# November 27 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/661127bg.ny.md|Bg 9.11-14 — November 27, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/661127cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.125 — November 27, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > prabhu kahe—'tomāra dui-bhāi prayāge mililā > rūpa, anupama-duṅhe vṛndāvana gelā' > [[cc/madhya/20/66|[Cc. Madhya 20.66] ]] So Lord Caitanya informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that "Your two other brothers, I met them at Prayāga, and they have started for Vṛndāvana." Lord Caitanya deputed the Sanātana Gosvāmī and Rūpa Gosvāmī to excavate the glories of Vṛndāvana. Before Lord Caitanya, the Vṛndāvana city was not there. The present Vṛndāvana city was not there. It was all forgotten practically. But when Lord Caitanya visited this land He first of all pointed out Radha-kunda and then He made a survey, and His assistants, these Gosvāmīs, they went there, and this present Vṛndāvana was constructed by the disciples of Lord Caitanya. So He said that "I have instructed your two brothers, Rūpa Gosvāmī, to go to Vṛndāvana, and I have met them." --- **[[spoken/681127bg.la|Bg 2.8-12 — November 27, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Devotee:** Start at verse 8? "I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I will not even be able to destroy it if I win an unrivaled kingdom on the earth with sovereignty like the demigods in heaven. [[bg/2/8|[Bg. 2.8] ]] "Sañjaya said: Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of the enemies, told Kṛṣṇa, 'Govinda, I shall not fight,' and fell silent. [[bg/2/9|[Bg. 2.9] ]] "O descendant of Bharata, at that time Kṛṣṇa, smiling in the midst of both the armies, spoke the following words to the grief-stricken Arjuna. [[bg/2/10|[Bg. 2.10] ]] "The Blessed Lord said..." **Prabhupāda:** So when we become very serious in a dangerous position, as if we are lost, but Kṛṣṇa smiles. You see? Sometimes we think... This is called illusion. The same example, just a man in dreaming, crying, "There is tiger, there is tiger. It is eating me," and the man who is awakened, he is smiling: "Where is the tiger?" [chuckles] "Where is the tiger?" And this man is crying, "Tiger, tiger, tiger." Similarly, when we are very much perplexed... --- **[[spoken/721127bg.hyd|Bg 2.23 — November 27, 1972, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...śastrāṇi > nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ > na cainaṁ kledayanty āpo > na śoṣayati mārutaḥ > [[bg/2/23|[Bg. 2.23] ]] So definition by negation. Directly we cannot appreciate what is that spiritual fragment, particle, which is within this body. Because the length and breadth of that spirit soul is impossible to be measured by our material instruments, although the scientists say that we can measure it. Anyway, even it is possible, first of all, you have to see where the soul is situated. Then you can attempt to measure it. So first of all, you cannot see even, because it is very, very small, one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Now, because we cannot see, by our experimental knowledge we cannot appreciate. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is describing the existence of the self, soul, in a negative way: "It is not this." Sometimes when we cannot understand, the explanation is given: "It is not this." If I cannot express what it is, then we can express in a negative way that "It is not this." --- **[[spoken/741127sb.bom|SB 3.25.27 — November 27, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "Thus by not engaging in the service of the modes of material nature, but by developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, knowledge and renunciation, and by practicing yoga in which the mind is always fixed in devotional service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one achieves My association in this very life, for I am the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth." --- **[[spoken/761127sb.vrn|SB 5.6.5 — November 27, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:** ...*bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] **Translation:** "The mind is the root cause of lust, anger, pride, greed, lamentation, illusion and fear. Combined, these constitute bondage to fruitive activity. What learned man would put faith in the mind?" [break] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/681127_gopala_krsna.md|Letter to Gopala Krsna, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691127_manager_of_lloyds_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Lloyds Bank, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691127_pradyumna.md|Letter to Pradyumna, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701127_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1971/711127_abhirama.md|Letter to Abhirama, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/711127_kirtiraja.md|Letter to Kirtiraja, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/711127_lalita_kumar_jambavati.md|Letter to Lalita Kumar Jambavati, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1973/731127_jayadharma.md|Letter to Jayadharma, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1975/751127_brsni_prabhu.md|Letter to Brsni Prabhu, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1975/751127_ramesvara_prabhu.md|Letter to Ramesvara Prabhu, 1975]] - [[../../letters/1976/761127_balarama.md|Letter to Balarama, 1976]]