# December 1 *Lectures from this day: 5 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1966/661201bg.ny.md|Bg 9.15 — December 1, 1966, New York]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/661201cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.144-146 — December 1, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...uṭhāya, kabhu narake ḍubāya > daṇḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya > [[cc/madhya/20/118|[Cc. Madhya 20.118] ]] So Lord Caitanya is explaining the positions of the conditioned soul. They are completely under the grip of this material nature. And just like one is seated on the car and the driver drives him—if the driver is not under control, he drives him anywhere, to any hell—similarly, we are sitting on this car of this body, supplied by the material nature, and she is driving anywhere—sometimes up, sometimes down. In this way we are suffering life after life, birth after birth. This is our condition. We are not independent; completely under the stringent laws of material nature. So *daṇḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya.* The example is very nice, that a culprit is drowned in the water, again taken for some time to take breathing. He was suffocating. Nature... He's not meant to be killed, but he is to be given suffering in that way. So material nature is giving us suffering, miseries like that. --- **[[spoken/681201in.la|Talk, Initiation Lecture, and Ten Offenses Lecture — December 1, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...worship prevents snake biting. That is a village worship. So in every demigod worship there are drum beaters. So a party of drum beaters was engaged, and when the fees, bill, of the drum beaters was to be paid, the demigod *mansa*[?] was sold. They could not pay the bills. Similarly, we may print our books, but the binding charges are so high, then it will cost more than getting it from Japan. [chuckles] Jayānanda looks like Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. [laughter] Yes. He was tall and stout and strong, Caitanya Mahāprabhu. [laughing] Yes. Very good. And in Vṛndāvana, when Kīrtanānanda was given *sannyāsa,* he was looking so nice with this dress and *daṇḍa,* oh, practically all the devotees of Vṛndāvana came to offer him respect. Yes. On Janmāṣṭamī day I offered him *sannyāsa.* So, many devotees came to see in the temple. So there was a big crowd. He was looking very nice. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was also very fair-complexioned. So with this dress, persons with fair complexion looks very nice, very attractive. --- **[[spoken/731201sb.la|SB 1.15.21 — December 1, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** *...*ādi-puruṣaṁ*. Hare Kṛṣṇa. **Sit down? No. Standing. *[leads singing of *Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava**; prema-dhvani prayers]*Thank you very much.Devotees: All glories to **Śrīla Prabhupāda**.* [break]* **Translation:** "I have the very same Gāṇḍīva bow, the same arrows, the same chariot drawn by the same horses, and I use them as the same Arjuna to whom all the kings offered their due respects. But in the absence of Lord Kṛṣṇa, all of them, at a moment's notice, have become null and void. It is exactly like offering clarified butter on ashes, accumulating money with a magic wand or sowing seeds on barren land." --- **[[spoken/741201sb.bom|SB 3.25.31 — December 1, 1974, Bombay]]** **Devotee:** > maitreya uvāca > iditvārthaṁverse kapilo mātur itthaṁ > jāta-sneho yatra tanvābhijātaḥ > tattvāmnāyaṁ yat pravadanti sāṅkhyaṁ > provāca vai bhakti-vitāna-yogam > [[sb/3/25/31|[SB. 3.25.31] ]] Nit**ā**i: "Śrī Maitreya said: After hearing the statement of His mother, Kapila could understand her purpose, and He became compassionate towards her because of being born from her body. He described the Sāṅkhya system of philosophy, which is a combination of devotional service and mystic realization and is received by disciplic succession." **Prabhupāda:** > viditvārthaṁ kapilo mātur itthaṁ > jāta-sneho yatra tanvābhijātaḥ > tattvāmnāyaṁ yat pravadanti sāṅkhyaṁ > provāca vai bhakti-vitāna-yogam > [[sb/3/25/31|[SB. 3.25.31] ]] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/681201_gurudasa.md|Letter to Gurudasa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681201_harer_nama.md|Letter to Harer Nama, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681201_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1970/701201_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701201_nayanabhirama.md|Letter to Nayanabhirama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701201_rupanuga.md|Letter to Rupanuga, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1973/731201_abhirama.md|Letter to Abhirama, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731201_bhakta_don.md|Letter to Bhakta Don, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731201_jayananda.md|Letter to Jayananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731201_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731201_yasodanandana_gurukrpa.md|Letter to Yasodanandana Gurukrpa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/741201_hansadutta.md|Letter to Hansadutta, 1974]]