# September 30 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/680930le.sea|Lecture — September 30, 1968, Seattle]]** So our program is to worship with love and devotion Govinda, the original person. *Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ.* This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We are teaching people to love Kṛṣṇa, that's all. Our program is to love, to place your love in the proper place. That is our program. Everyone wants to love, but he is being frustrated on account of his love being misplaced. People do not understand it. They are being taught, "First of all, you love your body." Then little extended, "You love your father and mother." Then "Love your brother and sister." Then "Love your society," "Love your country," "Love the whole human society, humanity." But all this extended love, so-called love, will not give you satisfaction unless you reach to the point to love Kṛṣṇa. Then you'll be satisfied. --- **[[spoken/720930le.lb|Lecture — September 30, 1972, Laguna Beach]]** **Prabhupāda:** Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here to participate in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We are calling everyone to go back to home, back to Godhead. This is our movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Just now we described the place where we intend to go. That is Goloka Vṛndāvana. There the Supreme Personality of Godhead is residing with His consort, Rādhārāṇī. Rādhā-Mādhava. Kṛṣṇa is the husband—not exactly husband, but friend. The same mellow. As you try to enjoy here, boy and girlfriend, not married, but an extra ecstasy without being married, conjugal love, the ideal conjugal love is there, Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā. Here the same thing is present, but in a perverted sense. The origin is there. *Jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-vihārī.* Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, They are always engaged in loving affairs in the *kuñja,* in the bushes of Vṛndāvana. *Jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-vihārī. Gopījana-vallabha:* He is very dear to the *gopīs* and the *gopas. Gopas* means the cowherd men and the cowherd boys. So Vṛndāvana is village life. It is not a town like Los Angeles. It is village. It is village, and they are always taking pleasure on the bank of Yamunā. *Yamunā-tīra-vana-cārī.* And there are very nice gardens on the bank of the Yamunā. And whenever there is some danger... Of course, in the original Vṛndāvana there is no question of danger. It is blissful, transcendental abode. But when Kṛṣṇa comes down to show us the replica of the original Vṛndāvana... That Vṛndāvana is there on this planet in India, about ninety miles from New Delhi. It is exactly the same Vṛndāvana, but because it is on this material world, it appears that there is sometimes danger. So when Kṛṣṇa was present on this earth, on this planet, so there was some danger. Actually there was no danger, because Kṛṣṇa was present. But it appeared like that. --- **[[spoken/720930mw.la|Morning Walk — September 30, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** What is the use of knowing? *Kevala-bodha-labdhaye* [[sb/10/14/4|[SB. 10.14.4] ]], there are so many wonderful things, so wonderful things are being done by somebody else. **Prabhupāda:** You simply... Because you know that's your success of life? There are so many wonders still to be known, cannot know, so what is the aim of your life? Simply to know the wonders? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Because they want to explore more and more the unknown facts of nature so they say, "God created the universe and he gave all the physical laws." --- **[[spoken/720930sb.la|SB 1.3.25 — September 30, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** *G*ovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ*.**[leads singing of* *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava*] [*prema-dhvani*] Thank you very much.**Devotees:** All glories to Śrī Guru and Gauranga. **[devotees offer obeisances] **Pradyumna:** [break] ...*mo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Canto One, Chapter Three, text 25. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/730930bg.bom|Bg 13.8-12 — September 30, 1973, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** > amānitvam adambhitvam > ahiṁśā kṣāntir ārjavam > ācāryopāsanaṁ śaucaṁ > sthairyam ātma-vinigrahaḥ Śrī Kṛṣṇa has explained. The question was *kṣetra, kṣetrajñam,* and *jñānam* and *jñeyam,* the questions. What is this body... --- **[[spoken/740930sb.may|SB 1.8.20 — September 30, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "You Yourself descend to propagate the transcendental science of devotional service unto the hearts of the advanced transcendentalists and mental speculators, who are purified by being able to discriminate between matter and spirit. How, then, can we women know You properly..., know You perfectly?" --- **[[spoken/750930mw.bom|Morning Walk — September 30, 1975, Bombay]]** **Dr. Patel:** No, these boys who are recruited newly, they don't have much about the idea of Vaiṣṇavism. That is the... **Dr. Patel:** They have to be trained up earlier and then let loose. Otherwise, you know, they create it. Because all the bad impressions are for them. **Prabhupāda:** They should work, and at the same time, they may fall down, just like a child tries to walk, falls down, again walks, again... Then he becomes complete. --- **[[spoken/760930r1.vrn|Room Conversation — September 30, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** [break] about 171st Street, all my things were stolen. My tape recorder, typewriter. Fortunately they did not touch my manuscript that I was writing, typing my books. So some money was stolen. Then one boy, he was coming to me, he told me, "Please come to my place." A loft, Bowery Street. I did not know the Bowery Street was not a good quarter. All bums and drunkards. When I see them, one Jewish friend, he had electrical shop, he told me, "Swāmījī, you have gone to Bowery Street? Oh, it is not your place." I did not know that it is full of drunkards. But they were lying down in front of my door, but they were respectful. When I'd go, these drunkard comes, and they respectfully give me ways. And they would lie down on urine and something like that, on water. Then the boy who took me there... He was Murray. His last title was Murray. And he was taking LSD. So since I went there, he did not go to work. Otherwise, he was working and getting daily twenty-five dollars. In some dock he was working. Since I went, he stopped working, and I had to pay 125 dollars for the loft. One lady was the landlord. So I was going on. Some people were coming. Then Mukunda began to come, his wife, and another black boy, half-black. Yeargen, Karlāpati. I gave him name, Karlāpati. He was coming. Then one day that boy Murray, he showed some crazy features. So I thought, "It is dangerous to live with him." So I approached Mukunda. Mukunda had no place, still I asked him. So I kept my goods at Mukunda's house and went to live with Yeargen. That is another loft. So in this way, with great hardship—sometime here, sometime there—in this way, I got two hundred dollars by selling book, and then I asked Mukunda to find out an apartment. He found this apartment, 26 Second Avenue: one storefront down and one living quarters up. So I found it very convenient. Down I would lecture and hold *kīrtana.* So he charged 75 dollars per month for the apartment, small apartment. I think in a space like this room or less than that, everything is there. There was kitchen, there was shower, and two rooms. I think less than this. About two-thirds of this room, and everything there. So I shifted there. And there I remained up to May 1967, I think. Then I got heart attack. Then I went to Stenson Beach. Then I could not improve my health. No, first of all I went to San Francisco. There also I could not..., I could not sleep at night. There was throbbing in the heart. Kīrtanānanda, he was serving me. So many difficulties. Then I came back to India in 1967, July. Here also not very much improvement. Then again I went to Los Angeles. There also one symptom developed, always some sound in the ear: *goh-goh-goh-goh-goh.* It was so disturbing, almost half-mad. And then Los Angeles. Then I think I went to Seattle. In this way, in the beginning there were so many difficulties. Montreal. I took Canadian citizenship. America I could not get. So one gentleman in the immigration department, he said, "Swāmījī, you go to Canada, and from there you try. It will be easier." Actually, it acted. The Canadian Consulate General was a black man, American black man. So in the consulate I applied for citizenship..., *aiye,* immigration, and he was sympathetic. He saw my *Teachings of Lord Caitanya* and he became attracted. So he settled up, "This gentleman must be allowed." So he expedited the matter within three months. And then I became immigrant in the USA. Then again I came back in Los Angeles, and then we took that house, La Cienega. --- **[[spoken/760930sb.vrn|SB 1.7.38-39 — September 30, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Furthermore, I have personally heard you promise Draupadī that you would bring forth the head of the killer of her sons." [break] [leads chanting of synonyms to *SB* 1.7.38] [break] **Translation:** "This man is an assassin and murderer of your own family members. Not only that, but he has also dissatisfied his master. He is but the burnt remnants of his family. Kill him immediately." [break] **Prabhupāda:** > pratiśrutaṁ ca bhavatā > pāñcālyai śṛṇvato mama > āhariṣye śiras tasya > yas te mānini putra-hā > [[sb/1/7/38|[SB. 1.7.38] ]] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/670930_janardana.md|Letter to Janardana, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/690930_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690930_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690930_manager_of_the_bank_of_baroda.md|Letter to Manager Of The Bank Of Baroda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690930_nandarani.md|Letter to Nandarani, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/690930_narayana_maharaja.md|Letter to Narayana Maharaja, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1972/720930_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720930_sankarsana.md|Letter to Sankarsana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/720930_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/730930_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/730930_radha-damodara.md|Letter to Radha-Damodara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1975/750930_arvind_shah.md|Letter to Arvind Shah, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750930_gurukrpa.md|Letter to Gurukrpa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750930_rakesh_sharma.md|Letter to Rakesh Sharma, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/750930_svarupa_damodara.md|Letter to Svarupa Damodara, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/760930_vicitravirya.md|Letter to Vicitravirya, 1976]]