# October 1 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[spoken/721001mw.la|Morning Walk — October 1, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** Easy-going, that is actual real life. But that easy-going, you must come to that stage. If you come to a healthy stage, then when you eat, you can digest nicely. But unhealthy stage, if you eat, how you will digest? Therefore you have to cure your disease first of all. Then you eat, it will be digested. So in the material condition, nothing can be easy-going. Therefore, how it is called conditioned life? **Prabhupāda:** Ah, the conditions. So first of all you come out of the conditioned life. Just like we are trying to go to other planets with so many machines, so many mechanical arrangements. But if you have got spiritual body, you can go anywhere. Anywhere you can go. As Nārada Muni is going, traveling, any planet he likes, he is going. That freedom is there, but that is in spiritual body. So you come to the spiritual body first, and then you get all freedom. Whatever you like, you can do. Whatever you desire, you can get. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Just like Śrīla Prabhupāda gives the example like Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it may look like poison at the beginning, but at the end it will be nectar. --- **[[spoken/721001sb.la|SB 1.3.26 — October 1, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Devotees:** *Jaya.*Prabhup**ā**da: [leads singing of *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava*]* [*prema-dhvani*]* Thank you very much. **Devotees:** All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. **[devotees offer obeisances] [break] Prabhup**ā**da: Recite.Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Canto One, Chapter 3, verse 26. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/741001sb.may|SB 1.8.21 — October 1, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "Let me therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has become the son of Vasudeva, the pleasure of Devakī, the son of Nanda and the other cowherd men of Vṛndāvana, and the enlivener of the cows and the senses." --- **[[spoken/751001a2.mau|Arrival Reception — October 1, 1975, Mauritius]]** --- title: Lecture — October 1, 1975, Mauritius date: 1975-10-01 permalink: spoken/751001a2.mau description: "Gowtam Teelock: ...to have you among us. And we welcome you on behalf of the people of Mauritius to this island and hope you will enjoy your short stay here. And Swāmījī, how long are you going to sta..." --- Gowtam Teelock: ...to have you among us. And we welcome you on behalf of the people of Mauritius to this island and hope you will enjoy your short stay here. And Swāmījī, how long are you going to stay here? **Prabhupāda:** I do not know what they have arranged, but my secretary says that it will be one week. --- **[[spoken/751001ar.mau|Arrival Address — October 1, 1975, Mauritius]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ* [Gautamīya-tantra 7.11] **Prabhupāda:** The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is little different from... Why little? Completely different from ordinary movement. This is spiritual movement. This movement begins when one understands that he is not this body. [break] Generally we are under the bodily concept of life. Ninety-nine per cent people think that one is this material body. But that is not the fact. The fact is that within this body there is the spirit soul. The example is given in the *Bhagavad-gītā* that because the spirit soul is there within the body, therefore the body is changing from childhood to boyhood, from boyhood to youthhood, then middle-aged, then old man. This body is changing. But if the child is born dead—that means without the soul—then the body does not change. We have got practical experience. A dead child, if you keep the body in a preservative way, it will not grow. So long the soul is there, the bodily changes are there. From the womb of the mother, the embryo, the child, grows daily. Why? Because the soul is there. So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to understand this fact first of all, that body is superficial. Just like you are dressed with your shirt and coat. The shirt and coat is not important, but the person who is putting on the shirt and coat, he is important. Unfortunately, modern education is giving stress on the outward, external body, or to the dress, and not to... They do not understand who is the person who is dressed, or who has got this body. This is the first lesson of spiritual understanding. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* you will find, this is the first instruction: --- **[[spoken/751001bg.mau|Bg 2.11 — October 1, 1975, Mauritius]]** **[02:03] Translation:** "The Blessed Lord said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead." **Prabhupāda:** > śrī bhagavān uvāca > aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ > prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase > gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca > nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ > [[bg/2/11|[Bg. 2.11] ]] --- **[[spoken/761001sb.vrn|SB 1.7.40 — October 1, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] **[chants verse] > sūta uvāca > evaṁ parīkṣatā dharmaṁ > pārthaḥ kṛṣṇena coditaḥ > naicchad dhantuṁ guru-sutaṁ > yadyapy ātma-hanaṁ mahān > [[sb/1/7/40|[SB. 1.7.40] ]] **Translation:** "Sūta Gosvāmī said: Despite being instructed in his duty and encouraged to kill the son of Droṇācārya, Arjuna, a great soul, did not like the idea of killing him, although he was a heinous murderer of his family members." **Prabhupāda:** > sūta uvāca > evaṁ parīkṣatā dharmaṁ > pārthaḥ kṛṣṇena coditaḥ > naicchad dhantuṁ guru-sutaṁ > yadyapy ātma-hanaṁ mahān > [[sb/1/7/40|[SB. 1.7.40] ]] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/681001_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681001_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681001_syamasundara.md|Letter to Syamasundara, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691001_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691001_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691001_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691001_unknown.md|Letter to Unknown, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/711001_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/741001_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741001_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741001_jagannatha-suta.md|Letter to Jagannatha-Suta, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741001_madhavananda.md|Letter to Madhavananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741001_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741001_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/761001_dr._dave.md|Letter to Dr. Dave, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761001_guptaji.md|Letter to Guptaji, 1976]]