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Lecture — March 2, 1973, Jakarta 730302LE-JAKARTA [40:41 Minutes] Lecture_730302LE-JAKARTA [Indonesian music] Amogha: This is their temple. They sit here and they pray. The priest sits on the, platform there, all, and offers prayers. There's a chair on the top, apparently god should be sitting.
Indian man: This is district of [indistinct]. They want to construct here also, some kind of [indistinct]. [Indonesian music plays for a few minutes] [welcome speech in Indonesian in the background, being translated into English:] Amogha: Not yet finished Prabhupāda: So? Indian man: We [indistinct] Indonesia welcome His Holiness to this temple [indistinct].
We are very grateful that His Divine Grace has make time to come and see us here. Later, after we pray to God for [indistinct] prayers, welcome, we ask His Divine Grace to give us some message to our Hindus at Indonesia. Before that, we are going to recite Gāyatrī mantra, to pray to God. [group chants mantras followed by chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa kīrtana] [11:35]
Prabhupāda: [chants praṇāma mantras] So I shall sing Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava. You can play with me? [12:36] [sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava and chants praṇāma prayers] [17:09] So somebody translate? Somebody translate my... Amogha: A translator? [Indonesian man translating throughout] Prabhupāda: So Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much.
The Gāyatrī mantra, which you have chanted just now, we also chant the same Gāyatrī mantra: oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya dhīmahi. So we have got Gāyatrī mantra general, as well as specific. Just like we have got Gāyatrī mantra for Guru-Gaurāṅga, then Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, that completes the Gāyatrī mantra. So this Gāyatrī mantra is also mentioned in the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there is the statement, satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi [SB 1.1.1].
Satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi. This dhīmahi mantra is in reference to the Gāyatrī. So we have got very intimate relationship. You have uttered the name of Puṇḍarīkākṣam, Nārāyaṇa, these are very known terms in the Bhāgavata system. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has mentioned about Nārāyaṇa, nārāyaṇa parā avyaktāt.
Nārāyaṇa is the Personality of Godhead beyond this material world. Nārāyaṇa is not the person of this material world. So there is another word which is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā: paras tasmāt tu bhāva anyaḥ [Bg. 8.20]. There is another nature, bhāva—bhāva means nature—which is beyond this material nature. So we, living entities, we also belong to that spiritual nature.