A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - July 1970


The Months in the Life of Srila Prabhupada present 2200+ of his lectures; 905+ of his conversations; 490+ of his morning walks;
65+ of his interviews and 6,570+ of his letters. This listing covers all available material,

and includes:
  • 10,300+ links to Vanisource - our repository of all of Srila Prabhupada's words;
  • 470+ short audio clips Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada sprinkled throughout the months;
  • 1,080 short video clips extracted from lectures, conversations, morning walks or interviews with subtitles in up to 93 languages sprinkled throughout the months;
  • 13,350+ concise statements, drawn from Srila Prabhupada's lectures, conversations and letters are highlighted within quoteboxes;
  • For further study on the different subjects addressed, each statement links to the various categories in our thematic section of Vanipedia named Vaniquotes;

These statements from the Months in the Life of Srila Prabhupada offer unparalleled insights into his devotional character; his vision to re-spiritualize human society; his dedication to translate, publish & distribute his books; his expertise to tirelessly lead & manage his worldwide movement; his empowered ability to encourage, care for, train & clearly communicate the disciplines he expects from all his disciples as he engages them in their pursuit of Krsna consciousness & performance of missionary activities. Through all these situations one can also experience how Srila Prahhupada consistently represents the pure teachings of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates.



Jul 1 to 3 - Los Angeles

1970 - July 01

Lecture SB 02.01.01 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So the beginning is, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam means Kṛṣṇa. It cannot be otherwise. This is kṛṣṇa-kathā. The Bhagavad-gītā is also kṛṣṇa-kathā. Kathā means words. So Kṛṣṇa words spoken by Kṛṣṇa, that is Bhagavad-gītā. And words spoken about Kṛṣṇa, that is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Or about Kṛṣṇa's devotees, that is bhāgavata. So bhāgavata, there are two kinds of bhāgavata. One, this book Bhāgavata, and another, the person bhāgavata, the devotee. He is also bhāgavata. Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommends that bhāgavata para giya bhāgavata sthāne: 'You should go and read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the bhāgavata, person bhāgavata'. Otherwise you will misunderstand. Bhāgavata para giya bhāgavata sthāne."
700701 - Lecture SB 02.01.01 - Los Angeles
Letter A to Damodara written from Los Angeles
Letter B to Damodara written from Los Angeles
Letter to Citsukhananda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jagannatham Prabhu written from Los Angeles
Letter to Shama Dasi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tulsi written from Los Angeles

1970 - July 02

Lecture SB 02.01.01-4 - Partial Recording - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Therefore the material scientists, they say that there is no soul, because they cannot see. With their instruments or with their knowledge it is not possible. Apaśyatām. They do not see it. Therefore we cannot believe our eyes. These eyes are not fit to see anything. It is under certain condition it gives us some impression. Otherwise... Therefore my Guru Mahārāja used to say that saintly persons should be seen not through the eyes, but through the ears. There are different processes of seeing. Don't believe that eyes are sufficient to see everything. No."
700702 - Lecture SB 02.01.01-4 - Partial Recording - Los Angeles


1970 - July 03

Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"When you (are) chanting, you should hear also. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. You should hear at the same time. Then the mind and the senses are compact. That is samādhi. That is perfection of yoga. This yoga is recommended in the Bhagavad-gītā: yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā (BG 6.47). So everyone, while chanting, he should hear."
700703 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 02.01.01-6 - Partial Recording - Los Angeles

July 4 to 6 - San Francisco

1970 - July 04

Lecture Festival Cleansing of the Gundica Temple, Gundica Marjanam - San Francisco
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"The modern civilization is defective. They do not know how to maintain society. There is therefore no peace. Especially there is want of brain. Crazy. Just like throughout the whole body, the head is the most important part of the body. If you cut your hands, you can live, but if you cut your head, you cannot live. Then whole thing is gone. Similarly, at the present moment the society is headless, a dead body, or head cracked, crazy. There is head, nonsense head. Nonsense head. What is the use of nonsense head? Therefore there is a great necessity of creating a class who will act as brain and head. That is Kṛṣṇa conscious movement."
700704 - Lecture Festival Cleansing of the Gundica Temple, Gundica Marjanam - San Francisco
700704 - Letter to Acyutananda written from San Francisco
Letter to Himavati written from San Francisco


1970 - July 05

Lecture Festival Ratha-yatra and Press Conference - San Francisco
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Please try to understand this point that everyone is servant. Even your president is servant of the nation. So nobody can say that 'I am no one's servant'. He is servant, but he does not know that actually he is the servant of the Supreme Lord. That is his ignorance. We are just eradicating this ignorance, that 'You are servant, but you admit that you are servant of God. That will make your life successful'. That's all. Therefore I say that there are unlimited followers. Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But if anyone comes to me, I shall make him to admit. Yes."
700705 - Lecture Festival Ratha-yatra and Press Conference - San Francisco
Lecture Festival Ratha-yatra - San Francisco
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
There are twelve months, but we have got twenty-four festivals big as..., as big as this Ratha-yātrā Festival. So if you kindly take to them, then as advised by Lord Caitanya, kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ (CC Adi 17.31), you will always be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and there will be no scope of your frustration and confusion. For this purpose especially I came in this meeting, that you kindly accept this, I mean to say, humble instruction that wherever you may be, in whatever position, in whatever condition, you kindly chant these sixteen names (everyone chants), Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.

Chant again: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.
Again: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.
Thank you very much.
Audience: Jaya!!!

700705 - Lecture Festival Ratha-yatra - San Francisco


July 7 to 31 - Los Angeles

1970 - July 07

Letter to Jananivasa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Yamuna and Gurudasa written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 08

Letter A to Manager of Security Pacific Bank written from Los Angeles
Letter B to Manager of Security Pacific Bank written from Los Angeles
Letter C to Manager of Security Pacific Bank written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sridama written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 09

Letter to Jagadisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Janmanjaya and Taradevi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Nirmal Babu written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 10

Letter to Jayapataka written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 11

Letter to Hansadutta written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jadurani written from Los Angeles
Letter to Pradyumna written from Los Angeles
Letter to Uddhava written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 12

Letter to Candanacarya written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jayadvaita written from Los Angeles
Letter to Vrndavana Candra written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 14

Letter to Abhirama written from Los Angeles
Letter to Manager of Security Pacific Bank written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sridama written from Los Angeles
Letter to Uddhava written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 15

Letter to Bali-mardana written from Los Angeles
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tirthapada written from Los Angeles
Letter to Upendra written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 16

Letter to Nevatiaji written from Los Angeles
Letter to Uddhava written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 17

Letter to Dennis Kehr written from Los Angeles
Letter to Srilekha written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 18

Letter to Jagadisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to MacMillan Company written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tribhuvanatha written from Los Angeles
Letter to Vrndavana Candra written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 19

Letter to Damodara written from Los Angeles
Letter to Hayagriva written from Los Angeles
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Syamasundara written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles
Letter to Umapati written from Los Angeles
Letter to Vrndavana Candra written from Los Angeles
Letter to Yogesvara written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 20

Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So, this is now formal accepting of sannyāsa, but real sannyāsa purpose will be fulfilled when you'll be able to induce the people of the world dancing like... That is real sannyāsa. This formal dress is not sannyāsa. Real sannyāsa is when you can induce other people to become Kṛṣṇa conscious and they dance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you can turn one man to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then your going back to Godhead, back to home, guaranteed. That is real purpose of sannyāsa."
700720 - Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Los Angeles


1970 - July 21

Letter to Sri Poddarji written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 24

Letter to Advaita written from Los Angeles
Letter to Uddhava written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 25

Letter to Ekayani written from Los Angeles
Letter to Krishna dasa written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 26

Letter to Indrani written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jayapataka written from Los Angeles
Letter to Navayogendra written from Los Angeles
Letter to Yamuna written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 27

Letter to Satsvarupa and Uddhava written from Los Angeles
Telegram to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 29

Letter to Manager of Punjab National Bank written from Los Angeles
Letter to Unknown written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 30

Letter to Himavati written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sudama written from Los Angeles


1970 - July 31

Letter to Brahmananda and Gargamuni written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jadurani written from Los Angeles
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Vasudeva written from Los Angeles