# June 11 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680611le.mon|Lecture at a School — June 11, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...do, whatever he eats, everything, then he becomes perfect. Perfect. Simply by understanding God perfectly... Not perfectly; preliminarily. Nobody can understand God perfectly. That is not possible. That is not in our capacity. God is so great, we are so small. But to our small understanding whatever we can know, that are described in different kinds of scripture, and *Bhagavad-gītā* is also another description of the truth, Absolute Truth. So here Kṛṣṇa says that anyone who understands this Absolute Truth or the activity or the purpose or the appearance, disappearance about God, what is God, what are His activities... Just like we have got our activities, we have got our identification, similarly, God has got His identification, His activity, His form, everything. Now one has to understand what is that. It is called *divyam. Divyam* means it is not like this material thing. It is spiritual. So that is a spiritual science. So the result will be that *janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvataḥ* [[bg/4/9|[Bg. 4.9] ]]. Tattvataḥ* means truth, scientifically. Two plus two equal to four. This is called *tattvataḥ,* truth. Similarly, anyone who understands the science of God, then the result will be *tyaktvā deham.* By quitting this body... We have to quit, leave this body, that is a fact. You'll also not remain in this body, I'll not also remain in this body. But before quitting this body, before leaving this body, if we can simply understand what is God... Doesn't matter whatever you are doing. You remain occupied in your duties, you remain what you are. It doesn't matter. Simply try to understand what is God and what are His activities. Then you'll become liberated. --- **[[spoken/690611sb.nv|SB 1.5.12-13 — June 11, 1969, New Vrindaban]]** --- **[[spoken/740611mw.par|Morning Walk — June 11, 1974, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** No, no, it is not puffed-up. It is simply foolishness, that "Because I do not know, therefore all others..." *Ātmavat manyate.* Everyone thinks of others in his own standard. But that argument is not valid. **Bhagavān:** Is that the same psychology, that they..., they only know of material body, so that when they think of God, they think that God has material body also. **Prabhupāda:** That is still lower-grade man. But so far experience that "I have not... God is beyond my experience." Another point that in the Bible, Christ, Lord Christ, says that "My Lord, Thy be hallowed..." What is that? --- **[[spoken/740611r1.par|Room Conversation with Monsieur Mesman — June 11, 1974, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** This, we are chanting the holy name of Lord so that people may hear, and their hearts be cleansed to understand what is God. **Pṛthu-putra:** This gentleman asks if the disciples have to give up their religion. If, for example, they are Christian, they have to give up Christianity to be devotee. **Prabhupāda:** Well, Christianity also, they are trying to understand God, and we are also trying to understand. Not only understand, but we, we are trying others to understand what is God. --- **[[spoken/740611sb.par|SB 2.1.2 — June 11, 1974, Paris]]** **Nitāi:** "Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of the Ultimate Truth, have many things as subject matter for hearing in the human society, O Emperor." **Prabhupāda:** > śrotavyādīni rājendra > nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ > apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ > gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām > [[sb/2/1/2|[SB. 2.1.2] ]] Now, subject matter of hearing long, long, very... Not long, long; say about sixty, seventy years ago, one big politician of India, Madanmohan Malaviya, he came to see my Guru Mahārāja. So he was inquiring about our activities. So he was informed, amongst other activities, my Guru Mahārāja was publishing papers monthly in English, in Bengali, in Hindi, in Oriya, in Assamese, and one Bengali daily, *Nadiya Prakash.* So this politician was surprised, that "Oh, you are publishing daily a Bengali paper?" "Yes. Why you are surprised?" He was surprised. He was politician. He was thinking that "What one may speak of God, or Kṛṣṇa, daily in a paper?" He was surprised. Because they think that "Sometimes we go to the temple, 'O God, give us our daily bread,' " finished God's business. And my Guru Mahārāja replied that "Why you are surprised? This Calcutta city is most insignificant part of this universe." --- **[[spoken/750611mw.hon|Morning Walk — June 11, 1975, Honolulu]]** **Siddha-svarūpa:** ...experiments that these... I know of the experiments that these men are doing. They're connected... They have gone to the Buddhists. They've gone to Buddhist monks and various people that are into voidism, and they've made these tests, and it comes out that there's no activity. So they're seeing this as being the goal. They're trying to see if the same perfection, result of perfection, is achieved by the chanting. They already have a preconceived notion of what perfection is, and if they're testing to see if... **Siddha-svarūpa:** Yeah, if we're up to that standard of perfection of the Buddhist monks or the Zen monks or transcendental meditators or whatever. So I think it's a very bad thing to take part in that thing. **Siddha-svarūpa:** Because they'll simply try to... Anyway, it's... [break] Sometimes because these people have big titles like "psychologist" or "professor," and they have many machines and authoritative-looking instruments, we become deceived into thinking that they are authorities of some sort, and we let them dictate to us. [break] --- **[[spoken/750611r1.hon|Talk during massage — June 11, 1975, Honolulu]]** **Siddha-svarūpa**: At a lot of the universities in the United States, they have what is called Free University. It's a part of the college, and, like, almost anybody can give classes there, and it's open to the entire student body. **Prabhupāda:** And he has got letter that "I realize that you have converted these drug-addicted hippies to be servant of Kṛṣṇa and humanity." That is their appreciation. And that is a fact. They are surprised that these drug-addicted, most fallen boys, they have given up everything and now they are pure devotees. **Prabhupāda:** No, any sane man will think. There are so many *svāmīs,* *yogīs* coming. They cannot do anything. They remain the same, drug-addicted. Either Guru-ji Maharaj or this or that, Maharishi Yogi. They remain the same rascals. Do they change? That they are observing. That is the wonderful thing. *Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā* [[sb/5/18/12|[SB. 5.18.12] ]]. If one becomes perfectly Kṛṣṇa conscious, then he is fully satisfied: "I have got everything..." And he becomes spiritually all qualified. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. *Sarvair guṇais*, all good qualities. --- **[[spoken/760611ar.det|Arrival — June 11, 1976, Detroit]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...our process is: What Kṛṣṇa says, we believe Kṛṣṇa, because He is the supreme authority. *Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya* [[bg/7/7|[Bg. 7.7] ]]. So Kṛṣṇa is the supreme authority, accepted by all *ācāryas*. In our India the *ācāryas* are Rāmānujācārya, Śaṅkarācārya, Madhvācārya. They all accepted Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme. Formerly the *ācāryas* like Vyāsadeva, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Nārada...; later, Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So all accept Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore we should accept what Kṛṣṇa said, that. Then you are sound. No question of "my religion," "your religion." What Kṛṣṇa said, that is sound. So Kṛṣṇa says very simple thing. Our real problem is how to get relief from the material world. One may say, "What is the fault of material world?" The fault is that you may arrange... First of all, there is no happiness. But even though you make some arrangement, still, you are not allowed to stay. Suppose you have made very good arrangement: "I have got very nice house, nice car, very nice family, wife and relatives, and business," just like that. But where is the guarantee that you shall stay here and enjoy? That is the question. Suppose you have arranged everything; but nature will allow? Nobody can check. You cannot say that "I've arranged so nicely for my happiness, and why Yamarāja will take it away from me forcibly? Give me some time to set it up." "No." This is the problem. So that is the defect in material civilization, so-called material civilization, that if I try to do something with hard labor to make yourself happy, but at any moment the whole thing will be smashed. Rāvaṇa tried to make a golden city. Eh? He was vanquished. Hiraṇyakaśipu tried; he also was vanquished. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja, he refused to take any material benediction. He said, "My Lord, so far material benediction is concerned, I have seen my father was so opulent even the demigods were trembling when he was angry." So still the principle is there. So, "I have no value of this material civilization. Kindly engage me in Your service." This was Prahlāda Mahārāja's statement. Actually that is the [indistinct], how to be engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. --- **[[spoken/760611mw.la|Morning Walk — June 11, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Rāmeśvara:** Yes. He spoke with me for another one hour, very interested. And he writes for many different magazines also, not just one magazine. He's called "freelance writer." [break] **Rāmeśvara:** He understands our philosophy, but he is not ready to surrender. He very much appreciated the dioramas that Baradrāj is working on. We took him over to see them. Every one of the newspapermen is anxious to get a story on the opening of the museum. **Rāmeśvara:** Then, eventually, Baradrāj wants to have big museum in the city, not necessarily in our building, because the building may not have enough space. Śrīla Prabhupāda, I think it will be more prestigious if we use the art paintings to be displayed in museums or art galleries. --- **[[spoken/760611sb.la|SB 6.1.45 — June 11, 1976, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** Translation: "In proportion to the extent of one's religious or irreligious actions in this life, one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of his *karma* in the next." **Prabhupāda:** > yena yāvān yathādharmo > dharmo veha samīhitaḥ > sa eva tat-phalaṁ bhuṅkte > tathā tāvad amutra vai > [[sb/6/1/45|[SB. 6.1.45] ]] So, one has to suffer or enjoy. There are two things. So that is according to our activities. That we can practically experience. If one is educated, naturally he gets a good position, and if one is criminal, he gets another position. There is no difficulty to understand. So there are two things, *dharma* and *adharma,* religiosity and irreligiosity. Religiosity means to abide by the orders of God, and irreligiosity means to disobey the orders of God. That's all. Simple thing. But in this connection we must know what is the order of God, what is God, how He orders, how to execute, how we become fit for executing orders. These things..., these questions are there, but God is speaking personally, "This is My order," in the *Bhagavad-gītā* you'll find, very simple thing. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1966/660611_mangalaniloy_brahmacari.md|Letter to Mangalaniloy Brahmacari, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1966/660611_mr._i.n._wankawala.md|Letter to Mr. I.N. Wankawala, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1968/680611_mr._j._a._hamilton_jr.md|Letter to Mr. J. A. Hamilton Jr, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680611_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1971/710611_caitanya.md|Letter to Caitanya, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710611_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710611_kanupriya.md|Letter to Kanupriya, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710611_narayani.md|Letter to Narayani, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1975/750611_professor_stillson_judah.md|Letter to Professor Stillson Judah, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1977/770611_ambarish.md|Letter to Ambarish, 1977]]