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| <div id="LectureonSB1820NewYorkApril121973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="204" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonSB1820NewYorkApril121973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="204" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So it is clearly stated: guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13|BG 4.13]]). Without qualification... The brāhmaṇa means the qualification. It is not this body. There are so many arguments, but they won't hear. They are very much against, in my movement, because I am making brāhmaṇas from Europe and America. They are against me. But don't care, we don't care for them. Neither any reasonable man will care for them. But there is a propaganda against me. Even amongst my Godbrothers, they are making... Because they cannot do it, so find out some fault. You see. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says:</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.20 -- New York, April 12, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So it is clearly stated: guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Without qualification... The brāhmaṇa means the qualification. It is not this body. There are so many arguments, but they won't hear. They are very much against, in my movement, because I am making brāhmaṇas from Europe and America. They are against me. But don't care, we don't care for them. Neither any reasonable man will care for them. But there is a propaganda against me. Even amongst my Godbrothers, they are making... Because they cannot do it, so find out some fault. You see. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says:</p> |
| :pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma | | :pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma |
| :sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma | | :sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma |
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| <div id="InterviewMarch91968SanFrancisco_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="2" link="Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco" link_text="Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco"> | | <div id="InterviewMarch91968SanFrancisco_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="2" link="Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco" link_text="Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco|Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You can fight against death very nicely, but you cannot stop death. These are the problems. But there is no education in the modern civilization how to stop death, how to stop disease, how to stop old age, how to stop birth, how to attain eternal life, how to attain blissful life. They have no education. But this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, although it appears a new movement in your country, but it is known to the world. But nobody had previously attempted to put these ideas and movement in practical shape. So that I am doing. That I am attempting. And with this mission, I have come to your country with the hope that if the American people take it very seriously, then it will be the greatest contribution to the world. So I have already published this, my magazines and my books, in this connection. So if people take advantage of this movement, try to understand these books, they will be benefited greatly. So that is the basic principle of my teaching. It is the most perfect humanitarian work. Try to understand. We invite anyone. And take it diligently, put your arguments, logic, understanding, and you will find it is sublime. That is the basic principle of my movement.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco|Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: You can fight against death very nicely, but you cannot stop death. These are the problems. But there is no education in the modern civilization how to stop death, how to stop disease, how to stop old age, how to stop birth, how to attain eternal life, how to attain blissful life. They have no education. But this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, although it appears a new movement in your country, but it is known to the world. But nobody had previously attempted to put these ideas and movement in practical shape. So that I am doing. That I am attempting. And with this mission, I have come to your country with the hope that if the American people take it very seriously, then it will be the greatest contribution to the world. So I have already published this, my magazines and my books, in this connection. So if people take advantage of this movement, try to understand these books, they will be benefited greatly. So that is the basic principle of my teaching. It is the most perfect humanitarian work. Try to understand. We invite anyone. And take it diligently, put your arguments, logic, understanding, and you will find it is sublime. That is the basic principle of my movement.</p> |
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| <div id="PressInterviewDecember301968LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles" link_text="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles"> | | <div id="PressInterviewDecember301968LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles" link_text="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles|Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice. Provided you cooperate. Nobody is cooperating. Simply these boys, they have kindly come to me and cooperating. So my movement is progressing, but very slowly. But if the leaders of the American people, they come and they try to understand and they try to introduce this system, oh, your country will be the nicest country in the world.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles|Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice. Provided you cooperate. Nobody is cooperating. Simply these boys, they have kindly come to me and cooperating. So my movement is progressing, but very slowly. But if the leaders of the American people, they come and they try to understand and they try to introduce this system, oh, your country will be the nicest country in the world.</p> |
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| <div id="PressInterviewDecember301968LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles" link_text="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles"> | | <div id="PressInterviewDecember301968LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles" link_text="Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles|Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They are not after so-called puffed-up life. They can live very simply with the least demand of bodily necessities, but thinking very high of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So I am very hopeful that even I die... Because I am old man, 73 years old. I may die at any moment. But I am now assured my movement will go on. These boys will carry it. That, my mission, is in that way successful.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles|Press Interview -- December 30, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: They are not after so-called puffed-up life. They can live very simply with the least demand of bodily necessities, but thinking very high of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So I am very hopeful that even I die... Because I am old man, 73 years old. I may die at any moment. But I am now assured my movement will go on. These boys will carry it. That, my mission, is in that way successful.</p> |
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| <div id="DarsanaJune281971SanFrancisco_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="9" link="Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco" link_text="Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco"> | | <div id="DarsanaJune281971SanFrancisco_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="9" link="Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco" link_text="Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco|Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So at the present moment there is great propaganda from the side of the government and others to kill India's original culture. So when Americans go there and preach and they see, "Oh, so nice Vaiṣṇava, so nice devotee and so pure," they will become attracted, because that is their original culture. At heart they want to do that, but by artificial means they are being forced to accept something else. So when they see these foreigners and Americans so... And government is not very favorable of my movement there, because it is natural when the Americans exhibit a nice, pure Vaiṣṇava, they come attracted.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco|Darsana -- June 28, 1971, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So at the present moment there is great propaganda from the side of the government and others to kill India's original culture. So when Americans go there and preach and they see, "Oh, so nice Vaiṣṇava, so nice devotee and so pure," they will become attracted, because that is their original culture. At heart they want to do that, but by artificial means they are being forced to accept something else. So when they see these foreigners and Americans so... And government is not very favorable of my movement there, because it is natural when the Americans exhibit a nice, pure Vaiṣṇava, they come attracted.</p> |
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| <div id="InterviewJuly51972NewYork_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="34" link="Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York" link_text="Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York"> | | <div id="InterviewJuly51972NewYork_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="34" link="Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York" link_text="Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York|Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because the animals, they cannot. I cannot preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy amongst the animals, because their consciousness is not so developed. But still, my movement is so perfect that I can do well even to the cats and dogs—by offering prasādam, by giving him chance to hear Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. This vibration is transcendental. When it is chanted it is good for everyone, all living entities. Therefore we go to the street and chant so that everyone can hear the transcendental vibration.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York|Interview -- July 5, 1972, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Because the animals, they cannot. I cannot preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy amongst the animals, because their consciousness is not so developed. But still, my movement is so perfect that I can do well even to the cats and dogs—by offering prasādam, by giving him chance to hear Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. This vibration is transcendental. When it is chanted it is good for everyone, all living entities. Therefore we go to the street and chant so that everyone can hear the transcendental vibration.</p> |
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| <div id="RoomConversationwithReporterfromResearchersMagazineJuly241973London_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="51" link="Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London"> | | <div id="RoomConversationwithReporterfromResearchersMagazineJuly241973London_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="51" link="Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Every year I'm wandering all over the world, twice, thrice. Because if you use airplane. So why shall I give it up? It is giving me facility to preach my Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, why shall I give it up? It is mithyā. Just like the Jains, they do not ride on car, but if by going in a car I can go and preach, very swiftly, and come back again, why shall I give up this car? So our philosophy is not like that. Nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate. It is yukta-vairāgya.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Every year I'm wandering all over the world, twice, thrice. Because if you use airplane. So why shall I give it up? It is giving me facility to preach my Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, why shall I give it up? It is mithyā. Just like the Jains, they do not ride on car, but if by going in a car I can go and preach, very swiftly, and come back again, why shall I give up this car? So our philosophy is not like that. Nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate. It is yukta-vairāgya.</p> |
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| <div id="MorningWalkJanuary221974Hawaii_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="16" link="Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii"> | | <div id="MorningWalkJanuary221974Hawaii_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="16" link="Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nitāi: We can see that he hasn't done anything; others would say that "Oh, he's got a movement just like you."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nitāi: We can see that he hasn't done anything; others would say that "Oh, he's got a movement just like you."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: No, it is not my movement; it is old. I don't say it is my movement. Neither I say that I am God. I am simply speaking of the established movement. Now, my movement is that Kṛṣṇa is God. So Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7|BG 7.7]]), "There is no more superior authority than Me," but is it a fact that this rascal is the supreme authority?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: No, it is not my movement; it is old. I don't say it is my movement. Neither I say that I am God. I am simply speaking of the established movement. Now, my movement is that Kṛṣṇa is God. So Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7 (1972)|BG 7.7]]), "There is no more superior authority than Me," but is it a fact that this rascal is the supreme authority?</p> |
| <p>Bali Mardana: No one has any idea what is God. So he, the people... they say, "Here is God", and no no can disprove it, 'cause they have no idea what is God.</p> | | <p>Bali Mardana: No one has any idea what is God. So he, the people... they say, "Here is God", and no no can disprove it, 'cause they have no idea what is God.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: No, no, here is the idea. God must be the supreme authority. So let him prove that he is the supreme authority.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: No, no, here is the idea. God must be the supreme authority. So let him prove that he is the supreme authority.</p> |
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| <div id="LettertoSriRajKapoorVrindaban26August1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="480" link="Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975"> | | <div id="LettertoSriRajKapoorVrindaban26August1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="480" link="Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975|Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 14, 1975 with enclosed check for Rs. 2222/- and Membership form. Sometimes in the year 1954 if I am correct I had the chance of meeting you in Jhansi. At that time I was trying to organize my movement with the help of some young men at the Bhakti Bhavan, Jhansi.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975|Letter to Sri Raj Kapoor -- Vrindaban 26 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 14, 1975 with enclosed check for Rs. 2222/- and Membership form. Sometimes in the year 1954 if I am correct I had the chance of meeting you in Jhansi. At that time I was trying to organize my movement with the help of some young men at the Bhakti Bhavan, Jhansi.</p> |
| <p>So after ten years of struggle, in 1965 I went to USA, and by the grace of Krishna it has become successful all over Europe, America, Canada, and Australia. As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita; yad yad acarati sresthas, tad tad evetaro janah, sa yat paramanam kurute, lokas tad anuvartate ([[Vanisource:BG 3.21|BG 3.21]]). "Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.". Your donation to this movement and your becoming the Patron Member is a very great thing, and it will ensure others who will also follow in your footsteps. So I am very much grateful to you.</p> | | <p>So after ten years of struggle, in 1965 I went to USA, and by the grace of Krishna it has become successful all over Europe, America, Canada, and Australia. As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita; yad yad acarati sresthas, tad tad evetaro janah, sa yat paramanam kurute, lokas tad anuvartate ([[Vanisource:BG 3.21 (1972)|BG 3.21]]). "Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.". Your donation to this movement and your becoming the Patron Member is a very great thing, and it will ensure others who will also follow in your footsteps. So I am very much grateful to you.</p> |
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