A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - June 1975

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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,

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  • 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.


Jun 1 to 20 - Honolulu

1975 - June 01

Lecture SB 03.28.01 - Honolulu
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vanipedia.org 		Devahūti's position is a perfect woman. She got good father, she got good husband, and she got excellent son. So woman has got three stages in life. Man has got ten stages.

vanipedia.org 		We are reading. We must read. Then our position as brāhmaṇa will be fulfilled. Because brāhmaṇas are teacher. Anyone who can teach, he is brāhmaṇa. So unless you read thoroughly, what you are going to speak to the world, how you can become a brāhmaṇa and paṇḍita? You should carefully note this.

vanipedia.org 		Sat-saṅga means persons who are making progress towards the permanent life. They are called sat. Just like this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This movement means we are training our disciples how to make progress towards permanent life. And the material world means they are making progress towards nonpermanent life. So those who are intelligent, they are not interested in nonpermanent life.


1975 - June 02

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		"This contains this chemical, that chemical, this chemical," but he will never think, "Who has put this chemical?" That is his dullness. They will analyze and say, "It contains this chemical, that chemical, that..." And who has put this chemical? That they cannot say.
Letter to Manager, Central Bank of India, written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I wish to take one apartment of 780 square feet consisting of one sitting room, two bedrooms, one reading room, two bathrooms, dining place and corridor. Kindly let me know what is the price and how you are receiving money for this purpose.


1975 - June 03

Lecture Initiation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The initiation is not like that, that "I am taking to the process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra for some material benefit." No. Because people become religious mostly for material benefit.
Letter to Jayananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I wish to present him also one copy of the book titled, "Lord Caitanya in Five Features." So, kindly immediately see him with my letter and the book and congratulate him on my behalf.
Letter to Krsna Vilasini written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Simply be determined to practice the process of Bhakti-yoga with whatever abilities you may have. If you are really sincere, then Krishna will give you help. If you require any medical help, you can take as much as is needed.
Letter to Mahamsa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Regarding Acyutananda's preaching, what is the use of criticizing Sai Baba and creating some enemies? Do not do this in public meetings. It is different to do it in a private meeting.
Letter to Mr. Sharma written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		We are very strict in the selection of disciples. We are not after large numbers. In order to be initiated by us, one has to chant at least 16 times around his japa beads daily (the Hare Krishna maha-mantra), he has to follow strict rules such as: no meat, fish, eggs, no intoxication—including tea and cigarettes, no illicit sex, and no gambling.
Letter to Professor Stillson Judah written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I got the opportunity to read your nice book "Hare Krishna and the Counterculture" with profound interest. I am also very much obliged to you as you have shown to me so much mercy, even by illustrating my photograph instead of your goodness. The presentation has been done just fit for ready by all scholars and educationists


1975 - June 04

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Paramahaṁsa: If they stop, then so much would be wasted, so many people would be unemployed. So they have to continue even if they know that it's a bluff.
Prabhupāda: That is the way of falsehood. If once you speak something false, then to protect that falsehood you have to take to so many other falsehoods. This is the way of falsehood.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		It is a great credit that you have met with the Chief Minister and now he will give us all help.
Letter to Pranava written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The land should be put in the name of International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Mayapur-Vrndavana Trust, Founder-Acarya A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Being supported by the whole Gaudiya Math institution, and still, as he could not do anything appreciable, he was called back by Guru Maharaja. Then where is his authority? Our authority comes from Parampara system. If the Guru was not satisfied with him and called him back, and since then, he gave up connection with Gaudiya Math and started his own institution, then how he becomes authority?

vanipedia.org 		On the whole, if his (Bon Maharaja) motive is to supress me and that is why he has come here, how we can receive him? He has already given one Professor a wrong impression. He may be treated as a guest, if he comes to our center, give him prasadam, honor him as an elder Vaisnava, but he cannot speak or lecture. If he wants to lecture, you can tell him that there is already another speaker scheduled. That's all.

vanipedia.org 		He has proved his poor management, so he must be replaced. If you sell the old buildings and buy some land as proposed, it may be very nice. One thing is though, if the management continues to be so nasty, then that place will also be ruined. Management must be done very nicely otherwise it is useless.


1975 - June 05

Letter to Bon Maharaja written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		One of my disciples informed me that you had been in our Toronto temple. Now, I invite you to come to Hawaii. The climate is very nice here and I wish that we may pass a few days together in this nice climate.
Letter to Nityananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Thank you for the nice photos. Your Deities are very nice there.


1975 - June 06

Letter to Madhudvisa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am writing to find out what has happened with the Fiji affair. What has happened to the registration of the society in Fiji. When I left it was settled up that you would remain there until the completion, but I have not heard from you and I am anxious to know what is the situation there. Please inform me.


1975 - June 07

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Laṅguli-hīna śṛgala, a jackal without tail. So this is the world. Any nonsense you do and if you say, "It is the latest fashion," everyone will do.
Conversation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		How a learned scholar brāhmaṇa and a dog can be seen on equal level? But it can be seen. Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ. It is on the spiritual platform, that every one of us is spirit soul. We are, by different karma, we are covered with different material dress. A dog is also a soul, and a learned brāhmaṇa is also a soul. But he is covered with different body, and he is covered with different body. So one who does not see the body, he can see on the same level.


1975 - June 08

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		A small child, he knows that "I shall become like my elder brother. I shall get this body, next body." And these people, they cannot understand that there is next body. That means their civilization is less than a child's civilization.
Lecture SB 06.01.06-7 - Honolulu
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vanipedia.org 		Parīkṣit Mahārāja is a Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava means devotee. So he did not appreciate the suffering of the human being in such a way. That is a Vaiṣṇava's nature. Vaiṣṇava himself is very happy because he is in direct connection with Kṛṣṇa. He personally has no complaint, because a Vaiṣṇava is satisfied simply by serving Kṛṣṇa. That's all. He doesn't want anything.

vanipedia.org 		I want that in our temple there should be program that we are always engaged in devotional service, twenty-four hours.

vanipedia.org 		They love Christ so, that "My dear Christ, you suffer for our sinful activities and let us go on with our sinful activities." Christ says, "Thou shall not kill." They decided, "Let us kill on and on, and open scientific slaughterhouse. And if there is any sin, then Christ will suffer. That's all. He has taken the agency on suffering."

vanipedia.org 		Don't think that if one is engaged in the Deity worship and if one is engaged in the gardening work there is distinction.
Letter to Doc and Shari Dockstader written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am very pleased to know that you have accepted the Krishna Consciousness way of life. Please continue with determination to keep chanting 16 rounds daily and follow all of the regulative principles very strictly. Upon the recommendation of Revatinandana Swami, I have accepted you both as my initiated disciples and I have sent your names to Revatinandana Swami who can give them to you at the proper time at the initiation ceremony. Please continue your Krishna Conscious program with great faith and steadiness.
Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The soul is eternal and it is transmigrating from one body to another. Therefore the body is undergoing evolution, not the soul. Just like if I come to the USA from India, I have to change my residence. I personally do not have to change, but my residence changes. So, the soul travels from one body to another and always remains the same.
Letter to Gargamuni written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Preaching is our life. Follow strictly the principles, read, chant,—then there is success. And if you don't do this, spiritual strength is reduced. It is just like a snake is very powerful, so long he has got poison. If it has no poison, nobody cares for it. Similarly, this chanting, reading, and following the principles is our spiritual strength.
Letter to Hansadutta written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I don't think that Hayagriva is at fault. He has not changed the meaning or the philosophy in any way. But if you like to use the original manuscript, then if it is possible, you can use it.
Letter to Mooljibhai Patel written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The San Francisco temple, not being situated in a nice quarter, they are trying to remove to somewhere else. Now they have got a Berkeley temple. It is not my policy to close any temple, but if there is inconvenience, we change the place.
Letter to Mr. M.V. Bhakta written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I can go to Zambia at any time by my secretary's arrangement. So, Brahmananda Swami, my chief secretary, is coming to meet me in Los Angeles on the 20th of June, and then he can give you reply as to when I shall be coming to Zambia.
Letter to Revatinandana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Preach as much as possible. Preaching is our life. Travel, here and there, holding kirtana, distributing prasadam and books and speak our philosophy very nicely.
Letter to Sri Govinda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		One year ago, I already accepted the invitation of Philadelphia temple for their Rathayatra and they are holding it on the same date as you. So, I may not be able to come there for the festival, but I can come there for a few days stay on my way from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, probably about the 8th or 9th of July, and I shall have to leave Chicago on the 11th of July in order to attend the Philadelphia Rathayatra.
Letter to Sudama written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Last time, when I saw you in Hawaii, and I saw that you had become mad, I was very surprised how you had become like that. So, I prayed to Krishna to bring you back. Now, be very careful. Don't make any mistakes. Keep company with Bhavananda. He is very sincere.


1975 - June 09

Letter to Kirtanananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		You have plenty of money, milk, fruits, flowers, grains, everything, and you are living in the jungle. What more could you want? I may be coming there immediately after the Philadelphia Rathayatra, and I shall stay until after Janmastami.
Letter to Kurusrestha written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Make sure all of the devotees there are working very sincerely, following all of the rules and regulations, chanting 16 rounds, and reading every day, and everything will be successful.
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Work very nicely to encourage Abhirama and the others to very enthusiastically carry on our program there in Miami, even though there may be so many difficulties.


1975 - June 10

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Here in America I have come to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I am not interested for sight-seeing. That is not my business. Whatever you say, "It is here like this," "All right." That's all. Finished. Why should we try to confirm it? Whatever you say, that's all right. Now, we are seeing the other party; if somebody there, "It is like this," that's all right. I'm not going to test it. So what is the use of arguing? I have no interest.
Letter to Ananga Mahan written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am in due receipt of your letter dated 31-5-75 and have noted the contents. I am returning to Vrndavana by October. At that time, you please see me, and we shall talk about your program.
Letter to Bhagavata written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am very glad to hear that things are going on very nicely there. Keep on working with this nice enthusiasm and carefully observing all the rules and regulations, chanting, reading,—in this way, you will always be a success.
Letter to Brhat-samu written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Thank you for the pecans. I shall be coming to L.A. on the 20th of June for one week and then I shall go to Denver for one week. You can see me in L.A., if you like. Please continue to follow all of the rules and regulations carefully, and chant or read always.
Letter to Brsni written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 6, 1975 and have noted the contents. I shall be very glad if you come and visit me in Honolulu at our temple at 51 Coelho Way. When you come to see me, we can talk over all these things. I shall be leaving Honolulu for L.A. on June 20th, 1975.
Letter to Caitya-guru written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Will you kindly let me know what Guru Nanakji has said about Lord Krishna and Lord Rama in his Granth Sahib? How we can cooperate with the sikh community?
Letter to Jagadisa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Our movement is a genuine movement and we are being accepted as such by the higher educational circles all over the world.
Letter to Jennifer Wayne Woodward written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		First of all, you decide whether you are female or male, then be one or the other. Then, you may enter our temple any time you like. But sometimes man and sometimes woman, that is not proper. Such awkward thing cannot be allowed. It will be disturbing to others. Anyway, continue to chant Hare Krishna as much as possible.
Letter to Mr. R. Van den Tak written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Your endeavor to prove scientifically the existence of re-incarnation is not very practical. It is like bringing a cannon to kill a mosquito. It is not required to bring a cannon to kill a mosquito, similarly any sane man can understand the principle of re-incarnation. There is no need of giving some long so-called scientific explanation. Explanation is already given in the Bhagavad-gita, as it is. Krishna, the Supreme Authority has already explained, and you should accept and understand His explanation and then try to make others understand.
Letter to Radha Krishan Dhawan written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		we are trying to set a perfect example according to the Bhagavad-gita as it is, how to execute simple living and high thinking. We are not interested in any material comforts of life which are limited and temporary. We are interested in solving the real problems of life, birth, death, old-age, and disease.
Letter to Sanatana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		You should not bother with all this nonsense. Astrology will not save you at the time of death. My Guru Maharaja was a great astrologer and astronomer, but he gave it all up. It is meant for the karmis. We have no interest in such things.
Letter to Sudhindra Kishore Roy written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Even if there may be some problems, always try to remain in Krishna Consciousness. Do not give up chanting the Hare Krishna mantra simply due to some external difficulties. Under all circumstance you should always chant Hare Krishna.
Letter to Tejiyas written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Yes, I have seen the spot for the factory-mandir. Go ahead with the plans and send me a copy of the plans. It is very nice that Mr. Patnai will help us. Persist in that direction. He will be a great help if he can get some land for us.
Letter to Tusta Krsna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Preaching is our life. Introduce our books, then everyone can understand, if he has good brain.


1975 - June 11

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		That is spirit, the original source of everything. This body, original source is the spirit. As soon as the spirit is not there, the body will not grow. They are seeing actually. Therefore the original source is the spirit. Why the dead child does not grow? Or dead young man does not grow? They have not studied, still, what is the cause? If it is chemical, then inject some chemical, if you know, and make it grow.
Conversation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Everything fresh. No one had to go to the city. Nowadays, this city capitalist, they sold their market, and he will get five hundred dollars. He thought that "We are not... Money is very scarce in the village. Let us go to the city and spend." You get five hundred dollars but you have to spend eight hundred dollars. Then he will learn how to drink, how to go to cinema, how to go to restaurant, how to go to club. Then gambling. All good things.
Letter to Professor Stillson Judah written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		People being forced to stay on the material platform, they are planning for temporary happiness, and being frustrated, they are jumping from one platform to another which are all temporary. But, fortunately, if one becomes situated on the platform of Krishna Consciousness, then his jumping over material platforms becomes ceased.


1975 - June 12

Conversation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		To become one, foremost enjoyer. And yogīs also. They want to show generally material power. There is demand to become very prominent. Oh, this yogīs can. He can do this, he can do that. That is of everyone. So, everyone has got, karmīs, jnanis. Only pure devotees, they are, they are simply satisfied to carry out the orders of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, they have no demands. And anyone who is wanting something predominance, materially or spiritually, they are not pure devotee. They are impure.
Letter to Batu Gopala written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Thank you very much for selling so many books there. This is very much wanted. Try to sell again more and more each day.
Letter to Jagannatha-suta written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I have received the new BTG magazine. It is very nice issue. Having the Indian Rathayatra on the cover and the American one on the inside makes a good contrast.


1975 - June 13

Letter to Mr. Ogata written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		If our books were translated into Japanese language, it will be a great help to us and to you also because it will be another opportunity for printing books. So, why not give us a good translator who can regularly translate all our books into Japanese?


1975 - June 14

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		You will come out triumphant of all others. Actually that is happening. What we are doing? We are not playing any magic. How this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is increasing?
Conversation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		It maybe but it will take long time but if you want quick, take it seriously. Just like Dhruva Māhāraja in six months he saw God. In six months. He followed self-realization and if you don't follow the regulative principles and instruction then our liberation will be delayed.
Letter to Damodara Pandita written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I will be seeing you all there in New Vrndavana after I visit the Rathayatra festivals and some other temples here in America.
Letter to Dinanatha written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		There is a great need of the Krishna Consciousness movement all over the world. If educated persons like you take active interest in this movement, and preach the cult for the benefit of the mass of people, that is the success of life
Letter to G.L. Nanda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Among the Universities, they have already taken up our books and they are being studied there. One professor, Dr. Stillson Judah has written a nice book in this connection of the name, "Hare Krishna and the Counterculture". This book is very seriously taken by the professors of all Universities, and I am just trying to introduce them to study in their religion and theological classes. This is one of my desires.


1975 - June 15

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		After passing one hundred life of first-class karmī one can become Brahmā. And after becoming Brahmā, he goes directly back to home, back to Godhead.
Lecture SB 06.01.07 - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The most sinful activity, according to Vedic information—to kill a child, to kill a woman, to kill a brāhmaṇa and to kill a cow. This is very abominable, punishful. Child, brāhmaṇa, cow and woman, they are to be given protection by the laws of Vedic instruction. They have to be protected.
Conversation A - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Deity worship means the habit becomes clean. If you stop Deity worship, then they will remain unclean. Because along with the Deity worship one has to rise early in the morning, take bath, attend maṅgala-ārati. This is another practical training—to keep him clean. Because here, your countrymen, they are very, very unclean. So this Deity worship will help them to remain clean. And then they will be able to understand this philosophy.
Conversation B - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		One is transferred to the spiritual world, for them, this nonsense material world, where danger is there in every step, it is not for them. They cannot come. Just like here is epidemic, so a family is transferred to another place. So by this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa will transfer to the safety place, go back to home, back to Godhead.
Conversation C - Honolulu
Conversation D - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Those who are too dull, it takes little time. But give them chance: Chant, chant, chant, chant! Cleanse, cleanse, cleanse! But when it is properly cleansed, then he will be ready. Arjuna's decision was not to fight. Now he says, "Yes." That is required.
Letter to Pusta Krsna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am prepared to come to South Africa by the middle of July.


1975 - June 16

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Why they are unnecessarily proud, and denying the authority of God? How foolish they are. Therefore I don't like them. The most heinous type of atheist; not gentlemen. Whenever they hold some conference they say, "Don't talk of God. Then you cannot come to the conference." Do they not? What is that principle?
Conversation A - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		You have very good engagement. You have got so many qualifications for Kṛṣṇa's service. Be engaged always in this work; you will never feel solitary.
Conversation B - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The mind is so speedy that in one second you can reach Māyāpura, 15,000 miles away—within a second. That is everyone knows. But the gross body cannot do that. Your mind can do it. If I want to transfer my body here immediately to Māyāpura, that will not go. But by yogic process you can do it. That is called laghimā-siddhi.
Conversation C - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		They mix with some straw dust and cow dung. That is not permanent, but they very quickly work, one or two days they make one doll. Our Bharadvāja knows it perfectly. He is doing already, clay. They are so expert, in one day they will make one doll. And as soon as it is little dried up, then there are cracks, then they will finish it, fill up these cracks, and then at last they fix up the head. Head at last.
Conversation D - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		These Māyāvādīs, coming to the spiritual platform, (but) they do not take the spiritual attraction; therefore there must have some attraction. Attraction. Unless one has got spiritual attraction, he will be attracted by the material.
Letter to Narayana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Regarding your report on Hanuman, I am forwarding your letter to Hrdayananda Goswami who can present this problem to the GBC for their solution.
Letter to W. D. Currier written from Honolulu
Letter to Yadunandana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Now, everything has been rectified. That is good. Please continue executing your Krishna Conscious activities, strictly following all of the rules and regulations carefully. Always remain engaged in the service of Krishna and you will be sublime.


1975 - June 17

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		They do not know what is the meaning of religion. Therefore they create some religious system. They create: "Let me create something. After all, it is bluffing. Just like this, from India there are so many come. Here also there are many. They create some. After all, it is bluffing. "So let me create something." Real business is to bluff and take money.
Conversation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		As soon as we deteriorate our standard, then everything is spoiled. Therefore I am so much strict about the standard. And our these Western boys, they are always manufacturing ideas. Always. Just like this boy, asking, "Can I make silk?" He is being asked for making dolls, and he's asking to manufacture silk. Just see. They’re simply concocting how to make, these boys. I have to deal with them. Their ideas are how to spoil the standard, that's all. Restless.
Letter to Batu Gopala written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I accept the persons you have recommended for initiation (first). Their names are as follows, Bill—Bhama dasa, Brenda—Brahma-vadini devi dasi, Michael—Mahana dasa. Their beads may be chanted by Kirtanananda Swami. Also, I have accepted Divyanga dasa for 2nd initiation. His thread and mantra sheet are enclosed herein.
Letter to Bhakta dasa, Jayananda and Bahulasva written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Regarding the sannyasis convincing men within the temple that they should leave and go with them on their parties, that is not at all good. I have never approved of this action. You can tell them. Everyone is concocting something of their own. It must be checked.

vanipedia.org 		The sannyasis should work with what men they have got and they cannot secretly convince men in the temples to leave their duties. Those duties also must be done and they are just as important as any other service.
Letter to Gadi written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Thank you for helping me in this preaching work. Make sure that you preach nicely and at the same time follow the example of perfect behavior given by your spiritual master and the previous acaryas and confirmed in the scriptures.
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Regarding Ratha-yatra, we shall chose the most favorable time to hold our celebration. If for our preaching, it is going to be more beneficial to hold it in September, then you may do so.
Letter to Mrs. Beatrice Matusow written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Regarding your idea, I think it will be best, if the next time you come to Honolulu, you come to our center here and discuss this proposal to the temple president named Manasvi dasa. Then some decision can be made.


1975 - June 18

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The attraction is for sense gratification under different names only. My attraction for family is not for their benefit. By my sense gratification the family members help me; therefore I am attracted. The wife gives me pleasure; therefore I like wife. The wife also likes husband because husband gives pleasure. Otherwise, there is no attraction. As soon as the husband and wife fails to give pleasure—divorce.
Conversation - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		They have got intelligence, but their intelligence is supplied in a different way. And everywhere, every field of activity will require intelligence. Best intelligence is how to become Krsna conscious.
Letter to Dhananjaya and Aksayananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Our temple will become very popular, because everyone will know that if they come to our temple, they will receive very nice prasada. For the other guests, continue to sell the prasada daily. This is very nice program. Make all the prasadam very first class.
Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Biological evolution is taking place on account of the soul's desire. It takes place because of infection. If a man has smallpox virus, then he is subjected to smallpox. It is not that everyone is infected and everyone is attacked with smallpox disease. Only the person who is infected, he is attacked.
Letter to Durgesh Patel written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		For the time being, stay with your parents until you are of proper age to be independent. Raghunatha dasa Goswami was also restricted by his parents, but ultimately he joined Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement and became one of the six Goswamis of Vrndavana. So, do not be discouraged, rather feel fortunate that at such a young age you are able to practice Krishna Consciousness.
Letter to Karandhara written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		To help the preaching work, that is also preaching. If you can get money to help expand our preaching activities, that is preaching. We require money.

vanipedia.org 		Regarding investing money there in Iran, I have no objection if it is kept in Atreya Rsi's name. He is one of our men. Please send the complete details in this connection and I shall decide.


1975 - June 19

Morning Walk - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa and guru cannot be had in every life. That is only in human life. Otherwise, as soon as there is birth, there is father and mother. Either you become human being or tiger or snake or bird, the father-mother is there. But the spiritual father and Kṛṣṇa, that can be obtained in human life, not in every life.
Letter to Dr. W.D. Currier written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		If you are willing to offer your medical services to my students, when it is required, that will be very nice. It is important to keep the body fit and healthy so that we will not meet the obstacle of ill health while serving Krishna.
Letter to Gopijanavallabha written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Please train our boys and girls to follow the principles very strictly.
Letter to Taitreya written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		fortunately you have got a very good husband, and you are also a very good wife. So, live co-operatively and help him in writing essays which he has done very nicely. In this way, both of you will be happy and successful in life.


1975 - June 20

Lecture Departure - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Yesterday I was very much pleased to read the essays by our Bali-mardana dāsa. So similarly, you also write. Writing means if you have digested the idea, you can produce in your own words. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ. One who has actually heard attentively, his next business will be how to describe it.
Conversation in Car - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa doesn't require your service. When He says, "You surrender to Me," it does not mean that Kṛṣṇa is suffering for your service. Kṛṣṇa is self-sufficient. He can create millions of servants like you. So He doesn't require your service. But if you serve, then it is your benefit. You become saved: "Now I am under the protection of a very able and, every respect, opulence of master." You are serving cats and dogs. Why not serve the most supreme, able and opulent master?


Jun 20 to 27 - Los Angeles

1975 - June 20

750620c - Arrival - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		We should try very fast before the next death comes. And death will come. So we shall prepare in such a way that before the next death comes over, we finish our Kṛṣṇa consciousness business and go back to home, back to Godhead.

vanipedia.org 		Viṣṇujana: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what did Bhaktivinoda Thakura mean when he said, "I am going, my work unfinished"?
Prabhupāda: Then let us finish. We are descendant of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. So he kept unfinished so that we shall get the chance to finish it. That is his mercy. He could have finished immediately. He is Vaiṣṇava; he is all-powerful. But he gave us chance that "You foolish people, you all also work." That is his mercy. So we should pray to Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura that "We are your grandchildren, great-grandchildren, so we have got some right to beg some mercy from you."

vanipedia.org 		Twenty-seven layers of garbage. Underneath, the soul is there. What he will do? He is a small particle, soul, and he is covered with so many material elements. To come out of it is very, very difficult. But if one is engaged in devotional service he can come out immediately. Just like when one is spiritually perfect, he goes immediately to Krsna, penetrating these material coverings of the universe.
Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		My Guru Maharaja told me personally that "If you get some money, print books." Therefore I am stressing on this point: "Where is book? Where is book? Where is book?" So kindly help me. This is my request. Print as many books in as many languages.
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vanipedia.org 		Hear and repeat, hear and repeat. You haven't got to manufacture. Any one of us, simply if you reproduce the purport which I have given in the Bhāgavata, you become a good speaker. What I am doing? I am the same thing, writing the same thing so that modern man can understand. Otherwise we are repeating the same thing.

vanipedia.org 		I have no personal qualification, but I simply tried to satisfy my guru. That's all. My Guru Mahārāja asked me that "If you get some money, you print books."

vanipedia.org 		Very simple thing. We are receiving the transcendental knowledge through guru-paramparā succession. So we have to simply take instruction from guru, and if we execute that to our heart and soul, that is success. That is practical. I have no personal qualification, but I simply tried to satisfy my guru. That's all.

vanipedia.org 		All our men should write. Otherwise how we shall know that he has understood the philosophy? Writing means śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam. Śravaṇam means hearing from the authority and again repeat it. This is our business, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam viṣṇoḥ (SB 7.5.23), about Viṣṇu, not for any politician or any other man. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ, about Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. So that is success.


1975 - June 21

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		As soon as one become bereft of religion, he's animal. That's all. That is the difference between animals and man. They think to become polished animal is advancement of civilization. To become lion is advancement of civilization. "Because I am stronger than the dog, therefore I am civilized." Americans think like that. "Because we are stronger than the Chinese dog or Russian cat, therefore I am civilized" This is going on.
Lecture SB 06.01.08 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		There are different kinds of sinful activities, and there are different kinds of suffering also. A little infection of bronchitis, the suffering is not so acute, but infection of smallpox is fatal. We should always remember that. We are infecting. On account of this material world, we are infecting different modes of material nature. I have explained several times. There are three modes of material nature, and when you mix up, then it becomes three into three equal to nine, and again mix up, nine into nine, eighty-one, and again mix up Every minute particles, there is account.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		We can send you unlimited number of books. You simply have to apply your brain how to sell them. Then you will have plenty of money.

vanipedia.org 		It is my habit to see that money is not being squandered. If money is spent unnecessarily, I feel very badly. You are collecting with great effort, and I do not like to see it spoiled. I am thinking that Guru-krpa's collections may be used for book publishing only. He can print books in Japan and send there to you for selling in India.
Letter to Gurukrpa written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Dai Nippon has agreed to take money in exchange of books. Whatever money you pay, you print books and send to India. You can also send to Australia or to USA if they want. You begin with Srimad-Bhagavatam and the small edition of Bhagavad-gita. Our work must go on. The world is suffering on account of not taking up Krishna consciousness, so we have to try to save them. You kindly help me to do this.
Letter to Purnima written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I am glad that you are very serious about Krishna consciousness even at such a young age. This is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja who was a young boy like yourself. He said that now is the time to become Krishna conscious no matter what is one's age. We may die at any moment. There is no guarantee.


1975 - June 22

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		They have finished already science. Now if they do not come to God, then they are finished. They have nothing to say any more. That is Vedānta. Now they have finished all their so-called talent. Now they have to come to brahma-jijñāsā, inquiry about the Supreme. That is their concern now. Now they have cheated public and bluffed them—they are going to this, going to this—but they are all failures. Now they are anxious how to keep their position. That is the problem.
Lecture SB 06.01.09 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		That is very good. He is a Vaiṣṇava. Naturally he does not like to fight or pick up quarrel with others or do some harm to others. Vaiṣṇava is para-duḥkha-duḥkhī. He knows very well that "If something harmful is done to me, I am unhappy, so why should I commit the same thing to others?".
Conversation - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		That I want. Do it. We want to give degrees, at least B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., according to the advancement of knowledge.


1975 - June 23

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Sometimes our devotees fall down because he has not come to that platform, ever-existing. Therefore the fire extinguished. That is possible, but everyone should be very, very careful that the fire may not be extinguished. Then again māyā. There are two things: Kṛṣṇa and māyā. If Kṛṣṇa fire is extinguished, then māyā, ignorance, darkness. Two things.
Lecture SB 06.01.10 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		If your heart is clean, then you can understand that "I am not this body. I am spirit soul. So what I am doing really for me? I am spirit soul. I am not this body. I am soaping over this body, but as I am, I am starving." This is going on. The material civilization means they are taking care of the body and no information of the soul which is within the body. This is material civilization. And our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not so much attention for the body, but full attention for the soul. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, just opposite.

vanipedia.org 		They cannot understand this movement. It is completely spiritual movement. It is not material movement. Therefore they sometimes mistake that "Your people are weak in health. They are becoming this and that. They do not eat meat, so vitality is less." Then "We are not concerned with the vitality. We are concerned with the spiritual life."
Conversation - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		When the soul misuses the independence, then he falls down. That is material life. Material life means misusing the independence of soul. Just like a son. A son's duty is to obey the father. But he may not obey. That is his madness. So when the soul, misusing the independence, becomes mad, he is sent in this material world.
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vanipedia.org 		Base quality means kama, lusty desires, and greediness. In material world, generally they are under these base quality, means always filled up with lusty desires and not satisfied, greedy. So when we conquer over these base qualities, then we become happy.
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vanipedia.org 		In the prison house there are some population, but they are not majority. The majority of the population, they're outside the prison house. Similarly, majority of living being, part & parcel of God, they are in the spiritual world. Only a few falls down.
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vanipedia.org 		Vedic injunction is, "Go and inquire. You have got this human form of life." Athāto brahma jijñāsā: "Now, this is the time for inquiring about the soul." Tad vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet. If you want to understand this science, then go to proper guru and take lessons from him. The same thing as we instruct our children: "If you want to be educated in higher status of life, go to school, go to college, take lesson." That is human society. The dog's father will never ask the dog child, "Go to school." No. They are dogs.
Letter to Laksmimoni written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Generally it is not good for the women with babies to worship the Deity, because a baby means uncleanliness. You have to touch the baby and there is so many dirtiness, so how can you remain sanctified? But if you are doing it nicely, then it is okay. But, if you have to take care of the baby, then it is not good.
Letter to Mahajana written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Now I am desiring more and more to have time for translating my books, not that I have to become involved in every question. For this reason I have installed the GBC.
Letter to Svarupa Damodara written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		If your heart is clean, then you can understand that "I am not this body. I am spirit soul. So what I am doing really for me? I am spirit soul. I am not this body. I am soaping over this body, but as I am, I am starving." This is going on. The material civilization means they are taking care of the body and no information of the soul which is within the body. This is material civilization. And our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not so much attention for the body, but full attention for the soul. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, just opposite.


1975 - June 24

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Spiritual energy does not get tired. That is spiritual. When we get tired, that is material. Spiritual means one would not feel tired.
Conversation - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Muhammad says he is servant of God. Christ says he is son of God. And Krsna says, "I am God." So where is the difference? The son will say the same thing, the servant will say the same thing, and the father also will say the same thing.
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vanipedia.org 		You may love humanity, but because you do not love Kṛṣṇa, therefore you do not love the cows; you send them to slaughterhouse. So your love will remain defective. It will never be complete. And if you love Kṛṣṇa, then you will love even the small ant. You will be not interested even to kill even an ant. That is real love.
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vanipedia.org 		Even God has got this discrimination. He says, paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām. There are bad elements. So if in God's mind there is good element, bad element... So we are part and parcel of God. We must have also the same sentiment. We cannot avoid it.
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vanipedia.org 		The tenant may not believe the landlord, but when the landlord will come with court's order, "Get out," then you have to go out. That's all. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, that "Those who are not believer in God, to them I come as death and take away everything. Finished." That one has to believe. "Yes, as sure as death." Then God is sure. You may challenge so long you have got little life for a few years, but God will come and drive you away from your present pride, prestigious position, "Get out." So unless one is madman, he cannot say, "There is no God." Anyone who denies the existence of God, he is a madman.

vanipedia.org 		These Hare Krsna chanters, they will never agree to kill any animal, even a plant, because they know everything is part and parcel of God. Why unnecessarily one should be killed? That is love.
Letter to Pranava written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		How is that there is no news from you about the land? I expected to receive news through Nitai, but there is no news. Please see to this matter as I have requested you in my previous letter, the copy of which is enclosed.
Letter to Sanat Kumara, Daniel and Yudhisthira written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		You have been recommended for initiation by Brahmananda Swami and Cyavana Swami, and I am pleased to accept you as my initiated disciples. They have given me a very nice report of your activities and I am glad to know that the government authorities are taking interest in our movement. It is a good sign. So you go on with your preaching and be very careful to follow the rules and regulations, chanting 16 rounds daily and abstaining from eating animal flesh, intoxicants, gambling, and illicit sex.


1975 - June 25

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Wherever knowledge is available, we should take it. That is the real position of seeker of knowledge. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says, "In the pot of poison, if there is little nectar in, take it".

vanipedia.org 		The real thing is wanting that the human life is meant for understanding God, there is no such organization. This is the only organization, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
Lecture SB 06.01.12 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		The education is that a university student, and if he is said, if he is informed, that "If you live irresponsibly, then you may become dog next life," so they say, "What is the wrong if I become a dog?" (laughter) This is the result of education. He doesn't care. He is thinking, "If I get the life of a dog, I will have no restriction of my sex life on the street." That's it. He is thinking that is advancement.


1975 - June 26

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Everyone should take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Remember, behind you there is the Yamarāja, death.
Lecture SB 06.01.13-14 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Samāgra means total, not that partial, that "I have got so much. Now I have distributed." I do not wish to mention by name—one artificial God, he was teaching his disciple, and the disciple was feeling electrical shocks. So unfortunately, I cannot give you electrical shocks. (laughter) You see? Electrical shocks, and he became fainted by electrical shock. And these are written publicly, and fools are accepting.
Conversation A - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Whatever I know I have explained in my books. Beyond that I have no knowledge.
Conversation B - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		When I was alone, I was selling this Bhāgavata. All the school, college, I was very…, with great delight they were taking, at that time.


1975 - June 27

Morning Walk - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		We are not going to rent anyone, anyway, any room. We shall utilize it for our purpose only, receiving guest, organizing this book sale. That is my idea.

vanipedia.org 		If you take charge of this distribution of books not only in India but neighboring countries just like Hong Kong, Singapore, if you think you can do that, that will be nice. You have got experience, how to distribute books.
Lecture SB 06.01.15 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		What is that infection which has caused me to accept this material body again and again? That they do not know. That they do not know. They do not believe in the next life, and therefore āsurāḥ janāḥ. This is the symptom or characteristic of the āsurāḥ janāḥ. You should be precautious. That is natural. We become precautious.
Departure - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa will give you intelligence. As you want to serve, He will give you more intelligence.


Jun 27 to 30 - Denver

1975 - June 27

Arrival - Denver

vanipedia.org 		We do not require to be very learned scholar or very rich men or to take birth in a very high family. We do not require all these things. If we are endowed with all these blessings, janma aisvarya sruta sri - means birth in high family or great nation, to be very opulent, rich, and very highly educated or very beautiful - these things are very good material possessions. But if we have got them, it is all right.
Letter to Acyutananda written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		Your question of how did Sukdev Goswami hear Srimad-Bhagavatam, it was in the womb of his mother.
Letter to Bhagavan written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		I am glad to hear of the improvements of Amsterdam temple. That you are now getting so many more people for the feast program means that the management is very much improved.
Letter to Hrdayananda written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		You can try to arrange programs in Panama, Trinidad, and Guyana, so I can get down there on my way to Brazil. But, if there is any difficulty in getting the visa for these countries, then we may suspend the program. I do not want to take any risk, just like in Nairobi I was refused entry and it was a great inconvenience. This is not good for me.
Letter to Jnana and Lilavati written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		So now that you are married you work together to spread Krsna consciousness. Marriage means that one's service becomes doubled, but at the same time we have to be very careful not to fall into sense gratification. That tendency is there, and we have to be always vigilant. Best thing is to chant carefully our 16 rounds on the beads and always think of Krsna.
Letter to Ravindra Svarupa written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		The magistrate has given a very good judgement in our favor and a very good certificate that this is bona fide religion. I have given the clipping for publishing in our "Back to Godhead" magazine.
Letter to Rsabhadeva written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		To go back home, back to Godhead is not an easy thing. It requires great discipline of body and mind, and performance of pure devotional service.


1975 - June 28

Morning Walk - Denver
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Their whole civilization is based on this Darwin's theory. How long you shall keep history? Do you know what is the history of the sun, when it was created, when it came into appearance? Can Darwin give us the history of the sun, of the moon, of the sky? Where is the history? There is history, but where is your history? You simply imagine, 'There was a chunk, and it became manifested as the sun, moon, and I am also this...' What is this? How this cosmic manifestation came into existence, your explanation is: 'There was a chunk'. And what other nonsense?"
750628 - Morning Walk - Denver

vanipedia.org 		Only hope is that you distribute books, as much as possible, whole Europe, whole America. If they come to some day, they will realize what is this value.
Lecture SB 06.01.15 - Denver
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vanipedia.org 		Yesterday I explained that Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa, says that yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścid vetti māṁ tattvataḥ, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye. Siddhi means perfection of life. Generally they take it aṣṭa-siddhi of yoga practice—aṇimā, laghimā, mahimā, prāpti, siddhi, īśitva, vaśitva, prākāmya. So these are called siddhis, yoga-siddhi.
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vanipedia.org 		If we keep ourself on the material platform, then for thousand years we may chant, it will be difficult. That is called nāmāparadha. Of course, holy name is so powerful that even by chanting with offense, gradually he becomes pure. Therefore we should not give up chanting. Any circumstances, we should go on chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. But the warning is that if we keep us on the material platform, then it will be not possible to understand Kṛṣṇa, His holy name, His attribute, His form, His activities.
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vanipedia.org 		We should seriously understand this, that how to stop this slaughtering process of material nature. That is intelligence. Otherwise, to become happy like cats and dogs, "Oh, I am very nicely eating and jumping. I don't care for being slaughtered," that is not very good intelligence. Intelligence is how to stop this slaughtering process of nature. That is intelligence. That is being discussed. So anyone can get out of the slaughtering process by devotional service.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"They do not understand that this material conditional life is always miserable. They have accepted, 'It is very nice'. Animals, animals... Just like in the slaughterhouse, livestock godown, there are so many animals, and they are going to be slaughtered. Everyone knows. They also know, the animals. But on account of their animal quality, they cannot do anything. Similarly, we are also put into the slaughterhouse of this material world. It is called mṛtyu-loka. Everyone knows that he will be slaughtered. Today or tomorrow or fifty years after or a hundred years after, everyone knows that he will be slaughtered. He'll die, death means slaughter. Nobody wants to die. The animal also do not like to die, but they are forcibly killed. This is called slaughter."
750628 - Lecture SB 06.01.15 - Denver
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Denver
Letter to Jayapataka written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		Gargamuni Swami is collecting for Mayapur. Is he sending you any money? How is the money being utilized?
Letter to Nandikesvara written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		I am accepting the following as twice born brahmanas and their threads duly sanctified are enclosed: Duryodhana guru dasa and his wife Vrndadevi dasi, and hold a fire sacrifice and impress upon them that they are taking vows before Radha Krsna, the spiritual master, and the assembled Vaisnavas.

vanipedia.org 		I also accept the following as my initiated disciple: Dandra Fohr—Sanga devi dasi. Please see that she carefully follows the regulative principles.
Letter to Punjab National Bank written from Denver
Letter to Tulsi written from Denver

vanipedia.org 		Impress upon them that they are taking vows before Radha Krsna, the spiritual master and the assembled Vaisnavas. It is a serious business.


1975 - June 29

Morning Walk - Denver
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vanipedia.org 		Professor Judah said "These drug-addicted boys, how they have become Kṛṣṇa conscious?" That is his wonderful thing. You can say that "We are escaping this horrible condition of life: meat-eating, drinking and intoxication". We are escaping that, these thing, not escaping happiness. You are escaping happiness.
Conversation in Car after Morning Walk - Denver

vanipedia.org 		Lazy foolish is foolish but he's lazy, he'll not do so harm. But the busy foolish he'll simply create harm. At the present the population is busy foolish. So we are creating lazy intelligent. An intelligent man must be lazy, otherwise how he can act intelligently, sober. "All right, let me consider." You cannot hope that the intelligent man will give his decision easily.
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vanipedia.org 		Lazy foolish is foolish but he's lazy, he'll not do so harm. But the busy foolish he'll simply create harm. At the present the population is busy foolish. So we are creating lazy intelligent. An intelligent man must be lazy, otherwise how he can act intelligently, sober. "All right, let me consider." You cannot hope that the intelligent man will give his decision easily.
Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Denver

vanipedia.org 		When we are baffled in the sense gratification, then we try to satisfy the thinking, feeling, willing of our mind. And when we fail satisfaction of the mind also, then we seek satisfaction of the soul. That is supreme.
Lecture SB 06.01.16 - Denver
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vanipedia.org 		Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching people that "Don't live irresponsibly." Take, for example, that you may say, "There is no life." But if I put the argument, "Suppose there is life..." Now this is also supposition, because nobody, those who are in ignorance, they do not know whether there is life or whether there is no life. So you are arguing, "There is no life," but you do not know whether there is life.
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vanipedia.org 		You have to take shelter of a person who is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, and you have to serve. That means you have to accept a devotee, a true devotee, a pure devotee, as your guide. That is our process. The Rūpa Gosvāmī says in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, "The first process is, first step is ādau gurvāśrayam to accept guru." Accept guru Guru means Kṛṣṇa's representative. One who is not Kṛṣṇa's representative, he cannot become guru.
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vanipedia.org 		Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching people how to go back to home, back to Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. That will make the people happy eternally. So in this life also, Kṛṣṇa conscious people, they are not unhappy. You can see practically. We are sitting in a very nice room and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and taking prasādam. Where is unhappiness? There is no unhappiness.


1975 - June 30

Morning Walk - Denver

vanipedia.org 		Our students' parents, they are also thinking, "What is this nonsense, no meat-eating, no illicit sex? The enjoyment of life, everything is spoiled. They are becoming sannyasi." So they are cursing me.
Lecture SB 06.01.17 - Denver
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vanipedia.org 		The greatest contribution to the human society is knowledge. To keep them in ignorance, in darkness, that is not human society, that is cats' and dogs'... Because they are in ignorance, nobody can give them knowledge, neither they can take. Therefore in the human society there is institution for giving knowledge. That is the greatest contribution. And that knowledge, the supreme knowledge, is there in the Vedas.


   
 
   
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