# November 3 *Lectures from this day: 18 recordings* --- **[[spoken/721103nd.vrn|The Nectar of Devotion — November 3, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading] "4) Pure devotional service is rarely achieved. 5) Those in pure devotional service..." **Pradyumna:** Page 2. "Those in pure devotional service deride even the conception of liberation. [microphone feedback] 6) Pure devotional service is the only means to attract Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is all-attractive, but pure devotional service attracts even Him. This means that pure devotional service is even transcendentally stronger than Kṛṣṇa Himself, because it is Kṛṣṇa's internal potency." **Prabhupāda:** Hmm. So six advantages. These are the immediate result of taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress. There is a song of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura: *mānasa deha geha yo kichu mora, arpilūn tuyā pade nanda-kiśora* [*Śaraṇāgati*]. The purport of this song is when we surrender to Kṛṣṇa, *prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā* [[sb/10/22/35|[SB. 10.22.35] ]], then we get relief from all kinds of anxieties. This is very simple to understand. --- **[[spoken/721103sb.vrn|SB 1.2.23 — November 3, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** [leads chanting of synonyms] *sattvam*—goodness; *rajaḥ*—passion; *tamaḥ*—darkness of ignorance; *iti*—thus; *prakṛteḥ*—of the material nature; *guṇāḥ*—qualities; *taiḥ*—by them; *yuktaḥ*—associated with; *paraḥ*—transcendental; *puruṣaḥ*—the personality; *ekaḥ*—one; *iha asya*—of this material world; *dhatte*—accepts; *sthiti-ādaye*—for the matter of creation, maintenance and destruction, etc.; *hari*—Viṣṇu, the Personality of Godhead; *viriñci*—Brahmā; *hara*—Lord Śiva; *iti*—thus; *saṁjñāḥ*—different features; *śreyāṁsi*—ultimate benefit; *tatra*—therein; *khalu*—of course; *sattva*—goodness; *tanoḥ*—form; *nṛṇām*—of the human being; *syuḥ*—derived. **Translation:** "The transcendental Lord is indirectly associated with the three modes of material nature, namely passion, goodness and ignorance, and just for the material world's creation, maintenance and destruction He accepts the three qualitative forms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva. Of these three, all living beings can derive ultimate benefit from Viṣṇu, the form of the quality of goodness." --- **[[spoken/731103bg.del|Bg 3.9 — November 3, 1973, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...which produces some result which binds us in *karma.* This verse is explained in another place. The verse is, *yajñārthe karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ* [[bg/3/9|[Bg. 3.9] ]]. Yajñārthe.* Yajña means God. Yajña-pati, one name. God has got various names. One name is Yajña-pati. So you have to act for *yajña.* That is nice. The example, as I gave you the other day, that a soldier is fighting and killing many enemies or killing many persons, but he is not responsible for killing. The same man, when he is not fighting for the country or for the government, if he kills one man, he is hanged. He is to be hanged. Try to understand. So because he is fighting or killing on the order of higher authority, the government, he is not responsible for all those killings. Rather, sometimes he is recognized by giving some medal: "Oh, you have killed so many enemies. Very good." And similarly, if he kills outside the war field, at home... That is also enemy. Nobody kills nobody unless the other is his enemy. But he will be hanged. If he argues in the court that "In the battlefield I killed so many enemies. I was given recognition. But at home I have killed only one enemy, and for which I am going to be hanged. What is this law?" this argument will not stay. So for higher authority's order, if you do something, you are not responsible. --- **[[spoken/731103r1.del|Room Conversation on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.11 — November 3, 1973, Delhi]]** **Pradyumna:** > sat-saṅgān mukta-duḥsaṅgo > hātuṁ notsahate budhaḥ > kīrtyamānaṁ yaśo yasya > sakṛd ākarṇya rocanam > [[sb/1/10/11|[SB. 1.10.11] ]] **Pradyumna:** "The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed from bad materialistic association, can never avoid hearing the glories of the Lord, even though they have heard them only once." **Pradyumna:** "The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed..." --- **[[spoken/741103sb.bom|SB 3.25.3 — November 3, 1974, Bombay]]** "Therefore please precisely describe all the activities and pastimes of the Personality of Godhead, who is full of self-desire and who assumes all these activities by His internal potency." **Prabhupāda:** > yad yad vidhatte bhagavān > svacchandātmātma-māyayā > tāni me śraddadhānasya > kīrtanyāny anukīrtaya > [[sb/3/25/3|[SB. 3.25.3] ]] --- **[[spoken/751103cc.bom|Cc. Madhya 20.101-104 — November 3, 1975, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...from *Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Caitanya* means "the supreme living being." In the *Vedas* it is said, *nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān* [*Kaṭha Upaniṣad* 2.2.13]. **Prabhupāda:** Oh. [laughs] Hare Kṛṣṇa. So, what is God, that is simplified, that *nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām.* He is the supreme eternal being amongst many other eternal beings. We are all eternal beings. We living entities, we are... Our position is eternity. As it is described in the *Bhagavad-gītā, na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācit:* "These living entities, they do not take birth or die at any time." Not "Nowadays they are taking more birth and population is increasing." This is all nonsense. Population is neither increasing nor decreasing. It may be... The living entities, they are transmigrating in this material world, not in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world they have got their eternal form. But in the material world, because the living entities have come to enjoy the material resources, therefore, according to the desire, the living entity is getting different forms of body, 8,400,000. But he is not dying. The body is changed. *Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. Our death means to transmigrate to another body. Just like from childhood we are transmigrating to another body, boyhood; from boyhood we are transmigrating to another body, youthhood; and from youthhood we are transferred to another body, old body. Similarly, when this body will not be any more workable, then we shall transmigrate to another body. *Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. Those who are *dhīra—dhīra* means sober, thoughtful—they are not bewildered. But those who are not *dhīra, adhīra...* There are two classes of men: *dhīra* and *adhīra. Dhīra* means one who is spiritually situated. He is called *dhīra* or *brahma-bhūtaḥ, prasannātmā* [[bg/18/54|[Bg. 18.54] ]], dhīra.* And one who is not spiritually situated, materially situated, means on the platform of bodily conception of life, then he is *adhīra,* he is restless, from this platform to that platform, this platform to that platform. This is going on. --- **[[spoken/751103mw.bom|Morning Walk — November 3, 1975, Bombay]]** **Girirāja:** So we told them that we didn't want... They were putting in a permanent one. So we stopped that, and... [aside:] Saurabha P*rabhu,* did he say that he would also remove the present one? **Saurabha:** Well, he couldn't do that immediately because this one has been there for twenty-five years. But they will try to get rid of all these things. **Prabhupāda:** Rather inconvenient to Mr. Mhatre, because in front, practically. We have got wall. We have no very much objection. And how will they allow? [break] --- **[[spoken/761103r1.vrn|Room Conversation — November 3, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Hari-śauri:** But how can they take it that what we're doing is a bad thing? If we're training people how to avoid intoxication, how to avoid illicit sex, abortion, contraception... **Prabhupāda:** They say, "Why you should avoid? This is life. Why you are brainwashing?" One boy was there in the beginning... What was his name? Ranchor, his name, I gave him. So his father argued, "Why you are avoiding illicit sex? This is life! Why you are afraid? I'll give you car. I'll give you girls. You enjoy. What is this philosophy, nonsense philosophy?" His father was arguing. I think everyone's father argues like that. Lord Ronaldsay, he said, "Why you are prohibiting this thing? This is our life. It is impossible." **Hari-śauri:** The thing is in society still, even now, there are people who abstain from it. There are vegetarians or... --- **[[spoken/761103r2.vrn|Room Conversation — November 3, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. And they..., you spend money for cigarette, for cinema, for restaurant—unnecessarily. We don't spend a farthing even for all this purpose. Simply we take little rice, *chapāti,* that's all. And still, you are culprit? **Hari-śauri:** They..., even the papers report that, that we spend very lavishly for the Deities, but for ourselves we only eat very simply. **Prabhupāda:** So is it not credit? We spend for God. We are servant of God. We want to see God gorgeously situated, and for us we have no comforts, we don't care for any comfort. We simply spend minimum, just to keep the body and soul together, that's all. This is our principle. We don't spend a farthing for our sense gratification. This should be noted down if some case is there. This should be presented. We don't go to restaurant, we don't go to cinema, we don't spend lavishly for dress or something else. No. Neither for furniture. [laughter] Eh? If you sit down in a..., a pad, is that faulty? --- **[[spoken/761103sb.vrn|SB 5.5.15 — November 3, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Translation:** "If one is serious about going back to home, back to Godhead, he must consider the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the *summum bonum* and chief aim of life. If he is a father instructing his sons, a spiritual master instructing his disciples or a king instructing his citizens, he must instruct them as I have advised. Without being angry, he should continue giving instructions, even if his disciple, son or citizen is sometimes unable to follow his order. Ignorant people who engage in pious and impious activities should be engaged in devotional service by all means. They should always avoid fruitive activity. If one puts into the bondage of karmic activity his disciple, son or citizen who is bereft of transcendental vision, how will one profit? It is like leading a blind man to a dark well and causing him to fall in." **Prabhupāda:** > putrāṁś ca śiṣyāṁś ca nṛpo gurur vā > mal-loka-kāmo mad-anugrahārthaḥ > itthaṁ vimanyur anuśiṣyād ataj-jñān > na yojayet karmasu karma-mūḍhān > kaṁ yojayan manujo 'rthaṁ labheta > nipātayan naṣṭa-dṛśaṁ hi garte > [[sb/5/5/15|[SB. 5.5.15] ]] --- **[[spoken/771103r1.vrn|Prabhupāda Vigil — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Well, it seems like it was Kṛṣṇa's desire that we didn't go. I was pretty shocked when I saw that the cars only arrived by four o'clock in the morning. There was no way that we would have been able to go on time. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** What is to be done now? Well, we're going to stay here for ten days or so, and you'll get better. When you get stronger, then we can attempt this trip. We have to hope that you'll get stronger now. Did you take all the medicine, Bhakti-caru, from the *kavirāja?* **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Oh, yes. No, that was the best program, to wait some time. We were feeling a little bit happy to get this good *kavirāja,* so naturally we were thinking to stay where he could give you more close attention. But he also felt that to wait for some time was best. Did you pass a comfortable night? --- **[[spoken/771103r2.vrn|Room Conversation — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** Don't keep money. Spend it. The *karmīs,* they spend for sense gratification. You spend for Kṛṣṇa. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Kṛṣṇa's giving us... I figured out, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that if we... Just like we did in September, I multiplied times twelve to see how much money in a year your books are selling. And the BBT, in one year, can expect to make, around the world, about \$8,100,000. In rupees that comes out to seven *crores,* seventy thousand rupees. Seven *crores,* seventy thousand rupees. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** What *karmī* can earn so much. For the temples, that means that by selling your books, the temples will collect about sixteen million dollars in one year. Or in other words, fourteen *crores,* nine *lakhs,* forty thousand rupees. --- **[[spoken/771103r3.vrn|Room Conversation — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Brahmānanda:** Well, they were very stubborn. They simply insisted that there were two paths, and they were quoting *Bhagavad-gītā*. I said, "Well, that may be so, but of the two paths, your path is the most difficult, and you've called this conference to spread *Bhagavad-gītā,* so why are you spreading the most difficult path of *Bhagavad-gītā?* Why not spread the most easiest?" **Brahmānanda:** At that point Mr. Bajaj interrupted and said that we shouldn't discuss *Bhagavad-gītā* but just how to promote *Bhagavad-gītā* and how to cooperate. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** While they are busy discussing, we are busy doing it. We have not had any trouble distributing the *Bhagavad-gītās.* Even though we have not attended their meetings, the distribution is going on very well. --- **[[spoken/771103r4.vrn|Room Conversation — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes. He can't speak, actually. Resting is good in this case. Best thing. Maybe I can read some nice news, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Would you like that? This is a very nice report, Śrīla Prabhupāda, from Peru. Dr. Kapoor said anyone would fall in love with it at first sight. [laughter] Pañca ought to see the Tenth Canto. This is a new edition of Tenth Canto that has just come out. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** These are Spanish publications. We were just reading. These are the books that they were distributing, that they were talking about—*Kṛṣṇa* book in Spanish, three parts. There's also some Spanish nectar that came. Do we have any? **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Well, there's I think twenty-seven languages. French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish... --- **[[spoken/771103r5.vrn|Room Conversation with Gaura-Govinda and Girirāja — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** --- title: Lecture — November 3, 1977, Vrndavana date: 1977-11-03 permalink: spoken/771103r5.vrn description: "Bhāgavata has arrived, so I came here to have darśana. We have been to Jagannātha Purī, and some jagannātha-prasāda we have brought for you. Will you take some? Now we'll begin construction. Our archi..." --- Room Conversation with *Gaura-Govinda and Girirāja** — **November 3, 1977, VṛndāvanaBhakti-cāru:** [Transl. He has come Śrīla Prabhupāda, Gaura-Govinda Mahārāja.] **Gaura-Govinda:** We have been to Jagannātha Purī, and some *jagannātha-prasāda* we have brought for you. Will you take some? --- **[[spoken/771103r6.vrn|Room Conversation with Gaura-Govinda — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Yes. They drive from Bombay to Hyder... I've also done that driving. Long trip—ten, eleven hours. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** It's just beginning again, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You like the *kīrtana?* For a few days we weren't having it. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Okay. I think the reason that you haven't been having much *kīrtana* in the last two or three days is because Haṁsadūta and Baradrāj were not here. Isn't that it? Hmm. Their *kīrtana* is very sweet. [break] --- **[[spoken/771103r7.vrn|Room Conversation with Śatadhanya — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Śatadhanya:** In Māyāpur, when they heard that Your Divine Grace was coming, it was like electricity. There was... I've never seen anyone so excited as they were. They were electrified. Everyone was... All the *gurukula,* little boys who had never even seen... "Prabhupāda is coming! Prabhupāda is coming!" There were shouts all through the *āśrama.* And everything was very well organized by Jayapatākā Mahārāja for your arrival. **Śatadhanya:** At the airport that Mrs. De, who you had... I think she met you previously. She had told you, "I am also a De." **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** When we went to Bombay. Remember when we flew to Bombay that lady helped us for getting special seating? --- **[[spoken/771103r8.vrn|Room Conversation — November 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** No, that was Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa. This is Tuṣṭa Kṛṣṇa, from New Zealand. He says, "Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda..." [break] **Bhakti-cāru:** Next I'll give you some barley and milk. Would you like to have some *bati chachari,* Śrīla Prabhupāda? *Bati chachari?* **Bhakti-cāru:** Yes, fried *potol* and some *bati chachari*. Would you like to have some *chapāti* with that, Śrīla Prabhupāda? *Cāpāṭi?* Or some rice? --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/681103_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681103_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681103_purusottama.md|Letter to Purusottama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681103_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681103_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691103_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701103_dr._chakravarti.md|Letter to Dr. Chakravarti, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701103_sagar_maharaja.md|Letter to Sagar Maharaja, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721103_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721103_karandhara.md|Letter to Karandhara, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721103_sivananda.md|Letter to Sivananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721103_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/741103_bali-mardana.md|Letter to Bali-Mardana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741103_bijay_kumar_kannungo.md|Letter to Bijay Kumar Kannungo, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741103_radhavallabha.md|Letter to Radhavallabha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741103_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1976/761103_disciples_in_new_dwaraka.md|Letter to Disciples In New Dwaraka, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761103_hrsikesananda.md|Letter to Hrsikesananda, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761103_sacimata.md|Letter to Sacimata, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761103_vasudeva.md|Letter to Vasudeva, 1976]]