# April 26 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690426le.bos|Lecture Engagement and Prasāda Distribution — April 26, 1969, Boston]]** **Prabhupāda:** This age is called, according to the Vedic language, Kali. Kali-yuga means the age of disagreement and dissension. So in the *Vedas* it is recommended that *kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇu* [[sb/12/3/52|[SB. 12.3.52] ]]. In the Golden Age... Of course, the *kṛte,* the Sanskrit word, exactly there is no English translation, but generally we have got a conception of Golden Age. So take it for granted that *kṛte, kṛte* means in the age when everyone was pure. Cent per cent people were pure. That is called Kṛta-yuga. The next *yuga* is called Tretā, when seventy-five percent of the people, they were pure, and twenty-five percent were not pure. And then Dvāpara.Dvāpara means fifty percent—fifty percent pure and fifty percent nonpure. Then this age is called Kali-yuga. Kali-yuga means seventy-five percent or more than seventy-five percent, they are impure, and twenty-five percent—I mean to say, that is in books—but actually ninety percent or more than that are impure and maybe five percent pure. This is the situation of this age. And they are also living very short time. In this age, life, duration of life, is reduced, memory is reduced, man's compassion is also reduced. Similarly, there are so many things, they are reduced. Although we are thinking that we are advancing, but actually the most important thing we are reduced. Take for example the duration of life. Every one of us knowing very well that as your father or forefather or grandfather lived for long duration of life, it is very difficult to find out a man who is over seventy years or eighty years. I have got experience. My grandmother lived for ninety-five years. --- **[[spoken/720426sb.tok|SB 2.9.7 — April 26, 1972, Tokyo]]** **Prabhupāda:** Now, chant. Recite. [devotees chant verse] > niśamya tad-vaktṛ-didṛkṣayā diśo > vilokya tatrānyad apaśyamānaḥ > svadhiṣṇyam āsthāya vimṛśya tad-dhitaṁ > tapasy upādiṣṭa ivādadhe manaḥ **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Very good. Transliteration is coming to be useful. Yes. Next. [break] The transliteration is there for you. So although you are selling books, but this is meant for you, so that you can [indistinct] the *mantras.* Who is next? [lady devotee chants] [break]Pradyumna: "...searching on all sides. But when he was unable to find anyone besides himself, he thought it wise to sit down on his lotus seat firmly and give his attention to the execution of penance, as he was instructed." **Prabhupāda:** So he could not find any person. Still he took it seriously and began *tapasya.* Therefore in the beginning of *Bhāgavata* it is said, *tene brahm**a hṛdā ādi-kavaye:** "From heart." Yes. He heard from outside. From the heart the order was, "Yes, now you begin your *tapasya.*" So he began. So Kṛṣṇa is helping both sides—from externally, internally. --- **[[spoken/730426mw.la|Morning Walk — April 26, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...about animals not willing to die. Why? What is the psychology? Nobody wants to die. **Prabhupāda:** That is another foolishness. As soon as you want to kill, it cries. Man or animal, anyone. Even the trees, they feel pain. That is also... You do not know that? **Prabhupāda:** The trees feel when you cut. They feel. There is machine. They..., he discovered this. You have not been in Calcutta, Sir Jagadish Institute? --- **[[spoken/730426sb.la|SB 1.8.34 — April 26, 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:** *bhāra-avatāraṇāya*—just to reduce the burden to the world; *anye*—others; *bhuvaḥ*—of the world; *nāvaḥ*—boat; *iva*—like that; *udadhau*—on the sea; *sīdantyāḥ*—aggrieved; *bhūri*—extremely; *bhāreṇa*—by the burden; *jātaḥ*—You were born; *hi*—for; *ātma-bhuvā*—Brahmā; *arthitaḥ*—being prayed for. --- **[[spoken/740426iv.tir|Interview with Minister — April 26, 197, Tirupati]]** **Prabhupāda:** They spend so much money for spreading Christianity in this country. What we are spending in the foreign countries? **Minister:** The last time in our state, in this board, sanctioned thirteen lakhs in America to provide one temples, Veṅkaṭeśvara temple, and Pañchāyetam pīṭha [a temple dedicated to five gods] ...[coughs] Vighneśvara [Ganesa] temple there. **Prabhupāda:** Temple... Just like these Christian missionaries, they constructed so many churches. But those churches are now being closed. In London, I have got specific knowledge, hundreds of churches are no more being used as church. Some of them are being used as *godown.* --- **[[spoken/740426r1.tir|Room Conversation — April 26, 1974, Tirupati]]** **Satsvarūpa:**Secretary, he said, "You write in your books that your movement by Lord Caitanya is the..., as if it's the most exclusive thing." He said, "But actually, in India the Rāmānuja is a more prominent Vaiṣṇava sect." So, as I understand our claim, it's based on the fact that we worship Kṛṣṇa in a higher form, in Kṛṣṇaloka, and they worship Kṛṣṇa which leads to Vaikuṇṭha. **Satsvarūpa:** Śrīnivāsa said it is controlled by the temple here. Even the government doesn't control. **Mr. **Iyengar*:* And your friends were there at the airport, Santa Cruz Airport, and you came by plane, some two years back I remember. --- **[[spoken/740426sb.tir|SB 1.2.11 — April 26, 1974, Tirupati]]** --- title: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.11 — April 26, 1974, Tirupati date: 1974-04-26 permalink: spoken/740426sb.tir **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] --- **[[spoken/760426bg.mel|Bg 9.10 — April 26, 1976, Melbourne]]** As Kṛṣṇa said previously, *mayā tatam idaṁ sarvam*: "By Me, I am spread all over the universe." Everywhere, Kṛṣṇa is there by His energy. I have explained this. Now about this *prakṛti*, material nature, how it is working? This material nature is just like a machine, big machine. The same example: just like this body, my body, your body, it is also a machine, a lump of matter made into machine. Any machine is lump of matter, but it is working. But working how? Working by the touch of somebody spiritual. Without spiritual touch, matter cannot work. This has to be understood. The same example: your body, it is very wonderful machine. The medical science, when they dissect the body, find so many wonderful arrangements—the nerves, the muscles. They are all matter, but they are so nicely set up that it is working very nicely. This Dictaphone machine, the tape recorder, it is working very nicely, set up with so many electronic parts. But after all, it is matter. If there is no worker, it is useless. The machine is wonderful, undoubtedly, but there is a worker. Just like computer. It is wonderful machine, but there is very expert... The aeroplane, very wonderful machine, flying in the sky—but the pilot is there. Without pilot, it is dangerous. The machine is there, and if the pilot is not in order, then we are in danger. In this way, we have to study that this material world, the adjustment. There are so many planets, sun, moon, stars, and very, very big arrangement—this is also same process, a big machine. But who is the pilot? Who is the conductor? That is explained here: --- **[[spoken/760426mw.mel|Morning Walk — April 26, 1976, Melbourne]]** **Gurukṛpā:** Then they say that understanding means to come to understand that Kṛṣṇa is just the Brahman. **Prabhupāda:** No. Brahman is on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. *Brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham* [[bg/14/27|[Bg. 14.27] ]]. Why do you go..., deviate from the statement of *Bhagavad-gītā*? Anyone who deviates from the statement of *Bhagavad-gītā,* we take him as *mūḍha,* rascal. That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We don't accept anything else. And we are supported by all the *ācāryas.* **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** They try to categorize these modern Hindu deviators, like Vivekananda and Ramakrishna. They try to put them as *ācāryas* also. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680426_janardana.md|Letter to Janardana, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690426_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690426_vrndavanesvari.md|Letter to Vrndavanesvari, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700426_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700426_himavati.md|Letter to Himavati, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700426_ksirodakasayi.md|Letter to Ksirodakasayi, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700426_umapati.md|Letter to Umapati, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710426_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710426_manager_of_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Punjab National Bank, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720426_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720426_dayananda.md|Letter to Dayananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720426_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720426_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1972]]