# June 13 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680613bg.mon|Bg 4.7 — June 13, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** > yadā yadā hi dharmasya > glānir bhavati bhārata > abhyutthānam adharmasya > tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham > [[bg/4/7|[Bg. 4.7] ]] In last night we have discussed that how the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He descends, what is the reason of His descending on this material platform. That we have partially discussed last night, that although He is the supreme authority of all energies, although He is unborn, although He is the Lord of all planets or all creation, material creation and spiritual creation, He comes. --- **[[spoken/690613sb.nv|SB 1.5.13 — June 13, 1969, New Vrindaban]]** --- **[[spoken/720613sb.la|SB 2.3.18-19 — June 13, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* Page 150, text 18. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Prabhupāda:** That's nice. Go on. Anyone else? [more devotees chant] That's nice. Now, word meaning. --- **[[spoken/740613bg.par|Bg 7.1-3 — June 13, 1974, Paris]]** Nit**ā**i: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, Arjuna, how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt." --- **[[spoken/740613mw.par|Morning Walk — June 13, 1974, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. The *māyā* is explained very nicely in the *Bhāgavata, yathābhāso yathā tamaḥ [**SB* 2.9.34]. Just like sun is reflected in the water, and the light is reflected again on the wall. This is the exact explanation of *māyā.* Reality... This material world, the man who manufactured all these things, nobody knows where he has gone. But these things are taken as reality. This will be also finished. It will remain as relics, as Rome, relics, but when it was..., the houses were prepared with great enthusiasm as reality. And now it is as relics. So the energy expended for manufacturing those house, that is also *māyā,* and now they are being visited as relics, that is also *māyā.* So all these things are *māyāra vaibhava,* expansion of *māyā.* So if somebody says that you don't appreciate these things, no, we appreciate, very much appreciate intelligence. But if you, for this appreciation, if you forget, then it is *māyā.* Forget Kṛṣṇa. **Prabhupāda:** Then it is *māyā.* Otherwise, it is reality. If they would have installed Deity worship in these buildings, how much nice it would have been—people chanting, dancing, and taking *prasādam,* twenty-four hours. Then it is no more *māyā;* it is reality. Such big, big, nice houses, they should have been places of worshiping Kṛṣṇa. But they're worshiping bones, keeping some dead bones, and... **Paramahaṁsa:** The government argues that they do not want to discriminate against any religious faith. So they remain secular. --- **[[spoken/740613r1.par|Room Conversation with Mr. Deshimaru — June 13, 1974, Paris]]** **Yogeśvara:** He thinks that... He suggests that perhaps this force is something more than person. Since it is in all people, it is something that all people share, but it's beyond them. **Prabhupāda:** That's all right, but in all people the force is a person. Just like the force is in him, force in me, but we are person.* [Prabhupāda's comments translated throughout by **Yogeśvara**] **Yogeśvara:** He's confused: what do you define by person then? Because our experience is this person. --- **[[spoken/740613r2.par|Room Conversation with Russian Orthodox Church Representative — June 13, 1974, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...therefore it remains to stop. So if you stop your breathing, then you can increase your duration of life. That is yogic practice, breathing exercise. And *samādhi* means stop breathing. So if you don't spend your duration of life by more breathing, then you increase your life. Still there are *yogīs*who are three hundred, four hundred years old. **Karandhara:** He doesn't believe in the soul. Professor Kotovsky, he doesn't believe in the existence of soul. **Karandhara:** Yes. He is a... Or at least he has to appear as one to maintain his position. Prabhupāda's point is that... --- **[[spoken/740613sb.par|SB 2.1.5 — June 13, 1974, Paris]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "O descendant of Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries." --- **[[spoken/760613mw.det|Morning Walk — June 13, 1976, Detroit]]** **Ambarīṣa:** It's a section, a suburb, Indian Village. Actually, the old temple used to be in Indian Village. **Ambarīṣa:** They used to live here. There was a settlement, the street that the old temple used to be on. [break] Did you purchase any land at Kurukṣetra yet, Prabhupāda? **Prabhupāda:** We have already applied for twenty-five acres. Mr. Nanda, he wanted to make some profit out of it. --- **[[spoken/760613r1.det|Room Conversation with Mother and Son — June 13, 1976, Detroit]]** **Mother:** I read so much, you know, and I have four children—[indistinct] doesn't live at home—and I read so much that people probably wonder how I get my work done. But it gets done. [Prabhupāda chuckles] And it's like I'm in another world. It's really great. I had a dream about you, Prabhupāda. And I dreamed... This is a dream that's coming true. But you didn't acknowledge me because I didn't say "Kṛṣṇa." [Prabhupāda laughs] And then when I did, then you did, and you asked me what I knew about Kṛṣṇa, and I didn't answer you because I didn't want to display my ignorance. **Prabhupāda:** Very good. You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and be one of our members. Your son is also very good. Mother good, son good. According to our Indian estimate, son acquires the quality of mother and the daughter acquires the quality of the father. **Pradyumna:** You didn't understand? The son acquires the quality of the mother and the daughter acquires the quality of the father. So like mother, like son. --- **[[spoken/760613sb.det|SB 6.1.47 — June 13, 1976, Detroit]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [leads chanting, etc.] **Translation:** "Just as springtime in the present indicates the nature of springtimes in the past and future, so this life of happiness, distress or a mixture of both gives evidence concerning the religious and irreligious activities of one's past and future lives." [break] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680613_krsna_devi_dinesh.md|Letter to Krsna Devi Dinesh, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680613_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690613_dinesh.md|Letter to Dinesh, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690613_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690613_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700613_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700613_himavati_hansadutta.md|Letter to Himavati Hansadutta, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700613_revatinandana.md|Letter to Revatinandana, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720613_bhargava.md|Letter to Bhargava, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720613_sankarsana.md|Letter to Sankarsana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720613_sriman_joshi.md|Letter to Sriman Joshi, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720613_stokakrsna.md|Letter to Stokakrsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730613_hariprasada_badruka.md|Letter to Hariprasada Badruka, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740613_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750613_mr._ogata.md|Letter to Mr. Ogata, 1975]]