# May 28 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720528sb.la|SB 2.3.10 — May 28, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** [to lady devotee] Why you have no responsibility? You have added salt instead of sugar. Why? **Prabhupāda:** No. You shouldn't make anymore. One responsible should make it. Somebody, give him charge. This is great mistake. Hare Kṛṣṇa. **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* Verse number ten, page 134 [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/740528mw.rom|Morning Walk — May 28, 1974, Rome]]** **Prabhupāda:** No, *karma* is there. That is another point. My point is that any condition, one can live locally. That is my point. They are supposed to be uncivilized, and they live in the ice cottage. There is no sufficient things for eating, and how they live? That is the point. So why civilized man cannot live locally? **Satsvarūpa:** One objection to that is that they say that now cultures have been spread more by all this transportation. You even write that the world is now like a global village. But if everyone just stays in their own place, they won't know what people and culture is like in other parts of the world, and their view will be more narrow. **Prabhupāda:** No. They may go sometimes. Just like in India, they used to live locally, but at the same time they used to go to the pilgrimages by walking. It is not prohibited that one should not go out, but when one goes out, he goes out of pleasure, not as obligation. At the present moment it has become an obligation, that one must go out of his home, of his village, of his country. That is defective. There was no need of so many transports. People remained locally. One has to go for livelihood hundred miles. This is defective. --- **[[spoken/740528sb.rom|SB 1.2.4 — May 28, 1974, Rome]]** **Prabhupāda:** *O*ṁ namo bhagavate vā**...Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya**. O**ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya**. O**ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya**. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]** > nārāyaṇaṁ namaskṛtya > naraṁ caiva narottamam > devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vyāsaṁ > tato jayam udīrayet > [[sb/1/2/4|[SB. 1.2.4] ]] **Translation:** "Before reciting this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is our very means of conquest, I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa, unto Nara-nārāyaṇa Ṛṣi, the supermost human being, unto mother Sarasvatī, the goddess of learning, and unto Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the author." **Prabhupāda:** This is the *paramparā* system. As you get knowledge, step by step... Kṛṣṇa is the original spiritual master, and then from Kṛṣṇa, Lord Brahmā learned the Vedic knowledge. *Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye.* In the *Bhāgavata* it is said that "Wherefrom Brahmā got his knowledge?" Because whenever we want to get knowledge, we must approach a superior person to get knowledge. *Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet* [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad* 1.2.12].* --- **[[spoken/750528mw.hon|Morning Walk on Waikiki Beach — May 28, 1975, Honolulu]]** Śrutakīrti: [introducing recording] The following morning walk takes place on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on May 28th, 1975. [break] **Prabhupāda:** Bright. But why daytime it is looking bright? Why it is not bright? The moon is bright still, but is it bright? **Gurukṛpā:** Within this universe are there other planets similar to the earthly planet, where the inhabitants are getting the same..., similar material bodies? --- **[[spoken/760528mw.hon|Morning Walk — May 28, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...do not accept that these trees and plants, they have got life? Do they accept or not? **Hari-śauri:** Yes. They say they've recorded different types of living symptoms in plants and whatever. They see how plants react to different stimulus. And there was experiments that they actually react out of fear, they show symptoms of fear. **Hari-śauri:** Well, they say that the human beings haven't got a soul, so what to speak of the animals and the plants. --- **[[spoken/760528sb.hon|SB 6.1.28-29 — May 28, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Translation:** "Ajāmila then saw three awkward persons with deformed bodily features, fierce, twisted faces, and hair standing erect on their bodies. With ropes in their hands they had come to take him away to the abode of Yamarāja. When he saw them he was extremely bewildered, and because of attachment to his child, who was playing a short distance away, Ajāmila began to call him loudly by his name. Thus, with tears in his eyes, he somehow or other chanted the holy name of Nārāyaṇa." --- **[[spoken/770528me.vrn|GBC Meets with Śrīla Prabhupāda — May 28, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** Now it's the biggest paper in this area, Hindi paper, *Amara Jana*. In Agra, Vṛndāvana, Mathurā. They have written about us several times. Even when the road was changed to Bhaktivedanta Swami Marg, we had a press conference—I was there—and they reproduced it that Chattikara Road name had been changed to Bhaktivedanta Swami Marg. **Bhakti-cāru:** [reads in Hindi headline "Some Americans performing Hare Kṛṣṇa *Saṅkīrtana* in Fifth Avenue."] **Prabhupāda:** When I go to Los Angeles I am in Vaikuṇṭha. When I go to New York I am in Vaikuṇṭha. Wherever we have got temple, that is Vaikuṇṭha. So why shall I have objection? So do your duty nicely and see what Kṛṣṇa desires. Let it be fulfilled. But you do your duty. It is your duty to pray to Kṛṣṇa as affectionate children, and let Kṛṣṇa decide. And I have no objection, either. So, what is the next? --- **[[spoken/770528r1.vrn|Room Conversation [partially recorded] — May 28, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** Oh! [break] *Kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati* [[bg/9/31|[Bg. 9.31] ]]. Anyone who has given sincere service to Kṛṣṇa for any one day, he cannot go away. He has Kṛṣṇa's protection. This life, that life. What is that verse you were reading? *Tyaktvā sva-dharmaṁ caraṇāmbujaṁ harer patet tato yadi bhajann apakvaḥ* [[sb/1/5/17|[SB. 1.5.17] ]]. **Prabhupāda:** Ah. *Kva vā abhadram abhūd amuṣya kim.* One day, little service to Kṛṣṇa, immediately permanent account. It will never go in vain. But we should not for that reason neglect. That is not good. *Tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām* [[sb/1/5/18|[SB. 1.5.18] ]]. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Such a nice thing. --- **[[spoken/770528vg.vrn|Śrīla Prabhupāda Vigil — May 28-29, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt* [[sb/10/1/4|[SB. 10.1.4] ]]. You'll find..., not find any medicine throughout the universe that you'll be benefited either you die or be... This is the only medicine. In both ways you are... The death is inevitable, you die today or tomorrow. So by taking this medicine, if you die, you have the greatest benefit. And if you live, enjoy. If you die, enjoy; if you live, enjoy. Go on chanting. [*kīrtana*] [break] No, I have no objection. [laughter] I am prepared in either way. What is that machine *ḍheṅki*? Husking machine? **Prabhupāda:** That is Indian. [Transl. What do you call? Have you ever seen it? Hmm. *Ḍheṅki*? I am asking you. Have you seen a *Ḍheṅki*?] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1966/660528_indian_embassy_in_america.md|Letter to Indian Embassy In America, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1966/660528_ministry_of_finance_india.md|Letter to Ministry Of Finance India, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1968/680528_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680528_harer_nama.md|Letter to Harer Nama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680528_malati.md|Letter to Malati, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680528_subala.md|Letter to Subala, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680528_uddhava.md|Letter to Uddhava, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690528_sripati.md|Letter to Sripati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700528_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700528_manager_of_security_pacific_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Security Pacific Bank, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700528_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710528_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710528_manjari.md|Letter to Manjari, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_bhavananda.md|Letter to Bhavananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_deputy_assistant_charity_commissioner.md|Letter to Deputy Assistant Charity Commissioner, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_jayadvaita.md|Letter to Jayadvaita, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_jyotirmayi.md|Letter to Jyotirmayi, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720528_maitreya_mahasakti_arijit_mitravinda_nandita_gokula.md|Letter to Maitreya Mahasakti Arijit Mitravinda Nandita Gokula, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740528_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740528_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750528_anangamanjari.md|Letter to Anangamanjari, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750528_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750528_gopijanavallabha.md|Letter to Gopijanavallabha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750528_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750528_kirtiraja.md|Letter to Kirtiraja, 1975]]