# January 14 ## Spoken on January 14 *Lectures from this day: 5 recordings* --- **[1969: Bhagavad-gītā 4.39–42](spoken/1969/690114bg.la)** > So the process is very easy, but we do not want to follow the instruction of *Bhagavad-gītā,* but simply falsely I am proud that "I am reading *Bhagavad-gītā.*" There are so many *Bhagavad-gītā* readers even in your country. So many. I know. But the real instruction they will not follow. They will interpret in some way, this way, that way. Or some rascal, I mean, commentator will also induce the reader, "Oh, here Kṛṣṇa says that you become devotee of Kṛṣṇa—it is not up to this Kṛṣṇa; there is another Kṛṣṇa." Just see. > So *Bhāgavata* says, *akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ : "If you are actually advanced with knowledge, either you desire material prosperity or you desire liberation from material bondage or you desire to be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you simply try to be engaged in devotional service of the Supreme Lord." If you want any material prosperity, that can also be achieved by devotional service. --- **[1972: Lecture in Hindi](spoken/1972/720114le.jai)** > Everyone's brain in *Kali yuga* is already adversely effected *mandāḥ sumanda-matayo*, but they think that they are very much advanced in intelligence. "We have created motor cars." No, still their brains are spoiled in this Kali yuga—*nasṭa buddhayah mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ*, the symptoms of *Kali yuga* are firstly, manda, they are foolish and cannot understand anything. If anyone tries to explain things, they are hindered by their foolish opinions, for they sometimes say that consciousness is born from soil. If consciousness is made of matter such as earth, why can they not make it in the laboratory? At least you can make an ant but they cannot make it and still stick to the theory of Darwinism in all the big-big western countries, they are so-called scientists by actually they are all fools. They wish to make earth conscious like a living being but that is not possible for the living beings is different. Which is why Kṛṣṇa says *apareyam itas tv anyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parā*, these material elements *bhūmir āpo 'nalo vayuḥ*, these are inferior nature *apara*, *apareyam* these are much less valuable, lower or of inferior quality. > The only enjoyer is the Supreme Personality of Godhead *bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram*, because everything has been created by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead *bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ* and putting these elements together a big entity is created. So, that is God's property and further on Kṛṣṇa says that the living entity and the material nature both are the property of the Supreme Lord. So, what can now be proper behavior for us? This means that to serve towards the enjoyment of the Supreme Lord will get us to desired liberation, *mukti*. *Mukti* simply means *svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ muktir hitvānyathā-rūpaṁ*, here in this material world we are energies but are trying to become enjoyers, this tendency is the illusion which has bound us to this material world. Now, if I being the energy accept the position of energy and become the object of enjoyment of the Supreme Lord that is *mukti*, liberation, that's all. *Mukti* means nothing other than being situated in our original position. When we being the enjoyed [energy of the Supreme Energetic, God], and God the enjoyer, so we are the object of God's enjoyment. That is why the way God wishes to enjoy us, the way He orders us, if we act accordingly, that will be our state of liberation, nothing else. We don't have to do anything else. If you try to understand this: --- **[1973: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Preface Paṇḍāl Lecture "We must know the present need of human society"](spoken/1973/730114sb.bom)** > The nondevotees accept Kṛṣṇa as ordinary person. *Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam*. Because Kṛṣṇa comes before you as a human being, therefore because one has not sufficient knowledge about Kṛṣṇa, *paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ,* therefore such foolish person accepts Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being—or a little greater than ordinary human being. But that is not the fact. *Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam:* "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." That is the verdict of Vedic instruction. *Ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam*. > Govinda has dealing. That dealing He represents exactly when He comes, when He appears on this planet, and that dealing is exhibited in Vṛndāvana-dhāma. You know Vṛndāvana-dhāma. When Kṛṣṇa comes... About forty-three *crores* of years' interval Kṛṣṇa comes. This estimation, these things are there. Kṛṣṇa comes in one day of Brahmā. The duration of Brahmā's day you know, that is described in the *Bhagavad-gītā: sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ*. This means forty-three *lakhs* of years multiplied by one thousand. That is the duration of one day of Brahmā. And similarly, the duration of his night. So Kṛṣṇa comes in one day during that duration. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.39](spoken/1975/750114sb.bom)** > So mind. It is expansion of the mind, different way. *Mānasa-vṛtti.* This is called the characteristic of the mind. Then subtle action of mind: thinking, feeling, willing. And the mind is expanding in hundreds, thousands, millions of ideas. In this way I am becoming entangled. So when this mind is controlled... The *yoga* system is for that purpose. Those who are too much bodily concept of life, bodily consciousness, they should practice this *yoga*—*haṭha-yoga, aṣṭāṅga-yoga*—so that the mind can be purified. As soon as the mind is purified, then all this expansion into thousands and millions of ideas will be controlled, and the only idea will be Kṛṣṇa. This is called *yoga* system, concentrating. *Dhyānāvasthita yogena paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ. Dhyānāvasthita-manasā:* "The mind is controlled, and the focus of the mind is on Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu." *Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ*. Then we can see the effulgence, and the localized, and then the Supreme Personality of Godhead. > Kṛṣṇa can be served by all our senses according to the direction of the *śāstra* and *guru*—*sādhu, śāstra, guru.* Just like Ambarīṣa Mahārāja. He is devotee. We have to follow. *Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ*. The senses... The mind is the chief of the senses, and immediately under the mind, ten senses are working, ten: five knowledge-gathering senses, *jñānendriya,* and five working senses, *karmendriya.* And they have got different types of activities—hands, legs, tongue, ear, eyes. And above these, there is *ahaṅkāra,* false ego in the material world. The eleven senses, and the twelfth is the false ego. The false ego means I am thinking, "I am this body. I am body." Then expansion of body: "I belong to this family"; "I am the husband of this body"; "I am the father of this body"; "I am the brother of this body." Or "I belong to this nation"; "I belong to this species." This is called twelfth conception. It is different consciousness according to different body. And then "It is mine." With all these eleven senses, I form an idea of "I" and then my possession, "mine." *Ahaṁ mameti*. Janasya moho 'yam.* This is called illusion, *māyā.* --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.2 Translated from Bengali](spoken/1976/760114sb.cal)** > [Transl. We have to give up one body and accept another body. So this our present body also, it is not our *svarūpa*. By force, due to some reason, we had to accept this *svarūpa*. This is called *māyā*. When we will give up our body and revive our original body, because this is our false body, when we will be reinstated in our original body, svarūpena vyavasthitiḥ, muktir hitvānyathā rūpam,* this *anyathā rūpam* or accepting different bodies, when by giving up this body we will be reinstated in our original body that is called *mukti*. > [Transl. Render service to the Supreme Lord. The *brāhmaṇas* should do, the *kṣatriyas* should do, the *vaiśyas* should do, as per their respective capacities according to the Supreme Lord's order. Then the Supreme Lord will be pleased and the human form of life will become successful. Therefore *mahat-sevāṁ dvāram*. The *mahātmā* will instruct, you have got qualifications of a *brāhmaṇa*, so you act in this way. You have the nature of a *kṣatriya* you serve like this. You have got *vaiśya-nature, guṇa-karma vibhāgaśaḥ*, the *guru* used to determine and they used to follow. And those who are ignorant, ordinary, they should work for the *brāhmaṇas*, *kṣatriyas* and *vaiśyas*. They are *śūdras*. These are the rules. Therefore *mahat-sevā* is recommended. --- ## Letters on January 14 *Letters from this day: 7* --- **[1966: Letter to Mr. A.B. Hartman](letters/1966/660114_mr._a.b._hartman)** > Now the Prime Minister Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri is suddenly dead and I am greatly perplexed. I do not know whether you have read the paper left with Mrs. --- **[1968: Letter to Kancanbala](letters/1968/680114_kancanbala)** > If you love Krishna in any capacity, you shall never be frustrated because everything in Krishna is perfect, eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge. Regarding love affairs in the material world: they are only shadows or reflections of the real love with Krishna. --- **[1968: Letter to Umapati](letters/1968/680114_umapati)** > Kirtanananda's refusal to accept the Parampara system and authority of the scriptures is the cause of his misfortune. His version that the sun and the sunshine are one and the same is right, but when the sunshine is in the room it is not correct to say that the sun is in the room. --- **[1970: Letter to Executive Senior Editor Of Los Angeles Times](letters/1970/700114_executive_senior_editor_of_los_angeles_times)** > With reference to your article in the Los Angeles Times dated Sunday 11th January, 1970 under the heading "Krishna Chant," I beg to point out that Hindu religion is perfectly based on Personal conception of God or Visnu. --- **[1970: Letter to Hayagriva](letters/1970/700114_hayagriva)** > Actually I am not worthy of any one of the words spoken by you but all of them are due to my Spiritual Master Who was so kind to me. --- **[1970: Letter to Jadurani](letters/1970/700114_jadurani)** > I asked you to work four hours just to give you not very much strain because I found you weaker than I saw you before. --- **[1975: Letter to Madhava Maharaja](letters/1975/750114_madhava_maharaja)** > By the by, I beg to inform you that I have arranged for the opening of the temple in Vrndavana on Sri Ram Navami day by the 20th of April, 1975. Perhaps you know it that the ceremony was to take place on last Janmastami, but as the temple was not finished at that time, it could not be. ---