# June 11 ## Spoken on June 11 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1968: Lecture](spoken/1968/680611le.mon)** > So one has to understand what is God, *divyam.* So Kṛṣṇa says anyone who understands this philosophy or science of God, philosophy... [break]...called the science of sciences. So therefore I use this word "science." So science of God. Then, after leaving this body, *tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma na eti*, he does not come back again to take this conditional material body. Then, he's finished? No. He says, *mām eti so 'rjuna:* "My dear Arjuna, that person comes to Me." That means you are transferred to the spiritual kingdom, or God's kingdom. Just like we are present here, face to face, you can go there and see and talk. Everything is there simply by understanding. And for that understanding, here is *Bhagavad-gītā.* > So the result will be that *janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvataḥ*. 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. --- **[1974: Morning Walk](spoken/1974/740611mw.par)** > Just like child is humble always, because he knows that "I am completely helpless. Unless mother helps me, I am complete..." Therefore, whenever he's in need of something, he cries, "Mother, help me." This is helplessness. Helplessness. Always. *Kārpaṇye.* This is one of the item of surrender. Unless you think yourself helpless, you cannot surrender. Surrender is complete when you think yourself that you are helpless. "I am helpless, but because I am surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, He'll save me." This faith also must be there, that "Although I am helpless... Not although I am factually helpless, but because I am surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, I have no danger. He'll help me, protect me." > But don't stop there, that "It is beyond my experience; therefore I should not have experience." This is foolishness. If it is beyond your experience, then go to a person who has got experience and take from him. Suppose if I am in this park, I do not know which way to go; it is beyond my experience. Then I ask one gentleman, "Where shall I go?" He'll say, "Please go this way." This is the way. Why should you stop and think others also, that God is beyond his experience also? Why? It may be beyond your experience, but unless you go to a person who has got actually experience, how can you get the experience? [pause] --- **[1974: Room Conversation with Monsieur Mesman, Chief of Law House of Paris](spoken/1974/740611r1.par)** > Basically, they're all fourth-class men. Now, these first-, second-, third-class men are described. So at the present moment, no one belongs to this qualification. Even they are not to the third-class men. *Kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṇijyam*. Who is..., who is protecting the cows? That is the third-class man's business. So therefore everyone is fourth class. So the fourth-class men, they are electing their representative to govern. They are also on the big fourth-class men. That is stated in the *Bhāgavata, śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ*. Where is that verse? Find out. All fourth-class men. Not fourth class; less than fourth class. Fourth class has got also some regulative duty. But at the present moment, no regulative duty. Anyone can do whatever he likes, whatever he thinks. All fifth-class, sixth-class men. No regulative principle. > The human life is meant for regulative principle. Just like we are insisting our students only for regulative principle, just to make them real human life. No regulative principle means animal life. Animal life. *Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa yamena niyamena...*. The *yoga* system is there. It is to learn the regulative principles, *yamena niyamena vā.* The *yoga* system is very strict regulative principle. I do not know what they are doing. Generally, they misuse also that, but *yoga* means *indriya-saṁyama,* controlling the senses. That is real *yoga* system. Because as the animals, they cannot control their senses, similarly... So the human being, having higher intelligence, they should learn how to control the senses. This is human life. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.2](spoken/1974/740611sb.par)** > Durāśayā,* they have got so many news to hear with a hope—means useless hope—that they will be able to exist here and be happy. Just like your arch, this Napoleon arch. Napoleon was conquering all over Europe, and he thought that he would be able to enjoy this. But where is Napoleon? The arch is there, that's all. This is the position. But he worked so hard. Not only he; everyone is working. The arch will remain, because a stone, but he's finished. He's finished. This is called *apaśyatām ātma-tattvam*. Because these people, they do not know what is really reality. Real reality. They are simply after so-called reality. It is very important point. Try to understand. *Ātma-tattvam,* one who does not know what is *ātmā,* what is soul, the nature of soul... Therefore, in the *Bhagavad-gītā,* Kṛṣṇa first of all begins the constitution of the *ātmā,* or spirit soul. He begins. > So you hear about Kṛṣṇa, you chant about Kṛṣṇa, you memorize or remember about Kṛṣṇa. You worship Kṛṣṇa, this Deity, *arcanam.* You offer prayers to Kṛṣṇa. There are nine different ways. So you just try to understand Kṛṣṇa in nine processes or either of, some of the processes, or one process only, Kṛṣṇa will agree. Kṛṣṇa is so kind. And as soon as you understand Kṛṣṇa, His nature, then actually you become liberated. *Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya*. This is the process. Real problem is how to get out of this material existence. If we remain attached to this material existence, either in this body or in the society or in the nationalism or in the greater, greater, greater—you make greater—but that is your bondage. --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/750611mw.hon)** > That is spirit, the original source of everything. This body, original source is the spirit. As soon as the spirit is not there, the body will not grow. We are seeing actually. Therefore the original source is the spirit. Why the dead child does not grow? Or dead young man does not grow? They have not studied, still, what is the cause? If it is chemical, then inject some chemical, if you know, and make it grow. Is there any... Why they cannot do it? Why do they say it is chemical? Chemical you have got in your possession. So inject the dead child and it will grow. Then it is correct. And where is that? Simply bogus propaganda. And we have to accept it. Either they must say that "Yes, it is chemical, but we did not find that chemical." > *...imāni bhūtāni bhavanti.* [*Taittirīya Upaniṣad* 3.1.1]: "Brahman, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, is that from which everything is emanating." --- **[1975: Talk During Massage](spoken/1975/750611r1.hon)** > Otherwise, what is the meaning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness? He becomes the perfect. And without any greed. All greed is finished. He is satisfied in Kṛṣṇa. He becomes happy. And so long he is... Now not Kṛṣṇa conscious jump like monkey—from this platform, that platform, all temporary, and frustrating. Here they are all jumping. So try to administer this. Especially in your country, that jumping will always make unhappy, and you will remain happy. Otherwise, simply the running car and skyscraper will not make you happy. I think they are already realizing. > That is their defect. They cannot understand that "We are simply creating problems in the name of advancement." Our Siddha-svarūpawas telling that the Hawaiians, they don't want this American type of material advancement. They don't want. And they are being forced to accept this type of civilization, and they will realize. They want open field, agriculture. They welcome, a simple host, and their civilization, their mode of life has been killed by these Americans. They are very unhappy, but they are powerless. They do not like this. Nobody likes. I also personally do not like it. I come for preaching, not for enjoyment. But I do not like this very much. And this is not happiness, what is happening here. Everything. They do not get fresh food. First thing is eating. Everybody is eating all stale, tasteless, rotten, decomposed. You cannot get anything fresh. You cannot. But this stale food, keeping in the refrigerator for three hundred years, they like it. How they have become a downtrodden or fallen, even in their taste! Leftover, they keep it in the refrigerator, and after one week again eat. --- **[1976: Arrival](spoken/1976/760611ar.det)** > 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. > This Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* means that. Hare: "O the energy of the Supreme Lord, Harā." Hare, Harā. Harā means the energy, Rādhā, Harā, like that. So, Hare, "O mother, the energy of Kṛṣṇa," and Kṛṣṇa, "O Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa is always with his energy, just like Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is not alone. The Māyāvāda philosophy is Brahman, impersonal, alone. That is not [indistinct]. Actually, the Absolute Truth is a person. *Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti*, Bhagavān. And without any opulence? So they were practically [indistinct]. Suppose a man is very rich, all-powerful, but he has no faculties, so he's not happy, cannot be. So there are many practical examples. But "all opulence" means He must have multi-energies: *parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śruyate*. So this special energy is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, *rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir* [*Cc Ādi* 1.5]. When Kṛṣṇa wants to feel pleasure, then He expands Himself by His pleasure potency, and that is Rādhārāṇī. So, Hare, Kṛṣṇa, [indistinct] *he rādhe*, *he kṛṣṇa,* or Hare Kṛṣṇa, it's the same thing: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ [all join in chanting] Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Rāma means the supreme enjoyer, Rāma; and Kṛṣṇa means the supreme attractive. So the two, three names are there, Rāma and Kṛṣṇa and Harā. So why we are addressing? We are addressing God, "Accept me in Your service." This is liberation. "O Harā, O Hare, O Kṛṣṇa, O Rādhā, O *prema*[?], please take me in Your service." --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.45](spoken/1976/760611sb.la)** > What Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā*? First of all, He establishes Himself that "I am the Supreme Lord." *Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya*. So the Māyāvādīs, they also think that "I am also Kṛṣṇa. I can also speak." No. That you cannot do. Just like we are singing this song daily, *gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī.* [Śrīla Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura, *Gītāvalī*] It is... Kṛṣṇa is playing with the *gopīs.* The *sahajiyās,* they take it very easily. But *giri-vara-dhārī,* oh, that is very difficult thing. He raised the whole Govardhana Hill in His finger. That nobody is imitating. But *gopī-jana-vallabha,* very easy. "You are *gopī,* I am Kṛṣṇa. Let us enjoy." This is *sahajiyā.* This is *sahajiyā.* That is going on, *pārakīya-rasa.* All rascaldom is going on. But one should understand that "Here is Kṛṣṇa. He can dance with the *gopīs* and He can lift the Govardhana Hill also, simultaneously." That is also for pleasing the *gopīs.* When there was incessant rainfall, all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana became so disturbed, and they had no other friend than Kṛṣṇa. So they appealed, "Kṛṣṇa, do something!" "Yes!" Immediately He raised the whole hill as umbrella: "Come on under this." So that is Kṛṣṇa. So don't imitate Kṛṣṇa, but hear Kṛṣṇa, what says; then our life is successful. We cannot imitate God. We have to simply follow His order. That is *dharma.* And if you imitate Kṛṣṇa, that is *adharma.* Don't try to imitate. There are two words in Sanskrit, *anukaraṇa, anusaraṇa. Anukaraṇa* means imitation, and *anusaraṇa* means follow. So we have to execute *anusaraṇa,* follow. *Tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya. Tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya*. > Therefore Kṛṣṇa's *līlā* is put into the middle of the Tenth Canto. First of all, try to understand Kṛṣṇa from the very beginning. *Janmādy asya yataḥ*. What is Kṛṣṇa? *Vāsudeve. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* So what is Vāsudeva? *Janmādy asya yato.* Here is the original source of everything. *Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate*.* First of all, try to understand Kṛṣṇa. So therefore Vyāsadeva has dedicated full nine cantos for understanding Kṛṣṇa. *Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate*. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye .* [break]...*siddhis,* they think of *gopīs.* That is recommended in *Caitanya-caritāmṛta, siddha-deha.* So where is *siddha*? And *siddha-deha* means there is no more any material lusty desires. That is *siddha-deha.* --- ## Letters on June 11 *Letters from this day: 10* --- **[1966: Letter to Mangalaniloy Brahmacari](letters/1966/660611_mangalaniloy_brahmacari)** > I am confident to see fulfillment of Lord Caitanya's mission in every corner of the world. --- **[1966: Letter to Mr. I.N. Wankawala](letters/1966/660611_mr._i.n._wankawala)** > "As regards equipment for the temple such as Mrdanga for Sankirtana, also I am advising Sri Wankawala to allow freight free shipment on our vessels. You may therefore advise those concerned to contact him for this purpose. I may add that for shipment from Cochin also Sri Wankawala of our Calcutta office should be contacted and he will do the needful." --- **[1968: Letter to Mr. J. A. Hamilton Jr](letters/1968/680611_mr._j._a._hamilton_jr)** > In your Order of Denial, you have clearly mentioned in paragraph 4 that your denial order was not on the basis of my qualification of Religious Minister, but on your discretion for the reason that I submitted my application just after a fortnight of my arrival in USA, and as such, I was not a bona fide non-immigrant. I did not know what was the technical mistake on my part in this connection, but I honestly submitted the application after consulting your Calcutta American Consulate and our Indian Embassy in Washington D.C. --- **[1968: Letter to Mukunda](letters/1968/680611_mukunda)** > As Umapati has decided to leave Los Angeles, I would like that he may go to Santa Fe and help Subala there, because he is struggling alone there. --- **[1971: Letter to Caitanya](letters/1971/710611_caitanya)** > Upon the recommendation of your good husband Kanupriya Prabhu, I have gladly accepted you as my duly initiated disciple. --- **[1971: Letter to Gurudasa](letters/1971/710611_gurudasa)** > So far as Gorakhpur business is concerned, I think that you are in touch with Tamala about this matter. --- **[1971: Letter to Kanupriya](letters/1971/710611_kanupriya)** > It is so much encouraging to hear how nicely things are going on there in Trinidad and Guyana also. --- **[1971: Letter to Narayani](letters/1971/710611_narayani)** > Your spiritual name is Narayani Devi Dasi. Narayani means the energy of Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I have also chanted on your beads and they are enclosed herewith. --- **[1975: Letter to Professor Stillson Judah](letters/1975/750611_professor_stillson_judah)** > Please accept my greetings. Your kind letter dated June 6, 1975 in hand, I thank you very much for this. The chapter 5 of Caitanya-caritamrta is already dispatched yesterday by post. It is my great delight that you have realized how Krishna Consciousness has transformed lives from drug addicted hippies to loving servants of Krishna and humanity. Loving service of Krishna is so exalted, that it automatically turns loving service to humanity. Krishna is just like the root of the tree and if you pour water on the root, it automatically reaches other parts of the tree. It is said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, *yasyasti bhaktir bhagavaty akincana sarvair gunais tatra samasate surah harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-guna manorathenasati dhavato bahih* sb/5/18/12. If a person has unflinching devotion at the lotus feet of Hari (God), then all the good qualities of great personalities like the demigods, automatically becomes manifest in the person of a devotee. Whereas a nondevotee, even he is decorated with material qualities, he is forced to act on the material plane and he stays in temporary field of activities. The idea is that spirit-soul is eternal and the material body is temporary, or for the sake of sense gratification. The mental plane is also material. People being forced to stay on the material platform, they are planning for temporary happiness, and being frustrated, they are jumping from one platform to another which are all temporary. But, fortunately, if one becomes situated on the platform of Krishna Consciousness, then his jumping over material platforms becomes ceased. It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita as follows: yam labdhva caparam labham manyate nadhikam tatah—Upon gaining this, he thinks that there is no greater gain. So, at the present moment, there is great necessity to give to the human society Krishna, or God. Everyone speaks of God, but nobody has clear idea what is God, or where is God. We Hare Krishna people are trying to do our best to say, "here is God, Krishna". So, please try to co-operate with this movement and I am sure the world will be happy. I am coming to Los Angeles on the 20th of June, and more when we meet. --- **[1977: Letter to Ambarish](letters/1977/770611_ambarish)** > Your name is as Ambarish, worthy, because Ambarish Maharaja was the greatest emperor in his time, and at the same time the greatest devotee. Even by being challenged by a great yogi, Durvasa Muni, he came out triumphant. ---