# March 1 *Lectures from this day: 14 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1967/670301sb.sf.md|SB 6.1.7 — March 1, 1967, San Francisco]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/730301cr.jkt|Car Conversation — March 1, 1973, Jakarta]]** **Prabhupāda:** But generally, unless they are very highly elevated, why they should be called... [break] ...wanted to elevate them, *harijanas.* **Prabhupāda:** But he did not know how to make them *harijana.* He was politically trying. These are old garments? **Amogha:** About 9 o'clock or 9:30. Then they open until 12:30 and close all afternoon. All over Jakarta they close all afternoon, and at five o'clock then they open. --- **[[spoken/730301le.jkt|Lecture — March 1, 1973, Jakarta]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...he was personal friend of Kṛṣṇa. Just try to understand how much qualified he was. Not only that; he belonged to the royal family, he was a great warrior, great hero, so many qualities. But he said that "I cannot practice this *yoga* system. It is not possible. I cannot control my mind and practice this *haṭha-yoga* system." Now just try to understand. He is such a personality, great personality, and five thousand years ago, when things were so nice. So at that time a person like Arjuna felt that he's unable to practice this *yoga* system. And nowadays a paltry people with teeny knowledge, they are trying to practice *yoga* system as if they're..., he has become more than Arjuna. It is very difficult subject matter. It is not possible for ordinary man. The first principle is that he has to sit down alone in a sacred place, alone. *Yoga* practice is not possible in a big city, with friends and smoking habit and drinking habit. This all farce. One has to become very strong in controlling the mind, controlling the senses, sitting in a solitary place, sacred place like Himalaya or Haridwar, like that. And who is going there, and who is practicing? It is not possible. Not only that; he has to sit down straight, and not bending, and looking on the tip of the nose, and not closing the eyes completely, half closed—so many rules and regulation—and always thinking of Viṣṇu. *Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā pra..*. *[[sb/12/13/1|[SB. 12.13.1] ]]. It is not possible. This *yoga* system, Arjuna denied five thousand years ago. And what we are? This is going on, all farce. Here is the *yoga* system Kṛṣṇa is describing, *sa ma guhyatamam,* most confidential *yoga* system. What is that? *Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto* *[[bg/18/65|[Bg. 18.65] ]]: "Simply always think of Me." *Man-manā. Mad-bhakta:* "You just become My devotee." So this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. Even I don't like it think Kṛṣṇa, as soon as the name is chanted immediately I'm forced to think of Kṛṣṇa, immediately. Hare Kṛṣṇa, as I say, immediately I remember Kṛṣṇa, *man-manā.* --- **[[spoken/730301r1.jkt|Conversation [Hindi] — March 1, 1973, Jakarta]]** --- **[[spoken/740301cc.may|Cc. Ādi 7.1 — March 1, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Let me first offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the ultimate goal of life for one bereft of all possessions in this material world and is the only meaning for one advancing in spiritual life. Thus let me write about His magnanimous contribution of devotional service in love of God." --- **[[spoken/750301cc.atl|Cc. Ādi 7.1 — March 1, 1975, Atlanta]]** "Let me first offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the ultimate goal of life for one bereft of all possessions in this material world and is the only meaning for one advancing in spiritual life. Thus let me write about His magnanimous contribution of devotional service in love of God." **Prabhupāda:** > agaty-eka-gatiṁ natvā > hīnārthādhika-sādhakam > śrī-caitanyaṁ likhyate 'sya > prema-bhakti-vadānyatā > [Cc Ādi 7.1] So Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī is writing *Caitanya-caritāmṛta.* In each chapter he composes a new verse offering his obeisances to the Lord. So in this Seventh Chapter of *Ādi-līlā* he also offers his respect. He began his writing of *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* when he was as old as ninety years old in Vṛndāvana by the order of the Vaiṣṇavas and confirmed by Śrī Madana-mohana. So this is the process. One should not be writing in spiritual subject matter without being authorized by some superior authority. It is not ordinary writing. The writing on spiritual subject matter is authoritative. By the order of superior authority, one can write. It is not speculation. Therefore he said that *śrī-caitanyaṁ likhyate asya:* "By the order of superior authority, I am trying to describe Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu." And what is Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu? *Prema-bhakti-vadānyatā.* Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is preaching *prema,* means love of Godhead. That is the only necessity to understand in human form of life. *Premā pumartho mahān.* --- **[[spoken/750301mw.atl|Morning Walk — March 1, 1975, Atlanta]]** **Tripurāri:** Fools and rascals who won't take your books. Sometimes we convince them that this philosophy is very nice, and they agree, and we use Lord Kṛṣṇa's words, *dehino 'smin yathā dehe* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]], and they say "Yes, I can understand that, but I don't need your book," or "I would never read it." We say, "Well, no. Take it." **Tripurāri:** We say, "No, take it home, and some day you will read it." They think they can find out on their own. **Prabhupāda:** That is foolishness. They cannot. *Mām eva ya prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te* [[bg/7/14|[Bg. 7.14] ]]. --- **[[spoken/750301r1.atl|Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks — March 1, 1975, Atlanta]]** **Prabhupāda:** That is the Vedic description. The religious principle cannot be manufactured by anyone within this universe. It is the codes or laws given by God. That is religion. That means we have to know who is God, what is His desire, and we have to abide by that. That is religion. Just like a good citizen means he knows the government and the government laws, and he abides by it. Then he is good citizen. Otherwise he is criminal. If he does not abide by the laws of the state, he is criminal. Similarly, if one does not abide by the orders or the codes or the laws of God, he is Satan, or demon. *Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā* [[sb/5/18/12|[SB. 5.18.12] ]]. Therefore anyone who is disobedient to God, he cannot have any good qualification. And *yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate suraḥ,* and one who is devotee, abiding by the orders of God, he has got all the good qualification of God's. Therefore, the duty of the state, duty of the father, duty of the teacher—everyone, those who are guardians—they should teach their subordinate how to become faithful to God. This one qualification will make him perfect. That is not being done. Everyone is godless mostly. And therefore there is problems, chaotic condition. Nobody is abiding by the supreme law. Everyone is creating his own law. That is the trouble. So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant for making the human society law-abiding citizen of the laws given by God. So that is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* Kṛṣṇa, God, is giving, "You do like this." If we do like that... Or take even Bible. If we follow strictly, then we become happy. So, am I right or wrong? What is your opinion? --- **[[spoken/750301r2.atl|Room Conversation with Svarūpa Dāmodara — March 1, 1975, Atlanta]]** **Prabhupāda:** Try to understand this, that life is always there, as God is there. So these living entities, part and parcel of God, they are also there. That God has got multi-energies, potencies. Out of that, three potencies have been taken as very important. *Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate* [Cc Madhya* 13.65*, purport]. God has multi-energy. Out of that, three energies have been taken as principal: material, spiritual and marginal. The material energy is this material world. The spiritual world is the spiritual energy. And we living entities, we are also spiritual, but we are called marginal because we may live under the subjugation of material energy or spiritual energy. So the living entities, they are eternal. Their only position is marginal—sometimes manifested here, sometimes manifested there. So in the material world the living entities are already there. You haven't got to create. That is foolishness. It is never created. Simply in the material world it becomes manifest in four ways. Some of them are coming like trees, plants. And some of them are coming from perspiration. Not coming; being manifested through fermentation, perception. And some of them are being manifested through eggs. And some of them are being manifested through embryo. The living entities are already there. Their struggle is going on, and they become manifest in the material world in four sources. In the spiritual world there is no such... They are eternally existing. There is no question of manifestation. So this is the science of living entities. What do they know? Therefore I say they are rascals. They do not know anything; simply trying to create. What is the creation? It is already there. But they do not know what is this, and still, they are scientists, they are advanced education. All rascal. They do not know. Therefore through *Bhagavad-gītā* we say they are rascal, *mūḍhā.* Now you tell these *mūḍhas* that "My dear sirs, you cannot create; neither it is created. You find out how they are coming out, what is their source, who is the brain behind all this nature. That you find out. That is knowledge. So if you struggle for this and try to find out the original source of everything, then some day you may come to this platform, *vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ* [[bg/7/19|[Bg. 7.19] ]]. Then you understand that Kṛṣṇa is the source of everything, and then your knowledge will be perfect." This is the... *Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti* [[bg/7/19|[Bg. 7.19] ]]. Whatever we see, that is, the source is Vasudeva. --- **[[spoken/760301mw.may|Morning Walk — March 1, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Hṛdayānanda:** Atomic... That everything is constituted of different atoms, and the ultimate truth is the atomic particle, and by different combinations of these particles, different material manifestations are produced, and there's no other cause except this endless combining of atomic particles. **Hṛdayānanda:** The atom is the eternal fact. It is inconceivable, or it's unexplainable, where it has come from. **Prabhupāda:** Then you prove yourself you are a rascal. Inexplicable? Why you are trying to explain? --- **[[spoken/760301sb.may|SB 7.9.23 — March 1, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Dayānanda:** *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, *Seventh Canto, Ninth Chapter, twenty-third verse. *[chants verse and **synonyms**, Prabhupāda and devotees respond]* **Dayānanda:** **Translation: "My dear Lord, people in general want to be elevated to the higher planetary system for long duration of life, opulence, enjoyment. I have seen all of them through the activities of my father. When my father was very angry and laughing sarcastically upon the demigods, immediately they fell down simply by seeing the movements of his eyebrows. Such my father is now finished within a moment." --- **[[spoken/770301r1.may|Room Conversation “GBC Resolutions” — March 1, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Satsvarūpa:** The first thing we did this morning was this resolution: Pañcadraviḍa Swami and Harikeśa Swami, who were serving during the year as acting GBCs, were accepted as full GBC members. And Bali-mardana, it was decided, should continue for the next year to act in the status of an acting GBC. Then Svarūpa Dāmodara was appointed as a GBC member on your request. Then we had an election of GBC officers. Kīrtanānanda Mahārāja was elected the chairman, Jayatīrtha was elected vice chairman, and Sats... **Satsvarūpa:** Tamāla Kṛṣṇa, Kīrtanānanda, Satsvarūpa, Rūpānuga, Jayatīrtha, Balavanta, Gopāla Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, Jagadīśa, Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rāmeśvara, Bali-mardana, Pañcadraviḍa, Harikeśa, Haṁsadūta, Ātreya Ṛṣi, Gargamuni, Brahmānanda, Hṛdayānanda, Gurukṛpā. **Satsvarūpa:** So this is the election of the officers: Kīrtanānanda Swami, chairman; Jayatīrtha, vice chairman; Satsvarūpa, secretary. --- **[[spoken/770301r2.may|Room Conversation — March 1, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Hari-śauri:** Mr. Bannerjee. He was talking about Vivekananda, and how our movement is spreading because of our moral strength. **Prabhupāda:** They have spoiled India's culture. All these... Rabindranath Tagore. All misleaders. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the real leader, and Kṛṣṇa. **Gargamuni:** In the Book Fair there's other... Ramakrishna is there; Aurobindo. They have their books, but no one is going.* [Prabhupāda chuckles] They have booths, Ramakrishna Mission, Aurobindo, Yogananda. --- **[[spoken/770301sb.may|SB 7.9.9 — March 1, 1977, Māyāpur]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: One may possess wealth, an aristocratic family, beauty, austerity, education, sensory expertise, luster, influence, physical strength, diligence, intelligence and mystic yogic powers, but I think that even by all these qualifications one cannot satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, one can satisfy the Lord simply by devotional service. Gajendra did this, and thus the Lord was satisfied with him." **Prabhupāda:** > manye dhanābhijana-rūpa-tapaḥ-śrutaujas- > tejaḥ-prabhāva-bala-pauruṣa-buddhi-yogāḥ > nārādhanāya hi bhavanti parasya puṁso > bhaktyā tutoṣa bhagavān gaja-yūtha-pāya > [[sb/7/9/9|[SB. 7.9.9] ]] So these are material assets. [aside:] It's not working? [bumps microphone] Hmm? Wealth, *dhana...* Nobody can captivate Kṛṣṇa by all these material possessions. These are material possessions: money, then manpower, beauty, education, austerity, mystic power and so on, so on. There are so many things. They are not capable of approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa personally says, *bhaktyā mām abhijānāti* [[bg/18/55|[Bg. 18.55] ]]. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680301_acyutananda.md|Letter to Acyutananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680301_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680301_jayananda.md|Letter to Jayananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680301_manager_of_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Punjab National Bank, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680301_sri_krishnaji.md|Letter to Sri Krishnaji, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680301_uddhava_cidananda.md|Letter to Uddhava Cidananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680301_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1972/720301_trai.md|Letter to Trai, 1972]]