# January 11 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670111cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 22.21-28 — January 11, 1967, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > kevala jñāna 'mukti' dite nāre bhakti vine > kṛṣṇonmukhe sei mukti haya jñāna vinā > [[cc/madhya/22/21|[Cc. Madhya 22.21] ]] *Mukti,* liberation... The impersonalists think that simply by cultivating knowledge that "I am not matter; I am spirit," or "I am one with the Supreme Spirit; I am now... Out of ignorance, I am thinking different, but when I am fully elevated to the platform of knowledge, then I become liberated." But the..., there is no answer that "Why you have become conditioned?" The impersonalists think that "I am one with the Supreme. Now, due to my ignorance, I have forgotten that I am the Supreme." Because they do not recognize the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so they think that impersonal conception of the spirit soul: "I am now... Out of ignorance, I am thinking matter, but as soon as my ignorance is over, I shall become one with the Supreme." --- **[[spoken/690111pu.la|Purport to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Prabhu — January 11, 1969, Los Angeles]]** This is a song composed by Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. He is praying Lord Caitanya that "My dear Lord, please be merciful upon me, because who can be more merciful than Your Lordship within these three worlds?'' Actually, this is the fact. Not only Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, but also Rūpa Gosvāmī, he also prayed for Lord Caitanya when both of them met at Prayāga, Allahabad, in the first meeting of Lord Caitanya and Rūpa Gosvāmī at Prayāga. At that time, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī also said, "My dear Lord, You are the most munificent of all incarnations, because You are distributing love of Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.'' In other words, when Kṛṣṇa was personally present, He simply asked us to surrender, but He did not distribute Himself so easily. He made condition that, "First of all you surrender.'' But here, in this incarnation, Lord Caitanya, although He's Kṛṣṇa Himself, He makes no condition. He simply distributes, "take love of Kṛṣṇa.'' Therefore Lord Caitanya is approved as the most munificent incarnation, and Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says that, "Please be merciful upon me. You are so magnanimous, because You have seen the fallen souls of this age, and You are very much compassionate upon them. But you should know also that I am the most fallen. Nobody is a greater fallen than me.'' --- **[[spoken/730111nd.bom|The Nectar of Devotion — January 11, 1973, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading] "...service, following in the footsteps of previous *ācāryas,* can be summarized in the following statement by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī: 'First-class devotional service is known by one's tendency to be fully engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, serving the Lord favorably.' " **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. Serving the Lord favorably. Not whimsically. Favorably. *Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā* [[cc/madhya/19/167|[Cc. Madhya 19.167] ]]. This is the exact word, *ānukūla. Ānukūla* means favorably, "What I want, you shall do." That is favorable. I want something and you do something else, that is not favorable. Favorable means what Kṛṣṇa wants, you do that. So to come to this understanding, preliminarily... Because we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa, or God, at the present stage, in our material condition of life. Material condition means forgetting our relationship with God. That is material condition. The, this is... Therefore it is called *māyā. Māyā* means illusion, which has no existence, hallucination. --- **[[spoken/740111mw.la|Morning Walk — January 11, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Satsvarūpa:** ...by reading the books, he'd understood that we should become completely desireless. So he wanted more explanation. And in the car coming out Śrīla Prabhupāda just explained that our desire can't go away, because that's the symptom of the living entity. We have to have some desire. But real desirelessness means that you have no more material desire. Material desire, someone is always desiring from God, "Give me this, give me this." But when we become purified, then our desire is for "Kṛṣṇa, please take me. Please take me. Whatever service I can render, please accept it." But when one has not enough information, then he desires... His idea of desirelessness is to become like a dead stone; simply to... Because desire causes suffering and it's bad, material desire, therefore let me simply stop it and become... That will be desireless. But that is not..., that state is not possible because our symptom is of life is to have desire. So we answer him in this way: to become purified and simply serve Kṛṣṇa all the time. Not that we stop any activities. Prabhupāda was saying he is working day and night. So you cannot become absorbed in nothing. In order to become purely desireless, you have to have some activity that will always... There is a place, there is a plane of spiritual desire, spiritual activity. So there's... [pause] **Satsvarūpa:** People some... Pseudo transcendentalists, they sometimes criticize us like that. They say, "Hare Kṛṣṇa devotees, you're just too active." They're think that we're fruitive, always running around, always trying to sell books, always very active. That's because they don't understand that desirelessness. They talk like that, and then they'll smoke a cigarette the next moment as they criticize us. They say, "You should not have to do anything if you're transcendental. Why do you have to work so hard?" And then they'll show that they have some very gross desire. [pause] [break] **Prabhupāda:** ...therefore they see that this..., their conception of Kṛṣṇa, there is mother, there is father, there is friend—"So what is this? Here also we see the mother, father, friend. So how they become free?" They cannot understand. Their brain is so poor they cannot understand. Therefore they: "It is also *māyā.* To think of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme, having father, mother, friends, playing pastime, this is also *māyā.*" Therefore they are called Māyāvādī. They cannot conceive that in the spiritual world exactly the same things there are, but the position is different. That is absolute, without any designation. --- **[[spoken/740111sb.la|SB 1.16.16 — January 11, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** [leads singing of *Jaya* **Rādhā-Mādhava*] [*prema-dhvani*] Thank you very much.** [06:12] **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] --- **[[spoken/750111sb.bom|SB 3.26.34 — January 11, 1975, Bombay]]** "The activities and characteristics of the ethereal element can be observed as the accommodation for the room for the external and internal existences of all living entities, namely the field of activities of the vital air, the senses and the mind." **Prabhupāda:** > bhūtānāṁ chidra-dātṛtvaṁ > bahir antaram eva ca > prāṇendriyātma-dhiṣṇyatvaṁ > nabhaso vṛtti-lakṣaṇam > [[sb/3/26/34|[SB. 3.26.34] ]] --- **[[spoken/770111tt.ida|Conversation on Train to Allahabad — January 11, 1977, India]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680111_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680111_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680111_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680111_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690111_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690111_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700111_jaya_gopala.md|Letter to Jaya Gopala, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700111_kulasekhara.md|Letter to Kulasekhara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710111_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710111_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720111_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720111_sucandra.md|Letter to Sucandra, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740111_nadia.md|Letter to Nadia, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740111_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750111_dr._channa_reddy.md|Letter to Dr. Channa Reddy, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760111_bahudak.md|Letter to Bahudak, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760111_kirtiraja.md|Letter to Kirtiraja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760111_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760111_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760111_sri_kapur.md|Letter to Sri Kapur, 1976]]