# April 12 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/660412bg.ny.md|Bg 2.51-55 — April 12, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/690412le.ny|Lecture [partially recorded] — April 12, 1969, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** We are teaching people how to love God. It is not our proposition that you are Christian, you become Hindu, or you are Muhammadan, you become Christian, increase our numerical strength. We don't want. We don't want any numerical strength. We want one sincere person who has learned to love God, Kṛṣṇa. That's all. I have come to your country with this mission, and if I find one or two boys or girls sincerely have learned how to love God, Kṛṣṇa, then my mission is successful. I'm not after any number of... Because if I can turn one soul to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he'll do tremendous work, because he'll be fire. You see? He can do tremendous work. *Ekaś candras tamo hanti na ca* *tārāḥ sahasraśaḥ* [*Niti-Śāstra* 4.6]. One moon is complete to drive away the darkness of night. Not millions of stars required. What these millions of stars can do? One moon is sufficient. So our propaganda is to create one moon. You see? --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690412rc.ny.md|Room Conversation — April 12, 1969, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/730412sb.ny|SB 1.8.20 — April 12, 1973, New York]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Pradyumna: Translation:** **"You Yourself descend to propagate the transcendental science of devotional service unto the hearts of the advanced transcendentalists and material speculators who are purified by being able to discriminate between matter and spirit. How then can we women know You perfectly?" --- **[[spoken/740412bg.bom|Bg 4.23 — April 12, 1974, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] **Translation:** "The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence." --- **[[spoken/740412mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 12, 1974, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** [indistinct] ...but in different ways. *Mama vartmānuvartante manuṣyāḥ pārtha... Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham* [[bg/4/11|[Bg. 4.11] ]]. So proportionately they realize the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, in a different way. But He advises that "Why don't you take the direct way?" Therefore He says at the last chapter, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja* [[bg/18/66|[Bg. 18.66] ]]: "Directly become Kṛṣṇa conscious." **Dr. Ghosh:** That doesn't need any *pūjā,* then. Just take His *śaraṇa* and everything will be okay? **Prabhupāda:** No, necessary, necessary, necessary, because *mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja.* That is the path of *bhakti.* It is also confirmed, *bhaktyā mām abhijānāti* [[bg/18/55|[Bg. 18.55] ]]. --- **[[spoken/750412r1.hyd|Conversation with Indian Guests — April 12, 1975, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** *...nānyat. Na anyat.* [[bg/7/7|[Bg. 7.7] ]] So this is going on. And where is surrender? If you don't believe in Kṛṣṇa, don't surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then what is the meaning of this surrender? This is going on. Our..., one Swāmījī, is there in Bombay, Chinmayananda. He is a big speaker in *Bhagavad-gītā,* and he has constructed temple—Śiva-liṅga, the genital of Lord Śiva. Just see. **Mahāṁsa:** He said he has translated... His interpretation of Kṛṣṇa is that this "*Kṛṣṇa* means black. Black is ignorance. So Kṛṣṇa is ignorance." **Indian man (1):** I think one of the best persons in Madras who is translating the *Prita-Gītā* [?], isn't it? Chinmayananda Swami. --- **[[spoken/750412r2.hyd|Room Conversation — April 12, 1975, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...any language, you should submit, and you should feel that, that "I am worthless. My Guru Mahārāja has given this chance to serve Kṛṣṇa, to offer Kṛṣṇa... My Lord, I am worthless. I have no capacity to serve You. But on the order of my Guru Mahārāja, I am trying to serve You. Please do not take any offense. Accept whatever I can do. That's all. That is *mantra*." That *mantra* is sufficient. Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā, yo me bhaktyā prayacchati* [**Bg* 9.26*]. Kṛṣṇa never said that "One who offers Me with Sanskrit *mantra." Yo me bhaktyā prayacchati.* Real thing is *bhakti,* feeling: "How to serve Kṛṣṇa? How to please Him?" That is wanted. Not to see that you are a very good scholar in speaking in Sanskrit or English or... That is not... Always feel that "I am worthless, but I have been, by the grace of my Guru Mahārāja, I have been given the chance. So kindly accept whatever little service I can give. I am offensive. So kindly excuse me." In this way be humble, meek, and offer your feeling, and Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied. Not that you have to show how you can speak in Sanskrit language. **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. Yes, be like that. Become lower than the grass. Try to learn to tolerate. He didn't cooperate, didn't do this, didn't do that. That's all nonsense. Let them do whatever they are doing. I am doing what my *Gurudeva* has said. Whatever they are doing or not doing is not my concern. Unless you develop this kind of mentality you will not have peace. And if you whimsically think he didn't do this for me, didn't do that for me then you will never get peace.] So you, for the time being, engage. See that the Hindi publication is done very nice. --- **[[spoken/750412r3.hyd|Room Conversation — April 12, 1975, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...they are killing people. And for the last two thousand years, they could not change that policy. And they are claiming "civilized." They could not follow Jesus Christ's instruction. It is two thousand years. And they are maintaining slaughterhouse. Hmm? What do you think? **Devotee (2):** Yes. If **Kṛṣṇa**'s the Supreme Personality of Godhead, why is there Jesus Christ, Muhammad and so on, not only **Kṛṣṇa? **Prabhupāda:** They are so sinful, they could not understand. Therefore it was not spoken. As somewhere Christ has said that "I had to say many things, but I do not say now." What is that? --- **[[spoken/750412sb.hyd|SB 5.5.2 — April 12, 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] ]] So the first proposal was that this human form of life is not to be wasted like cats and dogs. This is the first proposal by Ṛṣabha. He was advising His sons, "My dear boys, don't waste your this valuable life like cats and dogs and hogs." This was the first proposal. Actually, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness our life is no better than the dogs' and hogs'. That's a fact. That is the beginning of this instruction, *nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛ-loke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujaṁ ye* [[sb/5/5/1|[SB. 5.5.1] ]]. The dogs and hogs, they will toil whole day and night for eating purposes and sense gratification. Why the human society should be like that? So these things can be learned by *mahat-sevā.* Therefore this Vedic civilization is that first of all send the children for *mahat-sevā, brahmacārī. Mahat-sevā,* that is the essential part of human life. *Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet samit-pāṇiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham* [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad* 1.2.12].* --- **[[spoken/760412mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 12, 1976, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Yes. Purchasing flower means they are being cheated. That's all. All third-grade flowers are supplied. **Dr. Patel:** But this and that plot, these two plots are actually meant by you for growing flowers. I don't know what they're doing. They are growing ornamental plants but not flowering plants. **Gurudāsa:** So that piece of land is not exactly on the *parikramā* but off the *parikramā.* It's not so far from our property. You know the big park near Singhania's place? --- **[[spoken/760412sb.bom|SB 7.12.1 — April 12, 1976, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [chants verse; devotees respond] [break] **Translation:** "Nārada Muni continued to speak that the student should completely practice how to control the senses, be submissive. Firmly in friendly attitude upon the spiritual master, with great vow, the *brahmacārī* should live at *gurukula* only for the benefit of the *guru*." --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/640412_mangalanand_goutam.md|Letter to Mangalanand Goutam, 1964]] - [[../../letters/1967/670412_janardana.md|Letter to Janardana, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670412_mr._dambergs_senior.md|Letter to Mr. Dambergs Senior, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670412_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680412_dayananda.md|Letter to Dayananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680412_sir_mittra_united_shipping_corporation.md|Letter to Sir Mittra United Shipping Corporation, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690412_dr._syama_sundar.md|Letter to Dr. Syama Sundar, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700412_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700412_unknown.md|Letter to Unknown, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720412_anuttama.md|Letter to Anuttama, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720412_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720412_niranjana.md|Letter to Niranjana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730412_ajitananda_purvacitti.md|Letter to Ajitananda Purvacitti, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730412_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730412_kirtiraja_haripuja.md|Letter to Kirtiraja Haripuja, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1977/770412_nityananda.md|Letter to Nityananda, 1977]]