# May 12 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690512le.col|Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University — May 12, 1969, Columbus]]** **Allen Ginsberg:** The amazing thing was that everybody was able to shake their own ass and get up and dance after..., a long time, and not knowing what to do. When ancient rhythms were floating through, everybody thought and certainly everybody desired to dance and sing rather than be frozen. But such is the nature of our conditioning, in this, which is called the Kali-yuga, according to Hindu fairytale, Hindu mythology, Hindu religion, Hindu belief, Hindu metaphysics, Hindu cosmography, probably corresponding to what in our Western tradition we know as the gnostic tradition, through [indistinct], [indistinct] and William Blake. This is a Orient version of what may be the same tradition, suppressed in the West when the CIA took over religion in 313 A.D. [laughter and applause], when Constantine, Caesar, made a deal with the Church to suppress all alien thoughts and heresies and to formulate a square Western version of heaven and hell. [laughter] --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690512rc.col.md|Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg — May 12, 1969, Columbus]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/700512ip.la|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 8 — May 12, 1970, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupada:** [*japa*] > oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ > pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate > pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya > pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate > [Īśo Invocation] --- **[[spoken/710512le.syd|Lecture at Boys’ School — May 12, 1971, Sydney]]** [break] ...very beautiful boys. Why did you not join us, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa? Is it very difficult? Will you try to chant? Hare. Say "Hare." **Prabhupāda:** Three words you cannot chant? Oh, that is very astonishing. Hare, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma. Do you know what is God? Can any one of you stand up and tell me what is God? Thank you. Come here. [applause and laughter] Yes. Do you know what is God? **Prabhupāda:** Thank you. [applause] No, no. Don't go away. Don't go away. God is... What is that? What did you say, God, God is...? --- **[[spoken/730512sb.la|SB 1.8.50 — May 12, 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:** *na*—never; *enaḥ*—sins; *rājñaḥ*—of the king; *prajā-bhartuḥ*—of one who is engaged in the maintenance of the citizens; *dharma*—for the right cause; *yuddhe*—in the fight; *vadhaḥ*—killing; *dviṣām*—of the enemies; *iti*—all these; *me*—for me; *na*—never; *tu*—but; *bodhāya*—for satisfaction; *kalpate*—they are meant for administration; *śāsanam*—injunction; *vacaḥ*—words of. --- **[[spoken/740512bg.bom|Bg 12.13-14 — May 12, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and** devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] --- **[[spoken/750512mw.per|Morning Walk — May 12, 1975, Perth]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. It is far, far away. Their calculation is wrong. They are going to a wrong planet. **Paramahaṁsa:** Oh. Because they say that the moon planet is the closest planet to the earth. That is their calculation. And they say that it orbits around the earth, and then that the earth orbits the sun. **Prabhupāda:** The whole universe, diameter, is *pañcaśat-koṭi-yojana.* One *yojana* equal to eight miles, and one *koti* is ten miles, er, ten million. So *pañcaśata,* fifty into ten million into eight. --- **[[spoken/750512r1.per|Room Coversation with Psychiatrist and Indian Boy — May 12, 1975, Perth]]** **Amogha:** [to guest] I understood that you approach psychiatry, psychology, from the point of Eastern philosophy? **Amogha:** [laughs] I don't know, Śrīla Prabhupāda. He had told me that he has read your *Bhagavad-gītā.* He has a copy. Do you have any questions about the *Bhagavad-gītā?* Has he understood it? **Amogha:** He says he just wished to meet you. [pause] Perhaps I should read a verse. Should I read a verse? --- **[[../../spoken/1976/760512mw.hon.md|Morning Walk — May 12, 1976, Honolulu]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/760512r1.hon|Room Conversation — May 12, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** First of all, where did he get this idea, not to trust me? For everything responsible. **Prabhupāda:** He has become impersonal. That's all. He is simply out of the jurisdiction of personal care. The guru is personal or Kṛṣṇa is impersonal? Our guru is personal and Kṛṣṇa is personal. He is impersonal. Govinda dāsī: He speaks of the guru principle and that his spiritual master is within his heart, and that..., and he doesn't accept the personal service of the physical manifestation. --- **[[spoken/760512sb.hon|SB 6.1.11 — May 12, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Canto Six, Chapter One, verse number twelve. ...and I have several times said that what is the use of? That is the same, *hasti-snāna.* If he does not know how to keep, the elephant, how to keep neat and clean, if he has no this knowledge, so repeatedly he'll take bath and throw dust. --- **[[spoken/770512ed.hri|Evening Darśana — May 12, 1977, Rishikesh]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690512_balabhadra.md|Letter to Balabhadra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690512_colin_jury.md|Letter to Colin Jury, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690512_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Gaurasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1972/720512_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720512_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730512_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740512_devaprastha.md|Letter to Devaprastha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740512_lilavati.md|Letter to Lilavati, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740512_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750512_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1975]]