# April 20 *Lectures from this day: 15 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720420le.tok|Lecture — April 20, 1972, Tokyo]]** Vaiṣṇava, devotees of the Lord, they are just like desire tree, *vāñchā-kalpataru.* Desire tree, of course, we have no experience, but there is description, in the spiritual world there are desire trees. *Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa* [Bs. 5.29]. It is called *kalpa-vṛkṣa.* So, --- **[[spoken/720420r1.hk|Room Conversation — April 20, 1972, Hong Kong]]** Gaura-Nitāi, these two brothers, Gaura and Nitāi. There are Pañca-tattva: Śrī Caitanya, Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa, five *tattvas.* So *rādhā kṛṣṇa bol bol, bolo re sobāi, ei śikhā diyā:* "This is the teaching of Lord Caitanya." And he says, *jay sakal bipod.* Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, the composer of this song, he says that "You get out of all kinds of dangers," *jay sakal bipod, gāi bhaktivinod, jakhon o nām gāi,* "if you simply take to chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra.*" And at last he says, *rādhā kṛṣṇa bolo sañge calo:* " 'Please cooperate with Me,' " Lord Caitanya says, " 'and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.' "*Ei mātra bhikhā:* "I am asking all this. I am begging." So our mission is like that. The same thing. We are asking people, without any argument or political purpose or social or... No. Simply we are asking that "You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." That's all. Wherever we are opening our branches, it is our only business that we are requesting people to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa or Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. We don't want anything. We don't want to do any business, but we are simply spreading this Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* because people are being washed away. --- **[[spoken/720420r1.tok|Arrival Conversation — April 20, 1972, Tokyo]]** **Devotee (1):** Śrīla Prabhupāda, there's some rice, there's some *rasagullās* and some fruit. We have some fruit and some vegetables. **Śyāmasundara:** You've got a nice little house down here. Just perfect. Your own house. Little kitchen is there, too. **Prabhupāda:** All right. We can prepare *kicharī.* So Karandhara Prabhu, how do you like this place? --- **[[spoken/720420sb.hk|SB 7.6.1 — April 20, 1972, Hong Kong]]** This is a verse spoken by Prahlāda Mahārāja, Prahlāda Mahārāja, when he was a five-years-old boy, like all these children. *Kaumāra. Kaumāra* age is called from five years to ten years. That is called *kaumāra.* So Prahlāda Mahārāja was born of an atheist father. The father was atheist number one, Hiraṇyakaśipu. He is described as *rākṣasa,* demon, like that. *Daitya. Daitya* means demon. There are two classes of men. One class is called *daitya* and the other class is called *devata. Dvau bhūta-sargau loke daiva āsura eva ca* [[bg/16/6|[Bg. 16.6] ]]. There are two classes of men, known as *daiva,* and another, *asura. Viṣṇu bhaktaḥ bhaved daiva āsuras tad viparyayaḥ.* Those who are devotees of the Lord, they are called *daiva* or *devata,* demigods. And those who are just the opposite number, they are called *daitya,* or demon. --- **[[spoken/730420mw.la|Morning Walk — April 20, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** So their conclusion is like that. Because they see that the insects are coming from the sand, so from matter, this life is coming. This is their logic. It is called, in Sanskrit, *taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya.* Everything is discussed. *Taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya.* You know *taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya?* **Prabhupāda:** Rice. And *vṛścika* means scorpion. The scorpion enter within the heaps of rice and lay their eggs. And by heat of the rice, they..., anothers baby *vṛścika* come out. And when they're coming out of the, that *taṇḍula,* rice, the rascals are thinking that the rice is begetting the *vṛścika.* They do not know the inner secrecy that another *vṛścika,* scorpion, has laid down the eggs within the rice, and by the fermentation of the heat of the rice, the eggs are fructified and the living entity's coming out. *Taṇḍula-vṛścika-nyāya.* **Prabhupāda:** They have got their food. Everyone is intelligent enough where to find out food, where to lie down. *Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya.* How to have sex. Everyone is intelligent. Even a small insect, the flies, I see at night they have sex. One fly after another. Everyone knows it. --- **[[spoken/730420sb.la|SB 1.8.28 — April 20, 1973, Los Angeles]]** [*prema-dhvāṇī* prayers] **Thank you very much. Hare** Kṛṣṇa.* [break]Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Pradyumna:** *manye*—I consider it; *tvām*—Your Lordship; *kālam*—the eternal time; *īśānam*—the Supreme Lord; *anādi-nidhanam*—without beginning and end; *vibhum*—all-pervading; *samam*—equally merciful; *carantam*—distributing; *sarvatra*—everywhere; *bhūtānām*—of the living beings; *yat mithaḥ*—by intercourse; *kaliḥ*—dissension. --- **[[spoken/740420bg.hyd|Bg 13.4 — April 20, 1974, Hyderabad]]** **Translation:** "Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are." --- **[[spoken/740420mw.hyd|Morning Walk — April 20, 1974, Hyderabad]]** **Mahāṁsa:** Yes, it is, meeting. Many Life Members came, Prabhupāda. There were many cows also. [break] **Prabhupāda:** No mangoes are hanging. [break] "Kṛṣṇa is everything" is little difficult for everyone, eh? They want hodgepodge—"Everything is all right." So has anybody offered some lump sum for the construction? **Mahāṁsa:** Not as yet, Prabhupāda. Actually, they are all waiting for Mr. Pithi to make his pledge. They have some kind of... These Marwaris... [break] --- **[[spoken/740420r1.hyd|Room Conversation — April 20, 1974, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** I can understand that he is not very favorable. But still, you said that we hate Hindi. You have said like that. Don't say like that, because there may be one... Because preaching means we have to preach amongst the rascals, but you do not become rascal. He may be... [break] ..."Who will read Hindi? You do not... Who will read Hindi? You can read Hindi, that's all. But who will read outside Hindi? Therefore, Guru Mahārāja..." This should have been the reply. "If there is good customers for Hindi reading, then we can write Hindi books. But nobody will read Hindi." That should have been the reply. Therefore we write in English. "Why Jawaharlal Nehru write his books in English? Why Dr. Radhakrishnan writes his books in English? He has not written a single book in Hindi. Why? Why he was president? Why he was prime minister? Why did you not criticize him?" That should have been replied, that "As soon as a book is written in English, it is for world reading. And if it is written in Hindi, who is going to read except a few people like you? Why still, Indians, they are sending their children for education through English?" You know that? There are so many English-medium school. Is it not? Yes. Why? Why they are anxious? So much agitation was made for studying Hindi, but then why India still, even in family they are talking in English? In Bombay they talk in English amongst family members. And any gentleman meets another gentleman—he talks in English. Why it has not been stopped? So actually Hindi has no effect, and if we take international rule, what is the use of Hindi? Nobody will like to... And even here, even here in India, who is reading Hindi? Nobody is reading Hindi. It is compulsory in every province, Hindi? **Indian man (1):** Not Hindi. Also they are developing local languages. They are teaching English letters now. The latest, they send their childrens to the English-medium schools. --- **[[spoken/750420r1.vrn|Conversation with Governor — April 20, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...that everyone is doing his own duty. Never mind if you are Christian or if you are a Muslim or a Hindu, that what is your duty, what is said in your scripture, you must be doing it. Not that "Because it is secular, I can do whatever I like." **Prabhupāda:** No, there is no need. Secular means government's duty is that "You call yourself a Hindu. Whether you are acting as Hindu? You call yourself as Muslim. Whether you are acting as Muslim?" This is government's duty. Government does not say or prefer that "You are Christian. It is not good. You become Hindu." No, that is not government's... You remain your Christian, but government's duty is that whether he is acting as Christian. This is government's duty. Not that you are acting like a something else, and you are calling yourself Christian; you are acting like a *śūdra,* and you are advertising yourself as a *brāhmaṇa.* So just like a, what is called, quack. If he writes, "Dr. Something," that is punishable. But you are quack. That's all right. You can take a certificate that you have got some experience. The registered medical practitioner, I think that is... But what is this, that you are proclaiming yourself as a... [chuckles] So character means a class of men there must be, maybe very few, but they are actually men of character. Just like I am teaching them no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. This is basic principle. Otherwise, where is his character? You are doing all nonsense, and still, you are proclaiming yourself as *brāhmaṇa.* This should be stopped. And a training college should be there how to make a real *brāhmaṇa.* I have given the example... **Prabhupāda:** *Vānaprastha* college, yes. That is the very essential thing at the present moment, that a class of men... Just like the same example: If one wants to become an engineer, he must be properly trained up. If he wants to become a medical man, he must be properly trained up. Similarly, if one wants to become a *brāhmaṇa,* then he must be properly trained up, or even if one does not want, the state should maintain a college where a real *brāhmaṇa* is trained up. Just like Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, when he opened some higher studies of academic qualification, so there was one or two students, and there were three professors drawing at least twelve hundred rupees per month. So twelve hundred rupees per month, that means thirty-six hundred, expenditure, and the... *Ācchā.* *Betiye.* ...income is thirty-six rupees. It is not the question of money, but it is the question of culture. So even though at the present moment people are not inclined to become a *brāhmaṇa,* I tried it. I tried it before starting this movement. I tried to some friends that "You have got four sons. Give me one son. I shall train him how to become a perfect *brāhmaṇa.*" Nobody agreed. They said, "Swāmījī,* [Transl. What will be the use of becoming a *brāhmaṇa*? They are all starving. This is the position.]." But if there is not a ideal class of *brāhmaṇa,* then how you can say that "You become moralist"? If there is no example of moralist, how you can ask people, "Become moralist"? --- **[[spoken/750420sp.vrn|Speech, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya 19.53 — April 20, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** Śrīman Rajya-pala Sahib, Honorable Governor, [Marri Chenna Readdy] [Transl. brothers and sisters. I too cannot speak Hindi very fluently. My American disciple Śrīman] Acyutānanda Svāmī, he has tried to speak in Hindi, and you have heard him. So similarly, [Transl.as the disciple so is the guru. I cannot speak Hindi very nicely. But Governor Sahib, Magistrate Sahib, they all want me to preach in Hindi.] **Prabhupāda:** Thank you. [chuckles] Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is addressed by Rūpa Gosvāmī as *mahā-vadānyāya.* --- **[[spoken/760420bg.mel|Bg 9.2 — April 20, 1976, Melbourne]]** Very important chapter, the most confidential knowledge, *guhyatamam.* And it is spoken by Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even those who are liberated from this material contamination, they are called *mukta-jīva,* liberated soul. And there are *nitya-mukta. Nitya-mukta* and *nitya-baddha. Nitya* means eternally, and *mukta* means liberated. And again, *nitya,* eternally, *baddha,* conditioned. So just like there are many persons in the state who have never seen what is the prison life, and there are many persons in the state, the majority of one's life is passed in the prison. Similarly, there are two nature: material nature and the spiritual nature. What we are seeing, this nature, this universe, within the material nature. Similarly, there is another spiritual nature. That is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā: paras tasmāt tu bhāvo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanaḥ* [[bg/8/20|[Bg. 8.20] ]]. --- **[[spoken/760420r1.mel|Room Conversation & TV Interview with Mike Barron — April 20, 1976, Melbourne]]** **Prabhupāda:** But still, he did it. Arjuna, in the beginning, thought that he should not kill. Come on. **Prabhupāda:** Huh? [break] ...what you think about the living pulse which is beating, the heart, heart failure? Why don't you bring it into palpitation again? If you study that air... Air... Air you bring artificially. Push it. Why don't you do it if you are so great scientist? Is it very difficult? So in anything, air is fi... Just like in the tire tube. Air is finished. Push it, air, it is all right. So do you think it is air, the palpitation? You are so foolish? And passing as a scientist? Air can be replaced. It is difficult? Just like tire tube air, a huge quantity to work. You immediately, within a second... So why do you say, "Now, now the breathing is stopped"? Breathing is stopped, air stopped. What is their answer? Hmm? **Prabhupāda:** Then don't say that "Breathing is stopped. Therefore he is dead." Don't talk nonsense. Why do you talk like that, "Now breathing is stopped. He's dead"? Talk in right language if you are scientist. Why you are talking like that, "The air is stopped. The breathing is stopped. Therefore dead"? That's not a fact. So you are stating which is not a fact. Why you claim that you are scientist? That is the challenge. Hmm? Then again you come to the blood. What is blood? Red water. So if you say that this, that, so many jugglery of words, so manufacture. Water mix with the red color and give these, these so many rascal things. --- **[[spoken/760420r2.mel|Recording of TV Interview [partially recorded] — April 20, 1976, Melbourne]]** [The following is a recording of a radio broadcast comprised of exerpts from the full interview in the file 760420R1-Melbourne] **Mike Barron:** ...were minstrels who wander our city streets, mumbling about Hare Kṛṣṇa, then the man to answer your questions is the man who started the Kṛṣṇa movement, His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. And if you have trouble following that, the best is yet to come. His message might seem complicated to the unconverted, but when it's all boiled down, it's quite simple. All you have to do is concentrate, like Carol Jarvis did during this in-depth interview. [loud taped *kīrtana interjected*] **Prabhupāda:** Well, the scientists make research. One does wrong thing to do that. So our process is to carry out the order of the higher authorities. So my Guru Mahārāja, my spiritual master, asked me to do this. [inserted *kīrtana*] --- **[[spoken/770420r1.bom|Conversation with Patita-pāvana — April 20, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** Now, how that branches are spread, how there are different places and seas and oceans in every same place. **Patita-pāvana:** I was thinking that at the time of the opening of the temple they come here, or if that's too crowded, they could come to Māyāpur some time. But if you'd like them to come now, I can... **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** No, here is better. Everyone can come to Bombay much easier. And if you wait until the opening, there's too many other things. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/610420_mr._nakano.md|Letter to Mr. Nakano, 1961]] - [[../../letters/1970/700420_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700420_kancanbala.md|Letter to Kancanbala, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700420_madhusudana.md|Letter to Madhusudana, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700420_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710420_unknown.md|Letter to Unknown, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730420_atreya_rsi.md|Letter to Atreya Rsi, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730420_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740420_bhavananda_jayapataka.md|Letter to Bhavananda Jayapataka, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740420_hari_basara.md|Letter to Hari Basara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1977/770420_atreya_rsi.md|Letter to Atreya Rsi, 1977]]