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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1969#May 1969|1969]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:690512 - Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University - Columbus|Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University - Columbus]]''' | |||
{| | {{youtube_ditl|lKXrLj-ABlg|[[Vaniquotes:We are begging you, "Don't spoil your life. Please take this mantra. Chant wherever you like." It has no hard and fast rules you have to follow|Don't Waste Your Valuable Life - 0116]]|03:18 minutes from a general lecture in Columbus}} | ||
| | {{VaniQuotebox|We are begging you, "Don't spoil your life. Please take this mantra. Chant wherever you like." It has no hard and fast rules you have to follow|We are not bluffing you that "I shall give you some something, secret mantra, and charge you fifty dollars." No. It is open for everyone. Please take it. That is our request. We are begging you, "Don't spoil your life. Please take this mantra. Chant wherever you like." It has no hard and fast rules you have to follow.}} | ||
|< | {{VaniQuotebox|That is our Krsna consciousness movement. We simply educating people, "Don't waste your valuable life, the human form of life. If you are missing this chance, you are committing suicide." That is our propaganda. Don't commit suicide|We have got now this developed consciousness, human form of life. We should properly utilize it. That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We simply educating people, "Don't waste your valuable life, the human form of life. If you are missing this chance, you are committing suicide." That is our propaganda. Don't commit suicide. Take to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness.}} | ||
| | {{VaniQuotebox|I have especially come to your country to deliver you this good message, because if you accept this, if you can understand this science of Krsna consciousness, other part of the world will also follow, and the face of the world will be changed|Don't think that we are simply sentimentally dancing. No, we have got background. So try to understand this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. I have especially come to your country to deliver you this good message, because if you accept this, if you can understand this science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, other part of the world will also follow, and the face of the world will be changed. That is a fact.}} | ||
| | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/690512LE-COLUMBUS_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"Every one of us are rascals, born ignorant. But we have got the capacity to take the message of God from authorized information. That we have got. So Bhāgavata says, parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.5|SB 5.5.5]]): 'All living entities who are born ignorant, whatever they are doing for advancement of society, culture, education, civilization, all such activities are defeat only if he does not inquire what he is'. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Ātma-tattvam. So long one does not inquire, 'What I am? What is God? What is this material nature? What are these activities? What are our relationships?'—if these inquiries are not there, then all our activities are simply defeat. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Yāvan na prītir mayī vāsudeve: 'So long one does not develop his dormant love of God', na mucyate deha-yogena tāvat ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.6|SB 5.5.6]]), 'so long he will not be able to get out of this repeated birth and death and transmigration of the soul'."|Vanisource:690512 - Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University - Columbus|690512 - Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University - Columbus}} | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:690512 - Conversation - Columbus|Conversation - Columbus]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/690512R1-COLUMBUS_ND_02.mp3</mp3player>|"Either you take material energy or spiritual energy or marginal energy, all energy of God's, Kṛṣṇa's—but they are acting differently. So, so far I am marginal energy, if I am under the control of the material energy, that is my misfortune. But if I am controlled by the spiritual energy, that is my fortune. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.13 (1972)|BG 9.13]]) They take shelter of the spiritual energy, they are mahātmā. And what is their symptom: bhajanty ananya manaso, simply engaged in devotional service. That, that is it."|Vanisource:690512 - Conversation - Columbus|690512 - Conversation - Columbus}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I have come to America with this view, that America is on the summit of material civilization. They are not poverty-stricken|I have come to America with this view, that America is on the summit of material civilization. They are not poverty-stricken. You see? And they are seeking after something. Therefore I have come, that "You take this, you'll be happy." That is my mission. And if the Americans take, then all other countries will take because America is leading at the present moment.}} | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/690512R1-COLUMBUS_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"Our recommendation is simply, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. So far the Sanskrit word is, that is not a problem, everyone is chanting. So what is the difficulty? Bring any religious principle. You cannot find so easy. We don't recommend the ritualistic. That is... That is not very important thing. We are giving, say, simply chant. Ritualistic performance a little more helping. That's all. It is helping. It is not required. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that all the strength and all the beauty, all the wisdom, everything is there in the Name. Simply by chanting we get all, everything. But just to help it. It does not... If somebody does not want our ritualistic, that is not an important thing. We don't say. We simply recommend that 'You please chant'. That's all."|Vanisource:690512 - Conversation - Columbus|690512 - Conversation - Columbus}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If anyone loves Krsna, he must love Lord Jesus Christ also. And if one perfectly loves Jesus Christ he must love Krsna|Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that I am servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of Kṛṣṇa. So if anyone loves Kṛṣṇa, he must love Lord Jesus Christ also. And if one perfectly loves Jesus Christ he must love Kṛṣṇa. If he says, "Why shall I love Kṛṣṇa? I shall love Jesus Christ," then he has no knowledge.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:690512 - Letter to Balabhadra written from Columbus|Letter to Balabhadra written from Columbus]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The Vaisnava who knows that he is not this body, he does not therefore neglect his body, but he takes very nice care so that he may utilize his body in the service of Krishna|Of course disease will always be there at some time while there is this material body, but this we must tolerate and not be very much agitated by. Actually, the Vaisnava who knows that he is not this body, he does not therefore neglect his body, but he takes very nice care so that he may utilize his body in the service of Krishna.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:690512 - Letter to Colin Jury written from Columbus|Letter to Colin Jury written from Columbus]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Practically, our Krishna Consciousness movement is based on transcendental pleasure. Music, dancing and feasts are the chief items for pleasure, and this pleasure is originally on the transcendental realm|Practically, our Krishna Consciousness movement is based on transcendental pleasure. Music, dancing and feasts are the chief items for pleasure, and this pleasure is originally on the transcendental realm. They are simply reflected pervertedly in the material world, and every living entity has natural inclination for these three items.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:690512 - Letter to Gaurasundara written from Columbus|Letter to Gaurasundara written from Columbus]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I think you should send United Shipping Corporation the price in advance of the sitar, and for the balance they can make their invoice. The balance may be deposited in the Hawaii bank, and ask the United Shipping Corporation to send the documents|I think you should send United Shipping Corporation the price in advance of the sitar, and for the balance they can make their invoice. The balance may be deposited in the Hawaii bank, and ask the United Shipping Corporation to send the documents to the Hawaii bank; and the invoice may be made in your name because you have got account there.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1970#May 1970|1970]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:700512 - Lecture ISO 08 - Los Angeles|Lecture ISO 08 - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/700512IP-LOS_ANGELES_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"Kṛṣṇa is not embodied. He has no difference between His body and His soul. His soul and body, the same. He does not change His body, because He hasn't got material body. And because He does not change body, He remembers everything. We change body; therefore we do not remember what had happened in our last birth. We have forgotten."|Vanisource:700512 - Lecture ISO 08 - Los Angeles|700512 - Lecture ISO 08 - Los Angeles}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|We should very seriously execute this Krsna consciousness. Without any deviation, very seriously. We should not be neglectful, that this is fashion or something imposed|We should very seriously execute this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Without any deviation, very seriously. We should not be neglectful, that this is fashion or something imposed. No. This is the most important function. Human life is meant simply for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He has no other business.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1971#May 1971|1971]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:710512 - Lecture - Sydney|Lecture - Sydney]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If by following the principles of religion one becomes advanced in God consciousness, that is first-class religion. That is our motto, and we are preaching all over the world|If by following the principles of religion one becomes advanced in God consciousness, that is first-class religion. That is our motto, and we are preaching all over the world.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1972#May 1972|1972]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:720512 - Letter to Bhagavan written from Honolulu|Letter to Bhagavan written from Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|That is our real business, travel and preach, distribute literature and prasadam. I want now that all of my GBC secretaries do my work|That is our real business, travel and preach, distribute literature and prasadam.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I want now that all of my GBC secretaries do my work. Let me sit tight in Los Angeles and write my books|I want now that all of my GBC secretaries do my work. Let me sit tight in Los Angeles and write my books. Now you be always travelling here and there, visiting the centers in your zone, seeing how things are going on and how the students are making spiritual progress.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|That is our real concern, the spiritual progress of life. That is duty of GBC|That is our real concern, the spiritual progress of life. That is duty of GBC.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|This ISKCON organization is there because I have been always travelling. I never sat down in my old age, no. So you follow my example and preach widely all over the world, that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's version|This ISKCON organization is there because I have been always travelling. I never sat down in my old age, no. So you follow my example and preach widely all over the world, that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's version.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720512 - Letter to Karandhara written from Honolulu|Letter to Karandhara written from Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Abruptly if we stop, that will not be good. So we have to rectify by arrangement and agreement. I am simply surprised how you all GBC men agreed to give him $4000 per month. So the mistake has been made, now it has to be corrected by other ways|Abruptly if we stop, that will not be good. So we have to rectify by arrangement and agreement. I am simply surprised how you all GBC men agreed to give him $4000 per month. So the mistake has been made, now it has to be corrected by other ways.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1973#May 1973|1973]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:730512 - Lecture SB 01.08.50 - Los Angeles|Lecture SB 01.08.50 - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|So at the present moment the society is chaos because there is no proper training for the particular class of man. A brahmana should be trained up, a ksatriya should be trained up, a vaisya should be trained up, a sudra should be trained up|So at the present moment the society is chaos because there is no proper training for the particular class of man. A brahmana should be trained up, a ksatriya should be trained up, a vaisya should be trained up, a sudra should be trained up, catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah (BG 4.13), according to quality.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:730512 - Letter to Jadurani written from Los Angeles|Letter to Jadurani written from Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|In regards to your questions in the letter of May 8, Caitanya Mahaprabhu was going to see the temple of Visesvar and hundreds and thousands of people were following Him. He was chanting Hari! Hari! It was not on the bank of the Ganges|In regards to your questions in the letter of May 8, Caitanya Mahaprabhu was going to see the temple of Visesvar and hundreds and thousands of people were following Him. He was chanting Hari! Hari! It was not on the bank of the Ganges.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1974#May 1974|1974]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:740512 - Lecture BG 12.13-14 - Bombay|Lecture BG 12.13-14 - Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Krsna consciousness movement means how to become dear to Krsna: "How Krsna will love me"|This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means how to become dear to Kṛṣṇa: "How Kṛṣṇa will love me." Kṛṣṇa loves. Kṛṣṇa says that He is no one's enemy and no one's friend. That is in neutrality. But He says, God must be equal to everyone. He is neither envious to anyone nor friendly to anyone. This is general. But there is special significance. "Persons who are engaged in devotional service with love and faith, I have got a special intimate relation with him."}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:740512 - Letter to Devaprastha written from Bombay|Letter to Devaprastha written from Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I regard Hong Kong as an important center and I agree with your statement very much that if the Chinese are approached intelligently they will become strong devotees, because their moral character and steadfast nature is very strong|I regard Hong Kong as an important center and I agree with your statement very much that if the Chinese are approached intelligently they will become strong devotees, because their moral character and steadfast nature is very strong.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:740512 - Letter to Lilavati written from Bombay|Letter to Lilavati written from Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox| I understand you are recuperating from an operation. So spend this extra time reading all our books, chanting as many rounds as possible, and if you can go on doing my tapes| I understand you are recuperating from an operation. So spend this extra time reading all our books, chanting as many rounds as possible, and if you can go on doing my tapes.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:740512 - Letter to Madhudvisa written from Bombay|Letter to Madhudvisa written from Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am to arrive in Rome on the 23rd, then on the 30th to Geneva, then June 6 to Paris|I am to arrive in Rome on the 23rd, then on the 30th to Geneva, then June 6 to Paris. On June 15 I go to Koln where Hamsaduta has arranged a lecture tour continuing in Heidelberg and Amsterdam through July 6.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1975#May 1975|1975]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:750512 - Morning Walk - Perth|Morning Walk - Perth]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The more you fight with these rascals, the more you advance in Krsna consciousness. You are a fighting soldier. Krsna very much appreciates|The more you fight with these rascals, the more you advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You are a fighting soldier. Kṛṣṇa very much appreciates. (long pause) So you take Bhagavad-gītā by your own interpretation, and I take Bhagavad-gītā as it is. So who is right? Who will decide this? You interpret in your own way. I don't interpret.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:750512 - Conversation - Perth|Conversation - Perth]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Anyone who has no sense of God consciousness, he is diseased mentally. He requires treatment. The whole human society, especially at the present moment, they have given up God consciousness|Anyone who has no sense of God consciousness, he is diseased mentally. He requires treatment. The whole human society, especially at the present moment, they have given up God consciousness. They are not interested. That is their disease. And everyone requires treatment.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:750512 - Letter to Tejiyas written from Perth|Letter to Tejiyas written from Perth]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I wish to construct a grand temple of Krishna Balarama and keep many cows in this park. The residents of New Delhi will be very much encouraged to visit this park. That is my ambition|Try to get some acres of land near the Buddha Jayanti Park. I wish to develop a Janmastami Park there and invite all the residents of New Delhi there to observe a grand festival on Janmastami day. I wish to construct a grand temple of Krishna Balarama and keep many cows in this park. The residents of New Delhi will be very much encouraged to visit this park. That is my ambition.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#May 1976|1976]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:760512 - Morning Walk - Honolulu|Morning Walk - Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|In the material world you have to work to get your necessities. In the spiritual world there is no need of working|You have to work. Otherwise... This is material world. Without working, you cannot get anything. (break) ...between material world and spiritual world. In the material world you have to work to get your necessities. In the spiritual world there is no need of working.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760512 - Lecture SB 06.01.11 - Honolulu|Lecture SB 06.01.11 - Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The devotional service is so nice, if you simply take to devotional service, then all good qualities will come. You don't have to educate him, to send some reformatory school or this or that|The devotional service is so nice, if you simply take to devotional service, then all good qualities will come. You don't have to educate him, to send some reformatory school or this or that. That will be explained. The devotional service, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is so nice.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760512 - Conversation - Honolulu|Conversation - Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|He has become impersonal. He is simply out of the jurisdiction of personal care. The guru is personal or Krsna is impersonal?|'''Prabhupāda:''' He has become impersonal. He is simply out of the jurisdiction of personal care. The guru is personal or Kṛṣṇa is impersonal?<br /> | |||
'''Govinda dāsī:''' He speaks of the guru principle and that his spiritual master is within his heart, and that…, and he doesn’t accept the personal service of the physical manifestation.<br /> | |||
'''Prabhupāda:''' He does not understand. Don’t (indistinct). Who cares for his philosophy? }} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1977#May 1977|1977]] - May 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:770512 - Conversation - Hrishikesh|Conversation - Hrishikesh]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If we have got faith in the words of Krsna - they are very openly spoken - then our life becomes successful. But we have no faith in Krsna. They take Krsna as ordinary human being|So if we have got faith in the words of Kṛṣṇa—they are very openly spoken—then our life becomes successful. But we have no faith in Kṛṣṇa. They take Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being.}} | |||
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1969 - May 12
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Every one of us are rascals, born ignorant. But we have got the capacity to take the message of God from authorized information. That we have got. So Bhāgavata says, parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ (SB 5.5.5): 'All living entities who are born ignorant, whatever they are doing for advancement of society, culture, education, civilization, all such activities are defeat only if he does not inquire what he is'. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Ātma-tattvam. So long one does not inquire, 'What I am? What is God? What is this material nature? What are these activities? What are our relationships?'—if these inquiries are not there, then all our activities are simply defeat. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam. Yāvan na prītir mayī vāsudeve: 'So long one does not develop his dormant love of God', na mucyate deha-yogena tāvat (SB 5.5.6), 'so long he will not be able to get out of this repeated birth and death and transmigration of the soul'." |
| 690512 - Lecture with Allen Ginsberg at Ohio State University - Columbus |
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Either you take material energy or spiritual energy or marginal energy, all energy of God's, Kṛṣṇa's—but they are acting differently. So, so far I am marginal energy, if I am under the control of the material energy, that is my misfortune. But if I am controlled by the spiritual energy, that is my fortune. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ (BG 9.13) They take shelter of the spiritual energy, they are mahātmā. And what is their symptom: bhajanty ananya manaso, simply engaged in devotional service. That, that is it." |
| 690512 - Conversation - Columbus |
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Our recommendation is simply, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. So far the Sanskrit word is, that is not a problem, everyone is chanting. So what is the difficulty? Bring any religious principle. You cannot find so easy. We don't recommend the ritualistic. That is... That is not very important thing. We are giving, say, simply chant. Ritualistic performance a little more helping. That's all. It is helping. It is not required. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that all the strength and all the beauty, all the wisdom, everything is there in the Name. Simply by chanting we get all, everything. But just to help it. It does not... If somebody does not want our ritualistic, that is not an important thing. We don't say. We simply recommend that 'You please chant'. That's all." |
| 690512 - Conversation - Columbus |
1970 - May 12
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Kṛṣṇa is not embodied. He has no difference between His body and His soul. His soul and body, the same. He does not change His body, because He hasn't got material body. And because He does not change body, He remembers everything. We change body; therefore we do not remember what had happened in our last birth. We have forgotten." |
| 700512 - Lecture ISO 08 - Los Angeles |
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