# March 7 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660307bg.ny|Bg 2.12 — March 7, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** So last day we were speaking about the eleventh..., eleventh, Second Chapter, eleventh verse. Just read it. Second Chapter, eleventh verse. **Devotee:** "In fact, there was never..." "Arjuna, you grieve over those who should not be grieved for, and yet speak like the learned wise men who do not sorrow over the dead or the living." **Prabhupāda:** Yes. You have marked it? With pen? Yes. So we have finished this *śloka.* The next verse is, --- **[[spoken/720307bg.cal|Bg 9.2 — March 7, 1972, Calcutta]]** This *bhakti-yoga*, devotional service, is *rāja-vidyā*. *Raja* means king, and *vidyā* means education, knowledge, learning. As there are common men and there are kings also, as the king is important, the most important person in the state, or the president is the most important person in the state, similarly, of all learnings, this is the king of learning, *rāja-vidyā*. And *rāja-guhyam...*, *rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ*. *Guhyam* means confidential. Confidential, anything confidential is not to be disclosed to the common man. Or after many, many research, one can found..., one can find out the confidence or the confidential nature of devotional service. *Bahunam janmanam ante* [[bg/7/19|[Bg. 7.19] ]], it is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā*. It is most confidential because one comes to this knowledge after cultivating other knowledges for many, many births. One comes to this knowledge. What is this knowledge, devotional, *rāja-vidyā*? What is the symptom? *Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate*. This is the symptom: that one has surrendered to Kṛṣṇa. That means he is in perfect knowledge. --- **[[spoken/720307sb.cal|SB 7.9.9 — March 7, 1972, Calcutta]]** **Prabhupāda:** We are talking of Prahlāda Mahārāja's prayer. He was thinking himself unfit for offering prayers to the Lord. But still, because he was requested by the great demigods headed by Lord Brahmā and others, he thought that material qualification, namely high parentage, riches, beauty, bodily strength, yogic power, all of them are not qualification for becoming a devotee or qualified to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These things I have already explained. *Dhana* means riches; *abhijana..., abhijata* means aristocratic family; *bala* means bodily strength; *buddhi*, intelligence; *pauruṣa*, power in endeavor, industrious. These are material qualification. And the *yoga,* *aṣṭa-siddhi-yoga*, that is also material. By exercising the body to concentrate the mind, that is also material. Because mind is material, subtle form of matter. It is explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā*, *bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca* [[bg/7/4|[Bg. 7.4] ]]. --- **[[spoken/740307cc.may|Cc. Ādi 7.5 — March 7, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] **Translation:** "Spiritually there are no differences between these five tattvas, for on the transcendental platform everything is absolute. Yet there are also varieties in the spiritual world, and in order to taste these spiritual varieties one should distinguish between them." **Prabhupāda:** > pañca-tattva—eka-vastu, nāhi kichu bheda > rasa āsvādite tabu vividha vibheda > [Cc Ādi 7.5] --- **[[spoken/740307mw.may|Morning Walk, [partially recorded] — March 7, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** Everyone will understand. Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is proved. We are going to Africa. We are going to Canada, Europe, America. Everyone chants Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is the language. When a young man and young woman loves one another, there is no question of language. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "Suppose you are in a foreign country. You do not know the language. But when there is fire, you get friends without any language." You see? In the beginning of British rule there were not very many English-knowing Indian. So a clerk in his office was working. So monkey came and he scattered the office papers. So after the monkey was driven away, he was collecting the papers. In the meantime, his English boss came: "What is this, man?" So he could not say. He began to jump. You see? "Monkey, sir. Monkey, sir. [laughter] Monkey, sir." "All right. All right. That's all right." Simply to inform, without any language, you can jump, "Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa," and he will understand. [*japa*] [Bengali] *Thik hai?* **Prabhupāda:** [Bengali] Hare Kṛṣṇa and dance. Do this. [break] ...and for constructing four buildings like that. [break] Kṛṣṇa took part in politics. So what is His politics? What is His sociology? What is His culture? --- **[[spoken/750307sb.ny|SB [partially recorded] — March 7, 1975, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...birth in a very nice, pure *brāhmaṇa* family or very rich family. So this is the profit. You begin immediately devotional life. You can finish this devotional life within this life. There is no difficulty. Simply go on chanting. But even if you cannot finish, then you have to take a birth, then the Kṛṣṇa gives you opportunity to take a birth in a very nice, pure *brāhmaṇa* family or very rich family. In pure *brāhmaṇa* family means you get immediately the opportunity of... Just like in our Society, the children, from the very beginning of life, they are getting opportunity how to think of Kṛṣṇa, how to offer obeisances to Kṛṣṇa, how to chant. This is the process. So from the very beginning of life all the children of our devotees, they are getting this opportunity. That is called *śucīnām*, very pure family. Pure means God consciousness. Or, if he is not so complete, then he is given the chance of being born in a very rich family. Rich family means there is no question of economic problem. He is full, born with silver spoon. So without endeavoring for his livelihood—he has already everything—he can simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. But there is no guidance. He thinks, "I have got this money for nothing. Let me enjoy for sense gratification." That is the difficulty. He is in bad association. Otherwise, he has got the best opportunity. Just like you. You are Americans. You have no scarcity. You have got this opportunity. So you chant this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement very seriously, and your life will be successful. Because you have no problem. Naturally you have got everything. So take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and be happy in this life and next life. **Indian woman:** May I ask one question, please? In the Tenth Canto of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavata,* chapter starting twenty-ninth to thirty-five, there is a beautiful description of this *rāsa-līlā,* and some scholars think that there is some role of imagination in that. So will you please comment upon this? **Prabhupāda:** Because they are rascals. We are not commenting on rascals. [laughter] Why do you jump to *rāsa-līlā*? That is another rascaldom. *Bhāgavata,* there is twelve cantos. And this *rāsa-līlā* is described in the thirty-fifth chapter of Tenth Canto. So why you jump there? --- **[[spoken/760307mw.may|Morning Walk — March 7, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** And where is sense gratification? As soon as nature kicks you out, where is your sense gratification? **Hṛdāyānanda:** It's a relative thing. Actually, compared to the ordinary man, he's much more intelligent. **Hṛdāyānanda:** He's thinking that "I know so many things, and these other people, they don't know these things. Therefore I'm better than them." --- **[[spoken/760307sb.may|SB 7.9.29 — March 7, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:**Translation: "O the unlimited reservoir of transcendental qualities, my Lord, You have killed my father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, and saved my life from the sword of my father. And he said very angrily, 'If there is any other supreme controller than myself, then let Him save you. I shall now separate your head from the body.' Therefore, for both reasons, I consider that You have acted at present just to prove the words of Your devotee truthfully, and there is no other cause." **Prabhupāda:** > mat-prāṇa-rakṣaṇam ananta pitur vadhaś ca > manye sva-bhṛtya-ṛṣi-vākyam ṛtaṁ vidhātum > khaḍgaṁ pragṛhya yad avocad asad-vidhitsus > tvām īśvaro mad-aparo 'vatu kaṁ harāmi > [[sb/7/9/29|[SB. 7.9.29] ]] So before Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed by His Lordship Nṛsiṁhadeva, Prahlāda Mahārāja never addressed his father as "father," *pituḥ.* Now, after his death, he is addressing *pituḥ,* "my father." Because before his death he was demon. Everyone knows. But if a demon is killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes liberated—either demon or anyone. Demons are generally killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They enter into the impersonal Brahman. Therefore there is a verse—I don't remember exactly now—that "The monist and the demons, they go to the same place: impersonal Brahman." And what to speak of devotees? Devotees never enter to that impersonal Brahman. Devotees enter directly in the Vaikuṇṭha planet. *Mām eti. Mām eti.* Kṛṣṇa said, *tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti* [[bg/4/9|[Bg. 4.9] ]]. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāmaṁ paramaṁ mama* *[[bg/15/6|[Bg. 15.6] ]].* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670307_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680307_mahapurusa.md|Letter to Mahapurusa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1970/700307_manager_of_first_national_city_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of First National City Bank, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700307_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700307_trivikrama.md|Letter to Trivikrama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720307_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730307_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730307_bhaja_hari.md|Letter to Bhaja Hari, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730307_dr._aggarwal.md|Letter to Dr. Aggarwal, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740307_muralidhara.md|Letter to Muralidhara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760307_harikesa.md|Letter to Harikesa, 1976]]