Prabhupāda: Where is Pradyumna? Book? Begin.
Karandhara: Rāmeśvara?
Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. (leads chanting)
- śrī-śuka uvāca
- evam etan nigaditaṁ
- pṛṣṭavān yad bhavān mama
- nṛṇāṁ yan mriyamāṇānāṁ
- manuṣyeṣu manīṣiṇām
- (SB 2.3.1)
- brahma-varcasa-kāmas tu
- yajeta brahmaṇaḥ patim
- indram indriya-kāmas tu
- prajā-kāmaḥ prajāpatīn
- (SB 2.3.2-7)
- devīṁ māyāṁ tu śrī-kāmas
- tejas-kāmo vibhāvasum
- vasu-kāmo vasūn rudrān
- vīrya-kāmo 'tha vīryavān
- (SB 2.3.2-7)
Prabhupāda: So, anyone else? That's all right. So in this way, if you chant ten times, you'll get it by heart. It is not difficult. So we are giving this diacritic mark, English transliteration, only for this purpose—so that you can chant, you can vibrate these mantras. So practice. Here you hear, and in your leisure time, you practice. If you chant these mantras anywhere, you'll be honored. Sanskrit language is so nice. And direction, everything is there: purport, word meaning, and translation. So we are taking so much trouble in writing books not for simply making market. It is for you to read. Not that simply we go and sell books, and that ... If the customer says, "You read it first of all," then what you will say? You'll say, "No, I cannot read. I can sell only." (laughter) (Prabhupāda laughs.) Then what will be your position, if you say like that? "I can sell; I cannot read." Anyway, then? Word meanings? (Pradyumna reads synonyms.) So these are kāma, these material desires.
Somebody is wanting wealth, somebody is wanting beauty, somebody is wanting strength, somebody something else. All these are...the beginning from brahma-varcasa-kāmas tu. And ultimately, they want to merge into the brahma-jyotir. So up to that point, everything that we want—that is material—and that is lust. Therefore it is said kāma. The...just the opposite word of kāma is prema, love.