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== Sri Caitanya-caritamrta | <div class="section" id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2></div> | ||
=== CC Antya-lila | <div class="sub_section" id="CC_Antya-lila" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3></div> | ||
< | <div class="quote" book="CC" link="CC Antya 1.32" link_text="CC Antya 1.32, Purport"> | ||
<div class="heading">It is therefore requested that all our devotees in the ISKCON community become pure Vaiṣṇavas, so that by their mercy all the people of the world will be transferred to Vaikuṇṭhaloka, even without their knowledge.</div> | |||
< | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.32|CC Antya 1.32, Purport]]:''' This is the result of sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83]—consequent association with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and promotion back home, back to Godhead. This result is possible even for a dog, by the mercy of the Vaiṣṇava. Therefore, everyone in the human form of life should be induced to associate with devotees. By rendering a little service, even by eating prasādam, what to speak of chanting and dancing, everyone can be promoted to Vaikuṇṭhaloka. It is therefore requested that all our devotees in the ISKCON community become pure Vaiṣṇavas, so that by their mercy all the people of the world will be transferred to Vaikuṇṭhaloka, even without their knowledge. Everyone should be given a chance to take prasādam and thus be induced to chant the holy names Hare Kṛṣṇa and also dance in ecstasy. By these three processes, although performed without knowledge or education, even an animal went back to Godhead.</div> | ||
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== Conversations and Morning Walks | <div class="section" id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2></div> | ||
=== 1977 Conversations and Morning Walks | <div class="sub_section" id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div> | ||
< | <div class="quote" book="Con" link="Room Conversation Varnasrama System Must Be Introduced -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation Varnasrama System Must Be Introduced -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura"> | ||
<div class="heading">So the varṇāśrama-dharma should be introduced all over the world starting with ISKCON community.</div> | |||
< | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation Varnasrama System Must Be Introduced -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation Varnasrama System Must Be Introduced -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura]]:''' | ||
Satsvarūpa: We tell them go on with your job but chant also. | Satsvarūpa: We tell them go on with your job but chant also. | ||
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Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriyas. There must be regular education. | Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriyas. There must be regular education. | ||
Hari-śauri: But in our community, if the..., being as we're training up as Vaiṣṇavas...</ | Hari-śauri: But in our community, if the..., being as we're training up as Vaiṣṇavas...</div> | ||
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== Correspondence = | <div class="section" id="Correspondence" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2></div> | ||
=== 1974 Correspondence | <div class="sub_section" id="1974_Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3></div> | ||
< | <div class="quote" book="Let" link="Letter to Sri Ballavh -- Geneva 4 June, 1974" link_text="Letter to Sri Ballavh -- Geneva 4 June, 1974"> | ||
<div class="heading">You must again join with the devotees in our ISKCON community.</div> | |||
< | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Ballavh -- Geneva 4 June, 1974|Letter to Sri Ballavh -- Geneva 4 June, 1974]]:''' From your enclosed brochures I see you were developing a very promising business for selling incense, but if you are apart from the society, then how can you continue. I cannot send you five thousand dollars for your business as you request. You must again join with the devotees in our ISKCON community.</div> | ||
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=== 1975 Correspondence | <div class="sub_section" id="1975_Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3></div> | ||
< | <div class="quote" book="Let" link="Letter to Yasomatinandana -- Vrindaban 28 November, 1976" link_text="Letter to Yasomatinandana -- Vrindaban 28 November, 1976"> | ||
<div class="heading">The whole idea is that we are Iskcon, a community to be independent from outside help.</div> | |||
< | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Yasomatinandana -- Vrindaban 28 November, 1976|Letter to Yasomatinandana -- Vrindaban 28 November, 1976]]:''' You say we must have a gosala trust, that is our real purpose. krsi-goraksya-vanijyam vaisya karma svabhava-jam, [Bg 18.44]. Where there is agriculture there must be cows. That is our mission: Cow protection and agriculture and if there is excess, trade. This is a no-profit scheme. For the agriculture we want to produce our own food and we want to keep cows for our own milk. The whole idea is that we are Iskcon, a community to be independent from outside help. This farm project is especially for the devotees to grow their own food. Cotton also, to make their own clothes. And keeping cows for milk and fatty products.</div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:51, 12 December 2012
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Antya-lila
It is therefore requested that all our devotees in the ISKCON community become pure Vaiṣṇavas, so that by their mercy all the people of the world will be transferred to Vaikuṇṭhaloka, even without their knowledge.
CC Antya 1.32, Purport: This is the result of sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83]—consequent association with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and promotion back home, back to Godhead. This result is possible even for a dog, by the mercy of the Vaiṣṇava. Therefore, everyone in the human form of life should be induced to associate with devotees. By rendering a little service, even by eating prasādam, what to speak of chanting and dancing, everyone can be promoted to Vaikuṇṭhaloka. It is therefore requested that all our devotees in the ISKCON community become pure Vaiṣṇavas, so that by their mercy all the people of the world will be transferred to Vaikuṇṭhaloka, even without their knowledge. Everyone should be given a chance to take prasādam and thus be induced to chant the holy names Hare Kṛṣṇa and also dance in ecstasy. By these three processes, although performed without knowledge or education, even an animal went back to Godhead.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
So the varṇāśrama-dharma should be introduced all over the world starting with ISKCON community.
Room Conversation Varnasrama System Must Be Introduced -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura:
Satsvarūpa: We tell them go on with your job but chant also.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Thākaha āpanāra kāje, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. Āpanāra kāja ki. Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended, sthāne sthitaḥ. And if they do not remain in the sthāna, then the sahajiyā's chanting will come. Just like the sahajiyās also have got the beads and..., but they have got three dozen women. This kind of chanting will go on. Just like our (name withheld). He was not fit for sannyāsa but he was given sannyāsa. And five women he was attached, and he disclosed. Therefore varṇāśrama-dharma is required. Simply show-bottle will not do. So the varṇāśrama-dharma should be introduced all over the world, and...
Satsvarūpa: Introduced starting with ISKCON community?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriyas. There must be regular education.
Hari-śauri: But in our community, if the..., being as we're training up as Vaiṣṇavas...Correspondence
1974 Correspondence
You must again join with the devotees in our ISKCON community.
Letter to Sri Ballavh -- Geneva 4 June, 1974: From your enclosed brochures I see you were developing a very promising business for selling incense, but if you are apart from the society, then how can you continue. I cannot send you five thousand dollars for your business as you request. You must again join with the devotees in our ISKCON community.
1975 Correspondence
The whole idea is that we are Iskcon, a community to be independent from outside help.
Letter to Yasomatinandana -- Vrindaban 28 November, 1976: You say we must have a gosala trust, that is our real purpose. krsi-goraksya-vanijyam vaisya karma svabhava-jam, [Bg 18.44]. Where there is agriculture there must be cows. That is our mission: Cow protection and agriculture and if there is excess, trade. This is a no-profit scheme. For the agriculture we want to produce our own food and we want to keep cows for our own milk. The whole idea is that we are Iskcon, a community to be independent from outside help. This farm project is especially for the devotees to grow their own food. Cotton also, to make their own clothes. And keeping cows for milk and fatty products.