Spoken August 10
Room Conversation
Śyāmasundara: There’s already a big church on it. Dhanañjaya: That may be better, because there’s more space there. Śyāmasundara: We haven’t seen it yet. We haven’t gone inside yet. Mr. Arnold: I’ll try and make arrangements to go and have a look at that. Śyāmasundara: And also that other one around the corner.Mr. Arnold:Śyāmasundara:Mr. Arnold:Śyāmasundara:Dhanañjaya:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara:Prabhupāda:Dhanañjaya:Prabhupāda:Śyāmasundara…
SB 1.2.2
Pradyumna: Translation: “Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced order of life [sannyāsa], leaving home without undergoing the sacred thread ceremony, his father, Vyāsadeva, cried out to him, Prabhupāda:
SB 1.2.11-12
Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya rādhā-mādhava] [prema-dvani prayers] Thank you very much. Devotees: All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. [devotees offer obeisances] Pradyumna: We didn’t read the purport yesterday. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Pradyumna: We didn’t read the purport for eleven. Prabhupāda: First of all read the verse.Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Room Conversation with Anna Conan Doyle
Prabhupāda: ...in India, is expanding. It is coming near to Mathurā and Vṛndāvana. So everyone is concerned. Bhagavān: The desert is expanding, because it’s... Prabhupāda: Desert expands. As everything expands and diminishes, desert also. That is nature’s course. Desert means less production. So naBhagavān:Prabhupāda:Bhagavān:Prabhupāda:Bhagavān:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Guru-gaurāṅga:Haṁsadūta:Bhagavān:Prabhupāda:Haṁsadūta:Prabhupāda:Bh…
Room Conversation with French Journalist
French devotee: No, these things are typical, er... I don’t think [indistinct]. Prabhupāda: There are many groups like that in America. Devotee: Yes. Prabhupāda: Like imitating Beatle groups. Bhagavān: Allen Ginsberg. Prabhupāda: Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg has no more popularity. Yogeśvara: No, not much. Prabhupāda: He’Yogeśvara:Prabhupāda:Yogeśvara:Prabhupāda:Yogeśvara:Śrutakīrti:Yogeśvara:Prabhupāda:Yogeśvara:Śrutakīrti:Prabhupāda:Yogeśvara:Prabhupāda:Bhagavān:Prabhupāda:Yogeśvara:R…
Room Conversation with Dr. Inger, UNESCO Worker
Bhagavān: Śrīla Prabhupāda, this is Dr. Inger. Prabhupāda: Yes. Come. Come on. Yogeśvara: Give some prasādam before he leaves. Prabhupāda: Yes. Take little prasādam. Reporter: Thank you very much. Yogeśvara: You can sit here. Prabhupāda: Thank you very much. [reporter leaves] Dr. Inger: I was hoping... It’s many years since I went to London to the Hare Krishna center therePrabhupāda:Dr. Inger:Prabhupāda:Dr. Inger:Prabhupāda:Dr. Inger:Prabhupāda:Dr. Inger:Prabhupāda:Dr. Inger:Prabhupāda:Dr…
SB 1.5.29
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:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Evening Darśana
Atreya Ṛṣi: ... Gandhi. Prabhupāda: This Indira Gandhi? Atreya Ṛṣi: No, Mahatma Gandhi. When I was in America three months ago, this was in a magazine, a new study. And it was very interesting because it showed that how subconsciously this man was very much, very much affected by sex, influenced. After I read it, I understood your comments a lot better, because it was a very frank study of details of his life andPrabhupāda:Nava-yauvana:Atreya Ṛṣi:Prabhupāda:Atreya Ṛṣi:Pra…
Room Conversation
Nava-yauvana: Many people, when they see the devotees, they are confused, and they think that the devotees are engaged in some kind of ritualistic activity, that the chanting and practices of devotees are ritualistic, and they compare it to their own rituals and they donPrabhupāda:Ātreya Ṛṣi:Nava-yauvana:Prabhupāda:Nava-yauvana:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Jñānagamya:Prabhupāda:Ātrey…
SB 3.22.21
Prabhupāda: Spectacles. Spectacles. Pradyumna: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto 3, Chapter 22 text 21. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting, etc.] " maitreya uvāca sa ugra-dhanvann iyad evābabhāṣePrabhupāda:Pradyumna:Prabhupāda:Dayanānda:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:
Room Conversation
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: When he came here... Prabhupāda: That means they condemned. They tried for the last, at least hundred years, to expand them. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. It didn’t work. Prabhupāda: They dared to attack America even in that Pearl Harbor. 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.Prabhupāda:Bhakti-caru:Prabhupāda:Bhakti-caru:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāl…
Letters August 10
Hong Kong My dear Sudama Vipra Maharaja: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 25, 1974 and have noted the contents. My advice to you is that whatever instruction you have received from me, just try to follow to your best. You must keep your sannyasa stage, because you have taken it from me. Wherever you go, try to follow the regulations, and Krsna will bless you....