# March 11 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660311bg.ny|Bg 2.13 — March 11, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > dehino 'smin yathā dehe > kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā > tathā dehāntara-prāptir > dhīras tatra na muhyati > [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]] **Student:**"Just as boyhood, youth and old age are attributed to the soul through this body, he, the soul, obtains another body. The wise man does not get deluded about this." --- **[[../../spoken/1972/720311r1.mat.md|Room Conversation — March 11, 1972, Mathura]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1972/720311r1.vrn.md|Room Conversation with Gaurachand Gosvāmī — March 11, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/750311bg.lon|Bg 7.3 — March 11, 1975, London]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. **O**ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **[break] [00:42]"**Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth." So *manuṣyā* means human being. So human being is the life where one can understand what is God. It is not stated here *jīvanam,* the living entities. There are, we have several times explained, many types of living entities. *Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati* [*Padma Purāṇa*]. The aquatics, they are also living entities. There are 900,000 forms of body within the water. They are also living entities. And... *Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati. Sthāvarāḥ* means living entities who cannot move—trees, plants, herbs, grass. They cannot move. So they are two millions. So in this way you come to the human being. They are also living entities. There are 400,000 different forms. We can see here. We are human being, but we have got different forms, different color. So this is the variety of creation. So out of all these living entities, the human form of living entity is very important. So that is the life wherein we can understand what is God. --- **[[spoken/750311mw.lon|Morning Walk — March 11, 1975, London]]** **Brahmānanda:** In your *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* you write that the sun purifies a dirty place and also the mind. **Prabhupāda:** Spinnery. [break] There is no sunshine. It is wet always, just see. Trees also, they have moss. **Prabhupāda:** *Puṇya-bhūmi,* pious land. Still, so fallen, whenever there is a question of spiritual meeting, thousands, *lakhs,* will come. You have seen Kumbha-melā? --- **[[spoken/760311mw.may|Morning Walk — March 11, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...at the lotus feet of Nitāi. *Nitāi-pāda-kamala, koṭi candra suśītala.* Because the shelter is so cool, a thousand times cooler than the moon. Where is that..., Yaśomatīnandana? He is not here? Yesterday he met Mādhava Mahārāja. So he had some talks. [chuckles] In that talk he mentioned that "Your Guru Mahārāja was previously a businessman, so... And we are, from our childhood, we are Vaiṣṇava. So therefore he is doing business and getting money." **Prabhupāda:** [chuckles] No, don't say like that. But the thing is... Business means... Business means four things. Yes, we are businessman. I was student of economics. I know how to do business, and the business principle means you require four things: land, labor, capital, organization. So ordinary man cannot do that. Otherwise, everyone would have done some business and become millionaires. But it requires these four things: land, labor, organization and capital. So where you have got these? You have neither land, neither capital, neither place. So how you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America—land. Then I worked—labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it. [to Lokanātha:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. So why you are becoming *paramahaṁsa*? Eh? This is *paramahaṁsa* dress. **Prabhupāda:** Don't become *paramahaṁsa* immediately. *Paramahaṁsa* is the last stage of *sannyāsa.* First stage is *kuṭicaka.* Second stage is *parivrājakācārya.* Third stage is... No, first stage is *kuṭicaka.* Then second stage is *bahudaka, bahudaka.* And third stage is *parivrājakācārya,* and fourth stage is *paramahaṁsa.* Therefore *paramahaṁsa* stage is the topmost. --- **[[spoken/760311sb.may|SB 7.9.33 — March 11, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:Translation:** "This cosmic manifestation, the material world, is also Your body. By Your potential energy known as kāla-śakti, this total lump of matter becomes agitated, and thus three modes of material nature become manifested. In this way You become awakened from the bedstead of Ananta-Śeṣa, and from Your navel a small transcendental seed is generated, from which the gigantic universe becomes manifest. Exactly like the small seed of banyan tree, the lotus flower of the cosmic manifestation is grown up." **Prabhupāda:**These verses of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* they are Vedic *mantras.* They're not ordinary wording, set of wording. It is not. *Veda-mantra; saṁhitā.* So every one of you must try to chant. This is required. Each verse of *Bhagavad-gītā* or *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* they are Vedic *mantras, veda-mantra.* So simply by chanting them we become purified. So every one of you... There is diacritic marks, literation, transliteration, so everyone should try to chant the *mantra.* That is very beneficial. That is *kīrtana. Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya* [[sb/12/3/51|[SB. 12.3.51] ]].* Everything is being chanted in relationship with Kṛṣṇa, with reference to Kṛṣṇa. So this material world is explained, --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670311_sar_maharaja.md|Letter to Sar Maharaja, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690311_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690311_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690311_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1973/730311_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740311_tarun_kanti_ghosh_babu.md|Letter to Tarun Kanti Ghosh Babu, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750311_kenneth_h._petchenik.md|Letter to Kenneth H. Petchenik, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760311_giridharilal.md|Letter to Giridharilal, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770311_akshayananda_swami.md|Letter to Akshayananda Swami, 1977]]