A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - October 1977

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Oct 1 - Bombay

Oct 2 to 31 - Vṛndāvana

1977 - October 02

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: That is my concern, that such huge, huge establishment, if properly, regularly not managed, then again everything will be finished.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I don't think that that's going to happen, Śrīla Prabhupāda. We're too much indebted to you to allow what you have established to go..., to become spoiled.
Prabhupāda: Please see to that.

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: In this condition, even I cannot move my body on the bed. Only chance you should give me—let me die little peacefully, without any anxiety. I have given in writing everything, whatever you wanted—my will, my executive power, everything. Disaster will happen if you cannot manage it. Hm?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, we do not want any disaster to happen. Our only business as your sons and servants is to maintain what you have established. Even if we don't increase it, if we just maintain it...
Prabhupāda: Yes.


1977 - October 03

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		For me, either live or die, I don't mind. But if you are trying for my life, try it very seriously. That is my formula. No negligence.


1977 - October 04

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Hari-śauri: Last June we were doing twenty-four hours.
Prabhupāda: That is real business. These astrologer are karmīs. We have nothing to do with the karmī.
Hari-śauri: Their measurement of happiness and distress is how much nice wife and children they get and how much money they get.


1977 - October 05

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: My point is, I don't wish to keep money in the bank. Invest in printing.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda. And now we are making a big go-down in Bombay, a professional go-down for BBT.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Of course, if I die, there is nothing to be ruined. You are all participants. So organize this farm project, simple living. Human life is meant for God realization. Try to help them.

vanipedia.org 		Paramānanda: We're always feeling your presence very strongly, Śrīla Prabhupāda, simply by your teachings and your instructions. We're always meditating on your instructions.
Prabhupāda: Thank you. That is the real presence. Physical presence is not important.


1977 - October 06

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		If I want to die, this is the way of peaceful death.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Produce your own food and produce your own cloth. Don't waste time for luxury, and chant Hare Krsna. This is success of life.


1977 - October 07

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The gurukula is meant for this purpose. Teach them, and let them go around the world to teach. Taroho e bhava-sindhu. Durlabha mānava-janama sat-saṅge, taroho e bhava-sindhu re (Bhajahu Re Mana). This is our mission.


1977 - October 10

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What news? Bhavānanda Mahārāja, what news?
Bhavānanda: Everything is nice at Māyāpur, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Give me little detail.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		For myself, I may live or not live. It doesn't matter... I don't want, but if there is force... I am living still.


1977 - October 11

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Bhakti-caru: Bone or flesh, your body is divine, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Bone is being separated from life. Here, by example, the matter is different from life. Matter is inferior; life is superior. From my life you can... Why the Persian people love me?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: They respect your philosophy, Śrīla Prabhupāda. They understand the philosophy. They respect the philosophy.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: I was very happy when I heard, respectable gentlemen, out of love they are washing dishes. You know that? Ātreya Ṛṣi told me.
Hari-śauri: Yes. In Iran. Some important people in Iran, just out of some..., to do some service, they're even going in the restaurant and assisting by washing the dishes, and they're bringing things here and there.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Phew. It's really devotional.


1977 - October 12

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		It is useless. Not useless-inferior. Real? That jīva-bhūta, which is sustaining. Thank you very much. Print books, and as I have given in my will, half, again print, and half spent for propaganda as you like. In this way go on.


1977 - October 13

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Don't keep Indian culture airtight, and don't keep American money for sense gratification. Use it for Kṛṣṇa. So they are doing that. And Kṛṣṇa is giving them intelligence. Bhakti-yogaṁ dadāmi tam.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		There is a story. A bridegroom was selected. So, the other party, bride's party, they inquired how the bridegroom was quite qualified. So they said, "He's a doctor." Then they inquired, "What kind of doctor? Doctor of philosophy, doctor of medicine or...?"
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Dhṛṣṭadyumna: My brother is an architect, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and he's helping us to design the community plan for the small village and the temple. He's working very hard to help set up an ideal Vedic community. So...
Prabhupāda: Keep always engaged yourself in Kṛṣṇa activity. That is wanted. Jaya.


1977 - October 14

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		We do not want liberation. We want to serve the purpose of the Gosvāmīs, in association with pure devotees. To stop birth and death is not our purpose. Tāṅdera caraṇa-sebi-bhakta-sane bās, janame janame hoy ei abhilāṣ.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: So this japa, mahā-mantra-japa, and Bhāgavata-pāṭha, that I am doing.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And what?
Prabhupāda: Śrīmad-Bhāgavata-pāṭha. So either read Bhāgavata or chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. And let me lie down like this, that's all, as it is going on.
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa has become everything. After Brahmā has stolen the original cowherds boys and cows and calves, Kṛṣṇa has expanded Himself. So on account of Kṛṣṇa's expansion, the cowherdsmen got a special attraction. First of all they were angry. The cowherdsmen were on the top of the hill. They did not like to come down. But on account of Kṛṣṇa, the boys were very, very attracted, and they immediately come down with special affection.


1977 - October 15

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay. We'll just talk amongst ourselves and decide what you should take.
Prabhupāda: But don't give much.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Ten thousand loving salesmen who are working day and night without asking any salary.
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Make it an ideal institution.


1977 - October 16

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Yes. It is a nasty world. (devotees chuckle) The only safety is to take shelter of Rāma. Harer nāma harer nāma... (CC Adi 17.21). Kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ (CC Adi 17.31). When there are so many material inconveniences... Tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā (CC Adi 17.31). Very nasty world.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: I want to see doctor... (Bengali) Where is Tamāla?
Girirāja: Call Tamāla Kṛṣṇa. Call Tamāla Kṛṣṇa. The doctor said that it should help the blood to go to the heart, so it should be always towards the heart. Prabhupāda started telling him it should be towards the heart.
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		from higher planets, they fall down with water, and then again, like bubbles, begins from water, life. As the water dries up, then vegetables, and then... Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa... (Padma Purāṇa). Then moving animals and ants, reptiles. In this way, birds, beast, then four-legged animals, then uncivilized man, then civilized man with Vedic knowledge, then God realization. This is the process.


1977 - October 17

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Jīvo vā māro vā. Because we are going to accept eternity, so appearance and disappearance of this body is no a very important thing. Nitya-līlā, eternal life—that is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Where you are preaching now?
Acyutānanda: I was in Calcutta during the Māyāpur affairs. Then I went to South India. Now I'm going to America. My stay in India may be terminated. And I received American passport. I'm able to travel now. Rāmeśvara Prabhu is sending me a ticket.


1977 - October 18

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I want association of Vaiṣṇava. You are all pure Vaiṣṇavas. You have sacrificed everything, material comforts, for Kṛṣṇa's sake. That is Vaiṣṇava. Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.1.11). You have no other desire. You Europeans, Americans, you are born amongst material desires. And when you become free from material desires... Therefore you are all Vaiṣṇava, anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam (CC Madhya 19.167). So you are so merciful.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		This initiation. I have deputed my disciples. Is it clear or not?... You have got the list of the names?... And if by Kṛṣṇa's grace I recover from this condition, then I shall begin again, or I may not be pressed in this condition to initiate. It is not good.
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

1977 - October 19

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

1977 - October 20

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Hari-śauri: Do you think he is a good doctor?
Prabhupāda: Who is good? (laughs) Everyone is good; I am bad.
Hari-śauri: Actually, you're the best doctor, Śrīla Prabhupāda, because you're the only one who can cure our material diseases all in one. They can make some adjustment, but you can bring complete finish for all material disease.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: What is the amount?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Total amount? Total amount is ten lakhs, sixty thousand. It's now transferred. I have the receipts locked as before. And they're duly endorsed.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They're endorsed to the head office, Parliament Street, Delhi.
Prabhupāda: Now what you have got?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The fixed deposit slips. The actual receipts.


1977 - October 21

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Gravity should be maintained. And laughing means taking things trifling. That is not allowed. This is the etiquette. That is what we are teaching. You are simple, but this is the etiquette. Understand me right or not?
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Śruta-gṛhītayā. And śruta-gṛhītayā is Vedānta knowledge, not sentimental. Śruta-gṛhītayā. That is sound knowledge. Discuss Bhāgavatam daily, as much as possible. Everything will be clarified. Because Bhāgavata is the essence.


1977 - October 22

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Svarūpa Dāmodara: So whatever Your Divine Grace instructs us, we are ready to serve.
Prabhupāda: If you move me from here, I will immediately die. (pause) I cannot live.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Everyone wants to take pleasure by his own knowledge, that "I know something," but in the presence of Kṛṣṇa this conception will not help. We have to submit. You have to. There is no other alternative: na tāṁs tarkeṇa yojayet. That is the difference between Kṛṣṇa-ites and the Māyāvādīs. It is clear?


1977 - October 24

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Very good news. Now can see. This material body may remain or not remain, this movement will push on.(?) That is wanted. Where is such thing throughout the whole world? Hmm?


1977 - October 25

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Instead of dying, train jerking (laughs) or aeroplane jerking, why not parikramā? Die or live, it doesn't matter.
Haṁsadūta: Parikramā is noble.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Either in palanquin or make a stretcher, but have parikramā.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Means of livelihood. It is recommended for everyone: trees, vegetables - that is his real means of livelihood, not this industry. Trees, vegetables, they are the real means of life, equally, in all seasons.


1977 - October 26

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: I am puzzled.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: If you continue to desire to live, Śrīla Prabhupāda... If you continue to desire to live, then Kṛṣṇa will fulfill your desire.
Prabhupāda: In this condition I do not wish to live.
Pañca-draviḍa: The purpose of this medicine, though, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is to cure the condition.


1977 - October 27

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Believe in Kṛṣṇa. Hmm. I am hearing kīrtana how very nice here. It is stated in the śāstra, nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād bhavauṣadhāc chrotra... (SB 10.1.4). This is the medicine, panacea, for material disease. So kindly let me hear kīrtana as far as possible, long as I live.

vanipedia.org 		Who has got such substantial books? Nowhere in the world.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		They bow down like stick. This is called daṇḍavat. Daṇḍa means "stick"; vat means "like." When you fall down, just like a stick falls, before superior, that is called daṇḍavat. Not by simply saying daṇḍavat... Eh, one must fall down.


1977 - October 28

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		In business field, if the bank sees that you have got fifty percent, they will advance. If you have got fifty percent, any transaction, you want to do some business.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Bengali people are easy-going. So therefore they can manufacture all these humors. (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Would your Guru Mahārāja tell a lot of Bengali proverbs, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hm. I learned from him.


1977 - October 29

Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: No. Our is spiritual education, no medical education.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right. That's the point.
Prabhupāda: Preliminary health principles, they can learn.


1977 - October 30

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Where is the money? (Bengali) We cannot put fire in the flesh.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: (quietly) Can't put good money after bad money.
Prabhupāda: (Bengali) ...you have lost already fifty thousand.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Hmm. Everywhere. Two hundred men already subscribed. If we increase subscribers— many, many.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You like that idea?
Prabhupāda: Why not?


1977 - October 31

Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: You give him the scheme and ask him, and if he wants to discuss it, please come and see me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All right. But I won't have the amendment to the scheme until tomorrow night.
Prabhupāda: No, no. Amendment you can give later on. You can give the scheme.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		This is Indian culture, para-upakāra. Indian culture is not meant for exploiting others. Para-upakāra. That is human life, para-upakāra. And that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission.
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Krsna expanded as everything; therefore their affection increased. Now this chapter is ended after describing how their affection was overflowed on account of Krsna's expansions.


   
 
   
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