# November 22 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/661122bg.ny.md|Bg 9.2 — November 22, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/661122c2.ny.md|Cc. Madhya 20.100-108 — November 22, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/661122cc.ny.md|Cc. Madhya 20.97-99 — November 22, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/721122bg.hyd|Bg 2.17 — November 22, 1972, Hyderabad]]** So the distinction between the living soul and the dead body—anyone can perceive. What is the distinction between a living body and the dead body? When a man is dead, he, his relatives cry, lament: "Oh, my father has gone," "My son has gone." But the father, as we have seen, he's lying on the floor. Where he has gone? He's lying on the floor. Why you are crying, "Oh, my father has gone away"? That means the person who has gone away, who has left this body, you have not..., never seen. You have seen this body. So the body is lying there, and why you are crying, "My father has gone away"? So any intelligent man can understand that the real father, within the body, was a different thing. But our ignorance is so great that we accept this body, this dead body, as my father. This body is not only dead now; it was always dead. --- **[[spoken/741122sb.bom|SB 3.25.22 — November 22, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "Such a sādhu engages in staunch devotional service to the Lord without deviation. For the sake of the Lord he renounces all other connections, such as family relationships and friendly acquaintances within the world." --- **[[spoken/761122sb.vrn|SB 5.5.35 — November 22, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Iti nānā-yoga-caryācaraṇo bhagavān.* [[sb/5/5/35|[SB. 5.5.35] ]] So Bhagavān's another name is Mahat-pada. *Mahat-pada* means whatever wonderful things are there, that is resting at His lotus feet. *Samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaṁ mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ* [[sb/10/14/58|[SB. 10.14.58] ]]. *Samāśritā,* if you take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, *bhagavān... Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam* [[sb/1/3/28|[SB. 1.3.28] ]]: Kṛṣṇa is the origin of all manifestation of Bhagavān, *Viṣṇu-tattva.* Kṛṣṇa is the origin of *Viṣṇu-tattva. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ* [[bg/10/8|[Bg. 10.8] ]].* *Viṣṇu-tattva* is also originated from Kṛṣṇa. *Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.* He's the *ādi-puruṣa.* And Kṛṣṇa was accepted in the *Bhagavad-gītā, puruṣam ādyam. Paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma* [[bg/10/12|[Bg. 10.12] ]]. So everything is there in Kṛṣṇa. *Samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaṁ mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ.* All this manifestation of cosmic creation, that is from the *mahat-tattva.* That *mahat-tattva* is resting within the dust of the lotus feet of *mahat-padaṁ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ.* So if one takes shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then this *bhava-samudra,* the vast ocean of birth and death... This material world is called *bhava-samudra. Bhava* means the repetition of birth and death. *Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate* [[bg/8/19|[Bg. 8.19] ]].* This is called *bhava.* And that is like a *samudra,* great ocean. We can see by practical experience this outer space, the sky. You cannot have any limitation where it is beginning, where is end. Although we can see within our experience, but still, we cannot calculate. In our childhood we used to present a problem before our friends, that *eka thālā supurī gunte pāre nā vyāpārī*. Now, one plateful of betel nuts, but nobody can count. The betel nut You can see the sky is within your experience, but how many stars and planets are there, till now nobody has been able to count. It is unlimited. This is only one universe. There are millions and millions, universes. *Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagadaṇḍa-koṭi* [Bs. 5.40]. Within the *brahma-jyoti* there are innumerable *koṭi, jagadaṇḍa-koṭi.* And some of the portion is called material; some portion is called spiritual sky, *paravyoma.* But the whole spiritual and material sky is full of different planets, and each planet is full of living entities, *janākīrṇa.* This very word is used, *janākīrṇa,* not vacant, as these rascals are calculating that it is full of dust. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1967/671122_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671122_mr._bruce_scharf_brahmananda.md|Letter to Mr. Bruce Scharf Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/681122_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681122_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681122_ranadhir.md|Letter to Ranadhir, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681122_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1970/701122_ben.md|Letter to Ben, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701122_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/711122_hiranyagarbha.md|Letter to Hiranyagarbha, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_a.k._shivdasani.md|Letter to A.K. Shivdasani, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_areya.md|Letter to Areya, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_bahurupa.md|Letter to Bahurupa, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_hugo_salemon.md|Letter to Hugo Salemon, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_jose.md|Letter to Jose, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_krsnakatha.md|Letter to Krsnakatha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_mr._kapoor.md|Letter to Mr. Kapoor, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_mr._saral_gupta.md|Letter to Mr. Saral Gupta, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_mr._seibert.md|Letter to Mr. Seibert, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_nrhari.md|Letter to Nrhari, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_padmagarbha.md|Letter to Padmagarbha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_syamananda.md|Letter to Syamananda, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741122_v.s.r._chakravarti.md|Letter to V.S.R. Chakravarti, 1974]]