# March 13 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670313sb.sf|SB 7.7.25-28 — March 13, 1967, San Francisco]]** --- **[[spoken/680313ta.sf|Talk in Studio — March 13, 1968, San Francisco]]** **Yamunā:** The thing is, they're too close to one another so there's a feedback. You have to be twelve feet away. Then it will amplify. That's what we were using in all of our speaking engagements. **Yamunā:** You don't have to... If all..., the two microphones weren't so close, then it would be..., we wouldn't have this noise, and you could speak as you like to speak.* [Pause] **Gargamuni:** Also, when you used to sing in New York, *Vande 'Haṁ,* you would add on *Cintāmaṇi. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ.* --- **[[spoken/730313le.cal|Lecture [Bengali] — March 13, 1973, Calcutta]]** --- **[[spoken/740313cc.vrn|Cc. Ādi 7.91-2 — March 13, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...Māyāvādī *sannyāsīs,* why He was not engaged in reading *Vedānta-sūtra* and why He was indulging in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra,* that in this age, Kali-yuga, *Vedānta-sūtra,* to study *Vedānta-sūtra* and to understand the purport of *Vedānta-sūtra,* is very difficult. It requires a very good Sanskrit scholarship. Although it is not very difficult to understand if it is taken by the *paramparā* system, but because people try to understand *Vedānta-sūtra* by scholastic demeanor, therefore it becomes difficult. It was discussed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. He was a very learned scholar. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya... [aside, about fan:] Make little curbed. [someone turns fan off] **Prabhupāda:** So the Māyāvādī *sannyāsīs* everywhere, they are very proud of their Sanskrit education. Sometimes people ask our students, "Whether you have learned Sanskrit?" But Kṛṣṇa consciousness understanding does not depend on Sanskrit scholarship. That is the teaching of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He said to the Māyāvādī *sannyāsī* Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī that "My Guru Mahārāja studied Me as a great fool." Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, presenting Himself. He was a learned scholar, undoubtedly, very learned scholar. In His youthful age He was known as Nimāi Paṇḍita. This *paṇḍita* title, especially the *brāhmaṇas* are given this *paṇḍita* title. But He was specifically known as Paṇḍita, Nimāi Paṇḍita, very good scholar. And He defeated the Keśava Kashmiri, a great, renowned scholar of Kashmir. The Kashmir country is mentioned in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* also. It is a very old country. And there were many learned scholars. And one scholar came to Navadvīpa to defeat the *paṇḍitas,* the learned scholars of Navadvīpa, but he was defeated by a young boy, Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Nimāi Paṇḍita was at that time only sixteen years old. But He defeated only in composition, Sanskrit composition. The Sanskrit composition, there is rules and regulation. So you know the story. He pointed out many defects in the verses composed by the Keśava Kashmiri. So he was defeated. So Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a great scholar. There is no doubt of it. But in spite of His becoming a great scholar, He is presenting Himself as a great fool. He says, "My Guru Mahārāja saw Me a great..." Even one is very great scholar, he has to abide by the decision of his spiritual master. Even one is very great scholar, and if his spiritual master says that "You are a great fool," he should accept it. This is called full surrender. For example, I'll give you a practical... My Guru Mahārāja was very great scholar, and his Guru Mahārāja, from literary point of view, he could not even sign his name, Gaura-kiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja. And Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura asked Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura to accept Gaura-kiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja as his..., as his spiritual master, that "You go and take your initiation from Gaura-kiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja." So he thought that "I am a great scholar, and I am son of a magistrate, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, and great Vaiṣṇava. He'll be very much pleased to accept me." Of course, he was very much pleased. But in the beginning he refused. He refused. Because... Of course, that is only show—he was not proud—just to teach us. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī explained that "I was little proud. So I was thrice refused by Guru Mahārāja," although he was the only disciple. --- **[[spoken/740313mw.vrn|Morning Walk — March 13, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** No? They want. There is regular business. In India also. In the hotels there are regular business to pick up college girls and enjoyed by the guest. So many things are going on on this basis of sinful activity—all over the world. So they become polluted, whole... population, then how they can expect good government? Some of them will take the charge of the government, and he's polluted. [pause] Indigestion. You know that? Indigestion. **Prabhupāda:** You have not digested your food. [break] Any carpenter working in... [break] The government was pleased to reply that they're maintaining themselves by selling literature. Similarly, if it comes to the notice of the government that we're maintaining ourselves by production of food, they'll like very much. **Devotee:** ...the society would go to the *gurukula*, and there it would be decided what their work would be? --- **[[spoken/750313mw.teh|Morning Walk — March 13, 1975, Tehran]]** *Rājarṣayaḥ,* it means the saintly kings. These... *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, in the Fourth Chapter, it is meant for the saintly kings, because if the king is saintly, and if he understands the philosophy of life, then he can turn the whole picture, you see. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Where is the palace? That is the palace? Ātreya **Ṛṣi:** There is some, yes. Iran has the richest copper mines, oil, richest oil, the second in the world, the... Ātreya **Ṛṣi:** Saudia Arabia. But we have gas, natural gas, the richest. It's so easy to take out this oil and gas. So easy, like..., easier than gold. --- **[[spoken/750313r1.teh|Room Conversation with Canadian Ambassador to Iran — March 13, 1975, Tehran]]** **Prabhupāda:** Oh, you are just like my child. My first child was born 1921. What is your birth date? **Prabhupāda:** In that year I was married. I was student at that time. I was student, 1900 up to '20. Then I joined Gandhi's noncooperation movement and gave up my education. His points were to give up English education, English court, English-manufactured goods, in this way. **Ambassador George:** That's what I wondered. I never met him. I don't know. But he said himself, "I may be a saint among politicians, but I'm a politician among saints." [laughs] --- **[[spoken/750313r2.teh|Room Conversation with Indian Guests — March 13, 1975, Tehran]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...meeting was very successful. You were present in Delhi? Very, very successful. All big, big men came, and they realized. We are going to have again that for two days. That is being arranged. **Prabhupāda:** And who is thinking in that way? We are thinking like that. [aside:] Keep it covered. [break] Dr. Ghora[?], you can say. The aim should be *saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam* [[sb/1/2/13|[SB. 1.2.13] ]]. But if we don't care for this proposition... They do not know what is God, neither we don't want to satisfy Him: "He may be satisfied or not satisfied. Let us go on with our business." *Boliye?* --- **[[spoken/750313sb.teh|SB 1.10.3-4 — March 13, 1975, Tehran]]** **Prabhupāda:** > kāmaṁ vavarṣa parjanyaḥ > sarva-kāma-dughā mahī > siṣicuḥ sma vrajān gāvaḥ > payasodhasvatīr mudā > [[sb/1/10/4|[SB. 1.10.4] ]] That how Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, he was unwilling to accept the kingdom because he thought that "For me, so many men have been killed in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra. So I am so sinful, I am not fit for the throne." But all the great personalities like Bhīṣmadeva, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Vyāsadeva, and all of them requested, "No, there is no fault of you. It was fight. It was right. So you can reign over." There it is said, *niśamya bhīṣmoktam athācyutoktaṁ pravṛtta-vijñāna-vidhūta-vibhramaḥ.* He understood that "When such great personalities are giving their opinion, that it was no wrong on my part," then he agreed. *Śaśāsa gām indra ivājitāśrayaḥ. Gām indra iva ajitāśrayaḥ:* Indra, the king of heaven. --- **[[spoken/760313mw.may|Morning Walk — March 13, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...to eat yourself, sufficiently, and if there is excess, then question of trade, *vāṇījyam.* Otherwise, if there is no excess, where is the question of *vāṇījya*? You are starving. [break] Then we shall. There is no excess. [break] ...will spoil everything everywhere. [break] "The government men will take up the policy of plunderers and rogues," that is stated. *Dasyu-dharma. Dasyu* means plunderer. He catches: "What you have got, give me." This will be government. "What you have got, give me." *Bās.* You cannot say anything. "Law." Plundering is law. Then where is your government? If killing is law, plundering is law, then what is this government? Government means to give security to the property and life. So when the government will make law, "I can take your life whenever I like, and I can plunder your property as I like," then where is the law? **Prabhupāda:** Yes, that is government. That is *kṣatriya. Kṣat trāyate iti kṣatriya. Kṣat* means injury, and one who gives protection from injury, he is *kṣatriya.* Just like Parīkṣit Mahārāja. As soon as he saw a cow is attempted..., immediately he said, "Who are you, rascal? You are trying to kill this cow in my kingdom?" That is *kṣatriya.* And nowadays, even if I kill you, the police will see from there; he'll not come. This is government. And when the finished killing, then he will say, "Who is this man?" He'll note down, "What is this? A man is killed." And then inquiry, and then finished. Who is the man killed and what is happened—nothing of the sort. Inquiry and finish. Big commission report. **Madhudviṣa:** They have made a survey in America. They have made a survey that nine out of every ten crimes never gets a victim. --- **[[spoken/760313sb.may|SB 7.9.35 — March 13, 1976, Māyāpur]]** Anantarām Śāstrījī**:* [chants *mantras*]*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat]* [chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond] 9.35, *7.9.35* [break]* **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:[chants synonyms; devotees respond] [05:14] Translation:** **"Lord Brahmā, who is celebrated as *ātma-yoni*, 'born without any mother,' became struck with wonder and could see only the lotus flower on which he was sitting. Thus, undergoing severe austerities for many hundreds of years, he became purified. At that time he could see in his own body the cause of all causes. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is spread all over his body and senses." --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/640313_appeal_to_vaisnava_sect.md|Letter to Appeal To Vaisnava Sect, 1964]] - [[../../letters/1968/680313_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690313_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700313_bali_mardan.md|Letter to Bali Mardan, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700313_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700313_sriman_bankaji.md|Letter to Sriman Bankaji, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700313_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710313_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1975/750313_dr._r.f._rao.md|Letter to Dr. R.F. Rao, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750313_manasvi.md|Letter to Manasvi, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1977/770313_bhagavat_asraya.md|Letter to Bhagavat Asraya, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770313_srila_prabhupada.md|Letter to Srila Prabhupada, 1977]]