# May 5 ## Spoken on May 5 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1969: Lecture [Partially Recorded](spoken/1969/690505le.bos)** >without any difficulty, very easily. *Sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje, yayātmā suprasīdati*. And without spiritual realization you cannot have peace of mind. That is impossible. If you want to make... If you want to have peace of this soul, of your mind, of your society, of your family, simply by amassing money, by material advance, it will never be possible. But if you improve a little in spiritual life, you become immediately happy. > Immediately he becomes satisfied. *Svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi varaṁ na yāce*. Dhruva Mahārāja, a five-years-old boy, was insulted by his stepmother, and he wanted the kingdom of his father. So his real mother advised him, "If God gives you, then you can get. Otherwise it is not possible." So he went to the forest. He inquired from his mother, "Where is God? I shall go there." --- **[1970: Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 3](spoken/1970/700505ip.la)** > Kṛṣṇera saṁsāra koro chāḍi anācāra *[Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura]. Our propaganda is that let us become the member of Kṛṣṇa's family. That is our program. And if we enter into Kṛṣṇa's family... Just like Kṛṣṇa is enjoying with His consort. So there is nothing negation; everything is there. Kṛṣṇa is eating, Kṛṣṇa is enjoying, Kṛṣṇa is dancing, Kṛṣṇa is offering His *prasādam—*reciprocation. Nothing is denied. If we live in Kṛṣṇa consciousness then we can live for hundreds, thousands, or any number of years. Actually we do not die. What is death and birth? That is of this body. So we are eternal; Kṛṣṇa is eternal. > Kṛṣṇa has... The *karmis,* they are working. But Kṛṣṇa says, "All right, you do." *Yat karoṣi: "*Whatever you are doing, you just do it for Me, and give the result to Me." That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can work. You can have very big factory, working—but give the result to Kṛṣṇa. Then your, that factory-running is also as good as we are running this temple, because ultimately the profit is going to Kṛṣṇa. Why we are working for this temple, employing our energy? For Kṛṣṇa. So any field of activities, if you utilize it for Kṛṣṇa, that is wanted. In that way you can do. *Jijīviṣec chataṁ samāḥ [Īśo*mantra* 2].* Otherwise, you'll be entangled; you'll be responsible. --- **[1972: Room Conversation "Definition of Chance"](spoken/1972/720505r1.kyo)** > So actually it has happened so. A so-called *brāhmaṇa,* caste *brāhmaṇa,* he is working his intelligence like *śūdra,* and he is claiming, by birthright, *brāhmaṇa.* There must be protest. This has happened. Otherwise, that division is perfect, *guṇa karma vibhāgaśaḥ.* Anyone who comes to that quality, he becomes *brāhmaṇa.* That is the injunction of the *śāstra.* Kṛṣṇa says, *guṇa karma vibhāgaśaḥ.* You have no qualification, you do not work according to your quality, and why you are claiming a *brāhmaṇa?* That is self-evident. *Guṇa karma vibhāga.* He never said "By birth." Never said. *Kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ.* "In this age, Kali-yuga, all *śūdras.*" Therefore they accept everything cheaply and at once, the *śūdras.* > We have to scrutinize everything. Yes. That is brahminical qualification. A *brāhmaṇa* will not accept anything simply because it is said by some rascal. A *śūdra* will accept, because he has no intelligence. That is the difference between *brāhmaṇa* and *śūdra.* It is not a caste system. It is classi..., *guṇa karma vibhāgaśaḥ*, division of high qualities and actual activities according to that quality. They misinterpreted. Because by the influence of Kali-yuga everyone is *śūdra,* so he does not know what is the actually brahminical qualification. Therefore there is, I mean to say, competition: "Why this man should be done? I am as good as he is, and why he should be called *brāhmaṇa,* he should be given greater facility?" --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.16](spoken/1972/720505sb.tok)** > Because you cannot approach God in challenging mood. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "Surrender first of all." *Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja*. This is *bhakti.* If you surrender, then, Kṛṣṇa says, *ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi.* We suffer on account of our sinful activities. So here everything is sinful. Anything you do in this material world, that is sin. Even your so-called service to the society, country, they are also sinful. *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* says that *dvaite bhadrābhadra sakali samāna.* > So discuss this. *Tasmai sva-lokaṁ bhagavān sabhājitaḥ sandarśayām āsa. Sandarśayām āsa,* "manifested." This is called revelation. When... *Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ*. God, Kṛṣṇa, His name, *nāmādi...* First God realization begins from the name. Therefore we are chanting the name. And by chanting the name, when our heart will be cleansed... Because we are now in unclean heart. So *ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam, paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam*. By chanting the holy name, when our heart should be cleansed, then everything will be revealed. --- **[1973: Morning Walk](spoken/1973/730505mw.la)** > The *baka,* the duck, they are after fish. So the testicle is hanging, he's thinking, "It's a big fish. It will drop now." So it will never drop, but he is going after it. Just see. Neither it is fish. Another logic is *āja-gala-stana. Āja-gala-stana.* You have seen on the goats in the neck, just like nipples. So if one is expecting milk from that nipple, he is also fool. It is not nipple, but it looks like nipple. *Āja-gala-stana-nyāya.* > And these rascals say that because the consciousness is not developed, he has no soul. Soul is there even within the tree. But because the consciousness is not developed, the sensation is less. --- **[1973: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.43](spoken/1973/730505sb.la)** > So you have to accept. Kṛṣṇa says, very frankly says, "Surrender unto Me, I give you *anapavarga.*" *Ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣa yāmi* : "I shall give you protection." So He is the power for this purpose, and *govinda... Govinda* means He is the giver of pleasure to the cows and to the senses. Govinda. Govinda, *go-dvija-sura-arti-hara-avatāra. Avatāra* means incarnation. Govinda, *govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* He's the *ādi-puruṣa. Aham ādir hi devānām*, He is the original person, even of the demigods, Brahmā, Viṣṇu. People may not misunderstand that Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara, they are original. No. Kṛṣṇa says, "They are not original, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara." "I am the original person, above the..., of these demigods also." Therefore, we repeatedly say that we worship that *ādi-puruṣaṁ,* the original person, *govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* Not secondary; the first, the first, original person. > So *ṛṣabhāvani-dhrug rājanya. Avani-dhruk. Dhruk* means rebellious. Actually a..., a king should be representative of God. Representative of... The king's honor, in every country, kings, king is honored very gorgeously. Why? He's also human being, and the citizens are also human being. Why the king is so honored? Just like spiritual master. A spiritual master is honored. Not only honored—in the *śāstra* it is said, *nāvamanyeta karhicit. Ācāryaṁ māṁ vijānīyān nāvamanyeta karhicit*. --- **[1974: Morning Walk](spoken/1974/740505mw.bom)** > Pañcadraviḍa: [continuing the reading] "After this incident, on a very pleasant night both Kṛṣṇa and His elder brother Balarāma, who are inconceivably powerful, went into the forest of Vṛndāvana." [break] --- **[1974: Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva's Appearance Day](spoken/1974/740505na.bom)** > Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānu-darśanam*. Wherever you go within this material world, either in the Brahmaloka or in the Pātālaloka, you have to die. That is the problem. Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā,* "Real problem is *janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi,* birth, death, old age and disease." Just try to... So Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to solve these in a materialistic way, but that is not possible. So in a negative way he wanted that "I shall not die on the land. I shall not die in the air. I shall not die in the water. I shall not be killed by any man-made weapon." In so many ways, negatively he thought that he has become immortal. But Kṛṣṇa is so intelligent that keeping all the words or the blessings given by Lord Brahmā to Hiraṇyakaśipu, He killed him. Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted that he would not be killed either at day or in night. So Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed neither at day, neither in night, but just in the beginning of evening, which is neither day nor night. Then he wanted that he shall not be killed in the air, in the water or in the land. So Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed on the lap of the Lord. So he wanted that he would not be killed by any weapons made by man, so Lord killed him with His nails. Yes. > So we cannot cheat God. That is not possible. However scientifically you may be advanced, God is always more intelligent than ourself. We should always remember. So that is the difference between demon and devotee. Devotee knows that "God is great. I am His eternal servant," so he remains a humble servant of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore he has no danger. Even if he has danger, he will be saved. Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā, kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati*. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.1](spoken/1976/760505sb.hon)** > Saṁsṛtiḥ* means the cycle of birth and death. This is called *saṁsṛtiḥ. Saṁsṛtiḥ.* And *asaṁsṛtiḥ* means to stop the cycle of birth and death and go back to home, back to Godhead. Then, if you want to go back to home, back to Godhead, then you have to follow the *nivṛtti-mārga. Pravrtti* is there, my inclination is there, but if you practice *nivṛtti-mārga,* then you overcome the cycle of birth and death, *saṁsṛtiḥ.* So this human form of life is meant for *nivṛtti-mārga,* not to indulge the sense gratification but minimize sense gratification as far as possible. Try to make it zero. Then that is called *nivṛtti-mārga.* We are... We require this eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But if we try, if we practice, that is called austerity. *Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvaḥ*. > The rascals, they are thinking they are independent. They are not independent. Completely under the control of the material nature. Otherwise why there are different species of life? Where is the arrangement? Arrangement is there. If you remain in *sattva-guṇa,* then you get higher form of life. Nature's law is so perfect that it hasn't got to create; it is automatically. Just like if you infect some disease, germs, you will automatically suffer from that disease. Similarly, if we are in contamination, *sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa... Sattva-guṇa...* Here *sattva-guṇa* is also a contamination. And what to speak of *rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa*? So this is called *pravṛtti-mārga.* According to our inclination we are contacting a certain type of the modes of material nature and we are getting different types of body. *Kāraṇaṁ guṇa saṅgo 'sya sad-asad janma yoniṣu*. Kāraṇam.* Why one is getting better position, and why one is not getting? Why one is dog, and why one is millionaire? So it is due to our association with different modes of material nature. So here it is said, --- ## Letters on May 5 *Letters from this day: 22* --- **[1967: Letter to Ballabhi](letters/1967/670505_ballabhi)** > I am very glad to learn that you are making advance in Krishna Consciousness very sincerely. --- **[1967: Letter to Gurudasa Yamuna](letters/1967/670505_gurudasa_yamuna)** > I am very much pleased to receive your writing and short letter dated 25th April, 1967. --- **[1967: Letter to Kirtanananda](letters/1967/670505_kirtanananda)** > I have already written to Janardana about his studies and I have requested him to have his M.A. degree by all means. You will be pleased to know that appreciation of our Back To Godhead and records has come from London and our disciple Dvarakadhisa, Donald Dougherty is arranging to send 100 records, 3 sets of books and Back To Godhead to London. --- **[1967: Letter to Mukunda](letters/1967/670505_mukunda)** > You will be pleased to know that yesterday at noon at the City College of New York I had a very successful meeting amongst the students. --- **[1968: Letter to Gargamuni](letters/1968/680505_gargamuni)** > I am sure that you must appreciate like that because I am always of opinion that both you and your elder brother are the result of a good mother. --- **[1968: Letter to Subala](letters/1968/680505_subala)** > I am in due reciept of your letter of April 30, 1968, and noted the contents. So your duty as you are doing, even nobody is coming in morning, Lord Jagannatha will hear your kirtana, because we are always in company with the Lord of the Universe. But I think Krishna has sent you one nice boy to help you. --- **[1969: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1969/690505_brahmananda)** > Regarding the United States Customs, we had been importing books from India, and I do not know what is wrong there if we import books from Japan. --- **[1969: Letter to Sivananda](letters/1969/690505_sivananda)** > I am very much thankful for your promise to help me in my missionary activities, and I shall be glad to know about your press, whether you can print first class books in art paper and linotype composition. If so, we can give you so much work. We have got many books to be printed yet. --- **[1971: Letter to Abhirama](letters/1971/710505_abhirama)** > I am very glad to know that one new brahmacarini has donated $15,000 and a new car. --- **[1972: Letter to Danavir](letters/1972/720505_danavir)** > I am pleased to know that our Portland center is having good success in pushing on Lord Caitanya's great sankirtana movement. --- **[1972: Letter to Niranjan](letters/1972/720505_niranjan)** > I am glad to know that your confusion has been cleared up, and you have understood the reasons for my scolding you. --- **[1972: Letter to Nityananda](letters/1972/720505_nityananda)** > Thank you very much for your kind invitation, and when I return to the U.S., I will seriously consider the proposal. So far your concern about management, the solution is to be always thinking of Krishna and the Spiritual Master, then maya cannot touch you. If you very strictly follow the regulative principles and chant 16 rounds minimum, there is no question of ever falling down. --- **[1972: Letter to Rsabhadeva](letters/1972/720505_rsabhadeva)** > I am glad to know that you are now managing the activities of our San Francisco temple. --- **[1972: Letter to Sridama](letters/1972/720505_sridama)** > Always there will be obstacles placed in our path by the demons and atheists, but if we can remain pure, nothing will be able to stop this great transcendental movement from spreading God consciousness all over the world. --- **[1972: Letter to Trai](letters/1972/720505_trai)** > I am pleased to know that all of you are enthusiastically engaged in distributing our books. --- **[1974: Letter to Jayatirthaa](letters/1974/740505_jayatirthaa)** > You have also written in a letter to Satsvarupa that temple donations are being put toward the Indian BBT debt. I think you are aware Gargamuni Maharaja has formed a spiritual sky tours program and will be bringing about 70 life members on a world tour including of course the United States. Regarding the grhasthas houses, we have given these houses with the purpose that they should execute devotional service exactly like the Brahmacaris and sannyasis. --- **[1974: Letter to Jayatirthab](letters/1974/740505_jayatirthab)** > "I have received one letter from Jagadisa Prabhu who has been told by Tamala Krishna das Goswami Maharaja and Ramesvara Prabhu that recently more than one million dollars in funds from BBT, MVT and... --- **[1974: Letter to Ramesvara](letters/1974/740505_ramesvara)** > I received a letter from Atreya Rsi das dated April 18, 1974. In that letter he mentions your name as follows: --- **[1976: Letter to Giriraja](letters/1976/760505_giriraja)** > Herewith please find one copy of a letter to the Central Bank of India, Gowalia Tank Road Branch, Bombay. --- **[1976: Letter to Manager Of Central Bank Of India](letters/1976/760505_manager_of_central_bank_of_india)** > The Manager, Central Bank of India, Gowalia Tank Branch, Bombay, India Herewith please find enclosed one bank draft for U.S. --- **[1976: Letter to Radha-Damodara Tskp](letters/1976/760505_radha-damodara_tskp)** > As it is impractical for anyone to be sent to China at this time, I am sending Tamala Krishna Goswami to resume his old position as manager of Radha-Damodara TSKP. --- **[1977: Letter to Jayananda](letters/1977/770505_jayananda)** > I am feeling very intensely your separation. ---