# January 4 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670104bg.ny|Bg 10.4-5 — January 4, 1967, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > buddhir jñānam asammohaḥ > kṣamā satyaṁ damaḥ śamaḥ > sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ bhavo 'bhāvo > bhayaṁ cābhayam eva ca > [[bg/10/4|[Bg. 10.4] ]] So what is knowledge? Knowledge means distinguishing the spirit from matter. That is knowledge. We should understand what is spirit and what is matter. We are combination of matter and spirit. Actually I am a spirit, but I am now covered, embodied by matter. When we make and complete analytical study what is matter, what is spirit, that is called knowledge. Material knowledge, any subject matter you can take, but that is temporary. Just like this body is temporary, similarly, any material knowledge you acquire, either you become a chemist or physicist or a medical man or an engineer, whatever you may acquire knowledge, all this knowledge will finish as soon as this body is finished. You forget. Death means forgetfulness. --- **[[spoken/670104cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 21.13-49 — January 4, 1967, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > nāntaṁ vidāmy aham amī munayo agrajās te > māyā-balasya puruṣasya kuto 'varā ye > gāyan guṇān daśa-śatānana ādi-devaḥ > śeṣo 'dhunāpi samavasyati nāsya pāram > [[cc/madhya/21/13|[Cc. Madhya 21.13] ]] This is a verse from *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* This was recited by Brahmā. The purpose of this verse is... Brahmā says that "Although I am Brahmā, and before me all the great sages, everyone, has tried to know the Supreme Lord in," I mean to say, "incomplete, but nobody could understand where is the end of these unlimited potencies of the Supreme Lord." --- **[[spoken/690104pu.la|Purport to Parama Koruṇa — January 4, 1969, Los Angeles]]** --- **[[spoken/730104nd.bom|The Nectar of Devotion — January 4, 1973, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading] "The basic principle of the living condition is that we have a general propensity to love someone. No one can live without loving someone else. This propensity is present in every living being. Even an animal like a tiger has this loving propensity, at least in a dormant stage, and it is certainly present in the human beings. The missing point, however, is where to repose our love so that everyone can become happy. At the present moment, the human society teaches one to love his country or family or his personal self, but there is no information where to repose the loving propensity so that everyone can become happy." **Prabhupāda:** Yes. This point is missing. We cannot... It is not possible that we can approach everyone and offer our loving service. Just like people are very much attracted by the humanitarian services. They take it very great, loving service to the human society. But however you may love... Suppose in the beginning one loves his own self, his own body... Just like a child: he loves for himself. Anything he gets, he wants to eat. Own sense gratification. Then, as he grows, he shares his foodstuff with his little brother and sister. Then, as he grows, he loves his mother, his father, then other friends. In this way, as we grow, we can love our society, our community or nation, or internationally, all human being. But still it is imperfect. Still it is imperfect. It is not all-inclusive. Just like at the present moment, every country, they are national, they consider the human being as national, not the animals. But actual meaning of "national" means anyone who takes birth in that country. In Sanskrit word it is called *prajā.* King and..., the, the *rāja,* and *prajā. Prajā* means who takes birth, *prajāyate.* Anyone who takes birth in that country, in that kingdom, he's called *prajā.* So it is the duty of the king to give protection all *prajās.* Not that only human being or my brother or my sister, and not the animals—not the cows, not the goats, not the chickens. No. They're also *prajā.* But because there is no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they think that *prajā* means only the human beings, that's all. Imperfect knowledge. --- **[[spoken/740104sb.la|SB 1.16.7 — January 4, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Translation:** "O Sūta Gosvāmī, there are those amongst men who desire freedom from death and get eternal life. They escape the slaughtering process by calling the controller of death, Yamarāja." **Prabhupāda:** *Kṣudrāyuṣāṁ nṛṇām. Kṣudra* means very small; *āyuṣām,* duration of life. As we can compare that an ant's life or a germ's life... They are also living entities. Their duration of life is very small. There are many flies, they take their birth at night, in the evening, and the whole night they are busy the same way: eating, sleeping, begetting children and being afraid of. All the qualities are there. In India we have got experience, they are called *diwali* germs or insects. In the evening before the light—one, two, three—in this way, by midnight, it increases to thousands and millions. And in the morning, at the end of the night, you will find heaps of insects, or dead body. Heaps. Millions. --- **[[spoken/750104sb.bom|SB 3.26.27 — January 4, 1975, Bombay]]** "From the false ego of goodness, another transformation takes place. From this evolves the mind, whose thoughts and reflections give rise to desire." **Prabhupāda:** > vaikārikād vikurvāṇān > manas-tattvam ajāyata > yat-saṅkalpa-vikalpābhyāṁ > vartate kāma-sambhavaḥ > [[sb/3/26/27|[SB. 3.26.27] ]] --- **[[spoken/760104le.nel|Lecture — January 4, 1976, Nellore]]** **Prabhupāda:** Uh... Mr. Reddy and Ladies and Gentlemen, I cannot speak in Telugu. Kindly excuse me. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is very, very old, at least five thousand years old. And if we take history before that, then it is at least forty millions of years old. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness was spoken by Kṛṣṇa before the Battlefield of..., Battlefield of Kurukṣetra took place. Kṛṣṇa instructed this same *Bhagavad-gītā* philosophy to the sun-god. He says in the Fourth Chapter, *Sa kāleneha, yogo naṣṭaḥ paran-tapa.* [[bg/4/2|[Bg. 4.2] ]] So this transcendental science, *bhakti-yoga,* means to surrender unto the Supreme Lord. This is the simple thing. God is great and we are small. God is *prabhu* and we are *aṇu.* We have got the God's quality as part and parcel, *mamaivāṁśa jīva-bhūtaḥ.* [[bg/15/7|[Bg. 15.7] ]] Kṛṣṇa says that "These *jīvas,* they are My part and parcel." So gold mine and gold earring, both of them are gold, but the quantity of gold in the earring and the quantity of gold in the mine is not the same. This is right understanding. There are two classes of philosophers. One is thinking that "I am one with the Supreme"—monism, or *brahma-līna*—and the Vaiṣṇava, they are thinking that "We are different from God"—that is the fact—"and God is great, and we are very, very small, minute fractional part of God." So *bheda abheda.* --- **[[spoken/760104mw.nel|Morning Walk — January 4, 1976, Nellore]]** **Keśavalāl Trivedi:** [break] ...my weekly visits, that Jyoti Swami showed me that incident at Japan, and he asked me, "Have you seen...?" **Prabhupāda:** *Doṣam icchanti pāmarāḥ. Doṣam icchanti pāmarāḥ. Makṣikā bhramarā icchanti... Maksikā,* these ordinary flies, they find out where is sore, and the *bhramarā,* he finds out where is honey. Similarly, *doṣam icchanti pāmarāḥ.* And the Bhaktivedanta Swami is doing preaching all over the world—that has not come to his eyes. He has come to the Japanese incident. He has come. **Prabhupāda:** No, why did you not say, "You are such a *pāmara* that this thing has come to your notice and not other thing"? --- **[[../../spoken/1977/770104mw.bom.md|Morning Walk — January 4, 1977, Bombay]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/770104r1.bom|Room Conversation — January 4, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** That should be stressed. First business is the neighboring village people, they should come, chant and take *prasādam.* And gradually, when they become interested, then they come, live with us, work with us. In this way they should be induced, bare living and chanting. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Then our movement is success. Our only motive is how people become interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have no other motive, no economic problem. Economic problem is... What is economic problem? We produce our own food and cloth—bare living—and spiritual life. On the farm it is easier. And if they are dispatched to the city for livelihood, there are big, big roads and big, big cars and big, big anxieties. Then wine, meat and so on, so on.... Suicide. Their spiritual life finished. These rascals are protesting. They have no ideas of spiritual life. They think this is life—to be merry, enjoy and drink: "Eat. Drink. Be merry." How they are committing suicide, they do not know. Nature's law is very stringent. They are foolish rascal. There is no education for them. Still, if we try, many men will be saved. So write very elaborately how to do this. Increase. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680104_pandit_hitsaran_sharma.md|Letter to Pandit Hitsaran Sharma, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690104_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710104_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710104_stephen.md|Letter to Stephen, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710104_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_ajita.md|Letter to Ajita, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_bhavananda.md|Letter to Bhavananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_girirajaa.md|Letter to Girirajaa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_girirajab.md|Letter to Girirajab, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_hanuman_amogha.md|Letter to Hanuman Amogha, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_krsna_bhamini.md|Letter to Krsna Bhamini, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720104_vamanadeva_indira.md|Letter to Vamanadeva Indira, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_dhruvananda.md|Letter to Dhruvananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_dinatarini.md|Letter to Dinatarini, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_george.md|Letter to George, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_krsna_gopala.md|Letter to Krsna Gopala, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_madhukara.md|Letter to Madhukara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_revatinandana.md|Letter to Revatinandana, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_sama_sammita.md|Letter to Sama Sammita, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730104_subrata_lahiri.md|Letter to Subrata Lahiri, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740104_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740104_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740104_madhavananda.md|Letter to Madhavananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_aticandra.md|Letter to Aticandra, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_hiranyagarbha.md|Letter to Hiranyagarbha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_mr._saral_kumar_gupta.md|Letter to Mr. Saral Kumar Gupta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_nrsimha_dasa.md|Letter to Nrsimha Dasa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_pancadravida.md|Letter to Pancadravida, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_prabhavisnu.md|Letter to Prabhavisnu, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750104_yasomatisuta.md|Letter to Yasomatisuta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760104_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770104_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770104_ekesvara.md|Letter to Ekesvara, 1977]]