# January 3 *Lectures from this day: 14 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670103bg.ny|Bg 10.4 — January 3, 1967, New York]]** --- **[[spoken/670103cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 21.1-10 — January 3, 1967, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > agaty-eka-gatiṁ natvā > hīnārthādhika-sādhakam > śrī-caitanyaṁ likhāmy asya > mādhuryaiśvarya-śīkaram > [[cc/madhya/21/1|[Cc. Madhya 21.1] ]] *Agaty-eka-gatiṁ natvā.* So the author of this *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* is offering his respectful obeisances unto Lord Caitanya. So he says, *agaty-eka-gatiṁ natvā. Agati,* persons who have fallen, who have no hope for reaching the supreme destination, for them Lord Caitanya is the only hope. This age, it is stated in authoritative scriptures, in this age the people are unfortunate. Of course, they are very much proud of advancing. From spiritual point of view, the people of this age, Kali-yuga, they are unfortunate. Their description is given in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Second Chapter, First Canto, that people are short-living—their duration of life is very short—and they are very slow in the matter of spiritual realization. The human form of life is specially meant for spiritual realization, but they have forgotten that aim of life. They are very much serious about maintaining about the necessities of this body, which he is not. And if somebody's interested to have some taste of spiritual realization, they are misdirected. --- **[[spoken/690103bg.la|Bg 4.1-6 — January 3, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **One:** "The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of *yoga* to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku." Purport... **Prabhupāda:** Transcendental knowledge. There are two kinds of knowledges: mundane knowledge and transcendental knowledge. Mundane knowledge means how to maintain this body, *āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam* [*Hitopadeśa *25]. To meet the demands of this body. What are the demands of this body? We require to eat something. Eating, sleeping. We require rest. After working hard, after eating sumptuously, we require sleeping. Eating, sleeping, and during sleeping we sometimes dream, fearing, or without dream, fearing. So we take protection. While sleeping, we close our doors. So eating, sleeping, fearing and mating—sense gratification. So to arrange for these necessities of life of the body, the knowledge that we require, that is called mundane knowledge. --- **[[spoken/700103sb.la|SB 6.1.6 — January 3, 1970, Los Angeles]]** --- **[[spoken/710103sb.sur|SB 6.1.56-62 — January 3, 1971, Surat]]** So the point is here that Ajāmila was so qualified just as a *brāhmaṇa,* perfect *brāhmaṇa,* born of a *brāhmaṇa* father and educated, qualified, and acquired the qualities. All the qualities are mentioned, that *śruta-sampannaḥ. Śruta-sampannaḥ* means well studied in *Vedas.* That is a *brāhmaṇa's* qualification. *Veda-pāṭhād bhaved vipraḥ. Vipra, brāhmaṇa,* [laughs] without any knowledge of the *Vedas,* that is not a *brāhmaṇa.* So he was actually *brāhmaṇa, śruta-sampannaḥ.* And after... Simply reading of *Vedas* as a scholar is useless. Just like foreign Western scholar... One must practically apply the knowledge, not like armchair politician or armchair Vedāntist, smoking cigarette and reading *Vedānta.* This kind of study of *Vedas* is useless. Now, we have seen so many *sannyāsīs,* so-called *sannyāsīs,* talking on *Vedānta* and smoking at the same time. You see? So Ajāmila was not like that. He was a scholar in the Vedic literature. *Ayaṁ hi śruta-sampannaḥ śīla-vṛtta-guṇālayaḥ* [[sb/6/1/56-57|[SB. 6.1.56-57] ]]. And he was very well behaved and reservoir of all good qualities. *Guṇālayaḥ. Dhṛta-vrataḥ,* and avowed to follow the regulative principles. --- **[[spoken/730103bs.bom|Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā — January 3, 1973, Bombay]]** --- **[[spoken/740103mw.la|Morning Walk — January 3, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...is that *nṛpa-liṅga-dharaṁ śūdram.* The *śūdras,* fourth-class men, they are on the government execute. This is one defect. And another defect is, *ghnantaṁ go-mithunaṁ padā* [[sb/1/16/4|[SB. 1.16.4] ]], maintaining large-scale slaughterhouse. These are the two defects of modern civilization. They..., on the top of government there are *śūdras,* not *kṣatriyas.* Neither they are guided by intelligent class, *brāhmaṇas.* Parīkṣit Mahārāja's first beginning is *dvija-varya-śikṣayā [[sb/1/16/1|[SB. 1.16.1] ]]. The guidance was first-class *brāhmaṇas,* and he was a *kṣatriya,* first class. And there was no animal slaughterhouse. They are also suffering. They are bringing every day some problem: "What is the solution of this problem, what is this solution...?" But why the problems are coming? Because the defect is there that the..., on the head of the government there are *śūdras* and they are busy in cow-killing, maintaining slaughterhouse. This is the defect. And they are not guided by the first-class, intelligent class of men. [break] --- **[[spoken/740103sb.la|SB 1.16.6 — January 3, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] *[03:34]*Pradyumna:Translation:** "The devotees of the Lord are accustomed to licking up the honey available from the lotus feet of the Lord. What is the use of topics which simply waste one's valuable life?" --- **[[spoken/750103r1.bom|Room Conversation — January 3, 1975, Bombay]]** **Devotee:** ...volume two. That was from Jayatīrtha. This is actually the most complete report. Everything else is additional to this. It is very, uh, all the details. "My Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, Please accept my worthless obeisances at your divine lotus feet. I pray that by your divine mercy I will obtain unquestioning faith in your instructions. It appears from all evidence of the revealed scriptures that it is in this way only my spiritual life will develop and mature. I have been in Hawaii now for one week, and I beg to issue the following report." This is dated December 22nd. "1. The history: I have been aware for some time that Sudāmā was having spiritual difficulties, since in September he had flown to Los Angeles to see me. At that time he was on the verge of blooping due to an illicit homosexual affair with his servant that had been going on for some months. I preached to him and tried to encourage him as much as possible. A few days later..." **Devotee:** Yes. "A few days later I flew to Māyāpur to see you in regards to Bali-mardana, etc., and I had planned to visit Hawaii on the way back to Los Angeles to see how Sudāmā was doing. Unfortunately, Sudāmā was on the U.S. mainland, and when I landed in Hawaii, so I could not talk with him to see if his condition had improved. After returning to Los Angeles I tried to contact him, but he proved to be very elusive. When I finally did get hold of him, he told me that he had just returned from Māyāpur, that everything was all right with him, and that he had admitted his homosexual affair to you and that you had given him permission to work independently of the GBC." --- **[[spoken/750103sb.bom|SB 3.26.26 — January 3, 1975, Bombay]]** *kartṛtvaṁ karaṇatvaṁ ca kāryatvaṁ ceti lakṣaṇam śānta-ghora-vimūḍhatvam iti vā syād ahaṅkṛteḥ* * [[sb/3/26/26|[SB. 3.26.26] ]] [break] **[02:06] "This false ego is characterized as the doer, as an instrument and as an effect. It is further characterized as serene, active or dull according to how it is influenced by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance." **Prabhupāda:** > kartṛtvaṁ karaṇa... > kartṛtvaṁ karaṇatvaṁ ca > kāryatvaṁ ceti lakṣaṇam > śānta-ghora-vimūḍhatvam > iti vā syād ahaṅkṛteḥ > [[sb/3/26/26|[SB. 3.26.26] ]] --- **[[spoken/760103mw.nel|Morning Walk — January 3, 1976, Nellore]]** **Prabhupāda:** They boil it with... Oh, you have come. Good morning. Thank you. With rice. I forgot your name. **Prabhupāda:** Trivedi, Mr. Trivedi, yes. So, who is independent? This is our question. Who is independent? Do you know any man who is independent or any animal or any...? **Prabhupāda:** Therefore everything is becoming failure. So preach this truth to the world, that "You are all rascals. Why you are thinking independently?" Huh? "Why I am rascal?" "Because you are thinking independently. That is the proof that you are a rascal." *Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ* [[sb/7/5/31|[SB. 7.5.31] ]]. Īśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhaḥ.* And they are thinking independently. --- **[[spoken/760103r1.nel|Room Conversation — January 3, 1976, Nellore]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** I don't think that there has ever been a personality who has ever given such a great gift to the Western world as yourself, Prabhupāda. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** The thing is, it seems to me that we are flooding so many books that they must become Kṛṣṇa conscious. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Practically now it is commonplace that every day when our men go out, supposing each man meets in a day a thousand people or five hundred people, always, without a doubt, at least one or two of the people he's met, they already have another book, and they are taking a second or third book. --- **[[spoken/770103r1.bom|Room Conversation with C.I.D. Chief — January 3, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** So you expand it. A dog is thinking, "I am this body. I am bulldog," "I am greyhound." And man is also thinking, "I am American," "I am Indian." But they do not know their real identity, and they are fighting like dogs. And this is going on in the name of civilization. And when we put forward *Bhagavad-gītā,* the first lesson is that *aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase* [[bg/2/11|[Bg. 2.11] ]]: "Arjuna, you are talking like a very learned man, but you are lamenting about the body. But actually...," *gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ,* "so far the body is con..., this is lump of matter. So whether it is dead or alive, nobody seriously think of it, no learned, *paṇḍita.*" Of course, those who are fools, rascal, they can take it. But those who are actually learned, they do not talk about this body. Now upon this statement, just see the world situation. Everyone is busy on the concept of body. So what is the position of the world? *Apaṇḍita,* ignorance. And such people are going on as learned scholars, politicians and leaders and so on. So how there can be peace? If you bring different types of dogs—greyhound and bulldog and Indian dog—and bring them, the "United Dog Association," [laughter] so will there be peace? That is the position. I declared in Melbourne in a public meeting that this United Nation is the unity of barking dog. I told. It was published in the paper. They also criticized me, "The Swami has come to hound." [laughter] But that is actually the fact. If you become impartial judge, not on behalf of CID or anyone, then you see the actual. --- **[[spoken/770103r2.bom|Room Conversation — January 3, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** If they decide that, there are many other court judgments in our favor. Then we must adopt civil disobedience. There is no other, second way. "Capriciously you cannot impose anything against the law, against the judgment. If you do, then we shall also disobey." That should be the last resolve. **Hari-śauri:** I remember when we were first beginning in Melbourne, we were harassed very tremendously by the Council. **Hari-śauri:** And they were putting us in jail and everything. And actually every court decision was against us too. But somehow or another, we just went out on *saṅkīrtana* every day, distributing. We were getting booked, then fined. Then we wouldn't pay the fines, so they would come and they would raid the temple at two o'clock in the morning and try and take us away to jail. And... It went on for months. And then in the end we had..., there was so much publicity about it... --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1972/720103_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720103_ksirodakasayi.md|Letter to Ksirodakasayi, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720103_visvanatha_babu.md|Letter to Visvanatha Babu, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730103_bhavananda.md|Letter to Bhavananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730103_prabhavisnu.md|Letter to Prabhavisnu, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740103_ajita.md|Letter to Ajita, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750103_alfred_ford.md|Letter to Alfred Ford, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750103_patita_uddharana.md|Letter to Patita Uddharana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760103_ramesvara_prabhu.md|Letter to Ramesvara Prabhu, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760103_sri_subrahmanyan.md|Letter to Sri Subrahmanyan, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760103_trivikrama.md|Letter to Trivikrama, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770103_amarendra.md|Letter to Amarendra, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770103_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770103_bhakta_wayne.md|Letter to Bhakta Wayne, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770103_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770103_sri_guptaji.md|Letter to Sri Guptaji, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770103_tikandas_batra.md|Letter to Tikandas Batra, 1977]]