A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - December 1973


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

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

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



Dec 1 to 31 - Los Angeles

1973 - December 01

Lecture SB 01.15.21 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Tad abhūd asad īśa-riktam (SB 1.15.21). Everything will be null and void when there is no God. That's it. The modern civilization has got everything, but without God consciousness, that any..., any..., any moment it will be finished. There are symptoms. Any moment. At the present moment, this godless civilization, as soon as there is declaration of war, the America is prepared to drop atom bomb; Russia is... The first nation who will drop the atom bomb, he will be victorious. Nobody will be victorious, because both of them are ready to drop. The America will be finished and Russia will be finished. That is the position. So you may make advancement of civilization, scientific improvement, economic development, but if it is godless, at any moment it will be finished. At any moment."
731201 - Lecture SB 01.15.21 - Los Angeles
Letter to Abhirama written from Los Angeles
Letter to Bhakta Don written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jayananda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles
Letter to Yasodanandana and Gurukrpa written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 02

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.22-23 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 03

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.24 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Here, the human being, in ignorance they are serving the kāma, lust, greediness, moha, anger—so many things they are serving. They are serving. A man is killing another body by lust, lusty desires. Or by illusion. So many other reasons. So we are serving. There is no doubt about it. We are serving. But we are serving our kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mātsarya—lust, desire, avarice, like that. Now we have to learn that we have been frustrated by serving so many things. Now we have to turn that service attitude to Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa's mission. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66): "You are serving already. You cannot be free from service. But your service is misplaced. Therefore you just turn your service unto Me. Then you become happy." That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement."
731203 - Lecture SB 01.15.24 - Los Angeles


Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"The injunction is, "Thou shall not kill," but he will kill and kill and kill and kill, and still, he wants to be satisfied. Just see. The Bible says, "Thou shall not kill," and they are simply engaged in killing business, and still they want to be happy. Just see the fun. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "Yes, you be killed by occasional world war. You must be killed. You have created this situation. You must be killed. You may be American or Englishman or German or this or that. You may be very proud of your nationality. But you must be killed." This is the position. Īśvarasya viceṣṭitam (SB 1.15.24). "You have killed so many animals. Now wholesale killing, one bomb, one atom bomb. Be killed."
731203 - Lecture SB 01.15.24 - Los Angeles
Conversation part - Los Angeles
Letter to Jagadisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Karnamrta written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sri Govinda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tejiyas written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 04

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.25-26 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Human civilization is meant for tapasya, tapasya. You should know what is my responsibility. Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena ca damena ca (SB 6.1.13). One should learn how to practice tapasya. Tapasya. This is tapasya, little tapasya. No illicit sex, no gambling, no meat-eating and no intoxication, this is tapasya, little tapasya. Who is dying without meat-eating? We have got so many students. There are so many Vaiṣṇavas, they do not eat meat. Are they dying? This is only bad habit. But if you practice little... In the beginning it may be little troublesome. It is not troublesome. I am thinking... Just like one gentleman came, 'We cannot give up meat-eating. I want, but I cannot'. The practice. Abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena cetasā (BG 8.8). Anything you practice, habit is the second nature. So in association of the devotee, if you try to practice this tapasya... Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa, not to have sex life without any purpose, that is called brahmacārī."
731204 - Lecture SB 01.15.25-26 - Los Angeles
Lecture Wedding of Bali-mardana - Los Angeles
Letter to Jose Serratos written from Los Angeles
Letter to Rupanuga written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 05

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.27 - Los Angeles
Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles
Letter to Bhagavan written from Los Angeles
Letter to Hansadutta written from Los Angeles
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mukunda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sukadeva written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 06

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
Hṛdayānanda: They say that God should have created us so that we...
Prabhupāda: Why "should have created"? He has created already perfect. Because you are perfect, therefore you have got the independence to misuse. You are not a dead stone. That is perfection. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante (BG 4.11). You can go anywhere, sarva-ga. You can go to the Vaikuṇṭha. Yānti deva-vratā devān (BG 9.25). You can go to the higher planets. You can go to the hell. When you go to the hell, it is your choice. God has given you all perfection. Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate (Īśopaniṣad, Invocation). Everything is complete, perfect.
731206 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.28 - Los Angeles
Letter to Gunagrahi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Gurudasa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Kirtida Kanyaka written from Los Angeles
Letter to Locanananda written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 07

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.29 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 08

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.30 - Los Angeles
Letter to Kadamba written from Los Angeles
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mahajan, Sharanagata devi and Bhaktim Hera written from Los Angeles
Letter to Trai written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 09

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.31 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Man means mind. We are on the chariot, and the mind is the driver and the senses are the horses. So we are being driven here and there by the char... This chariot is this body. The mind is the coachman, or the chariot driver, and the senses are the horses. So in this way we are being forced to wander in so many planets, in so many species of life. This is our material condition."
731209 - Lecture SB 01.15.31 - Los Angeles
Chanting CC Adi-lila 7th Chapter Verses 1-171 - Los Angeles
Conversation - Los Angeles
Letter to Babhru written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 10

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.32 - Los Angeles
Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles


1973 - December 11

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.33 - Los Angeles
Letter to Gurudasa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mahendra written from Los Angeles
Letter to Makhanlal written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 12

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.34 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 13

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.35 - Los Angeles
Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati - Los Angeles
Letter to All Centers written from Los Angeles
Letter to Amogha written from Los Angeles
Letter to Balabhadra written from Los Angeles
Letter to Beharilal written from Los Angeles
Letter to Govinda dasi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mukunda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 14

Lecture SB 01.15.36 - Los Angeles
Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Chanting CC Adi-lila 8th Chapter Verses 1-85 - Los Angeles

1973 - December 15

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.37 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Nowadays it is the days of vote. Any rascal, if he gets vote somehow or other, then he acquires the exalted post. That is also written in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that in the Kali-yuga there will be no consideration who is fit to occupy the exalted post of presidentship or royal throne. Simply somehow or other, by hook and crook, he'll occupy the seat. Therefore people are suffering. It is not... Nowadays, in democratic days, the government by the people, government for the people. So if the government is by the people, yes, you select your representative. If you are a fool, then you will select another fool."
731215 - Lecture SB 01.15.37 - Los Angeles
Letter to Bhutatma written from Los Angeles
Letter to Govardhan written from Los Angeles
Letter to Kurusrestha written from Los Angeles
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mukunda and Madhavananda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Nityananda written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 16

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.38 - Los Angeles
Letter to All Centers written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 17

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.39 - Los Angeles
Chanting CC Adi-lila 10th and 11th Chapters - Los Angeles

1973 - December 18

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.40 - Los Angeles
Letter to Govinda dasi written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 19

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.41 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"If you can control your mind, then you can control your words. There are kāya, mana, vākya. Three things are... We have got this body, and we have got our mind, and we have got to talk. Talking is very important. You can talk nonsense all day and night, and you can talk about Kṛṣṇa and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, the same thing, vibration. So if you talk nonsense, then you can go to hell. And if you talk about Kṛṣṇa and the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, chant, then you go back to home, back to Godhead. Just see how much this talking is important."
731219 - Lecture SB 01.15.41 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 20

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.42 - Los Angeles
Letter to Atreya Rsi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Haribolananda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mukunda written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 21

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 22

Lecture SB 01.15.44 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 23

Lecture SB 01.15.45 - Los Angeles
Letter to Dhananjaya written from Los Angeles
Letter to Hansadutta written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 24

Lecture SB 01.15.46 - Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 25

Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.15.47-48 - Los Angeles
Letter to Gurukrpa and Yasodanandana written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 26

Lecture SB 01.15.49 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 27

Lecture SB 01.15.50 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Kṛṣṇa says that 'Anyone who is completely dependent upon Me', yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham (BG 9.22), 'I personally bring whatever his necessity is'. That is the promise of Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā. So renounced order means no more dependence on father, mother, husband, or... No. Completely dependent on Kṛṣṇa. Ekānta. That is perfection. One who is fully convinced that 'Kṛṣṇa is with me...' Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61)—'I will not have to search out Kṛṣṇa anywhere. He is within me, within my heart'."
731227 - Lecture SB 01.15.50 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 28

Lecture SB 01.15.51 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 29

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.16.01 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Go-rakṣya, cow protection is very, very essential in human society because it gives the milk, the miracle food. You can prepare hundreds and thousands of preparation, all not only delicious, but brain-maintaining. You can get good brain. Therefore go-rakṣya, cow protection, is especially recommended, not that animal protection. If you want to eat meat, you can eat many other animals, there are. But don't eat the cows. This is Vedic civilization."
731229 - Lecture SB 01.16.01 - Los Angeles
Letter to Yasomatinandana written from Los Angeles


1973 - December 30

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.16.02 - Los Angeles


1973 - December 31

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 01.16.03 - Los Angeles
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles