So this is the position for everyone. You ask any learned scientist, professor, "Who are you?" He'll say, "I am Mr. John." He'll say, "I am Mr. John, I am American," or "I am Mexican," "I am Indian," like that. So this is ignorance. Nobody is this body. That is the first lesson of spiritual knowledge. So long we identify with this body, that "I am Mr. Such-and-such," "I am American," "I am Indian," this is all ignorance. When you actually understand that you are not this body—therefore you are not American, nor Indian nor Mexican, but you are spirit soul—then your spiritual education begins. And that is... In Sanskrit it is called ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "I am spirit soul." Spiritual... Spirit soul has no connection with this material world. When one understands fully this, I mean to say, fact, that spirit soul is different from this material world, then he's actually learned. In that stage he's called situated in brahma-bhūtaḥ stage. The symptom of brahma-bhūtaḥ is brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54). As soon as one becomes self-realized, he becomes jubilant, jolly. So long one identifies with this body, he is unhappy, full of anxiety.
Mexican
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
So purification is absolute. That is necessary. Without purification, you cannot understand God. But the method we are prescribing... Not we are prescribing; it is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's prescription. We are simply propagating that "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." Yes.
So I am very glad to see that you Mexican young boys, girls, ladies and gentlemen are coming here and joining the chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. So I request you to continue this procedure. Please come here, join this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and take prasādam and go home. And surely you'll be purified and qualified for going back to home, back to Godhead.
The purificatory process we are introducing by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. And the method is very simple: chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. The more you chant this mahā-mantra, or the transcendental vibration Hare Kṛṣṇa, you become purified. Then you can understand what you are. Then every one of us, we can understand that "I am not this body. I am not American. I am not Indian. I am not Mexican. I am spirit soul." This stage is called brahma-bhūtaḥ, means self-realization. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54), means as soon as you are self-realized, you become jubilant. In the bodily concept of life we are always full of anxiety and morose. Yes, that is the material condition. But as soon as you realize yourself that you are not this body, you are different from this body, you become jubilant. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54). This means as soon as one is self-realized, immediately he becomes happy, jubilant. And what is the symptom of becoming jubilant? That is also stated, na śocati na kāṅkṣati: "He does not hanker after anything; neither he laments for any loss." In the material condition we are in the platform of lamentation and hankering. Everyone is trying to possess something which he does not possess, and everyone is lamenting after losing his possession. These are the condition of the materialistic person.
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) How can anyone in any part of the world understand that he is part of God?
Prabhupāda: Have you got any understanding of God? Do you know what is God?
Mexican: Yes.
Prabhupāda: What is that?
Hṛdayānanda: (translating) It is the essence. He calls it some big thing, the essence.
Prabhupāda: "Some." That means he has to clear idea. You do not know what is God clearly. You say, "Some, this, that." That is not clear idea. So how you can understand the part and parcel of God if you do not know what is God? How you can understand what is part and parcel of God?
Hṛdayānanda: He's saying that God is love, and therefore we should love each other.
Prabhupāda: So that we are preaching, that we are... Samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu, see everyone on the equal level and love.
Mexican: Thank you.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
Martin: It's very faint.
Devotee: Mexican incense.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Devotee: Christian incense.
Prabhupāda: So all science of God is described in Bhagavad-gītā.
Devotee: This morning you said that Kṛṣṇa is the original scientist because..., because He is a scientist then we can have our science.
Prabhupāda: Yes. The, ah... Do you accept it He is the original scientist?
Martin: I can accept the fact that Kṛṣṇa, being God, created everything which science studies now.
Prabhupāda: Yes, right. That's right. That is the fact. That is the fact. So despite my becoming a scientist, I am a subordinate scientist. Our, my scientific research is going on under the direction of Kṛṣṇa. Because the experiment which you are making in the laboratory, the ingredients, they are produced from Kṛṣṇa. The mind with which you are working, that is produced by Kṛṣṇa. The direction you are receiving from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore when you prepare something, that is Kṛṣṇa's production. Kṛṣṇa is indirect cause and you are direct cause. The other day while coming on the plane you told me that they are trying to make copy of the brain of...
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Guest: They're also vegetarians now.
Prabhupāda: Acchā? In Mexico they are vegetarians?
Guest: Well, no. Most Mexicans are not vegetarians, but this, these people who belong to Śaṅkarācārya sampradāya are vegetarians.
Guru Dāsa: Where's the name "Maya" civilization come from?
Guest: I think it's probably just a coincidence that the name is Maya, more than, you know.... (break)
Guest: How's your health?
Prabhupāda: Health is not very good. I am not (indistinct).
Devotee: It's almost time to go to your.... (break)
Prabhupāda: This we will take more, it will not harm, but the other, if you take little less.... (break) Mexico? No.
Prabhupāda: Acchā? In Mexico they are vegetarians?
Guest: Well, no. Most Mexicans are not vegetarians, but this, these people who belong to Śaṅkarācārya sampradāya are vegetarians.
Guru Dāsa: Where's the name "Maya" civilization come from?
Guest: I think it's probably just a coincidence that the name is Maya, more than, you know.... (break)
Guest: How's your health?
Prabhupāda: Health is not very good. I am not (indistinct).
Devotee: It's almost time to go to your.... (break)
Dr. Sallaz: No, you see, we have tried with some of our members, some of whom are very high in spiritual position, outside of this world. We have tried to look, to reach for the old truth in the very old knowledges of humanity. We have tried this with Indian knowledges. We have tried this with Chinese knowledges. We have tried this with Mexican knowledges. We have tried it everywhere. And we have found that everywhere there is, when you go deep enough, the same truth.
Yogeśvara: He says among their members, many of them are spiritually inclined So they have investigated the ancient scriptures from China and Mexico, all over the world, and they found that if you go down far enough in the philosophy, it is the same truth.
Prabhupāda: Yes, truth is for everyone—if it is truth. Truth cannot be different. Chinese truth is different from Indian truth. That cannot be. Truth is the truth, provided it is truth. You take something myth as truth—that is different thing. So the truth is that this body is formed on the basis of that spiritual spark. That is the truth.
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Another brahmacārī saved.
Prabhupāda: One of our man has done so. You know that Rāmānuja? The Mexican boy?
Devotee: There's that boy in Bombay he married one Indian girl.
Prabhupāda: He is staying.
Devotee: Jagat-puruṣa.
Prabhupāda: He has not left as yet. But he can leave any moment. (laughs) No. He is not American. He is devotee. Therefore he is reliable. (pause)
Bhagavān: We have to arrange a few things.
Prabhupāda: What is the next program? Is there any program?
Yogeśvara: A big hall meeting.
Prabhupāda: Today.
1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Hanumān: This is Mr. Coruna Cortez. He's the administrator of the Institute of Science and Education. He said he is a philosopher.
Prabhupāda: Karuna?
Mr. Cortez: Cortez. Arjeo Coruna Cortez.
Prabhupāda: From India? Karuna?
Hṛdayānanda: Mexican.
Prabhupāda: Oh, Karuna is also an Indian name, Karuna.
Hanumān: And the lady here is a psychologist.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Mexican devotee: Śrīla Prabhupāda, in one of the magazines I read that there was a saint who he didn't even construct a rug?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Romaharṣaṇa. (break) Bhagavad-gītā it is said, yajñād bhavanti parjanyaḥ, yajñād bhavanti parjanyaḥ. If there is timely cloud and rainfall, this ground can be moistened very easily. But they won't perform yajña; therefore there is scarcity of cloud and rain. Now they have to manufacture this sprinkler. And it is not perfect. (break)
Hṛdayānanda: Another question, Prabhupāda. He said that you have stated that Kali-yuga will last for around 400,000 more years and then it will be finished and that the culture will gradually degrade, people will become very short and so on and so forth. So he's wondering if there will be geographical changes in the world or if the culture as we know it now will simply disappear and how the people will be... More or less, he's wondering what will become of the earth.
Hṛdayānanda: ...Universal Brotherhood, which is a yoga group around Latin America and they say they are trying to re-educate people and help bring understanding between different cultures. He's originally Mexican.
Prabhupāda: What is the name?
Hṛdayānanda: (Spanish)
Guest: (Spanish)
Hṛdayānanda: Jose Marciel.
Prabhupāda: No, what is the name of the group?
Paramahaṁsa: What kind of civilization was in South America at that time?
Prabhupāda: The same like. Therefore these Mexicans, South American, they resemble therefore almost Indian body.
Amogha: They also eat food... They eat a food similar to the cāpāṭi.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Amogha: Tortillas.
Prabhupāda: Cāpāṭi, in Middle East also they eat.
Devotee (1): Yes, in Lebanon.
Prabhupāda: So they are coming to know what we are. (laughter)
Woman: (in distance) Hare Kṛṣṇa!
Prabhupāda: Thank you very much.
Mexican Woman: Good morning.
Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa!
Prabhupāda: Good morning.
Revatīnandana: The Mexican people are always a little appreciative. They naturally believe in God.
Prabhupāda: Give them invitations. Today is Sunday.
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Yes, and request him to stop to send, give passport to all these nonsense. Do this. Yes.
Satsvarūpa: "For this reason I am very excited to see the publication of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, by Śrī A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prabhupāda, from his very birth, was trained in the strict practice of bhakti-yoga, and he appears in a succession of gurus that traces back to the original speaking of Bhagavad-gītā by Śrī Kṛṣṇa. His knowledge of Sanskrit is impeccable. His penetration into the inner meaning of the text is befitting only a fully realized soul who has indeed perfectly understood the meaning of Bhagavad-gītā. Personally, I intend to use this book in the courses which I am directing by invitation of the Mexican government on the language, culture, and philosophy of India. This authorized edition of the Gītā will serve a double purpose in Spanish-speaking countries.
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Hṛdayānanda: There are more temples in Latin American than Europe. We also defeated them in book distribution.
Prabhupāda: The Mexicans are exactly like Indian.
Karttikeya Mahadevia: Yes. Mexico, Peru, and Chile—these are three altogether.
Hṛdayānanda: They are very much attracted to Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?
Correspondence
1967 Correspondence
I am in due receipt of your short note regarding your marriage. So far I know that you are married with Subala das before me and as such you forget all your previous life. You are now liberated from all other obligations because you surrendered yourself unto Krishna. Such surrender has no more obligations to anyone. So far Subala is concerned he is also a surrendered soul and thus your combination is quiet apt for the service of the Lord. You have, by the Grace of Krishna, got a very nice place to develop a full fledged temple and your husband is becoming competent to conduct the service nicely. I have already given him instruction how to do things and that is published in the New Mexican paper. Please do follow the instructions both husband and wife, and help your God brothers and sisters to follow the instructions faithfully.
So yours and Krishna Devi's sincere effort to open a branch in Santa Fe is crowned with success by the Grace of the Lord.
The article in the paper New Mexican is very nicely written and I offer my sincere thanks to Mr. Peter Nabokov, who begins the article with chanting of the Mahamantra. Please offer my thanks to all who joined you in this endeavor. I'm glad to know that Haridasa is there also. Each and every picture published in the paper looks very nice and the devotional postures of you all has very much pleased me. The secret of success in the matter of Krishna Consciousness is devotion to the Lord and the Spiritual Master.
1972 Correspondence
The prospect there is very nice. I have read your progress report. As many Spanish-speaking devotees can go there as possible and help you, and you can expand into South America from there. The Mexican public is very sympathetic, so produce voluminously Spanish language literature. You can correspond with Karandhara in this respect of producing many, many Spanish books and magazines.
1975 Correspondence
I left India on the 26th January from Bombay and I went to Hong Kong and Tokyo. Then I went to Hawaii and I received your letter there. Then I went to Los Angeles. Now I am staying at our Mexico City temple at the address below. Here the Mexicans are taking part in sankirtana and Deity worship very nicely. They have become very good devotees. In the neighboring countries like Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Trinidad and the Dominican Republic we have also got our temples. So, I am touring in these temples to see how things are going on, and by the grace of Krishna, everyone is becoming Krishna Conscious.
| Page Title: | Mexican |
| Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Mayapur, RupaManjari |
| Created: | 18 of Dec, 2011 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=4, Con=12, Let=4 |
| No. of Quotes: | 20 |