Program after Ratha Yatra — Melbourne, 1974

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[21:01]: Sri Bhagavan uvaca. In every chapter, you’ll find this word.
[21:01]: Sri Bhagavan uvaca, Bhagavan means….Bhagavan means The Supreme Personality of Godhead.
[21:01]: Bhaga…“Bhaga” means opulences and “van” means one who possesses.
[21:01]: So, God means, who possesses all opulences, in fullness, He’s called Bhagavan.
[21:01]: The definition of God is…He is the richest, the strongest, the mosy beaituful, He’s the wisest,
[21:01]: He’s the most renounced…In this way, you analyze that there are many rich men
[21:01]: but no one can say that “I’m the richest so far.” That’s not possible.
[21:01]: Because there’s competition. If I am rich, you are richer than me, another richer than you,
[21:01]: another richer than him. So, nobody can say “I’m the richest of all.”
[21:01]: That only God can say.
[21:01]: In this way, where you find the Supreme, the Supreme Being?
[21:01]: The one God is defined in dictionary as the Supreme Being.
[21:01]: We’re very technologically advanced but there’s a lacking in society
[26:01]: which Srimad-Bhagavatam is filling. That lacking is in spiritual knowledge.
[31:01]: Actually Prabhupada says it’s a vacuum and it is. There’s a spiritual vacuum in society.
[38:01]: Everybody is doing so many things but there is no real spiritual understanding of the…
[43:01]: The whole basis should have that spiritual understanding behind it.
[48:01]: If it’s not there you’ll find frustrated people everywhere like in today’s society.
[54:01]: We’re so much advanced, you yourselves teach people and they learn things,
[00:01]: they become very expert in mathematics, and so many different sciences or grammar.
[06:01]: But if that grammar and that science and those different aspects of education
[11:01]: aren’t centered around God consciousness then they’re all for naught.
[26:01]: We are part and parcel of God, or Krishna. We are not enjoyer.
[34:01]: We asked Jadurani devi dasi, one of the artists at ISKCON press, to
[38:01]: tell us about her involvement in the Hare Krishna movement.
[48:01]: So I met Srila Prabhupada in 1967. I was up in his apartment…
[48:01]: So, in this world of fools and rascals who do not know what is perfection,
[48:01]: they are simply thinking: “So long I live, let me live very opulently,
[48:01]: and let me dance like the dog. That is is (their) perfection.
[48:01]: No! Perfection means you must stop birth, death, old age and disease. That is perfection!
[48:01]: So, out of many thousands of people, one is expert how to stop this imperfect.
[48:01]: And out of many of such persons who are actually tring for perfection, out of many thousands of…
[48:01]: Krishna says: “One who has attained perfection, and, out of many such people, many ancient thousands, one may know me.”
[48:01]: Just see! How to understand Krishna is so difficult!
[48:01]: That Krishna is being delivered by Sri Caitanya Mahapranhu. That Krishna! Immediately!
[48:01]: Chant, dance and take prasadam, and eat prasadam and go on…
[48:01]: Just see! How much efficient this movement is! Immediately!
[48:01]: Therefore, it’s called…
[48:01]: Yes, Go on chanting and dancing. They are realizing! Why? Because Krishna himself is delivering!
[48:01]: All right! Take it! It’s very difficult to understand me by…
[48:01]: But I give myself to you! Come on! This is krishna Consciousness! Try to understand it!
[48:01]: And it’s not difficult! Even a child can take it!