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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="LectureonBG93MelbourneApril211976_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="303" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976">
<div class="heading">We all feel servant of Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa conscious. This is United Nation, not that, going to the United Nation and barking like the dog, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am this and that." What is the benefit?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like in our society you will find people from all parts of the world. There are Americans and Indians and Africans, Canadians, Japanese. But we don't feel like that, "I am Japanese," "I am Indian" "I am American." We all feel servant of Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa conscious. Na śocati na kāṅkṣati. This is United Nation, not that, going to the United Nation and barking like the dog, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am this and that." What is the benefit? Therefore they are barking for the last twenty, thirty years. What benefit has come? You cannot make the dogs... You bring some dogs from America and from Australia and from India and put them together and ask them, "Please live very peacefully." (laughter) If you keep them as dogs they will simply bark. There will be no more peace. Just try to understand practically. You have to make them a human being. If you keep them dogs and cats, there cannot be any peace.</p>
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<div style="display: block;" id="LectureonBG93MelbourneApril211976_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="303" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976">
<div class="heading">They are barking in the United Nation, that's all. This is the benefit. Bark and bark and die like dog, that's all.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gurukṛpā: What is the purpose of so many nationalities?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If I say... I have already said, doggish mentality, that's all. You remain dog, go on barking. That's all. What is this national? "I am American. My first interest...," "I am Australian." "I am Indian." "I am Pakistani." They are barking in the United Nation, that's all. This is the benefit. Bark and bark and die like dog, that's all. Better chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="LectureonSB5516VrndavanaNovember41976_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="545" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976">
<div class="heading">What is that United Nation? I have already explained many times, assembly of barking dogs. That's all.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now, especially in the modern world... Not only modern world, always. That is the nature of this material world. How much fighting is going on between nation to nation, person to person, community to community. There are so many codes, legal codes. The people go there, fight with one another. Then the United Nation... What is that United Nation? I have already explained many times, assembly of barking dogs. That's all. United Nation. They will never unite. They will go there and barking. Many times we have seen their enviousness. Kṛṣṇa says that sarva-loka-maheśvaram: ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29|BG 5.29]]) "I am the proprietor of all planets." But we are claiming, "This is my country," "This is India, my country," "This is Pakistan," "This is America," "This is Russia," and fighting. And the proprietor is there; he is claiming that "This is not yours. It is mine." Still they are. Because why? Ananta-duḥkhaṁ ca na veda mūḍhaḥ. Rascals. He has no right. Unnecessarily he or they are claiming right and fighting.</p>
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<div style="display: block;" id="LectureonSB5520VrndavanaNovember81976_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="549" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.20 -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.20 -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1976">
<div class="heading">These rascals, their mentality is like the dogs, and they are making United Nation. A dog can be united?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.20 -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.20 -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we actually formulate peace formula, then everything is possible. Simply we have to accept the instruction of Kṛṣṇa. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for this purpose. We are simply requesting to accept the Kṛṣṇa philosophy. Then the whole world will be peaceful. There is no doubt about it.</p>
:bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ
:sarva-loka-maheśvaram
:suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
:jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati
:([[Vanisource:BG 5.29|BG 5.29]])
<p>These rascals, their mentality is like the dogs, and they are making United Nation. A dog can be united? Is it possible? No. You bring several dozens of best dog and ask them, "Please live peacefully. We shall give you food, everything." It is not in their capacity to live peacefully. So even there is already ample economic development, sufficiency, but because the mentality is doggish, the so-called farce of United Nation, they are fighting with one another. It is not possible.</p>
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<div style="display: block;" id="LectureonSB763TorontoJune191976_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="745" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.3 -- Toronto, June 19, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.3 -- Toronto, June 19, 1976">
<div class="heading">If you want to change the mentality of the human being as it is going on, the dog's mentality, if you want to change it, you cannot do it by assembly in the United Nations and passing resolution.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.3 -- Toronto, June 19, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.3 -- Toronto, June 19, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if you want to change the mentality of the human being as it is going on, the dog's mentality, if you want to change it, you cannot do it by assembly in the United Nations and passing resolution. That is not possible. You must take to bhāgavata-dharma. Then everything will be all right. Otherwise, it is not possible.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="LectureonCCMadhyalila20111NewYorkJuly191976_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="65" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.111 -- New York, July 19, 1976" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.111 -- New York, July 19, 1976">
<div class="heading">We cannot become united nations of united dogs. It is not possible. Everyone is barking. And if you practice to bark, then simply some different types of dog, some bulldogs, some greyhounds, some this, some that.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.111 -- New York, July 19, 1976|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.111 -- New York, July 19, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They very much appreciated this Ratha-yātrā ceremony, and they wrote very frankly, "Here is the point of meeting East and West." The newspapers, they have written like that. It is actually the fact. We cannot become united nations of united dogs. (laughter) It is not possible. Everyone is barking. And if you practice to bark, then simply some different types of dog, some bulldogs, some greyhounds, some this, some that. (laughter) So how they will be united? No. That is not possible. Here is unity, when you accept Jagannātha. There is unity. So actually, if we take Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement very seriously, scientifically, then there is unity.</p>
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<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasDisappearanceDayLectureHyderabadDecember101976_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="37" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976">
<div class="heading">These people they have made the United Nation, unnecessarily fighting like dogs. So this will not solve the problems.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So these people they have made the United Nation, unnecessarily fighting like dogs. So this will not solve the problems. The problem will be solved if they pass a resolution that the whole world, not only this world... Kṛṣṇa says, sarvaloka maheśvaram. Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor, so why not accept? Actually He is the proprietor. Who has created this planet? We have created or father created? No. Kṛṣṇa has created, but we are claiming, "This portion is American, this portion is Indian, this portion is Pakistani." Unnecessary. What is the value of this claim? We may claim it for fifty or sixty or a hundred years, and after that, one kick: "Get out." Where is your claim?</p>
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<div id="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Lectures" text="Arrival Addresses and Talks"><h3>Arrival Addresses and Talks</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="ArrivalAddressTorontoJune171976_0" class="quote" parent="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" book="Lec" index="38" link="Arrival Address -- Toronto, June 17, 1976" link_text="Arrival Address -- Toronto, June 17, 1976">
<div class="heading">The animals, the dog is thinking, "I am dog." And it is barking-dog's business. Similarly, if we go to the United Nations and bark like the dog, thinking that "I am this body," then where is the difference between the dog and the human being?
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival Address -- Toronto, June 17, 1976|Arrival Address -- Toronto, June 17, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is thinking that "I am this body," and with reference to the body the family members, the society members or the nation members, national members... We are expanded. Or even international members. But I am not this body. So this kind of thinking is there in the animals also. The animals, the dog is thinking, "I am dog." And it is barking-dog's business. Similarly, if we go to the United Nations and bark like the dog, thinking that "I am this body," then where is the difference between the dog and the human being? Simply barking, you'll distinguish from the animal or the human being? No. Actually, our education should be based on that "I am not this body." Ahaṁ brahmāsmi.</p>
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<div id="Cornerstone_Ceremonies" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Lectures" text="Cornerstone Ceremonies"><h3>Cornerstone Ceremonies</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="FoundationStoneCeremonySpeechBhuvanesvaraFebruary21977_0" class="quote" parent="Cornerstone_Ceremonies" book="Lec" index="2" link="Foundation Stone Ceremony Speech -- Bhuvanesvara, February 2, 1977" link_text="Foundation Stone Ceremony Speech -- Bhuvanesvara, February 2, 1977">
<div class="heading">In Melbourne I was speaking, so I accused the United Nations, "They're assembly of barking dogs." Because you cannot be united on this material platform.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Foundation Stone Ceremony Speech -- Bhuvanesvara, February 2, 1977|Foundation Stone Ceremony Speech -- Bhuvanesvara, February 2, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So the disease is there, but the remedy is also there. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12]]). We are misunderstanding. The human society, they are trying to adjust things by the United Nations, but it is not possible. United Nations cannot do. In Melbourne I was speaking, so I accused the United Nations, "They're assembly of barking dogs." Because you cannot be united on this material platform. If you keep yourself that "I am dog," "I am tiger," "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am brāhmaṇa," "I am śūdra," then there is no question of United Nations. United Nations is possible when sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.170|CC Madhya 19.170]]). You have to become purified on Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not "I am American," not "I am Indian." No. This will not help.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div style="display: block;" id="PhilosophyDiscussiononGottfriedWilhelmvonLeibnitz_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="1" link="Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz">
<div class="heading">They have gone to the United Nation to settle up all problems of the world, but they keep themselves in the dog's mentality: "I am this body."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz|Philosophy Discussion on Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. We can construct such city immediately if the League of Nation—they are trying to be united—they come to their right sense, that this planet does not belong to any particular nation; it belongs to God. This simple fact, if they accept and cultivate on this point, then immediately the whole world will be the city of God. But they will not do this. They have gone to the United Nation to settle up all problems of the world, but they keep themselves in the dog's mentality: "I am this body." "I am American," "I am Indian." But he is not. But if they give up this designation, that "I am American," "Indian" or "Hindu" or "Muslim," "Christian..." We are all part and parcel of God, and the whole planet belongs to God. We are His sons, and we can live peacefully as the sons of father. Father is supplying everything, so we can utilize. Now they, in some country, just like in Australia or New Zealand we find enough cows to supply milk, and in India practically there is no milk. So if the United Nations gives this, accepts this version, that everything belongs to God, so where is the scarcity? It may be in one place one thing is in scarcity, but other place it is enough. So where it is enough, that can be distributed where there is need. Then immediately it becomes city of God. If anyone abides by the order of God and everything produced is divided among the sons of God, then where is the question of scarcity?</p>
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