# February 7 ## Spoken on February 7 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[1967: Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.49–65](spoken/1967/670207cc.sf)** > A devotee should not be satisfied simply by elevating himself in spiritual advancement. He has got other duties also. What is that other duties? That those who are innocent, those who are not interested... Everyone is interested, but there are persons who have forgotten his relationship with God. Therefore it is the duty of the devotee to enlighten others. That is required. > So a person who has elevated himself to the second stage of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he has got four kinds of dealings. First thing is, because he knows God, therefore he loves God, *prema.* His only lovable object is God, or Kṛṣṇa. And the second is the..., he makes friendship with the devotees of God. First thing is, because he loves God, therefore he makes friendship with the devotees of God. But God is the center. If you love God, then you can love others also very perfectly. --- **[1969: His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda's Appearance Day Lecture](spoken/1969/690207ba.la)** > It is not approved here by the government; therefore it is criminal. So anything which is not approved by Kṛṣṇa, that is criminal. Kṛṣṇa was instructing Arjuna to fight, and Arjuna thinking, "It is criminal." But later on, when Arjuna understood that to disobey the order of Kṛṣṇa is criminal, not the fighting, then he says, *kariṣye vacanaṁ tava*, So actually, the responsibility will now depend on you. I am also old man. I may pass away at any moment. This movement should go on, you see, this movement started by Caitanya Mahāprabhu, then accelerated by Gosvāmīs, and then again Viśvanātha Cakravartī. And when... Just like whenever there is... *Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati*. > But apart from my calculation, you are realizing. This movement should be pushed on. Just like great souls always think of the poor souls, similarly, you should also feel. That is the way. Lord Jesus Christ, he also prayed for the sinful persons. So this is very good. If we struggle hard to push this movement, then, even we..., you don't get any follower, Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied. And our business is to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. That is *bhakti. Hṛṣīkena hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate*. --- **[1971: Lecture in Hindi](spoken/1971/710207l1.gor)** > I wish to become the enjoyer everyone in this material world wish to become enjoyers starting from Lord Brahma down to a worm in the stool, they simply wish to enjoy. *Kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kare pāśate māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare* [*Prema-vivarta 6.2*]. *Maya* is nothing else, when we forget Kṛṣṇa that is called maya and when we surrender unto Kṛṣṇa that is when we are free of *maya—mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te*. So, for Kṛṣṇa's devotee there is no difficulty with *maya*. As soon as one surrenders unto the Lord feet of the Supreme Lord maya goes far away from a devotee. That is why there is no difficulty with *maya*, *bahūnāṁ janmanām ante* that is why in the *Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā* Kṛṣṇa says, what is the culmination of knowledge? Surrender unto Kṛṣṇa. > So, along we have tried as much as we could by the mercy of the Lord the same which we are here to share with you, there is a great demand for this all over the world. In our country of India there are many sadhus and sannyasis who sometimes go there simply to make a show of *yoga* and gymnastics, they get some money and come back. The real thing that can come from India is the fact *kṛṣṇastu bhagavān svayam*. They say that God is dead and god is wandering in the streets, or *daridra-nārāyaṇa*, or they may say that God is impersonal, the simply wish to get rid of God. This can never make them happy. The formula form becoming happy has been given by Kṛṣṇa Himself: --- **[1974: Bhagavad-gītā 4.1](spoken/1974/740207bg.vrn)** > When who has understood Kṛṣṇa in truth, then he becomes a fit candidate to enter into the spiritual kingdom. [break]...original form, *ahaṁ evāsam evāgre* : "Before the creation, I was there." Kṛṣṇa's form is not material form, because before material creation He was there. Then how His form can be material? Therefore any person who considers Kṛṣṇa as material, His body also material—he is a *mūḍhā*: *avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam*. That *mūḍhā* thinks Kṛṣṇa, because He is playing just like a human being, therefore He is one of us, one of us. The rascals, they try to imitate Kṛṣṇa. How you can imitate Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa is not an ordinary human being. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa says, *mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya*. > Those who are devotees of Viṣṇu—Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa are the same thing—they are called demigods, *daivatas.* And *āsuras tad-viparyayaḥ,* and just the opposite number. Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu: he was not devotee of Kṛṣṇa but against the devotees of Kṛṣṇa; therefore he is called *asura*. Rāvaṇa, he was very powerful, but he was not in favor of Lord Rāmacandra—therefore he was a demon, *rākṣasa*. So whatever high qualifications he may possess, if you are not a devotee, you are a demon. This is the conclusion of the *śāstra*. The demons cannot understand Kṛṣṇa; only *devatās*, the devotees, they can understand. And Kṛṣṇa says that "This *yoga* system—*bhakti-yoga* system—was first explained by Me to the sun-god." Sun-god or any other god—moon god, or there are many planets—the demigods are there: *ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā*. They are in *sattva-guṇa*. They are situated in the higher planetary systems. And this *yoga* system was being distributed by the *paramparā* system, disciplic succession, as it is stated here, that *vivasvān manave prāha*. --- **[1975: Bhagavad-gītā 16.11–12](spoken/1975/750207bg.hon)** > Unlimited means they have no idea of future life. They do not believe, mostly, at the present moment. Formerly they used to believe, even these *asuras.* Kaṁsa was a great *asura,* but still, he was thinking of future life. When he was informed that his sister's son, eighth son, will kill him, so he was trying to kill his sister: "Because sister is the source of the nephew coming, so better finish the sister." So still he was thinking, "What people will say, I shall kill my sister?" So they were also thinking of future. But at the present moment the *asuras* are so advanced that they don't think of future life also. Don't think. Therefore *pralayantam. Pralayantam* means annihilation. *Sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ*. >...then immediately there will be dysentery. This is nature's law. If you take more than you can digest, then immediately there will be indigestion, means you cannot assimilate so much food. That is nature's law. If you touch fire, either you touch or your innocent child touch, the fire will burn it. Fire will not consider that "Here is a child. Let me excuse." No, it will burn. This is nature's law. Similarly, the thoughts which you are maintaining during your lifetime, if that thought becomes prominent—naturally it becomes—at the time of death, then you are going to get a similar body. If you are thinking like a demon, then you get the demon's body next life. And if you are thinking like a devotee, then you get your next life back to home, back to Godhead. This is nature's law. Therefore, if you practice instead of thinking like the demons, how to gratify senses... That is the demonic thought. They are concerned with this body. If you think of Kṛṣṇa, how to serve Him, that is your perfection of life, because you'll think at the time of death of Kṛṣṇa. *Ante nārāyaṇa-smṛtiḥ*. --- **[1977: Arrival Conversation](spoken/1977/770207ar.may)** > So if we are actually sincerely serving Kṛṣṇa, people may be envious, that "These people, living in palatial buildings." Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura said only the devotees shall live in palatial buildings. Only the devotees. Just like the government servants. [Transl. Are you keeping well? Your service and activities are going on nicely? No?] >*Kṛṣṇārthe akhila-ceṣṭā*. For Kṛṣṇa you can endeavor multifariously. That is wanted. That is the contribution of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. Before that, Vaiṣṇavas, they used to live retired life in Vṛndāvana or some other place—no preaching activities. This is the first attempt. Of course, Caitanya Mahāprabhu did it, but for the practical sake how we can serve Kṛṣṇa even sitting on big, big buildings and on motorcars we can serve Kṛṣṇa, that is introduced by Bhaktisiddhānta. Otherwise, people were afraid of becoming Vaiṣṇava: "Oh, I'll have to live underneath a tree like Rūpa Gosvāmī." Some of them will imitate like that. Imitation is no good. Rūpa Gosvāmī never said imitation. --- ## Letters on February 7 *Letters from this day: 19* --- **[1968: Letter to Janardana](letters/1968/680207_janardana)** > I thank you for your letter dated Feb. Our program for Krishna Consciousness is solid, and backed by most authoritative literature—*Bhagavad-gita,* and *Srimad-Bhagavatam*; there is no question of our not being popular to the world. Maharishi Mahesa has gained so much popularity over Europe or America, means the people of this part of the world are not very much advanced in spiritual science. --- **[1968: Letter to Sivananda](letters/1968/680207_sivananda)** > I hope you are continuing to study Bengali. I shall be glad to know how much progress you have made by this time. Hope you are well. --- **[1969: Letter to Bhurijana](letters/1969/690207_bhurijana)** > Your idea of going to North Carolina is excellent because there are so many students there, and you are college graduate, so I think that you are just the devotee to do the job nicely. --- **[1969: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1969/690207_brahmananda)** > Enclosed is one letter to Nara Narayana which will serve as answer to the letter of February 2nd. --- **[1969: Letter to Mahapurusa](letters/1969/690207_mahapurusa)** > I am pleased to note that you and Gaurasundara have been trying to arrange for regular classes in the University there for a course in Krishna Consciousness. If you can convince the student body there of the importance of our movement it will be great help to our propaganda work, so please try for this. --- **[1969: Letter to Manager Of First National City Bank Of New York](letters/1969/690207_manager_of_first_national_city_bank_of_new_york)** > With reference to the above account, I beg to point out that on January 6, 1969, after depositing $1,306. --- **[1969: Letter to Murari](letters/1969/690207_murari)** > You have mentioned in your letter that you have been making plans to build a shrine, and when you are able to, please send these plans to me so I may see what you have in mind. --- **[1969: Letter to Nara-Narayana](letters/1969/690207_nara-narayana)** > You are correct regarding the items which you have stated, such as sleeping in front of the deities, eating in front of the deities, taking of unoffered foodstuffs, drinking water from the bathroom, and non-chanting of rounds. --- **[1969: Letter to Tirtha Maharaja](letters/1969/690207_tirtha_maharaja)** > I have therefore requested Sripada Sraman Maharaja (because you have stopped correspondence with me and I don't know why) to give some place for my disciples at Mayapur. If I get some place at Mayapur, the disciples who are already in India and those who are willing to go there can live peacefully without being disturbed by Bon Maharaja. --- **[1971: Letter to Central Bank Of India](letters/1971/710207_central_bank_of_india)** > Kindly transfer all the balance of my above account to your Camac Street Branch as I have changed my address to— --- **[1972: Letter to Ksirodakasayi](letters/1972/720207_ksirodakasayi)** > the Bombay office has not yet received the 2000 copies of your latest Hindi BTG—why it is belated? --- **[1974: Letter to Caitya-Guru](letters/1974/740207_caitya-guru)** > I was very much shocked when I learned from Tamala Krsna Maharaja that you have left our company and were living outside. --- **[1974: Letter to Guptaji](letters/1974/740207_guptaji)** > Sometime back, in your letter dated 23 September, 1973, you wrote as follows, regarding the front portion of our Vrindaban temple land given in charity by Geeta bai, wife of Kasiramji Saraf: --- **[1974: Letter to Mukunda](letters/1974/740207_mukunda)** > I am glad to hear that you are now concentrating on improving the regulative life of the temple rather than so much advertising with brochures. This is very nice; this is what I want. A good example is better than precept. --- **[1974: Letter to Pusta Krsna](letters/1974/740207_pusta_krsna)** > Your report is very encouraging to me, that you distributed 110 Gitas in two days in Capetown, South Africa. You also find that there is good preaching to be done there among intelligent Indians and Europeans. And for the people in general you can hold kirtana and distribute prasadam sumptuously. --- **[1976: Letter to Binoy Krishna Mitra](letters/1976/760207_binoy_krishna_mitra)** > Binoy Krishna Mitra Calcutta Please accept my blessings. --- **[1976: Letter to Ratan Mala](letters/1976/760207_ratan_mala)** > I shall remain in Mayapur up to the Gaura Purnima festival in April. It will be a great pleasure for me to see you, your daughter and your new son in law at that time. --- **[1976: Letter to Sri Sudhi Kumar Dutta](letters/1976/760207_sri_sudhi_kumar_dutta)** > When I met with you last in Calcutta I wanted to know whether or not you could organize the sales of our books. --- **[1977: Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay](letters/1977/770207_dr._w.h._wolf-rottkay)** > As far as knowledge of God is concerned that is contained fully in the Bhagavad-gita, but it is only revealed to the devotee. The “mysterious unity” you speak of is devotional service, whereby the eternal part and parcel of God renders loving service in union with Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ---