# September 14 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660914bg.ny|Bg 6.32-40 — September 14, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad > buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam > vetti yatra na caivāyaṁ > sthitaś calati tattvataḥ > [[bg/6/21|[Bg. 6.21] ]] Now, every one of us is searching after happiness, but we do not know what is real happiness. The real happiness is, hint of real happiness, what is real happiness, that is being described by Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna. What is that real happiness? Happiness we feel through our senses. Because material, dead stone, has no sense; therefore dead stone cannot feel happiness or distress. Now, this consciousness, the developed consciousness, feels happiness and distress more than undeveloped consciousness. Just like the trees. The trees, they have got also consciousness, but it is not developed consciousness. Therefore the trees are standing on the road or anywhere, but they have no sense of feeling the misery. Now, suppose a human being is asked to stand like the tree, at least for three days. Oh, it will be impossible for him, because he cannot tolerate such kind of misery. --- **[[spoken/680914le.sf|Lecture [partially recorded] — September 14, 1968, San Francisco]]** **Prabhupāda:** [indistinct] Similarly, eternally[?], either in this stage or the developed process of realization, [indistinct]. So we have to continue this chanting, either imperfectional stage or in the perfectional stage. *Satatām kīrtayanto mām* [[bg/9/14|[Bg. 9.14] ]]. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* you will see that this *kīrtana* is recommended continuous. *Satatam. Satatam* means always. Either in the imperfect stage or in the perfect stage, the process is one. It is not like the Māyāvādīs, that first of all you chant, and by chanting, when you become yourself God, then there is no chanting—stop. This is Māyāvāda philosophy. This is not real the position. Chanting will continue even in your highest perfectional stage. But that chanting and at the present moment chanting, there is little difference. Yes. **Upendra:**Swāmījī, if our *rasa* with Kṛṣṇa is eternal, and we want to have the *rasa* of lover with Kṛṣṇa, is it possible to change? If our *rasa* is like father to son, we can never become lover? --- **[[../../spoken/1969/690914le.lon.md|Lecture — September 14, 1969, London]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/720914mw.la|Morning Walk — September 14, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** That means your tendency is not to work much and enjoy. Then why you have created factories? The rascals. [laughter] **Prabhupāda:** You don't know what is the best, you are a rascal. You don't know what is the best you take the worst as best, that is your knowledge. Svarūpa Dāmodara: So I asked how are you going to do it? It's a nice idea but how are you going to do it? Unless one centres in the God consciousness then it is impossible to do anything good because we have to understand that we are all controlled by the supreme person. --- **[[../../spoken/1972/720914sb.laa.md|SB 1.3.7 — September 14, 1972, Los Angeles]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1972/720914sb.lab.md|SB 1.3.8 — September 14, 1972, Los Angeles]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/760914sb.vrn|SB 1.7.16 — September 14, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [chants verse] **Translation:** "O gentle lady, when I present you with the head of that *brāhmaṇa,* after beheading him with arrows from my Gāṇḍīva bow, I shall then wipe the tears from your eyes and pacify you. Then, after burning your sons' bodies, you can take your bath standing on his head." --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/510914_mr._bailey.md|Letter to Mr. Bailey, 1951]] - [[../../letters/1968/680914_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680914_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680914_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690914_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690914_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700914_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/720914_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/740914_gbc_godbrothers.md|Letter to Gbc Godbrothers, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740914_jayadvaita.md|Letter to Jayadvaita, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740914_jayatirtha.md|Letter to Jayatirtha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740914_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740914_visakha.md|Letter to Visakha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/750914_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1975]]