httpv://youtu.be/KWYMYDmstGY
video: “Fellowship With Devotees” – lecture by Her Grace Urmila Devi Dasi – June 5, 2013
Srila Prabhupada, Mayapur, April 4, 1975: […] If you want to be immortal, these things are to be followed: no illicit sex, no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling. Then you can think of immortality, gradually. That is called tapasya. Tapasa brahmacaryena [SB 6.1.13]. Every sastra, you’ll find. At least at the end of life one should be completely free from these bad habits. That is called sannyasa. Don’t cheat, accept sannyasa and indulge in these things. Don’t be cheater. That is very bad. Sannyasa means to take vow. In other station of life, there may be we fall down. But sannyasa means no – no falldown. Therefore we have now taken very seriously. Unless one is found completely competent to accept sannyasa, there is no more use of awarding sannyasa. So this is the process. Tapasa brahmacaryena [SB 6.1.13]. Brahmacarya is very, very essential. And that is, when one becomes detestful to sex life, that is the beginning of spiritual life. That is the beginning of spiritual life.
So immortality is not very difficult thing. Simply one has to adopt the method, process, as recommended in the sastra, and then you can become immortal. Full Lecture
The sound and picture quality of my wife’s (Urmila Devi Dasi’s) YouTube video are certainly good, and I like the fact that the videographer pans to show the audience and the Deities. That makes it much more interesting.
In her lecture, she quotes me as telling her some words of wisdom in the distant past that I have no recollection of ever having said!
Too bad they didn’t have a real flower garland for her.
By the way, I was the temple treasurer at the time when she, our oldest son and I were living in that same building in Boston (1975-76). Before we left, I turned that service over to Srutakirti Prabhu, Srila Prabhupada’s former personal servant and the future father-in-law of our only daughter.