# May 31 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720531sb.la|SB 2.3.14-15 — May 31, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* Page 142, text number 14. [leads chanting of verse] We already chanted yesterday, so I will just chant all the lines. [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/740531bg.gen|Bg 4.10, Festival at Maison de Faubourg — May 31, 1974, Geneva]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Nitāi:Translation:** "Being freedfrom attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me, and thus they attained transcendental love for Me." --- **[[spoken/740531r1.gen|Room Conversation with Monsieur Roost, Haṭha-yogī — May 31, 1974, Geneva]]** **Guru-gaurāṅga:** ...science and knowledge for man, and it is a manual. And he has an *āśrama* here. And this is our spiritual master, His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami. Monsieur Roost does not speak English, so... **Prabhupāda:** It is a little technical subject, so translation. We... Our *Bhagavad-gītā,* there is *yoga* practice also. So we approve this *yoga* practice. There is no doubt. And in the Vedic literature it is said, *dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ* [[sb/12/13/1|[SB. 12.13.1] ]], the *yogīs,* they also sees the Absolute Truth by meditation within the mind. So this process is approved process, and there are divisions: *sagarbha-yogī, nigarbha-yogī.* So what is your special subject matter of *yogī*? **M.** Roost*:* I try to make a *yoga* with understanding from occident... I saw that occidental people is more intellectual, and I don't understand very easily the *karma-yoga.* There are dynamics, and... I don't understand that we must work without, without goal, without intention, without personal intention. And I try to show through the practice of *haṭha-yoga* that posture and *prāṇāyāma* and concentration. I try to... --- **[[spoken/740531r2.gen|Room Conversation with Mr. C. Hennis — May 31, 1974, Geneva]]** **C. Hennis:** Your disciples were kind enough to call on me and invite me to come and have a talk with you. **C. Hennis:** Thank you very much. I come from the International Labor Organization, which is an organization in the United Nations family. It's the second organization after the United Nations itself, and it's interested in every form of labor, every form of activity connected with labor, and the protection of the worker, the welfare of the worker. And in many respects, of course, our preoccupations must overlap with yours in certain respects of the activities, of man in general and his protection and his well-being. **Prabhupāda:** So according to our Vedic conception, the labor class man is supposed to be the fourth-class man. First-class man, intelligentsia, very intelligent, learned. Or intelligent—one who can understand up to God. To understand God requires great intelligence. So first intelligent class of men, up to, they are called *brāhmaṇa.* The next-intelligent class man, those who give protection to the society, *kṣatriya.* And the third class, those who produce food and distribute. They are third class. And other, all others, they are fourth class. --- **[[spoken/740531sb.gen|SB 1.7.6 — May 31, 1974, Geneva]]** **Translation:** "The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this. Therefore the learned Vyāsadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth." **Prabhupāda:** *Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣāt. Anartha* means... *Artha* means which is essential, *artha.* So *anartha* means just the opposite. So our present material condition is that we have increased some unwanted things, *anartha.* Therefore we have been entangled. Just like yesterday I was speaking with that president. He was thinking the problem of economics. And what is the problem? There is no problem. Anywhere, any part of the world you live, you just have some land and some animals. Animals means cow. Other animals also you can keep. There is no harm. But cows must be there, animals. And you cannot destroy the cows. If you want to eat meat... That is the Indian system. Indian system, for meat-eaters, there is concession. Just like for sex life there is concession, similarly, for meat-eater also, there is concession. And for drunkards there is concession. Not impractical. Supposing one is drunkard, meat-eater, if I say all of a sudden, "Stop it," if he is not sober, he will not accept it. Just like in India there was prohibition. Gandhi, by his sentiment... There was no, I mean to say, education. He wanted to make all of a sudden stop. So there was illicit drinking. Illicit manufacture of wine increased so much that government saw that "We are losing the excise duty. These people are distilling illicit liquor." So now government, to save money, now *they* are manufacturing, and inducing people, "All right, you go on drinking." --- **[[spoken/750531mw.hon|Morning Walk on Waikiki Beach — May 31, 1975, Honolulu]]** **Śrutakīrti:[introducing recording] **This morning Śrīla Prabhupāda's morning walk takes place on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, on May 3lst, 1975. [break] **Bali-mardana:** All the surfers will be fish? If they think that within the water, they will be fish. [break] **Prabhupāda:** ...childhood we used to play one chessboard, that one serpent is there. If the, what is called, the *gutī*? --- **[[spoken/760531mw.hon|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — May 31, 1976, Honolulu]]** Śukadeva*:* It says that... [break] ...possibility of an object staying in motion unless there is a person to move it. So therefore the conclusion is that these planets cannot stay in motion unless there is a supreme mover. Śukadeva*:* ...the fact that there's no need to worship God, the fact that there's a need to worship man, because man is actually the center of the universe instead of God as the center of the universe. **Prabhupāda:** God. But you don't fight with Him. But these rascals say worship man, but why does he fight with man? Another... [break] --- **[[spoken/760531r1.hon|Philosophy Discussion with Hayagriva — May 31, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Prabhupāda:** No, we can discuss some philosophers; but whether it is necessary to increase the volume. But if you, if you think that all these advertised philosophers should be touched, therefore I..., I have no objection. **Hayagrīva:** Some people thought he's..., think he's important. I, I personally don't. That's my personal opinion on... He's a behaviorist, and he tried to set up a, a community called... He wrote a book called *Walden Two*, and it became a very popular book. When communities were being set up like New Vṛindaban, in 1968, this book became popular. And it was, uh... I don't think much of his philosophy, but he's a behaviorist. He believes that if you can control..., you can control people by controlling the environment in which they live. Hari Śauri: That's what you were saying this morning. They want to control nature rather than control their own natures. --- **[[spoken/760531sb.hon|SB 6.1.32 — May 31, 1976, Honolulu]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "When the order carriers of Yamarāja, the son of the sun-god, were thus forbidden, they replied, 'Who are you, sirs, that have the audacity to challenge the jurisdiction of Yamarāja?' " **Prabhupāda:** > ūcur niṣedhitās tāṁs te > vaivasvata-puraḥsarāḥ > ke yūyaṁ pratiṣeddhāro > dharma-rājasya śāsanam > [[sb/6/1/32|[SB. 6.1.32] ]] So there is *śāsana. Śāsana* means government. *Śas-dhātu* I have several times explained. *Śas-dhātu* means ruling. *Śas-dhātu.* From *śas-dhātu* the word has come, *śāsana.* There are many other words. From *śas-dhātu* is *śāstra.* And from *śas-dhātu,* *śastra.* From *śas-dhātu, śāsanam.* The Sanskrit words are coined from the *dhātu* verb. So *śas-dhātu* means ruling. So there is ruling. You cannot think that you are independent. There is government. If you disobey the ruling, the government has got police department, and if you are still disobedient there will be military department. You cannot disobey the rulings of the government. Similarly, this government, God's government, there are so many things—government officers, department rulings. Don't think that there was a chunk and immediately there was... Nonsense. It is not chunk. [laughs] It is regular government. Just like we have here a small place. In Hawaii you have got so many government officers, rulers. And do you think such a vast cosmic manifestation there is no ruling? Just see how poor thought. There is ruling. Don't think all of a sudden that... Any sane man can understand that things are being carried systematically—the seasonal changes, the seasonal fruits and flowers, the sunrise, the moonrise, the birds, death, old age, disease—everything systematically going. And is that happening by chance? Why by chance one does not live forever? There is no such chance, sir. There is ruling. You cannot say, "Now here is a chance the man has not died." Where is that chance? Why do you speak of nonsense chance? It is not chance; it is ruling. You must die. However you utopianly say, "Now we shall live." Oh, that is not possible. There is ruling. --- **[[spoken/770531r1.vrn|Conversations — May 31, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** [indistinct] [break] Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break] Begin. If we make Hindi plate, Los Angeles, and send it to... **Rāmeśvara:** We could do it in Los Angeles, but it would be more costly. Gopāla says that the main concern with the Hindi books is keeping the cost as low as possible so it can be sold in India. **Rāmeśvara:** The price that he is getting in India is very cheap. He says he can do twenty pages a day, composing. He's got one place in Vṛndāvana that he uses and another place in Delhi. So if each place is doing one different book, two books can be done simultaneously at twenty pages every day. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680531_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690531_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690531_patita_uddharana.md|Letter to Patita Uddharana, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690531_raktaka.md|Letter to Raktaka, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690531_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700531_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720531_vasudeva.md|Letter to Vasudeva, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740531_acyutananda.md|Letter to Acyutananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740531_radhavallabha.md|Letter to Radhavallabha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740531_sukadeva.md|Letter to Sukadeva, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750531_babhru.md|Letter to Babhru, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750531_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750531_kalacanda.md|Letter to Kalacanda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750531_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750531_prabhakar.md|Letter to Prabhakar, 1975]]