# June 12 ## Spoken on June 12 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1968: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.1](spoken/1968/680612sb.mon)** > *Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam*. And you serve Kṛṣṇa, then you become purified, your senses are purified. Exactly like the same example, that when a citizen is free and willingly obeying the laws of the state, he is free from contamination. And as soon as he is disobedient, he is contaminated; therefore he is put into the jail. Similarly, our material existence means that we have revolted against the will of Kṛṣṇa, or God; therefore we are dragging the struggle for existence. And as soon as we become again obedient to Kṛṣṇa, we shall always remember that our characteristic is to serve. So by natural way, if we serve God, then we are happy, and by unnatural way, if we serve our senses, then we are unhappy. This is the difference. Service you have to give. > So natural characteristic for every living entity is to serve. That is the natural characteristic. Every one of us who are sitting in this meeting, nobody can say that "I am not servant." Every one of us is a servant. You go up to the highest man, your prime minister, or USA, the president, everyone is servant. Nobody can claim that "I am not servant." So therefore, either you are a Christian or either you are a Hindu, either you are a Muhammadan, but you have to serve. It is not that because one is Christian or Hindu, he hasn't got to serve. Just like so many Indians, they have come here. What is the profession? They are serving. They are serving here some company or some institution or some university. So serving was there in India; service is also here. So this is religion. --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.17](spoken/1972/720612sb.la)** > So *tyaktvā deham.* Kṛṣṇa says that "Anyone who understands Me in truth..." So how you will understand? Simply if you hear about Him, then you will understand. Then you will understand. So hearing is not very difficult job. But you must hear from the realized soul. That is... *Satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvidaḥ*. If you hear from a professional man, that will not be effective. Hearing must be from *sādhu,* from devotee, from the lips of the devotee. Just like Śukadeva Gosvāmī was speaking to Mahārāja Parīkṣit. So... Or even if you hear yourself, you read books, you will save your life. If you simply read *Kṛṣṇa* book or *Bhagavad-gītā* or *Teachings of Lord Caitanya,* then you know the... As long as you are reading, the sun is unable to take your life. It is not possible for the sun to take your life. So if you constantly read, then where is the opportunity of sun's taking your life? That means you are becoming immortal. > So spiritual body... Just like Kṛṣṇa says, *tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti* : "After giving up this body, he does not take birth. He comes to Me." So he has... Now, the body is given up. Then how he goes? He says, "He comes to Me." So who comes to Him? Materialistic person, the so-called scientist, philosopher, they know this body—the self. They do not know that the body is the cover of the self. This real self, the real person, goes to Kṛṣṇa to live forever. --- **[1974: Car Conversation](spoken/1974/740612cr.par)** > These *anartha,* problem, they have created under the influence of *māyā.* So if you want to solve it, you take to *bhakti-yoga. Anarthopaśamam.* Directly it will be solved. Directly. *Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam, lokasya ajānataḥ.* The rascals, they do not know. Therefore *vidvān,* Vyāsadeva, the most learned, *vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām,* he has done this *sātvata,* Vaiṣṇava literature, *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* That is the only solution. These rascals, they have created problems. Therefore we have started this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement for their benefit. Let them cooperate, and we shall make solution of all problems—political, social, everything. Let them come and cooperate. [pause] They are not agreeable to close the slaughterhouse. Yesterday, you were not present when that mayor came? > It is very known that the family is very strong, the family attachment is very strong. In America, people separate from the family very early. And in France, the family attachment is so strong. And many people, many families have come and asked us if we will be able to open school here for their children too. The interest is there. Everyone is afraid of this present system of schooling, because they send their children there, and they come back so crazy. --- **[1974: Room Conversation with Roger Maria, leading writer of Communist literature](spoken/1974/740612r1.par)** > This is the process of peacefulness: when one understands that Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer, Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor of all *lokas,* all worlds, and Kṛṣṇa is the best friend of everyone. [aside:] Get the light. --- **[1974: Room Conversation with M. Lallier, noted French Poet](spoken/1974/740612r2.par)** > *Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān.* The supreme one is maintaining all other living entities. So we are maintained, and He is maintainer. So sometimes... [to translator:] Yes, explain. There is... Sometimes it happens the father maintains the children, but the same child sometimes gives up the protection of the father: "Why shall I live under the guidance of...? I shall become independent." There are many instances in your Western countries. He's happy being under the protection of the parents, but he rebels, he goes away. So that he can do. But if the father is very big, very rich, and the son leaves home and goes away to live independently, he suffers so much inconveniences, and that is his choice. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.3](spoken/1974/740612sb.par)** > Therefore the *Bhāgavatam* you'll find religion, religious person, who is a religious person, first-class religion. Religious person means who has learned to love God. That is religious person. *Sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje, ahaituky aprati...*. And this religion is universal. To love God, you don't require any education, don't require any rubber stamp. God is one, and you are part and parcel of God. You try to love. You have got the loving propensity. You love God, and you'll be satisfied, you'll be happy. Everyone is trying to love God, somebody else. Love is not alone. Love must be two. So that two, Kṛṣṇa and myself, that is called love. Not that... > So therefore *śāstra* says that "This human life is not meant for becoming a hog." *Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye*. You are working so hard, day and night, very busy, going this side, that side, this side, that side, and getting money, and leading a life like hog. What is this civilization? This is not civilization. Then what is civilization? That is also said, *tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam*. This is Ṛṣabhadeva's instruction to His sons. "My dear boys, this life, this human form of life, is not meant for wasting like hogs and dogs, but *tapasya,* just have little restraint. Don't become hogs and dogs." What is that restraint? Just like we are prescribing, no illicit sex. No illicit sex. Sex is not stopped. Sex is there. But no illicit sex. Illicit sex—unnecessary sex life. Sex life is meant for human being. There is regulation. Sex life is meant for producing nice children, that's all, not for sense enjoyment. Therefore one is trained as *brahmacārī* from the very beginning. --- **[1975: Room Conversation](spoken/1975/750612r1.hon)** > Do this. Always chant, think of Me, that *mām evaiṣyasi asaṁśayam,* be assured you will come to Me. So why don’t you do your duty? And Kṛṣṇa assures, they will come to Me, there is no doubt. [indistinct]. Why should he bother for the future? If you do exactly according to the rules and regulations, then your future is guaranteed. Even it is not guaranteed, still I shall go on doing. And that is pure. It is guaranteed. Kṛṣṇa said, *mām evaiṣyasi asaṁśayam,* so why do you doubt? Why there should be doubt? Kṛṣṇa said it is guaranteed. Why should you bother about future? You, you bother whether you are doing rightly or not. That should be your business. Otherwise Kṛṣṇa assures. Where is doubt? Huh? The future is assured by Kṛṣṇa, and..., why you are doubting? That you don’t believe in Kṛṣṇa. You have to see whether you are doing rightly what Kṛṣṇa says. That is your business. What is the use of thinking past, future, present? Do your duty as Kṛṣṇa says, as spiritual master says, then everything is all right. There is no question or doubt. Kṛṣṇa says, *asaṁśayam, mām evaiṣyasi asaṁśayam. Asaṁśayam* means without a doubt you will come to Me. > Past and present, you are present, the commentary is just carry out the orders, that's all. When you have accepted spiritual master, carry out, that's all. *Cakṣu-dāna dila yei, janme janme prabhu sei*. [*Śrī Prema-bhakti-candrikā* 1.3] Past means that, then you admit your disciple, that in the past you could not carry out, therefore you have taken birth again. So, carry out. That is the point. What is the use of talking past, present and future? *āra nā kariha mane āśā.* This is wanted. Don't think of anything else. That is the point. --- **[1976: Interview with Jackie Vaughn, State Representative](spoken/1976/760612iv.det)** > So in this way we can make progress, but such progress is not perfection. Such progress is not perfection. The example is given, just like there is tree, and the whole tree is full of branches, twigs and leaves and flowers and fruits. So somebody is watering the fruit, somebody is watering the leaf, somebody is watering the branches, somebody the twigs, but everyone is improper. One who is watering the root, he's perfect. He knows how to do things. If you water the root of the tree, it will go to the twigs, it will go to the leaves, it will go to the fruit, it will go to the flower. One who does not know the root, however he might be working very diligently for the poor humanity or community or society, they will never be successful to gain the result—peace and prosperity. They are forgetting the root. And root is God. So they must put water into the root. Then it will be all right. Otherwise, it will be all failure. The history of the world is like that. They are trying for the nation, for the society, for the community and for the family, but everything has become unsuccessful. > Chewing the chewed. Just like sugarcane. One has taken the juice by chewing and thrown it in the street, and somebody again takes it and chew it, what he will get it? It is already chewed. Experiment. So all, everything has been experimented. Big, big empires, big, big society, big, big nation. That Hitler, he wanted to make something big. Napoleon wanted to make something big. Nothing big has been done. Where is Napoleon? Where is Hitler? So these are all temporary attempts. It is sure to be failure. Because they do not know how to do things. That is the defect. They are simply imagining, concoction. Here is a practical and sure proposal in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* God comes, and He's giving personal instruction, that "Do things like this." Your economic problem, your political problem, your social problem, everything, you ask any question, any problem, the answer is there, perfect. All problems. So why people should not take this perfect answer to all problems? That is intelligence. Experiment we have made so many, materially. They have all failed. We were under British rule. So where is that British rule now? And before that, there was Roman Empire, Carthaginian Empire, Egyptian Empire—so many—Mogul Empire, then British Empire, now your American Empire. But these things will not help. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.46](spoken/1976/760612sb.det)** > So that is a fact. If we don't make Kṛṣṇa the center, never mind the varieties of qualities are there... That will continue. It is everywhere, the varieties will be there. But if the Kṛṣṇa is the center, the varieties will be very nice bouquet, bunch of flower. And without Kṛṣṇa, it is all useless. So make Kṛṣṇa center. Then these varieties of *guṇa,* mixture of *guṇa,* that will not... *Sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate*. This will not affect our spiritual position. Kṛṣṇa says: *sa brahma-bhūyāya, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati*. So the aim is how to make people *brahma-bhūtaḥ, ahaṁ brahmāsmi. Ahaṁ brahmāsmi* does not mean that I have become Bhagavān, or God. No. I am not matter; I am spirit soul. That is *ahaṁ brahmāsmi.* This is called Brahman realization. And when one is in Brahman realization, then that is the peaceful condition of life. *Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā.* > So unless people accept this principle, that Kṛṣṇa center, their..., all their plans will be futile. *Moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo mogha-jñānā*, everything. You try the history. They are trying to do so many things, planning. In every country, there is a planning commission. But according to *Bhagavad-gītā,* any plan you do, it is all rascaldom if it is without Kṛṣṇa. It will fail. History will... Take, for example, in our India: Mahātmā Gandhi made so many plans to get our independence. He was taking *Bhagavad-gītā* in his hand and publicly said that "I get solace from *Bhagavad-gītā.*" He was very fond of *Bhagavad-gītā.* But unfortunately he could not make Kṛṣṇa as center. This is the unfortunate. Therefore whole plan failed. Gandhi wanted nonviolence—failed. Gandhi wanted Hindu-Muslim unity—failed. Why? Because he never said that Kṛṣṇa is the center. Find his lecture. He'll never say Kṛṣṇa. Missing. Kṛṣṇa is missing. Similarly, so many... One French professor has admitted, Aurobindo or Dr. Radhakrishnan, they have written *Bhagavad-gītā,* annotation, so many others also, but Kṛṣṇa is missing. They're faulty. Kṛṣṇa is missing. Through *Bhagavad-gītā,* they want to make the society Kṛṣṇa-less. That is their policy. So nothing has become... For the last two hundred, three hundred years, from India so many *svāmīs, yogīs* came. But because they missed Kṛṣṇa, it was all useless. And now this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, because we are making Kṛṣṇa as the center, you see practically, thousands of devotees. Successful. --- ## Letters on June 12 *Letters from this day: 28* --- **[1968: Letter to Mr. Mittra United Shipping Corporation](letters/1968/680612_mr._mittra_united_shipping_corporation)** > I cannot follow exactly what the account is; and a few days ago the president, Brahmananda, came to see me, and I understand that he is regularly corresponding with you about the statement of account and other things. --- **[1968: Letter to Rayarama](letters/1968/680612_rayarama)** > By the by, I require you to find out the duplicate copies of Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2nd Canto, and a few chapters of the 3rd Canto, which are lying in my closet in my room, and send to me immediately. --- **[1968: Letter to Subala](letters/1968/680612_subala)** > I am in due reciept of your letter of June 10th, 1968, and noted the contents carefully. Yes, you can have the band play there in the temple as you are in great need of money to carry on there. When we are in need of money to carry on Krishna's work, then we can resort to whatever means there is available. --- **[1969: Letter to R. Chalson](letters/1969/690612_r._chalson)** > I am sorry that many of the important verses in *Bhagavad-gita As It Is* were left without purport explanations, but the MacMillan Company wanted to minimize the volume of the book. I am not satisfied with this, so my next attempt will be to publish the same with explanations for all the verses without any exception. --- **[1969: Letter to Syamasundara](letters/1969/690612_syamasundara)** > I have immediately asked Trivikrama das Brahmacari of Buffalo to go there, and he is sending Mukunda one telegram confirming this. --- **[1969: Letter to Tamala Krsna](letters/1969/690612_tamala_krsna)** > I think you should now make an *ad hoc* committee of management, comprising yourself, Jayananda, Cidananda, Dindayal, Upendra, etc. --- **[1969: Letter to Vibhavati](letters/1969/690612_vibhavati)** > Everything appears to be very nice, and your service in this connection is recognized. --- **[1971: Letter to Devotees](letters/1971/710612_devotees)** > You will be glad to know that very soon I am coming to London, and will be there for participating in the Rathayatra festival also. --- **[1971: Letter to Satsvarupa](letters/1971/710612_satsvarupa)** > Bigelow has appreciated my article and admitted in his letter that "You people in India are so much further ahead in matters of this kind then those of us in the Western world." (letter dated 16th February, 1971) There has been no further correspondence with him in this regards. So if you wish you may publish my letter and his short reply is given above. --- **[1971: Letter to Sudama](letters/1971/710612_sudama)** > Just recently I have received one very interesting letter from Damari Toshio Inove and the reply to his letter is enclosed herewith. --- **[1971: Letter to Yogesvara](letters/1971/710612_yogesvara)** > Very soon I shall be coming to Europe. On the 20th June I will be going to Moscow for five days and from there I will go to Paris and then London. At that time I may come and see your press also. --- **[1972: Letter to Acyutananda](letters/1972/720612_acyutananda)** > I am especially pleased that you have stayed some days and got the tapes of Lalita Prashad Thakura for posterity. --- **[1972: Letter to Amarendra](letters/1972/720612_amarendra)** > I am very glad to hear from you that you are enthusiastically pushing forward with our Krishna Consciousness programs there. --- **[1972: Letter to Bali-Mardana](letters/1972/720612_bali-mardana)** > I am happy to learn from you that both the Press and the New York temple are running along very smoothly and that all our programs there are increasing. It should not be too difficult for our New York center to be the leading book distributor of the movement. --- **[1972: Letter to Caturbhuja](letters/1972/720612_caturbhuja)** > Your father has indicated to me that he shall be returning to London very shortly, so I have encouraged him to meet me there when I shall arrive there by July 5th. --- **[1972: Letter to Gurudasa](letters/1972/720612_gurudasa)** > I am very, very pleased to hear that you have accomplished your task for getting the CCP license, it is a very great service. --- **[1972: Letter to Madhudvisa](letters/1972/720612_madhudvisa)** > Actually you may be misunderstanding the present position or policy of this GBC. --- **[1972: Letter to Santi Sandy Van Horn Vinode Vani Debra Perry Giridhari Geoffrey Perry](letters/1972/720612_santi_sandy_van_horn_vinode_vani_debra_perry_giridhari_geoffrey_perry)** > Upon the recommendation of Pusta Krishna Swami I have gladly consented to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. --- **[1972: Letter to Sivananda](letters/1972/720612_sivananda)** > Yes, I shall be glad to meet with you in London during Rathayatra in a few weeks, and at that time I shall be very glad to give you the Sannyas order of life, so you may prepare for that. --- **[1972: Letter to Tejiyasb](letters/1972/720612_tejiyasb)** > I am very pleased to hear from you and from Guru das that your preaching work in Delhi is continuing on very nicely and that you are meeting with very good success by making many life members. Actually, this making life members is the certain sign that our preaching work is successful. So the more life members that you make in Delhi, the more I can understand that your preaching work is very pleasing to Krishna. --- **[1973: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1973/730612_hansadutta)** > I have not yet received any copies of the Swedish booklet. I am very, very pleased that you are continuously holding festivals. --- **[1973: Letter to Madhudvisa](letters/1973/730612_madhudvisa)** > So, everything is going on so nicely there. So many books are being distributed. There are good prospects for a new temple. --- **[1975: Letter to Batu Gopala](letters/1975/750612_batu_gopala)** > Thank you very much for selling so many books there. Try to sell again more and more each day. --- **[1975: Letter to Jagannatha-Suta](letters/1975/750612_jagannatha-suta)** > It is very nice issue. Having the Indian Rathayatra on the cover and the American one on the inside makes a good contrast. --- **[1976: Letter to Lokanatha](letters/1976/760612_lokanatha)** > I am very glad to see that you are enthusiastically pushing forward with this preaching work and the young Indians are coming forward to join our sankirtana party. It is very encouraging to me. Anyone who has life he can preach, so go on very enthusiastically and there will be all facility given by Lord Krishna. --- **[1976: Letter to Mahamsa](letters/1976/760612_mahamsa)** > Concerning the installation ceremonies, it is approved that you get some leading Ramanuja Pandits from S. India. The Vrindaban Pandits were useless. --- **[1976: Letter to Manager Central Bank Of Indiaa](letters/1976/760612_manager_central_bank_of_indiaa)** > The monthly interest accrued from the Fixed Deposit Receipt in the name of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust may be transferred to Vrinda Book Co. --- **[1976: Letter to Manager Central Bank Of Indiab](letters/1976/760612_manager_central_bank_of_indiab)** > On April 21, 1976, I advised you the following: "The monthly interest accrued from the Fixed Deposit Receipt in the name of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust may be transferred to Vrinda Book Co. ---