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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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<div class="heading">His father was the first sannyāsī of Gauḍīya Maṭha, my Godbrother, Bhakti-pradīpa-tīrtha. He was very kindly. He liked me very much. (Hindi) He has come. Just try to train him. Son must be there. The son of a very big man. The father's quality must be there.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversations -- May 17, 1977, Vrndavana|Conversations -- May 17, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Indian man (1): (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi) What was his age?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jayānanda was about thirty-eight or forty.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi) I was very anxious to print my books. So he was the first one to come forward, a five thousand dollar check. (Hindi) What is this cloth is hanging?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It says, "Welcome, Śrīla Prabhupāda."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh. Where is Gopāla?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He went back to Bombay.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He was in Delhi. He was there day before yesterday.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He was in Delhi only about two days ago. He'll be coming back here, he said, in about one week from now, one week to ten days.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can keep here. When Mr. Bose has come?</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: Mr Ghosh?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bose.</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: Oh. Just three days ago.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How long he'll stay?</p>
<p>Akṣayānanda: He wants to stay.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He wants, but I don't think he wants. (laughs) It is known to me.</p>
<p>Mr. Bose(?): No, I'll stay. I promised them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You promised them? (laughter) This time little advanced he has become there, Bose... Shaven-headed. (Hindi) His father was sannyāsī. He's the first sannyāsī of Gauḍīya Maṭha.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What, Śrīla Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: His father was the first sannyāsī of Gauḍīya Maṭha, my Godbrother, Bhakti-pradīpa-tīrtha. He was very kindly. He liked me very much. (Hindi) He has come. Just try to train him. Son must be there. The son of a very big man. The father's quality must be there.</p>
<p>Indian man (2): (Hindi) I... Hardly I endorse. Without Your Grace, a man like me never... I realize your now...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Indian man (2): He's so kind to me.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He is ideal sannyāsī. I think he's younger than you.</p>
<p>Indian man (2): Yes. As I am engrossed in this way. It is only through his grace I got extricated. It is impossible. I have got all opportunity. Still, the world has attract me in such a way that several times I promised to him; I could not extricate myself. But this time, I really strict and I last only... That strictness I found because I know it now.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's coming from government service. Ācchā.</p>
<p>Indian man (2): Because I know it now. And my father, most dearest Godbrother. He has got a very, our nickname (indistinct). He's a great poet.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Kavi.</p>
<p>Indian man (2): Kavi. In the mission only he is to poet, no other sannyāsīs and nobody, even not Prabhupāda, any sannyāsī. But he realized it. How much love he saw, Prabhupāda. Yesterday I spoke, yesterday night. The greatest living export that has been brought down by God, it is what Bhaktivedanta Prabhupāda has... He's such a living export, Indian culture... (Hindi) ...in the world.</p>
:pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma
:sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma
:(CB Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126)
<p>It is the literary living translator and implemented and carried out by single person. And that single person is so much infested and imbued with such a divine power. None of us can do. It is impossible. Practically it is impossible. The Prabhupāda's unfulfillment mission has been fulfilled by this Vedanta Prabhupāda. Śrīmad-Bhāgavata, all quotes, quotations, praising this all types of the power, all propagating the hari-nāma. And it is all-powerful... So there is a medium of literature, medium of professor, medium of the cinema, but still, medium of the personality who in (indistinct) presented it himself. And you, of all people, that attracted by transcendental personality. What with these social religions; there are many authorities and leaders have gone there, and social-religious reformers who practice the yoga, jñāna, karma, etcetera, etcetera. But the one person imbued and empowered fully, transcendental form, by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself, and by his guru, Prabhupāda. It is not that... Nobody can empower. And as a result our this Vaiṣṇava culture installing the Supreme as Kṛṣṇa pronounced in the mantra to worship Him. (Hindi) The nāma... If he fulfills the propagation of this out of the nāma, and then more powerful... Means that he is the more loved. This kīrtana, and then this saṅkīrtana. These things themselves teach us, though in one word—kṛṣṇa-nāma-saṅkīrtana is one faith. But still it has the three aspects—Kṛṣṇa, then nāma, then kīrtana, then saṅkīrtana. So he has, by his mission, his translations, and in the world he has given this Kṛṣṇa. He has given this Kṛṣṇa. He has given the nāma. He has given the kīrtana, the saṅkīrtana which we have seen this morning, the saṅkīrtana, bahubhir militvā. Wonderful. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you have got assets. You have got parentage. Everything you have got. Now do something. You have come. It is a good association. Satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvidaḥ. (break) But they have dedicated their life to Kṛṣṇa. That is their qualification. Bhajate mām ananya-bhāk sādhur eva sa man... So their association is sādhu-saṅga ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.83|CC Madhya 22.83]]).</p>
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