# February 12 *Lectures from this day: 14 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690212bg.la|Bg 5.26-29 — February 12, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** [reading *Bg.* 5.26] "Those who are free from anger and all material desires, who are self-realized, self-disciplined and constantly endeavoring for perfection, are assured of liberation in the Supreme in the very near future." So first thing is that suppose somebody speaks of me very harshly. Naturally we become angry. Just like somebody calls me, "You are dog," or "You are hog." But if I am self-realized, if I know perfectly well that I am not this body, so you call me hog, dog or king, emperor, majesty, what is that? I am not this body. So either you call me "Your Majesty" or you call me a dog or a pig, what I have got to do? I am neither His Majesty nor a dog nor a cat—nothing of the sort. I am servant of Kṛṣṇa. So this requires little training. Actually this is the fact. Suppose I have got some dress, black dress. Somebody calls, "You black dress." Is that cause of anger? Somebody calls you black dress. So this is simply my false identification with the dress that I become angry. Actually if I am self-realized, self-disciplined... Self-discipline means not to identify with this body. That is self-discipline. It requires training, of course. Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches therefore, *tṛṇād api sunīcena* [*Cc Ādi* 17.31], that a smaller than the smallest grass. --- **[[spoken/690212iv.la|Radio Interview — February 12, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Interviewer:** We have with us in the studio the head and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and I think that his name is pronounced Bhaktivedanta, Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta. **Prabhupāda:** Not exactly, but I came to preach the gospel of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and fortunately I met some enthusiasting young boys and girls. So then we formed this Society. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. I first came in New York. Then I went to Pittsburgh, and for one year I was traveling, and I established this Society in July 1, 1966. --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690212le.la.md|Lecture [partially recorded] — February 12, 1969, Los Angeles]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/710212sb.gor|SB 6.3.18-19 — February 12, 1971, Gorakhpur]]** **Devotee:** [introducing recording] Prabhupāda's morning lecture of the 12th February, 1971, at the new place, Niketana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana, in Gorakhpur. **Prabhupāda:** > bhūtāni viṣṇoḥ sura-pūjitāni > durdarśa-liṅgāni mahādbhutāni > rakṣanti tad-bhaktimataḥ parebhyo > mattaś ca martyān atha sarvataś ca > [[sb/6/3/18|[SB. 6.3.18] ]] So the devotees are protected by the Viṣṇudūtas always, constantly. They are invisibly wandering all over the universe. We may see or not see, because we cannot see spiritual body with these material eyes. So even we do not see, the Viṣṇudūta is always protecting the devotees from the enemies. --- **[[spoken/720212r1.mad|Room Conversation with Rajaji — February 12, 1972, Madras]]** **Rajaji:** I am sitting here, so that I might give my right ear to you all. I haven't seen you before. **Rajaji:** [indistinct] The camera should have operated on your beautiful *sārī.* It's very good. Who is the chief of your group? You or he? **Rajaji:** [aside:] Sit closer. You belong to this place? No. What place you belong to? [Hindi with other guest, Mr. Sharma] It's a pretty long stick [indistinct]. Let me have a look at it first. It's wrapped in cloth. Oh, I see. --- **[[spoken/730212ar.syd|Arrival talk — February 12, 1973, Sydney]]** **Prabhupāda:[*prema-dhvani* prayers] **...my coming to Sydney. First opportunity was to bring the Deities, and the Deities are installed... The Oxford Street? **Prabhupāda:** So at that time I prayed to Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, that "I am leaving You, Sir, with these innocent boys and girls. They want to serve You, but they are not yet competent. Kindly take care of Yourself and give them intelligence so that they can serve You." So I see that Kṛṣṇa has given you good intelligence, and you have improved very much. And fortunately, therefore, the very good leader Śrīman Madhudviṣa Mahārāja will come, so each of you learn how to worship Deity, how to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* in this way—ecstatic. And go corner to corner of the Australia continent. There is good potency for this country, and everyone is suffering for want of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is a fact. So from all angles of vision—from national point of view, from religious point of view, from social welfare point of view, any point of view—Kṛṣṇa is all-perfect. You can take Kṛṣṇa from any angle of vision and there will be perfection. --- **[[spoken/740212bg.vrn|Bg 4.4 — February 12, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** This is the misgiving of ordinary human being—to misunderstand Kṛṣṇa. Generally Kṛṣṇa is understood as a historical person. Therefore suppose if Kṛṣṇa was born as contemporary of Arjuna... Because they were two... [aside: Who is talking?] The modern scholars also—so-called scholars—they also think that Kṛṣṇa is a person like us. That is spoken in the *Bhagavad-gītā* that, Because Kṛṣṇa appears like ordinary human being... Not ordinary. His activities are not ordinary, but still, some foolish *mūḍhā*—the exact meaning of the *mūḍhā* means "foolish," or "rascals"—they think Kṛṣṇa as ordinary. To accept a human being as God and to accept God as human being, both things are foolishness. God is God; human being is human being. That is the difference. A human being cannot become God, and God cannot become human being. --- **[[spoken/740212le.vrn|Lecture, partially recorded — February 12, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...it is the Goloka Vṛndāvana where Kṛṣṇa is situated. *Goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtaḥ* [Bs. 5.37]. It is not that because He is staying in Goloka Vṛndāvana therefore He is absent here. No. *Akhilātma-bhūtaḥ:* He is everywhere. *Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ* [Bs. 5.35]: He is even within the atom. This is the understanding of Kṛṣṇa. So we are preaching this Kṛṣṇa consciousness on the basis of this *Bhagavad-gītā* as it is, without misinterpreting to show our so-called scholarship. No. That is not the way of understanding Kṛṣṇa. We should understand Kṛṣṇa submissively, as Arjuna is doing: *śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam* [[bg/2/7|[Bg. 2.7] ]]. Kṛṣṇa also asked Arjuna to surrender fully, so he has already surrendered. When Arjuna saw that there were so many perplexities, and this cannot be solved except by Kṛṣṇa, so he surrendered: *śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam*. So in this way if we surrender to Kṛṣṇa through His representative... Representative means one who says exactly what Kṛṣṇa says; he does not change anything. Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja* [[bg/18/66|[Bg. 18.66] ]], and His representative says that "You give up everything and surrender unto Kṛṣṇa." The same thing. And there is no difficulty. One hasn't got to manufacture some idea, some philosophy. No. Everything is there, and if you preach what Kṛṣṇa has said, then you are spiritual master. It is not a very big job. Simply you have to become sincere to Kṛṣṇa, and you learn Kṛṣṇa through His representative, you become sincere to the representative of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa, *yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau* [Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.23], then you are spiritual master. It is not very difficult. And become, every one of you, become spiritual master and preach this gospel of *Bhagavad-gītā* as it is, then the world will be saved. Otherwise they are already in trouble, and they will go more and more into the depths of the trouble, dangerous position, and they will never become happy. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is very, very important movement for saving the human civilization, the human society. --- **[[spoken/750212bg.mex|Bg 2.12 — February 12, 1975, Mexico City]]** --- **[[spoken/750212r1.mex|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor — February 12, 1975, Mexico City]]** --- **[[spoken/760212mw.may|Morning Walk — February 12, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Devotee:** [announces] Morning walk, 12 February 1976, **Māyāpur** India. Prabhupāda: "...I am your friend, I am God, so you sleep; I shall do everything." He never said like that. Rather when he refused to fight, He chastised him like anything. What is the... *Anārya-juṣṭam*? [[bg/2/2|[Bg. 2.2] ]] He's just like non-Āryans, talking foolish. People should clearly understand that we don't encourage laziness. We never encourage. According to your capacity, *guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ* [[bg/4/13|[Bg. 4.13] ]], you must work. *Śarīra yātrāpi te na prasiddhyed akarmaṇaḥ,* Kṛṣṇa says. "By not working, even if you cannot pull on your body and soul together."* [[bg/3/8|[Bg. 3.8] ]] Kṛṣṇa says like that. **Prabhupāda:** It is less than demonic. Demonic qualities, they have some activity, and laziness is ignorance, darkness. Therefore too much sleeping is very, very bad. That is another part of laziness. *Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau:* one has to conquer over this sleeping and laziness. [*Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmī-aṣṭaka* 4] Eating, *nidrā, ahāra, vihāra,* sense gratification. *Vihāra* means sense gratification. One has to minimize these things up to the point of nil. That is perfection. When there is no more sleeping, no more eating, no more mating and no more fearing, that is perfection of spiritual life. And that is not possible, but as much as possible. [break] ...is they can sleep more that they consider it is very great gain, profit. **Hṛdayānanda:** They're always making agitation to reduce what they call the work week. Formerly they were working so many hours per week; now they want to reduce it down to forty, thirty, twenty hours per week. --- **[[spoken/760212sb.may|SB 7.9.5 — February 12, 1976, Māyāpur]]** Anantarām Śāstrījī*:* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [chants verse, with devotee repeating] *[break]* **Translation:** "Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, when He saw Prahlāda Mahārāja fallen down at the end of His lotus feet, He became very much ecstatic in affection towards His devotee, and immediately raising him, placed His lotus hand upon the head, because His hand is always ready to create fearlessness of all His devotees." --- **[[spoken/770212r1.may|Room Conversation — February 12, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** Our mission is to preach Gaurāṅga philosophy. Therefore we are taking. So why the Municipal cannot give land for this public purpose? **Jayapatākā:** That's what I mean, is that I think that if we saw actually what law that is, and then we discuss it in a proper way, it might be possible. **Jayapatākā:** There are so many places which are like that, where there is *mandira* being built and and *sevā-pūjā* is going on, and there is one *sevāita* or one organization has got the *sevā* responsibility, and that's under their charge. I think that that legality can be worked around, whatever it may be. Because our purpose is public. --- **[[spoken/770212sb.may|SB 7.9.2 — February 12, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **770212SB-Mayapur [22:51 Minutes] Pradyumna:Translation:** "The goddess of fortune, Lakṣmījī, was requested to go before the Lord by all the demigods present, who because of fear could not do so. But even she had never seen such a wonderful and extraordinary form of the Lord, and thus she could not approach Him." **Prabhupāda:** > sākṣāt śrīḥ preṣitā devair > dṛṣṭvā taṁ mahad adbhutam > adṛṣṭāśruta-pūrvatvāt > sā nopeyāya śaṅkitā > [[sb/7/9/2|[SB. 7.9.2] ]] So Śrī, Lakṣmī, she is always in company with Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān. Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa. Wherever Nārāyaṇa there is, there is Lakṣmī. *Aiśvaryasya samāgrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ* [*Viṣṇu Purāṇa* 6.5.74]. *Ś**riyaḥ.* So Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is always full in six opulence: *aiśvarya,* riches; *samāgrasya,* all riches... Nobody can compete with Him. Here in the material world there is competition. You have got one thousand; I have got two thousand; another man has three thousand or three millions. Nobody can say, "Here is the end 'I have got money.' " No. That is not possible. There must be competition. *Sama* *ūrdhva. Sama* means "equal," and *ūrdhva* means "greater." So nobody can become equal with Nārāyaṇa, and nobody can be greater than Nārāyaṇa. This has become a fashion nowadays, that *daridra-nārāyaṇa.* No. *Daridra* cannot be Nārāyaṇa, neither Nārāyaṇa can be *daridra,* because Nārāyaṇa is always accompanied by Śrī, Lakṣmījī. How He can be *daridra*? These are manufactured foolish imagination, *aparādha.* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680212_bhaktijana.md|Letter to Bhaktijana, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680212_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680212_mahapurusa.md|Letter to Mahapurusa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680212_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690212_charles_mccollough.md|Letter to Charles Mccollough, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690212_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690212_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700212_vamanadeva.md|Letter to Vamanadeva, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710212_gunagrahi.md|Letter to Gunagrahi, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720212_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740212_ravendra_gupta.md|Letter to Ravendra Gupta, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750212_hanuman.md|Letter to Hanuman, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750212_manager_central_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Manager Central Bank Of India, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760212_caru_gupta.md|Letter to Caru Gupta, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760212_dixit.md|Letter to Dixit, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760212_gaura_govinda.md|Letter to Gaura Govinda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760212_prthu_putra.md|Letter to Prthu Putra, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760212_saurabha.md|Letter to Saurabha, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760212_sri_ajita_kumar_chatterjee.md|Letter to Sri Ajita Kumar Chatterjee, 1976]]