# September 1 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/720901in.nv|Initiations — September 1, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/720901re.nv|Janmāṣṭamī, Kṛṣṇa Book Reading — September 1, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/720901sb.nv|SB 1.2.1 — September 1, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/730901bg.lon|Bg 2.31 — September 1, 1973, London]]** **Translation:** "Considering your specific duty as a kṣatriya, you should know that there is no better engagement for you than fighting on religious principles; and so there is no need for hesitation." **Prabhupāda:** *Sva* means "own," and *dharmam* means "occupation." *Dharma* means occupation and *sva* means own. *Sva-dharmam:* "one's own occupation." So according to Vedic civilization, everyone has his own *sva-dharma.* This has been misinterpreted by the rascals: "*Sva-dharma* means anyone can discover his own religious principle. *Yato mata tato patha.* Whatever you think is religious principle, that's all right." This is going on. But that is not the meaning. *Sva-dharma* means own occupation. Actually, *dharma* means which you cannot give up. *Dhṛ-dhātu manu[?].* You have to capture it; to keep your existence you must capture it. --- **[[spoken/730901r1.lon|Room Conversation with Peter — September 1, 1973, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** There is no brain in this artistic work. And how wonderfully, because it is automatically coming, artist. Anything you take, flower. So, without brain how this thing can happen? But these rascals, they do not understand. They say "nature." What is this nature? Nature is an instrument, but the brain is God. Just like you paint a flower with the brush. The brush is not the creator of that painting; you are creator. Similarly, it appears that it is happening naturally. Nature is only brush, but the brain is God. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Varieties. Everything is variety. Everything is variety, full of varieties. We find the same species of rose, still, you'll find varieties. In human, twin brothers, you will find still varieties. **Prabhupāda:** Oh, yes. There are varieties. *Ānanda. Ānanda,* pleasure, means varieties. Variety is the mother of enjoyment. Without varieties... Just like we prepare from grains, sugar, *ghee,* hundreds of varieties. If you simply give grain, *ghee* and sugar, it will not be enjoyable. But the same thing you prepare in varieties and give you a plate, oh, you'll say, "Oh, so nice thing." --- **[[spoken/730901r2.lon|Room Conversation — September 1, 1973, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** So you can test. Just like if you are eating, you can understand how much you are getting strength, how much you are satisfied. You haven't got to ask anybody. Similarly, if you are actually engaged in religious principles, the test is how much you are detached from material attraction and how much you are attached to God. This is the test. Anyone can see whether I am increasing my attachment for dog or whether I am increasing my attachment for God. That's all. This is test. *Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt* [[sb/11/2/42|[SB. 11.2.42] ]]. That is *bhakti.* *Bhakti* means God-realization. *Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti* [[bg/18/55|[Bg. 18.55] ]]: "One can understand Me only through *bhakti*." So that is first-class religion, *bhakti.* So if you have got *bhakti,* then you will realize God daily, every moment. That is real understanding. So by becoming a follower of [indistinct] Thakur, whether we have developed that Kṛṣṇa consciousness or not, that is the test. But how can I say? It is up to you. That is up to you. Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught us these things. He was mad after Kṛṣṇa by His personal... *Govinda-viraheṇa me*. *Śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda-viraheṇa me.* --- **[[spoken/750901mw.vrn|Morning Walk — September 1, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** They make analysis: "This is good; this is bad." The whole thing is bad, they do not understand. *Dvaite bhadrābhadra sakale samana, ei bhala ei manda saba manodharma.* [[cc/antya/4/176|[Cc. Antya 4.176] ]] A mental concoction we analyze: "This is good; this is..." And because the whole population is such rascals, therefore we see whole world they are creating government, they are making this advancement, taking... Everything is spoiled. That they do not understand, that "We have tried so far, scientifically, and this way and that way. Why there are so many things disturbing and miserable?" The whole policy is to give you trouble. That is the material nature. You must be always in trouble—*ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika.* "No." They will say, "No, this trouble is better than that trouble." [laughter] This is their... "This trouble is better than that trouble." Hare Kṛṣṇa. This Dr. Ghosh, he said... When he was student in Calcutta he was doctor of tropical medicine. So one English doctor was his professor, Cornel Mellor. So he was lecturing and... Now the friends have come to greet. He said that "In our country seventy-five percent, at least, students are infected with syphilis." **Prabhupāda:** Syphilis, yes. So in India the syphilis is a very horrible disease. So he exclaimed, "Oh, it is horrible!" The doctor, that Cornel Mellor, he was astonished: "Why you say it is horrible? In your country they suffer, ninety percent, from malaria. That's not horrible?" So the example is that when you are suffering, for a doctor, either you are suffering from malaria or from syphilis, we are suffering from disease. Why you say, "This disease is horrible than that disease"? Actually, this is the fact. Why should you discriminate? So he chastised him, that "As a medical man, you cannot say this disease is more dangerous than that. Every disease is dangerous." Actually you should take that. Suffering, three kinds of suffering—*ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika...* The suffering is there. If you say *ādhyātmika* suffering is better than *ādhibhautika* suffering, that is foolishness. *Ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛttiḥ.* Spiritual life means to end all kinds of suffering. That is spiritual life. Not that I get free myself from this kind of suffering and I accept that kind of suffering. This is not good conclusion. *Ātyantika-duḥkha. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam* [[bg/8/15|[Bg. 8.15] ]]. --- **[[spoken/750901sb.vrn|SB 6.1.64-65 — September 1, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] **Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number 64. [leads chanting of verse, etc] [indistinct] *tām eva toṣayāmāsa **Prabhupāda:** > tām eva toṣayāmāsa > pitṛyeṇārthena yāvatā > grāmyair manoramaiḥ kāmaiḥ > prasīdeta yathā tathā > [[sb/6/1/64|[SB. 6.1.64] ]] --- **[[spoken/760901ed.del|Evening Darśana — September 1, 1976, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...required to kill somebody, he'll do that—if it is required for his sense gratification. There are many instances that a woman is addicted to another man, and she has killed her husband, killed her son. Why? Sense gratification. I have seen one woman, my Godbrother's wife, she killed her son for being implicated with another man. I have seen it. *Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma* [[sb/5/5/4|[SB. 5.5.4] ]]. Things which are not to be done, they do it. Why? For the matter of sense gratification. They do it. That's a fact. So therefore simply for sense gratification they are prepared to do anything. That means *pāpa.* It is the verdict of the court that when a man kills another man he becomes mad. Without becoming mad, a man cannot kill another man. So everything is being done which is not sanctioned because for sense gratification. The whole world business is sense gratification. And at the end, when he's little spiritually inclined, he wants to satisfy senses by thinking artificially that "I shall become God." That is the greatest sense gratification. Because remaining a small living entity I have been hampered in my sense gratification. Now let me become God so that there will be no restriction of my sense gratification.* [Transl. Become Bhagavān.] Because he has failed to satisfy his senses remaining non-Bhagavān, now he wants to become Bhagavān. *Yogī,* that is also another sense gratification, that if I show some magic, if I can create little gold like this, hundreds and thousands of men will be after me and I shall live very nicely, just gratify my senses. These things are going on practically. The man who is manufacturing gold, and so many rich people are coming to his disciples and he's begging for a motorcar. If he can create gold, why he cannot create a motorcar? This is going on. Indian man: [Transl. Gurujī, I gave 5000 rupees loan to somebody. He told me that he will return within six months. But till now he has not returned the loan.] **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. Just see! I have to tell the way! Is that a question? This is not my job. Help me in my sense gratification. Help me get my 5000 rupees back then you are a big *sādhu*. I am not able to recover that 5000 rupees. If you help me get it back by some *mantra* then I will treat you as a great *sādhu*. Otherwise not. This is going on. *Sādhu's* business is to help recover someone's money from the debtor who is refusing to pay back. Chant some *mantra*. Is this a question to a *sādhu*? This is going on. This is going on. People go to *sādhu* and say, Mahārāja, I have got pain in my stomach. And the *sādhu* gives him some medicine and he becomes a big *sādhu*. You go to court. Why to a *sādhu*?] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/490901_gita_mandir_trust.md|Letter to Gita Mandir Trust, 1949]] - [[../../letters/1969/690901_manager_of_the_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of The Punjab National Bank, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690901_prosanta_mukherjee.md|Letter to Prosanta Mukherjee, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700901_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to Punjab National Bank, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710901_damodara.md|Letter to Damodara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710901_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710901_sukhada.md|Letter to Sukhada, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710901_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710901_vrindaban_candra.md|Letter to Vrindaban Candra, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720901_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730901_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740901_gurukrpa.md|Letter to Gurukrpa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_alanatha.md|Letter to Alanatha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_badarinarayana.md|Letter to Badarinarayana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_bahu_rupa.md|Letter to Bahu Rupa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_hansadutta_bhagavan.md|Letter to Hansadutta Bhagavan, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_jayananda.md|Letter to Jayananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_mr._aubrey_l._duke.md|Letter to Mr. Aubrey L. Duke, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750901_ramesvara_co.md|Letter to Ramesvara Co, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760901_dr._s.b._chatterjee.md|Letter to Dr. S.B. Chatterjee, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760901_jagajivana.md|Letter to Jagajivana, 1976]]