# January 9 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670109cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 22.11-15 — January 9, 1967, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > 'nitya-mukta'-nitya kṛṣṇa-caraṇe unmukha > 'kṛṣṇa-pāriṣada' nāma, bhuñje sevā-sukha > [[cc/madhya/22/11|[Cc. Madhya 22.11] ]] Yesterday we have been discussing two kinds of living entities. One class, *nitya-mukta,* eternally liberated, they never come to this material world. They are eternally liberated. And another class, just like we are, conditioned. We are eternally conditioned. Eternally conditioned means we do not know when we have been conditioned like this. It is not possible to trace out the history. Because living entity, by nature, he is not conditioned. But actually we see that we are conditioned, and there is no possibility to trace out the history. Many, many Brahmā's life... Not only one Brahmā's; there are so many Brahmās changed, and we are conditioned. So therefore we are called eternally conditioned. --- **[[spoken/690109bg.la|Bg 4.19-25 — January 9, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Devotee:** "Transcendental Knowledge." Text number nineteen. "One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive action is burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge." **Prabhupāda:** "One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act is devoid of desire for sense gratification." The opposite is ignorance. Those who are in knowledge of sense gratification, they are devoid of knowledge. Yes. "He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive action is burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge." "He is said by sages to be a worker whose fruitive action is burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge." This is very common thing. Everyone has to act but if he acts in full knowledge, then that is perfection of activity. Just like in our ordinary life, if we do business, or whatever we do, if we are in full knowledge of the state laws and act accordingly, that is perfection of our activities. --- **[[spoken/690109pu.la|Purport to Gaurāṅga Bolite Habe — January 9, 1969, Los Angeles]]** This nice song was sung by Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, one of the great *ācāryas* of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sampradāya. That is the sect of Vaiṣṇavism started by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. "Gauḍīya" means belonging to Bengal. There are five Gauḍa-deśa in the northern part of India, out of which part of Bengal, West Bengal, is called Gauḍa-deśa. So Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura's songs are very appropriate just to the conclusion of Vedic injunctions. So he sings this song, how one can rise up to the transcendental plane for associating directly with Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, what is that process. The process is one should begin this Kṛṣṇa consciousness under the mercy of Lord Caitanya. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is teaching people how to become Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Lord Kṛṣṇa, He [break] personally spoke about Himself in the *Bhagavad-gītā,* but people who are not very intelligent, who are described in the *Bhagavad-gītā* as *mūḍha—mūḍha* means rascal—and *duṣkṛtina,* and miscreant; and *narādhamā—* --- **[[spoken/730109nd.bom|The Nectar of Devotion — January 9, 1973, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading] "Impersonalists are very fond of merging into the Supreme, like rivers that come down and merge into the ocean. The ocean can be compared with liberation, and the rivers with all the different paths of liberation. The impersonalists are dwelling in the river water, which eventually comes to mix with the ocean. They have no information, however, that within the ocean, as within the river, there are innumerable aquatic living entities. The sharks who dwell in the ocean do not care for the rivers which are gliding down into it. The devotees eternally live in the ocean of devotional service, and they do not care for the rivers." **Prabhupāda:** This comparison that the rivers..., it does not matter from which way it is coming down to the sea; when they mix together, they become one. But if this comparison is taken, that the rivers merging into the sea, and when it mixes there is no separate existence of the river, but they do not see analogy. Analogy, according to law of analogy, the points of similarities must be one. Analogy is perfect when the points of similarities are there. Just like we say, "Your face is as beautiful as moon." That means the face, beauty of the face, is as attractive as the moon is attractive. The points of similarity is there. We cannot say an ugly face, "Your face is like moon." That cannot be. That is not analogy because there is no points of similarity. That is the law of analogy. So similarly, if you make analogy that as the different rivers are..., the water is coming down and mixing with the sea, then it becomes one, but there are other points. This is superficial vision. There is other points. The same water again becomes evaporated and again thrown on the ground, and they again glide down as rivers. There is..., this is a fact. But if you go deep into the water, just like the shark fish—the comparison is given there—the shark fish is never evaporated. The shark fish is within the water of the sea, and there is no question of evaporation. The water may be evaporated. --- **[[spoken/740109mw.la|Morning Walk — January 9, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Prajāpati:** *Jaya.* Your lecture this morning was brilliant, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Your logic could defeat anybody.* [Prabhupāda chuckles] The theological rascals, though, they will not accept any authority except their own mind. They are such nonsense. **Prabhupāda:** That is called *mano-dharmī.* In Sanskrit it is called *mano-dharmī,* mental speculators. **Prabhupāda:** And therefore mental speculators, they have been condemned. *Manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ* [[sb/5/18/12|[SB. 5.18.12] ]]. Because they carry on, or they are carried by, the chariot of mind, *manorathena. Manorathena asata. Manoratha,* when you drive on the chariot of mind, you cannot get any fixed idea, because mind is flickering. *Saṅkalpa-vikalpa.* Mind business is, "Accept this, and again reject it." So all these speculators are doing. Somebody is putting forward some theory, and after some years he will himself reject or somebody else will reject. So *manorathena,* by mental speculation, you remain on the material platform. You cannot get any spiritual idea. Therefore *harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ.* Anyone who is not in the spiritual platform... Spiritual platform means to be a devotee of the Lord. The *Māyāvādīs,* because they are not devotees of the Lord, they are not on the spiritual platform. They are on the material platform. They are speculating spirit, "something negation of matter." That's all. That is mental speculation. "It is bad. Good means negation of bad." They are thinking like that. They do not know in this material world bad and good are both the same thing, because it is matter. That they do not know. They think, "This is bad, this is good." But they do not know, materially conceived anything, good or bad, they are the same thing. That they do not know. --- **[[spoken/740109sb.la|SB 1.16.12 — January 9, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Mahārāja Parīkṣit then conquered all parts of the earthly planet—Bhadrāśva, Ketumāla, Bhārata, the northern portion of Kuru-jāṅgala, Kimpuruṣa, etc.—and exacted tributes from their respective rulers." --- **[[spoken/750109sb.bom|SB 3.26.32 — January 9, 1975, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. **O**ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "When egoism in ignorance is agitated by the sex energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the subtle element sound is manifested, and from sound comes the ethereal sky and the sense of hearing." --- **[[spoken/760109mw.mad|Morning Walk — January 9, 1976, Madras]]** **Acyutānanda:** "...Please, everyone join and say, '*Sāi* *Rāma ki jaya.'* " Nobody... Complete silence. Again he said, "Everyone say, '*Sāi* *Rāma,*' " and somebody yelled out, "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa," and the whole audience said, "Hare Kṛṣṇa," then he said "Hare Kṛṣṇa." [dog barking] **Acyutānanda:** Big Māyāvādī. And later on he had a very nice program for us. But the first day we visited—as I said, that he plays with snakes—so as we were leaving I said to Yaśodānandana Mahārāja, "I didn't see any snakes." He says, "Didn't you see that man on the *āsana*? [Prabhupāda laughs] That big one?" **Acyutānanda:** And all the *Śaivite brāhmaṇas* doing the *yajña,* they came and danced with us like ghosts, like madmen. [break] --- **[[spoken/770109mw.bom|Morning Walk — January 9, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** No, we have got our own fight. The thought-checking. So "I am thinking of Kṛṣṇa. Why you are checking me?" This will be our defense. Do you think Kṛṣṇa-thinking is illegal and madness? Then you have to condemn the whole Hindu religion. **Prabhupāda:** No. Kṛṣṇa is taken as Hindu God. So "I'm thinking of Hindu God. Why you are checking me?" **Prabhupāda:** ...**Kṛṣṇa. We are reading *Bhagavad-gītā* and killing Kṛṣṇa. This same disease is everywhere. Our national father is supposed to be a great devotee of *Bhagavad-gītā,* but Kṛṣṇa is killed. Why the government does not take it seriously, that Gandhi wanted *Bhagavad-gītā* as guide? Why they are not taking? --- **[[spoken/770109r1.bom|Morning Darśana with Ramkrishna Bajaj and friends — January 9, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** Oh. When I went to your MIT, I challenged that "Where is that technological department where a dead man can be brought into life?" It was interesting speech. The students gathered. This body is mentioned in the *Bhagavad-gītā* as machine. Do you know that? This body is mentioned in the *Bhagavad-gītā* as machine. *Yantrārūḍhāni māyayā.* Just like you make a tour by driving a motorcar, similarly, the *jīvātmā* is touring all over the universe, riding on this machine. This is machine. So... --- **[[spoken/770109r2.bom|Room Conversation — January 9, 1977, Bombay]]** **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** We can send one boy, Vijeta, from here. He's not doing very much, and he's on the construction department. I was just waiting for Saurabha to come back. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** Śrīla Prabhupāda? I had previously told you that the BBT was... Because it's doing very heavy printing at the moment, say, for about two months, we need a little loan. **Prabhupāda:** I know that. That is called *para-hasta gataṁ dhanaṁ puṅṭhi-gata-vidyā.* "I am very learned man." How? "Now I can speak when I see the books." That means "Personally, I have not assimilated anything. I can... And I have got money. I have to realize this." [laughter] --- **[[spoken/770109r3.bom|Discussion on Deprogrammers — January 9, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. ...so that he quickly attains detachment.] *Jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam.* [Transl. And knowledge as well. In human form of life, two things are required] *Jñāna* *vairāgya.* [Transl. That is possible by rendering devotional service to Lord Vāsudeva.] **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. What is the fault of the poor woman? This is what I was just describing that these things go on in the world. Just like a bunch of grass is carried together in the flowing waves of the river. But suddenly a storm comes and scatters them in all different directions. That's why everything is properly described in the i. Just like in the *Śrīmad Bhāgavatam* it is mentioned.] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690109_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690109_paramananda.md|Letter to Paramananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700109_candravali.md|Letter to Candravali, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700109_raktaka.md|Letter to Raktaka, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700109_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700109_vrndavana_candra.md|Letter to Vrndavana Candra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710109_nayanabhirama.md|Letter to Nayanabhirama, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720109_bhavananda.md|Letter to Bhavananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_bhavananda.md|Letter to Bhavananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_cyavana.md|Letter to Cyavana, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_damodara.md|Letter to Damodara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_hariprasada.md|Letter to Hariprasada, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_hasyakari_rathangapani_varuthapa_laksmivan_bhaktavatsala_bhaktilila.md|Letter to Hasyakari Rathangapani Varuthapa Laksmivan Bhaktavatsala Bhaktilila, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_mr._robert_keene.md|Letter to Mr. Robert Keene, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_prahladananda.md|Letter to Prahladananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_satsvarupa_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Satsvarupa Hrdayananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730109_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740109_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740109_revatinandana.md|Letter to Revatinandana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740109_sukadeva_1.md|Letter to Sukadeva 1, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750109_all_temple_presidents.md|Letter to All Temple Presidents, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750109_devamaya.md|Letter to Devamaya, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750109_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750109_sri_mohan_masundar.md|Letter to Sri Mohan Masundar, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760109_abhirama.md|Letter to Abhirama, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760109_nitai.md|Letter to Nitai, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760109_tusta_krsna.md|Letter to Tusta Krsna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760109_vishambhar.md|Letter to Vishambhar, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760109_yasomatinandana.md|Letter to Yasomatinandana, 1976]]