# February 10 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670210cc.sf|Cc. Ādi 7.80-95 — February 10, 1966, San Francisco]]** So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is describing His practical experience about chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. When He saw Himself that "I am getting almost like a madman," so He again approached His spiritual master and submitted, "My dear sir, I do not know what kind of chanting you have asked Me." Because He's representing always as a fool, He's presenting that He could not perceive, He could not understand what is happening, but He submitted that "These are the symptoms I have developed: sometimes I cry, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I dance. These are some of the symptoms. So I think I have become mad." "I do not know what sort of *mantra* you have given Me, but it appears that I have become almost like a madman." --- **[[spoken/690210le.la|Lecture [partially recorded] — February 10, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** After each and every verse we chant, *govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* Similarly, we repeat "Kṛṣṇa"—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Why we repeat? The more we repeat means we learn to love. That is required. Anything which you do not love, you cannot repeat. It will be disgusting. Anything, any other word you take, if you simply repeat, you'll feel disgusted. Sometimes those who are not in the Kṛṣṇa conscious life, they also feel this repetition as disgusting, hackneyed, because they have not developed love. Rūpa Gosvāmī says that "What shall I chant with one tongue, and what shall I hear with two ears? If millions of tongue I would have possessed, then I could chant little." And they're tasting... Because they have got love for Kṛṣṇa, they are tasting the nectarean of chanting. They cannot give up. In the material world also there are many slogans. We repeat because we love. --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710210sb.gor.md|SB 6.3.16-17 — February 10, 1971, Gorakhpur]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/740210bg.vrn|Bg 4.3 — February 10, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** So this verse we discussed last night, that this *bhagavad-bhakti-yoga* is not a new thing. It is *purātanaḥ*. Kṛṣṇa says, *yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ* [[bg/4/3|[Bg. 4.3] ]]. So just like I was discussing now with Dr. Kapoor, our philosophy is not new: *purātanaḥ—*the old thing. At the present moment it is a fashion to propound a new kind of philosophy. Not only now; formerly also, as it is said in the *Bhāgavatam, nāsāv munir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam* [[cc/madhya/17/186|[Cc. Madhya 17.186] ]]. A *muni* is not a *muni...* *Muni* means mental speculators; *manansi,* thoughtful *muni*, thoughtful also—always absorbed in thoughts. So a thoughtful man or a great saintly person is not a great saintly person if he hasn't got to propound a new theory—*nāsāv munir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam* [[cc/madhya/17/186|[Cc. Madhya 17.186] ]]. That is the modern philosophical way, researchment. This philosopher's contribution is up to this; and this philosopher... We have also such things. Just like our Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava and Rāmānujācārya Vaiṣṇava. Rāmānujācārya Vaiṣṇava, they appreciate the service of the Lord up to *sakhya-rasa—viśrambha*-*sakhya—*with awe and veneration. *Śānta, dāsya,* *sakhya*, up to this information, Rāmānujācārya. But Mādhavācārya *sampradāya,* they have got up to *mādhurya-rasa*. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu propounded this *mādhurya-rasa*. Therefore He is worshiped by Rūpa Gosvāmī: --- **[[spoken/750210mw.la|Morning Walk Through the BBT Warehouse — February 10, 1975, Los Angeles]]** **Jayatīrtha:** ...he's in *māyā.* He doesn't feel that he'll be able to surrender to whatever instruction you give, so he doesn't want to appear before you. **Jayatīrtha:** ...they came for instruction, but then, when you gave them instruction, they said, "No." So what was the use of their coming? That's his feeling. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. No, in that way he's very sincere, I know. So what is there? I love him. Let him come. After all, he is my son. There is no harm. Let him come. [break] --- **[[spoken/750210sb.la|SB 2.8.7 — February 10, 1975, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** If you like, I can lecture in the evening also. If you like, I can speak in the evening also. **Prabhupāda:** ...being completely aware of Brahman, the Supreme Absolute Truth, not a bogus. If you want to receive knowledge, then you must approach a *guru* who is *brahma-niṣṭham.* That is the qualification of *guru.* Brahman, *brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam.* These words are there. He is living in Brahman, Absolute Truth. He has no other business. That is *guru*. --- **[[spoken/760210mw.may|Morning Walk — February 10, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** Everything is theory. No practical. [break] ...ten direction. Eight direction, corner, and north-east, east-west, and up and down. So everywhere He is present. So Kṛṣṇa has got ten hands. So my father used to say, "If when Kṛṣṇa takes your money or possession in ten hands, how you can protect it with two hands? And when He give you in ten hands, how much you can take in two hands?" [laughs] So in my case it has become practical. Everything He has taken in ten hands, and now He is giving in ten hands. [laughter] I am practically experiencing. My Guru Mahārāja ordered me, "You do this." I was trying to save my business, my family, with two hands, and Kṛṣṇa took it in ten hands. [laughs] And now, after making me beggar, He is giving me, ten hands: "You take as much as you like." Now I am thinking of my father's instruction. [break] ...ambition was that I become a great devo..., *bhāgavata.* That was his... He used to invite so many saintly persons, and he would pray, "Please bless my son"—I was very pet son—"that he may become a devotee of Rādhārāṇī. Rādhārāṇī may bless him." That was his only prayer. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. He was inviting so many saintly persons. That is the old system, to receive saintly person. **Hṛdayānanda:** Śrīla Prabhupāda, you said that you were not so much impressed by the saintly persons that were coming. --- **[[spoken/760210sb.may|SB 7.9.3 — February 10, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Hṛdayānanda:** "Thereafter Lord Brahmā requested Prahlāda Mahārāja, who was standing very nearby, and asked Prahlāda Mahārāja to go forward and said, 'My dear son, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva is very, very angry upon your demonic father, and you can go forward and appease Him, the Lord.' " **Prabhupāda:** > prahrādaṁ preṣayām āsa > brahmāvasthitam antike > tāta praśamayopehi > sva-pitre kupitaṁ prabhum > [[sb/7/9/3|[SB. 7.9.3] ]] So all of them, all the demigods, they wanted to pacify. The Lord was very angry, but they failed. Then, at last, they requested Lakṣmījī to pacify the Lord. She could not dare to approach, what is the speaking of pacifying? Then, at last, they decided that "This five-years-old boy, the Lord may be compassionate upon him. And for him He has appeared, so let him be engaged in pacifying the Lord." So Brahmā, the head of all the demigods presented there, he decided, *prahlādaṁ preṣayām āsa.* He pushed him forward: "My dear Prahlāda, my dear son, better you go forward and pacify." It is something like to push a little child in the cage of the lion. It is something like that. Nobody dared. So Prahlāda Mahārāja, he knew very well that "However ferocious He may be, I am not afraid. He is my Lord. I am not afraid." He was jolly, innocent, pure devotee. He had no fear. So he was sent: "My dear Prahlāda, you try." --- **[[spoken/770210mw.may|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — February 10, 1977, Māyāpur]]** --- **[[spoken/770210sb.may|SB 7.9.1 — February 10, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Translation:** "The great saint Nārada Muni continued: The demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and other great demigods, dared not come forward before the Lord, who at that time was extremely angry." **Pradyumna:** "Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung in his P*rema-bhakti-candrikā,* [Song 3, Stanza 10] 'krodha' bhakta-dveṣi jane:* anger should be used to punish a demon who is envious of devotees. *Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada* and *mātsarya*—lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy—all have their proper use for the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotee. A devotee of the Lord cannot tolerate blasphemy of the Lord or His other devotees, and the Lord also cannot tolerate blasphemy of a devotee. Thus Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva was so very angry that the great demigods like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva and even the goddess of fortune, who is the Lord's constant companion, could not pacify Him, even after offering prayers of glorification and praise. No one was able to pacify the Lord in His anger, but because the Lord was willing to exhibit His affection for Prahlāda Mahārāja, all the demigods and the others present before the Lord pushed Prahlāda Mahārāja forward to pacify Him." **Prabhupāda:** So in the material world, *kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada* and *mātsarya,* these things are condemned. And for a *sādhaka*, means a neophyte devotee, he is advised to give up these low-grade habits—*kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, mātsarya.* But people may question, "Wherefrom these low-grade qualities came?" *Kāma* is low grade, admitted, but wherefrom it came? In the *Vedānta-sūtra* we get the reply, *janmādy asya yataḥ* [[sb/1/1/1|[SB. 1.1.1] ]]: "Everything that we experience, it comes from God." So... --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670210_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670210_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670210_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670210_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670210_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670210_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690210_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700210_ekayani.md|Letter to Ekayani, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700210_jayadvaita.md|Letter to Jayadvaita, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700210_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700210_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710210_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710210_central_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Central Bank Of India, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730210_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730210_kurusrestha.md|Letter to Kurusrestha, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730210_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730210_tamala_krsna_jayapataka_bhavananda_gargamuni.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna Jayapataka Bhavananda Gargamuni, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1976/760210_akshayananda_swami.md|Letter to Akshayananda Swami, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770210_bir_krsna.md|Letter to Bir Krsna, 1977]]