# December 19 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/661219bg.ny|Bg 9.27-29 — December 19, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi > yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat > yat tapasyasi kaunteya > tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam > [[bg/9/27|[Bg. 9.27] ]] Now, here is a general prescription for all people for transcendental realization of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. *Yat karoṣi,* whatever you do, it doesn't matter. So you do it for Kṛṣṇa. And how to do it we discussed in the last meeting, that you are doing something; simply change the consciousness that you're doing for Kṛṣṇa. Nobody is inactive. It is not possible. You cannot be inactive even for a second. Because as living entity, our position is that we shall be always active. Don't you see? As soon as I am out of this body, the body has no more activities. All activities stopped. Again, when I enter another body, my activities from the womb of my mother begins. At the age of seven months only, the child becomes active. So spirit soul is always active. So all these activities should be dovetailed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, *yat karoṣi,* whatever you do. --- **[[spoken/661219cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.294-298 — December 19, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya > jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ > viṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣo > govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi > [Bs. 5.48] Kṛṣṇa's first expansion, second expansion, the third expansion. The third expansion, Mahā-Viṣṇu. So Mahā-Viṣṇu's potency is described in the *Brahma-saṁhitā: yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya. Niśvasita-kāla* means the breathing period. Just abiding by the breathing period of that Mahā-Viṣṇu, *jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ. Jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥ* means the supreme creature, created, supreme created creature, Brahmā. Brahmā is the principal supreme creature in each, every universe. There are innumerable universes, and there are innumerable Brahmās also. You will find in *Caitanya-caritāmṛta,* it is quoted from *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* that one sometimes... It is called *līlā,* pastime, that Brahmā, when Kṛṣṇa was here on this planet, so Brahmā was very much proud that "Kṛṣṇa is now in the earthly planet, and this earthly planet is one of the innumerable planets under my control." Brahmā is the controller, is the primal, principal living entity in this universe, so he was little proud that "Kṛṣṇa is within my control." --- **[[spoken/681219bg.la|Bg 2.62-72 — December 19, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** "While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment, lust develops, and from lust, anger arises." [[bg/2/62|[Bg. 2.62] ]] Purport. "One who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious is subjected to material desires while contemplating the objects of the senses. The senses require real engagements, and if they are not engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, they will certainly seek engagement in the service of materialism." **Prabhupāda:** Yes. Here is the secret of *yoga* system. *Yoga indriya-saṁyama.* The real purpose of *yoga* is to control the senses. Our material activities means to engage the sense in some particular objective or enjoyment. That is our material engagement. And *yoga* system means that you have to control the senses and detach the senses from material enjoyment, or material pleasure and pains, and divert it, focusing towards seeing the Supersoul Viṣṇu within your soul. --- **[[spoken/681219in.la|Initiation Lecture — December 19, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Prabhupāda:** I am not criticizing, but it is, I mean to say, a human consideration. Suppose if you have committed some wrong thing within our jurisdiction and you come to me, "Swāmījī, I have committed this." So I say, "All right. Don't do it again. Excused." Now, second day you come again, you say, "I have committed this." All right. Second day I can also excuse. The third day also, I can excuse, but fourth day I'll not excuse. Don't make it official business. Just like go to the church every week and confess and... Confessing your sinful activities before Lord Jesus Christ or his representative, surely your sinful activities are squared up. But does it mean, very nice, that every week, the whole week you shall commit sinful activities, and at the end of the week you shall go and confess? Does it look very well? You are not ashamed that "Every week I commit these sinful activities, and on the seventh day I confess"? This process should not be adopted, that because God's name, God's remembrance actually squares up all of our sinful activities... That's a fact. But how it is that we shall go on committing sinful activities and square it up by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and by confessing? No. This is the particular point. One should carefully note. --- **[[spoken/701219sb.sur|SB 6.1.34-39 — December 19, 1970, Surat]]** **Prabhupāda:** That's all right. [Hindi] So the constables of Yamarāja, they are describing the bodily features of the Viṣṇudūta. You can have an idea of the Viṣṇuloka, or Vaikuṇṭha-loka. From this study, we have to understand that there is a spiritual sky, and that is far, far extensive than the material sky. You cannot even measure the sky covered by one universe, and there are innumerable universes. That is... All together, that is one-fourth of the whole sky. It is a rough estimate only, according to the Vedic scripture. And the three-fourths of the sky is spiritual sky. The population in the spiritual sky is far, far greater than the material sky. Only a few living entities who are rebelled. Just like the population in the prison house is insignificant compared to the whole population of the state, similarly, the living entities who are here in this material world, they are very insignificant. --- **[[spoken/721219bg.bom|Bg 7.4 — December 19, 1972, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** *...vāyuḥkhaṁ mano buddhir eva ca ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā* [[bg/7/4|[Bg. 7.4] ]] So this is very scientific proposal. How these material elements—earth, water, fire, air, sky—and subtle material elements—mind, intelligence and ego—are growing from Kṛṣṇa. But if we give little attention, it is not very difficult to understand. Just like you sow one little seed on the ground, just like a banyan tree. Gradually that seed becomes a very big banyan tree. So matter does not produce living energy. From the living energy the matter is produced. That is the fact. The theory that..., Buddhist theory, they say that living symptom grows under certain condition of material combination. That is not the fact. We don't find such things. Then the scientist would have been able to produce life in the laboratory by combination of matter and chemicals. So far it has not been possible, neither it is possible at any time, because from *Bhagavad-gītā* we understand that two energies are working: material energy and the spiritual energy. Here is the description of the material energy: *bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ*, and the next verse it is clearly said that *apareyam*, all these material energies, they are inferior quality. --- **[[spoken/731219mw.la|Morning Walk — December 19, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Hṛdayānanda:** That Kṛṣṇa is eternal and perfect, and whatever Kṛṣṇa speaks is also eternally perfect. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. [break] *Śāśvata* means eternally fresh. Therefore ignorance is also eternal, because knowledge means absence of ignorance. That is knowledge. So side by side, two things are there. Now, if you are in ignorance, there is no knowledge. **Prabhupāda:** Ah. *Nāsato vidyate bhāvaḥ* [[bg/2/16|[Bg. 2.16] ]]. It is the negative. Positive side is knowledge. Darkness. Darkness. Just like where there is no light, there is darkness. *Harer nāma harer nāma...* [*Cc Ādi* 7.76]. --- **[[spoken/731219sb.la|SB 1.15.41 — December 19, 1973, Los Angeles]]** **Pradyumna:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] **Pradyumna:** *vācam*—speeches; *juhāva*—relinquished; *manasi*—into the mind; *tat prāṇe*—mind into breathing; *itare ca*—other senses also; *tam*—into that; *mṛtyau*—into death; *apānam*—breathing; *sa-utsargam*—with all dedication; *tam*—that; *pañcatve*—into the body made of five elements; *hi*—certainly; *ajohavīt*—amalgamated it. [break] --- **[[spoken/741219sb.bom|SB 3.26.7 — December 19, 1974, Bombay]]** **Nitāi:** *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] "Material consciousness is the cause of one's conditional life. Conditions are enforced upon the living entity by the material energy. Although he does not do anything and is transcendental to such activities, the spirit soul is thus affected by conditional life." **Prabhupāda:** > tad asya saṁsṛtir bandhaḥ > pāra-tantryaṁ ca tat-kṛtam > bhavaty akartur īśasya > sākṣiṇo nirvṛtātmanaḥ > [[sb/3/26/7|[SB. 3.26.7] ]] --- **[[spoken/751219mw.bom|Morning Walk — December 19, 1975, Bombay]]** **Dr. Patel:** So they get their food all right. They may not get our food every day, but their food they get. **Prabhupāda:** That also a human being does. You know in the concentrated camp in during war they had to eat their stool. **Dr. Patel:** But the British army had a regulation that they can drink urine but not stool. They cannot eat. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1968/681219_aniruddha.md|Letter to Aniruddha, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681219_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681219_gargamuni.md|Letter to Gargamuni, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681219_janardana.md|Letter to Janardana, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681219_rukmini.md|Letter to Rukmini, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1968/681219_uddhava.md|Letter to Uddhava, 1968]] - [[../../letters/1970/701219_advaita.md|Letter to Advaita, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701219_mr._ddd.md|Letter to Mr. Ddd, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701219_nara-narayana_dinadayadri.md|Letter to Nara-Narayana Dinadayadri, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701219_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701219_sridama.md|Letter to Sridama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721219_gurudasa_yamuna.md|Letter to Gurudasa Yamuna, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721219_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1972/721219_tejiyas.md|Letter to Tejiyas, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1974/741219_bahudak.md|Letter to Bahudak, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1974/741219_vipini.md|Letter to Vipini, 1974]] - [[../../letters/1975/751219_bhagavan.md|Letter to Bhagavan, 1975]]