Krsna Consciousness Movement

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Contents 1 Contribution to Society 1.1 Opportunity to Take Shelter of a Bona Fide Spiritual Master 1.2 Creates Auspiciousness 1.2.1 Appreciation Gives Same Results 1.2.2 Rejecting what is Not Good is Auspicious 1.2.3 Saṅkīrtana-yajna's Auspiciousness is Imperceptible 1.2.4 Receive Kṛṣṇa's Shelter and Become Happy 1.2.5 Devotional Assets are Never Lost 1.2.6 A Proper Boat - Not a Stone Boat 1.2.7 Material World Spiritualized 1.2.8 All-embracing - Principles Bring Peace to the World 1.2.9 No Scarcity of Rainful 1.2.10 Greatest Benediction in Human Society 1.2.11 Distributing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that Anyone in any part of the World can be Absorbed in the Activities of Kṛṣṇa 1.3 Education 1.3.1 Seriously Study the Facts 1.3.2 To Think of and Awaken Dormant Love for Krsna 1.3.3 Teaching How to Concentrate the Mind on Devotional Service 1.3.4 Training how to Follow the Orders of the Supreme Lord 1.3.5 Teaching the Real Goal of Life 1.3.6 Educating About Death 1.3.6.1 How to Conquer Death 1.3.6.2 With the Appearance of Death One Must Take Another Body 1.3.7 Money 1.3.7.1 Not to Waste 1.3.7.2 Engage in Krsna's Service 1.3.7.3 All the Wealth presented by Śrī, the goddess of fortune, be offered to Kṛṣṇa 1.3.8 The Right Principles of Management 1.3.9 The Path Toward the Topmost Perfection 1.3.10 Not the Body but the Owner of the Body 1.3.11 Educate Sinful Men to become Pious by Simply Chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra 1.3.12 Highest Movement Because it is Teaching People How to Go Back Home 1.3.13 Teach How Everyone Can Live Peacefully in this Material World 1.3.14 Teaching People how to Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa Mantra and this has Proved Very Much Effective in All Places at All Times 1.3.15 Teaching People Not to Adopt Artificial Means of Happiness 1.4 Facilitates Chanting 1.5 Gives Liberation from Material Life 1.5.1 Best Opportunity in the Midst of Material Enjoyment 1.5.2 Salvation from This Material World 1.5.3 Greatest Gift for Those Desiring Liberation 1.5.4 Transfered to the Association of Kṛṣṇa 1.5.5 Saves one from Material Contamination 1.5.6 Relieve from Miserable Conditions of Material Life 1.5.7 Liberation from the Bondage of Birth and Death 1.5.8 Nothing to do with the Material World 1.5.9 Easily Conteracts the Contamination of Material Nature 1.5.10 Meant For Elevating the Living Being for Promotion Back Home, Back to Godhead 1.5.11 Should be Taken Seriously by Stopping Sinful Activities 1.6 Gives Relief to Suffering Human Society 1.6.1 Greatest Welfare Activity 1.6.2 Saving the Living Entity from the Catastrophe of Ignorance 1.6.3 Saving the World from Irreligious Principles 1.6.4 Helps One Find the Highest Happiness 1.6.5 Meant to Create an Atmosphere Free from Anxiety 1.6.6 Save Human Society from Gliding Down 1.6.7 Tries to Purify Mismanagement in Government 1.6.7.1 People Must Organise Human Society in Varnasrama 1.6.8 Trying to Raise to Status of Spiritual Understanding 1.6.9 A Foolish Civilization is Extremely Risky 1.6.10 Trying to Remove the Ignorance of Misled Human Beings 1.6.11 Saves People From the Risky Life of Irresponsibility 1.6.12 To Escape Harassment by Government Officials the People in General Must Take to the KC Movement 1.6.13 Revive a Mode of Civilisation in which Everyone will be Happy 1.6.14 By Practicing Kṛṣṇa Consciousness one can Avoid the Risky Life of this Material Existence 1.7 Frees One From the Bodily Conception of Life 1.8 Solves Conflicts 1.9 Society at Large 1.9.1 Reduces Citizens Diseases 1.9.2 Directions for Management 1.9.3 A Politcian has Remarked, the KC Movement may Capture Governmental Power within Ten Years 1.9.4 Pointing Out Foolish Persons Who Have a Taste For Women and Wine 1.10 Godless Civilization will be Doomed 2 Origin and Authenticity 2.1 Origins 2.1.1 Existing Since Time Immemorial 2.1.2 Passing Down From One Manu to Another 2.1.3 Present in Every Millennium of Lord Brahmā's life 2.1.4 500 Years have Past of the 10,000 years of the Saṅkīrtana Movement Inaugurated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu 2.1.5 Started with Only Forty Rupees 2.2 Based on Scripture 2.2.1 Based on Lord Kṛṣṇa's Intructions in BG 2.2.2 Strictly Follows bhāgavata-dharma, the Instructions of BG and ŚB 2.2.3 Based on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā 2.3 Lord Caitanya's Movement of Bhāgavata-dharma 2.3.1 Lord Caitanya Introduced the Chanting 500 Years Ago 2.3.2 Lord Caitanya Predicted the Present KC Movement 2.3.3 Lord Caitanya Gives the Credit to His Devotees 2.3.4 Principles of the Saṅkīrtana Movement 2.3.5 Supported in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.6 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has Awarded this Benediction to Everyone 2.3.7 Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu Inaugurated this Movement of Vairāgya-Vidyā 2.3.8 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Has Appeared to Inaugurate the Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement 2.4 KC Movement is Genuine 2.4.1 Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is personally Kṛṣṇa coming to Preach as a Devotee 2.4.2 Directly in the Line of the Brahma-sampradāya 2.4.3 The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is very authorized 2.5 Highest Form of Yoga 2.6 Srila Prabhupada 2.6.1 Infused with KC by his Spiritual Master 2.7 Following in the Footsteps of 2.7.1 Prahlāda Mahārāja 2.7.2 The Teacher of Bhagavad-gītā 2.8 Bona Fide 2.8.1 Only Songs Approved or Sung by Bona Fide Devotees 3 Establishing the Krsna Consciousness Movement 3.1 A Call for Sacrifice - A Call for Service 3.1.1 To All Exalted and Learned Persons 3.1.2 Give Up Comfortable Life and Show Mercy to the Fallen Souls of the World 3.1.3 The Body, its Possessions, Riches and Relatives Should be Engaged for the Benefit of Others 3.1.4 The Wealthy Man and the Educated Man Should Sacrifice their Knowledge and Opulence 3.2 Structure 3.2.1 Temples 3.2.1.1 Temples are Vaikuntha 3.2.1.2 Deity Worship 3.2.1.2.1 Done By Gṛhasthas 3.2.1.2.2 Discrepancies Compensated by Chanting the Holy Names 3.2.1.3 Constructing Temples 3.2.1.4 Facilities for Devotees 3.2.1.5 Used Exclusively by Devotees who are Serious about Spiritual Advancement 3.2.1.6 Opening Temples 3.2.1.6.1 Encreasing the Number of Temples Can be Undertaken Only by Experienced Devotees 3.2.1.6.2 Open Hundreds and Thousands of Visnu Temples 3.2.2 Centers 3.2.2.1 Best Sacred Places for Performing Religious Ceremonies 3.2.2.2 Invites Everyone to Come to it's Centers and Cultivate Spiritual Life Perfectly 3.2.2.3 Everyone Can Come and Cultivate Spiritual Life Perfectly 3.2.2.4 A Chance to Hear and Chant and Accept the Spiritual Master 3.2.2.5 A Facility to Associate with Pure Devotees 3.2.2.6 Mayapura, A Constant Festival of Saṅkīrtana-Yajña 3.2.2.7 Vṛndāvana and Navadvīpa for Those who Are Determined to Give Up Bodily Concept of Life 3.2.2.8 Vṛndāvana and Māyāpur - A Place to Become Perfect 3.2.2.9 Elderly People Please Come to Vṛndāvana and stay there in retired life 3.2.2.10 A Place Where Gṛhasthas Can Hear Topics of Kṛṣṇa 3.2.2.11 Giving the Entire World a Chance to take Advantage of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness 3.2.2.12 Deity Worship Programs Very Nicely Going On 3.2.2.13 Creating Many Centers Just to Create Devotees 3.2.3 Farms 3.2.3.1 To Show How to be Happy and Content with Minimum Necessities of Life and to Save Time for Self-Realization 3.2.3.2 In Our Various ISKCON Farms we are Giving Proper Protection 3.2.4 Material Opulence 3.2.4.1 Accepted to Facilitate Propagation 3.3 Tries to Make One Perfect 3.3.1 One Who Enters the Society 3.4 Education 3.4.1 Teaching Higher Knowledge of Retiring from Materialistic Life 3.4.2 Not to Waste Money 3.4.3 Must Know the Philosophy 3.4.4 The Path Toward the Topmost Perfection 3.4.5 One Fashion - The Dress of a Vaiṣṇava 3.4.6 Gurukula 3.4.6.1 Extremely Important 3.4.7 Training Devotees to Give Up the Pravṛtti-mārga and Accept the Nivṛtti-mārga 3.4.8 Teaching People How to Come to the Stage of Dedicating Everythng to the Service of the Lord 3.4.9 Teach How Everyone Can Live Peacefully in this Material World 3.4.10 Teaching Everyone to Offer Everything to Kṛṣṇa 3.4.11 Teaching the Principles of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Without Deviation 3.4.12 Meant to Train One How to Tranfer Oneself from Temporary Enjoyment to Eternal Enjoyment 3.5 Social Development 3.5.1 Leadership 3.5.1.1 Duties 3.5.2 No Deception 3.5.2.1 Don't Decieve Yourselves or Others 3.5.3 Varnasrama 3.5.4 Householders 3.5.4.1 Marriages 3.5.4.2 Remaining in One's Occupational Duty 3.5.4.3 Responsible Fathers 3.5.4.4 Worshiping the Deity in the Temple 3.5.4.5 Purified By Hearing Topics of Kṛṣṇa 3.5.4.6 Gṛhasthas Should Spend Extra Money Only for the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement 3.5.5 Sannyāsa 3.6 In Western Society 3.6.1 Lord Caitanya's Desire 3.6.2 Receptive Audiences 3.6.2.1 Descendents of Aryan Family Taking Seriously 3.6.2.2 Many European and American Boys and Girls are Taking this Philosophy Seriously 3.6.2.3 At the Present Moment They have Reached the Stage of Renunciation 3.6.3 Offering First Opportunities to be KC 3.6.4 We Cannot Live in the Forest 3.6.5 Blind Westerners Should Combine with Lame Indians 3.6.6 Women 3.6.6.1 Difficult to Disassociate From 3.6.7 Results 3.6.7.1 Addictions are Given up by Chanting Hare Krsna 3.7 Financial Considerations 3.7.1 Money Engaged to Help Spread Otherwise Certainly One Will Become Proud 3.7.2 Dealing With Money in the KC Movement Should Not be Considered Material 3.7.3 Money Not Properly Spent 3.7.4 Engage Laksmi in the Service of Krsna 3.7.5 Those Giving Contributions 3.7.6 Those Receiving Contributions 3.7.7 Do Not Misuse the Immense Quantities of Money Needed to Spread this Movement 3.7.8 Extra Money Should be Spent for Kṛṣṇa 3.7.9 The Wealthy Man and the Educated Man Should Sacrifice their Knowledge and Opulence 3.7.10 Started with Only Forty Rupees 3.7.11 A Devotee Uses the Money He Has Earned for Constructing Large Temples 3.7.12 With No Steady or Permanent Occupation the Devotees are Maintained Very Opulently 3.8 Opportunities 3.8.1 To Hear and Explain Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.8.2 To Remember Kṛṣṇa Somehow or Other 3.8.3 For Intelligent Persons to Realize their own Self as an Eternal Servant of Kṛṣṇa 3.8.4 Counteract Our False Prestige in this Material World 3.9 Opposition 3.9.1 Not to be Disturbed by So-called Disturbances 3.9.2 From Caste Brahmanas 3.9.3 From Atheists 3.9.4 Dissension Among Members 3.9.5 From Pride 3.9.6 Ignorance of Māyā's Strength 3.9.7 From Materialistic Parents 3.9.8 Differents Views of the Demons and the Demigods 3.9.9 Demons 3.9.9.1 Demons May Falsely Accuse the Preachers of the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement 3.9.9.2 This Movement Can Not Be Stopped by The Artificial Impostitions 3.9.9.3 Demons Always Try to Suppress the KC Movement 3.9.10 Deprogrammers 3.10 Protected by the Lord 3.10.1 From all Kinds of Danger 4 Principles 4.1 Offers the Principles for Developing Love of God 4.2 Movement Based on these Principles 4.2.1 Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa 4.2.1.1 Sum and Substance 4.2.2 One May Remain in His Own Place 4.2.3 Engagment in Devotional Service Liberates One from Material Conditions 4.2.4 Deity Worship and Saṅkīrtana Along Parallel Lines 4.2.5 Based on the Principles of the Saṅkīrtana Movement 4.2.6 Whatever Money is Collected Should be Spent for Kṛṣṇa - The Same Principle Should Still be Followed 4.2.7 Started According to this Principle 4.2.8 Teaching the Principles of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Without Deviation 4.2.9 Internal and External Cleanliness 4.3 Brahmanas 4.3.1 People in General can Attain the Brahminical Qualifications 4.3.2 To Create Qualified Brahmanas 4.3.3 Trying to Train Brāhmaṇas to Guide Human Society 4.3.4 Regulative Principles Keeps Brahmanical Culture Intact 4.3.5 Trying to Elevate Sudras to the Brahmana Plaform 4.3.6 Trying to turn Mlecchas and Yavanas into Real Brahmanas 4.3.7 Protests for Creating Brāhmaṇas 4.3.8 A Vaisnava Brahmana 4.3.9 Inaugurated to Revive Brahminical Culture 4.3.10 A Movement of Brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas 4.3.11 Meant to Develop Brahminical Qualities 4.3.12 Brahminical Culture, Kṣatriya Culture and Vaiśya Culture Must be Maintained 4.3.13 Started A Brahminical Civilization 4.3.14 Bear in Mind Their Great Responsibility to be Truthful 4.4 Sinful Activities Prohibited 4.5 Regulative Principles 4.5.1 Reccommended to Follow 4.5.2 A Bona Fide Student Promises to Follow 4.5.3 Monkey Disciples Can Not Follow 4.5.4 Disciples Adviced to Strictly Follow 4.5.5 Restrict the Activities of the Senses, Especially the Tongue 4.5.6 Sexual Combination as Friends is Irreligious and is not Allowed 4.6 Sixteen Rounds on Beads Daily 4.7 Results 4.7.1 Gives Peace to the World 4.7.2 Simple Austerities Give Salvation from this Material World 4.7.3 All Necessities Will be Supplied by Kṛṣṇa Even if we Do Not Ask for Them 4.8 Sum And Substance 4.8.1 Cleanse the Dirt from Our Hearts 4.8.2 Krsna Protects the Compassionate Devotee Who Preaches 4.8.3 Simply Requesting Human Society to Follow in the Footsteps of the Teacher of Bhagavad-gītā 4.8.4 The eternal occupational duty of the human being is to serve Kṛṣṇa 4.9 Fighting Against The Principle of Regarding Kṛṣṇa as a Fictitious Person 5 Purposes 5.1 Societal Aims 5.1.1 No Envy 5.1.2 To Give Gṛhasthas an Opportunity to Hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā 5.2 KC Movement is for Everyone 5.2.1 For the Masses of People Chanting is Offered 5.2.2 Intelligent People Should Understand 5.2.3 Facilitating Material and Spiritual Advancement 5.2.4 Awakening the Forgetful Living Entity 5.2.5 Chance to be Purified Regardless of Birth or Family 5.2.6 The Dirtiest Class of Men Transformed into the Topmost Vaiṣṇavas 5.2.7 In Our Temples we Welcome Everyone Who Agrees to The Regulative Principles 5.2.8 Regardless of What He is, Anyone can Gain the Topmost Result Achieved by a Perfect Sannyāsī 5.3 Yavanas and Mlecchas have taken to Spiritual Life 5.4 To Always Remember and Love Kṛṣṇa 5.4.1 Life Molded in Such a Way 5.4.2 Material Engagements Counteracted By 5.4.3 Enlighten the Forgetful Living Entity 5.4.4 Culture and Education will Awaken 5.4.5 Engaging People Twenty-Four Hours Daily 5.4.6 Facility for Everyone 5.4.7 Trained to Engage in Service to the Lord 5.4.8 Diverting Even a Little of One's Attention Toward Kṛṣṇa Enables One to Achieve the Highest Perfection of Life 5.5 Goals 5.5.1 Meant to Develop Brahminical Qualities 5.5.2 Trying to Train Some Brāhmaṇas to Guide Human Society 5.5.3 An Attempt to Increase the Number of Pure Devotees 5.5.4 Facilitates Devotees to Develop Spiritual Vision 5.5.5 Giving Western People Knowledge 5.5.6 Establishing A Society the Way Kṛṣṇa Wants It 5.5.7 Convince People about the Teachings of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 5.5.8 Trying to Make Kṛṣṇa Known All Over the World 5.5.9 Attempting to Guide Human Society to Serving the Personality of Godhead 5.5.10 Trying to Remove the Ignorance of Misled Human Beings 5.5.11 Meant For Elevating the Living Being for Promotion Back Home, Back to Godhead 5.5.12 An Attempt to Engage Everyone Always in Spiritual Activity 5.5.13 Revive a Mode of Civilisation in which Everyone will be Happy 5.5.14 Trying to Distribute Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that Anyone can be Absorbed in Chanting and Hearing About the Activities of Kṛṣṇa 5.5.15 Wants to Stop Repeated Birth and Death 5.6 Detachment from Material Affairs 5.6.1 Only Interested in Krsna 5.6.2 Money Belongs Only to Radha and Krsna 5.6.3 Meant to Train One How to Tranfer Oneself from Temporary Enjoyment to Eternal Enjoyment 5.6.4 Diverting Even a Little of One's Attention Toward Kṛṣṇa 5.6.5 An Attempt to Keep Kṛṣṇa in the Center, so that All Activities will Become Beautiful and Blissful 5.7 Giving Spiritual Association 5.7.1 Shelter to the Devotees 5.7.2 Good Qualities Attained 5.7.3 Freedom from Bad Association 5.7.4 Deity Worship 5.7.5 Association with Vaisnavas 5.7.6 Meant to Create an Atmosphere Free From Anxiety 5.7.7 Meant to Create an Atmosphere of Non-Envy 5.7.8 To Hear and Explain Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.7.9 Association of Persons who are Simply Satisfied in Thoughts of Kṛṣṇa 5.7.10 Giving Association of Vaiṣṇavas who are Friends of Everyone 5.8 Restablishing Varnasrama-Dharma 5.8.1 To Save Human Society from Gliding Down 5.8.2 If We Do Not Take to the Principles - No Success in Life 5.8.3 It is Forbidden to Tax Brāhmaṇas 5.8.4 Trying to Reestablish the Divine Varṇāśrama Institution 5.8.5 Objective to Establish Daiva-Varṇāśrama - scientifically organized endeavor by human society - 5.8.6 What constitutes a normal condition will not be the same for everyone, and therefore there are divisions of varṇāśrama 5.8.7 Brahminical Culture Teaches One to be Satisfied with very little, to Teach this varṇāśrama-dharma is recommended 5.8.8 Spread the Understanding that in Bahminical Culture, one Should be Content with Whatever he Obtains 5.8.9 If the process of varṇāśrama-dharma is introduced the situation of Satya-yuga can be invoked. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant for this purpose 5.8.10 Started A Brahminical Civilization 5.8.11 Eager to Reintroduce the Varṇāśrama System 5.8.12 One Should be Brought to Sattva-guṇa by the Establishment of Varṇāśrama-dharma 5.9 Enlightenment 6 Members 6.1 Devotees 6.1.1 Must Know the Philosophy 6.1.2 Determined Vow to do What is Neccessary 6.1.3 Given up Spirit of Material Enjoyment by Mercy of Lord Caitanya and His Servants 6.1.4 Please Do Not Be Attracted by Bodily Features 6.1.5 No Scarcity of Knowledge or Material Requisites 6.1.6 Encreasing the Number of Temples Can be Undertaken Only by Experienced Devotees 6.1.7 Training Devotees to Give Up the Pravṛtti-mārga and Accept the Nivṛtti-mārga 6.1.8 Only Songs Approved or Sung by Bona Fide Devotees 6.1.9 If the Devotees Continue to Spread this Movement 6.1.10 A Devotee Uses the Money He Has Earned for Constructing Large Temples 6.1.11 With No Steady or Permanent Occupation the Devotees are Maintained Very Opulently 6.2 Caution 6.2.1 Not to Waste a Single Moment 6.2.2 Not a Free Hotel 6.2.3 Maya is Very Strong 6.2.4 War has been Declared Against the Illusionary Energy so we Must Keep Fit 6.3 Marriage 6.4 Duties 6.4.1 We Simply Have to Execute the Order of Kṛṣṇa and guru 6.4.2 Meant to Develop Brahminical Qualities 6.4.3 Follow Lord Caitanya's Recommendation 6.4.4 Engaged all Day Long 6.4.5 Devotees Satisfy the Senses of the Lord 6.4.6 Determination 6.4.6.1 To Finish Our Duties in This Life 6.4.6.2 Confronting all Kinds of Difficulties 6.4.6.3 Try to Spread With all Deterimination 6.4.7 Regulative Principles 6.4.7.1 Devotees Should Follow 6.4.7.2 Bona Fide Student Will Follow 6.4.7.3 Dissension Among Members will Result if Regulative Principles are not Followed 6.4.7.4 Without Strict Following the Movement Will be Hampered 6.4.7.5 Temples Are for Those who are Serious to Follow 6.4.8 Must be Inititated Before Entering the Kitchen or Deity Room 6.4.9 Try to Benefit Conditioned Souls 6.4.9.1 Going Door to Door 6.4.10 Work Sincerely Without Considering Victory or Defeat 6.4.11 Different Services for Each Asrama 6.4.12 Immediately and Sincerely Follow the Process 6.4.13 The Result of Associating with Members of Centers is that People Will Automatically Become Uninterested in Material Affairs 6.4.14 Cleanliness 6.4.14.1 External and Internal 6.5 Disciples 6.5.1 Should Follow in the Footsteps of Nārada Muni 6.5.2 Remain Fixed in Chanting 6.5.3 Strong Disciples Carrying the Spiritual Master 6.5.4 First Advice - No Illicit Sex 6.5.5 Monkey Disciples Fall Down to Sex 6.5.6 Obediently Follow Regulative Principles 6.6 Initiated Members 6.6.1 First Initiation 6.6.1.1 Change of Name 6.6.1.2 Asked to Come to the Conclusion of śāstra 6.6.2 Twice Initiated 6.6.2.1 Responsibility to be Truthful, Control the Mind and Senses, Be Tolerant, and so on 6.6.2.2 Non Envious, Peaceful, and Not Puffed Up With False Prestige 6.7 Shelter 6.7.1 Gives Shelter to Anyone Who Is Serious 6.7.1.1 Offers a Spiritual Atmosphere 6.7.1.2 May Live Comfortably and Vow to do What is Necessary 6.7.2 Protected by the Lord 6.8 Activities of Members 6.8.1 Concentrated Upon Distributing Kṛṣṇa Literature 6.9 Qualities of Members 6.9.1 Must be Perfect Sadhus 6.9.2 Always Consider What Our Position was Before 6.9.3 Freed from Anger, Greed, Lust, Envy and so forth 6.9.4 Taught to be Clean in Mind, Dress and Eating 6.9.5 Ideal Men of First Class Character 6.9.6 Not be Concerned with Victory and Defeat 6.9.7 Convinced that Without Kṛṣṇa one Cannot be Happy 6.9.8 A Friend to Everyone 6.10 Preachers 6.10.1 Should be Extremely Careful not to Misuse the Immense Quantities of Money 6.10.2 Preaching Must be Done Very Carefully by the Members 6.11 Pure Devotees 6.11.1 Move Freely Within this World 6.11.2 Give Mercy to the Young Boys and Girls 6.11.3 Attempt to Increase the Number of Pure Devotees More and More 6.11.4 The Association of Persons who are Simply Satisfied in Thoughts of Kṛṣṇa 7 Leadership 7.1 Srila Prabhupada 7.1.1 Infused with KC by his Spiritual Master 7.1.2 Wants to Transfer the Curse to his Disciples 7.1.3 Invites Everyone Without Envy to Join the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement 7.1.4 Follows the Bhāgavata Principle 7.1.5 The organizer is teaching everyone how to follow Lord Rāmacandra, Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu 7.1.6 Considerable Help is being Offered for the Translation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by European and American Devotees 7.1.7 Prabhupada Performed his Duty of Publishing Books to Help Future Candidates Take Up the Method of Service 7.1.8 Prabhupada Astounded and Afraid when Thinking of His Movement 7.2 Lord Caitanya 7.2.1 Recomends One to Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa 7.3 Perfect Disciples Try to Relieve The Situation 7.4 Duties of Leadership 7.4.1 Taking Charge of the Mission 7.4.2 Extremely Careful not to Misuse the Money Needed to Spread this Movement 7.4.3 As Soon as Money Accumlates - 50% Should be Invested in Books and 50% for Expenditure - 7.4.4 Seriously Take this Opportunity to be Kind 7.4.5 Remain Firmly KC by Following the Regulative Principles and Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa Mantra Regularly 7.5 Qualities of Leadership 7.5.1 No Deception 7.5.1.1 Deceiving themselves and others 8 Propagation 8.1 Transmitted via Disciplic Succession 8.1.1 Propagation is Never Stopped 8.2 Distribution 8.2.1 Distribution of Transcendental Knowledge 8.2.1.1 The Exact Instruction of the Personality of Godhead 8.2.1.2 We are Presenting Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 8.2.1.3 On Behalf of Lord Caitanya 8.2.1.4 Vedic Knowledge 8.2.1.4.1 Scientific Distribution 8.2.1.4.2 Subtle Laws 8.2.1.5 Spreading Lord Caitanya's Philosophy 8.2.1.6 A Call for Intelligent Men to Understand 8.2.1.7 Not the Body but the Owner of the Body 8.2.1.8 So Called Leaders - Open Your Eyes! 8.2.1.8.1 Don't Decieve Yourselves or Others 8.2.1.9 Foolish Rascals have Difficulty to Understand 8.2.2 Distribution of Books 8.2.2.1 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.2.2.2 Tatics 8.2.2.3 Publication of ISKCON Literature is the Performance of Yajña 8.2.3 Distribution of Prasāda 8.2.4 Distribution of the Holy Names 8.3 Performing Saṅkīrtana-Yajṣa 8.3.1 The Simple Performance of Holding Festivals Should be Introduced in every Town and Village 8.3.2 By Performing Saṅkīrtana-yajṣa and Satisfying Lord Caitanya one can Derive all the Results Derived by Great Sacrifices 8.3.3 By the Saṅkīrtana Sacrifice Lord Caitanya will be Satisfied and Worshiped 8.3.4 The People of the World will either Jokingly or Seriously Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa 8.3.5 I Considered the Saṅkīrtana More Important than the Vedic Ritualistic Ceremonies 8.3.6 Yajña Must be Performed, for Otherwise People will be Entangled in Sinful Activities and Will Suffer Immensely 8.4 Teaching 8.4.1 By Example 8.4.1.1 Learning Will Come by Following the Examples of the Members 8.4.1.2 Members Must be Perfect Sadhus 8.4.2 The Right Principles of Management 8.5 Preachers 8.5.1 Duties 8.5.1.1 Try to Benefit Conditioned Souls 8.5.1.2 Confronting all Kinds of Difficulties 8.5.1.3 Should be Extremely Careful Not To Misue Money 8.5.1.4 Done Very Carefully, Especially by the Sannyāsīs 8.5.2 Qualities 8.5.2.1 Members Must be Perfect Sadhus 8.5.2.2 Compassion 8.5.2.2.1 Unhappy to See the Basis of Modern Civilization 8.5.2.2.2 Spreads Kṛṣṇa consciousness 8.5.2.2.3 Prays for a Change of Heart 8.5.2.2.4 Tries His Best to Purify 8.5.2.2.5 Gets Special Protection 8.5.2.2.6 Everyone is Invited Without Envy 8.5.2.3 Self Satisfied 8.5.2.4 Fully Aware 8.5.2.5 Humility 8.5.2.6 Fully Satisfied with the Bare Necessities of Life 8.5.2.7 Quicky Come to the Stage of Being Nice Vaiṣṇavas 8.5.3 Must Be Cautious 8.5.3.1 Not to Waste a Single Minute 8.5.4 People Born in India 8.5.4.1 Existence Purified 8.5.4.2 Fit to Preach 8.5.5 Challenges to Overcome 8.5.5.1 From Cheaters 8.5.5.2 From So Called Philanthropists 8.5.5.3 From Police and Courts 8.5.5.4 Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva is Always the Protector from Dangers and Impediments 8.5.6 Advise 8.5.6.1 All Members of the Younger Generation to Join the KC Movement 8.6 Questions Asked 8.6.1 Why Worship Only Krsna? 8.6.2 What Will Happen If Everyone Thought of Krsna? 8.6.3 How can our ISKCON Literature be Published 8.7 Becoming Guru 8.7.1 Lord Caitanya Says "On My Order" 8.8 The Principle of Renunciation 8.8.1 Material Opulence Accepted to Facilitate the Propagation 8.8.2 Property, Money and Books bought and sold Should Never be Considered Material 8.8.3 Dress According to Time, Place and Circumstance 8.9 Lord Caitanya Comes as a Devotee to Preach the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement 8.10 Spreading 8.10.1 Results 8.10.1.1 Envious People Will Change 8.10.1.2 Some Parents Dislike Our Movement 8.10.1.3 Go Forward Without Limits if Devotees Continue to Spread, Dedicating Life and Soul 8.10.2 Following in the Footsteps 8.10.3 Without Discrimination Between Friends and Enemies 8.10.4 The Only Remedy for a Peaceful and Happy Life 8.10.5 No Scarcity of Knowledge or Material Requisites 8.10.6 All Members Should Try to Spread the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement with Determination 8.10.7 Done by Brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas who are Worshiped 8.10.8 Sāstras Conclude that Spreading is the Best Welfare Activity 8.10.9 Spreading by the Cooperative Efforts of the Kṛṣṇa Conscious Devotees 8.10.10 Vaiṣṇavas Preach Only Devotional Service

Contribution to Society

Opportunity to Take Shelter of a Bona Fide Spiritual Master

This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has been started to give an opportunity to all the members of human society, who are misled by foolish leaders to accept a the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master

SB 5.14.1, Purport: The human form is an opportunity to take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master and, through him, the Supreme Lord. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has been started to give an opportunity to all the members of human society, who are misled by foolish leaders. No one can get out of this struggle for existence, which is full of miseries, without accepting a pure devotee of the Lord. The material attempt changes from one position to another, and no one actually gains relief from the struggle for existence. The only resort is the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master, and, through him, the lotus feet of the Lord.

Creates Auspiciousness

Appreciation Gives Same Results

Anyone who cooperates with this movement or accepts its principles will get the same result as the workers who are actively propagating Kṛṣṇa consciousness

SB 4.21.26, Purport: The government of Pṛthu Mahārāja was perfect because it was administered exactly according to the orders of the Vedic injunctions. Pṛthu Mahārāja has already explained that the chief duty of the government is to see that everyone executes his respective duty and is elevated to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The government should be so conducted that automatically one is elevated to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. King Pṛthu therefore wanted his citizens to cooperate fully with him, for if they assented, they would enjoy the same profit as he after death. If Pṛthu Mahārāja, as a perfect king, were elevated to the heavenly planets, the citizens who cooperated by approving of his methods would also be elevated with him. Since the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement going on at the present moment is genuine, perfect and authorized and is following in the footsteps of Pṛthu Mahārāja, anyone who cooperates with this movement or accepts its principles will get the same result as the workers who are actively propagating Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Rejecting what is Not Good is Auspicious

The word maṅgala ("auspicious") in this verse is very significant. Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī quotes that to do what is good and to reject what is not good is called maṅgala, or auspicious

SB 4.21.42, Purport: The word maṅgala ("auspicious") in this verse is very significant. Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī quotes that to do what is good and to reject what is not good is called maṅgala, or auspicious. To do what is good means to accept everything favorable to the discharge of devotional service, and to reject what is not good means to reject everything not favorable for discharging devotional service. In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we accept this principle by rejecting four prohibited items—namely illicit sex life, intoxication, gambling and flesh—eating—and accepting the daily chanting of at least sixteen rounds of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and daily meditation three times a day by chanting the Gāyatrī mantra. In this way one can keep his brahminical culture and spiritual strength intact.

Saṅkīrtana-yajna's Auspiciousness is Imperceptible

The imperceptible auspiciousness achieved from saṅkīrtana-yajṣa should be continued all over the world

SB 4.24.10, Purport: As stated in the previous verse (kriyā-kāṇḍeṣu niṣṇātaḥ), Mahārāja Barhiṣat dived very deeply into the fruitive activities of sacrifice. This means that as soon as he finished one yajṣa in one place, he began performing another yajṣa in the immediate vicinity. At the present moment there is a similar need to perform saṅkīrtana-yajṣa all over the world. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has started performing saṅkīrtana-yajṣa in different places, and it has been experienced that wherever saṅkīrtana-yajṣa is performed, many thousands of people gather and take part in it. Imperceptible auspiciousness achieved in this connection should be continued all over the world. The members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should perform saṅkīrtana-yajṣas one after another, so much that all the people of the world will either jokingly or seriously chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, and thus they will derive the benefit of cleansing the heart. The holy name of the Lord (harer nāma [Cc. Ādi 17.21]) is so powerful that whether it is chanted jokingly or seriously the effect of vibrating this transcendental sound will be equally distributed. It is not possible at the present moment to perform repeated yajṣas as Mahārāja Barhiṣat performed, but it is within our means to perform saṅkīrtana-yajṣa, which does not cost anything. One can sit down anywhere and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. If the surface of the globe is overflooded with the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, the people of the world will be very, very happy.

Receive Kṛṣṇa's Shelter and Become Happy

This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving all wandering living entities a chance to take to the shelter of Kṛṣṇa and thus become happy

SB 4.25.11, Purport: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva (Cc. Madhya 19.151). If, while traveling, a living entity becomes fortunate enough to become blessed by the association of devotees and to come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his real life actually begins. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving all wandering living entities a chance to take to the shelter of Kṛṣṇa and thus become happy.

Devotional Assets are Never Lost

This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving everyone a chance to engage in devotional service for at least some time for even in one falls down due to immaturity or bad association his devotional assets are never lost

SB 5.14.43, Purport: Somehow or other, if one is attracted to Kṛṣṇa, whatever he does in devotional service is a permanent asset. Even if one falls down due to immaturity or bad association, his devotional assets are never lost. There are many examples of this—Ajāmila, Mahārāja Bharata, and many others. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving everyone a chance to engage in devotional service for at least some time. A little service will give one an impetus to advance and thus make one's life successful.

In this verse the Lord is described as Uttamaśloka. Uttama means "the best," and śloka means "reputation." Lord Kṛṣṇa is full in six opulences, one of which is reputation. Aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47). Kṛṣṇa's reputation is still expanding. We are spreading the glories of Kṛṣṇa by pushing forward this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Kṛṣṇa's reputation, five thousand years after the Battle of Kurukṣetra, is still expanding throughout the world. Every important individual within this world must have heard of Kṛṣṇa, especially at the present moment, due to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Even people who do not like us and want to suppress the movement are also somehow or other chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. They say, "The Hare Kṛṣṇa people should be chastised." Such foolish people do not realize the true value of this movement, but the mere fact that they want to criticize it gives them a chance to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, and this is its success.

A Proper Boat - Not a Stone Boat

American people must take the proper boat offered by Kṛṣṇa in the form of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Then they will be easily saved

SB 6.7.14, Purport: Unfortunately. although the American people are extremely eager to get out of materialistic chaos, they are sometimes found to patronize the makers of stone boats. That will not help them. They must take the proper boat offered by Kṛṣṇa in the form of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Then they will be easily saved. In this regard Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura comments: aśmamayaḥ plavo yeṣāṁ te yathā majjantaṁ plavam anumajjanti tatheti rāja-nīty-upadeṣṭṛṣu sva-sabhyeṣu kopo vyañjitaḥ. If society is guided by political diplomacy, with one nation maneuvering against another, it will certainly sink like a stone boat. political maneuvering and diplomacy will not save human society. People must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness to understand the aim of life, to understand God. and to fulfill the human mission.

Material World Spiritualized

Thus when one takes up spiritual activities, one's entire material body is spiritualized. Similarly, in this material world, when the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement expands, the entire material world becomes spiritualized

SB 7.9.33, Purport: The conclusion is that both the material world and spiritual world are considered to be the body of the Supreme Lord. We can understand that the material body is caused by the spiritual body and is therefore an expansion of the spiritual body. Thus when one takes up spiritual activities, one's entire material body is spiritualized. Similarly, in this material world, when the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement expands, the entire material world becomes spiritualized. As long as we do not realize this, we live in the material world, but when we are fully Kṛṣṇa conscious we live not in the material world but in the spiritual world.

All-embracing - Principles Bring Peace to the World

Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is all-embracing. Human civilization should take it very seriously and practice its principles for the peace of the world

SB 7.11.8-12, Purport: “In one who has unflinching devotional service to Kṛṣṇa, all the good qualities of Kṛṣṇa and the demigods are consistently manifest. However, he who has no devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no good qualifications because he is engaged by mental concoction in material existence, which is the external feature of the Lord." (SB 5.18.12) Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, therefore, is all-embracing. Human civilization should take it very seriously and practice its principles for the peace of the world.

No Scarcity of Rainful

If people throughout the world take to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and chant the easy sound vibration of the transcendental name and fame of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there will be no scarcity of rainfall

SB 7.14.7, Purport: If people throughout the world take to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and chant the easy sound vibration of the transcendental name and fame of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there will be no scarcity of rainfall; consequently food grains, fruits and flowers will be properly produced, and all the necessities of life will be easily obtained. Gṛhasthas, or householders, should take the responsibility for organizing such natural production. It is therefore said, tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovidaḥ. An intelligent person should try to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness through the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, and all the necessities of life will automatically follow.

Greatest Benediction in Human Society

Because the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement provides the opportunity for the human being to get out of this material world simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, this movement is the greatest benediction in human society

SB 9.7.7, Purport: Within this material world, or within this universe, however elevated one may be in material qualities, one must suffer the conditions of birth, death, old age and disease (janma-mṛtyu jarā-vyādhi [Bg. 13.9]). Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that this material world is simply miserable (duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15]). The Bhāgavatam says, padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadām: [SB 10.14.58] at every step here there is danger. Therefore, because the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement provides the opportunity for the human being to get out of this material world simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, this movement is the greatest benediction in human society.

Distributing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that Anyone in any part of the World can be Absorbed in the Activities of Kṛṣṇa

By our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are trying to distribute Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that anyone in any part of the world can be absorbed in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement by chanting and hearing about the activities of Kṛṣṇa and be free from all material tribulations

SB 10.11.58, Purport: Here is an instruction about the result of studying or discussing the kṛṣṇa-līlās that appear in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Sadyo hṛdy avarudhyate 'tra kṛtibhiḥ śuśrūṣubhis tat-kṣaṇāt (SB 1.1.2). Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā in Vṛndāvana appeared like ordinary persons of this material world, but they never felt the tribulations of this world, although they sometimes met many dangerous situations created by the demons. This is a practical example. If we follow in the footsteps of Nanda Mahārāja and the gopas, we can all be happy simply by discussing the activities of Kṛṣṇa.

anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād
bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje
lokasyājānato vidvāṁś
cakre sātvata-saṁhitām
(SB 1.7.6)

Vyāsadeva has given this literature so that everyone may understand one's transcendental position simply by discussing bhāgavata-kathā. Even at the present moment, everyone everywhere can be happy and free from material tribulations by following Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. There is no need of austerities and penances, which in this age are very difficult to perform. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has therefore declared, sarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam. By our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are trying to distribute Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam so that anyone in any part of the world can be absorbed in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement by chanting and hearing about the activities of Kṛṣṇa and be free from all material tribulations.

Education

Seriously Study the Facts

There is no profit in activities of bottomless, topless passion; one must engage himself in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement

SB 6.5.18, Purport: One should seriously study the facts concerning creation, maintenance and devastation, as well as the permanent place from which one never need return (yad gatvā na nivartante [Bg. 15.6]). Human society should study this, but instead of culturing such knowledge, people are attracted to temporary happiness and sense gratification, culminating in bottomless, topless passion. There is no profit in such activities; one must engage himself in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

To Think of and Awaken Dormant Love for Krsna

Everyone has dormant love for Kṛṣṇa, and by culture and education that has to be awakened. That is the purpose of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement

SB 4.29.50, Purport: "Being cultured, educated, very active and religious means developing natural love for Kṛṣṇa." (Antya 3.44) Everyone has dormant love for Kṛṣṇa, and by culture and education that has to be awakened. That is the purpose of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Once Lord Caitanya asked Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya what the best part of education was, and Rāmānanda Rāya repli