# May 19 ## Spoken on May 19 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1969: Lecture at Engagement](spoken/1969/690519le.col)** > Human life, simply increasing the demands of our senses, these activities are zero activities. *Parābhava,* defeating. *Yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam* When a human being..., as long as a human being does not inquire, "What I am? Why I am suffering? I do not wish to die. Why death is enforced upon me? I do not want to be diseased. Why disease is forced upon me? I do not want to become old. Why I become old? I do not wish to die. Why I..." These things are very important questions. That is called *ātma-tattvam,* self-realization. > So, memory is decreasing also. People's sentiment for doing good to others, or to become merciful, that is also decreasing. Strength is decreasing, stature is decreasing. So this is one side. Another side, *mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā*.* One side they're decreasing so many nice things, another side they're very slow for self-realization. Practically, they have no interest. --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.1](spoken/1972/720519sb.la)** > So this human form of life is specially meant for becoming *brāhmaṇa.* We are therefore creating *brāhmaṇa.* We are not creating *śūdras. Śūdras* are already there. *Janmanā jāyate śūdraḥ.* Anyone born is a *śūdra. Śūdra* means who has no knowledge: ignorant. He is called *śūdra. Paricaryātmakaṁ kāryaṁ śūdra-karma svabhāva-jam*. Śūdra* is not intelligent. He cannot do anything nice, thoughtful. "Ehh, get some work, get some few dollars daily. Eat and sleep." That is *śūdra.* They cannot do anything independently. > In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, *teṣāṁ satata-yuktānām*. Teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānām.* What is that verse? *Teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam, buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam.* Kṛṣṇa says. He's silent for the nondevotees, but he speaks to the devotees. That is very natural. If some big man... He talks with men who are intelligent, who is businesslike. Why he wastes his time talking with some rascals and fools? So Kṛṣṇa talks, but talks to the devotee. Who are devotee? *Satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam.* Those who are twenty-four hours engaged in rendering loving devotional service to the Lord. To such person Kṛṣṇa gives intelligence, not others. --- **[1973: Arrival Address](spoken/1973/730519ad.dal)** > So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is directly connecting people with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and especially these children are required to learn this Kṛṣṇa consciousness from the very beginning of their life. Because this human form of life is the only chance to understand God. You cannot understand God in any other form—in the form of a dog, in the form of a cat, or even the form of a demigod. Demigods, they are very rich, opulent, so sometimes they forget. Out of very much being affluent, people forget Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the demigods also sometimes forget. And what to speak of the animals? > So this human form of life is the only chance to understand God. Therefore if children are not given lesson about God... There is no guarantee that we will live one hundred years. There is no guarantee. Anyone, at any moment, can pass away. Therefore, before the next death comes, one must be fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the highest achievement of life. --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/750519mw.mel)** > The literature which does not describe Kṛṣṇa, that is the place for the crows. There is sex literature, they're enjoyed by the crows, and this *Bhāgavatam* is enjoyed by the swans. That is the difference. Crows' literature and swans' literature, *paramahaṁsa. Paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ vāstavaṁ vastu vedyam atra*. Everyone in this material world, they're envious. Their business is to become envious. I am envious of you; you are envious of me. This is material world. And the *paramahaṁsas,* Vaiṣṇava, they're kind, they're merciful. "Ah, this fallen soul is suffering for want of Kṛṣṇa. Let us preach." That is the difference. The envious and the nonenvious. That is *paramahaṁsa. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ*. They are not only not envious, but they're merciful. They'll suffer so many troubles for their preaching work, still they'll do that. *Titikṣava.* A preacher has to suffer so many inconvenience. You had to suffer in here? > Yes. On account of good rains, the earth used to produce immense necessities of life. Just like this portion is maintained with sufficient water, there are green everywhere. So if there is sufficient rain, everywhere you can do. Where is the question of overpopulation? [break]...population you work for growing food. No. Some of them are becoming hippies, no work. And some of them are working for manufacturing tire tubes, tools, that's all. Where is food? Still there is food, but they'll not work for this, for growing food. --- **[1975: Room Conversation with Journalist](spoken/1975/750519r1.mel)** > So practically the entire human society is now becoming godless. That is very dangerous position. And we have already come to that dangerous position. There are so many problems, and recently we have heard that New York City, the most important city in the world, they are in a problem, that they cannot keep the city very nicely maintained and clean, and they asked for help, some millions of dollars, and the federal government has refused. In this way this godless society will have to meet so many problems of life, and if they want solution of all these problems, they must take to God consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. > So that is our sum and substance of the movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. So we are trying to... It is very simple method. Anyone can accept it by chanting and dancing and eating. And if one does not like this method—he wants to understand the philosophy—we have got fifty books of four hundred pages. You can see all these books. [aside:] Bring some of them. It is scientifically, philosophically presented. Fifty books, we have got. Four hundred pages each. --- **[1975: Room Conversation with Jesuit](spoken/1975/750519r2.mel)** > "As the embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." > inconceivable one and different simultaneously. One in quality, but different in quantity. God's power... I have got some creative power, and God has got creative power. So the creative power is there. But God has created millions of the planets that floating in the air, and we have created a 747 airplane—we want to take more credit than God. That is our foolishness. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture](spoken/1975/750519sb.mel)** > So at the present moment, practically there is no *brāhmaṇa,* no *kṣatriya,* no *vaiśya,* only *śūdras,* fourth-class men. So you cannot expect any happiness guided by the fourth-class men. That is not possible. Therefore throughout the whole world there is chaotic condition. Nobody is happy. So this is essential that the human society must be divided into four divisions. The *brāhmaṇa* class means the first-class ideal men, so that by the seeing their character, their behavior, others will try to follow. *Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhaḥ*. > Parāṁ gatim. Parāṁ gatim* means to go back to home, back to Godhead—that is our real home, the spiritual world—and live there eternally, blissfully, with full knowledge. That is our real position. So here we have come in this material world for material enjoyment. And the more we are making plan for material enjoyment, the more we are becoming entangled. That we do not know. They are thinking that material sense enjoyment is the aim of life. No, that is not the aim of life. That is the way to become more and more entangled. For sense enjoyment I have got this now body, Indian body; you have got this Australian or American or European body. But you have to change this body. *Tathā d*ehāntara-prāptiḥ*. --- **[1976: Lecture](spoken/1976/760519r1.hon)** > That is your duty. Kṛṣṇa says that to kill a cow and to kill a human being is the same sin. [indistinct] Kṛṣṇa does not say. Kṛṣṇa could have killed so many cows-they are tending cows, daily in 3 lakhs. He said *go-rakṣya. Kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyaṁ *. And He actually protected cows. So we have to follow Kṛṣṇa's order, we are Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We shall give protection to the cows, and we shall prepare foodstuff, Kṛṣṇa's order, and we take the *prasādam*. Is that troublesome? We are declaring Kṛṣṇa conscious society. We do not do anything which is not ordered. Always do everything by His permission. This is our... Kṛṣṇa ordered that drink cow's milk; we are taking. So what is your religion? Your religion: that "Thou shall not kill." As we follow Kṛṣṇa's order, you should follow Christ. Then you are Christian. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.19](spoken/1976/760519sb.hon)** > "Under My superintendence it is working," Kṛṣṇa says. That's a fact. You might have manufactured a very big machine. That is all manufactured by some life. Not that the iron and wood has come together, a skyscraper building—the bricks have come all together automatically. They say, "By chance." What is this nonsense? By chance these bricks have come and piled and become rooms? Just see. These things are going on, rascals. Therefore *andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ*. > So this is going on. Don't be misled. *Īśa-tantrya,* by the laws of nature, we are bound up tight, hands and legs. We are not independent. You cannot do anything independently. You are completely under the clutches of material nature. And behind the material nature is Kṛṣṇa. Therefore our business is to surrender to Kṛṣṇa and take knowledge from Him, and then you become perfect. That is explained here, *sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor niveśitaṁ tad-guṇa-rāgi yair iha.* Who will take instruction from Kṛṣṇa? *Tad-guṇa-rāgi,* when you understand that "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. We have to take instruction from Him." Nobody is perfect except Kṛṣṇa. Or one who follows Kṛṣṇa, he is perfect. Kṛṣṇa is perfect; one who follows Kṛṣṇa, he is perfect. Just like a child. He does not know what it is, but if he takes instruction from his father or teacher that "This is microphone," so when he says, "This is microphone," this is perfect. He may be child, but because he has learned from his father or teacher, "This is microphone," and he says, "This is microphone. This is this," then it is perfect. So the instruction of Kṛṣṇa is perfect, and the teacher or *guru* who speaks the same thing as Kṛṣṇa says, that is perfect. And if he manufacture his own ideas and becomes more than Kṛṣṇa, then he's a rascal number one. There is no benefit. --- **[1977: Conversation with M.P. Shri Sita Ram Singh](spoken/1977/770519r1.vrn)** > They won't take the real culture given by God Himself, Kṛṣṇa, "Do like this." Therefore they are godless. They must suffer. Now the suffering is awaiting to the general mass of people. *Durbhikṣa... Anāvṛṣṭi-durbhikṣa-kara-pīḍitāḥ*. There will be no rain from the sky, and therefore there will be no sufficient grains. *Anāvṛṣṭi-durbhikṣa.* And in the name of improving the situation, government will tax. *Kara-pīḍitāḥ.* In this way, so the people in general, they'll be so much harassed that without being able to manage things... *Ācchinna-dāra-draviṇā gacchanti giri-kānanam.* "Let whatever I may have to the family eating. Let me go." This is the position. > Don't worry. Sinful people? So what?" These facts are there. These people are bad? On the other hand, some hypocrite comes and says "Sir, the meaning of Kurukṣetra is this, and the meaning of *Gītā* is nonviolence." And people accept it. "Oh! What a great speaker!" You see. What Kṛṣṇa says that they kickout. And whatever the fool says, they accept it.] --- ## Letters on May 19 *Letters from this day: 18* --- **[1970: Letter to Dinesh](letters/1970/700519_dinesh)** > I understand from Devananda that you are in immediate need of the Sony machine, therefore I am sending it through Satsvarupa. --- **[1971: Letter to Jadurani](letters/1971/710519_jadurani)** > When Arjuna left his family connections, he went to the Himalayas. The picture may be shown of Arjuna going step by step to the Himalayas; Yes, occasionally devotees may be pictured with full head of hair instead of sikha. --- **[1972: Letter to Aksoja](letters/1972/720519_aksoja)** > I have met also your elder sister in Auckland, New Zealand and your mother also was there and they are both very nice and improving in their Krsna consciousness thanks to you. --- **[1972: Letter to Jagadisa](letters/1972/720519_jagadisa)** > Traveling and preaching, that is the Sankirtana movement. Now I am in Los Angles and everything is going very nicely here. --- **[1975: Letter to Dinanatha Misra](letters/1975/750519_dinanatha_misra)** > I hope this meets you in good health. My blessings to your children and my regard for your good wife. --- **[1975: Letter to Dulal Candra](letters/1975/750519_dulal_candra)** > Thank you for boldly infiltrating into the intellectual circles there. By preaching in this way, one becomes firmly convinced of the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness himself, and gradually it becomes easier and easier for him to convince others also. Most important thing is to follow all of the rules carefully, chant 16 rounds, and read our books carefully. --- **[1975: Letter to Govinda](letters/1975/750519_govinda)** > Krishna has given you some special talent and you are using it for spreading His glories. I am very glad to hear that you are continuing your drawing work nicely. --- **[1975: Letter to Gunagrahi](letters/1975/750519_gunagrahi)** > Regarding the festival on July 6th, the best thing is to simply hold big kirtana and have plenty of prasadam distributed. Generally, the public masses are not so much interested in hearing philosophy. --- **[1975: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1975/750519_hansadutta)** > Regarding BBT affairs, European publications are your main business, but for the time being, you must also see to the accounts and managing of the BBT in USA. It is approved by me that you get the books for only 20% above the cost of printing. --- **[1975: Letter to Hrdayananda](letters/1975/750519_hrdayananda)** > Stay there in that building somehow or other, and if you like, you may also open a center in Guadalajara. --- **[1975: Letter to Mahamsa](letters/1975/750519_mahamsa)** > Please find enclosed the copy of the draft agreement with my corrections made therein. --- **[1975: Letter to Ramesvara](letters/1975/750519_ramesvara)** > I am extremely happy to hear that a firm of young lawyers are now working with us to help us spread this movement by helping us to flood the world with our books. --- **[1975: Letter to Srutadeva](letters/1975/750519_srutadeva)** > I am in due receipt of your weekly sankirtana newsletters. By doing this business, you are all becoming recognized by Krishna. Please try to continue working so nicely for Krishna, following the rules and regulations, chanting 16 rounds, and studying my books and you will finish your business in this material world in this life and enter into the spiritual world to live with Krishna eternally. --- **[1975: Letter to Vinode Kumar Chudamani](letters/1975/750519_vinode_kumar_chudamani)** > While I am in Australia (Melbourne) at the above address, I received your Hindi newspaper "Vraja-Garima," but unfortunately, I don't see anything written about Brajendra-nandana, Krishna. --- **[1976: Letter to All Governing Board Commissioners](letters/1976/760519_all_governing_board_commissioners)** > Over the past ten years I have given the framework and now we have become more than the British Empire. --- **[1976: Letter to Caitya-Guru](letters/1976/760519_caitya-guru)** > Needless to say they are supporting our movement in Kenya and we must be straightforward in our dealings with them. --- **[1976: Letter to Jayapataka](letters/1976/760519_jayapataka)** > I wish to have a report of the situation with the land acquisition in Mayapur. I will be in Hawaii until June 1, then in Los Angeles until June 11. --- **[1976: Letter to Upendra](letters/1976/760519_upendra)** > Concerning the domes, the domes must be over the three Deities. The domes should not be brought to the front of the building. Their place is over the Deities, whether they are visible to the passersby or not. ---