730501 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles

Lectures by Date, 1973

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

730501IN-LOS ANGELES - January 01, 1973 - 14:07 Minutes

Prabhupāda: Now chant all mantras. (chants word-by-word, and devotees repeat)

nama apavitraḥ pavitro vā

sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā

yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ

sa bahyābhyantaraḥśuciḥ

(Garuḍa Purāṇa)

śrī-viṣṇu śrī-viṣṇu śrī-viṣṇu

Now, give these beads. (devotees chant japa)

Brahmānanda: Brahmānanda Purī.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Brahmānanda: Brahmānanda Puri.

Prabhupāda: Paramānanda.

Brahmānanda: Brahmānanda.

Prabhupāda: Brahmānanda. Brahmānanda, his name already there.

Brahmānanda: Brahmānanda Purī.

Prabhupāda: All right. So, you are Brahmānanda Purī. You know the rules and regulation? What is that?

Brahmānanda Purī: No gambling, no intoxication, no meat-eating and no illicit sex.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. How many rounds you will chant?

Brahmānanda Purī: Sixteen rounds.

Prabhupāda: Take it. All right. Come on. Don’t drop. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa! (everyone chants japa)

Brahmānanda: Robert? Gaṅga dāsa.

Prabhupāda: You know the rules and regulation? Tell. What are those rules and regulation?

Robert: No eating meat, fish or eggs, no illicit sex, don’t take intoxicants, no gambling.

Prabhupāda: Your name is Gaṅga dāsa. Take it. Come on. (devotees chant japa) Come on. Be prepared with this neck beads on. So, you know the rules and regulation?

Bhojadeva: No meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex, no gambling.

Brahmānanda: Bhojadeva.

Prabhupāda: Bhojadeva. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (devotees chant japa) What are the rules?

Bopadeva: No meat-eating, fish or eggs, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication.

Brahmānanda: Bopadeva.

Prabhupāda: Bopadeva, yours. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (japa) What are the rules and regulation?

Yajña-prīyā dāsī: No illicit sex (indistinct).

Brahmānanda: Yajña-prīyā dāsī.

Prabhupāda: Yajña-prīyā dāsī. Come on. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (devotees chant japa) Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ (SB 11.5.32). (japa) You know the rules and regulations? What are those? Thank you.

Brahmānanda: Bhuvaneśvara dāsa.

Prabhupāda: Bhuvaneśvara dāsa. Thank you. (devotees chant japa) Rules?

Brahmānanda: Kṛṣṇa Caitanya dāsa.

Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa Caitanya dāsa.

Devotees: Jaya! Haribol!

Prabhupāda: Very good name.

Brahmānanda: (indistinct).

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Come on. (japa) What are the rules?

Devotee: No meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex, no gambling.

Brahmānanda: Asura-kula-nāśana.

Prabhupāda: Ohh. Very big name. (laughter) Asura-kula-nāśana. Asura-kula means demons. You have to massacre all these demons. (laughter) Come on. You will do it? You will do it? Thank you. (laughter)

Brahmānanda: Leslie. (devotee chant japa)

Prabhupāda: You know who is demon? You know who is demon? Asura-kula-nāśana, you know who is demon? Who is that? Who is demon?

Asura-kula-nāśana: Oh, karmīs. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: No, not only karmīs; others also. So-called scientist.

Devotees: Jaya! Haribol!

Prabhupāda: Māyayāpahṛta-jñānā (BG 7.15). Anyone who is posing himself as very much advanced in education but has no knowledge in Kṛṣṇa, he is also a demon.

Devotees: Jaya!

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa...

Prabhupāda: Hah?

Svarūpa Dāmodara: ...he's a demon.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Demon means he is not a devotee. That is demon. There are two kinds of persons: one demon, and one demigod. Those who are devotees, they are demigods, and those who are not devotees, they are demons.

dvau bhūta-sargau loke

asura…, daiva āsura eva ca

viṣṇu-bhakti-bhaved daiva

āsuras tad-viparyayaḥ

(BG 16.6)

Asura. Asura means just the opposite number of devotees. That's all. This is the general definition of demons: opposite number. So anyone who is against Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is a demon. That's all. This is general. Come on. What are the rules and regulation?

Leslie: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling.

Brahmānanda: Tārakā dāsī.

Prabhupāda: Tārakā-devī dāsī. One of the gopīs.

Devotees: Jaya.

Prabhupāda: Thank you very much.

Brahmānanda: Terry. (devotees chant japa)

Prabhupāda: What he is doing? What are the rules and regulation?

Terry: No meat-eating, no illicit sex life, no gambling and no intoxication.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. Strictly.

Terry: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Come on. What is it?

Brahmānanda: Tejomāya.

Prabhupāda: Tejomāya. Who is Tejomāya? You know? Who is Tejomāya? You know? Tejomāya, we have explained: the sun. Sun is Tejomāya. Aśeṣa-tejāḥ. Sun. Tejomāya. Nobody can compare with his temperature. (devotees chant japa)

Prabhupāda: Who is next?

Brahmānanda: Caroline? Caroline?

Prabhupāda: (japa) What are the rules and regulation?

Caroline: No meat, fish or eggs, no gambling, no intoxication and no illicit sex.

Prabhupāda: Are you insured? (laughter) Insured?

Caroline: (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Because you have got this spot. (devotee has a "beauty spot" above her lip) (laughter) There was a film actress, Pearl White, she had a spot like that. She insured for many amount. (laughter) Come on.

Brahmānanda: Cinmayī dāsī.

Prabhupāda: Cinmayī. Yes. That is your insurance. Cinmayī: to become spiritually conscious. That is the best insurance.

Devotees: Jaya. (japa)

Brahmānanda: Jodie? Jodie?

Prabhupāda: Come on. (japa) What are the rules and regulation?

Jodie: Chant at least sixteen rounds. No taking of meat, fish or eggs, no illicit sex, no gambling and no intoxication.

Prabhupāda: Thank you.

Brahmānanda: Kāla-rūpa.

Prabhupāda: Kāla-rūpa. Vicious. When Kṛṣṇa appears in the Battle of Kurukṣetra, virāṭ-rūpa, he inquired to Arjuna, "Who are You?" He said, "Kāla-rūpa." Kāla-rūpa means, "I have come…, I have appeared to kill all these demons." Hare Kṛṣṇa. Now chant. (japa) You know the rules and regulation?

Kālacandra: No illicit sex life, no meat-eating, no intoxication and no gambling.

Prabhupāda: Very good. What is intoxication?

Kālacandra: Smoking.

Prabhupāda: Hah?

Kālacandra: Smoking.

Prabhupāda: What are these?

Brahmānanda: He said cigarette.

Prabhupāda: Tea also. Yes. Tea, coffee—all these are intoxicants. So?

Brahmānanda: Kālacandra.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. Kālacandra. Come on. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kālacandra dāsa. You are Gauracandra, but you are servant of Kālacandra. Kālacandra is another name of Kṛṣṇa. So thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Devotees: Jaya! Haribol! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to you Prabhupāda! (end)