# August 4 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[spoken/690804lc.la|Lord Caitanya Play Told to Tamāla Kṛṣṇa — August 4, 1969, Los Angeles]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** The first thing about this... Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like, all about it? **Prabhupāda:** Oh. One scene you have to show that in the Ganges water people are taking bath, and there is on the sky beginning of the moon eclipse, lunar eclipse. And they are all chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and taking bath. And exactly at that time Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared. This is one scene. And the appearance of Caitanya Mahāprabhu should be underneath a tree. Under this scene, this scene, one... Advaita Prabhu's wife, Śrīvāsa's wife, they were elderly, and all other women of the village, they immediately came with presentation. And some of the demigods, they also came, I mean to say, disguising themselves as ordinary men, with presentation. And His father got so many valuable presentations. And then again, some of the professional dancers, they came, so he distributed charity to them. In this way, that function... Try to... --- **[[spoken/710804bg.lon|Bg 7.1-3 — August 4, 1971, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** > om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ --- **[[spoken/730804bg.lon|Bg 2.3 — August 4, 1973, London]]** *klaibyam—*impotence; *mā—*do not; *sma—*take it for granted; *gamaḥ—*go in; *pārtha—*O son of Pṛthā; *na—*never; *etat—*like this; *tvayi—*unto you; *upapadyate—*is befitting; *kṣudram—*very little; *hṛdaya—*heart; *daurbalyam—*weakness; *tyaktvā—*giving up; *uttiṣṭha—*get up; *paran-tapa—*O chastiser of the enemies. **Translation:** "O son of Pṛthā, do not yield to this degrading impotence. It does not become you. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise, O chastiser of the enemy." --- **[[spoken/730804r1.lon|Room Conversation with John Papworth and Schumacher — August 4, 1973, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Old man, [laughs] struggling. Spiritual consciousness is not dependent on material impediments. **Revatīnandana:** He remarked that the spiritual consciousness is not impeded by material impediments—like the body. **Mr. Papworth:** I discovered that when I was a cook. I used to have to peel a huge bathful of potatoes every day, hours and hours, and it became that I could peel the potatoes without being aware that I was handling them. And my mind was roaming, disembodied almost from any encumbrance. But this is not the same as meditation, I'm sure, as you see it. --- **[[spoken/740804bg.vrn|Bg 4.12 — August 4, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "[Men in this world desire success in fruitive activities,] ...and therefore they worship the demigods. Quickly, of course, men get results from fruitive work in this world." **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. > kāṅkṣantaḥ karmaṇāṁ siddhiṁ > yajanta iha devatāḥ > kṣipraṁ hi mānuṣe loke > siddhir bhavati karmajā > [[bg/4/12|[Bg. 4.12] ]] --- **[[spoken/740804sb.vrn|SB 1.5.23 — August 4, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "In the last millennium I was born as the son of a certain maidservant engaged in the service of brāhmaṇas, who were following the principles of Vedānta. When they were living together during the four months of the rainy season, I was engaged in their personal service." --- **[[spoken/750804mw.det|Morning Walk — August 4, 1975, Detroit]]** **Prabhupāda:** We call *māgur mācha* [barbel]. One who cannot digest anything, he is recommended to eat this fish, *māgur mācha. Jīvo jīvasya jīvanam [**SB* 1.13.47]. One living entity is the life of another living entity. [*japa*] [break] **Ambarīṣa:** We can go back around on the road and then walk along that road over there.* [devotees chanting *japa] [break] **Prabhupāda:** Grass is coming out. Where is the chemical? How the grass is coming out from the stone side? *Harer nāma harer nāma* [*Cc Ādi* 7.76]. [break] ...he will go? --- **[[spoken/750804sb.det|SB 6.1.51 — August 4, 1975, Detroit]]** **Nitāi:** "The subtle body endowed with the five knowledge-acquiring senses, the five working senses, the five objects of sense gratification, and the mind, altogether sixteen parts, which is the effect of the three modes of material nature and is composed of very strong, insurmountable desires, causes the living entity to transmigrate from one body to another within the kingdom of human life, animal life or higher demigod life. When he gets the body of a demigod he is certainly very jubilant. When he gets the body of a human being he is always in lamentation. When he gets the body of an animal he is always afraid. In this way, in all conditions he is miserable. This miserable condition is called saṁsṛti, or transmigration in material life." **Prabhupāda:** > tad etat ṣoḍaśa-kalaṁ > liṅgaṁ śakti-trayaṁ mahat > dhatte 'nusaṁsṛtiṁ puṁsi > harṣa-śoka-bhayārtidām > [[sb/6/1/51|[SB. 6.1.51] ]] This is called *sāṅkhya-yoga,* to understand the analytical process of this body. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* you have learned that, --- **[[spoken/760804bg.nmr|Bg 4.24 — August 4, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [leads devotees in chanting] **Translation:** "A person who is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom because of his full contribution to spiritual activities, in which the consummation is absolute and that which is offered is of the same spiritual nature." --- **[[spoken/760804ew.nmr|Evening Walk [partially recorded] — August 4, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** **Bhagavān:** [aside:] Is it clean? Carnations, and these are gladiolus, for the vases, those long flowers. This is the chili peppers over here, green peppers. What's the best way to go, Haribol? Over here? **Prabhupāda:** That is the secret. It is imported from the spiritual world. *Golokera prema-dhana, hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana. Golokera.* It is coming from Goloka Vṛndāvana. --- **[[spoken/760804r1.nmr|Room Conversation — August 4, 1976, New Māyāpur]]** **Harikeśa:** The tickets are being locked up in the safe right now. They're going to..., they're going to bring the tickets tomorrow to this city called Tours, which is very nearby. They have an Air France office, and we can have it converted there. So everything's all right for Saturday. **Hari-śauri:** Says, "*Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* India's message of peace and good will. Sixty volumes of elaborate English version by Tridandi Goswami A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Carried by the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd., Bombay, all over the world for scientific knowledge of God." Then it says, "The sufferings of the entire human society can at once be brought under control simply by individual practice of *bhakti-yoga,* a simple and easy process of chanting the holy name of God. Every country, every nation and every community throughout the world has some conception of the holy name of God, and as such either the Hindus or the Muhammadans or the Christians, everyone can easily chant the holy name of God in a meditative mood, and that will bring about the required peace and good will in the present problematic human society. Any inquiry in this connection will be gladly answered by Śrī Swamiji. The Hindus generally chant the holy name of God in sixteen chain of transcendental sound composed of thirty-two alphabets as Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. The Vedic literatures like the *Upaniṣads* and the *Purāṇas* do recommend chanting of the above-mentioned sixteen holy names at a stretch, and Lord Śrī Caitanya, whose cult of chanting the holy name of God gave special importance on these transcendental sounds. In this Age of Kali, or the age of hate, hypocrisy, corruption and quarrel, the only remedial measure is that every man should chant the holy name of the Lord, both individually and collectively. "The glories of the holy name have been described by Śrī Caitanya in His eight verses of *Sikṣāṣṭaka,* which run as follows: --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/580804_jawaharlal_nehru.md|Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru, 1958]] - [[../../letters/1967/670804_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1970/700804_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710804_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710804_satsvarupaa.md|Letter to Satsvarupaa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710804_satsvarupab.md|Letter to Satsvarupab, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710804_sukhada.md|Letter to Sukhada, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1975/750804_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750804_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750804_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750804_prabhas.md|Letter to Prabhas, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750804_saptaratha.md|Letter to Saptaratha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750804_vedavyasa.md|Letter to Vedavyasa, 1975]]