# July 6 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680706sb.mon|SB 7.9.9 — July 6, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** > manye dhanābhijana-rūpa-tapaḥ-śrutaujas- > tejaḥ-prabhāva-bala-pauruṣa-buddhi-yogaḥ > nārādhanāya hi bhavanti parasya puṁso > bhaktyā tutoṣa bhagavān gaja-yūtha-pāya > [[sb/7/9/9|[SB. 7.9.9] ]] Prahlāda Mahārāja, considering himself born in the lowest, atheistic family, he thinks that "When Brahmā and other big demigods failed to satisfy the Nṛsiṁha-deva, how it is possible for me? I am neither born in a very scholarly family or devotee's family." Because a devotee is supposed to take birth in the family of a *brāhmaṇa* or very rich king or princely order or mercantile family. But Prahlāda Mahārāja was born in a very rich family, and his father was also *brāhmaṇa.* And so... But unfortunately, his father was atheist. Therefore, in spite of his becoming born in the *brāhmaṇa* family, he was designated as demon, *daitya.* --- **[[spoken/720706sb.lon|SB 1.1.1 — July 6, 1972, London]]** **Devotee:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/750706mw.chi|Morning Walk — July 6, 1975, Chicago]]** **Jagadīśa:** But many of the devotees are not so inclined to listen to a householder as to a *sannyāsī.* **Prabhupāda:** ...one for the *dāṅtun* [toothbrush]. [break] Eh? Fifth class. [break] ...fourth class. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Śrīla Prabhupāda, when you were... Many years ago you used to have me send you eucalyptus twigs from San Francisco. --- **[[spoken/750706sb.chi|SB 6.1.22 — July 6, 1975, Chicago]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] *bandy-akṣaiḥ kaitavaiś cauryair garhitāṁ vṛttim āsthitaḥ bibhrat kuṭumbam aśucir yātayām āsa dehinaḥ* * [[sb/6/1/22|[SB. 6.1.22] ]] "That fallen brāhmaṇa of the name Ajāmila was giving trouble to all other men by forcibly arresting them, cheating them by gambling with weighted dice, or by directly plundering someone. Thus he used to earn his livelihood to maintain his family by giving trouble and pain to others." --- **[[spoken/760706ad.wdc|Tenth Anniversary Address — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760706cc.wdc|Cc. Madhya 20.101 — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760706ed.wdc|Evening Darśana — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760706r1.wdc|Room Conversation — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760706r2.wdc|Room Conversation With Scientists — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760706r3.wdc|Room Conversation — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/760706r4.wdc|Room Conversation — July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]** --- **[[spoken/770706r1.vrn|Room Conversation with Vrindavan De — July 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...but still, I have given you chance. So you want simply... Just like a widow. We... But we want that you may not be disturbed. Go ahead. Do business and have big building. Everyone's constructing big, big building, Marwaris. Why you cannot do? You have been given all chance. *Yogināṁ puruṣam upaiti lakṣmīm.* Unless one is dedicated, a *yogī,* very endeavoring... So we have showed a *yogī* endeavoring. Seventy years old, I was here in Vṛndāvana, and I came. For ten years I worked. Now see. All over the world I have got hundreds of buildings like this. I am the same man. At least one hundred temples we have, only by working ten years. So there must be capacity, there must be endeavor, there must be good fortune. Then everything will be... It is not that you simply desire and it will drop from the sky. That is not possible. Hmm? Arjuna fought the Battle of Kurukṣetra. Kṛṣṇa never advised him, "No, I am your friend. I shall do everything. You sit down and sleep." "You have to fight!" And Kṛṣṇa is merciful. He gives him... The two things required: *utsāhān dhairyāt niścayāt tat-tat-karma-pravart... [**Upadeśāmṛta* 3]. If you have no capacity, you cannot expect to become very rich or learned, or very... That is not possible. It is not your capacity. Just like within this land there is gold, but you have to dig it. That is mine. And if you smell, "Ah, there is gold here," will you get gold? You are fortunate. You have got a place. Here is gold. But you have to dig it. You have to work. "No, I shall smell, and gold will come." That is not... So don't be worried. You'll be allowed to stay here. But I cannot transfer the property to your mother's name. Then your brother will spoil. And otherwise you are... I am not going to lease them. **Prabhupāda:** No, mother absence, that is... Father... You... Not only your mother; you can live here. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680706_vinode_patel.md|Letter to Vinode Patel, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1971/710706_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720706_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730706_mrs._nirmala_singhal.md|Letter to Mrs. Nirmala Singhal, 1973]]