# June 6 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690606sb.nv|SB 1.5.9-11 — June 6, 1969, New Vrindaban]]** --- **[[spoken/740606bg.gen|Bg 13.35 — June 6, 1974, Geneva]]** *kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor evam antaraṁ jñāna-cakṣuṣā bhūta-prakṛti-mokṣaṁ ca ye vidur yānti te param* [[bg/13/35|[Bg. 13.35] ]] **Translation:** "One who knowingly sees this difference between the body and the owner of the body and can understand the process of liberation from this bondage also attains to the supreme goal." --- **[[spoken/740606le.gen|Lecture at World Health Organization — June 6, 1974, Geneva]]** **Guru-gaurāṅga:** So we are very honored to be able to address here today. Our spiritual master, His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, not only is the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which is a cultural organization with branches throughout the world, one hundred branches, but he's also an eminent writer. He has presented single-handedly, so far, six volumes of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* which are going to be completed within sixty volumes, and other such books as *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.* The monthly magazine of the Society distributes some one million copies per month. And the aim of this International Society for Krishna Consciousness, of which Śrīla Prabhupāda is the founder, is a cultural respiritualization of society. We have made so much progress in technology, in science, and yet there is a certain disparity in the society. The point of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* and the Vedic scriptures is that any type of technology without fundamental spiritual technology cannot succeed. So it is in the hope of complementing the work of this World Health Organization by deepening its knowledge of the spiritual technology, which is equally important, if not more so, that we have requested this opportunity to speak to you. [break] **Prabhupāda:** So Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your participating in this meeting. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is based on the authority of this *Bhagavad-gītā. Bhagavad-gītā,* I think most of you know, Indians or foreigners. And some of you must have read *Bhagavad-gītā.* We have published *Bhagavad-gītā* as it is, without any malinterpretation. In the *Bhagavad-gītā,* the author of the *Bhagavad-gītā* is announced as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the Hindus, especially the Vaiṣṇava... Vaiṣṇava or not Vaiṣṇava, Kṛṣṇa is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We... Our Indian spiritual life is guided by the *ācāryas, sampradāya ācārya,* the Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī and Nimbārka. There is... Whole Indian spiritual culture is dependent on the guidance of these *ācārya.* And in the *Bhagavad-gītā* also, in the Thirteenth Chapter, it is advised, *ācārya upāsanam:* "One should follow the instruction of the *ācārya.*" That is our Vedic civilization. And in the *Bhagavad-gītā* also, it is said in the Fourth Chapter, *evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ* [[bg/4/2|[Bg. 4.2] ]]. The science of God... *Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam* [[bg/4/1|[Bg. 4.1] ]]. This is a *yoga* system, this *Bhagavad-gītā.* So Kṛṣṇa says that "Formerly, this *yoga* system was spoken by Me to the sun-god, Vivasvān." And *visvasvān manave prāhur,* then the sun-god, whose name is Vivasvān at the present moment... --- **[[spoken/740606mw.gen|Morning Walk — June 6, 1974, Geneva]]** **Satsvarūpa:** He said, "Let us go on to higher topics. We've just been talking so long about meat-eating." **Satsvarūpa:** You said: "Well, if you're sinful, there's no question of going on to a higher topic." --- **[[spoken/760606mw.la|Morning Walk — June 6, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** In the material world, whatever you do, the central point is sex. That's all. This is the verdict of the *śāstras.* Whatever big, big things you do, [laughs] the central point is sex. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Śrīla Prabhupāda, that's a point which I've noticed. Sometimes when I'm talking to someone, I tell them that "Practically speaking, all that you're doing is eating, sleeping, mating and defending." But they say, "I don't agree with you because," they say, "we're doing so many things. Just like our school work; it is not eating, sleeping, mating and defending. It is philosophy, it is appreciation of literature." **Rāmeśvara:** The end is sex. Just like they have these big, big skyscrapers for so many businesses... --- **[[spoken/760606sb.la|SB 6.1.40 — June 6, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** **"The Yamadūtas replied: That which is prescribed in the *Vedas* constitutes *dharma,* the religious principles, and the opposite of that is irreligion. The *Vedas* are directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, and are self-born. This we have heard from Yamarāja." **Prabhupāda:** > śrī-yamadūtā ūcuḥ > veda-praṇihito dharmo > hy adharmas tad-viparayaḥ > vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt > svayambhūr iti śuśruma So here is explanation by the Yamadūtas. The Yamadūtas were not very advanced so far their position was there. They were very odd-looking and not to be supposed very civilized—uneducated—but how they are explaining about *dharma*? Because the challenge was that "If you are servants of Dharmarāja, then explain what is *dharma.*" It doesn't matter whether a man is civilized or uncivilized or good-looking or bad-looking, but if he has got proper guide, then he can speak the right thing. This is the... *Yamarāja ūcuḥ.* They're not manufacturing anything. They're saying *iti śuśruma. Iti śuśruma,* "We have heard it from our master." This is knowledge. They are not expected to manufacture something speculative. They are neither educated nor very civilized nor... Nothing of the sort. But they are talking of the source of religion, how they have heard it from the authority, Yamarāja. Yamarāja is authority. In the *śāstra* it is said that, --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670606_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690606_vrndavanesvari.md|Letter to Vrndavanesvari, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700606_radha_madhava_sharan.md|Letter to Radha Madhava Sharan, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720606_visakha.md|Letter to Visakha, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1975/750606_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760606_amogha.md|Letter to Amogha, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760606_b.r._sridhara_maharaja.md|Letter to B.R. Sridhara Maharaja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760606_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760606_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760606_prabhupada.md|Letter to Prabhupada, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760606_svarupa_damodara.md|Letter to Svarupa Damodara, 1976]]