# September 11 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680911bg.sf|Bg 7.2 — September 11, 1968, San Francisco]]** --- **[[spoken/690911ar.lon|Arrival Address — September 11, 1969, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...but I'm not very much fond of reception. I want to know how people give reception to this movement. That is my concern. **Prabhupāda:** England, I think I am coming for the second time. Last time, in 1967, when I was going to India, I stayed here for two days only and then went away. Practically, this is the first time I have come. **Prabhupāda:** I have got so many fathers and mothers to take care. So as long as they keep me, I can be. --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690911rc.lon.md|Room Conversation With John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison — September 11, 1969, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1971/710911sb.mom.md|SB 7.7.28, 32-35 — September 11, 1971, Mombassa]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720911sb.la|SB 2.1.2 — September 11, 1972, Dallas]]** --- **[[spoken/740911gc.vrn|Garden Conversation — September 11, 1974, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** It will go on like that. In America, in Moscow, why you are envious of me? That disease is there. His enviousness is a different quality. Actually, comparing with America, the people are more happy in America, not in Russia. It's a fact. I have seen it. They are terrorized. No freedom. So everyone is terrorized. They must be. What is that? Is that life? I have to live under terrorism conditions. I must do it. [indistinct] This is not life. **Gurudāsa:** [making notes on tape] Morning, 11 September, 1974, Vṛndāvana. Śrīla Prabhupāda was saying that manager and assisting managers is not difficult, except that all the European and American boys didn't understand the concept of *prabhu*. We each call each other *prabhu,* but we are thinking that "I am *prabhu,* and all others are servants," not that the one I am calling *prabhu* or the one who is calling me *prabhu* are mutual *prabhus.* [break] **Prabhupāda:** *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* and *Bhāgavata* is being accepted everywhere. Big, big libraries, universities. University, Bombay University. As far as possible [indistinct] all colleges. [break] There is no [indistinct] making word meaning, word-to-word meaning [indistinct]. When there is word... [break] You should be clear of all questions possible. Then you will be able to push very forcibly. You must be prepared to answer all the questions. --- **[[spoken/750911sb.vrn|SB 6.2.8 — September 11, 1975, Vṛndāvana]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *[leads chanting of verse, etc.]* **[break] [01:42]Prabhupāda:** > etenaiva hy aghono 'sya > kṛtaṁ syād agha-niṣkṛtaṁ > yadā nārāyaṇāyeti > jagāda catur-akṣaram > [[sb/6/2/8|[SB. 6.2.8] ]] --- **[[spoken/760911r1.vrn|Room Conversation — September 11, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Saurabha:** Ah. That is the technical thing. But I was speaking regarding the construction, because I want to know whether you want to have the [break] bathing ceremony only taking place on the opening day, or also later on the facility can... **Prabhupāda:** The small Deities, *śālagrāma,* They are worshiped. And big Deity, They are decorated nicely. No need of washing. **Harikeśa:** I remember that when these Deities... They're never to be washed. Never water was to touch. Supposed to put a plastic bag over the Deity. That was... If you have to use the big Deities, you're supposed to cover Them with plastic. --- **[[spoken/760911r2.vrn|Room Conversation — September 11, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** [discussing a recent *Blitz* article favorable to Sai Baba; Prabhupāda wants the devotees to write a response] **Hari-śauri:** Yes. He said, "Baba personifies this philosophy," that's God in man and man in God is the basis of religion. "As he told me, 'God is man, and man is God. All of us have something of God, the divine spark, within us. All men are divine like myself, with the spirit embodied in human flesh and bone. The only difference is that they are unaware of this Godhood.' " **Hari-śauri:** This is... And then the next part's even worse. "For the doubting or confused minority, to which section I then belonged, Swāmījī has this message: 'Those who want to secure pearls from the sea have to dive deep to fetch them. It does not help them to dabble among the shallow waves near the shore and say that the sea has no pearls and that all stories about them are false. Likewise, if a person wants to secure the love and grace of the *avatāra,* he must also dive deep and get submerged in Sai Baba. Then only will he become one with me and carry me in his innermost heart.' " --- **[[spoken/760911sb.vrn|SB 1.7.12 — September 11, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Sūta Gosvāmī thus addressed the *ṛṣis* headed by Śaunaka: Now I shall begin the transcendental narration of the Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and topics of the birth, activities and deliverance of King Parīkṣit, the sage amongst kings, as well as topics of the renunciation of the worldly order by the sons of Pāṇḍu." This *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* is another *Purāṇa,* history. We have already explained. So sometimes a class of devotees known as *sahajiyā,* they say that "What we have got to do with the narration of Kurukṣetra battle?" They immediately jump to the *kṛṣṇa-līlā,* directly with the *gopīs.* And Kṛṣṇa's activities in other field, they think it is useless. But that is not the fact. Anywhere Kṛṣṇa is acting, that is transcendental. The battlefield of Kurukṣetra, historical references, description, so superficially it appears that what a devotee has got to do with this battlefield? But battlefield or no battlefield, wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, that is transcendental. This has to be understood. Otherwise, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, why he should indulge in describing how Uttarā's pregnancy was saved by Kṛṣṇa, how the *brahmāstra* was thrown by Aśvatthāmā? So Śukadeva Gosvāmī is liberated person. Why he should indulge in these material things? No. Those who are advanced, they know that Kṛṣṇa's dancing with the *gopīs,* that *līlā* and Kṛṣṇa's playing as the leader of the battlefield of Kurukṣetra, is the same. It is all transcendental. One should not make any distinction between the two. *Saṁsthāṁ ca pāṇḍu-putrāṇāṁ vakṣye kṛṣṇa-kathodayam. Pāṇḍu-putrāṇām,* the *pāṇḍu-putras,* or the Pāṇḍavas, son of Pāṇḍu, they're all devotees. Even their political affairs, because there is connection with Kṛṣṇa, it is *kṛṣṇa-kathā.* Those who are with poor fund of knowledge... --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/680911_syama.md|Letter to Syama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1975/750911_bhurijana.md|Letter to Bhurijana, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750911_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750911_radhavallabha.md|Letter to Radhavallabha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750911_sri_ramchandra_chabriaji.md|Letter to Sri Ramchandra Chabriaji, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750911_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760911_balarama.md|Letter to Balarama, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760911_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760911_revatinandana.md|Letter to Revatinandana, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760911_sukadeva.md|Letter to Sukadeva, 1976]]