# December 22 ## Spoken on December 22 *Lectures from this day: 9 recordings* --- **[1966: Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.313–317](spoken/1966/661222cc.ny.md)** > So we have to accept these authorities, quotation from *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Vedic literature, and quoted by authority, Lord Caitanya. We have to follow in that way. *Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ*. Therefore we have to accept this, that if we be engaged in devotional service of the Supreme Lord, then we are transcendental to these material modes of nature. Therefore anyone who is so engaged, he is liberated. He is liberated. Officially he is liberated. But if he falls down by the attraction of these three modes of nature, that is a different thing. That is possible. > And above that *avyakta* stage... *Avyakta* means nonmanifested. *Vyakta avyakta.* This is *vyakta,* this is manifested. Certain space is manifested, and certain space is nonmanifested. So this is called *vyakta* and *avyakta.* Śaṅkarācārya says that Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is *vyaktāvyaktāt sanātanaḥ*. --- **[1968: Press Release "Manifesto of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness"](spoken/1968/681222pr.la)** > Similarly, we experience bodily changes, from embryo to child to youth to maturity to old age and to death. The less intelligent mentality presumes that at the death the spirit soul's existence is forever finished, just like primitive tribes who believe that the sun dies at sunset. Actually, the sun is rising in another part of the world. Similarly, the soul is accepting another type of body. When the body gets old like the old garments and is no longer usable, then the soul accepts another body, just like we accept a new suit of clothes. > The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases of understanding, namely as Brahman, or the impersonal universal soul; Paramātmā, or the localized universal soul; and at the end as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. An individual soul is understood in three aspects, namely first in the consciousness pervading all over the body, then as the spirit soul within the heart, and ultimately exhibited as a person. Similarly, the Absolute Truth is first realized as impersonal Brahman, then as localized Supersoul, Paramātmā, and at the end as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. --- **[1969: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.1–5 [First Return from Europe](spoken/1969/691222sb.bos)** > So we should be so much responsible how to avoid such laws of nature. We can have any form of life out of 8,400,000 species that are before you. You should always remember that "If by chance I slip to one of them, then how I have wasted my time." This is responsible life. *Labdhvā su-durlabham idaṁ bahu-sambhavānte*. > So this word, very word, *śrotavyādīni...* Pradyumna, you understand *śrotavyādīni*? No? *Śrotavyādīni* means subject of news. So he said, "There are many subject of news, or newspaper." *Śrotavyādīni rājendra*. He is addressing the king, *rājendra.* He was the emperor. Therefore, "the king of the kings," *rājendra.* "My dear *rājendra,* emperor, there are many varieties of subject matter for hearing." For whom? *Nṛṇām:* "for the human society." *Nṛṇām* means human beings. *Śrotavyādīni rājendra nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ.* --- **[1970: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.40](spoken/1970/701222sb.sur)** > Or if anyone is accepting God as the ultimate goal of religious process, that is also Vedic. Because Kṛṣṇa says that *vedaiś ca sarvair aham*. And a godless scripture, that is not accepted as religion. Therefore in India, although Lord Buddha appeared in India—he was a *kṣatriya,* and he started some religious principle—it is not accepted, because it is not..., in the Buddha religion, there is no acceptance of God or soul. > He was... God became very much compassionate. When people were too much addicted in killing animals unnecessarily, He appeared as Lord Buddha. *Sadaya-hṛdaya darśita-paśu-ghātam. Paśu-ghātam.* The *paśu-ghātam* means they were being implicated in innumerable sinful activities by this process. Therefore God wanted to... *Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati*. In the name of religion, they were killing so many animals. Therefore to stop this nonsense, he appeared. --- **[1973: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.44](spoken/1973/731222sb.la)** > Therefore it is said, *ajo 'pi sann avyayātmā bhūtānām īśvaro 'pi san.* Although He has no birth and death, still, He appears just like He has taken birth from Devakī's womb. It is just like the sun is rising from the eastern side. It does not mean that the eastern side has given birth to the sun. No. Sun is very big than the eastern side. But it appears like that. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *janma karma me divyam.* Because there are many theologists, they say, "Why God shall take birth?" That is their argument. So our answer is, "Why God shall not take birth? If He is omnipotent, so why you are minimizing His power that He cannot take birth? He must take birth if He likes." > So the real mistake they are committing: *dehātma-buddhi,* this body as self. That is the basic mistake of all education. *Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke*. Anyone who has accepted this body as self, *yasya ātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke...* This is a bag of three elements: *kapha, pitta, vāyu.* And on this basis, *sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu... Sva-dhīḥ. Sva-dhīḥ* means thinking, "my own men." *Kalatrādiṣu. Kalatra* means wife, and through wife, children, then other relationship. *Sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ.* And the land in which one is born, that is worshipable. Nowadays nationalism. Nationalism means the land. In so many ways the whole basic principle of education is wrong. Therefore such persons who are making so-called progress on the basic principle of mistake, so *parābhavas tāvat,* they are simply being defeated, because the basic principle is wrong. *Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Ātma-tattvam,* spirit, spiritual knowledge, one who hasn't got, so whatever they are doing in the name of progress, they are all being defeated. That's all. It will never be successful. They will never be happy. There will be no peace and prosperity in the world, because the basic principle is wrong. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.10](spoken/1974/741222sb.bom)** > So that self-realization is not very difficult. But it requires a little fortune and intelligence. *Ahaṁ brahmāsmi.* These big, big saintly person, they are undergoing severe penances and austerities to understand *ahaṁ brahmāsmi.* But if you believe in the *Bhagavad-gītā* statement, Kṛṣṇa says, *mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ* : "The living entities are My part and parcel." So if Kṛṣṇa is Para-brahman... *Paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān*. > Kṛṣṇa said that "The living entities, they are My part and parcel. They are as good as I am." But because the part and parcel of gold is also gold... It is nothing else. It may be small gold, but it is gold. Similarly, we may be very small fragmental part of the Supreme Person, Brahman, but we are Brahman. This is Brahman. *Ahaṁ brahmāsmi.* This is Brahman realization. It is not very difficult. If you simply understand that "I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa," that is *brahma-jñāna. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā*. It does not take very much time, but it requires little brain, that "If I am part and parcel of God, then I must be qualitatively the same." Part of gold is also gold. --- **[1975: His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī's Disappearance Day, Bhagavad-gītā 16.7](spoken/1975/751222db.bom)** > If the factory man knows that he is not the proprietor, he is not the enjoyer of the profit—the enjoyer of the profit is the proprietor of the factory, and we are worker—then there is peace. And if the workers fight amongst themselves, that "I am the proprietor," falsely, then there is chaos. There is no production; chaos. Similarly, if we fight ourselves..., amongst ourselves, that "I am proprietor of India; you are proprietor of America; you are proprietor of Germany," this is false conception of life. Real proprietor is Kṛṣṇa. If we know this, *bhoktāraṁ yajña...* Kṛṣṇa says that *bhokta,* "I am *bhokta*, I am the enjoyer." *Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasaṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram*,* "I am the final proprietor, or the supreme proprietor," that's a fact; then there is peace. > So this is not fact that Kṛṣṇa is within your mind, therefore you should not go to the temple, you have become so advanced. No. Better go to the temple and see Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is not different. *Arcye śilā-dhīr guru-darse viṣṇu śilā-dhīr guruṣu nara-mati.* Do not consider that "Here is a stone, Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa is everything. Stone is also Kṛṣṇa; simply you have to be qualified how to talk with stone Kṛṣṇa. That is your qualification. You have to qualify yourself. Otherwise Kṛṣṇa is stone, Kṛṣṇa is water, Kṛṣṇa is sky, Kṛṣṇa is everything. So this is the philosophy. Kṛṣṇa says, *bhūmir āpo' nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ buddhir mano eva ca* : "I am everything." That's a fact. So why do you say there is stone Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa is everything. If you have got that eyes to see, you can see Kṛṣṇa everywhere and everything. --- **[1976: Room and Car Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra](spoken/1976/761222r1.poo)** > I know about my pains and pleasures of my body. You know. But I do not know what is pains and pleasure of your body; you do not know what is pains and pleasure of my body. Therefore there is difference. But God knows. That is the difference between you and God. How you claim "God"? You do not know what is the pains and pleasures of my body. You know the pains and pleasures of your body. I know the pains and pleasures of my body. But either you or me, we do not know the pains and pleasures of all bodies. And Kṛṣṇa says, *kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata.* He knows everyone's pains and pleasure. That is the difference between you and Him. > That means you could not get place in the *satya.* Therefore you come down again. That is stated in the *śāstra. Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padam*. Although with severe austerities and penances might go to the *paraṁ pada, patanty adhaḥ, anādṛta-yuṣmad,* because he could not get shelter at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, he falls down. He must fall down to the material activities. *Patanty adhaḥ.* That is *adaḥpatana.* As soon as a person, after undergoing severe austerities, becomes very highly elevated in the *sannyāsa* stage, but if he cannot get shelter at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then surely he shall fall down for these material activities, material enjoyment. That is the sign that he's fallen down. --- **[1976: Room Conversation with Indian Guest](spoken/1976/761222r2.poo)** >no need of a child to whom you have to give your care to make him, to raise him in such a way, if there is no such need, then there is no need of sex life. If you enjoy sex life for sense enjoyment, that is atrocity. That you have to accept. That is Vedic civilization. Because before sex life we have got *saṁskāras, garbhādhāna-saṁskāra.* The purpose is there, that "I shall train my child how to stop death. And the child must be so good that he will take my instruction." And therefore *garbhādhāna-saṁskāra.* So without *garbhādhāna-saṁskāra,* one who enjoys sex life, he is the most sinful. Not that "Whenever and wherever I like, and with whomever I like, I shall have sex life." It is all sinful activity. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *dharma aviruddhaḥ kāmo 'smi:* "Sex life which is not against religious principles, that I am." So if we try to understand this one verse, we become self-realized. Similarly, each verse of *Bhagavad-gītā* is like that. > So out of these four classes of men, the three classes—means *karmī, jñānī* and *yogī—*they are restless, because they actually did not find out what is the solution. One after another, there are different classes, there are classification. One is better than the other. That is another thing. But none of them... They are still misled. A *karmī,* he is thinking that "I am poor man. If I become rich man, I will be happy." He is thinking in that way. *Jñānī* is thinking that "Poor and rich doesn't matter. I am Brahman. I am spirit soul. If I merge into the Supreme Brahman I will be happy." *Yogī* is thinking that "The Absolute is present everywhere in His personal feature. *Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati*. --- ## Letters on December 22 *Letters from this day: 12* --- **[1971: Letter to Balavanta](letters/1971/711222_balavanta)** > I am especially pleased that you are infiltrating the schools and colleges with improved programs, how to encourage the student class to participate in Krishna Consciousness. --- **[1971: Letter to Gargamuni](letters/1971/711222_gargamuni)** > Regarding Brahma Kunda, the donor Dinabandhu is going to give it to us in pukkha writing or legal form by the 15th January, and then we can repair that house to our living, making the doors, etc. In the meantime you can use my Radha-Damodara rooms, but make the locks and doors secure. --- **[1971: Letter to Gauracandra Goswami Others](letters/1971/711222_gauracandra_goswami_others)** > With reference to our conversation of the 27th November, 1971, I beg to inform you that when I visited India in 1967, our account was settled up until the month of August, 1967. --- **[1971: Letter to Jayapataka](letters/1971/711222_jayapataka)** > I have sent Bhavananda there to help you, and you can assist him to organize everything very nicely. --- **[1971: Letter to Nayanabhirama](letters/1971/711222_nayanabhirama)** > I am especially pleased to hear that our KC drama program is being developed by you nicely. --- **[1971: Letter to Sridama](letters/1971/711222_sridama)** > I am especially very very pleased that you are getting that large church for our Miami center. --- **[1971: Letter to Upendra](letters/1971/711222_upendra)** > I shall be very glad to come there, via Hong Kong. You should make arrangements for two tickets from Hong Kong to Australia and then to Tokyo. --- **[1971: Letter to Yamuna Palika](letters/1971/711222_yamuna_palika)** > So far that land, the Mayor has promised, so you both also try for it & let me know what is their program. I've already instructed Gargamuni & Subala in this matter, so you see them & help try to secure some land. --- **[1972: Letter to Karandhara](letters/1972/721222_karandhara)** > Regarding your proposal to cash my bonds and take that house in New York, I have heard from Bali Mardan that the bid was refused and that he has made another bid, but it will be some time before it is decided. --- **[1975: Letter to Gurudasa](letters/1975/751222_gurudasa)** > Thank you very much, you are very competent, and if you continue like this you will get strength from Krishna more and more. --- **[1975: Letter to Hrdayananda](letters/1975/751222_hrdayananda)** > The poem is very nice, however one should not think himself a devotee, poem 3. should read --- **[1976: Letter to Sudama](letters/1976/761222_sudama)** > Yes, you need to come to the festival this year. Your health must be taken care of first. Regarding the others, it is alright that they may or not come as convenient. ---