# November 10 *Lectures from this day: 19 recordings* --- **[[spoken/681110sb.la|SB 3.25.13 — November 10, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...this Sāṅkhya philosophy is very much well known, especially in the Western world. The propounder of Sāṅkhya philosophy, Kapiladeva, son of Devahūti, is the incarnation of Kṛṣṇa. He says that *yoga ādhyātmikaḥ puṁsāṁ mato niḥśreyasāya me* [[sb/3/25/13|[SB. 3.25.13] ]]. Niḥśreyasāya:* ultimate benediction. *Śreyaḥ* and *preyaḥ;* there are two things. One is called *preyaḥ. Preyaḥ* means immediately pleasing. And *śreyaḥ* means ultimately benefit, benediction. Generally, conditioned souls, they are attracted with immediate pleasing things. Just like children: they are attracted by playthings more than education. They do not like to go to school. They like to play the whole day. In my childhood also, I was very naughty boy, and I was not going to school. And my mother kept a special man to drag me to the school. At that time, there was no system like in your country, school buses. One had to go to school on foot. So my father was very lenient. I was not going to school. *Preyaḥ,* pleasing. Children like to play. Similarly, there are two paths, *śreyaḥ* and *preyaḥ.* So *śreyaḥ* means... *Preyaḥ* means sense gratification. We have got our senses, material senses, and we want to satisfy them without any consideration the sequence, the bad results of sense gratification. In the *Bhāgavatam* there is one passage in which it is stated that *yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham* [[sb/7/9/45|[SB. 7.9.45] ]]. Persons who are conditioned in the society, friendship and love, this is the attraction for material life. "Society, friendship and love," they think, "divinely bestowed upon man." But that, it is not divinely bestowed upon man. From spiritual point of view, it is the gift of *māyā.* --- **[[spoken/701110le.bom|Lecture [partially recorded] — November 10, 1970, Bombay]]** --- **[[spoken/701110sb.bom|SB 6.1.14 — November 10, 1970, Bombay]]** This is the place? Everything is... We have to... But nobody is prepared that way. So when Gupta took you from the train, where did you stay? **Yamunā:** We were taken to a small *mandira* called Raghunātha temple in old Delhi, right by Delhi station, and we stayed there for nearly one month. --- **[[spoken/711110ar.del|Arrival Lecture — November 10, 1971, New Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...Caitanya Mahāprabhu, *paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam:* "All glories to the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa." This is the verdict of Vedic literature also. When Parīkṣit Mahārāja was talking with Śukadeva Goswāmī, he described the varieties of follies in this Age of Kali-yuga. But he pointed out that there is one great benediction in this age. *Kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ* *[[sb/12/3/51|[SB. 12.3.51] ]]. The faulty Kali-yuga is just like an ocean of miserable condition, but there is one great opportunity. What is that? *Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet* *[[sb/12/3/51|[SB. 12.3.51] ]]: simply by chanting the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa one becomes liberated, and he is elevated to the highest perfection of life. *Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet*. So Lord Caitanya preached this Kṛṣṇa *saṅkīrtana*, and He ordered every Indian. It is the duty of every Indian. We should be very much proud of becoming Indian to take our birth on the holy land of India. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, *bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra* [*Cc* Ādi 9.41]: "Anyone who has taken birth in this holy land of Bharata-varṣa," *janma sārthaka kari',* "just make your life perfect and distribute the knowledge all over the world. --- **[[spoken/711110bg.del|Bg 4.1 — November 10, 1971, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, five thousand years ago... Not five thousand years ago. It is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā* that before it was explained to Arjuna, it was formerly explained to the sun-god. Lord Kṛṣṇa said that before explaining the *yoga* system, *bhakti-yoga* system, to Arjuna, it was explained to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and sun-god explained the same system to his son, Manu, and Manu explained the same system to his son, Ikṣvāku. *Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ* [[bg/4/2|[Bg. 4.2] ]]. --- **[[spoken/711110iv.del|Interview with Reporters — November 10, 1971, New Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the taste of the water.'' So everyone has got..., everyone has knowledge what is the taste of water. Why do you say he does not know Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa says, "I am the light of the sunshine.'' So who has not seen the sunshine? So when we see sunshine, if you think, "It is Kṛṣṇa,'' what is the difficulty? There is no difficulty. *Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi sūryayoḥ* [[bg/7/8|[Bg. 7.8] ]]. When you see some moonlight... **Reporter:** It is not easy to be able to live, everybody... You know what a *pāpī* I am. I don't think the Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so easy... **Prabhupāda:** So if Kṛṣṇa says, "The sunlight is Myself,'' what is the difficulty, even if you are *pāpī*? If..., don't... If you say, "I won't understand like that,'' that is another thing. But if the statement is clear, even if you are *pāpī*, what is the difficulty to understand it? Simply if you say, "I won't understand,'' like this, that is a different thing. --- **[[../../spoken/1971/711110rc.del.md|Room Conversation with Mayor — November 10, 1971, New Delhi]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/721110mw.vrn|Morning Walk — November 10, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Acyutānanda:** I saw him also. I can see no justification for such cruelty. I do not care to see my two Godbrothers who committed such a crime. I feel that I will not be able to control my anger with them. I feel that they should be asked to leave the society. Whatever your divine grace decides in this matter I accept. [break] **Acyutānanda:** Subal and Rāghavācārya [break] he said [break] he was awake and he had a blanket over his head. Subal. And Subal told him to get up. He stayed up there and was chanting *japa*. Then Subal threw a bucket of water on him and he just stayed there doing *japa*. Then he went inside to get some more water and then he [indistinct]. **Acyutānanda:** I can't imagine [indistinct] threatened him with a knife or something. He could provoke that but I heard [indistinct] going to hit him with a bucket. Gopal was [indistinct] with a bucket. --- **[[spoken/721110nd.vrn|The Nectar of Devotion — November 10, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading:] "Foolishly, people who are enamored of the glimmer of modern materialistic advancement are thinking that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for less intelligent men. 'I am better off being busy with my material comforts—maintaining a nice apartment, family and sex life.' "These people do not know that at any moment they can be kicked out of their material situation. Due to ignorance, they do not know that real life is eternal. The temporary comforts of the body are not the goal of life, and it is due only to darkest ignorance that people become enamored of the glimmering advancement of material comforts. "Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has therefore said that the advancement of material knowledge renders a person more foolish, because it causes one to forget his real identification by its glimmer. This is doom for..." --- **[[spoken/721110sb.vrn|SB 1.2.31 — November 10, 1972, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *tayā*—by them; *vilasiteṣu*—although in the function; *eṣu*—these; *guṇeṣu*—the modes of material nature; *guṇavān*—affected by the modes; *iva*—as if; *antaḥ*—within; *praviṣṭaḥ*—entered into; *ābhāti*—appears to be; *vijñānena*—by transcendental consciousness; *vijṛmbhitaḥ*—fully enlightened. --- **[[spoken/731110le.del|Pandal Speech — November 10, 1973, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** Mr. High Commissioner and Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here, taking so much trouble to participate in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. And I shall simply try to draw your attention about the importance of this movement. Importance of this movement is this, that we do not know what is the aim of life. The modern civilization, all over the world, especially in the Western world, nobody knows what is the actual problem and what is the aim of life. That is explained in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* The *Bhagavad-gītā* says, "The real problem is *janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam* [[bg/13/9|[Bg. 13.9] ]], that birth, death, old age and disease, these are the problems." If you take birth, then you will have to die. Anyone who takes birth, he must have to die. And so long, between birth and death, there is old age and disease. Actually, these are the problems. So far we are concerned, living entities, every one of us, that is described in the *Bhagavad-gītā,na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācit:* "The living entity is never born, never dies." *Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre* [[bg/2/20|[Bg. 2.20] ]]: "The living entity is eternal, ever-existing and very old, and," *na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre,* "it does not die after the annihilation of this body." But the modern civilization, they are thinking that "This body we have got somehow or other, a lump of matter, and so long we have got this body, let us enjoy life, sense gratification." This is atheistic theory. --- **[[spoken/731110r1.del|Bhajana with Harmonium, Room Conversation — November 10, 1973, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. In front of a school. At that time Puruṣottama was. Puruṣottama and Kārtikeya and Sudāmā, and there was competition to collect flowers in the morning, early in the morning. So Sudāmā took first, and Puruṣottama second and Kārtikeya third. [laughter] Kārtikeya would collect so much and Puruṣottama so much. And Sudāmā... [laughter] There was regular competition for collecting flowers in the morning. **Devotee:** Sudāmā was telling me that he had unfair, because they got to go first, so they got all the closest flowers, and he had to go far away to find his flowers. **Prabhupāda:** Gardenia. No, there was little others, but mostly roses and gardenias. Here we cannot; neither there is any flowers in front of any house. So your country is in so many ways benedicted. Take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and you are perfect. You'll be demigods on this planet. Push this movement. Here in India so much scarcity. It's a curse. Scarcity means it is curse. So after my coming, was there any program? No. In the *paṇḍāl*? You were there? --- **[[spoken/741110sb.bom|SB 3.25.10 — November 10, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** "*...engaged by Your* māyā** and have identified myself with the body and consequent bodily relations."Prabhupāda: > atha me deva sammoham > apākraṣṭuṁ tvam arhasi > yo 'vagraho 'haṁ mametīty > etasmin yojitas tvayā > [[sb/3/25/10|[SB. 3.25.10] ]] So Devahūti is accepting, or accepted, her son Kapiladeva as *guru,* and now he [she] is placing the problem and how to solve it. So to go to *guru* means to solve the material problem. Not temporary problem, "I have got some disease. Give me some *mantra* so that I may cure," or "I am in poverty. Give me some *mantra* where I can get money." Not like that. "To deliver me from the *sammoha,* illusion, *ahaṁ mameti [[sb/5/5/8|[SB. 5.5.8] ]]." This material life is *sammoha, ahaṁ mameti. Atha...* The material life begins: *puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etat* [[sb/5/5/8|[SB. 5.5.8] ]]. This material life is described in four lines. What is this material life? Now, *puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam. Etat,* this material life, is nothing but an attraction of sex. *Puṁsam striyā.* The man is after woman, and woman is after man. This is material life, beginning. Everywhere, not only human society. Even in bird society, dog society, cat society or demigods' society—everywhere you'll see the sex attraction. *Puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etaṁ tayor mitho hṛdaya-granthim āhuḥ.* And... They are seeking, and as soon as they are joined together to satisfy the sex desire, their the, I mean to say, attraction becomes more and more tight. Then *ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho 'yam ahaṁ mameti* [[sb/5/5/8|[SB. 5.5.8] ]]. So as soon as they are combined, they require one house or apartment or cottage or nest. Something must be private. *Ataḥ gṛha-kṣetra.* Then to work, to earn livelihood, one must have some land. Either you construct skyscraper building or till it for get some food grain. *Ataḥ gṛha-kṣetra, suta.* Then without children, married life is frustrated. *Putra-hīnaṁ gṛhaṁ śūnyam.* Married life without children is void. *Vidya hīnaṁ jīvanaṁ śūnyam.* If one is not educated, his life is vacate, or vacant. *Vidya hīnaṁ jīvanaṁ śūnyaṁ diśaḥ śūnyā deva abāndhavāḥ.* And if you go to some foreign country, if there is no *deva,* temple, God's temple, or friend, that is also useless. And *putra-hīnaṁ gṛhaṁ śūnyam.* And if you have no children, the so-called married life is also void. And *sarva-śūnyā daridratā.* And if you are poor, in poverty, then everything is zero. Even if you have got a wife, or even if you have got education, even you have got friend, everything is... That is Cāṇakya Paṇḍita's advice. --- **[[spoken/751110mw.bom|Morning Walk — November 10, 1975, Bombay]]** **Dr. Patel:** ...that man, and then Baroda Mahārāja knew that this man would be perhaps hanged by the Britishers. So he engineered that he is to be ran away Africa. He was smuggled into Africa. And there, in Africa, he learned Bengali by himself, reading books. And he was such a prolific Bengali scholar. **Prabhupāda:** He was professor of President's College, Calcutta. Their opinion is Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. **Prabhupāda:** *Deva-nāgarī.* In the heavenly planets this language is... Heavenly planet the Sanskrit language is used. Therefore it is called *deva-nāgarī. Nagara* means town, and *deva* means demigod. This language is spoken in the heavenly planets, *deva-nagara.* But these rascals, they think there is no living entity in any other planet except this. --- **[[spoken/761110r1.vrn|Room Conversation [partially recorded] — November 10, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** Yes. So now civilization is not stoning the animals. "I have up-to-date slaughterhouses." This is their civilization. **Prabhupāda:** They remain the same thing, the animal eaters, but the process has changed. Process changed. Instead of stoning, in big, big cities... **Prabhupāda:** ...you stand here, open up to the slaughterhouse, butcher. This is going on. Your standard remains the same. --- **[[spoken/761110sb.vrn|SB 5.5.23 — November 10, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] **Translation:** "O respectful *brāhmaṇas,* as far as I am concerned, no one is equal or superior to the *brāhmaṇas* in this world. I do not find anyone comparable to them. When people know My motive, after performing rituals according to the Vedic principles they offer food to Me with faith and love through the mouth of a *brāhmaṇa.* When food is thus offered unto Me, I eat it with full satisfaction. Indeed, I derive more pleasure from food offered in that way than from the food offered in the sacrificial fire." [break] --- **[[spoken/771110r1.vrn|Room Conversation — November 10, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** I wish that you GBC manage very nicely and consider that I am dead, and let me try to travel all the *tīrthasthāna,* without any responsibility. If I become recovered from this malady, I shall come back and then I shall die anyway. What is that, when the dead body is there, let them bring to Māyāpur and Vṛndāvana. I am thinking in this way. Bring little medicine and no medicine, little milk, and travel one place to another, and if there is death, what is the lamentation? My age is ripe. In the open air and bullock cart or during daytime, eh? Or you can say civil suicide. Although living, but consider me dead for the time being. You manage, and nowadays there is in India ample sunshine. So during daytime I shall travel, and nighttime you make a camp under a tree. In this way let me travel all the *tīrthasthāna.* I am thinking in this way. What is your opinion? **Bhavānanda:** Śrīla Prabhupāda, we promise that we'll manage everything to the best of our ability. **Prabhupāda:** No, no, you are managing, I know, but you are all important men, and unnecessarily you are bound up. You cannot go. So Lokanātha party has got some experience, and let me go. In India the climate is now good. If I recover, it is very good. You know. So what is the wrong? If I die, then the body will be brought either in Vṛndāvana or Māyāpur, that's all. And if I live, it will be a great end of a life. You are all experienced. --- **[[spoken/771110r2.vrn|Room Conversation — November 10, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Bhavānanda:** Because quite honestly, Śrīla Prabhupāda, I think most of us are very worried. If you go off down the road and send us all back to our different assignments, we would not be able to serve with our full attention, knowing that our beloved father and spiritual guide was in such weak condition. So if we begin in Vṛndāvana, we're all here now; we can see, so that we know what arrangements to make for the future when you want to leave. **Jayapatākā:** We heard that Your Divine Grace had a dream that a *kavirāja* of the Rāmānuja-sampradāya would treat you and bring you back to strength, and this *kavirāja* says that in a very short time, following the treatment, you would regain your strength. Although he hasn't got all of the medicines yet, but within a day or two they'll all be prepared, and he says within fifteen days you should be quite improved in strength. So far, he seems to have been quite sincere. **Prabhupāda:** No, no, he's sincere. I'll drink milk. Whatever strength is obtainable, there will be. --- **[[spoken/771110r3.vrn|Room Conversation — November 10, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Lokanātha:** I went to Mathurā. I went first to Vṛndāvana and looked for the carts. They were not very good kind. They were made for rough loads. So I went to Mathurā and spoke to one farmer. He had a fairly big size cart and two strong bullocks. He asked for a hundred rupees. He wouldn't come down. So ultimately I agreed for a hundred rupees. And he will reach tonight at eleven o'clock. I asked him to start immediately, but they have *pūjā*—as we have *go-pūjā,* they also have oxen *pūjā* today—so he will only reach at eleven o'clock, and he will be with us all day long tomorrow. I had to give him for one day or maximum daily remit[?]. **Lokanātha:** I got just one today, one for you, and those who serve you, they could also sit besides you in the cart, and the rest could do *kīrtana* around the bullock cart, and the whole unit, bullock cart and *saṅkīrtana* group, will move together. **Lokanātha:** We'll pay hundred rupees, one day. Of course, you want to have it for all the time. Best thing is to purchase a set of bullocks, two bullocks, and a cart. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/651110_sumati_morarjee.md|Letter to Sumati Morarjee, 1965]] - [[../../letters/1970/701110_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701110_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1973/731110_bhakta_dasa.md|Letter to Bhakta Dasa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/741110_jayatirtha.md|Letter to Jayatirtha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_alanatha.md|Letter to Alanatha, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_bahudak.md|Letter to Bahudak, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_jayatirtha_manjuali.md|Letter to Jayatirtha Manjuali, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_kirtanananda.md|Letter to Kirtanananda, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_mr._a._d._nyamiaka.md|Letter to Mr. A. D. Nyamiaka, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_naresh_chandera_gupta.md|Letter to Naresh Chandera Gupta, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751110_upendra.md|Letter to Upendra, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/761110_bhavananda.md|Letter to Bhavananda, 1976]]