# December 15 *Lectures from this day: 6 recordings* --- **[[../../spoken/1970/701215rc.sur.md|Room Conversation — December 15, 1970, Surat]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/701215sb.ind|SB 6.1.27 — December 15, 1970, Indore]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...from all sinful contamination. Therefore purposely they commit sinful activity and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa to counteract. That is also greatest offense, that "Because I am chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa..." Just like some government officer, because he is in higher post... Just like the other day I cited the high-court judge. So "I shall take opportunity of taking bribe on the strength of my superior post in government service." According to law, that is greatest offender, the greatest criminal, according to law. If a policeman kills, his offense and his punishment is greater than an ordinary man killing. That is the law. Knowingly. So the "Nārāyaṇa," the constant chanting of "Nārāyaṇa," on account of the name... Nowadays the fashion is that we do not keep the name of our children in God's name. Formerly, "Kṛṣṇa dāsa," "Nārāyaṇa dāsa," "Govardhana dāsa," some of... There are thousands of Viṣṇu's name. The people would keep the children's name according to that, so that indirectly, directly, they would be able to chant the holy name of the Lord. That was the process. And by doing so he will be gradually developing his Kṛṣṇa consciousness. --- **[[spoken/731215mw.la|Morning Walk — December 15, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Candanācārya:** Yesterday I made the acquaintance of a theologist, a professor from the University of Montreal. He said that the Roman Catholic presentation of Christianity is that God came to share the suffering of man. **Candanācārya:** I asked him this, and he said, "So that man would accept more as reality, suffering." **Prabhupāda:** Very good theologician. A rascal number one. You are trying for becoming happy, and his theory is that man will accept suffering. You see? The very proposition is rascaldom. Everyone is trying for to become happy. That is progress. *Ātyantika.* In Sanskrit it is called *ātyantika-duḥkha-nivṛttiḥ.* --- **[[spoken/731215sb.la|SB 1.15.37 — December 15, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *yudhiṣṭhiraḥ*—Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira; *tat*—that; *parisarpaṇam*—expansion; *budhaḥ*—thoroughly experienced; *pure*—in the capital; *ca*—as also; *rāṣṭre*—in the state; *ca*—and; *gṛhe*—at home; *tathā*—as also; *ātmani*—in person; *vibhāvya*—in creating; *lobha*—avarice; *anṛta*—untruth; *jihma*—diplomacy; *hiṁsana-ādi*—violence, [break] envy; *adharma*—irreligion; *cakram*—a vicious circle; *gamanāya*—for departure; *paryadhāt*—dressed himself accordingly. [break] **Translation:** "Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was intelligent enough to understand the influence of the Age of Kali, characterized by increasing [break] avarice, falsehood, cheating and violence throughout the capital, state and home and among individuals. So he wisely prepared himself to leave home, and he dressed himself accordingly." --- **[[spoken/741215sb.bom|SB 3.26.3 — December 15, 1974, Bombay]]** "The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Supreme Soul, and He has no beginning. He is transcendental to the material modes of nature and beyond the existence of this material world. He is perceivable everywhere because He is self-effulgent, and by His self-effulgent luster the entire creation is maintained." **Prabhupāda:** > anādir ātmā puruṣo > nirguṇaḥ prakṛteḥ paraḥ > pratyag-dhāmā svayaṁ-jyotir > viśvaṁ yena samanvitam > [[sb/3/26/3|[SB. 3.26.3] ]] --- **[[spoken/761215bg.hyd|Bg 16.7 — December 15, 1976, Hyderabad]]** **Prabhupāda:** > pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca > janā na vidur āsurāḥ > na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro > na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate > [[bg/16/7|[Bg. 16.7] ]] So this asuric public, they do not know which way their destination is. They say it is self-interest, but these rascals, they do not know what is the self-interest, because their very beginning of life is mistaken. They are thinking this body is the self. So how they will know self-interest? The basic principle is mistaken. *Dehātma-buddhi.* The dogs, cats, they think that "I am this body." So same interest, *asura.* They do not know, neither they try to understand. *Dehino 'smin yathā dehe* [[bg/2/13|[Bg. 2.13] ]]. Within this body the spirit soul is there. They cannot understand. Therefore their self-interest is mistaken. Real self-interest is that "I am spirit soul. I am son of God. My father is very, very rich, opulent. I have given up my father's association and therefore I am suffering." Otherwise there is no question of suffering. We have got experience. A very rich man's son, why he should suffer? So here Kṛṣṇa says that *ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā* [[bg/14/4|[Bg. 14.4] ]]: "I am the seed-giving father of all living entities." Then... God means *ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṇaḥ,* six kinds of opulences. He is complete. He is the proprietor of everything, *bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram* [[bg/5/29|[Bg. 5.29] ]].* So if I am the son of a person who is the proprietor of everything, then where is the question of my suffering? So therefore the basic principle of self-interest is lost. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1966/661215_nripen_babu.md|Letter to Nripen Babu, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1966/661215_sripad_narayana_maharaja.md|Letter to Sripad Narayana Maharaja, 1966]] - [[../../letters/1969/691215_cidananda.md|Letter to Cidananda, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691215_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691215_manager_of_punjab_national_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Punjab National Bank, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1972/721215_capt._singhal.md|Letter to Capt. Singhal, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721215_nirmala.md|Letter to Nirmala, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/731215_bhutatma.md|Letter to Bhutatma, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731215_govardhan.md|Letter to Govardhan, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731215_kurusrestha.md|Letter to Kurusrestha, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731215_madhudvisa.md|Letter to Madhudvisa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731215_mukunda_madhavananda.md|Letter to Mukunda Madhavananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731215_nityananda.md|Letter to Nityananda, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1974/741215_bahudak.md|Letter to Bahudak, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741215_bhakta_mark.md|Letter to Bhakta Mark, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741215_revatinandana.md|Letter to Revatinandana, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741215_tribhuvanatha.md|Letter to Tribhuvanatha, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/751215_vishvambhar_dayala.md|Letter to Vishvambhar Dayala, 1975]]