Program at Latrobe University — Melbourne, 1974

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[02:32]: So without any more verbiage, I’ll present our spiritual master.
[03:24]: We receive knowledge from the perfect person.
[03:30]: When we receive knowledge from imperfect person, the knowledge is not complete.
[03:39]: …touch water at the present moment.
[03:43]: But the same water in the summer season will be very pleasing.
[03:48]: So the water is the same, but due to seasonal changes, sometimes the
[03:56]: water is very pleasing and sometimes it is very painful.
[04:00]: So this material world, so long we shall remain in the material world,
[04:05]: That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita.
[04:09]: brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param
[04:19]: Brahma-bhutah means self-realized, that “I am not this body; I am spirit soul.”
[04:27]: This is the first realization, self-realization.
[04:33]: This Krsna consciousness movement is educational movement.
[04:37]: It is not a religious sentiment; it is a science. And as we have got our books also.
[04:44]: You have seen. There is demonstration of the book.
[04:48]: We have got already twenty books of four hundred pages each, and we are going on,
[04:57] writing more books. Everything will be finished in eighty books.
[05:02]: So if you want to know through science and philosophy, we have got our books. You can read.
[05:09]: And even if you read the complete set, it will take your whole life to finish it.
[05:16]: But if you cannot read or if you do not want to…
[05:58]: …Now if the intelligentsia of Australia cannot sit for half an hour and listen
[06:05]: to a gentleman speak about love of God, it does not speak very well for you.
[06:10]: We are simply not asking for disturbance. We are not asking for violence.
[06:16]: But we will meet violence with violence. We are not artificially pacifists.
[06:21]: We are asking you to listen like gentlemen. We have come here in good will.
[06:27]: We have come here not to cause any disturbance.
[06:30]: So we ask you please to have that much respect for our spiritual master.
[06:35]: Now at this time, if there is any question about Krsna consciousness philosophy…
[06:42]: Not about fighting. We can go on the street and fight and we can solve everything out there.
[06:45]: We have come here to speak about spiritual matters.
[06:49]: If you want to hear about spiritual matters, let’s speak together like brothers and sisters.
[06:54]: Let’s not cause a disturbance. I have an ego; you have an ego.
[06:59]: If you do something to flick off my ego, I may get mad.
[07:01]: If I do something to flick out your ego, you get mad.
[07:04]: So we’ll go out into the street and settle it like cats and dogs? No.
[07:08]: We’re not here at this university to act like that.
[07:11]: We’re supposed to have raised above that platform.
[07:14]: So please, we ask you to present sober questions to our spiritual master.
[07:21]: Yes, sir?
[07:23]: Jesus. He believe Jesus is going to come back again.
[07:25]: Well, he is coming, welcome. We shall welcome. It is very good news that Jesus is coming.
[07:33]: Jesus had no reputation. He wore sandals and he was crucified between two thieves…
[07:41]: He didn’t carry flick knives… Hare Krsnas.
[07:43]: And your spirituality is in a Rolls Royce on a padded seat, and you’re all into money, you Krsnas.
[07:51]: You want money. You rip off people in the streets.
[07:53]: No. I don’t want money.
[07:56]: You said “Violence with violence.” When you said “Violence with violence,”
[08:02]: that’s what you believe. Jesus turned the other cheek, and he expects his followers to.
[08:14]: There are many ways to handle a problem. Lord Buddha also taught how to handle a problem
[08:24]: and Lord Jesus Christ also taught a way…
[08:27]: You have had three questions, maybe someone else has a question? One question.
[08:38]: Through serving God we can.
[08:53]: Another question? Yes, sir?
[08:59]: Do you consider your movement the major form of enlightenment
[09:03]: emanating from the United States today?
[09:06]: What order of priority had your movement in the White House psychological warfare department?
[09:14]: Will you also be coming on to our July 4th demonstration again this year to try and f…. it up
[09:22]: and divert people away from taking up real political issues concerned with Australia?
[09:27]: All right, we can answer you one at a time. I can answer them for you if you like.
[09:32]: Our movement is not coming from the United States. If you have some paranoiac stigma about
[09:41]: anything coming from the United States, well, that’s your hang-up, not mine.
[09:45]: Second of all, our spiritual master, he came to the United States to start this
[09:54]: Krsna consciousness movement because he got a free ticket on a boat to go there.
[10:02]: Because it was the mercy of this one lady who gave him this free ticket on a boat.
[10:06]: He came to America on the orders of his spiritual master.
[10:10]: This is the reason he came to America to start Krsna consciousness.
[10:14]: If you had sent him a free ticket, he probably would have come to Australia first.
[10:18]: He was a monk. He was a monk, a penniless monk in India, and he was trying to follow
[10:24]: the orders of his spiritual teacher by spreading love of God.
[10:28]: He was not trying to start any kind of a political movement.
[10:31]: Actually, he is trying to spark a revolution in consciousness.
[10:35]: I think that you are also interested in revolution. We are also interested in revolution also.
[10:41]: But we are interested in the revolution which will help people to feel peace with themselves,
[10:46]: whether they’re Communists or Marxists or Leninists or whatever “ist” you like…

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