# May 30 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660530bg.ny|Bg 3.21-25 — May 30, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. "A person, whatever he may be, even he is very lowborn, but if he utters the holy name of God by his tongue, he becomes the glorious person." *Śva-pacaḥ ataḥ. Śva-paca. Śva* means dog, and *pacaḥ ataḥ, pacaḥ ataḥ* means one who eats dog. In India the dog-eaters are considered to be the lowest class of men, dog-eaters. So *śva-pacaḥ ataḥ. Śva-pacaḥ ataḥ* means the dog-eaters. So even the dog-eaters, even if he is a dog-eater, it doesn't matter. If he can chant the holy name of Lord, then he becomes glorious. *Aho bata śva-paco 'to garīyān yaj-jihvāgre nāma tubhyam.* So this Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting is glorious, and anyone who chants this, he becomes glorious. --- **[[../../spoken/1968/680530rc.bos.md|Talk After Lecture — May 30, 1968, Boston]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720530sb.la|SB 2.3.13 — May 30, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* Page 141, text number 13. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Prabhupāda:** [interrupts the chanting of the verse to correct devotees] It should be pronounced like *"it yabhi vyāhṛtaṁ rājā." It yabhi vyāhṛtaṁ rājā.* [devotees repeat] *It yabhi vyāhṛtaṁ rājā niśamya bharatarṣabhaḥ.* Like that. Go on. [chanting continues, with corrections] --- **[[spoken/740530ar.gen|Śrīla Prabhupāda Welcomed by Governor at Hotel de Ville — May 30, 1974, Geneva]]** **Governor:** In the name of the Canton of Geneva and the city, we wish to extend our heartfelt welcome to you. This republic is an independent state, part of Switzerland, and it has a reputation for being a great center of dialog between all men of science, philosophy and religion. Geneva is the seat of the World Council of Churches, and there is a Protestant pastor who is there as representative of the Canton of Geneva. Unique among the cities of the world, Geneva has had the privilege to greet many great religious heads such as Pope Paul VI, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and many others. As civil authorities, we are very much encouraged by religious or spiritual groups because they contribute to wake up the consciousness of the people, provided, of course, that they respect all the laws. For thousands of years, man has tried to find perfection through religious means, and for us what is so much important is that this be done with tolerance, that whatever the books, whether they be the books of India or the Torah or the Koran, that they contribute to a general welfare of all men and not that they fight each other. There is the need currently for men to understand each other better and hear each other better. The modern world neither has the time nor the interest to tolerate divisions between men, especially on the spiritual platform. As a result, everyone must try to improve the fate of the individual man through these means. Should we not, then, try to find some common language with which to solve these problems, all the while respecting the dignity of the common man? And we hope finally that this trip in Europe will give Your Divine Grace new perspectives in the search for the truth. **Guru-gaurāṅga:** [he asks in French] The president says that you may speak directly in English, no translation needed. --- **[[spoken/740530mw.rom|Morning Walk — May 30, 1974, Rome]]** *Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām* [[sb/7/5/30|[SB. 7.5.30] ]]. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām,* getting life after life and enjoying sense: the same eating, the same sleeping, the same sexual intercourse and same defense, either as dog or as man or as bird or beast. This is called *punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām.* These four things are available, either you become a dog or a god. Not God; these demigods. In the material world, everyone is given the facilities for eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse and defense. Now, if some dangers come, so we may be victim, but a bird immediately goes. He has better defense. Is it not? If some dangers come, immediately... Suppose all of a sudden a motorcar comes and kills us. We cannot do anything. But the bird, small bird, "*Hut!*" He can do that. Is it not? So his defensive measure is better than us. Similarly, I want to have sex. I have to arrange for that, find out some... But the female bird is always around me, at any time—this sparrow, the pigeon. You have seen it? Immediately ready for sex life. And eating? Oh, there is some fruit. Immediately he can eat. And sleeping? That is also very comfortable. So these facilities, don't think that it is available on this skyscraper building. They are available for the birds and the beasts. It is not that unless you have got a very nice apartment in the skyscraper building, you cannot have all these facilities of eating, sleeping and sex life. Anywhere. *Viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt* [[sb/11/9/29|[SB. 11.9.29] ]]. This is called *viṣaya. Viṣaya* means the facilities for sense enjoyment. That is called *viṣaya.* Our process is *viṣaya chāḍiyā se rase majiyā.* One has to give up this *viṣaya* and relish the transcendental bliss. It is a different platform. And these persons, bodily concept of life, their only enjoyment is this *viṣaya.* So *śāstra* says that "You are after *viṣaya.* This is available in any life. Why you are repeating this *viṣaya* in different forms of life either as bird or beast or tree or human being or cats and dogs?" *Punaḥ punaś carvita carvaṇānām* [[sb/7/5/30|[SB. 7.5.30] ]]. Again and again, the same thing, in different forms. So those who are interested with this *viṣaya, matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā* [[sb/7/5/30|[SB. 7.5.30] ]], they cannot become Kṛṣṇa conscious, *parataḥ,* by instruction of spiritual master or experienced person or by themselves. Themselves, they cannot. Even by instruction by the spiritual master or higher authorities, *parataḥ, svataḥ,* personally, or by others' instruction, *matir na kṛṣṇe,* they cannot become Kṛṣṇa conscious. *Mitho 'bhipadyeta. Mithaḥ,* or by conference, consulting, making a meeting, "What is the problem of life?" They cannot take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Why? *Gṛha-vratānām.* So long they have got this determination, "We shall be happy in this material world," they cannot take. *Gṛha-vratānām. Gṛha* means home, and *gṛha* means this body also. Those who are trying to be happy within this body, material world, they cannot take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. *Matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā mitho 'bhipadyeta gṛha-vratānām.* Why they cannot? *Adānta-gobhiḥ:* their senses are so uncontrolled. Therefore they must undergo the process of *punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām,* again and again, the same *viṣaya:* eating, sleeping, mating. That's all. --- **[[spoken/760530mw.hon|Morning Walk — May 30, 1976, Honolulu]]** Śukadeva*:* The difference in our activities is that because we see everything as Kṛṣṇa's energy, we feel the material world is never disturbing to us. Whereas for the *karmīs,* the material world is always very disturbing for them. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. But they want that disturbance. He's trying to be happy, but they do not know what is eternal happiness. We're also trying for happiness, but our aim is eternal happiness. **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** They think that eternal happiness means the same happiness that we experience in the material world, but it lasts forever, because they cannot conceive of a different quality of blissfulness. --- **[[spoken/760530r1.hon|Room Conversation — May 30, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Jayatīrtha:** I've never been GBC here. Bali-mardana was GBC, and then after that time it was never resolved who would be GBC. But Sudāmā was here, and you told him to go direct with you. So I never suggested that I become the GBC, because it was [indistinct], more and more territory. Otherwise I would have been more concerned. [break] **Jayatīrtha:** Hawaii was never part of the western zone; it was always separate.Gaurasundara was here, it was separate. And then Bali-mardana was here. **Rāmeśvara:** The question is, if it is to be distributed in India, should we insert the Sanskrit, because in India, if it does not have Sanskrit, it may not be taken as authority. --- **[[spoken/760530sb.hon|SB 6.1.31 — May 30, 1976, Honolulu]]** *"vikarṣataḥ*—snatching; *antaḥ hṛdayāt*—from within the heart; *dāsī-patim*—the husband of the prostitute; *ajāmilam*—Ajāmila; *yama-preṣyān..."* [break] **Translation:** "The order carriers of Yamarāja were snatching the soul from the core of the heart of Ajāmila, the husband of the prostitute. But with resounding voices the messengers of Lord Viṣṇu, the Viṣṇudūtas, forbade them to do so." --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680530_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680530_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680530_sacisuta.md|Letter to Sacisuta, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680530_umapati.md|Letter to Umapati, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1971/710530_krsnakanti.md|Letter to Krsnakanti, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710530_vamanadeva.md|Letter to Vamanadeva, 1971]]