# July 4 *Lectures from this day: 16 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680704sb.mon|SB 7.9.9 — July 4, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** > manye dhanābhijana-rūpa-tapaḥ-śrutaujas- > tejaḥ-prabhāva-bala-pauruṣa-buddhi-yogāḥ > nārādhanāya hi bhavanti parasya puṁso > bhaktyā tutoṣa bhagavān gaja yūtha pāya > [[sb/7/9/9|[SB. 7.9.9] ]] Prahlāda Mahārāja is submitting his humbleness, because he has practically experienced that all great personalities present in that meeting, headed by Brahmā, the original person, original created person, as well as all other demigods, they are all highly qualified, but they could not satisfy the Lord. Therefore he says, "I think that any kind of material qualification, such as *tejaḥ, prabhāva,* influence, strength, bodily beauty; *tejaḥ, prabhāva, pauruṣa*, capacity; *buddhi,* intelligence; *yoga,* mystic power; and all similar qualifications"—they are divided into six opulences: strength, influence, fame and beauty, knowledge, renunciation—"these six kinds of opulences are fully present in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So how you can conquer over the Supreme Personality of Godhead by all these material qualifications?" --- **[[../../spoken/1970/700704ar.sf.md|Ratha-yātrā and Press Conference — July 4, 1970, San Francisco]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/700704le.sf|Guṇḍicā Mārjanam Cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple, Lecture — July 4, 1970, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** Hare Kṛṣṇa. [Hindi with Indian woman, chuckles] All right. Hare Kṛṣṇa. So? There is no space for the... So we require bigger space. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Oh, Govinda dāsī has come? [chuckles] When you have arrived? So Lord Caitanya's *sampradāya.* [laughter] That is my joy, that we have now a *sampradāya,* a party of Lord Caitanya in the Western country. That is my success. That's all. I have no value—insignificant—but somehow or other you cooperated, and you are still cooperating, as Lord Caitanya's *sampradāya.* That is my life. Thank you very much. --- **[[spoken/720704r1.ny|Room Conversation — July 4, 1972, New York]]** Devotee (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda?We've got a traveling *saṅkīrtana* group coming here [indistinct] from Dallas. The boys are stopping to see you. In two days Dvārakādhīśa distributed about one hundred of your *Back to Godheads*, and so many *Kṛṣṇa* books. And all the boys took part in *saṅkīrtana*. It would be very nice for them... Ātreya Ṛṣi: He says that when they were on their way to New York City, the students distributed hundred *Back to Godhead* and went on *saṅkīrtana*. --- **[[spoken/720704r2.ny|Room Conversation with Yadurāṇī — July 4, 1972, New York]]** **Yadurāṇī:** ...they just didn't know how to do it effectively. And, Śrīla Prabhupāda, Muralīdhara just asked you that when Lord Brahmā, when he became angry at the four Kumāras he created Lord Śiva from between his eyebrows. So he is always situated on his lotus, but at that time should we paint him on his planet? **Prabhupāda:** Just like here in this material world the Brahmā's planet is the ultimate. That is also like mat..., lotus flower. And in the spiritual world the ultimate planet is Kṛṣṇaloka. That is also [indistinct] land. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. *Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu* [Bs. 5.29]. There are palaces, trees, everything. They are not voids. The voidist cannot understand what is there. --- **[[spoken/720704r3.ny|Room Conversation — July 4, 1972, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** [devotees are laughing as they look at magazine] First name [indistinct]? What is that? Devotee (1): It says "Vai..., Vaikuṇṭha Playhouse, statement of purpose." There's a theatrical group called the Vaikuṇṭha Players. [break] Ātreya Ṛṣi: You have, [indistinct] very limited opportunity for associating, so offensively. You'll be leaving today. --- **[[spoken/720704r4.ny|Room Conversation with Bob Cohen — July 4, 1972, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** Now, you are very intelligent boy. You can try to understand this philosophy. It is very important. And try to preach. For sense gratification people are wasting so much time, but they do not..., they're not responsible what is going to happen next life. But there is next life. Foolish people, they are ignorant, but there is next life, and this life is preparation for next life. That they do not know. The modern education, universities, they're completely in darkness about this simple knowledge. We are changing body every moment—that's a medical science—and after changing this body, we'll have to accept another body. How we are going to accept that body, what kind of body, this can be also known. Just like one is being educated, when he passes his examination one can understand that he's going to be engineer or a medical practitioner. Similarly, in this life you can prepare yourself to become something next life. --- **[[spoken/740704iv.chi|Interview with Envious Reporter — July 4, 1974, Chicago]]** **Prabhupāda:** That is also another cause, because they are not satisfied. Otherwise, why hippies are coming? [aside:] Come. The hippies are dissatisfied with the method of modern materialistic way of life. Is it not? Therefore voluntarily... Reporter (1): ...Krsna consciousness people among the hippies, because they had already given up material possessions, and so they were prepared for...? **Prabhupāda:** No, that means that they want to have something new, but they are not accepting what is actually better. Some of them are accepting. But there is frustration, there is no doubt. --- **[[spoken/740704sb.chi|SB 1.8.18 — July 4, 1974, Chicago]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse] *kunty uvāca namasye puruṣaṁ tu ādyam īśvaraṁ prakṛteḥ param alakṣyaṁ sarva-bhūtānām antar bahir avasthitam* [[sb/1/8/18|[SB. 1.8.18] ]] This is a prayer offered by Kuntī to Kṛṣṇa. After finishing the Battle of Kurukṣetra, when Kṛṣṇa was leaving for His own kingdom, Dvārakā, at that time He went to take blessings from Kuntī. Kuntī happened to be Kṛṣṇa's aunt, father's sister. So He went to take leave from aunt. At that time Kuntī offered this prayer. Kuntī, although she knew that Kṛṣṇa is her nephew, brother's son, but still she knew that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa comes here as ordinary human being, but the purpose is to reestablish the principles of religion as it is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā*, *paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām* [[bg/4/8|[Bg. 4.8] ]]. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata, tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham* [[bg/4/7|[Bg. 4.7] ]]. The..., anything, *īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam,* anything, whatever you see, that is God's property, Kṛṣṇa's property. So as the owner sometimes goes to visit his property or to see things, that management is going on nicely, so everything belongs to God. Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā*, *sarva-loka-maheśvaram.* --- **[[spoken/750704mw.chi|Morning Walk — July 4, 1975, Chicago]]** **Devotee: [announces] Morning walk, Chicago, July 4th.Prabhupāda:** ...resembling Boston. That students' quarter? **Prabhupāda:** ...Angeles, I have seen while going to the beach, one man has made a boat of concrete cement. Did you see? Nobody marked? **Viṣṇujana:** Oh, yes. They are used for taking cargo up and down the coast. They don't travel in the ocean, but they travel on the coast. They used them during the Second World War all over the United States. --- **[[spoken/750704r1.chi|Room Conversation with the Mayor of Evanston — July 4, 1975, Chicago]]** **Mayor:** No. I know about the article on the crime, and I have it at home, but I have not read it as yet. But we certainly know that it's a tremendous problem in the United States, perhaps throughout the world and certainly here. **Prabhupāda:** It is not a problem. Just like there is disease, and there is remedy also. And as much as the disease is chronic, the remedy is also costly. So in the Western countries—do not mind—they are not trying to educate first-class men, and that is the difficulty. This advancement, technical knowledge, to have nice motorcars or big, big buildings, highways, this is very good, but this is not the aim of life. **Prabhupāda:** They are missing the aim of life. That is the... The aim of life is, acc..., not according to Vedic, but anyone, the aim of life is how to realize God. That is aim. In the animal life or in other lives less important than the human being there is no question of God realization. In the human life, the civilized human life, there is religion. It doesn't matter whether one is Christian or a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist. --- **[[spoken/750704sb.chi|SB 6.1.20 — July 4, 1975, Chicago]]** *atra codāharantīmam itihāsaṁ purātanam dūtānāṁ viṣṇu-yamayoḥ saṁvādas taṁ nibodha me* * [[sb/6/1/20|[SB. 6.1.20] ]] Translation. "In this connection, the learned scholars and saintly persons give as an example the description of one very old historical incident, wherein a discussion takes place between the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu and the order carriers of Yamarāja. Please try and understand it as I describe it to you." **Prabhupāda:** > atra codāharantīmam > itihāsaṁ purātanam > dūtānāṁ viṣṇu-yamayoḥ > saṁvādas taṁ nibodha me > [[sb/6/1/20|[SB. 6.1.20] ]] --- **[[spoken/760704cc.wdc|Cc. Madhya 20.98-99 — July 4, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760704mw.wdc|Morning Walk — July 4, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760704r1.wdc|Room Conversation — July 4, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760704ss.wdc|“Life Comes From Life” Slideshow Discussions — July 4, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680704_balai.md|Letter to Balai, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680704_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690704_jayagovinda.md|Letter to Jayagovinda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690704_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690704_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700704_acyutananda.md|Letter to Acyutananda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700704_himavati.md|Letter to Himavati, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710704_nayanabhirama.md|Letter to Nayanabhirama, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710704_sri_govinda_srilekha_bob_leon_will_woody_mike.md|Letter to Sri Govinda Srilekha Bob Leon Will Woody Mike, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710704_tribhuvanatha.md|Letter to Tribhuvanatha, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730704_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_dr._ram_s._verma_mrs._ram_s._verma.md|Letter to Dr. Ram S. Verma Mrs. Ram S. Verma, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_gurukrpa.md|Letter to Gurukrpa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_manindra.md|Letter to Manindra, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_paramahamsa_srutakirti.md|Letter to Paramahamsa Srutakirti, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750704_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1977/770704_postmaster.md|Letter to Postmaster, 1977]]