1974/740409bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.20]] — April 9, 1974, Bombay Those who are sūraya, devas, demigods, they are simply worshiping tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padam, the Supreme Personality of Godhead - [[spoken/1974/740410bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.21]] — April 10, 1974, Bombay To keep your health and body, and the body and the soul together, you must live very nicely so that you may not be diseased - [[spoken/1974/740411bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.22]] — April 11, 1974, Bombay So our falldown, this I have explained the other day, is there when we wanted to compete with Kṛṣṇa or become Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1974/740412bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.23]] — April 12, 1974, Bombay Most American boys and girls, they are all beautiful - [[spoken/1974/740413bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.24]] — April 13, 1974, Bombay So to hear about Kṛṣṇa it does not appeal to everyone - [[spoken/1974/740414bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.25]] — April 14, 1974, Bombay There are different types of yajña, sacrifices, and the person who offers sacrifices, he is called yogī - [[spoken/1974/740415bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.26]] — April 15, 1974, Bombay And how we are trying to be master or enjoyer of this material world? - [[spoken/1974/740416bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.27]] — April 16, 1974, Bombay Actually, it is very difficult to control the mind - [[spoken/1974/740417bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.28]] — April 17, 1974, Bombay So charity, or sacrificing your possession for the benefit of others, this is also yajña - [[spoken/1974/740419bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 13.3]] — April 19, 1974, Hyderabad So therefore the Vedic injunction is tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1 - [[spoken/1974/740420bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 13.4]] — April 20, 1974, Hyderabad So to some extent we have discussed from where we have to receive knowledge, perfect knowledge, without any mistake, without any illusion - [[spoken/1974/740427bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — April 27, 1974, Hyderabad The difficulty is that when you are admitted into some school - [[spoken/1974/740428bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2]] — April 28, 1974, Hyderabad So, I began from the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, how to develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness - [[spoken/1974/740512bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 12.13–14]] — May 12, 1974, Bombay That is the teaching of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, not that we go to God and beg our daily bread - [[spoken/1974/740525bg.rom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.10, Public Lecture]] — May 25, 1974, Rome So long we are materially attached, we have to accept a type of body according to our resultant action of activities - [[spoken/1974/740531bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 4.10 Festival at Maison de Faubourg]] — May 31, 1974, Geneva So that spiritual nature is described in the Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1974/740601bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 4.11]] — June 1, 1974, Geneva Now, Kṛṣṇa says, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante: \"According to the degree of surrender, one comes nearer and nearer - [[spoken/1974/740606bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 13.35]] — June 6, 1974, Geneva Yuktāhāra-vihārasya yogo bhavati siddhaye - [[spoken/1974/740607bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 8.1]] — June 7, 1974, Geneva So our Vaiṣṇava philosophy, biggest means Kṛṣṇa, because He is the richest, He is the strongest, He is the wisest, He is the most beautiful - [[spoken/1974/740613bg.par|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1–3]] — June 13, 1974, Paris So as you are all ladies and gentleman interested in the yoga system, so the first-class yoga system is bhakti-yoga - [[spoken/1974/740616bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.1–5]] — June 16, 1974, Germany So Arjuna belonged to the group of men who was meant for giving protection to the society - [[spoken/1974/740618bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13]] — June 18, 1974, Germany So that is also explained here: dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā - [[spoken/1974/740622bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13 "Life after Death"]] — June 22, 1974, Bad Homburg, Germany It is not theory; it is fact, stated in the Vedic literature, Padma Purāṇa, how we have passed through so many bodies, and ultimately we have got this civilized civilized human form of body - [[spoken/1974/740623bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.14]] — June 23, 1974, Germany Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam - [[spoken/1974/740625bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 13.22–24]] — June 25, 1974, Melbourne Therefore it is common sense, one who is smaller or weak, he is enjoyed by the stronger - [[spoken/1974/740627bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 3.27 at Town Hall]] — June 27, 1974, Melbourne So actually we are suffering, but we are accepting it as enjoying - [[spoken/1974/740629bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — June 29, 1974, Melbourne Those who are philosophers, speculating what is God, what is the Absolute Truth, they cannot know - [[spoken/1974/740630bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.1–2]] — June 30, 1974, Melbourne So that Bhagavān, that Supreme Personality of Godhead, is speaking - [[spoken/1974/740702r2.mel|Room Conversation, Bhagavad-gītā 16.7–23]] — July 2, 1974, **Melbourne Simply by tilling your ground you get food grains, and keep some cows, you get milk—your economic problem is solved - [[spoken/1974/740703bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 17.1–3]] — July 3, 1974, Honolulu , Arjuna's inquiry is very nice, that \"One who is not following the śāstra-vidhi, the direction of the śāstra, but has got some faith, some vague idea, then what will be considered? - [[spoken/1974/740802bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.10]] — August 2, 1974, Vrndavana So, so long we are in the material nature, external nature, we are unhappy - [[spoken/1974/740803bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.11]] — August 3, 1974, Vṛndāvana — August 3, 1974, Vrndavana Now, in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa - [[spoken/1974/740804bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.12]] — August 4, 1974, Vrndavana So that is stated in the Vedas, that parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate, svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca - [[spoken/1974/740805bg.vrn|Conversation on Bhagavad-gītā 4.13]] — August 5, 1974, Vrndavana Even if you don't quote, you can assert firmly that everyone is a śūdra - [[spoken/1974/740806bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 4.14]] — August 6, 1974, Vrndavana So in another place Kṛṣṇa says, janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ - [[spoken/1974/740809bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3]] — August 9, 1974, Vrndavana So generally, those who are inquiring about the Absolute Truth, they come to the point of brahma-jñāna - [[spoken/1974/740810bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.4]] — August 10, 1974, Vrndavana So these energies, the external energy, Kṛṣṇa says they are separated - [[spoken/1974/740811bg.vrn|Janmāṣṭamī, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa's Appearance Day Bhagavad-gītā 7.5]] — August 11, 1974, Vrndavana Kṛṣṇa has proposed in the beginning of this chapter that asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu - [[spoken/1974/740812bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.6]] — August 12, 1974, Vrndavana So Kṛṣṇa is the original source of prabhavaḥ pralaya - [[spoken/1974/740813bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.7]] — August 13, 1974, Vrndavana So here the decision is given by Kṛṣṇa Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead - [[spoken/1974/740815bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.9]] — August 15, 1974, Vrndavana So as soon as you remember Kṛṣṇa or you say or utter the word \"Kṛṣṇa,\" immediately Kṛṣṇa contacts you - [[spoken/1974/740816bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.10]] — August 16, 1974, Vrndavana So bījaṁ, the original seed of life: sarva-bhūtānāṁ - [[spoken/1974/740922bg.del|Bhagavad-gītā 13.26]] — September 22, 1974, Delhi So therefore, unless you come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whatever you are acting in your daily life, it is sinful - [[spoken/1974/740923bg.cal|Rādhāṣṭamī Bhagavad-gītā 4.10]] — September 23, 1974, Calcutta man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ ## 1975 - [[spoken/1975/750123cs.bom|Cornerstone Laying Bhagavad-gītā 16.7–9]] — January 23, 1975, Bombay So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to create a class of men ideal, first-class men, with satyaṁ, śaucaṁ, tapo, śamaḥ, damaḥ, titikṣaḥ - [[spoken/1975/750125bg.hk|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — January 25, 1975, Hong Kong So this realization can be possible by yoga practice, mystic yoga - [[spoken/1975/750127bg.tok|Bhagavad-gītā 16.7]] — January 27, 1975, Tokyo So here is the chance of getting freedom from this evolutionary process - [[spoken/1975/750128bg.tok|Bhagavad-gītā 16.8]] — January 28, 1975, Tokyo Jagat, jagat means this cosmic manifestation which is gacchati, going - [[spoken/1975/750129bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.1–3]] — January 29, 1975, Honolulu That is stated in the Second Chapter, that ajo nityaḥ - [[spoken/1975/750130bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.4]] — January 30, 1975, Honolulu By the characteristics we can understand who is a godly man and who is a demonic man - [[spoken/1975/750131bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.5]] — January 31, 1975, Honolulu So when we come to this platform of knowledge, that daivī sampad vimokṣāya, then you become liberated immediately - [[spoken/1975/750202bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.6]] — February 2, 1975, Honolulu Indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ - [[spoken/1975/750203bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.7]] — February 3, 1975, Honolulu We have already discussed the characteristic of divine nature and the characteristic of demonic nature - [[spoken/1975/750204bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.8]] — February 4, 1975, Honolulu Prapañcikā means considering something as material - [[spoken/1975/750205bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.9]] — February 5, 1975, Honolulu Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ - [[spoken/1975/750206bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.10]] — February 6, 1975, Honolulu We have explained who are demons and who are divine, or demigods - [[spoken/1975/750207bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.11–12]] — February 7, 1975, Honolulu Therefore Kṛṣṇa advises, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru - [[spoken/1975/750208bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.13–15]] — February 8, 1975, Honolulu So the Māyāvādī philosophers, they cannot understand - [[spoken/1975/750211bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11 [with Spanish translator]]] — February 11, 1975, Mexico City So our process of receiving knowledge is from the supreme controller because, according to the definition already given: wise, the most wise - [[spoken/1975/750212bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — February 12, 1975, Mexico City So Kṛṣṇa began His teaching to Arjuna, chastising him that \"You do not know anything; still, you are talking like a learned man - [[spoken/1975/750214bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 2.14]] — February 14, 1975, **Mexico City So we can get that body next life, and we have to cultivate how to get that type of body - [[spoken/1975/750215bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 2.15 [with Spanish translator]]] — February 15, 1975, Mexico City So everyone in this material world, either human being or animals or birds and beast, is trying to be the lord of the universe - [[spoken/1975/750216bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 2.16 [with Spanish translator]]] — February 16, 1975, Mexico City So we are discussing about the soul and the body for the last four days - [[spoken/1975/750217bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 2.17 [with Spanish translator]]] — February 17, 1975, Mexico City Then we'll understand that what is soul, what is the business of the soul, why the soul is entrapped in this bodily - [[spoken/1975/750225bg.mia|Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–2]] — February 25, 1975, Miami But friendly talking does not come to any conclusion - [[spoken/1975/750226bg.mia|Bhagavad-gītā 13.3]] — February 26, 1975, Miami So one who understands this fact, that \"My father is different from the body of my father,\" or \"I am different from my body - [[spoken/1975/750227bg.mia|Bhagavad-gītā Lecture]] — February 27, 1975, Miami So our process of understanding, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement—we do not hear from any bogus person - [[spoken/1975/750309bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — March 9, 1975, London So we cannot accept the theories or the statement of some defective person - [[spoken/1975/750310bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2]] — March 10, 1975, London So Kṛṣṇa is personally speaking about Himself as we understood in the previous verse, that asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu - [[spoken/1975/750311bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3]] — March 11, 1975, London Therefore in the human society there is some process of understanding God, which is called religion - [[spoken/1975/750417bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 9.1]] — April 17, 1975, Vrndavana So Keśava, Kṛṣṇa, He is existing with all the incarnation, not that He is existing as Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1975/750524bg.fij|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — May 24, 1975, Fiji We don't say anything which is not spoken by Bhagavān, the Supreme - [[spoken/1975/750826bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 in Hindi]] — August 26, 1975, Vrndavana The Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa is talking about Himself - [[spoken/1975/750829bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā Lecture]] — August 29, 1975, Vrndavana So in this way, if someone is engages in pure devotional service then the soul becomes very blissful - [[spoken/1975/750830bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3 and Conversation with Kashiramji Saraf]] — August 30, 1975, Vrndavana Bhagavad-gītā As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Mahārāja Prabhupāda! Chapter 7, text 3 - [[spoken/1975/750925bg.ahm|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 in Hindi]] — September 25, 1975, Ahmedabad This was the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu who is Kṛṣṇa Himself kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ - [[spoken/1975/751001bg.mau|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11]] — October 1, 1975, Mauritius This is the version of Kṛṣṇa in the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā - [[spoken/1975/751009bg.dur|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — October 9, 1975, Durban Who can say what is the purpose of reading Vedas? - [[spoken/1975/751011bg.dur|Bhagavad-gītā 18.42–45]] — October 11, 1975, Durban The defect is that my business is to render service to the Supreme Lord which is misplaced in so many ways - [[spoken/1975/751013bg.dur|Bhagavad-gītā 13.1–3]] — October 13, 1975, Durban We are reading one chapter from Bhagavad-gītā, Thirteenth Chapter - [[spoken/1975/751017bg.joh|Bhagavad-gītā 2.1–11]] — October 17, 1975, Johannesburg I shall speak some verses from Bhagavad-gītā, Second Chapter, in which the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, instructed - [[spoken/1975/751018bg.joh|Bhagavad-gītā 16.6]] — October 18, 1975, Johannesburg In modern days also, practically nobody is devotee, so how they are described in the Bhagavad-gītā? - [[spoken/1975/751019bg.joh|Bhagavad-gītā 4.13]] — October 19, 1975, Johannesburg This is a verse from Bhagavad-gītā, Fourth Chapter, text number thirteen - [[spoken/1975/751027bg.nai|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — October 27, 1975, Nairobi So we have several times explained: aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ [Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6 - [[spoken/1975/751028bg.nai|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2]] — October 28, 1975, Nairobi So to accept knowledge from these rascals who commit mistake, who are illusioned, who are cheater, whose senses are imperfect, is useless waste of time - [[spoken/1975/751029bg.nai|Bhagavad-gītā 7.3]] — October 29, 1975, Nairobi You should be inquisitive to know the value of life, the Absolute Truth - [[spoken/1975/751031bg.nai|Bhagavad-gītā 7.4]] — October 31, 1975, Nairobi If you practice devotional service, then at the time of death there is great possibility of understanding or remembering Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1975/751101bg.nai|Bhagavad-gītā 7.5]] — November 1, 1975, Nairobi So the bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca - [[spoken/1975/751220bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — December 20, 1975, Bombay Vedic culture means that human culture, not animal culture - [[spoken/1975/751222db.bom|His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī's Disappearance Day, Bhagavad-gītā 16.7]] — December 22, 1975, Bombay So Kṛṣṇa has described everything in the Bhagavad-gītā, and today, this night, we are trying to explain the mission of Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1975/751225bg.san|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 [with Translator]]] — December 25, 1975, Sanand So Bhagavān means the Supreme Personality of Godhead - [[spoken/1975/751226bg.san|Bhagavad-gītā 16.7 [with translator]]] — December 26, 1975, Sanand All of us, beginning from Brahmā down to the insignificant ant, we have come here for material enjoyment - [[spoken/1975/751227bg.san|Bhagavad-gītā 3.14 [with translator]]] — December 27, 1975, Sanand So here is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā, Third Chapter, fourteenth verse - [[spoken/1975/751227b2.san|Bhagavad-gītā 7.7 [with Translator]]] — December 27, 1975, Sanand So śrī-bhagavān uvāca means the supreme authority - [[spoken/1975/751228bg.san|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 in Hindi]] — December 28, 1975, Sanand You can take shelter of the Lord or otherwise of the disciplic succession coming from the Lord, from one disciple to another ## 1976 - [[spoken/1976/760101bg.mad|Bhagavad-gītā 3.27]] — January 1, 1976, Madras So, so many people, sometimes they come forward to give me some credit that I have done very wonderful thing - [[spoken/1976/760325bg.del|Bhagavad-gītā 2.11 Rotary Club Address at Hotel Imperial]] — March 25, 1976, Delhi This material world, composed of many millions of universe There is evolution - [[spoken/1976/760419bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.1]] — April 19, 1976, Melbourne jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-bihārī gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī yaśodā-nandana braja-jana-rañjana jāmuna-tīra-vana-cārī - [[spoken/1976/760420bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.2]] — April 20, 1976, Melbourne So if we can go back to home, back to Godhead, there is no darkness - [[spoken/1976/760421bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3]] — April 21, 1976, Melbourne So here it is said that aśraddhadhānāḥ puruṣāḥ - [[spoken/1976/760422bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.4]] — April 22, 1976, Melbourne Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, annād bhavanti bhūtāni - [[spoken/1976/760423bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.4]] — April 23, 1976, Melbourne You cannot by your tiny effort with limited power, limited sense, I mean to say, perception, you cannot speculate - [[spoken/1976/760424bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.5]] — April 24, 1976, Melbourne So God is realized in three features by the transcendentalists - [[spoken/1976/760426bg.mel|Bhagavad-gītā 9.10]] — April 26, 1976, Melbourne So the subject matter is that to understand the philosophy - [[spoken/1976/760615bg.det|Bhagavad-gītā reading 2.1]] — 2.12 Garden Conversation — June 15, 1976, Detroit The real problem of life is birth, death, old age and disease - [[spoken/1976/760620bg.tor|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3]] — June 20, 1976, Toronto Dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya, to reestablish the religious system - [[spoken/1976/760626gd.nv|Garden Discussion on Bhagavad-gītā, 16.1–16]] — June 26, 1976, New Vrindavan performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity, nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, tranquility, aversion to fault-finding, compassion and freedom from covetousness, gentleness, modesty and steady - [[spoken/1976/760628bg.nv|Bhagavad-gītā 16.17–19, Garden Conversation]] — June 28, 1976, New Vrindavan In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that yogīs should sit down in a secluded, sacred place, and they are seeking after America's big, big cities - [[spoken/1976/760712bg.ny|Comments on Bhagavad-gītā Play]] — July 12, 1976, New York of this human being, people do not know how they are kept in ignorance - [[spoken/1976/760731bg.nmr|Bhagavad-gītā 10.8]] — July 31, 1976, New Mayapur Ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgaḥ - [[spoken/1976/760803bg.nmr|Bhagavad-gītā 9.34]] — August 3, 1976, New Mayapur Actually, everyone has got the loving propensity, because he loves Kṛṣṇa - [[spoken/1976/760804bg.nmr|Bhagavad-gītā 4.24]] — August 4, 1976, New Mayapur Just like Kṛṣṇa says raso 'ham apsu kaunteya - [[spoken/1976/760805bg.nmr|Bhagavad-gītā 15.15]] — August 5, 1976, New Mayapur Natural love is between the husband and wife, but the wife goes somewhere and the husband goes somewhere else - [[spoken/1976/760817bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 13.22]] — August 17, 1976, Hyderabad So this puruṣa, [many dogs barking loudly] this living entity, prakṛti-stha, being under the control of prakṛti, material nature, bhuṅkte, he is obliged; he is forced - [[spoken/1976/760822bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — August 22, 1976, Hyderabad So to understand Bhagavān, Para-brahman, that is the mission of human life - [[spoken/1976/760825bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 1.1 in Hindi]] — August 25, 1976, Hyderabad Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: O Sañjaya, after assembling in the place of pilgrimage at Kurukṣetra, what did my sons and the sons of Pāṇḍu do, being desirous to fight? - [[spoken/1976/760903bg.vrn|Bhagavad-gītā 7.15,Arrival Address]] — September 3, 1976, Vrndavana So we have made this verse a standard of examination - [[spoken/1976/761015bg.cha|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 in Hindi [translated]]] — October 15, 1976, Chandigarh Somehow or other I have fallen into this bhava-samudra - [[spoken/1976/761016bg.cha|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3 in Hindi [translated]]] — October 6, 1976, Chandigarh To think \"This is material, this is mine, I will use this for my sense gratification,\" is material vision - [[spoken/1976/761018bg.cha|Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12 in Hindi [translated]]] — October 7, 1976, Chandigarh Of which six chapters contain karma-yoga, six chapters contain bhakti-yoga, and six chapters contain jñāna-yoga - [[spoken/1976/761211bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 7.6]] — December 11, 1976, Hyderabad God is good, so in quality we are good; we are not bad - [[spoken/1976/761212bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12]] — December 12, 1976, Hyderabad Janādhipāḥ, the leaders, when there is fight the leaders must come forward - [[spoken/1976/761213bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 16.6]] — December 13, 1976, Hyderabad This is the relationship between the government and the citizens - [[spoken/1976/761214bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 16.7]] — December 14, 1976, Hyderabad They simply know how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex and how to defend - [[spoken/1976/761215bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 16.7]] — December 15, 1976, Hyderabad So this asuric public, they do not know which way their destination is - [[spoken/1976/761216bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 16.8]] — December 16, 1976, Hyderabad So the beginning is, na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate - [[spoken/1976/761217bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 3.25]] — December 17, 1976, Hyderabad Avidvāṁsaḥ, fools, men with poor fund of knowledge, they have discovered so many lines of activities, simply foolishness ## 1977 - [[spoken/1977/770122bg.bhu|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — January 22, 1977, Bhubaneswar Therefore, because in this material world people are inclined to stand on the animal platform of life, that is dharmasya glāniḥ --- - [[spoken/1977/770129bg.bhu|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1]] — January 29, 1977, Bhubaneswar So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has therefore clearly said that this Māyāvādī, nirākāravādī, is more dangerous than the Śūnyavādī