# August 13 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710813le.lon.md|Lecture [partially recorded] — August 13, 1971, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720813r1.lon|Room Conversation with Sister Mary — August 13, 1972, London]]** **Revatīnandana:** So their residence place is not very far away, and she was curious. She came over a few days ago to find out more about Kṛṣṇa consciousness. **Sister Mary:** We live down there, you see, and we've seen them several times in the street singing, and asked them what you're doing, really. **Prabhupāda:** We are preaching God consciousness. God is God. God is neither Christian, nor Hindu, nor Muslim. God is God. So everyone should be God conscious. That is our movement. We..., we are preaching love of God. So it doesn't matter what type of religion one is following; we simply want to see that he has love for God. --- **[[spoken/730813bg.par|Bg 13.5 — August 13, 1973, Paris]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] *ṛṣibhiḥ—*by the wise sages; *bahudhā—*in many ways; *gītām—*described; *chandobhiḥ—*Vedic hymns; *vividhaiḥ—*in various; *pṛthak—*variously; *brahma-sūtra—*the Vedānta; *padaiḥ—*aphorism; *ca—*also; *eva—*certainly; *hetumadbhiḥ—*with cause and effect; *viniścitaiḥ—*ascertain. --- **[[spoken/730813r1.par|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor — August 13, 1973, Paris]]** **Professor:** That's a good thing. You know that the first translation of the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* in any European language was in French, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, by a French scholar called Burnouf. Yes, it was wonderful translation into French. But just a plain translation, without commentary. I am sure that your book is more valuable... **Prabhupāda:** ...but through the disciplic succession. *Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ* [[bg/4/2|[Bg. 4.2] ]]. In that way. **Professor:** Yeah. Yes, this is the verse. People told me that you have some two or three thousand disciples in the Western world? --- **[[spoken/730813r2.par|Room Conversation with Rosicrucians — August 13, 1973, Paris]]** [translated simultaneously from and into French by Yogeśvara and **Guru-gaurāṅga with "breaks" throughout**] **Yogeśvara:** ...Mr. Belfiore and his wife Mrs. Belfiore. Mr. Belfiore is the Regional* [French, asks exact title], the Inspector General for the French area, Paris area, for the Rosicrucian movement, the Rosicrucian order. **Yogeśvara:** Huh. It is a very big religious movement all around the world.* [Yogeśvara speaks in French with Mr. Belfiore and then translates for Śrīla Prabhupāda throughout] --- **[[spoken/730813r3.par|Discussion about Guru Maharaj-ji — August 13, 1973, Paris]]** **Prabhupāda:** So what is the evidence that he is God? Anyone can say, "I am God." Then, anyone will be accepted as God? **Haṁsadūta:** Well, I think they take it just on the strength of this, whatever it is, experiences that they have. When they become initiated, they get some kind of an experience. So... **Prabhupāda:** Then you have to make propaganda against that, that simply pushing two eyes... Anyone can push two eyes and there is natural some light. Is that the proof that he has become God? You are so foolish. And you say that God is..., God has created the universe. So what he has created? What he has done, wonderful thing, that simply by pushing your eyes you see some light, and you become God? You have become so foolish, European brain? You have no intelligence. Preach against him. What is the proof that he is God? --- **[[spoken/730813r4.par|Room Conversation with French Nun — August 13, 1973, Paris]]** **Yogeśvara:** She's asking... This is a French nun, and she wishes to know whether for us Christ is the son of God or is He God Himself, or what is the identity of Lord Jesus Christ? **Yogeśvara:** ...question. She asks what is the difference between our understanding of reincarnation and the Christian concept of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ said he would come again. Is there a difference? Is it the same thing? **Yogeśvara:** There was this gentleman this afternoon who was asking you about people who are constantly..., constantly being tested by all kinds of miserable circumstances. She asks: Is it not a sign of a soul that God has chosen to favor that he sends them such miserable conditions of material life? --- **[[spoken/740813bg.vrn|Bg 7.7 — August 13, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** "[O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no truth] ...superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread." **Prabhupāda:** > mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat > kiñcid asti dhanañjaya > mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ > sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva > [[bg/7/7|[Bg. 7.7] ]] The controversy about the Absolute Truth, whether the Absolute Truth is form or formless... There are many philosophers. They, some of them are impersonalist, and some of them are personalist. They... In India the impersonalist are known as Māyāvādī, and the personalist, they are known as Vaiṣṇavas. --- **[[spoken/740813sb.vrn|SB 1.5.32 — August 13, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Translation:** "O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate one's activities to the service of the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead [Śrī Kṛṣṇa]." **Prabhupāda:** > etat saṁsūcitaṁ brahmaṁs > tāpa-traya-cikitsitam > yad īśvare bhagavati > karma brahmaṇi bhāvitam > [[sb/1/5/32|[SB. 1.5.32] ]] Now, in the last verse Nārada Muni says, *yena gacchanti tat-padam:* "by which one can go back to home, back to Godhead, *tat-padam.*" *Padam* means abode or position. Position, that is, after liberation, one can get the spiritual position: *sāyujya, sārūpya, sālokya, sārṣṭi, sāmīpya.* There are different types of position, although they are all spiritual. The one is the *sāyujya-mukti,* or to become one with the Supreme, merge into the Supreme. This is one position. Another position: *sārūpya,* the same feature of the body just like Nārāyaṇa, four-handed. In the Vaikuṇṭha planets, the inhabitants, the citizens, they have got four hands. When Ajāmila was delivered by the Viṣṇu-sena, they appeared exactly looking like Viṣṇu. That is described. That is called *sārūpya. Sārūpya, sārṣṭi* [[cc/madhya/6/266|[Cc. Madhya 6.266] ]], same opulence. Or *sāmīpya:* always near, associate. There are five kinds of... *Gacchanti tat-padam.* But out of the five, the first one, namely to merge into the existence of the Supreme, that is very dangerous; not safe. --- **[[spoken/750813mw.lon|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — August 13, 1975, London]]** --- title: Lecture — August 13, 1975, London date: 1975-08-13 permalink: spoken/750813mw.lon description: "Haṁsadūta: Well, we're thinking of trying again for the permission to get the use of it. Haṁsadūta: Then we'll keep it. No, their objection was that it went..., it jumped the curb; it went out of cont..." --- **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Haṁsadūta: Then we'll keep it. No, their objection was that it went..., it jumped the curb; it went out of control at one point, and therefore... **Prabhupāda:** That we can rectify. We can make such arrangement it will not jump; it will sit down.* [Haṁsadūtalaughs] --- **[[spoken/750813sb.lon|SB 6.1.55 — August 13, 1975, London]]** **Harikeśa:* *O*ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat]*Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Sixth Canto, First Chapter, text number 55. **Prabhupāda:** > eṣa prakṛti-saṅgena > puruṣasya viparyayaḥ > āsīt sa eva na cirād > īśa-saṅgād vilīyate **Prabhupāda:** *Puruṣa. Puruṣa* means enjoyer, and *prakṛti* means enjoyed, or, in simple word, *puruṣa* means male, and *prakṛti* means female. So this material world is called *prakṛti,* and the living entities who are struggling in this material world to enjoy it, they are called *puruṣa.* Of course, *puruṣa* is Kṛṣṇa only. *Puruṣa* means enjoyer. Nobody is enjoyer, therefore nobody is *puruṣa.* And in the *Bhagavad-gītā*, the living entities have been described also as *prakṛti-apareyam itas tv bhinnā me prakṛti*..., *apareyam itas tv bhinnā me prakṛtiṁ parā-superior prakṛti*, not *puruṣa*. [[bg/7/5|[Bg. 7.5] ]] --- **[[spoken/760813ar.bom|Arrival Conversation in Car and at Temple — August 13, 1976, Bombay]]** **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** The whole thing is being done in one week. I just got the whole text from Nirañjana on Sunday from England. We've got it composed, it is going into printing tomorrow. it will be ready by *Vyāsa-Pūjā.* It's a Hindi *Back to Godhead* on Janmāṣṭamī... **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes, and he's the most reliable. The others I find are not reliable. Even with Yaśomatīnandana, I give him a book, it gets stuck for three months. But now we are moving very fast. The first Hindi *Back to Godhead* we printed up forty-five thousand; it is sold. So I'm reprinting thirty thousand more in Delhi, and in Bombay we are producing a new *Back to Godhead* with thirty thousand first print. Forty-five thousand of first printing is almost sold. People can't believe it. Even Hitsaran Sharma couldn't believe it that we distributed forty-five thousand Hindi magazines in two months. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** We got a new import permit to import books worth five *lakhs.* I think I wrote that to you. And also the government is going to let us... --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/690813_jayagovinda.md|Letter to Jayagovinda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690813_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710813_atreya_rsi.md|Letter to Atreya Rsi, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710813_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710813_suresh_candra.md|Letter to Suresh Candra, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/740813_amsu.md|Letter to Amsu, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740813_caru.md|Letter to Caru, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740813_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740813_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740813_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740813_uttamasloka.md|Letter to Uttamasloka, 1974]]