# September 11 ## Spoken on September 11 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1968: Bhagavad-gītā 7.2](spoken/1968/680911bg.sf)** > So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. A Kṛṣṇa consciousness..., a Kṛṣṇa conscious person should not be fool. If he is required to explain how these universal planets are floating, how this human body is rotating, how many species of life, how they are being evolved... These are all scientific knowledge—physics, botanics, chemistry, astronomy, everything. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *yaj jñātvā:* if you understand this knowledge, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you'll have nothing to know. That means you'll have complete knowledge. We are hankering after knowledge, but if we are in knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and if we know Kṛṣṇa, then all knowledge is included. > Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that out of many, many thousands of people, somebody is interested for making perfection of his life. And out of many, many thousands of men who are actually trying to make perfection of their life, you'll find somebody—or you may not find out—who knows God, or Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He comes Himself to be known by everyone. And He's so kind also that before His departure from this material world, He leaves behind Him this *Bhagavad-gītā* so that you can know from His personal talks what is God. --- **[1969: Arrival & Press Conference](spoken/1969/690911ar.lon)** > As we are sitting here face to face, you can see God face to face. If you are sincere and if you are serious, that is possible. Unfortunately, we are trying to forget God; therefore we are embracing so many miseries of life. So I am simply preaching that you have Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be happy. Don't be swayed away by these nonsense waves from *māyā,* or illusion. That is my request. > So if you want to [be] happy, then you must take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Otherwise the human race is doomed. *Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā*. Anyone who has no God consciousness, he has no qualification. However academically he may be very rich, he has no qualification. *Manorathena asato dhāvato bahiḥ.* His only qualification is mental concoction. Mental concoction. That's all. He has no other qualification. So we reject all these nonsense. We simply accept a sincere soul who wants to dedicate his life for God's service. --- **[1969: Room Conversation With John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison](spoken/1969/690911r1.lon)** > The living entities, they are in different forms. Just like we are sitting here, so many ladies, gentlemen, boys. We have got different forms. Similarly, you Europeans, you have got different color, or Indians, we have got different... So this whole world is full of varieties. So Kṛṣṇa says, "All the varieties of life, it doesn't matter. I am their father." *Ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā*. Pitā* means father. So Kṛṣṇa claims all living entities as His sons. But we may say that "Kṛṣṇa is Indian," "Kṛṣṇa is Hindu," or Kṛṣṇa something. But no. Kṛṣṇa is actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead. > So Kṛṣṇa says, "The result of the *tapasya* enjoyer, I am." He is claiming. "The result of your *tapasya* should come to Me." Then you'll be satisfied. *Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram*. People are claiming, "This is my England" and "This is my India," "This is my Germany," "This is my China." No. Everything belongs to God, Kṛṣṇa. *Sarva-loka.* Not only on this planet. We have divided this planet in so many states. Actually, this planet was not divided. --- **[1971: Lecture in Hindi](spoken/1971/710911le.nai)** --- **[1974: Garden Conversation](spoken/1974/740911gc.vrn)** > And our *śāstra* says, *yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham*. What is the happiness of the *gṛhastha* life? *Gṛhastha* is different, *gṛhamedhi.* There are two words. *Gṛhastha* means living husband and wife together, but the aim is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And *gṛhamedhi* means he has no Kṛṣṇa consciousness; therefore his life is sex. That is the difference. Therefore, this word is used, *gṛhamedhi*. *Yan maithunādi.* What is the standard of happiness? *Maithuna,* sex, that's all. *Yan maithunādi.* All these *gṛhasthas,* you will find they are accumulating money, they are enjoying sex life, then daughter's sex life, son's sex life, grandson's sex life. They are busy. Especially in India you will find, they spend thousands *lakhs* of rupees for son's and daughter's and grandson's sex life. Is it not? That is their happiness. "I am enjoying sex life." Just like my grandmother-in-law. She is concentrating on sex life. So she was old; she had no opportunity. Let grandson-in-law, granddaughter. One who is impotent, he wants to see others enjoying sex life. You know this? He enjoys. He cannot do it. There are many person, he is impotent, so he brings another man to his wife, then he watches. You know this? This is going on. Sex. They will see the dog's sex life, very [indistinct], how he is enjoying. Cow's sex life. Dog is having sex, and there will be a crowd. > So if we study analytically, we can understand that how much we are in illusion. This most abominable thing, we are taking it is the center of happiness. [break] Therefore, Vaiṣṇava [indistinct]. *Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān, śoce tato vimukha-cetasa*. These rascals, they are enjoying a certain type of most abominable happiness. *Tato vimukha-cetasa indriyārtha.* So Prahlāda Mahārāja says, "I am simply thinking of these rascals. For me, I have no problem. All problems solved." *Naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaraṇyām tvad-vīrya-gāyana-mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ.* "I am not afraid of this material world, because I have learned how to enjoy life simply by thinking of Your pastimes. But I am unhappy." *Soce. Soce* means unhappy. Why? *Tato vimukha-cetasa.* "These rascals who have no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they have made huge arrangement simply for sex." *Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān.* "I am thinking of these rascals, how they can be delivered from this fallen condition." --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.8](spoken/1975/750911sb.vrn)** > In this age people are generally, seventy-five or eighty percent or ninety percent, they are all sinful. *Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ*.* This is the position of the people in this age. They are *mandāḥ,* all bad, all bad. You cannot distinguish who is bad and who is good. All bad, and very slow. They do not know what is the value of life, how to make this human form of life successful. *Mandāḥ.* Just like we are chanting all over the whole world that "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* and you will be happy." Still, they are not very much interested. *Mandāḥ,* slow: "All right, I shall do it at the time of death. Now let me enjoy." *Mandāḥ.* And *manda-matayo.* And if one is interested for spiritual advancement of life, he will go to some rascal, some *avatāra,* some *yogī,* some bluffer, some magician, as spiritual salvation. *Mandaḥ manda-matayo.* Why they are attracted by these rascals? *Manda-bhāgyā:* unfortunate. Kṛṣṇa says directly, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja*. They will not hear Kṛṣṇa. They will hear these rascals, so-called *yogīs,* so-called *avatāras,* so-called *mahātmās. Manda-bhāgyāḥ.* Therefore *upadrutāḥ.* They are always, constantly, disturbed. This is the position. > So Nārāyaṇa is so kind that although he did not mean real Nārāyaṇa—he was meaning his son—but the affection was there for Nārāyaṇa. So Nārāyaṇa is so kind that consciously or unconsciously, if you chant the holy name of the Lord, it goes to your credit. Just like sometimes when you walk in the street, people say "Hare Kṛṣṇa!" So this is also going to their credit. When they offer their respect to a Vaiṣṇava, that goes to their credit. When one comes in this temple, offers his obeisances, it goes to their credit, because Kṛṣṇa says, *man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru*. So some way or other, with some purpose even it is so... Generally people come with a purpose, that "I shall go to the temple, offer my respect to the Deity, and I shall ask this benediction." That is also good, even if he has come with a motive. So Nārāyaṇa or Kṛṣṇa is so kind. *Kāmād bhayāt lobhāt*... Or if one chants Nārāyaṇa name with *śraddhā,* then what to speak? --- **[1976: Room Conversation](spoken/1976/760911r1.vrn)** > Bhagatjī*:* No problem. If we get money... Prabhupāda: He'll arrange money.Money I shall bring. I am...I will... Money, we shall bring any amount of money, provided I am sure that you will make some profit. There is no scarcity. > This is Vṛndāvana style. Not this. This is Lakṣmī style. This. Make these arrangements. I am hopeful of this business. Very good business we'll have. I want to introduce in every family. They'll do it. If they do not worship, let them keep as dolls. That will also give them inspiration. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.12](spoken/1976/760911sb.vrn)** > Mayādhyakṣeṇa,* "Under My supervision *prakṛti* is acting." So how *prakṛti* is directed, how Kṛṣṇa is directing *prakṛti* to make a nice flower... Just like here, they're painting flower on the wall. It takes so much time, so much arrangement. Still, it is not as good as a natural flower. Here you have painted one rose flower, and here are roses. There is art also, and here is art also. Without art, without artistic sense, how this nice thing, beautiful thing, can come in? You'll find a beautiful flower bloom in a plant, you appreciate it. And don't think, as the rascal says, "By nature it has come automatically." No. The same energy as you are taking—you are applying your energy to paint a flower on the wall with your paints and brushes—but Kṛṣṇa is also doing that, but His energy is so inconceivable that we cannot see how He's working. But He's working. Otherwise why Kṛṣṇa says, *mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ* : "*Prakṛti* is working under My direction"? Is it a bluff? No. Actually, *prakṛti* is acting under His direction. It is confirmed in the *Brahma-saṁhitā,* > So unless one is purified, how he can go to *parāṁ gatim*? And Śukadeva Gosvāmī also says the same thing. *Kirāta-hūṇāndhra. Pāpa-yoni.* They are *pāpa-yoni. Śudhyanti prabhaviṣṇave namaḥ.* Simply we have to go through the process; otherwise everything is possible. That is the omnipotency of Kṛṣṇa. We use this word "omnipotency," but we do not know actually what is that omnipotency. Omnipotency means He has got diverse energies. That is omnipotency. And we do not know by which energy He's acting in a particular case. But this is a fact, that His energy is working. And He says also in the *Bhagavad-gītā* directly, *mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram*. --- ## Letters on September 11 *Letters from this day: 10* --- **[1968: Letter to Syama](letters/1968/680911_syama)** > You will note that the piece of paper which I have given you last night about the mantras, the third mantra should be rectified as follows: Instead of DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT, it sould be TANNA GURO PRACHODAYAT. The DHIYO YO NAH should be replaced by the words, TANNA GURO. --- **[1975: Letter to Bhurijana](letters/1975/750911_bhurijana)** > Regarding the other matters, a difference between godbrothers is natural. That difference of opinion will continue, what can be done. Siddhasvarupananda Maharaja and his group, whenever they see me they give me money. --- **[1975: Letter to Giriraja](letters/1975/750911_giriraja)** > The Guest Rooms can be used by anyone who pays the fees, in advance. Any Life Patron Member can live in a Guest room for a period not exceeding three days free of charge. --- **[1975: Letter to Radhavallabha](letters/1975/750911_radhavallabha)** > I have seen your letter dated August 31, 1975 regarding the calculation of my birthday. --- **[1975: Letter to Sri Ramchandra Chabriaji](letters/1975/750911_sri_ramchandra_chabriaji)** > Here in Vrindaban we have constructed one Guest House by our Krishna Balarama Mandir. The Guest House contains 44 Guest Rooms not including the rooms for our own men. --- **[1975: Letter to Sudama](letters/1975/750911_sudama)** > I am glad that you are doing nicely in Krishna consciousness, and that you are reading my books and preaching. Tamala Krishna Goswami also gave me a good report of your activities. So now continue. --- **[1976: Letter to Balarama](letters/1976/760911_balarama)** > However the enclosed daksina never arrived for at customs all currencies are confiscated. --- **[1976: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1976/760911_hansadutta)** > On your recommendation I am accepting David Davidson as my first initiated disciple. --- **[1976: Letter to Revatinandana](letters/1976/760911_revatinandana)** > On your recommendation I am accepting Simhesvara das brahmacari as brahmana and his thread is enclosed within. --- **[1976: Letter to Sukadeva](letters/1976/760911_sukadeva)** > On your recommendation I am accepting the following devotees for initiation: Please hold a fire sacrifice and present the names at that time. ---