# November 2 *Lectures from this day: 18 recordings* --- - > ## [[../../spoken/1970/701102le.bom.md|Lecture — November 2, 1970, Bombay]] > > Prabhupāda: [chants maṅgalācaraṇa prayers] Before speaking on the verses already quoted by my disciples, I may be permitted to read a portion of my...— - > ## [[../../spoken/1972/721102nd.vrn.md|The Nectar of Devotion — November 2, 1972, Vṛndāvana]] > > Pradyumna: [reading:] “So when our senses are engaged for the actual proprietor of the senses, that is called devotional service. In our conditional...— --- **[[spoken/721102sb.vrn|SB 1.2.22 — November 2, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *ataḥ*—therefore; *vai*—certainly; *kavayaḥ*—all transcendentalists; *nityam*—from time immemorial; *bhaktim*—service unto the Lord; *paramayā*—supreme; *mudā*—with great delight; *vāsudeve*—Śrī Kṛṣṇa; *bhagavati*—the Personality of Godhead; *kurvanti*—do render; *ātma*—self; *prasādanīm*—that which enlivens. --- **[[spoken/731102r1.del|Room Conversation — November 2, 1973, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...for others it is said. For Kṛṣṇa, it is mercy. The *gopīs* came with lust. They became purified with Kṛṣṇa's association. *Gopīs,* actually, superficially, externally, they are..., means, *nitya-siddha,* ever-liberated expansion of Kṛṣṇa's energy, internal energy. But apparently, they left their father, husband and came to Kṛṣṇa. So that is, from Vedic principle, it is wrong. One young girl cannot go to other young man, giving up the protection of father, brother and... So they did it. So they, according to Vedic principle, it is sinful. But because it was related with Kṛṣṇa, they became purified. That means any way if one comes in contact with Kṛṣṇa, he becomes purified, even though he's sinful. That is Kṛṣṇa's... That is the benefit of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Sun is never infected. Rather, the infected area becomes sterilized by the sunshine. This is the process. That is explained. *Tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya* [[sb/10/33/29|[SB. 10.33.29] ]]. One who is very powerful, he has no fault. So how your temperature is going on? **Prabhupāda:** I got everything, still, I haven't got anything. [laughter] So you can invite the neighboring people. We can hold evening class or morning class. I'll give you one matter for... --- **[[spoken/741102sb.bom|SB 3.25.2 — November 2, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "Śaunaka continued: There is no one who knows more than the Supreme Lord Himself. No one is more worshipable or more mature a *yogī* than He. He is therefore the master of the Vedas, and to hear about Him always is the actual pleasure of the senses." --- **[[../../spoken/1975/751102le.bom.md|Lecture [Hindi] — November 2, 1975, Bombay]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/751102mw.nai|Morning Walk — November 2, 1975, Nairobi]]** **Harikeśa:** Well, in the beginning only it was an accident. Then it became regular, after that first accident. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. So in the beginning let us kick. [laughter] Then things will be all right. [break] ...*Bhagavad-gītā* says in the beginning? Hmm? What is the beginning? **Prabhupāda:** Ah. *Bījo 'haṁ sarva-bhūtānām* [[bg/7/10|[Bg. 7.10] ]], very good. Thank you very much. All these plants begins from the seed. That seed... Kṛṣṇa says, "I am the seed." So how it is accident? Every plant has got a particular type of seed. You cannot change it. You take two seeds: it will grow as it is; it will grow as it is. Not that by accident it will grow like this and it will grow like this. No. Rose seed will grow rose tree, and mango seed will grow mangoes. Where is accident? The seed is there. Simply rascals. --- **[[spoken/761102r1.vrn|Room Conversation about New York Court Case — November 2, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** So a lot of these parents are saying that we should all be..., we should be investigated. Now they are saying that we are not Hindus, and they are saying that by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, the thinking of the brain stops. **Gopāla Kṛṣṇa:** So in New York the press is against us. But in Los Angeles it is going in our favor, he said [referring to report by Rāmeśvara]. In Los Angeles they had kidnapped the best girl distributor. Now she has come back, but, ah... **Prabhupāda:** They are, as soon as we become very important, our enemies, they will try to suppress us. --- **[[spoken/761102r2.vrn|Room Conversation — November 2, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** And they continually going on giving information—rocks and sand. Why do you take so much trouble of going to Mars and this? If your go.... It is already concluded that we shall give this, because they are already under the impression that all other planets are vacant. The same thing, after spending millions of dollars, they're giving the same verdict. So why do this business? Simply cheating. They're cheating their boss, that "We are making research." The result of research is the same. They're silent now, this Mars excursion? **Prabhupāda:** What they'll say? There is nothing to say. They do not go, and even they go, they take photograph from millions of miles, what is the value of these things? But people are accepting that "Oh, scientific research." Perhaps I am the only man in the world who is protesting. [laughs] Eh? Everyone is accepting, "Oh, this is scientific." **Hari-śauri:** People are being duped now into believing that advancement means simply to research. Not to actually find out anything valuable, but just to do some research. They think that that's the whole thing, education means just to research. --- **[[spoken/761102sb.vrn|SB 5.5.14 — November 2, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** **Translation: "As I have advised you, My dear sons, you should act accordingly. Be very careful. By these means you will be freed from the ignorance of the desire for fruitive activity, and the knot of bondage in the heart will be completely severed. For further advancement, you should also give up the means. That is, you should not become attached to the process of liberation itself." **Prabhupāda:** > karmāśayaṁ hṛdaya-granthi-bandham > avidyayāsāditam apramattaḥ > anena yogena yathopadeśaṁ > samyag vyapohyoparameta yogāt > [[sb/5/5/14|[SB. 5.5.14] ]] So the *bhakti-yoga* process is described in the previous verses. Real purport is *karmāśayam,* how to be free from *karmāśayam.* So long our mind will be absorbed in *karmāśayam,* then there is no question of becoming free from this material body. *Karmānubandhaṁ na mucyate deha-yogena tāvat.* This is already advised. The whole purpose is how to make the spirit soul from the bondage of contamination of repetition of birth and death. That is the purpose of human life. *Karmāśayam:* everyone is trying to become happy by working hard and getting the result. *Ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ* [[bg/8/16|[Bg. 8.16] ]]: not only here, but also in other planets up to the Brahmaloka, this process is going on. And to counteract this process, in the previous three verses it has been explained how one can gradually become relieved. The first process is recommended, *haṁse gurau mayi bhaktyānuvṛtyā.* --- **[[spoken/771102r1.vrn|Room Conversation New Books — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** I think I have printed list here. Sixty-three thousand copies printed. *Kṛṣṇa* book in Spanish, three volumes. [break] **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Now, here's a box. [sounds of boxes being opened] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Tenth Canto, Part Two. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes, 10.2 [devotees exclaim] There's nothing quite as relishable as seeing your books in the English... --- **[[spoken/771102r2.vrn|Room Conversation — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 2, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-02 permalink: spoken/771102r2.vrn description: "Yes. First thing they had a flat tire. Then they ran out of gas, and then there was no petrol station. Then they lost the track. They went to some... Śrī Nārāyaṇa: Missed the place. Coming from Delhi?..." --- **Śrī Nārāyaṇa:** [Transl. *How is your health now? How do you feel now? Is there any improvement little bit?]**Prabhupāda:** [Transl. *Somewhat.]**Śrī Nārāyaṇa:** [Transl. *Little. Yesterday I came to know that you were ready to leave for Delhi at night only and from there to Māyāpur. The programme was like that no?]**Prabhupāda:** [Transl. *Yes.]**Śrī Nārāyaṇa:** [Transl. *Then in the morning I heard that you will stay here.]**Prabhupāda:** [Transl. *Yes. I will stay.]**Śrī Nārāyaṇa:** [Transl. *Because, there will be strain in the journey. There will be so much strain in traveling...]**Prabhupāda:** [Transl. *It will be little Risk.]**Śrī Nārāyaṇa:** [Transl. *Yes. Risk also. I think it is good that you stayed back. The weather is good here nowadays.]**Prabhupāda:** [Transl. **Yes. That, the car also broke down. [chuckles]]Śrī Nārāyaṇa:** [Transl. *The car was also not good.]**Prabhupāda:** [Transl. What happened to t**he car?]Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Er, do you know the history? **Bhakti-caru:** Yes. First thing they had a flat tire. Then they ran out of gas, and then there was no petrol station. Then they lost the track. They went to some... --- **[[spoken/771102r3.vrn|Room Conversation — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 2, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-02 permalink: spoken/771102r3.vrn description: "...that \"After you, who will take the leadership?\" And \"Everyone will take, all my disciples. If you want, you can take also. But if you follow. They are prepared to sacrifice everything, so they'll..." --- Room Conversation — *November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana**Prabhupāda: ...that "After you, who will take the leadership?" And "Everyone will take, all my disciples. If you want, you can take also. [laughter] But if you follow. They are prepared to sacrifice everything, so they'll take the leadership. I may, one, go away, but there will be hundreds, and they'll preach. If you want, you can also become leader. We have no such thing, that 'Here is leader.' Anyone who follows the previous leadership, he's a leader. 'Indian,' we have no such distinction, 'Indian,' 'European.' " **Prabhupāda:** Yes. [laughs] "Everyone, all my disciples, they are leaders. As purely as they follow, they become leader. If you want to follow, you can become a leader—you are Indian—but you don't want." I told them that. --- **[[spoken/771102r4.vrn|Room Conversation with Jaidayal Dalmia — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 2, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-02 permalink: spoken/771102r4.vrn description: "Prabhupāda: There is good demand all over the world. \"Kṛṣṇa is not person; Kṛṣṇa is consciousness.\" Kṛṣṇa personally speaking, and \"He is consciousness.\" He says, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhav..." --- Room Conversation with Jaidayal Dalmia — *November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana**Prabhupāda: *Jaya*. [Transl. Your health is okay?] Jaidayal Dalmia*:* [Transl. There was a Gītā conference arranged by the people of Wardhā, I came for that.] --- **[[spoken/771102r5.vrn|Room Conversation with Akṣayānanda — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 2, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-02 permalink: spoken/771102r5.vrn description: "They have just... Śrī Nārāyaṇajī and Ramkrishna Bajajī have just left. I just saw them off. They are very happy. All the members of the committee, of their committee, they made a prayer that Your Divi..." --- Room Conversation with *Akṣayānanda** — **November 2, 1977, VṛndāvanaPrabhupāda:** What is the report? **Akṣayānanda:** They have just... Śrī Nārāyaṇajī and Ramkrishna Bajajī have just left. I just saw them off. They are very happy. All the members of the committee, of their committee, they made a prayer that Your Divine Grace would have long life and good health. And regarding their meeting, I simply put their... They had the loudspeaker outside. I just put it inside so no passerby can hear, and they just did their business and left. There were no problems. --- **[[spoken/771102r6.vrn|Room Conversation [partially recorded] — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 2, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-02 permalink: spoken/771102r6.vrn description: "Actually, I think you're the only one on the whole planet who is not Māyāvādī—Māyāvādī or influenced by Māyāvādī philosophy. Actually, until you came to the West, the only philosophy that had come to..." --- Room Conversation [Partially Recorded] — *November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana**Bhavānanda: Actually, I think you're the only one on the whole planet who is not Māyāvādī—Māyāvādī or influenced by Māyāvādī philosophy. Actually, until you came to the West, the only philosophy that had come to America from India was Māyāvādī philosophy. No one knew anything else. [break] [end] --- **[[spoken/771102r7.vrn|Room Conversation — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 2, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-02 permalink: spoken/771102r7.vrn description: "Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Each verse is like a separate lecture, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Hare Kṛṣṇa. We received... I received some results of book distribution from September, worldwide, very extraordinary figures. A..." --- Room Conversation — *November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana**Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** [looking at *Preaching is the Essence?] *Each verse is like a separate lecture, Śrīla Prabhupāda. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Hare Kṛṣṇa. We received... I received some results of book distribution from September, worldwide, very extraordinary figures. Actually, they are astounding figures. --- **[[spoken/771102r8.vrn|Room Conversation Kavirāja Visit — November 2, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Well, the real factor is Your Divine Grace's desire. I mean, it seems like... You know, our, as your disciples, our duty is to help you fulfill your desire. It seems like your desire is to die in Vṛndāvana. But it's very hard for us to execute that service. It's very hard—because we love you—to assist you in dying. It's a paradox. You want to die in Vṛndāvana, and we want you to live, and yet we have to do whatever you want. I mean, the *kavirāja,* he is giving some... He feels a little confident. Probably from medical point of view, there's no doubt, he has far superior knowledge than any of us. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** No. Viśvambhara has not come yet, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I mean for the past few days you've been saying that you want to live. Now suddenly you say that you want to die. Maybe that's simply to discourage us from... Because you feel too weak now. There's so many conflicting... **Prabhupāda:** [Transl.to K*avirāja: **I am telling them so much that you are simply giving me medicines, you take me on parikramā one time and then just leave me here whole day.]* --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/671102_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671102_himavati.md|Letter to Himavati, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671102_madhusudana.md|Letter to Madhusudana, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671102_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/681102_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_arundhati.md|Letter to Arundhati, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_hayagriva_vamanadeva_pradyumna.md|Letter to Hayagriva Vamanadeva Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_krsna_devi.md|Letter to Krsna Devi, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_kulasekhara.md|Letter to Kulasekhara, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_mandali_bhadra.md|Letter to Mandali Bhadra, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691102_vamanadeva.md|Letter to Vamanadeva, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1972/721102_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721102_bhutatma_kesava.md|Letter to Bhutatma Kesava, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721102_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/731102_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1976/761102_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761102_morris_lapidus.md|Letter to Morris Lapidus, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761102_prthu_putra.md|Letter to Prthu Putra, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761102_shasta.md|Letter to Shasta, 1976]]