A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - June 1976

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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;
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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 2 - Honolulu

1976 - June 01

Lecture SB 06.01.33 - Honolulu
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vanipedia.org 		In that interview I gave that information, that woman's freedom? So I gave this reply, that "Where is the woman's freedom? The boy and the girl intermingle, and the girl becomes pregnant, and the boy goes out without any responsibility, and the burden... The child is a burden for the woman. Either she should kill or beg from the government. Is that independence?" They are trying to be independent. This is not civilization.
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vanipedia.org 		There is no question of independence. The woman must be given protection in childhood by the father unless she is married, and in youthhood by the husband, and in old age by grown-up sons. This is Vedic civilization. Na striyaṁ svatantram arhati (Manu Saṁhitā 9.3). Just like children, they must be always protected. It is not dependence; it is protection. So there should be responsible father, responsible husband, responsible sons to keep woman very happy.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 02

Lecture SB 06.01.34-36 - Honolulu
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vanipedia.org 		Do not try to foolishly search anything and waste your time. Hear from a bona fide spiritual master, and that is final knowledge. That is final knowledge. There is no question of researching or corroborating when the guru is speaking. Guru is bona fide, he will speak the right thing because he has got the knowledge from the right source. That is guru. Guru means one who has received the knowledge from the right source and distributed the same knowledge. He is not manufacturing. That is Guru. Guru is worshiped because he is delivering the right thing—no nonsense. That is guru.


Jun 3 to 11 - Los Angeles

Go-up.png 1976 - June 03

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: One who understands Kṛṣṇa consciousness should want to finish the business of material life.
Prabhupāda: Yes, therefore he's required to read Bhagavad-gītā thoroughly. It is said clearly, "This is a place of misery." Why do you desire to keep yourself in this? That means you do not understand what is spiritual life.
Hari-śauri: Still thinking he's this body.
Prabhupāda: Thinking. Thinking, he's under the influence of māyā.
Lecture SB 06.01.37 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		We are Kṛṣṇa conscious men, or we are known as Hare Kṛṣṇa men. Anyway... So we are not manufacturing something imaginary. That is not our position. Vāsudevoktaḥ. We are simply executing what Vāsudeva has spoken. That's all. So our task is very easy, because we haven't got to manufacture, tax our brains, to create something nonsense. No. Our position is very clear.
Interview - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: There is soul, but the consciousness is not developed.
Reporter: Do you see hope for mankind in the future?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Man can be happy immediately, provided the consciousness is developed.
Reporter: Can... Do you think that this will ever be achieved?
Prabhupāda: Yes. It can be achieved.
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vanipedia.org 		I have sent a letter to your government asking them questions that you write on the bills, "In God We Trust." So whether you trust in God blindly or knowingly? That was my question. Suppose I trust you. So you must be trustworthy. Otherwise why shall I trust you? So this question I asked your government: "You write on the bills, 'In God We Trust,' so what kind of trust is this?" If you actually trust, then you must know that God is trustworthy. Only blindly trust as a slogan. But that letter is not in reply.
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vanipedia.org 		Why should you trust in God as faith? No. You understand what is God and have your faith at full, that "God is, yes, trustworthy," so that others may also know that God is trustworthy. That is our mission, that why God in trust? Are we trusting God should be a slogan? Let it be a fact by scientific study, by scientific understanding. There is way to understand why God is trustworthy. It's not the question of faith. It is a fact.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 04

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		First of all, I started the book. That is, by Kṛṣṇa's grace, it is becoming successful. Then diorama. Then I shall give next idea.
Lecture SB 06.01.38 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		We have got very simple test in Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement how to distinguish between an intelligent man a rascal. As soon as we understand that he's not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's a rascal. Bās. There is no need of testing. Even though he's M.A., Ph.D, D.H.C. and so on, so on, still we shall call him a rascal. This is open challenge; it is not secret.
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vanipedia.org 		If you have a tilaka and a kanthi, that does not mean that you belong to the Krsna consciousness movement. Any cheater can do that. You must know the philosophy.
Interview - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: So we are simply giving a practical set(?) of the instruction of Gītā. This is our business. We don't manufacture any imaginative thing.
Rāmeśvara: His idea... His question, Prabhupāda, is also, suppose someone wants to buy a farm or wants to do some new project. Do they ask your permission first?
Prabhupāda: Yes. The whole society is going on under my direction. Whatever they do, they take my permission and they put into (indistinct). Nothing is allowed without my permission.
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vanipedia.org 		I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this movement.
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vanipedia.org 		Reporter: Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you already?
Prabhupāda: That I am not contemplating now. But there is no need of one person. As other things are managed, but by committee, so this can also be managed, and the committee may elect one person as chief. As, just like in the democracy there are senators and there is president, so it may be I may nominate or they can nominate.
Letter to Bhagavan written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I have heard with delight of your preaching attempts in Corsica. That is one of our businesses, to expose these rascals who are cheating and who have no spiritual asset.
Letter to Dr. Bishnu Prasad Mukherjee written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Our Krishna Consciousness Movement is not a Bharatiya artistic one. It is a program to solve all the problems of all the world. We are getting good response, so your cooperation will be welcome, but we are not interested in Bharatiya as there are already so many organizations of this nature.
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vanipedia.org 		Our workers are all dedicated souls and they are engaging in activities on the spiritual platform. If sometimes you could find the time, perhaps we could meet together and we can talk.
Letter to Gopavrndesa written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Now I am encouraging my young disciples to all try to learn at least one Indian language, like Hindi or Bengali. At least those who have the propensity can become proficient in some language, especially Hindi, and then you will be able to preach in India in the native language.
Letter to Gurudasa written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Try to convince them that without God Consciousness, no plan will be successful. Of course, the demoniac class of men will always remain, but unless there is a strong body to present God Consciousness proposals to the leaders of the world, there will be no hope.
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vanipedia.org 		We have taken Bhagavad-gita as the standard of all human activities. If the leaders of the human society take it as standard, then all the problems will be solved. That we can give practical suggestions for. Any plan of the atheists will never be successful.
Letter to Jayasacinandana written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I am in due receipt of your offering of Bhaktivedanta-astakam, and I thank you very much. It is very nicely done. I have noted that you also have the aptitude for Bengali language, so you can learn this nicely and then you will be able to preach in Bengal in the native language. It would be very effective. Also, you can chant the Gita-Gan in Bengali and people will profusely take out Gita-Gan.
Letter to Mr. Raja Sajid Husain written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Your idea of the "unity" of man is utopian. It will never become. The United Nations has tried for so many years, and they will never agree. If we keep human beings in the status of cats and dogs, in the bodily concept of life, how can they live in peace? They will simply fight like cats and dogs amongst one another.
Letter to Narayana written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation, I am accepting Bhaktin Shanna Wollerman for first initiation. Her spiritual name is Nilacala dasi. Also, I am accepting Saurani dasi for second initiation. Those who take initiation must vow to refrain from illicit sex life, intoxication, gambling, and meat-eating, and to chant minimum of 16 rounds japa daily.
Letter to Purusottama written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Only by the yogic process can one prolong the life. By stopping the breathing process, keeping in samadhi, the breath period is not being misused, and he increases the life span. Therefore, destiny can only be changed by devotional service or yoga. Otherwise, what you must suffer, you must suffer, and what you must enjoy, you must enjoy. For a devotee however, whatever it may be, he takes the opportunity to chant Hare Krishna, and if by Krishna's Grace destiny is changed, then it is alright.
Letter to Sridhara written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I was very pleased to note that you are willing to go to China as we have just printed a Chinese Bhagavad-gita. I am most eager to see this distributed throughout Southeast Asia to as many Chinese speaking people as possible.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 05

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		This movement will go for ten thousand years without any impediment. It increases; you should take this opportunity. You work sincerely; it will increase, it will increase.
Lecture SB 06.01.39 - Los Angeles
Tatah Rucis. Then Taste.
You Cannot Live Outside this Camp. Taste has Changed - 0767
04:31 minutes from a lecture on SB 06.01.39 in Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		As soon as there is bhajana-kriyā, the unnecessary nonsense things will disappear. No more illicit sex, no more intoxication, no more drinking, no more gambling. Finished. When anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt, all these rascal habits are gone, then niṣṭhā, then firm faith, not to be agitated. Tato niṣṭhā tataḥ rucis. Then taste. You cannot live outside this camp. Taste has changed. Tato niṣṭhā tataḥ rucis, tathāśaktis, then attraction. Then bhāva. Bhāva means ecstasy: "Oh, Kṛṣṇa." Then there is love.
Letter to Mr. Hunter written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter with enclosed contribution towards the development of our Mayapur City in W. Bengal, and I thank you very much. We are trying to construct a city where people from all over the world can come to visit and live according to the Vedic tenets of "simple living and high thinking." I am pleased to hear that you appreciative of our humble efforts.
Letter to Prabhavisnu written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the set of Srimad-Bhagavatams that Dr. Tripati gave us in Aligarh, I happen to know that the complete set should not cost more than Rs. 700, like that. And besides that, the paper may be so brittle that it may be useless. That I can examine when I see the set of books personally in Vrindaban. But, I know that the set of books could not cost so much, Rs. 3,000/-. So wait until I see the books in Vrindaban on my return and then we shall do the needful.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 06

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		We want to remold, remodel everything. They'll understand as they read our books. That we are all-round reformer.
Lecture SB 06.01.40 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		The Yamadūtas were not very advanced so far their position was there. They were very odd-looking and not to be supposed very civilized—uneducated—but how they are explaining about dharma? Because the challenge was that "If you are servants of Dharmarāja, then explain what is dharma." It doesn't matter whether a man is civilized or uncivilized or good-looking or bad-looking, but if he has got proper guide, then he can speak the right thing.
Letter to Amogha written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		The library party is doing very nicely. It is nectar to my ears to hear the list of schools which are taking our standing order.
Letter to B.R. Sridhara Maharaja written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		As a matter of fact, I am trying to develop a township in Mayapur spending crores of rupees to give protection against the occasional innundation (flood) and construct a tall planetarium estimated to be 300 feet high. So why they are obstructing this program? What is the harm to them? People are already coming from all parts of the world to see Mayapur and join in the Sankirtana Movement, so if something more attractive is done, more people will come from all parts of the world.
760606 - Letter to Giriraja written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		If one has got their own philosophy, then let them preach their own philosophy, but do not do it in the name of the Gita. This is our protest to all of the interpreters of the Bhagavad-gita. If they do not believe in God, Krishna, and they don't want to surrender to Him, then let him preach atheism. Everyone has got the right to do this, but why through the Gita.
Letter to Jayapataka written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning my house in Mayapur, I have requested Saurabha in Bombay to postpone any idea for beginning the house until we have the master plan of the city. I may decide to move the location away from the front gate to a more secluded place, less congested area. Also, I am not satisfied with the plan that he had submitted to me. I had seen one plan in London which I would like to compare to the present plan.
Letter to Prabhupad dasa written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the production of toothpaste and cosmetics for which I may be able to supply the information, etc., you can come to see me in Toronto when I visit there between the 16th of June until the 21st of June.
Letter to Svarupa Damodara written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I am in due receipt of your short note dated June 3, 1976, which was hand-delivered to me by Dr. Wolf. I won't have the opportunity to visit Atlanta on this tour, however, I shall be in New York from July 9th to July 20th. You can see me in New York if it is possible for you.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 07

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Then everything will be finished. Preaching will be finished. In this sahajiyā party, then preaching will be finished. Siddha-praṇālī.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What does that mean, Śrīla Prabhupāda, siddha-praṇālī?
Prabhupāda: Siddha-praṇālī is nonsense. They have manufactured a siddha-praṇālī.
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vanipedia.org 		Rāmeśvara: And as our movement gets more and more members, there will be more and more people who will be exhibiting this sahajiyā tendency.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's why it's in every book Prabhupāda speaks about it without fail.
Prabhupāda: Anyway, keep your movement very pure. You don't mind if somebody goes away. Don't mind. But we must keep our principles pure.
Lecture SB 06.01.41 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Practically you can see the members of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, some of them are Indians, some of them are Europeans, some of them are Englishmen, some of them are black, some of them are white, some of them are brāhmaṇas, some of them are Hindus—but they do not think anymore that "I belong to this category." No. No. Or otherwise they could not work. Every one of them completely aware that "We are all Kṛṣṇa's servants."
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vanipedia.org 		Guru is not ordinary human being. Ordinary human being cannot preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is not possible. Kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā nahe kṛṣṇa nāma pracāra (CC Antya 7.11). So anyone who is preaching, he cannot be considered as ordinary human being.
Letter to Abhirama written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning Puri, whether there is potency of vegetation. That we have to examine. If there is no such potency, then we are not interested. And what about transportation across the hot sand? In the summer season, it will be too hot. So, the question is whether in that sand there is possibility of growing trees and plants, whether the sand is fit for that. Otherwise, it is desert and will not be suitable.
Letter to Bhurijana and Jagattarini written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		If you simply follow the simple program that I have initiated you will be happy in this life time and in the end you will go back to home, back to Godhead.
Letter to Gargamuni written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Continue this boat program. I do not know about motor launch or not, but you should consult and do the needful. I simply want to see that the preaching goes on. That's all, but you should consult and do the needful. I simply want to see that the preaching goes on. That's all.
Letter to Nitai written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I have received information that some of our devotees are mixing with the babajis in Vrindaban. This has produced so many problems amongst our men and women who visit Vrindaban. Here in Los Angeles, we have found that there is a group of about 40 devotees who privately meet to discuss the intimate pastimes artificially thinking that they can enter into the understanding of the gopis prematurely. This will create havoc in our society, and the result will be that if this is allowed to go on, our preaching work will be greatly hampered.
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vanipedia.org 		This premature desire to understand the lila of Krishna is due to mundane sex-life desire as we have seen amongst many of the babajis and sahajiyas in Vrindaban. Our Jagannatha das came back from Vrindaban asking me that he had heard some babaji speaking about siddha-deha and he also was listening to these babajis. So I want this immediately stopped. If it continues, this mixing with the babajis, then it will mean spoiling. In many cases, these babajis keep 2 or 3 women. Asatsanga tyagi. Their association is to be avoided and prohibited amongst all of our devotees who visit Vrindaban.
Letter to Saurabha written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the altars, it is not necessary to have three altars of different style. All the three altars should be of the same style. I am enclosing the copy of the style which I have approved for all three altars. This style is nice, the one which you had chosen for Lord Ramacandra's altar, so you can use this style for all three.
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vanipedia.org 		Your plan for holding marriages in the theater, and on the theater roof will be acceptable. What will be the expected income?


Go-up.png 1976 - June 08

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda, when a living entity is in an animal body, then when he quits his body, there's no karma, he's just automatically promoted to a higher body?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Animal life means there is no sin. It is promotion. Because they are animal, their consciousness is not developed. Just like a child—a child, if he steals, that is not sin. He will not be criminally charged. He is child. A dog goes from the left to the right or right to the... He is not criminal. But if you do, you are criminal.
Lecture SB 06.01.42 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "Don't try to see a saintly person by your eyes. You see a saintly person by the ear." Because if you hear from the saintly person and if he is speaking from the experience which he has heard from the, another saintly person—this is called guru-paramparā—then the knowledge is perfect.
Conversation A - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: So anyway, although you have got independence, India, oh, what is the profit?
Hari-śauri: The independence is just about to come, Śrīla Prabhupāda, when you start preaching there.
Prabhupāda: The real sva-raja is go back to home, back to Godhead.
Conversation B - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		They have to imitate. Otherwise, they cannot struggle. Just like they have made the 747 airship. But the shape is like a bird. You cannot make other shape. That you cannot do. If you make the shape of the 747 airplane like a man, it will be finished. So you have to take knowledge from God's creation. You cannot create independently. That is not possible. Just like ships and boats, they are shaped like fish, the same shape; otherwise, you cannot run on water. That is not possible. The original design is made by God, and you have to follow.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 09

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Rāmeśvara: Devotees once told me you said that the demigods like this movement very much so that they're standing in line to take their birth in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They like to come here on this planet. Just like you Kṛṣṇa conscious men, you are very much enthusiastic to go to India. India has no material attraction, but why our men wanted to go to India in spite of so many difficulties? Similarly, in the higher planet, heavenly planet, they are so much engrossed with material happiness that there is no facility. But here there is facility, in this earth, Bhūrloka.
Lecture SB 06.01.43 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Dharma means obeying the laws. Just like good citizen means who is obeying the laws of the state. He is good citizen. And other person, who is disobeying, they are called outlaws. So what is dharma? Just like it is the duty of good citizen to abide by the laws of the state, similarly, dharmī, a person who is religious, means who is abiding by the laws of God. That's all. And who is not abiding, he is adharmi. That is the difference.
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vanipedia.org 		Mukti means no disease. So when we deny to serve Kṛṣṇa, when we are not engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa, that is our diseased condition; that is not healthy condition. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is a treatment to cure this disease, atheist and rogues, to come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be happy. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. It is not an artificial thing to give you facility for your sense gratification. No. There is no question of sense gratification. That is disease. The healthy state is how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. That is bhakti.
Conversation A - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Hayagrīva: You should cane me more, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: No, Kṛṣṇa is very cunning.
Hayagrīva: I know. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: (still laughing) One may try to leave Him, but He is not going to leave you. Once come, "No, sir, you cannot go out." Just like our Ajāmila. He was devotee in the beginning, and later on, by bad association of prostitute, he fell. But Kṛṣṇa took him at the end.
Conversation B - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Jay Warner: How can one come to have faith that there is life after one leaves his body?
Prabhupāda: This is the proof. A child may not understand that there is, after his childhood body, there is another body, boyhood body or youthhood body. He may not understand. But that is the fact. If the child says, "There is no more body. This is the final body," that is not the fact. He is going to get another body, which is boy's body, young man's body, old man's body. Similarly, you may believe or not believe, you are going to get another body.
Conversation C - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Asat means that does not exist, "not eternal." It is just opposite. Eternal is called sat, om tat sat, and asat means just the opposite. So here in this material world everything is asat. Even this body is asat; it will not exist. And what to speak of other things with reference to the body. Everything is asat. Anything material is asat; it will not stay, either these trees or this land or this world or this country or this..., anything, asat.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		The printing should be managed by the BBT. Yasodanandana Swami is printing through the agency of the BBT, simply for convenience sake due to the inefficiency of the order department in Bombay. Even a letter from Fiji was not replied. However, the accounts should be kept by the BBT. The printing of Yasodanandana Swami is only for some small books. The quality of the big books must remain, and so they should not be printed by Yasodanandana Swami independently. So you can keep the account what is being sold, and what is the profit.
Letter to Jennifer Lynne Davis written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Simply follow the regular program of chanting 16 rounds of Hare Krishna Maha-mantra daily and abstain from illicit sex-life, meat-eating, gambling, and intoxication. In this way you will surely make rapid progress in Krishna Consciousness.
Letter to Tarun Kanti written from Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the initiation of your wife, Revatinandan Swami has approved her being recommended for first initiation, and he has been informed accordingly of her spiritual name. As disciples you must strictly chant 16 rounds of japa, Hare Krishna Maha-mantra, daily. Also strictly avoid the unwanted habits of illicit sex-life, meat-eating, gambling, and intoxication, and in this way make progress in Krishna Consciousness and be happy.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 10

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I thought, "Two months is a very long duration, because I'll not be able to do anything. As soon as I will put my program, they will be: 'Go away, please.' " I was under this impression. "Let me try." That is the subject matter of the poetry, that "I have no hope. Who will accept this, especially in this country, so much engrossed in materialistic way of life? And I shall say, 'Give up everything.' Who will take it?"
Lecture SB 06.01.44 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		My point is that this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has come to your country by the will of Kṛṣṇa. So here is favorable situation because the will of Kṛṣṇa is there, that "Now the Westerners, especially the Americans, they should become Kṛṣṇa conscious." That is His will. So you take the opportunity, cooperate with Kṛṣṇa, and you will be successful.
Conversation A - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Prahlāda Mahārāja said there is no necessity for endeavoring for economic development. Very difficult to understand this philosophy.
Hari-śauri: People don't know how they'll survive if they don't get money.
Prabhupāda: No. We are actual examples. We are not after economic development, but we are after following Kṛṣṇa's instructions.
Conversation B - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: No qualification, no education, only staunch faith in guru. Yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ. This is the secret. So whatever little success is there, that was only this qualification, that I wanted to serve him. That's all. Otherwise, there was no business of coming here at the age of seventy years.
Hṛdayānanda: No one could imagine that.
Prabhupāda: You have seen all my room in the Rādhā-Dāmodara temple?
Conversation C - Los Angeles
Scientifically, There is Life After Death - 0212
04:39 minutes from a conversation in Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Why they are not trying how to stop death? Where is the advancement? They are very much proud of advancement of science. Where is the advancement? You cannot stop death. You cannot stop old age. You can manufacture advanced medicine, but why don't you stop disease? Take this pill, there will be no more disease. Where is that science?
Interview A - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		I began my traveling in foreign countries at very ripe old age, seventy years. Ten years I'm traveling. This is the fifteenth tour all over the world.
Interview B - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Richard: Death, fears of death and disease.
Prabhupāda: Yes, everyone.
Richard: You too?
Prabhupāda: Everyone, I am everyone also. I am also, I have taken up my translation work, Bhāgavatam. So I am trying to live at least up to the time I finish my translation. That is also.... I do not wish to die before I finish. That is also.... Everyone is like that.
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vanipedia.org 		Richard: But what happens if you do die before you finish?
Prabhupāda: Well, you are talking something extraordinary. Everyone has got some ambition, and he wants to do it, and death, disease, old age, these are impediments. That is the point. No one wants to die premature death. Family man, a family man wants to see that his sons are properly educated or they are well-placed, so on, so on, so many things. And if all of a sudden death comes, he becomes sorry, that "I could not finish my business." Therefore death is impediment.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 11

Morning Walk - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Duryodhana-guru: It says in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adho 'nādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ (SB 10.2.32). So this refers to someone who has attained Brahman realization, that he must fall down because he does not take shelter at Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet. Does this also refer to someone who has attained Paramātmā realization?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Unless one reaches Vaikuṇṭha planet, nobody is safe.
Lecture SB 06.01.45 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		We cannot imitate Kṛṣṇa. That is pāpa, adharma. Dharma is to abide by the orders of Kṛṣṇa. That is very simple. And if we do that then we become qualified to go back to home, back to Godhead. Very simple thing. It doesn't require much education. Simply it requires a purified mind, that "I shall execute it honestly." That much qualification is sufficient.


Jun 11 to 16 - Detroit

Go-up.png 1976 - June 11

Lecture Arrival - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is an educational propaganda. Don't take it as a sectarian faith or religion. No. It's... Religion is there, but don't misunderstand that just like somebody takes... Religion means a kind of faith, in the dictionary meaning. So faith, some faith one may accept; one may not accept. But you cannot deny from your constitutional position. Your position is to render service.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 12

Lecture SB 06.01.46 - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		For the last two hundred, three hundred years, from India so many svāmīs, yogīs came. But because they missed Kṛṣṇa, it was all useless. And now this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, because we are making Kṛṣṇa as the center, you see practically, thousands of devotees. Successful.
Conversation with Congressman Jackie Vaughn - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to teach Kṛṣṇa science, science of Kṛṣṇa, science of God. So the government should take up, American government, and cooperate with us. Teach the people the science of God. Then it will be a great, benevolent welfare activity. Simply giving their money to the poor, to the needy, will not help them.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Kṛṣṇa is black, and we worship Him. (laughter) You have seen our Deity? Yes. Kṛṣṇa is from your community. (Prabhupāda laughs) There is no question of black and white. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is above the skin—the soul which is there. Either he's black or white or yellow, it doesn't matter. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe (BG 2.13). This is the first education, that do not take the body, but the living force within the body. That is important; we have to understand that. We are talking from that platform. Therefore sometimes it is little difficult, because people are very much absorbed with bodily concept of life. But our philosophy begins from that platform where there is no more bodily concept of life."
760612 - Conversation with Congressman Jackie Vaughn - Detroit
Letter A to Manager, Central Bank of India written from Detroit
Letter B to Manager, Central Bank of India written from Detroit
Letter to Lokanatha written from Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		When I return to India, I shall surely try to travel with your buses. It is a very nice program and I want to see it go on very enthusiastically. I hope that this meets you in good health.
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vanipedia.org 		The devotees must all bear in mind that they are promising to follow the four regulative principles, i.e., no illicit sex-life, no intoxication, no gambling, and no meat-eating, and also chanting a minimum of 16 rounds of japa daily. This promise is made before the spiritual master, before the Deity, the devotees, Vaisnavas, the Supersoul, and the fire. Everyone should take very seriously this vow and make steady and sure progress in Krishna Consciousness and go back to home, back to Godhead in this lifetime.
Letter to Mahamsa written from Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the Nellore project, it will automatically be dropped. Simply forget it, and there is no need to go there. Let them rather drop it instead of we dropping it.
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vanipedia.org 		You plan to have travelling parties go out village to village preaching and distributing my books in Telegu language is very important. Do it nicely.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 13

Morning Walk - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Who is my disciple? First of all let him follow strictly the disciplined rules.
Devotee: As long as one is following, then he is...
Prabhupāda: Then he is all right.
Lecture SB 06.01.47 - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to establish this science. Our real mission is how the human society will be happy. That is the duty of all saintly persons.
Conversation - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Because they are spiritually enlightened. That is the cause of brightness. And materially involved—moroseness. Because it is ignorance. Material life means life of ignorance, and spiritual life means life of enlightenment. That is the difference. Material life is called tama. Tama means darkness.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 14

Morning Walk - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Neophyte devotee is not on the topmost platform. He's learning. Neophyte means learning.
Makhanlāl: The neophyte devotee who's following the principles of sādhana-bhakti is still considered pure devotee?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.
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vanipedia.org 		When one is devotee, he'll chant more and more. He'll aspire, "If I could get millions of tongues and trillions of ear, then I could finish." That is devotee. And one is thinking how to finish it by chanting once, he's not devotee. That is neophyte stage. Therefore the regulation is you must chant sixteen rounds at least. Because he'll simply try to avoid it by his so-called intelligence.
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vanipedia.org 		Makhanlāl: It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
Prabhupāda: Not possible, but he has to do it. This is offense, to think that "I have chanted once; my all sinful activities are now neutralized." This is offense. Nāmno balād yasya hi pāpa-buddhiḥ. This is the offense.
Lecture SB 06.01.48 - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Sinful activities are sinful activities. It may be, according to the material calculation, these are good sinful activities and these are bad sinful activities. No, sinful activities are sinful activities. And what is our sinful activity? As soon as we forget Kṛṣṇa, everything we do, that is sinful.
Conversation A - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Śrutikīrti: Hari-śauri looks like he can give a very good massage. He looks like he can give a very good massage.
Prabhupāda: Mmm. Hari-śauri's one defect is he cannot cook. (laughter) Otherwise he is duplicate. Except cooking. He knows very good cooking.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He can eat though. He can eat prasāda.
Śrutikīrti: So I can travel and cook?
Prabhupāda: He can... A young man must eat. Why one should be like me?
Conversation B - Detroit
Mother Supplies Milk, and You are Killing the Mother - 0141
09:43 minutes from a conversation in Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Milk is nothing but transformation of the blood. So instead of taking the blood, take the transformation and live nicely, like honest gentlemen. No. They are not even gentlemen. Rogues, uncivilized. If you want to take meat, you can kill some insignificant animals like hogs and dogs which have no use. You can eat them, if you at all eat. That was allowed, hogs and dogs are allowed. Because no gentleman class will take meat. It is lower class. So they were allowed, "All right, you can take hogs, śvapaca."


Go-up.png 1976 - June 15

Morning Walk - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Makhanlāl: In the Upadeśāmṛta, in the eleventh verse, it says that if one takes his bath even once in the Rādhākuṇḍa he immediately awakens his love for Kṛṣṇa. I was wondering, some of those who have had the opportunity to take bath in Rādhākuṇḍa, it seems though it may take some time. I was wondering, is that because we don't see time in the proper perspective?
Prabhupāda: Why do you go to Rādhākuṇḍa, unless there is some awakening of Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Gaura-Nitāi Deity Installation - Detroit
Lecture SB 06.01.49 - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		There is no question of cast, creed, nationality, color, richness. No. Everyone has got the tongue, by the grace of God. Everyone can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. So just continue and be happy.
Conversation A - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Here in our institute, we teach all the students practically how to become God conscious. Theoretical knowledge will not help us. There must be practical behavior.
Conversation B - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Now you all together make this Vedic planetarium very nice, so that people will come and see. From the description of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, you prepare this Vedic planetarium. How do you like this idea, Vedic planetarium?
Ambarīṣa: It seems like a very nice idea.
Prabhupāda: You also like? So finance this project. (laughter) Vedic planetarium.
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Māyāpur. My idea is to attract people of the whole world to Māyāpur. So we are just trying to acquire three hundred fifty acres of land from the government. It is going on under consideration. Some men are against and some are in favor. But those who are against, they have counted ninety?
Hari-śauri: Ninety against, two thousand for.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Conversation C - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		If you remain to your principles, you can make the whole world your disciple. Pṛthivīṁ sa śiṣyāt.
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vanipedia.org 		I have established so many centers. So I have to go from one center to another just to encourage them. Otherwise I am old enough. I am eighty years. So traveling is not very good job for me, but still I do it just to encourage them.
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vanipedia.org 		If you take advantage of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement cooperatively, it will be very, very good for the whole human society. And if your America takes up this call very seriously, others will follow.
Conversation D - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Jayādvaita: Read again. "Therefore it behooves one to approach a bona fide spiritual master who can give one proper guidance for executing the purpose of life. All Vedic literatures advise us to approach a bona fide spiritual master to get free from the perplexities of life, which happen without our desire."
Prabhupāda: So, whether you have approached such spiritual master, that you can discuss. This is the necessity of approaching a spiritual master
Letter to Bhavabhuti written from Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Madras especially they are losing interest in Deity worship. Sometimes the political party is insulting. These atheists class of men who have done this, they should be converted into theism by preaching Bhagavad-gita.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the idea of exchanging our books for Russian books, unless we find sellers in India for Russian books (in English language), what will be the value of getting their books. You must ask the prominent book dealers in India what books from Russia (in English) are in demand and to what extent. Then when we exchange our books with the Russians.
Letter to Riddha written from Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the Rathayatra festival, you can hold it in the warm months, just like in Melbourne, the festival is held in January. Pusta Krsna Swami is going to arrange to have Jagannatha Deities sent from Puri if there is no one expert enough to make Jagannatha Deities in South Africa.
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vanipedia.org 		There is good potency there in South Africa and the Europeans are also taking up Krishna Consciousness seriously so continue enthusiastically to preach and distribute books and develop a nice center in Durban.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 16

Morning Walk - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They say that "Thou shalt not kill," that's okay, but this is an impossible instruction.
Prabhupāda: This is rascaldom.
Hariśauri: That's a common philosophy. The Ten Commandments are there, but they're an ideal that no one can ever achieve.
Prabhupāda: Then you go to hell, rascaldom.
Lecture SB 06.01.50 - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		The soul is pure spirit, and other twenty-four elements, they are different varieties of material covering. In this way we are entangled, and we are desiring, and nature is giving us facility to enjoy our desires. This is the material world. So unless we are free from all kinds of desires, we shall be entangled with these elements. Therefore bhakti, bhakti-mārga, devotional service, means no more material desire.
Conversation - Detroit
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vanipedia.org 		This is practical training. That is wanted. Simply theoretical knowledge... That is helpful, but training, that is the greatest need, that we have to create a set of first-class men. Then the world will be all right. That is an attempt of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, to make first class, ideal.


Jun 17 to 21 - Toronto

Go-up.png 1976 - June 17

Lecture Arrival - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Our education should be based on that "I am not this body." Ahaṁ brahmāsmi. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's movement. Caitanya Mahāprabhu declared that "I am not a brāhmaṇa, I am not a kṣatriya, I am not a gṛhastha, I am not this or that." Designations. He refused to accept these designations. But He introduced Himself as the servant of the servant of the servant of God, Kṛṣṇa. Gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ.
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vanipedia.org 		One has to study. That is, it is called kṛṣṇa-tattva. Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means kṛṣṇa-tattva, the science of Kṛṣṇa, or the science of God. So Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very seriously started this movement, Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, to understand the science of Kṛṣṇa very easily.
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vanipedia.org 		Suppose if we say that you become peaceful, you become honest, you become wise. These instructions are not meant for East or West. It is meant for everyone. So our, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to educate people how to become wise, honest, truthful, believer in God, so on, so on. This is the movement. So we think that you shall take seriously this movement.
Lecture SB 07.06.01 Excerpt - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		This is religion. This is called bhagavata-dharma, to understand this philosophy, that God is the supreme master and I am His eternal servant. My duty is to serve God. That's all.
Conversation A - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		I do not wish to interfere. You manage now. I want to see that you are managing without my interference. Now practically I want to concentrate more, or absolutely I want to do that. But sometimes this mismanagement gives me too much anxiety. I do not wish to see that somehow or other we have built up a nice institution, on account of lack of management it may be hampered. That is my only anxiety.
Conversation B - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Hari-śauri: One of the major issues always in political battles is how would you control inflation, how would you solve the inflation problem?
Prabhupāda: Inflation problem, I suggested, make gold coins as medium of exchange.
Hari-śauri: That means that there'll be the same..., it'll have the same value all over the world.
Prabhupāda: No question of value. Money has to be paid by real money—gold, silver. No paper.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 18

Morning Walk - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Is sympathetic with this movement. Everyone wants godlessness. And this movement is preaching about God, so nobody likes us.
Lecture Initiation - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		The advancement of knowledge and consciousness. So for that divyam, knowledge, one has to be initiated. Divyam. Diksa means beginning of transcendental knowledge.
Lecture SB 07.06.02 - Toronto
We Cannot Manufacture our own Ways of Spiritual Advancement - 0774
05:24 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.06.02 in Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		We have to follow the injunction of the śāstra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible. Anyone who transgresses the regulative principles recommended in the śāstra, śāstra-vidhi, yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya, giving up śāstra-vidhi, vartate kāma-kārataḥ, whimsically does something, na siddhiṁ sa avāpnoti, he never gets success. He'll never be successful.
Conversation - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		The ārambha, ārambha means endeavor, very gorgeous. The result is sand and rocks. Going to the moon planet, the ārambha was so much expensive. And the result is to bring some sand and rocks. This is hoax.
Interview A - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Jāhnavā devī was-Nityānanda's wife. She became. If she is able to go to the highest perfection of life, why it is not possible to become guru? But, not so many. Actually one who has attained the perfection, she can become guru. But man or woman, unless one has attained the perfection.... Yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā sei guru haya. The qualification of guru is that he must be fully cognizant of the science of Kṛṣṇa. Then he or she can become guru.
Interview B - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		The children should be trained up in such a way that they will be able to control the senses and act only for the benefit of guru. That is brahmacārī. They have no personal interest. So they are collecting daily not less than one lakh of rupees, up to five lakh, these boys. But their expenditure at my direction. Not a single paisa they can spend in their own discretion. They are laboring hard to get this collection, but the money is mine. This is the arrangement. Now in Hyderabad they immediately require two lakhs. The money is there, they can take it, but they are asking by telegram my permission. I'll give them, but this is the arrangement.
Letter to GBC Secretaries written from Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		It is not good that they are always asking me for money. The money is coming from the BBT in Bombay and it will have to be paid back in due course of time.
Letter to Saucarya written from Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Simply chant Hare Krishna and follow the four regulative principles and Lord Krishna will surely give you all protection.
Letter to Saurabha written from Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		I like the idea of being near the west gate as I want to go to the Ganges daily and during the summer I can take bath there.
Letter to Tejiyas written from Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		I was very pleased to see how you are getting top-ranking men to read my books. That is real preaching. If all the government officers at least purchase some of our books, it will be a great credit so do it very nicely.
Letter to Tusta Krsna written from Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		You should not have the four symbols of Visnu on the four corners of the temple. Make the temple in our Vrindaban style. Three domes are there, over the Deities, and then you can have 2 domes or either side in the front.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 19

Morning Walk - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		You are thinking that by adjustment of this external energy, you will be able to live very happily. Is it possible? You are trying, problem after problem, problem after problem. So you are already misled.
Lecture SB 07.06.03 - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		So if you want to change the mentality of the human being as it is going on, the dog's mentality, if you want to change it, you cannot do it by assembly in the United Nation and passing resolution. That is not possible. You must take to bhāgavata-dharma. Then everything will be all right. Otherwise, it is not possible.
Conversation Home Engagement - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		We can see that it is the desire of the pure devotee. Whatever Kṛṣṇa wants, He does not have to work at all. His desires are immediately fulfilled simply by His desiring. Everything is fulfilled.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 20

Morning Walk - Toronto
Stop Death - Then I shall See Your mysticism - 0213
06:05 minutes from a morning walk in Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		The problem is that we are suffering in this material world life after life, and our aim is how to again go back to home, back to Godhead. That they do not know. They are showing some mysticism. Stop death. Then I shall see your mysticism. What is this nonsense mysticism? Can you stop death? Is it possible? Then what is the meaning of this mysticism? All bogus. My problem is that I am accepting one body and suffering, because as soon as I get this material body, I have to suffer.
Lecture BG 09.03 - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to enlighten people so that they can accept these principles of Bhagavad-gītā. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission is para-upakāra. And He advises everyone, especially Indians, to become guru. He said, āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra' ei deśa (CC Madhya 7.128). Every one of you, you become a guru, and try to deliver the persons where you are living.
Lecture SB 07.06.04 - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men." Therefore my request to persons who have joined this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, they should very carefully keep them as first-class men. People will appreciate and they will try to follow.
Here are Ideal Men - 0194
06:11 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.06.04 in Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		So where is that first-class man throughout the whole world? So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men." Therefore my request to persons who have joined this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, they should very carefully keep them as first-class men. People will appreciate and they will try to follow. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ. If there is a class of men first class, then people will appreciate.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 21

Morning Walk - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Temple is meant for rendering service to the Lord. So if anyone is rendering service to the Lord, he can live. But not for sense gratification. Those gṛhasthas who still have desire for sense gratification, they may live outside.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupāda: The goal of life is to go back to home, back to Godhead. If they do not go back to home, back to Godhead, then remain here, become a tree. Stand, for five thousand years. Sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati (Padma Purāṇa). Two millions you have to pass through. And each species, some thousands of years. And such two millions. So, how many years? Hmm? There are two millions of varieties of vegetables. And each item, if you pass, say hundred years. Then?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Two hundred million.
Prabhupāda: Two hundred millions years only for passing through the vegetables. Then you become, what is called, insects. That is also 1,100,000. In this way you get chance again to become a human being, and these rascals are wasting, four-wheel dog. (laughter) Dogs have four-legged, and we have four-wheeled. That's all. (laughter)
760621 - Morning Walk - Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		This was my dream, that a place should be there where we can get all nice foods, best foods, of milk. Kṛṣṇa is fulfilling our desire. Everything's there. Simply these rascals they do not know how to live or to eat. Everything there. Intelligence is there, everything is there.


Jun 21 to 30 - New Vrindaban

Go-up.png 1976 - June 21

Lecture Arrival - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		This modern civilization... It is not modern, but in modern civilization it has become very prominent, that to improve the economic condition. Economic condition means we improve the standard of sense gratification. This is called going on economic condition. But we require a little sense gratification.
Lecture SB 07.06.05 - Toronto
Strong in Body, Strong in Mind, Strong in Determination - 0195
05:07 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.06.05 in Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		So long we are stout and strong and we can work very nicely, the health is quite all right, take advantage of it. It is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for the lazy fellow. No. It is meant for the strong man: strong in body, strong in mind, strong in determination—everything strong-strong in brain. It is meant for them. Because we have to execute the highest goal of life.
Everyone is Trying to Become God - 0155
07:25 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.06.05 in Toronto
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vanipedia.org 		Sanātana-dharma means this bhakti-yoga. Because we have forgotten. Everyone is trying to become God. Now practice here how to become a servant of God. And if you are qualified, factually, that now you are rest assured that you have become a servant of God, that is bhakti-mārga.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 22

Morning Walk - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		My Guru Mahārāja wanted that some books should be published. So I tried my best, and he's giving success more than expectation. In the history nobody has sold religion, philosophical books in such large quantity.
Lecture SB 07.06.06 - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		We should not waste our time, either you act materially or spiritually. But materially we have no business, although we have taken it the material business as very important and spiritual business has no meaning. This is the sum and substance of modern civilization. But so far we are concerned—not only we; everyone—the human life is only meant for spiritual purpose. Not for material purpose.
Conversation A - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Nation - this word is not there in the Vedic language. There's no conception of nation. There is conception of varnasrama, everywhere. Not for any particular nation or any particular country, but everyone, according to quality - first-class men, second-class men, third-class men. That is there everywhere.
Conversation B - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Anyone who is Kṛṣṇa conscious, it is the duty to distribute it. It is his duty. When I came here, I never came here because American boys or people wanted me. They did not feel any need of my presence. But I came here, because it is my duty. My Guru Mahārāja ordered me. So one may think there is need or no need—it is the duty of Kṛṣṇa conscious persons to spread it.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 23

Conversation - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		One who has entered with the determination that "I must practice," so if he cannot practice, then why this makeshow that "I belong to Krsna consciousness movement. I am initiated." Why this farce?


Go-up.png 1976 - June 24

Lecture SB 07.06.08 - New Vrindaban
Family Attachment is the Greatest Impediment
to Advance in Krishna Consciousness - 0775
04:41 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.06.08 in New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Family attachment is the greatest impediment in the matter of advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but if the whole family is Kṛṣṇa conscious, that is very nice. Just like Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. He was a family man, but all of the, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, his wife, his children—and the best children is our Guru Mahārāja, best child...
Conversation A - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Less disease. Less brain-taxing. Everything is less. So balance time, utilize for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And if you have got temple, it is very happy life. Just for your food work little, and balance time engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is ideal life.
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vanipedia.org 		Krsna consciousness does not mean to keep a set of men lazy, who cannot work. That is not Krsna consciousness. Everyone must work to his capacity. Prescribed duties.
Conversation B - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Yes. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. There should be one nation under God, and one world government under God as well. Everything belongs to God, and we are all His sons. That philosophy is wanted.
Letter A to Ramesvara written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation, I am accepting the following devotees for brahminical initiation: Vamanajana das Adhikari, Dayalanitai das Adhikari, Gopavrndesa das brahmacari, Bahulavana das Adhikari, Brahmakarika dasi, Jaganmayi dasi, Rukmavati dasi, Viharini dasi, Jalasayi dasi, Khandita dasi, Darmada dasi, Anavijnani dasi, Srila dasi.
Letter B to Ramesvara written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		He has written that Santosa das met him at his residence in Vrindaban and proposed to give Srivatsa Goswami all of my books in exchange for a set of "Goswami literature" edited by Sri Puridasa; all this was done without my sanction. Why has Santosa asked him for this? No one told him to do so. Write to him and ask him who gave him permission to do this!
Letter to Aksayananda written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		I am very pleased to hear that Haihaya is doing nicely as manager. He is a good boy. Now train him to be first class manager.
Letter to Cyavana written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		I am glad to see that you are trying to remain engaged in Krishna's service. Concerning your engagement, why not come to New York immediately. I shall be there on July 9, and at that time I shall do the needful so that everything will be alright. You can meet me there at that time.
Letter to George Harrison written from New Vrindaban, USA
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Gurukula education should be trained up for their character. I have already mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Simply they should be able to read our books in English and sanskrit, and explain. That is compulsory.
Letter to Harikesa written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning Arabic translations, someone has already done one. He came to me in Bombay. Also, there is no need to give commentary on the Koran. There is no other religion in the world in truth than this Bhagavat-dharma.
Letter to Jayatirtha written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the idea of having a restaurant with the temple, if the temple and restaurant are mixed then it is not a good idea. However, if the restaurant is completely separate entrance and the activities of the restaurant do not mix with the temple at all, then it is possible, otherwise not.
Letter to Sri Modi written from New Vrindaban, USA
Letter to Srivatsa Goswami written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		I regret to inform you that this transaction has taken place without my sanction. We are not interested in book exchange. If you want our books you should purchase them from our Bombay centre.
Letter to Vasudeva written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		I am requesting the BBT in Los Angeles to forward you the books which you require. There is no need to deal through Australia. You can place your order directly to Ramesvara Maharaja and I am also notifying him to fill your order immediately so that your preaching work goes on there.
Letter to Vegavan written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Now you can try to introduce all my books into the Swedish Universities just as we are doing everywhere else. Approach them with all 54 volumes in English and also in all other languages.
Letter to Yasodanandana and Acyutananda written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean to keep a set of men lazy, who cannot work. That is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everyone must work to his capacity. Prescribed duties. They accuse us that we are escaping. Huh? What is that? We do not escape. We are always busy.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 25

Morning Walk - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Government means people in general, they are losing their independence. Personal independence, nil. Russia, cent percent, no personal independence. Simply like animals who live.
Lecture SB 07.06.09 - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		We have got everything in writing, in books, in instructions. Our duty is to take them rightly and utilize it properly, advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Sneha-pāśair. Otherwise we shall be on a platform of false love.
Conversation - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		The purport is that in the Kali-yuga, the government men, they will be all rogues and thieves. So the citizens also follow them.
Letter to Ramesvara written from New Vrindaban, USA

Go-up.png 1976 - June 26

Lecture SB 07.06.10 - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		We should be interested as spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi, as soul, my business is how to get out of this entanglement of repetition of birth and death and be situated in our original spiritual life, where eternal life, blissful life. That is our aim should be. But unfortunately, there is no such education. So in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we are trying to give this education, a standard education, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Conversation A - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Those who are sane men, they are appreciating that here is a movement actually for the benefit... It is not sentimental, cheating, bluffing, economic development. Do economic development. Why you forget your real business? Tat-prayāso na kartavyo yena āyur... What is that? Vyayaḥ param, simply wasting the valuable time of our life.
Conversation B - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		If you take a piece of coal, you can wash it hundreds and thousands of times, it never becomes white. And these are material things, but spiritually you can reform. It doesn't matter. If one comes to the spiritual platform then everything is possible. Otherwise not.
Conversation C - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		This is the basic principle of our Bhaktivedanta (Book Trust)—no saving. As soon as you have got some money, print books, print books. Don't keep it. If you print books, some day somebody will read. But if we keep money, it creates disturbance. I am therefore always insisting, "Print books, Print books." Or construct temple, this building, that building. There is no need of keeping money.
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vanipedia.org 		A child, he's talking so many foolish things. Sometimes we reply, "Yes, yes, we know." But we don't take seriously anything, anything spoken by a child. So these rascals may go on talking so many things, but we haven't got to take care of all of them. We have to do our own business. Let the dog bark on, the caravan will pass. So not that we have to take care of the barking of the dog always.
Conversation D - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: (laughs) Kṛṣṇa Balarāma used to practice race with the birds.
Hari-śauri: Now our boys are racing with the cows.
Prabhupāda: This is childish game. This nature is there in Kṛṣṇa.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		South India is a good field for our books. The library party of Mahabuddhi and Bhugarbha are doing very nicely. Indeed there is a good potential or better for our books in Indian libraries and universities. Try to get them visa extension or do the needful in this connection to see that this program goes on increasing. This program is very much encouraging to me.
Letter to Jagannatha-suta written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		I very much like the idea, "Declaring our Dependence on God." The scientists can manufacture a big jet airplane 747, but they cannot manufacture a tiny mosquito, so what is their so-called declaration of independence.
Letter to Jayapataka written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Practically this institution is the real U.N. We have the co-operation from all nations, all religions, all communities, etc. It will be an international institute. To see the planetarium and how things are universally situated has nothing to do with sectarian ideas. It is a scientific presentation of spiritual life.
Letter to Mahabuddhi and Library Party written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		I remember when I sold the first one volume personally to the Archeological University. I sold them personally long ago. Now you must work conjointly with the other library men in India. Don't let there be undue competition amongst our men. Do combinedly, it is very much encouraging to me.
Letter to Manager, American Express International written from New Vrindaban, USA

Go-up.png 1976 - June 27

Morning Walk - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Animal or a man, when it is dead, then it is the same value. Is there any difference of value between the animal body and man's body?
Lecture SB 07.06.11-13 - New Vrindaban
Increase Detachment for this Material Life - 0190
05:20 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.06.11 in New Vrindaban
Conversation - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		This whole science is understood through service only. Everything becomes revealed. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ (BRS. 1.2.234). Revelation. Everything is revelation. Unless one is very sincere servant, there is no revelation.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 28

Lecture SB 07.06.14 - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		When death comes, you are unable to do anything; you have to immediately leave the scene. And according to the laws of nature you'll have to accept a body according to your karma. This is the law of nature.
Conversation A - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		We have got about twenty GBC's for looking after the whole world affair, and above the GBC, I am there, and under the GBC's there are presidents, treasurers, secretaries in each and every center.
Conversation B - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Yes, that is the only life, to think of publication and distribution. I am very weak nowadays. Still, I am working.
Conversation C - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Nṛṇam means all men. It is not there is no discrimination, that only the Hindus, only the Indians, or only the so-called brāhmaṇas can be turned. Everyone can be turned. That is the injunction. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to do that, trying everyone to become a bona fide brāhmaṇa. Without becoming a brāhmaṇa you cannot become Vaiṣṇava. So this reformatory process is recommended in the śāstras.
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vanipedia.org 		First of all, you must forget that this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not Hinduism. It is Vaiṣṇavism. Vaiṣṇava means Viṣṇu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and one who loves Viṣṇu or loves God, he is Vaiṣṇava. So Hinduism is not like that. Present conception of Hinduism, they have got so many demigods. Demigods are there in the Vedas, but demigod worshipers, they are all materialistic persons.


Go-up.png 1976 - June 29

Lecture SB 07.06.15 - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		We should also learn that Kṛṣṇa has given us this belly, so He has provided also the eatables. That is real philosophy. It is not recommended that you get more than what you require.
Conversation A - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Our business is to stop slaughter. Meat-eating we cannot stop. Certain persons, they must eat. They are fourth-class and then fifth-class men. There are four classifications—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra and caṇḍāla. Caṇḍālas, they will remain, and they are eating.
Conversation B - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to please Kṛṣṇa. That is the whole program. In all other business there is no question of pleasing Kṛṣṇa. When they declare war, one nation to another, there is no question of pleasing Kṛṣṇa. They're pleasing their whims.


Jun 30 - Wheeling, WV

Go-up.png 1976 - June 30

Conversation A - Wheeling WV
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vanipedia.org 		Darby: But I have never heard anything of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta, and I wondered if you would tell me a little bit about him, if you would.
Prabhupāda: What shall I say? He was my spiritual master, and whatever he taught, we are speaking, that's all. We don't talk any nonsense.


Jun 30 - New Vrindaban

Go-up.png 1976 - June 30

Lecture SB 07.06.16 - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		We are born, every one of us born and nourished by this material nature. This is a fact, one can see. So who is the father? The mother is there, material nature, and we are children there. There must be father.
Conversation B - New Vrindaban
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vanipedia.org 		The real guru is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is guru. Not only for Arjuna, for everyone. So if we take instruction from Kṛṣṇa and abide by that order, instruction, then our life is successful. That is our mission. Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means accept Kṛṣṇa as guru. Don't divert your attention. We don't say that "I am Kṛṣṇa." We never say that. We simply ask people that "You abide by the order of Kṛṣṇa."
Letter to Giriraja written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning our proposal to be presented to the Parliament, anyone coming from ISKCON should be given permanent residence. India's original culture and religion is being spread all over the world, and out of their religious feeling if they come to stay in Vrindaban especially, why the government should harass them.
Letter to Satsvarupa Goswami written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		If we introduce so much emphasis on style of kirtana, then simply imitation will go on. Devotional emotion is the main thing.
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vanipedia.org 		Concerning the installation of Deities of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaja Prabhupada and myself, you have my permission to have them for the Chicago temple.
Letter to Sriman Arjunan written from New Vrindaban, USA
Letter to Upendra written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		So far the Fiji constitution is concerned, where it says: "supplying needs to the sick, poor, and orphans, etc." That is not our program. We distribute prasadam to everyone, not particularly to the needy. We make no discrimination, rich or poor.
Letter to Vasudeva written from New Vrindaban, USA
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vanipedia.org 		In connection with our ISKCON project in Fiji, I beg to inform you that we are managing our Krishna Consciousness Movement by the Governing Body Commission, GBC. We have got about 20 GBC's looking after the whole world affair, and above the GBC I am there.


   
 
   
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