# October 23 *Lectures from this day: 7 recordings* --- **[[spoken/661023bg.ny|Bg 7.28-8.6 — October 23, 1966, New York]]** --- **[[spoken/681023sb.mon|SB 2.1.2-5 — October 23, 1968, Montreal]]** **Prabhupāda:** They have come here to become technologist. They have lost all interest of this..., in original Vedic culture. --- **[[spoken/721023nd.vrn|The Nectar of Devotion — October 23, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading] "Generally, neophyte devotees are anxious to see Kṛṣṇa, or God, but God cannot be seen or known by our present materially blunt senses. **Pradyumna:** The process of devotional service as it is recommended in *The Nectar of Devotion* will gradually elevate one from the material condition of life to the spiritual status, wherein the devotee becomes purified of all designations. The senses can then become uncontaminated, being constantly in touch with *bhakti-rasa.* "When the purified senses are employed in the service of the Lord, one becomes situated in *bhakti-rasa* life, and any action performed for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa in this transcendental *bhakti-rasa* stage of life can be relished perpetually. When one is thus engaged in devotional service, all varieties of *rasas,* or mellows, turn into eternity. --- **[[spoken/721023sb.vrn|SB 1.2.12 — October 23, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** [break] "...truth is realized by the seriously inquisitive student or sage who is well equipped with knowledge and who has become detached by rendering devotional service and hearing the Vedānta-śruti." --- **[[spoken/731023bg.bom|Bg 13.24 — October 23, 1973, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "One who understands this philosophy concerning material nature, the living entity and the interaction of the modes of nature is sure to attain liberation. He will not take birth here again, regardless of his present position."* [[bg/13/24|[Bg. 13.24] ]] **Prabhupāda:** So the aim of life is always being stressed by Kṛṣṇa, to stop this process of undergoing different changes of body. *Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi* *[[bg/13/9|[Bg. 13.9] ]].* *Na bhūyo 'bhijāyate.* In many places Kṛṣṇa has said this. *Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama* *[[bg/15/6|[Bg. 15.6] ]]. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya [[bg/4/9|[Bg. 4.9] ]]. This is the aim of life. But people are misled by the blind leaders. We can say rascal leaders, but it may be very strong language. Kṛṣṇa has said. All persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all such persons have been described as *mūḍhas,* rascals. *Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ* [[bg/7/15|[Bg. 7.15] ]]. --- **[[spoken/741023sb.may|SB 1.8.43 — October 23, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "O Kṛṣṇa, O friend of Arjuna, O chief amongst the descendants of Vṛṣṇi, You are the destroyer of those political parties which are disturbing elements on this earth. Your prowess never deteriorates. You are the proprietor of the transcendental abode, and You descend to relieve the distresses of the cows, the brāhmaṇas and the devotees. You possess all mystic powers, and You are the preceptor of the entire universe. You are the almighty God, and I offer You my respectful obeisances." --- **[[spoken/761023sb.vrn|SB 5.5.1 — October 23, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Translation:** "Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool. One should engage in penance and austerity to attain the divine position of devotional service. By such activity, one's heart is purified, and when one attains this position, he attains eternal, blissful life, which is transcendental to material happiness and which continues forever." [break] **Prabhupāda:** So we have discussed this verse yesterday. It is very essential that this human form of body is meant for rectifying, or purifying, our existence. That they do not know, especially in the modern age, that this body is temporary, and we living entities, we are eternal, and this is our bondage. So long we are within this material body, it is our bondage. Real life is eternal life, without any birth, death, old age and disease. Where is that science? There is no such department of knowledge that how one can live eternally, without any disease, without any old age and without any death and without any birth. If there is birth, there is death. And between the two, birth and death, there is old age and disease. Where is that scientist who are trying to solve this problem? --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/671023_lilavati.md|Letter to Lilavati, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671023_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/691023_damodara.md|Letter to Damodara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691023_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701023_acyutananda_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Acyutananda Kirtanananda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701023_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701023_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701023_tamala_krsna_syamasundara.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna Syamasundara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721023_narottamananda.md|Letter to Narottamananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721023_purnaprajna_madhavananda.md|Letter to Purnaprajna Madhavananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721023_saucarya.md|Letter to Saucarya, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/731023_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731023_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731023_purusottama.md|Letter to Purusottama, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/741023_balabhadra.md|Letter to Balabhadra, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741023_behari.md|Letter to Behari, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741023_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/761023_bala_krsna.md|Letter to Bala Krsna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761023_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761023_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761023_rajni.md|Letter to Rajni, 1976]]