# September 27 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680927le.sea|Lecture — September 27, 1968, Seattle]]** Thank you. So our program is to worship the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. *Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* In this material world everyone is trying to get happiness and to get relief from distress. Two things are going on, attempt. There are different processes. Material process is completely absurd. That is already proved. No amount of material comforts or happiness, so-called happiness, can give us the actual happiness that we are hankering. That is not possible. Then there are different other processes also. There are three kinds of miseries due to our material conditional life: *ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika* [[sb/6/15/25|[SB. 6.15.25] ]].Ādhyātmika* means pertaining to the body and to the mind. Just like when there is some disarrangement of the different functions of metabolism within this body, we get fever, we get some pain, headache—so many things—so these miseries are called *ādhyātmika,* pertaining to the body. And another part of this *ādhyātmika* misery is due to the mind. Suppose I have suffered a great loss, so the mind is not in good condition. So this is also suffering. --- **[[spoken/720927mu.la|Śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu and Purport — September 27, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...caraṇa-reṇu, > śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu, > bhajana-anukūla > śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu, > bhajana-anukūla > śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu, > bhajana-anukūla > bhakata-sevā parama-siddhi, > prema-latikāra mūla... > śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu, > bhajana-anukūla > bhakata-sevā parama-siddhi, > prema-latikāra mūla > bhakata-sevā parama-siddhi, > prema-latikāra mūla > śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu, > bhajana-anukūla --- **[[spoken/720927mw.la|Morning Walk — September 27, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Door-to-door storekeeper just to subsist because he had no other means he could not get any good employment but he was nice scientist Dr. of Science or Mr. Mitra. But what could be done? Anyway somehow. So he was manufacturing some household soap not very good quality but still on cycle he was going from shop to shop. That any common man can do but was see educated to become a Dr. of Science for that purpose? But why he was doing? Necessity has no law. So therefore, *daridra-doṣo guṇa-rāśir nāśī* [Cāṇakya Paṇḍita], if you become poor even though you have got many good qualities. **Prabhupāda:** ...be a Dr. of Science you may very big, very big in so many qualities but especially in this age Kali-yuga unless you have got money all these qualities are useless. --- **[[spoken/720927sb.la|SB 1.3.22 — September 27, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** [leads singing of *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava*] [*prema-dhvani*] Thank you very much.**Devotees:** All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. **[devotees offer obeisances] [break] Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Canto One, Chapter 3, text 22. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Prabhupāda: That's all right. Ladies? [ladies chant] That's all right. Now, word meaning.Pradyumna:** [leads chanting of synonyms] *nara*—human being; *devatvam*—divinity; *āpannaḥ*—having assumed the form of; *sura*—the demigods; *kārya*—activities; *cikīrṣayā*—for the purpose of performing; *samudra*—the Indian Ocean; *nigraha-ādīni*—controlling, etc.; *cakre*—did perform; *vīryāṇi*—superhuman prowess; *ataḥ param*—thereafter. --- **[[spoken/730927bg.bom|Bg 13.4 — September 27, 1973, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** > tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca > yad vikārī yataś ca yat > sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca > tat samāsena me śṛṇu > [[bg/13/4|[Bg. 13.4] ]] Yesterday we have discussed that two souls, the individual soul and the Supersoul, both of them are living within this body. This body is compared... In the *Upaniṣads,* the body is compared with a tree, and two birds are there. One bird is the individual soul, we, and the other bird is the Supersoul, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He is always flying with the other bird, the living entity. We are trying to enjoy this material world. Just like you have seen a bird sitting in this branch, going another branch, another tree. This is all seeking some pleasure. Similarly, we are also... *Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. We are enjoying a standard of comfort in this life, and I am preparing another standard of living condition next life. So I shall fly over to another body. *Tathā-dehāntara prāptiḥ.* But Kṛṣṇa is so kind... Because we are all sons of Kṛṣṇa. We are wandering in this material world as mad chap. Just like a rich man's son has become mad. He leaves his home and loitering in the street and eating in the garbage. That is our position. We are the sons of the richest person. *Aiśvaryasya samāgrasya* [*Viṣṇu Purāṇa* 6.5.74]*. Bhagavān* means who is the proprietor of all riches. So we are sons of such a rich man. *Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanā...* [*Kaṭha Upaniṣad* 2.2.13]. But we have become mad. We have become mad. We want to enjoy... Just like there are many sons. Although the father is... In America we find many. Although father is very rich, millionaire, he has become a hippie, out of frustration, confusion, or some other reason. So our condition, like that. We are the sons of the richest person. Not only richest; the wisest. *Aiśvaryasya samāgrasya vīryasya.* The most powerful, Kṛṣṇa. The most powerful, the richest, the wisest, the most beautiful. Everything, supreme degree. We are sons of such a father, but we have become mad after this material enjoyment. This is our madness. --- **[[spoken/740927ar.may|Arrival Talk — September 27, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Prabhupāda:** So Śrīman Jayapatākā Mahārāja, Bhavānanda Mahārāja and devotees, I thank you very much for keeping this temple, Māyāpur-candrodaya Mandira, so nicely cleansed, and it appears everything is going nicely. So it was the desire of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura that Europeans and Americans would come here and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra.* That prophecy is now being fulfilled, and that is my satisfaction. I tried my little bit to fulfill the desire of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. At my old age of seventy years, I just... It was a gambling also. I simply thought that "This was the desire..." Of course, my Guru Mahārāja, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda, he also asked me to do this. Anyway, at least there is a place now when..., where these Europeans and Americans may come and live peacefully, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mahā-mantra* and advance in spiritual understanding. People, unfortunately, they have no sense what is spiritual life, the modern civilization. They do not know that we have to change this body, as it is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. J*ust like animals, cats and dogs, they do not know that they have to change the body or they are not the body, they are beyond, something. This is the modern civilization. They try to make the best use of a bad bargain in this way, that "We have got this body. Let us enjoy senses to the utmost." But that is not the fact. Sense enjoyment means infection of the material modes of nature. That is sense enjoyment. Just like we infect some disease, and that disease will come out some day, will be manifested. They are called *kūṭastha, phalonmukha* and *prārabdha.* Three stages. Infection... The same example. Infection remains in dormant stage, not manifest immediately. Then *phalonmukha,* fructifying; and then *prārabdha,* one gets it and suffers. This is the nature's way, going on. But people do not know it. Therefore our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is very serious movement, scientific movement, and people are gradually trying to understand the importance of this movement. Because in the foreign countries, especially in America, our books are being accepted by higher circle, big, big universities, colleges, professors. They are so eager to read the books that they have simply heard that this *Bhāgavatam* will be finished in sixty volumes and *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* will be finished in twelve volumes... We have got *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* only one volume published, and they are ordering for twelve volumes, that "As soon as it is published, you send us." This is very encouraging. Similarly, they are ordering for sixty volumes of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* although we have published only twelve volumes. So by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as He wanted... --- **[[spoken/740927sb.cal|SB 1.2.19 — September 27, 1974, Calcutta]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "At the time loving devotional service is established in the heart, the modes of passion [rajas] and ignorance [tamas] and lust and desire [kāma] disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he becomes happy." --- **[[spoken/750927mw.ahm|Morning Walk — September 27, 1975, Ahmedabad]]** **Kartikeya:** There are many small parks, but biggest park is here. One is at Kankariya, near the lake. That old lake is... A five-hundred-old lake is there. **Kartikeya:** Because here people are only after money, so they are not care to give charity for any park when it is [indistinct]. There is no private charity. **Kartikeya:** Yes. One hour he spoke. About ten percent English words, twenty-five percent Sanskrit, and rest in Hindi. --- **[[spoken/750927r1.ahm|Room Conversation [Hindi] — September 27, 1975, Ahmedabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** [Transl.So if they are not educated and remain in darkness, of what use is this kind of education? If he does not know what body he is going to acquire in the future and the body he will acquire is from 8,400,000 species of life, *sarva-yoniṣu* [[bg/14/4|[Bg. 14.4] ]]. What is the body I will acquire, if he does not know of what use is such education? If today I am a big man and after body change I become a dog, so of what use was my being a 'big man' today? It is clearly said, *tathā dehāntara-prāptir*.] [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]] He does not say that because you are a human being Arjuna, you will get a human body the next birth also.] **Prabhupāda:** [Transl.Do not talk about what 'some' people say, talk about what God says. If some foolish people say something do we have to accept it? It is not about 'some' people, that is the difficulty now! These ordinary people speak, what is the benefit of this?] Indian man: [Transl.Brahma-kumārīs say that once you are born a man then you will always remain a human being...] --- **[[spoken/750927sb.ahm|SB 1.2.6 [Hindi] — September 27, 1975, Ahmedabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo > yato bhaktir adhokṣaje > ahaituky apratihatā > yayātmā suprasīdati > [[sb/1/2/6|[SB. 1.2.6] ]] **Organizer:** Please be quiet. To listen to Svāmījī's lecture reduce noise, reduce noice, be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet, stop the noise, stop the noise. There can be no lecture by Svāmījī otherwise. It is too noisy in the program. Be quiet. Be quiet. If you become totally quiet then we can have the program. There is no need to talk, be quiet. Nobody can talk here. Unless you are completely silent there can be no program. *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam*, First Canto, Chapter two, Text 6. Sukadeva Gosvāmī says, he was questioned that when Bhagavān, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the incarnation, left this abode to go to His personal abode, where did He leave behind *dharma*: religion, *jñāna* [knowledge]. So it is said in the *Bhāgavatam*, *purāṇārko' dunoditah, kṛṣṇe sva-dhāmopagate*. [[sb/1/3/43|[SB. 1.3.43] ]] --- **[[spoken/760927sb.vrn|SB 1.7.32-33 — September 27, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Thus seeing the disturbance of the general populace and the imminent destruction of the planets, Arjuna at once retracted both *brahmāstra* weapons, as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa desired." [break] [leads chanting of synonyms of *SB* 1.7.33] [break] **Translation:** "Arjuna, his eyes blazing in anger like two red balls of copper, dexterously arrested the son of Gautamī and bound him with ropes, like an animal." [break] **Prabhupāda:** > prajopadravam ālakṣya > loka-vyatikaraṁ ca tam > mataṁ ca vāsudevasya > sañjahārārjuno dvayam > [[sb/1/7/32|[SB. 1.7.32] ]] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670927_devananda.md|Letter to Devananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/670927_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/680927_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680927_gaurasundara.md|Letter to Gaurasundara, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680927_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680927_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/680927_vamana.md|Letter to Vamana, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/690927_swami_r._s._bhagavata_maharaja.md|Letter to Swami R. S. Bhagavata Maharaja, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/710927_danavir.md|Letter to Danavir, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/730927_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730927_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730927_rsabhadeva.md|Letter to Rsabhadeva, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730927_sukadeva_5.md|Letter to Sukadeva 5, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1975/750927_dina_dayala.md|Letter to Dina Dayala, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760927_doctor_ghosh.md|Letter to Doctor Ghosh, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760927_dr._chatterjee.md|Letter to Dr. Chatterjee, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760927_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/760927_sharma.md|Letter to Sharma, 1976]]