# August 25 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/660825le.ny.md|Lecture [partially recorded] — August 25, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/680825cm.mon|Prabhupāda Comments on Prahlāda Mahārāja Slides — August 25, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** All these universes, all these planets, all the suns and moons, the sky and everything, they have come from the original source, the Absolute Truth. Now, in the material world we have got so many contradictions, but that contradiction is there also in the Absolute Truth. Just like fighting. Fighting is not a very good thing, but still, the fighting spirit is there in the Absolute Truth. Otherwise, how fighting can be exhibited? So the theory, nonviolence... Nonviolence is not absolute. Nonviolence and violence, everything is there in the Absolute Truth. But in the Absolute Truth, either nonviolence or violence, they are absolute. Here we have got bad effects of violence, but when the violence is performed by the Absolute, it has no bad effect, it has good effect. Just like in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* The *Bhagavad-gītā* is spoken in the battlefield, and Arjuna was denying to fight, but Kṛṣṇa was asking him to fight. So the fighting was good, because it was the will of the Absolute Personality of Godhead. Therefore at the end of understanding *Bhagavad-gītā,* Arjuna agreed, "Yes, I shall fight." --- **[[spoken/720825sb.la|SB 1.2.22 — August 25, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **[*Govindam* prayers playing] [Prabhup**ā**da sings along] Prabhupāda:** [**sings *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava*]* [*prema-dhvani*] **Thank you very much. **Devotees:** All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. **[devotees offer obeisances] Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/730825bg.lon|Bg 2.19-20 — August 25, 1973, London]]** **Translation:** "He who thinks that the living entity is the slayer or that he is slain does not understand. One who is in knowledge knows that the self slays not nor is slain." --- **[[spoken/750825mw.vrn|Morning Walk — August 25, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** This way. Śrīla Prabhupāda, it's this way, the *parikramā.* [break] ...the best land for our purposes, because the children can just run back and forth. **Dhanañjaya:** But now, since the rains have been here, this whole countryside has become very, very green. It seems like the land is very fertile. Grass is growing so profusely like this. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** I've heard he wants to see the film very badly. He wants to see our Hare Kṛṣṇa film, the D.M. So we are waiting for it from Delhi, and... --- **[[spoken/760825bg.hyd|Bg 1.1 [Hindi] — August 25, 1976, Hyderabad]]** **Harikeśa:** Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: O Sañjaya, after assembling in the place of pilgrimage at Kurukṣetra, what did my sons and the sons of Pāṇḍu do, being desirous to fight? [[bg/1/1|[Bg. 1.1] ]] **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. Mahārāja Dhṛtarāṣṭra asked Sañjaya, Sañjaya was his secretary, so he asked him "My sons—Māmakāḥ, and Pāṇḍava—the sons of my younger brother Pāṇḍavas went together at Dharmakṣetra in order to fight, what did they do?" This is what he inquired. It is very simple. Dharmakṣetra, Kurukṣetra, it is very near to Delhi. Kurukṣetra is still present today. It is Dharmakṣetra. Hindus from nearby areas visit Kurukṣetra even today and perform religious ceremonies. It it written in the Vedas also, that you go to Kurukṣetra and perform religious duties. Then what is the use of juggling words? Interpretation? What is the Hindi word for 'interpretation'?] **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. *Bhāṣya* means comment. Interpretation means *arthavāda*. To change the original meaning and say something else. The real meaning of interpretation is *arthavāda*. So these foolish people interpret Kurukṣetra as the body. Why? Why would Kurukṣetra mean this body? Which Dictionary says Kurukṣetra means the body? But this is going on. They mislead others by speaking nonsense and become misled themselves too. This should not be done. Vyāsadeva wrote the *Bhagavad-gītā*. --- **[[spoken/760825r1.hyd|Room Conversation — August 25, 1976, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** And if by force you drag me away, I shall go to another room. Because I'll have another room. But because you have forcibly driven me away, you are criminal. Similarly, a living entity is ordained to live in a certain body for a certain period. If you kill, that is the interference with his staying there. You are criminal. **Prabhupāda:** The soul is never killed. Never killed. But because you have forcibly driven away from that body, you become criminal. That is the philosophy. **Indian man:** No, assuming this end. I am putting a question. Every man who took part in the Kurukṣetra war, assuming that they are to be killed, they are destined to be killed. Then when they are killed, then Kṛṣṇa's argument is the soul..., the body perishes but the soul is eternal. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670825_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1970/700825_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/700825_jaya_gopala.md|Letter to Jaya Gopala, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710825_amogha_hanuman.md|Letter to Amogha Hanuman, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710825_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710825_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710825_sri_sharmaji.md|Letter to Sri Sharmaji, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720825_vasudevaya_others.md|Letter to Vasudevaya Others, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730825_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]]