# October 30 ## Spoken on October 30 *Lectures from this day: 8 recordings* --- **[1968: Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 1](spoken/1968/681030ip.la)** > Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja*. There is no consideration of this goodness or badness. You have to give up all material attachment. And abhorrence. Abhorrence is also another negative attachment. "I don't like this," that means I have attachment for this "don't like." You see? So a devotee is simply attached to the service of the Lord, and whatever condition comes, favorable or unfavorable, any circumstances he is steady, *dṛḍha-vratāḥ, bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ*. > In the material world goodness is sometimes mixed up with ignorance and passion, but in the spiritual world there is pure goodness—no contamination or tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore it is called *śuddha-sattva. Śuddha-sattva. Śabdam, sattvaṁ viśuddhaṁ vasudeva-śabditam* : "That pure goodness is called *vasudeva,* and in that pure goodness one can realize God." Therefore God's name is Vāsudeva, "produced from Vasudeva." Vasudeva is the father of Vāsudeva. --- **[1972: The Nectar of Devotion](spoken/1972/721030nd.vrn)** > Just like small child, he doesn't require to earn money for spending. If he's rich man's son, his father will take care of him. Similarly, a devotee does not endeavor to become expert in *jñāna-yoga, dhyāna-yoga, haṭha-yoga,* this *yoga.* He depends on Kṛṣṇa. And when some yogic mystic power has to be shown, Kṛṣṇa will show that. That is the process, *bhakti-yoga.* You take to Kṛṣṇa, and everything will be done, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, *ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ* : "Don't worry. I shall take care of you." So therefore the conclusion is that one who is fortunate, he can take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness cent per cent, without any deviation. That is wanted. > Therefore our business is to point out that "Kṛṣṇa is your friend." *Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām*. "He's the proprietor. Don't claim your proprietorship. You are not proprietor. You are falsely claiming, because what you are claiming as your property, it will be taken away by Kṛṣṇa at the time of your death. Everything will be finished." *Mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś ca aham*,* Kṛṣṇa says. *Mṛtyu...* Kṛṣṇa says, "I am death when I take away everything from the person—his life, property, body and everything." --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.19](spoken/1972/721030sb.vrn)** > So Kṛṣṇa says therefore in the *Bhagavad-gītā, nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyā-samāvṛtaḥ*. Simply by becoming *brāhmaṇa,* one cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. He must become a devotee. Because Kṛṣṇa is understood by simply devotional service. *Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti*. Kṛṣṇa does not say that to..., "By becoming *brāhmaṇa,* one can understand Me." No. *Brāhmaṇa* stage is impersonal realization of Brahman. There is no personal realization. When the personal realization is there, he's called Vaiṣṇava, *brāhmaṇa-vaiṣṇava.* > So to become *brāhmaṇa* by qualification is not sufficient. One must know the Brahman, the Supreme Brahman, Para-brahman. Just like Arjuna understood Kṛṣṇa, *paraṁ brahma, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān*. That is real stage. That is brahminical stage. Don't think that Arjuna was a *kṣatriya.* He, after studying *Bhagavad-gītā,* he became *brāhmaṇa,* because he understood Kṛṣṇa. He says, *paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān.* He understood Kṛṣṇa rightly. Others, they... --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.28.20](spoken/1975/751030sb.nai)** > Still, we are fighting: "No, this Africa is mine," "This America is mine," or "This India is mine." They are simply fighting, simply fighting on this misconception. It is clearly said, and is a fact. How this land becomes yours? It does not belong to you. You have come for the time being, for, say, fifty years, hundred years. But the land is lying for millions and millions of years. So before your coming, the land was there, and after your going away the land will be there. How it becomes yours? But they have no common sense, these rascals. They have no common sense. They are fighting—"nationalism." Therefore they are described as *go-khara, go-khara,* animals, cows and asses. *Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kunape tri-dhātuke svā-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ*. Bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ,* this is nationalism, worshiping the land of birth. This is called nationalism. > So we can study our history of life, that someone was born in India; someone was born in America; someone was born in Africa, Canada. So we have come together. We did... There was no idea that we shall have to give up our family relationship and come into this society of Kṛṣṇa conscious. So similarly, we mix together, intermingle, by chance. Not by chance—by the arrangement of the Supreme, by providence. *Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa*. So we play the part of the son, the father, the wife, the children, but it is exactly the same—a straw gathering by the waves of the river. So just like sometimes in a foreign country we make some relationship, brother, father, but that is not actually the fact. The real father is Kṛṣṇa. *Sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayoyaḥ*. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.8](spoken/1976/761030sb.vrn)** > So we should know, *puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam* : this material world is nothing but a false attraction between man and woman. Not only in human society—in birds, beast, animal, aquatics, trees, plants, everywhere. You will find these pigeons, as soon as one female pigeon is there, and the male pigeon immediately wants to canvass, "Please come. Let us unite." You have seen, this is nature's way, sparrow. The same feelings: *puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī.* So therefore in the human society, by Vedic knowledge, by education you have to understand that we are bound up within this material world. What is the cause? The cause is that attraction between man and woman. This is the cause. *Puṁsaḥ. Puṁsaḥ* means the *bhoktā,* the enjoyer. Here the male and female, both of them are *puṁsaḥ, puruṣaḥ,* because everyone has got that feeling that "I shall enjoy." Nobody is feeling that "I shall be enjoyed." Everyone is thinking, "I shall enjoy." Nobody wants to be predominated; everyone wants to be predominator. This is the illusion. > So this is the training of *Bhagavad-gītā.* This is the training of *Bhāgavata.* Everywhere the Vedic principle, the first principle is that we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa. In the previous verse we have already studied, *gata-smṛtir vindati tatra tāpān*, because we have forgotten what is our position. *Gata-smṛti. Smṛti* means memory. There is one word called *alpa-medhasām,* and there is another word, *su-medhasam.* These words are there, *tad-bhavati alpa-medhasām,* in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* Those who are trying to be happy in this material world, *kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ... . They, people generally, they are *kāma,* this *kāma, puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī;* this is *kāma.* This *kāma* is manifested in different ways. The actually the central point is *kāma.* So that when that *kāma* is fulfilled... Because a man is searching after woman and woman is searching after man, when they unite, then the *kāma* becomes hard knot, very tightly. When they are separated, there is chance of not being tied, but as soon as they are tied by marriage or by some way or other, then *tayor mitha hṛdaya-granthim āhur. Hṛdaya-granthim.* We are already attracted to these things, and when it is united, then we see practically in our Indian families that when the boy is grown up and the girl is grown up, the father, mother unite them by marriage system. Everywhere. But India still going on. Why? Because unless he is married, he'll not get attracted to this material life. --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/771030r1.vrn)** > [Transl. *In Māyāpur we have built a house for accommodation. How many people can live there, Bābājī Mahārāja?]*Kṛṣṇa dāsa Bābājī:[Transl. --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/771030r2.vrn)** >of the different businesses of Vrindavan? Well, first of all he was getting money for traveling expenses. So I have written a letter to Mr. Bekkar, the manager of the Central Bank of India at Camac Street, informing him that henceforward the interest from the fixed deposits in the name of BBT should be stopped from giving it to Vrinda Book Company, and instead the money should be transferred by mail transfer to the Central Bank of India, Gwalior Tank Road, to BBT account. I gave all the details. That's one letter. Then furthermore, I also addressed a letter to the Punjab National Bank, Brabourne Road, informing them that the Rs. 500 should be stopped from being given to Shrimati Radharani De, because... I didn't mention this, but the reason is that she'll be getting one thousand rupees from Indian Overseas Bank. And I'm sending that letter... > So as soon as he forgets Kṛṣṇa and wants to enjoy life independently, that is *guṇa-saṅga,* and falls down. It is falldown. This *guṇa-saṅga... Puruṣaḥ prakṛti-stho hi bhuṅkte...*. What is that verse? --- ## Letters on October 30 *Letters from this day: 3* --- **[1969: Letter to Tamala Krsna](letters/1969/691030_tamala_krsna)** > Regarding management of the society, I have already described this to you in letters to Brahmananda and yourself. So far as the maintenance fund is concerned, that may be sent to me directly. --- **[1976: Letter to Srutadeva](letters/1976/761030_srutadeva)** > It is a gradual process that one becomes sense controlled and a personal example. In the beginning one should worship the Deity and follow the basic practices. --- **[1976: Letter to Tamala Krsna](letters/1976/761030_tamala_krsna)** > Regarding the point about whether our movement is bona fide, you can use the following arguments. Let the judges and juries read our books and take the opinion of learned scholars and professors. ---