# May 3 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690503le.bos|Lecture at Arlington Street Church — May 3, 1969, Boston]]** **Satsvarūpa:** We're going to chant the *mahā-mantra,* Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra,* which His Divine Grace Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta introduced in this country about two years ago. Not that he manufactured it. It's in the Vedic scriptures, and for this age in order to get spiritual realization, bliss consciousness, for anyone who is at all interested in the matter, is chanting, chanting this *mantra,* Hare Kṛṣṇa, which is open to everyone. So please chant with us. We chant responsively. I'll chant, and you join in to chant the *mantra* through [indistinct]. First we sing some prayers to our spiritual master and all the spiritual masters in the disciplic succession. For that portion we repeat this rhythm. [plays *karatāls*] We'll recite the *mantra* one time so we know it. Just repeat after me: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. --- **[[spoken/700503ip.la|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 1 — May 3, 1970, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Ādi-puruṣam,* the original Personality of Godhead. So when we speak of Govinda, Govinda is not alone. Just like when we speak of a king, it is to be understood that king is not alone. He has got many other followers, secretaries, ministers, soldiers—whole state. Similarly, when we speak of Govindam, behind Govinda, with Govinda, all living entities, all creation, everything... Govindam. So you can st... [break] **Gargamuni:** [reading] "It is also wrong to consider that simply by becoming a vegetarian one can save himself from transgressing the laws of nature. Vegetables also have life. One life is meant to feed another living being, and that is the law of nature. One should not be proud of being a strict vegetarian. The point is to recognize the Supreme Lord. The animals have no developed consciousness to recognize the Lord, but a human being..." **Prabhupāda:** That is the main point. Just like there are the Buddhists, they are also vegetarian. According to Buddhist principle... Nowadays everything has deteriorated, but Lord Buddha's propaganda was to make the rascals at least to stop animal-killing. *Ahiṁsā paramo dharma.* --- **[[spoken/720503sb.tok|SB 2.9.13 — May 3, 1972, Tokyo]]** **Pradyumna:** [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [**Prabhupāda and devotees respond] > bhrājiṣṇubhir yaḥ parito virājate > lasad-vimānāvalibhir mahātmanām > vidyotamānaḥ pramadottamādyubhiḥ > savidyud abhrāvalibhir yathā nabhaḥ > [[sb/2/9/13|[SB. 2.9.13] ]] **Prabhupāda:** *Next. [devotees take turns chanting verse, with *Prabhupāda* correcting pronunciation] * **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. So there is no scarcity of aeroplanes in Vaikuṇṭha-loka. It is not *nirviśeṣa,* zero. The rascals, they do not know [break] what is actually Vaikuṇṭha is, or the kingdom of God. And they dismiss everything by declaring, "Zero, without any varieties." *Nirviśeṣa śūnyavādi.* They have no information; therefore "zero." But actually that is not. Exactly like this sky, the Vaikuṇṭha sky is there. Like the planets here, there are also planets. As in the sky, outer space, here in this material world big, big aer... [break] So there also, there are many big, big aeroplanes running on. --- **[[spoken/730503mw.la|Morning Walk — May 3, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Svarūpa Dāmodara:** So why [indistinct] oh *jaya*...Devotee: [introducing recording] Prabhupāda's morning walk. May 3rd, 1973, Los Angeles.Prabhupāda: ...is that the whole world is running on a false theory that life is born out of matter. But that is not a fact. So how to defeat this theory? That is our business. We have to defeat this rascal theory. We have to challenge all these rascals and defeat them. How it is possible? **Prabhupāda:** By logic, by science. Anyway, that we have to make program. Because this is most misleading. The whole human society is affected by this misleading theory. We have to make program, go from place to place and invite all big men, all scientists. That program we have to make. We cannot allow this nonsense theory to go on. We must make something. [*japa*] Brahmānanda, how to make this? **Prabhupāda:** This is a fact, that..., that life comes from life. In another sense, life does not come; life is existing. It is not exactly the word that life generates. No. Life is existing. The matter is generating. Matter is generating, and it stays for some time, again it is vanished. Just like this body. This body is born at a certain date, and it will be finished at a certain date. This is matter. --- **[[spoken/730503sb.la|SB 1.8.41 — May 3, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "O Lord of the universe, soul of the universe, O Personality of the form of the universe, please, therefore, sever my tie of affection for my kinsmen, the Pāṇḍavas and the Vṛṣṇis."* [[sb/1/8/41|[SB. 1.8.41] ]] **Prabhupāda:** So, Pāṇḍava and Vṛṣṇi dynasty, Kuntī belongs to both families. She is the daughter of the Vṛṣṇi family and the wife and mother of the Pāṇḍava family. So generally a woman has got affection both for the father's family and husband's family. So he is..., she is asking Kṛṣṇa that "I am woman. Generally, I am attached to my family. So kindly cut off my this attachment so that thoroughly I can be attached unto You. This is the purpose. Because without You, either my this family or that family, opulence, everything, that is all zero. So falsely I am attached to these families. My business is to be attached unto You." This is *bhakti. Bhakti* means to be free from the attachment of this material world and to become attached to Kṛṣṇa. Because you have to attach to something. You cannot become unattached. That is not possible. So, in order to become attached to Kṛṣṇa or to enter into the devotional service of the Lord, one has to become detached from this material affection. That is wanted. Ordinarily, they go to Kṛṣṇa for maintaining the attachment with this material world. --- **[[spoken/740503mw.bom|Morning Walk — May 3, 1974, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** The inhabitants there, they can go from one planet to another without an aeroplane. That is Siddhaloka. Hmm. Go on. **Yadubara:** [reading] "There was beating of drums, and being inspired by godly feelings, the residents of Gandharvaloka began to play on their *tambūrās* to please the Lord. Once when He was..." [break] **Prabhupāda:** ...what is God. Such innocent. You see? They thought, "Might be some demigod." That's all. --- **[[spoken/760503ar.hon|Arrival — May 3, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...niścayād > tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt > sato vṛtteḥ sādhu-saṅge > ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati > [Upadeśāmṛta 3] You have seen this verse in the *Nectar of Instruction. Utsāha:* enthusiasm. *Dhairya* means patience. *Utsāhān dhairyāt niścayāt,* means conviction. And *tat-tat-karma-pr**avartanāt,* and following the regulative principles. *Sato vṛtteḥ,* to become sincere and honest. And *sādhu-saṅge,* and in the association of devotees. *Ṣaḍbhir bhaktir prasidhyati.* The *bhakti,* Kṛṣṇa consciousness, will advance. These are the six principles we should always remember: enthusiasm, patience, conviction, following the regulative principles, becoming honest, and in the association of devotees. So I am very glad to see that you are all very enthusiastic, and you follow the other principles. Then be sure that you are advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And that will save you from the dangerous civilization which do not understand the future of life. As the cats and dogs, they do not understand what is the future of life, similarly, if human beings, getting this opportunity of very intelligent, developed consciousness, if a human being does not understand what is the goal of life, what is the future of life, then he remains a cat and dog. *Sa eva go-kharaḥ [[sb/10/84/13|[SB. 10.84.13] ]]. --- **[[spoken/760503mw.fij|Morning Walk — May 3, 1976, Fiji]]** **Prabhupāda:** Never mind he's very nicely dressed. But because he is not surrendered soul to Kṛṣṇa, he is a miscreant. That's all. Beware of him. **Prabhupāda:** There are three classes: one devotee, one innocent and one envious. So we have nothing to do with the envious. With devotee, we shall make friendship, and to the innocent, we shall preach. **Prabhupāda:** He'll surrender. You teach him. Because he's innocent, he does not know. But you preach, he will become. That is our duty. --- **[[spoken/760503r1.fij|Room Conversation — May 3, 1976, Fiji]]** **Prabhupāda:** Our point is that we are going to live in the future. So if, becoming modern, we forget our future, then what is the use of becoming modernized? Better remain primitive. The business is that in future also we shall exist. If we do not know how we shall exist—either I shall exist as a cat, as a dog or a tree or a demigod or as associate of Kṛṣṇa... If I do not know... On account of being modernized, if I remain in darkness about my future, so it is better to remain primitive. What is the use of becoming modernized and forget myself and my future? Becoming modernized, if I become dog in future, so where is the use of modernized? Real business is that I shall take care of my future, especially in the human form of body. Cats and dogs, they do not know about future. If I know there is future, I have a future... This is also said by Kṛṣṇa: *tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]: "In future." Not this body, another body. So is it not my first business, to prepare what is my future body? That is my first business? Or to drink RC* [Royal Crown cola] my first business? [laughter] Just see, by drinking RC if I, next life I become a dog, then what is the use of modernized life? And if we, by remaining in primitive state, we can produce Vyāsadeva, oh, it is better. I think they have no sense. Suppose if I go to some place for some business, and going there, to select my hotel, which hotel I shall enter, I remain busy to find out the hotel and I forget the business for which I have gone there, then am I not madman? The human life is meant for deciding his future. If we do not care for the future, and if I want to become modernized from primitive life, is that very good inteligence? Real business forgotten, but I am busy with modernized life. That example I give sometimes, [Bengali proverb. *Sājte sājte dola phurāla*], that one has to go to see a fair on account of *dola-yātrā*: Holi festival. So women, they generally dress themself very nicely. So the woman said to his friend that "Let me dress." So dressing, dressing, dressing. In the meantime, the fair finished. So the modern civilization is like that. [*Sājte sājte dola phurāla*] --- **[[spoken/760503r1.hon|Room Conversation with Siddha-svarūpa Follower — May 3, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...by taking birth of any, whether the tree is taking birth or the ant is taking birth and the fish is taking birth. Everywhere, living entities, they are taking birth. That's all. And they are dying also. And between birth and death there is disease and old age. So during birth one cannot understand, because there is unconscious stage. Even the fetus is killed, it cannot under..., because fully unconscious stage. And there is life undoubtedly; otherwise how the fetus all of a sudden gets life? But these *mūḍhās* cannot see it. Here in this matter there is no life; therefore many thousands of years, if you kill, it will never show any symptom of life. But if there is life, at a time it will come to consciousness. Just like fainted man is lying like a dead man, but he is not dead; there is life. It is fainted, unconscious state. So because there is life, he may lie down in that unconscious state for two, three hours; again he'll come. It is common sense. And if a log, wood log, is lying flat, will it come to life, anything? But because these *mūḍhās*, they are taking that "Fetus has no life. Kill it, finish it and eat it..." It is going on. You know that? **Prabhupāda:** No, it will go, because they are becoming more *mūḍhās*. There is no intelligence. Therefore I say that we are giving this intelligence. This is the only movement to make these *mūḍhās* into intelligent. This is the only movement. Otherwise they are becoming more and more and more and more *mūḍhās*. So under the circumstances, if we also become *mūḍhās*, then who will make the other *mūḍhās* intelligent? That is my point. There are so many things. And the sa... I'll begin this, I mean to say, recitation of Sixth Canto. There are so many nice instructions. So this... [break] ...even they are kept to remain as *mūḍhās*, all other so-called attempts... There are many other attempts for awakening the human society to right platform, but their basic principle is wrong. They cannot do it. It is not possible. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680503_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680503_uddhava.md|Letter to Uddhava, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680503_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690503_hayagriva_pradyumna.md|Letter to Hayagriva Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700503_ekayani.md|Letter to Ekayani, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700503_lilavati.md|Letter to Lilavati, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710503_the_manager_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to The Manager Punjab National Bank, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720503_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720503_citsukhananda.md|Letter to Citsukhananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720503_patita_uddharana.md|Letter to Patita Uddharana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720503_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730503_babhru_das.md|Letter to Babhru Das, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740503_bhurijana.md|Letter to Bhurijana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740503_trista_hubbarth.md|Letter to Trista Hubbarth, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760503_adi-kesava.md|Letter to Adi-Kesava, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760503_mr._george_twohie.md|Letter to Mr. George Twohie, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760503_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770503_aksayananda.md|Letter to Aksayananda, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770503_gurukrpa.md|Letter to Gurukrpa, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770503_prabhakar_mishra.md|Letter to Prabhakar Mishra, 1977]]