# October 21 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[[spoken/681021dk.sea|Bhaktiprajñāna Keśava Mahārāja’s Disappearance Day Lecture, — October 21, 1968, Seattle]]** **Prabhupāda:** I took this *sannyāsa* order... One has to accept the renounced order from another person who is in renounced order. So I never thought that I shall accept this renounced order of life. In my family life, when I was in the midst of my wife and children, sometimes I was dreaming my spiritual master, that he's calling me, and I was following him. When my dream was over, I was thinking—I was little horrified—"Oh, Guru Mahārāja wants me to become *sannyāsī.* How can I accept *sannyāsa*?" At that time, I was feeling not very satisfaction that I have to give up my family and have to become a mendicant. At that time, it was a horrible feeling. Sometime I was thinking, "No, I cannot take *sannyāsa.*" But again I saw the same dream.* [Prabhupāda begins to cry, choked voice] So in this way I was fortunate. My Guru Mahārāja pulled me out from this material life. I have not lost anything. He was so kind upon me. I have gained. I left three children, I have got now three hundred children. So I am not loser. This is material conception. We think that we shall be loser by accepting Kṛṣṇa. Nobody is loser. I say from my practical experience. I was thinking that "How can I accept this renounced order of life? I cannot accept so much trouble." So... --- **[[spoken/681021sb.sea|SB 7.9.8 — October 21, 1968, Seattle]]** When Lord Nṛsiṁha appeared—this is the picture; you have seen—for killing a great demon, Hiraṇyakaśipu. Hiraṇyakaśipu was very powerful materialist, and he did not believe in God. Generally, materialistic person, they have no capacity to understand what is God. That is generally. In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is stated that *bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛta-cetasām* [[bg/2/44|[Bg. 2.44] ]]. Bhoga. Bhoga* means sense enjoyment, and *aiśvarya* means opulence, wealth, riches. Persons who are very much attached to sense gratification and are hankering after material opulence, *bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayā,* and by such thing, *apahṛta-cetasām... Apahṛta* means bewildered; *cetasām,* consciousness. Such persons, they are thinking that "These things will save me." They never think that they will have to leave all these things behind him, and he has to go alone. --- **[[spoken/721021nd.vrn|The Nectar of Devotion — October 21, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...that just now I have received one newspaper cutting. This is from South Africa. What is the city's name? **Prabhupāda:** Durban. So these two young *gosvāmīs,* they are preaching very successfully in South Africa. And another news I have got... Where it is from? **Prabhupāda:** Midwest of America. Another two *gosvāmīs,* they are having very successful meeting in Midwest America. The, in South Africa, they're boys... What is the age of Ṛṣi Kumāra? --- **[[spoken/721021sb.vrn|SB 1.2.10 — October 21, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** *kāmasya*—of desires; *na*—not; *indriya*—senses; *prītiḥ*—satisfaction; *lābhaḥ*—gain; *jīveta*—self-preservation; *yāvatā*—so much so; *jīvasya*—of the living being; *tattva*—Absolute Truth; *jijñāsā*—inquiries; *na*—not; *arthaḥ*—end; *yaḥ ca iha*—whatsoever else; *karmabhiḥ*—by occupational activities. "Life's desires should never be aimed at gratifying the senses. One should desire to live only because human life enables one to inquire about the Absolute Truth. This should be the goal of all works." --- **[[spoken/741021sb.may|SB 1.8.41 — October 21, 1974, Māyāpur]]** Translation. "O Lord of the universe, soul of the universe, O personality of the form of the universe, please, therefore, sever my tie of affection for my kinsmen, the Pāṇḍavas and the Vṛṣṇis." **Prabhupāda:** > atha viśveśa viśvātman > viśva-mūrte svakeṣu me > sneha-pāśam imaṁ chindhi > dṛḍhaṁ pāṇḍuṣu vṛṣṇiṣu > [[sb/1/8/41|[SB. 1.8.41] ]] --- **[[spoken/751021mw.joh|Morning Walk — October 21, 1975, Johannesburg]]** **Prabhupāda:** That is intelligence. If you can break laws, that is intelligence. Hmm. So many dogs. So which way we shall go? [break] **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** We can go this way, straight. It goes to the other park, around the lake. [break] ...same size. Usually the mother and the father, or at least the mother, they stay pretty close by. **Prabhupāda:** There are many zoos. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Just see. They do not check their population. How many? About one dozen? No. --- **[[spoken/751021r1.joh|Room Conversation with Documentary Maker — October 21, 1975, Johannesburg]]** **Guest:** ...a couple of things for the potential audience who I'm hoping will see the documentary. So it's just a couple of questions I'd like to ask you, if I may. And if I can record them, we can have them typed out. I hope my little tape recorder works. **Prabhupāda:** You sit down. Actually ours is not in search of truth, but we are presenting the truth as it is. We are not searching out. **Guest:** Right. Well, this is what I want to... I wanted to ask you... I'll put the questions in their order. The questions in order is... The first one is, "Within Vedic culture, what is meant by *bhakti-yoga*?" The second one... Shall we take it in order? --- **[[spoken/771021r1.vrn|Room Conversation — October 21, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Australian books are sold out. I was thinking that you would be thinking about that. He has to print in bigger quantities. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes. Gopāla says that the problem is not the printers, because they have offset presses, so to them, to print ten thousand, twenty thousand, fifty thousand doesn't really make much difference. The real issue is that he only had a certain amount of money up until now to work with. Now, if he gets more money available, he can easily print more books. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes. I mean, that was his point up until now, because once you have an offset press, it's just as easy to print fifty thousand as ten thousand. It doesn't really change their situation so much. --- **[[spoken/771021r2.vrn|Room Conversation — October 21, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** We restrict the tongue, practicing. Anything can be done by practice. So if we take *kṛṣṇa-prasādam,* the tongue is restricted, locked to some limited... Then our all other senses become controlled. And spiritual life means sense control. We are not going to kill the senses. The *yogīs,* they artificially want to stop the activities of the senses, but that is not possible. Senses are there. Life means senses. *Aprākṛta. Prākṛta,* and when senses are engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service, that is *aprākṛta,* transcendental. That is described, *sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam* [[cc/madhya/19/170|[Cc. Madhya 19.170] ]]. Our senses are now *upādhi*—"I am Indian," "I am American," "I am this," "I am that." Senses are there, everywhere, but it is designated. So we have to free the senses from this material designation. And when the designations are washed away, at..., with that senses, *hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate.* Purified senses without any designation, when we engage in the service of Kṛṣṇa, that is called *bhakti.* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/471021_aska_distillery.md|Letter to Aska Distillery, 1947]] - [[../../letters/1968/681021_krsna_dasa.md|Letter to Krsna Dasa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681021_makhanlal.md|Letter to Makhanlal, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681021_muralidhara.md|Letter to Muralidhara, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681021_syama.md|Letter to Syama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691021_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691021_bharadraja.md|Letter to Bharadraja, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691021_hayagriva.md|Letter to Hayagriva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691021_vamanadeva.md|Letter to Vamanadeva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691021_yamunacarya.md|Letter to Yamunacarya, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701021_hansadutta_himavati.md|Letter to Hansadutta Himavati, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701021_sagar_maharaja.md|Letter to Sagar Maharaja, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1975/751021_amarendra.md|Letter to Amarendra, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751021_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1975]]