# March 9 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660309bg.ny|Bg 2.12 — March 9, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** Now, the next question is that the Māyāvādī philosophers, they say that "Because I am now covered in ignorance, therefore I see individuals." Yes. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. My... This individual experience that you are Mr. Such-and-such, you are Mr. Such-and-such, you are Mrs. Such-and-such, this individual experience is due to my ignorance. And generally, they give the example of a disease. I think it is called, medical terms, myopia. Myopia means they see this moon in two. The eyes become so defective that whenever they see things, they see two. **Prabhupāda:** Because, because the thing is one, but due to my disease of the eye, I see one thing, two. That is a disease. There is a disease like that. So... --- **[[spoken/680309iv.sf|Interview — March 9, 1968, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** The basis of this teaching is *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.* I have already published my book, this *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.* This book is not new. It is very old book, at least five thousand years old, and it is very widely read all over the world. In your country I have seen there are about more than twenty-five different editions, English. Similarly, there is in German language, in England, in Japan. Everywhere, all over the country, this book is very widely known, *Bhagavad-gītā.* In other words, this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The speaker of this book is Lord Kṛṣṇa, and the subject matter of this book is what is our relationship with God. Then, after understanding what is our relationship with God, we can work accordingly. Just like you are citizen of America, you have got a particular relationship with the state, and you are expected to work according to that relationship; then you are good citizen, you are law-abiding citizen, and state gives your all protection, and you can improve to the highest perfectional stage. Similarly, if we know our relationship with God, whom we call Kṛṣṇa... Kṛṣṇa means all-attractive, and that is the perfect name of God. Unless God is all-attractive, He cannot be God. --- **[[spoken/720309bg.cal|Bg 9.4-6 — March 9, 1972, Calcutta]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ > jagad avyakta-mūrtināmat-sthāni sarva-bhūtānina cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ > [[bg/9/4|[Bg. 9.4] ]] This verse, we have been discussing last night, this is distinct explanation of impersonalism and personalism. Actually, there cannot be any impersonal idea. Here Kṛṣṇa says, *avyakta-mūrtinā.* Even *avyakta,* nonmanifested, it has also a *mūrti,* a form. Generally, we conceive impersonalism, voidism, voidism, compared with the sky. Sky is called zero, void, but sky has also a form. We see daily, a big, round form. So there cannot be anything without form. That is not possible. Therefore Kṛṣṇa particularly says *avyakta-mūrtinā.* Although it is nonmanifested, but it has got a form. But one who does not take to the real form and takes to the imaginary form, that has been explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā, kleśo 'dhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām* [[bg/12/5|[Bg. 12.5] ]]. Those who are attached to the impersonal form, they unnecessarily take some trouble always, *kleśaḥ adhika-taraḥ.* --- **[[spoken/740309cc.may|Cc. Ādi 7.7 — March 9, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] **Translation:** "Kṛṣṇa, the reservoir of all pleasure, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, the supreme controller. No one is greater than or equal to Śrī Kṛṣṇa..." *Svayam bhagavān kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam* [[sb/1/3/28|[SB. 1.3.28] ]]. Whatever Kavirāja Gosvāmī is speaking—not out of his own whimsical way—whatever he's speaking, he's following the *paramparā* system. That is Vaiṣṇavism, or *ācārya. Ācāryavan puruṣo veda* [*Chāndogya Upaniṣad* 6.14.2]. --- **[[spoken/740309mw.may|Morning Walk — March 9, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** He's situated as Paramātmā, *antaryāmī,* everywhere. *Aṇḍāntara-stham:* within the universe as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, within the heart of everyone, and even within the atom. Then how we can walk? Kṛṣṇa is within the atom. How we can walk? If somebody says, "How we are walking on the road?" Because within the atom there is God. Within... *Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham [**Bs* 5.35]. **Prabhupāda:** So this, this is combination of *paramāṇu,* atom. So how we can walk? People may question like that, that "In, within the *paramāṇu* there is Kṛṣṇa. How we are walking on this road?" So this question you should all understand very... You know that upon the *mandira,* we do not stay. Just like our Vṛndāvana *mandira* is being constructed. There is no residential quarter upon the *mandira.* Similarly, when the *mandira* will be constructed, we are not so fool that we'll show..., we'll go and stay upon the *mandira.* But *mandira* is not constructed yet. So what shall we do? **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Therefore we have temporary situated *mandira* in the same building. We cannot stop our worship. That is not possible. Because one cannot go upon the *mandira,* because the Lord is now being worshiped within the residence, it does not mean we can stop His worship. Worship must continue in any condition, *apratihatā,* without being impeded by any rules and regulation. This is called *rāga-mārga. Vidhi-mārga,* and there is *rāga-mārga. Vidhi-mārga* means under rules and regulation, and *rāga-mārga* means out of love. That is another thing. There is another instance. Govinda was personal servant of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So after His dinner, Govinda used to give Him massage on the leg. So one day Caitanya Mahāprabhu fell down on the ground and began to sleep on the door. So Govinda was to give massage to His leg, so he crossed Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and began to... --- **[[spoken/750309bg.lon|Bg 7.1 — March 9, 1975, London]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. **O**ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "Now hear, O son of Pṛthā* [Arjuna], how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt." --- **[[spoken/750309r1.lon|Room Conversation with Reporter — March 9, 1975, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...he did not like to kill his cousin-brothers. He said that "Even they usurp my kingdom, I do not wish to kill them." So this affection, this bodily affection, was not very much approved by Kṛṣṇa. He said that "You are talking like a non-Āryan." *Anārya-juṣṭam. Anārya.* "The Āryan, they do not think like that." Another place He says that "You are giving consideration on the body, but any learned schol..., man does not refer to body, either dead or alive. They, learned man, will give stress on the moving force of the body." So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means basically on the moving force of the body. **Prabhupāda:** Of the body. Just like you are moving, I am moving. As soon as the moving force, whatever it is, is gone, then your body is a lump of matter, my body is a lump of matter. **Reporter:** Have you had any difficulty in bringing this, which seems to have originated in India, into the West? Or do you find... --- **[[spoken/760309mw.may|Morning Walk — March 9, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** [laughs] I knew that. Yes. You are being plundered. They are very expert in the plunder. But I thought, "Some Indians will help. He is also 'big belly,' you. It is simply in my eyes. I am the only fool." I criticize like that. Just see how much money they have taken. One day, they are charging ten rupees, and fifty men working, so all spoiled. This is going on all over. *Baḍa baḍa bāṅdarera, baḍa baḍa peṭ, laṅkā diṅgāite māthā kare heṅṭ*: Big, big monkey big, big belly Ceylon jumping melancholy. Hmm? **Prabhupāda:** *Baḍa baḍa peṭ.* How you are being looted. Just see. Farce. They are making farce and taking money. **Prabhupāda:** I told that this is being farce, and somebody told me you have guaranteed. And the other day when I was walking, I said, "This is going to be farce," and somebody told me, "They have guaranteed." Eh? --- **[[spoken/760309sb.may|SB 7.9.31 — March 9, 1976, Māyāpur]]** oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ* [Gautamīya-tantra 7.11] *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *[chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond]* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690309_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700309_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700309_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700309_r._d._birla.md|Letter to R. D. Birla, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700309_rudra.md|Letter to Rudra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1975/750309_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1975]]