# December 7 ## Spoken on December 7 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[1966: Bhagavad-gītā 9.20–22](spoken/1966/661207bg.ny.md)** > So those who are serious about, that "I do not want any more..." But we have become callous. We don't think that "What is miseries of...?" But those who are actually in knowledge, those who want to live, those who want to have perfect knowledge, those who want to have blissful life, they understand that "This material existence, either this Svargaloka or the heavenly planet or this planet or that, will never give me happiness. I will have to... As Kṛṣṇa informs herein, that *yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama*, I will have to enter the kingdom of God, spiritual planet, where going I will have not to return back again to accept this material body." That seriousness, one who has taken that serious attitude, they can actually perform this Kṛṣṇa consciousness very nicely. > But those who are still under the impression that "Material advancement will make me happy," they are still under the spell of illusion. *Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā*. This planet, that planet, that planet, that planet, that planet—but in no planet, nowhere, you can have perfect peace of life. That is impossible. Therefore those who are intelligent, those who are by God's grace, Kṛṣṇa's grace, or by good association one who can understand that "This sort of life is not desirable. I must perform *dṛḍha-vrata,* with great determination and vow, in this life so that," *yad gatvā na nivartante ,* "I may be transferred into the Kṛṣṇaloka planet, where going I shall not have to return back..." --- **[1966: Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.137–142](spoken/1966/661207cc.ny.md)** > So the Lord says to Uddhava, *bhaktyā aham ekayā grāhyaḥ. Ekayā:* simply by devotional service, one, this one method... God is one, and to achieve Him, the process is also one. Just like in your body there are many holes, nine holes, nine holes: these two nostrils, two ear, two eyes, one mouth, and genital and evacuation, these nine holes. So if you want to supply foodstuff within your body, that is the one way: this is the mouth. There is no other way. You cannot push the foodstuff through ears or eyes or your genital. No. That is not possible. Therefore, similarly, if you want God, then the one way, *bhaktyā aham ekayā... Ekayā.* > The foolish person says that "Whatever path you may adopt, you will go to God." There are certain rascals, they say like that. But this is misleading, completely misleading. You cannot, I mean to say, reach God by any other means except this means, this *bhaktyā aham ekayā.* It is clearly stated, *ekayā. Ekayā* means "only one." There is no second process. And the *Bhagavad-gītā* also, it is stated—you will find in the Eighteenth Chapter—*bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ*. Tattvataḥ. Tattvataḥ* means in fact. --- **[1972: Bhagavad-gītā 2.1](spoken/1972/721207bg.ahm)** > *Bhaga.* Bhagavān and Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa means all-attractive. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa. *Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam*. There are other great personalities. Lord Śiva is also sometimes described as Bhagavān. Similarly, Lord Brahmā, Nārada, others are also sometimes described as Bhagavān. But real Bhagavān means Kṛṣṇa. They are Bhagavān partially. > Kṛṣṇa personally says that *mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya* : "There is no more superior element above Me." *Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ*.* "I am the origin of everything." *Aham ādir hi devānām*. Then... There are so many statements, "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." So anyone who is actually serious about understanding about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no difficulty. --- **[1973: Morning Walk](spoken/1973/731207mw.la)** > This is Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura's... "Why you are being carried away by the waves of *māyā* and you are becoming drowned and sometimes up, sometimes down? Why you are wasting your life in that way?" *Jīva kṛṣṇa dās e biśwās korle to'.*.. "If you simply accept Kṛṣṇa as your guidance, there is no more *māyā.*" But they'll not accept. *Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate*. Therefore one who accepts and surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa after many, many births of such struggle for existence, he is actually wise. He's actually wise. > This is the statement in *Bhāgavata. Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram* : "Because they cannot control their senses, therefore they are making progress towards the darkest region of hell." *Adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ punaḥ punaś carvita:* "And repeatedly chewing the chewed." --- **[1973: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.29](spoken/1973/731207sb.la)** > So Prahlāda Mahārāja said, "The best education is that which makes one anxiety-free." That is best education. Now where is that education? Is there any education throughout the whole world, in so many universities, especially in your country there are nice, very, very... Rather, they have created so much anxieties that the boys, they are frustrated. They are giving up everything, becoming hippies. Where is anxiety-less? They increase anxiety. Increase anxiety. *Tat sādhu manye 'sura-varya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna...* "My dear father, the best of the *asuras,* I think that anyone who has accepted this material body is full of anxieties." *Asad-grahāt. Asad-grahāt* means..., *asat* means temporary. Because he has accepted a body which is temporary, he is full of anxieties. That is the real problem. We, if we want to be anxiety-less, no anxiety, then we have to refuse to accept this material body. Otherwise there is no possibility. All anxieties are due to this material body. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja said, *tat sādhu manye 'sura-varya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna asad-grahāt*. > Therefore *Bhagavad-gītā* says, *kleśaḥ adhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām*. Kleśa,* that "Trouble is more." We can meditate upon Kṛṣṇa immediately. We are constantly seeing Kṛṣṇa here. So as soon as I close my eyes, I see Kṛṣṇa. That is not very difficult. Anything you see, you'll be able to immediately have the form within your heart. Immediately. So there is no difficulty, but they will create some difficult task. Therefore *Bhagavad-gītā, kleśaḥ adhikataras teṣām.* To fix up the mind on Vāsudeva, or Viṣṇu, that is also difficult. But those who are trying to fix up their mind on zero, their position is more difficult, *adhikataram. Adhikataram* means "more." --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.38](spoken/1974/741207sb.bom)** > He has expansion, many, many thousands, many, many millions. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, *īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati*. Kṛṣṇa is situated in everyone's heart, and there are many millions and trillions of heart. Not only human being; there are animals, there are trees, plants, aquatics, fishes, so many. *Anantyāya, sa anantyāya kalpate*. There is no counting of the living entities. They are so... And the Paramātmā, Kṛṣṇa's another feature, He is everywhere. That does not mean the same materialistic idea, that "If Kṛṣṇa has entered so many millions of heart, then where is existence of Kṛṣṇa?" This is called Māyāvāda, *nirviśeṣa:* "Now Kṛṣṇa is finished." No. Kṛṣṇa is not finished. Kṛṣṇa still remains. That is the Vedic injunction. *Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam eva avaśiṣyate* [Īśo* Invocation].* We read this Vedic *mantra;* still, we think Kṛṣṇa is finished. "Because He has entered so many hearts of living entity, therefore Kṛṣṇa is finished. There is no more." That is *nirākāravāda.* > So here is explained that how spiritual life is eternal and without any destruction. Here in the material world, whatever we have, it is destructible. It will be destroyed. Today one is my son, so tomorrow the son may be destroyed. But if you accept Kṛṣṇa as your son, He will never be destroyed. That is the difference. Here, whatever opulence we have got... We may have family, friend, sons, daughters, and so many things we possess. We enjoy life in the varieties of representation. *Ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho 'yam ahaṁ mameti*. Here we aspire after having good apartment, good house, *gṛha, kṣetra,* possession, property. *Ato gṛha-kṣetra-suta,* children; *āpta,* friend; *vitta,* riches. We possess here. But this possession is illusion, *janasya moho 'yam,* because it will not stay. This *gṛha...* Either the *gṛha* will be destroyed or—I am the inhabitant—I will be destroyed. There will be separation. Here nothing is permanent. *Gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittaiḥ.* Therefore it is illusion. We do not understand it. We take this, permanent, and Kṛṣṇa, not permanent. But that is not the fact. --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/751207mw.vrn)** > We are confident that this soul cannot be manufactured by any material combination; therefore we can challenge. And I can defend ourself in any stage. > Ālānātha*:* In Sweden when you go on the street and you preach, "Everybody must suffer here," they don't believe, because everybody got an apartment. They have never seen a poor man or a starving cow or something. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.5](spoken/1975/751207sb.vrn)** > So one who is *kuśala,* actually knows the aim of life, for him, *yateta ksemāya bhavam āśritaḥ.* Because in the material existence it is simply suffering. But these foolish men, they do not understand. They are thinking, "Enjoyment." How you can enjoy? Kṛṣṇa says, *duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam*: "This is a place for suffering." Actually suffering, *tri-tapa-yātanaḥ, adhibhautika, adhidaivika adhi...* But because they have become fools and rascals, they do not understand that they are suffering. They are taking it they are enjoying. *Bhavam āśritaḥ.* Therefore, anyone who is in such condition, abominable condition, condemned condition, they must take to shelter of Kṛṣṇa consciousness so long the body is strong enough. [break] ...when the body is old and it cannot move, it is attacked with rheumatism, and so many other things, indigestion. No. So long it is *śarīraṁ puruṣam. > Prahlāda Mahārāja said, "My Lord, I am not very much anxious for me, because I have no trouble. As I have learned to chant Your glories, so anywhere I am happy simply by glorifying Your activities. But I am unhappy for this reason: when I see that these rascals, simply for little material happiness, they are working so hard." *Tato vimukha-cetasa māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān*. "They have forgotten You." *Vimukha cetasa.* They think that "What is the use of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness?" *Vimukha.* And what is required? *Māyā-sukhāya.* For few years to live in material comforts, *bharam udvahato vimūḍhān,* they are manufacturing so many big, big skyscraper building, nice road, nice car. *Māyā-sukhāya.* In Western countries there is very... We are also imitating in India, like Bombay city and others, *bharam udvahato,* gorgeous arrangement. And what for? For living for a few years. Then he is going to be cats and dogs. He doesn't know that. Therefore *māyā-sukhāya.* If somebody says that "You come here at my place. I shall give you very good food, nice shelter, all comforts, and after few days I shall drive you away and I shall beat you with my shoes," will anybody agree? No. So we are doing that. Forgetting our real business, we are busy in *māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān*. --- **[1976: Morning Walk](spoken/1976/761207mw.hyd)** > Mahāṁsa*:* There is one Nṛsiṁha temple over here which is very unusual. It is inside of... There is a big rock, and it is right inside the rock, and if someone wants to have *darśana* he has to crawl inside to see it. The rock goes like this and he has to actually crawl in to see the Deity. Seems to be very, very old. [break] > Mahāṁsa*:*...a trench and a hedge, which has been planted here so that people and animals... Animals is the main problem. They come and they will eat up the plants which we grow. So by having this trench we avoid animals from getting in, and a hedge also. There'll be a lot of... One big problem that the Badrukas faced was that there was tremendous pilferage. These village people, they live on this land. They used to cut all the wood here for fire. They used to take whatever grows here, maize, and they used to steal in the night everything. Many times... --- ## Letters on December 7 *Letters from this day: 16* --- **[1967: Letter to Brahmananda](letters/1967/671207_brahmananda)** > While I shall try to open some branches in the Pacific you can also try to open branches in parts of Europe as you have suggested in your letter under reply. I'm trying to find out some reliable man who can purchase goods and book them personally. --- **[1969: Letter to Aniruddha](letters/1969/691207_aniruddha)** > I know she is a very nice girl, so if you agree to marry her, then you must treat her very nicely so that you can live very peacefully. --- **[1969: Letter to Hansadutta](letters/1969/691207_hansadutta)** > I could not check my laughing when you have said so many things in bereavement for asking me to serve in the university. --- **[1969: Letter to Ranadhir](letters/1969/691207_ranadhir)** > My Dear Ranadhir, Please accept my blessings. So please keep in touch with your good mother and try to bring in Krishna Consciousness gradually. As your mother's duty was to raise you till you got strength, similarly when a child is grown up, it is his duty to see to the spiritual welfare of his mother. --- **[1969: Letter to Sridhara Maharaja](letters/1969/691207_sridhara_maharaja)** > Another point I beg to inform you is that His Holiness Yayabar Maharaja has got land in Ishodyan and he wants Rs. He says that he wanted to construct some Math, but for want of sufficient resources he could not do that, so now he wants to dispose of it. --- **[1969: Letter to Tirtha Maharaja](letters/1969/691207_tirtha_maharaja)** > I hope you are in good health and everything is going all right. You will be pleased to know that we are going to install Radha-Krishna Deities in our London temple on the Odansasthi auspicious day, December 14th. --- **[1970: Letter to Mukunda](letters/1970/701207_mukunda)** > We sent you a telegram to send the certified copy of our constitution and you also confirmed by telegram, but it is not received yet. So far the Regent Park land scheme is concerned, I have read over all your points and further talks on these may be discussed on receipt of the above mentioned documents. --- **[1972: Letter to Syamasundara Tamala Krsna](letters/1972/721207_syamasundara_tamala_krsna)** > So my definite order is as follows: if the conveyance is not yet signed or there is difficulty, then immediately take back the money from the attorneys (3 lakhs), and make a fixed deposit with the bank for six months. --- **[1975: Letter to Hrdayananda](letters/1975/751207_hrdayananda)** > They are very nice and the reports of sales are also very encouraging. If Radhavallabha Prabhu can help you that is all right, but you have to discuss this with the BBT trustees. --- **[1975: Letter to Madhudvisa](letters/1975/751207_madhudvisa)** > I have chanted on the sacred threads and they are enclosed herewith, now hold a fire ceremony and have the students hear the Gayatri mantra chanted by me and the tape recording through the right ear. Instruct the newly initiated Brahmins about cleanliness, taking bath three time daily, taking bath each time after passing stool. --- **[1975: Letter to Rupanuga](letters/1975/751207_rupanuga)** > Upon seeing the pictures of the doll exhibit I thought it was some of our devotees play acting. --- **[1975: Letter to Sivarama](letters/1975/751207_sivarama)** > I am accepting the student you have recommended for Brahmin initiation, their names as follows; Dharmaprana das Brahmacari, Natha Das Brahmacari, Misrami Devi Dasi, and Lalita Devi Dasi. Hold a fire ceremony, and let the students hear the mantra from the tape recording through the right rear. Brahminical life means to be very very clean, inside and out. --- **[1975: Letter to Yasomatinandana](letters/1975/751207_yasomatinandana)** > You wanted one white assistant for facilitation of your work in Ahmedabad, so we have selected the best man for this work, Sriman Hai Haya Das Adhikari. --- **[1975: Letter to Yogescandra](letters/1975/751207_yogescandra)** > You always have my blessings, the father always wishes that the son may be more successful than himself. --- **[1976: Letter to Jayapataka Bhavananda](letters/1976/761207_jayapataka_bhavananda)** > Yes, I sanction your getting the necessary funds from the MVT (1 1/2 lakhs). One thing is, you say you have received $10,000 from Gurukrpa for a generator. However, that should not cost more than $6,000. --- **[1976: Letter to Pancaratna](letters/1976/761207_pancaratna)** > Yes, try to make Bhagavata Darsana a regular monthly journal. We have got enough material. Simply it has to be translated to Bengali. ---