SPD05-02 Śrīla Prabhupāda in New Dwaraka, Los Angeles
[background songs sung by devotees]
[00:52] When there's a decline in religion I descend.
[01:09] Or My devotee I may send.
[01:27] [title on video] Srila Prabhupada's arrival Los Angeles, 1971.
[return to songs]
[02:00] He's the kind and gentle soul, who's heart is never cold,
[02:05] so peaceful and poetic, with a message true and bold.
[02:12] He's never seeking praise, so silent and so grave,
[02:17] and his transcendental look is the magic in his ways.
[02:23] And when I see his love, I know I've got a long, long way to go.
[02:29] When will I taste the love that he is feeling inside?
[02:45] He's always meek and mild, with a warm and friendly smile.
[02:51] So simple in his living, singing all the while.
[02:57] He sings out Krsna's name, His glory and His fame,
[03:03] to serve his Lord and master in pleasure or in pain.
[03:09] And when I see his love, I know I've got a long, long way to go.
[03:14] When will I taste the love that he is feeling inside?
[03:51] And when I see his love I know, I've got a long, long way to go.
[03:56] When will I taste the love that he is feeling inside?
[04:13] You'll find no lust and greed in a heart that's pure and free.
[04:19] He's a lover of the Lord, and his life is ecstasy.
[04:25] He only dies to live, and living tries to give
[04:31] the happiness that's found in the sound of Krsna's name.
[04:37] And when I see his love I know, I've got a long, long way to go.
[04:42] When will I taste the love that he is feeling inside?
[04:58] O merciful Prabhupada, your eyes they gaze
[05:07] Taking heard-hearted souls and making them pure.
[05:15] Your mace is your mercy, soothing and warm,
[05:23] Your love is a guardline from maya's dark storm.
[05:33] Your heart, it contains the Lord's loving grace.
[05:42] The smile you partake of, face to face.
[05:49] You gave us all hope as the ship was going down.
[05:57] With you as the Captain, we surely won't drown.
[06:07] Every town and village will sing Krsna's name.
[06:12] Bringing forth the prophesy that Lord Caitanya proclaimed.
[06:34] Goloka, full of spiritual pleasure, he reveals on every page.
[07:28] My dear grandfather spiritual master, unto you I most humbly pray
[07:38] that this serpentlike nondevotee in the dust of your feet will stay.
[return to song]
[08:20] Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all that be.
[08:34] The embodiment of bliss, the destination of the pure devotee.
[08:44] He's the all-pervading truth, the eternally existing youth,
[08:51] And He comes to take you home. Yes, He comes to take you home.
[09:03] Of the splendid, He is splendor, He is victory and adventure.
[09:08] He is the good quality in all righteous men.
[09:15] Of creation He is beginning, middle and end.
[09:28] Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
[09:35] Of the senses He is the mind; among men He is the monarch.
[09:46] Of subduers, He is time.
[09:52] Of secrets, He is silence, and He comes to end the violence that terrifies the earth.
[10:04] Yes, He's come and taken birth
[10:09] in the sound of His holy name. The Lord and His name are the same.
[10:15] That's the nature of the Absolute. And He comes to give His truth,
[10:26] as He plays upon His flute.
Arrival Address, June 20, 1975
[20:48] [Prabhupada:] We simply follow the predecessor's instruction, that's all.
[20:58] Our movement is very easy, because we haven't got to manufacture something.
[21:07] We simply repeat the words and the instruction given by the predecessor.
[21:25] Vyasadeva, Vyasadeva instructed Madhvacarya, and, in this way...
[21:34] Then Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, then the six Gosvamis,
[21:54] Jagannatha dasa Babaji, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, Bhaktisiddhanta
[22:00] Sarasvati, and then we are doing the same thing. There is no difference.
[22:09] That is the specific procedure of the Krsna consciousness movement.
[22:18] You are singing daily,
[22:30] Very simple thing.
[22:43] So we have to simply take instruction from guru,
[22:49] and if we execute that to our heart and soul, that is success.
[22:58] That is practical.
[23:03] I have no personal qualification, but I simply tried to satisfy my guru. That's all.
[23:24] So there was a private meeting, talking; some of my important Godbrothers also there.
[23:43] "Since we have got this Bagh Bazar marble temple, there has been so many dissensions,
[23:57] and everyone thinking 'Who will occupy this room or that room, that room?'
[24:05] I wish, therefore, to sell this temple and the marble and print some book."
[24:14] Yes.
[24:16] So I took up this from his mouth, that he is very fond of books.
[24:22] And he told me personally that "If you get some money, print books."
[24:28] Therefore I am stressing on this point:
[24:30] "Where is book? Where is book? Where is book?" So kindly help me.
[24:36] This is my request. Print as many books in as many languages
[24:44] and distribute throughout the whole world.
[24:48] Then Krsna consciousness movement will automatically increase.
[24:55] Now the educated learned scholar, they are appreciating our movement
[25:02] by reading books, by taking practical result.
[25:09] Dr. Stillson Judah, he has written one book, perhaps you know,
[25:17] Krsna con... Hare Krishna and Counterculture, a very nice book about our movement,
[25:27] and he is giving importance.
[25:32] He has admitted that "Swamiji, you have done wonderful thing, service to the humanity."
[song narrated by devotee as background]
[25:40] A man must have life to be a preacher.
[25:42] A dead man cannot preach.
[25:45] You must preach Lord Caitanya's message all throughout the world.
[25:52] And if you get money, print books. See love for Krsna unfurl.
Garden Conversation, June 22, 1975
[25:59] [Prabhupada:] They are making propaganda that "These American devotees, they are CIA."
[26:07] This propaganda is very strong in India,
[26:12] making the people against these American boys who are preaching.
[26:18] [aside:] You give him one book, that Scientific Basis of...
[26:29] Yes, you can give him one book. You read it.
[26:32] [Dharmadhyaksa:] Dr. Gerson has promised that he will read every single one of your books
[26:35] before he writes his book. He's very serious.
[26:39] [Prabhupada:] That is very kind of you. We have got about fifty books.
[26:44] [Dharmadhyaksa:] He knows.
[26:47] [Prabhupada:] And it is increasing.
[26:49] Perhaps in the next two months we shall increase another seventeen books.
[26:56] There are seventeen books pending to be published.
[26:59] [Bahulasva:] Srila Prabhupada, what these tests will show is that when a person came first he was
[27:02] doing some drugs or some nonsense, and now that he's taken to Krsna consciousness,
[27:06] he has become so much more of a healthy and wholesome person.
[27:09] [Prabhupada:] That is the test. That is the real test.
[27:14] So how we got so many devotees from the hippie group?
[27:20] So how they have given up all their bad habits? This is the real test.
[27:27] [Revatinandana:] The function of his testing is to show that, that that change takes place
[27:31] in a way that other scientists will accept it. That is his purpose.
[27:34] [Prabhupada:] Oh, that's nice. But that is already admitted by educated class.
[27:44] Therefore they are becoming attracted.
[27:47] [Dr. Gerson:] I would like to show them the path, so that they won't be cheated any longer.
[27:50] [Prabhupada:] Thank you. Provided you know the path.
[27:53] [Dr. Gerson:] I am trying to learn.
[27:54] [Prabhupada:] So first of all learn it; otherwise you will be cheating.
[28:02] If you do not know the art, and if you want to do some benefit
[28:10] to the others, then that is cheating.
[28:14] Suppose a physician, he does not know what is the medical science,
[28:18] and if he wants to become a physician, that is cheating.
[28:23] Quack!
[28:28] [Dr. Gerson:] I hope through the study that I'm doing with the devotees,
[28:31] and the book that comes out of it, that it will help them
[28:34] not be cheated any longer and show them the right way.
[28:39] [Prabhupada:] Yes.
[28:41] [Bahulasva:] He is advising his patients that they should chant
[28:43] Hare Krsna and come to the temple.
[28:45] [Prabhupada:] Then he is very nice. Then you are friend.
[28:48] [Dr. Gerson:] Another thing I would like to do is go to Gurukula and test the children
[28:52] and show what NBC did was very false and unfair.
[28:59] [Jayatirtha:] On television they did a very bad story on Gurukula.
[29:01] [Prabhupada:] Yes, they're..., they're cheater. He wants to cheat and get some money.
[29:06] That's all. Because the whole so-called human society is combination of
[29:14] cheater and cheated. So anyone who is acting without Krsna consciousness,
[29:22] he is a cheater.
[29:24] And anyone who is thinking himself advanced without Krsna consciousness,
[29:29] he is cheated. This is the basic principle.
Morning Walk, June 25, 1975
[30:44] [Bahulasva:] They also say that no one can ever be pure,
[30:48] that everyone is doomed to be a sinner.
[30:56] That is the conditioned soul's qualification,
[30:59] that if he is a fool, he thinks others fools.
[31:06] Everyone, he thinks, "He is like me."
[31:14] So that is nature.
[31:21] Everyone thinks others like himself.
[31:25] If he is a fool, he thinks all are.
[31:32] So these things are no argument.
[31:36] "Nobody has seen God"? How do you take these statistics?
[31:43] Can you say like that, any statistics,
[31:45] that "Nobody has..."?
[31:48] Maybe you have seen him, the one who has seen God.
[31:54] That is quite possible, because you have not scrutinisingly studied all the men of the world.
[31:59] Then how you can say "Nobody has seen Him"?
[32:01] You have not seen him, the man who has seen Him.
[32:06] He will not admit his fault.
[32:09] He will accuse others, "Nobody has seen God."
[32:13] Why? You may not have seen, but why you say nobody has seen?
[32:19] You have not seen that person who has seen God.
[32:22] Therefore you say like that.
[32:29] [Bahulasva:] So those people who wrote the Bible never..., did not see God.
[32:39] [Prabhupada:] That is... When God is canvassing, "Here I am, Krsna," they will not see it.
[32:49] And still they accuse, "Nobody has seen."
[songs sung by devotees]
[32:54] Lord, the sun's effulgence hides Your face.
[32:59] Your blissful form lies far beyond my eyes.
[33:06] And now Your wonders call my heart's embrace,
[33:11] as dawn displays Your beauty in the sky.
[33:18] The rainbow shows the colors of Your dress.
[33:23] The movements of the moon reflect Your mind.
[33:29] Your smiling is the cause of happiness,
[33:35] and love exists because You are so kind.
[33:42] O Govinda within my heart, celestial herdsman, lotus-eyed one,
[33:54] Your precious gift of love impart.
[33:59] O You who stand behind the sun,
[34:05] You're the one, You're the one in my heart, in my heart.
[34:29] The rolling rivers flow forth from Your veins.
[34:35] The clouds that fill the sky come from Your hair.
[34:40] The seeds of life are watered by Your rains,
[34:46] and from Your breathing blows the mighty air.
[34:52] Our Lord, You are the source of all I see.
[34:58] Your movements are the passing days of time.
[35:04] You are the resting place of all that be,
[35:10] and love exists because You are so kind.
[35:16] O Govinda within my heart, celestial herdsman, lotus-eyed one,
[35:27] Your precious gift of love impart.
[35:33] O You who stand behind the sun,
[35:38] You're the one, you're the one in my heart, in my heart.
[36:26] O Govinda within my heart, celestial herdsman, lotus-eyed one,
[36:37] Your precious gift of love impart,
[36:43] O You who stand behind the sun,
[36:49] O You who stand behind the sun,
[36:54] You're the one. You're the one.
Golden Avatar Recording Studio, 1975
[36:58] [Prabhupada:] [demonstrates mrdaṅga beat] Gauraṅgera duti pada. Just try. [enunciates beat] [devotee tries] [enunciates beat again]
[37:22] [Devotee:] May I try the beat?
[37:24] [Prabhupada:] Yes, give him.
[37:27] Ah, ah, it is coming. [Prabhupada begins playing harmonium]
[37:39] [Devotee 2:] It's too fast... No.
[37:42] [Prabhupada:] You can try. Give him, he can try.
[37:50] [Devotee:] Srila Prabhupada? Prabhupada? On our tape-recorder here that we have,
[37:57] we can make it so you can play nicely, and then later,
[38:01] at our own time, we will take to play the mrdaṅga and karatals nicely.
[38:06] This way, we won't waste any of your time.
[38:09] Do you think that's a good idea?
[38:14] See, we can... After you are gone, at our own time, we can play nicely.
[38:19] Do you think that is a good idea, or not?
[38:21] [Prabhupada:] I do not know.
[38:24] I am not an expert.
[38:28] [Devotee:] We would like to do that.
[38:35] We would like to do it like that, Prabhupada.
[38:38] [Prabhupada:] Then do that.
[break]
[39:39] My father wanted me to become like this,
[39:42] know everything what is going on.
[39:46] He never wanted me to be a worldly man, earning money.
[39:51] He never wanted.
[39:57] There was some arrangement for my going to England
[40:00] after my college education, to become barrister.
[40:07] My father refused: "No, my son is not going to be a mleccha."
Dictating in Room, 1975
[40:17] [Prabhupada:] Translation. As the air carries different flavors of the physical elements,
[40:28] like the flavor of some flower or the aromatic dust in the flower, and on account of
[40:41] different dust, the air scents in different flavor, or accepts different color,
[40:55] similarly, everyone has got a certain type of desire.
[41:04] So according to his desire, the Lord appears to him,
[41:12] although such appearance, such form, is not His original form.
[41:24] So the demigods are actually not the original form of the Lord,
[41:33] but they are presented to different persons according to their desires.
[41:48] He is not interested with the demigods.
[41:53] Purport:
[41:56] The impersonalist, they imagine the form of the Lord as different demigods.
[42:06] Just like the Mayavadis, they worship pancopasana, five demigods.
[42:16] Actually, they do not believe in the form of the Lord,
[42:21] but for the facility of the worshiper they think one may imagine some form.
[42:39] the form of Durga and the form of sun-god. [replays a section]
[42:56] ...the sun-god. This is called pancopasana.
[42:59] But Daksa wanted to worship not that imaginary form,
[43:07] but the supreme form of the Lord, Krsna.
Room Conversation on BBT Accounting, June 25, 1975
[43:13] [Prabhupada:] This payment, Book Trust has paid to me. But that is my money, not your money.
[43:21] I am paying you. It has been simply sent through you.
[43:25] [Ramesvara:] Transferred.
[43:26] [Prabhupada:] Transferred. But actually Book Trust is not paying to me.
[43:31] [Ramesvara:] No. No.
[43:33] [Prabhupada:] So under the circumstances, what is the account?
[43:37] You are debiting that "Pay to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami."
[43:42] [Ramesvara:] I have written it as a transfer, because Your Divine Grace told me
[43:46] you were going to give me these certified checks.
[43:50] I can do it another way.
[43:53] If you do not want to deposit the checks with us, I will write it as a donation
[43:58] to some project in India, whatever the money will be used for.
[44:03] I can simply make it a donation.
[44:07] [Prabhupada:] Donation, that's all right. But you are not donating; you are taking payment.
[44:12] [Ramesvara:] Only if you want.
[44:14] [Prabhupada:] No...
[44:16] You give me a statement. If not many months, at least in this month:
[44:26] what is the receipt and how it is spent, and what is the balance.
[44:33] [Ramesvara:] For this account in India?
[44:35] [Prabhupada:] No, no. Every month you will give me a statement.
[44:39] [Ramesvara:] Of BBT?
[44:40] [Prabhupada:] Yes: so much received, so much spent.
[44:44] [Ramesvara:] Oh, yes. I can do that. Every month.
[44:47] [Prabhupada:] Every month.
[44:48] [Ramesvara:] No problem. I am doing that already
[44:51] and sending a full report to Bhagavan and Hamsaduta each month.
[44:55] [Prabhupada:] So you can give me one copy.
[44:57] [Ramesvara:] Yes. I never did before because I didn't want to disturb you with the details.
[45:02] [Prabhupada:] No... Details...
[45:06] [aside:] Give me this.
[45:21] So I'll have to also keep a record, so you can, for transfer, receive the check.
[45:31] [Ramesvara:] Yes.
[45:34] [Prabhupada:] Is that all right?
[45:35] [Ramesvara:] Yes.
[45:37] [Prabhupada:] I am giving in favor of BBT, and you...
[45:43] [Ramesvara:] We are acting like your bank. We are, at BBT, is acting like your bank.
[45:47] [Prabhupada:] Yes. That's right. That is nice. [break]
[47:34] I have got standing order of the American Embassy,
[47:38] eighteen copies of each book as soon as it is published.
[47:42] The same standing order.
[47:45] But these people are not doing their job.
[47:47] In India, management is very...
[47:51] [Ramesvara:] So for the time being the money will not be used for the construction in Mayapur.
[47:58] It will be used to print books.
[48:00] [Prabhupada:] Mayapur, they have already taken one and a half lakhs from me.
[48:14] [Prabhupada:] Where?
[48:16] [Ramesvara:] In India, just during the Mayapur festival, he requested a loan from US BBT for $160,000,
[48:26] which would be used to construct the second residence building.
[48:32] [Prabhupada:] How he will pay back?
[48:34] [Ramesvara:] His plan was that the American temples would purchase rooms,
[48:39] and over a period of four or five years they would pay that money back.
[48:44] So is that still approved by Your Divine Grace?
[48:48] [Prabhupada:] Yes. I have no objection.
[48:50] [Ramesvara:] The only thing is that we will have to delay the loan, because
[48:54] for the next three months all our money will be used to print these seventeen books.
[48:59] [Prabhupada:] First of all books, then the loan.
[49:04] Our... We cannot hold up printing. That is not possible.
[49:10] This you must always keep in view.
[49:12] We are not going to... The surplus money we are going to pay,
[49:18] not that at the cost of stopping printing.
[49:21] You must always keep it...
[59:23] When you require money for printing,
[49:26] there is no question of loan for temple building. This should be our...
Morning Walk, June 1975
[50:03] So when Krsna sun is there, all these glowworms-like men will be finished.
[50:16] Keep this sun always shining. Then these glowworms will be finished.
[50:36] One, that Sikh... Bhajan? What is that?
[50:42] [Prabhupada:] Ahah. He came to invite me.
[50:47] [Prabhupada:] Ah, yes.
[50:48] [Devotee 2:] He came to our temple a few nights ago also, for arotika.
[50:54] [Prabhupada:] So he came to invite me. I indirectly refused.
Garden Conversation, June 24, 1975
[51:02] [Prabhupada:] So if you are theologicians, then you must know what is God and abide by His order.
[51:20] What do you think, Dr. Judah?
[51:22] [Dr. Judah:] Pardon?
[51:23] [Prabhupada:] What do you think, this proposition?
[51:25] [Dr. Judah:] Yes, well, I think you're quite right. I think that it is...
[51:31] Certainly, in our day and age, many of us don't really know God.
[51:35] [Prabhupada:] Yes. Then he is not theologist; he is theosophist.
[51:40] [Dr. Judah:] We know about God, but we do not know God. I would agree.
[51:47] [Prabhupada:] Then that is theosophist. Theosophist, they are thinking
[51:51] there is something superior. But who is that superior, they are searching out.
[51:59] The same thing: a boy, he knows, "I have a father," but "Who is my father,
[52:06] that I do not know." "Oh, that you have to ask your mother. That's all."
[52:13] Alone he cannot understand.
[52:19] So our proposition is that if you do not know God, and here is God, Krsna,
[52:25] why don't you accept Him?
[52:29] You do not know, first of all.
[52:32] And if I present, "Here is God," then why don't you accept?
[52:42] What is the answer?
[52:46] We are presenting God, "Here is God."
[52:51] [Dr. Crossley:] I suppose one of the difficulties for certainly many in the older generation
[52:55] is that we follow certain patterns of life, and the...
[53:03] [Prabhupada:] Then you are not serious about God.
[53:05] [Dr. Crossley:] ...and it is difficult to change.
[53:09] This is the great problem.
[53:10] [Prabhupada:] Then you are not serious.
[53:18] You have to give up.
[53:19] [Dr. Crossley:] That's right.
[53:22] [Prabhupada:] If you are not prepared to give up, then you cannot accept God.
[53:34] [Dr. Orr:] I think you're being a little unfair to Dr. Crossley.
[53:38] I think what you say is true, that the most important thing we can do
[53:45] is to seek and know God, but I don't think it's right to say that
[53:51] it's a bad thing to study how other people or how man has...
[53:57] [Prabhupada:] No, I don't say bad thing.
[53:59] I say if you are serious about God, now, here is God.
[54:04] [Dr. Orr:] That's what a university in part is for,
[54:06] to study about how people have thought on different matters.
[54:10] [Prabhupada:] No, that's all right. I mean to say, if you are seeking after something,
[54:14] if you get that something, why don't you accept it?
[54:28] [Dr. Orr:] Do you believe that Christ said that Krsna was his father?
[54:32] [Prabhupada:] The name may be different. Just like in our country we say this flower something;
[54:38] you say something, something. But subject matter must be the same.
[54:47] Name is not... You can say in a different way, as you understand,
[54:54] but God is one. God cannot be two. You may give Him different names,
[55:03] that is different thing, but God is one. God cannot be two.
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