710203 - Conversation (Bengali and English) - Gorakhpur

Conversations by Date, 1971

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

710203R1-GORAKHPUR - February 3, 1971 - 19:34 Minutes

(Conversation with Hanuman Prasad Poddar)

Prabhupāda: Ratha-yātrā. (Bengali)

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: He is a gṛhastha. (Bengali) also sannyāsī.. (Bengali) Gṛhastha..

kibā vipra, kibā nyāsī, śūdra kene naya

yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei 'guru' haya

(CC Madhya 8.128)

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: "One has to learn the science of Kṛṣṇa, then he becomes spiritual master. It does not matter whether a sannyāsī or a gṛhastha."

I've known gṛhastha he was 1000 times better than so many sannyāsīs (laughs). (Bengali) Nityānanda prabhu—gṛhastha, Advaita prabhu— gṛhastha, (Bengali)

kibā vipra, kibā nyāsī, śūdra kene naya

yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei 'guru' haya

(CC Madhya 8.128)

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Mahāprabhu's the movement, it is very important. Systematically (Bengali conversation)

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Yato mat tato path.

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: Bhutva bhava sa maṇḍita.

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda:

Ataḥśrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi

na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ

(CC Madhya 17.136)

Hanuman: (Bengali conversation)

(04:07)

Prabhupāda: (Bengali) government service, government servant (Bengali) first of all, we are servant of Kṛṣṇa we have got claim. (laughs)

Hanuman: (Bengali)

(04:25)

Prabhupāda: īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam: (ISO 1) (Bengali conversation)

(06:49)

Prabhupāda: lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau (Bengali)

nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau sad-dharma-saṁsthāpakau

lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau tri-bhuvane mānyau śaraṇyākarau

rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena mattālikau

vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau

(Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka 2)

lokānāṁ hita-kāriṇau (Bengali)

(07:28)

patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ

(Bengali conversation)

Hanuman: (Bengali conversation)

(07:58)

Prabhupāda:

māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya

ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ

striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās

te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatim

(BG 9.32)

pāpa-yonayaḥ

(Bengali conversation)

(08:14)

kiṁ punar brāhmaṇāḥ puṇyā

bhaktā rājarṣayas tathā

(BG 9.33)

(Bengali conversation)

(08:30)

bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya janma haila yāra

janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra

(CC Adi 9.41)

(Bengali conversation)

(09:10)

it is the duty of every Indian

(Bengali conversation)

(09:23)

sarva-dharmān parityajya

mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja

(BG 18.66)

(Bengali conversation)

(09:52)

we are canvassing

(Bengali conversation)

(09:58)

kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam (SB 1.3.28)

(Bengali conversation)

(10:14)

I am very well pleased that you are . . . Certified that this is the greatest service to the humanity.

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: Thank you very much. (Bengali conversation)

(10:49)

for this materialistic way of life

Hanuman: (Bengali)

Prabhupāda: athāto brahma jijñāsā (Vedānta-sūtra) (Bengali conversation)

(12:00)

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam (SB 1.3.28), sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66), man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65)

(Bengali conversation)

(13:25)

Hanuman: . . .brahma-bhūyāya kalpate (BG 14.26)

brahma-bhutaḥ prasannātmā

na śocati na kāṅkṣati

samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu

mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām

(BG 18.54)

mad-bhaktiṁ, mad..

Prabhupāda: Ah.

Hanuman: (Bengali conversation)

(14:15)

Prabhupāda:

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante

jñānavān māṁ prapadyate

(BG 7.19)

Hanuman: māṁ prapadyate

Prabhupāda: sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ (Bengali conversation)

Hanuman: māṁ vetti, māṁ vetti..

manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu

kaścid yatati siddhaye

yatatām api siddhānāṁ

(BG 7.3)

siddhānām siddhānāṁ

Prabhupāda: Ah.

Hanuman: kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ, siddhānām jñānināṁ

Prabhupāda: jñāninām muktinaṁ

Hanuman: (Bengali conversation)

(16:22)

Prabhupāda: (Bengali) material science . . . Advanced . . . 100 years back (Bengali conversation)

(17:40)

Prabhupāda: (Bengali). Nectar of Devotion (Bengali) photographs

(18:04) you have brought some record here?

Yaśodānandana: It's in my other case, two records I have got.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Yaśodānandana: Two copies of Govinda.

Prabhupāda: Reading them and keep them in the library. (Bengali)

(18:29)

in Ratha-yātrā Festival in one hour we sold about 24 copies. Although it is very highly priced, eight dollars. But in America they keep the nice dollar cheaper(?) (Bengali) eight dollar . . .. Oh he has got.. (Bengali)

Yaśodānandana: I gave him one already.

Prabhupāda: (Bengali conversation) (end).