# April 11 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690411le.ny.md|Lecture [partially recorded] — April 11, 1969, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690411rc.ny.md|Room Conversation — April 11, 1969, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/710411le.bom|Pandal Lecture — April 11, 1971, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam > sādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ > śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kindly participating in today's meeting. And we are known practically all over the world as the Hare Kṛṣṇa people. Wherever we go, they immediately recognize us as the Hare Kṛṣṇa people. So I'll try to speak something about this Hare Kṛṣṇa people. This Hare Kṛṣṇa people means... Since I started this movement in 1967 in New York, very..., in a small scale... In the beginning... I went there in 1965, and for one year I had no shelter, neither any means to maintain myself. I had some books only, *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* and some way or other, I pulled on. --- **[[spoken/730411bg.ny|Bg 2.13 — April 11, 1973, New York]]** So this is a statement by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, *bhagavān uvāca,* that you are not this body. The first instruction for spiritual understanding is to know that "I am not this body." This is the beginning. The so-called *yogīs,* they are exercising the body, studying the psychology of the mind by charts, by so many humbugs. But our philosophy: that we are not this body. Then where is the question of exercising the body and spiritual realization? If I am not this body, then how I can realize myself simply by some gymnastic process? So this is the mistake—the *karmīs,* *jñānīs* and the *yo*g*īs*. The *karmīs*, fruitive worker, materialistic person, they want bodily comforts. Their only idea is how to get the best comfort of this body. This body means the senses. We have got eyes, ears, nose, mouth, tongue, hands, genital—so many senses we have got. So as soon as we are in the bodily concept of life, immediately the necessity is for sense gratification. But Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna that "You are not this body." So therefore my self-interest does not depend on my bodily comforts. They do not know this. Everyone at the present moment, in this age, their only business is how to gratify the senses. The Western countries, they have got little information, but in India, there was cultivation of all kinds of philosophy. --- **[[spoken/740411bg.bom|Bg 4.22 — April 11, 1974, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] **Translation:** "He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady both in success and failure, is never entangled, although performing actions." --- **[[spoken/740411mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 11, 1974, Bombay]]** **Italian man (1):** Well, it is the most satisfying thing I have been reading up to now. I have been searching through the *Tibetan Books of the Dead,* but it wasn't enough, and this is beyond that. It is really, is complete, you know? **Italian man (1):** Oh, yes. Absolutely, absolutely. Yes, this is a... I have such a keen interest in going to see what the situation is, because I haven't been... [break] ...for Venice. **Italian man (1):** Yes. So it would be so fantastic to present them a platform of religion so lively. --- **[[spoken/750411sb.hyd|SB 5.5.2 — April 11, 1975, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes > tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam > mahāntas te sama-cittāḥ praśāntā > vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ sādhavo ye > [[sb/5/5/2|[SB. 5.5.2] ]] Last night we had discussion on the first verse, Fifth Chapter, Fifth Canto, *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* that this human life is meant for *tapasya. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam* [[sb/5/5/1|[SB. 5.5.1] ]]. We have to purify our existence. This is the mission of human life. At the present moment we are transmigrating from one body to another, and there are 8,400,000 species of life we are going through according to *karma. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur deha upapattaye* [[sb/3/31/1|[SB. 3.31.1] ]]. How we develop a certain type of body, that is stated—everything is stated in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam*—by our *karma.* I have explained last night, it is just like infection. We are associating with different types of the modes of material nature. Generally there are three types of material nature, three qualities: *sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa.* Now, you multiply these three by three: it becomes nine. And again you multiply nine by nine: it becomes eighty-one. It is mixture. Here these *guṇas,* the qualities, are not pure. They are mixed up. Just like color mixing. Originally there are three colors: red, yellow and blue. And you mix it... Those who are color expert, they can display many thousands of colors. So similarly, in the nature's way there are different colors or different *guṇas,* and every one of us, we have got a particular type of *guṇa* with different desires, different plans, different so many things. --- **[[spoken/770411r1.bom|Morning Conversation About Newspaper Articles — April 11, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...the flames. It was kept checked by these rascal leaders. Dr. Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo, this, that, nonsense, interpreting in a different way, Gandhi. It could not distribute its brilliance. Now it is being distributed to show the brilliance and the knowledge first of all. Is it not? **Prabhupāda:** I am confident this will go on, provided our men are following the process which I have given to them, following the rules and regulations, chanting. Books they have got sufficient already. Simply you have to repeat. You haven't got to manufacture. Any fool you are. Nobody can... **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Imagine if you would have had one..., that one *crore* of rupees from that Tirupati, Tirumala. Every month they have that money available. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1970/700411_acyutananda.md|Letter to Acyutananda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700411_rsi_kumara.md|Letter to Rsi Kumara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700411_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700411_shyama_dasi.md|Letter to Shyama Dasi, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700411_subala.md|Letter to Subala, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710411_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710411_damodara.md|Letter to Damodara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710411_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710411_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710411_krsnakanti.md|Letter to Krsnakanti, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710411_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720411_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730411_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730411_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730411_pusta_krsna.md|Letter to Pusta Krsna, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730411_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740411_adi-purusa.md|Letter to Adi-Purusa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740411_dayananda.md|Letter to Dayananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740411_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740411_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1974]]