Chanting the Holy Name Removes All Dangers

0:00Prabhupāda: Ahaituky apratihatā SB 1.2.6

Chanting and cosmic time cycles

0:04Acyutānanda: Jāy sakal bipod.

0:10Prabhupāda: Eh?

0:12Acyutānanda: Jāy sakal bipod.

0:18Prabhupāda: Ah.

0:20Acyutānanda: Bhaktivinoda... [break] [chants japa]

0:22Prabhupāda: ...times it is speedy, sometimes slow. Therefore day and night, there's time difference. It is moving. It is not fixed.

Historical context of Kuruksetra battle

0:37Acyutānanda: Bhagavad-gītā's Battle of Kurukṣetra fought in which month?

0:40Prabhupāda: That I do not know. Why?

0:44Acyutānanda: Because they have a Gītā day, I think, in November, where they claim that they have found the day... December?

0:54Yaśodānandana: December, beginning of December.

0:56Acyutānanda: So that, and the eighteen days' war, and then the Uttarāyaṇa begins in the middle of January. So I was thinking that Bhīṣma was lying on the battlefield for almost a month or more.

1:06Prabhupāda: Eh?

1:06Acyutānanda: That Bhīṣma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days. [break]

1:28Prabhupāda: ...was to die when he liked. That was his special privilege.

1:30Acyutānanda: What?

1:30Prabhupāda: You die when he liked. That was the benediction upon him.

Refuting allegorical interpretations of scripture

1:43And Gandhi will say dharma-kṣetra means this body. [indistinct]

2:09Indian man: Balarāma and Subhadrā month, is that on the same, the next month, He came?

2:11Prabhupāda: He came one sūrya-grahaṇa occasion. [break] ...in America.

Challenges of preaching in America

2:22That is better than calling a government. What is the government? I don't care for them, these politicians. In America I never attempted to see the politicians, secretary and... Never attempted.

2:46I was sitting down under the tree and playing my dundubhi.

2:55Dayānanda: Yes. For one year the Marquis of Zetland was interested, and then what is the use? After that, then finished.

3:01Prabhupāda: Finished.

3:02Dayānanda: Just five hundred pounds spent in two years, and then nothing.

3:05Prabhupāda: Then nothing.

3:05Dayānanda: In 1933, '34.

Maintaining tradition while transforming followers

3:12But you have, you have done so much. Even..., even though you just had some low-class persons, you have transformed them all. And now it is a very wonderful...

3:23Prabhupāda: The Ramakrishna Mission man came to see me. He said that "You dress like American. Otherwise nobody will take you as important."

3:32Acyutānanda: Nikhilananda...

3:32Prabhupāda: And "I don't want to be important. I have no dress. If you pay for it, I can dress. I have no money. I know how to dress as a European. As business man, I was doing that. But not this shabby dress.

3:50You must give me four set of nice dress, [laughter] changing every alternate day. I know how to do it, but I have no money." [end]