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*See also: the '''[[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#March 1976|Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - March 1976]]'''
*See also: the '''[[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#March 1976|Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - March 1976]]'''
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=== Mar 1 to 31 - PLACE ===
=== Mar 1 to 19 - Mayapur ===
==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_01|1976 - March 01]] ====
==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_01|1976 - March 01]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760301 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Because Krsna loves you so much that even you accept this material atom, He goes to help you. Therefore He is within. Because sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisthah (BG 15.15). The living entity has a..., enjoying this material world. So he has got everything|Because Kṛṣṇa loves you so much that even you accept this material atom, He goes to help you. Therefore He is within. Because sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭhaḥ (BG 15.15). The living entity has a..., enjoying this material world. So he has got everything. He's a person. He has got his heart. So in the heart there is Kṛṣṇa.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760301 - Lecture SB 07.09.23 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.23 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Prahlada Maharaja is Vaisnava. He could understand that "Everything in this material world, even the possession of my father, will be finished. There is no doubt. So what is the use of possessing such thing which will be finished?"|Prahlāda Mahārāja is Vaiṣṇava. He could understand that "Everything in this material world, even the possession of my father, will be finished. There is no doubt. So what is the use of possessing such thing which will be finished?"}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_02|1976 - March 02]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_02|1976 - March 02]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760302 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|When a man takes his work in his own hand, it is sure to be done. So all of you encourage them|When a man takes his work in his own hand, it is sure to be done. So all of you encourage them.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760302 - Lecture SB 07.09.24 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.24 - Mayapur]]'''
{{youtube_ditl|F1x4RgM7iGs|[[Vaniquotes:We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called parampara servant|Free Hotel and Free Sleeping Accommodation - 0117]]|04:43 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.24 in Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called parampara servant|Either man or woman, everyone is servant of Kṛṣṇa. We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called paramparā servant."}}
{{youtube_ditl|YSo2n7TuvgY|[[Vaniquotes:Krsna consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master|Give up This Nonsense Idea of Becoming Master - 0219]]|06:57 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.24 in Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Krsna consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master|This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have to learn how to become servant. Not only servant, servant of the servant. That is cure.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|My spiritual master is the servant of his spiritual master, and I am also servant of my spiritual master|My spiritual master is the servant of his spiritual master, and I am also servant of my spiritual master. Similarly, we think "servant of the servant." There is no question of becoming... This is material disease - kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kāre, pāsate māyā tāre jāpatīyā dhāre - As soon as we become puffed up—"Now I shall become master. I shall be simply giving order. I shall not follow anyone"—that is māyā.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|This is ideal of human civilization. The every woman should try to become maidservant of her husband, and every man should try to become the hundred times servant of Krsna. This is Indian civilization. Not that "Husband and wife, we are equal rights"|This is the idea, to become servant and to become maidservant. This is ideal of human civilization. The every woman should try to become maidservant of her husband, and every man should try to become the hundred times servant of Kṛṣṇa. This is Indian civilization. Not that "Husband and wife, we are equal rights," that, in Europe, America, the movement is going on, "Equal rights." That is not Vedic civilization.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|If we take it that "Here is an institution where we can have free hotel, free living and free sense gratification," then the whole institution will be spoiled. Be careful. All the GBC's, they should be careful that this mentality may not increase|If we take it that "Here is an institution where we can have free hotel, free living and free sense gratification," then the whole institution will be spoiled. Be careful. All the GBC's, they should be careful that this mentality may not increase. Everyone should be very eager to serve, to learn how to serve. Nija-bhṛtya-pārśvam, Then life will be successful.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_03|1976 - March 03]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760303 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|In their country also they have got many cows. They get sufficient milk. And from that milk, they prepare so many things - milk, ghee, and then they get chana. So they know how to prepare so many things from chana, lugdoo|In their country also they have got many cows. They get sufficient milk. And from that milk, they prepare so many things - milk, ghee, and then they get chana. So they know how to prepare so many things from chana, lugdoo.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_03|1976 - March 03]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_04|1976 - March 04]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760304 - Lecture SB 07.09.26 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.26 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|It is to be understood by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva-guna. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation|Why we offer sacred thread to a person who is coming from very, very low family? Because it is to be understood by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva-guṇa. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation. There must be. One must come. This, our process, is "Don't do this. Do this: Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra sixteen rounds, and don't do this—no illicit sex, no meat-eating." That means he's becoming purified.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Krsna consciousness movement means everything is being gradually developed into goodness|Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means everything is being gradually developed into goodness. And at last, to surpass goodness. Here in this material world the goodness may be contaminated with the other qualities, but in the spiritual world it is so good. It is called śuddha-sattva. There is no contamination, there is no tinge of rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa. That is spiritual quality. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be possible in perfectness when we are above the quality of goodness.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760304 - Letter to Gurukula Devotees written from Mayapur|Letter to Gurukula Devotees written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|I do not wish that the Gurukula should be closed. Please work combinedly and endeavour with great determination to keep it going on nicely|I do not wish that the Gurukula should be closed. Please work combinedly and endeavour with great determination to keep it going on nicely.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760304 - Letter to P. R. Mohapatra written from Mayapur|Letter to P. R. Mohapatra written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Here in Mayapur we are trying to create a place of inspiration for people throughout the world. It is in Mayapur that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, appeared. This information comes to us from the Srimad-Bhagavatam|Here in Mayapur we are trying to create a place of inspiration for people throughout the world. It is in Mayapur that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, appeared. This information comes to us from the Srimad-Bhagavatam.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760304 - Letter to Parent written from Mayapur|Letter to Parent written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|I do not wish that Gurukula should be closed down in Dallas. So you kindly arrange to send your child back to Gurukula. One thing is at least for the time being, you must arrange to pay the tuition for your child|I do not wish that Gurukula should be closed down in Dallas. So you kindly arrange to send your child back to Gurukula. One thing is at least for the time being, you must arrange to pay the tuition for your child.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760304 - Letter to Sridhara Maharaja written from Mayapur|Letter to Sridhara Maharaja written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Please accept my humble dandabats. As we are eager to meet, I am sending hereby Sriman Satadhanya das to hand over this message: I can send my personal car at any time you like to come here|Please accept my humble dandabats. As we are eager to meet, I am sending hereby Sriman Satadhanya das to hand over this message: I can send my personal car at any time you like to come here.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_05|1976 - March 05]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_04|1976 - March 04]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760305 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Woman's beauty is how she is chaste and devoted to the husband. That is beauty, not personal beauty. Vidya-rupam ku-rupanam. And education is the beauty for the brain|Woman's beauty is how she is chaste and devoted to the husband. That is beauty, not personal beauty. Vidyā-rūpaṁ ku-rūpanam. And education is the beauty for the brain. And the beauty of the kokila is her sweet voice. Kṣamā-rūpaṁ tapasvinaḥ. And those who are saintly person, they should be simply forgiving. That is their beauty.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760305 - Lecture SB 07.09.27 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.27 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|If you like to remain as inferior, you can remain. God has given you independence. And if you like to become superior, you can become superior. It is not God's discrimination; it is your discrimination|There is no such discrimination that "Here is a devotee, so he's superior, and here is a nondevotee, he's inferior." That is not God's discrimination. That is your discrimination. If you like to remain as inferior, you can remain. God has given you independence. And if you like to become superior, you can become superior. It is not God's discrimination; it is your discrimination.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|When I started for your country, I came to Mayapur. I offered my obeisances to my spiritual master, then I went|Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was started with forty rupees. Now that forty rupees or something added with Kṛṣṇa, it has become forty crores. You see practically. When I started for your country, I came to Māyāpur. I offered my obeisances to my spiritual master, then I went. At that time I had no money even to purchase the ticket. And after that, I have come with forty crores. This is the secret. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante. If you fully surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then Kṛṣṇa is there. You have to learn how to take from Kṛṣṇa. Of course, a devotee is never desirous to take anything from Kṛṣṇa. He wants to give only. This is pure devotee.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760305 - Letter to RamRam Maharaja written from Mayapur|Letter to RamRam Maharaja written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|As I am scheduled to stay in Mayapur up to the end of March, I am giving a copy of your letter to my zonal secretary. So you should hear from him shortly|As I am scheduled to stay in Mayapur up to the end of March, I am giving a copy of your letter to my zonal secretary. So you should hear from him shortly.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_06|1976 - March 06]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760306 - Lecture SB 07.09.28 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.28 - Mayapur]]'''
{{youtube_ditl|vLNVYvN-IDQ|[[Vaniquotes:I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna - That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Krsna's service. That is perfection|I am the Servant of the Servant of the Servant of Krishna - 0727]]|06:18 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.28 in Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna - That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Krsna's service. That is perfection|"You have to be desireless" means you have to purify your this false understanding that "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am Indian," "I am this." This has to be purified. One has to understand that "I am gopī-bhartur pada-kamalayor dāsa (CC Madhya 13.80). I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Kṛṣṇa." That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Kṛṣṇa's service. That is perfection. When you come to that platform, that you desire nothing but to serve Kṛṣṇa, always, twenty-four hours, then you are liberated.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|People in general, they cannot understand, but those who are preaching, they must be very sincere, the same way, rupa-raghunatha pade, haibe akuti. They should read the literatures, the instruction, just like Upadesamrta|Unless one is situated as pure Vaiṣṇava in his dealing, in his behavior, inside and outside, he should not become a preacher because it will not be effective; neither one should hear from such person. But people in general, they cannot understand, but those who are preaching, they must be very sincere, the same way, rūpa-raghunātha pade, haibe ākuti. They should read the literatures, the instruction, just like Upadeśāmṛta.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|The Nectar of Instruction. We should follow, strictly follow. Then prthivim sa sisyat. Then you'll be able to preach and make disciples all over the world. This is the injunction. That is called gosvami. Don't be cheap preacher, cheap guru|The Nectar of Instruction. We should follow, strictly follow. Then prthivim sa sisyat. Then you'll be able to preach and make disciples all over the world. This is the injunction. That is called gosvami. Don't be cheap preacher, cheap guru.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760306 - Conversation in Bengali - Mayapur|Conversation in Bengali - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|What is the difference between material life and spiritual life? Material life means simply full of problems, every step. Padam padam yad vipadam (SB 10.14.58). Simply dangerous|What is the difference between material life and spiritual life? Material life means simply full of problems, every step. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ. Simply dangerous. We are riding very nicely, comfortably, in a Cadillac car or motorcar, but we are riding on danger, that's all. We are driving; any moment the car may be smashed, especially in your country. Any moment. So shall I sit down at home? No. At home also there may be so many dangers.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760306 - Letter to Subhash Cander Batra written from Mayapur|Letter to Subhash Cander Batra written from Mayapur]]'''


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_05|1976 - March 05]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_07|1976 - March 07]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760307 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|When one is jealous of God, then gradually jealous of everyone|Prabhupāda: When one is jealous of God, then gradually jealous of everyone. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Jealousy. Prabhupāda: Jealousy, yes. Siddha-svarūpānanda: So then if I'm jealous of others, it's really just a reflection of my jealousy of Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Yes. Siddha-svarūpānanda: And if I am angry at others, it's because I'm angry at Kṛṣṇa also. Prabhupāda: Everything begins from Kṛṣṇa. Mattaḥ sarvam pravartate.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760307 - Lecture SB 07.09.29 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.29 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Before Hiranyakasipu was killed by His Lordship Nrsimha-deva, Prahlada Maharaja never addressed his father as "father," pituh. Now, after his death, he is addressing pituh, "my father." Because before his death he was demon|Before Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed by His Lordship Nṛsiṁha-deva, Prahlāda Mahārāja never addressed his father as "father," pituḥ. Now, after his death, he is addressing pituḥ, "my father." Because before his death he was demon. Everyone knows. But if a demon is killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes liberated - either demon or anyone.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760307 - Letter to Harikesa written from Mayapur|Letter to Harikesa written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|If they consider our philosophy too revolutionary, there is no necessity to print books immediately. First, the heart must be cleansed by chanting Hare Krishna and taking Krishna prasadam|I have marked how they are attracted to our kirtana and prasadam there in Hungary. If they consider our philosophy too revolutionary, there is no necessity to print books immediately. First, the heart must be cleansed by chanting Hare Krishna and taking Krishna prasadam. To take birth in such place is due to impious past so it is not easy for them to immediately accept our philosophy. Just give them chanting and prasadam. You must be very tactful to preach in such places.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_08|1976 - March 08]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_06|1976 - March 06]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760308 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|If I purchase from you and give it, distribute it free to somebody else, that is not wrong thing|No, no, even if he gives away, this is not a fault, you see? Suppose there are... In South Africa many Indians are purchasing our books and giving to the library. So somebody will read it. So that is not a fault. If I purchase from you and give it, distribute it free to somebody else, that is not wrong thing.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|No, I don't wish to agitate your mind. I want that if there is any difference, that should be adjusted, and we must preach combinedly. That is my point|No, I don't wish to agitate your mind. I want that if there is any difference, that should be adjusted, and we must preach combinedly. That is my point.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760308 - Lecture SB 07.09.30 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.30 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|This nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul|This nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul. Otherwise how it becomes seven months' developed? You'll find this description in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760308 - Letter to Robert Veiga written from Mayapur|Letter to Robert Veiga written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|The idea is that the ax-handle is made of wood, and so without the assistance of the wooden tree, the hatchet is useless. Similarly, we can use our materialistic knowledge to defeat the atheistic philosophy of the scientists|They try by their speculation to understand things, and being unable they say there is no God. So we can use this science to defeat them, just as I have many other disciples, such as Svarupa Damodara. He is Ph.D. in Chemistry and now he is using his scientific background to defeat their atheistic arguments.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760308 - Letter to Samjata written from Mayapur|Letter to Samjata written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Now you must very strictly follow the orders of your spiritual master by chanting 16 rounds of japa daily & accepting the 4 restrictions; no illicit sex life, no intoxication, no gambling, & no meat-eating. In this way you will surely make progress in KC|I am in due receipt of your letter dated 13 February, 1976 with enclosed daksina and I thank you very much. Now you must very strictly follow the orders of your spiritual master by chanting 16 rounds of japa daily and accepting the 4 restrictions; no illicit sex life, no intoxication, no gambling, and no meat-eating. In this way you will surely make progress in Krsna Consciousness.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_09|1976 - March 09]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760309 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|This material world is garbage. And still, we live so comfortably. Now just imagine what is His dhama. It is the garbage tank, still so nice. And just think what is His real place, Goloka Vrndavana|If a aristocrat asks that "You have to live in my garbage place," "Oh, that is also better." Similarly, Kṛṣṇa... This is garbage. This material world is garbage. And still, we live so comfortably. Now just imagine what is His dhāma. It is the garbage tank, still so nice. And just think what is His real place, Goloka Vṛndāvana.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|I planned that "I must go to America." Yes. That was the reason. Otherwise, generally they go to London. I did not go to London. I was simply dreaming, "How to go to New York?"|I planned that "I must go to America." Yes. That was the reason. Otherwise, generally they go to London. I did not go to London. I was simply dreaming, "How to go to New York?"}}
{{VaniQuotebox|I was targeting to New York always. Sometimes I was dreaming that I have come to New York|I was scheming, "Whether I shall go this way, through Tokyo, Japan, or that way? Which way is cheaper?" That was my plan. And I was targeting to New York always. Sometimes I was dreaming that I have come to New York. Hare Kṛṣṇa.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760309 - Lecture SB 07.09.31 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.31 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|There is no question of accidents. The so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose flower seed, rose will come. Why not accident by, lemon? No. There is no such things as accidents. This is all rascaldom|There is no question of accidents. The so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose flower seed, rose will come. Why not accident by, lemon? No. There is no such things as accidents. This is all rascaldom. Everything is going on... Parasya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate sva-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca. In the energy there is automatic knowledge and activities, and they are being manifested.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_07|1976 - March 07]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_10|1976 - March 10]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760310 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Krsna consciousness|These are all fanaticism. Real unity is in advancing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva... In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|I am never strict, neither I am conservative. If I become conservative, then I cannot live here for a moment. So I'm not at all conservative|You cannot find in Kali-yuga everything is being done very correctly, to the point. That is very difficult. Just like our poet, Allen Ginsberg. He was always accusing me, "Swamijī, you are very conservative and strict." Actually, I told him that "I am never strict, neither I am conservative. If I become conservative, then I cannot live here for a moment. So I'm not at all conservative."}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760310 - Lecture SB 07.09.32 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.32 - Mayapur]]'''
{{youtube_ditl|45bebk4B0PU|[[Vaniquotes:Siddhanta, what is Krsna, if you study from the sastras, then siddhanta boliya citte, don't be lazy in understanding Krsna|Siddhanta Boliya Citte - Don't Be Lazy in Understanding Krishna - 0730]]|05:15 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.32 in Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Siddhanta, what is Krsna, if you study from the sastras, then siddhanta boliya citte, don't be lazy in understanding Krsna|These verses should be studied very carefully, understanding each word very carefully. Then you'll understand Kṛṣṇa. Kavirāja Gosvāmī has said, siddhānta boliyā citte nā kara alasa, ihā haite kṛṣṇa lāge sudṛdha mānasa. Siddhānta, what is Kṛṣṇa, if you study from the śāstras, then siddhānta boliyā citte, don't be lazy in understanding Kṛṣṇa, because if you try to understand Kṛṣṇa sādhu-śāstra-guru-vākyaṁ cittete kariya aikya-through the sādhu, śāstra and guru—then you understand Kṛṣṇa, what He is.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_11|1976 - March 11]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_08|1976 - March 08]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760311 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|How you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America - land. Then I worked - labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it|How you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America—land. Then I worked—labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|I wanted first of all the residential place. And they criticize me, "Oh, you did not construct temple first." And a temple of the devotees is first, our temple. Then God. God will come if there are devotees|I wanted first of all this house, not the temple, because where they'll stay? They'll come to the temple, where they will stay? If you get staying place, then you can act your brain and improve. And if you are harassed—no place—then brain will not work. Therefore I wanted first of all the residential place. And they criticize me, "Oh, you did not construct temple first." And a temple of the devotees is first, our temple. Then God. God will come if there are devotees.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Don't become paramahamsa immediately. Paramahamsa is the last stage of sannyasa. First stage is kuticaka. Then second stage is bahudaka. And third stage is parivrajakacarya, and fourth stage is paramahamsa. Therefore paramahamsa stage is the topmost|Don't become paramahaṁsa immediately. Paramahaṁsa is the last stage of sannyāsa. First stage is kuṭicaka. Second stage is parivrājakācārya. Third stage is... No, first stage is kuṭicaka. Then second stage is bahudaka, bahudaka. And third stage is parivrājakācārya, and fourth stage is paramahaṁsa. Therefore paramahaṁsa stage is the topmost.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760311 - Lecture SB 07.09.33 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.33 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|These verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam, they are Vedic mantras. They're not ordinary wording, set of wording. It is not. Veda-mantra; samhita. So every one of you must try to chant. This is required|These verses of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are Vedic mantras. They're not ordinary wording, set of wording. It is not. Veda-mantra; saṁhitā. So every one of you must try to chant. This is required. Each verse of Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are Vedic mantras, veda-mantra. So simply by chanting them we become purified. So every one of you... There is diacritic marks, literation, transliteration, so everyone should try to chant the mantra. That is very beneficial. That is kīrtana.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760311 - Letter to Giridharilal written from Mayapur|Letter to Giridharilal written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|It will be a great pleasure for me to meet with you either at Delhi or Vrindaban when I return the 26th of March, this month, to Delhi. More when we meet. In the meantime, I hope this meets you in good health|I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated March 8, 1976 and I have noted the contents very carefully. It will be a great pleasure for me to meet with you either at Delhi or Vrindaban when I return the 26th of March, this month, to Delhi. More when we meet. In the meantime, I hope this meets you in good health.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_12|1976 - March 12]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760312 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|To rise early in the morning and do whatever is needed. Then at nine, half-past nine, I will go to his apartment and begin cooking. Then, after finishing, I'll take my bathing, and then we shall eat together|To rise early in the morning and do whatever is needed. Then at nine, half-past nine, I will go to his apartment and begin cooking. Then, after finishing, I'll take my bathing, and then we shall eat together. And then, after eating, I will go to the Fifth Avenue for loitering.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760312 - Lecture SB 07.09.34 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.34 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Everyone should be engaged. If one is not competent to dress the Deity - everyone is competent - he can simply wash the temple and cleanse it. That will also help|Everyone should be engaged. If one is not competent to dress the Deity - everyone is competent - he can simply wash the temple and cleanse it. That will also help. There is no difference, that one who is cleansing the floor of the temple and one who is engaged directly in the Deity worship... There is no difference. They are all the same.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_09|1976 - March 09]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_13|1976 - March 13]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760313 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|"No work in all Indian literature is more quoted. Because none is better loved in the West than the Bhagavad-gita. Translation of such work demands not only knowledge of Sanskrit but an inward sympathy with the theme and a verbal artistry"|"No work in all Indian literature is more quoted. Because none is better loved in the West than the Bhagavad-gita. Translation of such work demands not only knowledge of Sanskrit but an inward sympathy with the theme and a verbal artistry."}}
{{VaniQuotebox|"The poem is a symphony in which God is seen in all things. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is, of course, profoundly sympathetic to the theme. He brings to it a special interpretative insight"|"The poem is a symphony in which God is seen in all things. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is, of course, profoundly sympathetic to the theme. He brings to it a special interpretative insight."}}
{{VaniQuotebox|"Here we have a powerful and persuasive presentation in the bhakti tradition of this dearly beloved poem. The Swami's introduction makes clear at once where he stands as a leading exponent of Krsna consciousness." That is my actual...|"Here we have a powerful and persuasive presentation in the bhakti tradition of this dearly beloved poem. The Swami's introduction makes clear at once where he stands as a leading exponent of Krsna consciousness". That is my actual..."}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760313 - Lecture SB 07.09.35 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.35 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|We worship the guru as Vyasa-puja because representative of Vyasa. And who is Vyasa? Representative of Narada. What is Narada? Representative of Brahma. What is Brahma? Representative of Krsna. This is called parampara system|We worship the guru as Vyasa-puja because representative of Vyasa. And who is Vyasa? Representative of Narada. What is Narada? Representative of Brahma. What is Brahma? Representative of Krsna. This is called parampara system.}}
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/760313SB-MAYAPUR_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"So those who are ordinarily sinful, they can at least see the light once, but those who are very severely sinful, they're killed within the womb. They cannot see even the light coming out. There are so many cases now, it is very... That so many children, before coming out of the womb of the mother and before seeing the light of the sun, they are killed. And after killing, after being killed, the body is finished. Then he has to be put another body. Then enters another mother's body. Again the body is developed, and again he is killed. Just imagine."|Vanisource:760313 - Lecture SB 07.09.35 - Mayapur|760313 - Lecture SB 07.09.35 - Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|This human life was meant for understanding Visnu, God, but they did not use it. So thus, try to understand how much important is this Krsna consciousness movement, how we are trying to save the whole human society from their irresponsible life|This human life was meant for understanding Viṣṇu, God, but they did not use it. So thus, try to understand how much important is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, how we are trying to save the whole human society from their irresponsible life.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_14|1976 - March 14]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_10|1976 - March 10]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760314 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|My only business is to serve Krsna. I don't mind what will happen next|'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. My only business is to serve Kṛṣṇa. I don't mind what will happen next.<br />'''Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:''' That desire to serve Kṛṣṇa, though, that Kṛṣṇa...<br />'''Prabhupāda:''' Don't talk like foolish. That desire everyone has. He is serving. He is serving so many things, but he doesn't want to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is his foolishness. He is serving māyā; still, he denies to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is his misfortune.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?|'''Acyutānanda:''' If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?<br />'''Prabhupāda:''' If money is misused, then both of them become implicated. If it is not used for Kṛṣṇa, then both of them becomes under the laws of karma.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760314 - Lecture SB 07.09.36 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.36 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|The whole Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the bhava. Bhava. That is stated here. Parisuddha-bhava. We are not negativating everything. We are simply changing from material bhava to spiritual bhava. That's all|The whole Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the bhava. Bhava. That is stated here. Parisuddha-bhava. We are not negativating everything. We are simply changing from material bhava to spiritual bhava. That's all.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760314 - Letter to Ambarisa written from Mayapur|Letter to Ambarisa written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Your parents desire that you become educated also, although they do now know that someone who is a devotee is best educated|Your parents desire that you become educated also, although they do now know that someone who is a devotee is best educated.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760314 - Letter to Srutakirti written from Mayapur|Letter to Srutakirti written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Boston is a very good city for there are many, many young people and a Hare Krishna Restaurant where we serve delicious Prasadam will be appreciated there|Boston is a very good city for there are many, many young people and a Hare Krishna Restaurant where we serve delicious Prasadam will be appreciated there.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_15|1976 - March 15]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760315 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Our philosophy is that expanded - not only human being but animals also. Our philosophy is, if there is one lizard in your room, I should see that he is not starving. This is our philosophy. Not only human being but animals, even an insect|Our philosophy is that expanded - not only human being but animals also. Our philosophy is, if there is one lizard in your room, I should see that he is not starving. This is our philosophy. Not only human being but animals, even an insect.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760315 - Lecture SB 07.09.37 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.37 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Anadi means before the beginning of this creation. The beginning of this creation is called adi, beginning, but our forgetfulness of Krsna is anadi|Anadi means before the beginning of this creation. The beginning of this creation is called adi, beginning, but our forgetfulness of Krsna is anadi. Anadi. Anadi bahir mukha. We are working in this life, in this material world, struggling for existence to get happiness. That is the aim of life. But because we have forgotten Krsna, we do not know the source of happiness.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_11|1976 - March 11]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_16|1976 - March 16]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760316 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|See the intelligent persons and convince them. Yad yad acarati sresthah (BG 3.21). Pick up the best man. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He picked up the best men, Sanatana Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami. So His movement became successful|See the intelligent persons and convince them. Yad yad ācārati śreṣṭhaḥ (BG 3.21). Pick up the best man. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He picked up the best men, Sanatana Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami. So His movement became successful. Sanatana Gosvami was not an ordinary man. Very educated, learned brahmana and minister, Caitanya Mahaprabhu picked up. Similarly Rupa Gosvami, similarly Jiva Gosvami.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760316 - Lecture Festival SB 07.09.38 Gaura-Purnima - Mayapur|Lecture Festival SB 07.09.38 Gaura-Purnima - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|If we want to understand the transcendental position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then we have to go through guru, guru-parampara system. Otherwise it is not possible|If we want to understand the transcendental position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then we have to go through guru, guru-paramparā system. Otherwise it is not possible.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760316 - Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Mayapur|Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|According to Vedic system, there is purificatory process. Janmana jayate sudrah: "By birth everyone is born a sudra." A sudra means without any knowledge and simply full of lamentation|According to Vedic system, there is purificatory process. Janmanā jāyate śūdraḥ: "By birth everyone is born a sudra." A sudra means without any knowledge and simply full of lamentation. Socati. So the Vedic process is that from the low-grade position, to bring the human society to the highest, topmost position.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760316 - Conversation - Mayapur|Conversation - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|A devotee's one qualification is daksa, daksa, expert. Out of the twenty-six qualifications, a devotee is always very expert in dealing. It is not that because they have left anything material, they do not know how to deal with material things|A devotee's one qualification is daksa, daksa, expert. Out of the twenty-six qualifications, a devotee is always very expert in dealing. It is not that because they have left anything material, they do not know how to deal with material things. Raghunatha dasa Gosvami did it.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Everything is generated by Krsna's energies, and there are two energies: material energy and spiritual energy. So in the material energy, Krsna consciousness is less or nil. And in spiritual energy, Krsna consciousness is prominent and very acute|Everything Kṛṣṇa's. So when we forget Kṛṣṇa's right on everything, that is material. Otherwise there is nothing material; everything spiritual. Everything is generated by Kṛṣṇa's energies, and there are two energies: material energy and spiritual energy. So in the material energy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is less or nil. And in spiritual energy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is prominent and very acute.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Practically all of these devotees are so much dedicated to book distribution that they are going out now nearly seven days a week, without stoppage|'''Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:''' Practically all of these devotees are so much dedicated to book distribution that they are going out now nearly seven days a week, without stoppage.<br />
'''Prabhupāda:''' Utsāhān. utsāhān niścayād dhairyāt, tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt, sato vṛtteḥ saṅga-tyāgāt, ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati.   
Utsāhā is the basic principle, utsāhān and sādhu-saṅga, association of sādhu. Simply utsāhān and the association is not sādhu—then it is material. Utsāhā means association of sādhu. Sādhu means devotee. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ. Who is sādhu? Bhajate mām ananya-bhāk. One who has no other business than to serve Kṛṣṇa, he is sādhu.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760316 - Letter to Branch Manager written from Mayapur|Letter to Branch Manager written from Mayapur]]'''
:'''[[Vanisource:760316 - Letter to Tejiyas written from Mayapur|Letter to Tejiyas written from Mayapur]]'''


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_17|1976 - March 17]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_12|1976 - March 12]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760317 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|They want to cover their ignorance by this theory, "chance." They want to become very intelligent by chance. That is their... That is not the fact. For intelligence you have to learn from a superior person. It cannot be done by chance|They want to cover their ignorance by this theory, "chance." They want to become very intelligent by chance. That is their... That is not the fact. For intelligence you have to learn from a superior person. It cannot be done by chance. Who has become learned scholar by chance? There is none.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760317 - Lecture SB 07.09.39 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.39 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|This kamaturam mind will be cleansed. Not only be cleansed: if you think of sex, you'll spite on it. This is Krsna consciousness movement|This kāmāturam mind will be cleansed. Not only be cleansed: if you thind of sex, you'll spite on it. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|It may be a tiny attempt, humble attempt, but our aim is how these dogs and cats will become brahmana. This is our aim. We do not want to keep them in the position of cats and dogs and pigs|This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to raise the standard of the human society to become brāhmaṇa from the position of kṛpaṇa. This is the attempt. It may be a tiny attempt, humble attempt, but our aim is how these dogs and cats will become brāhmaṇa. This is our aim. We do not want to keep them in the position of cats and dogs and pigs.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_18|1976 - March 18]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760318 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Whatever thoughts are coming, you note it. Keep it. We shall utilize it with reference, with reference to the sastra|Whatever thoughts are coming, you note it. Keep it. We shall utilize it with reference, with reference to the sastra.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760318 - Lecture SB 07.09.40 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.40 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Krsna-katha is not palatable. This is maya's influence. So we cannot engage our senses for Krsna. This is the disturbing condition of material world|So Kṛṣṇa-kathā is not palatable. This is māyā's influence. So we cannot engage our senses for Kṛṣṇa. This is the disturbing condition of material world. Senses are there, I am there, and how the senses should be utilized, the subject matter is also there, but it is misled. This is called māyā.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760318 - Letter to Sri S. R. Acharyya written from Mayapur|Letter to Sri S. R. Acharyya written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|I am very much pleased that a learned scholar like you is prepared to cooperate with our preaching activities. If you kindly come in Calcutta along with your papers, I shall be very glad to meet you and talk with you on the subject matter|I am very much pleased that a learned scholar like you is prepared to cooperate with our preaching activities. If you kindly come in Calcutta* on the 22nd or 23rd March, 1976, at any time between 10-12 in the morning, or 5-7 in the evening along with your papers, I shall be very glad to meet you and talk with you on the subject matter.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760318 - Letter to Sri Triloki Nath Acharya written from Mayapur|Letter to Sri Triloki Nath Acharya written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Our preachers are very much enthusiastic but in India they have got a language difficulty. If you cooperate with us along with other learned devotees, we can immediately take up preaching work in India with great enthusiasm|Our preachers are very much enthusiastic but in India they have got a language difficulty. If you cooperate with us along with other learned devotees, we can immediately take up preaching work in India with great enthusiasm.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_13|1976 - March 13]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_19|1976 - March 19]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760319 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{youtube_ditl|0OdU98UEAy8|[[Vaniquotes:We are so foolish that we do not believe in the next life. That is simply foolishness. There is next life, especially when Krsna says. You can say, "We don't believe it." You don't believe or not believe, it doesn't matter|We Are So Foolish That We Do Not Believe In The Next Life - 0735]]|04:14 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.41 in Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|We are so foolish that we do not believe in the next life. That is simply foolishness. There is next life, especially when Krsna says. You can say, "We don't believe it." You don't believe or not believe, it doesn't matter|Just like when you are foolish, you can say, "I don't believe in the government's law. Whatever, I shall do." But when you are arrested, then everything is finished. Then simply slap and shoes, that's all. So we are so foolish that we do not believe in the next life. That is simply foolishness. There is next life, especially when Kṛṣṇa says. You can say, "We don't believe it." You don't believe or not believe, it doesn't matter. You are under the laws of nature.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760319 - Lecture SB 07.09.41 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.41 - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|We have got experience that if we infect some disease, contaminous disease, then we must suffer from that disease. So it is not God's creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No|We have got experience that if we infect some disease, contaminous disease, then we must suffer from that disease. So it is not God's creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No. We infect ourself with some contamination because this world, this material world, is full of contamination.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760319 - Letter to Gurukrpa written from Mayapur|Letter to Gurukrpa written from Mayapur]]'''


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=== Mar 20 - Haridaspur ===
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_20|1976 - March 20]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_14|1976 - March 14]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760320 - Lecture in Bengali - Haridaspur|Lecture in Bengali - Haridaspur]]'''


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=== Mar 21 to 22 - Mayapur ===
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_21|1976 - March 21]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Even Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was training Haridasa Thakura, Nityananda, "Go there. Preach there. Do that." My Guru Maharaja was doing that|Even Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He was training Haridāsa Ṭhākura, Nityānanda, "Go there. Preach there. Do that." My Guru Mahārāja was doing that.}}
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/760321MW-MAYAPUR_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"Bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.62|CC Madhya 22.62]]). We must be always convinced that if we simply take up the knowledge given by Kṛṣṇa, then you are perfect. That's all. If little success is there for me than other svāmīs and yogīs, it is due to my conviction on this point. I never compromised with anything which is not spoken by Kṛṣṇa."|Vanisource:760321 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|760321 - Morning Walk - Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|This business, cheaters and cheated. We preach to the innocent persons who are being cheated, and we don't want to cheat anybody, but what Krsna says. Our business is very simple|This business, cheaters and cheated. We preach to the innocent persons who are being cheated, and we don't want to cheat anybody, but what Krsna says. Our business is very simple.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra written from Mayapur|Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Krishna's another name is Madan-Mohan. When Krishna is within the heart, then the Madan or lusty desires become defeated. If we learn to love Krishna, our lusty desires will be finished, otherwise not|You also mentioned that how can I give up attraction for woman; when you learn to love Krishna, then you can forget your lusty desires for women. Krishna's another name is Madan-Mohan. When Krishna is within the heart, then the Madan or lusty desires become defeated. If we learn to love Krishna, our lusty desires will be finished, otherwise not.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Mayapur|Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Very soon I shall be able to see you and talk. Kindly chant Hare Krishna, and follow the regulative principles, see the Deity in the temple, and take Krishna prasadam|Very soon I shall be able to see you and talk. Kindly chant Hare Krishna, and follow the regulative principles, see the Deity in the temple, and take Krishna prasadam.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Foreigners' Registration Office written from Mayapur|Letter to Foreigners' Registration Office written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Since his service here in India is valuable as GBC (Governing Body Commissioner) for our branch in Mayapur, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, kindly give him visa. Your willing assistance in this matter will be much helpful|Mr. Gregory M. Scharf (Gargamuni Swami) was sent here to India by me for his immediate assistance was required. In New York he was told at the Indian High Commission that an entry visa would take 11 weeks, however, I required his assistance immediately, so he arrived on a tourist visa. Since his service here in India is valuable as GBC (Governing Body Commissioner) for our branch in Mayapur, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, kindly give him visa. Your willing assistance in this matter will be much helpful.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Karandhara written from Mayapur|Letter to Karandhara written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Hrdayananda Maharaja has suggested that why don't you come to South America and assist him in responsible management. That is good idea. Please keep me informed of your activities|Hrdayananda Maharaja has suggested that why don't you come to South America and assist him in responsible management. That is good idea. Please keep me informed of your activities.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Mahavirya written from Mayapur|Letter to Mahavirya written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Concerning your request for babaji initiation, when I come to Nairobi we can discuss it further. I gave babaji initiation to one other devotee but now he is off somewhere restless|Concerning your request for babaji initiation, when I come to Nairobi we can discuss it further. I gave babaji initiation to one other devotee but now he is off somewhere restless.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Nirmala written from Mayapur|Letter to Nirmala written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|It is also nice that you are caring for the devotees. They have left everything for me, so they should be treated as sons and daughters|It is also nice that you are caring for the devotees. They have left everything for me, so they should be treated as sons and daughters.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Patita Uddharana written from Mayapur|Letter to Patita Uddharana written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Shaktimata Devi Dasi whom you know from London. She is presently in Nairobi & is looking for a good husband for her daughter. She wrote one letter appealing that you might consider marrying her daughter. So, if you are agreeable then I have not objection|I received one letter from Shaktimata Devi Dasi whom you know from London. She is presently in Nairobi and is looking for a good husband for her daughter. She wrote one letter appealing that you might consider marrying her daughter. So, if you are agreeable then I have not objection.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760321 - Letter to Ranadhira written from Mayapur|Letter to Ranadhira written from Mayapur]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|I thank you very much for your hard work in sending out the 200,000 Krishna Consciousness is Authorized pamphlet to leading citizens. Please continue with this important work|I thank you very much for your hard work in sending out the 200,000 Krishna Consciousness is Authorized pamphlet to leading citizens. Please continue with this important work.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_15|1976 - March 15]] ====
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_22|1976 - March 22]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760322 - Lecture SB 07.09.42 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.42 - Mayapur]]'''
{{youtube_ditl|j503uGr8uTE|[[Vaniquotes:Gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-dasanudasah. This is our process. We don't approach Krsna directly. We must begin our service to the Krsna's servant. And who is Krsna's servant? One who has become the servant of another Krsna's servant|We don't Approach Krishna Directly. <br/>We must Begin our Service to Krishna's Servant - 0360]]|08:51 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.42 in Mayapur}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-dasanudasah. This is our process. We don't approach Krsna directly. We must begin our service to the Krsna's servant. And who is Krsna's servant? One who has become the servant of another Krsna's servant|Gopī-bhartur pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ. This is our process. We don't approach Kṛṣṇa directly. We must begin our service to the Kṛṣṇa's servant. And who is Kṛṣṇa's servant? One who has become the servant of another Kṛṣṇa's servant. This is called dāsa-dāsānudāsa.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Nobody can be independently servant of Krsna. That is another foolishness. Krsna never accepts anyone's service directly. No. That is not possible. You must come through the servant of the servant. This is called parampara system|Nobody can be independently servant of Kṛṣṇa. That is another foolishness. Kṛṣṇa never accepts anyone's service directly. No. That is not possible. You must come through the servant of the servant. This is called paramparā system. As you receive knowledge by the paramparā system... Kṛṣṇa spoke to Brahmā, Brahmā spoke to Nārada, Nārada spoke to Vyāsadeva, and we are getting this knowledge. Just like Kṛṣṇa... Bhagavad-gītā was spoken by Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760322 - Conversation in Bengali - Mayapur|Conversation in Bengali - Mayapur]]'''


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=== Mar 22 to 24 - Calcutta ===
==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_22|1976 - March 22]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_16|1976 - March 16]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760322 - Lecture Arrival - Calcutta|Lecture Arrival - Calcutta]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Calcutta is my birthplace, so you have kindly come here and conducting this temple. I am very much obliged to you. I cannot remain here; I have to go here and there. Try to raise the standard of Krsna consciousness, even there are so many inconveniences|Calcutta is my birthplace, so you have kindly come here and conducting this temple. I am very much obliged to you. I cannot remain here; I have to go here and there. Try to raise the standard of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, even there are so many inconveniences, I know. You are coming from a country where material conveniences are greater.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|By the grace of Krsna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu there will be no trouble. You'll be happy. Try to preach this Krsna consciousness movement in India at least for some time, and help them to rise to their standard of Krsna consciousness|By the grace of Krsna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu there will be no trouble. You'll be happy. Try to preach this Krsna consciousness movement in India at least for some time, and help them to rise to their standard of Krsna consciousness.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_23|1976 - March 23]] ====


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:'''[[Vanisource:760323 - Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Calcutta|Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Calcutta]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|We should be very much strictly follower of the Vaisnava principle. Vaisnava's only business is how to deliver these fallen souls. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He appeared as a Vaisnava. The business is to deliver|We should be very much strictly follower of the Vaisnava principle. Vaisnava's only business is how to deliver these fallen souls. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He appeared as a Vaisnava. The business is to deliver.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Prahlada Maharaja and every Vaisnava who is actually following the parampara system of Vaisnava duty, they are anxious|Prahlāda Mahārāja and every Vaiṣṇava who is actually following the paramparā system of Vaiṣṇava duty, they are anxious. Prahlāda Mahārāja says that śoce tato vimukha-cetasa. And why they are vimūḍhān? Because vimukha cetasa: "They don't like You. They don't care for You: 'I don't care for God. I don't accept Kṛṣṇa,' these vimūḍhas." So all the Vaiṣṇavas, especially those who have taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement... Prahlāda Mahārāja will speak later on that "Sir, I am not inclined at all to go alone to Vaikuṇṭha. I must take them all with me."}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760323 - Letter to Kirtanananda written from Delhi|Letter to Kirtanananda written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|If the water supply is sufficient, there is no question of insanitation. Disease comes when there are dirty conditions. Also, don't eat more than necessary. As soon as palatable food is offered, they eat. That is the disease|If the water supply is sufficient, there is no question of insanitation. Disease comes when there are dirty conditions. Also, don't eat more than necessary. As soon as palatable food is offered, they eat. That is the disease.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Concerning the outhouses, if they are not approved then you can have a septic tank, or pass stool in the open field. I was doing that. I never liked to go to the nonsense toilet so I was going in the field|Concerning the outhouses, if they are not approved then you can have a septic tank, or pass stool in the open field. I was doing that. I never liked to go to the nonsense toilet so I was going in the field.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_17|1976 - March 17]] ====
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:'''[[Vanisource:760324 - Conversation - Calcutta|Conversation - Calcutta]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|This Thakurbari, Radha-Govindaji, is my life. That is the beginning of my this spiritual life. And after so many years, still Radha-Govindaji has dragged me. So it is His kindness|This Ṭhākurbari, Rādhā-Govindajī, is my life. That is the beginning of my this spiritual life. And after so many years, still Rādhā-Govindajī has dragged me. So it is His kindness. So the beginning was the same thing—worship of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity and introduction of Ratha-yātrā. That is I am doing in a bigger scale and a wider scale all over the world. So it is nothing new.}}


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==== [[File:Go-up.png|link=#Top]] [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_24|1976 - March 24]] ====


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_18|1976 - March 18]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760324 - Letter to Nalinikanta Roy, Panchu Gopal Paul, Swarup, Govinda Tarafder, Bijoy Kumar Pramanik, Gopal Chandra, Gour Chandra, Surendra Nath, Mani Lal, Kartick Chandra, Balai Chandra, Dharani Dhar, Debaki Dulal and Gour Kishor written from Vrndavana|Letter to Nalinikanta Roy, Panchu Gopal Paul, Swarup, Govinda Tarafder, Bijoy Kumar Pramanik, Gopal Chandra, Gour Chandra, Surendra Nath, Mani Lal, Kartick Chandra, Balai Chandra, Dharani Dhar, Debaki Dulal and Gour Kishor written from Vṛndāvana]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|With reference to our meeting on March 20, 1976 at Haridaspore, I beg to propose that immediately we require at least Rs. 50,000 - for development of the place. Kindly let me know exactly what is the area of the land (include a sketch of the land)|With reference to our meeting on March 20, 1976 at Haridaspore, I beg to propose that immediately we require at least Rs. 50,000/- for development of the place. Kindly let me know exactly what is the area of the land (include a sketch of the land), and then we can make a site plan and a building construction plan.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760324 - Letter to Sri Kashinath Mullick written from Delhi|Letter to Sri Kashinath Mullick written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|I wanted to talk with you of improvement of the Uddharana Dutta Thakura Path. I know you are managing the establishment so nicely till now but still further improvement can be done if you cooperate with us|I wanted to talk with you of improvement of the Uddharana Dutta Thakura Path. I know you are managing the establishment so nicely till now but still further improvement can be done if you cooperate with us.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|We want to establish a small gurukula as mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, accommodating willing Vaisnavas who will follow the Vaisnava behavior strictly; arranging worship of the Deity by the sincere devotees who will not take any remuneration|We want to establish a small gurukula as mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, accommodating willing Vaisnavas who will follow the Vaisnava behavior strictly; arranging worship of the Deity by the sincere devotees who will not take any remuneration and who follow the Vaisnava principles.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|I wish the temple community to be self-sufficient by producing their own food grains|I wish to be enlightened to know how much land the mandir possesses for cultivation because I wish the temple community to be self-sufficient by producing their own food grains. In foreign countries we are organizing our centres on this principle.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760324 - Letter to Sri S. R. Acharyya written from Delhi|Letter to Sri S. R. Acharyya written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|You can come to our Vrindaban Temple. You have got enough scope for engaging yourself in journalism and peaceful living. If you are in difficulty then by showing this letter you can take a railroad ticket from our president of our Calcutta temple|I shall be in Vrindaban up until the 10th April after which time I shall be going out of India. You can come to our Vrindaban Temple. You have got enough scope for engaging yourself in journalism and peaceful living. If you are in difficulty then by showing this letter you can take a railroad ticket from our Abhirama das Adhikari, the president of our Calcutta temple located at 3 Albert Road, Calcutta-17, near Camac Street and, Theater Road. It will be a great pleasure to talk with you when we meet.}}


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:'''[[Vanisource:760325 - Morning Walk - Delhi|Morning Walk - Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Why you are serving me? If I had been an ordinary person, why...? You would have not... Because you accept that "You are devotee," therefore you serve. So as soon as we find a devotee, immediately serve him|Why you are serving me? If I had been an ordinary person, why...? You would have not... Because you accept that "You are devotee," therefore you serve. So as soon as we find a devotee, immediately serve him. Chāḍiyā vaiṣṇava-sevā, nistāra pāyeche kebā. Without serving a devotee, who can be elevated? It is our duty. So we can serve the devotee.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760325 - Lecture BG 02.11 at Rotary Club - Delhi|Lecture BG 02.11 at Rotary Club - Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|The body is not the self. The self is different. If you analyze this body, what you will find? Suppose we are breathing. What is this breathing? It is air only. Now, when the breathing is stopped, a man is dead|"My dear Arjuna, you are talking like a very learned man, but the subject matter which you have touched is not at all taken seriously by the paṇḍita." Paṇḍita means learned man. That means, "You are talking like a fool. You are taking this body as self." So actually this is not the fact. The body is not the self. The self is different. If you analyze this body, what you will find? Suppose we are breathing. What is this breathing? It is air only. Now, when the breathing is stopped, a man is dead.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760325 - Conversation - Delhi|Conversation - Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|How many Mahesh Yogi has brought, disciples like this? This is my answer. Thousands of them are working here on my behalf. Just see their character and behavior|How many Mahesh Yogi has brought, disciples like this? This is my answer. Thousands of them are working here on my behalf. Just see their character and behavior.}}


==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_19|1976 - March 19]] ====
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:'''[[Vanisource:760326 - Morning Walk - Delhi|Morning Walk - Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to...|'''Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:''' Sometimes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be.<br>'''Prabhupāda:''' You all become full Kṛṣṇa conscious, cent percent Kṛṣṇa conscious.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|You all become full Krsna conscious, cent percent Krsna conscious|You all become full Kṛṣṇa conscious, cent percent Kṛṣṇa conscious. That people are suffering for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Let them have this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and become happy. That's all.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Traveling is essential. If possible there may be centers|'''Prabhupāda:''' Traveling is essential. If possible there may be centers.<br />'''Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:''' But our ambition should not be simply to go to every town and village simply so that we can say we went to every town and village. We should actually try to...<br />'''Prabhupāda:''' No, why village? Everywhere you go, town, village, everywhere. Not only village to village but door to door. Yes.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760326 - Lecture SB 07.09.44 - Delhi|Lecture SB 07.09.44 - Delhi]]'''
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/760326SB-DELHI_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"It is said in the Bhagavad-gītā, ya imaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati ([[Vanisource:BG 18.68 (1972)|BG 18.68]]): 'Anyone who is engaged in preaching this confidential science of Bhagavad-gītā', na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścid me priya-kṛttamaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 18.69 (1972)|BG 18.69]]), 'nobody is dearer to Me than he is'. If you want very quickly recognition by Kṛṣṇa, go on preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Even it is imperfectly done, but because you are sincere in your capa..., whatever capacity you have got, if you preach, then Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased."|Vanisource:760326 - Lecture SB 07.09.44 - Delhi|760326 - Lecture SB 07.09.44 - Delhi}}
{{VaniQuotebox|Never mind even it is imperfectly done, we must execute the orders of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I may not be so very expert in delivering the message of Krsna, but my duty is to try to my best capacity how to distribute this knowledge to the suffering humanity|Never mind even it is imperfectly done, we must execute the orders of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa-upadeśa (CC Madhya 7.128). I may not be so very expert in delivering the message of Kṛṣṇa, but my duty is to try to my best capacity how to distribute this knowledge to the suffering humanity.}}


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==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_20|1976 - March 20]] ====
:'''[[Vanisource:760327 - Letter to Ambassador of the of United States of America written from Delhi|Letter to Ambassador of the of United States of America written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|I beg to introduce myself as the founder-acharya of the above institution. Our mission is to preach Krishna Consciousness (God-Consciousness) all over the world and in your country alone we have got about 40 branches in all the important towns of America|I beg to introduce myself as the founder-acharya of the above institution. Our mission is to preach Krishna Consciousness (God-Consciousness) all over the world, and in your country alone we have got about 40 branches in all the important towns of America. In all the countries, the majority of my disciples are Americans. I met Mr. Kenneth Keating, your former ambassador to India and he was a personal friend to my disciple, Sri Gurudasa Adhikari. A copy of his letter is also enclosed herein.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760327 - Letter to Cittahari written from Delhi|Letter to Cittahari written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|New devotees must all be trained nicely how to render devotional service by chanting 16 offenseless rounds daily and following the 4 regulative principles. Kindly set a nice example yourself for everyone and in this way make your lives perfect in full KC|Now the new devotees must all be trained very nicely how to render devotional service by chanting 16 offenseless rounds daily, and following the 4 regulative principles. Kindly set a nice example yourself for everyone and in this way make your lives perfect in full Krishna Consciousness.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760327 - Letter to Pranada written from Delhi|Letter to Pranada written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|The Vaisnava tantras are bona fide literatures, just like Narada-pancaratra, but not the atheistic tantra which have nothing to do with the Vedic literatures|Concerning your questions about tantric sastras; the Vaisnava tantras are bona fide literatures, just like Narada-pancaratra, but not the atheistic tantra which have nothing to do with the Vedic literatures.}}
:'''[[Vanisource:760327 - Letter to The 14 Cooperative Societies written from Delhi|Letter to The 14 Cooperative Societies written from Delhi]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|Hare Krishna Land is very popular with the residents of Bombay, in particular the local residents and devotees of Juhu Beach and surroundings. Many visitors regularly attend religious services and we are trying to provide suitable facilities to this end|As you may know, our Hare Krishna Land is very popular with the residents of Bombay, in particular the local residents and devotees of Juhu Beach and surroundings. Many visitors regularly attend religious services and we are trying to provide suitable facilities to this end. Now with so many devotees visiting from the colony, it is necessary that we have access from the colony side to the temple.}}
{{VaniQuotebox|At present we only have access to the temple from the sea-side and it is proving a great inconvenience to visitors coming from the colony side. We therefore request that access be kindly granted to us on the colony side for the benefit of many worshipers|At present we only have access to the temple from the sea-side and it is proving a great inconvenience to visitors coming from the colony side. We therefore request that access be kindly granted to us on the colony side for the benefit of the many worshipers who regularly visit the temple. We request that you kindly give us permission to construct a suitable access to our property from the colony side and that you kindly provide us such land for use as may be necessary.}}


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==== [[A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Srila_Prabhupada_-_March_21|1976 - March 21]] ====
=== Mar 31 - Vṛndāvana ===
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:'''[[Vanisource:760331 - Lecture SB 07.05.23-24 - Vrndavana|Lecture SB 07.05.23-24 - Vṛndāvana]]'''
{{VaniQuotebox|We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krsna. That engagement you have fully in the Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. So stick to these two books, or Caitanya-caritamrta. Caitanya-caritamrta is still far advanced|We are engaged in śravaṇaṁ kīrtana from the morning. We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, what so many nonsense things. We waste our time. Śrama eva hi kevalam. We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa. That engagement you have fully in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā. So stick to these two books, or Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Caitanya-caritāmṛta is still far advanced.}}


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Mar 1 to 19 - Mayapur

1976 - March 01

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Because Kṛṣṇa loves you so much that even you accept this material atom, He goes to help you. Therefore He is within. Because sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭhaḥ (BG 15.15). The living entity has a..., enjoying this material world. So he has got everything. He's a person. He has got his heart. So in the heart there is Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture SB 07.09.23 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Prahlāda Mahārāja is Vaiṣṇava. He could understand that "Everything in this material world, even the possession of my father, will be finished. There is no doubt. So what is the use of possessing such thing which will be finished?"


1976 - March 02

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		When a man takes his work in his own hand, it is sure to be done. So all of you encourage them.
Lecture SB 07.09.24 - Mayapur
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vanipedia.org 		Either man or woman, everyone is servant of Kṛṣṇa. We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called paramparā servant."
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vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have to learn how to become servant. Not only servant, servant of the servant. That is cure.

vanipedia.org 		My spiritual master is the servant of his spiritual master, and I am also servant of my spiritual master. Similarly, we think "servant of the servant." There is no question of becoming... This is material disease - kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kāre, pāsate māyā tāre jāpatīyā dhāre - As soon as we become puffed up—"Now I shall become master. I shall be simply giving order. I shall not follow anyone"—that is māyā.

vanipedia.org 		This is the idea, to become servant and to become maidservant. This is ideal of human civilization. The every woman should try to become maidservant of her husband, and every man should try to become the hundred times servant of Kṛṣṇa. This is Indian civilization. Not that "Husband and wife, we are equal rights," that, in Europe, America, the movement is going on, "Equal rights." That is not Vedic civilization.

vanipedia.org 		If we take it that "Here is an institution where we can have free hotel, free living and free sense gratification," then the whole institution will be spoiled. Be careful. All the GBC's, they should be careful that this mentality may not increase. Everyone should be very eager to serve, to learn how to serve. Nija-bhṛtya-pārśvam, Then life will be successful.


1976 - March 03

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		In their country also they have got many cows. They get sufficient milk. And from that milk, they prepare so many things - milk, ghee, and then they get chana. So they know how to prepare so many things from chana, lugdoo.


1976 - March 04

Lecture SB 07.09.26 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Why we offer sacred thread to a person who is coming from very, very low family? Because it is to be understood by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva-guṇa. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation. There must be. One must come. This, our process, is "Don't do this. Do this: Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra sixteen rounds, and don't do this—no illicit sex, no meat-eating." That means he's becoming purified.

vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means everything is being gradually developed into goodness. And at last, to surpass goodness. Here in this material world the goodness may be contaminated with the other qualities, but in the spiritual world it is so good. It is called śuddha-sattva. There is no contamination, there is no tinge of rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa. That is spiritual quality. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be possible in perfectness when we are above the quality of goodness.
Letter to Gurukula Devotees written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I do not wish that the Gurukula should be closed. Please work combinedly and endeavour with great determination to keep it going on nicely.
Letter to P. R. Mohapatra written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Here in Mayapur we are trying to create a place of inspiration for people throughout the world. It is in Mayapur that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, appeared. This information comes to us from the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Letter to Parent written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I do not wish that Gurukula should be closed down in Dallas. So you kindly arrange to send your child back to Gurukula. One thing is at least for the time being, you must arrange to pay the tuition for your child.
Letter to Sridhara Maharaja written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Please accept my humble dandabats. As we are eager to meet, I am sending hereby Sriman Satadhanya das to hand over this message: I can send my personal car at any time you like to come here.


1976 - March 05

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Woman's beauty is how she is chaste and devoted to the husband. That is beauty, not personal beauty. Vidyā-rūpaṁ ku-rūpanam. And education is the beauty for the brain. And the beauty of the kokila is her sweet voice. Kṣamā-rūpaṁ tapasvinaḥ. And those who are saintly person, they should be simply forgiving. That is their beauty.
Lecture SB 07.09.27 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		There is no such discrimination that "Here is a devotee, so he's superior, and here is a nondevotee, he's inferior." That is not God's discrimination. That is your discrimination. If you like to remain as inferior, you can remain. God has given you independence. And if you like to become superior, you can become superior. It is not God's discrimination; it is your discrimination.

vanipedia.org 		Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was started with forty rupees. Now that forty rupees or something added with Kṛṣṇa, it has become forty crores. You see practically. When I started for your country, I came to Māyāpur. I offered my obeisances to my spiritual master, then I went. At that time I had no money even to purchase the ticket. And after that, I have come with forty crores. This is the secret. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante. If you fully surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then Kṛṣṇa is there. You have to learn how to take from Kṛṣṇa. Of course, a devotee is never desirous to take anything from Kṛṣṇa. He wants to give only. This is pure devotee.
Letter to RamRam Maharaja written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		As I am scheduled to stay in Mayapur up to the end of March, I am giving a copy of your letter to my zonal secretary. So you should hear from him shortly.


1976 - March 06

Lecture SB 07.09.28 - Mayapur
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vanipedia.org 		"You have to be desireless" means you have to purify your this false understanding that "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am Indian," "I am this." This has to be purified. One has to understand that "I am gopī-bhartur pada-kamalayor dāsa (CC Madhya 13.80). I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Kṛṣṇa." That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Kṛṣṇa's service. That is perfection. When you come to that platform, that you desire nothing but to serve Kṛṣṇa, always, twenty-four hours, then you are liberated.

vanipedia.org 		Unless one is situated as pure Vaiṣṇava in his dealing, in his behavior, inside and outside, he should not become a preacher because it will not be effective; neither one should hear from such person. But people in general, they cannot understand, but those who are preaching, they must be very sincere, the same way, rūpa-raghunātha pade, haibe ākuti. They should read the literatures, the instruction, just like Upadeśāmṛta.

vanipedia.org 		The Nectar of Instruction. We should follow, strictly follow. Then prthivim sa sisyat. Then you'll be able to preach and make disciples all over the world. This is the injunction. That is called gosvami. Don't be cheap preacher, cheap guru.
Conversation in Bengali - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		What is the difference between material life and spiritual life? Material life means simply full of problems, every step. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ. Simply dangerous. We are riding very nicely, comfortably, in a Cadillac car or motorcar, but we are riding on danger, that's all. We are driving; any moment the car may be smashed, especially in your country. Any moment. So shall I sit down at home? No. At home also there may be so many dangers.
Letter to Subhash Cander Batra written from Mayapur

1976 - March 07

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: When one is jealous of God, then gradually jealous of everyone. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Jealousy. Prabhupāda: Jealousy, yes. Siddha-svarūpānanda: So then if I'm jealous of others, it's really just a reflection of my jealousy of Kṛṣṇa. Prabhupāda: Yes. Siddha-svarūpānanda: And if I am angry at others, it's because I'm angry at Kṛṣṇa also. Prabhupāda: Everything begins from Kṛṣṇa. Mattaḥ sarvam pravartate.
Lecture SB 07.09.29 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Before Hiraṇyakaśipu was killed by His Lordship Nṛsiṁha-deva, Prahlāda Mahārāja never addressed his father as "father," pituḥ. Now, after his death, he is addressing pituḥ, "my father." Because before his death he was demon. Everyone knows. But if a demon is killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes liberated - either demon or anyone.
Letter to Harikesa written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I have marked how they are attracted to our kirtana and prasadam there in Hungary. If they consider our philosophy too revolutionary, there is no necessity to print books immediately. First, the heart must be cleansed by chanting Hare Krishna and taking Krishna prasadam. To take birth in such place is due to impious past so it is not easy for them to immediately accept our philosophy. Just give them chanting and prasadam. You must be very tactful to preach in such places.


1976 - March 08

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		No, no, even if he gives away, this is not a fault, you see? Suppose there are... In South Africa many Indians are purchasing our books and giving to the library. So somebody will read it. So that is not a fault. If I purchase from you and give it, distribute it free to somebody else, that is not wrong thing.

vanipedia.org 		No, I don't wish to agitate your mind. I want that if there is any difference, that should be adjusted, and we must preach combinedly. That is my point.
Lecture SB 07.09.30 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		This nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul. Otherwise how it becomes seven months' developed? You'll find this description in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Letter to Robert Veiga written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		They try by their speculation to understand things, and being unable they say there is no God. So we can use this science to defeat them, just as I have many other disciples, such as Svarupa Damodara. He is Ph.D. in Chemistry and now he is using his scientific background to defeat their atheistic arguments.
Letter to Samjata written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I am in due receipt of your letter dated 13 February, 1976 with enclosed daksina and I thank you very much. Now you must very strictly follow the orders of your spiritual master by chanting 16 rounds of japa daily and accepting the 4 restrictions; no illicit sex life, no intoxication, no gambling, and no meat-eating. In this way you will surely make progress in Krsna Consciousness.


1976 - March 09

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		If a aristocrat asks that "You have to live in my garbage place," "Oh, that is also better." Similarly, Kṛṣṇa... This is garbage. This material world is garbage. And still, we live so comfortably. Now just imagine what is His dhāma. It is the garbage tank, still so nice. And just think what is His real place, Goloka Vṛndāvana.

vanipedia.org 		I planned that "I must go to America." Yes. That was the reason. Otherwise, generally they go to London. I did not go to London. I was simply dreaming, "How to go to New York?"

vanipedia.org 		I was scheming, "Whether I shall go this way, through Tokyo, Japan, or that way? Which way is cheaper?" That was my plan. And I was targeting to New York always. Sometimes I was dreaming that I have come to New York. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Lecture SB 07.09.31 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		There is no question of accidents. The so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose flower seed, rose will come. Why not accident by, lemon? No. There is no such things as accidents. This is all rascaldom. Everything is going on... Parasya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate sva-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca. In the energy there is automatic knowledge and activities, and they are being manifested.


1976 - March 10

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		These are all fanaticism. Real unity is in advancing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva... In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

vanipedia.org 		You cannot find in Kali-yuga everything is being done very correctly, to the point. That is very difficult. Just like our poet, Allen Ginsberg. He was always accusing me, "Swamijī, you are very conservative and strict." Actually, I told him that "I am never strict, neither I am conservative. If I become conservative, then I cannot live here for a moment. So I'm not at all conservative."
Lecture SB 07.09.32 - Mayapur
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vanipedia.org 		These verses should be studied very carefully, understanding each word very carefully. Then you'll understand Kṛṣṇa. Kavirāja Gosvāmī has said, siddhānta boliyā citte nā kara alasa, ihā haite kṛṣṇa lāge sudṛdha mānasa. Siddhānta, what is Kṛṣṇa, if you study from the śāstras, then siddhānta boliyā citte, don't be lazy in understanding Kṛṣṇa, because if you try to understand Kṛṣṇa sādhu-śāstra-guru-vākyaṁ cittete kariya aikya-through the sādhu, śāstra and guru—then you understand Kṛṣṇa, what He is.


1976 - March 11

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		How you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America—land. Then I worked—labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it.

vanipedia.org 		I wanted first of all this house, not the temple, because where they'll stay? They'll come to the temple, where they will stay? If you get staying place, then you can act your brain and improve. And if you are harassed—no place—then brain will not work. Therefore I wanted first of all the residential place. And they criticize me, "Oh, you did not construct temple first." And a temple of the devotees is first, our temple. Then God. God will come if there are devotees.

vanipedia.org 		Don't become paramahaṁsa immediately. Paramahaṁsa is the last stage of sannyāsa. First stage is kuṭicaka. Second stage is parivrājakācārya. Third stage is... No, first stage is kuṭicaka. Then second stage is bahudaka, bahudaka. And third stage is parivrājakācārya, and fourth stage is paramahaṁsa. Therefore paramahaṁsa stage is the topmost.
Lecture SB 07.09.33 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		These verses of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are Vedic mantras. They're not ordinary wording, set of wording. It is not. Veda-mantra; saṁhitā. So every one of you must try to chant. This is required. Each verse of Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, they are Vedic mantras, veda-mantra. So simply by chanting them we become purified. So every one of you... There is diacritic marks, literation, transliteration, so everyone should try to chant the mantra. That is very beneficial. That is kīrtana.
Letter to Giridharilal written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated March 8, 1976 and I have noted the contents very carefully. It will be a great pleasure for me to meet with you either at Delhi or Vrindaban when I return the 26th of March, this month, to Delhi. More when we meet. In the meantime, I hope this meets you in good health.


1976 - March 12

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		To rise early in the morning and do whatever is needed. Then at nine, half-past nine, I will go to his apartment and begin cooking. Then, after finishing, I'll take my bathing, and then we shall eat together. And then, after eating, I will go to the Fifth Avenue for loitering.
Lecture SB 07.09.34 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Everyone should be engaged. If one is not competent to dress the Deity - everyone is competent - he can simply wash the temple and cleanse it. That will also help. There is no difference, that one who is cleansing the floor of the temple and one who is engaged directly in the Deity worship... There is no difference. They are all the same.


1976 - March 13

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		"No work in all Indian literature is more quoted. Because none is better loved in the West than the Bhagavad-gita. Translation of such work demands not only knowledge of Sanskrit but an inward sympathy with the theme and a verbal artistry."

vanipedia.org 		"The poem is a symphony in which God is seen in all things. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is, of course, profoundly sympathetic to the theme. He brings to it a special interpretative insight."

vanipedia.org 		"Here we have a powerful and persuasive presentation in the bhakti tradition of this dearly beloved poem. The Swami's introduction makes clear at once where he stands as a leading exponent of Krsna consciousness". That is my actual..."
Lecture SB 07.09.35 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		We worship the guru as Vyasa-puja because representative of Vyasa. And who is Vyasa? Representative of Narada. What is Narada? Representative of Brahma. What is Brahma? Representative of Krsna. This is called parampara system.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So those who are ordinarily sinful, they can at least see the light once, but those who are very severely sinful, they're killed within the womb. They cannot see even the light coming out. There are so many cases now, it is very... That so many children, before coming out of the womb of the mother and before seeing the light of the sun, they are killed. And after killing, after being killed, the body is finished. Then he has to be put another body. Then enters another mother's body. Again the body is developed, and again he is killed. Just imagine."
760313 - Lecture SB 07.09.35 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		This human life was meant for understanding Viṣṇu, God, but they did not use it. So thus, try to understand how much important is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, how we are trying to save the whole human society from their irresponsible life.


1976 - March 14

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Yes. My only business is to serve Kṛṣṇa. I don't mind what will happen next.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That desire to serve Kṛṣṇa, though, that Kṛṣṇa...
Prabhupāda: Don't talk like foolish. That desire everyone has. He is serving. He is serving so many things, but he doesn't want to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is his foolishness. He is serving māyā; still, he denies to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is his misfortune.

vanipedia.org 		Acyutānanda: If a man says, "I am giving you this donation because it is a spiritual organization," but if the money is misused, does that man benefit?
Prabhupāda: If money is misused, then both of them become implicated. If it is not used for Kṛṣṇa, then both of them becomes under the laws of karma.
Lecture SB 07.09.36 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		The whole Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the bhava. Bhava. That is stated here. Parisuddha-bhava. We are not negativating everything. We are simply changing from material bhava to spiritual bhava. That's all.
Letter to Ambarisa written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Your parents desire that you become educated also, although they do now know that someone who is a devotee is best educated.
Letter to Srutakirti written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Boston is a very good city for there are many, many young people and a Hare Krishna Restaurant where we serve delicious Prasadam will be appreciated there.


1976 - March 15

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Our philosophy is that expanded - not only human being but animals also. Our philosophy is, if there is one lizard in your room, I should see that he is not starving. This is our philosophy. Not only human being but animals, even an insect.
Lecture SB 07.09.37 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Anadi means before the beginning of this creation. The beginning of this creation is called adi, beginning, but our forgetfulness of Krsna is anadi. Anadi. Anadi bahir mukha. We are working in this life, in this material world, struggling for existence to get happiness. That is the aim of life. But because we have forgotten Krsna, we do not know the source of happiness.


1976 - March 16

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		See the intelligent persons and convince them. Yad yad ācārati śreṣṭhaḥ (BG 3.21). Pick up the best man. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He picked up the best men, Sanatana Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami. So His movement became successful. Sanatana Gosvami was not an ordinary man. Very educated, learned brahmana and minister, Caitanya Mahaprabhu picked up. Similarly Rupa Gosvami, similarly Jiva Gosvami.
Lecture Festival SB 07.09.38 Gaura-Purnima - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		If we want to understand the transcendental position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then we have to go through guru, guru-paramparā system. Otherwise it is not possible.
Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		According to Vedic system, there is purificatory process. Janmanā jāyate śūdraḥ: "By birth everyone is born a sudra." A sudra means without any knowledge and simply full of lamentation. Socati. So the Vedic process is that from the low-grade position, to bring the human society to the highest, topmost position.
Conversation - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		A devotee's one qualification is daksa, daksa, expert. Out of the twenty-six qualifications, a devotee is always very expert in dealing. It is not that because they have left anything material, they do not know how to deal with material things. Raghunatha dasa Gosvami did it.

vanipedia.org 		Everything Kṛṣṇa's. So when we forget Kṛṣṇa's right on everything, that is material. Otherwise there is nothing material; everything spiritual. Everything is generated by Kṛṣṇa's energies, and there are two energies: material energy and spiritual energy. So in the material energy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is less or nil. And in spiritual energy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is prominent and very acute.

vanipedia.org 		Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Practically all of these devotees are so much dedicated to book distribution that they are going out now nearly seven days a week, without stoppage.
Prabhupāda: Utsāhān. utsāhān niścayād dhairyāt, tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt, sato vṛtteḥ saṅga-tyāgāt, ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati. Utsāhā is the basic principle, utsāhān and sādhu-saṅga, association of sādhu. Simply utsāhān and the association is not sādhu—then it is material. Utsāhā means association of sādhu. Sādhu means devotee. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ. Who is sādhu? Bhajate mām ananya-bhāk. One who has no other business than to serve Kṛṣṇa, he is sādhu.
Letter to Branch Manager written from Mayapur
Letter to Tejiyas written from Mayapur

1976 - March 17

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		They want to cover their ignorance by this theory, "chance." They want to become very intelligent by chance. That is their... That is not the fact. For intelligence you have to learn from a superior person. It cannot be done by chance. Who has become learned scholar by chance? There is none.
Lecture SB 07.09.39 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		This kāmāturam mind will be cleansed. Not only be cleansed: if you thind of sex, you'll spite on it. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to raise the standard of the human society to become brāhmaṇa from the position of kṛpaṇa. This is the attempt. It may be a tiny attempt, humble attempt, but our aim is how these dogs and cats will become brāhmaṇa. This is our aim. We do not want to keep them in the position of cats and dogs and pigs.


1976 - March 18

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Whatever thoughts are coming, you note it. Keep it. We shall utilize it with reference, with reference to the sastra.
Lecture SB 07.09.40 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		So Kṛṣṇa-kathā is not palatable. This is māyā's influence. So we cannot engage our senses for Kṛṣṇa. This is the disturbing condition of material world. Senses are there, I am there, and how the senses should be utilized, the subject matter is also there, but it is misled. This is called māyā.
Letter to Sri S. R. Acharyya written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I am very much pleased that a learned scholar like you is prepared to cooperate with our preaching activities. If you kindly come in Calcutta* on the 22nd or 23rd March, 1976, at any time between 10-12 in the morning, or 5-7 in the evening along with your papers, I shall be very glad to meet you and talk with you on the subject matter.
Letter to Sri Triloki Nath Acharya written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Our preachers are very much enthusiastic but in India they have got a language difficulty. If you cooperate with us along with other learned devotees, we can immediately take up preaching work in India with great enthusiasm.


1976 - March 19

Morning Walk - Mayapur
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vanipedia.org 		Just like when you are foolish, you can say, "I don't believe in the government's law. Whatever, I shall do." But when you are arrested, then everything is finished. Then simply slap and shoes, that's all. So we are so foolish that we do not believe in the next life. That is simply foolishness. There is next life, especially when Kṛṣṇa says. You can say, "We don't believe it." You don't believe or not believe, it doesn't matter. You are under the laws of nature.
Lecture SB 07.09.41 - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		We have got experience that if we infect some disease, contaminous disease, then we must suffer from that disease. So it is not God's creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No. We infect ourself with some contamination because this world, this material world, is full of contamination.
Letter to Gurukrpa written from Mayapur

Mar 20 - Haridaspur

1976 - March 20

Lecture in Bengali - Haridaspur

Mar 21 to 22 - Mayapur

1976 - March 21

Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Even Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He was training Haridāsa Ṭhākura, Nityānanda, "Go there. Preach there. Do that." My Guru Mahārāja was doing that.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya (CC Madhya 22.62). We must be always convinced that if we simply take up the knowledge given by Kṛṣṇa, then you are perfect. That's all. If little success is there for me than other svāmīs and yogīs, it is due to my conviction on this point. I never compromised with anything which is not spoken by Kṛṣṇa."
760321 - Morning Walk - Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		This business, cheaters and cheated. We preach to the innocent persons who are being cheated, and we don't want to cheat anybody, but what Krsna says. Our business is very simple.
Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		You also mentioned that how can I give up attraction for woman; when you learn to love Krishna, then you can forget your lusty desires for women. Krishna's another name is Madan-Mohan. When Krishna is within the heart, then the Madan or lusty desires become defeated. If we learn to love Krishna, our lusty desires will be finished, otherwise not.
Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Very soon I shall be able to see you and talk. Kindly chant Hare Krishna, and follow the regulative principles, see the Deity in the temple, and take Krishna prasadam.
Letter to Foreigners' Registration Office written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Mr. Gregory M. Scharf (Gargamuni Swami) was sent here to India by me for his immediate assistance was required. In New York he was told at the Indian High Commission that an entry visa would take 11 weeks, however, I required his assistance immediately, so he arrived on a tourist visa. Since his service here in India is valuable as GBC (Governing Body Commissioner) for our branch in Mayapur, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, kindly give him visa. Your willing assistance in this matter will be much helpful.
Letter to Karandhara written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Hrdayananda Maharaja has suggested that why don't you come to South America and assist him in responsible management. That is good idea. Please keep me informed of your activities.
Letter to Mahavirya written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		Concerning your request for babaji initiation, when I come to Nairobi we can discuss it further. I gave babaji initiation to one other devotee but now he is off somewhere restless.
Letter to Nirmala written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		It is also nice that you are caring for the devotees. They have left everything for me, so they should be treated as sons and daughters.
Letter to Patita Uddharana written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I received one letter from Shaktimata Devi Dasi whom you know from London. She is presently in Nairobi and is looking for a good husband for her daughter. She wrote one letter appealing that you might consider marrying her daughter. So, if you are agreeable then I have not objection.
Letter to Ranadhira written from Mayapur

vanipedia.org 		I thank you very much for your hard work in sending out the 200,000 Krishna Consciousness is Authorized pamphlet to leading citizens. Please continue with this important work.


1976 - March 22

Lecture SB 07.09.42 - Mayapur
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vanipedia.org 		Gopī-bhartur pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ. This is our process. We don't approach Kṛṣṇa directly. We must begin our service to the Kṛṣṇa's servant. And who is Kṛṣṇa's servant? One who has become the servant of another Kṛṣṇa's servant. This is called dāsa-dāsānudāsa.

vanipedia.org 		Nobody can be independently servant of Kṛṣṇa. That is another foolishness. Kṛṣṇa never accepts anyone's service directly. No. That is not possible. You must come through the servant of the servant. This is called paramparā system. As you receive knowledge by the paramparā system... Kṛṣṇa spoke to Brahmā, Brahmā spoke to Nārada, Nārada spoke to Vyāsadeva, and we are getting this knowledge. Just like Kṛṣṇa... Bhagavad-gītā was spoken by Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna.
Conversation in Bengali - Mayapur

Mar 22 to 24 - Calcutta

1976 - March 22

Lecture Arrival - Calcutta

vanipedia.org 		Calcutta is my birthplace, so you have kindly come here and conducting this temple. I am very much obliged to you. I cannot remain here; I have to go here and there. Try to raise the standard of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, even there are so many inconveniences, I know. You are coming from a country where material conveniences are greater.

vanipedia.org 		By the grace of Krsna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu there will be no trouble. You'll be happy. Try to preach this Krsna consciousness movement in India at least for some time, and help them to rise to their standard of Krsna consciousness.


1976 - March 23

Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Calcutta

vanipedia.org 		We should be very much strictly follower of the Vaisnava principle. Vaisnava's only business is how to deliver these fallen souls. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He appeared as a Vaisnava. The business is to deliver.

vanipedia.org 		Prahlāda Mahārāja and every Vaiṣṇava who is actually following the paramparā system of Vaiṣṇava duty, they are anxious. Prahlāda Mahārāja says that śoce tato vimukha-cetasa. And why they are vimūḍhān? Because vimukha cetasa: "They don't like You. They don't care for You: 'I don't care for God. I don't accept Kṛṣṇa,' these vimūḍhas." So all the Vaiṣṇavas, especially those who have taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement... Prahlāda Mahārāja will speak later on that "Sir, I am not inclined at all to go alone to Vaikuṇṭha. I must take them all with me."
Letter to Kirtanananda written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		If the water supply is sufficient, there is no question of insanitation. Disease comes when there are dirty conditions. Also, don't eat more than necessary. As soon as palatable food is offered, they eat. That is the disease.

vanipedia.org 		Concerning the outhouses, if they are not approved then you can have a septic tank, or pass stool in the open field. I was doing that. I never liked to go to the nonsense toilet so I was going in the field.


1976 - March 24

Conversation - Calcutta

vanipedia.org 		This Ṭhākurbari, Rādhā-Govindajī, is my life. That is the beginning of my this spiritual life. And after so many years, still Rādhā-Govindajī has dragged me. So it is His kindness. So the beginning was the same thing—worship of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity and introduction of Ratha-yātrā. That is I am doing in a bigger scale and a wider scale all over the world. So it is nothing new.


Mar 24 to 28 - Delhi

1976 - March 24

Letter to Nalinikanta Roy, Panchu Gopal Paul, Swarup, Govinda Tarafder, Bijoy Kumar Pramanik, Gopal Chandra, Gour Chandra, Surendra Nath, Mani Lal, Kartick Chandra, Balai Chandra, Dharani Dhar, Debaki Dulal and Gour Kishor written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		With reference to our meeting on March 20, 1976 at Haridaspore, I beg to propose that immediately we require at least Rs. 50,000/- for development of the place. Kindly let me know exactly what is the area of the land (include a sketch of the land), and then we can make a site plan and a building construction plan.
Letter to Sri Kashinath Mullick written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		I wanted to talk with you of improvement of the Uddharana Dutta Thakura Path. I know you are managing the establishment so nicely till now but still further improvement can be done if you cooperate with us.

vanipedia.org 		We want to establish a small gurukula as mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, accommodating willing Vaisnavas who will follow the Vaisnava behavior strictly; arranging worship of the Deity by the sincere devotees who will not take any remuneration and who follow the Vaisnava principles.

vanipedia.org 		I wish to be enlightened to know how much land the mandir possesses for cultivation because I wish the temple community to be self-sufficient by producing their own food grains. In foreign countries we are organizing our centres on this principle.
Letter to Sri S. R. Acharyya written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		I shall be in Vrindaban up until the 10th April after which time I shall be going out of India. You can come to our Vrindaban Temple. You have got enough scope for engaging yourself in journalism and peaceful living. If you are in difficulty then by showing this letter you can take a railroad ticket from our Abhirama das Adhikari, the president of our Calcutta temple located at 3 Albert Road, Calcutta-17, near Camac Street and, Theater Road. It will be a great pleasure to talk with you when we meet.


1976 - March 25

Morning Walk - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Why you are serving me? If I had been an ordinary person, why...? You would have not... Because you accept that "You are devotee," therefore you serve. So as soon as we find a devotee, immediately serve him. Chāḍiyā vaiṣṇava-sevā, nistāra pāyeche kebā. Without serving a devotee, who can be elevated? It is our duty. So we can serve the devotee.
Lecture BG 02.11 at Rotary Club - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		"My dear Arjuna, you are talking like a very learned man, but the subject matter which you have touched is not at all taken seriously by the paṇḍita." Paṇḍita means learned man. That means, "You are talking like a fool. You are taking this body as self." So actually this is not the fact. The body is not the self. The self is different. If you analyze this body, what you will find? Suppose we are breathing. What is this breathing? It is air only. Now, when the breathing is stopped, a man is dead.
Conversation - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		How many Mahesh Yogi has brought, disciples like this? This is my answer. Thousands of them are working here on my behalf. Just see their character and behavior.


1976 - March 26

Morning Walk - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be.
Prabhupāda: You all become full Kṛṣṇa conscious, cent percent Kṛṣṇa conscious.

vanipedia.org 		You all become full Kṛṣṇa conscious, cent percent Kṛṣṇa conscious. That people are suffering for want of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Let them have this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and become happy. That's all.

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Traveling is essential. If possible there may be centers.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But our ambition should not be simply to go to every town and village simply so that we can say we went to every town and village. We should actually try to...
Prabhupāda: No, why village? Everywhere you go, town, village, everywhere. Not only village to village but door to door. Yes.
Lecture SB 07.09.44 - Delhi
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"It is said in the Bhagavad-gītā, ya imaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati (BG 18.68): 'Anyone who is engaged in preaching this confidential science of Bhagavad-gītā', na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścid me priya-kṛttamaḥ (BG 18.69), 'nobody is dearer to Me than he is'. If you want very quickly recognition by Kṛṣṇa, go on preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Even it is imperfectly done, but because you are sincere in your capa..., whatever capacity you have got, if you preach, then Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased."
760326 - Lecture SB 07.09.44 - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Never mind even it is imperfectly done, we must execute the orders of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa-upadeśa (CC Madhya 7.128). I may not be so very expert in delivering the message of Kṛṣṇa, but my duty is to try to my best capacity how to distribute this knowledge to the suffering humanity.


1976 - March 27

Letter to Ambassador of the of United States of America written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		I beg to introduce myself as the founder-acharya of the above institution. Our mission is to preach Krishna Consciousness (God-Consciousness) all over the world, and in your country alone we have got about 40 branches in all the important towns of America. In all the countries, the majority of my disciples are Americans. I met Mr. Kenneth Keating, your former ambassador to India and he was a personal friend to my disciple, Sri Gurudasa Adhikari. A copy of his letter is also enclosed herein.
Letter to Cittahari written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Now the new devotees must all be trained very nicely how to render devotional service by chanting 16 offenseless rounds daily, and following the 4 regulative principles. Kindly set a nice example yourself for everyone and in this way make your lives perfect in full Krishna Consciousness.
Letter to Pranada written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Concerning your questions about tantric sastras; the Vaisnava tantras are bona fide literatures, just like Narada-pancaratra, but not the atheistic tantra which have nothing to do with the Vedic literatures.
Letter to The 14 Cooperative Societies written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		As you may know, our Hare Krishna Land is very popular with the residents of Bombay, in particular the local residents and devotees of Juhu Beach and surroundings. Many visitors regularly attend religious services and we are trying to provide suitable facilities to this end. Now with so many devotees visiting from the colony, it is necessary that we have access from the colony side to the temple.

vanipedia.org 		At present we only have access to the temple from the sea-side and it is proving a great inconvenience to visitors coming from the colony side. We therefore request that access be kindly granted to us on the colony side for the benefit of the many worshipers who regularly visit the temple. We request that you kindly give us permission to construct a suitable access to our property from the colony side and that you kindly provide us such land for use as may be necessary.


Mar 29 - Modi Nagar

Mar 30 - Alighar

Mar 31 - Vṛndāvana

1976 - March 31

Lecture SB 07.05.23-24 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		We are engaged in śravaṇaṁ kīrtana from the morning. We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, what so many nonsense things. We waste our time. Śrama eva hi kevalam. We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa. That engagement you have fully in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā. So stick to these two books, or Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Caitanya-caritāmṛta is still far advanced.


   
 
   
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