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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1966#March 1966|1966]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:660317 - Letter to Unknown written from New York|Letter to Unknown written from New York]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Mr. Martin the Finance Secretary seen to-day personally. Requested him to 4:80 per dollar in exchange. He formally agreed and will get it confirmed from sender and let me know finally. It is good news.|Mr. Martin the Finance Secretary seen to-day personally. Requested him to 4:80 per dollar in exchange. He formally agreed and will get it confirmed from sender and let me know finally. It is good news.}} | |||
==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1967#March 1967|1967]] - March 17 ==== | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:670317 - Lecture SB 07.07.32-35 - San Francisco|Lecture SB 07.07.32-35 - San Francisco]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Who is in Krsna consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform|Who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform; he is seeing on the spiritual platform. In the spiritual platform, there is no distinction. The all distinction is due to our material conception of life.}} | |||
==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1968#March 1968|1968]] - March 17 ==== | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:680317 - Lecture BG 07.01 - San Francisco|Lecture BG 07.01 - San Francisco]]''' | |||
{{youtube_ditl|KbYtV8Q98pY|[[Vaniquotes:I want to work, I want to work|I Want To Work - 0016]]|02:55 minutes from a lecture on BG 07.01 in San Francisco}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I want to work, I want to work|Oh, I was ill. I went back to India. I have come again. I want to work! I want to work. Naturally, I would have retired from all these activities, but I don't feel... So far I can do, I want work. I want to..., day and night. At night I work with dictaphone. So I am sorry... I become sorry if I cannot work. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One must be very much anxious to work.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:680317 - Letter to Hayagriva written from San Francisco|Letter to Hayagriva written from San Francisco]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am very much hopeful that this movement can be spread all over the whole world if we organize simply the performance of Kirtana and a little lecture on the principles of Krishna Consciousness|I am very much hopeful that this movement can be spread all over the whole world if we organize simply the performance of Kirtana and a little lecture on the principles of Krishna Consciousness.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I have some lectures in the colleges, both in L.A. and S.F., and the other day I delivered lecture in San Francisco State College, and the students enjoyed the atmosphere very much|I have some lectures in the colleges, both in L.A. and S.F., and the other day I delivered lecture in San Francisco State College, and the students enjoyed the atmosphere very much. They heard our Kirtana very attentively, and although my lecture was a little terse, on account of our prohibitory regulations, still the students heard me very attentively. And they stood around me even after the meeting was over.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1970#March 1970|1970]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:700317 - Letter to Suridas written from Los Angeles|Letter to Suridas written from Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|All you boys and girls who are now married, follow this instruction of Lord Caitanya, and show vivid example to the world how man and woman can be united, not for sense gratification but for the service of the Lord|Lord Caitanya, but a householder and responsible government official, Governor of Madras, has given open instruction that it does not matter what is the social or ecclesiastical order, if one is fully in Krishna Consciousness, he can act as Acarya. So all you boys and girls who are now married, follow this instruction of Lord Caitanya, and show vivid example to the world how man and woman can be united, not for sense gratification but for the service of the Lord.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:700317 - Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles|Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The modern human society is in need of Krishna relationship, so as soon as they will come in touch with our movement, surely they will feel very happy. So kindly execute this responsibility to your best capacity, and Krishna will be very happy upon you|Actually, the modern human society is in need of Krishna relationship, so as soon as they will come in touch with our movement, surely they will feel very happy. So kindly execute this responsibility to your best capacity, and Krishna will be very happy upon you.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1971#March 1971|1971]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:710317 - Lecture TLC - Bombay|Lecture TLC - Bombay]]''' | |||
{| | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/710317LE-BOMBAY_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"First of all, we do not know that we are suffering in every step. Why you are using this fan? Because you're suffering. Because the excessive heat you cannot tolerate, suffering. Similarly, in the winter season this wind will be another suffering. We have closed the doors tightly so that air may not come. Now the air is counteracting suffering and in another season the same air will be suffering. So, the air is the cause of suffering and it is the so-called cause of happiness also. Actually we are simply suffering, that we do not know. But we get information from Lord Kṛṣṇa that this place is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]]). It is a place for miseries. You cannot expect any happiness. That is our foolishness."|Vanisource:710317 - Lecture TLC - Bombay|710317 - Lecture TLC - Bombay}} | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|Sāstra says even if you have got material desires, even if you are not śuddha bhakta. What to speak of śuddha bhakta , even if you are an enemy of Kṛṣṇa , somehow or other go to Kṛṣṇa|Generally we go to temple, to God, for some, for fulfilling some material desires. So, śāstra says even if you have got material desires, even if you are not śuddha bhakta. What to speak of śuddha bhakta , even if you are an enemy of Kṛṣṇa , somehow or other go to Kṛṣṇa . Go to the fire and you'll get warm. That is our propaganda. The Gosvāmīs recommend therefore, yena tena prakāreṇa manaḥ kṛṣṇe niveśayet . Somehow or other you just try to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then everything will be successful.}} | |||
|< | :'''[[Vanisource:710317 - Letter to Bhavananda written from Bombay|Letter to Bhavananda written from Bombay]]''' | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|Make all our temples full with many devotees and after being trained up they should be sent to every town and village in your country so that they will be benefited as well as all others|I wish that the number of devotees in every temple be more and more increased. I know that there are many young men in your country who are very frustrated but they have got one good quality. That is renunciation of this worldly attachment. From this platform they can very easily take to Krishna Consciousness. So our Krishna Consciousness Movement should be especially directed towards these frustrated persons. Make all our temples full with many devotees and after being trained up they should be sent to every town and village.}} | |||
|} | :'''[[Vanisource:710317 - Letter to Jayadvaita written from Bombay|Letter to Jayadvaita written from Bombay]]''' | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|To realize aham brahmasmi is the first step of transcendental life. After one's in full knowledge that he's not this body but spiritual soul, he can effectually engage in the Lord's transcendental service. It isn't that one develops any other identity|To realize that aham brahmasmi is the first step of transcendental life. After one is in full knowledge that he is not this body, but is spiritual soul, he can effectually engage himself in the transcendental service of the Lord. It is not that one develops any other identity, but the soul in its liberated existence is Brahman or pure spirit always.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The ultimate point is to come to the stage of loving Krsna and all other indirect processes are subsidiary|The ultimate point is to come to the stage of loving Krsna and all other indirect processes are subsidiary. We are concerned here with approaching Krsna by the direct process of devotional service. Independent of Krsna consciousness, the cultivation of knowledge, work, meditation and renunciation are of no value or the proud achievements of the atheist or less intelligent class of men.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:710317 - Letter to Mukunda written from Bombay|Letter to Mukunda written from Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am very sorry to inform you that the London management is not going on nicely. I have received so many unfavorable reports and the most astonishing report is that our small van which you had purchased in my presence has been taken away|I am very sorry to inform you that the London management is not going on nicely. I have received so many unfavorable reports and the most astonishing report is that our small van which you had purchased in my presence has been taken away. So we have lost all the money that we have already paid. But never mind; that is past. Now, better late than never, try to establish the position of the London temple as it was before. I have confidence that you can do it nicely so go on and let me know what progress you are making.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1972#March 1972|1972]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:720317 - Lecture - Bombay|Lecture - Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If you can understand Krsna, the result is that you stop the repetition of birth and death, old age and disease. That is very good|If you can understand Kṛṣṇa, the result is that you stop the repetition of birth and death, old age and disease. That is very good. Kṛṣṇa says, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti. If you understand Kṛṣṇa, then after leaving this body no more transmigration to another material body.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720317 - Lecture Initiation - Bombay|Lecture Initiation - Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Without milk you cannot develop the finer tissues of your brain, and without developing the finer tissues of brain it is not possible to understand what is God|Without milk you cannot develop the finer tissues of your brain, and without developing the finer tissues of brain it is not possible to understand what is God, what we are, what is our relationship, with blunt..., alpa-medhasām. It is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā, tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām (BG 7.23): a little brain substance cannot help one to advance in spiritual consciousness.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1973#March 1973|1973]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:730317 - Conversation Temple Inauguration - Mayapur|Conversation Temple Inauguration - Mayapur]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Guru Maharaja wanted and these Gaudiya Math people did not do anything, so let me try in this old age. The inspiration came, and I went. By his grace it has become little successful, that's all. I have no credit|Guru Mahārāja wanted and these Gauḍīya Math people did not do anything, so let me try in this old age. The inspiration came, and I went. By his grace it has become little successful, that's all. I have no credit. It is all the blessings of guru and Vaiṣṇava, that's all. I have no credit. I do not know how things are happening, because I am not at all bona fide position. But it is truly chāḍiyā vaiṣṇava-sevā nistāra pāyeche kebā.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Whatever position I have got it is by guru's mercy and the Vaisnavas' blessings, otherwise I am insignificant. So I wish that Sridhara Maharaja may bestow his blessings as he was doing always, and my Guru Maharaja may help me|Whatever position I have got it is by guru's mercy and the Vaiṣṇavas' blessings, otherwise I am insignificant. So I wish that Śrīdhara Mahārāja may bestow his blessings as he was doing always, and my Guru Mahārāja may help me.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|So at that time I was a little pessimistic, "I know all these sadhus there, I am not going.'' So he forced me, "Oh, why not come? Let us go|So at that time I was a little pessimistic (?), "I know all these sādhus there, I am not going." So he forced me, "Oh, why not come? Let us go." "All right, let us go." So I went to see His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura in 1922 in that Ultadanga building, and that time Prabhupāda was sitting on the roof.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:730317 - Conversation Temple Inauguration Bengali - Mayapur|Conversation Temple Inauguration Bengali - Mayapur]]''' | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1974#March 1974|1974]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:740317 - Morning Walk - Vrndavana|Morning Walk - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|They would all come to our place in procession, and we shall feed them. This program should be started immediately|They would all come to our place in procession, and we shall feed them. This program should be started immediately. And so that the whole day and night this nuisance will go on.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:740317 - Lecture SB 02.01.02 - Vrndavana|Lecture SB 02.01.02 - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{youtube_ditl|_lR57DviOkg|[[Vaniquotes:If you write books about Krsna, if you read books about Krsna, if you talk about Krsna, you think of Krsna, you worship Krsna, you cook for Krsna, you eat for Krsna - so that is krsna-kirtana|Write, Read, Talk, Think, Worship, <br/>Cook & Eat for Krishna - That is Krsna-kirtana - 0353]]|03.59 minutes from a Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.2 in Vrndavana}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If you write books about Krsna, if you read books about Krsna, if you talk about Krsna, you think of Krsna, you worship Krsna, you cook for Krsna, you eat for Krsna - so that is krsna-kirtana|Just like we perform kīrtana with khol, karatāla, this is also kṛṣṇa-kīrtana. And to write books, that is also kṛṣṇa-kīrtana. And to read books, that is also kṛṣṇa-kīrtana. Not that simply this kīrtana is kīrtana. If you write books about Kṛṣṇa, if you read books about Kṛṣṇa, if you talk about Kṛṣṇa, you think of Kṛṣṇa, you worship Kṛṣṇa, you cook for Kṛṣṇa, you eat for Kṛṣṇa—so that is kṛṣṇa-kīrtana.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:740317 - Letter to Dr. Ghosh written from Vrndavana|Letter to Dr. Ghosh written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Of course we can show our mercy to the daridras, there is not objection, but this philosophy that Narayana comes in the form of daridra to receive our service is against our philosophy. Daridra is daridra, Narayana is Narayana|There is no need of rendering service to the daridras in order to reach Krsna. Of course we can show our mercy to the daridras, there is not objection, but this philosophy that Narayana comes in the form of daridra to receive our service is against our philosophy. Daridra is daridra, Narayana is Narayana. Narayana demands service directly not through daridra. But we can show our mercy to daridra, that is a different thing.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#March 1976|1976]] - March 17 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:760317 - Morning Walk - Mayapur|Morning Walk - Mayapur]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|They want to cover their ignorance by this theory, "chance." They want to become very intelligent by chance. That is their... That is not the fact. For intelligence you have to learn from a superior person. It cannot be done by chance|They want to cover their ignorance by this theory, "chance." They want to become very intelligent by chance. That is their... That is not the fact. For intelligence you have to learn from a superior person. It cannot be done by chance. Who has become learned scholar by chance? There is none.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760317 - Lecture SB 07.09.39 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 07.09.39 - Mayapur]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|This kamaturam mind will be cleansed. Not only be cleansed: if you think of sex, you'll spite on it. This is Krsna consciousness movement|This kāmāturam mind will be cleansed. Not only be cleansed: if you thind of sex, you'll spite on it. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|It may be a tiny attempt, humble attempt, but our aim is how these dogs and cats will become brahmana. This is our aim. We do not want to keep them in the position of cats and dogs and pigs|This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to raise the standard of the human society to become brāhmaṇa from the position of kṛpaṇa. This is the attempt. It may be a tiny attempt, humble attempt, but our aim is how these dogs and cats will become brāhmaṇa. This is our aim. We do not want to keep them in the position of cats and dogs and pigs.}} | |||
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| "First of all, we do not know that we are suffering in every step. Why you are using this fan? Because you're suffering. Because the excessive heat you cannot tolerate, suffering. Similarly, in the winter season this wind will be another suffering. We have closed the doors tightly so that air may not come. Now the air is counteracting suffering and in another season the same air will be suffering. So, the air is the cause of suffering and it is the so-called cause of happiness also. Actually we are simply suffering, that we do not know. But we get information from Lord Kṛṣṇa that this place is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). It is a place for miseries. You cannot expect any happiness. That is our foolishness." |
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