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 ==Notes==
-===Subjects to compile===
-The members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness cannot even call themselves brahma-bandhus
-Anyone who attempts to write about Krsna must first take permission from the spiritual master and Kåñëa
-Later in the Caitanya-caritämåta I shall describe this incident of chastisement in detail. The Lord, being very much satisfied by this chastisement, sent Dämodara Paëòita to Navadvépa.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Ädi 10.32
-Later in the Caitanya-caritamrta I shall describe this incident of chastisement in detail. The Lord, being very much satisfied by this chastisement, sent Damodara Pandita to Navadvipa.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Adi 10.32
-one becomes overly attached to a material body, although it is the abode of pain.
-The difficulty is sometimes things are interpreted in a manner dovetailing one's own sense gratification
-So things should be managed so nicely that our devotees may not leave us
-You should always deal things so tactfully that people may not fall away.
- Every living being is important in Krishna Conscious service, and we must take all precautions that one may not fall away
-Please note it carefully that you cannot leave Krishna Consciousness. That is a fact. And even if you want to leave, Krishna will not leave you
-when a man is physically very strong, and if he has sex intercourse with a woman, she is sure to become pregnant. When pregnancy fails, it is due to the weakness of the male partner generally
-So the way for you to increase the capacity of receiving Krishna's Mercy is to chant Hare Krishna regularly, at least 16 rounds per day, to associate with devotees of Krishna, and to follow the rules and regulations
-"missing tapes"
-You have done great service to the cause of the Society and I always consider you as two strongest pillars of the Society
- We have no need of any large buildings or palaces. We are simple
-So far as your taking initiation from Brahmananda Maharaja, I have no objection, but it is the etiquette that in the presence of one's Spiritual Master, one does not accept disciples
-they need not be important men. Assistant men will do nicely
-Wherever we go, our Deities must be installed. So they may not go to Africa and waste time
-The Institute will be primarily for those who have not entered our temples
-I wanted that he should preach to the Africans and convert them to become devotees, that should be his real business, nevermind wasting time with so many nonsense Indians
-After the age of 30, marriage is not so pleasing
-I understand from a letter from Gurudasa that you have elections for officers for your temple, and the men filling the posts are all very well suited for their position.
-I consider London as our prime center for spreading Krsna Consciousness Movement
-The difference between demons and demigods is that a beautiful woman very easily attracts the minds of demons, but she cannot attract the mind of a godly person
-Any member of the family who is above twelve years of age should be initiated by a bona fide spiritual master
-all the members of the household should be engaged in the daily service of the Lord, beginning from morning (4 a.m.) till night (10 p.m.) by performing mangala-aratrika, niranjana, arcana, puja, kirtana, srngara, bhoga-vaikali, sandhya-aratrika, patha, bhoga (at night), sayana-aratrika, etc.
-A woman is generally accustomed to dress herself nicely with fine garments and decorative ornaments. She may even sometimes wear flowers in her hair. Women especially dress themselves up in the evening because the husband comes home in the evening after working hard all day. It is the duty of the wife to dress herself up very nicely so that when her husband returns home he becomes attracted by her dress and cleanliness and thus becomes satisfied. In other words, the wife is the inspiration of all good intelligence. Upon seeing one's wife dressed nicely, one can think very soberly about family business. When a person is too anxious about family affairs, he cannot discharge his family duties nicely. A wife is therefore supposed to be an inspiration and should keep the husband's intelligence in good order so that they can combinedly prosecute the affairs of family life without impediment.
- The disciple should not consider whether he is going back home, back to Godhead; his first business should be to execute the order of his spiritual master
-Bhagavatam must be finished before my mortal body stops to work
-Too much editing is not required. If Satsvarupa has already edited it, there is no need of further editing
-Krishna will make you happy
-Be happy in Krishna Consciousness
-do not leave the Krsna consciousness movement, at any cost
-As for the $150 you will be receiving each month for the next five years, I think that will be sufficient tuition for your two children at Gurukula, and that will oblige your debt to Gurukula
-I do not want any personal service from you, but I want to keep you engaged in Krsna's service
-do not do anything impractical. If it is not possible, then don't do it
-The Ganesa puja may not be performed. No, it is not to be done. No need of it
-How can he claim proprietorship, everything is the property of the Guru
-if you have some sentiment to get the blessings of Ganesa in order to get huge sums of money for service of Krishna, then it can be done, but privately. I have instructed them that if they want to do it, they must send me at least 100,000 dollars monthly—not less
-Napoleon, he was also not sleeping. He was taking rest on the back of the horse
-Napoleon Bonaparte, he was not sleeping. He was sleeping... When he was passing from one warfield to another, on his horse he slept
- I cannot stress this point enough that we must handle this publication of Back to Godhead very nicely for it is one of the most important aspects of our society
-anything outside of Krishna Consciousness is insanity, and I am glad that you are realizing it more and more
- Please give your primary attention for improving BTG, the backbone of our movement
-one becomes overly attached to a material body, although it is the abode of pain
-*Subhadra
-* PAGES TO CREATE:
-*Devotee means
-*Brahmacari means
-*Supreme Controller
-*Become Vaisnava
-*Crazy men (man)
-*Original Consciousness
-Dr. Patel: Yes, sir, but it is said that the German scientist ran away to America because they were afraid of Hitler. If Hitler gets the secret of atom, he would bomb out the whole world.
-Prabhupäda: No, no. Hitler knew it.
-Dr. Patel: No. They were not able to be successful to...
-Prabhupäda: No, no. He knew it, everything, but he did not like to do it. He said. He said. He was gentleman. But these people are not gentlemen. He knew it perfectly well. He said that "I can smash the whole world, but I do not use that weapon." The Germans already discovered. But out of humanity they did not use it. And all the, your American, other countries, they have stolen from German ideas.
-one becomes overly attached to a material body, although it is the abode of pain
-"Womb of a mother"|"womb of the mother"|"womb of mother"
-impregnates a woman|impregnate a woman
-women and controlling
-impregnates|impregnates
-Sudarsana
-Madhu
-brahmastra
-CATEGORIES TO CREATE
-"I am ISKCON,"
-A devotee is always in a renounced temperament
-What's the meaning of surrender and how one should do it?
-I said (Category: Prabhupada said)
-Fruits, flowers, beautiful gardens, parks and reservoirs of water with ducks and swans playing in the midst of lotus flowers, and cows giving sufficient milk and butter are essential for developing the finer tissues of the human body.
-Vyāsadeva himself was the disciple of Nāradajī, and therefore it was natural to be anxious to hear what Nārada did after initiation from the spiritual masters
-Everything is acintya
-If you like this Krsna philosophy, you are welcome. Otherwise you leave
-spiritual advancement means minimizing sleeping
-If you do not obey the representative, authority, then there cannot be any discipline. Then everything will be topsy-turvy
-If one diverts his attention to studying many books, he cannot fix his mind in devotional service, nor can he understand many scriptures, for they are full of grave statements and meanings
-peanuts
-Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said, "Any rascal" -- of course, "rascal" he did not say; I say -- that
-bhakti-rasacarya
-rupanuga
-So there is sex, but there is blissful sex
-Simply by studying, becoming bookworm, you cannot advance
-Just like a man is sensuous. So he can enjoy one woman, two women, but he cannot enjoy unlimitedly
-"I am seventy-seven
-Now I am seventy-eight, and so my death is imminent
-I am seventy-seven years old. So when this body will be finished, I'll get another body
-Now I am seventy-one. So after nine years I'll have to change this body
-Propounder
-Adherent
-Splayed
-expediencies
-whatever is done is done
-consummate
-emolument
-trepidation
-effeminate
-immutable
-posterity
-superexcellently clean
-About Madhudvisa: "One may stay in whichever asrama is suitable for him; it is not essential that one take sannyasa. If one is sexually agitated, he can enter the grhastha-asrama. But one must continue fighting. For one who is not in a transcendental position, to take sannyasa artificially is not a very great credit. If sannyasa is not suitable, one may enter the grhastha-asrama and fight maya with great strength. But one should not give up the fighting and go away."
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 8.2.30
-Raghupati Rama
-And so far we are concerned, we don't talk anything, except what is mentioned in the books. That's all. We remain always foolish. And as foolish men, we do not talk. We simply talk what is mentioned by Vyasadeva, by Sukadeva Gosvami.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- August 3, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)
-G. Visnu
-Sir Anatole
-to accept the spiritual master
-As they have been trained up to rise early in the morning, this will give you spiritual strength. If you simply becomes a gramophone speaker, then it will not be effective. Gramophone or tape record speaker, that will not be. You must be live speaker. Your living condition should be spiritually, what is called, surcharged. So that means you must be trained up how to rise early in the morning, take your bath, cleanse yourself, chant Hare Krsna mantra. Then you will be spiritually strong. When you are spiritually strong, if you speak something on spiritual subject matter, then it will be effective. Otherwise it will be just like tape record playing. So this is required.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius
-For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, it is impossible to even begin to understand Kåñëa.
-Even if a person is fully addicted to all sorts of sinful acts, if he happens to be engaged in the loving transcendental service of the Lord under proper guidance, he is to be considered the most perfect holy man without a doubt
-So we have got this test tube of Bhagavad-gita
-It is actually Krsna. So long it adheres to the principle, "I'll enjoy, I'll be unaccepted(?)." Otherwise it is ordinary movement. This same man, he's guru, so long he gives the real knowledge of Krsna. And the same man, he's ordinary man, as soon as he cannot give. Same thing, just like a stone doll, when it is worshiped according to the regulative principles -- Krsna. And the same doll, kept in the sculptor's showroom, it is stone. So if we keep our movement pure, then you are as strong as Krsna. And as soon as you deviate from it, immediately, ordinary. This is the secret. Now it is up to us, how to keep it pure. Then no enemy can kill us. Nobody can kill you.
-For a devotee, however, the Lord is present, and His presence need only be awakened through initiation by a bona fide spiritual master.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Satsvarupa  --  San Francisco 20 September, 1968
-Mr. Man
-Svarupa Damodara: He should come and become a disciple of Srila Prabhupada.
-Prabhupada: No, Prabhupada... No. We want everyone to become Krsna's disciple. That is our mission. We are disciplic succession. The original master is Krsna.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- May 2, 1973, Los Angeles
-There are many stories and incidents in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that are described figuratively. Such allegorical descriptions may not be understood by unintelligent men; therefore it is the duty of the student to approach a bona fide spiritual master for the direct explanation.
-The real fact is that a bona fide spiritual master knows the nature of a particular man and what sort of duties he can perform in Krsna consciousness, and he instructs him in that way. He instructs him through the ear, not privately, but publicly. "You are fit for such and such work in Krsna consciousness. You can act in this way." One person is advised to act in Krsna consciousness by working in the Deities' room, another is advised to act in Krsna consciousness by performing editorial work, another is advised to do preaching work, and another is advised to carry out Krsna consciousness in the cooking department. There are different departments of activity in Krsna consciousness, and a spiritual master, knowing the particular ability of a particular man, trains him in such a way that by his tendency to act he becomes perfect.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.22.7
-Unless there is rigid and systematic training of the brahmacari by the expert spiritual master, and unless the student is obedient, it is sure that the so-called brahmacäré will fall prey to the attack of sex
-one should seek the association of the standard devotees of the Lord by personal association (if possible) or by thinking of them.
-standard devotees
-fourteen years
-My spiritual master appointed me that "You do this." Similarly I shall appoint somebody else, this is the way
-you give them bluff
-Just like I have got many Godbrothers, they are all acting. Similarly, all these disciples which I am making, initiating, they are being trained to become future spiritual masters.
-Everyone likes illicit sex
-God is zero
-Category: Sputniks (197 hits)
-"We trust in God. Take this paper, hundred dollars. I cheat you."
-So don't make a cheater and cheated society. Just follow the paramparā system as it is prescribed in the Vedic literature, as it is recommended by Kṛṣṇa. Try to understand it from the authoritative source and try to apply it in your life
-People are simply misled by so-called rascals, yogis, swamis, incarnation, magician, juggler, bluffer, but they come and go
-Juggler, bluffer
-maya-javanikacchannam
-ajnadhoksajam avyayam
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.8.19
-maya nama maha-bhaga
-yayedam nirmame vibhuh
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.5.25
-maya-mugdha jivera nahi svatah krsna-jnana
-jivere krpaya kaila krsna veda-purana
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 20.122
-That you have not to judge.
-I was never fortunate with such incidences
-Sudama: Therefore you are Jagad-guru.
-Prabhupada: I may be whatever it is. That is the business.
-I am not guru. I am... I am... This is... The guru has no material body. Just like the statue is not material, similarly, guru's body is not material
-We are thousand times lower than Arjuna's category
-Because in our present position we cannot see Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa sends His representative; therefore he is respected as Kṛṣṇa
-He will come out
-You are not to judge. You should be, you should know that this man is appointed, and he gets here by spiritual process. I must follow. You cannot judge him.
-I may live for seven millions of years
-We must accept that, that God and His representative, they do not come, who come directly from the kingdom of God, they do not come, accepting this inferior nature
-The gateway to hellish life
-Actually, woman is considered as goddess of fortune
-Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Çré Kåñëa, the deliverer from evils
-One who approaches the Supreme Lord to render devotional service, but who is proud of his personality, envious of others or vengeful, is in the mode of anger
-If one has a motive for personal sense gratification, his devotional service is manifested differently. Such a man may be violent, proud, envious and angry, and his interests are separate from the Lord's.
-and I will not defeat my Godbrothers as I desire
-and wherever you go you will come out victorious
-For all devotees chanting, attending arati ceremony, taking prasadam and attending classes is compulsory. If it is possible, everyone may go on sankirtana
-This is of the utmost importance
-Example is better than precept, so you follow the regulative principles, chant 16 rounds daily, attend morning and evening arati and as much as possible go for sankirtana distributing my books.
-attend morning and evening arati
-The students must all attend morning and evening arati and classes
-Sakuntala, the beauty queen of world history
-but our hero
-our hero
-that's a long story
-office, you cannot contact the proprietor directly. There are subordinate officers. Through them you have to take the proprietor's help.
-we go to some dreamland
-The present spiritual master
-Vasudeva-uktah karinah
-I go at ten o'clock and get up by two
-You should never think of any devotee like that
-As far as studying my books is concerned, I have already given the order. One hour in the morning class and one hour in the evening and if there is extra time during the day it may be used for studying but we cannot expect everyone to be studious. If someone has desired to distribute books all day he may do this, but he must always follow the principles of rising early, chanting 16 rounds, etc. Just as some rich men have no inclination for studying, but still he opens many schools for others to study at.
-Caitanya Mahäprabhu has not bluffed
-Without the help of guru, if you read independently, you may be misguided
- Simply if you are engaged in Krsna's business... Priti-purvakam, with love. Not as hackneyed: "Oh here is the duty, chanting of Hare Krsna. All right, Harekrsnaharekrsnaharekrsna..." (Prabhupada chants very quickly and indistinctly) Not like that. With priti, with love. Chant every name, "Hare Krsna," and hear. Here is Krsna; here is Radharani. That kind of chanting, quality. Not "Harekrsnaharekrsnakrsnakrsnaharehare..." Not like that. Not like that. Priti.
-I also had trouble with some of my Godbrothers
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-You are running your car by authority—"Keep to the right." Why? Why don't you defy it?
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-Simply become more concerned with increasing the spiritual content of our lives, and in this way all other problems like management will be easily solved
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-You are running your car by authority—"Keep to the right." Why? Why don't you defy it?
-Here again
-Without training
-Without training, nothing can be done
-The Deity worship program is meant for us to keep us safe. If we neglect Deity worship, we shall also fall
-Just do it!
-* Krsna's service (790 hits)
-* supermost (64 hits)
-PAGES
-In seven days we cannot understand even one verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam
-His daughter is only 9 or 10 years old. How she can be married in this tender age?
-What about the analogy that many rivers flow into the same sea and lose their individuality?
-Why sixteen rounds? You chant sixteen hundred rounds. (VedaBase query:"1600 rounds"| "sixteen  hundred rounds")
-If you are lacking enthusiasm, then you should rest
-Twenty-four elements
-Cowboy
-Whoever makes a gift of this great work on a full moon day attains to the highest perfection of life and goes back to Godhead.
-Both morning and evening
-Everything is seriously
-BHAKTISASTRI
-New category: Places in Srimad Bhagavatam,and how they relate to modern day geographical places:
-"Naimisaranya (at present, Nimsar, in Sitapur District, U.P." Also: new category: Places in Srimad Bhagavatam,and how they relate to modern day geographical places.
-"Sapta-dvīpa refers to the seven great islands or continents on the surface of the globe: (1) Asia, (2) Europe, (3) Africa, (4) North America, (5) South America, (6) Australia and (7) Oceania."
-Ajamila was delivered simply by chanting "Narayana." This is the incidence from the history. And it is history. The story begins, kanyakubje. Kanyakubja is still there in India. Perhaps you have heard the name of Kanpur. So that is within the Kanyakubja area. Kanyakubje dvijah: "There was a brahmana in Kanyakubja."
-So such is
-The six questions in Srimad-Bhagavatam:
-There were six questions put by the sages of Naimisaranya to Suta Gosvami, and Suta Gosvami explained or answered the six questions in Srimad-Bhagavatam.
-Different Godbrothers took the words of Guru Maharaja in different interpretations for sense gratification and the whole mission disrupted.
-The notebook of Krsna
-So ksatriya means they used to kill, practice
-The king must come forward first
-When there is fight, he is in the chamber, safety chamber
-Papi tapi yata chila, hari-name uddharila
-So kindly stop this chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa loudly
-"You make your enemy a learned man, but don't make your friend a fool and rascal." Because an enemy, even though he is enemy, if he is learned, he will not make injustice. That he cannot. Any learned scholar cannot make any injustice.
-Better to have a learned enemy than a foolish friend
-"To a rascal, if you give good advice, he becomes angry." Mūrkhāyopadeśo hi prakopāya na śāntaye
-"This black snake is less harmful than the man snake." Why? "Now, this black snake, by chanting some mantra or by some herb can bring him under your control. But this man snake you cannot. It is not possible."
-Even saintly persons take pleasure in the killing of a scorpion or a snake
-Then why a sadhu is pleased when a sarpa, a scorpion, or snake is killed?
-We have heard from our father that his elder brother in the village had a cloth shop, and there were rats. So at night he would keep a big bowl of rice in the middle of the shop, and the rats will eat whole night. They would not commit any harm to the cloth.
-Even there is a lizard, there is a rat, even there is a snake, you should see how he is also comfortably situated. That is
-spiritual communism. In Vrndavana still, a snake found in the house is never killed, snake. Still a rat is never killed.
-Now, truthfulness is a, nowadays, is a matter of dream only
-"distribute krsna book
-"distribute bhagavad" "distribut* bhagavad
-Inquire from the spiritual master
-If there is duplicity in surrender, that is useless
-Ostracized
-Anyone engaged in Krishna's service is always the best person
-Very soon their puffed-up attitude will disappear
-they will come to you and seek your advice in matters
-People should not expect that even in the Krishna Consciousness Society there will be Utopia.
-We can never expect to find any kind of utopia, even in the spiritual world
-Where ever there are persons there are bound to be differences
-Even sometimes amongst the gopis there is envy
-Tolerate the faults of others
-Always think that I am myself the most faulty
-Your humble attitude will qualify you
-We should never give up our duty
-My godbrothers always discouraged me but I did not give up
-I am doing my duty and always keeping my spiritual master in front
-That is never a mistake
-The big thing is they have given their life
-Everything to Krishna
-You are not transcendental. You are trying to be transcendental
-Dr. Patel: Yes, sir, but it is said that the German scientist ran away to America because they were afraid of Hitler. If Hitler gets the secret of atom, he would bomb out the whole world.
-Prabhupada: No, no. Hitler knew it.
-Dr. Patel: No. They were not able to be successful to...
-Prabhupada: No, no. He knew it, everything, but he did not like to do it. He said. He said. He was gentleman. But these people are not gentlemen. He knew it perfectly well. He said that "I can smash the whole world, but I do not use that weapon." The Germans already discovered. But out of humanity they did not use it. And all the, your American, other countries, they have stolen from German ideas.
-The śāstras say that being initiated in such a sampradāya is a useless waste of time, for it will never enable one to understand the real religious principles.
-Janava Devi was the consort energy of Lord Nityananda
-Supermost (64 hits)
-Jesus Christ is transcendental, not of this material world
-We cannot take up all other department
-The first-class man is kicked out, "Go out. Don't talk of God."
-Nowadays, a śūdra is on the government
-A person on religious category, he's advocating something, oh, it is not to be uttered. Homosex.
-One has to approach the spiritual master. He will give direction that "This boy is meant for becoming a brahmana
-"When there is warning of death, why do you fly? You have to die."
-If he's not God conscious, he cannot continue such thing. He must fail. Even the, there are so many instances, even amongst the devotees, because this material world is made so that you cannot continue this principle perpetually
-Immediate spiritual master
-To change consciousness, therefore the Spiritual Master is there
-Breakneck speed
-It is better that a small Deity, which is also worshiped, be taken to the bed
-The Deity should be placed in bed with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and this should be indicated by bringing the wooden slippers from the altar to the bedside. When the Deity is laid down, His legs should be massaged.
-A gramophone machine will not do. He must be realized, then his chanting will be effective
-If I am surcharged with electricity, I touch, you also become electric. And if he touches, he'll become. But if one is not in touch with electricity, then it will not act. So one must be electrified. Then if he touches somebody, he'll be electrified.
-If there is no electricity, simply by touching, he'll not do
-The Socratesian way of reasoning should be fully utilized because that makes the only difference between a human being and a beast
-I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times
-Everyone should stick to the temple and the principles. Why you should go to outside? That should be stopped. You cannot go outside
-"No, I am not going to see in the temple. I shall see outside in the sky."
-So Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah. You come daily to the temple and see Him and think of Him.
-I think you may introduce the ceremony of strolling the Deities round about the temple. If not every evening, then it can be done at least one day per week at a fixed up time.
-Lord alone can be addressed as master
-The mistake is that being addressed as boss or prabhu one thinks himself as exactly Prabhu or the boss
-Vaisnava philosophy is that everyone is addressed as prabhu, or master
-"Oh, he spoke on zero for four hours."
-between the horns of Scylla and Charybdis
-you find out somebody where you can surrender; then talk
-If you think that you are not fit for my surrender, that's all right
-you find out somebody where you can surrender; then talk
-I may be incorrect but I am following the predecessor
-I have got so many authorities. What authority you have got?
-Now, you are not authority
-if you want to understand, first of all you have to surrender
-I am not speaking my own views. I have got my acaryas
-By reading, you cannot understand
-In order to understand that science, he must go to guru
-No, no, if he reads Bhagavata, he is not ordinary man
-Unless you discuss Bhagavata, Bhagavad-gita, with sat-sanga, devotees, it does not become relishable
-Tottering
-If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness
-If I criticize you, if you criticize me
-If you criticize me, then I can criticize you also
-We should not find fault with others and criticize and go away, that is not the Vaisnava way
-We should not criticize each other
-there is no heart to heart cooperation
-"Mr. Chudy, sir, I cannot do anything. You request them."
-Always police complaint, police used to come. But we did not stop
-Garuda. He is perfect vegetarian
-He will teach you how to practice the bhakti-yoga, how to worship Him, how to think of Him, how to offer obeisances, how to observe the ceremonies. Just like yesterday we perfomed the ceremonies,
-Why you are comparing me? I am an ordinary man
-Let him rot
-We are now engaged in the service of Satan
-The beads for the first initiates should be chanted on by your GBC man and the names given at the time of the sacrifice
-So those who are going to be sacred-threaded
-For men like us, who have no control over the mind
-Naturally Kṛṣṇa does not take any chop cutlet, so you cannot offer it
-Don't cheat yourself
-The devils do not like this movement
-"Hare Krishna Restaurant
-Come from Vaikuntha. "c* from vai*
-A patient cannot demand that his physician prescribe a certain type of medicine
-Guest: Yes. Very good. But I suppose you know that in the western countries lots have been initiated and have never had the, the chance to be initiated by the master in order to initiate others. Quite a few, they have been.
-Prabhupada: Yes. Of course the, we, if we...
-It is strongly recommended that one simply follow in the footsteps of spiritual stalwarts who act according to the scriptural injunctions and the spiritual guidelines given by saintly souls and guru.
-Of course, in the material world there is no gold which has got good scent. But in the spiritual world that is possible
-This movement was started by Krsna Himself in the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
-First of all you create something like me. Then you become jealous
-Carrying a chopper
-So my mother showed me her navel: "You come out from this place."
-One who is very powerful should be understood to be faultless
-Not criticize
-Krsna personally failed
-Researched Our temple members: Life member (as a category? Or is there allready one?)
-In India we have got a program of membership and patronship costing Rs. 1,111/- and 2,222/- respectively, and all of our members and patrons are receiving all of the books free of charges. So any member can come to our temples and live as long as he likes and take free prasadam. So if any Indians students come here as our member, we shall welcome him and give him a place as well as prasadam free of charge.
-Our temple functions?
-our Temple are following
-our Temple are following the rules and regulations
-our temples in India
-our family members  (Temple)
-Our GBC members
-GBC members
-there are certain persons who are above this mistake, illusory energy. Who are those? The devotees
-If everyone becomes ruler or äcärya, then how it can be managed?
-So now I am seeing more and more that my senior disciples must take and active role in continuing the high standard of purity which has been established in our Vaisnava line. In your travelling from centre to centre, you must be very careful to see that the leaders are observing the principles of chanting 16 rounds, rising early for Mangala Arati, participating in the morning and evening classes, observing the four regulative principles etc., and if there is any deviation from this standard then it is the responsibility of you and the local GBC representative to rectify it immediately. Within these Vaisnava standards which I have put forward lies the spiritual strength of our movement.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Sudama  --  Sydney 16 February, 1973
-You must see that they strictly follow the regulative principles, the four prohibitions as well as the devotional practices of arising early, taking morning bath, putting on tilaka, attending mangal arati, chanting japa 16 rounds, and attending Srimmad Bhagavatam class. This is the duty of all my initiated disciples, whether they are big or they are small. Actually in our movement there is no such thing as big or small. Everyone is a devotee. So everyone is expected to follow the devotional practices. Here in Vrindaban I am enjoying my disciples how they are speaking. So two times daily everyone must attend the classes. During the morning and evening times there should be no business, simply kirtana, chant, dance, and be purified. Do not be paramahamsa that now I haven't got to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Don't be a better paramahamsa than your Guru Maharaja. I go and sit and I enjoy the lectures and how they are performing kirtana. So as I am doing, you must also do
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Gopijanavallabha  --  Vrindaban 19 September, 1974
-boy Krsna
-There is a Bengali saying that if a vulture curses a cow to die, the curse will not be effective
-O King, no one can know the plan of the Lord [Sri Krsna].
-And after some days when the Spiritual Master sees that one has followed the regulative principles faithfully and has abstained himself from the restricted items like illicit sex life, etc. and has chanted regularly 16 rounds then say after a year or six months when he appears to be purified in the judgment of the Spiritual Master he is offered the sacred thread
-Street sankirtan
-Category: Our Books
-Page: Selling our books
-If you wish to live separately you have to earn your livelihood by business, by taking some employment to maintain your home and family. But not by chanting in the street; this is not a good idea for householders. For example, here at Bhaktivedanta Manor the boys and girls go out every day, including householders who are living in householder quarters within the Manor, and they go door to door and take some collection in exchange for books, and in this way we maintain the establishment. All over the world we maintain our centers by such begging, or selling our books. But this is not allowed independent of our established ISKCON centers, so please do not do it; that is my request.
-they go door to door and take some collection in exchange for books, and in this way we maintain the establishment. All over the world we maintain our centers by such begging, or selling our books. But this is not allowed independent of our established ISKCON centers, so please do not do it; that is my request.
-Unless one becomes a brahmana, one cannot take sannyasa. Sannyasis and brahmacaris may beg alms door to door, but a grhastha cannot.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 6.5.36
-A sannyasi is allowed to beg from door to door, but a grhastha cannot do so.
-Grhasthas may earn their living according to the four divisions of spiritual life. A brahmana grhastha may earn his livelihood by becoming a learned scholar and teaching people in general how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He may also assume the duty of worship himself. Therefore it is said that only brahmanas may engage in Deity worship, and they may accept as prasada whatever people offer the Deity. Although a brahmana may sometimes accept charity, it is not for his personal maintenance but for the worship of the Deity. Thus a brahmana does not stock anything for his future use. Similarly, ksatriyas may collect taxes from the citizens, and they must also protect the citizens, enforce rules and regulations, and maintain law and order. Vaisyas should earn their livelihood through agriculture and cow protection, and sudras should maintain their livelihood by serving the three higher classes. Unless one becomes a brahmana, one cannot take sannyasa. Sannyasis and brahmacaris may beg alms door to door, but a grhastha cannot.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 6.5.36
-When a person, even though a candala, is initiated by a pure devotee into chanting the holy name of the Lord, his body changes as he follows the instructions of the spiritual master. Although one cannot see how his body has changed, we must accept, on the grounds of the authoritative statements of the sastras, that he changes his body. This is to be understood without arguments. This verse clearly says, sa jahati bandham: "He gives up his material bondage." The body is a symbolic representation of material bondage according to one's karma. Although sometimes we cannot see the gross body changing, chanting the holy name of the Supreme Lord immediately changes the subtle body, and because the subtle body changes, the living entity is immediately freed from material bondage. After all, changes of the gross body are conducted by the subtle body. After the destruction of the gross body, the subtle body takes the living entity from his present gross body to another. In the subtle body, the mind is predominant, and therefore if one's mind is always absorbed in remembering the activities or the lotus feet of the Lord, he is to be understood to have already changed his present body and become purified. Therefore it is irrefutable that a candala, or any fallen or lowborn person, can become a brahmana simply by the method of bona fide initiation.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 5.1.35
-Ayone who is not in our disciplic succession, he's not a human being
-Page: The ten offences:
-Devotee: Instructing the glories of the Lord's name to the...
-Prabhupada: Yes. We (are) therefore cautious. Unless one is recommended by the president... If he is eager, he is, I mean to say, accept brahmana, then we see that how he is attending our classes, how he is becoming little interested. Then we offer this first initiation. Otherwise, if we see that he is unmindful, then we should not canvass. Let him come. Just like Krsna says Arjuna that sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: [Bg. 18.66] "You just surrender unto Me." He's saying. Not that by force making him surrender. That kind of surrender will not stand. We should not canvass. Let him become attracted by Krsna consciousness movement, and he personally asks for harer nama [Cc. Adi 17.21]. Just like Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, bhakativinoda prabhu-carane padiya. As soon as Lord Caitanya says that "I have brought this medicine for killing maya." Hari-nama maha-mantra loilo. "Everyone can take from Me this chanting of Hare Krsna mantra." So bhakativinoda prabhu-carane padiya. The Bhaktivinoda Thakura immediately fell down on the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya and begged, "Please give me." So this, this should, the chance should be given like that. One should beg. Not that canvassing. No. That is not required. That is another offense. Unless one has increased little taste and he's personally eager to accept this chanting process, we should not canvass. That is not our... That is an offense.
-Rot
-Kept for 3,000 years in the refrigerator
-The most wretched, most rotten, they are coming to life
-Kṛṣṇa's stool
-What do you mean by surrender?
-If he is chastised, then he breaks
-At the present moment everyone is working under my authority
-before and after the class there must be Mahamantra chanting
-my Spiritual Master who is non-different from Lord Nityananda
-The boys should be taught, and also all devotees should also be taught to wash own dishes, hands, mouth—that means always washing
-Persons like all of the Gosvamis wrote so many books, Visvanatha Cakravarti, and all the acaryas wrote books, and still I am writing books. Similarly, also my disciples will write
-Also my disciples will write
-So anyone who is in the modes of goodness, he's not equal to the person who is in the modes of ignorance
-So question may be, "Then why they are rotting here?"
-The disciplic success
-I am servant of cigarette
-We should not have done. But we have done it
-We have seen that those who criticized, they fell down
-In this way you become spiritual master
-Bona fide instructor
-Without spiritual master's help, nobody can become self-realized
-Our Vaisnava philosophy does not allow that you shall become self-realized by your own endeavor
-"Prabhupada, I am here,"
-If you enjoy sex life for sense enjoyment, that is atrocity
-"Krsna is the Supreme Lord; you are servant; and chant Hare Krsna" -- bas, preaching complete.
-Mutual praising society
-Do it nicely
-He became a political agitator
-Whatever paintings we have, that is enough
-Now discuss on this point
-Now discuss on this point amongst yourselves
-Now discuss on this point amongst yourselves whether it is rightly said or wrong.
-amongst yourselves whether it is rightly said or wrong.
-Anyone has any objection
-If you break that shyness of woman, it will be very dangerous
-He is out of it
-And after some days when the Spiritual Master sees
-When he appears to be purified in the judgment of the Spiritual Master
-Garbhadhana samskara
-Fifty rounds
-Ratha Yatra
-So therefore they have to become our student
-Those who work the farm do not necessarily have to be a brahmana
-The Gayatri Mantra should be sung in a low whispering voice
-So far as your question about controversy amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, that is a fact. But this controversy is not material. Just like in a national program, different political parties are sometimes in conflict and make propaganda against each other, but their central point is always service to the country. Similarly, amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati there may be some controversy, but the central point is how to preach the mission of His Divine Grace. If the central point is fixed up then there is no harm in such controversy. Every individual being must have his opinion; that is the significance of individuality, but all such differences of opinions must coincide in Krishna. In the battlefield of Kuruksetra were Arjuna and Bhisma who were fighting with one another, and because Krishna was on the side of Arjuna, sometimes Bhisma pierced the body of Krishna also with arrows. But still they remained the greatest devotees of the Lord, and Krishna accepted the friendship of Arjuna just as He accepted the inimical arrows of Bhisma in the same loving spirit. So you do not be disturbed by such controversial points. Better you engage your mind very seriously in the matter of the service entrusted upon you.
-Sarva-haraḥ means "Taking everything
-The other day I was reading in your -- what is called? -- World Almanac. In the next hundred years people will live underground like rats.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture to College Students -- Seattle, October 20, 1968,  Introduction by Tamala Krsna
-The secret of not being a victim of Maya
-It is sometimes stated that Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī was his initiating spiritual master. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī does not approve of this statement; he does not accept Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī as the spiritual master of Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī
-"You become a lazy fellow, give up your occupational duty, and sleep, and snore, and become a great devotee."
-All-attractive
-It is correct that the brahmajyoti is comprised of spiritual souls and that ultimately nothing is impersonal. Dead matter means forgetfulness of Krsna
-Why not take a live master?
-So why not produce many teachers? That we (indistinct)
-Guru cannot be different types. All gurus are of one type
-These are controversial points
-Three times he must take bath at least
-taking bath three times
-The brahmanas, they take... They cleanse themselves externally at least three times a day
-Three times he must take bath
-they don't even require hot water, in cold water
-Not taking bath in cold water
-Cold water. Even in severe winter.
-Sometimes I was taking
-I was taking cold water early in the morning.
-if your body does not permit
-somebody is seriously ill, that is different thing
-These sufferings are extra
-we should contact that Dearmost Friend, Krsna
-Amsterdam is a place simply for prostitutes
-One can become a rich man by dint of one's own hard labor
-Don't try to become a religious person also. Religious person means strictly following the rules and regulation of varëäçrama-dharma
-Kṛṣṇa is full of jolly
-They are rotting or rotating within this universe in different species of life
-This material world full of miseries and frustration
-My Guru Maharaja used to say that "Don't try to see a sadhu by your eyes. You try to see a sadhu by ears."
-"I am a third-class man
-That's all right but that means he has no clear knowledge
-Carvaka theory
-So he refused, "No. Up to the end of my life I shall go on." That is quality
-He was a perfect; otherwise how he was saved from the Yamadutas?
-He was a perfect
-"hundred times" shoe*
-You are simply born because the mission was to be started
-you were devotees in you past lives
-You read regularly, Nectar of Devotion, regularly. All these books should be regularly read. That will give you guidance. You haven't got to ask repeatedly to me; everything is there
-These four books will give you all guidance-Krsna, Nectar of Devotion, Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and... What is that?
-Devotee (2): Teachings of Lord Caitanya.
-Prabhupada: All guidance. Radha-krsna bolo bolo bolo re sobai.
-At least ten initiated brahmanas
-Better go on, the simple thing
-Simply planning
-If you have got any question in this statement, you can ask
-In my childhood
-Category: Prabhupada Lilamrta
-or Category: Prabhupada biografie
-PROJECTS
-Comma`s: Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Chapter 7, text 29:
-"There is no birth, death, old age and disease for the spiritual body, so one who attains a spiritual body, becomes one of the associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in eternal devotional service is really liberated."
-"There is no birth, death, old age and disease for the spiritual body, so one who attains a spiritual body, becomes one of the associates of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in eternal devotional service, is really liberated. "
-Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 13:
-"Krsna clearly says that only those who have lost their sense worship the demigods for paltry rewards"
-"Krsna clearly says that only those who have lost their sense, worship the demigods for paltry rewards"
-Actually the purpose of Bhagavad-gita is not understandable to those who are sensuous-even if one is not sensuous but is strictly following the disciplines enjoined in the Vedic scripture, if he is not a devotee, he also cannot understand Krsna. Even when one poses himself as a devotee of Krsna, but is not engaged in Krsna conscious activities, he also cannot understand Krsna.
-Actually the purpose of Bhagavad-gita is not understandable to those who are sensuous. Even if one is not sensuous but is strictly following the disciplines enjoined in the Vedic scripture, if he is not a devotee he also cannot understand Krsna. And even when one poses himself as a devotee of Krsna but is not engaged in Krsna conscious activities, he also cannot understand Krsna.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 18.67
-And of all yogis, he who always abides in me with great faith, worshiping me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with me in yoga and is the highest of all.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Sri Krishna C. Batra  --  Vrindaban 8 December, 1975
-And of all yogis, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself, and renders transcendental loving service to Me -- he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 6.47
-And of all yogis, he who always abides in me with great faith, worshiping me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with me in yoga and is the highest of all.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Sri Krishna C. Batra  --  Vrindaban 8 December, 1975
-One who knows how to receive favors from the authority can receive them, but one who does not neglects these favors and does not receive them. There are two classes of men -- the demons and the demigods.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 8.23.8 (comma missing: but one who does not, neglects these favors and does not receive them.)
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-Idea for book distribution: print books in Japan, and then travel with them to Europe while selling them.
-The inspiration came from this quote: I wanted that there should be some color prints in the paperback edition, so I think 16 prints will be nice. The following is quoted from a letter to me by Mr. Ogata dated June 1, 1971:
-Extent:
- Cover: 4 pages
- Text: 250 pages
- Picture Pages: 16 pages
-Quantity:
-,000 copies per one title
-,000 copies for three titles according CIF Destination
-Price:
- @ $0.24533
-Total: US $12,267.00
-Grand Total: US $36,800.00 per 3 titles.
->>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Rupanuga  --  Delhi 5 December, 1971