# May 5 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1968/680505le.bos.md|Lecture to Technology Students [M.I.T.] — May 5, 1968, Boston]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/690505le.bos|Lecture [partially recorded] — May 5, 1969, Boston]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...come to the light of the sun, immediately you get out of your room and get, immediately. Similarly, although God is far, far away, He is everywhere at the same time. That is God's nature. Simply we have to agree that "Now I shall realize..." [break] ...without any difficulty, very easily. *Sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje, yayātmā suprasīdati* [[sb/1/2/6|[SB. 1.2.6] ]]. 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. So your business is how to become happy, because by nature you are happy. Diseased condition, that happiness being checked. So this is our diseased condition, this material, conditional life, this body. So as one intelligent person puts himself under the treatment of a physician to get out of the disease, similarly, human life is meant for putting himself to the expert physician who can cure you from your material disease. That is your business. *Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam* [[sb/11/3/21|[SB. 11.3.21] ]]. --- **[[spoken/700505ip.la|Śrī-Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 3 — May 5, 1970, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Kṛṣṇa is lion to the demons, and He's a lamb to the devotees. [laughter] Hare Kṛṣṇa. *Jaya.* So the atheist, they say that "We have not seen Kṛṣṇa." Yes. You'll see Kṛṣṇa as lion when He'll ultimately come and capture you, *"Ow!"* [laughter] That is death. Atheists will see Kṛṣṇa as death, and theists, devotees see Kṛṣṇa as lover. That's it. Hare Kṛṣṇa. *Nama om bhagavate vāsudevāya.* --- **[[spoken/720505r1.kyo|Room Conversation, “Definition of Chance” — May 5, 1972, Kyoto]]** Pradyumna*:* [reading from dictionary] "Chance." It's a noun and adjective. "1. The way things fall out. Fortune, undesigned occurrence, opportunity, possibility, probability. Especially in plural, as 'the chances are against him.' Absence of design or discoverable cause. Course of events regarded as a power, fate. 'By chance': as it falls or fell out; without design. 'On the chance': in view of the possibility. 'Take one's chance': let things go as they may; consent to take what comes." **Prabhupāda:** So it can be adjusted with the meanings of chance and necessity. I want something; that is my necessity. And it will come by chance? Or I have to endeavor for it, and then I get it? Shall I depend on chance? I have a necessity for something. So should I wait for the chance? **Prabhupāda:** So where is the waiting for chance? There is plan. If I have to work to get the thing, then it is plan. --- **[[spoken/720505sb.tok|SB 2.9.16 — May 5, 1972, Tokyo]]** **Devotees:** [taking turns in leading chanting; *Prabhup*ā*da* correcting pronunciation] **[*Prabhup*ā*da and devotees repeat*] --- **[[spoken/730505mw.la|Morning Walk — May 5, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Svarūpa Dāmodara:** It was raining a little bit when I came, in the south, towards Laguna Beach. It was raining. **Prabhupāda:** You approach the United Nation also. What they are doing? [chuckles] Simply wasting money. What is their aim and object, United Nation? **Brahmānanda:** [remarking on work on beach] They did not do anything. [laughs] These posts are still here. --- **[[spoken/730505sb.la|SB 1.8.43 — May 5, 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:** *śrī-kṛṣṇa*—O Śrī Kṛṣṇa; *kṛṣṇa-sakha*—O friend of Arjuna; *vṛṣṇi*—of descendants of Vṛṣṇi; *ṛṣabha*—the chief; *avani*—earth; *dhruk*—rebellious; *rājanya-vaṁśa*—dynasties of the kings; *dahana*—annihilator; *anapavarga*—without deterioration of; *vīrya*—prowess; *govinda*—the proprietor of Golokadhāma; *go*—cow; *dvija*—the *brāhmaṇas;* *sura*—the demigods; *arti-hara*—reliever of distress; *avatāra*—one who descends; *yoga-īśvara*—master of all mystic powers; *akhila*—universal; *guro*—O preceptor; *bhagavan*—the possessor of all opulences; *namas te*—respectful obeisances unto You. --- **[[spoken/740505mw.bom|Morning Walk — May 5, 1974, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** You see? They should have given to us for distributing Kṛṣṇa consciousness all..., but these rascals will not do that. **Indian man:** [continuing the reading] "In the Vedic scriptures, therefore, one is recommended to give charity to a *brāhmaṇa."* **Indian man:** "And by so doing, one pleases Lord Viṣṇu and all the demigods. The pilgrims take bath, worship the Deity and give in charity. They are also recommended to fast one day." [break] --- **[[spoken/740505na.bom|Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī — May 5, 1974, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...girls who have played the *Prahlāda-caritra, Hiraṇyakaśipu-vadha.* Today is the appearance day of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva. It is called Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī. So I am so pleased that within such a short time these boys have nicely learned how to play, and especially I have to thank Mr. Hiraṇyakaśipu. [applause] [laughs] Mr. Hiraṇyakaśipu has played his part very nicely. So this is very instructive struggle between the atheist and the theist. This story of Prahlāda Mahārāja is eternally true. There is always a struggle between the atheist and the theist. If a person becomes God conscious, Kṛṣṇa conscious, so he will find many enemies, because the world is full of demons. What to speak of the devotee of Kṛṣṇa, even Kṛṣṇa, when He personally came, He had to kill so many demons. There was His maternal uncle, His mother's brother, very keenly related. Still, he wanted to kill Kṛṣṇa. As soon as any son was born to Devakī, immediately he killed, because he did not know who will be Kṛṣṇa. The prediction was that the eighth child of his sister will kill Kaṁsa. So he began to kill all the children. At last, Kṛṣṇa came. But he could not kill Kṛṣṇa. He was killed by Kṛṣṇa. So nobody can kill God. The demons, godless society, they simply want to kill God. But actually, God is never killed, but the demon is killed by God. That is the law of nature. This is the instruction from Prahlāda Mahārāja's life. We can understand that, as it is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā, mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham* [[bg/10/34|[Bg. 10.34] ]]. --- **[[spoken/760505r1.hon|Room Conversation — May 5, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** So I was talking with Siddha-svarup. So while you are all here**, so what is the reason [indistinct]? We should work conjointly. Bhūrijana:** And...? **Bhūrijana:** I spoke to him a bit last night, and he said, "If my instructions contradict **Prabhupāda**'s..."Prabhupāda:** Huh? **Bhūrijana:** He said to me last night, "If my instructions to you...," something like that, "contradict **Prabhupāda**'s, then don't follow my instructions."* [laughs]* --- **[[spoken/760505sb.hon|SB 6.1.1 — May 5, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Sixth Canto, the first chaper, text number one. [leads chanting; devotees repeat] "Mahārāja Parīkṣit said: O my lord, O Śukadeva Gosvāmī, you have already described in the Second Canto the path of liberation, *nivṛtti-mārga.* By following that path, one is certainly elevated gradually to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, from which one is promoted to the spiritual world along with Lord Brahmā. Thus one's repetition of birth and death in the material world ceases." --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670505_ballabhi.md|Letter to Ballabhi, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670505_gurudasa_yamuna.md|Letter to Gurudasa Yamuna, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670505_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670505_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680505_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680505_subala.md|Letter to Subala, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690505_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690505_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710505_abhirama.md|Letter to Abhirama, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_danavir.md|Letter to Danavir, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_niranjan.md|Letter to Niranjan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_nityananda.md|Letter to Nityananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_rishikumara.md|Letter to Rishikumara, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_rsabhadeva.md|Letter to Rsabhadeva, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_sridama.md|Letter to Sridama, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720505_trai.md|Letter to Trai, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740505_jayatirthaa.md|Letter to Jayatirthaa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740505_jayatirthab.md|Letter to Jayatirthab, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740505_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760505_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760505_manager_of_central_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Manager Of Central Bank Of India, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760505_radha-damodara_tskp.md|Letter to Radha-Damodara Tskp, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770505_jayananda.md|Letter to Jayananda, 1977]]