Delicate (Lectures)

Expressions researched:
"delicate" |"delicately"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Lecture on BG 2.14 -- London, August 20, 1973: So that, according to the body, you get pains and pleasure of this material world. A very rich man, living very comfortably, a little painful thing is intolerable by him, because he has got a such body, so delicate body. Just like a child. Because he has got delicate the body, little pinching makes him crying, uncomfortable.

Lecture on BG 4.12 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974: The pilot is sitting in front of the airplane, and there are very fine electronic machine, and he's pushing one button. Immediately the wings is working, and it is going down, it is, it is very, mean, a delicate position in the air. A little mistake in the pushing of the button, the whole plane may be crashed.

Lecture on BG 4.14-19 -- New York, August 3, 1966: A king's body, a poor man's body. A poor man, he has to work very hard. His body is very sturdy. He can work very nicely. But a son of very aristocratic family or king, oh, his body is very delicate. He cannot work. He can apply his brain in something else.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Lecture on SB 1.5.32 -- Vrndavana, August 13, 1974: In the womb also there is suffering. Not only packed-up, but there are worms with the stool and urine of the mother, and they find very delicate skin. They enjoy by cutting him. The worms enjoy.

Lecture on SB 1.8.44 -- Mayapura, October 24, 1974: And when the consciousness comes back, then he feels pains and pleasure, because when the body is developed... The body is very delicate. So he is forced to live within urine and stool and so many secretions, and there are always worms in the stool, in the urine, and they take advantage of the delicate body and they bite.

Lecture on SB 2.3.10 -- Los Angeles, May 28, 1972: When Nārada approached Dhruva Mahārāja and informed him, "My dear boy, you are a prince, you are so delicate. You cannot accept these troubles of living in the jungle. It is very, very difficult. Great, great sages, they could not. You better go home. And when you get old, when time will be ripe, you can come. Now you go home."

Lecture on SB 3.25.5-6 -- Bombay, November 5, 1974: It is the duty of the father to protect the girl very nicely. Women are very delicate. They should be given... So during childhood, until she attains, I mean to say, youthhood, puberty, the girl is under the protection of the father. Still, in India, the father takes care of the girl until she is married to a suitable boy, the father takes.

Lecture on SB 3.25.41 -- Bombay, December 9, 1974: You have to accept your birth within the womb of your mother in a packed-up condition, body developing. The germs, the worms within the urine, stool, biting very delicate skin. You cannot make any adjustment, simply moving.

Lecture on SB 3.26.16 -- Bombay, December 25, 1974: So the spiritual life is very delicate. We have to conduct the spiritual life very cautiously. Little deviation may create great havoc. Great havoc means again material life. And material life means suffering, bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ, always in fearfulness.

Lecture on SB 5.6.10 -- Bombay, December 28, 1976: If you do anything for your sense gratification, that means you are being bound up by the laws of karma. Laws of karma, it is very strict according to the modes of activities. Puruṣaḥ prakṛti-stho hi bhuṅkte karma-jān guṇān [Bg. 13.22]. So we should be very much careful not to be afflicted by the karma. Karmānu bandha. This is very delicate task.

Lecture on SB 6.1.6 -- Sydney, February 17, 1973: Because as soon as I die, again I enter into the womb of a particular type of mother. Hm? Again I have to live there, packed up. That is the... Everyone knows. I cannot move even. No independence. The insects biting my delicate body, I cannot protest. I'm simply suffering.