# March 31 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690331sb.sf|SB 7.6.9-17 — March 31, 1969, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ko gṛheṣu pumān saktam > ātmānam ajitendriyaḥ > sneha-pāśair dṛḍhair baddham > utsaheta vimocitum > [[sb/7/6/9|[SB. 7.6.9] ]] --- **[[spoken/710331le.bom|Pandal Lecture — March 31, 1971, Bombay]]** **Śyāmasundara**: Would everyone kindly, at this time, be seated. Please move back and sit down, everyone, please. Thank you. Please, everyone sit down. Everyone would like to hear the transcendental words of His Divine Grace. Those who are standing are blocking the way of at least five other people. All of those who are sitting, move back, please move back, so everyone can see and hear His Divine Grace. Please. Everyone be seated, all of these people. --- **[[spoken/740331bg.bom|Bg 4.11 — March 31, 1974, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] **Translation:** All of them—as they surrender unto Me—I reward accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā. --- **[[spoken/740331mw.bom|Morning Walk — March 31, 1974, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** ... your attachment. And that is also stated in the Fourth..., *vīta-rāga-bhaya...* [**Bg* 2.56] Man-mayā mad-āśrayaḥ...* **Prabhupāda:** So this is the process. If you want to know God—Kṛṣṇa means God—then this is the process. What is that? *Mayy āsakta.* **Prabhupāda:** This is *yoga* practice also. *Yoga. Yoga* means to concentrate the mind on a subject matter. So we should meditate upon Kṛṣṇa. *Mayy āsakta.* Then gradually you'll increase your attachment for Kṛṣṇa. And that is the perfection of life. The perfection of life, the symbol is in Vṛndāvana. Because all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, they were very, very much attached to Kṛṣṇa. --- **[[spoken/750331cc.may|Cc. Ādi 1.7 — March 31, 1975, Māyāpur]]** **Nitāi:** "May Śrī Nityānanda Rāma be the object of my constant remembrance. Saṅkarṣaṇa, Śeṣa Nāga and the Viṣṇus who lie on the Kāraṇa Ocean, the Garbha Ocean and ocean of milk are His plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions." **Prabhupāda:** > saṅkarṣaṇaḥ kāraṇa-toya-śāyī > garbhoda-śāyī ca payobdhi-śāyī, > śeṣaś ca yasyāṁśa-kalāḥ sa nityā- > nandākhya-rāmaḥ śaraṇaṁ mamāstu > [Cc Ādi1.7] So Kavirāja Gosvāmī, after offering his respectful obeisances to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and describing the purpose of His incarnation, he is now trying to describe Nityānanda. *Śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda.* Pañca-tattva, one after another... First of all Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, then Nityānanda Prabhu, then Advaita Prabhu, then Gadādhara, and then *śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda.* He is summarizing the obeisances to the Pañca-tattva. Now, what is the identification of Nityānandākhya-Rāma? Rāma, Balarāma, and Baladeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa—there are so many names of Śrī Baladeva. In the *Upaniṣad* it is said, *nāyam ātmā bala-hīnena labhyo* [*Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad* 3.2.4]: "Self-realization is not possible without being strengthened by the mercy of Balarāma." Sometimes they take it foolishly, that "Without being very strong bodily, nobody can realize self." But that is not the fact. *Nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhya na medhayā na bahunā śrutena* [*Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad* 3.2.3]. This is the Vedic injunction. That *bala-hīnena* means without being favored by Nityānanda Prabhu, Balarāma. --- **[[spoken/750331r1.may|Conversation with Devotees — March 31, 1975, Māyāpur]]** **Acyutānanda:** ...stuff His ears up when anyone would refer to Him as God. He wants to be known as a devotee. But we worship Him as God, in the same line as Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. **Prabhupāda:** That is a warning to the future fools and rascals that even God does not like to be addressed as God, but we address Him as God on the strength of *śāstra. Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣā kṛṣṇaṁ saṅgo-paṅgastra..., yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ* [[sb/11/5/32|[SB. 11.5.32] ]]. Here is the incarnation of God. That is... *Śāstra* says. So out of His humbleness, He may say like that, but we should know by following the *ācāryas,* by *śāstra. Sādhu-śāstra-guru vākya.* *Guru* accepts Him God; *śāstra* accepts Him God; *sādhu* accepts Him God. **Acyutānanda:** The people say that just like Ramakrishna, the disciples presented him as God, but he never said he was God. --- **[[spoken/760331sb.vrn|SB 7.5.23-24 — March 31, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** So our **Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma temple **is known as *aṅgrej kā* temple. It is full with *aṅgrej* men. * [pause] **Prabhupāda:** > śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ > smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam > arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ > sakhyam ātma-nivedanam --- **[[spoken/770331r1.bom|Room Conversation — March 31, 1977, Bombay]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** So Śrīla Prabhupāda, generally visitors will not come up here, right? Because now that Girirāja is here, if you can explain to him what, you know, the policy as it should be... **Prabhupāda:** No, I shall go daily in the morning. At seven. And I'll stay there half an hour or more than half an hour. **Prabhupāda:** Those who are visitors, they can see me. And for lecturing, on Sunday I shall lecture. You can fix up time, which time. But Sunday I shall speak from *Bhāgavatam.* This is general program. And if it is required some special, that is another thing. So what is the use of inviting visitors here? --- **[[spoken/770331r2.bom|Room Conversation [partially recorded] — March 31, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...and bangle, and *tink-tink-tink.* Then he took away another bangle, again *tink-tink-tink.* Another bangle, again *tink-tink-tink.* When there was only one, there was no *tink-tink-tink.* **Prabhupāda:** So remain always one and read books. Then there will be no noise. And as soon as you become two, *tink-tink-tink.* That I don't want. **Prabhupāda:** And we shall arrange for seeing our own men, at a time. That we shall see. But it should be... The principle should be silence. Then it will be all right. I will be free to work. --- **[[spoken/770331r3.bom|Room Conversation with Scientists, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Dr. Sharma — March 31, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** Here Jagannātha Svāmī is the same. So it is desired that the Svāmī should be in a very nicer place, that there is no deridation of the Svāmī, the exaltation of the Svāmī. So therefore the rascal does not know what is analogy. Analogy does not mean dissimilar. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Svāmī is the same. If I speak to my *svāmī,* husband, "Kindly you come to this better seat," there is no deridation. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** No. You are not putting yourself on that higher seat. You are putting Lord Jagannātha there. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/610331_brijratanji.md|Letter to Brijratanji, 1961]] - [[../../letters/pre-1966/610331_m.m._malhotra.md|Letter to M.M. Malhotra, 1961]] - [[../../letters/pre-1966/610331_scindia_steam_navigation_company_ltd.md|Letter to Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd, 1961]] - [[../../letters/1971/710331_rameswar_dayalaji_birla.md|Letter to Rameswar Dayalaji Birla, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730331_kaliya_krsna.md|Letter to Kaliya Krsna, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730331_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740331_jayatirtha.md|Letter to Jayatirtha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1977/770331_edward.md|Letter to Edward, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770331_lilavati.md|Letter to Lilavati, 1977]]