# February 5 *Lectures from this day: 4 recordings* --- **[[spoken/750205bg.hon|Bg 16.9 — February 5, 1975, Honolulu]]** "Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world." **Prabhupāda:** > etāṁ dṛṣṭim avaṣṭabhya > naṣṭātmāno 'lpa-buddhayaḥ > prabhavanty ugra-karmāṇaḥ > kṣayāya jagato 'hitāḥ > [[bg/16/9|[Bg. 16.9] ]] These demons—further description. Yesterday we discussed that "The world is untruth. This material world is untruth," *asatyam apratiṣṭham,* "and there is no background." This is the conclusion of the atheist demons. We have explained that this world is not untrue. That is our Vaiṣṇava philosophy. Untruth... If it is coming from the truth, it is true. How you can say untrue? The example: if cotton is truth, then thread is true. So if you say that thread is untruth, then cotton is also untruth, the cause. But they do not accept... --- **[[spoken/760205in.may|Sannyāsa Initiation of Viraha Prakāśa Swami — February 5, 1976, Māyāpur]]** --- **[[spoken/760205mw.may|Morning Walk — February 5, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Hṛdayānanda:** One theory is that there has always..., the material nature has always existed. It was never created, and it will never be annihilated, and there is no other cause. It's simply an eternal fact. **Prabhupāda:** But how always existed? Nothing here ever exists... This house was never existed. It's created. **Indian man:** Śrīla Prabhupāda? [Transl.He said, go and meet Prabhupāda today. Don't know you will get time tomorrow or not.] [break] --- **[[spoken/770205cr.cal|Car Conversation — February 5, 1977, Calcutta]]** **Prabhupāda:** Just see how foolish leaders. In the field there is food. They will not work for the food. **Jayapatākā:** ...get a big staff after publishing our monthly magazine for some time. And I'm thinking we can... If there's... Like that editor of the *Basumati,* [Daily Bengali newspaper] if they join us and help, we can bring a daily paper, and then these can be some of our... **Jayapatākā:** Most likely Calcutta and then different factories and workers. That Titagarh and Shyamnagar and all those places. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680205_hitsaran_sharma.md|Letter to Hitsaran Sharma, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680205_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690205_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690205_colin_jury.md|Letter to Colin Jury, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690205_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690205_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690205_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690205_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700205_anil_grover.md|Letter to Anil Grover, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700205_hanuman_prasad_poddar.md|Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720205_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720205_kisora.md|Letter to Kisora, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720205_puri_maharaj.md|Letter to Puri Maharaj, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720205_saradia.md|Letter to Saradia, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740205_baja_panalalji.md|Letter to Baja Panalalji, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740205_mahamsa.md|Letter to Mahamsa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750205_dr._channa_reddy.md|Letter to Dr. Channa Reddy, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760205_sukadeva.md|Letter to Sukadeva, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770205_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770205_patita_uddharan.md|Letter to Patita Uddharan, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770205_s.p._malhotra.md|Letter to S.P. Malhotra, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770205_sravanananda.md|Letter to Sravanananda, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770205_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1977]]