# June 29 *Lectures from this day: 19 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1968/680629le.mon.md|Lecture [Partially Recorded] — June 29, 1968, Montreal]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/710629ar.la|Arrival Lecture — June 29, 1971, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** So I am very happy to see you again after eight month, or nine month. Hmm. *Ānandambudhi vardhanam* [[cc/antya/20/12|[Cc. Antya 20.12] ]]. This movement is not hackney. Increasing the ocean of happiness. We have no experience of the ocean increasing. If the ocean increases, then the whole planet will be again over-flooded. But this is the ocean of happiness. By chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra,* Lord Caitanya says, *ānandāmbudhi-vardhanam. Ambudhi. Ambudhi* means ocean, and *ānanda* means bliss. If we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra,* as soon as our heart is cleansed... That is the first benediction of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra,* that our heart becomes cleansed. If your heart is not cleansed, how we are participating together? Somebody is Indian, somebody is American, somebody is Canadian, somebody is African. Because on the Kṛṣṇa consciousness platform the heart becomes cleansed. There are no more such consciousness that "I am this," "I am that." The only consciousness is that "I am Kṛṣṇa's." That is cleanliness of heart, as soon as we come to this platform, that "I am Kṛṣṇa's." Just like the *gopīs.* All the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, they were thinking, "We are all Kṛṣṇa's." Central point is Kṛṣṇa. That is the beauty of Vṛndāvana. All the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana—the elderly cowherd men, the boys, the girls, the trees, the river, the birds, the beasts, everyone—they are simply thinking, "I am Kṛṣṇa's." This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And as soon as we think otherwise—"I am Indian," "I am American," "I am this," "I am that," that is material consciousness. --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710629rc.la.md|Room Conversation — June 29, 1971, Los Angeles]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720629ar.sd|Arrival Interview — June 29, 1972, San Diego]]** **Prabhupāda:** [laughs] Oh, very good. So we have got so many girls very nice, reforming their character. **Interviewer:** Your Divine Grace, I'm going to ask my first question taken right out of the brochure of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Society. Why would a nice-looking bunch of young people shave their heads, put on long skirts and stand around street corners singing strange songs? **Prabhupāda:** Yes. So first thing is that we want to live very simply, without any artificial gorgeous..., and singing on the street means this transcendental vibration will benefit the people. Whoever will hear, he will get spiritual benefit. --- **[[spoken/720629bg.sd|Bg 7.1 — June 29, 1972, San Diego]]** --- **[[spoken/720629le.sd|Lecture at San Diego University — June 29, 1972, San Diego]]** **Spokesman:** [introduction] We wish to welcome all of you to the University of San Diego tonight, and to this auspicious occasion of having Bhaktivedanta Swami as a guest of the Ecumenical Center for World Religions. The Ecumenical Center for World Religion on the campus of this university was founded for the purpose of meeting people of other religions, and Bhaktivedanta Swami comes to us from India tonight, representing what is known as the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. He stands in a long line of disciplic succession going back to, according to the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, going back to the very beginning of time when Kṛṣṇa, who is the Supreme Godhead, or God, made Himself known to man through disciples and through revelation, and particularly through a man of five hundred years ago: Lord Caitanya. **Spokesman:** And I have a reading here from Him which I think is rather interesting. It is in the form of a catechism, it's a question and answer, and Lord Caitanya was asked this: --- **[[spoken/720629r1.sd|Room Conversation — June 29, 1972, San Diego]]** **Prabhupāda:** You cannot say that "I have got a different faith. I do not care for the laws of God." It it is a law... Just like, for example, here in the state, if you kill somebody, then you have to pay for it with your life. So if that is the law in your state, why a similar law in broader sense is not there in the courts of God, law..., law of God? You can avoid the arrest by the police and punishment by the state law by tricks, but you cannot avoid by tricks the law of God. That is not possible. If you violate the law of God, then you will be punished. If you violate the law..., just like if you touch fire your hand will be burned, so this law you cannot violate. Either you are Christian or Hindu or Muslim, if you touch fire, the law of God is that it will burn. So it will not care for you whether you are Hindu, Muslim, Christian. So law of God is applicable to everyone. Either you are Hindu or Muslim or Christian or you have got this faith or that faith, that is not... So we have got such a God whose laws are equally respectable. **Prabhupāda:** Lovable, yes. Practical. Anyone who comes in touch with Him, he becomes a lover of, immediately. Now how you can say that He is not God? You have to prove that He is not God. That you cannot. [pause] --- **[[spoken/730629bg.cal|Bg 9.10 — June 29, 1973, Calcutta]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...Nobel Prize. He came to California University. So he was lecturing on his theory that life has begun by combination of certain chemicals. He has mentioned those chemicals. But in that meeting, there was a member, he's my student, my disciple. He's doctor in chemistry. He has learned something about our philosophy. So he challenged that gentleman that "If I give you all these chemicals, whether you can produce life?" The answer was, "That I cannot say." The answer was not very distinct. Actually, that is not the fact. If the scientist says that life begins from chemicals, wherefrom the chemicals came, the next question will be. You cannot get chemicals without being supplied by somebody else. So we are presenting this theory. People are being misled. It is a great question at the present moment, that the scientist says that from matter life begins. We are challenging: "No. From life, matter comes." Just the opposite. So we are confident, because we have got our Kṛṣṇa's statement in the *Bhagavad-gītā, mayādhyakṣeṇa* [[bg/9/10|[Bg. 9.10] ]]: "Under My superintendence." *Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ. Prakṛti* is matter. *Jaḍa-prakṛti.* We have got many confirmation from the Vedic literature. *Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante. Imāni bhūtāni yataḥ jāyante* [*Taittirīya Upaniṣad* 3.1]. --- **[[spoken/740629bg.mel|Bg 7.1 — June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]** **Prabhupāda:** So here it is said that *asaṁśayam. Asaṁśayam* means without doubt. Without doubt. And *samagram, samagram* means in complete. Those who are philosophers, speculating what is God, what is the Absolute Truth, they cannot know. That is stated in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* One who is, I mean to say, has gotten, who has gotten a little favor of Kṛṣṇa, God, he can understand. *Athāpi* *te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda,* one who has got little mercy of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, *athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśa*, little mercy, *jānāti tattvam*, he can understand what is God. Little favor; not all favor, a little. Others, *ciraṁ vicinvan,* they may go on speculating, imagining what is God, "God may be like this," "God may be like that," "God may be like that." So in that way, *ciraṁ vicinvan,* for many, many millions of years, if one thinks like that, he cannot understand. --- **[[spoken/740629iv.mel|Reporters’ Interview — June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]** **Prabhupāda:** **...comfortable, it will never be. Do you understand this? Fish is taken from the water and you put on the land, so you may give the fish very velvet cushion and anything, all nice thing, but will the fish will be comfortable? **Prabhupāda:** Similarly, if you... We living entities, we are spirit soul. We are not this material body. Unfortunately, our system of education is so dull that the authorities do not know that we are not this body; we are spirit soul. Still, they are big, big philosopher, big, big politician and big, big leader and social authorities. But real thing is mistaken. He is accepting this body as self, or he is thinking that "The bodily comforts will make me happy." But that cannot be, because the body is made of matter, and we are spirit soul. The same thing: from water, you catch the fish and put on the land; it will never be happy. So long you'll continue to have this material body, there cannot be any happiness. And so many problems. The main problem is birth, death, old age and disease. So this is due to this material body. Therefore an intelligent man should know that "I am not this body; I am spirit soul. My field of activities are on the spiritual platform; and then I will be happy." So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means educating people how to be situated on the spiritual platform and be happy. This is the sum and substance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. **Reporter (2):** Your Divine Grace, do you think that chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* is the only way to achieve liberation? --- **[[spoken/740629mw.mel|Morning Walk — June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...in the beautiful tomb. Then how do you go? Either hell or heaven, that doesn't matter. So how do you go there? **Prabhupāda:** Same body means same material body. The form may be different. The form is actually different, because this form is lying in your tomb. It is not going. Where that... If it has gone, then why the body is here? That is *dehāntara,* another body. How you can say the same body? The same body is lying here. After death, if the same body is going, then why the same body is not going? Why it is lying here? They must be reasonable, not dogmatic. How it is same body? **Madhudviṣa:** The body is rotting in the tomb, and then they say that the body at the end of the creation is reconstructed and reunited with the soul. --- **[[spoken/740629r1.mel|Room Conversation — June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]** **Prabhupāda:** Formerly we were paying two rupees. Two rupees, and if it is this name, utmost three rupees. Now the things have increased price. Forty years ago that black *Bhāgavata* was bound only for two rupees. This is very nice one. In the USA the binding cost is very, very... Just like Macmillan Company. *Bhagavad-gītā,* hardbound, they charge ten dollar, ninety-five. And softbound, softbound, they charge four dollars. Six dollar difference on account of binding. So they have charged one dollar, seventy-five cent, and in America they charge six dollars. Hmm. So all the fathers clapped for long. **Devotee:** Yes. Afterwards, Nick was speaking to one father from a different monastery, and he said he very much appreciated how much respect you had for other persons, that he could tell that you were really feeling respect for Lord Jesus. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. We must have respect. Respectable person must be respected. Otherwise, what it is? That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's... *Amāninā mānadena.* Don't expect any respect for yourself, but you offer respect to everyone. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's... *Amāninā mānadena.* For... In one's, oneself, what respect I have got? I am only most insignificant. Why people should respect me? This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I am not worthy anything. That is for person. But others, even he is an ant, he's respectful, must be respectful, must be offering respect to even an ant. Therefore that St. Francis... --- **[[spoken/740629r2.mel|Room Conversation with Bishop Kelly — June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]** "O son of Kuntī, the non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress and their disappearance in due course are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." **Satsvarūpa:** "In the proper discharge of duty, one has to learn to tolerate nonpermanent appearances and disappearances of happiness and distress. According to Vedic injunction, one has to take his bath early in the morning even during the month of *Māgha [*January-February]. It is very cold at that time, but in spite of that, a man who abides by the religious principles does not hesitate to take his bath. Similarly, a woman does not hesitate to cook in the kitchen in the months of May and June, the hottest part of the summer season. One has to execute his duty in spite of climatic inconveniences. Similarly, to fight is the religious principle of the *kṣatriyas,* and although one has to fight with some friend or relative, one should not deviate from his prescribed duty. One has to follow the prescribed rules and regulations of religious principles in order to rise up to the platform of knowledge, because by knowledge and devotion only can one liberate himself from the clutches of *māyā* [illusion]. --- **[[spoken/750629mw.den|Morning Walk — June 29, 1975, Denver]]** *harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva gatir anyathā* [[cc/adi/7/76|[Cc. Adi 7.76] ]] **Satsvarūpa:** If they see us, they don't like that. That is not such a safe practice, to go in the neighborhood and pick flowers. I don't think they should do it. **Prabhupāda:** [*japa*]* [break] ...first came to America, Butler, one quarter is exactly like this. You have been in Butler? --- **[[spoken/750629sb.den|SB 6.1.16 — June 29, 1975, Denver]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto, First Chapter, text number 16. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "My dear King, any sinful person, by practicing the principles of austerity, penance, brahmacarya and other practices, cannot become completely purified as one can by dedicating his life to the service of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet under the direction of the Lord's bona fide devotee." **Prabhupāda:** > na tathā hy-aghavān rājan > pūyeta tapa-ādibhiḥ > yathā kṛṣṇārpita-prāṇas > tat-puruṣa-niṣevayā > [[sb/6/1/16|[SB. 6.1.16] ]] --- **[[spoken/750629sf.den|SB 1.2.6, Sunday Feast — June 29, 1975, Denver]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] First Canto, Second Chapter, text number 6. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] *saḥ—*that; *vai*-certainly; *puṁsām—*for mankind; *paraḥ—*sublime; *dharmaḥ—*occupation; *yataḥ—*by which; *bhaktiḥ—*devotional service; *adhokṣaje—*unto the Transcendence; *ahaitukī—*causeless; *apratihatā—*unbroken; *yayā—*by which; *ātmā—*the self; *suprasīdati—*completely satisfied. --- **[[spoken/760629bj.nv|Bhavan’s Journal, Answers to a Questionnaire 1 — June 29, 1976, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/760629r1.nv|Room Conversation — June 29, 1976, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/760629sb.nv|SB 7.6.15 — June 29, 1976, New Vrindavan]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690629_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690629_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_harer_nama.md|Letter to Harer Nama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_jananivasa.md|Letter to Jananivasa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_ksirodakasayi.md|Letter to Ksirodakasayi, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_madhusudana.md|Letter to Madhusudana, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_ranadhir.md|Letter to Ranadhir, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700629_sridama.md|Letter to Sridama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710629_bill.md|Letter to Bill, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710629_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710629_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730629_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730629_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]]