# October 3 ## Spoken on October 3 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[1966: Bhagavad-gītā 7.8–14](spoken/1966/661003bg.ny.md)** > So here it is stated that *dharmāviruddho bhūteṣu.* Therefore, for sex life, *dharma* is marriage. In the human society there is marriage. In the animal society there is no marriage. They indulge in sex life any way, because they are animal. But in human society, either Hindu society or Muslim society or Christian society or any society, any civilized society, there is the marriage. So the marriage, sex life by marriage, is religious, and sex life without marriage, that is irreligious. So here Kṛṣṇa says that "Sex life," *dharmāviruddhaḥ,* "which is not against religious principle, that is I am." > So Lord says that "Whatever qualities are there," *ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasās tāmasāś ca ye,* "either goodness or passion or ignorance," *matta eveti tān viddhi,* "they are all produced from Me." "They are all produced from Me." How is that? *Na tv ahaṁ teṣu te mayi,* that "Because they are produced from Me, therefore they are standing, their position is in Me, but I am not there. I am transcendental." So in another sense, even the bad thing, evil things, which is produced out of ignorance, that is also Kṛṣṇa. But when? When it is applied by Kṛṣṇa. --- **[1972: Morning Walk](spoken/1972/721003mw.la)** > Svarūpa Dāmodara: I read in the newspaper that in the next five-year plan, they are planning to spend about thirty-two billion rupees for education, the greatest for ten years. They said that there were so many mistakes for the last ten years in introducing the basic education that everybody said there is no success. So they are planning another thirty-two billion rupees from 1974 onwards. > Either your mother or sister or daughter, you don't live together alone. These are education. And they're freely advocating sex life. What is the [indistinct] difference? In India they're doing, so many leaders. "[indistinct], natural necessity, it can be done." The leaders are speaking while doing that. No discrimination, just like hog. No discrimination. [break] --- **[1972: Room Conversation with Psychiatrist](spoken/1972/721003r1.la)** > Bhagavad-gītā* begins and then the *Bhāgavatam* starts where the *Bhagavad-gītā* leaves off with the last instruction it goes on to expand and develop devotional service. Just the pure side of devotional service. Up to this point of *Kṛṣṇa Book. Kṛṣṇa Book* is the full realization of who the Personality of Godhead is. > And then one actually mechanic is thinking to improve it and that is another vision. So even on the material platform there are three visions and above all these material, means bodily... material mean sensual, mental and intellectual. Above that there is the spiritual platform, so we speak on the spiritual platform. --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.28](spoken/1972/721003sb.la)** > So this is the policy of the demons. Therefore, *indrāri-vyākulaṁ lokam*. When people become, the inhabitants of all different planets, they become very much perturbed on account of these demonic... In this Kali-yuga especially, the demons are so large in number that people are actually in harassment. Every year, they are presenting taxation bill. And wherefrom the taxation will come? The taxation will come from your pocket and my pocket. They will charge income tax, and the storekeepers will increase the value of commodity. So you have to pay. > So therefore, it is concluding that "All these incarnations, they are expansion of the spiritual body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Not that the Absolute Truth is imperson, and He, He's accepting a form with material body. No. That is not. That is not. Just like here, Deity. He is also expansion, *arcā-vigraha. Arcā-avatāra.* Don't think that it is made of stone or metal. It is expansion of Kṛṣṇa. You want to worship. Kṛṣṇa has expanded Himself to come here to accept your service. Don't think it is made of stone. So *ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam*. --- **[1973: Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12](spoken/1973/731003bg.bom)** > They have no complaint. They do not come in the city, that "We have this complaint." They are happy. They are getting ample food; life is very happy. They have got their eating, they have got their sleeping, they have got their mates for sex life and they know how to defend. Everything is there. There is no problem. Only in the human society they have created problems, because they have no knowledge. The so-called knowledge is useless. Unless you cannot [sic] solve the problems, what is the meaning of this knowledge? Therefore Kṛṣṇa says knowledge means one must know this is my real, acute miserable condition of life, *janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam .* This is knowledge. > So therefore Kṛṣṇa says the material disease is that *rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ. Tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ kāma-lobhādayaśca ye*. Rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ* means *rajo-guṇa—kāma* and *lobha.* Ignorance. Everyone is thinking, "If I become greedy, I shall get more." That is not possible. You cannot get a farthing more than what you are destined. But it is ignorance. He's thinking, "By simply struggling hard, I'll get more." The *śāstra* says, "No, don't do it. So far your material condition is concerned, it is already destined with your body. You have got a certain type of body, and according to that body you'll get certain amount of pleasure and pains. That is already destined." This is called *adṛṣṭa, adaiva.* Your main business is if you want to make success your life, then save time for advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is proper utilization of life. That does not depend on destiny. That you can do. That you can do. --- **[1974: Lecture in Bengali](spoken/1974/741003le.may)** > So in this way Kṛṣṇa saved. Therefore *mahāratha astrataḥ.* And at last, Drauṇi, the son of Droṇācārya, Aśvatthāmā; he was so crooked that he killed the five sons of the five Pāṇḍavas, and at last, Mahārāja Parīkṣit was in the womb of his mother. He wanted to kill him also. *Brahmāstra. Brahmāstra,* atomic bomb nowadays. It is almost similar, but it is still dangerous, because atom bomb, you release—it has no aim. It will kill with..., aimlessly. But the *brahmāstra* is so accurate that if you want to kill somebody, it will go there, wherever he is, and it will kill. So Parīkṣit Mahārāja was in the womb of the mother. The *brahmāstra* entered the womb of the mother and was trying to kill this Parīkṣit Mahārāja in the womb, and Kṛṣṇa saved. He entered also within the womb and saved the child. Therefore it is said that *drauṇy-astrataś hare 'bhirakṣitāḥ*.* Kṛṣṇa saved them in so many ways, so many ways. So that is being admitted. That is the behavior of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees. > Viṣāt:* "from poison." The Dhṛtarāṣṭra group, Dhṛtarāṣṭra and his sons, they conspired to give them poison. They were transferred to a house. They were so obedient because Dhṛtarāṣṭra happened to be the superior in the house, and he took care of the Pāṇḍavas when they were small children because their father died at an early age. So it was the duty of the elderly members of the family. After all, they are very respectable *kṣatriya* family. So the elderly members means Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Vidura and Bhīṣmadeva. Bhīṣmadeva was the grandfather of the family, and Dhṛtarāṣṭra was the elder brother of Pāṇḍava, and Vidura was also brother; Vidura also elder. Pāṇḍu was the youngest, the father of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira and... So it is, after all, a, what is called, *varṇāśrama* family, Vedic family. So the elderly people had the responsibility to raise the fatherless children. So Dhṛtarāṣṭra took charge as the eldest member. So *māyā* is very strong. He began to think that "Actually, this kingdom belongs to me. I am the eldest son, but because I am born blind, therefore it was given to my younger brother. Now he is dead. Now he's dead, so the property belongs to me. Some way or other, it was transferred to my younger brother. Now the younger brother is dead. Then again I become proprietor. So at least, I could not rule over the kingdom; why not my sons?" This was the beginning. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.23](spoken/1974/741003sb.may)** > So Kṛṣṇa... Actually, Kuntī is presenting the characteristics of Kṛṣṇa. He is transcendental, *puruṣaṁ prakṛteḥ param.* Then He is person. In so many ways, he..., she has already described. Now... That is identification. Now Kṛṣṇa's activities. Because we have to know Kṛṣṇa... Kṛṣṇa says in the *Bhagavad-gītā, janma karma me divyam*. His birth and His activities, both of them are transcendental, not material, because He is *puruṣaṁ prakṛteḥ param*. He is the person beyond this material nature, who is not a created being of this material nature. That we should understand. *Puruṣaṁ prakṛteḥ param.* The original creator. > That is stated by Kṛṣṇa in *Bhagava..., vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā*. When we become purified, again we revive our spiritual quality, then *mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ:* "Then he comes back to My nature." That is back to home. This is the process. It is not very difficult, because Kṛṣṇa says *bhāvam,* "many." "Many" means it is not difficult. Not that... Because we, by nature, we are spiritual, simply extinguished... Just like a lamp is extinguished. You can burn it immediately with a real matches, not false. You can burn it. The capacity is there. Similarly, our spiritual qualities are there already. It is permanent. *Ahaṁ brahmāsmi.* That Brahman quality is already there. It is not to be attained. Simply this non-Brahman covering has to be removed. --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/751003mw.mau)** > Even in the heavenly planet, wherever you go, the same thing, simply... Just like this country and Europe, the standard of living different, but the business is the same. And the... When they improve or so-call improve the standard of living, they think, "Now we are advanced." And what about your death? [aside:] Stop. The chicken is also dying; you are also dying. What is your improvement? That they cannot say. Real problem they cannot solve. Simply a little high standard of living, and they think this is advancement. And the Western civilization is influencing all other parts of the world in that way—"Improve the standard of living." There is no improvement, but it is *māyā;* they are thinking, "This is improvement." > They cannot think of, especially the Westerners, that without these things one can live. So many, our disciples, left. Rāyarāma left: "Oh, *Swāmījī* is denying the preliminary necessities of life." This is the preliminary necessities of life: illicit sex, meat-eating, drinking, gambling. They cannot think that a man can live without these things. Therefore people are wonderful, that "How he is turning these Europeans, Americans to this standard?" That is their wonder. Nobody can think of, that these things can be given up and one can avoid it. It is dream. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.43](spoken/1976/761003sb.vrn)** > So this is Vedic culture, that they know how to offer respect to the proper person. But Arjuna, he also decided that although Kṛṣṇa ordered him to kill Aśvatthāmā—he's *guru's* son, although he's not *brāhmaṇa—*he's *brahma-bandhu.* He has been described as *brahma-bandhu,* not *brāhmaṇa.* But Draupadī, being woman, *vāma-svabhāvā,* very soft-hearted, she did not consider whether he's actually a *brāhmaṇa.* The son of a *brāhmaṇa,* that much she knew. This is the difference, how to calculate whether one is *brāhmaṇa* or not *brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa* and *brahma-bandhu,* these two words are there. Just like if you are the son of a high-court judge, you can be called, you have got the right, that "son of a high-court judge." That is all right. But you cannot claim to become the high-court judge. That is not possible. Unless you are qualified, unless you are actually acting as high-court judge, you cannot be called a high-court judge. Simply by becoming the son of a high-court judge you cannot become the high-court judge. Similarly, simply by becoming the son of a *brāhmaṇa,* you cannot become a *brāhmaṇa.* A woman, *vāma-svabhāvā,* she can accept that "Because he's the son of a *brāhmaṇa,* he's *brāhmaṇa.*" Therefore this word is used, *vāma-svabhāvā.* Because woman are considered less intelligent. In the *Bhagavad-gītā...* Their heart is very soft. Just like children, their heart is very soft. But their intelligence is not very sharp. That is the difference. *Striyaḥ śūdrā tathā vaiśyāḥ *. > Anyone who has taken birth on the land of Bhārata-varṣa... It is *puṇya-bhūmi.* And not only *puṇya-bhūmi—*not only Lord Rāmacandra has appeared here, not only Kṛṣṇa has appeared here, not only Lord Buddha has appeared, not only Caitanya Mahāprabhu has appeared... Because it is *puṇya-bhūmi.* Whenever the Lord appears, He comes on this land. *Bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya.* Therefore the human being, not the cats and dogs, must take advantage of this birth on Bhārata-varṣa and take advantage of the *śāstras* and make his life successful. *Janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra.* Indians are not made for exploiting others. how people will be advanced in spiritual consciousness, how they will understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu. Because they do not know what is the aim of life. *Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam*. We are born all fools and rascals, *abodha-jāta,* without any sense. So we require education. What is that education? *Ātma-tattvam. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām*. If we do not culture..., cultivate *ātma-tattvam,* then whatever we are doing, we are being defeated, that's all. We are being defeated. *Ātma-tattvam.* That *ātma-tattvam* is the first instruction in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/771003r1.vrn)** > For you life and death are one and the same. That is for the body only. This body is just like a cage. *vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya—*As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones.* ) There is nothing to worry about it. [laughs] Giving up the old dress and putting on a new one. There is nothing to worry. Well, actually I came to give medicine...] > Kavirāja:[*Transl*. That is little heavy. The small ones are good for you. Take 5/6 of them smashed and mixed with honey. You simply lick it. It will keep your heart strong and would not let your tongue dry. Your mouth will remain moistened all the time. You understand? This is the great remedy and a tonic also. You mix it together and must take that. This will bring taste to your mouth. You will develop appetite gradually. Do as I say. Remain extra careful. Of diet, you take Complan. And milk you have to take once a day the way I have said. Boil the milk with ginger and take it at least once a day.] --- ## Letters on October 3 *Letters from this day: 13* --- **[1966: Letter to Mr. K.B. Mehta](letters/1966/661003_mr._k.b._mehta)** > Now, immediately, some foods are to be dispatched from Delhi and Calcutta on my account to New York. You have written to say that the goods should be cleared and passed by the customs under a certain bill. --- **[1967: Letter to Nandarani Krsna Devi Subala Uddhava](letters/1967/671003_nandarani_krsna_devi_subala_uddhava)** > I am very glad to know that you are now in Los Angeles & organizing the most important temple. --- **[1967: Letter to Satsvarupa](letters/1967/671003_satsvarupa)** > Since I've come to India, I've not received a single copy of BTG. There is no stationery nor prospectus either. I asked for these as well. --- **[1968: Letter to Yamuna](letters/1968/681003_yamuna)** > Your appreciation is so nice, of Srimad Bhagavad-gita and Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and please continue to study and preach in this way to all you meet. --- **[1969: Letter to Bali-Mardana Sudama](letters/1969/691003_bali-mardana_sudama)** > Last time, in 1967, when I was coming back from India to the States, I stopped for one day in Tokyo to find out the possibilities of opening a branch. --- **[1969: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1969/691003_brahmananda)** > Regarding MacMillan, I think the matter is already settled up and we have all decided to get *Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto,* published by them. Whatever you will decide together, that is my decision, and I have already informed you in this connection. --- **[1970: Letter to Professor S. C. Chakravarti](letters/1970/701003_professor_s._c._chakravarti)** > I am so glad to learn that you are interested in the matter of Vaisnava philosophy. Vaisnava philosophy is very simple: that God is great and everyone is His servant. --- **[1971: Letter to Damodara](letters/1971/711003_damodara)** > I am so glad to hear that there are many new devotees there and they are doing so nicely. In the beginning they may be treated leniently and gradually they will learn. --- **[1971: Letter to Karandhara](letters/1971/711003_karandhara)** > to send the full manuscript for Bhagavad-gita As It Is to Dai Nippon. Enclosed also you will find one letter from Kunjabihari das Brahmacari. --- **[1971: Letter to Satsvarupa](letters/1971/711003_satsvarupa)** > I have not heard from you in a long time. I hope you are well and things are going on nicely there at our Dallas center. How are the property transactions going on? --- **[1971: Letter to Sudama](letters/1971/711003_sudama)** > You are alone doing such marvelous work and it is impossible for a person without being blessed by Krishna. --- **[1975: Letter to Ramesvara](letters/1975/751003_ramesvara)** > In Bombay I have paid in advance Rs. 25,000/- to Bhavananda Maharaja for Food Relief poor feeding; so whatever you have collected for poor feeding may be sent to Bombay Bank of America. --- **[1976: Letter to Madhava](letters/1976/761003_madhava)** > After all, we are an insignificant creature in the universe, so whether you take the modern scientists or Sukadeva Goswami, it is inconceivable. It is best to keep faith in Sukadeva Goswami, because actually our only business is to go back to home, back to Godhead. ---