# April 25 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/660425bg.ny.md|Bg [partially recorded] — April 25, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/690425le.bos|Lecture — April 25, 1969, Boston]]** **Prabhupāda:** When I was in Buffalo, my last lecture was at the Buffalo University college. So I began a series of lecture for the young boys and girls. This series of lecture is not manufactured by me. Our process is not manufacturing. The Vedic process is not personal opinion. Our process is simply to carry the transcendental message to the people. Our system is so nice that we haven't got to manufacture daily a new thesis. The difficulty of modern age is... Not modern age; it is also old system, because in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* we find one verse which says, *tarko apratiṣṭhaḥ* [*Cc* *Madhya* 25.57, *Mahābhārata, Vana-parva* 313.117] "Simple arguments and logic will not carry you to the Absolute Truth." *Tarkaḥ. Tarkaḥ* means arguments. You may be very good logician, you can argue very nicely, but another logician may come and defeat you. That is going on. New philosopher, new logician, new thinker means he defeats his previous thinkers, logicians, and philosophers, and becomes prominent. --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690425rc.bos.md|Prabhupāda Listening to Recording of His Own — April 25, 1969, Boston]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720425sb.tok|SB 2.9.1-8 — April 25, 1972, Tokyo]]** --- **[[spoken/730425mw.la|Morning Walk — April 25, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Svarūpa Dāmodara:** So they'll say, that, some scientists, that that science deals with the matter, or the physical matter, and so they try to... **Prabhupāda:** No, physical matter, wherefrom the physical matter comes? Unless you come to that point, you are not a scientist. Wherefrom the matter comes? **Svarūpa Dāmodara:** Sometime..., sometimes they try to relate science and the religion, some scientists, and they make a differentiation. They say religion... --- **[[spoken/730425sb.la|SB 1.8.33 — April 25, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Prabhupāda: Word meaning?Pradyumna:** *apare*—others; *vasudevasya*—of Vasudeva; *devakyām*—of Devakī; *yācitaḥ*—being prayed for; *abhyagāt*—took birth; *ajaḥ*—unborn; *tvam*—You are; *asya*—of him; *kṣemāya*—for the good; *vadhāya*—for the purpose of killing; *ca*—and; *sura-dviṣām*—of those who are envious of the demigods. --- **[[spoken/740425le.tir|Lecture [Hindi] — April 25, 1974, Tirupati]]** **Translation:** "Life's desires should never be aimed at gratifying the senses. One should desire to live only because human life enables one to inquire about the Absolute Truth. This should be the goal of all works." --- **[[spoken/770425r1.bom|Morning Talk — April 25, 1977, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...said that "This is our mission. Now whether you'll cooperate?" We cannot make any compromise. [break] **Prabhupāda:** You have to teach them. But so far these young boys who were there, they were very much impressed. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yeah. It's just that I... You know, from our experience here in India, practically the only place that we've made devotees regularly is in Bengal. Other than there, we have not been able to make people give up their ways. --- **[[spoken/770425r2.bom|Conversation: Bogus Gurus — April 25, 1977, Bombay]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** ...been seeing this one person there by the name of Bhagavan Shringari Das, Bhagavan Shringari. He's the *pūjārī* of Lord Jagannātha. So he's claiming that when anyone goes to a holy place like Jagannātha Purī that they have to get initiated by a *tīrtha-guru.* So these foolish disciples, they're going and they're accepting initiation from him, and he gives them some *mantra,* and then he... Naturally there's an exchange of money. They have to promise to send money regularly for Lord... He says it's for Lord Jagannātha. Obviously Lord Jagannātha will never see the money. He also gets them to write a letter. And one of the letters reads something like that "I came to India blind, but now Bhagavan Shringari Das has opened my eyes." Doesn't even mention Your Divine Grace. And this boy, he was telling me this... When he asked about the holy places... This devotee, who—he's doing a little assistance to me—he refused to have anything..., take any initiation 'cause he said that he could understand that something was wrong. He asked him, "What about Māyāpur?" He said, "Oh, Māyāpur is nothing. That is not the *dhāma.*" Then he said, "*Dhāma* means...," and he named the four *dhāmas.* So in this way some of the devotees are... Apparently they're even going back to America and they're encouraging others to send money to this cheater. This man is a big cheater. Govinda dasi, she took this initiation, and some other people, he mentioned... When he was there, there were already four devotees there, some householder devotee from Los Angeles, Govinda dasi,... He sells them things like the flag from the top of the temple for a hundred rupees. You know, different types of thing he sells them. So I said, "So why didn't you ask him, 'Now that we're your disciple and you're our *guru,* now take us into the temple'?"* [Note:It was determined that this claim was unfounded and merely a rumor.] **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** I told him that he should have said that "I will become your disciple, but you take me into the temple with you. Because disciple means the son, so if you're my father, so I'm your son. You take me into the temple." But he... One of the devotees asked that, but he said, "No, no, that will not be possible, but you will see Lord Jagannātha in the Ratha-yātrā time." The man is such a cheater. Of course, none of the more serious devotees, I think, are taking this man very seriously, but some of the devotees are a little less intelligent, so they are being fooled. **Prabhupāda:** So the cheaters are there. If our men are cheated, if they agree to be cheated, how can I stop them? In Vṛndāvana also they have done like that, the *bābājīs.* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690425_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690425_balabhadra.md|Letter to Balabhadra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690425_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690425_dinesh.md|Letter to Dinesh, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690425_govinda_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Govinda Gaurasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690425_lilavati.md|Letter to Lilavati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690425_vibhavati.md|Letter to Vibhavati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700425_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700425_kasturika.md|Letter to Kasturika, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700425_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710425_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710425_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720425_atreya_rsi.md|Letter to Atreya Rsi, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720425_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720425_giriraja_cyavana.md|Letter to Giriraja Cyavana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720425_gurudasa_yamuna.md|Letter to Gurudasa Yamuna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720425_madhavananda.md|Letter to Madhavananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720425_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730425_caitanya.md|Letter to Caitanya, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730425_dinatarini.md|Letter to Dinatarini, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730425_mahajan_2.md|Letter to Mahajan 2, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730425_mr._helfenberger.md|Letter to Mr. Helfenberger, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730425_sri_govinda.md|Letter to Sri Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740425_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1974]]