# January 15 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670115cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 22.27-31 — January 15, 1967, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** This is a quotation from *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Eleventh Canto. It is very nicely compared with the body of the Supreme Lord and our situation in that partic..., body, in different positions. Now, this verse says that the highly intellectual class of men, they are situated on the mouth of the Supreme Lord. The intellectual persons are considered the mouth of the Supreme Lord. And the next, the administrators, or the protector class of men... Not administrators; practically protector... *Kṣatriya* means protector. Protector class of men, they are considered to be the arms of the Supreme Lord. And the productive class of men, they are considered as the waist of the Supreme Lord. And the laborer class of men, they are considered to be the legs of the Supreme Lord. So anyone in this society, or in this human society or material world, they must have some situation. There is some positive position of everyone in the body of the Supreme Lord. --- **[[spoken/690115le.la|Lecture — January 15, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** So this *yoga* system, *bhakti-yoga,* means to concentrate only to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa, when we speak of Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa and His expansion also. In the *Brahma-saṁhitā* Kṛṣṇa's expansions are described: Kṛṣṇa is always existing with innumerable forms. How? *Aṇḍāntara-sthaṁ paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham* [Bs. 5.35]*. Aṇḍāntara-stham. Aṇḍa* means this universe. It is just like an egg. *Aṇḍa* means egg. All these planets and universes, they are made on the shape of egg. *Aṇḍāntara-stham.* So each and every universe, Kṛṣṇa enters as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Just like within matter, when there is male and female, sex, it becomes just like a small pea. That is also egglike, emulsified. And the living entity entered, and then the pea form becomes developed into a body. --- **[[spoken/700115sb.la|SB 6.1.19 — January 15, 1970, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** > sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor > niveśitaṁ tad-guṇa-rāgī yair iha > na te yamaṁ pāśa-bhṛtaś ca tad-bhatān > svapne 'pi paśyanti hi cīrṇa-niṣkṛtāḥ > [[sb/6/1/19|[SB. 6.1.19] ]] We have been discussing sinful activities and their reaction for the last three weeks. So here, Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that there are many different processes for counteracting our sinful activities, but he summarizes that *sakṛn kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor niveśitaṁ tad-guṇa-rāgī yair iha:* anyone who has fixed up his mind on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, *kṛṣṇa-padāravinda... Padāravinda* means the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. *Aravinda* means lotus flower, and *pada* means feet. Some way or other, if anybody fixes his mind on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then, he says, *na te yamaṁ pāśa-bhṛtaś ca tad-bhaṭān svapne 'pi paśyanti.* It is, according to Vedic scripture, the sinful persons are taken to the superintendent of death, and there, according to his different, I mean to say, volumes or proportion of sinful activities, a living entity is punished. The spirit soul is taken in that planet where the Yamarāja is there, and in that subtle form... Subtle form means the spirit covered in the subtle form of mind, intelligence and false ego, he is put into various trouble. --- **[[spoken/710115sb.all|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatām 6.2.9-10 — January 15, 1971, Allahabad]]** **Haṁsadūta:** [introducing recording] Sixteen heads arrived at the Kumbha-melā, January 5th, 1971. Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived on the morning of January 13th, 1971, and the following lectures were recorded beginning January 15th, 1971, at the Kumbha-melā, crossing of Kali and Yamunā roads, just across from the Hanumān Mandira, a temple which is said to be at least one million years old. Prabhupāda said it was standing since the time of Lord Rāmacandra. [break] **Prabhupāda:** > om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ --- **[[spoken/740115mw.hon|Morning Walk — January 15, 1974, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:**There are two millions types of vegetables and trees and plants. Two million. What these rascals know? The botanists might have seen thousands, but two millions there are. [laughs] [*japa]* So they are getting bitter melon? **Prabhupāda:** Oh, that's nice. Bitter melon, eggplant, maybe this *mankachu*. They prepare, they will be very nice combination. Yes. So buy one vegetable, you can eat whole thing. Yes. **Prabhupāda:** Salt, salt, turned into sand. Salty water, silica. Sodium silicate. Salt is called sodium carbonate? --- **[[spoken/740115sb.hon|SB 1.16.19 — January 15, 1974, Honolulu]]** **Translation:** "Dharma, in the form of a bull, asked: Madam, are you not hale and hearty? Why are you covered with the shadow of grief? It appears by your face that you have become black. Are you suffering from some internal disease, or are you thinking of some relative who is away in a far distant place?" **Pradyumna:Purport:** "The people of the world in this Age of Kali are always full of anxieties. Everyone is diseased with some kind of ailment. From the very faces of the people of this age, one can find out the index of the mind. Everyone feels the absence of his relative who is away from home. The particular symptom of the Age of Kali is that no family is now blessed to live together. To earn a livelihood, the father lives at a place far away from the son, or the wife lives far away from the husband, and so on. There are sufferings from internal diseases, separation from those near and dear, and anxieties for maintaining the status quo. These are but some important factors which make the people of this age always unhappy." --- **[[spoken/750115sb.bom|SB 3.26.40 — January 15, 1975, Bombay]]** "Fire is appreciated by its light and by its capacity to cook, to digest, to destroy cold, to evaporate, and to give rise to hunger, thirst, eating and drinking." **Prabhupāda:** > dyotanaṁ pacanaṁ pānam > adanaṁ hima-mardanam > tejaso vṛttayas tv etāḥ > śoṣaṇaṁ kṣut tṛḍ eva ca > [[sb/3/26/40|[SB. 3.26.40] ]] So people may be astonished that "They are reading *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* Why they are discussing the action and reaction of fire?" Generally, they think *Bhāgavata* reading means *rāsa-pañcādhyāya, bās,* immediately jump over to the *rāsa-līlā* of Kṛṣṇa. Actually, to know God means to know everything in detail. *Yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati* [*Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad* 1.3]. --- **[[spoken/760115mw.cal|Morning Walk — January 15, 1976, Calcutta]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...for foretelling, *lāvanyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam* [[sb/12/2/6|[SB. 12.2.6] ]]. So all the young boys, they are keeping big, big hair. That is foretold in *Bhāgavata,* five thousand years: "In Kali-yuga, they will think by keeping long hair they become more beautiful." [laughter] [break] **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Also, from the pictures we see that the residents of Nabadwip and Māyāpur seemed to have long hair, the householders. **Prabhupāda:** Then why this statement is there, *lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam*? If it is approved, why *Bhāgavata* criticizing? --- **[[spoken/760115r1.may|Room Conversation — January 15, 1976, Māyāpur]]** --- title: Lecture — January 15, 1976, Mayapur date: 1976-01-15 permalink: spoken/760115r1.may description: "Prabhupāda: So, of course, those days also not costly, 1945. I was paying only 200 rupees. Now you cannot get one room. So because it was famous, that ghost-hauntly house, nobody was taking it. So I t..." --- **Prabhupāda:** So, of course, those days also not costly, 1945. I was paying only 200 rupees. Now you cannot get one room. So because it was famous, that ghost-hauntly house, nobody was taking it. So I took it. [laughs] I don't care for ghost. Actually there was ghost. And all the servants, they said, [Transl. "Bābujī: sir, there are ghosts here."] They met. But I was chanting. [break] --- **[[../../spoken/1976/760115se.may.md|Speech [partially recorded] — January 15, 1976, Māyāpur]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/770115le.all|Morning Lecture at Kumbha-melā — January 15, 1977, Allahabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** So people do not understand that there is life after death. But Bhagavān says, "Yes, there is life after death." *Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. So *dehāntara-prāpti,* two kinds of *dehāntara-prāpti:* either towards the hell or towards heaven; towards liberation and towards bondage. So liberation means *mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimukteḥ* [[sb/5/5/2|[SB. 5.5.2] ]]. We want liberation. Then *mahat-sevā:* we have to take shelter of *mahātmā.* And if you want to go to the darkest region of material existence, then *yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam*, sense enjoyment... *Yoṣit* means woman. So the last resort of sense enjoyment is sex life. So if we indulge in sex life, then *yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam.* Not only directly we indulge in sex life, but even indirectly we associate with person who are only interested in sex life... The whole world is interested in sex life. *Puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etat *[[sb/5/5/8|[SB. 5.5.8] ]]. This material world is existing on this *mithunī-bhāva.* So *tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam.* Therefore you'll find in the Vedic way of life, sex indulgence is restricted. If we indulge in sex life than it is absolutely required, then we are gliding towards hellish condition of life. And if we follow the path of *mahātmās, mahat-sevā,* that is *dvāram āhur vimukteḥ.* We are making progress towards liberation. So this is a chance. This Kumbha-melā is a chance to get opportunity of *mahat-sevā. Mahat-sevā dvāram āhur vimukteḥ.* Many... Of course, it is Kali-yuga. There are so many so-called *mahātmās* in dress for earning livelihood. That kind of *mahātmā* is not required. *Mahātmā* is also described in the *Bhagavad-gītā: sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ.* Actually we have to associate with such *mahātmā* who is *su-durlabhaḥ,* not very easily obtainable. And who is that *su-durlabhaḥ mahātmā*? That is also described: --- **[[spoken/770115r1.all|Conversation in car — January 15, 1977, Allahabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** In Durban. South Africa. Fighting with General Smuts to give Indians equal rights. They are very conservative. At heart they want "Indians may go away." They don't want Indians. And if they want, it is for their own benefit. The Indians are given some place to develop as marketplace, and as soon as they develop, they ask, "Go there. Leave this place. Go away, other place." This is going on. And they know very well, politicians. The Indians have been given a place where nearby there is a slaughterhouse. They know Indians are sentimental, at least for cow slaughtering. Whole night slaughtering is going on, and there are screaming of the animals. Whole night. Even those who are meat-eaters, they will be disturbed. So the purpose is that "Let them live near the slaughterhouse, so by sentiment they are disgusted, leave this country." They don't want the Asians, especially Indians, and especially due to Gandhi, because they know, due to Gandhi... At least Gandhi organized the public opinion against the Britishers by this noncooperation movement. They were not affected by the... Affected in this way, that public opinion was against them. That is also organization. Otherwise Gandhi's method was not harmful to them, this noncooperation, nonviolent. That did not help. But he influenced the public opinion against them. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. That Hitler also did. *Pāṅch lāge to bhūta bhāge:* "If five men combine together, even the ghost will go away." [laughs] So everyone was against the Britishers, how they can keep their...? And nature's law also. They exploited the whole world for the benefit of few persons in London, and that is very bad. **Gurudāsa:** You told me they wanted to be paid in gold by the Home Bill, just to deplete the economy. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680115_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680115_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680115_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680115_yamuna_harsarani.md|Letter to Yamuna Harsarani, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_dhindro_vanalata_mullick.md|Letter to Dhindro Vanalata Mullick, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_kanupriya.md|Letter to Kanupriya, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_sraman_maharaja.md|Letter to Sraman Maharaja, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_sumati_morarjee.md|Letter to Sumati Morarjee, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690115_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700115_bhavananda_aravinda_pradyumna_patita_uddharana.md|Letter to Bhavananda Aravinda Pradyumna Patita Uddharana, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700115_harer_nama.md|Letter to Harer Nama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700115_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700115_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1975/750115_madame_sangupta.md|Letter to Madame Sangupta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750115_sridhara_maharaja.md|Letter to Sridhara Maharaja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760115_cidananda.md|Letter to Cidananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760115_makhanlal.md|Letter to Makhanlal, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760115_mark_phillips.md|Letter to Mark Phillips, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760115_sri_pillai.md|Letter to Sri Pillai, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760115_t._b._randler.md|Letter to T. B. Randler, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770115_akshayananda_swami.md|Letter to Akshayananda Swami, 1977]]