# July 28 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/660728bg.ny.md|Bg 4.11-12 — July 28, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/680728sp.mon|Speech to Indian Audience — July 28, 1968, Montreal]]** Lord Caitanya instructed this verse. He gave us eight verses, known as *Śikṣāṣṭaka. Śikṣa* means "instruction"; *aṣṭaka,* "eight." This *Śikṣāṣṭaka* poetry, containing eight verses, are very valuable, and they were given by Lord Caitanya for understanding of the whole human society. It was not meant for any particular country or particular society, but it was meant for the whole human race. Lord Caitanya entrusted His countrymen, who are known as Bhāratīyas, to distribute this message throughout the whole world, in every village and every town. The Lord predicted that "As many towns and villages are there on the surface of the world, everywhere this message will be known." And He also said, He entrusted His countrymen—means any Indian. Not that because He appeared in Bengal it was entrusted to the Bengalis, but He said that *bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra:* "on the land of Bhārata-varṣa." --- **[[spoken/710728bs.ny|Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā, Lecture — July 28, 1971, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Govindam ādi-puruṣam tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* We are worshiping the original person, *ādi-puruṣam.* Original person... As we are all persons, our origin also a person. We should always understand this. *Ādi-puruṣam.* The same example: unless my forefather was a person, how his son, his son, his son, his son—I am the last—we are persons? So the original father, the supreme father, or God, or Kṛṣṇa, must be a person, not imperson. We should always remember. *Govindam ādi-puruṣam tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* So Śukadeva Gosvāmī is recommending that either you go through this austerity process, *brahmacarya, śama, dama, titikṣa, dhana, satya, śauca, yama, niyama* [[bg/18/42|[Bg. 18.42] ]], so many items... Either you go through this process to come to the platform of your spiritual understanding, or *kecid,* those who are fortunate, *kecid kevalayā bhaktyā,* the same result is open. Sometimes other people, the so-called *yogīs*, *jñānīs, karmīs,* or followers of religious, ritualistic ceremonies, they think, "How it is possible that these Hare Kṛṣṇa people have become so quickly self-realized simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, without undergoing so many processes?" That is the gift of Lord Caitanya. Caitanya, Lord Caitanya seeing..., or Lord Kṛṣṇa... Lord Caitanya, Kṛṣṇa—the same person. Kṛṣṇa is Supreme Person. Lord Caitanya is the same Supreme Person, but He's teaching us how to approach the Supreme Person. Just like sometimes my disciple, massaging my body, I take his hand and show him: "Do like this." Actually I am not massaging, but I am teaching him. It is not that I am massaging him. Similarly, when Kṛṣṇa comes as a devotee, Lord Caitanya, He shows the way how to approach Kṛṣṇa. --- **[[spoken/710728in.ny|Initiation Lecture — July 28, 1971, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** *...athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām. Panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo* [Bs. 5.34]. The sky is so vast. This is material sky. We cannot even travel all over the sky. The modern scientist says that you go to the end of the sky cover, it will take forty thousands of years by the light year. This sky is only a insignificant portion of the whole sky. You have no information of the whole sky. Nobody has information, the unlimited. The balance sky is spiritual sky. You know the speed of mind, it can run millions of miles in a second. So if you have got any airplane which runs on the speed of mind, *panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo vāyor athāpi manaso,* either on the plane of air speed or even the mind speed, and you go on with that mind speed, *koṭi-śata-vatsara,* not only forty thousand years, but millions and hundreds of millions of years. And not forty thousand years, *koṭi-śata... Koṭi* means ten million? *Koṭi?* Hundred millions, *koṭi* means. One *lakh* equal to..., ten *lakh* is equal to one million. Ten millions, *koṭi,* and multiply it by hundreds. For that period, if you go on with the speed of mind, still you'll find *avacintya-tattva,* inconceivable. --- **[[spoken/730728bg.lon|Bg 1.40 — July 28, 1973, London]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *adharma—*irreligion; *abhibhavāt—*having been predominant; *kṛṣṇa—*O Kṛṣṇa; *praduṣyanti—*become polluted; *kula-striyaḥ—*family ladies; *strīṣu—*of the womanhood; *duṣṭāsu—*being so polluted; *vārṣṇeya*—O descendant of Vṛṣṇi; *jāyate—*it so becomes; *varṇa-saṅkaraḥ—*unwanted progeny. --- **[[spoken/750728mw.sd|Morning Walk — July 28, 1975, San Diego]]** **Rāmeśvara:** When we tell people that they may take their next birth as an animal, they say that is all right, because the animals are happier than the humans. **Prabhupāda:** But because you are rascal, you do not know you can become more happier, go back to home, back to Godhead. That you do not know. [sounds of bird singing] Just see how. What is this? **Jayatīrtha:** There's one expression in America, "Free as a bird." People think that the birds are more free than they are. --- **[[spoken/750728pc.dal|Press Conference at Airport — July 28, 1975, Dallas]]** **Woman reporter:** Are you... Excuse me. Are you familiar with the new law in Texas which will affect your school here, and have you considered what...? There is a new law in Texas putting your school here under the same regulations as other boarding schools. And I wonder if you have considered how that will affect your school and whether you will be able to continue here. **Jagadīśa:** Well, Śrīla Prabhupāda has given me the responsibility to make sure that we meet the necessary code standards so that the school will definitely go on. That is our plan, to meet all the standards and continue on with our current activities. --- **[[spoken/760728ar.par|Arrival Speech — July 28, 1976, Paris]]** **Bhagavān:** ...all the devotees came, and we carried Jagannātha around the land. It was very blazing hot, and we stopped at one point to read *Caitanya-caritāmṛta,* the part where Lord Caitanya is going in front of the *ratha* cart. And the thunder came and lightning, and it started to rain. [break] *kṣetra-jñākhyā tathā parā avidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā tṛtīyā śaktir iṣyate* [[cc/madhya/6/154|[Cc. Madhya 6.154] ]] *Kṣetra-jñākhya tathā para. Avidyā karma saṅgaḥ anya tṛtiya śaktir iśyate. Viṣṇu-śakti,* Viṣṇu, the supreme controller, all-pervading Godhead, Viṣṇu, He and His potency, *viṣṇu-śakti parā proktaḥ,* both of them are transcendental. So the *viṣṇu-śakti* potency is one. Another reflection of the *viṣṇu-śakti* is *karma-saṁjñānyā*, that is, you have to work. That is called *tṛtīyā* the third, *karma-saṅgā* where you have to work. The idea is that original Viṣṇu potency, you haven't got to work. Everything is supplied automatically. And the *avidyā-karma-saṁjñānyā*, and the other reflection, or perverted reflection, is this material world. Just like you have recited this verse, *cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu* *kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam* [Bs. 5.29]. In the spiritual world the trees are desire tree—means whatever you want, you can get—whereas in this material world, trees are not like that; they are limited potency. The cows there, unlimited potency. *Surabhī* means you can milk out as many times as you like, and as much as you like. So the idea is the spiritual world means there is no need of endeavoring for getting anything; everything is there automatically. And the material world, we have got experience, for everything we have to work so hard, then we can get something. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/580728_mr._banerjee.md|Letter to Mr. Banerjee, 1958]] - [[../../letters/pre-1966/580728_ved_prakash.md|Letter to Ved Prakash, 1958]] - [[../../letters/pre-1966/650728_buro.md|Letter to Buro, 1965]] - [[../../letters/1969/690728_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690728_mandali_bhadra.md|Letter to Mandali Bhadra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690728_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690728_vrndavanesvari.md|Letter to Vrndavanesvari, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710728_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710728_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710728_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710728_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710728_visnujana.md|Letter to Visnujana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730728_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730728_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730728_naiskarmi.md|Letter to Naiskarmi, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730728_sir_alistair_hardy.md|Letter to Sir Alistair Hardy, 1973]]