# March 18 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/670318cc.sf|Cc. Ādi 7.149-171 — March 18, 1967, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...herein the explanation of *Vedānta-sūtra* from Caitanya Mahāprabhu [to] the Māyāvādī *sannyāsī* of Benares. There are two kinds of Māyāvādī. The word Māyāvādī is very significant. I saw yesterday in your *iṣṭagoṣṭhī* you have tried to understand what is this Māyāvāda. Māyāvādī means materialist. *Māyā:* this matter, the external energy, the inferior energy; and those who want to stick to this inferior energy, never mind what class of philosopher, what section of philosopher they belong, if their idea is only within the boundary of this material energy, they are called Māyāvādī. They have no information of the spiritual energy. They are called Māyāvādī. So chiefly the impersonalist and the void philosophers, they are called Māyāvādī, because they have no other information. They want to simply negate, nullify, but they have no positive information, they are called Māyāvādī. So the Śaṅkarites... Śaṅkarites, of course, they give positive information: *brahma satya jagan mithyā.* They say that this world is false and Brahman is reality. --- **[[spoken/680318sb.sf|SB 12.2.1 — March 18, 1968, San Francisco]]** ™aIzAuk( ovaAca tataêAnauid"naM DamaR: s\$atyaM zAAEcaM ºamaA d"yaA k(Alaena bailanaA r"Ajana, **Prabhupāda:** > tataś cānu-dinaṁ dharmaḥ > satyaṁ śaucaṁ kṣamā dayā > kālena balinā rājan > naṅkṣyaty āyur balaṁ smṛtiḥ > [[sb/12/2/1|[SB. 12.2.1] ]] Today we shall discuss about the prominent symptom of this age. This book, *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* was written... Not written; practically it was recorded. All Vedic literature, they are recorded from hearing, or tradition of... [break] ... five thousand years before, the statements of authorities, people could keep in mind without any book record. At that time the memory was so sharp that one could keep in his memory simply by once hearing from the spiritual master. There was no need of written book to consult. --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710318rc.bom.md|Room Conversation [partially recorded] — March 18, 1971, Bombay]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/710318sb.bom|SB 7.7.19-20 — March 18, 1971, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...vidvān ātmano lakṣaṇaiḥ paraiḥ > ahaṁ mamety asad-bhāvaṁ > [[sb/7/7/19-20|[SB. 7.7.19-20] ]] *Dehādau mohajaṁ tyajet* [[sb/7/7/2|[SB. 7.7.2] ]]. So Prahlāda Mahārāja is instructing his demon class friend. They are not demons, but they are sons of demons. Just like you are. [laughter] You are not demons, but you are sons of demons. [chuckles] Is it right? [laughs] But you have no more connection with your demon father. That's nice. So in some of these, I think *Back to Godhead* Number 40, Hayagrīva has written a very nice article, "Constitution of the Soul." It is very nicely written. So, demonic principle is they do not give stress on the soul. They are bodily conscious, that "I am this body." And as soon as one is such foolishly conceiving body as self, his activities will be demonic. --- **[[spoken/720318le.bom|Pandal Lecture — March 18, 1972, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is already there in the *Bhagavad-gītā* and *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* So in the morning we shall speak on the *Bhagavad-gītā* in Hindi, and in the evening we shall speak on the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* in English. Of course, in India there was no necessity of speaking in English, but at least once if I do not speak in English, all my disciples who have come from Europe and America, they will be bereft of hearing me. Therefore we have made this program: morning I shall speak in Hindi, and in the evening I shall speak in English. So *Śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇam*[[sb/12/13/18|[SB. 12.13.18] ]]. There are eighteen *Purāṇas.* Out of them, six *purāṇas* are meant for persons who are in *sattva-guṇa*. There are three qualities of the material nature. Some of us are in the modes of goodness, some of them are in the modes of passion, and some of them are in the modes of ignorance. So our Vedic literature... Śrī Vyāsadeva claims everyone. Not that simply persons who are in *sattva-guṇa*, or in the modes of goodness, they are eligible for going back to Godhead, back to home. We should remember this fact, that this human form of life is meant for going back to home, back to Godhead. That is the ultimate goal of life. This human form of life is not meant for working very hard like the animals. *Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke*, *kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujām ye* [[sb/5/5/1|[SB. 5.5.1] ]]. *Nāyaṁ deha*, this body, *nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke*. Every one of the living entities, they have taken this material form, and there are 8,400,000 species of forms. The best of the form is this human form. But this form of life is not meant for working so hard like an ass and gratifying the senses like the hogs and dogs. That is the injunction of the *śāstras*. --- **[[spoken/730318le.cal|Lecture — March 18, 1973, Calcutta]]** --- **[[spoken/740318mw.vrn|Morning Walk — March 18, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** They say... I spoke with one hotel man, and he says the cost of petrol is now three rupees, twenty-five paisa per liter. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Petrol now costs three rupees twenty-five per liter. That means about three or four times what it was previously. So people are not so much inclined. Since they have their business in the city, if they stay in Juhu... **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** ...they have to go all the way from Juhu into the city. It costs twenty-five rupees by taxi. --- **[[spoken/740318sb.vrn|SB 2.1.3 — March 18, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "The lifetime of such envious householders is passed at night either in sleeping or in sex indulgence, and in the daytime either in making money or maintaining family members." **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** So it's described that such is the life of such envious householders. So in previous verses householders were described: *gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām* [[sb/2/1/2|[SB. 2.1.2] ]]. So these *gṛhamedhīs,* they're described as being envious. And so this enviousness means that they do not accept that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme enjoyer. And because they do not accept this, they falsely think themselves to be the enjoyer. But this is not actually the position of the tiny living entities. Tiny living entities are described in *Bhagavad-gītā* as being *parā-prakṛti, prakṛti-viddhi me param* [[bg/7/5|[Bg. 7.5] ]]. --- **[[spoken/760318mw.may|Morning Walk — March 18, 1976, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** So why the moon is..., particularly rises from the eastern side? The moon, according to the... **Prabhupāda:** The moon is going round like this. So why the moon is rising from the eastern side? It is going around. Why it appears from the eastern side? **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** According to *Bhāgavatam,* the moon is not going around the earth. It is revolving around Mount Sumeru. Isn't it? --- **[[spoken/760318sb.may|SB 7.9.40 — March 18, 1976, Māyāpur]]** Anantarām Śāstrījī**: [chants *mantras*] > kṛṣṇaika-ceta mada-moha-vināśa-kārin > mad-dṛṣṭi-gocara prabho prabhupāda-svāmin > doṣā vivṛddhi-pariduṣita-manda-buddheḥ > sañcintayāmi caraṇau tava bhakti-hetoḥ [O lord, O Prabhupāda, may you always be the object of my vision. Only the name of Kṛṣṇa can destroy my pride and illusion. Although my mind and intelligence are contaminated by ever increasing faults and wicked inclinations, I meditate upon your lotus feet in causeless devotion.] *ahaṁ jīvo vedmi nābhaṁ śarīraṁ karṇetā bhavata pādareṇu sāṁsārika māyayā līlā deho nadīṁ mayaṁ paratum icchāmi deva. * *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat]Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam*, 7.9.40 [chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond] [break] > jihvā ekato acyuta vikarṣati māvitṛptā > śiśno 'nyatas tvag-udaraṁ śravaṇaṁ kutaścit > ghrāṇo anyataś capala-dṛk kva ca karma-śaktir > bahvyaḥ sapatnya iva geha-patiṁ lunanti > [SB7.9.40] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1966/660318_sir_padampat_singhania.md|Letter to Sir Padampat Singhania, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1966/660318_sumati_morarjee.md|Letter to Sumati Morarjee, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1967/670318_nripen_babu.md|Letter to Nripen Babu, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680318_devananda.md|Letter to Devananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680318_michael.md|Letter to Michael, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690318_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690318_himavati.md|Letter to Himavati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690318_hrsikesa.md|Letter to Hrsikesa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690318_nandakisora.md|Letter to Nandakisora, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690318_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700318_manager_of_bank_of_baroda_m._m._de.md|Letter to Manager Of Bank Of Baroda M. M. De, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710318_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710318_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/740318_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740318_uttamasloka.md|Letter to Uttamasloka, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750318_gandharva.md|Letter to Gandharva, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750318_hanuman.md|Letter to Hanuman, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750318_lalana.md|Letter to Lalana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750318_narayana.md|Letter to Narayana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750318_naveen_khurana_margaret_khurana.md|Letter to Naveen Khurana Margaret Khurana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750318_supriya.md|Letter to Supriya, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760318_sri_s.r._acarya.md|Letter to Sri S.R. Acarya, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760318_sri_triloki_natha_acarya.md|Letter to Sri Triloki Natha Acarya, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770318_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770318_hari-sauri.md|Letter to Hari-Sauri, 1977]]