# April 13 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690413sb.ny|SB 11.3.21 — April 13, 1969, New York]]** tasmaAṬ"śM& 'apaāeta ijaÁaAs\$au: ™aeya oÔamama, zAAbde" pare" ca inaSNAAtaM **Prabhupāda:** Begin. [*kīrtana*] --- **[[spoken/730413ar.la|Arrival Lecture — April 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** [leads singing of *Jaya rādhā-mādhava*] [*prema-dhvani* prayers] Thank you very much. **Prabhupāda:** So I am very glad to see you again. And especially to see Śrīman Rādhā-Mādhava, Gaura-Nitāi is being worshiped nicely. Thank you very much. So my traveling was in India, Australia, New Zealand. I was to go to Africa also, but I could not go. Everywhere our International Society members are worshiping very nicely. In Australia—Sydney, Melbourne—Deity worship is going on very nicely. Similarly in New Zealand, Auckland. They have also purchased one house, and worship is going on nicely. New York, they are also doing very nicely, and you are also doing very nicely. [chuckles] Perhaps you are still going ahead. [laughs] Yes. --- **[[spoken/730413sb.ny|SB 1.8.21 — April 13, 1973, New York]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devakī, the boy of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vṛndāvana, and the enlivener of the cows and senses." *[**SB* 1.8.21] **Prabhupāda:** So in the beginning Kuntīdevī said that *namasye puruṣaṁ tvādyam īśvaraṁ prakṛteḥ param* *[[sb/1/8/18|[SB. 1.8.18] ]]: "I offer my obeisances unto the person, *puruṣam,* who is *prakṛteḥ param,* who is beyond this material manifestation." Kṛṣṇa is complete spirit soul, Supersoul. He has no material body. So in the beginning Kuntīdevī gave us this understanding that God, the supreme *puruṣa. Puruṣa* means person. He's not imperson. *Puruṣa.* But He's not a *puruṣa* of this material world, not a personality of this material creation. That is to be understood. The impersonalists cannot accommodate in their poor fund of knowledge how the Supreme Absolute Truth can become a person, because whenever they think of person they think of a person of this material world. That is their defect. So they have poor fund of knowledge. Why God should be a person of this material world? So that was cleared in the beginning. *Prakṛteḥ param:* beyond this material creation, but He is a person. --- **[[spoken/740413bg.bom|Bg 4.24 — April 13, 1974, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna**: ...because of his full contribution to spiritual activities in which the consummation is absolute and that which is offered is of the same spiritual nature. **Prabhupāda:** > brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir > brahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam > brahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ > brahma-karma-samādhinā > [[bg/4/24|[Bg. 4.24] ]] This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, *sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma* [*Chāndogya Upaniṣad* 3.14.1]. Actually, there is nothing as material. Because the energy and the energetic, there is a verse in *Viṣṇu Purāṇa*. --- **[[spoken/740413mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 13, 1974, Bombay]]** [break] ...must have undergone severe austerities and penances and developed his spiritual consciousness. Then he can be priest. Not any man with a sacred thread and *ghaṇṭā,* belling, become a priest. [break] ...priestly class, all rotten class. In Christian world also—drunkards, nonsense, woman-hunters, and they are priests. So also in India. Any man with a two-paisa-worth sacred thread, he becomes a *brāhmaṇa* and priest. How the people will be guided? The priest... The exact Sanskrit name is *puro-hita,* who can actually... **Prabhupāda:** No, not *puru-bhāga. Pura,* yes; *pura-bhāga,* for welfare. By his advice... Just like Gargamuni is called for the advice, future of the child. **Prabhupāda:** Ah, *hita-kārtṛkā[?]* [break] ...vacate his chair to receive a *brāhmaṇa,* a *puro-hita.* Just like Sudāmā Vipra went to Dvārakā. He was poor man, but he was *brāhmaṇa.* Immediately Kṛṣṇa left His..., offered His chair. Yes. And Rukmiṇī began to fan him. So much respect. Where is that respectful person? [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. --- **[[spoken/750413sb.hyd|SB 5.5.2 — April 13, 1975, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes > tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam > [[sb/5/5/2|[SB. 5.5.2] ]] For two days we have explained *mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimukteḥ.* People have forgotten at the present moment what is the meaning of *mukti.* They do not know practically. *Mukti* means the..., to get out of the clutches of the stringent material laws. That is called *mukti.* We are at the present moment conditioned, so many conditions. So *mukti* means to live without condition. That is called *mukti.* The *mukti* definition is given in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: muktir sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ. Muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ* [[sb/2/10/6|[SB. 2.10.6] ]]. This is called *mukti.* We are not in the *svarūpa. Svarūpa* means spiritual form. That is called *svarūpa.* At the present moment, our material conditional body, that is not *svarūpa.* Last night I tried to explain, *svarūpa* means *sac-cid-ānanda-rūpa.* That is *svarūpa—*eternal, blissful life of knowledge. This is not *svarūpa.* This body is not eternal, neither it is blissful. It is full of miseries and without any knowledge. So this is not *svarūpa. Svarūpa* means eternal life, blissful life, and full of knowledge. That is called *svarūpa.* --- **[[spoken/760413mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 13, 1976, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** We have already constructed for our residential quarters. That is already there, very big. Such a big building is not there in that district. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Actually, Prabhupāda is doing everything. We are simply like puppets. He tells us what to do. Indian man (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda? The temple in Bombay, what you are constructing, the gate only going to be like another Indian temples, only gates. They look like a bigger temple. --- **[[spoken/760413sb.bom|SB 7.12.2 — April 13, 1976, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [chants verse; devotees respond] Also there is reading *samāhitaḥ. Japan brahma samāhitaḥ* or *japan brahma sanātanam?* [continues leading chanting of verse, using *sanātanam*] [break] **Translation:** "At both the junction of day and night, namely early in the morning and in the evening, one should be fully absorbed in the thought of the spiritual master, fire, the sun-god and Lord Viṣṇu, and by chanting the Gāyatrī *mantra* one should worship them." --- **[[spoken/770413r1.bom|Room Conversation — April 13, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** Now you have to do so many things. [laughs] Again, another burden. You have to do all these things. So how your preaching? **Girirāja:** Very good. Haridāsa had gone to Poona, and in two days he made four Life Members, and he was getting a chance to meet some big people, so he asked me to come. It was very nice. I met one young man, about thirty years old. He's one of the nicest men I've met in a long time. He really agreed with everything we were saying, and he's... **Girirāja:** Well, he agreed that the modern civilization is a failure and that people are not happy, that people were more happy before. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670413_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680413_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680413_yadunandana.md|Letter to Yadunandana, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690413_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690413_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_dinesh_candra_krsna_devi.md|Letter to Dinesh Candra Krsna Devi, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_tulsi_bhakta_dasa_pat_sandy_bill_geoffrey_terry.md|Letter to Tulsi Bhakta Dasa Pat Sandy Bill Geoffrey Terry, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710413_vrindaban_candra.md|Letter to Vrindaban Candra, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/740413_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740413_bhakta_dasa.md|Letter to Bhakta Dasa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740413_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740413_vrindaban.md|Letter to Vrindaban, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760413_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760413_madhava_sharnaji.md|Letter to Madhava Sharnaji, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760413_smt._sri_sadajiwatlal_chandulal_bahl.md|Letter to Smt. Sri Sadajiwatlal Chandulal Bahl, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760413_vrindaban_chandra_de.md|Letter to Vrindaban Chandra De, 1976]]