The threefold miseries are called adhyātmika, adhibhautika, and adhidaivika. The word adhyātmika refers to those miseries caused by the mind and body. Sometimes the living entity suffers bodily, and sometimes he is distressed mentally. Both are adhyātmika miseries. We experience these miseries even in the womb of our mother. As we well know, there are many types of miseries that take advantage of the delicate human body and give us pain. Miseries inflicted by other living entities are called adhibhautika. These living entities need not even be large, for there are many—such as bugs—that can make us miserable even while we are sleeping in bed. There are many insignificant living entities, like cockroaches, that sometimes give us pain, and there are also other living entities who are born on different kinds of planets and who give us miseries. As far as the adhidaivika miseries are concerned, these are natural disasters that originate with the demigods of the higher planets. For instance, we sometimes suffer from severe cold or hot weather, from a thunderbolt, or from earthquakes, tornadoes, droughts and many natural disasters. In any case, we are always suffering from either one or a combination of these three kinds of miseries.
Weather
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Teachings of Lord Caitanya
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
If one is actually seeking after spiritual realization, there must be intelligent question. The first intelligent question was put forward by Sanātana Gosvāmī, that ke āmi kene āmāya jāre tāpa-traya: "Sir, please let me know what is my identification, why I am put into this miserable condition of material life." People do not know it. Just like cats and dogs. The cat or the dog does not know that his life is very abominable. No, he is happy. This is māyā. Even the hog, he is also thinking, "I am very happy." This is called māyā, moha. Jīvasya moha, ahaṁ mameti (SB 5.5.8). So when human life is there, at least, one must be awakened to this consciousness, that actually "I am not happy." That is the beginning of human life, not to remain in darkness like cats and dog. He is unhappy in every respect, in every step, and still, he is thinking, "I am happy." Cats, dogs, hogs, their whole day working, day and night, and for some food, and sense gratification. This is the modern life. And that is happiness, become very busy whole day and night for getting some food for eating and something for sense gratification. This is happiness.
Actually, it is not. So therefore Sanātana Gosvāmī was intelligent. He inquired that, ke āmi kene āmāya jāre tāpa-traya, first question to the spiritual master, that "What is my identification? Why I am suffering these threefold miseries?" They do not know what is threefold... Miseries are there, but they do not know, so dull-headed people. Adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika, three kinds of miseries, there must be. Either three or two or at least one must be. No, three are always there. Adhyātmika means pertaining to the body or mind. "Today I am very weak." "Today I have got jaundice." "Today I have got this some stomach trouble, dysentery." These are called adhyātmika. Or mind is not very nice. And adhidaivika. Just like severe cold, severe heat, earthquake. These are... Famine, pestilence. There are so many things, adhidaivika. And adhibhautika, miseries offered by another living entity. In this way we are always implicated. Adhyātmika.
Therefore Sanātana Gosvāmī inquired that "I do not want this. I do not want this. But why they are imposed upon me?" This is very intelligent question. "If there is any solution?" That is intelligence, not temporary mitigation of... Temporary... Weather... Just like it is summer or winter. Anyway. Summer, in the summer we are suffering, scorching heat. At that time we are hankering after some cool place. And during winter we are suffering from chilly cold, rain. So these thing will go on. So long you are in the material world, you cannot avoid it. Therefore Sanātana Gosvāmī inquired, "Why these things give me trouble, although I do not want them?" This is very intelligent. "If there is any solution?"
General Lectures
The threefold miseries are called ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika, and ādhidaivika. Ādhyātmika means caused by the body and mind. Sometimes the living entity suffers bodily and sometimes he is distressed mentality. Both are ādhyātmika miseries. We experience these miseries even in the womb of our mother. There are many forms of miseries that take advantage of our delicate body and give us pain. Miseries inflicted by other living entities are called ādhibhautika. There are many living entities such as bugs born of eggs that cause us miseries while we are sleeping in bed. There are many living entities like cockroaches that sometimes give us pain. And there are other living entities born on different kinds of planets, and they also cause us miseries. So far as ādhidaivic miseries are concerned, they originate with the demigods from the higher planets. For instance, sometimes we suffer from serious cold weather, sometimes we suffer from the thunderbolt, sometimes from earthquake, tornadoes, droughts, and other natural disasters. So we are always suffering one or another of three kinds of miseries.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: The material energy, it is also coming from Kṛṣṇa. The spiritual en... Kṛṣṇa Himself is spiritual energy. Exactly like that is. This weather is coming from sun but sun is covered. The weather created by sun makes himself covered; not himself covered, it is covering our eyes. Sun is not covered. My eyes are covered. Therefore material means when our consciousness is not developed. That's the meaning. It is somehow or other covered. That is material. Where is our scientist? They... The mistake of the scientist is that they do not accept two energies, the material and spiritual.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: No.
Prabhupāda: They accept one energy. We accept also that. But they, defect is they are beginning from the material. That is their method. Just like this weather is beginning from the light and gradually it is becoming dark. So darkest part or the dark part is called material. But the dark is beginning from light, not the light is beginning from dark. That is their method. They are thinking that from matter, consciousness is coming. Now consciousness is there. When it is covered, degraded, that is unconsciousness. So material means when the consciousness is forgetful of Kṛṣṇa. That is material.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: The weather is getting worse, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Karandhara: It will get worse when you leave, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: When I will... It will get better, as soon as I go away. (devotees sigh)
Karandhara: No. No.
Prabhupāda: It will get..., that is natural. It will not stay. But I'm not going out for this weather, don't misunderstand me. My physicians asked me, therefore... I'm accustomed to this... (end)
Prabhupāda: Because as soon as you act, there will be some result, good or bad. So, good or bad, by good result we get good birth, good money, good bodily features, good education—these are the effects of good work. And the effects of bad work, low-grade family, abominable, ugly bodily features, no education, no money, poor—these are the two effects of material good and bad work. But those who are trying to be transcendental both to the good and bad work, devotees, they are perfect. Because in this material world either you do good work or bad work, you have to suffer the material condition. Just like you are, suppose you are Englishman, you are well situated. But you can not avoid the influence of the weather. (laughs)
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Devotee: Kīrtanānanda Swami says that in New Vrindaban the weather is changing every year. It is getting nicer there. Much more sun and the winter is not so hard.
Atreya Ṛṣi: In New Vrindaban it's getting better.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Because there are so many devotees. The people are still being maintained on account of our chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
Devotee: By the grace of pure devotee.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (break)
1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the way. If nighttime it rains and daytime there is sunshine, then the land becomes very fertile to produce. Yes. There is a common saying in Bengal, dine jal rātr e tā rā sei janme sukha dhā rā.(?) If it rains heavily during daytime and at night you see the stars, then you should know there will be scarcity of rain. There will be scarcity of rain and scarcity of food grains. Best thing is at night there must be heavy rain, and daytime, there should be sunshine. Then the field will be very fertile.
Hari-śauri: Is the irregularity in the weather and...
Prabhupāda: That is due to sinful life.
Hari-śauri: So if we increase the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement...
Prabhupāda: Then it will be regular. It is nature's punishment. You may not care what is sinful life, but that is recorded. That is foolishness. "I don't care for God, don't care for what is going to happen." That is foolishness. People, lower planetary system, they are like that. In this planet also. In Western countries there are many places. "Don't care for anything, what is sinful life, what is going to happen. Let us enjoy, that's all." This is their philosophy.
Prabhupāda: Oh, you have got my books?
Guest (2): That's amazing. For the first time I can see you really.
Gurukṛpa: You have got our books?
Guest (2): Yes, I have got some at home, and I read some of them too.
Guest (1): What do you say about the weather or the sun or what... You just were talking before she interrupted.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Weather is changing. Weather is changing. Śītoṣṇa, it is called śītoṣṇa. Sometimes it is cold; sometimes it is hot.
Bali-mardana: ...used to say that they can control the weather. They used to make big propaganda, "We are now going to control."
Prabhupāda: Another foolish propaganda.
Bali-mardana: Now they have given up.
Prabhupāda: You see? They want to draw some salary, big salaries, by bluffing the government and the public. This is their business. They are failing. They have finished their business on this planet; now they are going another planet. These are nonsense.
Prabhupāda: So such a big... simply by touching the electric wire that becomes...
Brahmānanda: Well, they were, I think, steel towers, two hundred feet high, so they were pretty sturdy, and it hit four of them.
Ambarīṣa: There was some bad weather.
Brahmānanda: And then it toppled over.
Prabhupāda: No, in bad weather, towers, but simply by touching, such a big machine became in fire. (laughs) Unsafe everywhere. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadam (SB 10.14.58). Every step, there is danger.
Prabhupāda: How this sand is made?
Cyavana: From the rocks it is... They call it weathering. The weather makes it ground up from the rocks. This is their theory.
Prabhupāda: No.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Isn't it shells from the animals?
Cyavana: Some. Some from rocks, coral.
Prabhupāda: It is made from salt. It is called sodium silicate. (laughter)
Cyavana: They say this is combination of shells, coral, and rocks, ground up.
Prabhupāda: No, no.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But if it's salt, Prabhupāda, our experience of salt is generally that it dissolves in water, isn't it?
Prabhupāda: Silicate there is.
Prabhupāda: How long they can stay in the water?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: If it's warm weather they can stay all day.
Prabhupāda: Acchā?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: In the cold weather, a few hours. They put on these black suits made out of a certain fabric—it's called a wet suit—and they are able to stay in the water much longer. It insulates, insulates the body from the cold water.
Prabhupāda: Going for surfing?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: These gentlemen? No, I don’t think so. These young boys are.
Harikeśa: Someone was telling me that the weather here was supposed to be like Miami.
Prabhupāda: Miami? (break) ...places were reserved for the sinful man in Kali-yuga. Formerly the Aryans never touched these places.
Harikeśa: Africa.
Prabhupāda: Africa or similar, other places. They were living in best places, like India. Now the number of sinful persons are increasing. Therefore they have been transferred here.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: America?
Prabhupāda: Anywhere.
Harikeśa: So in the warmer climates it seems like a better place for spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Prabhupāda: In warmer climate you can live inexpensively, and freely. In winter climate, there is no freedom, neither it is inexpensive. Very expensive.
Ambarisa: (break) ...warm weather in Florida.
Prabhupāda: Huh? In Honolulu. That means it depends on weather also, not only seaside.
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Yaśodānandana: Nava-dhānya. Rice with yogurt, rice with chilies, rice with dahl, rice with everything.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is system in South India, with rice, everything. Just like in North India we make purī, kachorī, balusai, sṛṅgāra. There is ghee, wheat, and sugar and salt, varieties, hundreds of variety.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Maybe it has something to do with the weather. The colder weather?
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, in northern India, when there is some festival they will purchase, I mean to say, grains, means wheat and chānnā, and ghee and sugar. Then they will make hundreds of preparation out of it.
Indian man: Here we call it as poṅgal. Make it as poṅgal, we call it. It's chānnā, ghee, and sugar. We prepare it in...
Prabhupāda: Laḍḍu, you prepare laḍḍu? They prepare so many things. The main ingredient is this: besan, āttā, ghee, sugar. That's all.
Rāmeśvara: I was once told that these irregularities in the climate are due to sinful activities. Los Angeles has a very nice climate.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: People I speak to, they say, "Yes, even in the last twenty years we can notice a great change in the weather patterns." People say that.
Prabhupāda: Disturbance means sinful atmosphere.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And also that it is the king's responsibility to see that there is good weather. If there's good government then automatically...
Prabhupāda: Everything.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: These buildings are churches, but they're all closed. But our churches are lively, even at four in the morning.
Prabhupāda: From four o'clock up to ten.
Pradyumna: You first made ice cream in New York, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Someone told me that in 26 Second Avenue, did you make..., you made them ice cream when it was very hot?
Prabhupāda: Hot?
Pradyumna: It was hot, no, the weather was hot, so you made.
Prabhupāda: No, you can make ice cream in this, what is called, refrigerator. You can make.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: As you recall perhaps, in Māyāpur, we discussed that we would like to go in Vṛndāvana first and end the festival in Māyāpur on Gaura-pūrṇimā.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That way we'll get the cooler weather and we'll get the best preaching in America.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I heard people say "We've never seen such a festival, never seen such a parade." I heard these comments. One man said... Someone said, "What's going on?" and he said, "Oh, they have so many things going on here." They were very appreciative. And actually we could not put our full energy into it this year because we were so busy preparing the building simultaneously.
Prabhupāda: And above all, the atmosphere, the weather, was very nice.
Bali-mardana: Oh, yes, Kṛṣṇa has blessed us.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (laughs) The breeze was there. We did not feel any...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No discomfort.
Prabhupāda: ...fatigue.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And there was nearly four hundred to five hundred devotees there.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They will stay in the temple?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, they've been staying here.
Prabhupāda: That's nice.
Bhagavān: I was just thinking that if you wanted warm weather, it's very warm during the day, and the air is very clean. It's not so dusty.
Prabhupāda: No, in the village there must be.
Mike Robinson: Do you find the English weather cold?
Prabhupāda: Because I am old man, I'm not a young blood like you.
Mike Robinson: And you think it's more because of your age, I mean you've got used to a colder climate than India, have you?
Prabhupāda: We are accustomed to tropical climate. This.... Heat does not disturb us, but cold disturbs us. We can tolerate extreme heat, 120 degrees, but we cannot tolerate fifty degree cold.
Mike Robinson: That's cold. (laughs)
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Prabhupāda: You have to arrange for little more water so you can... The pump is not in order. You can arrange for that.
Bhagavān: Your water supply has been all right?
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.
Bhagavān: This, in July, this is normal weather now, in August and July. But generally in July it has some rain.
Prabhupāda: This year...
Bhagavān: Yes. And it was the hottest weather in a hundred years.
Prabhupāda: Now.
Bhagavān: It was, in July. Extremely hot. And actually our well was one of the only ones functioning in the whole area, and we were watering the crops and everything. Our corn is very nice, very high, and our tomatoes are very good. The barley harvest was five tons.
Prabhupāda: Five times more.
Bhagavān: Five tons of barley we got, from our harvest. It was very nice.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Hari-śauri: If we had a big farm in the south it would be very nice. In the south of France the weather is always very good.
Prabhupāda: South of France is near Mediterranean. Marseilles is south?
Bhagavān: Marseilles is right on the Mediterranean. We have very big saṅkīrtana there.
Prabhupāda: Marseilles? Oh.
Bhagavān: Many books distributed.
Prabhupāda: How far it is from...?
Bhagavān: From here? About six hours.
Prabhupāda: On the whole, they are appreciating.
Bhagavān: Oh, yes.
Hari-śauri:
- nainaṁ chindanti śastrāṇi
- nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ
- na cainaṁ kledayanty āpo
- na śoṣayati mārutaḥ
- (BG 2.23)
"The soul can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can he be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind."
Prabhupāda: So where is question of atmosphere influence? Suppose there is rock and sand and always hot weather. That does not mean there cannot be any life. The life is never affected by all these things. Make propaganda about this knowledge. People will understand that Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not joking; it is something serious. That boy was saying that these scientist, they know me.
Pradyumna: One thing, they say, is security, that American and Russia are fighting. So it was a race to get to the moon because they think that from other planets they can control conditions on the earth. From another planet they can control weather or they can control different things.
Prabhupāda: Just see how bogus.
Pradyumna: That is one thing they say, we must get to the moon first, for security.
Prabhupāda: That is now failure. Now they'll do it from Mars.
Hari-śauri: Not so much from there for security, it's just...
Parivrājakācārya: Their pride, one country, just like children playing, one can say "I can fly higher than you," and so "We can go to the moon before you can." For no reason than just to show they can do it.
Hari-śauri: It's an excuse to spend money. It's for fun.
Prabhupāda: They cannot settle up their misunderstanding here. By going to the moon planet, they'll do it.
Indian man: Very comfortable journey?
Prabhupāda: (chuckles) There was no water. All over Europe there is no cloud. No water.
Girirāja: No water?
Prabhupāda: No water.
Harikeśa: Big drought. They just had to close the factories in Wales because there's no water now.
Girirāja: It's a reaction to their sinful activities.
Prabhupāda: It will be increasing throughout the whole world. Anāvṛṣṭi.
Hari-śauri: They think it's just happening by chance.
Prabhupāda: Godless civilization, sinful activities. The reaction will increase, no rainfall, scarcity of foodgrains, and government taxes. These are written in Bhāgavata. Anāvṛṣṭi-durbhikṣa... Government will exact tax more.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: There was a scientific study done by the CIA in America, this study done by the CIA on world weather conditions. And they concluded that the world weather conditions only get worse and worse. There's going to be drought every three, four years, and so there will not be food production.
Prabhupāda: It is predicted in the Bhāgavata five thousand years ago.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. They're having earthquakes in China now.
Hari-śauri: Yes, big ones. They say a million people died in the last one.
Prabhupāda: You have got the keys for that?
Hari-śauri: I think they're... That last set that I gave you, Śrīla Prabhupāda? These, yes.
Prabhupāda: Print books many, as good as possible. Let us do our duty.
Gargamuni: The weather there is very nice because the monsoon is mild. It is very nice, cool weather.
Prabhupāda: I have got a bad impression, Bengal during rainy season.
Gargamuni: Yes, right.
Prabhupāda: Is it not? No, it was not rainy season. This season. Otherwise any season in Bengal, they are very good.
Hari-śauri: Insect season.
Prabhupāda: Not only insect. There are... Insects are there?
Gargamuni: There's no insects now.
Jayapatākā: Rainy season no insects. After rainy season.
Prabhupāda: After rainy season. And insect is not so bad. Indigestion.
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Why not engage Govinda dāsī?
Rāmeśvara: If she will come, she can be engaged in many ways.
Prabhupāda: She is also very expert.
Rāmeśvara: She doesn't like the weather in Los Angeles.
Prabhupāda: Doesn't like? Why? What is wrong there? Los Angeles is very nice. I like Los Angeles.
Rāmeśvara: Only the spring and summer. I think it's in her mind.
Prabhupāda: Los Angeles is very nice.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: It will be nice in March.
Prabhupāda: By the middle?
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, sometime in the middle.
Prabhupāda: Then we can arrange.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: The climate, the weather, will be very nice.
Prabhupāda: Very nice. So make that arrangement
Gargamuni: All right. And we can go by road.
Prabhupāda: Yes. You go by road, and we go by plane. Or all of us, we can go by road. Is it possible? No.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We cannot grow rice in America.
Prabhupāda: Oh. There is no paddy?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Only place I know is down in Mississippi farm. They are trying to.
Prabhupāda: They can grow. There is no difficulty.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But other places, they cannot. You see, the weather.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: New Vrindaban they cannot do.
Prabhupāda: Oh. Rice cannot be grown.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. New Varṣaṇa we cannot do.
Prabhupāda: California?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Maybe. Florida they can do. Southern United States, the weather is more like India, especially Florida. Florida is very much like India.
Prabhupāda: There are many places like India.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hawaii they could do, I think.
Prabhupāda: Hawaii, yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think it just requires some gradual recuperation. And also I think, Śrīla Prabhupāda, if there is still a chance of going to Kodaikano for a month, you should take that opportunity.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It may be Kṛṣṇa's will that you... I think that if for one month you are under the care of Dr. Ghosh in a very first class healthy weather...
Prabhupāda: I think also. He is a very kind doctor. Whole family is attentive. Living is... That we have already discussed. Trees also live for many years. That is not wanted. To live for living forever, that is wanted. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6). That should be the human endeavor, not this dog race, changing condition, from four legs to four wheels. This logic was never taught, from four legs to four wheels. They are astonished.
Mr. Dwivedi: The weather at our headquarters is always pleasant. Summer, very pleasant. You'll gain in weight.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Mr. Dwivedi: And strange enough, you gain in color also in summer.
Prabhupāda: Attractive.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Said the right thing.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "The orbit of Pluto is extremely elliptical, and the day is some 6,109 hours long. There is probably no atmosphere, and there are no known humans."
Prabhupāda: "Probably." Their science is "probably." Probably it is science; otherwise it is nonsense. (laughter)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It says here, "The moon is 238,860 miles from the earth. It has no atmosphere, no weather and no wind."
Prabhupāda: "Probably." Everything "probably."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Good weather.
Śrutakīrti: Excellent weather. It was hot.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Los Angeles has good weather.
Prabhupāda: Hm. Very good weather.
Śrutakīrti: Hawaii's weather is (laughs)..., it's better.
Prabhupāda: So I wanted to return again.
Śrutakīrti: If not for the traveling, it would certainly be the best place to be for your health. I remember last time when you were sick, you recovered very well in Hawaii.
Prabhupāda: Let us see. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa wants me, wants to go back to...
Prabhupāda: All right. But chanting should not be stopped.
Brahmānanda: Oh, no, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: It should go naturally. Kīrtanānanda's...
Kīrtanānanda: Yes?
Prabhupāda: ...palace, when it will be ready?
Kīrtanānanda: Early spring. Soon as the weather starts to warm up. It just gives you a little time to recuperate here and then go to Bombay and open the temple there and then come to your palace. I have about fifty or seventy-five letters from the devotees at New Vrindaban. They're just all begging you to come. They say their life is finished if you don't.
Prabhupāda: Hm. So let me take a little rest. Then I shall take strawberry.
Prabhupāda: Is it cloudy?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, Śrīla Prabhupāda, it's not. It's clear weather. The sun is shining. It's hard to tell, of course, through these curtains and through the windows.
Prabhupāda: Who is there?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's Upendra Prabhu. He's cleaning up your room for you. He's cleaning the floor nicely. He put fresh flowers.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Vṛndāvana is so beautiful at this time, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Everyone's... The sky is so clear, the stars are so bright, and also the weather is so beautiful. We have a nice decoration of the hall. Last night one of the professors from Agra told me that he wants to have us organize this conference next year. He said this should be an annual feature, a science conference in Vṛndāvana every year.
Prabhupāda: Let them make advance in scientific research, but still they cannot capture the real thing.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Just like I have heard it, when Socrates was condemned to death, the judges inquired that "How Mr. Socrates wants to be entombed?" When the judges inquired Socrates, "How you want to be entombed?" Socrates: "First of all capture me. Then to the question of entomb me." What he said?
Abhirāma: That is a historical fact.
Prabhupāda: No. What is the wording?
Abhirāma: He said, "First you'll have to catch me."
Bhakti-caru: He said that he didn't want to give the medicine right now because he's too weak for that. So when he gets little strength, when the weather turns a little cold, that would be applicable to him.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He says that the kavirāja is waiting for you to get a little stronger and the weather should be a little colder.
Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, so I have some grape juice here, and a little bit of ice cream. If you could take that now it will help you become strong.
Prabhupāda: Yes, I can take.
Upendra: The doctor in London... You came from London, and then you came from Bombay to Vṛndāvana in very weak condition.
Prabhupāda: So weak condition...
Svarūpa Dāmodara: It will be little warmer in Māyāpur. In Māyāpur the weather will be a little warmer. Also the air is fresher in that sense.
Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, here is Tamāla.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: (offers obeisances) Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: So you think over transferring me to Māyāpur.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: On one hand, we didn't want to take Bhakti-caru Mahārāja away from you, because he's serving properly, and this is the best thing. I can see that you also don't want that. So then we can find... It's good if one Indian devotee goes with Smara-hari. But there are others that we can find. No, we can find someone. That's not... You don't have to tax yourself for that, Śrīla Prabhupāda. But this is our idea, that why we should wait here? The longer we wait, the colder the weather becomes. And what advantage do we gain by waiting here? There's no advantage gained. You could say "Well, because if we wait here and I get the medicine immediately, and I start to take the medicine, then I will become stronger." But our feeling is that strength will take time. So just by waiting for two weeks, the strength will not increase so significantly to make traveling less risky. Traveling is risky if we are not careful. If we take great care, then traveling will not be risky.
Prabhupāda: So by plane or train?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: By plane or train? Well, I think that... I think train is better.
Prabhupāda: Why?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Because... There's a number of reasons. First of all, there's no Jumbo jets, and they're Indian Airlines planes. They're Indian Airlines smaller planes. They're jets, but they're not the big jet. The flying...
Prabhupāda: No, nowadays that bus...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Airbus.
Prabhupāda: That I do not know. (break) If I can continue this parikrama, that is spiritual cure. (break)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Then we can enlarge the parikrama path. Can we take you some time all around Vṛndāvana?
Prabhupāda: Why not?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about to Govardhana?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Rādhā-kuṇḍa.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: This is very, very nice weather now.
Brahmānanda: Yes, it's beautiful weather, fantastic weather.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We will make a palanquin, special palanquin, you see, which will have a bed in it. It will be very nice. And it will have curtains. When you want, the curtains can come down or they can come up. And it will be full length, so you can recline very comfortably. And we will make a camp. We will go by foot all the way.
Prabhupāda: Very good idea. If I die then, it will be a great luck.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And if you live it will be also great luck.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Jīvo vā māro vā.
Prabhupāda: ...see that prasādam distribution goes on.
Guest (1): The weather at Hyderabad is now pleasant.
Prabhupāda: Now.
Guest (1): Yes. And it will remain for another two months.
Prabhupāda: Very pleasant.
Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
I am mendicant, and Sannyasi, and the guest of my students here in the Western world. If you wish for me to fly to Bahamas, then you please send me airplane ticket and I shall come at your bidding. Also, two tickets will be required for my attendants, but I think they may go on the youth fare, which is less expensive. I have been told the weather is very warm there, and the sunshine may be very beneficial to my health. Simply I require some quiet place so to continue my translating work on Srimad-Bhagavatam, and that's all. We are mendicant, and missionary, and can make our dwelling place anywhere.
Please accept my blessings. ___ __ great satisfaction ____ your letter of November 20th along with your very kind gift of one pull-over sweater. This gift is very much appreciated by me as the weather in Los Angeles is little bit cold lately and I had need of just such a sweater. Also please thank Satyabhama for her good taste of selection. I am pleased to learn how you are spending your time in meditation with Lord Krishna and I request that continue to chant Hare Krishna so that Krishna will surely bestow all blessings upon yourself.
1969 Correspondence
So continue your efforts, and Krishna will surely make your efforts successful. I am very much concerned to learn that Govinda Dasi is sick. Of course, she is always sick; that is general experience, but I do not know why she should be sick in Hawaii. The weather is not cold there, and when I was in Hawaii she had improved her health. Anyway, take care of her as far as possible and depend on Krishna. Everything will be all right.
1970 Correspondence
Yes, Their crowns and jewelry should be removed both at night and while resting at noon, but wigs may stay on and Krsna should always hold His flute. It is nice if you can provide some heating arrangement for cold weather. Also different weight clothes for warmer or colder weather is good. Your idea for a thin curtain around the throne is very good. Regarding Radharani's smiling, that is not imagination—so she must smile. Let this be an impetus to your increased service.
1971 Correspondence
Even if it is only a few pages, something must be there. You may organize your travelling party on the lines of a festival which moves from city to city, and if there is good field, a camp may be set up and you may carry on with our Hare Krishna Festival as long as there is good response. In this way, you may move from country to country as the weather permits. And you can equip yourselves to be completely self-sufficient—sleeping, cooking, everything. This program is very very pleasing to me.
I am especially very very pleased that you are getting that large church for our Miami center. All over the world we are getting more respectable and we are getting big big houses for our Radha Krishna Temples, but if yours is the biggest, then I must certainly come there and see it. If the weather is good, then why I should come there and spend some time for my translating work? I think this will be my last tour—now let me go on translating, that is my real work. I am so much encouraged by reports everywhere that our Movement is getting good results, especially that MacMillan Co. has agreed to print our Bhagavad-gita As It Is, so I think my work is now finished, let me write.
1972 Correspondence
Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter dated 6 August, 1972 along with the balaclava hat. The hat is very nice and it is now cold in London it also had some immediate use. But now I am in Los Angeles and the weather here is very warm so I have kept the hat in London for my use whenever I shall go there.
I am in due receipt of your letter from Edinburgh dated December _ 1972, and I am so much pleased to hear from you again. Actually, I liked that place Scotland very much when I was there last time, and especially I saw that the Scotsmen were very much inclined toward our preaching, but the weather was for me unbearable. But I think by next summer they might have got a nice place in London, and because it is little warmer there, I may go and stay some time in London, and if there is opportunity I shall see Scotland temple also.
1973 Correspondence
Nevertheless, I do not know how serious is the actual situation at Boston Temple or at other temples, but I am sending copies of your letter to all ISKCON centers and I am requesting the officers in charge in those places to do the needful as you are suggesting. Yes, if there is anything cold weather, the students should be sufficiently dressed and they should not work under such conditions that they will fall ill. Everything should be managed in a nice way, so that no one is dissatisfied and everyone keeps their health and energy fit for serving Krsna 24 hours.
Regarding the installation of Gaura-Nitai deities, weather it be a GBC man, president, or sannyasi it does not matter. The important thing is that he be a senior qualified man. That is the most important thing.
Tomorrow I am going to Dallas because the weather here in Los Angeles is not good for my health. It is too cold and cloudy. So I am going to Dallas to get some sunshine. If the weather there is not suitable, I may come at once to Caracas. However, if the weather is good in Dallas I shall remain there until May 30 and then to New Vrindaban for the corner stone laying for our first temple there. Then I shall come to Caracas from Pittsburgh.
1974 Correspondence
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of December 21st, 1973. I can understand from the propaganda you are making that you are trying your best at your center there. Especially, even though the weather is cold you are emphasizing Sankirtana book distribution. So that is very important and that is why we are opening Centers. Also, you should keep on your work with trying to approach the educated class in this—teachers of religion in the schools and colleges.
1975 Correspondence
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram as follows: PADAPADMA SAHASRA PRANAME WELCOME BACK FROM YOUR TOUR STOP DEVOID YOUR LOTUS FEET DUST MAYAPUR IS WEEPING HOPE YOUR ARRIVAL FORTHCOMING WEATHER NICE FRESH STOP—JAYAPATAKA SWAMI
So let us begin the construction on the temple here in Bombay first, then we shall see for coming there to Mayapur to stay with you. Say after a month.
It is not at all good that the Deities do not have warm clothing for the cold weather. They are still spending so much for construction, spending spending, but the Deities are not clothed properly. What is this?
1977 Correspondence
The farm you describe sounds nice and if you can supply grains, butter, etc. to Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa as you suggest, it is very good. From the photos it seems that it gets very cold there. Whether the weather will hinder the farming as happened at the Vancouver farm? There they were forced to sell the farm. The farm may be called "Subha Farm". I have already given general guidelines for our other farms.
| Page Title: | Weather |
| Compiler: | Sahadeva, Alakananda |
| Created: | 21 of Dec, 2010 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=2, Con=41, Let=15 |
| No. of Quotes: | 59 |