# August 9 *Lectures from this day: 14 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/660809bg.ny.md|Bg 4.20-24 — August 9, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710809rc.lon.md|Room Conversation [partially recorded] — August 9, 1971, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720809r1.lon|Room Conversation — August 9, 1972, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...instructed, people must know. Then morality, spiritual education, will develop. But if the basic principle is wrong, then everything you have built upon it is wrong. But at the present moment the basic principle of knowledge is this ignorance, that everyone is thinking, "I am this body." "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Englishman." **Prabhupāda:** Yes. So this... First of all one should know that I am neither American nor Englishman nor Indian. I am spirit soul. Then further education can be possible. So we teach from the *Bhagavad-gītā* this principle first, the basic principle of spiritual education, to understand that one is not this body, he is different from the... Actually, everyone can experience if he is a little intelligent. Just like dead man: a dead man is lying, and his relatives crying, "Oh, my father is gone, father is gone, father is gone..." So from argumentative point of view I can say, "Why you are crying? Your father is lying here." "No, no, my father is gone." Then you have not seen your father. You have seen this body. So this body is not your father. You have to admit. Therefore, the person whom you saw, the body, that was all based on ignorance. That is going on. --- **[[spoken/720809sb.lon|SB 1.2.11 — August 9, 1972, London]]** **Pradyumna**: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/730809cr.par|Car Conversation after meeting with Cardinal Danielou — August 9, 1973, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** Well, that is fact. *Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante...* [[bg/8/6|[Bg. 8.6] ]]. Animal-eaters, they'll become tiger, fox, cats, dogs. This is, they'll become. What are these different species of life? **Prabhupāda:** And that is their foolishness. That is their foolishness. Why does not exist? What is the proof of existence of the soul in the body? What is the proof? First of all, you have to understand that. Suppose I am a human being, so... **Prabhupāda:** I am a human being. You accept that I have got soul. By what symptoms you accept that I have got soul? First of all you have to ascertain that. What is the symptom that we agree that I am human being, I have got..., I have... I have a soul? By what characteristic, analytical study, you accept that I have got soul and the dog has not got soul? --- **[[spoken/730809le.par|Lecture at Hotel de Ville — August 9, 1973, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kind invitation and reception. Spiritual value..., he has have spoken very nicely about the spiritual value of living entity. Actually, we are all spiritual entities. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, This is, in Sanskrit, it is said that within the body there is the proprietor of the body. The proprietor of the body is there within the body, but the body is changing from babyhood to childhood, to childhood to boyhood, boyhood to youthhood, similarly aged man. The body is changing. As we are experiencing different changes of the body, similarly, when this body will no longer exist, I or you, every one of us, will accept another body. I can remember, you can remember your childhood body, your boyhood body—but those bodies are no longer existing. But I remember; you remember. Similarly, when I give up this body, I accept another body. It may not be I remembering it, but that's a fact. But the spirit soul, the proprietor of the body, is described, *nityaḥśāśvato 'yaṁ na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre* [[bg/2/20|[Bg. 2.20] ]]. The spirit soul is eternal. It does not annihilate after the destruction of the body. --- **[[spoken/730809r1.par|Room Conversation with German and Haṁsadūta — August 9, 1973, Paris]]** **Guest:** That is the... Yeah, the *Source of the Absolute*. That is the best. But I read it twenty times, always with..., in every day I find new things. [*Source of the Absolute*] **Guest:** When I read other book, I read it one times, even not one time. But these books, I must read twenty times, and more even. It is, sometimes, it is as if I never read this book, it is so astonishing... **Guest:** I would say another thing what I was... When I met the knowledge of Omkarananda, yes, I went back quite a long, five kilometers* [German], a farm, I retired in a farm. And then I made this meditation. And then I read the book [indistinct] and I read fifty pages in five minutes without reading that. And then when that was finished, I was in other worlds. I could speak about high..., other fields, which never I had seen, but when, when I came back I didn't know what it was what I saw. In other words, it was not dream. Absolutely awake. Other worlds, and then other sciences, higher, and higher and higher. I don't know what it was, but it is no of signification, I believe. --- **[[spoken/730809r2.par|Room Conversation with Cardinal Danielou — August 9, 1973, Paris]]** **Cardinal Danielou:** Ah, nine to twelve. Perhaps. In the end of the morning, perhaps it is... It is an inauguration. Inauguration? **Cardinal Danielou:** Yes, this is very, very, very beautiful. Yes, I would be very glad to visit you. You was in the Hotel de Ville of Paris this afternoon? **Cardinal Danielou:** Yes. It is a... Personally, I like very much Hinduism. And I have a brother, Alain Danielou, it is my brother, who is a specialist on Hinduism... --- **[[spoken/740809bg.vrn|Bg 7.3 — August 9, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Translation:** "Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth." **Prabhupāda:** > manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu > kaścid yatati siddhaye > yatatām api siddhānāṁ > kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ > [[bg/7/3|[Bg. 7.3] ]] --- **[[spoken/740809sb.vrn|SB 1.5.28 — August 9, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *O*ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya*. **[devotees repeat] [**leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Thus during two seasons, the rainy season and autumn, I had the opportunity to hear these great-souled sages constantly chant the unadulterated glories of the Lord Hari. As my devotional service began, the coverings of the modes of passion and ignorance vanished." --- **[[spoken/760809gc.teh|Garden Conversation — August 9, 1976, Tehran]]** --- **[[spoken/760809r1.teh|Room Conversation — August 9, 1976, Tehran]]** --- **[[spoken/760809r2.teh|Room Conversation with Nandarāṇī and Ali — August 9, 1976, Tehran]]** --- **[[spoken/760809sb.teh|SB 3.22.20 — August 9, 1976, Tehran]]** --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670809_janardana_pradyumna_sivananda.md|Letter to Janardana Pradyumna Sivananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690809_bhagavan_krsna_bhamini.md|Letter to Bhagavan Krsna Bhamini, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690809_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Gaurasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710809_david_r._schomaker.md|Letter to David R. Schomaker, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710809_indira.md|Letter to Indira, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710809_vaikunthanatha_saradia.md|Letter to Vaikunthanatha Saradia, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720809_amogha.md|Letter to Amogha, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720809_cyavana.md|Letter to Cyavana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720809_tamala_krsna_bhavananda_jayapataka.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna Bhavananda Jayapataka, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720809_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720809_yasodanandana_gurukrpa.md|Letter to Yasodanandana Gurukrpa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740809_natalie_orloff.md|Letter to Natalie Orloff, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740809_sukadeva.md|Letter to Sukadeva, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/760809_catur_murti.md|Letter to Catur Murti, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760809_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760809_sumati_morarjee.md|Letter to Sumati Morarjee, 1976]]