ISKCON institution
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: So our idea is Vṛndāvana. So our love for Kṛṣṇa should be so strong that we don't care for anything. But for preaching if somebody challenges, yes, we are prepared to talk. That is authority. That is uttama-adhikārī. His love is Kṛṣṇa, enormous, but not sentiment. If anyone wants to talk with him, "Yes, come on," That is uttama-adhikārī, mahā-bhāgavata. So this is the position. Now something is in your hand—Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That was my plan that I shall carry this baggage and give it to the Americans and they will distribute. That was my plan, therefore I came to America. So now you are so many boys, young boys, you have understood. So do it and give me relief. I remain in the background. Let me finish my Bhāgavata Purāṇa and those who are assisting in the writing, I'll be there (indistinct). That this institution, ISKCON will give to the world so many valuable jewels. There is no comparison. That you will have to see, (indistinct). Already they are appreciating on account of (indistinct). The paper, what is that paper...
Devotee: Which one?
Prabhupāda: Sun Times?
Devotee: Los Angeles Times.
Prabhupāda: Maybe. They are not (indistinct)
Devotee: (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: They are serious. They have got, they have got (indistinct). Our seriousness will be proved when our books and (indistinct) around thinking men, scholars. Similarly, we should introduce our (indistinct) colleges and universities. This is our program. So I have got my program now, (indistinct). So so far, Vṛndāvana question is concerned, there is, it is solved. Now you make, utilize, and place yourself in the world (indistinct) I want.1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: It is just to give His personal example that a sannyāsī should not be very much intimately mixing with rich men. That is by His personal example. He was a sannyāsī. He refused to see a king because a king is supposed to be always busy in material affairs. So if... For the general people aspiring to go back to home, back to Godhead, for them, to mix with the materialistic persons is forbidden. Viṣayiṇāṁ sandarśanam atha yoṣitāṁ ca [Cc. Madhya 11.8]. Those who are viṣayī, simply engaged in sense gratification, and yoṣitām... Yoṣitām means women or enjoyable things.
Guest (1): Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: Hmmm.
Guest (1): Many religious institutions, they welcome the rich peoples. Those who are coming by cars, and those who are coming gorgeously, and they are donating much to the institutions, they are welcomed by the people, management of these institutions. And this is your version. It is just contradictory. I accept your version. It is quite, quite right. And I hope our institution must do not like that. This ISKCON must not do like that. The well-to-do peoples who come, they'll get more... [break] ...more receptions, more congratulations. I request it must be your direction that our institution ISKCON must not do like this. And it is your... (laughter)
Prabhupāda: But one, one thing is that we are not living like Caitanya Mahāprabhu. (laughter)
Guest (1): Yes.
Prabhupāda: Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He was ideal sannyāsī, and He was living apart from any material attachment. But we have to do preaching work. We have to construct temple, comfortable temple. So who will pay for that?
Guest (1): Then your version...
Prabhupāda: Therefore we have to sometimes do that. Just like that woman, that chaste woman. She served a prostitute...
Guest (1): To make them correct.
Prabhupāda: No. Serve prostitute for serving her husband. That is a big story.
Guest (2): Big story, yes.
Prabhupāda: Lakṣa-hīra.
Guest (1): Lakṣa-hīra. Yes.
Prabhupāda: You know that, Lakṣa-hīra.
Guest (1): And husband was a...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest (1): And he requested his Lakṣa-hīra that "I want to go one night to the..."
Prabhupāda: Yes, to the prostitute and her pay, her fee, was lakṣa-hīra, one hundred thousand pieces of diamond. You see.
Guest (1): Yes. I know that, that story.
Prabhupāda: So for the satisfaction of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, we sometimes do that. But we collect money from them not for our sense gratification, but constructing this temple.
Guest (1): For the general public and...
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest (1): ...country and...
Prabhupāda: And unless we have got temple like this, nobody would come. If I sit down here, "Bhaktivedanta Swami is sitting here," nobody will come. (laughter)
Guest (1): But people, like poor people, like come to the...
Prabhupāda: But Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He is God. He can attract any man. But I am not God. I have to attract people by some opulence.Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
1970 Correspondence
I am getting older day by day, so if I can see in my lifetime that all of you have opened at least 108 branches of ISKCON institution that will be a great pleasure for me.
So now the factual administration will depend on the Governing Body Commission and the sannyasis are entrusted for making propaganda work. I wish to remain on the background to give you some directions. So kindly execute the missionary activities very carefully with enthusiasm, patience, conviction, follow the regulative principles, chanting regularly sixteen rounds, dealing without any duplicity, and above all keeping oneself in the society of pure devotees.1972 Correspondence
1973 Correspondence
Page Title: | ISKCON institution |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 28 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=1, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=2, Let=4 |
No. of Quotes: | 8 |