# July 31 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/710731bs.ny|Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā, Verse 35 — July 31, 1971, New York]]** *Eko 'py asau,* that Govinda, by His one expansion of plenary portion, *eko 'py asau,* that expansion is meant for creating this material world. *Eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi.* Not one universe, but billions of universes. As you see within this universe there are millions and trillions of planets, similarly, there are millions and trillions of universes. *Jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi.* So in each universe Govinda enters, then it becomes developed. Just like the matter created by the male and female, the *jīva* soul enters and then the body develops. Similarly, this material matter has no power of developing. Govinda enters into the matter, and therefore the universe develops. It is very easy to understand. Simply matter, combination of matter, cannot produce any development. Govinda. --- **[[spoken/720731sb.gla|SB 1.2.5 — July 31, 1972, Glasgow]]** **Prabhupāda:** [leads singing of *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava*] [*prema-dhvani*] Thank you very much.**Devotees:** All glories to Śrīla Prabhupā**d**a. **[devotees offer obeisances] Prabhupāda: [hums] Wait. Yes.Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Pradyumna:** [leads chanting of synonyms] *munayaḥ*—of the sages; *sādhu*—this is relevant; *pṛṣṭaḥ*—questioned; *aham*—myself; *bhavadbhiḥ*—by all of you; *loka*—the world; *maṅgalam*—welfare; *yat*—because; *kṛtaḥ*—made; *kṛṣṇa*—the Personality of Godhead; *sampraśnaḥ*—relevant question; *yena*—by which; *ātmā*—self; *suprasīdati*—completely pleased. --- **[[spoken/730731bg.lon|Bg 1.44 — July 31, 1973, London]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Alas, how strange it is that we are preparing to commit greatly sinful acts, driven by the desire to enjoy royal happiness." **Prabhupāda:** > aho bata mahat-pāpaṁ > kartuṁ vyavasitā vayam > yad rājya-sukha-lobhena > hantuṁ svajanam udyatāḥ > [[bg/1/44|[Bg. 1.44] ]] So, sometimes Arjuna is accused, *Bhagavad-gītā* is also accused, that "There is violence. There is violence. *Bhagavad-gītā* is full of violence." Yes, it is full of violence, the war field. But here the Vaiṣṇava thinking..., Arjuna is thinking that it was arranged for his *rājya-sukha. Yad rājya-sukha-lobhena. Lobhena.* It was arranged for the satisfaction of Arjuna so that he could enjoy the kingdom and the happiness thereof. Actually, it was not so. It was arranged by Kṛṣṇa for His satisfaction, not for Arjuna's satisfaction. --- **[[spoken/750731mw.dal|Morning Walk — July 31, 1975, Dallas]]** **Brahmānanda:** ...hired these gangsters, professional gangsters to do this. So now one of these gangsters, he was to give testimony, and now he was killed. So they're thinking maybe the CIA also is doing that. **Brahmānanda:** The president. Nixon used to use the CIA to... If he had any enemy, he would have the CIA investigate that man. He was using it for his personal political purposes. [break] ...testing. In the early 1960s they were testing the effects of LSD, and so they gave LSD secretly into this one officer's coffee drink. And he drank it. He did not know it was LSD, and he went crazy and committed suicide. So now this investigation of CIA has uncovered this information. So now the family of this officer, they are suing the CIA for millions of dollars. --- **[[spoken/750731r1.no|Room Conversation — July 31, 1975, New Orleans]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. So that committing crimes is his option, or government canvasses that "You become criminal and fill up"? **Prabhupāda:** That's it. It is your option. You rot in this material world or go back to home, back to Godhead. That is your option. It is open to you both ways. You go to hell or go to heaven. That is your option. So human life is meant for selecting, "What shall I do? I shall go to hell or heaven?" And that is perfection. If you want to go to hell, you can go. [pause] **Prabhupāda:** Kṛṣṇa is truth. Without Kṛṣṇa, everything is untruth. Truth is one. Just like zero is zero. And it is added with one, then it is ten. It is truth. So zero is zero always. Hundred million times zero adds, it is zero. But when there is one, immediately value increases. So without Kṛṣṇa, all this material advancement, they are all zeros. But if you bring Kṛṣṇa, then it..., that increases value—ten, hundred, thousand, tens of thousands, like that, million, billions. Because the one is there. So bring Kṛṣṇa, and then everything will be value. Otherwise, all zero. You may be proud of so-called material advancement. It is zero, because it will not save you, because *tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]], you have to change your body. So you have earned so much millions and billions of money. That's all right. But you'll have to go empty-handed. The money will remain here. You cannot take that money within the tomb. That is not possible. Then it is zero. --- **[[spoken/760731bg.nmr|Bg 10.8 — July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate > iti matvā bhajante māṁ > budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ > [[bg/10/8|[Bg. 10.8] ]] The meaning is, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the origin of everything. Everything is emanating from Him. When one understands this fact, he becomes *budha,* or intelligent. And when one is actually intelligent, *budha, bhāva-samanvitāḥ,* this ecstasy. To come to the spiritual platform, this ecstasy required. So one has to come to the platform of *bhāva,* or ecstasy, gradually. The process is *ādau śraddhā:* first of all, faith. Just like our disciples, they have already accepted. But outsiders, they come out of little faith, "Let us see what these people are doing." [devotee mentions aside about technical recording problem] This faith is the beginning, *ādau śraddhā.* --- **[[spoken/760731mw.nmr|Morning Walk Around Farm — July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** Viśvambhara*:* Yes. There is lots of water underground, but it requires great equipment to bring it up in order to water all the land. Viśvambhara*:* We have only the previous pump, which was here before, and it's not strong enough to water everything. So we need to install a new pump to get more water. **Hari-śauri:** Yes. Where that hump is on the brown field, up to that, where that tree is. But most of our land extends this way. --- **[[spoken/760731r1.nmr|Room Conversation — July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** **Bhūgarbha:** Many scholars are appreciating more and more. And on the University of Edmonton, in Alberta, Canada, Dr. Radhakrishnan, he was a linguist, professor of linguistics. He's a very pious man, and he is writing a book with some other professor in the Religion department on the comparative study of *bhakti* in the Indian tradition and the Hebrew tradition. And he's using your books as his only source for the Indian tradition. So he ordered not only one set of all the books, but two sets of all your books. Three sets actually. He ordered one set of *Bhāgavatams* for his own personal library, then he ordered two sets for the University library—one for the reference section and one for the general section. So he ordered three sets. And when his book comes out, in the back they have a bibliography section, references, and he will give reference to all your books. He was wondering... He's writing this book about *bhakti,* and he said, "What is a good definition of *bhakti* for the Indian tradition?" So I showed him *Nectar of Devotion, anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam* [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu*1.1.11]. He said that is very good, and he wrote it down and put it in his book. **Prabhupāda:** Till now, they took *bhakti* as a matter of sentiment. Religious science they did not know, all over the world. **Bhūgarbha:** He said he's trying to show that by studying *bhakti* in Indian tradition and also in Hebrew tradition, he's... --- **[[spoken/760731r2.nmr|Room Conversation — July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** Organize it and keep hundreds of devotees. They will live peacefully. But don't entangle in sinful activities. Then it will be all right. Such a nice place, the city residents cannot imagine. What a nonsense life—clubs, slaughterhouse, gambling places, drinking house. This is like hell. Try to save people from this hellish condition of life, without any knowledge, like animals. And nature therefore creates a wholesale slaughterhouse in war, to cut throat all—finished. Many millions and millions are finished. From 1914 to 1950, how many years? **Prabhupāda:** Within thirty-six years there were two big wars, slaughter. Especially Europe. Nature will create. Pestilence. Somewhere there is pestilence, somewhere there is war, somewhere there is scarcity of food. But you cannot indulge in sinful activities. Then you'll be killed. Nature's law will act. You may defy, that's your business, but nature will act in her own way. *Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā* [[bg/7/14|[Bg. 7.14] ]]. You cannot surpass. That is not possible. But they are foolish; they are trying to conquer over nature by their so-called scientific knowledge. They are such a rascal. You change the color of this fruit and flower, conquer over nature. So rascal, they talk rascal, "It will take millions of years." We have to wait million. "Yes, from chemical we shall bring life. Wait million of years." This is going on. And for such thing, big building, laboratory, research, scientific research. Big, big signboard. And the students, out of disappointment, going to the roof and falling down, committing suicide. I have seen it. **Prabhupāda:** Berkeley. Very horrible condition. Let them do whatever they like; you live apart from them. Live peacefully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Be happy. Let these cats and dogs go to hell. What can be done? We are trying to educate them as far as possible, but if they do not take it, that is their business. We are doing our duty, going door to door, "Read these books. If you like, you can come and live with us." What we can do more? We do not make any condition, that if you have to live with us you have to fulfill. Of course, the condition is that you should not act sinfully. That is the first condition. But we never say that you have to pay so many dollars. Come. Whatever little food we have got, we shall share. So try to understand the importance of this movement. Kṛṣṇa is giving us. This is a first-class place. You can develop it into a Vaikuṇṭha. It is already Vaikuṇṭha—Kṛṣṇa is there. But develop it very nicely, peacefully live, hundreds of miles away from the hellish cities. For little conveyance we can have bullock carts, when we have to get transport. Very peaceful life. Introduce it and live peacefully. Am I right or wrong? --- **[[spoken/770731r1.vrn|Meeting With Prabhudas P. Patwaria, Governor of Tamil Nadu — July 31, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...difficult to go from this room to that room. Unless one or two men help, I cannot go even to the toilet. **Governor:** I see. I invite you warmly to come to Madras. Stay at Raj Bhavan. And we have the best medical team of Madras government at your disposal. We have got the best doctors in whole South Asia. The physicians are the best government doctors. And all two, three doctors are at the top. People come from Malaysia... **Governor:** Medical men. Our government hospital. Best people in the government hospital. Best physicians. Very good physicians. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/650731_gosainji.md|Letter to Gosainji, 1965]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_kulasekhara_digvijaya_tirthapada.md|Letter to Kulasekhara Digvijaya Tirthapada, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_lilavati.md|Letter to Lilavati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_prabhas_babu.md|Letter to Prabhas Babu, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_subala.md|Letter to Subala, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690731_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700731_brahmananda_gargamuni.md|Letter to Brahmananda Gargamuni, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700731_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700731_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700731_vasudeva.md|Letter to Vasudeva, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710731_satadhanya.md|Letter to Satadhanya, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710731_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710731_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730731_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730731_parasara.md|Letter to Parasara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730731_trai.md|Letter to Trai, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1976/760731_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760731_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760731_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760731_parmanand_patel.md|Letter to Parmanand Patel, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760731_rucira.md|Letter to Rucira, 1976]]