# June 24 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720624r1.la|Room Conversation — June 24, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...to serve the Supreme Lord. America has got special advantage for serving the Supreme, and by the grace of the Lord you have got everything. Man's first necessity is arrange for eating, sleeping. Of course, there is nothing is to be arranged, everything is arranged already. But still, due to our ignorance, we are anxious for what we shall eat, where shall I sleep, how my sense gratification will be done, how my country will be defended. Just like this morning we have seen in the newspaper that eastern part of the country is inundated. So you cannot defend by nature's onslaught. When there is nature, you cannot defend. At any time within a moment, the whole thing can be finished. Nature is so strong. Just like here the Pacific Ocean is. One big wave six-stories high, it can immediately over-flood. And to raise a wave of six-story high from Pacific Ocean is nothing. It can be done at any moment. And a six-stories-high wave, if it is coming the Los Angeles side, where you shall remain? Everything will be finished. So nature is so strong, you cannot defend. Although we call the word "defend". Defend, you can defend against mosquito or bugs, that's all. **Prabhupāda:** Not against the onslaught of nature, that is not possible. So you can defend yourself from the onslaught of the nature by surrendering to God. Otherwise there is no way. So people should learn this art, how to surrender to God, then every protection is there. So, other countries they may plead, just like in India, people were completely dependent on God. Now they have learned to defend themselves by so-called science, economic development, but the ultimate protector is God. Without His sanction, nobody can defend. You try for defense, you try or not try, if you are not defended, protected by God, nobody can protect you. --- **[[spoken/720624sb.la|SB 2.4.1, SB 2.3.1-25 Recitation — June 24, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* We chant all the verses in this chapter, all together, starting from the beginning.* [Prabhupāda and devotees chant all verses of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* 2.3.1–25]. --- **[[spoken/750624gc.la|Garden Conversation with Professors — June 24, 1975, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...which is fact? The dreams and phases of different life while passing through, they are facts or I am fact? What is your answer? We are teaching that you take care of the fact, not of the dreams. That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. That is the beginning of *Bhagavad-gītā: dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. We are changing circumstances. The circumstances are not fact, but the whole world is taking care of the circumstances, not of the sheer fact. This is the defect of modern civilization. We are very much serious about the passing-on circumstances, but we are not serious about the person who is going through the circumstances. This is the whole defect of modern civilization. And that is the beginning of real life. If we take care of the circumstances, that is being done by the cats and dogs and hogs—everyone. Where to find eatables, where to find sex, where to find shelter for sleeping, and how to defense—these circumstances are understood by the animals. There is no need of education. Just like this morning I pointed out, the bird is catching a small fish, *"fut!"* He knows where to find out his eatable. And that you cannot do. You also eat fish, but you jump over and take a fish, you cannot do that. But he can do that. He is more expert than you. [guests chuckle] Yes. In the troubled water, he is flying. He can see a small fish and immediately pick it up. Can you do that? So he is more advanced in civilization. [laughter] He knows his techniques. He is greater scientist than you. You cannot do this. A vulture goes seven miles up, and he can see where is a dead body. So even amongst the animals there are many expert scientists than our so-called scientists. But what that science will help? That science may help how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex. That's all. And that is being done by the animals. It doesn't require any advanced scientific knowledge. Real scientific knowledge is who is God, to know. That is meant for human being. Not this where to find out a fish very expertly. That is being done by a bird. Where is the use of scientists and philosophers? Therefore in the *Vedānta-sūtra* the indication is there that "Now you have got this human form of life, find out where is God." That is real science. That we have set aside. That we do not touch. That we have left to the sentimentalist. Why don't the scientists do not take up this work very seriously, "If there is God, where He is? Who is God?" That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, **athāto brahma-jijñāsā. --- **[[spoken/750624mw.la|Morning Walk — June 24, 1975, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Well, pretending will not do. You must explain what is God. "Something," "perhaps," this is not science. [break] **Prabhupāda:** That is theosophy, that is not theology. Theosophy means a system of speculation, that's all. And theology does not require. Bio*logy*. *Logy* means science. They say anthropology, but it is not *logy;* it is theory. "Maybe," "200,000,000's of years." What is this? *Logy* does not mean that. **Jayatīrtha:** But still they're awarding Ph.D.'s in theology, even they don't know anything about it. --- **[[spoken/760624bi.nv|Prabhupāda Inspects New BTG — June 24, 1976, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/760624r1.nv|Room Conversation — June 24, 1976, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/760624sb.nv|SB 7.6.8 — June 24, 1976, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/770624r1.vrn|Conversation: “How to Secure Brahmacārīs” — June 24, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** So people were inclined to send their children to *gurukula.* Now they are inclined to send their children to cinema, this, that... A difficult task to institute. Loafer class, they should be trained up as *śūdras—*in carpentry, in weaving. It doesn't..., do not require academic education. Simply make a skill. They'll learn. **Prabhupāda:** No, no. They are not... They are also useful. But they are... Bringing them to the education, university, they are becoming loafer, ironclad. As soon as these low-class men are given education, he thinks, "Now I have become educated, *baḍa bāpu.* Why shall I work as a carpenter? I must have table chair." And they're bribing in government office, and sixty percent of the clerks—useless. They do not know how to make file, cumberous. Because everyone is going to New Delhi. And all fourth-class men are admitted. I have seen. If you have to find out an old file, you have to wait six months. Because these people are neither for this purpose nor that purpose. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** I was thinking, Śrīla Prabhupāda, we should get this *gurukula* accepted by the government also so... --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680624_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690624_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690624_labangalatika.md|Letter to Labangalatika, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690624_mrs._davis.md|Letter to Mrs. Davis, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690624_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700624_nirmal_babu.md|Letter to Nirmal Babu, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700624_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700624_vrndavana_candra.md|Letter to Vrndavana Candra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700624_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710624_professor_kotovsky.md|Letter to Professor Kotovsky, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720624_gurudasa_yamuna.md|Letter to Gurudasa Yamuna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740624_central_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Central Bank Of India, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750624_pranava.md|Letter to Pranava, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750624_sanat_kumara_daniel_yudhisthira.md|Letter to Sanat Kumara Daniel Yudhisthira, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_aksayananda.md|Letter to Aksayananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_cyavana.md|Letter to Cyavana, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_george_harrison.md|Letter to George Harrison, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_harikesa.md|Letter to Harikesa, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_jayatirtha.md|Letter to Jayatirtha, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_ramesvaraa.md|Letter to Ramesvaraa, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_ramesvarab.md|Letter to Ramesvarab, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_sri_modi.md|Letter to Sri Modi, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_srivatsa_goswami.md|Letter to Srivatsa Goswami, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_vasudeva.md|Letter to Vasudeva, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_vegavan.md|Letter to Vegavan, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760624_yasodanandana.md|Letter to Yasodanandana, 1976]]