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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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<div id="SB2434_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="100" link="SB 2.4.3-4" link_text="SB 2.4.3-4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.4.3-4|SB 2.4.3-4, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"O my evening prayer, all good unto you. O my morning bath, I bid you good-bye. O demigods and forefathers, please excuse me. I am unable to perform any more offerings for your pleasure. Now I have decided to free myself from all reactions to sins simply by remembering anywhere and everywhere the great descendant of Yadu and the great enemy of Kaṁsa (Lord Kṛṣṇa). I think that this is sufficient for me. So what is the use of further endeavors?"</p>
<p>Śrīla Mādhavendra Purī said further:</p>
:mugdhaṁ māṁ nigadantu nīti-nipuṇā bhrāntaṁ muhur vaidikā
:mandaṁ bāndhava-sañcayā jaḍa-dhiyaṁ muktādarāḥ sodarāḥ
:unmattaṁ dhanino viveka-caturāḥ kāmam mahā-dāmbhikam
:moktuṁ na kṣāmate manāg api mano govinda-pāda-spṛhām
<p>"Let the sharp moralist accuse me of being illusioned; I do not mind. Experts in Vedic activities may slander me as being misled, friends and relatives may call me frustrated, my brothers may call me a fool, the wealthy mammonites may point me out as mad, and the learned philosophers may assert that I am much too proud; still my mind does not budge an inch from the determination to serve the lotus feet of Govinda, though I be unable to do it."</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3>
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<div id="KB47_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="51" link="KB 47" link_text="Krsna Book 47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 47|Krsna Book 47]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He had a farewell meeting with the gopīs, and, taking permission from them also, he mounted his chariot to start for Mathurā.</p>
<p>When Uddhava was about to leave, all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, headed by Mahārāja Nanda and Yaśodā, came to bid him good-bye and presented him with various kinds of valuable goods secured in Vṛndāvana. They expressed their feelings with tears in their eyes due to intense attachment for Kṛṣṇa. All of them desired a benediction from Uddhava. They desired to always remember the glorious activities of Kṛṣṇa and wanted their minds to be always fixed upon His lotus feet, their words to be always engaged in glorifying Him, and their bodies to be always engaged in bowing down as they constantly remembered Him. This prayer of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana is the superexcellent type of self-realization. The method is very simple: to fix the mind always on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, to talk always of Kṛṣṇa without passing on to any other subject matter, and to engage the body in Kṛṣṇa's service constantly. Especially in this human form of life, one should engage his life, resources, words and intelligence for the service of the Lord. Only such activities can elevate a human being to the highest level of perfection. This is the verdict of all authorities.</p>
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<div id="KB70_1" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="74" link="KB 70" link_text="Krsna Book 70">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 70|Krsna Book 70]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These are the waves of material existence, and as long as one remained in that Sudharmā assembly house he would not be affected by these six material waves. The Lord would say good-bye in all the sixteen thousand palaces, and again He would become one and enter the Sudharmā assembly house in procession with other members of the Yadu dynasty. After entering the assembly house, He used to sit on the exalted royal throne and would be seen to emanate glaring rays of transcendental effulgence. In the midst of all the great heroes of the Yadu dynasty, Kṛṣṇa resembled the full moon in the sky surrounded by multiluminaries. In the assembly house were professional jokers, dancers, musicians and ballet girls, and as soon as the Lord sat on His throne they would begin their respective functions to please the Lord and put Him in a happy mood. First of all the jokers would talk in such a way that the Lord and His associates would enjoy their humor, which would refresh the morning mood. The dramatic actors would then play their parts, and the dancing ballet girls would separately display their artistic movements. All these functions would be accompanied by the beating of mṛdaṅga drums and the sounds of the vīṇā, flutes and bells, followed by the sound of the muraja, another type of drum. To these musical vibrations, the auspicious sound of the conchshell would be added. The professional singers called sūtas and māgadhas would sing, and others would perform their dancing art.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB1719VrndavanaSeptember161976_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="175" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.19 -- Vrndavana, September 16, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.19 -- Vrndavana, September 16, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.19 -- Vrndavana, September 16, 1976|Lecture on SB 1.7.19 -- Vrndavana, September 16, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore ordinary person must be physically engaged. That is not physical, that is also transcendental. Always busy in some business of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is wanted. Not that, "Oh, I have become a great scholar and I have now learned how to become a great Vaiṣṇava. I chant sixty-four rounds, and think of my wife somewhere, and then good-bye to Govindajī and leave Vṛndāvana." These rascaldom do not follow. Govindajī drives such rascals away from Vṛndāvana. So Vṛndāvana, one who is living in Vṛndāvana, he must be very anxious how to spread the glories of Vṛndāvana-candra all over the world. That is wanted. Not that Vṛndāvana-candra is my private property and I sit down in a place and lick up. No, that is not wanted. That is not wanted. That is condemned by my Guru Mahārāja.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureExcerptLondonJuly251976_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="172" link="Lecture Excerpt -- London, July 25, 1976" link_text="Lecture Excerpt -- London, July 25, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture Excerpt -- London, July 25, 1976|Lecture Excerpt -- London, July 25, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So the whole world is engaged in sinful activities. You cannot expect from them any concession for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is not possible. Therefore we have to become humbler, tolerant, because real Kṛṣṇa consciousness means good-bye to this material world. We are no more interested with your, these big, big street, big, big buses or anything, whatever you think that is improvement, advancement.</p>
<p>So Kṛṣṇa conscious person are no more interested. Why not interested? They are disgusted. Why disgusted? No, because it is full of danger. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadām ([[Vanisource:SB 10.14.58|SB 10.14.58]]). Here everything appears to be very nice, but every step there is danger. So the Kṛṣṇa conscious person knows it, that although it is decorated very nicely. The New York is a big city. Twenty-four hours, "dungdungdungdungdungdung-guggugguggugguggug"—fire, always fire. Every minute there is a fire case. Saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka **. Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura's description of this material world as blazing fire... We see big, big cities in America, always in blazing fire. Still, they like this kind of life. But one who is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are no more interested, no more interested. They are interested back home, back to Godhead. Back to Godhead. Therefore our magazine is Back to Godhead. They are no more interested in front. They are going back to... (laughter) Therefore this name was given, Back to Godhead. They are trying: "No more we are so foolish.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1969 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithAllenGinsbergMay141969ColumbusOhio_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="16" link="Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 14, 1969, Columbus, Ohio" link_text="Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 14, 1969, Columbus, Ohio">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 14, 1969, Columbus, Ohio|Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 14, 1969, Columbus, Ohio]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. You told me in San Francisco. Yes.</p>
<p>Allen Ginsberg: So he heard two rounds of it. Okay. I have to take a plane today to a Catholic college in New York State. I'll be going back to New York at one o'clock, so I have to go back and pack and say good-bye to the students. It was a pleasure to see you here, lovely. So maybe we'll do it again in New York.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Allen Ginsberg: I'll call. Thank you for your words and thank you for letting me join you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: My... You are already chanting. But if we do together, it will be very nice.</p>
<p>Allen Ginsberg: So let's do something together in New York City this summer. I'm free all summer, so it's at your convenience this time 'cause I'll be free. I don't have any dates or appointments. So if you just let me know maybe two weeks or somebody let me know a few weeks in advance, then I can come down from the farm, spend a day with you and then we chant. I'd be happy to do that. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Give him that garland. (end)</p>
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<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationAugust11972London_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="37" link="Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London" link_text="Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London|Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (2): She said she wanted to see the Deities before leaving.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And she saw?</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Two months ago she came here for most of the aratik ceremony. The devotees came out to say goodbye to her, and she said, "Go back and do aratik."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: She can influence the whole Bombay, she's so...</p>
<p>Devotee (2): Oh, she knows everyone.</p>
<p>Dhanañjaya: We need a president like her for the board of trustees for London also.</p>
<p>Devotee: Has she had any assistance?(?)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. She is doing her best. She is nice.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): When is Mr. (indistinct) going to come?</p>
<p>Dhanañjaya: He's going to drive Prabhupāda to Kensington tomorrow.</p>
<p>Devotee: Tomorrow?</p>
<p>Dhanañjaya: Or Friday.</p>
<p>Devotee (2): He can't come before? He should come...</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: He comes almost every night actually. (more conversation)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And the Joshi is the manager here?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithKennethKeatingUSAmbassadortoIndiaOctober141972NewDelhi_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="42" link="Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi" link_text="Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi|Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ambassador: Give my regards to your wife. Bye.</p>
<p>Devotee: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Say good-bye, Sarasvatī.</p>
<p>Mrs. Keating: Where can you be reached? Anyplace?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: My American headquarters.</p>
<p>Mrs. Keating: The American...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, American headquarters.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Is it in there?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Mrs. Keating: Oh, fine, fine. Yes.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Today we received a telegram. Macmillan Company has just agreed to print Prabhupāda's Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Oh, really!</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Thirty-five thousand copies.</p>
<p>Ambassador: Oh!</p>
<p>Mrs. Keating: Oh, that's marvellous. It's a very good...</p>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithLordBrockwayJuly231973London_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="50" link="Room Conversation with Lord Brockway -- July 23, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Lord Brockway -- July 23, 1973, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Lord Brockway -- July 23, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Lord Brockway -- July 23, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, no. Any other day.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Sunday afternoon or something.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: More time.</p>
<p>Lord Brockway: Don't trouble to get up.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. I...</p>
<p>Lord Brockway: And thank you very much indeed. Thank you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You're so kind. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Take him to the car. Go.</p>
<p>Lord Brockway: And good-bye, all. (end)</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationwithMahadevasMotherandJesuitPriestJuly251973London_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="52" link="Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London" link_text="Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London|Garden Conversation with Mahadeva's Mother and Jesuit Priest -- July 25, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mother: Yes. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Good-bye.</p>
<p>Mother: Good-bye.</p>
<p>Jesuit Priest: Good-bye, thanks, good-bye.</p>
<p>Mother: Good-bye, all of you. Bye. (Break)</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: ...question that she said, he came to us because he was taking LSD and he had a false religious experience. And the question is now, if they have access to a true religious experience, why was he looking for a false religious experience? Why was Michael looking for a false religious experience from LSD if he had already got true religion? They didn't understand. Their best children are taking LSD because they can't get any satisfaction from their parents' religion.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: He answered that by saying he didn't have that supernatural grace.</p>
<p>Revatīnandana: Yeah, why not? That's pretty clear, actually. "Well, we love God. Yes, we love God." A steak and a glass of wine and God.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: I think a storm is coming.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary181974Hawaii_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="12" link="Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Anyone else?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: In English when we say, "Goodbye," that means "God be with you." Some God consciousness.</p>
<p>Pradyumna: They say, "Good morning. Good morning to you."</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Like one pig grunting at another pig.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "Good morning" means... Because it is English word... In England every morning is bad morning, because it is cloud. When they see one day that cloud is clear, they say, "Good morning." (japa) (break) ...similarly, a good soul means when there is no māyā, then he's good soul.</p>
<p>Bali-mardana: Or cloud.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? Cloud. māyā is cloud. So what is that cloud?</p>
<p>Sudāmā: Forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That cloud is when a soul desires to become the master. That is cloud. (japa)</p>
:kṛṣṇa bhūlīya jīva bhoga-vañchā kare
:pasate māyā tare japaṭiya dhare
<p>As soon as a soul desires to be enjoyer, then he is immediately captured by māyā. (japa) (break) ...see the land?</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithJesuitMay191975Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="81" link="Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Jesuit -- May 19, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa, jaya.</p>
<p>Jesuit: Thank you. We will pray for one another.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Jesuit: God bless you. Goodbye everybody. (leaves.)</p>
<p>Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You have got that canteloupe? No.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: No. Guruprasāda, you can get melon, honeydew melon now?</p>
<p>Guruprasāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Śrutakīrti: Okay. You made him run away. He said, "I must run away." (laughing) (end).</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithTwoLawyersandGuestMay221975Melbourne_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="88" link="Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, that's all right. You like, you sit down, and you go when it is finished. But how do you claim that it is your property?</p>
<p>Guest 2: Good-bye. (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is called māyā. This is māyā. The philosophy of māyā, māyā means what is not. Mā-yā. Mā means not, yā means this. So māyā means the conclusion, as you have made, that is not. That is not the fact. So we are claiming, "America is our", "Australia is our", "India is our". Nothing our. Everything God's. The best conclusion is, "It is God's property. God has given us to live. Let us thank God, feel obliged to Him, and glorify Him." That is our vision. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. You accept the real position, that nothing belongs to you, everything belongs to God. You also belong to God. Your body, yourself, everything belongs to God. This body is material body. That material energy, earth, water, air, fire—everything belongs to God. This sea belongs to God, water, vast water. You have not created, neither your forefather has created. So this body is made of earth, water, air, fire, five elements. So your, the body is also God's.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationWithYogiBhajanandJainMuniJuly211975SanFrancisco_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="152" link="Room Conversation With Yogi Bhajan and Jain Muni -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco" link_text="Room Conversation With Yogi Bhajan and Jain Muni -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With Yogi Bhajan and Jain Muni -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco|Room Conversation With Yogi Bhajan and Jain Muni -- July 21, 1975, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Suez Canal means whole Mediterranean.</p>
<p>Yogi Bhajan: Yes, Mediterranean. And there I have up to Singapore, Malaysia. So I said, "Well, you have forgotten writing down Burma, and you never wrote a word about India, so good-bye." That is not our territory. (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi) Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]).</p>
<p>Yogi Bhajan: (Hindi) We have the best attorney here in this area, and you are having a trouble with this temple. If you... Somebody if you can call, because in this area he is the best law attorney.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can take the address.</p>
<p>Devotee: We have their phone number.</p>
<p>Yogi Bhajan: We won that... Recently he won a very big case. This is our daily fight, but it comes on you sometimes. We fight it daily. We fight before it happens to us. If I was to buy this temple I would have insured the title in a suit case, and I would have filed the suit myself, but on the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes, well they had approved our moving in.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithReporterofTheStarOctober161975Johannesburg_3" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="217" link="Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg" link_text="Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg|Room Conversation with Reporter of The Star -- October 16, 1975, Johannesburg]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Thank you.</p>
<p>Reporter: Good-bye.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (break) You have done good because you are waiting for somebody's decision. So the decision-maker can change. Otherwise so many people are working so hard day and night; he is not getting even sufficient food. And another man, without working, he is getting so much money. How it is possible? Hm? So God is not an instrument of your whims. He is fully independent. That is God. Agatan gatan patiyase.(?) By His different energy He can..., does something which is impossible to be done. Take for example myself. I went to United States, unknown country, without any friend, without any hope, simply on theory (chuckles) that "I shall go and preach there," and with this expectation also, that "As soon as I shall ask them to give up all these habits, they will ask me to go away." (laughs) So in the face of so many odds and uncertainty, I went there, simply depending on my spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa, with this hope only, that "If they desire, everything can be done. But otherwise there is no hope. I am going there, hopeless, just to make an experiment. My other Godbrothers, they failed. All right, Guru Mahārāja asked me. In the beginning I did not do. Let me do it in this old age." So it became surprisingly success. Business started with forty rupees, and now we have got four crores.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationApril231976Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="85" link="Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne|Room Conversation -- April 23, 1976, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Why, thank you for your coming. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Give him prasāda.</p>
<p>Mr. Dixon: Good-bye. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...misleader. But he himself has no character. So here it is open secret, to keep a beautiful girl as secretary, everywhere in Europe and America. So where is purity? Purity? Marriage is a taboo, and keep secretary is very good job. And you can get secretary even free of charge. Rather, she will pay. So this is going on. In Vedic civilization marriage is one of the important function of life. As death is important function, birth is important function, similarly, marriage is also important function. Janma-mṛtyu-vivāha. So in this age everywhere, not only.... The marriage is now farce. This is the symptom of Kali-yuga. There will be no more marriage. Svīkāra eva codvāhe. Even there is marriage, there will be simply an agreement. That is happening, and it was written five thousand years ago. Svīkāra eva. Svīkāra means by agreement, signing agreement. No marriage function. Otherwise marriage is a.... According to Vedic system, if one has got some money, he will spend the money in three functions. When the child is born, very gorgeously he will spend money, give in charity. Always in the Bhāg... Nanda Mahārāja is giving in charity cows and money, and Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja is giving. Kṛṣṇa, as family man, He was giving in charity. So when the child is born, the horoscope is made, and to make the child happy, blessings of saintly persons, brāhmaṇas, they are given. Ordinary men also sumptuously fed. So bhūribhiḥ.(?)</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationMarch241977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="118" link="Room Conversation -- March 24, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- March 24, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- March 24, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- March 24, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Nobody speaks about Indira Gandhi. (laughter)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's like she never existed.</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: There's one big sign up that says, "When Mrs. I became All-I, then the people say, 'Goodbye.' " (laughter)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is a sign like that?</p>
<p>Pañcadraviḍa: Yes, a big sign. I think it's on Marine Drive.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: It's Diamond Point. There's one person, he changes the phrase every week based on the current topics.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Air-India.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: "When Mrs. I became All-I, the people said 'Goodbye.' " Also, on all the posters they put up for the election, I have heard, in one street, every poster, they have ripped down her face on, fifty posters. Everyone ripped the face off.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: There may be some investigations now.</p>
<p>Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Against her son.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we haven't seen it yet, but we've heard that there's a full-page feature story about our court case in Time magazine. Bali-mardana saw it.</p>
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