# February 28 *Lectures from this day: 15 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720228ta.may|Talk with Bob Cohen — February 28, 1972, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** No, that is my mission, that people should understand the science of God. Because I am convinced that it's a fact, that without again cooperating with the Supreme Lord, our life is baffled. I give this example many times. Just like a screw from the machine fallen down, it has no value. The same screw, when it is again attached with the machine, it has value. Similarly, we are part and parcel of God. Without God, as part-and-parcel small screw, what is the value? No value. We should again come back to the position of becoming a screw. That is our mission. **Bob:** I met a fellow today who came in the afternoon. Well, his reason for coming, he said, you may find humorous, was to come..., he heard the hippies were in Māyāpur. **Bob:** He heard that hippie... [break] ...I was talking to him, and then some devotees were talking to him. And he had said some things to me which I could find no answer for. And he said he'll come back tomorrow to see devotees. But let me tell you. This is confusing. When he was young... --- **[[spoken/730228le.jkt|Lecture — February 28, 1973, Jakarta]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...na tvaṁ neme janādipāḥ > na caiva na bhaviśyāmaḥ > sarve vayam ataḥ param > [[bg/2/12|[Bg. 2.12] ]] This verse partially I explained last night, this is very important subject matter. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead... *Bhagavad-gītā* is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore the knowledge is perfect. We are conditioned soul, under the rules and regulation of the material nature, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not under the rules and regulation of the material world. That is the difference. Both of us, we are living entities, as I explained. *Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām* [*Kaṭha Upaniṣad* 2.2.13]. --- **[[spoken/730228mw.jkt|Morning Walk — February 28, 1973, Jakarta]]** **Amogha:** I have volume 1 and volume 3, but my volume 2, they are all finished. But I've ordered them from **Karāndhara**. **Prabhupāda:** He doesn't want any improvement. He wants to keep it as a... Just like professional church, temple. **Prabhupāda:** That is going on everywhere. These our Indian people, they're not interested in God. They're interested in *āśīrvāda,* some blessing, so that they can make improvement in their material position. --- **[[spoken/730228r1.jkt|Room Conversation — February 28, 1973, Jakarta]]** [Poor Audio—microphone too far away**]Prabhupāda: You learn this local language [indistinct] and try to take classes in [indistinct]. **Amogha:** Yes. He's very nice. Actually he wants to become initiated, but he can't chant. The only thing, he doesn't chant rounds, and... **Amogha:** He says that "If I do that, I can't do my business," and he has many reasons. For some ten days he chanted sixteen rounds, and then he just stopped and couldn't, and now he doesn't chant at all. But he's very sincere. He works very hard. --- **[[spoken/730228r2.jkt|Room Conversation — February 28, 1973, Jakarta]]** **Japanese Guest:** P**hilosophy of, yes, yes... Hong Kong branch.* [Japanese] ...not in Japanese language. Now you have some Japanese language also? **Amogha:** I don't have any, but in Japan they have it. I can get it by post. I will write a letter. **Japanese Guest:** One year more. One year more. And I proceed to Beirut, Morocco. And I go to Andalusia. --- **[[spoken/730228r3.jkt|Room Conversation [Hindi] — February 28, 1973, Jakarta]]** --- **[[spoken/750228ar.atl|Arrival Address — February 28, 1975, Atlanta]]** **Prabhupāda:** [indistinct] So I am very glad to see you, and I am coming first of all Mexico City? Hmm? **Prabhupāda:** So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is very kind. *Parama karuṇa, pahū dui jana.* Two Lords, Nitāi-Gauracandra, Nityānanda Prabhu and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, They are very kind, you see? They have appeared just to reclaim the fallen souls of this age. So They are more kind than Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa, He is also very kind. He comes to deliver. But Kṛṣṇa demands that first of all surrender. Caitanya Mahāprabhu even does not demand surrender. He is so kind. [voice choking]So take shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and be happy. --- **[[spoken/750228pu.atl|Purport to Parama Koruṇa — February 28, 1975, Atlanta]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...*pahū dui jana. Pahū* means *prabhu.* The shortcut is *pahū. Prabhu,* lord, or master. So these *prabhu,* two, two *prabhus,* Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda Prabhu. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is addressed as Mahāprabhu, Mahā-puruṣa. And others, they are addressed as *prabhu.* So these two *prabhus,* Nityānanda Prabhu and Caitanya Mahāprabhu, are very merciful, *parama karuṇa. Parama karuṇa* means extremely merciful. Extremely merciful because Kṛṣṇa is also merciful, but because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His original feature... Caitanya Mahāprabhu is also Kṛṣṇa, but He is acting as devotee. He is not acting as Kṛṣṇa. He is acting as devotee of Kṛṣṇa. He is Kṛṣṇa, but at present He has assumed the name of Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya also appreciated Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He made one hundred verses about Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu, just to teach us, He destroyed the *ślokas:* "Oh, it is too much praising Me." So anyway, some of the *ślokas* were saved. Two of them are mentioned in the *Caitanya-caritāmṛta.* So one of the *śloka,* verse, is, --- **[[spoken/750228r1.atl|Room Conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara — February 28, 1975, Atlanta]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...Is it not fact? If sexual intercourse is the beginning of life, then why it is not always successful? We say that when the life, living entity, is there in the semina and it is put into the woman's womb, then body develops. Therefore, the beginning is the life. This is practical. And this life is the part and parcel of the supreme life. Therefore the beginning is God. *Janmādy asya yataḥ. *Athāto brahma-jijñāsā. So we have to establish this theory in this misguided world that... And besides that, why they cannot produce life from matter? What is the value of their statement? That they have not been able to do. Where is the proof that from matter life comes? You do it. **Prabhupāda:** Eh? That is nonsense. That is nonsense. This proof, that from life, life is coming, there is proof, so many proof. A man, animal, trees—everything is coming from life. Up till now, nobody has seen that a man is born from a stone. Nobody has seen. Sometimes the... it is called *vṛścika-taṇdūla-nyāya.* You know that? *Vṛścika-taṇdūla-nyāya. Vṛścika* means scorpion, and *taṇdūla* means rice. Sometimes we see some heaps of rice, the scorpion is coming. But that is not that the rice has given birth to the scorpion. You have not seen in your country? We have seen it. From the rice, heaps of rice, one scorpion, small scorpion, is coming. The fact is that the parent of the scorpion, they put their eggs within the rice and, being fermented, the scorpion come, not that from rice the scorpion is coming. Therefore it is called *vṛścika-taṇdūla-nyāya. Vṛścika* means scorpion, and *taṇdūla* means rice. So, matter is... "Life is coming from matter"—this is called *vṛścika-taṇdūla-nyāya.* Life cannot come from matter. Besides that... Just like when there is life, living entity, the body grows, body changes or grows, as you say. But if the child is dead or come out dead, then the body does not grow. Then matter is growing on life. Why, a dead child born, it does not grow? What is the reason? Hmm? What is your scientists' reason? **Svarūpa Dāmodara:** They will say that somehow the chemical reactions are not going right in the body, in the dead body. --- **[[spoken/760228mw.may|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — February 28, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** So anyone who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's *māyayāpahṛta-jñāna [[bg/7/15|[Bg. 7.15] ]]. He's a *pāgal* [madman]. He's madman. Actually everyone is mad. That is the medical report. **Kīrtirāja:** Not some present, but even..., even the policemen, they are stopping the traffic, especially when they see the devotees coming. In Calcutta we saw. We were driving from Germany with Gargamuni Mahārāja in those six vans, and the policemen were especially stopping the traffic so that we could come through. And in New York also, the policemen on the street, they are dancing. **Kīrtirāja:** When the *saṅkīrtana* party is coming, sometimes they are raising their arms and they are dancing also, because they see that we are..., that this movement is not like the other movements. The others, they are just staying hippies, and now they are... They have some *guru*. --- **[[spoken/760228sb.may|SB 7.9.21 — February 28, 1976, Māyāpur]]** Anantarām Śāstrījī*:* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/770228r1.may|Room Conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara — February 28, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** ... make there the *varṇāśrama* established, *brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra*—division, scientific division of the society. Ideal state. Just like the legislative assembly, they should be composed of men with complete brahminical culture. And the ministers, president, they should be *kṣatriya,* and the productive, *vaiśyas,* and balance *śūdra,* worker. Unless an ideal class of men is on the top of the state to give advice—just like Britishers, they assemble Parliament—there cannot be any improvement to the human society. All nonsense and rascals, simply by votes go to be member of the Parliament, like that. What they know? What they'll do? The whole world is mismanaged because there is no brahminical culture. *Namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca, jagad-dhitāya kṛṣṇāya govindā...* [Viṣṇu Purāṇa* 1.19.65]. I am proposing this because Kṛṣṇa consciousness means *namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca.* That must be... The state must be in favor of brahminical culture and cow protection. Then everything will be all right. So Manipur is small state. If they agree, the leaders of the... It is not politics; it is betterment of the situation. And without brahminical culture, all these third class, fourth class, loafer class, simply by votes, hooks and crooks, and becomes president, Nixon and so on. Where is the betterment? It will never be. **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. If some of the leaders may come and see me. Just like the governor of Chandigarh. He's nice man. He came to see me in his governmental position, with his aide-de-camp, car and men. So I think Manipuri people... And it is a Vaiṣṇava state, why not make it Kṛṣṇa conscious? They are already Kṛṣṇa conscious. Make it in a systematic way. --- **[[spoken/770228r2.may|Conversation with Italian Woman with Translator — February 28, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** Past life means... As we are not this body, past life means there was another body; we have forgotten it. Just like at night we dream, "I have gone to some foreign place and talking with some foreigners and so on, so on." But in the morning that situation is changed, and we forget everything. Again, at night we forget this body and we dream in another body. Every night we have experience that we forget this body. This is going on. **Translator:** She says she's conscious of the relation, karmic relation, with a person that for last life she's having, and right now that person is also present with her in this life. **Prabhupāda:** If she remembers, that's a special qualification; but generally people forget. It is not astonishing. You can remember, but that is rare, very rare. --- **[[spoken/770228r3.may|Room Conversation — February 28, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Hari-śauri:** [chuckling] I was thinking there's a verse in one of the *Vedas* that describes a woman's heart is like a razor. **Hari-śauri:** He was the man that offered you his obeisances when you just got out the car, just before we entered the... **Hari-śauri:** Mr. Sen was here. At least that's what I was told, anyway, that he was the chief guest. [break] --- **[[spoken/770228sb.may|SB 7.9.8 — February 28, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **770228SB-Mayapur [32:29 Minutes] Pradyumna:Translation:** "Prahlāda Mahārāja prayed: How is it possible for me, who have been born in a family of asuras, to offer suitable prayers to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Even until now, all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahmā, and all the saintly persons could not satisfy the Lord by streams of excellent words, although such persons are very qualified, being in the mode of goodness. Then what is to be said of me? I am not at all qualified." **Prabhupāda:** > śrī prahlāda uvāca > brahmādayaḥ sura-gaṇā munaya 'tha siddhāḥ > sattvaikatāna-gatāyo vacasāṁ pravāhaiḥ > nārādhituṁ puru-guṇair adhunāpi pipruḥ > kiṁ toṣṭum arhati sa me harir ugra-jāteḥ > [[sb/7/9/8|[SB. 7.9.8] ]] So *ugra-jāteḥ* means demonic family, passionate. *Ugra.* There are three qualities within this material world. Therefore it is said *guṇa-mayī. Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī* [[bg/7/14|[Bg. 7.14] ]]. Guṇa-mayī* means three *guṇas,* three modes of material nature: *sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa* and *tamo-guṇa.* So our mind is jumping. Everyone knows the nature of the mind—sometimes accepting one thing, again rejecting it. *Saṅkalpa-vikalpa.* This is the quality of the mind or nature of the mind. Sometimes the mind is jumping over *sattva-guṇa,* sometimes on the *rajo-guṇa,* sometime on the *tamo-guṇa.* In this way we are getting different types of mentality. In this way, at the time of death the mentality which is just at the moment of leaving this body will carry me to a different body of *sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa.* This is the way of transmigration of the soul. Therefore we have to train up the mind until we get the another body. That is the art of living. So if you train up your mind simply to think of Kṛṣṇa, then you are safe. Otherwise there is chance of accidents. *Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram* [[bg/8/6|[Bg. 8.6] ]].* At the time of leaving this body, if we have not practiced the mind to fix up at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then there is... --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/490228_sardar_patel.md|Letter to Sardar Patel, 1949]] - [[../../letters/1967/670228_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680228_mr._mittra.md|Letter to Mr. Mittra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680228_mukunda_janaki.md|Letter to Mukunda Janaki, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690228_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690228_janaki.md|Letter to Janaki, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690228_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_bank_of_barodaa.md|Letter to Bank Of Barodaa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_bank_of_barodab.md|Letter to Bank Of Barodab, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_hit_sharanji.md|Letter to Hit Sharanji, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_manager_of_punjab_national_banka.md|Letter to Manager Of Punjab National Banka, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_manager_of_punjab_national_bankb.md|Letter to Manager Of Punjab National Bankb, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_unknowna.md|Letter to Unknowna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_unknownb.md|Letter to Unknownb, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_unknownc.md|Letter to Unknownc, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700228_unknownd.md|Letter to Unknownd, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710228_shyamsunder.md|Letter to Shyamsunder, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720228_caturbhuja.md|Letter to Caturbhuja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720228_harsarani.md|Letter to Harsarani, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720228_kirtiraja.md|Letter to Kirtiraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720228_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720228_satyabhama.md|Letter to Satyabhama, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720228_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1976/760228_aksayananda.md|Letter to Aksayananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760228_gaura_govinda.md|Letter to Gaura Govinda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760228_ramram_maharaja.md|Letter to Ramram Maharaja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760228_srinath_khanna.md|Letter to Srinath Khanna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770228_caru.md|Letter to Caru, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770228_chaityaguru.md|Letter to Chaityaguru, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770228_the_manager.md|Letter to The Manager, 1977]]