# September 10 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680910bg.sf|Bg 7.1 — September 10, 1968, San Francisco]]** --- **[[spoken/690910pu.ham|Purport to Hari Hari Biphale — September 10, 1969, Hamburg]]** **Somebody may take *karatāla.*[indistinct] go so far? That is nice?** > hari hari! bifale janama goṅāinu > manuṣya-janama pāiyā, rādhā-kṛṣṇa nā bhajiyā, > jāniyā śuniyā biṣa khāinu --- **[[spoken/720910le.dal|Lecture — September 10, 1972, Dallas]]** The effect of this chanting will be, first instalment to cleanse your heart, *ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam* [[cc/antya/20/12|[Cc. Antya 20.12] ]]. We are suffering in this material world, of course foolish persons they think they are not suffering they are enjoying, but actually you are not enjoying you are suffering. But because we have become less intelligent we take suffering as enjoyment. That is the result. That is the symptom of *rajo-guṇa*. There are three qualities of the material world, *sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa* and *tamo-guṇa*, goodness passion and ignorance. So those who are... Generally in this age people are very much passionate as a result of this passionate quality they actually suffer by working very hard but they take it as enjoyment. This is called illusion. To commit mistake, to be illusioned, to cheat and to use our imperfect senses for gathering knowledge. These are four defects of conditioned soul. Therefore to take knowledge from conditioned soul is not perfect knowledge because the conditioned soul is defective. Physician heal thyself. The physician himself if he is diseased or suffering from some ailment, how he can treat others? So all our leaders they are blind, they have no perfect knowledge, they do not know what is after this body. As we have... everyone of us this experience that we had a body like a child, we had a body like a boy, like a young man, now I am aged but those bodies are no longer existing. I don't find where is my other childhood body, where is my boyhood body, where is my youthhood body but I remember that I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man. So I am existing although my bodies are no longer existing. --- **[[spoken/730910bg.sto|Bg 7.1-3 — September 10, 1973, Stockholm]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha > yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ > asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ > yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu > [[bg/7/1|[Bg. 7.1] ]] This is a verse from the Seventh Chapter of *Bhagavad-gītā* which we have published: *Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.* There are many editions of *Bhagavad-gītā,* but most of them, they have been edited to push forward the editor's own personal philosophical views. But we do not accept *Bhagavad-gītā* in that light. *Bhagavad-gītā* is supposed to be spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore it is stated here, *bhagavān uvāca.* Those who are Sanskrit scholar, they will understand what is meant by the word *bhagavān. Bhagavān. Bhaga* means opulence, and one who possesses opulences, he is called *vān.* The *vatu-pratyaya.* From *vatu-pratyaya,* the word comes, *vān.* So *bhagavān* means "one who possesses all opulences." There are six kinds of opulences: wealth, I mean to say, reputation, strength, knowledge, renunciation, beauty. These are called opulences. If one person is very rich, he is opulent; he attracts attention of many persons. Similarly, if one person is very influential, strong, he also attracts. Similarly, if one man is very famous for his activities, he also attracts attention. Similarly, if one man is very beautiful or a woman is very beautiful, he or she attracts attention. If one is very wise, learned, he also attracts attention. These are called six opulences, and these opulences are possessed by us in small quantity. --- **[[spoken/730910r1.sto|Room Conversation on Cc with Dr. Christian Hauser, Psychiatrist — September 10, 1973, Stockholm]]** **Pradyumna:** She says that, erm, it says, "The Lord..., Lord Kṛṣṇa tasted four kinds of transcendental mellows in devotional service in His form of Śacīnandana, the son of Mother Śacī, and at last, in order to understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī's ecstatic love for Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord has assumed the form of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Amongst all kinds of devotional mentality, the attitude of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is considered to be the superex..., superexcellent. No other devotee than Kṛṣṇa Hims..." It says, "No other devotee than Kṛṣṇa Himself can assume such part to taste the ecstatic situation"? Part? "...to taste the ecstatic situation of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Therefore, He, Himself, as Caitanya Mahāprabhu..." **Pradyumna:** And then it says, "When Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of four-handed Nārāyaṇa, the *gopīs*..." --- **[[spoken/730910sb.sto|SB 5.5.5 — September 10, 1973, Stockholm]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *[break]* So in the previous verse Ṛṣabhadeva has said that this madness after sense gratification, *nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute,* and doing all kinds of sinful activities, this is not good. And actually we can see... --- **[[spoken/740910gc.vrn|Garden Conversation — September 10, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...within the fire, that will increase appetite. That is the psychology. Within the fire. Long, long years ago I did it, and I got very good appetite. And whatever nonsense it appears, it was very sweet. **Gurudāsa:** I think it... [break] ...*prasādam* in a very simple way. When you cook yourself, very simple. **Prabhupāda:** Sarajini simply washed the dishes, cleansed the room, set out the bedding. I was cooking. [break] --- **[[spoken/750910sb.vrn|SB 6.2.7 — September 10, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] **Sixth Canto, Second Chapter, verse number seven.* [leads chanting of verse, etc.]* **[break] [01:43]Prabhupāda:** > ayaṁ hi kṛta-nirveśo > janma-koṭy-aṁhasām api > yad vyājahāra vivaśo > nāma svasty-ayanaṁ hareḥ > [[sb/6/2/7|[SB. 6.2.7] ]] So the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu, Viṣṇudūta, declared that "This man, although he was very sinful, but now he is cleared of all sinful reaction. He is now clean." How he is clean? *Yad vyājahāra:* "He has uttered the name of Nārāyaṇa," *yad vyājahāra vivaśo,* "not any artificially, but automatically," *vivaśaḥ, nāma,* "the holy name." *Svasty-ayanam:* "To chant the holy name of the Lord means to achieve all auspicity." *Hare.* --- **[[spoken/760910sb.vrn|SB 1.7.11 — September 10, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, son of Śrīla Vyāsadeva, was not only transcendentally powerful, he was also very dear to the devotees of the Lord. Thus he underwent the study of this great narration *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.*" **Prabhupāda:** > harer guṇākṣipta-matir > bhagavān bādarāyaṇiḥ > adhyagān mahad ākhyānaṁ > nityaṁ viṣṇu-jana-priyaḥ > [[sb/1/7/11|[SB. 1.7.11] ]] This *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, mahā-purāṇam...* It is called *mahā-purāṇam. Mahad ākhyānam. Ākhyānam,* narration, history. It is not fictitious; it is history. The activities of the Kauravas, Pāṇḍavas, many other activities mentioned here—Dhruva Mahārāja, Prahlāda Mahārāja, Ambarīṣa Mahārāja—many, many devotees and their activities, their history, it is not mythology. The rascals, they say mythology. No. It is history. *Mahābhārata. Mahā* means greater, and *bhārata* means this planet. So *Mahābhārata* means the history of this planet. Now it is minimized, "India." India is given..., the name given by the Britishers or the Europeans. Real name is Bhārata, Bhārata-varṣa, according to the name of Mahārāja Bharata. So this greater India, *Mahābhārata,* this is also history. *Itihāsa. Itihāsa-purāṇa. Purāṇa* means old history. *Purāṇa* means old. It is not mythology. *Purāṇa.* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1971/710910_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710910_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710910_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720910_caru.md|Letter to Caru, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720910_jayadeva.md|Letter to Jayadeva, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720910_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720910_rsabhadeva.md|Letter to Rsabhadeva, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720910_satadhanya.md|Letter to Satadhanya, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720910_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1975/750910_manager_state_bank_of_india.md|Letter to Manager State Bank Of India, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760910_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1976]]