Spoken May 11
Address to Indian Association
Prabhupāda: " ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ sarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanamDevotee:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:…
Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Allen Ginsberg: So, we will sing tomorrow. Prabhupāda: Yes. [laughs] Allen Ginsberg: Is this your first visit here? Prabhupāda: The first visit, yes. Allen Ginsberg: You have the whole house. Prabhupāda: Yes. They are doing very nice. [indistinct] We have some meeting in the university, Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupāda:Allen Ginsberg:Prabhupā…
Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 8
[Prabhupāda and devotees chant Invocation and verses 1–7] Prabhupāda: Again, from the beginning. [devotees repeat] Thank you very much. [break] Apāpa-viddham [Īśo 8]. This is most important part of this verse. No sin can pollute Kṛṣṇa. There is nothing sinful for Kṛṣṇa. How it is? The example is given generally, just like the sun. There is no contamination for the sun. There is no possibility of the sun being contaminated, or the sun being dark. This is a material thing. So how Kṛṣṇa, the Supr…
Morning Walk
Kṛṣṇa-kāntī: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s morning walk, recorded May 11th, 1973, in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles. Prabhupāda: How far progress, establish matter from life, not life from matter? Svarūpa Dāmodara: I’ve started working. Prabhupāda: Ah. A great task. That will be triumph of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. [Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabhupāda:Svarūpa Dāmodara:Prabh…
Morning Walk
[in car] Prabhupāda: It is not [indistinct]. Only sun. Paramahaṁsa: What are the stars exactly? They’re other planets, or...? Prabhupāda: They’re planets, heavenly planets. Paramahaṁsa: Are they self-luminating like the moon? Prabhupāda: Yes. Like that. That is stated in Bhagavad-gītā, nakṣatrāṇām ahaṁ śaśiParamahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Gaṇeśa:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:Amogha:Prabhupāda:Paramahaṁsa:Prabhupāda:…
Lecture
Prabhupāda: ...can be rendered in nine different ways. Śravaṇam---hearing. Somebody is speaking, and somebody is hearing. So both speaking and hearing, both of them are in the process of devotional service. But that talking or speaking and hearing, not newspaper, Nixon newsDevotee:Prabhupāda:Devotee (2):Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:
Evening Darśana
Prabhupāda: [Hindi] [Hindi conversation] [break] German man (1): Germany. Prabhupāda: Hmm? German man (1): Germany. Prabhupāda: Germany. English man (2): England. German man (1): In German. Prabhupāda: I went to Hamburg. German man (1): In Hamburg. In Batche Schlossen[?]? German devotee (3): [German] German man (1): [German] The very beginning center was in the Batche Schlossen[?], Batche[?] Street, a very small temple. And then it changed to bigger andPrabhupāda:Germa…
Letters May 11
Dallas My dear Bhaktijana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated May 8, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully. I very much approve of your plan for spreading Krishna Consciousness in the black African neighborhoods in New York and other places. If there are some boys there who can take charge and do things nicely, you can assist them organizing this...
Bombay My dear Gargamuni, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5/8/72, and I have noted the contents. Your idea for helping Vrindaban by sending money upon their sending you invoices will be very nice. But there is no need to keep all the money in Bombay, as suggested by Giriraja to Gurudasa. They have made a very nice plan for Vrindaban, more gorgeous than...
New York My dear Gopala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated May 8, 1972, and the check for .50. You are so nice and eager to serve Krishna, so all blessings of Krishna will be bestowed upon you, rest assured. Your wife has proven turbulent, that is the grace of Krishna. I may inform you in this connection my family life. Actually, I never liked my wife....
Mayapur My dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of the photographs of Mayapur project. You have sent pictures of building materials, but I want pictures of buildings. There will be no scarcity of money for the work, so you try to raise fund locally as far as possible. But whenever there is scarcity of money, you will have it in the usual way as you have already...
Giridhari Houston My dear Giridhari, Please accept my blessings. I bet to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated nil. I have noted the contents carefully. I am very glad to hear that you are distributing my books more and more. All over the society they are distributing nicely, to my great satisfaction. You are right when you say that “Krsna Consciousness is not a matter of over endeavoring...
Vrindaban My dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. Herewith please find the letter I have replied to Madan Mohan Goswami in response to his letter dated 4/5/73. He refers to your letter dated 26/3/73 which I do not possess. So you send me a copy of your letter as well as a copy of the letter which I issued to him in 1972 when I was in Vrindaban. This man is playing some trick so we shall also...
Madan Mohan Goswami Shebait, Sri Sri Radha Damodaraji Seva Kunja, Vrindaban (Mathura) Dear Sir, Replying your letter of 4/5/73, I beg to inform you that there is no question of vacating the house occupied by me. I am already paying Rs 10/ per month and there is deposit of Rs. 700/. with one of the Shebait. Now all of you together fix up the legal rent after adjusting the deposit money with interest...
Ksirodakasayi London Dear Ksirodakasayi, Please accept my blessings. Since the Mayapur and Vrindaban festivals in March I have been mostly staying here in our Hare Krishna Land. It is a large estate and requires much management. Today I was talking with Caitya Guru das Brahmacari who is the ground manager here and he suggested that your good self come here to take charge of general management here...
Calcutta My dear Bhagavata dasa, Please accept my blessings. This is to introduce Sriman Svadhin Kumar Mullick of 50A, Hari Ghose St., Calcutta-6. I do not remember whether I have seen him before, but his grandfather was my very intimate friend. This boy is coming from a very respectful family, Mullick. I think he is slightly deformed by one hand. Anyway, please admit him to be trained up to be a...
Mustafa Building Bombay My dear Brijratanji, Please accept my greetings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 17th, 1975 and have noted the contents carefully. I welcome your suggestion. I have advised my assistants to publish one chapter in each issue from the Bhagavat Maha-Purana. This will contain the devanagari script as well as the roman script. I thank you very much for your suggestion....
Dist. Hooghly West Bengal My dear Dinesh Candra Sarkarji, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 16th, 1975 and have noted the contents. We are not interested to purchase any land at so high a price. That is not practical. I have already spoken with Jayapataka Swami all details of Mayapur. You may hear from him my ideas.
Hansadutta Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Hansadutta dasa, Please accept my blessings. I have received one telegram from Mahamsa Swami which reads as follows: MISSED YOUR GRACE BY HOURS AGREEMENT DRAFT FOR FARM LAND SENT TO YOU PLEASE SANCTION RS 30,000 URGENT TRANSFER TO PREPARE FOR UTILIZING THIS MONSOON
Hyderabad My dear Jamuna devi, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 28, 1975 and have noted the contents. Your husband recently came to Delhi and Vrndavana and he has sold so many properties of ISKCON through the Mukutwalla. His only business is to acquire money. He is collecting money like anything and is not contributing to the society. So what can I do? I...
Los Angeles My dear Jayadvaita dasa, Please accept my blessings. From now on, include one chapter from Srimad-bhagavatam in every issue of Back to Godhead magazine. You can start with the 1st chapter of the 1st canto and continue. You should reproduce the chapter as it is in the book, in other words, with the devanagari script, word meanings, transliteration, etc. If a chapter is very very big, it...
Mathura, U.P., India My dear Kunj Bihari Shastri, I am in due receipt of your note. Your desire to stay with us for regular recitation of the Srimad-bhagavatam is welcome. So, for a few days, you can stay with us and see how it will be suitable for you. But, one thing is the language difficulty. All our men are speaking in English. Still, you can make an experiment and if you like, then you can live...
Sri K. C. Nigam Convenor-All India Spiritual Conference 108/119 Durgadevi Road Kanpur-208012, INDIA My dear Mr. Nigam, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 11th, 1975 and have noted the contents. Now, I am on world tour. At present, I am staying in Perth, Australia, then in one week, I shall go to Melbourne, then Fiji, then Honolulu where I will stay for at...
Mr. Punja Lautoka, Fiji My dear Mr. Punja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 1st, 1975 and have noted the contents carefully. I have also received from Madhudvisa Swami one copy of the Constitution that you have drawn up there. On my way from Melbourne to Honolulu, I will stop in Fiji for two days around the 22nd of May. Madhudvisa Swami will give you the...
Sri Caitanya Gaudiya Math Puri My dear Sri Ananga Mahan dasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter in Bengali dated 16-4-75 and have noted the contents. It is understood that you are arranging for passport for going to the foreign countries and if you will get it, there will be no difficulty to see our temples in the foreign countries. I hope you have at least...
Svadhan Kumar Mullick Calcutta My dear Svadhin Kumar, I am in due receipt of your letter dated 1st Vaisakh, 1382. So, I am enclosing herewith one introduction letter to my disciple Bhagavata dasa, in care of our temple at #3 Albert Road, between Camac St. and Hungerford St. near the Hindu school. So, you can go there and present the introduction letter and he will do the needful.
Swami Sachchidanand Bharati Swami Sachchidanand Bharati c/o Mohan Chand Agrawal Dropadi Bhavan, Baldeo Ganj Kosi Kalan (Mathura) U.P. INDIA Dear Sir, For the time being, we don’t want the books you have mentioned in your letter dated 23-4-75. In the future, if we need any of them, we shall let you know. In the meantime, if you have got any source for distributing our books (English), the list...
Cleveland My dear Ajita das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 26, 1976 and I have noted the contents with care. Concerning renaming your temple, if I have already given a name previously, then what is the need to re-name it. Now I can see that there is good preaching potential everywhere in your country as you mention the good response at the universities....
Bombay My dear Giriraja das, Please accept my blessings. So far the new towers are concerned, not a single space should be allotted without my permission. When completed it will be a wonderful building and we want to keep it open for people to visit from all over the world. We are expecting guests like hotel so the rooms must be available. I also want to know what terms you have arranged with persons...
Bombay My dear Mahabuddhi and Library Party, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 8, 1976, and I have noted the contents with great pleasure. Continue with this program of standing orders. It is very important preaching work. At least if they read our books they will not speak nonsense that kirtana is nuisance. I have asked Gopala Krsna and Tejyas das to keep sufficient...
Evanston, Illinois My dear Sri Govinda das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 7, 1976, and I have noted the contents with care. I know that you are a very intelligent devotee and that you are very capable. Why not contact Tamala Krsna Goswami in New York and see if you can work together with him to distribute our literature all over the world. He is now formulating...
Ambarisa My dear Ambarisa, Please accept my blessings. Perhaps you know that my health has not been so good recently. So I have journeyed to Risikesh, hoping to recover somewhat my strength. Here we have the best house and it is situated just on the side of the Ganges. It is very beautiful, with mountains, cool breezes and very nicely flowing Ganges River. All of the devotees say it is the nicest...
Bombay My dear Giriraja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letters, both dated 8th May, 1977. As Mr. Mohatta has recommended, I have enclosed a letter to Bank of America advising them to make payment to E.C.C. for the amount of Rs. 2 Lakhs. This letter as well as the other letter advising a transfer of Rs. 6 1/2 Lakhs to State Bank of Hyderabad account, should only be presented...
Sri Chaudhury Jagannath Prasad Dash, Sub-Assistant Engineer, Nuasahi, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar 12, District Puri, Orissa Reply: 21A Feroze Gandhi Rd. Lajpatnagar III New Delhi 110024 CAMP: Risikesh My dear Jagadananda, Please accept my blessings and offer the same to all of your family members. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 1st May, 1977.