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==== [[Timeline_of_Srila_Prabhupada's_Life# | ==== [[Timeline_of_Srila_Prabhupada's_Life#1947_-_age_51_on_September_9|1947]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:471021 - Letter to Aska Distillery written from Calcutta|Letter to Aska Distillery written from Calcutta]]''' | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1968#October 1968|1968]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:681021 - Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Maharaja - Seattle|Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Maharaja - Seattle]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|My Guru Maharaja pulled me out from this material life. I have not lost anything. He was so kind upon me. I have gained. I left three children, I have got now three hundred children. So I am not loser|My Guru Mahārāja (Prabhupāda begins to cry, choked voice) pulled me out from this material life. I have not lost anything. He was so kind upon me. I have gained. I left three children, I have got now three hundred children. So I am not loser. This is material conception. We think that we shall be loser by accepting Kṛṣṇa. Nobody is loser. I say from my practical experience.}} | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/681021DK-SEATTLE_ND_03.mp3</mp3player>|"In my family life, when I was in the midst of my wife and children, sometimes I was dreaming my spiritual master, that he's calling me, and I was following him. When my dream was over, I was thinking—I was little horrified—'Oh, Guru Mahārāja wants me to become sannyāsī. How can I accept sannyāsa?' At that time, I was feeling not very satisfaction that I have to give up my family and have to become a mendicant. At that time, it was a horrible feeling. Sometime I was thinking, 'No, I cannot take sannyāsa'. But again I saw the same dream. So in this way I was fortunate. My Guru Mahārāja pulled me out from this material life. I have not lost anything. He was so kind upon me. I have gained. I left three children, I have got now three hundred children. So I am not loser. This is material conception. We think that we shall be loser by accepting Kṛṣṇa. Nobody is loser."|Vanisource:681021 - Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Maharaja - Seattle|681021 - Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Maharaja - Seattle}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Practically my spiritual master insisted me through him, that "You accept." Because without accepting the renounced order of life, nobody can become a preacher|My Godbrother, he insisted me, "Bhaktivedanta prabhu..." This title was given in my family life. It was offered to me by the Vaiṣṇava society. So he insisted me. Not he insisted me. Practically my spiritual master insisted me through him, that "You accept." Because without accepting the renounced order of life, nobody can become a preacher.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am feeling now very much obliged to my, this Godbrother, that he carried out the wish of my spiritual master and enforced me to accept this sannyasa order|My spiritual master forced me through this Godbrother, "You accept." So unwillingly I accepted. And then I remembered that he wanted me to go to the Western country. So I am feeling now very much obliged to my, this Godbrother, that he carried out the wish of my spiritual master and enforced me to accept this sannyāsa order.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle|Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle]]''' | |||
{{youtube_ditl|Y5ct1Y8RRpM|[[Vaniquotes:How do we enter into the modes of goodness?|On the Platform of Goodness, You Can Understand the All-Good - 0818]]|03:45 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.09.08 in Seattle}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|How do we enter into the modes of goodness?|'''Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:''' How do we enter into the modes of goodness?<br> | |||
'''Prabhupāda:''' Just try to follow the four principles as we have prescribed: no intoxication, no gambling, no illicit sex, and no meat-eating. That's all. This is goodness. This is goodness. These prohibitions are there. Why? Just to keep you in goodness. In every religion... Now, in the Ten Commandments also, I see that "Thou shall not kill." The same thing is there, but people are not obeying.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Our preaching method is not kicking. Our preaching method is by taking a grass in the teeth| Our business is to implore. Our preaching method is not kicking. Our preaching method is by taking a grass in the teeth, falling down on the feet, and flattering you hundred times, I'm just submitting one thing: "Become Kṛṣṇa conscious." That is our process.}} | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/681021SB-SEATTLE_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"When a bird flies in the sky, so he has to leave behind him everything, and he has to fly in the sky on his own strength. There is no other help. Why bird? Take these airplanes, jet planes. When we get on the sky, leaving this land, no more we can depend on our strength on the land. If the plane is sufficiently strong, then we can fly; otherwise there is danger. Similarly persons who are very much materialistic, they are thinking that this opulence, prestige, and material strength will save him. No. That is bewilderment."|Vanisource:681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle|681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Don't be afraid if somebody tortures us, somebody teases us. We must go on with Krsna consciousness without any hesitation, and Krsna will give us protect. If you are more tortured, then Krsna will appear as Nrsimhadeva and give you all protection|Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, Haridāsa Ṭhākura was caned in twenty-two market places, Prahlāda Mahārāja was tortured by his father. So there may be such things. Of course, Kṛṣṇa will protect us. So don't be afraid. Don't be afraid if somebody tortures us, somebody teases us. We must go on with Kṛṣṇa consciousness without any hesitation, and Kṛṣṇa will give us protect. If you are more tortured, then Kṛṣṇa will appear as Nṛsiṁhadeva and give you all protection. You are all Prahlāda, representative of Prahlāda. You keep your confidence in Kṛṣṇa, and He will give you protection, and go on chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.}} | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/681021SB-SEATTLE_ND_02.mp3</mp3player>|Jaya-gopāla: What type of living entity is Māyādevī?<br> | |||
Prabhupāda: She is Vaiṣṇavī. She is a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa. But she has accepted a thankless task: to punish. The policeman is a sincere government servant, but he has accepted a task, nobody likes him. (laughs) If some policeman comes here, immediately you shall feel disturbed. But he is the sincere servant of government. That is the position of Māyā. Her business is to punish these rascals who have come to enjoy here. (laughter) You see? But she is a sincere servant of God.<br> | |||
Jaya-gopāla: Is this like a post?<br> | |||
Prabhupāda: Yes. It is a post, thankless post. Nobody thanks, everyone derides. You see? But she is a great devotee. She tolerates and punishes. That's all. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). She only wants to see that 'You become Kṛṣṇa conscious, I leave you', that's all. Police business is that "You become law-abiding citizen; then I have no connection with you.|Vanisource:681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle|681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:681021 - Letter to Krishna dasa written from Seattle|Letter to Krishna dasa written from Seattle]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|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|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.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Don't be disappointed that you are separated from me, I am also always thinking of you how you are making progress there|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.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:681021 - Letter to Makhanlal written from Seattle|Letter to Makhanlal written from Seattle]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If we can sell some copies of our publications, books and literature, and we can maintain our establishment, somehow, we shall think it is a great success; we don't want anything more| If we can sell some copies of our publications, books and literature, and we can maintain our establishment, somehow, we shall think it is a great success. We don't want anything more. Neither we want any big bank balance. Our mission is that people should understand their relationship with Krishna, and thus let him become Krishna Consciousness so that he may be relieved from the three-fold miseries of this material existence.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|As we go on chanting Hare Krishna, in the pure status, we shall be on the loving platform and at that time, we shall feel the greatest separation from the Lord; but that feeling of separation from the Lord is more relishable than meeting the Lord|So far crying for Krishna is concerned, it is very nicely explained by Lord Caitanya. He says that a moment is appearing to me as 12 years, and my eyes are tearing torrents of rain, and I am feeling everything vacant in the absence of Govinda. The thing is that as we go on chanting Hare Krishna, in the pure status, we shall be on the loving platform and at that time, we shall feel the greatest separation from the Lord; but that feeling of separation from the Lord is more relishable than meeting the Lord.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:681021 - Letter to Muralidhara written from Seattle|Letter to Muralidhara written from Seattle]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The ocean of milk is white. You can make it bluish shade in order to distinguish that it is water. Visnu's color is sky blue, and Laksmi's color is just like gold, molten gold.Laksmi is not always with Visnu, there are many Visnu forms Who are alone| The ocean of milk is white. You can make it bluish shade in order to distinguish that it is water. Visnu's color is sky blue, and Laksmi's color is just like gold, molten gold. Laksmi is not always with Visnu, there are many Visnu forms Who are alone. That form is called Vasudeva Visnu. No demigod remains with Visnu. Demigods are destined to live within the material world.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:681021 - Letter to Syama written from Seattle|Letter to Syama written from Seattle]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Anyone who is a devotee of the Lord, following in this line of disciplic succession, can deliver lecture, on the teachings of Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc|Regarding your third question, morning lecture is also allowed. Lecture is also kirtana & as morning kirtana is there similarly morning lecture can also be delivered. So far as girls or boys lecturing in the morning that doesn't make any difference. Either girl or boy devotees may deliver lecture if they choose. We have no distinction of bodily designations male or female. Krsna Consciousness is on the spiritual platform. Anyone who is a devotee of the Lord following in this line of disciplic succession can deliver lecture on the teachings of Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am so grateful for your nice sentiments for me, and Krishna will bless you. I am very poor and I have nothing to return for your loving service, but I can simply pray to Krishna for your gradual advancement in Krishna Consciousness|I am so grateful for your nice sentiments for me, and Krishna will bless you. I am very poor and I have nothing to return for your loving service, but I can simply pray to Krishna for your gradual advancement in Krishna Consciousness. I think that is the best blessing which we can have in this material existence.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1969#October 1969|1969]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:691021 - Letter to Aniruddha written from Tittenhurst, UK|Letter to Aniruddha written from Tittenhurst, UK]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Please note it carefully that you cannot leave Krishna Consciousness. That is a fact. And even if you want to leave, Krishna will not leave you. That is also a fact|Please note it carefully that you cannot leave Krishna Consciousness. That is a fact. And even if you want to leave, Krishna will not leave you. That is also a fact. Under the circumstances you should adjust your situation and continue Krishna Consciousness very enthusiastically. I know you are a very intelligent boy, industrious, so you can do tremendous service to Krishna by utilizing your inherent qualities. I am very glad you decided to marry and I quite approve of it.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:691021 - Letter to Bharadraja written from Tittenhurst, UK|Letter to Bharadraja written from Tittenhurst, UK]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|You have got good ideas, you are intelligent and have got qualifications, but you must learn to be more responsible|Regarding your going to Santa Barbara to help open a center there, this idea is all right. Consult with Tamala Krishna in this matter. You have got good ideas, you are intelligent and have got qualifications, but you must learn to be more responsible.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:691021 - Letter to Hayagriva written from Tittenhurst, UK|Letter to Hayagriva written from Tittenhurst, UK]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox| My idea is that we should print at least 100,000 of this magazine every month; if not immediately, then in the very near future. And it will be quite possible to do it easily because we have got our own press| My idea is that we should print at least 100,000 of this magazine every month; if not immediately, then in the very near future. And it will be quite possible to do it easily because we have got our own press. I am so glad to learn that you are deeply absorbed in editorial work and your good wife is assisting you.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:691021 - Letter to Vamanadeva written from Tittenhurst, UK|Letter to Vamanadeva written from Tittenhurst, UK]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I want that all married couples should open new centers and carry on by dint of hard labor|I want that all married couples should open new centers and carry on by dint of hard labor. Every householder, husband and wife together, they require to live in an apartment, so if they have got an extra room, they can immediately start a center.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:691021 - Letter to Yamunacarya written from Tittenhurst, UK|Letter to Yamunacarya written from Tittenhurst, UK]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|To follow in the footsteps of the Mahatmas means to give submissive aural reception to the words and instructions of the bona fide Spiritual Master|Yamunacarya was a great devotee. Formerly he was a great king, and later on he became a great devotee and acharya of the Ramanuja Sampradaya. There are many such Mahatmas, or great souls, in the past, and if we follow in their footsteps carefully, that is the perfection of fulfillment of our human form of life. To follow in the footsteps of the Mahatmas means to give submissive aural reception to the words and instructions of the bona fide Spiritual Master in the line of disciplic succession from the Lord Himself.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1970#October 1970|1970]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:701021 - Letter to Hansadutta and Himavati written from Amritsar|Letter to Hansadutta and Himavati written from Amritsar]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Regarding our Indian centers, it is already decided that in Bombay we must have a center first and negotiation is going on seriously. If we cannot open many centers in India, at least one center must be opened in Bombay before we go back to the States|Regarding our Indian centers, it is already decided that in Bombay we must have a center first and negotiation is going on seriously. If we cannot open many centers in India, at least one center must be opened in Bombay before we go back to the States.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:701021 - Letter to Sagar Maharaja written from Amritsar|Letter to Sagar Maharaja written from Amritsar]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I shall be glad to know also if you want to stick in Calcutta only or if required you may come to Bombay. We are very much serious to open a branch in Bombay very soon|I shall be glad to know also if you want to stick in Calcutta only or if required you may come to Bombay. We are very much serious to open a branch in Bombay very soon.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1972#October 1972|1972]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:721021 - Lecture NOD - Vrndavana|Lecture NOD - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|To follow Caitanya Mahaprabhu means to follow the six Gosvamis. This is called parampara system|To follow Caitanya Mahāprabhu means to follow the six Gosvāmīs. This is called paramparā system. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptaṁ imaṁ rājarṣayoḥ viduḥ (BG 4.2). If we follow the paramparā system... The same message, what Kṛṣṇa said, that is also said by Caitanya Mahāprabhu, that is also said by the Gosvāmīs.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:721021 - Lecture SB 01.02.10 - Vrndavana|Lecture SB 01.02.10 - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Krsna consciousness movement is now well spread all over the world. The framework is there. So anyone can go and preach this Krsna consciousness movement very easily and people will take it|Krsna consciousness movement is now well spread all over the world. The framework is there. So anyone can go and preach this Krsna consciousness movement very easily and people will take it.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1974#October 1974|1974]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:741021 - Lecture SB 01.08.41 - Mayapur|Lecture SB 01.08.41 - Mayapur]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Yes, we are pure politicians. What is pure politicians? Politics requires violence. So annihilate the demons and give protection|Because God is real, anything in connection with God, according to His instruction, that is real. All other things are imitation. So always remember that if somebody takes us as religionists, yes, we are religionists, but pure religionists. If somebody says socialist, we are pure socialist. If somebody says we are diplomats, poli..., yes, we are pure politicians. What is pure politicians? Politics requires violence. So annihilate the demons and give protection. The politics means two things. The state, government, what is that? Government gives protection to the good citizen, and those who are rogues, punish them. Law and order.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1975#October 1975|1975]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:751021 - Morning Walk - Johannesburg|Morning Walk - Johannesburg]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox| Rascal. Kick them upon their face. You rascal, you are talking of morality, rascal, you go to hell. Your place is hell|Rascal. Kick them upon their face. You rascal, you are talking of morality, rascal, you go to hell. Your place is hell. "Devil citing scripture." You are not... You are so shameless that you do not be ashamed to speak like that. You are so shameless. Your civilization is so shameless. You are killing child in the womb, and you are talking "inhumanity".}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:751021 - Conversation - Johannesburg|Conversation - Johannesburg]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox| I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything| I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything. Therefore bhakti is the confidential part of understanding God. Otherwise they understand vaguely, impartially, not sufficiently.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:751021 - Letter to Amarendra written from Johannesburg|Letter to Amarendra written from Johannesburg]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox| There is no question of falldown if one seriously follows these principles|There is no question of falldown if one seriously follows these principles.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:751021 - Letter to Satsvarupa written from Johannesburg|Letter to Satsvarupa written from Johannesburg]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Concerning our use of analogy. We do not bring in imperfect analogy, but we follow the instructions of the Sastras strictly. Our authority is on the basis of Sastra, not analogy|Concerning our use of analogy. We do not bring in imperfect analogy, but we follow the instructions of the Sastras strictly. Our authority is on the basis of Sastra, not analogy.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1977#October 1977|1977]] - October 21 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:771021 - Conversation A - Vrndavana|Conversation A - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Gravity should be maintained. And laughing means taking things trifling. That is not allowed. This is the etiquette. That is what we are teaching. You are simple, but this is the etiquette. Understand me right or not?|Gravity should be maintained. And laughing means taking things trifling. That is not allowed. This is the etiquette. That is what we are teaching. You are simple, but this is the etiquette. Understand me right or not?}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:771021 - Conversation B - Vrndavana|Conversation B - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Sruta-grhitaya. And sruta-grhitaya is Vedanta knowledge, not sentimental. Sruta-grhitaya. That is sound knowledge. Discuss Bhagavatam daily, as much as possible. Everything will be clarified. Because Bhagavata is the essence|Śruta-gṛhītayā. And śruta-gṛhītayā is Vedānta knowledge, not sentimental. Śruta-gṛhītayā. That is sound knowledge. Discuss Bhāgavatam daily, as much as possible. Everything will be clarified. Because Bhāgavata is the essence.}} | |||
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| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "In my family life, when I was in the midst of my wife and children, sometimes I was dreaming my spiritual master, that he's calling me, and I was following him. When my dream was over, I was thinking—I was little horrified—'Oh, Guru Mahārāja wants me to become sannyāsī. How can I accept sannyāsa?' At that time, I was feeling not very satisfaction that I have to give up my family and have to become a mendicant. At that time, it was a horrible feeling. Sometime I was thinking, 'No, I cannot take sannyāsa'. But again I saw the same dream. So in this way I was fortunate. My Guru Mahārāja pulled me out from this material life. I have not lost anything. He was so kind upon me. I have gained. I left three children, I have got now three hundred children. So I am not loser. This is material conception. We think that we shall be loser by accepting Kṛṣṇa. Nobody is loser." |
| 681021 - Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Maharaja - Seattle |
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "When a bird flies in the sky, so he has to leave behind him everything, and he has to fly in the sky on his own strength. There is no other help. Why bird? Take these airplanes, jet planes. When we get on the sky, leaving this land, no more we can depend on our strength on the land. If the plane is sufficiently strong, then we can fly; otherwise there is danger. Similarly persons who are very much materialistic, they are thinking that this opulence, prestige, and material strength will save him. No. That is bewilderment." |
| 681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle |
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| Jaya-gopāla: What type of living entity is Māyādevī? Prabhupāda: She is Vaiṣṇavī. She is a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa. But she has accepted a thankless task: to punish. The policeman is a sincere government servant, but he has accepted a task, nobody likes him. (laughs) If some policeman comes here, immediately you shall feel disturbed. But he is the sincere servant of government. That is the position of Māyā. Her business is to punish these rascals who have come to enjoy here. (laughter) You see? But she is a sincere servant of God. |
| 681021 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Seattle |
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