# November 6 ## Spoken on November 6 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[1970: Room Conversation](spoken/1970/701106r1.bom)** > And the Kashmir question... That is British policy. Due to this partition only, India's position is now very crippled. And these rascal leaders, they accepted partition for becoming prime minister. This policy. Gandhi never agreed. So the Jawaharlal Nehru, in order to become prime minister, he committed such a blunder. Therefore India is given... > Then everything will be right. That should be one of your aims, the Kṛṣṇa conscious movement. The government is still is under the control of the public. That's a fact. If the public becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, naturally the government will be Kṛṣṇa conscious. But that is up to the public. But they do not want to be. Therefore they want a king—the crane was sent. --- **[1970: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.6](spoken/1970/701106sb.bom)** > So this kind of sympathy, just like this Ramakrishna Mission, *daridra-nārāyaṇa sevā,* under the plea of accepting this suffering humanity as Nārāyaṇa and appealing to the compassion of the people... Although they cannot do anything. Actually they are not doing anything. But this philosophy is a rubbish philosophy. You cannot do. If you can do anything good to the people, then you can simply awaken them to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the best service. Other service you cannot do. *Te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni-baddhāḥ*. Just like by any means you cannot get released a man who is condemned in the prison. Against law. However sympathetic you may be to your friend, but you cannot release him. That is against law. > So it is very intelligent question. There is practically no use. If you remain a thief always, so for your theft you are put into the prison, and as soon as you get out of the prison again you commit theft. He knows that "I shall be again put into the prison"; still, he commits the same thing. Actually there are many thieves. At least in India I have seen. Their business is stealing, and they are put into the jail, and as soon as he comes out, again commits the same thing and put into the jail for many days. --- **[1972: The Nectar of Devotion](spoken/1972/721106nd.vrn)** > So the problem is that at the present moment we are not taking care... I mean that our Indian *brāhmaṇas,* those who are spiritual leaders, they are not actually taking care of the fallen souls. But in the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is sanctioned, it is said clearly: *māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ*. Any person born of low-grade family, *pāpa-yoni, striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatim...* So it is the duty of the elevated person, *brāhmaṇas* and Vaiṣṇavas, to take charge of this business. Kṛṣṇa says, *ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ.* Never mind one is born in low-grade family, but he can go back to home, back to Godhead. *Te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatim.* > Unfortunately, there is some silent protest that I am ruining the Hindu religion because I am initiating the Europeans and Americans. Therefore I am ruining Hindu religion. There is a grudge against me. But you can just consider these points that I am going strictly according to the regulation given by the Gosvāmīs and the *śāstras. Śāstra* allows. Kṛṣṇa says, *māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ*. Pāpa-yoni,* any *pāpa-yoni,* it doesn't matter, if he takes regularly the shelter of Kṛṣṇa, lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa... And Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered that --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.26](spoken/1972/721106sb.vrn)** > Therefore there are so many prescription of worshiping different demigods. Otherwise, there is no necessity. There is no necessity. That is explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā*: *kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajante anya-devatāḥ*.* Those who are worshiping other demigods, they have become blind, they have lost their senses. *Hṛta-jñāna. Hṛta-jñāna.* Real knowledge is lost. Real knowledge is lost. Therefore they're after so many demigods. Kṛṣṇa says. It is not My manufactured word. *Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajante anya-devatāḥ*.* There is no need of worshiping any demigods. > So we should be interested in that liberation. *Mumukṣava. Mumukṣa icchavaḥ,* "those who are desiring." Those who want to remain within this bondage, material bondage of transmigrating from one body... *Ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna*. Ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ.* We are trying to improve our material condition. Sometimes we are going up, sometimes we are coming down. This is going on. --- **[1973: Room Conversation](spoken/1973/731106r1.del)** > Śyāmasundara: There is one scientist now who has discovered in the old people's bodies a certain hormone, or chemical, and his theory is that if he can find out the source of that chemical and stop it, that we can live for ever. We can live for a long time. --- **[1973: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.3](spoken/1973/731106sb.del)** > That is our real problem. People do not understand that this is our real problem. They are simply engaged in some temporary problem. The real problem is that "Why I am dying? In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, *na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre* : 'The soul does not die even after the destruction of this body.' So why my body should be destroyed?" This is real inquiry. "Why... Can I not get a permanent body which will never be destroyed?" Yes. You'll get. You will get. *Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya*, Kṛṣṇa says. "You will get a permanent body. After giving up this body," *tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti*, "you do not get again material body." "Then where shall I go?" "You come to Me." If you go back to home, back to Kṛṣṇa, then, as Kṛṣṇa has got eternal body, never to be destroyed, similarly Kṛṣṇa has got eternal body. > So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not a sectarian movement. It is good for all human being, because as soon as there is question of Kṛṣṇa, people will hear. Actually, it is happening all over the world. Especially the younger generation, why they are taking interest? Because *loka-hitam.* They are understanding that it is beneficial. Every student, every disciple, they write me letter how much they are feeling grateful, that "We have got something. Prabhupāda, you have given us something." Of course, I have not given. It is not my property. I have simply informed them, "Here is Kṛṣṇa, and the life's business is to become a devotee." Kṛṣṇa says, *man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru*. This is your business. --- **[1976: Room Conversation with Dr. Theodore Kneupper](spoken/1976/761106r1.vrn)** > That is statement of God, that "Any moment... You try to become rich, powerful, and president or minister, that's all right, but any moment, I can take everything from you." So who will protect himself? They have no brain that "Whatever I have created, it can be taken at any moment." So what is that confidence? They have no inquiry even. That this is a fact. Either you become Napoleon, Hitler or Gandhi or this or that, any moment everything will be taken away: "Get out." Not only that, *tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ*, you have to accept another body. And that is no guarantee what body you are going to get, because fully under the control of nature. They therefore don't believe in transmigration of the soul. And that is very great botheration. They try to evade. But Kṛṣṇa says, God says, "You cannot evade. It is nature's law." *Dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā*. Within your body the soul is there. On account of presence of the soul—you were a child; now you are a grown young man—the body has changed. You were a boy; now you are young man. So on account of presence of the soul, the body is changing. So when this body will be finished, the soul will exist. Therefore, naturally you have to conclude there will be another body. > Actually it is happening. They are eating swiftly. "The cattle will die. Before they die, let us kill and eat." Actually it is happening. In Italy they killed because the problem is twenty thousand cows. This is going on. They do not care that killing is sinful, because they don't care for God. This is going on. And sinful, sinful, sinful, everyone will be punished. The nature's law will act. *Ṭhag bāchate gāṅ ujāḍa* There is a Bengali proverb, *ṭhag bāchate gāṅ ujāḍa,* that "One man wanted to take statistics, 'How many thieves are there in this village?' So when he began to take statistics, he saw everyone is thief. Then he said that 'What is the use of making statistics? This is village of thieves, that's all.' " So it is... At the present moment this is the position. If you make a statistics who is sinful and who is not sinful, you will find all sinful. And because they are sinful, they decry the existence of God. *Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante...* [aside:] Find out this, Seventh... Because they are all sinful, they deny the existence of God. This is the position. Read it. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.18](spoken/1976/761106sb.vrn)** > There are so many, you will find, rascal *gurus,* they are preaching like that, that "Whatever you do, it is all right." There is a big mission, they say also that *yata mat tata patha:* "Whatever you have manufactured, the way of salvation, that's all right." But Kṛṣṇa does not say, or the *śāstra* does not say. *Śāstra* says, *hariṁ vinā na mṛtiṁ taranti:* unless you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, Hari, there is no question of salvation. There is no question of salvation. Therefore *bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate*. One who is bewildered, he thinks that "Whatever I do, it is all right." That is mistake. That is mistake. The *jñānīs,* they think that they will merge into the existence of the Supreme, that you can merge. That does not mean that you are delivered, you are liberated. Just like you will find one aeroplane is going up and up, up, up, and at a time you will find the aeroplane is no more seen. [indistinct] That does not mean he has merged in the sky. He has got a separate existence, but you cannot see. So even one has got so high, it does not mean that he has merged into the sky. If he does not get another shelter, he will come back again. He will come back again. He has not merged. There is no question of merging. *Brahmajyoti* means the..., it is the combination of millions and trillions of sparks of living entities. That is *brahma-jyoti.* They are not mixed up. They are just like the sunshine. The sunshine, it is not one homogeneous substance. There are millions and trillions of shining particles. Combination is called sunshine. It is not that they are merged. Similarly, every individual soul is individual. Kṛṣṇa says, "Arjuna, you, Me and all these soldiers and kings, they were existing before, they are now existing now, and they will continue to exist in the future." So where is mixture? You, me and all of you, we are different individuals, and Kṛṣṇa says—not ordinary person—that "They were individuals in the past, they are individual now, and they will continue to become individual." So where is this question of merging? There is no question of merging. *Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ jīva-loka sanātanaḥ*, eternally they are individuals, and eternally they will keep individual. > So this is knowledge. Otherwise, artificially if I think the same thing, that because I have gone very high in the sky, I have become mixed up with the sky... There is no question of mixing up. Therefore because it is not the question of mixing up, amalgamation, separate identity, but it is light, that is all right. But not that they have lost their individuality. *Sanātana.* Kṛṣṇa says, "They are individual parts *sanātana,* eternally." Not that now they are separated, and after liberation they will mix up. No. This is wrong conception. Therefore mixing up means... Just like we are here, mixed together. We have got individuality, but for a certain purpose we are sitting together very peacefully, and the real purpose is to learn how to serve Kṛṣṇa. --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/771106r1.vrn)** > Mostly he's giving medicine which should help the kidney and liver. I can't see inside your body to know if your kidney and liver are better. That he has to say. And if he says that it is getting better, then he can give the medicine for giving strength. And that's something that we can notice. Once he gives the medicine for strength, we'll be able to see if you're actually getting strength. After five or six days, if you're not getting any strength, then we'll know that the medicine is not effective. > You know, it's encouraging. It's reassuring. So I think it's nice that he comes. There should be someone with a little bit of knowledge who we can consult each day. He may not be as expert as the Calcutta *kavirāja.* Still, he is more expert than we are. And he was appointed by the Calcutta *kavirāja* to come and check up on you and see how you are doing, see if there were any side effects. The real question is that your kidney and liver should be getting better. There's no doubt that you're getting weaker now. That I can see. I've never seen you this weak. But according to the... --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/771106r2.vrn)** --- ## Letters on November 6 *Letters from this day: 14* --- **[1965: Letter to Sally](letters/1947-1965/651106_sally)** > Yes I have got this nice typewriter by the Grace of the Lord and I am very much satisfied with it working. --- **[1968: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1968/681106_brahmananda)** > I cannot understand why they should increase the price & supply goods not to the former sample! You use your best discretion & do the needful. --- **[1968: Letter to Jadurani](letters/1968/681106_jadurani)** > May Krishna bless you with good health and continue your prescribed duties very nicely. --- **[1968: Letter to Rayaramaa](letters/1968/681106_rayaramaa)** > There is no need of replying Parvat Maharaja's letter. He did not reply my letter & why he would expect a reply from you. Do your duty nicely & go Back to Godhead. --- **[1968: Letter to Rayaramab](letters/1968/681106_rayaramab)** > He has invited me to go there, so first of all I want to send him some various literatures and pamphlets about our society. --- **[1968: Letter to Uddhava](letters/1968/681106_uddhava)** > Please convey my blessings to all boys & girls. So I have no objection if you decide to marry as a matter of necessity. --- **[1969: Letter to Harer Nama](letters/1969/691106_harer_nama)** > For some time I have been anxious to hear from you, and now that you have written I am encouraged to learn of your nice activities in Colorado. --- **[1971: Letter to Kirtanananda Vrindaban Candra Silavati](letters/1971/711106_kirtanananda_vrindaban_candra_silavati)** > So far Visnujana Maharaja joining your party, that is super-excellent idea. Already, at your request, I have written him one letter to the San Antonio address, that he has my full-hearted blessings for joining the party. --- **[1971: Letter to Ksama](letters/1971/711106_ksama)** > I have given you the spiritual name Ksama Devi Dasi, Ksama means forgiveness. Your beads have also been duly chanted and they are enclosed herewith. --- **[1973: Letter to Mukunda](letters/1973/731106_mukunda)** > So it is a great credit that you have reduced the BBT bill, so make it nil and it will be greatest credit for London. --- **[1974: Letter to Gandharva](letters/1974/741106_gandharva)** > So you have done you duty at the last moments of your wife's life so that she could hear them chanting. --- **[1974: Letter to Sarvamangala](letters/1974/741106_sarvamangala)** > I thank you very much for your sentiments, and I know that you are all working hard to make Bhaktivedanta Manor a very nice place. --- **[1976: Letter to Giriraja](letters/1976/761106_giriraja)** > Yes, if there is no difficulty to finalize the fixed deposit later we can wait until I come to Bombay. --- **[1976: Letter to Kirtanananda](letters/1976/761106_kirtanananda)** > I have read with great pleasure the article about the construction of my palace. ---