# October 5 ## Spoken on October 5 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1966: Bhagavad-gītā 7.11–16](spoken/1966/661005bg.ny.md)** > So if we want to be conversant, well-equipped, with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then we have to regulate our life. That regulation, that regulation is given in various scriptures, and here also Lord Kṛṣṇa says. He is describing Himself, how you can remember Him in every circumstances of your life. So similarly, sex life is also a necessity, a necessity for our life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "Yes, I am also in sex life, provided it is," I mean to say, "carried according to the scriptural injunction." What is that scriptural injunction? That one must get himself married; otherwise, sex life is not allowed. It is considered sinful. > So we should remember this. But due to the illusion, being covered by the illusion, we don't take account of these miseries. But we must remember that we are always in miseries. An intelligent person who is developed in consciousness, he enquires, "Why I am in miseries? I do not want miseries. Why I am in miseries?" When this question arises, then there is chance of becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious. You will find how one becomes..., comes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You will find, later verses. *Catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ sukṛtino 'rjuna*. --- **[1972: Arrival](spoken/1972/721005ar.ber)** > As Lord is spirit the complete whole spirit, we are part and parcel of God but we are covered by subtle and gross body or matter. As such we have forgotten our identification and on the bodily concept of life we are thinking, "I am an American, I am Indian, I am Hindu, I am Muslim, I am Christian." But actually we are all part and parcel of God, we have to come to that consciousness. > This is the sum and substance of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and anyone can perform it, it is very easy. The preliminary method is to chant the holy name of God. You can chant if you have got any name of God you can chant that. Not that you have to chant Hare Krishna if you have got any other name you can chant. By chanting the holy name of God gradually your dirty things within the heart will be cleansed and you will see properly your constitutional position and then you will act accordingly and then your life will be happy and prosperous. --- **[1972: Departure Brahma-saṁhitā 5.1](spoken/1972/721005dp.la)** > There must be some cause. We do not accept anything as chance. No. There is no chance. There is cause. Everything has got cause. So the original cause is Kṛṣṇa. So our knowledge is perfect therefore. We know the cause. So you chant this *mantra, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi,* and you will be in full knowledge. *Yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavanti* [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3]. > So we have started this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to educate people in perfect knowledge. So we have got so many branches, and we have to travel and encourage them. So now I am going to the eastern hemisphere—from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere. So I am going now in San Francisco. From there, I shall go to Hawaii, and then cross the international line, dividing East and West. Then we go to Manila, and therefrom we shall go to India. --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.30](spoken/1972/721005sb.la)** > That is explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā, viṣṭabhyāham idam jagat, ekāṁśena sthito jagat*. "My dear Arjuna..." Arjuna asked, "Kṛṣṇa, kindly explain how Your energies are acting." So He explained in the Twelfth Chapter. He explained how Kṛṣṇa's energies are working. Just like your energy is working on this body, similarly Kṛṣṇa's energy also working in this universal body. So He summarized how His energies are working. *Athavā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna:* "Arjuna, now I shall go on explaining how My energies are working. But you can summarize that I, in one of My plenary portion, enter into this material world, and therefore it is going on so nicely." > So we do not forget things so long the form continues. But when the form changes, we forget. Every night we have got this experience. Our form is lying on the bed, but I am dreaming in a different form. I am flying in the sky and forgetting that my real form is lying on the bed. You forget. We forget that "I am American" or "I am the son of such-and-such gentleman" or... Everything forgotten. Every night we have got this experience. So as soon as the form is forgotten, then everything is forgotten—with reference to the context. --- **[1973: Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12](spoken/1973/731005bg.bom)** > *Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha.* These are really problems. But who knows that these are the real problems? They have taken it, accepted it. Kṛṣṇa says, "This is knowledge." If you are scientifically advanced how to stop death, how to stop birth, how to stop old age, how to stop disease, then you should know that you have advanced in science. Otherwise what is this? If you have made a horseless carriage, motorcar, that is not advancement. It is advancement, but it is not the solution of the problem. The solution of problem is, human life, is to how to stop death. > "I am encaged in this body. I am not this body." Unfortunately, at the present moment, this is accepted knowledge, bodily concept, "I am..." "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am *brāhmaṇa,*" "I am *kṣatriya.*" This is going on. Actually the knowledge begins when one understands, "I am not American," "I am not Indian," "I am not *brāhmaṇa,*" "I am not *kṣatriya.*" Then what you are? Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, *gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsānu-dāsa* : "I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Kṛṣṇa, the provider of the *gopīs,*" *gopī-bhartuḥ.* That is my real identification. Not this body. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.25](spoken/1974/741005sb.may)** > Kṛṣṇa personally says, *māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ*. *Pāpa-yoni...* Those who are born in the family of *mlecchas, yavanas* or the *śvapacas,* they are called *pāpa-yoni.* But Kṛṣṇa says, "Even they, the born in the *pāpa-yoni...*" *Yathā bījaṁ yathā..., yathā bījaṁ yathā yoni.* The father is the *bījam.* He gives the semina, and mother is the source of birth. So combination of father, mother... So *pāpa-yoni.* Therefore *yoni. Yoni* means source of birth. So Kṛṣṇa says *pāpa-yonayaḥ,* plural number, *yonayaḥ. Yoni,* this word, *śabda,* so the plural number, *yonayaḥ.* There are many different types... That is also mentioned in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.* What are that? *Kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ ye 'nye ca pāpāḥ*. These are mentioned, *pāpa-yoni.* And less than them, if there are still *pāpa-yoni, śudhyanti yad-apāśrayāśrayāḥ:* if such persons take shelter of a pure devotee, he's *śudhyanti.* This is the *śāstric* injunction. He becomes purified, because the pure devotee knows how to purify the *pāpa-yoni.* He knows. That rascal is not a pure devotee. He does not know. Therefore he thinks, "Unless the birth is changed, how one can be purified?" He does not know the process. > Therefore the aim should be... Real happiness is *apunar bhava-darśanam. Apunar bhava.* This is going on. The *jagad-guru* is teaching, *na jāyate mriyate vā*. It requires little intelligence, that "Kṛṣṇa, the *jagad-guru,* is teaching that living entity is never born and never dies. So why I am taking birth and I am dying?" This much intelligence they haven't got, because they do not take the instruction of the *jagad-guru.* He is describing, *na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācit. Kadācit:* at any time. Not that in the past he was dying. Kṛṣṇa says again, in the Second Chapter, that "All these soldiers and kings who have assembled there, so also you and Me, we existed in the past, we are existing now, and we shall continue to exist in the future." Therefore *kadācit. Kadācit* means "at any time." "Any time" means past, present and future. Time has got three factors. So at any time. *Kadācit* means at any time the living entity is never born, never dies. The... If this is the fact, why you do not think, "Then why I am dying? I must have to die. Death is as sure as anything." --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/751005mw.mau)** > Everything is stated. Read *Bhagavad-gītā* very thoroughly and try to understand. Then everything will be clear, how to live, how to organize society. We have to live. The same thing: we are also working, we are also eating, we are sleeping, we are also marrying—but according to Kṛṣṇa's direction. Then it is Kṛṣṇa conscious life and perfect life. And as soon as you do anything whimsically, at your will, then you are responsible. Kṛṣṇa or His representative. Kṛṣṇa is giving instruction, and His representative is explaining. In both ways Kṛṣṇa is helping. So even so much facility being offered to you, if you don't take advantage, then you are committing suicide. *Ātmahā. Ātmahā.* Just like the sea is now calm and quiet. If you want to go somewhere, take advantage of it. And if you start your boat while it is cyclone, then you'll be drowned. > So you act what is said in the *Bhagavad-gītā;* then you remain free from all sinful reaction. *Yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko yam karma-bandhanaḥ*. Yajñārthāt* means for Kṛṣṇa. Whatever you do, that's all right. Otherwise you are become bound up by the reaction. *Anyatra karma-bandhanaḥ. Karma-bandhanaḥ* means you are bound up by the reaction. So therefore you have to act according to Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you act differently, then you are responsible. --- **[1975: Room Conversation](spoken/1975/751005r1.mau)** > This is going on all over the world. You know George Harrison? He has earned money with so great, hard labor, and he has given us a house in London, fifty-five *lakhs'* worth. Another boy, Alfred Ford, he's the great-grandson of Mr. Henry Ford. He has given. He is giving still money. He is prepared with all his money. So those who are after money, material things, we have to induce them that "Spend for me," that's all, and let him earn. So far we are concerned, we shall live very simple life, simply in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is *brāhmaṇa. Brāhmaṇa* does not go to construct big, big house. He simply constructs his character, and the other *kṣatriyas* and *vaiśyas,* they offer him, "Please come here and sit down." Therefore the division is... One who is unable to become a *brāhmaṇa,* let him become *kṣatriya.* If he cannot become *kṣatriya,* let him become a *vaiśya.* Otherwise let him remain a *śūdra.* But there should be ideal class. So we are trying to create an ideal society of *brāhmaṇas.* Then people will be benefited. And if everyone is *śūdra,* rascal, then what people will be benefited? They do not know how to live. The *brāhmaṇas* will give idea, "Live like this. You will be happy." > As they have been trained up to rise early in the morning, this will give you spiritual strength. If you simply becomes a gramophone speaker, then it will not be effective. Gramophone or tape record speaker, that will not be. You must be live speaker. Your living condition should be spiritually, what is called, surcharged. So that means you must be trained up how to rise early in the morning, take your bath, cleanse yourself, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra.* Then you will be spiritually strong. When you are spiritually strong, if you speak something on spiritual subject matter, then it will be effective. Otherwise it will be just like tape record playing. So this is required. And you should... You are asking something? --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6](spoken/1975/751005sb.mau)** > Therefore it is said, *sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharma*. *Paro dharma* and *aparā dharma.* There are two natures: *parā* and *aparā.* These things are very nicely explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* This material energy, five elements, eight elements, even we can see... We cannot see five elements properly. Five elements: *bhūmir āpo analo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir ahaṅkāra*. We can see earth, we can see water, *bhūmir āpo.* We can see fire, *analo.* But we cannot see the air, but we can feel that air is blowing. That is also sense perception. We can see... We can perceive. We cannot see what is that sky, but we know, "Here is sky—vacancy." Then we cannot see even mind. We cannot... I know that you have got mind, you know I have got my mind, but you cannot see where is my mind, I cannot see where is your mind. *Bhūmir āpo analo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca, bhinnā prakṛti me aṣṭadhā*. These are different energies of God, and the whole material world is composed of these five gross elements and three subtle elements. This is called material world. And Kṛṣṇa says further, *apareyam:* "These material energies, they are inferior energy, *aparā.* Beyond that, there is a superior energy." *Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parām:* "My dear Arjuna, these gross and subtle material elements, they are inferior energy. Beyond that, there is another, superior energy." What is that superior energy? *Jīva-bhūtaḥ mahā-baho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat*: "That is that living being." We are all living being. So we are superior energy. We are exploiting the material resources; therefore we are superior. We are molding the material energy to our satisfaction, so we belong to the superior energy. > Therefore in the *Vedānta-sūtra* the first aphorism is advised that human form of life... It doesn't matter where that human form of life has happened. It doesn't matter. Either in America or in India or in Pakistan or anywhere, human life is human life. So their business is to inquire about the Absolute Truth. That is the injunction of the *śāstra.* Therefore we find a form of religion in the human society. It doesn't matter whether Christian society or Hindu society or Muslim society or any other society—because they are human being, there must be a type of religion. And what is that religion? Religion means to understand God. This is the sum and substance. Religion means to understand God. In the *śāstra* it is said, religion means... *Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam*. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.45–46](spoken/1976/761005sb.vrn)** > *Navamanyeta karhici.* So *ācārya* should be respected, as Kṛṣṇa says, as good as Kṛṣṇa. Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura also said, *sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ. Ācārya, guru,* is as good as God. *Sākṣād-dharitvena. Ācārya* should be respected as Kṛṣṇa. Therefore *ācārya upasanam,* *nāvamanyeta karhicit.* If somebody foolishly thinks that "They are worshiping a man. He's like me, and he has taken the seat, and he's taking worship, respect, from disciples..." Sometimes they question like that. But they do not know that how *ācārya* should be respected. *Ācārya* should be respected *sākṣād-dharitvena,* just like God. It is not exaggeration; it is according to the *śāstra.* And *ācārya* also accepts all these respectful obeisances to carry to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the process. As we receive knowledge from the *ācārya,* similarly, our activities, the result of activities, is carried by the *ācārya* to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. *Ācārya* does not accept anything on his own account. *Ācārya* accepts everything on Kṛṣṇa's account. That is the principle. And because he is representative of Kṛṣṇa, he is dealing on behalf of Kṛṣṇa. > So as the Deity of the Lord, *vigraha,* should not be considered as made of stone, wood, similarly, *guru* also should not be accepted as ordinary human being. He should be given all respect as we give to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is being explained by even one woman. That is Vedic culture. Draupadī is explaining the importance, and she has said, *sa eṣa bhagavān droṇaḥ.* She's quite right when she's accepting Droṇa as *bhagavān. Sa eṣa bhagavān droṇaḥ prajā-rūpeṇa vartate.* And he is present by his *prajā.* These things should be taken very seriously instruction. Therefore *śrīmad-bhāgavatam amalaṁ purāṇam*. --- ## Letters on October 5 *Letters from this day: 16* --- **[1955: Letter to Gosvami Maharaja](letters/1947-1965/551005_gosvami_maharaja)** > I am glad that you have purchased one model No 16 Remington Typewriter and I think you have done right in doing so. To conduct the Sajjan Tosani Patrika it is absolutely necessary. --- **[1968: Letter to Cidananda](letters/1968/681005_cidananda)** > Before delivering the wrong passport to Mr Sethi, you keep in your diary the number of the passport, the owner of the passport, and the issuing office etc., in your notebook. And I hope you will carry this nicely, and I shall be also glad to know how your San Francisco branch is going on. --- **[1969: Letter to Prahladananda](letters/1969/691005_prahladananda)** > You have asked me for suggestions of what to say to different persons on Sankirtana Party, but there is no specific saying to any person. --- **[1970: Letter to Gurudasa](letters/1970/701005_gurudasa)** > you all. You are welcome in India. Now my going to Bombay is postponed and my enclosed letter to Sri Bajoriaji will speak for itself. --- **[1970: Letter to Sri Bajoriaji](letters/1970/701005_sri_bajoriaji)** > ACBS:ds c.c. Sriman Gurudasa Adhikari, leader of ISKCON Sankirtana Party from London. --- **[1971: Letter to Gurudasa](letters/1971/711005_gurudasa)** > Now I may inform you that Nara Narayana has already gone to Calcutta especially for the purpose of making a model of Mayapur construction work. --- **[1971: Letter to Jayapataka](letters/1971/711005_jayapataka)** > So far purchasing adjacent land is concerned, that is also my opinion that if they are available at reasonable price we should purchase. --- **[1971: Letter to Tamala Krsna](letters/1971/711005_tamala_krsna)** > I have seen your letter addressed to Brahmananda Maharaja complaining that Madhudvisa Maharaja in Bombay is not cooperating. --- **[1972: Letter to Giriraja](letters/1972/721005_giriraja)** > Here is a copy of a letter received from Ambubhai & Diwanji that they are no longer acting as our attorneys. --- **[1972: Letter to Glendon Tremaine](letters/1972/721005_glendon_tremaine)** > I thank you very much for your letter dated October 4, 1972, with enclosure from Ambubhai & Diwanji. --- **[1974: Letter to Kirtanananda](letters/1974/741005_kirtanananda)** > Regarding New Vrindaban I was very happy when I was there, not only myself but all devotees and GBC members all enjoyed the atmosphere of New Vrindaban, especially the cow protection scheme. May Krishna give more facilities to advance the cause of New Vrindaban, and I am expecting very soon to go there and live in my proposed palace at least for some time. --- **[1975: Letter to Bhagavan](letters/1975/751005_bhagavan)** > Here in Mauritius there is a very good potency for introducing Krsna consciousness on a wide scale. --- **[1975: Letter to West Coast Temple Presidents](letters/1975/751005_west_coast_temple_presidents)** > These reports about Japan are coming from all over the world. This is very disturbing to me. --- **[1976: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1976/761005_brahmananda)** > Regarding land, yes, contact Ambarisa immediately and remind him that he wanted to invest some money. If he does that, that will be very nice, and I will give my sanction if he wants. You can purchase—that place is nice where Damji lives. --- **[1976: Letter to Manager American Express International](letters/1976/761005_manager_american_express_international)** > I am in receipt of your verification form showing the balance of my account No. 4,13,231.61 (Rupees four lakhs, thirteen thousand, two hundred and thirty-one paise sixty-one only). --- **[1976: Letter to Tamala Krsna](letters/1976/761005_tamala_krsna)** > Yes, the GBCs should move and visit other other zones, and I quite approve that the GBC chairman can do this. ---