# January 6 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[1967: Bhagavad-gītā 10.4–5](spoken/1967/670106bg.ny)** > Oh. Kṛṣṇa says, "Under My direction this *prakṛti* is working." The *prakṛti,* nature, is the agent. Real worker is Kṛṣṇa. We are simply instrument. That is our position. If you have got intelligence, then you have to understand that you are simply an instrument. Just like my hand. What is this hand? This is an instrument. I can pick up. So I am working, not this hand is working. I am working. > There is no utilization of becoming five-hundred-years-old tree or five-millions-years' stone. There is no utilization. If you become a five-years-old boy and if you understand this knowledge, your life is perfect. These things are all very nicely discussed. They say, "Oh..." *Taravaḥ kiṁ na jīvanti*. --- **[1967: Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 21.62–67](spoken/1967/670106cc.ny)** > Unless we take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness fully, we shall hover over the mental plane. You will find so many philosophers, doctors of philosophy, they can go on speculating, mental plane, *manaḥ,* but actually they are *asat.* Their activities will be seen in materialistic. There is no spiritualistic realization. So more or less degree, this material conception is everywhere. *Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokān.* Kṛṣṇa says, *ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokān*. > We should be... Generally, those who are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness fully, they have—I have already explained to you—they have got all these twenty-six qualification. That is the perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When we see the twenty-six qualification in full present, that means he is perfect in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If those qualities are not present, that means there is still, I mean to say, that touch of contamination of material nature. *Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā*. --- **[1969: Bhagavad-gītā 4.7–10](spoken/1969/690106bg.la)** > That process is deductive process. That process is very nice. So Vedic process means, as it is stated in the Fourth Chapter, that *evaṁ paramparā-prāptam.* By disciplic succession if you try to understand the truth, then you get infallible knowledge. Your purpose is to get knowledge. As soon as you get the knowledge from authority, your knowledge is perfect. But if you want to get the knowledge by your own sense perception, you will never be able to come to the right conclusion; neither it is possible to get knowledge in that process. > This our arrangement of this chanting, the dancing, or reading this Kṛṣṇa conscious book, what does it mean? That we always try to be absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So if you remain always absorbed... This is called *samādhi.* If you remain absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then Kṛṣṇa says that next life you go directly there. So there is guarantee. --- **[1969: Bhajan & Purport to Gaurāṇgera Duṭi Pada](spoken/1969/690106pu.la)** > The idea is that actually, Lord Caitanya, He is Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is teaching devotional service to the living entities personally, directly. Therefore the modes of devotional service as taught by Lord Caitanya is the most perfect. There cannot be any doubt. The expert, or the master, is teaching the servant how to work. If somebody is master of some engineering work and he is personally teaching some assistant, that teaching, instruction, is most perfect. Similarly, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, in the role of a devotee, is teaching devotional service. Therefore the path chalked out by Lord Kṛṣṇa is the most feasible way for perfection to devotional service. *Sei jāne bhakati rasa sāra. Sāra* means essence. > Then he says, *gaurāṅga-guṇete jhure, nitya-līlā tāre sphure.* Anyone, if he cries by simply by hearing the transcendental qualities of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he at once understands what is the loving affairs between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. *Nitya-līlā* means the pastimes, or the loving exchange, affairs between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, that is eternal. That is not temporary. We should not think that Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa pastime, loving affairs, is just like the business of a young boy or girl, as we see in this material world. Such loving affairs is not at all loving affairs. They are lusty affairs, and they are not eternal; therefore they break. Today I am in love with somebody and next day it breaks. But Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa *līlā* is not like that. It is eternal. Therefore that is transcendental and this is temporary. --- ## [1971: Room Conversation [Partially Recorded](spoken/1971/710106r1.cal)] > Haṁsad [introduction on tape] The following lectures were recorded in Calcutta, India, starting January 6th, 1970 [sic], following the Surat lectures, preceding lectures some were recorded at Māgh-melā. So these are being inserted under emergency conditions, being copied from Devānanda's tape recorder. And following these lectures we will have the other lectures in sequence from the Māgh-melā. All these lectures are on the story of Ajāmila, from the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* --- **[1971: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.1–5](spoken/1971/710106sb.cal)** > So after finishing that speech, the *bhagavad-dūta*... So there are *bhagavad-dūta* also, assistants, servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are two kinds of servants: the *māyā's* servant and Kṛṣṇa's servant. Nobody is master. That is illusion. Everyone is servant. Every living entity is a servant. As enunciated by Caitanya Mahāprabhu, *jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa* : "The real, constitutional position of the living entity is eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa." > A master is supposed to be the supreme enjoyer of the establishment. But actually, nobody is the enjoyer. Kṛṣṇa is the only enjoyer. *Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram*.* He is the proprietor. So when we forget this relationship with Kṛṣṇa, that "I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa," then he becomes servant of the senses, or *māyā.* So by becoming servant of the senses he follows the dictation of the master senses and goes down to the darkest region of illusion and becomes subjected to the punishment of Yamarāja. This is the substance. --- **[1973: The Nectar of Devotion](spoken/1973/730106nd.bom)** > So why they do that? *Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum*. They do not know the real duty is to approach Viṣṇu, *svartha-gatim,* interest. They are thinking, "This is my interest." But real duty is *svārtha-gatim.* Everyone should be interested in his business, but the real business is, human life, that approach Viṣṇu. *Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanty surayaḥ.* Those who are actually advanced Āryans, their business is how to approach Viṣṇu. That is the *Ṛg-mantra. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā*. They are thinking by these bodily comforts they will be happy. No. That is not possible. > But actual interest is... Human life should be sober. He should... Therefore the first beginning of real life is to understand that "I am not this body." This is the first lesson. But where is that education? Throughout the whole world, go anywhere. Where is that education that students are being taught that "You are not this body"? There is no education. Then what is the value of this education? To keep them *andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ*, to keep them in the darkness. That is going on. This is the only institution which is giving people real life. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.29](spoken/1975/750106sb.bom)** > So here it is said, therefore, *dravya-sphuraṇa-vijñānam. Dravya* means physical. *Dravya-jñāna. Dravya-jñāna* means physical knowledge. And *brahma-jñāna* means spiritual knowledge. So here it is said, *dravya-sphuraṇa.* The material, physical, phenomenal atmosphere is developing one after another. The medical science, they are trying to study different cells; but what from the cells came into action? That is by the influence or by the manipulation of *prakṛti. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni*. And *prakṛti* is working under the direction of Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. *Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ*. > So actually, we have discussed already, we are simply under some machine. *Bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni*. A machine is manufactured immediately. Just like here, medical men, they also manufacture some skeleton according to the requirement of the patient, so this body is manufactured by the supervision of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the ingredients given by material nature, and I am put into the machine. This is my position. As I desire to enjoy... Actually, I haven't got to enjoy or reject anything. I am put into a certain type of machine, and I have to go or work. Actually, I do not also work. The work is also going on by different agents. I am simply put into it just to satisfy my desires as I wanted. *Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham*. *Bhajāmy aham.* Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He has given us the chance of enjoying. --- **[1976: Morning Walk](spoken/1976/760106mw.nel)** > So if the finger thinks that "I am one. Why shall I serve the whole body?" that is ignorance. *Cetana. Cetana* [consciousness] means activity. So if I am one with God, then my activities should be simultaneously with God. That is oneness. I don't disagree. God says, "You do it"; I disagree. God says, "You surrender unto Me," but I refuse. So that is ignorance. If I am actually one with God, just I am asking, "You do this"—you do immediately. But if you do not do it, that is ignorance. *Gurur avajñā.* [to disobey the order of the spiritual master] Then he becomes *aparādhī.* Similarly, oneness means no disagreement. > We are giving this medicine, that after leaving this body... So far this body is concerned, somehow or other you pass on. And as soon as you give up this body—*tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti*—you'll have no more birth. And if you have no more birth, there will be no more death. And if you have no more birth, then there will be no more disease. This is our prescription. *Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti*. Not that he is finished. He goes back to home, back to Godhead. This is our program. So your question is answered or not? Huh? Your question is answered or not? Your question is answered or not? --- **[1977: Conversation](spoken/1977/770106r1.bom)** > Because he has not surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, whatever he has done, it is all mischievous. Kṛṣṇa says, *na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ*. Why he has done mischievous activities, *mūḍha*? The only test is, if one is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, whatever he does it is all mischievous. So immediately go, and you'll see. > And it is possible. It is possible. Because you are under nature's law, you are not independent. Therefore they have given up this idea that there is life after death. This is their first ignorance. Everyone is thinking that this life is everything for twenty years or thirty years, utmost hundred years—eat, drink, be merry, enjoy, then everything is finished. --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/770106r2.bom)** > " 'In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place.' Those who are attached to material enjoyment cannot be fixed in devotional service to the Lord. They cannot understand Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa, or His instruction, *Bhagavad-gītā. Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram* : their path actually leads toward hellish life. As confirmed by Ṛṣabhadeva, *mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimukteḥ* : one must try to understand Kṛṣṇa by serving a devotee. The word *mahat* refers to a devotee. > Actually, the management is so bad there that they have made this requirement that any new building, you have to get N.O.C. regarding the land ceiling. But so far they have not given one N.O.C. for land ceiling because they have not yet decided what is the policy to give the N.O.C. So they simply are piling up the applications until they decide their policy. So first we will try to get exemption that we don't require this N.O.C. Then if we fail in that, then I suppose we have to meet the minister and ask him to give us the N.O.C. --- *Letters *[1969: Letter to Upendra](letters/1969/690106_upendra)** > Regarding the answers which you gave to Bilas Vigrahadas, they were all correct. When you study very carefully all of the literature which is available, especially Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you will have in your grasp answers to all questions that may be put to you. --- **[1970: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1970/700106_brahmananda)** > In the meantime, I have received one letter from Syamasundara that the amount that George Harrison wants to donate for printing of my *Krishna* (19,000 dollars) had some difficulty for paying directly cash. I have already written him a letter in this connection, the copy of which is enclosed, please find. --- **[1970: Letter to Mr. Allen Klein](letters/1970/700106_mr._allen_klein)** > I am informed by Sriman Syamasundara das Adhikari that in connection with the contribution of Sriman George Harrison for publishing my book, *Krishna,* you were advised to contact me in my Boston Temple. But I have left Boston Temple on the 29th of December and now my present address is ISKCON Temple, 1975 La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90034. --- **[1970: Letter to Syamasundara](letters/1970/700106_syamasundara)** > Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 2nd, 1970 and accordingly I have issued one letter to Mr. Allen Klein, the copy of which is enclosed herewith, please find. I have advised Brahmananda to see him. I am so glad to learn that Sriman George is making good advancement in Krishna consciousness. He is a good soul and I am praying for him to Krishna, so surely he will make advancement. His book, *Krishna,* is already ready for being sent to the press. Please let me know if I shall send the manuscript to the press or I shall await further instruction from you. Now I am in Los Angeles and you can contact me here after consulting George. I am very glad to learn that London Temple as well as the householder devotees are all doing well. I have received letter from you and Mukunda also, but I have received no letter from Tamala. Please offer my blessings to all the boys and girls and devotees in London Temple. --- **[1971: Letter to Bali-Mardana](letters/1971/710106_bali-mardana)** > I am so pleased that you are thinking of distributing my books to the largest extent. Distribution of books means propagation of our mission. --- **[1972: Letter to Bhavananda](letters/1972/720106_bhavananda)** > I am very anxious for Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day to be celebrated by all of our devotees in Mayapur in February. There is no reason why the government will not let 20 or 25 of our men come there for two weeks. --- **[1972: Letter to Govinda](letters/1972/720106_govinda)** > This time when I go to Hawaii I shall sit down in the forest of Tulasi plants and chant Hare Krishna. --- **[1972: Letter to Hrdayananda](letters/1972/720106_hrdayananda)** > As much as possible read, chant, and preach. This is our life and soul. If we keep to this simple formula then there is no doubt that we will be victorious wherever we go and very soon we shall become the only religion in the world. --- **[1972: Letter to Puri Maharaj](letters/1972/720106_puri_maharaj)** > Kindly accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. I am going to Jaipur to attend a function from the 15th to 23rd. --- **[1972: Letter to Radhavallabha](letters/1972/720106_radhavallabha)** > Chanting japa should be done early in the morning with full concentration preferably during the Brahma Muhurta time. Concentrate fully on the sound vibration of the mantra, pronouncing each name distinctly and gradually your speed in chanting will increase naturally. --- **[1974: Letter to Bhavananda Jayapataka](letters/1974/740106_bhavananda_jayapataka)** > So by the time I reach India, maybe the first week of February, I hope that by that time my quarters will be completely open for use without any difficulty. I am glad Bharadraja and others are learning laboriously how to model. --- **[1974: Letter to Tejiyas](letters/1974/740106_tejiyas)** > So I am reaching India by the 1st week of February. But if you can open the account in the meantime then send me the reply of the bank to my letter enclosed herewith and the number of the account, then immediately money will be dispatched. --- **[1975: Letter to Ajita](letters/1975/750106_ajita)** > I have accepted Gauracanda dasa brahmacari and Sriharini devi dasi as duly twice-born brahmanas and their threads are enclosed along with mantra sheet. You can hold a fire sacrifice and let them hear the mantra through the right ear from the tape of myself saying it. --- **[1975: Letter to Candravali](letters/1975/750106_candravali)** > Wherever you are, you should always be sure to chant at least 16 good rounds daily and to read my books very carefully, as well as following all the rules and regulations strictly. --- **[1975: Letter to Citsukhananda](letters/1975/750106_citsukhananda)** > Always continue chanting 16 rounds and reading my books, observing all the rules and regulations and you will be strong in Krishna's service. --- **[1975: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1975/750106_hansadutta)** > Enclosed is one letter from Ajita das (president of Stockholm) wherein he expresses anxiety and confusion coming from this record distribution. --- **[1975: Letter to Mahamsa](letters/1975/750106_mahamsa)** > He like to stay in Hyderabad to be engaged in the service of the deity, so what was the difficulty to keep him there? --- **[1975: Letter to Mr. N.N. Bagai](letters/1975/750106_mr._n.n._bagai)** > We are not interested in these things like hatha-yoga and swimming. We would never take to such activities for earning money. --- **[1975: Letter to Pancadravida](letters/1975/750106_pancadravida)** > As far as sending more men to Bangkok is concerned, we shall see if any of our men are forced to leave India on account of visa difficulties. But my policy, as you know, is not to import devotees, but to create devotees out of the local men. --- **[1975: Letter to Sucharu Deva](letters/1975/750106_sucharu_deva)** > Wherever you go always be sure to chant at least 16 good rounds and rise early, attend mangala-aroti, study my books and serve Krishna without stop. --- **[1976: Letter to Aksayananda](letters/1976/760106_aksayananda)** > Bhargava, since he is offering it to us for our unconditional use, why not take it? Naturally, if we start a Gosala there, later on we can start a Vedic school for the higher class of people. --- **[1976: Letter to All Governing Body Commissioners](letters/1976/760106_all_governing_body_commissioners)** > His Divine Grace therefore wishes to institute examinations to be given to all prospective candidates for sannyasa and brahmana initiation. In addition he wishes that all present sannyasis and brahmanas also pass the examination. --- **[1976: Letter to Dina Dayala](letters/1976/760106_dina_dayala)** > Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu desires that in every city, town and village Krishna Consciousness should be preached. Therefore I left Vrindaban to come to your country. --- **[1976: Letter to K.C. Kapur](letters/1976/760106_k.c._kapur)** > Thank you very much for your kindly making available your house in Allahabad during the Kumbha Mela. I will have my disciple Gurudas Swami pick up the keys from Dr. --- **[1977: Letter to Gaura Govinda](letters/1977/770106_gaura_govinda)** > We shall arrange for one man to oversee the construction. You are so nice faithful servant of Krsna, surely you will be successful. --- **[1977: Letter to Jairamdas Kuthiala Yatri](letters/1977/770106_jairamdas_kuthiala_yatri)** > It is proposed that my camp will be near the governor's camp. --- **[1977: Letter to Rajiva](letters/1977/770106_rajiva)** > Yes you may translate Bhagavad-gita. The more you serve the more you'll get strength. ---