# October 29 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[[spoken/721029nd.vrn|The Nectar of Devotion — October 29, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading] "...may be divided into two classes: one class may be for achieving a certain goal, and the other may be for avoiding some unfavorable circumstance. In Sanskrit these activities are called *pravṛtti* and *nirvṛtti,* positive and negative action. "There are many examples of negative action. For example, a diseased person has to be cautious and take medicine in order to avoid some unfavorable illness. Those who are cultivating spiritual life and executing devotional service are always engaged in activity. Such activity can be performed with the mind or with the..., with the body or with the mind. "Thinking, feeling and willing are all activities of the mind, and when we will do something, the activity comes to be manifest by the gross bodily senses. Thus, in our mental activities, we should always try to think of Kṛṣṇa and try to plan how to please Him, following in the footsteps of the great *ācāryas* and the personal spiritual master. --- **[[spoken/721029sb.vrn|SB 1.2.18 — October 29, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.*[leads chanting of verse, etc.] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *naṣṭa*—destroyed; *prāyeṣu*—almost to nil; *abhadreṣu*—all that is inauspicious; *nityam*—regularly; *bhāgavata*—*Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* or the pure devotee; *sevayā*—by serving; *bhagavati*—unto the Personality of Godhead; *uttama*—transcendental; *śloke*—prayers; *bhaktiḥ*—loving service; *bhavati*—comes into being; *naiṣṭhikī*—irrevocable. --- **[[spoken/731029bg.vrn|Bg 7.1 [Hindi] — October 29, 1973, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha > yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ > asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ > yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu > [[bg/7/1|[Bg. 7.1] ]] **Prabhupāda:** God had inspired me and I was instructed by my Guru Maharaja that there should be some preaching in English language in the western countries. This was his instruction to all my godbrothers but when I saw that all of them had become busy in preaching just here and no one was willing to go overseas, then I thought, fine let me try something in this old age. At that time, in 1965, my age was seventy years. So, I went there, to New York in a ship and was thinking seated there—"If" If I go there and speak directly upon Vaiṣṇava etiquette then immediately the people will ask me to leave." After all no one can be a Vaiṣṇava without following proper etiquette. Even though the Lord has said—*api cet su-durācāroapicet suduracaro*, this is the symptom, that the *vaiṣṇava* should always follow the etiquette. *Sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ* [[sb/5/18/12|[SB. 5.18.12] ]] *Sarvaih gunais tatra samasate surah*, the *Vaiṣṇava* should have all the qualities of the demigods. The devotees have the same symptoms and they follow the *Vaiṣṇava* etiquette. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakurra has said in one place that it is an etiquette for the *vaiṣṇavas* to offer obeisances to other *vaiṣṇavas*. But if they are not every advanced then their association is not recommended. So, it is very important to follow the *Vaiṣṇava* etiquette. So, my first thought was to advise them to follow the etiquette. They should give up four kinds of sinful activities, just like the Lord says; *yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁyesam anta gatam*: --- **[[spoken/741029sb.may|SB 1.8.49 — October 29, 1974, Māyāpur]]** **Translation:** "I have killed many boys, brāhmaṇas, well-wishers, friends, parents, preceptors and brothers. Though I live millions of years, I will not be relieved from the hell that awaits me for all these sins." **Prabhupāda:** > bāla-dvija-suhṛn-mitra- > pitṛ-bhrātṛ-guru-druhaḥ > na me syān nirayān mokṣo > hy api varṣāyutāyutaiḥ > [[sb/1/8/49|[SB. 1.8.49] ]] --- **[[spoken/751029bg.nai|Bg 7.3 — October 29, 1975, Nairobi]]** **Harikeśa:Translation:** "Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth." **Prabhupāda:** > manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu > kaścid yatati siddhaye > yatatām api siddhānāṁ > kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ > [[bg/7/3|[Bg. 7.3] ]] So to understand Kṛṣṇa is not very easy thing. Kṛṣṇa says that *manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu,* "Out of many millions of millions' person, one tries to become perfect." Who is going to become perfect, especially in this age? Everyone is working like cats and dogs, that's all. Whole day working for eating, sleeping, sex and defense, that's all. They are not *manuṣyas. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca sāmānyam etat paśubhiḥ narāṇām* [*Hitopadeśa* 25]. --- **[[spoken/751029mw.nai|Morning Walk — October 29, 1975, Nairobi]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathenāsato dhāvato bahiḥ* [[sb/5/18/12|[SB. 5.18.12] ]]. Nondevotees, they are simply pulled on by the mental speculation: "This will be very nice. This will be very nice." *Mano rathena,* on the chariot of mind... *Asataḥ,* material. *Asat* means material, "that will not exist." They will be busy in such things. Real, eternal necessity, they'll not be interested. They do not know. "Now this beautiful city, it is my city, my country. Everything all right." But he has no knowledge that "After fifty years, when I shall die, where will be my city next?" That he does not know. For the time being, I shall be able to live here for twenty-five years or fifty years. That's all right. And next time, where I am going... A commonsense affair. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. He's eternal. He does not know his eternal necessity. This is called ignorance. [break] You brought that sitting mat? --- **[[spoken/751029r1.nai|Room Conversation — October 29, 1975, Nairobi]]** **Brahmānanda:** City Hall is also there. United Nations has offices in that big building. They study the environment. It's environmental study. **Prabhupāda:** That is another scheme. For the last thirty, forty years they could not study. "In future we shall be happy." **Caitya-guru:** One day, president, he was addressing that the candidates there in the next park. So there was even helicopter. So they came to throw off flowers on him in the gathering. But suddenly the helicopter fell down there on the train. There was train was going on. --- **[[spoken/751029r2.nai|Room Conversation — October 29, 1975, Nairobi]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...*prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ.* By pleasing the spiritual master, you please Kṛṣṇa. That's nice. But why Kṛṣṇa should be pleased? Why? What is the necessity of pleasing Kṛṣṇa? Hmm? **Prabhupāda:** No, no, that is all right. *Guru* is representative of Kṛṣṇa. But why one should bother himself for pleasing Kṛṣṇa? Answer this. **Devotee (1):** 'Cause our real position is to serve Kṛṣṇa, and because we've fallen in this illusion of the material energy, so we forgot our position. --- **[[spoken/751029sb.nai|SB 3.28.19 — October 29, 1975, Nairobi]]** **Harikeśa:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Third Canto, Twenty-eighth Chapter, text number nineteen. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] *sthitaṁ vrajantam āsīnaṁ śayānaṁ vā guhāśayam prekṣaṇīyehitaṁ dhyāyec chuddha-bhāvena cetasā* * [[sb/3/28/19|[SB. 3.28.19] ]] **Translation:** "Thus always merged in devotional service, the *yogī* visualizes the Lord standing, moving, lying down or sitting within him, for the pastimes of the Supreme Lord are always beautiful and attractive." --- **[[spoken/761029sb.vrn|SB 5.5.7 — October 29, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:Translation:** "Even though one may be very learned and wise, he is mad if he does not understand that the endeavor for sense gratification is a useless waste of time. Being forgetful of his own interest, he tries to be happy in the material world, centering his interests around his home, which is based on sexual intercourse and which brings him all kinds of material miseries. In this way one is no better than a foolish animal." **Prabhupāda:** > yadā na paśyaty ayathā guṇehāṁ > svārthe pramattaḥ sahasā vipaścit > gata-smṛtir vindati tatra tāpān > āsādya maithunyam agāram ajñaḥ > [[sb/5/5/7|[SB. 5.5.7] ]] So one has to be *vipaścit,* learned, to understand the interest of life, self-interest. Everyone is working, especially the *karmīs,* the *jñānīs,* the *yogīs,* and mixed devotees, they are working for self-interest. The devotees also, so long there is self, there is self-interest also. So there is little difference, that the devotees, they work for Super–self-interest. There is self, but it is Super–self-interest. And the *karmīs, jñānīs, yogīs,* they work for individual self-interest. Self-interest there must be. That is the difference between lust and *prema,* or love. It has been defined in the *Caitanya-caritāmṛta,* what is the difference between lust and love. It appears almost the same, but Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has given a definition very clear, *ātmendriya-tṛpti-vāñchā-tāre nāma 'kāma'* [*Cc* Ādi 4.165]. --- **[[spoken/771029r1.vrn|Room Conversation — October 29, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Kavirāja:** [Transl. *You take that powder and tie it in a piece of cloth and dip it inside milk. You take 250 gram milk, 50 gram water and that medicine and you keep boiling until the water evaporated. Then you take out the medicine and give him the milk. If you give milk with medicine like this, there will be no mucus.] **Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. *Okay. Milk is necessary for him.]**Kavirāja:** [Transl. *If you notice he has little mucus then give him some Śītopalādi Chūrṇa regularly.]**Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. *Śītopalādi.]**Kavirāja:**[Transl. *Śītopalādi Chūrṇa]*Bhakti-cāru:*[Transl. *Did you write it down?]*Kavirāja:*[Transl. *No, You bring it separately. I will explain to Assistant Kavirāja about the condition of his health on a day to day basis. Whatever he needs to do. You need not worry about the cough, that I will control quickly. What will he get strength from?]*Bhakti-cāru:*[Transl. *From food.]*Kavirāja:*[Transl. *Yes, Diet. Protein Diet like curd. Curd is full of protein. If he doesn't take anything, you at least give him barley three times a day.]*Bhakti-cāru:*[Transl. *Okay.]*Kavirāja:* [Transl. *He is taking liquid anyway. About one kilo of liquid is going inside.]**Bhakti-cāru:**[Transl. *Maximum one kilo or may be eleven hundred grams.]*Kavirāja:*[Transl. *As for his motion, if he doesn't pass stool for three, four days then give him a glycerin anema.]*Bhakti-cāru:*[Transl. *We usually give him water anema.]*Kavirāja:*[Transl. *That is also okay. But by giving glycerin anema that part becomes slippery so that the stool can pass smoothly. You can take one ounce of glycerin, one ounce olive oil and water and give him. It is the gas that dries the stool and caupses constipation. And that way gradually one has the problem of constipation. He also doesn't take enough food.]*Bhakti-cāru:*[Transl. *Last three, four days...]*Kavirāja: *[Transl. *He may not eat any grain, he may not eat grain for fifteen days, no problem. And honey...]*Bhakti-cāru:* [Transl. *He didn't eat grain since six months.] **Kavirāja:** [Transl. *There is no harm that he did not eat grains for six month. There is milk, juice, barley.]**Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. *Little bit curd we can give.]**Kavirāja:** [Transl. *That is good. Gradually as he develops appetite, from medicine he will have appetite, so gradually as he gets appetite he will start eating. And this particular season is also favorable for increasing the fire of digestion naturally. During this time the sun supplies energy to the human beings. In summer season the energy is drained out. Therefore the energy level goes down gradually. This is a good season. This season will naturally give strength and I believe gradually all his disturbances will go away and his health will improve. So today I will make arrangement for decoction and how will I get the medicine from Calcutta? Ark from Calcutta is necessary. It is difficult. It is not available in Delhi.]**Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. *Can someone bring it from there?] **Kavirāja:**[Transl. *Yes.]*Bhakti-cāru:* [Transl. *Can you get it by post? Parcel?]**Kavirāja:**[Transl. *By post not possible, because it will be in a bottle.] **Bhakti-cāru:**[Transl. *explaining: To transport the medicine, someone can bring it from Calcutta here.* [If someone brings with him then it's good.] **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Or the same things, if the ingredients can be gotten in Delhi or Agra, they can be prepared here? **Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. *You can do like this, you get the ingredients from Delhi and prepare the decoction here.]**Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have Prabhupāda's car. We can go. **Kavirāja:** [Transl. *It is not possible because the medicine has to be produced by *bhapkā* or distilling machine.]**Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. *What is *bhapkā*?]**Kavirāja:**[Transl. *By which...]*Bhakti-cāru:*[Transl. *From the steam.]*Kavirāja:* [Transl. *Yes. From the steam of the medicine the water is collected. It is not possible here. Distilled water.]**Bhakti-caru: He says it's distilled. He has got to distill the medicine. For that he needs proper apparatus. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1966/661029_janis.md|Letter to Janis, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1967/671029_krsna_devi.md|Letter to Krsna Devi, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671029_nandarani.md|Letter to Nandarani, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/681029_yamuna.md|Letter to Yamuna, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691029_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1973/731029_niranjana.md|Letter to Niranjana, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731029_svarupa_damodara.md|Letter to Svarupa Damodara, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731029_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1975/751029_all_iskcon_temple_presidents.md|Letter to All Iskcon Temple Presidents, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751029_district_judge_of_agra_mr._s.d._kulshrestha.md|Letter to District Judge Of Agra Mr. S.D. Kulshrestha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751029_mr._longo_a._ali.md|Letter to Mr. Longo A. Ali, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/761029_pusta_krsna.md|Letter to Pusta Krsna, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761029_ramesvara.md|Letter to Ramesvara, 1976]]