Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1977
Pages in category "Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1977"
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- A very powerful organization, and their ambition is to take over the world
- Actually there is some good lessons to learn from them, because they were persecuted, they were killed by the government even. But they didn't give up their faith. They remained very faithful, the early Christians
- Actually these properties are the envy of all of India. They're the best properties in each place
- Actually you and your Guru Maharaja are the greatest enemies of modern civilization in this century, Srila Prabhupada
- Actually you're very well known for criticizing everybody else
- Actually, it seems that in your system of management, the basic principle is to depend on Krsna
- Actually, Srila Prabhupada, it may not matter to yourself, but it matters too much for us and for the world. We don't want... We can't... You can't leave us now
- Also, before he (Prabhupada) complained of the heaviness, he was feeling very cold, yet so many blankets and quilts, and he threw them all off
- Are you desiring to have some kirtana, Srila Prabhupada? Or would you like to rest for a while
- At least for five or six years now the system has been that no man and woman should live together in the same building as where the Deity is
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- Dhrstadyumna Maharaja will be coming tomorrow with his brother. And he has designed the very ideal plan for all of the varnas and asramas to live together
- Don't keep Indian culture airtight, and don't keep American money for sense gratification. Use it for Krsna. So they are doing that. And Krsna is giving them intelligence. Bhakti-yogam dadami tam
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- Every time I've seen a reporter say, "Swamiji, what do you think about so and so?" you said, "I do not know about such persons"
- Everyone is now wearing these "Double It" buttons. The whole movement is simply thinking of doubling book distribution, doubling it
- Everything is nice at Mayapur, Srila Prabhupada
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- He is telling that he's requesting repeatedly that Prabhupada doesn't talk too much. He says that the energy that he's building, the moment he starts talking, that he loses that energy
- He said if God is Krsna, then there would be some evidence in the Bible, but there is no evidence
- Hm. No, but there is alternative always. There are available rooms and apartments just adjoining the temples
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- I am not qualified to worship Krsna, so let me just worship the Mother. She is part of Krsna, so let me just worship her
- I found that our devotees who engage in business, they become a little spiritually weakened because we're not that advanced yet
- I have a picture of it, Srila Prabhupada. I have a picture of that BBT godown
- I said, "Well, Prabhupada says that he's dead. Now he says he even feels practically dead." The kaviraja said, "He's not dead. I have seen worse cases even than this, and they could survive." He said, "But I have to work very, very carefully"
- I should be always chanting
- I was thinking if my vans get kicked out of the country because of the customs, that we would go to Bangladesh and take trunkloads of Gitar Gans and go to Dacca and Chittagong and some of the big cities
- I was very happy when I heard, respectable gentlemen, out of love they are washing dishes. You know that? Atreya Rsi told me
- I'm not actually tired. I'm feeling completely rejuvenated just seeing you, Srila Prabhupada
- I'm saying the emphasis of marriage responsibility, I don't know if it's preached that strongly. Generally it's preached that one should not...
- If we were to preach a little less vigorously, there might be less objection, but then again there would be the less benefit because we would not be preaching as vigorously. It's very hard to know sometimes just how forcefully to preach
- In the event of death or failure to act for any reason of any of the said trustees (of property trust) a successor trustee or trustees may be appointed by the remaining trustees, with never less than three or more than five trustees acting at one time
- It (a book of Srila Prabhupada) establishes itself as a Deity within a person's home
- It seems like even though you're invalid, it gives us more opportunity to serve you
- It seems like you are giving more stress to science in recent years than previously
- It was only when your lotus feet touched Australia that it became worthwhile
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- Many gurus and svamis have come to the West, but they have not established not one temple. And Prabhupada has established one hundred
- Many revolutions have been victorious with a very small minority of people behind them because they're so well organized. Russia, Germany, all these revolutions
- Maybe we should build a permanent house for Your Divine Grace also
- My point is, I don't wish to keep money in the bank. Invest in printing
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- One in million get a chance to get a real spiritual guide. There are so many in the name of spiritual guide. And he will false pray because his inner soul hankers and inner soul thinks that "This is my guru, and somehow I will accept whatever he says"
- Our magic is already there. Throughout the whole world we are chanting Hare Krsna. Is not that magic? Hmm? Foreign countries, foreign religion, and they are accepting Krsna and chanting Hare Krsna. Is not that magic?
- Our movement has changed in America in the past six years or so. Now devotees are not much seen on the streets chanting. So there's different feelings. Some say it is all right, because everyone is now distributing books more
- Out of desire to serve you, they carry out whatever you ask
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- People are speaking about our movement now. Many people say to us that "You are selling out, compromising your position"
- People become so much impelled or attracted when they hear of a great personality and his activities. It makes them want to link up with such a person. So this book will have preaching effect, no doubt, and it will be filled with philosophy also
- People want to be flattered. They don't want to be told very strongly
- Prabhupada said this past week that in the future, historians will study this period of world history, how this movement has changed the world. He said in the future they will just note this period, how the world is being changed
- Prabhupada says by activating his muscles, by massaging, that will generate energy. That will bring appetite
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- She said, "Your Guruji is just like Nethaji. He went outside of India and organized army of Vaisnavas"
- Sometimes people ask whether I have seen anything very powerful in Srila Prabhupada
- Srila Prabhupada, the way you deal with us simply deepens our attachment every moment
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want us to give something towards repairing this Caitanya Mahaprabhu Mandir?
- Srila Prabhupada? Sometimes we find a dilemma in preaching, in the sense that if we preach very vigorously we invoke the attention of the authorities
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- Ten thousand loving salesmen
- That's very good for you, Srila Prabhupada, srikand
- The guiding principle should be that under no circumstance should anyone become lost
- The outcome of the battle is already decided. Just like in Bhagavad-gita, we've already won. We just have to keep fighting
- "The work done by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada toward the revivalism of Hindu culture and civilization is unsurpassable. His Holiness has done a great service to Indian culture by reinterpreting the concept enshrined in the Srimad-Bhagavatam"
- Their measurement of happiness and distress is how much nice wife and children they get and how much money they get
- These two pujaris, the two brothers, they look like they're out of the Caitanya-caritamrta. They appear as two persons right out of that book. Vaikuntha men. Perfect team of brothers
- They (girls from the city) want the cinema and all of the other things. They don't want to work hard. Farm life means to work hard. You have to get out and milk the cows, so many things. They don't want to do this
- They are accusing us that "By chanting, you are killing your brain"
- They had another question, whether these sannyasis' widows, that they would like to engage them as, those who want to do it, as teachers. They think that would be a good
- They've also brought you some gifts - one sweater and some warm socks and a scarf for the winter here in Vrndavana
- This is the reason, one of the reasons. Hm. I don't think many devotees think in terms of that, but this is a very practical point, that selling books, once you make the sale, that's it. The book will act
- This one man was challenging that "This Krsna is simply sex symbol, dancing with so many women, having so many queens"
- This subject matter is called "mind-body problem." The mind sometimes they compare as spirit or soul in some Western philosophical circles
- This will more or less revolutionize the way we're running our centers. If we introduce it, it will more or less revolutionize the way we're running our centers
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- We are all eager for the day when your books are recognized as the greatest masterpieces of all. We are all eager for the day when your books are the most demanded works in the library. We are sure that day is not far away
- We cannot allow anyone else to cook for you
- We do not want to rest until every home in Bengal has a copy of Gitar Gan and Bhagavatam
- We have devotees like that. We also have devotees who spiritually have trouble coming to the programs and even chanting, but still, they like to give them service, so we engage them anyway
- We have nothing new to find out. We have no research to make. You've given us everything. We only have to carry out exactly how you've trained us up and taught us
- We just had a big kirtana, but I could chant more. I have come a long way to see you and chant for you. So if you allow, I will chant
- We live on the mercy and the guidance of the guru every moment
- We should meet and make a program for going around Vrndavana
- We're always feeling your presence very strongly, Srila Prabhupada, simply by your teachings and your instructions. We're always meditating on your instructions
- We've become happy. Actually, apart from the devotees, there are no happy people in the whole world
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- Yes, Srila Prabhupada. We understand very well. We apologize that we were taking too lightly
- You are the perfect father, Srila Prabhupada. You provide everything for us-place to live, food to eat, everything. And you've trained us up with spiritual knowledge
- You cannot go beyond the philosophy. Philosophy must be there
- You consider that as a material. Only bhakti-yoga is more... That's true
- You have performed a miracle. God, Krsna, has performed miracle through you. It's just very amazing, greatest miracle on earth. I just feel so strongly about it
- You have said many times that if a small percentage of the Americans become Krsna conscious, then the whole country can gradually become Krsna conscious
- You said in that article in the BTG that women's liberation means that they get more exploited
- You're the world's greatest revolutionary
- You've always said to us, at least whatever we have, maintain it
- You, of course, have been so merciful that sometimes you would take prasada cooked by so many different people
- Your order is our business to follow, even at the risk of our life. So we are not going to take you to the hospital under any condition
- Your purports have such wonderful realization. They are completely nectar to read and hear