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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1970#May 1970|1970]] - May 18 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles|Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{| | {{youtube_ditl|hmbVuGPtySc|[[Vaniquotes:Here it is said that the supreme predominating Deity is Krsna, in the spiritual, in the topmost planet in the spiritual sky. This is material sky. In the material sky this is one of the universes. There are millions and trillions of universes|There are Millions and Trillions of Universes - 0143]]|05:59 minutes from a lecture on ISO in Los Angeles}} | ||
| | {{VaniQuotebox|Here it is said that the supreme predominating Deity is Krsna, in the spiritual, in the topmost planet in the spiritual sky. This is material sky. In the material sky this is one of the universes. There are millions and trillions of universes|Formerly, there was only one king on this planet, up to Mahārāja Parīkṣit. One king was. There was only one flag ruling over this whole planet. Similarly, in every planet there is a predominating Deity. So here it is said that the supreme predominating Deity is Kṛṣṇa, in the spiritual, in the topmost planet in the spiritual sky. This is material sky. In the material sky this is one of the universes. There are millions and trillions of universes.}} | ||
|< | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/700518LE-LOS_ANGELES_ND.mp3</mp3player>|"Either the karmīs or the jñānīs or the yogis, they are always... they are, every one of them, trying to elevate. And above them is the devotees. So devotee's place is the highest because by devotion only you can understand what is God. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti ([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]), Kṛṣṇa says. He does not say that 'By karma one can understand Me'. He does not say that 'By jñāna one can understand Me'. He does not say that 'By yoga one can understand Me'. He clearly says, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti: 'Simply by devotional service one can understand'. Yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]). Knowing Him as He is, that is bhakti. So except devotional service, there is no possibility of understanding the Absolute Truth."|Vanisource:700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles|700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles}} | ||
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|} | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/700518IP-LOS_ANGELES_ND.mp3</mp3player>|"If you smear your eyes with love of Godhead, then you will see God always. Santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti. Yes. So devotion. So this is the way of understanding God. By service, by enhancing love... This love can be increased only by service. Otherwise there is no possibility. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau (Brs. 1.2.234). The more you increase your service spirit, the more you increase your dormant love of God. And as soon as you are in the perfectional stage of love of God, you see God always, every moment. Twenty-four hours you can see. Thank you very much."|Vanisource:700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles|700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles}} | ||
==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1971#May 1971|1971]] - May 18 ==== | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:710518 - Letter to Dinesh Candra written from Calcutta|Letter to Dinesh Candra written from Calcutta]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|In Calcutta we are holding a huge "HK Festival" in which 35 to 40,000 people are attending daily for hearing discourses on SB & BG. We are distributing prasadam also. It is so much enlivening to see how the people are being so receptive to this message|Presently in Calcutta we are holding a huge "Hare Krishna Festival" in which 35,000 to 40,000 people are attending daily for hearing discourses on Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. We are distributing prasadam also. It is so much enlivening to see how the people are being so receptive to this message. It is all Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1972#May 1972|1972]] - May 18 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:720518 - Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles|Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/720518AR-LOS_ANGELES_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with these pair of cymbal. Now you are so many chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is my success."|Vanisource:720518 - Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles|720518 - Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles}} | |||
{{youtube_ditl|Yj1k5axZYtg|[[Vaniquotes:My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Krsna. That is my success|You are so many Chanting Hare Krsna. That is my Success - 0609]]|02:32 minutes from an arrival address in Los Angeles}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Krsna. That is my success|My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is my success. It was the prediction of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu: pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma sarvatra pracāra hoibe mora nāma. Lord Caitanya desired that "In all the towns, in as many towns and villages as there are on the surface of the globe, My name will be broadcast."}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|My Guru Maharaja is tenth from Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I am eleventh, you are the twelfth. So distribute this knowledge. People are suffering. They are simply fighting on some false thing, maya|My Guru Mahārāja is tenth from Caitanya Mahāprabhu, I am eleventh, you are the twelfth. So distribute this knowledge. People are suffering. They are simply fighting on some false thing, māyā. They should be given the real fact of happiness. We have spoiled our life, many lives, coming through the evolutionary process of 8,400,000 species of life. Here is an opportunity, human form of life, and here is the message of Lord Caitanya, Kṛṣṇa. Human form of life can understand, and especially in America you can understand. You have got better intelligence, better facility.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|We are not sentimental, simply chanting and dancing. We have got more than two thousand volumes of books. If you want to learn it through science, philosophy, it is also there. Otherwise, the simple method - simply chant Hare Krsna|We are not sentimental, simply chanting and dancing. We have got more than two thousand volumes of books. If you want to learn it through science, philosophy, it is also there. Otherwise, the simple method—simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma, Rāma, Hare Hare, and you'll realize the whole thing. The child can take part, the philosopher can take part, the scientist can take part, the politician can take part, the religionist can take part, the public can take part. It is so universal.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720518 - Lecture - Los Angeles|Lecture - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{youtube_ditl|0GWNFtTiYHQ|[[Vaniquotes:Krsna consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love|Propagating God's Name, Glory, Activities, Beauty and Love - 0226]]|05:04 minutes from a general lecture in Los Angeles}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Krsna consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love|The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love. Everything. As we have got many things within this material world, all of them, they are in Kṛṣṇa. Whatever you have got.}} | |||
{{youtube_ditl|tXvN5iiBiyo|[[Vaniquotes:Why I die. I do not like to die, but death is compulsory. I do not like to be old man, but still, it is compulsory. I do not like to suffer from disease, but it is compulsory. These are to be solved|Why I die? I Do Not Like To Die - 0227]]|04:52 minutes from a general lecture in Los Angeles}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Why I die. I do not like to die, but death is compulsory. I do not like to be old man, but still, it is compulsory. I do not like to suffer from disease, but it is compulsory. These are to be solved|This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for giving perfect knowledge to the human society: what He is, what is God, what is this material world, why you have come here, why you have to undergo so much tribulation, miserable condition of life, why I die. I do not like to die, but death is compulsory. I do not like to be old man, but still, it is compulsory. I do not like to suffer from disease, but it is compulsory. These, these are to be solved. That is really problems of human life.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1973#May 1973|1973]] - May 18 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:730518 - Letter to Bhagavan written from Los Angeles|Letter to Bhagavan written from Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{| | {{VaniQuotebox|The most important point is that everyone, especially the leaders, must always stick to the basic regulative practices that I have given, especially 16 rounds each day. So, now what can be done?|Thank you very much for your complete report of the situation in London. We can understand from this incident that the most important point is that everyone, especially the leaders, must always stick to the basic regulative practices that I have given, especially 16 rounds each day.}} | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:730518 - Letter to Citsukhananda written from Los Angeles|Letter to Citsukhananda written from Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Tomorrow I am going to Dallas because the weather here in Los Angeles is not good for my health. It is too cold and cloudy. So I am going to Dallas to get some sunshine. If the weather there is not suitable, I may come at once to Caracas|Tomorrow I am going to Dallas because the weather here in Los Angeles is not good for my health. It is too cold and cloudy. So I am going to Dallas to get some sunshine. If the weather there is not suitable, I may come at once to Caracas. However, if the weather is good in Dallas I shall remain there until May 30 and then to New Vrindaban for the corner stone laying for our first temple there. Then I shall come to Caracas from Pittsburgh.}} | |||
| | :'''[[Vanisource:730518 - Letter to Hansadutta written from Los Angeles|Letter to Hansadutta written from Los Angeles]]''' | ||
| | {{VaniQuotebox|The most important point is that everyone, especially the leaders, must always stick to the basic regulative practices that I have given, especially 16 rounds each day. So, now what can be done?|Thank you very much for your report of the London situation. We can understand from this incident that the most important point is that everyone, especially the leaders, must always stick to the basic regulative practices that I have given, especially 16 rounds each day. So, now what can be done? I expect to be going to London sometime after the first week of June. You may come there at that time.}} | ||
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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#May 1976|1976]] - May 18 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Lecture SB 06.01.18 - Honolulu|Lecture SB 06.01.18 - Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|They do not know what is the aim of life, and the nature's law is, unless you come to the point of understanding what is the aim of life, the nature will go on punishing you in so many ways|They do not know what is the aim of life, and the nature's law is, unless you come to the point of understanding what is the aim of life, the nature will go on punishing you in so many ways.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Conversation A - Honolulu|Conversation A - Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If they think that they can do some business, let them do it. What can be done? If they cannot produce food, then let them do business|If they think that they can do some business, let them do it. What can be done? If they cannot produce food, then let them do business.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Conversation B - Honolulu|Conversation B - Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If there is food, and if there is milk, that is sufficient. No brain required, and one glass milk, that is sufficient for the whole day|If there is food, and if there is milk, that is sufficient. No brain required, and one glass milk, that is sufficient for the whole day.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Letter to Brahmananda written from Honolulu|Letter to Brahmananda written from Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox| If he wants to serve Krishna and he doesn't spend anything for Krishna, then it is not at all good|You can inform the Mr. Motichand Shah, the gentleman who has started "Krishna Industries," that he can pay at least 50% of his income to the temple. If he wants to serve Krishna and he doesn't spend anything for Krishna, then it is not at all good.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Letter to Gurukrpa written from Honolulu|Letter to Gurukrpa written from Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Please be very sober in your dealings with these temple presidents, they are undoubtedly rendering a valuable service and are worthy of respect and encouragement|Please be very sober in your dealings with these temple presidents, they are undoubtedly rendering a valuable service and are worthy of respect and encouragement.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Letter to Jamadagni written from Honolulu|Letter to Jamadagni written from Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Our aims and objects in the Krishna Consciousness Movement are very sublime. Kindly follow and you'll be happy and I'll be happy|Our aims and objects in the Krishna Consciousness Movement are very sublime. Kindly follow and you'll be happy and I'll be happy.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760518 - Letter to Jayatirtha written from Honolulu|Letter to Jayatirtha written from Honolulu]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Show how authoritative our books are amongst the scholarly circle throughout the world|Show how authoritative our books are amongst the scholarly circle throughout the world. So it is not the aim of our society to exploit money for drinking, illicit sex, etc. These are not the aims and objects of our society. If some individual did wrong, the society is not held responsible. The society's aim is to build men and women of character and knowledge.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1977#May 1977|1977]] - May 18 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:770518 - Letter to Gurukrpa written from Vrndavana|Letter to Gurukrpa written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I have heard with great pleasure how in only one month's time you have distributed 50,000 Bhagavad gita As It Is in the Japanese language. I think there has never been a case in history when so many religious books were distributed in such a short time|I have heard with great pleasure how in only one month's time you have distributed 50,000 Bhagavad gita As It Is in the Japanese language. I think there has never been a case in history when so many religious books were distributed in such a short time.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I have come back to my home, Vrndavana. If anything should go wrong, at least I will be here in Vrndavana. Vrndavana is for residence, Bombay is office for organization, and Mayapur is for worship of the Supreme Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu|I was staying in Risikesh hoping to improve my health but instead I have become a little weaker. Now I have come back to my home, Vrndavana. If anything should go wrong, at least I will be here in Vrndavana. Vrndavana is for residence, Bombay is office for organization, and Mayapur is for worship of the Supreme Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:770518 - Letter to Hari-sauri written from Vrndavana|Letter to Hari-sauri written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|For ten days I was staying in Risikesh in a very nice house on the side of the Ganges River. But my health was not good and so I have come to Vrndavana where I will stay indefinitely|For ten days I was staying in Risikesh in a very nice house on the side of the Ganges River. But my health was not good and so I have come to Vrndavana where I will stay indefinitely.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:770518 - Letter to Mahamsa Swami written from Vrndavana|Letter to Mahamsa Swami written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Why the building is required for prasadam distribution and kirtan? These can go on in any circumstances. From the very beginning I have been insisting on this program, but you say that it will only begin in the future|Why the building is required for prasadam distribution and kirtan? These can go on in any circumstances. From the very beginning I have been insisting on this program, but you say that it will only begin in the future. Prasadam distribution must always go on. Now whatever money I have sent you, spend for prasadam distribution. If necessary you may suspend the building, but distribution of prasadam and kirtan should be stressed above all.}} | |||
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Srila Prabhupada's letters, lectures and conversations throughout consecutive years
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- See also: A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada.
1970 - May 18
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Either the karmīs or the jñānīs or the yogis, they are always... they are, every one of them, trying to elevate. And above them is the devotees. So devotee's place is the highest because by devotion only you can understand what is God. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti (BG 18.55), Kṛṣṇa says. He does not say that 'By karma one can understand Me'. He does not say that 'By jñāna one can understand Me'. He does not say that 'By yoga one can understand Me'. He clearly says, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti: 'Simply by devotional service one can understand'. Yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ (BG 18.55). Knowing Him as He is, that is bhakti. So except devotional service, there is no possibility of understanding the Absolute Truth." |
| 700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles |
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "If you smear your eyes with love of Godhead, then you will see God always. Santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti. Yes. So devotion. So this is the way of understanding God. By service, by enhancing love... This love can be increased only by service. Otherwise there is no possibility. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau (Brs. 1.2.234). The more you increase your service spirit, the more you increase your dormant love of God. And as soon as you are in the perfectional stage of love of God, you see God always, every moment. Twenty-four hours you can see. Thank you very much." |
| 700518 - Lecture ISO 13-15 - Los Angeles |
1971 - May 18
1972 - May 18
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with these pair of cymbal. Now you are so many chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is my success." |
| 720518 - Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles |
1973 - May 18
1976 - May 18
1977 - May 18
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