# May 11 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690511ad.col|Address to Indian Association — May 11, 1969, Columbus]]** **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-saṅkīrtanam > [[cc/antya/20/12|[Cc. Antya 20.12] ]] All glories to the *saṅkīrtana* movement. *Paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam.* Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, five hundred years ago in Navadvīpa, at the age of sixteen years only, a boy of sixteen years, He introduced this movement, *saṅkīrtana* movement. Not that He manufactured some religious system. Just like nowadays there are so many religious system have been manufactured. Actually, religion cannot be manufactured. *Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam* [[sb/6/3/19|[SB. 6.3.19] ]]. --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690511rc.col.md|Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg — May 11, 1969, Columbus]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/700511ip.la|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 8 — May 11, 1970, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** > oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ > pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate > pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya > pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate > [Īśo Invocation] --- **[[spoken/730511mw.la|Morning Walk — May 11, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Kṛṣṇa-kānti:** Śrīla Prabhupāda's morning walk, recorded May 11th, 1973, in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles. **Svarūpa Dāmodara:** ...from *Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa?* *Aśītiṁ* *caturaś* *caiva* *lakṣāṁ... [Padma Purāṇa*]. **Prabhupāda:** *Jīva-jātiṣu. Jīva-jātiṣu.* Yes. That means the evolution means from one form to another. The forms are already... *Jātiṣu.* Their facilities, they are already there. The living entity is simply transferring himself. The same example: One man is transferring himself from one apartment to another. --- **[[spoken/750511mw.per|Morning Walk — May 11, 1975, Perth]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Like that. That is stated in *Bhagavad-gītā, nakṣatrāṇām ahaṁ śaśi [**Bg* 10.21]. **Amogha:** Yes. Very soon the United States is sending up one rocket, and Russia is sending up another rocket, and they are joining in space, and they think this is progress. They'll join together up there. They hope someday that they'll be able to stay in a station like that and then go out to some planet. **Paramahaṁsa:** They'll probably have some argument in outer space. The astronauts will get into a fight. --- **[[spoken/760511le.hon|Lecture — May 11, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...service 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 about newspaper, Nixon news—Viṣṇu. *Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ* [[sb/7/5/23|[SB. 7.5.23] ]]. There are so many things people are interested in newspaper, hearing and speaking. Radio talks, they are also speaking, and so many millions of people are hearing. Television, that is also speaking, hearing. News column... There are so many speaking and hearing. The whole world is full of speaking and hearing. But the distinction between ordinary speaking and hearing and this speaking and hearing about the glorification of the Lord is different. So we cannot remain without speaking or hearing. That is a practical fact. But when that speaking and hearing is engaged in the matter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is called devotional service. We cannot avoid speaking and hearing. That is not possible. If you don't speak here or hear here, then I will have to find out some television or some radio or some meeting, conference, or in some bioscope or cinema. I cannot remain free from these processes of speaking and hearing. That is not possible. When that speaking and hearing is engaged in the matter of the glorification of the Lord, that is called devotional service. So Parīkṣit Mahārāj was on the point of death, and because he was emperor of the whole world... So people generally, if something happens to Mr. Nixon, and anyone hears about it within few minutes. Similarly, when it was decided that Parīkṣit Mahārāja would die within seven days, so he prepared himself. He went to the bank of the Ganges to spend the remaining seven days of his life, and many saintly persons—sages, kings and demigods—came to see him. That is natural, a very, very great emperor. So in that great meeting the king asked—there were many saintly persons—"What is my duty now? I am going to die after seven days." So there are different opinions, different scriptures, different philosophers. Somebody said that "You do this," and somebody said, "You do this." But all the saintly persons, they regarded Śukadeva Goswāmī– although he was the youngest at that time, only sixteen years old—they agreed that what Śukadeva Goswāmī would prescribe, that is nice; that will be very nice. So Śukadeva Goswāmī said, "My dear King," --- **[[spoken/760511sb.hon|SB 6.1.10 — May 11, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number ten. [leads devotees in chanting] So Parīkṣit Mahārāja, he said that everyone in this material world knows what is, to some extent at least, or to his capacity, knows, "This is right" or "This is wrong." May not be very advanced in knowledge, but something they know, "This is right; this is wrong." --- **[[spoken/770511ed.hri|Evening Darśana — May 11, 1977, Rishikesh]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1970/700511_hit_sharanji.md|Letter to Hit Sharanji, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720511_bhaktijana.md|Letter to Bhaktijana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720511_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720511_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720511_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730511_giridhari.md|Letter to Giridhari, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730511_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730511_madan_mohan_goswami.md|Letter to Madan Mohan Goswami, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740511_ksirodakasayi.md|Letter to Ksirodakasayi, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_bhagavata.md|Letter to Bhagavata, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_brijratanji.md|Letter to Brijratanji, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_dinesh_candra_sarkar.md|Letter to Dinesh Candra Sarkar, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_jamuna.md|Letter to Jamuna, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_jayadvaita.md|Letter to Jayadvaita, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_kunj_bihari_shastri.md|Letter to Kunj Bihari Shastri, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_mr._k.c._nigam.md|Letter to Mr. K.C. Nigam, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_mr._punja.md|Letter to Mr. Punja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_sri_ananga_mahan.md|Letter to Sri Ananga Mahan, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_svadhan_kumar_mullick.md|Letter to Svadhan Kumar Mullick, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750511_swami_sachchidanand_bharati.md|Letter to Swami Sachchidanand Bharati, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760511_ajita.md|Letter to Ajita, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760511_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760511_mahabuddhi_library_party.md|Letter to Mahabuddhi Library Party, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760511_sri_govinda.md|Letter to Sri Govinda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1977/770511_ambarisa.md|Letter to Ambarisa, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770511_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770511_jagadananda.md|Letter to Jagadananda, 1977]] - [[../../letters/1977/770511_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1977]]