# December 26 *Lectures from this day: 18 recordings* --- **[[spoken/661226bg.ny|Bg 9.34 — December 26, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > man-manā bhava mad-bhakto > mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru > mām evaiṣyasi kaunteya > yuktvaivam mat-parāyaṇaḥ > [[bg/9/34|[Bg. 9.34] ]] This *śloka,* this verse, we have already finished—the conclusion of the Ninth Chapter of *Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā,* that the Lord says that *man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ:* "Just always think of Me. Just become My devotee. And if you want to worship, just worship Me." **Prabhupāda:** Come forward. Yes. And this is the process of devotional service. It is not very difficult. Everyone can execute. To think of God, to offer some obeisances to God and to be..., to serve something, to render some service unto Him, and just to become a party of God. That, just like we identify, everyone identifies as to some party, either politically, socially or religiously, economically. We have got so many fields of activities. But in each and every field, we have got a party feeling. You cannot avoid that. --- **[[spoken/661226cc.ny|Cc. Madhya 20.353-354 — December 26, 1966, New York]]** **Prabhupāda:** > dvāpare bhagavān śyāmaḥ > pīta-vāsā nijāyudhaḥ > śrī-vatsādibhir aṅkaiś ca > lakṣaṇair upalakṣitaḥ > [[cc/madhya/20/337|[Cc. Madhya 20.337] ]] These are some of the *mantras* for offering respect to Kṛṣṇa. This *mantra* you may particularly note down: --- **[[spoken/681226iv.la|Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip — December 26, 1968, Los Angeles]]** **Reporter:** **...about the movement, and it occurred to me... I was wondering if there were any religious people in this country that had any misgivings or thoughts about the trip around the moon. And whether there were any, say, objections or opinions that would run counter to the usual thought about traveling to the moon, and he said that in some of your recent lectures you had said that man would not be able to land on the moon because of—now these are his words—because of spiritual beings there or that there would be an impossibility or something along that line. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that or explain what you meant. **Reporter:** Yes. I told Dan that was what I was interested in. I have background information on the movement, for instance, and yourself. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. So far the movement is concerned, it has nothing to do with the moon planetary journey. It has nothing to do. But in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* the authoritative Vedic scripture which we generally follow, in that scripture there is statement that for promoting oneself to the moon planet, one has to accustom himself to the different kind of worshiping process. --- **[[../../spoken/1968/681226p2.la.md|Spelling of Prayers to the Six Gosvāmīs — December 26, 1968, Los Angeles]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/681226pu.la|Purport & Explanation to Hari Hari Biphale — December 26, 1968, Los Angeles]]** --- **[[spoken/691226in.bos|Initiation Lecture — December 26, 1969, Boston]]** **Prabhupāda:** So this chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra* is purifying your existence. *Yasmād śuddhyed sattvam* [[sb/5/5/1|[SB. 5.5.1] ]]. *Sattvam* means existence. You are existing, I am existing, God is existing—eternally. The temporary existence that we see at the present moment, this is not our existence. This is our diseased condition, crazy condition. *Piśācī pāile yena mati-cchana. Piśācī* means ghost or witches. When one is haunted by ghost, he becomes upset of his own consciousness and talks all kinds of nonsense. Similarly, when our existence is covered by the material ghost we talk so many nonense: "I am this body, and anything in relationship with this body is mine. I am dying. I belong to this family. I belong to this community, nation, this, that, planet." These are all just like a man haunted by ghost speaks nonsense, these are all nonsense. And the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to cure this disease. *Śuddhyed sattvam,* existence. That is called *svarūpa,* real identification. *Mukti. Mukti* this... This word is very popular, *mukti,* liberation. What is that liberation? Liberation means to come to this platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is liberation. *Svarūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ* [[sb/2/10/6|[SB. 2.10.6] ]]. --- **[[spoken/721226nd.bom|The Nectar of Devotion — December 26, 1972, Bombay]]** **Pradyumna:** [reading:] "...who was later to become Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, took advantage of his brother's personal money, which had been deposited with a village banker, and escaped from the prison of Hussain Shah. In this way, both brothers joined Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. "Rūpa Gosvāmī first met Lord Caitanya at Prayāga [Allahabad, India], and on the Daśāśvamedha bathing *ghāṭa* of that holy city the Lord instructed him continually..." **Prabhupāda:** Now sometimes it is questioned that Sanātana Gosvāmī paid the money in black market. [chuckles] Yes. Actually he paid. When the Hussain Shah, Nawab, imprisoned him, he was minister. The superintendent of jail, he was working under him. He was minister. So the Sanātana Gosvāmī requested him that "I had done so many times your benefit. So you do me one benefit. You let me go. Let me go al..., the, although the Nawab has imprisoned me." --- **[[spoken/721226sb.bom|SB 1.2.8 — December 26, 1972, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** > ...puṁsāṁ > viṣvaksena-kathāsu-yaḥ > notpādayed yadi ratiṁ > śrama eva hi kevalam > [[sb/1/2/8|[SB. 1.2.8] ]] *Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya,* discharging one's own occupational duties. *Svanuṣṭhi-tasya dharmasya.* According to Vedic system, there are four kinds of social orders, and each one of them have particular duties. Just like the *brāhmaṇas,* they have got their particular duties; *kṣatriyas,* they have got their particular duties; *vaiśyas,* they have also; and the *śūdras.* And those who do not follow the Vedic principles, they are called *pañcamal,* or sometimes, if they do not follow the rules and regulation, then they are called *mlecchas* and *yavanas.* So, *svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya.* A *brāhmaṇa* must be truthful: *satya sama dama titikṣa ārjava, jñānam vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma karma svabhāva* [[bg/18/42|[Bg. 18.42] ]]. So the *brāhmaṇas,* those who are actually qualified *brāhmaṇas, guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ* [[bg/4/13|[Bg. 4.13] ]]. Lord Kṛṣṇa said that *cātur-varṇyaṁ māyā śṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ:* by division of quality and activities. --- **[[spoken/731226sb.la|SB 1.15.49 — December 26, 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:** *viduraḥ*—Vidura (the uncle of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira); *api*—also; *parityajya*—after quitting the body; *prabhāse*—in the place of pilgrimage at Prabhāsa; *deham ātmanaḥ*—his body; *kṛṣṇa*—the Personality of Godhead; *āveśena*—being absorbed in that thought; *tat*—his; *cittaḥ*—thoughts and actions; *pitṛbhiḥ*—along with the residents of Pitṛloka; *sva-kṣayam*—his own abode; *yayau*—departed. [break] --- **[[spoken/741226sb.bom|SB 3.26.17 — December 26, 1974, Bombay]]** "O My dear mother, O daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, the time factor, as I have explained, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom the creation begins as a result of the agitation of the neutral, unmanifested nature." **Prabhupāda:** > prakṛter guṇa-sāmyasya > nirviśeṣasya mānavi > ceṣṭā yataḥ sa bhagavān > kāla ity upalakṣitaḥ > [[sb/3/26/17|[SB. 3.26.17] ]] Now Bhagavān Kapiladeva is describing what is the *kāla,* time factor. Time factor is another manifestation or feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. *Kāla...* The beginning of creation, that is the beginning of *kāla.* So that beginning is started by the Supreme Personality of Godhead: *sa aikṣata.* These are the Vedic information. "The Lord glanced over the *mahat-tattva,*" *sa asṛjata,* "and in this way creation began." --- **[[spoken/751226bg.san|Bg 16.7 [with translator] — December 26, 1975, Sanand]]** **Prabhupāda:** > pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca > janā na vidur āsurāḥ > na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro > na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate > [[bg/16/7|[Bg. 16.7] ]] **Prabhupāda:** Now here is the description of the *asuras* as stated by Kṛṣṇa. There are two classes of men, *asura* and *deva. Daiva* and *āsura... Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved deva asuras tad-viparyayaḥ.* [*Padma Purāṇa*] The *devas, devatāloka...* **Prabhupāda:** No... And whatever it may be, why you are interpreting? You stop. In the upper planetary system, beginning from the sun, there are Sūryaloka, Candraloka, Maṅgala, Budha, Bṛhaspati, up to Saturn, there are different *lokas.* So the upper planetary system, beginning from Sūrya, they are called *devaloka.* They are all devotees of the Lord; therefore they are called *devatā.* They are not pure devotees, but they are not disobedient to the orders of the Supreme Lord. *Śuddha-bhakta* means they do not come to the material world. *Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam* [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu*1.1.11],* the *śuddha-bhaktas, nitya, nitya-siddha,* they do not come to this material world. They are everlastingly liberated soul, engaged in the service of Nārāyaṇa. This material creation is exhibition of one-fourth energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The three-fourth creation is in the spiritual world, Vaikuṇṭha-loka. --- **[[spoken/751226le.san|Kirtan & Lecture [Hindi] — December 26, 1975, Sanand]]** **Prabhupāda:** I thank you all because you chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa *mahāmantra* along with me. This Hare, the Lord's potency, just like Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, Sītā-Rāma, Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa. The Lord's potencies. It is there in the Vedas, [The Supreme Lord has nothing to do. Nothing is equal to Him or greater than Him. He acts in different phases by manifesting His parts and parcels, which are all simultaneously differently situated by His unlimited, variegated potencies. Each potency acts quite naturally in sequences, providing Him full knowledge, power and pastimes.] --- **[[spoken/751226mw.san|Morning Walk — December 26, 1975, Sanand]]** **Prabhupāda:** How degraded they have become. There is no food, and they are busy for growing tobacco. **Prabhupāda:** Now eat cash. So cash is also paper. So what is the use of laboring so hard? You eat paper. Paper is available. **Prabhupāda:** Because you are rascal, your government is rascal. Democracy. What is the government? Government means your replica. So why do you blame the government? You are fools, rascals; you send other fools and rascals and suffer consequence. Tea, growing tobacco, growing jute, and no grains. And grain for the animal, so that animal, as soon as it becomes fatty, send it to the slaughterhouse, and then finish business. Smoke, eat meat, drink and be happy. So much land, but it is producing tobacco, which we are prohibiting, "No smoking." --- **[[spoken/751226rf.san|Conversation on Roof — December 26, 1975, Sanand]]** **Harikeśa:** Anyone. Some people say that life is to be enjoyed; life is simply there for enjoyment. **Harikeśa:** Yes. So I have to find out the means to enjoy, and to negate the pain and to make the pleasure more. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. That's very nice proposal. But whether, at the present moment, or in the history, whether a man is enjoying life or suffering? --- **[[spoken/761226r1.bom|Morning Walk and Room Conversation — December 26, 1976, Bombay]]** **Devotee (1):** I have just come from America, and at the universities, lots of times there are many questions concerning evolution, and I was curious about what our position is in terms of artifacts—bones like dinosaur bones and things like that that the scientists say they found. **Devotee (1):** They maintain that from the oceans came one-celled animals. Then from these one-celled animals, they developed into fish and then reptiles. And then these reptiles became very big dinosaurs. And they have put together many big museums. For instance, in Washington the Smithsonian Museum has many, many big bones put together, and they date these millions of years ago. **Prabhupāda:** So we have got also the same theory. *Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati* [Padma Purāna*]. --- **[[spoken/761226r2.bom|Room Conversation — December 26, 1976, Bombay]]** **Hari-śauri:** No, there's hundreds and millions of books in India, all..., so many, and no one buys them.* [Prabhup**ā**da laughs] **Hari-śauri:** The man's not very intelligent. He's showing a diagram here showing how the languages evolved through the ages. So he's put that the original language was spoken in Stonehenge, and he shows a man wearing a bearskin. [laughs] [break] **Prabhupāda:** And the real platform of unity is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Our members, although they speak different languages from different countries, but still they are united. --- **[[spoken/761226r3.bom|Room Conversation — December 26, 1976, Bombay]]** **Jagadīśa:** "...is not actually religious but is an exploitative brainwashing technique. In the past and even today believers of the Hare Kṛṣṇa faith, as we understand, have been abducted, assaulted and subjected to mental and physical abuse. We also understand that there are widespread pressures being applied to convince the media and the government that religious freedom should not include the choice to live by the tenets of the Hare Kṛṣṇa Hindu scriptures. We strongly feel all these developments to be objectionable to all freedom-loving people of this great country. We will appreciate if you please look into this matter and take the needed steps to halt such religious suppression. Signed, V. J. Pandhi, Corporation Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors." **Jagadīśa:** Hindu. P-a-n-d-h-i. And it has been signed by Padam Dhakad, the Treasurer of the World Foundation of Religion; by S. C. Shastri, Priest in charge, Sanatan Dharm, Cultural Ashram of America; Pandit Hari Prasad, priest in charge and president of the Vedic Mission of the Americas; Prakash something, Managing Director of the Literary Guild of India; Des R. Puri, President of Hindu Center; Swami Shambu Devananda..., is that it? Vishnu Devananda. **Jagadīśa:** No, Shambu Devananda on behalf of Swami Vishnu Devananda. And Surendra Kumar Patel of the Vishva Hindu Parishad of America. --- **[[spoken/761226sb.bom|SB 5.5.2 [Hindi] — December 25, 1976, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** So, day before yesterday I spoke in Hindi, yesterday in English. Today I shall speak in Hindi again? What do you think? Dr. Patel: [Transl. You speak in whichever language you are comfortable with. I can understand both.] --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/1969/691226_suridas.md|Letter to Suridas, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1971/711226_cyavana.md|Letter to Cyavana, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/711226_himavati.md|Letter to Himavati, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/711226_jayapataka.md|Letter to Jayapataka, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1971/711226_ksirodakasayi.md|Letter to Ksirodakasayi, 1971]] - [[../../letters/1972/721226_amogha.md|Letter to Amogha, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1976/761226_adi-kesava.md|Letter to Adi-Kesava, 1976]]