Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

28 December, 1971
Bombay
Letter to Sivanivas


"Regarding your question, Lord Caitanya is simply making a comparison between the moon and Lord Krishna's Sankirtana movement, because both are radiating benediction on all the living entities.

Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita: "I become the moon, and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables," and in another place "among the stars I am the moon." So, directly or indirectly, Krishna is supplying all benediction to everything and everyone, just like the moon gives life to vegetables, without which nothing can exist, and also that moon keeps the great oceans from overcoming the land and destroying everything.

Similarly, Lord Caitanya's Sankirtana movement gives spiritual life to all living entities by dint of its transcendental radiation, and also it prevents the demonic class of men from overwhelming the pious class of men, and thus in every way it bestows all benediction, just like at night the moon illuminates everything."

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

Monday, 3 January, 1972
Bombay
Letter to Giriraja


"The fact is that I am the only one in India who is openly criticizing, not only demigod worship and impersonalism, but everything that falls short of complete surrender to Krishna. My Guru Maharaja never compromised in His preaching, nor will I nor should any of my students. We are firmly convinced that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all other are His part and parcel servants.

This we must declare boldly to the whole world, that they should not foolishly dream of world peace unless they are prepared to surrender fully to Krishna as Supreme Lord."

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

September 19, 1969
Tittenhurst
Letter to Sacisuta

I have seen what you have written about your protection by my humble self, but that is inevitable when a Spiritual Master accepts somebody as disciple.

Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita that He takes charge of a surrendered soul; so much so that Lord Krishna protects His devotee from all his sinful activities in the past. Similarly, the Spiritual Master, when He accepts a disciple and the disciple surrenders unto Him, He has got the responsibility of absorbing the sinful reaction of His disciples life. This is a great responsibility of the Spiritual Master. We should therefore be very careful not to overburden our Spiritual Master by further repetition of sinful activities.

Of course, one who has entered into Krishna Consciousness cannot act deliberately anything sinful. Still, we should always be on guard against such activities. Sometimes we hear that people are going to church to confess their sinful actions for being excused, but as soon as he comes out of the church, he begins the same drama again. This is like the bathing of the elephant, who immediately throws dirt again on his body. We should not follow such examples. Lord Caitanya accepted Jagai and Madhai on condition they would not commit further sinful activities. So all our students should be careful in the matter of violating the four principles and at the same time must carry on the chanting process rigidly.

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

April 28, 1970
Los Angeles
Letter to Citsukhananda

"Regarding your first question, who is the speaker of Isopanisad? The speaker is the Vedas personified. In the Vedic age a disciple heard from the Spiritual Master messages which were coming down in disciplic succession, so a disciple, whatever he heard from his bona fide Spiritual Master, would recite.

The Vedic mantras are known as Sruti, to hear from authoritative source and then repeat it, chanting. So there is no question of who wrote it, it is said that no human being has compiled them. Later on, before the beginning of Kali Yuga, all Vedic mantras were written in books, most of them were done by Srila Vyasadeva Mahamuni and his different disciples."

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

Wednesday, 17 November, 1971
Delhi
Letter to Brhaspati das

"Just like you add hydrogen and oxygen and get water. So let them chant and learn Bhagavad-gita and they will get Krishna's mercy. I am successful in my teaching work because I have not deviated one inch from my Spiritual Master's instruction, this is my only qualification. So if you simply remain pure, your preaching will have effect."

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

February 2, 1970
Los Angeles
Letter to Lalita Kumar

My open advice is that if any one can remain a Brahmacari, it is very nice, but there is no need of artificial Brahmacaris. In Bhagavad-gita it is stated that one who exhibits outwardly as self restrained, but inwardly he thinks of sense gratification he is condemned as mithyacara which means false pretender.

We do not want any false pretenders in numbers, but we want a single sincere soul. There is no harm in accepting a wife and living without any disturbance of the mind and thus sincerely advancing in Krishna Consciousness.

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

Saturday, 12 October, 1974
Mayapur
Letter to: Muckerheide:

Please accept my best wishes. I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 12, 1974 and have noted the contents.

From your letter I can see that you are an intelligent boy and that you have desire to assist me in spreading this movement of Lord Caitanya all over the world. Due to the influence of the Age of Kali everything is deteriorating, but by taking to this chanting of Hare Krishna mantra our real life of bliss and knowledge is awakened.

But before saving others we must first see that we ourselves are protected from the dangerous effects of maya. Therefore my recommendation to you is that you should associate yourself with my disciples in one of our Krishna Consciousness centers, practice our regulative principles, and study my books very carefully.

You are now living very near to our Los Angeles center, so please take advantage of this and participate fully in the program there. In this way your intelligence will become more and more purified and in consultation with the others there Krishna will give you the proper idea of how to spread Krishna consciousness.

I hope this meets you in good health.

Your ever well wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
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Submitted By Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

18 September, 1972
Los Angeles
Letter to Bali Mardan & Pusta Krishna

"The standards I have already given you, now try to maintain them at all times under standard procedure. Do not try to innovate or create anything or manufacture anything, that will ruin everything. Simply do as I am doing and be always serious and sincere to serve Krsna, and He will give you intelligence how to do everything."

Submitted By Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

31 October, 1974
Bombay
Letter to disciple

"We are not after titles and designations. Lord Caitanya made it a principle that we must teach by personal example. This is what I have tried to do. So if all of you my disciples do this, then the future of our movement will be glorious.

I am glad to note the publishing work you are doing, and I look forward to receiving the books printed. I am pleased that you are personally seeing to the translation how it is done. Actually these books are the foundation stone of our movement. Whatever we are is resting on these books, so far reading them and distributing them. This should be our only motto."

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

October 21, 1968
Seattle, Washington
Letter to Krishna das

"To feel separation from the Spiritual Master or Krishna is very good position. That means one who is in pure love with Krishna and His Representative, Spiritual Master, he thinks always of Them. And this thinking process is Krishna consciousness. If we can think always of Krishna even in separation, that is Krishna Consciousness. And in the absolute platform, there is no difference of separation and meeting.

The separation is also meeting, rather in separation one relishes the loving relationship more tasty. So don't be disappointed that you are separated from me, I am also always thinking of you how you are making progress there."

Submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

Srila Prabhupada Memories

Srila Prabhupada Memories ~ The Hidden Keys
To istagosthi@googlegroups.com

The Hidden Keys
(Vrindavan June 77)

Srila Prabhupada was sitting in his garden as his secretary Tamal Krsna Maharaja was reading some letters to him. I was engaged fanning Srila Prabhupada. In those days the secretary would read the letters to Srila Prabhupada and he would dictate a response.

When Tamal Krsna left he left the keys on the carpet in front of Srila Prabhupada's Vyasasana. They must have fallen out of his pocket. They were the keys to Srila Prabhupada's house and elmira.

Srila Prabhupada immediately noticed the keys on the carpet and told me to hand them to him. He took the keys and put them under his cloth. Then he told me to get Tamal. I went out to the front office and told got Tamal. When he came out Srila Prabhupada told me he wanted his sapphire ring out of the elmira. Tamal. felt his pockets nonchalantly for the keys and took a quick look around before going back into the house.

After a few minutes Srila Prabhupada told me to get Tamal again. This time he was busy tearing his little office up looking for the keys. He asked me if I had seen his keys and I didn't want to lie so I just looked up and put my hands in the air like I didn't without saying anything. When he came out into the garden again Srila Prabhupada asked him where his ring was and Tamal said that a guest had just come and he had to help him and he would get the ring right away. As he hurried off again Srila Prabhupada shook his head. I couldn't help but laugh at what was going on.

For the third time I was sent out to get Tamal who asked me to go look in his room upstairs for the keys. I told him that I couldn't leave Prabhupada alone that long and returned to my service in the garden. When Tamal Krsna came out Srila Prabhupada asked him again where his ring was. Tamal started to make another excuse, then Srila Prabhupada pulled the keys out from under his cloth and dangled them in the air and said, "Here you nonsense, if anything is stolen; it's your fault for giving them the chance."

Upendra Prabhu and I laughed at this, because we hardly ever saw Tamal get chastised, as he did to us so often. Of course we sobered up real fast for fear of Tamal's temper. This story exemplifies how security conscious Srila Prabhupada was. He was very careful about every detail and didn't waste a penny of Krishna's Laxmi. He said he had millions of dollars but he didn't waste a farthing of Krsna's Laxmi.

Another time on a morning walk in London Srila Prabhupada noticed a faucet at someones house was dripping so he walked across their yard to tighten the knob. He would even reuse the envelopes from letters that were sent to him.

Another time in Vrindavan, Srila Prabhupada sent Upendra Prabhu to the market to get a glass cup eye washer. When Upendra Prabhu returned with it Srila Prabhupada asked him how much he paid for it. Upendra said 4 Rupees. (about 60 cents) Srila Prabhupada complained that it should of been only 1 Rupee, maybe 2 at the most. He went on talking about not wasting Laxmi for a good 20 minutes.

Another time Yasodanandan Swami came to Srila Prabhupada and asked if it was ok for a sanyasi to have a Rolex watch. Srila Prabhupada said that a Vaisnava doesn't have many things; but what he or she does have should be first class. A watch is an important thing for a Devotee to make sure to get to everything on time.

All glories to our jagat guru who saw everything as Krsna's and showed us how to engage everything in Krsna's service.

Quote Of The Day

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement

2 August, 1967
Vrindaban
Letter to: Students

" Please accept my blessings. I am always thinking of you, and I am feeling separation. I wish to return at the earliest opportunity. I cannot stop my western world activities and I have taken leave from you for only six months; and it may be that on or before I will come to you again. So continue your activities with great vigor. I shall always pray to Krishna for your steady advance, but try to follow the principles which are necessary to strengthen oneself in the matter of spiritual advance. Never think that I am absent from you. Physical presence is not essential; presence by message (or hearing) is real touch. Lord Krishna is present by His message which was delivered 5,000 years ago. We feel always the presence of our past Acaryas simply by their immutable instructions. I hope you will understand me right and do the needful."

submitted by Nityananda Rama dasa

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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Dear Friends, Bhaktas, fellow Devotees, and new visitors, 

The reason I took the sannyas (renounced) order of life, in 1994, was to encourage Hare Krishna Devotees - and all those interested in Krishna consciousness - to take direct shelter under the guidance of Srila Prabhupada. And become, after proper instruction, his direct disciple through the ritvik initiation instituted by His Divine Grace himself.

I have performed this ceremony many times on behalf of Srila Prabhupada since 1986. The results have been very encouraging. By His Divine Grace, many more Devotees are out in the streets performing Sankirtan worldwide, preaching and distributing Srila Prabhupada's original books.

We are now here in Costa Rica with three (3) new Bhaktas wanting to take initiation from Srila Prabhupada; one from the USA, and two from Costa Rica. We attempt to establish here a truly self-sufficient farm community, based on the varnasram system that Srila Prabhupada wanted so much. The spiritual master of the farm community is naturally Srila Prabhupada. 

Srila Prabhupada made predictions that the world was (and is) heading for a great disaster very soon, including; nuclear war, bank failures, valueless paper currency, massive unemployment, starvation worldwide, chaos everywhere, and the end of modern technology. It is clear that all his predictions are coming true. Therefore taking up his instructions for the farm community, so all may benefit, is our humble attempt at fulfilling and continuing his mission.

If you would like to participate in this grand project we welcome you. 

Whatever your talents and abilities may be, or even if you believe you have no talent, you are most welcome. There are a few beautiful farm possibilities here in tropical Costa Rica. Whether you can contribute a few dollars or a $100,000 — your support and contribution will help to quickly make this a reality. Many Devotees here are strongly with us... Please join us.

You may contact me directly, via email: 

pss108 (at) juno (dot) com

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To learn more about our varnasram farm project; continue reading, visit often, and bookmark this blog:

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Thank you.

Hare Krishna. All glories to our most beloved spiritual master Srila Prabhupada, our ever well-wisher.

Kapindra Swami 

President, Prabhupada Sankirtan Society

Editor-in-Chief, PSS Blog

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