# September 5 *Lectures from this day: 14 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680905in.ny|Initiation of Hṛṣīkeśa Dāsā, Marriage of Satsvarūpa and Jadurāṇī — September 5, 1968, New York]]** [break] Today we have got two functions. One function is initiation of a *brahmacārī,* and another function is marriage ceremony of our one disciple Satsvarūpa brahmacārī and Jadurāṇī brahmacāriṇī. [break] ...*Caitanya-bhāgavata* there is a verse which says, *gṛhe vā vanete thāke, hā gaurāṅga bole ḍāke* [Song 38—*Sāvaraṇa-Gaura-mahimā*]. The purport is that either if you remain in household life or you remain as mendicant in the forest, in either case, you just become a devotee of Lord Caitanya. So although we have four divisions of the social orders, namely the *brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha* and *sannyāsa... Brahmacārī* means student, strictly observing life of celibacy, following the rules and regulation enunciated by the spiritual master under strict discipline. That is called *brahmacārī.* And next is that if a *brahmacārī* wants to get himself married, that is allowed. --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690905ve.ham.md|Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā Lecture Conclusion — September 5, 1969, Hamburg]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/690905vp.ham|Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā — September 5, 1969, Hamburg]]** **Prabhupāda:** All this eulogization about me, people, outsider, may think that "This man is being flattered, and he is hearing his own eulogization." But that is not the fact. It is the test, how they are receiving the message sincerely and they [are] expressing their feeling. So it is going to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As it has come through the channel of disciplic succession, all these praises will also reach to Kṛṣṇa through that disciplic succession. So it is not personal thing. These things are required. Just like in the military training, they are taught by the officers in a different way, in so many ways, similarly, this is also training of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so that the feeling of pure consciousness will reach to Kṛṣṇa. I thank you all very much for your improving in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And... I am a *sannyāsī,* you know. I came here empty-handed. So you are providing me. What can I do for you? I shall simply pray to Kṛṣṇa. Another thing, that don't be satisfied that you have understood. That's all. No. --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710905rc.lon.md|Room Conversation with Dr. Weir — September 5, 1971, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720905sb.nv|SB 1.2.7 — September 5, 1972, New Vrindavan]]** --- **[[spoken/730905ar.sto|Arrival Speech — September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kindly receiving me. This is the first time I am coming in this country, Sweden. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading all over the world gradually. It is little difficult to understand the purport of this movement, because it is completely on the spiritual platform. Generally, people do not understand what is spiritual platform. So as we can understand that we are combination of two things... Every one of us, living being, we are at the present moment combination of spirit and matter. Matter we can understand, but on account of our long association with the matter, we cannot understand what is that spirit. But we can imagine that there is something which distinguishes a dead body and living body. That we can understand. When a man is dead... Suppose my father is dead or somebody, a relative, is dead, we lament that "My father is no more. He has gone away." But where he has gone? The father is lying on the bed. Why do you say, "My father has gone away"? If somebody says that "Your father is lying sleeping on the bed. Why you are crying that your father has gone away? He has not gone. He is sleeping there...," but that sleep is not this sleep, ordinary sleep as we have daily. That sleep means eternal sleep. So actually, we have no eyes to see who is my father. During the lifetime of my father I did not know who is my father; therefore when the actual father goes away, we cry that "My father is gone." So that is spirit. Who has gone away from that body, that is spirit soul; otherwise, why he is speaking that "My father is gone"? The body is there. --- **[[spoken/730905bg.lon|Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s Appearance Day, Bhagavad-gītā 18.5 — September 5, 1973, London]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [break] [leads chanting of verse, etc.][**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Prabhupāda:** ...*yajño dānaṁ tapaś caiva pāvanāni manīṣiṇām.* There are four stages of spiritual life: the *brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha* and *sannyāsa.* For *brahmacārī, yajña. Yajña* means to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. *Varṇāśramācāravatā puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān, viṣṇur ārādhyate* [[cc/madhya/8/58|[Cc. Madhya 8.58] ]]. --- **[[spoken/730905r1.sto|Room Conversation with Indian Ambassador — September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]** **Ambassador:** Seventy-one, I was, I think, there. I might have gone to India on leave. I returned in March, the end of March. Because I don't remember the [indistinct]. **Ambassador:** Mr. Natarajan Rao told me, because I was away. I was away in Central Asia. I remember his telling me. And Natarajan looked after. **Prabhupāda:** All over the world, they are expecting something spiritual enlightenment from India. That is a fact. But our government is callous in that respect. Therefore any so-called *svāmī,* *yogīs* come from India, they gather to receive him, to hear something from him. Yes. This is the tendency, that... The real thing is that people expected something... Still they are respectful to India on account of the spiritual enlightenment. --- **[[spoken/730905r2.sto|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor Dr. Suneson, Chanting of Ādi-līlā 7.2-59 — September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. We are... This is *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* There are sixty volumes, books like this. **Professor:** Oh, well, I haven't read all of the *Bhāgavata Purāṇa,* but of course, this Tenth Chapter I read. **Prabhupāda:** *Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye..*. Like that. --- **[[spoken/750905mw.vrn|Morning Walk [partially recorded] — September 5, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** "...bring my property. My property." [laughter] [laughing] "We are one." He thought that he is very good gentleman. [indistinct] property is for *īśvara*? No, he says that "We are one. Your property is my property and my property is my property." [laughter] **Dīkṣita**'s argument is like that: "We are one." So your room is my room; my room is my room.* [end]* --- **[[spoken/750905sb.vrn|SB 6.2.1 — September 5, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture — September 5, 1975, Vrndavana date: 1975-09-05 permalink: spoken/750905sb.vrn description: "Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. So two parties, Yamadūta and the Bhagavad-dūtā. So this human life is the junction, which way to go: to the Ya..." --- **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] *[leads chanting of verse, etc.]* **[break] [01:53]Prabhupāda:** > śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca > evaṁ te bhagavad-dūtā > yamadūtābhibhāṣitam > upadhāryātha tān rājan > pratyāhur naya-kovidāḥ > [[sb/6/2/1|[SB. 6.2.1] ]] --- **[[spoken/760905r1.vrn|Room Conversation — September 5, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** *[indistinct] ...No, that is wrong. [indistinct]. Sannyāsī* should go on preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching. Practically, I was sitting here in Vṛndāvana, in Rādhā-Dāmodara temple. So at the age of seventy years, nobody goes out. At least from Vṛndāvana nobody goes at the age of seventy years. But Kṛṣṇa asked me. I thought that "I must go. Guru Mahārāja wanted it, Caitanya Mahāprabhu... Let me try." So if I had not gone, then this institution would not have developed. So this is practical. *Mahat-vicalanam. Mahātmā,* they must move. So when there is absolute necessity they may stay. Otherwise, they must move. Move on, move on, move on, move on, move on. No staying. That is principle. No staying. I am this old age, I cannot move... My... I... So many... Still I am traveling all over the world. I am simply interested that whatever I have done, it may not be vanquished in my absence. Let me go and encourage them. Otherwise, I have no capacity to move now. But still I am moving, only for this purpose. *Gṛhiṇāṁ dīna-cetasām.* So a *sannyāsī* must move. A *sannyāsī* must not stay anywhere more than three days. That is the principle. So he was moving, but his moving is creating disturbances here. Therefore I have stopped. And besides that, a temple is *nirguṇa.* A *sannyāsī* is forbidden to stay anywhere else, but in a temple he can stay for more than three days, provided there is business. Otherwise, there is no necessity. So this is the exclusion[?]. **Prabhupāda:** No, solves or not solves, we shall see later on. But this is the principle. This is the principle. Solution... If we do not become very simple servant of Kṛṣṇa, problems will increase. It will never be solved. If you have got any other desire than to serve Kṛṣṇa, then the problems will increase. It will never decrease. Therefore *bhakti* begins, *anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam* [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu*1.1.11]. No other purpose than to serve Kṛṣṇa. This is only purpose. *Ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānuśīlanam* [[cc/madhya/19/167|[Cc. Madhya 19.167] ]]. So our only business is how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa in His original status as Kṛṣṇa, and in His other status as Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and in both ways, He's insisting to preach. That is a very important business. Neither Caitanya Mahāprabhu nor Kṛṣṇa has recommended that you become a great devotee and sit down in a place and talk big, big words and simply eat and sleep. Kṛṣṇa has never said. That is not Kṛṣṇa's, neither Caitanya Mahāprabhu's business. That is not required. *Baḍa baḍa vānarera baḍa baḍa peṭa laṅkā ḍiṅgote māthā kare heṅṭa* "Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, melancholy." There are very many big, big bellies in Vṛndāvana, but if they're asked to preach Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission all over the world—melancholy. Melancholy. Big, big monkey, big, big belly. So you have taken a very great mission that world preaching. That is very, very nice decision. So you have got buses and you have got capacity. You do this. And one in Germany, one in India, come and go, come and go. What do you think? --- **[[spoken/760905r2.vrn|Room Conversation — September 5, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...they're reading now. Here, although we have got books, nobody reads. But there they are reading. Otherwise, nobody is... [microphone moving] That means they are concentrating with so many books. There are other books also. Why they cannot sell so many books? Unless public is interested... If one has read one part of *Bhāgavatam,* he has got some impression, and actually that is the... [break] ...I think it is in Japan. One young gentleman came, I do not know where, he simply asked me, "Swāmījī, can I talk with you?" "Yes, sit down." His first appreciation was, "Swāmījī, where you have got so vast knowledge?" I have already told some of you. So these people, these Americans and Europeans, they are intelligent. They are seeing that here are some ideas which is not to be found throughout the whole world. Therefore they are purchasing. Actually, it is right here. Every verse, every *śloka* is so sublime, and if it is properly explained, people must appreciate. There is no doubt about it. And they are doing that. In our country, due to the loss of our own culture and poverty, we have now taken, "Money is everything." [someone enters] *Aiye.* Wherefrom you are coming? **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** He's in charge of *gurukula.* He's here for the last six months. Jagadīśa left him here. [break] Rūpa-vilāsa*:* I mean to say he likes very much studying languages and writing and being... He's a good scholar, but... --- **[[spoken/760905sb.vrn|SB 1.7.6 — September 5, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** We were discussing this verse yesterday. *Anartha.* This *anartha* means this material civilization. There is no need, and still we have accepted it. That is called *anartha,* meaningless. So there are hundreds and thousands of *anarthas,* as it is stated that *śrotavyādīni rājendra nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ* [[sb/2/1/2|[SB. 2.1.2] ]]. Sahasraśaḥ* means thousands and thousands. Because we have created *anartha,* unnecessary necessities of life, therefore we have to know, we have to learn, we have to teach so many, I mean to say, unwanted. Just like there is a problem now, especially in the Western countries, unwanted population. They do not want, but it is increasing. Similarly, unwanted necessities. This is called *anartha.* Simple thing. Just like we require some food. That is essential. We cannot live without taking food. That is not possible. So Kṛṣṇa is giving very simple formula, that *annād bhavanti bhūtāni* [[bg/3/14|[Bg. 3.14] ]]. If there is sufficient quantity of *anna,* or eatables, then people become very nice, well-satisfied, either animal or man. If he can eat sufficiently, he's satisfied. So *annād bha**vanti bhūtāni. Bhavanti* means flourishing. He becomes healthy, he becomes strong, and he can think nicely, he can work nicely. So *anna* is required. But simple method is given how *anna* is produced. That is also given, *annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ.* If there is sufficient rain, then you can easily produce food grain. Just like this year, the rain is sufficient; everywhere we go it is green. Green means sufficient food for the animals. And if the field is very soft, you can till it and you can get easily, very nicely, foodstuff. Therefore *parjanya,* water, rain, is required. *Parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ.* And *yajñād bhavati parjanyaḥ* [[bg/3/14|[Bg. 3.14] ]], and by performing *yajña* there will be cloud and rain. That was the... *Yajña* is required. In this age, Kali-yuga, it is very difficult to perform the Vedic ritualistic *yajñas.* It requires tons of *ghee* and food grains. And people have nothing to eat even. But *śāstra* has made it very easy. *Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ* [[sb/11/5/32|[SB. 11.5.32] ]]. If you perform the *saṅkīrtana-yajña,* then it is as good any other *yajña. Yajña* means to satisfy the *yajña-puruṣa,* Viṣṇu, Lord Viṣṇu. So in the Kali-yuga, simply by performing *yajñas* you can satisfy the Supreme Lord. *Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ.* We have seen in many places, by performing *yajña,* the *saṅkīrtana-yajña,* where it was very dry, rain has fallen. This is practical. So things are very easy. But instead of producing food grains, we are producing Goodyear tires. So how we can eat? Now when there is scarcity of foodstuff you cannot eat the Goodyear tires. But people's attention has been diverted in the industrial activities. They are given allurement, "Come here. I shall give you twenty rupees per day. You give up your agricultural activities. You come in the factory. Produce tire tube, iron stool," and so on, so on. So we are violating the orders of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says that produce food grain. But we are producing unnecessary things, and therefore you are suffering. Kṛṣṇa is giving very good advice: *annād bhavanti bhūtāni.* You produce sufficient foodgrain, all over, not only here. Another *anartha* is this nationalism. Nationalism: "This is America," "This is India," "This is Africa," "This is Australia." Why? *Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam* [Īśo*mantra** 1*]. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670905_umapati.md|Letter to Umapati, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690905_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690905_dr._syama_sundardas_brahmacari.md|Letter to Dr. Syama Sundardas Brahmacari, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690905_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690905_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1974/740905_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740905_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740905_sudama_subala.md|Letter to Sudama Subala, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740905_vijoyadhvaja.md|Letter to Vijoyadhvaja, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750905_sri_arjuna.md|Letter to Sri Arjuna, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760905_kurusrestha.md|Letter to Kurusrestha, 1976]]