# November 5 *Lectures from this day: 15 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/661105pu.ny.md|Purport to Brahma-saṁhitā Verses 32 and 38 — November 5, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/681105bs.la|Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā, Verse 29 — November 5, 1968, Los Angeles]]** "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is the cause of all causes. He is in the *cintāmaṇi-dhāma.*" *Cintāmaṇi-dhāma* means the place which is not made of earth and stone, but they are made of touchstone. Most probably you have heard the name of touchstone. Touchstone can turn iron into gold. So the Lord's abode is made of touchstone, *cintāmaṇi.* There are houses... As we have got our experience here in this world that houses are made of bricks, there, in the transcendental world, the houses are made of this *cintāmaṇi* stone, touchstone. --- **[[spoken/721105nd.vrn|The Nectar of Devotion — November 5, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading:] "...committed criminal acts but is not yet arrested for them. Now, as soon as he is detected, arrest is awaiting for him..., is awaiting him. Similarly, for some of our sinful activities we are awaiting distresses in the future, and for others, which are mature, we are suffering at the present moment. In this way..." **Prabhupāda:** Yes. This is the chain of accepting different types of bodies, one after another, according to the sinful activity. On the total, without being sinful, nobody accepts this material body. Because in the *Bhagavad-gītā* we understand, *yeṣām anta-gataṁ pāpam:* "One who has finished the reaction of his sinful activities," *te dvandva-moha-nirmukta...* [[bg/7/28|[Bg. 7.28] ]]. *Yeṣāṁ anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām... Puṇya-karma. Puṇya-karma* means..., the sublime *puṇya-karma* is devotional service. *Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam* [[sb/7/5/23|[SB. 7.5.23] ]].* This is the topmost *puṇya-karma.* Because, as it is stated in the *Bhāgavata, śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ* [[sb/1/2/17|[SB. 1.2.17] ]]. Simply if we hear about Kṛṣṇa, that is *puṇya.* Even you do not understand, do not take it very seriously, if we simply give aural reception to the words of Kṛṣṇa, that activity itself is *puṇya. Puṇya-śravaṇa kīrtanaḥ.* --- **[[spoken/721105sb.vrn|SB 1.2.25 — November 5, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** "Previously all the great sages rendered service unto the transcendental Personality of Godhead (Bhagavān) due to His existence above the three modes of material nature. They worshiped Him to become free from material condition. Whoever follows such sages is also eligible for liberation from the material world." --- **[[spoken/731105r1.del|Room Conversation — November 5, 1973, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Viśvāso naiva kartavyaḥ strīṣu rāja-kuleṣu ca*. She's both. [laughter] Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, "Never trust woman and politician," and she's both. [laughs] **Prabhupāda:** They will have to come to this point gradually. They're disappointed. Life is not very pleasing. Politics life is not... Even Gandhi, such an exalted man, on the day he was killed, he was the same. [break] ...he said. He actually prayed to God, "My death may come," because he was so much disappointed. Thousands of complaints, thousands of demands, thousands of varieties. The politician [indistinct], and everyone has to be satisfied. And if he's not satisfied, he'll plan something else. --- **[[spoken/731105r2.del|Room Conversation — November 5, 1973, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Abodha-jātaḥ. Sadah*. That the, the bodily, external duty, done exactly to the point, but did not take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, *abodha-jātaḥ*. Just like people say, "What is the use of this *saṅkīrtana*? We are doing our duty. We are living very honestly." For such person it is impossible. You may live very honestly—you may do your duty very honestly—in spite of all these things, because you are not taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you are simply being defeated. And another of these things they make. He does not know what is his position, *ātma-tattvam*. So without this knowledge, whatever he is doing is for defeat. Without this human form of life to conquer over birth and death... And that is only possible, *hariṁ vinā na mṛtim taranti*. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, nobody can conquer over birth and death. That is not possible. So he could not conquer over birth and death; he made some temporary arrangement: good car, good house, good wife, and so many things, whatever. Whatever they are doing, even the cats and dogs are doing. That he does not know. *Abodha-jātaḥ*. He does not know how the transmigration of the soul is taking place, what he is going to be next life. These things, he does not know. So therefore, *abodha-jātaḥ*. From birth he is a rascal, fool. He did not enlighten to Kṛṣṇa consciousness or by accepting Kṛṣṇa's instruction—then he is defeated. That is the whole world is going on. They are thinking like that: this busy-ness, very busy always, going this side, that side, that side. It is exactly like the dogs are doing: jump this side, this side [claps hands]. That is not very important business—the dog jumping from this side to that side, and catching the ball or other... [laughing] So it is just like that activity. Monkey, whenever they stop, they do something, it --- **[[spoken/741105sb.bom|SB 3.25.5-6 — November 5, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "Maitreya said: When Kardama left for the forest, Lord Kapila stayed on the strand of the Bindu-sarovara in order to please His mother, Devahūti." --- **[[spoken/761105r1.vrn|Room Conversation about Gurukula — November 5, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** The modern education means... Just see what is the disastrous condition. For 531 posts, three *lakhs* people have applied. How the unemployment... This application means they are all educated. Uneducated, they do not apply for any post. That means educated unemployed. This is India's so-called education. **Jagadīśa:** ...I was finding out yesterday's paper... [break] First thing, I wanted to go over the daily schedule. According to the schedule, the boys get up between 3:30 and quarter to four. **Prabhupāda:** If they are accustomed, that is all right. But otherwise it is not needed, so early. When they go to sleep? --- **[[spoken/761105sb.vrn|SB 5.5.17 — November 5, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] **Translation:** "If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of *saṁsāra,* how can one who is actually learned, merciful and advanced in spiritual knowledge engage him in fruitive activity and thus further entangle him in material existence? If a blind man is walking down the wrong path, how can a gentleman allow him to continue on his way to danger? How can he approve this method? No wise or kind man can allow this." [break] --- **[[spoken/771105r1.vrn|Room Conversation — November 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** One thing I feel, that while there hasn't been any great improvement, on the other hand, I do not find that there has been any negative reaction or any regression since the time the *kavirāja*'s treatment began. Of course, Your Divine Grace says that you feel weaker now than you did a week ago. If that's a fact, then... **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** I do find that you have more difficulty sitting up now. I notice that when you sit up you always slump over to one side, either as if you have no sufficient strength or as if you lost your balance. I can't tell which it is. You're always leaning. You're not able to sit up straight. Of course, that was there also even a week ago, but it seems a little more noticeable now. Do you think you are weaker now than you were a week ago? **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** You do? That's not good. That's not a good sign. I mean I wouldn't expect that you should be that much stronger, but I don't see why you should be weaker now. Do you think it may be psychologically that you're weaker? I mean, how would you know if you were weaker now? --- **[[spoken/771105r2.vrn|Room Conversation — November 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Girirāja:** The construction is going on. And this man Mr. Lord, from England, he's getting more active. And... **Girirāja:** He's about fifty-year-old gentleman who was the manager of a big club in London. So he had been associating with the devotees in London, and they suggested he come to India and help manage our restaurant and guesthouse. So he was the aide-de-camp of the viceroy of India when he was a young man. **Girirāja:** The last viceroy, Mountbatten. And he's very diplomatic in dealing with people. And when he meets with the Indians, they immediately respect him, just like in the old days. So I think he'll be a very good personality to have in the restaurant and guesthouse. People will be happy to meet him. He's tall, he has a nice British accent, and he's following our regulative principles. He's a devotee. --- **[[spoken/771105r3.vrn|Room Conversation — November 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** ...the medicine can be given for ten or twelve days, and everything will go exactly according to some plan. This was my point from the beginning. It's not a very difficult thing. The *kavirāja* probably can adjust it very easily to stop stool from passing. Naturally, if you stop the medicine, maybe the stool will stop, but that doesn't actually solve the problem. That doesn't cure the disease. The disease is not that you're passing stool. That's a side effect of, perhaps, the medicine or maybe something you're eating. The medicine is required for getting better, but now, if the medicine causes you to pass stool—if that's actually the reason—then it has to be adjusted. **Śatadhanya:** Just a couple of days ago, Śrīla Prabhupāda, you were constipated, and you were thinking that it was necessary to take an enema. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** But stool-passing this many times is not right either. Passing stool five, six times, that is not right. It's obvious that it's a result of something. It's either the medicine or the diet. Prabhupāda says it's the medicine, just like last time when he took that *makara-dhvaja.* And he was right. It was the medicine. [break] ...the best thing to do. There may be some good effect by taking the medicine in addition to the causing you to pass stool. So if by giving you some other small medicine at the same time—you can still take this medicine and you don't pass stool—then that's the best thing. This only a *kavirāja* knows. I don't know this. I have no idea. Maybe we should take the help of that... This doesn't seem like a very difficult thing, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Passing stool is something that any *kavirāja* should be able to treat, and maybe for this small thing we should call that assistant who was here yesterday. That's why that *kavirāja* from Calcutta arranged for there to be an assistant here, in case... In other words, he came and diagnosed the disease, and he made a very complicated thing, medicine, that an expert had to make. And for the fact that there might be some side effect, that you may not sleep properly or you might be passing stool, something of this kind, he found out one assistant for the purpose of helping in these cases. So why not carry through with that and take the help of this assistant, see what he says? This is a common ailment that people have, diarrhea or passing stool too often, loose bowels. That's not a very major problem. --- **[[spoken/771105r4.vrn|Room Conversation — November 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. Grapes juice is not making problem. Grapes juice he drinks. But this never happened before.] **Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. Okay, Okay. [to the Kavirāja assistant: Śrīla Prabhupāda is saying that you come every day whenever you are free and check him up.] **Bhakti-cāru:** [Transl. Yes, you check it. Should I put the light on? May I put the light on Śrīla Prabhupāda?] --- **[[spoken/771105r5.vrn|Room Conversation — November 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** ...notarized copies of everything. This registrar was not the real registrar. He's only a clerk. The registrar is on leave. So because this man is not so experienced, it takes a little extra time to do everything with him. So Girirāja and I have had a little bit of experience, so we had to teach him some things. Now everybody understands clearly. Everything is now completed. Your signatures were quite good, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Your signatures were not bad. **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** Your signatures were fairly good. Some of them were very good. They remarked that the signature was strong... [break] I tried to make it as quick as possible. Now I have the receipts, and I will keep them locked in the *almirah* just like we did last time. And after about one week we'll be able to get the original documents after they've been registered. In the meantime, on Monday we're going to open up a bank account in the name of Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust in Punjab National Bank, New Delhi. Girirāja, who is the secretary of the Trust, and Bhavānanda Mahārāja, who are the treasurers, will open the account. So the interest from the fixed deposits will go directly into that account. Is that nice? That was your idea. And the bank will be happy that we're keeping the money in their bank. All of your plans are perfect, Śrīla Prabhupāda. And our perfection is simply to carry them out without changing in any way. You have such complete plans that we don't have to do anything new. We have to work our whole lifetime simply to carry out what you've planned. Even then we won't be able to complete everything. We'll have to trust to those who come after us to finish everything. So I'll just finish everything now with them, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and lock everything away, and then I'll come back. I don't want to leave Girirāja alone. It's nice to do everything together, two. I'll come right back afterwards. [break] --- **[[spoken/771105r6.vrn|Room Conversation — November 5, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Jayādvaita:** Oh, yes. We have... They just moved to a nicer location, nicer building. They have, oh, maybe seventy devotees. It's quite large temple near the ocean in San Diego. They have... Every year at Govardhana-pūjā they have a very nice festival in the park. They have chanting and discourse and distribute *prasādam.* Then in the spring again they have a very nice festival. You were there one time. You spoke. Your Divine Grace spoke at one festival in the park in San Diego. They also go to preach just over the border in Mexico, and many Mexican boys join our San Diego temple, Mexican boys who've come to America. They join our temple in San Diego. The Deity there is very beautiful and very nicely dressed also, in San Diego. **Pañcadraviḍa:** Their new temple is very nicely decorated, with arches and everything. It's Rādhā-Giridhārī. **Jayādvaita:** The president is Guṇa-grāhī Prabhu. He's been a devotee for a long time. So the management is also very nicely going on. [break] You sent Bhavānanda there many years ago when they were in Brooklyn and ordered him to make the devotees happy. And ever since then, they've been peaceful. Very sumptuously [indistinct]. Even before that. I remember when I first came to New York, when the storefront was there. I came on Sunday, and there were so many different preparations. Haṁsadūta Mahārāja was cooking. And so many different preparations. And after taking that feast I decided that I would not leave—"This is too nice." So they're going on, still very opulent, sumptuous *prasādam*. And people are deciding that "Oh, this is very nice. Let us not leave. Let us go on taking *prasādam*." And in the restaurant very respectable people come. [pause] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/611105_pramatha_natha_roy.md|Letter to Pramatha Natha Roy, 1961]] - [[../../letters/1967/671105_blanche.md|Letter to Blanche, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671105_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671105_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/691105_manager_of_the_bank_of_baroda.md|Letter to Manager Of The Bank Of Baroda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691105_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691105_sridama.md|Letter to Sridama, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701105_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701105_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721105_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721105_hrdayananda.md|Letter to Hrdayananda, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721105_puri_maharajji.md|Letter to Puri Maharajji, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721105_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721105_sudama.md|Letter to Sudama, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/741105_lilasakti.md|Letter to Lilasakti, 1974]]