# April 26 ## Spoken on April 26 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1969: Lecture Engagement and Prasāda Distribution](spoken/1969/690426le.bos)** > So this is lamentable in this sense, that people are reducing in their sense of spiritual realization. That is a very regrettable fact. And the *Bhāgavata* says, *parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam*. "A man is supposed to be defeated in all his activities if he does not inquire what he is." This statement is also in Bible, you know, that "If one loses his own self and he gains all material prosperity, what does he gain?" Actually, this is the fact. > We have got arrangement of distributing *prasādam* in every Sunday. *Prasādam* means the foodstuff which is offered to Kṛṣṇa, and then you take. So what Kṛṣṇa wants, that is also stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati*.* Therefore we are not propagating the philosophy of *ahiṁsā,* or nonviolence, because in some way or other, there is violence, either you take fruit or grain or animal. But the principle is that you have to take *prasādam,* the foodstuff which is offered to Kṛṣṇa, and then you eat. --- **[1970: Śrī Īśopaniṣad Invocation [Partially Recorded](spoken/1970/700426ip.la)** > So if you want to get out of this entanglement, there is complete arrangement, facility, complete facility. *Teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam*.* There is another verse, that "Those who are engaged in devotional service," Kṛṣṇa says, *yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham* "I take personal charge for their maintenance." This is complete arrangement. > Why India is fallen down? Because the so-called rascal, they are claiming that "I am *brāhmaṇa.*" But what is our occupation, sir? "Oh, I am serving as a coolie." Is that *brāhmaṇa's* business? Actually I have seen, India, a person, *ṭhelā-walaji*, born of a *brāhmaṇa* family, and he's pulling hand cart with great labor. And some foolish person also offering respect, and he is offering blessings while drawing the cart. [laughter] [chuckles] I have seen it. You see? These things are going on. He does not know that "Now I am fallen. Why should I claim as *brāhmaṇa*? I am cheating." --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.7](spoken/1972/720426sb.tok)** > Therefore it is clear. Not like Māyāvādīs, that "Because I have been deputed by Kṛṣṇa to carry some message," not that I have become. But I am equal, because the business is the same. Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja*, and the spiritual master says the same thing, *sarva-dharmān parityajya:* "Just surrender to Kṛṣṇa." Therefore, message being the same, they are identical. The persons are identical. But not identical in the Māyāvādī sense, that he has become now God. No. He is not God, but he is the most confidential servant of God. This is Vaiṣṇava philosophy. > So we can interpret... When the Christian people say that... Just like they say "only son." So we can interpret... Of course, we are not going to interpret. We can take it that anyone who becomes confidential... Just like father position. He has got many sons. One son who is very obedient, he says, "He is my only son, and others not sons." Does he not, father say, sometimes? "Actually he is my son." Sometimes father says like that. But that does not mean that he has got only one son. He has got many sons, but all of them are useless, worthless. He is only bona fide. --- **[1973: Morning Walk](spoken/1973/730426mw.la)** > Why should you cheat others? *Mūḍha.* If he says that "How do you know I am rascal?" Because you do not know God. Therefore you rascal. *Mūḍha. Na māṁ prapadyante mūḍhāḥ*. If you are..., would have known what is God, then you would have surrendered to Him. Then you are intelligent. But because you do not surrender, you do not know what is God, therefore you are rascal. This is the definition of rascal. *Jñānavān māṁ prapadyate.* And intelligent means one who surrenders. He's intelligent. One who does not, he's rascal. > Then, when you are convinced, naturally you know, "Oh, this should not be taken." Detached, automatically. *Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate*. Therefore knowledge is first required for detachment. *Jñāna-vairāgya-yuktayā*. Jñāna,* first of all knowledge, then detachment. Unless you have knowledge, artificial detachment will not work. --- **[1973: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.34](spoken/1973/730426sb.la)** > So what is the nature of that thing wherefrom things are coming, emanating, things are existing, and again, after being finished, it is entering? *Prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām*. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* Kṛṣṇa says, "The *prakṛti* enters into Me." So they do not know. So what is that source? Therefore *Bhāgavata* says that that supreme source is *janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś cārtheṣu abhijñaḥ. Abhijña* means completely conscious. *Jña. Jña* means knowledge. So *abhijña. Abhi* means specifically *jña.* Not like our's knowledge. We do not know. We have no sufficient knowledge wherefrom I have come, where I shall go after death. That we do not know. Therefore we are not *abhijña.* But the supreme source is *abhijña.* He's not a stone, void. No. How He can be? > First of all, you have to consider how this planet is floating in the air. It is floating in the air, as it is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā, gām āviśya*. Because Kṛṣṇa enters within this... Kṛṣṇa, just like He enters within the atom. So He's the spirit, Supreme Spirit. So because the Supreme Spirit is within, therefore it is floating. Not that weightlessness. Weight is there, very heavy weight. Just like you can test: This body will float in the water so long you are living. And as soon as the spirit soul goes, then immediately the body goes down. The law of gravity acts, the so-called law of gravity. This is an example. A child, so long it is living you can take in one hand. But as soon as the child is dead, it becomes heavier. That is natural. --- **[1974: Room Conversation](spoken/1974/740426r1.tir)** > Mr. Iyengar*:* Three sons. Three daughters are married. This daughter is to be married. She is a doctorate. She has got M.Sc., Ph.D., in nuclear physics. She went to England for one year. > Mr. Iyengar*:* The last son is not married. Two sons are married. Three daughters are... This daughter is to be married. We are trying; not able to get a suitable groom, you see. With your blessings I hope we will succeed. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.11](spoken/1974/740426sb.tir)** > The Brahman effulgence is the bodily glowing of Kṛṣṇa. *Yasya prabhā.* When Kṛṣṇa expands His bodily effulgence, then everything generates. This material world has also come out of the *brahma-jyoti,* or from the rays of the body of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that *brahmaṇo 'haṁ pratiṣṭhā.* In another place Kṛṣṇa says that *mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā*. > Similarly, Kṛṣṇa says, *janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ*. The same thing, *tattvataḥ. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam.* Kṛṣṇa says that "My appearance," *ajo 'pi sann avyayātmā,* "how I appear, how I disappear, if anyone understands in truth..." Because we do not understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, therefore we consider Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being. *Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ*. --- **[1976: Bhagavad-gītā 9.10](spoken/1976/760426bg.mel)** > You have to make research, philosophical. That is the business of human form of life. "Now, directly see I am present here."*Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate.* "I am the controller of this universe." Then the next verse, it is said, *avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā*. As soon as Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the person who is conducting the whole universal affair..." But those who are *mūḍhā*...*Mūḍhā* means asses, no intelligence, *mūḍhā*. The ass, the ass is the animal which is taken as the *mūḍhā*, no intelligence. Why? Because the ass carries tons of load on his back. And especially in India, the washermen, they keep ass, carrying the loads of cloth, and he is given a little morsel of grass. And he stands there always at the door of the washerman; just on his order he has to carry tons of loads. Not a single cloth belongs to him, but he carries. And what is the exchange? A little grass. But this animal, this foolish animal, cannot understand that "I can get grass anywhere. Why I am standing here to carry the loads of the washerman?" Therefore it is ass. Ass means he has no intelligence. "Just simply for little grass in exchange, I am engaged to work whole day and night." > "On account of My presence," *hetunā anena*, "on account of this reason, Kaunteya, My dear Arjuna," *jagad viparivartate*, "the whole world is *jagat*." *Jagat* means progressing, going on. The worldly affairs going on, *jagat viparivartate*. But unfortunately, as Kṛṣṇa says in the next verse, *avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā*. Those who are asses, have no brain, *avajānanti*—*avajānanti* means "deride"– doesn't care that here is Kṛṣṇa, the original Supreme Lord, conducting everything. So they cannot understand. *Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā*. Therefore we should not remain a *mūḍhā*, asses. We must be intelligent animal, or we must become *brāhmaṇa*. *Brāhmaṇa*, then, --- **[1976: Morning Walk](spoken/1976/760426mw.mel)** > Falls down. But the anxiety should be purified. That is wanted. Not anxiety-less. You are living being. You cannot be anxiety... That means you are dead. A living being has no anxiety, that means he is dead. That is not the ideal. The anxiety should be purified from material contamination, and it should be only for Kṛṣṇa. Then it is perfect. Here the anxiety with some designation, "I am the father of this family," this is my anxiety, how to maintain them. "I am the leader of this nation," that is my anxiety. So all these anxieties are material, *upādhi.* I am neither father nor leader. I am servant of Kṛṣṇa. I have created artificial anxieties. So therefore I have to become free from this artificial anxiety. And *nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa. And when he is pure servant of Kṛṣṇa, he's always anxious how to serve Kṛṣṇa. This is the... The anxiety is there, and now it is purified. *Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam*, completely fresh. And then with that senses, *hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktiḥ.* This is *bhakti. Mad-bhaktim labhate.* > Asaṁśayam:* "Without any doubt, and in fullness, as you understand, I am speaking to you." This is our faith. We have no *asaṁśaya,* and we have no imperfect understanding. *Asaṁśayaṁ samagram. Asaṁśayam* means "without any doubt," and *samagram* means "in full." You know simply Brahman. That is not full knowledge. *Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate*. --- ## Letters on April 26 *Letters from this day: 13* --- **[1968: Letter to Janardana](letters/1968/680426_janardana)** > Regarding the action of Bon Maharaja: We shall discuss the matter when we meet. For the present, you may know that this gentleman is very much materially ambitious. --- **[1969: Letter to Tamala Krsna](letters/1969/690426_tamala_krsna)** > The pamphlet is very nicely done, and you have diagnosed the disease very well, increasing the material temperature to 107 degrees and calling death immediately. --- **[1969: Letter to Vrndavanesvari](letters/1969/690426_vrndavanesvari)** > I am glad to learn that little Muradvaja is now become recovered from the fever he experienced in Los Angeles, and I am also glad to learn that Mandali Bhadra has already begun the translation work. --- **[1970: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1970/700426_hansadutta)** > I thank you very much for your kind appreciation of my humble activities, and you always pray to Krsna that the remaining days of my life may be thus engaged in executing the orders of my Spiritual Master. So far you are concerned, I request all my spiritual sons and daughters to help me in this great adventure, and if you all help me, I am sure I shall be successful. --- **[1970: Letter to Himavati](letters/1970/700426_himavati)** > Regarding going together with Hansadutta on Sankirtana Party, no, there is no need of specifically helping Hansadutta because you are now engaged in direct service to the Lord, and it must be understood that this service is your specific duty. I do not think you require a child for the purpose of example. --- **[1970: Letter to Ksirodakasayi](letters/1970/700426_ksirodakasayi)** > Since a long time I have not heard from you. I hope you are well in Krishna Consciousness. Please let me know what you are doing. I am anxiously awaiting your reply. --- **[1970: Letter to Umapati](letters/1970/700426_umapati)** > You have selected your bride, Ilavati, who I think is a French girl, so I think this marriage will be nice. But our all selection should be with a view to serve Krishna, that we must not forget in any circumstance! --- **[1971: Letter to Karandhara](letters/1971/710426_karandhara)** > So far as recording record albums is concerned, I can go there by the end of May, at the present I am going to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 30th April and then I shall be going to Calcutta via Sydney, Australia by the 14th May. --- **[1971: Letter to Manager Of Punjab National Bank](letters/1971/710426_manager_of_punjab_national_bank)** > I am enclosing herewith my passbook for the above account and the relative unused checks (two only), which please receive and transfer all the balance including interest to your Calcutta Branch at... --- **[1972: Letter to Bali-Mardana](letters/1972/720426_bali-mardana)** > So far your coming to Los Angeles, you are doing very nicely there, why you should come? Besides, I want it that one GBC man will come to live with me for one month in rotation, and so I have asked Hayagriva to come first and stay with me for one month, and after he goes, then perhaps you can come next, we shall see. --- **[1972: Letter to Dayananda](letters/1972/720426_dayananda)** > Yes, I am hoping that Lord Jagannatha may attract me to come to London this year. Hoping this will meet you and all the other nice devotees in good health and happy mood. --- **[1972: Letter to Gargamuni](letters/1972/720426_gargamuni)** > Soon there are many men coming to India from USA and England, so you can take five men and do the needful, just as Tamala Krishna is doing at Mayapur. --- **[1972: Letter to Madhudvisa](letters/1972/720426_madhudvisa)** > I think as you have described everything is going nicely in Bombay, and I have no objection if you feel like going to Australia for heading up the Sankirtana party there and managing things in general. ---