True spiritual influence flows from humble surrender, not from seeking importance or worldly respect.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Ahaituky apratihatā [SB 1.2.6]. Acyutānanda: Yāya sakala bipada. [When I chant that holy name of the Lord, all dangers go away, Gītāvalī, Śrī nagara-kītana, song 3, stanza 3]
Prabhupāda: Eh? Acyutānanda: Yāya sakala bipada.
Prabhupāda: Ah. Acyutānanda: Bhaktivinoda... [break]
Prabhupāda: [chants japa] ...times it is speedy, sometimes slow. Therefore day and night, there's time difference. It is moving. It is not fixed.
Acyutānanda: Bhagavad-gītā's Battle of Kurukṣetra fought in which month?
Prabhupāda: That I do not know. Why? Acyutānanda: Because they have a Gītā day, I think, in November, where they claim that they have found the day... December?
Yaśodānandana: December, beginning of December. Acyutānanda: So that, and the eighteen days' war, and then the Uttarāyaṇa [the sun's travel to northern heimsphere] begins in the middle of January. So I was thinking that Bhīṣma was lying on the battlefield for almost a month or more. Prabhupāda: Eh? Acyutānanda: That Bhīṣma was waiting, lying on the battlefield for about thirty or forty days. [break] Prabhupāda: ...was to die when he liked.