Spoken August 1
Bg 4.13-14 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 4.13–14 Prabhupāda: " ...mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ tasya kartāram api māṁ viddhy akartāram avyayam [Bg. 4.13]" This verse was being discussed in our last meeting, that there are four divisions of men in the human society, and that division is natural. That is not artificial because the whole material nature is working under the influence of three modes of nature: goodness, passion and ignorance. You cannot classify the whole human race into one. So long we are in th…
SB 2.1.11
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.11 Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Yes? Karandhara: It’s going to take a few minutes to get set up so should we just go ahead? It’ll take a few minutes for the photographer to get set up, get ready. Prabhupāda: He can take as we are going on. What is this? Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma RāmaDayānanda:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:Karandhara:Prabhupāda:
Bg 2.11 Lecture
Bhagavad-gītā 2.11 [kīrtana] [10:08] Prabhupāda: [leads prema-dhvani] Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. [devotees offer obeisances] Prabhupāda: Aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse]Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Lady guest:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Guest:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prabhupāda:Revatīnandana:Prab…
Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: “...American,” “I am Indian,” “I am this,” “I am that.” Hmm. Śyāmasundara: Did you have some places to see, Dhanañjaya, for Prabhupāda to see in the next day or two? Dhanañjaya: There’s this one big church building we have seen... Prabhupāda: You have got? Tell me.Dhanañjaya:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Dhanañjaya:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Dhanañjaya:Prabhupāda:Dhanañjaya:Śyāma…
Walk Around Farm
[kīrtana in background] Nityānanda: Our sugarcane field is down there. [break] Devotee (1): ...all right? Harikeśa: Yes. Prabhupāda: I have seen all that. Devotee (1): This is Kīrtana. Prabhupāda: Kīrtana? [laughter] Devotee (1): Kīrtana dāsa. [laughs] Prabhupāda: That’s all right. Have kīrtana. Nityānanda: Yes. Prabhupāda: That is ours? Nityānanda: Yes.Brahmānanda:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Nityānanda:…
Room Conversation with Devotees
Prabhupāda: That is time for punishment. They should build up their character, śamaḥ, damaḥ, fully controlled. When they like, they become gṛhasthas. Otherwise they are controlled. That is brāhmaṇa. For brāhmaṇa it is not compulsory to marry. Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Upendra:Prabhupāda:Upendra:Prabhupāda:Upendra:Prabhupāda:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Devotee:Nityānanda:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Satsvarūpa:Prabhupāda:Brahmānanda:Pra…
SB 6.1.49
Harikeśa: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] " yathājñas tamasā yukta upāste vyaktam eva hi na veda pūrvam aparaṁ naṣṭa-janma-smṛtis tathā []" [break] [00:31] Translation: “As a person in a dream, while sleeping, acts according to the body manifested in his dream, or accepts the body as himself, similarly, he identifies the present body as himself, which was acquired on account of past religious or irreligious life, and is not able to know of his past or future life.Prabhupāda:Devo…
Letters August 1
Madhava Maharaja My dear Sripada Madhava Maharaja, Please accept my humble dandabats and I hope everything is going well in respect of your holiness health and preaching work. I hope that you are aware of the correspondence which I had been exchanging with Sriman Brahmacari Mangalaniloy and you also know it that I am desiring to get him here in United States of America for my assistance. You may...
Jayapataka My dear Jayapataka, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 29, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. I am pleased to note that the French edition of BTG will be ready by the end of the week. Please send a copy to me immediately when it is ready. You ask if you should improve the magazine to look like the English
New York My dear Dinesh, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 27th July, 1970, and noted the contents. Yes, I have received the Tandberg Speakers and they are very nice sounding. We are playing the tapes which I have recorded on this machine in stereo and they are very nice.
Seattle My dear Krsnakanti, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 26th July, 1970, and was very glad to note the contents. I beg also to thank you for the check which you enclosed for to my book fund and I receive it very gladly as we have expended recently so much for printing our literatures and we have many more manuscripts ready for publication. I am so...
Nayanabhirama Philadelphia My dear Nayana Bhirama, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 30th July, 1970, and noted the contents. I have duly initiated the new student Elaine Marberger and her spiritual name is Daivisakti devi Dasi. I have sent her beads back by separate air post and her letter is enclosed herewith. I beg to thank you also for the check of
Cleveland My dear Batu Gopala, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 24, 1972 and I have noted the contents. I have turned the matter of your temple management over to Sriman Bhagavan Das in Paris, as he has some knowledge of the situation there. All these questions should be directed to the GBC members, as my desire is to simply translate, and leave the management...
Calcutta My dear Bhavananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 24, 1972 and I have noted the contents carefully. I am so much pleased that your Rathayatra procession was so nicely received by the citizens of Calcutta. This news has engladdened me beyond words. Now take advantage for raising funds for Mayapur. Therefore I wanted this Rathayatra festival....
Karandhara Los Angeles My dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 27, 1972 and I have noted the contents carefully. You have paid the bank .00 and the balance remains .00. I can pay you .00 by advising the Bank of America, and the balance of
Calcutta My dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 25, 1972 and with great pleasure I have noted the contents. It is of course regrettable that we are stopped for the time being from entering into Bangladesh for spreading our propaganda there. So for the time being, Bangladesh may be left aside. I am trying in a different way to help...
Denver My dear Tulasi, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 18, 1972 and I have noted the contents. I have received reports from all over the world; from Calcutta, San Francisco, Tokyo, Melbourne, Pittsburgh, and here in London also, that Rathayatra festival was a very great success, and this has very much engladdened me. So you have many festivals like this,...
Jahnava Brooklyn My dear Jahnava Dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 20, 1973. You have written so many nice things in praise of me but I think that my Guru Maharaja is great, I am not great he is great. So sometimes by association of the great one appears great. Just like the sun is great heat and light and by reflecting the greatness of the...
Mr. Jootee Boonsoong 2nd floor Sarasin Building 14 Surasak Road Bangkok, Thailand Dear Mr. Boonsoong, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge reciept of your nice gift of silk cloth which has been presented to me by my disciple Yogesvara Das. He has also spoken to me of your interest in the activities of our movement. I thank you very much.