# July 5 *Lectures from this day: 16 recordings* --- **[[spoken/700705ry.sf|Ratha-yātrā Lecture — July 5, 1970, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** My dear boys and girls, those who have come here, I welcome you on behalf of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared five hundred years ago, and He introduced this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This Ratha-yātrā is one of the item of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Jagannātha..., just try to understand Jagannātha. *Jagat* means the moving world. *Gacchati iti jagat*, Sanskrit word, *gacchati* means which is moving. So all these planets, this universe, even the sun, everything is moving, as we are moving. We are, of course, animate. Even inanimate things are moving. Your motorcar moving, your machine is moving, but they are moving under the control of some animate object. But animate objects moving, some of the animate objects are standstill, just like trees, but ultimately they are also moving in this sense: that one species of life is being transmigrated to another species of life. Therefore it is called *jagat. Jagat* means moving. And *Jagat-nātha*, *nātha* means the proprietor—master, proprietor. --- **[[spoken/710705in.la|Initiation Lecture [partially recorded] — July 5, 1971, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** So your spiritual name is Rāma-rañjana. Rāma-rañjana. Rāma... One who pleases Lord Rāma, Rāma-rañjana. So by your activities you have to please Lord Rāmacandra. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. What was the business of Rāmacandra? To kill Rāvaṇas. [laughter] To kill all the atheists. That was the Rāmacandra's business: to kill Rāvaṇa. Rāvaṇa was a very powerful atheist, and he was working with the ten heads. Just like materialistic *karmīs,* they work very hard, and they have got good brain also for wording hard. So Rāvaṇa had ten heads. But the plan was to cheat Rāma. With all intelligence, with all brain, his only plan was how to cheat Rāma. That was his... He became a *sannyāsī* and he went to take some alms from Sītā. The purpose was to cheat, to enter. Because according to Vedic civilization, a *sannyāsī* has open door. He can go even inside. But that... He was the only *sannyāsī* at that time who tried to cheat. But this kind of *sannyāsī* or this kind of intelligent persons are killed by Rāma. They may make plan very nice to cheat Rāmacandra, but ultimately they become vanquished with all their planning commission. --- **[[spoken/710705le.la|Lecture [partially recorded] — July 5, 1971, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** "...if you want to understand Me, then you increase your attachment for Me. Everything will be all right." Just like the same story... Not story; it is fact. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, when He was traveling in South India, He saw one *brāhmaṇa* reading *Bhagavad-gītā.* And persons who knew him, that "That man was illiterate," it was not possible for him to read *Bhagavad-gītā.* But still, he was trying to read it, and crying also. So while others were criticizing, Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to him, "*Brāhmaṇa,* what you are reading?" So he could understand that "This person, He's not come here to criticize me. He's serious." So he talked seriously, "Sir, I am reading *Bhagavad-gītā.* Unfortunately, I am illiterate." Now see. He is illiterate and he is reading *Bhagavad-gītā*? Caitanya Mahāprabhu inquired that "How is that, you're reading *Bhagavad-gītā* and you say you are illiterate?" He said, "Yes, actually I am illiterate, but my Guru Mahārāja asked me that 'You should read every day eighteen chapters.' So what can I do? [laughter] I have to carry out the order of my spiritual master. So I have simply taken this book. I am seeing it." --- **[[spoken/740705sb.chi|SB 1.8.19 — July 5, 1974, Chicago]]** *māyā-javanikācchannam ajñādhokṣajam avyayam na lakṣyase mūḍha-dṛśā naṭo nāṭyadharo yathā* [[sb/1/8/19|[SB. 1.8.19] ]] Hmm. So, Kṛṣṇa is covered by a curtain, *māyā-javanikā. Javanikā* means curtain, and *māyā*, "deluding." We have explained yesterday that Kṛṣṇa is existing outside and inside. Outside... Inside He is existing, *īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe,* pointing out. *Hṛd-deśe* means this heart; the Lord within, *īśvaraḥ*. Not only within the heart, but within the atoms, as it is stated in the *Brahma-saṁhitā*, --- **[[spoken/750705mw.chi|Morning Walk — July 5, 1975, Chicago]]** **Brahmānanda: Yes, in Europe. England.Jayatīrtha:** He's a graduate of Princeton University, a very big, big university. **Jayatīrtha:** Yes. Sat's men are hand-picked. It takes a very special devotee to be able to speak with these professors intelligently. **Jayatīrtha:** At the library convention in San Francisco we had that booth there. So I went to see them, and they appeared very professional with their suits and wigs. --- **[[spoken/750705r1.chi|Room Conversation with Mr. & Mrs. Wax — July 5, 1975, Chicago]]** **Śrī Govinda:** They would like to interview you and tape record possibly for using in one of their magazines. **Jayatīrtha:** This is the article that Mrs. Wax has written, and it was published in *Harper's.* It's one of the big national magazines. It's about Gurukula. **Mrs. Wax:** Thank you. It's an honor to be here. Because I wrote the article about Gurukula, I'm interested in what has happened there. I was there last summer. Do you have plans for other schools? And what is happening with Gurukula now? Is it standing? --- **[[spoken/750705r2.chi|Room Conversation with Lt. Mozee, Policeman — July 5, 1975, Chicago]]** **Śrī Govinda:** He's with the Chicago police department, and he's in charge of developing their relationship with the media. And I was thinking there could be nice discussion with him concerning your ideas about stopping crime. **Lt. Mozee:** Well, no. I understood the spiritual leader had some ideas on how to prevent crime, how to do these things. I might inquire after he gives his ideas. I understand you read the... **Prabhupāda:** It is not idea; it is fact that one man is very pious and one man is very vicious. What is the difference? The difference is: one is dirty in his heart and one is pure in his heart. So if you keep people dirty, then there will be crimes. This is the sign that the general people, they are dirty. So you have to purify the dirty things, diseased condition. Then things will be all right. So our simplest process is to assemble in congregation and chant the holy name of God. Then dirty things will go away. So if you want to stop crime, then you have to arrange for mass *saṅkīrtana.* That is our movement. Gather people as large as can be possible and congregationally chant the holy name of God. Then it will be all right. --- **[[spoken/750705sb.chi|SB 6.1.21 — July 5, 1975, Chicago]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number 21. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "In the country known as Kānyakubja there was a brāhmaṇa of the name Ajāmila. Later on, he married a kept maidservant, a prostitute. On account of the association with the low-class woman, he lost all his brahminical qualities." **Prabhupāda:** This is the history. Yesterday we talked, *itihāsam udāharanti, atra codāharanti imam itihāsaṁ purātanam.* [From word for word by Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī on 6.1.20] --- **[[spoken/760705cc.wdc|Cc. Madhya 20.100 — July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760705mw.wdc|Morning Walk — July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760705r1.wdc|Conversation with Dr. Shaligram Shukla [Part 1] — July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760705r2.wdc|Conversation with Dr. Shaligram Shukla [Part 2] — July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760705r3.wdc|Room Conversation — July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760705r4.wdc|Room Conversation — July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/770705dc.vrn|Discussion about Bhū-maṇḍala — July 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Bhakti-prema:** This is Bhārata-varṣa, Bhūrloka. Now, this is Himalayan mountain going from east to west. This is India. From my practical experience, I have seen Switzerland, it is so high that so many accidents have taken place. Little inattention. They have experience. The plane goes thirty-two thousand feet high. Is it not? **Prabhupāda:** Still they met with accident. But they are saying that Himalaya is twenty-eight thousand feet high. --- **[[spoken/770705r1.vrn|Room Conversation — July 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** "Probably," "perhaps." Why Darwin's theory is full of this "perhaps," "probably," "millions of years"? What is this nonsense? Is that knowledge? A mortal man is suggesting "millions of years" and "perhaps," "probably." And that's science. I never liked this. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Even in your school days. How did you feel about when they taught Darwin when you were in school? **Prabhupāda:** We were never taught. But in our college days one professor, Dr. Kalidas Nahan[?], he was sometimes speaking in relations with history, "prehistoric age," that. But I did not take it very seriously. He was speaking about some anthropology. But he was very... No, historians, they must be very intelligent. And they must refer to this Darwin's theory. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/490705_gandhi_memorial_fund.md|Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund, 1949]] - [[../../letters/1969/690705_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690705_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690705_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690705_sacisuta.md|Letter to Sacisuta, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690705_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710705_anangamanjari.md|Letter to Anangamanjari, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710705_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710705_radhavallabha.md|Letter to Radhavallabha, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710705_tilaka.md|Letter to Tilaka, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1975/750705_bhagavata.md|Letter to Bhagavata, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750705_ramanand.md|Letter to Ramanand, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750705_svarupa_damodara.md|Letter to Svarupa Damodara, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760705_aksayananda.md|Letter to Aksayananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760705_internal_revenue_service.md|Letter to Internal Revenue Service, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760705_nityananda.md|Letter to Nityananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760705_radha_sarana.md|Letter to Radha Sarana, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760705_ramakrishnaji.md|Letter to Ramakrishnaji, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760705_ranadhira.md|Letter to Ranadhira, 1976]]