# December 13 *Lectures from this day: 12 recordings* --- **[[spoken/661213cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.164-173 — December 13, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ > kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam > indrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ > mṛḍayanti yuge yuge > [[cc/madhya/20/156|[Cc. Madhya 20.156] ]] So the Absolute Truth is manifested according to the vision of the seer. The Absolute Truth is one without second, but according to the capacity of the seer, the Absolute Truth is manifested either as Brahman, impersonal Brahman, or localized Paramātmā or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So this point we have discussed. So Lord Caitanya is giving one evidence from *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam:* --- **[[spoken/681213bg.la|Bg 2.40-45 — December 13, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Devotee:** "Thus far I have declared to you the analytical knowledge of *sāṅkhya* philosophy. Now listen to the knowledge of *yoga,* whereby one works without fruitive result." **Devotee:** "Thus far I have declared to you the analytical knowledge of *sāṅkhya* philosophy. Now listen to the knowledge of *yoga,* whereby one works without fruitive result." **Devotee:** "O son of Pṛthā, when you act by such intelligence you can free yourself from the bondage of works." --- **[[spoken/701213r2.ind|Room Conversation — December 13, 1970, Indore]]** **Guest (1) (Indian man):** Whatever I have read. But, you see, I don't believe what I have read. I believe only whatever I have talked to you, whatever you have said person to person. **Prabhupāda:** No, no, that is another thing. But still, what is your conception of our philosophy? What is that teaching? **Guest (1):** No, I have understood what I have heard from you. What is your conception of God I have not understood. --- **[[../../spoken/1970/701213rc.ind.md|Room Conversation — December 13, 1970, Indore]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/701213sb.ind|SB 6.1.22 — December 13, 1970, Indore]]** Haṁsadūta: [introducing recording] The following lecture was recorded the morning of the 13th December, 1970. **Prabhupāda:** So this is very important point, Śukadeva Gosvāmī says. This is authority, that *naṣṭa-sadācāro dāsyāḥ saṁsarga-dūṣitaḥ* [[sb/6/1/21|[SB. 6.1.21] ]].* As soon as there will be contamination of illicit sex life, he will be bereft of all good character. This basic principle. And the whole world is now encouraged in that way. So how we can expect good character from the modern man? There is no possibility, if we accept this statement of *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* given by Śukadeva Gosvāmī, *naṣṭa-sadācāro dāsyāḥ saṁsarga-dūṣitaḥ.* So Ajāmila, being contaminated by that illicit sex life with a prostitute, he lost all his brahminical qualifications, and gradually he was in need of money. Just like the other day I gave you the instance of a big high-court judge, because he was also of that type. I know his private character. He was most debauched, and therefore he wanted money, ten thousand rupees per month. And in spite of his position as a high-court judge and getting four thousand, five thousand salary, he could not check from his falldown. --- **[[spoken/711213le.del|Lecture — December 13, 1971, Delhi]]** **Prabhupāda:** *Dharma*, I have explained, occupational duty. So long we have got this material body, we have got particular type of occupational duty. We are preaching to the world not any occupational duty, but we are preaching eternal duty. This occupational duty is in connection with the body. That is not eternal. Suppose this life I've got a body, human body or *brāhmaṇa* body or a son in the Rockefeller family, and according to that body I have got a particular type of duty, standard of living. *Deha-yogena dehinām* [[sb/7/6/3|[SB. 7.6.3] ]]. But as soon as the body's changed—I get another body—the whole duty changed. Now I may have a very comfortable body, American body, Rockefeller family body, but next life, according to my *karma*, we are preparing our next life. Suppose if I get the body of a dog, then my occupational duty will be *"Gow! Gow!"* Because according to the body the duty is changed. So these occupational duties, they are not permanent. But I am eternal, *na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre* [[bg/2/20|[Bg. 2.20] ]]. By the destruction of this body, I am not destroyed. I remain, I simply enter another body. I, as spiritual soul, I remain. Just like I'm entering different bodies in this life. I was a child, I enter another body. --- **[[spoken/721213bg.ahm|Bg 7.1 — December 13, 1972, Ahmedabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha > yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ > asaṁśayam samagraṁ māṁ > yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu > [[bg/7/1|[Bg. 7.1] ]] So by the end of the Sixth Chapter, Kṛṣṇa has explained the *aṣṭa, aṣṭāṅga-yoga-siddhi. Aṣṭāṅga-yoga-siddhi,* that *yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā* [[bg/6/47|[Bg. 6.47] ]] Always who is thinking of Kṛṣṇa within himself, *śraddhāvān,* with faith and knowledge, he is first-class *yogī.* So how this first-class *yoga* system helps me? Because the other *yoga* system, they will disagree, that "Simply by thinking of Kṛṣṇa within one's heart, how one becomes perfect?" That is explained from the Seventh Chapter of *Bhagavad-gītā,* how simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa you become well aware of everything, this *yoga* system. In the *Vedas* also it is stated, *yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati* [*Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad* 1.3]. --- **[[spoken/731213db.la|Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Disappearance Day Lecture — December 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Devotees:** Jaya Prabhupāda! *Haribol*. All glories to **Śrī *Guru. *Haribol.*Prabhupāda: Hmm. nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura passed away from this material world on 31st December, 1936. So almost forty years past. So there are two phases: *prakaṭa* and *aprakaṭa,* appearance and disappearance. So we have nothing to lament on account of disappearance because Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's devotees... Not only devotees, even the nondevotees, nobody disappears. Nobody disappears, because every living entity... As Kṛṣṇa is eternal... It is confirmed in the Vedic literature, *nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām* [*Kaṭha Upaniṣad* 2.2.13]. The description of the Supreme Lord is that He is also *nitya,* eternal, and the living entities are also eternal. But He is the chief eternal, *nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām.* --- **[[spoken/731213mw.la|Morning Walk — December 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...is contamination. Just like when a person is diseased, you find so many extra chemicals in his body. So a diseased person produces such chemicals, not that chemicals are the agents for his life. Try to understand. When a living entity is pure, when he becomes impure, these chemicals are produced out of him. Exactly the same thing: just like when a man becomes contaminated, infected with some disease, you will find so many extra things, germs and chemicals, in his body. So these extra chemicals, germs, are not responsible for his living condition. Because he is living and because in a awkward condition, therefore these things have been produced by him. **Prabhupāda:** Normal chemicals must be. They're of the whole world... The material world is made of chemicals. So wherever you go and see, the chemicals in different, what is called, element, they are present. You cannot see, but chemicals... Because you have no eyes to see the soul, so you simply see the chemicals which is produced by the soul. **Prabhupāda:** Just like anything you keep for some time, when it is decomposed, you find so many chemicals, extra. So now they are mistaking. The chemicals are not... They are effects; they are not cause. When a thing is decomposed, you'll find so many extra chemicals. Our point is that because a thing is decomposed, so many chemicals come out, not that on account of these chemicals it has given... A dead body. A dead body—not that because the chemicals have come, therefore he is dead. No. Because the body is dead, therefore so many chemicals have been produced. --- **[[spoken/731213sb.la|SB 1.15.35 — December 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] *...matsya-ādi*—incarnation as a fish, etc.; *rūpāṇi*—forms; *dhatte*—eternally accepts; *jahyāt*—apparently relinquishes; *yathā*—exactly like; *naṭaḥ*—magician; *bhū-bhāraḥ*—burden of the world; *kṣapitaḥ*—relieved; *yena*—by which; *jahau*—let go; *tat*—that; *ca*—also; *kalevaram*—body. --- **[[spoken/741213sb.bom|SB 3.26.1 — December 13, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] "The Personality of Godhead, Kapila, continued: My dear mother, now I shall describe unto you the different categories of the Absolute Truth, knowing which any person can be released from the influence of the modes of material nature." --- **[[spoken/761213bg.hyd|Bg 16.6 — December 13, 1976, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > dvau bhūta-sargau loke 'smin > daiva āsura eva ca > daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta > āsuraṁ pārtha me śṛṇu > [[bg/16/6|[Bg. 16.6] ]] There are two classes of men within this world: *daiva āsura eva ca.* One class of men is called *daiva, devatā,* or the demigod, and the other class, *asura. Sura* means civilized, and *asura* means not civilized. *Kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ* [[sb/2/4/18|[SB. 2.4.18] ]]. These are amongst the noncivilized men. Formerly, the kings of Bhārata-varṣa, India, they used to kill these uncivilized men. Bad example. They did not follow the Vedic civilization, so the king's order was that they should be killed. If they are too much prominent... Just like they are hunting in the forest. So these... There is history among..., about King Bharata, King Bharata, under whose name this planet is called Bhārata-varṣa. No, not that Bharata. There are three Bharatas. One Bharata is the son of Ṛṣabhadeva. Another Bharata is the son of Mahārāja Duṣyanta. Another Bharata is the younger brother of Lord Rāmacandra. Out of these three Bharatas, the son of Ṛṣabhadeva is the person after whose name this planet is called Bhārata-varṣa. So another Bharata was the son of Mahārāja Duṣyanta. He was very powerful, supposed to be; partial incarnation of God. So in his life he would not allow the uncivilized men to exist. He was king. He used to kill them. Why uncivilized men? Even the *kṣatriyas,* if they are not ruling properly according to the *kṣatriyas... Kṣatriyas* are supposed to be the ruler of the world. But if they are deviating from their duties, Paraśurāma, the *brāhmaṇa,* would kill them. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/551213_r.n._aggarwal_m.a.md|Letter to R.N. Aggarwal M.A, 1955]] - [[../../letters/1967/671213_nripendranath_banerjee.md|Letter to Nripendranath Banerjee, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1968/681213_girish.md|Letter to Girish, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681213_jadurani.md|Letter to Jadurani, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681213_jagadisa.md|Letter to Jagadisa, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681213_paramananda.md|Letter to Paramananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1969/691213_nandakisora.md|Letter to Nandakisora, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691213_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701213_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701213_tamala_krsna_syamasundara.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna Syamasundara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_candravali.md|Letter to Candravali, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_jayadharma.md|Letter to Jayadharma, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_rasada_dvijavara_annada.md|Letter to Rasada Dvijavara Annada, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_sukadeva.md|Letter to Sukadeva, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721213_upendra_3.md|Letter to Upendra 3, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_all_centers.md|Letter to All Centers, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_amogha.md|Letter to Amogha, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_balabhadra.md|Letter to Balabhadra, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_beharilal.md|Letter to Beharilal, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_govinda.md|Letter to Govinda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_mukunda.md|Letter to Mukunda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731213_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/741213_dr._channa_reddy.md|Letter to Dr. Channa Reddy, 1974]]