# March 5 ## Spoken on March 5 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[1969: Day after Śrī Gaura-Pūrṇimā Lecture](spoken/1969/690305le.haw)** > So ceremony..., apart from ceremonial function, let us try to understand the philosophy of Lord Caitanya. So Lord Caitanya thought it—not thought it; this is a fact—that this sort of life, seeking material happiness... Material happiness means sense gratification. That's all. Actually, according to *Bhagavad-gītā*—not according to *Bhagavad-gītā;* that is a fact according to any authoritative statement—*sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriyaṁ grāhyam*. Śrī Kṛṣṇa says that *sukham ātyantikam. Ātyantikam* means the super, superhappiness, *ātyantikam;* means that which you cannot excel more. That is the final point. That sort of happiness is not possible to achieve... > So Kṛṣṇa comes personally to canvass that "This is not your proper order of life. You are misusing your independence for sense gratification and wandering through various types of transmigration of bodies—sometimes human body, sometimes dog's body, sometimes cat's body, sometimes demigod's body, sometimes rich body, sometimes poor body. So you stop this business," Kṛṣṇa says. *Sarva-dharmān parityajya*. "You have manufactured so many duties. That duties means you are manufacturing so many bodies. That's all." --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.8](spoken/1972/720305sb.cal)** > Now when we misuse this independence... Our relationship with Kṛṣṇa: to serve. *Jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa-dāsa*. Therefore Kṛṣṇa orders, "You surrender!" Just like we sometimes order our servants or subordinates, sons, disciples, "You do this! Don't talk!" So Kṛṣṇa can order that, because He is the Supreme. Any superior personality can order like that. But unfortunately, we misuse. We don't carry out the order of the superior. That is misuse. > Therefore, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in His teaching to Sri Rūpa Goswāmī, He has especially, *vaiṣṇava-aparādha hātī mātā*. You are doing everything... He has compared *vaiṣṇava*-*aparādha* as mad elephant. He has very nicely metaphorically explained this. Just like you have a nice garden, very good garden, you are watering, you are giving protection, giving manure, everything. But if in that garden a mad elephant enters, then it will destroy everything; all your labor will go to hell immediately. It will destroy everything. --- **[1973: Bhagavad-gītā 2.12](spoken/1973/730305bg.cal)** > Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *na tu evā ahaṁ*. First of all, He's the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He states about Himself that "I was also a person, and at the present moment I am also a person, and in the future also I shall continue to remain a person. Similarly not only I, *" na tu evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ na tvaṁ*, "also you. You are also individual, and now you are individual, and in the future you will remain also individual." *Tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ*. > Now you're working on the false platform. *Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati*. Now our position is *jīva-bhūta*. I am identifying with this body; this is called *jīva-bhūta*. *Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ jīva-loke sanātanaḥ*. Kṛṣṇa says all these living entities, *nityo nityānāṁ*, we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. He says, *mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ*: "They are My part and parcel." --- **[1974: Morning Walk [Partially Recorded](spoken/1974/740305mw.may)** > There was no question of woman. I kept my office there. And the address was Multani temple. This is a famous temple, from [indistinct], Grant Road. And in my retired life my office was there, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa temple, and Delhi, Chippiwada. And my residence was Rādhā-Dāmodara temple. And before that, that Keśī Ghāṭa. Who has seen that? You have...? --- **[1975: Interview](spoken/1975/750305iv.ny)** > It is a little difficult to understand this movement, because it is spiritual movement. People practically have no information what is spirit and what is spiritual movement, but they can simply understand that the body is there. Body is the machine, and the driver of the machine is the spirit soul. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.2.5](spoken/1975/750305sb.ny)** > So this human society should be divided into eight divisions. That is first-class human society. Just like any organization, any establishment, there are divisions of labor: the directing board, board of directors there are, then the secretarial board, then ordinary clerks, then menial, then workers. There must be division; otherwise it is chaotic. Nowhere you'll find without division it is going on very smoothly. There must be division. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ*. > It is ordered by God that there should be four divisions for the materialistic condition of life and four divisions for spiritual upliftment. So there must be the *brāhmaṇa, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam. Varṇa* means four divisions of society. *Varṇa* means class. It has been taken now as caste; but actually class. Class is not caste. Caste, of course... Throughout the whole world there is no such thing as caste. But anyway, in India there is caste. But Kṛṣṇa says that *cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam* : "Four divisions of classes I have created—*brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra.*" Who is a *brāhmaṇa*? That is also described in the *Bhagavad-gītā: satya, śama, dama, titikṣā, ārjava, āstikyam, jñāna, vijñānam,* so many qualifications required to become a *brāhmaṇa.* Not that because I was born in a *brāhmaṇa* family. This is discussed in *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* that to take birth in a *brāhmaṇa* family is not all. You must be qualified, *śamo damas titikṣā.* That is required. The Indian culture has failed at the present moment because instead of considering the qualification, they accept only the birth: "The birth in a *brāhmaṇa* family makes a man a *brāhmaṇa.*" No. That is not the *śāstric* injunction. Qualification. There must be qualification. --- **[1976: Morning Walk](spoken/1976/760305mw.may)** > And at the same time one should chant: "Oh, Kṛṣṇa is so kind. We are hungry, we are so greedy, and He has given so nice *prasādam.*" This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. > > kṛṣṇa baḍa dayāmaya, karibāre jihvā jaya > > sva-prasāda-anna dilā bhāi > > sei prasāda-annā pāo, rādhā-kṛṣṇa-guṇa gāo > > [Gītāvalī, Prasāda-sevāya, song 1, stanza 2] --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.27](spoken/1976/760305sb.may)** > There is a verse in the *Bhagavad-gītā, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham* : "It is up to you to... If you surrender cent per cent, then I am also fully cent per cent for you." But if you have got discrimination—"Certain percentage for my wife, certain percentage for my children, certain percentage for my country, certain percent...," so on, so on, so on, so on, ultimately, "Zero for God"—then God is also zero. It is up to you. But if you take God—"You are my everything"—then He is also for you, everything. It is up to you. *Parāvaratvam.* He does not discriminate; you discriminate. There are many persons, they come to Vṛndāvana, and whatever they have earned throughout the whole life, so they give everything to the wife and children and make contract that "I am going to Vṛndāvana. You send me at least two hundred rupees for my expenditure." "And what about two *lakhs* and *crores*?" "Oh, that is yours. The two *lakhs* and *crores,* what I have earned, that is for you, my dear children, my dear wife, and you give me two hundred for God. So I am going to Vṛndāvana." So Kṛṣṇa is very intelligent: "All right, I am also for you two hundred. [laughter] I am also for you two hundred." *Ye yathā mām...* This is the meaning, real meaning. *Ye yathā māṁ prapadya...* Kṛṣṇa is for you. It is called... What is the exact word? Responsive cooperation. "If you have surrendered to Me cent per cent, then I respond cent per cent. If you have surrendered twenty-five percent, then I respond twenty-five percent." This is the position. > This is *māyā.* We are trying to be happy in this material... It will never be possible. But these fools and rascals, they do not know. They are making big, big plans how to become happy, how to become, in our country, in our home, in our society, in our family, and so on, so on, so on. This means we are simply becoming entangled. *Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho 'yam*. Ahaṁ moha,* illusion. It will never be possible. Therefore, the conclusion is we should fully surrender cent per cent to Kṛṣṇa, and then we become happy. *Saṁsevayā surataror iva te prasādaḥ.* The example is: just like the desire tree, *kalpa-vṛkṣa.* It can fulfill any desire, any desire. We have got so many desires. Kṛṣṇa can fulfill all the desires. Please surrender to Kṛṣṇa. This is the process. --- ## Letters on March 5 *Letters from this day: 13* --- **[1966: Letter to Salvation Army](letters/1966/660305_salvation_army)** > I beg to inform you that I am a Vaisnava Sannyasi and I have come from India (Vrindaban U. --- **[1971: Letter to Abhirama](letters/1971/710305_abhirama)** > I am very anxious that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's message be carried to South America also. --- **[1971: Letter to Damodara](letters/1971/710305_damodara)** > That program is so important that we are getting money, supporters and distributing our literature all at the same time. But any way we can distribute our books is good because anyone who reads our KRSNA book, TLC, NOD, and Bhagavad-gita As It Is, is sure to become a Krishna Conscious person. --- **[1971: Letter to Jananivasa](letters/1971/710305_jananivasa)** > I am so glad to hear how everything has been improving there in our Columbus center, and how preaching is going on so nicely. --- **[1971: Letter to Syamasundara](letters/1971/710305_syamasundara)** > I thank you very much for your letter dated 2nd March, 1971. --- **[1971: Letter to Vamanadeva](letters/1971/710305_vamanadeva)** > Also I've received the very nice article enclosed and it has been appreciated by our Indian friends here also. And thank you very much for sending regular maintenance fund checks, via L.A. --- **[1972: Letter to Bali-Mardana](letters/1972/720305_bali-mardana)** > I am also pleased to hear that you have eliminated all the book debts from ISKCON Press. Now you and Karandhara, along with Hayagriva, Jayadvaita and others, you conjointly think how to double and again double our books supply, there is no limit in this respect. --- **[1972: Letter to Bhakta Dasa](letters/1972/720305_bhakta_dasa)** > This is the devotee's business, always to please Krishna, that is all. Throw out all other interests, simply think always that He is the recipient of all my energy, that is Krishna Consciousness. --- **[1972: Letter to Jayadvaita](letters/1972/720305_jayadvaita)** > I have also received your letter along with Bali Mardan's and I am very much glad that Pradyumna is now with me for teaching him correctly this sanskrit editing work. --- **[1972: Letter to Sri Govinda](letters/1972/720305_sri_govinda)** > I have enjoyed your newspaper articles also, and in general I think that very soon your Cleveland center will rise above all the rest, so much so that I shall have to come to live there and translate for some time. I hope this will meet you all nice boys and girls in very good health and happy mood. --- **[1973: Letter to Hariprasada Badruka](letters/1973/730305_hariprasada_badruka)** > I just arrived here the day before yesterday and I am glad to receive your Hyderabad progress report. --- **[1973: Letter to Kirtiraja](letters/1973/730305_kirtiraja)** > I have examined the plans for the building on West 43rd Street just near the corner of 5th Avenue and I think it is perfectly suitable for us in every way. Please work together with Bali Mardan Maharaja and try your best to secure it. --- **[1976: Letter to Ramram Maharaja](letters/1976/760305_ramram_maharaja)** > As I am scheduled to stay in Mayapur up to the end of March, I am giving a copy of your letter to my zonal secretary. So you should hear from him shortly. ---