A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - May 1972


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

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

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



May 1 to 5 - Tokyo

1972 - May 01

Lecture - Tokyo
Lecture SB 02.09.02-3 - Tokyo


1972 - May 02

Lecture SB 02.09.06-14 - Tokyo
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Don't take advantage of eating and sleeping. Take advantage of these books! Then your life will be successful. My duty—I have given you so valuable things, day and night trying to convince you, each word to word. And if you don't take advantage of this, then what can I do for you?"
720502 - Lecture SB 02.09.06-14 - Tokyo
Letter to Bhakta dasa written from Tokyo
Letter to Giriraja written from Tokyo
Letter to Hansadutta written from Tokyo
Letter to Jagadisa written from Tokyo
Letter to Karandhara written from Tokyo
Letter to Kirtanananda written from Tokyo
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Tokyo


1972 - May 03

Lecture SB 02.09.13 - Tokyo
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Although we find in the neophyte devotee some bad behavior due to his past experience, so we should not take him as nondevotee. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ (BG 9.30). He is sādhu—if he sticks to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And the bad habits which are visible now, it will disappear. It will disappear. So we have to give chance. Because we see some bad habits of a devotee, we should not reject. We should give another chance. We should give another chance, because he has taken the right things, but to past behavior he appears to be again going to the māyā's clutches. So we should not reject, but we should give chance. One may take little more time to come to the standard, but we should give him chance. If he sticks to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, very soon all these defects will be disappearing. Kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā (BG 9.31). He will be completely a dharmātmā, mahātmā."
720503 - Lecture SB 02.09.13 - Tokyo
Letter to Bhagavan written from Tokyo
Letter to Citsukhananda written from Tokyo
Letter to Patita Uddharana written from Tokyo
Letter to Rupanuga written from Tokyo


1972 - May 04

Lecture SB 02.09.15 - Tokyo
Letter to Gurudasa written from Tokyo
Letter to Hrdayananda written from Tokyo
Letter to Karandhara written from Tokyo
Letter to Ksirodakasayi written from Tokyo


1972 - May 05

Lecture SB 02.09.16 - Tokyo
Conversation - Kyoto
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"The things are supplied by God because He is giving me all facilities to enjoy this material world to my heart's content by supplying all the ingredients. That is the material condition. So these foolish persons are taking as chance, but it is not chance. God is omnipotent. As soon as He understands that I want this, He gives me some facility so that I get it. So it is not chance. It is by arrangement of superior authority. But because they are atheist, they have no sense of God consciousness, they are taking as chance, that necessity creates that chance; automatically it is coming. Not automatically."
720505 - Conversation - Kyoto
Letter to Danavir written from Honolulu
Letter to Niranjana written from Honolulu
Letter to Nityananda written from Honolulu
Letter to Rishikumara written from Unknown Place
Letter to Rsabhadeva written from Honolulu
Letter to Sridama written from Honolulu
Letter to Trai written from Honolulu


May 6 to 17 - Hawaii

1972 - May 06

Lecture Arrival - Honolulu


1972 - May 09

Letter to Amogha written from Honolulu
Letter to Bali-mardana written from Honolulu
Letter to Bhavananda written from Honolulu
Letter to Damodara written from Honolulu
Letter to Rupanuga written from Honolulu
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu


1972 - May 10

Lecture - Honolulu
Letter to Anandavardhana (Axel Anderson) and Jogindra Vandana (John Berg) written from Honolulu
Letter to Cyavana written from Honolulu
Letter to Niranjana written from Honolulu
Letter to Nityananda written from Honolulu
Letter to Rupa Manohara, Vipina Purandara, Brajera Pakhala, Gopavrndapala and Kadambakanana written from Honolulu


1972 - May 11

Letter to Bhaktijana written from Honolulu
Letter to Gargamuni written from Honolulu
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Honolulu
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Honolulu


1972 - May 12

Letter to Bhagavan written from Honolulu
Letter to Karandhara written from Honolulu


1972 - May 13

Letter to Gurudasa written from Honolulu


1972 - May 14

Letter to Jadurani written from Honolulu
Letter to Jagadisa written from Honolulu
Letter to Jayananda, Trai and Rsabhadeva written from Honolulu
Letter to Radha Mohan written from Honolulu
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu


1972 - May 15

Letter to Giriraja written from Honolulu
Letter to Ranadhira written from Honolulu


1972 - May 16

Letter to Acyutananda written from Honolulu
Letter to Bhavananda written from Honolulu
Letter to Gurudasa and Yamuna written from Honolulu
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Honolulu
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Honolulu


1972 - May 17

Letter to Jayapataka written from Honolulu
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu


May 18 to 31 - Los Angeles

1972 - May 18

Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with these pair of cymbal. Now you are so many chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is my success."
720518 - Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles
Lecture - Los Angeles


1972 - May 19

Lecture SB 02.03.01 - Los Angeles
Letter to Aksoja written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jagadisa written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 20

Lecture SB 02.03.01-2 - Los Angeles
Letter to Dayananda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Don written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 21

Lecture - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"It is a pleasure for the male to please the female counterpart. That is originally created. Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir ahlādinī-śaktiḥ. These Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa love affairs is the originally there. Rādhārāṇī, the female counterpart, is the manifestation of ahlādinī-śakti, pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
720521 - Lecture - Los Angeles
Letter to Bibhu written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jayadeva written from Los Angeles
Letter to Niranjana written from Los Angeles
Letter to Ranadhira written from Los Angeles
Letter to Yadubara written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 22

Lecture SB 02.03.01-3 - Los Angeles
Letter to Amogha written from Los Angeles
Letter to Himavati written from Los Angeles
Letter to Syamananda written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 23

Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles
Letter to Cyavana written from Los Angeles
Letter to Friends written from Los Angeles
Letter to Mr. B. D. Joshi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sudama written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 24

Lecture SB 02.03.02-7 - Los Angeles
Letter to Giriraja written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 25

Lecture SB 02.03.08 and Initiation - Los Angeles
Conversation with the GBC - Los Angeles
Letter to Jayarge and Lindon Lomese written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 26

Lecture SB 02.03.09 - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So to get this body means I have got material desire This (indistinct), this is the philosophy. Anyone who has got this material body, beginning from Brahmā... He is considered the first creature within this universe, most intelligent, most learned, but still, because he has got this material body, he's not akāma, without any material desire. He has got material desire. He wanted to become the supreme head of one universe. Just like we try to become supreme head of a family, then of a society, then of a nation, of a community. Then I desire to be head also. Go on, go on, increasing, to lord it over. So, so long there will be desire to lord it over, then we have to accept a body. It doesn't matter what kind of body. It may be Brahmā's body, it may be cat's body, it may be man's body, it may be bird's body, it may be beast's body. That will depend on my desire. But if I have got any desire, material desire, to fulfill, then I must be prepared for accept next body, another."
720526 - Lecture SB 02.03.09 - Los Angeles
Conversation - Los Angeles
Letter to Gurudasa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Isho Kumar written from Los Angeles
Letter to Ksirodakasayi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Los Angeles
Letter to Manager of Sparkasse written from Los Angeles
Letter to Niranjana written from Los Angeles
Letter to Omkara written from Los Angeles
Letter to Puri Maharaj written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sudama written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 27

Lecture SB 07.05.22-32 Festival Nrsimha-caturdasi - Los Angeles - Los Angeles
Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Los Angeles
Lecture Purport to Bhajahu Re Mana - Los Angeles
720527 - Lecture BG The Yoga System - Los Angeles


1972 - May 28

Lecture SB 02.03.10 - Los Angeles
Conversation - Los Angeles
Letter to Balavanta written from Los Angeles
Letter to Bhagavan written from Los Angeles
Letter to Bhavananda written from Los Angeles
Letter to Deputy/Assistant Charity Commissioner written from Los Angeles
Letter to Gargamuni written from Los Angeles
Letter to Giriraja written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jayadvaita written from Los Angeles
Letter to Jyotirmayi written from Los Angeles
Letter to Maitreya, Mahasakti, Arijit, Mitravinda and Nandita Gokula written from Los Angeles


1972 - May 29

Lecture BG Introduction - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"'My dear Lord, I am not anxious for myself, because I have got the thing. I have no problem how to cross over the nescience or how to go to Vaikuṇṭha or to become liberated. These problems are solved.' Why? How you have solved? tvad-vīrya-gāyana-mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ: 'Because I am engaged always in glorifying your activities, so my problem is solved.' Then what is your problem? The problem is śoce: 'I am lamenting', śoce tato vimukha-cetasaḥ, 'those who are averse to You. Being averse to You, they are working so hard', māyā-sukhāya, 'for so-called happiness, these rascals. So I am simply lamenting for them'. This is our Vaiṣṇava philosophy. One who has taken shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, he has no problem. But his only problem is how to deliver the rascals who are simply working hard, forgetting Kṛṣṇa. That is the problem."
720529 - Lecture SB 02.03.11-12 - Los Angeles
Lecture SB 02.03.11-12 - Los Angeles


1972 - May 30

Lecture SB 02.03.13 - Los Angeles


1972 - May 31

Lecture SB 02.03.14-15 - Los Angeles
Letter to Vasudeva written from Los Angeles
Letter to Sankarsan written from Los Angeles