# February 22 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1967/670222cc.sf.md|Cc. Ādi 7.113-17 — February 22, 1967, San Francisco]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720222le.vis|Lecture to Railway Workers — February 22, 1972, Visakhapatnam]]** **Prabhupāda:** Ladies and gentlemen I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This is the religion of the religions, there are hundreds and thousands of religious principles all over the world but this is the basic principle of religion. Religion means to understand God that is the short description of religion. Because from the *śāstra*'*s* we understand that religion is the codes and laws of the Lord or God, *dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam* [[sb/6/3/19|[SB. 6.3.19] ]]. You cannot manufacture religion, religion is the given codes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I have several times explained this that the law cannot be manufactured by any private person. Law is given by the state by the king, what the king says or the state orders that is law. Just like on the road when you drive your car you have to keep left, that is the given law of the state. Similarly in America the car is kept on the right, so you cannot say that somewhere it is said keep right and somewhere it is said keep left—which one is right? Which one was the right direction? The right direction is the word of the state, similarly religion means what is spoken by the Lord that is religion. And this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is therefore the religion of the religions. Just like philosophy is called as the science of the sciences, similarly the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the religion of the religions. Now take for example, the Hindu religion or the Christian religion or the Muslim religion. What is the ultimate goal? Love of Godhead, Lord Jesus Christ he also preached how to love God. The Mohammadan religion also preaches to realize the Supreme Lord, Allah-u-akbar. In Buddha religion they primarily they are atheist but Lord Buddha is incarnation of Kṛṣṇa therefore it is said in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* that God, Kṛṣṇa, appeared as Lord Buddha to cheat the atheists. --- **[[../../spoken/1972/720222sb.vis.md|SB 7.9.43 — February 22, 1972, Visakhapatnam]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/740222bg.bom|Bg 7.7 — February 22, 1974, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread." --- **[[spoken/740222mw.bom|Morning Walk — February 22, 1974, Bombay]]** **Dr. Patel:** But if it is right for them, why not have fields in every house and grow your food also? That is not possible every time on the way. You have got to have a... This is a highly developed society. So you have got to... **Prabhupāda:** And because now it is developed, it is so developed that there is no food. Eh? It is so developed that there is no food. One devotee of Goddess Durgā... He was a worshiper of Goddess Durgā. So Mother Durgā was asking, "My dear son, you are happy?" "Oh, Mother, in all respects, except in two things: there is no food, there is no cloth. That's all. Otherwise I am very happy." **Prabhupāda:** [laughs] So your, your advancement means advancement in everything, but there is no food, there is no cloth. That's all. This is advancement. --- **[[spoken/750222in.car|Initiation Lecture — February 22, 1975, Caracas]]** **Prabhupāda:** Ladies and gentlemen, devotees, and boys and girls. So it is great opportunity to see the beginning of initiation of how to begin the understanding of God. This is called initiation. This evening we were discussing with some learned psychiatrist to solve the problems of the world. So we have tried to convince them that the problems of the world are due to ignorance of our spiritual life. So this body... *Indriyāṇi parāṇy āhuḥ.* This body means combination of different senses. This body means we have got hands, legs, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, genital, rectum. All these different parts of the bodies are working. So these senses are working under the leadership of the mind, and the mind is activated by intelligence, and behind the intelligence there is soul. That is stated in the *Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā:* So we have to take information from authoritative scriptures. So the body is made of five material elements: earth, water, air, fire and ether. So mind is still finer than the ether, and intelligence is still finer than the mind, and the soul is still finer than the intelligence. So generally, we are on the bodily platform. They are called *karmīs.* Bodily platform means that everyone is working for the bodily comfort. Bodily comforts means how to eat nicely, how to sleep nicely, how to have sex nicely and how to defend nicely. So these activities are there also in the animal life. Then, above these activities, there is mental activities. So the bodily activities are visible in the animal kingdom also, but mental activities, they are lacking. So the human being can tackle the mental activities, which is called psychology, the science of thinking, feeling and willing. So when still we go further, intellectual platform, how the mind should be utilized? So if we can intellectually utilize the mind, then we can approach the spiritual platform. --- **[[spoken/750222r1.car|Room Conversation with Psychiatrists — February 22, 1975, Caracas]]** **Hṛdayānanda:** I was explaining to him that a real spiritual master cannot lie to them and tell them they were God. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Spiritual master is the servant of God. He is not God, although he is respected like God. *Sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ.* Spiritual master is described as good as God in all scriptures, and all advanced spiritualists accept this. But he is the most confidential servant of God. Because he receives respect like God, he does not think at any time that he is God. He always thinks himself as eternal servant of God. [pause] [break] What is the difference between animal and man? **Hṛdayānanda:** [translating] He feels that they are both animals. The difference is that one is rational and the other is not. --- **[[spoken/760222mw.may|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — February 22, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** That... Apart from that, everything... S*arva-kāma-dugdhā-mahī.* [[sb/1/10/4|[SB. 1.10.4] ]] From the earth, everything is there. This green color is there, this red color is there, the pink color is there, this white color is there—but you cannot separate. Where is your chemistry? Take the color, the flavor, from the earth. [end] --- **[[spoken/760222sb.may|SB 7.9.15 — February 22, 1976, Māyāpur]]** Anantarām Śāstrījī*:* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *[leads chanting of verse; Prabhupāda and devotees chant responsively] [break]** > nāhaṁ bibhemy ajita te 'tibhayānakāsya- > jihvārka-netra-bhrukuṭī-rabhasogra-daṁṣṭrāt > āntra-srajaḥ-kṣataja-keśara-śaṅku-karṇān > nihrāda-bhīta-digibhād ari-bhin-nakhāgrāt > [[sb/7/9/15|[SB. 7.9.15] ]] **Translation:** "My Lord who is never conquered by anyone, certainly I am not at all afraid of Your very ferocious mouth, tongue, bright eyes like the sunshine, movement of Your eyebrows, very pinching, sharp set of teeth, garland of intestines, hands soaked with blood, fixed-up-high ears, Your tumultuous sound which causes the elephants to go away to a distant place, and Your nails, which are meant for killing Your enemies. Undoubtedly I am not afraid of them." **Śāstrījī:** *Bhrukuṭī rabhasa.* *[Transl.*rabhasaḥ means the speed.]*Prabhupāda: *Rabhasa* *[Transl. **What is the meaning of *rabhas*?]* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680222_purusottama.md|Letter to Purusottama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690222_mrs._cline.md|Letter to Mrs. Cline, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690222_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700222_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700222_damodara.md|Letter to Damodara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700222_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700222_rukmini.md|Letter to Rukmini, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_devakinandana.md|Letter to Devakinandana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_dr._baltwant_singh.md|Letter to Dr. Baltwant Singh, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_jitendriya.md|Letter to Jitendriya, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_niranjana.md|Letter to Niranjana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_reserve_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Reserve Bank Of India, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710222_visnujana.md|Letter to Visnujana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720222_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1977/770222_bhadravardhana.md|Letter to Bhadravardhana, 1977]]