# September 16 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[[spoken/660916bg.ny|Bg 6.40-42 — September 16, 1966, New York]]** Now, we have been discussing for the last few days about the perfect form of *yoga.* Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is teaching Arjuna directly the perfect form of *yoga*. If you actually want to perform the *yoga* system, then here is authoritative statement by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So we have discussed in detail. Now, after hearing the system, Arjuna is replying. Just mind that it is..., the whole thing was being described in the battlefield. In the battlefield. This whole *Bhagavad-gītā* was taught to Arjuna in the battlefield. And when..., when Arjuna was just going to release his arms on the opposite party, on the enemy's party, he thought... He got a sentiment: "So why this fighting with my own kinsmen?" That was his illusion. And to eradicate that illusion of Arjuna's, this *Bhagavad-gītā* was explained by Lord Kṛṣṇa. Now, you can understand how much time could be, I mean to, allowed for this discussion. That was a battlefield. Immediately has to be fight. Everyone is ready. So... And utmost, one hour. I don't think... That is utmost. So within this one hour the whole *Bhagavad-gītā* was discussed, and Arjuna changed his decision and he fought. Now, within that time He is also instructing Arjuna about the *yoga* system. --- **[[spoken/690916le.lon|Lecture — September 16, 1969, London]]** **Prabhupāda:** They are working so hard, just like animals, simply for sense gratification. That is the beginning of His speech. But the human form of life is meant for saving time for spiritual cultivation. We should be satisfied with the bare necessities of life, and the time should be saved to cultivate self-realization. That is the basic principle of Vedic civilization. Therefore in Vedic civilization a certain period is devoted for accepting renounced order of life, *sannyāsa.* Compulsory. This *sannyāsa* order, as we have accepted, it is compulsory regulative principle of Vedic way of life. The first twenty-five years *brahmacārī,* strict life of celibacy, student life, without any sex indulgence, completely, up to twenty-five years. Then *gṛhastha.* That is not for also all. If somebody is unable to remain a *brahmacārī* all through, then the spiritual master gives him permission to marry a suitable girl and become a householder. This is called *gṛhastha* life. Then, up to fifty years, he can indulge in householder life. Householder life, according to Vedic civilization, is a sort of license for sense gratification. But not for all the time. The injunction is *pañcaśordhvaṁ vanaṁ vrajet.* Just after your fiftieth year you must give up, retire from householder. That is called *vānaprastha. Vānaprastha* means you can take your wife with you and travel all over the world in places of holy pilgrimage just to give up your attachment for family life. In this way, when one is completely detached from family affection, then he sends back his wife to the elderly children to take care of her, and he takes *sannyāsa,* renounced order of life. This renounced order of life means dedicate completely for the service of the Lord. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is stated, --- **[[spoken/720916mw.la|Morning Walk — September 16, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...side, very painful. Little, little. A small tree [indistinct; waves crashing on beach in background] [Geonkhali](http://www.india9.com/i9show/-West-Bengal/Haldia/Geonkhali-52608.htm), [Geonkhali](http://www.india9.com/i9show/-West-Bengal/Haldia/Geonkhali-52608.htm). That place is known as [Geonkhali](http://www.india9.com/i9show/-West-Bengal/Haldia/Geonkhali-52608.htm). Svarūpa Dāmodara: I saw in an article, Śrīla Prabhupāda, one scientist said... This is a very widely-read paper; it is published to all scientists all over the world. That article says, "Scientists from the unknowable future." Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are very much worried about the future, all the scientists. So they are saying that in future the energy supply is going to be exhausted. Yes. Food supply and all the activities are going to be very limited, and they say that future is really unknowable; it's not known. It won't be known. --- **[[spoken/720916sb.la|SB 1.3.10, Rādhāṣṭami — September 16, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:[japa] [*Govindam* prayers playing; sings along] [leads singing of *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava*]* [*prema-dhvani*]* Thank you very much. **Devotees:** All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. **[obeisances] Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Canto One, Chapter 3, text 10. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/760916r1.vrn|Room Conversation — September 16, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** All the Vaiṣṇavas, they are expert. Just like Rūpa, Sanātana, expert management. [indistinct] expert, even in worldly affairs. Not that "I am so much big devotee that I cannot manage worldly affairs." Expert. Must be expert. *Dakṣa*. **Prabhupāda:** So she can give me the fruits now. So... [break] ...intelligent policy to kill India's spiritual status. **Prabhupāda:** That was their policy. Because there was one Britisher politician, Lord Macaulay. His report was... He studied the whole Indian situation. They were very expert politicians. So he reported that "If you keep Indians as Indians, you'll never be able to rule over them. They must be trained up in such a way that they would think their own culture as useless; this Western culture is very good. That impression must be there. Otherwise, you cannot rule over them." So the education and everything was going on very silently on this principle. --- **[[spoken/760916sb.vrn|SB 1.7.19 — September 16, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] *[chants verse]* **Pradyumna:** **Translation: "When the son of the *brāhmaṇa* [Aśvatthāmā] saw that his horses were tired, he considered that there was no alternative for protection outside of his using the ultimate weapon, the *brahmāstra,* or nuclear weapon." --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/550916_gosvami_maharaja.md|Letter to Gosvami Maharaja, 1955]] - [[../../letters/pre-1966/550916_govinda_maharaja.md|Letter to Govinda Maharaja, 1955]] - [[../../letters/1967/670916_janaki.md|Letter to Janaki, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670916_jayananda.md|Letter to Jayananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670916_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690916_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/700916_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/710916_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/710916_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/720916_unknown.md|Letter to Unknown, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730916_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730916_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/740916_madhavananda.md|Letter to Madhavananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740916_manager_of_bank_of_america.md|Letter to Manager Of Bank Of America, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/740916_manager_of_liberty_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Liberty Bank, 1974]]