# October 8 ## Spoken on October 8 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[1972: Morning Walk](spoken/1972/721008mw.ber)** > Devotee (1): But actually Hitler he was trying to invent the atom bomb, the Americans invented it before before Tru. The Americans invented it before the Nazis did. > Devotee (1): In Germany also we also used to buy *ghee*, because it is cheaper than regular butter because they took all the salt out of it and because they thought it has no taste and therefore, "well we don't use." So it's cheaper. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.28](spoken/1974/741008sb.may)** > The Kuntīdevī is presenting his [her] conception of Kṛṣṇa, or God consciousness. Perfectly he's [she's] presenting that *samaṁ carantaṁ sarvatra:* "Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is present everywhere. And He is equal, equally merciful or... In everything He is equal to everyone." Just like the sun. The sun is equally distributing the sunshine. Now, in some country we find there is cloud; sun is covered. There is no sunshine. The sun is shining, but due to our misfortune or something else, the sun is covered and we cannot see. It is not that the sunshine is stopped. Sunshine is there. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa's mercy is equally there. *Samo 'haṁ sarva-bhūteṣu* [Bg 9.29]. In another verse in the *Bhagavad-gītā,* Kṛṣṇa says, *samo 'haṁ sarva bhūteṣu:* "I am equal to everyone." Otherwise, how He can be God? > Therefore God consciousness is so important. If Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spread, and if it is taken by all people, then so many things will be automatically reformed. There will be no need of police. There will be no need of C.I.D. Because if one is God conscious, he'll not do anything wrong. But because people are not God conscious, they are doing so many wrong things that is has been almost impossible to govern the people. Therefore Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is very essential to understand this fact, that *samaṁ carantaṁ sarvatra bhūtānāṁ yan mithaḥ kaliḥ*.* We have created so many religious system. So many religious system. And the Hindu is fighting with the Muslim, Muslim is fighting with the Hindu, that "My religion is better than your religion." Or any other, other countries also, the Jews fighting with the Christian; Christian, Jews; and the black fighting with the white, white fighting with the black. This Kali, that is the result of this material existence. *Saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka.* That is the work of this material nature. Even if you want to live very peacefully, you'll not be allowed to live. *Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā durat...*. --- **[1975: Room Conversation with Bill Faill [reporter](spoken/1975/751008r1.dur)** > So therefore a human being must be responsible, that "I have got this opportunity to get out of this cycle of birth and death and different forms of life, and let me properly understand God and what is my relationship with God and act accordingly, so that if we understand what is God, then we go back to home, back to Godhead." > So there are nine *lakhs'* forms of body within the water. Then two million types of bodies in vegetable, and then 1,100,000 species of life like microbes, germs, worms, insects. Then you come to the birds' life, three million different forms of. Then we come to beast life. That is also... Birds..., I am sorry: birds' life, one million, and then the beast life, three millions. Then we come to human form of body, and especially, gradually, we become civilized. So when we are civilized, then it is a chance to understand what is God, what I am, what is our relationship. So if we don't take advantage of this civilized human life to understand God, and if we simply waste our life like cats and dogs, jumping and going here, then this is a great missing point. So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to educate people not to miss this opportunity. You take full advantage on this human form of life and try to understand God and your relationship with God. --- **[1975: Room Conversation with the Rector, Professor Olivier, and Professors of the University of Durban, Westville](spoken/1975/751008r2.dur)** > So real education, therefore... Just like you come to the university, you want to get a better job, not that you go to the university so that you can work an elevator when you come out. You go to the university to increase your standard of living, to have higher standard of living. So real education, similarly, is that you can have higher standard of existence in your next life, not that I come to the university and simply live like animal and then have to be demoted to the body of an animal in my next lifetime. Rather, the real education is how we can be elevated from this human existence to higher existence, or to spiritual, eternal existence. So the purpose of the science of *Bhagavad-gītā* is just this, that *janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ*. > So this education is lacking in the universities because, generally speaking, all of the scientists in the universities, they are simply dealing with this body, simply dealing biology, physics, chemistry—simply with the body. So where is the question that this is not science? It is science. It is the science of the soul. When our spiritual master went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology—it is a very well known technological university—he questioned the faculty and students there that "You are the most advanced technological university in the world. Where is that department that tries to understand the difference between a dead body and a living body?" So this is science. You can't say that it's not science. And it should be accepted as science by university professors and taught as such. Otherwise, if we simply turn our back on this philosophy... Kṛṣṇa says, *rāja-vidyā:* "This is the king of knowledge." This is not some sentimental proposition we are putting forward, but it is the king of knowledge, that the soul is existing, and after this body there will be another body. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.51–52](spoken/1976/761008sb.vrn)** > So in order to confirm Kṛṣṇa's position, here it is not Devakī-suta. Because one may doubt, that "Devakī-suta is ordinary human being, or living being." No. Here it is said, *catur-bhuja.* Here it is said, *bhagavān.* Here it is said, *catur-bhuja.* So we should always remember that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Being. And Kṛṣṇa says, *mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat*. Don't think that above Kṛṣṇa there is any other higher authority, either Brahman or Paramātmā or Viṣṇu. So many... Absolute Truth is manifested in so many features. But Kṛṣṇa is the original. *Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. Ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam*. > It is summarized in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* that there are so many descriptions of the incarnation of Viṣṇu, but at the end, Vyāsadeva concludes that whatever incarnations are described here, they are *aṁśa-kalā. Aṁśa* means direct expansion, and *kalā* means expansion of the expansion. Just like Kṛṣṇa, the first expansion is Balarāma, Baladeva. And the next expansion is Saṅkarṣaṇa, Vāsudeva, Aniruddha, Pradyumna. The next expansion is Nārāyaṇa. The next expansion again second *catur-vyūha,* Saṅkarṣaṇa again. *Dvitīya-catur-vyūha.* Then next expansion, Viṣṇu, Mahā-Viṣṇu. Next expansion, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. And next expansion is Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. In this way, there are different expansion, but *kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. Ādyaṁ puruṣaṁ śāśvatam.* Kṛṣṇa is the original person. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat*. "I am not expansion of anyone." *Sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ* [Bs. 5.1].* They are all *īśvaras,* controller. *Viṣṇu-tattva* is controller always. *Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram*. Everywhere Viṣṇu is the supreme controller. --- **[1977: Room Conversation Arrival of Jayatīrtha and Harikeśa](spoken/1977/771008r1.vrn)** > Those postal receipts. When they become due, then I'll give them to each of the individual members? Okay. Don't worry. I'll see that each of them is satisfied. They won't feel sorry in any way. You've provided for everyone, Śrīla Prabhupāda. [break] They want you to survive. --- **[1977: Room Conversation Astrologer's Report Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja](spoken/1977/771008r2.vrn)** > O Lord Hari, when will that auspicious day arrive, when I will worship Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, being absorbed in love of God?I will sing a sweet tune, mixing it with the sound of a beautiful musical instrument and with ecstasy glorify the form and qualities of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.I will cry loudly saying "Rādhikā, Govinda" and my whole body will be wet with tears streaming from my eyes.O my lords of my life, Śrī Rūpa, Sanātana, Raghunātha dāsa and Śrī Jīva; please be merciful on me this time!O Lalitā, O Viśākhā, please be merciful to me this time! O Śrīdamā, Subala and all the sakhās of Kṛṣṇa, please be merciful on me!All of you kindly bless me so that my desires be fulfilled, thus Narottama dāsa always prays.(*Prārthana* Song 25)Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare / Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare / Gurudeva, Gurudeva, Gurudeva, Gurudeva, Jaya Jaya Gurudeva, Gurudeva, Gurudeva, Gurudeva / Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda. Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda. Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda, Jaya Prabhupāda.Prabhupāda: Where is Tamāla?Hari-śauri: Get Tamāla Kṛṣṇa. He's just coming, Śrīla Prabhupāda. He's in the other room.Prabhupāda:* [Transl. *Only some bones are left and nothing else.] > [Transl. *We can see that. It is very good that you have come back to braja from the foreign country. This was a good decision.] [Transl. *They took me to London. I told them my physical condition is not good. I have seen enough opulence of London.] > *Jaya* Śrīla Prabhupāda. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa. > The lotus feet of Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī are my real wealth. They are the object of my bhajana and pūjā, the treasure of my heart, and they are my ornaments and the very life of my life.They are the reservoirs of all rasa for me and the fulfillment of all my desires. They are the conclusion of the religion of the Vedas for me and are the goal of all my vows, austerities, and the chanting of my mantra. They are the purpose of all my religious activities.By the power of those feet my activities will become *favorable* to devotion, spiritual perfection will be achieved, and with these two eyes I will be able to actually see. The exquisite beauty of Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī's divine feet will shine like the brilliant moon upon the lotus of my heart both day and night, thus giving relief to my afflicted soul.The serpent in the form of separation from You has poisoned my whole body, and my life is permanently miserable. O my Lord, please bestow Your mercy upon me. Give me the shade of Your lotus feet. Narottama dāsa takes shelter of You. (*Prārthana* Song 16) > > Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare / > > Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare --- ## Letters on October 8 *Letters from this day: 18* --- **[1967: Letter to Krsna Devi](letters/1967/671008_krsna_devi)** > I am very pleased to have your note along with your husband's letter. This poetry indicates that there are many people in your country who really appreciate India's original spiritual culture. I am rather proud to say that the movement of Krishna Consciousness which I have started in your country will fulfill the desires of many sincere citizens of your country who are actually anxious to have a bon-a-fide spiritual guidance from India. --- **[1967: Letter to Nandarani](letters/1967/671008_nandarani)** > Regarding your personal question in the matter of relationship with your husband. Vedic system advises women to become very chaste & accept the husband as master. --- **[1967: Letter to Subalaa](letters/1967/671008_subalaa)** > It is noted that you are trying to appoint some public engagements as soon as I arrive. I am very much pleased with you & your wife's service to Krishna Consciousness. --- **[1967: Letter to Subalab](letters/1967/671008_subalab)** > I am very glad to understand that your service attitude for propagation of Krishna Consciousness is progressively increasing. --- **[1968: Letter to Murari](letters/1968/681008_murari)** > Gaurasundara is doing there some work, but that is not sufficient even for maintaining an apartment. He is of course searching for a better job, but I do not think alone he can start a center there. --- **[1969: Letter to Dr. Sham Sundarji](letters/1969/691008_dr._sham_sundarji)** > I shall remind Brahmananda about your "True Conception of Religion", and you will be pleased to know that we are starting our own press in Boston in our own house. The house has cost $70,000, and the press will cost $20,00, which in Indian exchange comes to 9 lacs of rupees. --- **[1969: Letter to Gargamuni](letters/1969/691008_gargamuni)** > If there is somebody there who could paint it, then it may be sent to Los Angeles. --- **[1969: Letter to Jayagovinda](letters/1969/691008_jayagovinda)** > I am pleased to note that you are so seriously considering how to organize the printing of our German Krishna Consciousness literature. --- **[1969: Letter to Krsna Dasa](letters/1969/691008_krsna_dasa)** > I have some engagements here, but if I come, I can spare at least one week in Hamburg. So if you arrange for my going, then it will not be impossible. --- **[1969: Letter to Ranadhira](letters/1969/691008_ranadhira)** > Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught us to be humbler than the grass on the street and more tolerant than the tree, and thus chant Hare Krishna Maha Mantra without any impediments. --- **[1971: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1971/711008_hansadutta)** > So let Mandali Bhadra be seriously engaged in translating work and recruit some German devotees to help him so that we can print all our books in German language and you can develop the Hamburg center very nicely. You know very well that I went to India this time empty handed but we spent there not less than five lakhs Rupees during my 10 month stay and all the money was collected simply on the strength of our books and literatures. --- **[1972: Letter to Kaliya Krsna](letters/1972/721008_kaliya_krsna)** > Now that you are President of the Detroit Temple, you have very great responsibility to take proper care of all the devotees who are engaged there and are spreading Krsna Consciousness at one of our most important centers. As much as you are sincere to simply serve the mission of the Supreme Lord, then Krsna will give you the intelligence from the heart, have no doubt. --- **[1972: Letter to Madhudvisa](letters/1972/721008_madhudvisa)** > As you are unable to meet me in the Philippines, that is all right since I first wanted to hear from you that everything in your zone was going all right, and it appears from your letter that you are persevering in the attempt to spread Krishna Consciousness movements to the people of Australia. That new devotees are coming is the sign of our success. --- **[1974: Letter to Badarinarayana](letters/1974/741008_badarinarayana)** > So do your work sincerely, husband and wife, and you will have good success there. I know that they college students in your country are dissatisfied with this material education. --- **[1974: Letter to Karandhara](letters/1974/741008_karandhara)** > The thing is where is the question of making any conspiracy. The materialistic man creates diplomacy and conspiracy for sense gratification. Everyone wants in the material world some reputation, profit, and some adoration. --- **[1974: Letter to Mr. Winter](letters/1974/741008_mr._winter)** > Regarding what you want to do, I suggest that you discuss the matter with my secretary, Hansadutta das Adhikari. --- **[1974: Letter to Pranava](letters/1974/741008_pranava)** > I have already asked Bombay to transfer one lakh of Rupees through the Bombay PNB to the PNB Vrindaban Branch account No. So please go and enquire whether they have received the money. --- **[1975: Letter to Dhananjaya](letters/1975/751008_dhananjaya)** > Kindly send me a report immediately to the Johannesburg address. ---