www.mahavishnugoswami.com SB Saptah Day 1A - Significance of Purushottama Masa Verse: BG 9.30 Location: Sydney [Maharaj speaking] Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare It was not loud enough…. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Jai, Srila Prabhupada ki Jai… Krsna mercy, <> came to glorify Him. [Maharaj singing, audience repeating] Jaya Radha Madhava Jaya Kunja Bihari (2) Jaya Gopi Jana Vallabha Jaya Girivara Dhari, Jaya Girivara Dhari (2) Jaya Yashoda Nandana Jaya Braja Jana Ranjana, Jaya Braja Jana Ranjana (1) Jaya Jamuna Tiravana Chari, Jaya Kunja Bihari (5) Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare (5-7) Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Hey (2) Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Pahimaam (2) Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Rashamaam (1) Krsna Keshava Krsna Keshava Krsna Keshava Rashamaam Raam Raghava Raam Raghava Raam Raghava Pahimaam Raam Raghava Raam Raghava Raam Raghava Rashamaam Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Krsna Hey (4) Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare (9-10) Raghupati Raghava Raja Raam Patita Pavana Sita Raam (2) Sita Raam Sita Raam Bhaja Pyare too Sita Rama (1) Raghupati Raghava Raja Raam Patita Pavana Sita Raam (1) Sri Raam Jai Raam Jai Jai Raam Sri Raam Jai Raam Jai Jai Raam (2) Raghupati Raghava Raja Raam Patita Pavana Sita Raam (2) Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare (2) Nitai Gaura Haribol Haribol Haribol Haribol Haribol Haribol (2) Jai Jai Prabhupada Prabhupada Prabhupada Jai Radha Gopinatha Radha Gopinatha Radhe Jai Radhe Jai Radhe Jai Radhe Jai Sri Radhe (2) Jai Jai Prabhupada Prabhupada Prabhupada Jai Om Vishnupada Paramhansa Parivajracharya Astotshara Sri Abhay Charanabhrida Bhakti Vedanta Swami Maharaj SrilaPrabhupada Ki Jai ISKCON BBT founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai Ananta Koti Vaishnava Vrinda Ki Jai Samaveda Bhakta Vrinda Ki jai Bhakti devi Tulasi Deviji ki Jai, Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadhishji ki Jai Sri Sri Radha Gopinathji ki Jai Sri Sri Sita Raam Lakshman Hanumanji Ki Jai Sri Sri Jagannath Baladeva Subhadraji Ki Jai Sri Sri Gaura Nitaiji Ki Jai Gaura Premaanade Haribol (3) All Glories to the assembled devotees (3) All Glories All Glories to Srila Prabhupada [Maharaj’s lecture] Before we start to think about Srimad Bhagavatam, it is essential that we should understand the importance of this month which is very correctly known as Purushottam maas. It reminds us that our Vedic calculations, they are very precise since (initial) ancient times. Our years, our months, days are very nicely divided. And we very well know in which part of the day, which part of the month we can perform auspicious activities. Which time is very auspicious and which is not auspicious. But since we depend upon computers and etc for these calculations, we realize our calculations go wrong. We remember in our childhood that brahmin used to come and will forecast about the weather - rainfall and etc. and it was quite correct. Now we hear weather report from all over the world and it is completely wrong and fat salaries are paid. Our Brahmin was very happy if he gets four annas or something. The life was very simple. In every dealing the money was completely absent. That was the blessing. Since, the whole thing is gold standardized, they call it gold standardized and since then the difficulties are increasing. The name is very nice to hear Gold Standardized. And in our hand there is a paper. Its nothing. I remember that in our India, rupee was there and it had exactly the 1 rupee symbol in it and we had Gold coins also. Now we don’t have anything in our hand. And the name is being Gold Standardized. The whole things going in completely wrong direction. And day by day the transactions particularly, they are the cheating transactions. There are no commodities and they buy and they sell. I do not know what they buy and what they sell. And because there are no commodities they lose so much. Anything happens in the world and we are at the risk of losing our riches. It is very pitiable condition that we have left for our own original economic standards. We depended upon the farming and the cows. Remember what ever happened in our world economy, we were not affected at all. That is the Vedic culture. At the moment please just peacefully think what situation we are in. We are very busy working everywhere, in India and outside equally. In foreign countries you are very busy and we don’t have time. And really seriously if you think what work are we doing. It’s no productive work. Product means you must grow. There is produce. And from produce the word product comes. How many of us are producing anything. We are not producing at all. Very busy in work and I don’t know what work and there is no product. Soon the time is coming, when we have all this computer and high rise building and so forth. And rice will be absent. We are not producing anything. We have to depend for our essential things on other people. Or they try to grow, they try to farm, it’s all artificial farming. Because few people are farming, the rest of the population is very busy in non-productive work. Seriously, we have thinkabout it. Suppose war breaks out and the continents cannot send to each other the grains or this that, we will be starving. This was not the case before even 50-60 years. Every village was producing plenty of grains. The things are getting to this level. The question that comes before us that what is our duty in this age. We cannot stop the work which we are doing. And we cannot go to the farming may be. But one thing we should try to understand, in these times particularly, it becomes our pious duty to live for our own ancient teaching and to the best of our capacity we may try to mold our lives. If you cannot mold, at least you please introduce this swadhaya- that is the study, of may not be of all of scriptures but at least of Bhagavad-Gita. We have in our news media, we have BBC –you know British Broadcasting Corporation and any news broadcast by the BBC is regarded as authoritative. We also have our BBC. Please take help of our BBC. And think over it. Our BBC is Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam and Chanting. Minimum we should start to follow this at least. Then we have AC- Air Condition. Everywhere you know. We cannot bear cold, we cannot bear heat. So we have to have the Air condition offices, air condition premises. That is harmful again. It consumes so much energy. Everywhere in Dubai, so many people there they cannot survive without AC. Here also you may be accustomed to it. The less we touch AC its better for us. We want AC no doubt– as we have our BBC. (Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavatam and Chanting), the same way we have AC, that is we have Abhaycaran – our Prabhupada’s name. You please buy some small books written by Prabhupada and always study. At least you should start doing this in order to mold your life. And I am sure you’ll get light from even a small book. And slowly you will develop the taste to go through our Bhagavat- Gita and Bhagavatam ,etc. These things have got to be done. These things you please begin knowingly or unknowingly you will become very simple. First thing you will change, you will change your dress. It is very easy phase. Very simple - we can put on dhotis or kurtas or whatever, outside for work you may keep some suits or something. But please life should be very simple. As soon as you understand these things, that brings us to the importance of this month. This month depends upon the difference of the calculation between the Candra Varsh they call i.e. the moon year. Every month moon is revolving around our planet and takes certain time, set time. At the same time, 12 times it revolves and that is known as Moon Year, Chandra Varsh. And side by side again there is another movement and that is Sun movement. Sun also goes around our world, our planet moves around sun within a year. That is known as Surya Varsh. Surya Varsh they call. Now these two movements have different timings. If you think about the moon year, 12 times it goes around the planet. Definite minutes and second are given about this movement. It is 354 days 8 hours 48 minutes and 33.55 seconds. Up to the seconds the calculations is given. This is very correct calculations. You should remember the 354 days 8 hours 48 minutes and 33.55 seconds. This is Candra Varsh- Moon year. Then we have Sun year/Surya Varsh. It takes us again 355 days 48 min 47.5 seconds . This is the length taken by the Sun. And this how there is a difference between these two years. So, if they are allow to continue like this, then the difference will widen. So they have their own way to make up for this difference. And that’s why after every 32 months and 16 days, they add additional month- and this additional month is the extra month.