# May 26 ## Spoken on May 26 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[1972: Room Conversation](spoken/1972/720526r1.la)** > So when he turned back to meet his wife, he uttered first four words: *asti kaścid vāda viśeṣa:* somebody who is a master of language. Because he [she] kicked him. The wife kicked him. So he was going to die, and Mother Sarasvatī appeared. She prayed..., he prayed very feelingly, that "Mother Sarasvatī, you did not do me any favor, so I am so fool that I have been kicked by my wife, so I'll suffer [indistinct]." So Mother Sarasvatī said, "What do you want?" "I want to be learned scholar." "Whatever you speak, that will be [indistinct]. Go back. Don't [indistinct]. I give you blessing, whatever you will speak, that will be learned." > Asty uttarasyaṁ diśi himālayo nāma nagadhirājaḥ uttpaparam*[?] *toya-nidhi avagāhya* [indistinct], description of Himalaya. *Asty uttarasyaṁ diśi himālayo nāma nagadhirājaḥ.* On the northern side of the earth there is a big hill, Himalaya. *Toya-nidhi avagāhya*. He's touching both side, great oceans, *sthita pratijñāna eva mana gandha.* He is standing just like the... What is it called, weighing rod, two sides? --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.9](spoken/1972/720526sb.la)** > They cannot explain why there are so many varieties of life. The varieties of life is there because we have desire, *kāma.* "I want this," "All right, take this." Kṛṣṇa is immediately prepared. *Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante*.* "If you want, you can take it." But Kṛṣṇa says, ultimately, that "You'll never be happy in this way. Therefore you give up this business. Simply surrender unto Me." *Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam*. So that is called *akāma.* > If we have got least desire for material enjoyment, Kṛṣṇa will give us chance again to accept a body which will satisfy the senses. *Deha-yogena dehinām.* For our sense gratification, a particular type of body is offered, by the order of Kṛṣṇa, through the agency of material nature. Just like father gives the seed, and the mother gives the body, similarly, Kṛṣṇa, the supreme father, He is the giver of the seed, living entity, and according to the living entity's desire, the material nature gives the body. Therefore material nature is mother, and Kṛṣṇa is the supreme father. *Tasmin garbhaṁ dadhāmy aham*. Garbhaṁ dadāmy aham:* "I give the seed, *garbha,* pregnancy." --- **[1974: Morning Walk at Villa Borghese](spoken/1974/740526mw.rom)** > [aside:] Don't bring near. *Niṣkiñcanasya. Niṣkiñcana* means... *Kiñcana* means something, and *niṣkiñcana* means even no something. *Kiñcana* means something, to possess something, and *niṣkiñcana* means to possess nothing. *Niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya. Bhagavad-bhajana...* So go back to home, back to Godhead, is meant for such persons who has nothing to possess here. That is very difficult. *Niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya*. The real aim, real benefit, is how to be transferred to the other nature, spiritual nature. *Pāraṁ param.* They do not know that beyond the sky there is spiritual sky, there is another nature. They have no information. Even they do not know what are there in higher planetary systems. They think, "Here everything is..." This is an insignificant planet in the whole creation, but their fund of knowledge so poor, they think this is the position. They are trying to maintain what was achieved. >the introduction of my Guru Mahārāja that *sannyāsīs* and preachers may use big, big buildings, motorcars and..., just to give the information to the Western world. Because they, if you ask them, that "You become a mendicant, possessionless," still, they are not very much interested. Because they see our dress, our living condition is not very equal to their standard, they do not like. Is it not? Yes. So just to give these Westerners facilities to at least to understand this philosophy, this method was accepted by Guru Mahārāja, to live in nice building, to have cars, to use everything for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Otherwise, nobody would take. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.2](spoken/1974/740526sb.rom)** > Asaṁskṛtāḥ kriyā-hīnā mlecchā rājanya-rūpiṇaḥ*. That is stated in the *Śrīmad... Asaṁskṛta.* The present government men, they did not go any *saṁskāra.* Formerly, the kings, they... The higher castes, never mind he is king or not, but higher caste... Therefore they claimed higher. Not claimed; actually they were. The *brāhmaṇas* and the *kṣatriyas* especially, and also the *vaiśyas,* they went the *saṁskāra,* reformatory. Just like *saṁskāra* means educational process, to elevate one. Just like we send to school, college, for elevating a child to the higher standard of life, knowledge, similarly, these *saṁskāras* also like that. One must undergo the *saṁskāras,* the reformatory method, and act in life. If I have taken the *saṁskāra* of *brāhmaṇa,* if I have accepted the sacred thread, then I must act as a *brāhmaṇa.* It is very practical. Just like if you have passed your examination as an engineer, then you must act as an engineer. Not that simply you have got the qualification of engineer, and now you are engaged in the business of a shopkeeper. No. You must act as engineer. That is qualification. > [reading:] "Generally, a man is born as ordinary being, and by the purificatory process, he is born for the second time." That is called *dvija.* Even a man is born, so he is not accepted as human being. Because unless the purificatory process is there, he cannot be accepted as human being. Therefore unless in any society the *varṇāśrama-dharma* is not there, they are not human being. They are called animals or *mlecchas, yavanas.* Civilized society means he must know, he must undergone the all the regulative principles. But at the present moment, in the *Bhāgavata* it is said, *asaṁskṛta:* "without any reformatory method." All these posts, government posts, are occupied by persons *asaṁskṛtāḥ kriyā-hīnā mlecchā rājanya-rūpiṇaḥ*. So what will be their business? They do not know what is the responsibility of government. They do not know. Therefore the whole world is in chaos. They are neither themselves perfect gentlemen or perfect *brāhmaṇa* or *kṣatriya.* They are also like animals, *śūdras.* How they can rule over nicely? But formerly that was not. The *brāhmaṇa* and the *kṣatriya* especially, they must undergo the reformatory method. --- **[1976: Morning Walk](spoken/1976/760526mw.hon)** >afraid of population. We say, "Create any number of population, but make them Kṛṣṇa conscious." That is our restriction, that if you cannot make your children Kṛṣṇa conscious, then don't beget. And if you can do that, then hundred children can be got. *Na sasya. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum*. This is our... We say that if you cannot create Kṛṣṇa conscious child, don't become father and mother. And if you can produce Kṛṣṇa conscious children, you become father and mother hundreds of children. > Śukadeva: They were causing traffic disturbance. So therefore they took away all the mango trees. There were much more mango trees in Hawaii than there are now. Anyone could go and take mangoes off the ground. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.26](spoken/1976/760526sb.hon)** > So this difference has been explained by the author of *Caitanya-caritāmṛta,* that what is the difference between lusty desires and love? That has been explained. He has said, *ātmendriya-tṛpti vāñchā-tāra nāma 'kāma'* [*Cc* Ādi 4.165]: "When I want to satisfy my senses, that is *kāma.*" But *kṛṣṇendriya-prīti-icchā dhare 'prema' nāma:* "And when we want to satisfy the senses of Kṛṣṇa, then it is love, *prema.*" That is the difference. Here in this material world there is no love, because the man and woman, they have no idea that "I mix with the man, the man will satisfy his desires with me." No. "Iwill satisfy my desires." This is the basic principle. The man is thinking that "Mixing with this woman, I'll satisfy my sense desire," and woman is thinking that "By mixing with this man, I shall satisfy my desire." Therefore it is very prominent in the Western country, as soon as there is difficulty in personal sense gratification, immediately divorce. This is the psychological, why so many divorces in this country. The root cause is that "As soon as I don't find satisfaction, then I don't want." That is stated in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: dāmpatyam ratim eva hi*. In this age, husband and wife means sex satisfaction, personal. There is no question of that "We shall live together. We shall satisfy Kṛṣṇa by being trained up how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa." That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement: Don't do anything for your personal sense gratification. Do everything for Kṛṣṇa's sense gratification. > So the whole civilization is how to restrict this sex desire. Because... Why restriction? Because the sex desire, sex life, will keep him within this material world in different bodies, either as human being or as animal or as bird or as insect—so long there will be this sex desire. To become free, to become liberated means to become liberated from sex desire. That's all. This is the basic principle. Not that this *tantra-yoga,* how to increase sex desires. This is not civilization. Civilization is how to cut down sex desire and ultimately become free, *paramahaṁsa.* That is civilization according to Vedic culture. Therefore the training from the very beginning, *brahmacārī. Brahmacārī* is instructed in such a way that he'll remain *brahmacārī* throughout the whole life. A *brahmacārī* is open to accept either a *gṛhastha āśrama* or *vānaprastha āśrama* or *sannyāsa āśrama.* But the *guru* advises, "Better remain all through *brahmacārī.* No botheration." So he's trained properly, but still if he has desire, then he's allowed to become a *gṛhastha.* That is also for a limited time. The whole plan is how to stop, because as soon as here, that Ajāmila, he was not properly married, he became the husband of a prostitute. But there are ten children, but he's entangled with the family, with children, and now he's engaged *bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ,* one after another. First of all sex desire, *puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam*. --- ## Letters on May 26 *Letters from this day: 47* --- **[1969: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1969/690526_brahmananda)** > Regarding your request for a kirtana musician, we don't require anyone who is very musically talented. Here in New Vrindaban Hayagriva has organized very nice kirtana party, and they are singing and chanting thrice daily very, very nicely. --- **[1969: Letter to Gaurasundara](letters/1969/690526_gaurasundara)** > I am now hopeful of the Hawaii center being improved like other centers by your good efforts. --- **[1969: Letter to Gopala Krsna](letters/1969/690526_gopala_krsna)** > I am very glad to send you the beads for your initiation, but I think you wanted permission from your father, and I have received the following telegram from him: "Gopala Khanna at Montreal our only... --- **[1969: Letter to Jadurani](letters/1969/690526_jadurani)** > Regarding your question about kirtana, practically we are not concerned with the instruments. --- **[1969: Letter to Pradyumna](letters/1969/690526_pradyumna)** > In the meantime, you must have the machine and begin immediately composing. I want the *Bhagavatams* should be entrusted to you four; Hayagriva and his wife, and you and your wife. --- **[1969: Letter to Satsvarupa](letters/1969/690526_satsvarupa)** > Please let me know if you have received your money from Columbus? When you pay big rent anyway, purchasing a house is nice. --- **[1969: Letter to Syamasundara](letters/1969/690526_syamasundara)** > I am so glad to note that you are tackling very consistently a great personality like George Harrison, and he is becoming gradually inclined to our movement. I am very satisfied to learn that he has recently made one record along with you of Hare Krishna. --- **[1969: Letter to Uddhava](letters/1969/690526_uddhava)** > You have asked about where you will get the money for bookbinding equipment, and I think you may take it from the money you are saving. --- **[1969: Letter to Upendra](letters/1969/690526_upendra)** > Also I have received your check, and I am so pleased that you are so regular in sending it. --- **[1970: Letter to Bhagavan](letters/1970/700526_bhagavan)** > I have accepted them as my initiated disciples as you have recommended, and their beads and reply letters have been dispatched on Sunday May 24th, I hope you have received them by this time. --- **[1970: Letter to Jadurani](letters/1970/700526_jadurani)** > We have now received the full set of paintings for the first volume of KRSNA book, and they are all very, very excellent. So your art department is doing very nicely, and surely the production will improve even more by the grace of Krsna. You are all being inspired just how to portray the Lord and His associates for the devotees' eyes, so everyone who sees to these transcendental pictures will turn to become devotees—that is our aim. --- **[1971: Letter to Bhagavan](letters/1971/710526_bhagavan)** > So far as the donated offset press is concerned, if it is being used locally, then there is no need of sending it to India. Go on with your work there. --- **[1971: Letter to Rupanuga](letters/1971/710526_rupanuga)** > This Krishna Consciousness Movement is sublime in the sense that if simply people see Krishna in every state of daily activities, they become perfect. --- **[1971: Letter to Satsvarupa](letters/1971/710526_satsvarupa)** > So far as "Back To Godhead" is concerned, the answers to your questions are as follows: Recipes are all right if you think that there is such a public demand. --- **[1971: Letter to Sons And Daughters](letters/1971/710526_sons_and_daughters)** > I thank you very much for your kind letter dated 17th May, 1971 and I am appreciating it very much. Presently I am in Calcutta where we just held a very successful "Hare Krishna Festival" and we were drawing 35,000 people daily for hearing discourses on Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita, for seeing Aratik and taking prasadam also. --- **[1971: Letter to Syamasundara](letters/1971/710526_syamasundara)** > You will be glad to know that I am starting for Bombay on the morning of the 31st May, 1971, at 9:00 P. --- **[1972: Letter to Gurudasa](letters/1972/720526_gurudasa)** > You have gone to Kanpur and met with the Singhania family and you have had some very cordial dealings with him, so in this way, if you canvass him very sincerely and gently he can alone build our... --- **[1972: Letter to Isho Kumar](letters/1972/720526_isho_kumar)** > Now you kindly consult with your father and if you are serious to take up the matter, then I will send you the matter for your immediate attention. If you are interested to publish my works that will be very much suitable to me and profitable for both of us, But if that is not possible, you please introduce us to one nice press and we can print on our own account, and you can be the selling agent. --- **[1972: Letter to Ksirodakasayi](letters/1972/720526_ksirodakasayi)** > There is no difficulty to send all of the vouchers and receipts for materials to Bombay, so I want that you shall send all of them, never mind their amount. --- **[1972: Letter to Madhudvisa](letters/1972/720526_madhudvisa)** > I had written you one letter to Bombay requesting that you shall be the GBC man for the South Pacific, South West Asia, and Australia-New Zealand zone. It was the idea of Karandhara, and Syamasundara and the others to redivide the world into twelve zones and reappoint new GBC members to fill those positions. --- **[1972: Letter to Manager Of Sparkasse](letters/1972/720526_manager_of_sparkasse)** > I have got my account in your Hamburg Branch, and the number is 114/332 647. As of 10-9-69 there were 5 DM. only. --- **[1972: Letter to Niranjana](letters/1972/720526_niranjana)** > Regarding Hindi literatures, I am very much encouraged that yourself along with Ramananda and Ksirodakasayi Prabhus are anxious to do some solid work. --- **[1972: Letter to Omkara](letters/1972/720526_omkara)** > Now I want to print some of my books in Hindi and English there in India. The size of the books is about 9-1/2 inches x 6-1/2 inches on the average. So kindly let me know the composition and printing prices per page for such booklets and then we shall send you the matter and do the needful. --- **[1972: Letter to Puri Maharaj](letters/1972/720526_puri_maharaj)** > Bhaktivinode Thakur and Srila Prabhupada wanted that American and European Vaisnavas should come to India and join with dancing our Vaisnavas there, but if they have got some difficulty to enter into the temple it will be against the desire of Bhaktivinode Thakur and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Dass, the chief minister, is a very nice gentleman, I know him personally. --- **[1972: Letter to Sudama](letters/1972/720526_sudama)** > Regarding Trivikrama Maharaja I have informed Madhudvisa Swami, who is the new GBC secretary in Australia and South Pacific zone, to write to Trivikrama and engage him for preaching work in that zone. --- **[1974: Letter to Dinadayadri](letters/1974/740526_dinadayadri)** > You are a very good girl and a sincere devotee therefore, even though you have experienced difficulty you are remaining pure in Krsna Consciousness and keeping faith in Krsna and the spiritual master. --- **[1974: Letter to Mahesvari](letters/1974/740526_mahesvari)** > I am very sorry that your husband Mahatma das has taken my letter to him in the wrong way and has told you to get married to another man although you are only 20 years old and have a 7 month old son. --- **[1974: Letter to Saurabha](letters/1974/740526_saurabha)** > Bon Maharaja had to go several times to get the Governor, but with one letter he has accepted our invitation. So it is up to you Europeans and Americans to push it all over the world, and one day you will be the leaders of the world. --- **[1974: Letter to Sudama](letters/1974/740526_sudama)** > Based on their declarations of sincerely following all the prescribed Vaisnava regulations for one year, and on your recommendation, I have accepted Jagat Prabhu das, Praghosa das, Kanva das and Nitai Gauracandra das for second initiation and I have enclosed sacred thread and gayatri. You were present in Hawaii when I was there and was particularly stressing that the presidents must be very careful on recommending gayatri initiation. --- **[1975: Letter to Aksayananda Dhananjaya](letters/1975/750526_aksayananda_dhananjaya)** > Keep the accounts carefully and occasionally, they may be audited by Vishvambara's brother. Also, what about the Punjab National Bank opening a branch at our temple? --- **[1975: Letter to Damodara](letters/1975/750526_damodara)** > Regarding your writing, this is very much wanted, but I think that it is better if you write articles, not books. --- **[1975: Letter to Gauragopala](letters/1975/750526_gauragopala)** > I think it is very obvious, even you have admitted, that the problem is that you are not following the basic principles of our society. --- **[1975: Letter to Hasyakari](letters/1975/750526_hasyakari)** > If the GBC has no objection to your going to India to help with the cow program, then I encourage you to go there. --- **[1975: Letter to Jagadisa](letters/1975/750526_jagadisa)** > Thank you for helping in this situation so nicely. By Krishna's grace we shall be able to remain in that building. Also the devotees must all follow the rules strictly as well as chant 16 rounds daily and read my books. --- **[1975: Letter to Lalitananda](letters/1975/750526_lalitananda)** > Anyway, try to render whatever service you can to Krishna. Even though you are in a very degraded condition Krishna, being pleased with your service attitude, can pick you up from your fallen state. --- **[1975: Letter to Mr. Richard Cohen](letters/1975/750526_mr._richard_cohen)** > Your talents for making movies can be engaged very nicely in Krishna's service. I am happy to hear that you are attracted to the Krishna Consciousness movement. --- **[1975: Letter to Mr. Robert Bedoian](letters/1975/750526_mr._robert_bedoian)** > Thank you for being attracted to this Hare Krishna movement and engaging yourself in chanting Hare Krishna. --- **[1975: Letter to Radhavallabha](letters/1975/750526_radhavallabha)** > I have also received the first volume of the Madhya-lila. The pictures of Jagannatha Puri and the Samadhi tombs of Rupa Goswami, Jiva Goswami, and Krishna das Kaviraja are very nice. --- **[1975: Letter to Tapana Misra](letters/1975/750526_tapana_misra)** > The most important thing is that you must follow all of the rules and regulations very strictly. Regarding your business, if Jayatirtha and the others give their sanction, then I have no objection. --- **[1975: Letter to Tony Linda Yajna Sarasvati](letters/1975/750526_tony_linda_yajna_sarasvati)** > If you simply try to follow very carefully the prescribed method that has been chalked out for us in the vedas, refrain from eating meat, having illicit sex life, taking intoxications, and gambling, and try to chant 16 rounds on you beads daily, read our books regularly and discuss them, rise early, and eat only Krishna prasadam. --- **[1975: Letter to Vahna](letters/1975/750526_vahna)** > It is indirect, impersonal and useless. Krishna's name is only mentioned in two poems in the whole book. There is so much work to do for spreading this Krishna Consciousness. --- **[1976: Letter to Alanatha](letters/1976/760526_alanatha)** > Now go throughout all of Europe with your travelling party and distribute my books profusely, just as the Radha-Damodara TSKP is doing in America. --- **[1976: Letter to Giriraja](letters/1976/760526_giriraja)** > Concerning the purchasing of other books for the Bombay library, I never gave a list of books to Saurabha for purchasing. Anyway, we may require but I never gave such a list to him. --- **[1976: Letter to Jagannatha Nitai](letters/1976/760526_jagannatha_nitai)** > Why you have stopped editing my books? So what are you doing with my books? You have stopped editing, but what is your occupation now? --- **[1976: Letter to Ramesvara](letters/1976/760526_ramesvara)** > You have mentioned this Kingsport Press which is now printing our books in America. Firstly, it appears from your report that the BBT is paying for 50% of the Diorama project. --- **[1976: Letter to Yasodanandana](letters/1976/760526_yasodanandana)** > I am in receipt of the Hare Krishna Souvenir printed from the Madras Centre. It appears that you neglected to advertise my books. --- **[1976: Letter to Yasomatinandana](letters/1976/760526_yasomatinandana)** > I remember how so many people were coming to visit the temple. The Deities should be very beautifully decorated so that people will be able to see the gorgeous worship in the temple. Now you have also received shipment of books so distribute my books profusely. ---