User contributions for Nabakumar
18 October 2020
- 15:2515:25, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,371 Sridhara Maharaja belonged to the Bagh Bazaar party. And I was living aloof. My Guru Maharaja approved. He said, "It is better that he is aloof from them" No edit summary current
- 15:2215:22, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,578 So far we are concerned, when our spiritual master used to chastise, we took it as blessing. That was very nice. And he would chastise like anything. "Damn rascal, foolish, stupid," anything, all good words No edit summary current
- 15:1715:17, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,742 Perhaps if I would have joined from 1922, by the blessings of Guru Maharaja, I could do more preaching work. Anyway, it is better late than never No edit summary current
- 15:1515:15, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,398 Our Guru Maharaja, so strict... A little discrepancy, he would chastise like anything. But we liked it very much No edit summary current
- 15:0315:03, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,205 One should become very humble and meek; it doesn't matter where he is situated institutionally No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 18 October 2020 diff hist +2,620 My point is, I don't wish to keep money in the bank. Invest in printing No edit summary current
- 12:4312:43, 18 October 2020 diff hist +2,805 My only anxiety is that don't be extravagant; otherwise you take money and spend it No edit summary current
- 12:4112:41, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,061 My Guru Maharaja, he had magazines in six languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, and one Bengali daily No edit summary current
- 12:3112:31, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,476 My Guru Maharaja was very humorous. He was a Calcutta bhap.(?) Therefore he liked me. All others, they came from East Bengal. I was the only disciple, Calcutta No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,417 My Guru Maharaja used to say, "When our men will be sahajiya, he will be more dangerous" No edit summary current
- 12:1612:16, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,599 My Guru Maharaja said that "You go to the western country." If he had said that "You go to the jungle," I would have gone No edit summary current
- 12:0612:06, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,256 My Guru Maharaja did not travel all over the world, so I have got double energy than him. So you must triple energy, four times energy than me. Then actually disciple No edit summary current
- 12:0412:04, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,217 My blessings are there, you do it, try. Just like Guru Maharaja gave blessings to everyone, but if they do not try, what can be done? No edit summary current
- 12:0312:03, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,479 Many obstacles we are facing. Never mind. Still, we are coming out, gradually. Kuntidevi said, "Krsna, all those dangerous days may come again, so that I can always remember You. Now... When we were in dangerous days You were always with us" No edit summary current
- 12:0012:00, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,217 Many men may not come to us; that does not mean this institution is useless. It has its importance for the serious men, not for the asses No edit summary current
- 11:5811:58, 18 October 2020 diff hist +2,345 Many gurus and svamis have come to the West, but they have not established not one temple. And Prabhupada has established one hundred No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 18 October 2020 diff hist +2,318 Make it an ideal institution No edit summary current
- 11:5411:54, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,960 Make a very perfect institution No edit summary current
- 11:5211:52, 18 October 2020 diff hist +7,679 Krsna is everything. Suppose I if I say, "I am everything in this, my institution," does it mean I have lost my personality? No edit summary current
- 11:3911:39, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,876 Just like I am head of this institution, but I am not dealing as proprietor. I am dealing as manager, head. Is it not? And all my assistants, they are also working in that capacity. If I would have been proprietor, then they would not have been interested No edit summary current
- 11:3511:35, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,278 It is not that I am directly connected with Krsna or Visnu. I am directly connected with my spiritual master, and my business is to carry out his order No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,341 Is this life, this present life, is this also being within Krsna's pastimes, because Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement is Krsna's pastimes? No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,213 If you question me that "Swamiji, why you have taken sannyasa?" You may ask that question. Yes. So I may tell you frankly that I had no desire to accept this sannyasa No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,662 I worked very hard. Two times lectures, cooking, and meeting and twenty-four-hours writing book, typing. Not a single moment, and still I am not wasting single moment No edit summary current
- 06:0906:09, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,970 I was thinking that "What shall I do here? I have come here. As soon as I shall impose these four principles they will say, 'Go home.' " But I took that risk. I never said anything palatable No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,169 I was targeting to New York always. Sometimes I was dreaming that I have come to New York No edit summary current
- 06:0306:03, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,936 I was surprised when I came to your country. I saw young girls and ladies, they have no bangles, no ornaments. At least, I was surprised. And smoking cigarettes. What is this opulence? No edit summary current
- 05:3605:36, 18 October 2020 diff hist +6,283 I was at that time new man - not exactly new man, but not recognized disciple. I did not go. So he (My Guru Maharaja) saw that I am sitting, I did not go to parikrama. He very much appreciated. I preferred to hear him than go to parikrama No edit summary current
- 05:2705:27, 18 October 2020 diff hist +7,826 I tried my best, because my spiritual master said that "You go and try to preach in English." So I tried my best, that's all. I have no qualification. So this is very nice point, yasya prasadat No edit summary current
- 05:1405:14, 18 October 2020 diff hist +7,616 I was ordered by my spiritual master to do this work, so on his order I came in 1965. That is the beginning of this. I came alone with no help, no money. Somehow or other (laughs) I started... My attraction is this chanting. That's all No edit summary current
- 04:4904:49, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,733 I personally, I don't think that even Americans or Westerners would have accepted even your teachings, as clear as they are, without having your personal association and seeing your example. I think people would have thought that it's totally impossible No edit summary current
- 04:4604:46, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,785 I never expected. When I came first in Boston, I was thinking, "Oh, who will accept these Vaisnava rules and regulations? These people are after meat and wine and illicit sex, and how they will accept it?" No edit summary current
- 04:2004:20, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,254 I have to shed my blood three tons before I make one convinced in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 04:1204:12, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,744 I have seen in the Western countries, they are growing food grains for the animals, and the food grains are eaten by the animals, and the animal is eaten by man No edit summary
- 04:1004:10, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,154 I have not come to teach you, but to request you that your Christian religion prohibit this killing of animals and child and encourage chanting of name of the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:0704:07, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,551 I have made a trust will in which fifty percent of the collection is spent for reprinting the books, and fifty percent is spent for spreading this movement No edit summary current
- 04:0004:00, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,786 I have constituted one governing body as Prabhupada desired, governing body, but still they are not so experienced No edit summary current
- 03:4403:44, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,953 I have come to America with this view, that America is on the summit of material civilization. They are not poverty-stricken No edit summary current
- 03:3503:35, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,111 I have come to western countries to teach love of God. It is not that I am satisfied only in myself that I love God, that's all right No edit summary current
- 03:2803:28, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,183 I had only forty rupees with me, and a return ticket in the Scindia Navigation Companies. So for two, three months, six months, there was no response. I was simply maintaining myself by selling my books No edit summary current
- 03:2303:23, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,777 I don't go (to the movies or restaurant). We do not go to the movies or to the restaurant. It is different taste. Therefore it is calculated three kinds of men - sattvika, rajasika, tamasika - their tendencies are different No edit summary current
- 03:2103:21, 18 October 2020 diff hist +7,060 I do not know why our disciples are so anxious to take sannyasa, at least those who are outside. Everyone comes: "Give me sannyasa." What is the idea? No edit summary current
17 October 2020
- 15:1315:13, 17 October 2020 diff hist +3,320 I came to preach Krsna consciousness, and Krsna has sent so many representatives to help me. I consider like that. Without your help I could not do No edit summary current
- 15:0915:09, 17 October 2020 diff hist +4,824 I came to give you. Some of you have taken, and some have not taken, so what can I do? I came to give you Krsna consciousness. That is my duty No edit summary current
- 15:0615:06, 17 October 2020 diff hist +6,748 I came here with a service position, that I must give some service to my Guru Maharaja, not that I thought of success. But the spirit was that Guru Maharaja told me I must do something, whatever I can. It may be failure; it may be success - let me try No edit summary current
- 14:5814:58, 17 October 2020 diff hist +3,462 I am very much confident of this medicine, because nobody is prepared to die, but I am prepared to die. That much strength I have got. Generally people do not like to die. But I will be very glad to die if Krsna wants No edit summary
- 14:5514:55, 17 October 2020 diff hist +8,006 I did not go to your country taking Vrndavana with me. I had to stay in places where in the refrigerator there is meat. And I was cooking. When opened it I saw, "Here is meat. All right, what can be done? Hare Krsna." That's all No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 17 October 2020 diff hist +9,211 For me, personally, I had the opportunity to talk with my spiritual master not more than ten times in my whole life, not more. It may be less than that. But I tried to follow his instruction, that's all, although I was a grhastha No edit summary current
- 13:1413:14, 17 October 2020 diff hist +7,527 I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this movement No edit summary current
- 13:1313:13, 17 October 2020 diff hist +3,844 I am training each one of them as leader so that they can spread extensively. That is my idea No edit summary current