# January 24 *Lectures from this day: 5 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670124cc.sf|Cc. Madhya 25.40-50 — January 24, 1967, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...krūrān > saṁsāreṣu narādhamān > kṣipāmy ajasram aśubhān > āsurīṣv eva yoniṣu > [Bg 16.19, Cc. Madhya 25.40] This is a verse from *Bhagavad-gītā,* that those who are deriding upon God, "God, there is no God; I am God," they are called *asuras. Asuras,* atheists, or demons. The demons... The Kṛṣṇa, Lord Kṛṣṇa personally says that *tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān*: Those who are such envious upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the result is that they are thrown into perpetual ignorance, and born life after life where they cannot understand what is God. Because they want to forget God, therefore God puts them into such condition that they will never be able to understand what is God. This is the version from *Bhagavad-gītā* by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That means the condition of the atheist are always abominable. *Tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān saṁsāreṣu narādhamān. Saṁsāreṣu. Saṁsāra* means this material entanglement. This is called *saṁsāra.* And *narādhamā.* They are called the lowest of the humankind, because human life is especially meant for God realization, self-realization. So instead of realizing oneself and the Supreme Self, if one derides, doesn't want to understand what is God, what is God consciousness, what is Kṛṣṇa, he is to be understood as the lowest of the mankind, *narādhamā. Adhama* means lowest. Or, in other words, he is an animal in the form of a man. *Narādhameṣu.* And birth after birth, such atheist is put into the species of life where there is no chance of understanding God. --- **[[spoken/770124cc.bhu|Cc. Madhya 8.128 — January 24, 1977, Bhubaneswar]]** --- **[[spoken/770124mw.bhu|Morning Walk — January 24, 1977, Bhubaneswar]]** --- **[[spoken/770124r1.bhu|Room Conversation — January 24, 1977, Bhubaneswar]]** --- **[[spoken/770124r2.bhu|Room Conversation — January 24, 1977, Bhubaneswar]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680124_madhusudana.md|Letter to Madhusudana, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690124_himavati.md|Letter to Himavati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690124_madhusudana.md|Letter to Madhusudana, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690124_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700124_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700124_ekendra.md|Letter to Ekendra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700124_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Gaurasundara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700124_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700124_ranadhira.md|Letter to Ranadhira, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700124_umapati.md|Letter to Umapati, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710124_naranarayan.md|Letter to Naranarayan, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/740124_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760124_cyavana.md|Letter to Cyavana, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760124_nitai.md|Letter to Nitai, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760124_prthu_putra.md|Letter to Prthu Putra, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760124_sri_debasis_bagahi.md|Letter to Sri Debasis Bagahi, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760124_sri_p._l._khanna.md|Letter to Sri P. L. Khanna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770124_alex_bob_drdhavrata_gupta_rsabhadeva_stan.md|Letter to Alex Bob Drdhavrata Gupta Rsabhadeva Stan, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770124_swarupa_damodar.md|Letter to Swarupa Damodar, 1977]]