# April 15 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660415bg.ny|Bg 2.55-58 — April 15, 1966, New York]]** All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. *Gaura-Premanandi. Hari Haribol.* How we shall know that one is situated in the pure consciousness? Simple imagination that "I am situated in pure consciousness"? No. Everything must be proved by symptoms. Everything must be proved by symptoms. Just like a patient is cured means there is subsidence of the fever, for example; similarly, the..., we are just trying to separate ourself from the material conception of life to our exact position. I am spirit soul, and consciousness is the symptom. And I have to be situated in pure consciousness, dovetailing myself with the supreme consciousness. That is the whole program. Now, how that program are to be executed, that will be discussed in the Third Chapter. And some way or other, we are discussing some of the points. But here the formulas... --- **[[spoken/720415bg.auc|Bg 7.1, Public Lecture — April 15, 1972, Auckland]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha > yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ > asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ > yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu > [[bg/7/1|[Bg. 7.1] ]] Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to thank you for giving us the opportunity to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness in this meeting. So this is the essence of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, this verse spoken by Kṛṣṇa Himself. *Bhagavad-gītā* is spoken by Kṛṣṇa Himself, and we are preaching *kṛṣṇa-kathā,* the words, the message of Kṛṣṇa, as it is, without any wrong interpretation. Our beloved student Śrīmān Hanumān Gosvāmī has already given some introduction about our movement. Lord Caitanya, five hundred years ago, ordered it. Lord Caitanya is accepted as Kṛṣṇa Himself in the form of a devotee. Kṛṣṇa, when He was personally present, He stressed that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. *Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya* [[bg/7/7|[Bg. 7.7] ]]. --- **[[spoken/720415di.auc|Deity Installation — April 15, 1972, Auckland]]** --- **[[spoken/730415sb.la|SB 1.8.23 — April 15, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Pradyumna:** *yathā*—as it were; *hṛṣīkeśa*—the master of the senses; *khalena*—by the envious; *devakī*—Devakī (the mother of Śrī Kṛṣṇa); *kaṁsena*—by King Kaṁsa; *ruddhā*—imprisoned; *ati-ciram*—for a long time; *śuca-arpitā*—distressed; *vimocitā*—released; *aham ca*—also myself; *saha-ātma-jā*—along with my children; *vibho*—O great one; *tvayā eva*—by Your Lordship; *nāthena*—as the protector; *muhuḥ*—constantly; *vipat-gaṇāt*—series of dangers. --- **[[spoken/740415bg.bom|Bg 4.26 — April 15, 1974, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Some of them sacrifice the hearing process and the senses in the fire of the controlled mind, and others sacrifice the objects of the senses, such as sound, in the fire of sacrifice."* [[bg/4/26|[Bg. 4.26] ]] **Pradyumna:** "The four divisions of human life, namely the *brahmacārī,* the *gṛhastha,* the *vānaprastha* and *sannyāsī,* are all meant to help men become perfect *yogīs,* or transcendentalists. Since human life is not meant for our enjoying sense gratification like the animals, the four orders of human life are so arranged that one may become perfect in spiritual life. The *brahmacārīs,* or students under the care of a bona fide spiritual master, control the mind by abstaining from sense gratification. They are referred to in this verse as sacrificing the hearing process and the senses in the fire of the controlled mind. A *brahmacārī* hears only words concerning Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Hearing is the basic principle for understanding, and therefore the pure *brahmacārī* engages fully in *harer nāmānukīrtanam—*chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord. He restrains himself from the vibrations of material sounds, and his hearing is engaged in the transcendental sound vibration Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, the householders, who have some license for sense gratification, perform such acts with great restraint. Sex life, intoxication and meat-eating are general tendencies of human society, but a regulated householder does not indulge in unrestricted sex life and other sense gratification. Marriage on principles of religious life is therefore current in all civilized human society because that is the way for restricted sex life. This restricted, unattached sex life is also a kind of *yajña* because the restricted householder sacrifices his general tendency towards sense gratification for higher, transcendental life." --- **[[spoken/750415sb.hyd|SB 5.5.3 — April 15, 1975, Hyderabad]]** We have described about *mahat, mahat-sevāṁ, mahātmā. Mahātmā,* their..., description of their quality, So we have tried to explain the symptoms of *mahātmā.* Everything should be taken from the standard *śāstra*. Then human society will be helped. *Śāstra* means which is faultless. In the general behavior, we conditioned soul, we have got four defects. One defect is that however I or you may be great by the estimation of the modern society, we commit mistake, calculation mistake. That is one defect. Another mis... Another defect is that we are sometimes illusioned—we accept something in place of something else. Just like generally we accept this body as my self. But this is illusion. I am not this body; I am spirit soul. And on the basis of this false understanding we commit so many mistakes. --- **[[spoken/760415mw.bom|Morning Walk — April 15, 1976, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** Sushil Kumar. He went to San Francisco. He met me there. [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. So he has come back, so I inquired what is the result of his preaching. **Prabhupāda:** He said that he has converted one million persons to be vegetarian. So vegetarian..., automatically our disciples, they are automatically vegetarian. There is no separate preaching. But what about the... He was talking about the *ahiṁsā.* And I told that vegetarian does not mean *ahiṁsā.* **Dr. Patel:** The *ahiṁsā* should be practiced by *manasā vācā* and *karmanā.* [mind, words and action] --- **[[spoken/760415sb.bom|SB 7.12.4 — April 15, 1976, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [chants verse; chants synonyms; devotees respond] **Translation:** "The *brahmacārī* should carry in the hand pure *kuśa* grass, dressing himself regularly with a belt of straw, a deerskin garment, a bunch of hair, a staff and waterpot, as well as the sacred thread." --- **[[spoken/770415r1.bom|Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda M.P. “Nationalism and Cheating” — April 15, 1977, Bombay]]** **Girirāja:** Well, I suggested that he should have it in Vṛndāvana, and the delegates can stay in our guesthouse. So he liked the idea. **Girirāja:** Well, I think after a few months. I mean, this is just preliminary planning. One thing is, he does have a lot of faith in your words. I mean, he doesn't understand very much about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but... Like he wanted to know what you thought was coming in the future, so I told him that you had predicted that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement would become stronger and stronger and that people would again become God conscious and so on. And he was really hanging on each word. He was very concerned. So then I said... **Prabhupāda:** No, sentimentally, old man, pious man, everyone should care. But actually what he's done? --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/610415_mr._genxo_abe.md|Letter to Mr. Genxo Abe, 1961]] - [[../../letters/1967/670415_sri_krishna_panditji.md|Letter to Sri Krishna Panditji, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1970/700415_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720415_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720415_citsukhananda.md|Letter to Citsukhananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720415_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720415_ujjal.md|Letter to Ujjal, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720415_unknown.md|Letter to Unknown, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1975/750415_joy_deb_mullick.md|Letter to Joy Deb Mullick, 1975]]