# July 24 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680724in.mon|Initiation of Jayapatāka Dāsā — July 24, 1968, Montreal]]** --- **[[spoken/710724in.ny|Initiations — July 24, 1971, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** M-a-m-a-t-a. Mamatā devī, "one who is very affectionate to everyone." Come on. You know the rules and regulation? What are those? **Prabhupāda:** Where you will rule? [laughter] You will rule over your senses. [laughter] Come on. Hare Kṛṣṇa. You know how to rule? **Prabhupāda:** Prācī, yes. Prācī means one of the direction. Come on. You know the rules and regulation? --- **[[spoken/710724sb.ny|SB 6.1.8-13 — July 24, 1971, New York]]** So Parīkṣit Mahārāja inquired from Sūta Gosvāmī..., Śukadeva Gosvāmī, how the people in general, rotting in hellish life, could be saved. This is the desire of a Vaiṣṇava. Others, they do not care whether one is suffering or enjoying. But a Vaiṣṇava, a devotee of the Lord, he always thinks of the fallen condition of general people. Just like in Christian philosophy they believe that Lord Jesus Christ suffered to be crucified by assimilating all the sinful activities of the people. Yes. A devotee of Lord thinks like that. Similar devotee was Vāsudeva Datta, Lord Caitanya's... He requested the Lord that "You have come. Kindly deliver all these people now present on this earth, and take them to Vaikuṇṭha. And if You think that they are so sinful that they cannot be delivered, then please transfer all their sins unto me. I shall suffer. You take them." This is Vaiṣṇava: "So for all their sins I shall suffer. You take them." This philosophy is also expressed in Bible, Lord Jesus Christ, that he agreed to suffer himself for the sins of the all people. But that does not mean that Jesus Christ or Vāsudeva Datta should make a contract for ourself, and we shall go on committing sins. This is most heinous proposal. A Vaiṣṇava and a devotee suffers for the all humanity, human race. --- **[[spoken/730724bg.lon|Bg 1.31 — July 24, 1973, London]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *na—*nor; *ca—*also; *śreyaḥ—*good; *anupaśyāmi—*do I foresee; *hatvā—*by killing; *svajanam—*own kinsmen; *āhave—*in the fight; *na—*nor; *kānkṣe—*do I desire; *vijayam—*victory; *kṛṣṇa—*O Kṛṣṇa; *na—*nor; *ca—*also; *rājyam—*kingdom; *sukhāni—*happiness thereof; *ca—*also. --- **[[spoken/740724sb.ny|SB 1.2.20 — July 24, 1974, New York]]** ...*prasanna*—enlivened; *manasah*—of the mind; *bhagavat-bhakti*—the devotional service of the Lord; *yogataḥ*—by contact of; *bhagavat*—regarding the Personality of Godhead; *tattva*—knowledge; *vijñānaṁ*—scientific; *mukta*—liberated; *saṅgasya*—of the association; *jāyate*—becomes effective "Thus established in the mode of goodness, the man rejuvenated by loving service to the Lord gains liberation from material association, mukti, and comes to know scientifically of the Personality of Godhead." --- **[[spoken/750724mw.la|Morning Walk — July 24, 1975, Los Angeles]]** **Jayatīrtha:** I don't know. They came here recently. It wasn't there a few months... Oh, they're tearing down that pier. They're tearing down that amusement park. [break] **Jayādvaita:** The scientists say that material nature is supreme, but because we're unable to accept nature as the supreme entity, different cultures have gotten different ideas of God. They've made these things up. So the Greeks had one idea, the Romans had another idea, the Indians had one idea. So we've accepted that instead of accepting nature, although nature is actually the supreme. **Prabhupāda:** No, God is realized only by the devotees. *Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ* [[bg/18/55|[Bg. 18.55] ]]. So actually, God is realized through devotion. There is no other way. So in the proportion of one's development of devotional spirit, one realizes God. *Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham* [[bg/4/11|[Bg. 4.11] ]]. The proportion, devotion required. But real process is devotion. --- **[[spoken/750724sb.la|SB 6.1.43 — July 24, 1975, Los Angeles]]** **Nitāi:** "The candidates for punishment are those who are confirmed by these many witnesses to have deviated from the prescribed regulative duties. Everyone engaged in fruitive activities is suitable to be subjected to punishment according to his different sinful activities." **Prabhupāda:** > etair adharmo vijñātaḥ > sthānaṁ daṇḍasya yujyate > sarve karmānurodhena > daṇḍam arhanti kāriṇaḥ > [[sb/6/1/43|[SB. 6.1.43] ]] So we have discussed about the witnesses last..., yesterday. You cannot conceal anything from the eyes of God. That is not possible. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, *sarvato pāṇi-pādas tam.* [[bg/13/14|[Bg. 13.14] ]] God has His eyes, heads, legs, hands everywhere. Therefore He is all-pervasive. So just like government has got vigilance—you are running on the road; there is vigilance—similarly, everyone within this material world, either in this planet or lower planetary system or higher planetary system, they are *daṇḍam arhanti.* --- **[[spoken/760724r1.lon|Conversation at Bhaktivedanta Manor — July 24, 1976, London]]** **Viśāla**: I have understood from other devotees that you said that anyone who has taken birth in India is in the mode of goodness, but anyone who has taken birth in the United States is in the mode of passion. And yet everyone is born *śūdra*. So could you make it clear to me? I don't understand. If we're all born *śūdra*, how are the people born in the mode of goodness in India and the people in the United States are born in the mode of passion? **Prabhupāda:** Same thing: that if you are born in a rich family, but you can squander away your money and become a poor man. **Prabhupāda:** [laughs] To be born in a rich family is not a guarantee that you will continue to be rich. [laughs] [break] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/580724_seth_mangumal_amarsingh.md|Letter to Seth Mangumal Amarsingh, 1958]] - [[../../letters/1967/670724_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690724_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690724_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690724_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700724_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700724_uddhava.md|Letter to Uddhava, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710724_vaikunthanatha_saradia.md|Letter to Vaikunthanatha Saradia, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/740724_atreya_rsi.md|Letter to Atreya Rsi, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750724_bon_maharaja.md|Letter to Bon Maharaja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760724_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760724_joan_fields.md|Letter to Joan Fields, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760724_kapardini.md|Letter to Kapardini, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760724_yasasvini.md|Letter to Yasasvini, 1976]]