# July 12 *Lectures from this day: 15 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680712sb.mon|SB 7.9.10 — July 12, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** > viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha- > pādāravinda-vimukhāt śvapacaṁ variṣṭham > manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha- > prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ > [[sb/7/9/10|[SB. 7.9.10] ]] This verse we have been discussing in the last meeting. It is one of the many verses in the prayers of Prahlāda Mahārāja to Lord Nṛsiṁha. So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that a person who has dedicated his life, *tad-arpita-mano-vacana... Arpita* means dedicated. *Mana* means mind. *Vacana* means words. So we act in this body, we act with our mind, with our words and with our body. Mind, body and words. This is the medium of exchanging our activities. So Prahlāda Mahārāja says, "One who has dedicated these three things, mind, body and words, to the service of the Lord, I think he is best." How best? *Viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād:* he's better or the best than anyone. --- **[[spoken/690712sb.la|SB 2.3.17 — July 12, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Here is a verse in *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* spoken by Śaunaka Ṛṣi—a great sage of the name Śaunaka. There was great meeting in Naimiṣāraṇya, a place, a very sacred place in India. If you sometimes go to India, you'll try to find out this place. It is in northern India, and there is a big city, very well known city, Lucknow, and it is about forty or fifty miles from Lucknow. But the place is so nice, so attractive, that any man who goes there will find immediately spiritually impelled, it is so nice place, Naimiṣāraṇya. So it is very old place. Formerly, when sages used to hold their meeting, they generally held their meeting in that place, Naimiṣāraṇya. So this *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* was also discussed first in that Naimiṣā... Not first; for the second time. First it was explained by Śukadeva Gosvāmī to Mahārāja Parīkṣit. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was cursed by a *brāhmaṇa* boy to die within a week. Formerly, even a small child... This boy, this *brāhmaṇa* boy, was playing with his playmates. That means he was a child, not more than ten to twelve years old. And he was informed that "Mahārāja Parīkṣit has insulted your father by garlanding him with a dead snake." --- **[[spoken/720712le.lon|Lecture — July 12, 1972, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** I thank you very much for your participating in this *saṅkīrtana* movement. This movement was started by Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago in India, West Bengal. [noise of someone speaking in background] **Prabhupāda:** But this movement is not five hundred years old. It is coming since very, very long time. As we have advertised, *bhāgavata-dharma.* This is part of *bhāgavata-dharma. Bhāgavata-dharma* was explained by Prahlāda Mahārāja, a great devotee of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, Nārāyaṇa, some millions of years ago. His father was Hiraṇyakaśipu, atheist. He did not believe in God. But by the grace of Nārada Muni, his son, from the very womb of his mother, he was initiated in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and after his birth he became a great devotee. And when he was only five years old he was preaching this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement amongst his class fellows. He was little boy, king's son. He had no opportunity to go out of the palace. Still, he took the opportunity of speaking something about this *bhāgavata-dharma* amongst his class fellows. So he was canvassing his class fellows, "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." --- **[[spoken/730712bg.lon|Bg 1.8-10 — July 12, 1973, London]]** --- **[[spoken/730712r1.lon|Room Conversation with David Lawrence — July 12, 1973, London]]** **Devotee (1):** They were from the same... Those boys all came from the same school as those teachers. They're just up the road. They'll all come now. **Devotee (1):** They like. They had never come to the temple before. Just first time they came up. I said, "It is very difficult to understand." **Devotee (1):** Well, *guru,* they have to surrender to *guru.* They must surrender. So it's difficult sometimes for them to come. --- **[[spoken/730712r2.lon|Room Conversation with Two Buddhist Monks — July 12, 1973, London]]** **Buddhist Monk (1):** Yes, humanity. I was in Hrishikesh and five or six times in India. So that is why... Wherever possible, I lived with them, not for long times—a day or two or three or a week at most; share our spiritual food together. **Prabhupāda:** So far hospitality is concerned, according to Vedic culture, Indian homes were open for everyone, even for the enemies. *Gṛhe śatrum api prāptaṁ viśvastam akutobhayam.* If one gets an enemy at his home as guest, he should receive him in such a way that the man would forget about his enmity with him. *Gṛhe śatrum api prāptaṁ viśvastam akutobhayam.* So these are preliminary human behavior. Even without any understanding of spiritual values, they are expected to behave nicely. **Buddhist Monk (1):** Yes. It is very easy to love someone who loves you. But real, purified, selfless love is to radiate it without any discrimination, both to the person who loves and to... --- **[[spoken/740712ch.la|Chanting Cc. Ādi-līlā 12th Chapter Verses 1–96 — July 12, 1974, Los Angeles]]** --- **[[spoken/740712mw.la|Morning Walk at Marina del Rey — July 12, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Kṛṣṇa-kanti:** [introducing recording] This is a morning walk conversation, July 12, 1974, at Marina del Rey. [break] **Jayatīrtha:** That was on Tuesday morning, Śrīla Prabhupāda. [indistinct] We were planning that you would stay there for two days. **Prabhupāda:** **Then? That is called *laghimā, laghima-siddhi. Laghima-siddhi,* you'll become so light that you can walk on the water, you can fly in the air. --- **[[spoken/740712sb.la|SB 1.16.22 — July 12, 1974, Los Angeles]]** "The so-called administrators are now bewildered by the influence of this Age of Kali, and thus they have put all state affairs into disorder. Are you now lamenting this disorder? Now the general populace does not follow the rules and regulations for eating, sleeping, drinking, mating, etc., and they are inclined to perform such anywhere and everywhere. Are you unhappy because of this?" **Prabhupāda:** > kiṁ kṣatra-bandhūn kalinopasṛṣṭān > rāṣṭrāṇi vā tair avaropitāni > itas tato vāśana-pāna-vāsaḥ- > snāna-vyavāyonmukha-jīva-lokam > [[sb/1/16/22|[SB. 1.16.22] ]] In this Kali-yuga everything is topsy-turvied. The Vedic way of life... For living condition, we require to eat, we require to take bath, we require to sleep, we require to have sex also. Everything must be in regulative principle. Because human life means regulative principle. Unfortunately, the human life has become irregulated than the animal. This *aśana, pāna, vāsaḥ* and *snāna,* and sexual intercourse, there is, at the present moment, there is no regulative principle. The Vedic principle is early in the morning one must take bathing, then worship the Deity, read Vedic literature, *mantra,* then offer foodstuff to the Deity, then take *prasādam.* Everything is regulative principle. And it is the duty of the government to see that these regulative principles are being observed by the citizens. This is government. The Vedic system, these *brāhmaṇa,* the topmost class of the human society, their business is to study the *Vedas, paṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana dāna pratigraha.* Ideal character, very learned. Still in India... Now it is formality; a *brāhmaṇa* is called *paṇḍitajī. Paṇḍita* means very learned. Without being very learned scholar, one cannot become *brāhmaṇa* or Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava is farther above the *brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa* is the preliminary qualification for becoming a Vaiṣṇava later on. --- **[[spoken/750712mw.phi|Morning Walk — July 12, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **Prabhupāda:** [reading] "I have great love and regard toward you, and I desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just and peaceable life. And the people I send are of the same mind. And I shall in all things behave." And what about the shooting? [laughter] [break] ...shooting? **Jayatīrtha:** But it says in the Declaration of Independence—this is part of it here—it says that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." So they admitted that there was God. **Jayatīrtha:** The founders of the nation admitted that there was God, but now they won't admit. [break] --- **[[spoken/750712ry.phi|Ratha-yātrā Lecture — July 12, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **Prabhupāda:** Ladies and gentlemen, first of all I wish to thank you, the inhabitants of this great city, Philadelphia. You are so kind, enthusiastic, in taking part in this movement. So I am very much obliged to you. I am especially obliged to the American boys and girls who are helping me so much in spreading this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in the Western countries. I was ordered by my spiritual master to preach this Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the Western countries. So in 1965 I first came in New York. Then in 1966 this Society was regularly registered in New York, and from 1967 this movement is regularly going on in America, Europe, Canada, and south of Pacific Ocean, Australia, and throughout the whole world. So I may inform you little about this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. *Kṛṣṇa,* this word, means all-attractive. Kṛṣṇa is attractive to every living entities, not only human being, even the animals, birds, bees, trees, flowers, fruits, water. That is the picture of Vṛndāvana. This is material world. We have no experience of the spiritual world. But we can get an glimpse idea what is spirit and what is matter. Just try to understand the difference between a living man and a dead body. The dead body means as soon as the living force within the body is gone, then it is dead matter, useless. And so long the living force is there, the body is very important. So as we experience in this body there is something as dead matter and something as living force, similarly, there are two worlds: the material world and the spiritual world. We living entities, every one of us, we belong to the spiritual world. We do not belong to the material world. Some way or other, we are now in contact with this material world and material body, and the business is that although we are eternal living force, on account of our contact with this material body, we have to take four tribulations: birth, death, disease and old age. That we have to undergo. In this material world we are getting one type of body, and it is ended at a certain stage, just like any material thing. You take, for example, of your dress. You are dressed with a certain type of garment, but when it is worn out, no more usable, then you throw it, you get another dress. So this material body is the dress of the spirit living force. But because we are attached to this material world, we want to enjoy this material world, we get different types of body. It is explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā* as a machine. Actually it is machine, this body. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, --- **[[spoken/750712sb.phi|SB 6.1.26-27 — July 12, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **"As **Ajāmila** thus passed his span of life being attached to his son, his time of death arrived. At that time he began to think of his son without any other thought."**Prabhupāda: > sa evaṁ vartamāno 'jño > mṛtyu-kāla upasthite > matiṁ cakāra tanaye > bāle nārāyaṇāhvaye > [[sb/6/1/27|[SB. 6.1.27] ]] So *vartamāna.* Everyone is situated under certain condition. This is material life. I am situated under certain consciousness, you are situated in certain consciousness—everyone. According to the modes of nature, we have got different conception of life and different consciousness. That is called material life. All of us, we are sitting here, every one of us has got a different consciousness. Generally, it is meant for sense gratification. Material life means everyone is planning, "I shall live like this. I shall acquire money like this. I shall enjoy like this." Everyone has got a program. So Ajāmila also had a program. What was his program? His program was, as he is very much attached to his youngest child and whole attention was there, how the child is moving, how the child is eating, how the child is talking, and sometimes he was calling, he was feeding, so his whole mind was absorbed with the activities of the child. In the previous verse we have already discussed: --- **[[spoken/760712bg.ny|Comments on Bhagavad-gītā Play — July 12, 1976, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...of this human being, people do not know how they are kept in ignorance. And... [break] ...because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, out of His causeless mercy He comes to deliver us from this ignorance. Unfortunately, they are so much engrossed by the illusory energy, they do not take advantage of the instruction of Kṛṣṇa. So therefore this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is being propagated that these dull-headed *mūḍha*—they are being described as *mūḍha,* dull-headed—they do not know actual interest of life. *Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum* [[sb/7/5/31|[SB. 7.5.31] ]]. These dull-headed conditioned souls, they do not know their real self-interest, being influenced by *māyā. Māyā* is also Kṛṣṇa's energy, so it is her duty to punish the conditioned soul because they have decided to forget Kṛṣṇa. Still, Kṛṣṇa is so merciful, He comes personally, He authorizes His devotee, servant, to enlighten these conditioned souls. Now our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is an humble attempt to raise the standard of these conditioned souls to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Those who are engaged in this business, they should personally behave as devotee, and by their example they should teach others and elevate them from this gross ignorance of materialistic life. Thank you very much. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** They also have a performance to show you of Satish Chandra Ghosh's play. Satish Chandra Ghosh, remember that play that we received in Māyāpur, that Nitāi had translated? "Lust and Envy." You gave it to Madhudviṣa, myself and Sudāmā, and you were saying, "Just think how to perform this." --- **[[spoken/760712cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.106 — July 12, 1976, New York]]** **Translation:** "Those who are anxious to awaken their spiritual consciousness, who have unflinching intelligence and who are not deviated, certainly attain the desired goal." **Prabhupāda:** > acirād eva sarvārthaḥ > sidhyaty eṣām abhīpsitaḥ > sad-dharmasyāvabodhāya > yeṣāṁ nirbandhinī matiḥ > [[cc/madhya/20/106|[Cc. Madhya 20.106] ]] --- **[[spoken/760712mw.ny|Morning Walk — July 12, 1976, New York]]** [speaks gibberish:] *Aparkulasvenavargolajagundakuligondoliojalīlāvale...* [laughter] You can talk like that, but what is the meaning of it? That intelligence they have got, to manufacture... I know, I was in the medical business. So any petty medicine, and you employ a medical man, and he'll present it in such a scientific way that people will think that it is very important thing. I know it well. In Bose's laboratory we used to do that. [gibberish:] *Aparkulavenavargolajdgunda...* This is... Simply soda bicarb and little this and that. So the modern world means how to befool persons, that's all. Not to enlighten them, but to keep them in ignorance and befool them more and more. And they like it. Under the influence of *māyā* they like to be cheated. [sounds of fire engines] Now just see, the whole night there is blazing fire, and they are thinking they are happy. And if we sing *saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka,* "the material world is blazing fire," that is sentiment. And this is not practical. Whole day and night, simply fire, disturbing. Such a big, important city, and they are disturbing always twenty-four hours, *gon-gon-gon-gon-gon-gon-gon.* They are so expert that this ordinary fire they can control. Another side is that nobody wants this fire, and why it is coming? *Yathā duḥkha...* Prahlāda Mahārāja, long, long years ago: *yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ* [[sb/7/6/3|[SB. 7.6.3] ]]. As this fire business is coming without my endeavor, similarly, the other part—distress; this is distress—other part, happiness, also will come. Why shall I endeavor for it? So my energies should be utilized only for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is civilization. And whole life, day and night, they are trying for material happiness, and that is not happening. The problems are increasing. No intelligence. *Mūḍha.* *Mūḍho nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam* [[bg/7/13|[Bg. 7.13] ]]. They admit, the scientists, they admit that they are in ignorance. Simply bluff. Again one bluff, that Mars-going expedition. The business is going on in the Arizona, that's all. And after few years they will present some stone, "Now we went to Mars. There is no possibility of living there. Take this stone and sand and be satisfied for your millions of dollars that you have spent..." And they will say, "Oh, we have made scientific progress. I have got this stone from Mars." *Yo kuttāko baḍalāṭa goli kiyā uskā teṅgri lāyā*. There is a song in Bengal that formerly anything European, *sāheb,* that is good. So one person is selling meat, flesh of dog. Flesh of dog nobody takes, at least in India. So he said that "This is not ordinary dog. This is the dog which was killed by Viceroy, that dog. And because Viceroy killed it, therefore it has become nice dog. You can eat it." So anything these so-called scientists said, that is to be accepted. Without any common sense. This is your intelligence. But I am fool Indian, I don't believe it. [laughter] I immediately capture the point, why this rascal is talking of Arizona? That means the whole business is going on in Arizona. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** We are still as dull* [Prabhupāda laughs] as the *karmīs.* We would never have thought like that, Prabhupāda, about Arizona. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/470712_mahatma_gandhi.md|Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, 1947]] - [[../../letters/1967/670712_sripad_narayana_maharaja.md|Letter to Sripad Narayana Maharaja, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680712_cidananda.md|Letter to Cidananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680712_jayananda.md|Letter to Jayananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680712_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690712_carl_lange.md|Letter to Carl Lange, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690712_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690712_jaya_gopala.md|Letter to Jaya Gopala, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690712_manager_of_the_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of The Punjab National Bank, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690712_vamanadeva.md|Letter to Vamanadeva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700712_candanacarya.md|Letter to Candanacarya, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700712_jayadvaita.md|Letter to Jayadvaita, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700712_vrndavana_candra.md|Letter to Vrndavana Candra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710712_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720712_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720712_jaya_gopala_suniti.md|Letter to Jaya Gopala Suniti, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1975/750712_ameyatma.md|Letter to Ameyatma, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750712_bhumata.md|Letter to Bhumata, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750712_carlos_bismark.md|Letter to Carlos Bismark, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750712_mrdapriya.md|Letter to Mrdapriya, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750712_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1975]]