# August 10 *Lectures from this day: 13 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710810rc.lon.md|Room Conversation — August 10, 1971, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/710810sb.lon|SB 1.2.2 — August 10, 1971, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** [leads singing of *Gurvaṣṭaka* prayers**] > saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka- > trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam > prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya > vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam --- **[[spoken/720810sb.lon|SB 1.2.11-12 — August 10, 1972, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** [leads singing of *Jaya rādhā-mādhava*] [*prema-dhvani* prayers] Thank you very much. **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/730810bg.par|Bg 13.1-2 — August 10, 1973, Paris]]** *arjunaḥ uvāca*—Arjuna said; *prakṛtim—*nature; *puruṣam—*the enjoyer; *ca—*also; *eva—*certainly; *kṣetram—*body; *kṣetrajñam—*knower of the body; *eva—*certainly; *ca—*also; *etat*—all this; *veditum—*to understand; *icchāmi—*I wish; *jñānam*—knowledge; *jñeyam—*the object of knowledge; *ca—*also; *keśava*—O Kṛṣṇa; *śrī bhagavān uvāca—*the Personality of Godhead said; *idam—*this; *śarīram—*body; *kaunteya*—O son of Kuntī; *kṣetram—*the field; *iti—*thus; *abhidhīyate—*is called; *etat—*this; *yaḥ*—anyone; *vetti—*knows; *tam—*him; *prāhuḥ—*is called; *kṣetrajñaḥ—*knower of the body; *iti—*thus; *tat-vidaḥ—*one who knows. --- **[[spoken/730810r1.par|Room Conversation with Anna Conan Doyle — August 10, 1973, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...in India, is expanding. It is coming near to Mathurā and Vṛndāvana. So everyone is concerned. **Prabhupāda:** Desert expands. As everything expands and diminishes, desert also. That is nature's course. Desert means less production. So na..., if nature wants, she can make the whole world desert. What your tractors and so many agricultural machine will help? It will turn into desert. There will be no rain. What you can do? And still you are very proud of your scientific advancement. You cannot struggle with nature. **Bhagavān:** They have one city in Italy, it's called Venice, and it's built... They say they have conquered the ocean. So they've gone out into the ocean and built it up, and there are so many houses. And you travel through the city on boat. That's the only way you can get... And now the city's sinking. [laughs] --- **[[spoken/730810r2.par|Room Conversation with French Journalist — August 10, 1973, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** He's roaming like vagabond. He came, London, to see me. That... He came, also. What is that? Bob...? **Prabhupāda:** No, he came to our temple in Los Angeles and paid three hundred dollars to the Deity. **Yogeśvara:** That's nice. He's the most popular young poet in the United States, Bob Dylan. All the young people have his records. --- **[[spoken/730810r3.par|Room Conversation with Dr. Inger, UNESCO Worker — August 10, 1973, Paris]]** **Dr. Inger:** I was hoping... It's many years since I went to London to the Hare Krishna center there... **Dr. Inger:** Many times, yes. And I had followed the booklets that came. *Back to Godhead* I also read. I didn't get, I didn't have a copy of the *Bhāgavatam,* but I read your translations. **Dr. Inger:** Yes, I'm an Indian. I have been working a long time in Paris. I am a resident more or less in Paris. I work for UNESCO, and I'm a writer. And I go backwards and forwards a lot to India. But my headquarters have been here for a long time. So I'm associated... --- **[[spoken/740810bg.vrn|Bg 7.4 — August 10, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—altogether these eight comprise My separated material energies." --- **[[spoken/740810sb.vrn|SB 1.5.29 — August 10, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "I was very much attached to those sages. I was gentle in behavior, and all my sins were eradicated in their service. In my heart I had strong faith in them. I had subjugated the senses, and I was strictly following them with body and mind." **Prabhupāda:** > tasyaivaṁ me 'nuraktasya > praśritasya hatainasaḥ > śraddadhānasya bālasya > dāntasyānucarasya ca > [[sb/1/5/29|[SB. 1.5.29] ]] So the..., the one side, the *guru. Saṅkīrtyamānaṁ munibhir mahātmabhiḥ.* The... This is a relationship between disciple and *guru.* What are the qualifications of *guru,* and what are the qualifications of the disciple? If both of them are qualified, then immediately the result is there. Just like husband and wife: both of them, if they are healthy, by sex there will be pregnancy. Similarly, if the *guru* and the disciple, both of them are qualified, then immediately Kṛṣṇa consciousness will be there. So the qualification of the *guru* is described in the previous verse. --- **[[spoken/760810ed.teh|Evening Darśana — August 10, 1976, Tehran]]** --- **[[spoken/760810r1.teh|Room Conversation — August 10, 1976, Tehran]]** --- **[[spoken/760810sb.teh|SB 3.22.21 — August 10, 1976, Tehran]]** --- **[[spoken/770810r1.vrn|Room Conversation — August 10, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** That means they condemned. They tried for the last, at least hundred years, to expand them. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** It seems like that was crazy, craziness. How they could have thought to attack America?* [Prabhupāda chuckles] Like a mosquito trying to kill an elephant. **Bhakti-caru:** Some say that it was framed, because that way only got America involved in the war. And American generals knew about that attack on Pearl Harbor. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680810_wendy_weiser.md|Letter to Wendy Weiser, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1974/740810_sudama_vipra.md|Letter to Sudama Vipra, 1974]]