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| [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] |
| [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]] |
| | [[Category:Questions On... Prabhupada]] |
| | [[Category:Questions On... Caitanya, His Associates]] |
| | [[Category:Questions From... Academics]] |
| | [[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1966 - 1977]] |
| | [[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1973]] |
| | [[category:Prabhupada Speaks - Answering Questions, 1973]] |
| | [[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - in Europe, Sweden - Stockholm]] |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | | <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 class="heading">Yes, yes. We have translated Caitanya-caritāmṛta. | | <div class="heading">Yes, yes. We have translated Caitanya-caritāmṛta. |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: These are our books. You have seen?</p> | | |
| <p>Professor: Yes, sir, I've seen... Some of them, I've seen. This one in particular I have seen.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. We are... This is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. There are sixty volumes, books like this.</p>
| | <mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/730905R2-STOCKHOLM_clip.mp3</mp3player> |
| <p>Professor: Sixty volumes like this?</p>
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Sixty volumes. And you can see how we are doing Sanskrit.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: These are our books. You have seen? |
| <p>Professor: Transliteration.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Transliteration and word meaning, then translation, then purport.</p>
| | Professor: Yes, sir, seen . . . some of them, I've seen. This one in particular I have seen. |
| <p>Professor: Yes, I've studied the text myself.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. We are . . . this is ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''. There are sixty volumes, books like this. |
| <p>Professor: I've studied the text myself.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: I see. You have studied? How do you like it?</p>
| | Professor: Sixty volumes like this? |
| <p>Professor: Yes, I like it very much.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Thank you.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. Six zero. And you can see how we are doing Sanskrit. |
| <p>Professor: I'm very interested in the bhakti.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Which one you have studied?</p>
| | Professor: Transliteration. |
| <p>Professor: Oh, well, I haven't read all of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, but of course, this Tenth Chapter I read.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Tenth Canto?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. Transliteration and word meaning, then translation, then purport. |
| <p>Professor: Yes, the Tenth Canto I read. And other parts, other parts also.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Oh. We have begun from the First Canto, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). You show him the verse, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). This is First.</p>
| | Professor: Yes, I've studied the text myself. |
| <p>Pradyumna: First Volume.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Eh? |
| <p>Pradyumna: After introduction.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes, yes, it's...</p>
| | Professor: I've studied the text myself. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye... ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). Like that.</p>
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| <p>Professor: You belong to the Caitanya...?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: I see. You have studied? How do you like it? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. We have translated Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Oh?</p>
| | Professor: Yes, I like it very much. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. This is one chapter, only, sample.</p>
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| <p>Professor: In the Bengali script. That's good.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Thank you. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, in... Caitanya-caritāmṛta is in Bengali.</p>
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| <p>Professor: I've read also, I've read parts of that also.</p>
| | Professor: I'm interested in the ''bhakti''. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Caitanya... Original Bengali?</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Which one you have studied? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: So you know Bengali?</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
| | Professor: Oh, well, I haven't read all of the ''Bhāgavata Purāṇa'', but of course, this Tenth Chapter I read. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Oh, thank you.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes. Sanskrit and Hindi and Bengali and Tamil.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Tenth Canto? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Oh, oh, that's nice.</p>
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| <p>Professor: So I read lot of the Tamil bhakti scriptures.</p>
| | Professor: Yes, the Tenth Canto I read. And other parts, other parts also. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Oh, I see.</p>
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| <p>Professor: The Alwars and the Nayanas.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Oh. We have begun from the First Canto, ''janmādy asya yataḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). |
| <p>Prabhupāda: I see. Just a..., immediately he came, Dāmodara, the Ambassador. He came just now.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes. Oh, he came just now?</p>
| | (aside) You show him the verse, ''janmādy asya yataḥ''. This is first . . . |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Professor: He has left now?</p>
| | Pradyumna: First volume. |
| <p>Paramahaṁsa: Yes, Ambassador Dāmodara. He was... Just prior to your coming, he was also meeting with Śrīla Prabhupāda, yes.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
| | Professor: Yes. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Just a half and hour before, he was here.</p>
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| <p>Professor: I see, I see. I know him well.</p>
| | Pradyumna: After introduction . . . (indistinct) |
| <p>Prabhupāda: He's coming from Malayalam.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
| | Professor: Yes, yes, it's . . . |
| <p>Prabhupāda: So we can see, you can see how we have done.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Do you recite this also, Caitanya-caritāmṛta?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: ''Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye'' . . . like that. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Do you think you could do a little?</p>
| | Professor: You belong to the Caitanya . . .? |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Professor: I would be very interested.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. We have translated ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta.'' |
| <p>Pradyumna: Glasses.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Shall I read? You want?</p>
| | Professor: Oh? |
| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: All right. (pause) This is...</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. This is one chapter only, sample. |
| <p>Professor: If you could read some of the Bengali part. Of course, in the beginning there are some Sanskrit.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Only one verse.</p>
| | Professor: In the Bengali script. That's good. |
| <p>Professor: Some Sanskrit.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes, in . . . ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' is in Bengali. |
| <p>Professor: But the pure Bengali.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
| | Professor: I've read also. I've read parts of that also. |
| :jaya jaya mahāprabhu śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya | | |
| :tāṅhāra caraṇāśrita, sei baḍa dhanya | | Prabhupāda: Caitanya . . . original Bengali? |
| :([[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.2|CC Adi 7.2]]) | | |
| <p>You understand Bengali?</p>
| | Professor: Yes. |
| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Or shall I explain?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: So you know Bengali? |
| <p>Professor: Oh, well, I understand.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: All right.</p>
| | Professor: Yes. |
| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: (Chants many verses from Ādi 1.7 in Bengali) ...kāśīra māyāvādī. You know kāśīra māyāvādī?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Oh, thank you. (laughs) |
| <p>Professor: Yes. Yes, a little.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Vṛndāvana yāite prabhu... (continues chanting) ...vasilā sei sthāne. You want to hear more?</p>
| | Professor: Yes. Sanskrit and Hindi and Bengali and Tamil. |
| <p>Professor: No, thank you.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So, in this way, we have given Sanskrit, here, the transliteration. Just like</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Oh, oh, that's nice. |
| :āra dine gelā prabhu se vipra-bhavane
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| :dekhilena, vasiyāchena sannyāsīra gaṇe
| | Professor: So I read lot of the Tamil ''bhakti'' scriptures. |
| <p>Here is the transliteration. Āra, dine, gelā, prabhu, se, vipra, bhavane, dekhilena, vasiyāchena, sannyāsīra, gaṇe.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Hm. How many volumes is this one, when it's complete?</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Oh, I see. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: This is only one chapter.</p>
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| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
| | Professor: The Alwars and the Nayanas. |
| <p>Prabhupāda: And you know how many chapters there are. How many chapters?</p>
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| <p>Pradyumna: Seventeen in the first part, about twenty something in the second part...</p>
| | Prabhupāda: I see. Just a . . . immediately he came, Damodaran, the Ambassador. He came just now. |
| <p>Professor: Second part.</p>
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| <p>Pradyumna: Thirty something in Third Part.</p>
| | Professor: Yes. Oh, he came just now? |
| <p>Professor: Yes, about sixty altogether. A little more than sixty.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So how many, all...? Sixty.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
| <p>Professor: Sixty, sixty-five...</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So, at least, fifty volumes like this.</p>
| | Professor: He has left now? |
| <p>Professor: Hmm.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: So why don't you introduce in your university?</p>
| | Paramahaṁsa: Yes, Ambassador Damodaran. He was . . . just prior to your coming, he was also meeting with Śrīla Prabhupāda, yes. |
| <p>Professor: Yes.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: You see.</p>
| | Professor: Yes. |
| <p>Professor: Yes, yes. I like myself also to acquire this one.</p>
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. You see how we have translated. I have given transliteration and word to word meaning. You are scholar, you can understand. So we want to introduce this literature in the Universities.</p>
| | Prabhupāda: Just a half an hour before, he was here. |
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| </div>
| | Professor: I see, I see. I know him well. |
| </div>
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| | Prabhupāda: He's coming from Malayalam. |
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| | Professor: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: So we can see . . . you can see how we have done. |
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| | Professor: Do you recite this also, ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'', Bengali? |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. |
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| | Professor: Do you think you could do a little? |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
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| | Professor: I would be very interested. |
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| | Pradyumna: Glasses. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. Shall I read? You want? |
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| | Professor: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: All right. |
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| | (pause) |
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| | This is . . . |
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| | Professor: If you could read some of the Bengali part. Of course, in the beginning there are Sanskrit. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Only one verse. |
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| | Professor: Some Sanskrit. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
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| | Professor: But the pure Bengali. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
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| | :''jaya jaya mahāprabhu śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya'' |
| | :''tāṅhāra caraṇāśrita, sei baḍa dhanya'' |
| | ::([[vanisource:CC Adi 7.2|CC Adi 7.2]]) |
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| | You understand Bengali? |
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| | Professor: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Or shall I explain? |
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| | Professor: Oh, well, I understand. |
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| | Prabhupāda: All right. |
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| | Professor: Yes. |