# June 10 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680610bg.mon|Bg 4.5 — June 10, 1968, Montreal]]** Now Kṛṣṇa is explaining to Arjuna the difference between a living entity and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is very distinct here that "Both you and Me had many, many, many other appearances and disappearances." "Birth and death," that is ordinary word. Actually, the word is "appearance and disappearance." Just like the sun. The sun sets and sun rises. This is our calculation. The sun is there always, twenty-four hours, but to our limited understanding, because we cannot see... Now just this is sun-setting time. After setting of the sun, the people on this part of the world, they will not see the sun. That does not mean that sun is not there. Sun is there, but this part of the world cannot see it, and that we say sunset. --- **[[spoken/680610sb.mon|SB 7.6.1 — June 10, 1968, Montreal]]** --- **[[spoken/690610sb.nv|SB 1.5.11 — June 10, 1969, New Vrindaban]]** --- **[[spoken/740610r1.par|Room Conversation with Christian Priest, Mr. Chenique — June 10, 1974, Paris]]** **Jyotirmayee:** Mr. Chenique has made very good progress, because before he was always teaching impersonalist *Bhagavad-gītā,* and now you see he is wearing a *dhotī*, he's coming to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, he's coming for *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* classes, and he teaches personalist *Bhagavad-gītā*. But he still thinks a little bit that maybe above there is something impersonalism. But there is good progress. [laughter] **Prabhupāda:** *Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate* [[sb/1/2/11|[SB. 1.2.11] ]]. Brahman, Paramātmā... He understands English? **Prabhupāda:** Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān, last stage. First realization impersonal Brahman, then localized Paramātmā, and then Personality of Godhead.* [Jyotirmayee translates into French] --- **[[spoken/750610mw.hon|Morning Walk — June 10, 1975, Honolulu]]** **Śrutakīrti:** ...talking in the car on the way over, the other day you said that Govinda dāsī, she had asked you if in general that we would have to take birth in India before going back home, and you said yes. So we were wondering [laughter] how that's possible that we have to take birth in India. Because we see that they're not very strict Vaiṣṇavas there. So what is it... **Prabhupāda:** Land is... Just like this land, Vaiṣṇava is there. This land is not meant for spiritual culture, but still the Vaiṣṇavas are there. Similarly, in India... No, there are many Vaiṣṇavas there. The mass of people, they are all Vaiṣṇava. **Paramahaṁsa:** So by joining this movement we come to the platform where we can take birth in India in a nice *brāhmaṇa* family? [laughter] --- **[[spoken/760610gc.la|Garden Conversation — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Kṛṣṇa will give all facilities if we are sincerely serving Kṛṣṇa. The government gives all facilities to the government servant. The government gives all facilities to the soldiers. When there is fight, there is scarcity of commodities in the civil life, but there is no scarcity among the soldiers. The first consideration: soldiers. Similarly, those devotees who are fighting against *māyā,* their facility is first concern. They're fighting, trying to save the people from the onslaught of material energy. That will be explained. What is next verse? **Nalinīkānta:** > tat-prayāso na kartavyo > yata āyur-vyayaḥ param > na tathā vindate kṣemaṁ > mukunda-caraṇāmbujam > [[sb/7/6/4|[SB. 7.6.4] ]] "Endeavors merely for sense gratification or material happiness through economic development are not to be performed, for they result only in a loss of time and energy, with no actual profit. If one's endeavors are directed toward Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can surely attain the spiritual platform of self-realization. There is no such benefit from engaging oneself in economic development." --- **[[spoken/760610i1.la|L.A. Magazine Interview — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Rāmeśvara:** He's going to Detroit, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and our farm in that area, then Washington, D.C., New York, London, Paris, Rome, Tehran, and back to Bombay, all within about forty-five days. **Guest:** I was at the airport when he came in, and it was really quite joyous. There were about seven hundred devotees, I would say. The place was just vibrant. **Hari-śauri:** They diverted all the other passengers somewhere else because they couldn't get into the room, there were so many devotees. --- **[[spoken/760610i2.la|Interview with Coronet Magazine — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Rāmeśvara:** I showed Richard the "Hare Kṛṣṇa People" movie that Yadubara made, and Yamunā *mātājī* made some *prasādam* for him to taste. So he's gotten some introduction already. **Richard:** Okay. You came here not too many years ago. Did you ever expect that it would grow into what it has over the years? **Richard:** Eleven years ago. And in a relatively short period of time you've managed to gather around you a great number of people. Has it surprised you, or... --- **[[spoken/760610mw.la|Morning Walk — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** The prisoners... Haridāsa Ṭhākura was very well known, so all of them assembled and offered him respect. Haridāsa Ṭhākura blessed them, "Stay in this condition." [laughs] So they were surprised, that "We offered respect, and the blessing is that 'Stay in this condition.' " Then they were explained, " 'Stay in this condition' means your attitude to offer respect to a Vaiṣṇava." That was the intent, [chuckling] not that "You stay in the prison house." Viṣṇu, Vaiṣṇava, offering respect... [break] ...*ārādhanam.* When Pārvatī inquired from Lord Śiva what is the best form of worship, he advised, *viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ param:* "Oh, to worship Lord Viṣṇu is the best form of..." Then he said, *tasmāt parataraṁ devi tadīyānāṁ ārādhanaṁ* [Padma Purāṇa]: "And greater than *viṣṇor ārādhana,* Viṣṇu worship, is to worship *tadīyānām,* anything in connection with Viṣṇu." Anything... That is Vaiṣṇava. Just like we are worshiping *tulasī, tulasī* plant. Why *tulasī* plant? It is a plant only, not even human being. *Tadīyānām.* Because *tulasī* is liked by Kṛṣṇa. *Tadīyānām.* Similarly, anything in connection with Viṣṇu, to worship, that is better than Viṣṇu worship. **Kīrtanānanda:** Caitanya Mahāprabhu sent some cloth to King Pratāparudra, and he worshiped it just like Viṣṇu. --- **[[spoken/760610r1.la|Room Conversation — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Baradrāj:** It is the American or the Western version of the *aṣṭa-dhātu.* [eight metals—gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, brass, iron and bell metal.] **Baradrāj:** It depends on the quality, grade. Generally they don't use a very high percentage of brass. **Kīrtanānanda:** Gold is softer still. It will be much more brilliant, more beautiful in brass than bronze. --- **[[spoken/760610r2.la|Room Conversation — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** That is his blessing. He wanted; I tried. That's all. Whatever is being done, it is by his desire. *Vaiṣṇava satya-saṅkalpa.* [[sb/8/16/22|[SB. 8.16.22] ]] Whatever he desires, that is to be fulfilled. *Yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau* [Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.23]. Therefore, full faith in *guru,* that is the prime factor of success. Not any other things, no qualification, no education, only staunch faith in *guru.* *Yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ.* This is the secret. So whatever little success is there, that was only this qualification, that I wanted to serve him. That's all. Otherwise, there was no business of coming here at the age of seventy years. **Hṛdayānanda:** Rādhā-vallabha has one newspaper article when you had just arrived in, I think, Butler. **Hṛdayānanda:** When you had just arrived, I think before going to New York, and you were being interviewed, and it said the Swami is welcoming lectures, and... What was it? --- **[[spoken/760610sb.la|SB 6.1.44 — June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *[Devotees repeat] * **Translation:** "O inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha, you are sinless, but those within this material world are all *karmīs,* whether acting piously or impiously. Both kinds of action are possible for them because they are contaminated by the three modes of nature and must act accordingly. One who has accepted a material body cannot be inactive, and sinful action is inevitable for one acting under the modes of material nature. Therefore all the living entities within this material world are punishable." **Prabhupāda:** > sambhavanti hi bhadrāṇi > viparītāni cānaghāḥ > kāriṇāṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sti > dehavān na hy akarma-kṛt > [[sb/6/1/44|[SB. 6.1.44] ]] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670610_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670610_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680610_harivilasa.md|Letter to Harivilasa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690610_dinesh.md|Letter to Dinesh, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690610_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690610_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690610_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700610_ishan.md|Letter to Ishan, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700610_vamanadeva.md|Letter to Vamanadeva, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710610_makhanlal.md|Letter to Makhanlal, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/740610_amarendra.md|Letter to Amarendra, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740610_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740610_ravindra_svarupa.md|Letter to Ravindra Svarupa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_ananga_mahan.md|Letter to Ananga Mahan, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_bhagavata.md|Letter to Bhagavata, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_brhat-samu.md|Letter to Brhat-Samu, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_brsni.md|Letter to Brsni, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_caitya-guru.md|Letter to Caitya-Guru, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_jennifer_wayne_woodward.md|Letter to Jennifer Wayne Woodward, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_mr._r._van_den_tak.md|Letter to Mr. R. Van Den Tak, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_radha_krishna_dhawan.md|Letter to Radha Krishna Dhawan, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_sanatana.md|Letter to Sanatana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_sudhindra_kisora_roy.md|Letter to Sudhindra Kisora Roy, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750610_tusta_krsna.md|Letter to Tusta Krsna, 1975]]