# May 26 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720526r1.la|Room Conversation — May 26, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...the crow and a peacock dance. *Kāka-moya*[?]. There is a story. Do you know it? Do you know? The crow imitated a peacock. He got some tail feathers and put, [laughter] holding his head up, and began to... So that is imitation. But if *guru-vaiṣṇava* blesses, even a crow can become a peacock. That is the... There is vast ocean of difference between peacock and crow. Still, by *guru-vaiṣṇava*, a crow can become a peacock. **Śyāmasundara:** The other day I was hearing a tape, a philosophy tape, of you telling a story about a man who sawed himself off a limb. --- **[[spoken/720526sb.la|SB 2.3.9 — May 26, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Hmm? The small books? Where it has gone? Anyone will do. Come on. Why you are back side? **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/740526mw.rom|Morning Walk at Villa Borghese — May 26, 1974, Rome]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...philosophy and the so many bogus *svāmīs*' philosophies, they are different. They offer some material benefit by their philosophy: "If you take this *mantra,* then your material life will be easier." People are captivated for material benefit. Spiritual benefit, they do not understand, and neither our philosophy provides any facility for material benefit. Although spiritual benefit includes material benefit, but people do not understand this. **Bhagavān:** It appears that by taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one becomes less materially benefitted. **Prabhupāda:** That is the benefit they do not understand. [chuckles] Here, the philosophy is to make nil material benefit. And that is sometimes havoc for others. *Niṣkiñcanasya.* Caitanya Mahāprabhu says... --- **[[spoken/740526sb.rom|SB 1.2.2 — May 26, 1974, Rome]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced order of life, sannyāsa, leaving aside home without undergoing the sacred thread ceremony, his father, Vyāsadeva, cried out to him, 'O my son!' Indeed, only the trees echoed in response to the begrieved father." --- **[[spoken/760526mw.hon|Morning Walk — May 26, 1976, Honolulu]]** Śukadeva: The *bhakta* has no desires to fulfill, whereas the *karmī* has unlimited desires to fulfill. **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** The *bhakta* desires to carry out the order of Kṛṣṇa, and the *karmī* is interested in satisfying himself, gratification of the senses. **Hari-śauri:** One is working for his own sense satisfaction and the other is working for the sense satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. --- **[[spoken/760526sb.hon|SB 6.1.26 — May 26, 1976, Honolulu]]** So this is the general way of life. Everyone is engaged in these material activities, and the basic principle of material activity is *gṛhastha,* family life. Family life, according to Vedic system, or anywhere, is responsible life to maintain the wife, children. Everyone is engaged. They think this is the only duty. "To maintain the family, that is my duty. As comfortably as possible. That is my duty." One does not think that this kind of duty is performed even by animals. They have got also children, and they feed. So what is the difference? Therefore here the word used is *mūḍha. Mūḍha* means ass. One who is engaged in such duties, *bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan. Prapiban.* *Prapiban* means drinking, and *bhuñjānaḥ* means eating. While eating, while drinking, *khādan,* while chewing. *Carvya* *cūṣya* *lehya* *peya*. There are four kinds of eatables. Sometimes we chew, sometimes we lick up, *carvya* *cūṣya, lehya,* sometimes we swallow, and sometimes we drink. So there are four kinds of foodstuff. Therefore we sing *catuḥ vidha śrī-bhagavat-prasādāt.* *Catuḥ vidha* means four kinds. So we offer to the Deity so many foodstuffs within these four categories: something is chewed, something is licked up, something is swallowed. In that way. So *bhuñjānaḥ prapiban khādan bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ.* The father-mother takes care of the children, how to give them foodstuffs. We have seen Mother Yaśodā is feeding Kṛṣṇa. Same thing. This is the difference. We are feeding ordinary child, which is done by cats and dogs also, but Mother Yaśodā is feeding Kṛṣṇa. The same process. The process there is no difference, but one is the Kṛṣṇa center and the other is whimsical center. That is the difference. When it is Kṛṣṇa-centered, then it is spiritual, and when it is whimsical-centered, then it is material. There is no difference between material... This is the difference. There is... Just like lusty desires and love, pure love. What is the difference between lusty desires and pure love? Here we are mixing, man and woman, mixing with lusty desires, and Kṛṣṇa is also mixing with the *gopīs.* Superficially they look the same thing. Yet what is the difference? --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690526_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Gaurasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_uddhava.md|Letter to Uddhava, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690526_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700526_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700526_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710526_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710526_central_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Central Bank Of India, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710526_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710526_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710526_sons_and_daughters.md|Letter to Sons And Daughters, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710526_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_isho_kumar.md|Letter to Isho Kumar, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_ksirodakasayi.md|Letter to Ksirodakasayi, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_manager_of_sparkasse.md|Letter to Manager Of Sparkasse, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_niranjana.md|Letter to Niranjana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_omkara.md|Letter to Omkara, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_puri_maharaj.md|Letter to Puri Maharaj, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720526_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740526_dinadayadri.md|Letter to Dinadayadri, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740526_mahesvari.md|Letter to Mahesvari, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740526_saurabha.md|Letter to Saurabha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740526_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_aksayananda_dhananjaya.md|Letter to Aksayananda Dhananjaya, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_damodara.md|Letter to Damodara, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_gauragopala.md|Letter to Gauragopala, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_hasyakari.md|Letter to Hasyakari, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_lalitananda.md|Letter to Lalitananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_mr._richard_cohen.md|Letter to Mr. Richard Cohen, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_mr._robert_bedoian.md|Letter to Mr. Robert Bedoian, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_radhavallabha.md|Letter to Radhavallabha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_tapana_misra.md|Letter to Tapana Misra, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_tony_linda_yajna_sarasvati.md|Letter to Tony Linda Yajna Sarasvati, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750526_vahna.md|Letter to Vahna, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760526_alanatha.md|Letter to Alanatha, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760526_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760526_jagannatha_nitai.md|Letter to Jagannatha Nitai, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760526_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760526_yasodanandana.md|Letter to Yasodanandana, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760526_yasomatinandana.md|Letter to Yasomatinandana, 1976]]