# July 13 *Lectures from this day: 14 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660713bg.ny|Bg 4.1 and Review — July 13, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > sa evāyaṁ mayā te 'dya > yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ > bhakto 'si me sakhā ceti > rahasyaṁ hy etad uttamam > [[bg/4/3|[Bg. 4.3] ]] Last day we are discussing about the process of understanding *Bhagavad-gītā.* This is to receive the knowledge in disciplic succession, bona fide disciplic succession. It is not a thing... Any knowledge, even material knowledge, if it is not received in bona fide disciplic succession, that knowledge is not perfect. Suppose if you want to be a lawyer, or if you want to be an engineer or a medical practitioner. You have to receive the knowledge from the authoritative lawyer, authoritative engineer. Of course, I do not know what is the custom here. In India the custom is that a new lawyer, he has to become an apprentice of an experienced lawyer before he is given the license to practice. That is the Indian system. So any knowledge, unless we receive it through the authoritative sources, it is not perfect. It is not perfect. --- **[[spoken/710713in.la|Initiation Lecture — July 13, 1971, Los Angeles]]** **Devotee: Yes, we have [indistinct]. Get the beads?Prabhupāda:** Yes. [*japa*] [Viṣṇujana leads *kīrtana*] [*prema-dhvani*] * [20:02] **Dayānanda:** Repeat the *mantra* three times with water, taking water, then wash. > oṁ apavitraḥ pavitro vā > sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā > yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ > sa bahyābhyantaraḥ śuciḥ > śrī-viṣṇu śrī-viṣṇu śrī-viṣṇu > [Garuḍa Purāṇa] **[devotees repeat each word] [break] ....that is to say whether one is in liberated platform or whether one is in the animal platform, the hellish platform, that one is a denizen of the lower planets, in any condition of life, one can..., if one simply remembers the lotus-eyed one, or **Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, then one becomes purified, or *śuci,* internally or externally. And externally. Internally and externally. So this *mantra* is enjoining that you simply remember the lotus-eyed one, simply remember Viṣṇu, then we can be come purified, we can become *śuci.* --- **[[spoken/730713bg.lon|Bg 1.11-12 — July 13, 1973, London]]** *tasya—*his; *sañjanayan—*increasing; *harṣam—*cheerfulness; *kuru-vṛddhaḥ*—the grandsire of the Kuru dynasty (Bhīṣma); *pitāmahaḥ—*the grandfather; *siṁha-nādam—*roaring sound, like a lion; *vinadya—*vibrating; *uccaiḥ*—very loudly; *śaṅkham—*conchshell; *dadhmau—*blew; *pratāpavān—*the valiant. --- **[[spoken/730713r1.lon|Room Conversation with Educationists — July 13, 1973, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Ṭhākura,* they belong to *kṣatriya* class. *Brāhmaṇa...* According to Vedic conception, there are four divisions: *brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya* and *śūdra.* So next to *brāhmaṇa* is the *kṣatriya.* So this *Ṭhākura* title is given to the *kṣatriyas,* administrator class. Yes. **Prabhupāda:** Our movement is to revive God consciousness. Just like a man is sleeping, and he has got some engagement, say, in the morning, at six o'clock. But still he's sleeping. So somebody is trying to awake him: "Get up! Get up! You have got this engagement. You have..." Our movement is like that. The human society is sleeping. So we are just trying to awake them: "Get up. Get up. You have got this engagement." That is our business. It is not our manufactured business, but it is stated in the Vedic literature, *uttiṣṭhata jāgratā prāpta-varān nibodhata* [Kaṭha Upaniṣad* 1.3.14]: "Now you be awakened." "Now" means "You have got this human form of life. You can now be awakened." In animal form of life there is no possibility. --- **[[spoken/740713ch.la|Chanting Cc. Ādi-līlā 13th Chapter Verses 1-124 — July 13, 1974, Los Angeles]]** --- **[[spoken/740713mw.la|Morning Walk at Marine del Rey — July 13, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...have discrimination because the British government, they think that the Ratha-yātrā is becoming very popular. **Prabhupāda:** That is the... It is actually racial discrimination. The Christians, they thought, "Now these Englishmen, they'll make Hindu religion very prominent." Because it is a fact. If we introduce such three, four celebration, then Christianity will be finished. But what is there? Christianity, there is nothing. Simply some dry words. And actually, they're seeing, nobody's coming to the church. So in this way, if they some..., relish something better, then whatever is there, that will be finished also. Therefore in London we wanted to purchase a church. **Prabhupāda:** Ah. And they said, "We shall burn it down; still, we shall not give to Bhaktivedanta Swami." They said like that. --- **[[spoken/740713sb.la|SB 1.16.23 — July 13, 1974, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Prabhupāda:** Here Mother Earth, Dharitrī, "O Earth." Earth is being addressed. "The whole world is perturbed because the Kali-yuga has begun." Five thousand years ago, when the Kali-yuga began, so all persons were alarmed: "Now the Kali-yuga is begun. So many catastrophes will come in." --- **[[spoken/750713r1.phi|Conversation with Professor Hopkins — July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **Ravīndra-svarūpa:** Jayatīrtha** has it.Prabhupāda: Ah. **So you can also send that.Ravīndra-svarūpa:** The difficulty is, if I wrote a receipt, Mr. Manischewitz would not be able to get a tax deduction, because our... **Prabhupāda:** Now,** ISKCON...Ravīndra-svarūpa:** But we are International Society for Krishna Consciousness of Philadelphia. We're a separate corporation. **Ravīndra-svarūpa:** So we are not accredited with the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, for tax deduction. --- **[[spoken/750713r2.phi|Room Conversation with Reporter Sandy Nixon and Anne Jackson — July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **Jayatīrtha:** ...they're both doing extensive articles for different magazines, on Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And they've already done a lot of preliminary study, from what I understand. So they have a few questions to ask. I think they'll write very respectful articles. So this is the girl that interviewed you at the airport. **Sandy Nixon:** [background interference] Is that all right? I have questions which... I am going to be putting together a book on spiritual masters that have influenced or that are influencing Americans today. Also in a mini-article, I'd like to put the same thing together with just those very few that are the most important, for *New York Times Magazine.* And also I'm doing an article for a Philadelphia magazine on *Seers of Higher Consciousness.* So particularly with our book in mind, these questions are to let people know what Kṛṣṇa consciousness is about. So sometimes I'm going to be asking you questions, and most of the time I might be able to answer them myself, or it might be a question which I know the answer to, but I'm going to have to ask you it as if... It might sound as if I'm stupid, but it's what I'm going to do. The first question could be a very long... I've got fifteen questions. If I could get them all answered, I'll feel just great. The first one is very basic: What is Kṛṣṇa consciousness? **Prabhupāda:** Kṛṣṇa means God, and we are all connected with Kṛṣṇa, God. God is the original father. Therefore we have got intimate connection with Kṛṣṇa. So we have forgotten it, what is Kṛṣṇa, what is my connection with Him, what is the aim of life. All these questions there are. And when one becomes interested with such questions, he is called Kṛṣṇa conscious. --- **[[spoken/750713r3.phi|Room Conversation with Bernard Manischewitz — July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **Bernard Manischewitz:** Thank you very much. This is fine. This is fine. I have here a check for the Life Membership. **Bernard Manischewitz:** I have a question. May I ask? Is it sometimes possible that a person is reborn in the same body? **Prabhupāda:** Yes, you are reborn every moment. You were like this child sometime. Is this body the same? Do you think your body is the same when you were a child like that, lying down on the lap of your mother? Is the same body? --- **[[spoken/750713sb.phi|SB 6.1.28-29 — July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verses 28 and 29. *saḥ*—that person (Ajāmila); *pāśa-hastān*—having ropes in their hands; *trīn*—three; *dṛṣṭvā*—seeing; *puruṣān*—persons; *ati-dāruṇān*—very fearful in their features; *vakra-tuṇḍān*—with twisted faces; *ūrdhva-romṇaḥ*—with hair standing on the body; *ātmānam*—the self; *netum*—to take away; *āgatān*—arrived; *dūre*—a short distance away; *krīḍanaka-āsaktam*—engaged in his play; *putram*—his child; *nārāyaṇa-āhvayam*—named Nārāyaṇa; *plāvitena*—with tearful eyes; svareṇa—with his voice; *uccaiḥ*—very loudly; *ājuhāva*—called; *ākula-indriyaḥ*—being full of anxiety. --- **[[spoken/760713cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.107 — July 13, 1976, New York]]** **Translation:** "You are fit to propagate the cult of devotional service. Therefore gradually hear all the truths about it from Me. I shall tell you about them." --- **[[spoken/760713ed.ny|Evening Darśana — July 13, 1976, New York]]** **Guest (1):** ...what thought there is in bringing the temple and the farm closer together as one entity rather than two? **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** The... Just like we have so many farming communities. Prabhupāda has mentioned that wherever our farm is... Actually we're not farmers. **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** Prabhupāda is trying to create a class of intelligent men, *brāhmaṇas. Brāhmaṇa* is the head... --- **[[spoken/760713mw.ny|Morning Walk — July 13, 1976, New York]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** His father and mother are also very nice here. They are doing great service, both of them working in the restaurant. **Prabhupāda:** So many children are coming, very fortunate children, from the beginning Kṛṣṇa conscious. We had the chance of taking birth from such father and mother. So all these children should be taken care of very nicely. Oh, yes. They'll be asset for our movement. **Prabhupāda:** Oh, yes. Therefore I wanted to organize the *gurukula* very nicely. We have no objection. Let them produce hundreds of children. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/470713_raja_mohendra_pratap.md|Letter to Raja Mohendra Pratap, 1947]] - [[../../letters/1968/680713_christopher.md|Letter to Christopher, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680713_subala.md|Letter to Subala, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680713_umapati.md|Letter to Umapati, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690713_bhagavan_krsna_bhamini.md|Letter to Bhagavan Krsna Bhamini, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690713_goursundar.md|Letter to Goursundar, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690713_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710713_dinesh_candra.md|Letter to Dinesh Candra, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710713_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710713_jayadvaita.md|Letter to Jayadvaita, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710713_s._c._mukherjee.md|Letter to S. C. Mukherjee, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710713_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710713_sri_govinda.md|Letter to Sri Govinda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720713_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720713_puri_maharaj.md|Letter to Puri Maharaj, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720713_shyamsundar_mallik.md|Letter to Shyamsundar Mallik, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720713_tilakainath_dhumrakesa_gokulacandra_pavamana.md|Letter to Tilakainath Dhumrakesa Gokulacandra Pavamana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720713_yadubara.md|Letter to Yadubara, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1975/750713_dhananjaya.md|Letter to Dhananjaya, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750713_mahavir_prasad_jaipuriaji.md|Letter to Mahavir Prasad Jaipuriaji, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750713_narottamananda.md|Letter to Narottamananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750713_pannalal_bansilalji.md|Letter to Pannalal Bansilalji, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750713_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1975]]