# April 7 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[spoken/710407bg.bom|Bg 7.16 — April 7, 1971, Bombay]]** Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great movement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So we have been discussing yesterday that *na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ* [[bg/7/15|[Bg. 7.15] ]]. So miscreant, sinful life, cannot help us in making progress. That we have repeatedly discussed, that we have to refrain from sinful activities. As we have stated several times, *yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpam.* --- **[[spoken/710407le.bom|Pandal Lecture — April 7, 1971, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** > om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ --- **[[spoken/720407r1.mel|Room Conversation with Maharishi Impersonalists — April 7, 1972, Melbourne]]** **Prabhupāda:** You are all individuals. Every one of us is individual. So how you conceive of merging? Suppose, just like we are here—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. How we can merge? You just study philosophy. We are here, eight persons. How we can merge into one? Have you got any idea how we can merge? These eight persons, how we can merge into one? **Prabhupāda:** This realization... Now, there are five fingers—one, two, three, four, five. How they can merge into one? **Prabhupāda:** No. These are five fingers—one, two, three, four, five. So these... There are different, five fingers. How they can merge into one? What is the process? --- **[[spoken/730407sb.ny|SB 1.14.43 — April 7, 1973, New York]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] ...yourself; *sambhojyān*—deserving to dine together; *vṛddha*—the old men; *bālakān*—boys; *jugupsitam*—abominable; *karma*—action; *kiñcit*—something; *kṛtavān*—you must have done; *na*—not; *yat*—that which; *akṣamam*—unpardonable. --- **[[spoken/740407bg.bom|Bg 4.18 — April 7, 1974, Bombay]]** [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhup**ā**da has brief exchange in Hindi with Indian man while chanting is going on] **Translation:** "One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities." --- **[[spoken/740407mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 7, 1974, Bombay]]** **Girirāja:** [reading] "...want to die. It does not matter whether one is a young man or an old man. So before death takes place, we must be fully Kṛṣṇa conscious." [Kṛṣṇa Book] [break] **Yaśomatīnandana:** Because they don't believe anything that they cannot see with their gross senses. **Prabhupāda:** [chuckles] That is another foolishness. You cannot see in the sky so many things. Now this plane is going on. It may be unseen for some time. So that is the only reason? Because they cannot see? They cannot see milk? They have seen milk or not? --- **[[spoken/750407cc.may|Cc. Ādi 1.14 — April 7, 1975, Māyāpur]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. **O**ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "I offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is nondifferent from His features as a devotee, devotional incarnation, devotional manifestation, pure devotee and devotional energy." **Prabhupāda:** > pañca-tattvātmakaṁ kṛṣṇaṁ > bhakta-rūpa-svarūpakam > bhaktāvatāraṁ bhaktākhyaṁ > namāmi bhakta-śaktikam > [Cc Ādi1.14] --- **[[spoken/750407mw.may|Morning Walk — April 7, 1975, Māyāpur]]** **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** Money is nothing but paper, but with the paper I can buy food. So why is it that we say that money is nothing but paper? **Prabhupāda:** You belong to the cheaters' association. You are cheated, and you cheat others. So the whole world is the association of cheaters and cheated. That's all. Because you are cheated, you want to cheat others. **Devotee:** Sometimes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, they say well, if there is no God, then it doesn't matter what I do. But there is God, and He knows what I am going to do at every moment, then it doesn't matter what I do either. He knows what I am going to do, so what does it matter? I can do anything. --- **[[spoken/760407le.vrn|Lecture to Devotees — April 7, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** So since the beginning of this meeting the speakers were talking in Hindi, but these foreigners, they could not understand. But out of reverence they were sitting. So I have taken permission to give them the summary of the speeches spoken by the Vaiṣṇavas, especially by Śrīman Bhakti-dīpak Mahārāja. Bhakti-dīpak Mahārāja is disciple of my elder Godbrother, so naturally he is very affectionate to me especially. Sometimes we lived together, and we follow the same principles of philosophy. So his speech about vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhi, arcye viṣṇau-śilā-dhīr, this is very important. [*Padma-purāṇa*] Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted that *pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma* [*CB Antya-khaṇḍa* 4.126]. --- **[[../../spoken/1976/760407mw.vrn.md|Morning Walk in Raṅga Gardens — April 7, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/760407sb.vrn|SB 7.9.52 — April 7, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** Anantarām Śāstrījī*:* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat]* [chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond] [break] > śrī-bhagavān uvāca > prahlāda bhadra bhadraṁ te > prīto 'haṁ te asurottama > varaṁ vṛṇīṣva abhimataṁ > kāma-pūro 'smy ahaṁ nṛṇām > [[sb/7/9/52|[SB. 7.9.52] ]] **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:[chants synonyms; Prabhupāda and devotees respond] [break] [02:24] Translation:** **"The Supreme Personality of Godhead spoke: My dear Prahlāda, the most gentle and best of the family of the *asuras,* let there be all auspiciousness for you. I am very much pleased upon you. It is My pastime to fulfill the desires of all human beings. Therefore you can ask from Me any benediction that you desire to be fulfilled." **Prabhupāda:** > śrī-bhagavān uvāca > prahlāda bhadra bhadraṁ te > prīto 'haṁ te asurottama > varaṁ vṛṇīṣva abhimataṁ > kāma-pūro 'smy ahaṁ nṛṇām > [[sb/7/9/52|[SB. 7.9.52] ]] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670407_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1970/700407_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700407_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700407_sri_dhruva.md|Letter to Sri Dhruva, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710407_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720407_all_iskcon_temple_presidents.md|Letter to All Iskcon Temple Presidents, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730407_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740407_ajita.md|Letter to Ajita, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740407_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740407_puranjana.md|Letter to Puranjana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740407_raghunatha.md|Letter to Raghunatha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740407_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760407_vrindaban_chandra_de.md|Letter to Vrindaban Chandra De, 1976]]