# September 2 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660902bg.ny|Bg 6.1-4 — September 2, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...the Fifth Chapter of *Bhagavad-gītā.* Today we shall begin the Sixth Chapter. In the Sixth Chapter you'll find the process of *yoga.* You have heard many times of the *yoga* system. That *yoga* system is approved by *Bhagavad-gītā.* But the system of *yoga* as prescribed in the *Bhagavad-gītā,* it is specially meant for purifying your status. *Karma-śuddhasya vijitātmanaḥ. Karma-śuddhasya vijitātmanaḥ.* To control the senses and to purify the process of work, that is the purpose of *yoga.* *Yoga* means to purify the process of our activities and to control the senses. *Śrī-bhagavān uvāca.* Bhagavān. The other day we have explained who is Bhagavān. Bhagavān is the last word of the Absolute Truth. The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases: impersonal Brahman; localized Paramātmā, Supersoul; and ultimately, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Ultimately, Bhagavān, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, is person, and secondarily, He is all-pervading Supersoul, and the *brahma-jyoti* effulgence. So here it is said, *śrī-bhagavān uvāca.* Bhagavān means the proprietor of everything and all-powerful, all... He has got all the... All-famous. Nobody can be more famous than God. And all-beautiful, and full of knowledge and full of renunciation. Full of opulence, at the same time, full of renunciation. --- **[[spoken/720902iv.nv|Interview with the New York Times — September 2, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/720902vp.nv|Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā Address — September 2, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/730902bg.lon|Bg 2.32 — September 2, 1973, London]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* "O Pārtha, happy are the kṣatriyas to whom such fighting opportunities come unsought, opening for them the doors of the heavenly planets." --- **[[spoken/730902r1.lon|Room Conversation with Indian Guests — September 2, 1973, London]]** **Guest (1):** ...Yes, yes. I ask him why, after such a long lapse of time we could see this trait of Hindu *dharma.* **Prabhupāda:** ...but spiritual, satisfaction of spiritual starvation. Because we are spiritual being. That I was trying to explain, that we have bodily necessities, at the same time we have spiritual necessities. This Western civilization, they are simply after the bodily necessities. Just like here is a qualified medical man. He's made... What for, medical man? He knows how to satisfy the medical necessities of the body. He has no information of the spirit soul. Is it not a fact? Have you got any idea what is spirit soul? **Prabhupāda:** Therefore I say that these universities, educational institution, all over the world, they are simply concerned with this body. According to our Vedic culture, to remain satisfied with the bodily necessities of life is the business of animals. *Sa eva go-kharaḥ*. --- **[[spoken/750902sb.vrn|SB 6.1.66 — September 2, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] **Sixth Canto, First Chapter, verse number 66. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] *yatas tataś copaninye nyāyato 'nyāyato dhanam babhārāsyāḥ kuṭumbinyāḥ kuṭumbaṁ manda-dhīr ayam* [[sb/6/1/66|[SB. 6.1.66] ]] **[break] [01:46]Prabhupāda:** > yatas tataś copaninye > nyāyato 'nyāyato dhanam > babhārāsyāḥ kuṭumbinyāḥ > kuṭumbaṁ manda-dhīr ayam > [[sb/6/1/66|[SB. 6.1.66] ]] So this is the beginning of *saṁsāra.* So there is attraction between man and woman, and as soon as the attraction becomes little intimate, they unite. Then they have children. Then they require money, apartment, so many things. --- **[[spoken/760902mw.del|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — September 2, 1976, Delhi]]** **Ravi:** ...Kṛṣṇa. So how are we to understand the name of the spiritual master? In *kīrtana* when we chant the name of the spiritual master, is that as spiritually potent? **Lokanātha:** You have to understand the position of Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava's position is far, far greater than the demigods'. Demigods, they shower flowers on the Vaiṣṇavas. So they are very exalted personalities, especially the spiritual master. There's no comparison of the spiritual master with any entity in the universe or *brahmāṇḍa.* As Prabhupāda's purport has said many places: "The spiritual master is the external manifestation of the Supersoul, Paramātmā, within your heart." So Paramātmā is Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and He becomes manifest before you in form of a *guru,* or spiritual master. So you cannot compare a spiritual master, or *guru,* with any other... **Prabhupāda:** No, his question is why the demigods... Just like Lord Brahmā, he is the original spiritual master. So why the demigods should not be equal to the spiritual master? That is his question. Is it not? --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1970/700902_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710902_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710902_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710902_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710902_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710902_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720902_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720902_lalitananda.md|Letter to Lalitananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720902_radha-damodara.md|Letter to Radha-Damodara, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1975/750902_bhakti_ballabh_tirtha.md|Letter to Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750902_omkara.md|Letter to Omkara, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760902_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1976]]