# September 3 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/710903ba.lon|Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura Appearance Day, Lecture — September 3, 1971, London]]** So today is very auspicious day, Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda's birthday. Here is the picture of Ṭhākura Sac-cid-ānanda Bhaktivinoda. He was one of the *ācāryas* of this disciplic succession from Kṛṣṇa. We have got a succession table from Kṛṣṇa, genealogical table. There are two kinds of genealogical tables: one by the semina—father, his son, his son, like that; that is material genealogical table—and there is one spiritual genealogical table, disciplic succession. Just like Kṛṣṇa... Kṛṣṇa, the original father, Supreme Personality of Godhead, He spoke the Vedic knowledge to Brahmā, Lord Brahmā. He spoke to Nārada. Nārada spoke to Vyāsa. Vyāsa spoke to Madhvācārya. So in this disciplic succession, Lord Caitanya, from Lord Caitanya, the six Gosvāmīs, and similarly, coming down, down, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, then Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja, then my spiritual master, then we are, next generation, my disciples. So there is a disciplic succession, and the *ācāryas,* they're authorities. Our process of knowledge is very simple: we take it from the authority. We don't speculate. Speculation will not help us to come to the real knowledge. Just like when we are in difficulty, in legal implication, we go to some authority, lawyer. --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710903rc.lon.md|Room Conversation — September 3, 1971, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/710903sb.lon|SB 5.5.5 — September 3, 1971, London]]** **Pradyumna:** > parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto > yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam > yāvat kriyās tāvad idaṁ mano vai > karmātmakaṁ yena śarīra-bandhaḥ > [[sb/5/5/5|[SB. 5.5.5] ]] **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. This great science is unknown to the modern civilization. *Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam.* What is the next? **Prabhupāda:** *Yena śarīra-bandhaḥ.* People are working very hard, day and night. *Karmātmakam. Karmātmakam* means that "I shall work and make profit and enjoy." That is called *karmātmakam,* fruitive activities. Everyone is working for some profit. So in this way, according to different *karma,* or according to different association. --- **[[spoken/720903sb.nv|SB 1.2.5 — September 3, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/730903bg.lon|Bg 2.33-35 — September 3, 1973, London]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* **Translation:** "If, however, you do not fight this religious war, then you will certainly incur sins for neglecting your duties and thus lose your reputation as a fighter." --- **[[spoken/750903mw.vrn|Morning Walk — September 3, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** As soon as you make "Hindu religion," "Muslim religion," "Christian religion," immediately it is not religion. Immediately. Because Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya* [[bg/18/66|[Bg. 18.66] ]]. Why does He say, *sarva-dharmān parityajya?* [aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. *Jaya.* Because that is not religion. The so-called religions which are going on, they are not religion. That we do not say at the present moment, because you are not so strong. But we have to say that. There is no religion. All cheating. Why Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya* [[bg/18/66|[Bg. 18.66] ]]? Why? **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Cheating others, cheating himself. Just like this animal sacrifice. The man who is sacrificing, he is cheating himself, and he is cheating others also. [break] ...cheating, envious. Just like a man who is killing another man. So he is envious to himself as well as the man whom he is killing. Both. I am killing somebody; he is being killed. I am envious. And I forget that I'll be killed. Then I am envious to me also. **Prabhupāda:** This is the position. Even it is forbidden... In the Christian religion it is forbidden: "Thou shall not kill." And they are killing. That means envious of the animal, and he is envious of himself also. They are now being killed in the womb of the mother. Why the child is now being killed within the womb of the mother? Hmm? --- **[[spoken/750903sb.vrn|SB 6.1.67 — September 3, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** Go on.Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] Sixth Canto *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* First Chapter, verse number 67. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] --- **[[spoken/760903bg.vrn|Bg 7.15, Arrival Address — September 3, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** So we have made this verse a standard of examination. We haven't got to do anything. Everything is there, because Kṛṣṇa is the original *guru.* *Śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam* [[bg/2/7|[Bg. 2.7] ]].* Arjuna, in the *paramparā* system, is teaching us how to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. So this is the qualification how to advance in spiritual consciousness. People are suffering for want of spiritual consciousness. They are living like animal, *dehātma-buddhiḥ.* --- **[[spoken/760903g1.vrn|Garden Conversation — September 3, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...with some Indian wife they were called Eurasian, and Englishman marrying Indian wife, they were called Anglo-Indian. There was a big Anglo-Indian community, and they were given good facilities by the Britishers for government jobs, railways. In railway, almost cent per cent. The driver, the guard, the ticket inspector, all—means, semi-important jobs—they were all given to these Anglo-Indians. Because they were not very much educated. And officers, they were all Britishers. Officers, secretaries. And Indians were clerks. [laughs] Indians, they were accepted as clerks only. No officers. In military, Indian Sikhs and Gurkha, especially Sikhs, they were very valiant. Still they are valiant. They were given the post of captain. Not general. General all Englishmen. **Caraṇāravindam:** I have seen many Sikh soldiers. They're very big. They're very noble looking soldiers. **Prabhupāda:** They're very martial race. Practically, the Britishers expanded their empire with these Sikh soldiers and Gurkha soldiers. --- **[[spoken/760903r1.vrn|Room Conversation — September 3, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Akṣayānanda:** Guesthouse has improved very much. Now we have about twenty paying guests. And during *Śrāvaṇa* and *Janmāṣṭamī* it was completely full. Very, very encouraging. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** Actually, many of our Life Members were turned down. We met some in Delhi. They said they couldn't get in. The whole thing was full. **Prabhupāda:** [Transl. I left everything on your reliance. These people are cheated by everyone. Hope now they are not cheated as much. Or are people still cheat them?] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680903_sri_krishna_prasad_bhargava.md|Letter to Sri Krishna Prasad Bhargava, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690903_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710903_ranadhir.md|Letter to Ranadhir, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730903_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740903_aksobhya.md|Letter to Aksobhya, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740903_dina_bandhu.md|Letter to Dina Bandhu, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740903_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740903_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740903_rsabhadeva.md|Letter to Rsabhadeva, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750903_acyutananda.md|Letter to Acyutananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750903_dr._jagadisa_bhardawaj.md|Letter to Dr. Jagadisa Bhardawaj, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750903_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750903_mahamsa.md|Letter to Mahamsa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750903_nalinikanta.md|Letter to Nalinikanta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750903_sankara_pyne_mira_pyne.md|Letter to Sankara Pyne Mira Pyne, 1975]]