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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1968#September 1968|1968]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:680912 - Lecture SB 06.01.06-15 - San Francisco|Lecture SB 06.01.06-15 - San Francisco]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/680912SB-SAN_FRANCISCO_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"So anyone, in a..., however... A dog, in such abominable condition, still, he's joyful. He thinks, "I am very happy." A hog, any animal... We are human beings; we are given better facilities of life. The animals are not given so much facilities by nature, but still, they feel happy. If we say, of course, straight, somebody may be sorry, but this is nature's law. So however abominable condition it may be, one feels that he's happy."|Vanisource:680912 - Lecture SB 06.01.06-15 - San Francisco|680912 - Lecture SB 06.01.06-15 - San Francisco}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Covering energy means|Covering energy means a person or a living entity may remain in the most abominable condition, still, he thinks he's happy. He's happy. Just like you have seen many friends in the diseased condition on the bed. And if you go to see him, "How you are feeling?" and he'll say, "Yes, I am all right." He's on the diseased condition. What is the meaning of this "all right"? This is also covering energy.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1969#September 1969|1969]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:690912 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Tittenhurst|Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Tittenhurst]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/690912SB-LONDON_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"The higher and lower grades are calculated in terms of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Consciousness is there everywhere, every living entity. Not only human being, but also animals, the consciousness is there. But the difference is, consciousness without Kṛṣṇa is lower grade, and consciousness of Kṛṣṇa in different degrees, they are higher grade. And when the consciousness is completely Kṛṣṇa, that is the highest position, or that is the real position of living entity."|Vanisource:690912 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Tittenhurst|690912 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Tittenhurst}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|When I was householder, several times there was indication given by my Guru Maharaja that I should give up family life and become a sannyasi and preach this Krsna consciousness movement|When I was householder, several times there was indication given by my Guru Mahārāja that I should give up family life and become a sannyāsī and preach this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. In several way there was hints from my spiritual master, but still, I was not willing. I was thinking, "If I go away, then my family, my sons, my daughters, they will suffer." But actually, I have left my family connection in 1950. Actually '54, but introductory in '50. For the last twenty years. But they are living; I am living.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Sisya means who abides by the rules. Or English "discipline." Either you take English or Sanskrit, the same meaning. Sisya means who accepts the ruling of his spiritual master; and disciple means the same thing|A spiritual master means voluntarily accepting a great personality whose rules and regulations he must abide by. This is accepting of spiritual master, voluntarily accepting somebody, "Yes, sir. Whatever you say, I'll accept." Śiṣya. Śiṣya means who abides by the rules. That is called śiṣya. Or English, "discipline." From discipline, disciplic, disciplic succession. From the discipline. So either you take English or Sanskrit, the same meaning. Śiṣya means who accepts the ruling of his spiritual master; and disciple means also the same thing, who becomes disciplined by the spiritual master.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1971#September 1971|1971]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:710912 - Lecture Hindi - Mombasa|Lecture Hindi - Mombasa]]''' | |||
{| | :'''[[Vanisource:710912 - Lecture SB 07.07.30-31 - Mombassa|Lecture SB 07.07.30-31 - Mombassa]]''' | ||
| | {{youtube_ditl|Gj75RhCo25s|[[Vaniquotes:Dr. Frog is trying to understand Atlantic Ocean comparing with his three-feet well, that's all. When he is informed that there is Atlantic Ocean, he's simply comparing with his limited space|The Demons Cannot Understand <br/>that the God Can be a Person. That is Demoniac - 0405]]|01:40 minutes from a lecture on SB 07.07.30-31 in Mombassa}} | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|Dr. Frog is trying to understand Atlantic Ocean comparing with his three-feet well, that's all. When he is informed that there is Atlantic Ocean, he's simply comparing with his limited space|The demons cannot understand that the God can be a person. That is demoniac. They cannot... Because they cannot understand, the difficulty is a demon tries to understand God, comparing with himself. Dr. Frog, that the story of Dr. Frog. Dr. Frog is trying to understand Atlantic Ocean comparing with his three-feet well, that's all. When he is informed that there is Atlantic Ocean, he's simply comparing with his limited space.}} | |||
| | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/710912SB-MOMBASA_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"Everyone is trying to live, struggle for existence, but these living conditions are different according to the body. The body is made according to his destination of happiness and distress by superior authority. I cannot say that I will have such-and-such body in my next life. But in one sense, if I am intelligent, I can prepare my next body. I can prepare my body to live in certain planets, in certain societies. Even you can go to the higher planets. And if I like, I can prepare my body to go to the abode of Kṛṣṇa, Goloka Vṛndāvana. That is the function. Human body is meant for that intelligence, that 'What kind of body I shall have in my next life?'"|Vanisource:710912 - Lecture SB 07.07.30-31 - Mombasa|710912 - Lecture SB 07.07.30-31 - Mombasa}} | ||
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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1972#September 1972|1972]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:720912 - Telegram to Giriraja written from Dallas|Telegram to Giriraja written from Dallas]]''' | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720912 - Lecture SB 02.01.01 - Dallas|Lecture SB 02.01.01 - Dallas]]''' | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720912 - Conversation - Dallas|Conversation - Dallas]]''' | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1973#September 1973|1973]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:730912 - Lecture BG 02.39 - London|Lecture BG 02.39 - London]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|So what is that buddhi-yoga? Krsna says, tesam satata-yuktanam: "Persons who are twenty-four hours engaged," satata. Satata means always. Engaged. What kind of engagement? Bhajatam priti-purvakam|So what is that buddhi-yoga? Krsna says, tesam satata-yuktanam: "Persons who are twenty-four hours engaged," satata. Satata means always. Engaged. What kind of engagement? Bhajatam priti-purvakam. This engagement means always trying to render some service to the Lord. How? Priti-purvakam: "with love and faith".}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:730912 - Lecture SB 01.05.11 - London|Lecture SB 01.05.11 - London]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|We have no means to advertise very much, but our advertisement is the sankirtana movement. We go from city to city, street to street, to invoke, invoke the spiritual consciousness|We have no means to advertise very much, but our advertisement is the saṅkīrtana movement. We go from city to city, street to street, to invoke, invoke the spiritual consciousness of that. There is already there.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga|Just like we are chanting, this is one vibration. And these books are bigger vibration. This is... This, when we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, a few yards, people can hear, "Here is Hare Kṛṣṇa." But this, my Guru Mahārāja used to say, that "This is bṛhad-mṛdaṅga." Mṛdaṅga, that drum, you have seen, that is small mṛdaṅga. If I beat on this drum, maybe a few yards, people can heard from few yards. But this is... The books are distributed, it can go from country to country, from continent to continent, actually it is so happening.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|We are just begun from 1966, this movement, Hare Krsna movement, or Krsna consciousness movement, distributing this literature. Through literature, of course, we are very hopeful. Our literatures are selling|We are just begun from 1966, this movement, Hare Krsna movement, or Krsna consciousness movement, distributing this literature. Through literature, of course, we are very hopeful. Our literatures are selling.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:730912 - Interview - London|Interview - London]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|In India still, there are many snake charmer. They, simply by mantra, they can get out the poison. Materially if it is possible, how much it is possible in spiritual?|In India still, there are many snake charmer. They, simply by mantra, they can get out the poison. Materially if it is possible, how much it is possible in spiritual?}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1974#September 1974|1974]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:740912 - Letter to Hansadutta written from Vrndavana|Letter to Hansadutta written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|The women are doing nicely, so why are they being changed from the pujari to the Sankirtana? These things should be done by the President. These are internal things, and you should not interfere. I do not approve of your changing the women|The women are doing nicely, so why are they being changed from the pujari to the Sankirtana? These things should be done by the President. These are internal things, and you should not interfere. I do not approve of your changing the women.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Our propaganda is opening temples, and you are closing them. We are not for closing but for increasing. I do not approve of this. If possible the Edinburgh temple must be re-opened again|Our propaganda is opening temples, and you are closing them. We are not for closing but for increasing. I do not approve of this. If possible the Edinburgh temple must be re-opened again.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I made the GBC to give me relief, but if you do like this, then where is the relief. It is anxiety for me. This is the difficulty, that as soon as one gets power, he becomes whimsical and spoils everything. What can I do?|I made the GBC to give me relief, but if you do like this, then where is the relief. It is anxiety for me. This is the difficulty, that as soon as one gets power, he becomes whimsical and spoils everything. What can I do? If anything has to be changed, that can be decided at the annual GBC meeting, but not whimsically.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|We should always feel when we open a temple that the Deity is living and not dead stone or wood. It is a great offense. Before opening a temple it must be considered a hundred times, and after opening it cannot be closed|We should always feel when we open a temple that the Deity is living and not dead stone or wood. It is a great offense. Before opening a temple it must be considered a hundred times, and after opening it cannot be closed.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1975#September 1975|1975]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:750912 - Letter to Jnana and Lilavati written from Vrndavana|Letter to Jnana and Lilavati written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If you continue as you are now doing by the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu you will be very successful. It is by His order that we are carrying this message all over the world|If you continue as you are now doing by the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu you will be very successful. It is by His order that we are carrying this message all over the world. Do not neglect chanting Hare Krishna.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:750912 - Letter to Thomas McCarthy written from Vrndavana|Letter to Thomas McCarthy written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If you want to donate the profits of your store to the Book Trust, you can do by sending to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust|If you want to donate the profits of your store to the Book Trust, you can do by sending to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 3764 Watseka Ave., Los Angeles, Ca. Att: Sriman Ramesvara das.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#September 1976|1976]] - September 12 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Lecture SB 01.07.13-14 - Vrndavana|Lecture SB 01.07.13-14 - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|To become Vaisnava is not so easy thing. One has to become brahmana, then when he surpasses the stages of becoming brahmana, then he becomes Vaisnava. Suddha-sattva|To become Vaiṣṇava is not so easy thing. One has to become brāhmaṇa, then when he surpasses the stages of becoming brāhmaṇa, then he becomes Vaiṣṇava. Śuddha-sattva. Sattvaṁ viśuddhaṁ vasudeva-śabditam (SB 4.3.23). Then Kṛṣṇa is born. When one comes to the Vaiṣṇava stage, then he can understand what is Kṛṣṇa.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Conversation - Vrndavana|Conversation - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If you put little pure ghee on the rice, it will be so tasteful that he'll want it again. But give the pure thing. Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Try to give Him to the people|Without any advertisement, by the taste of the ghee, it will go on. Is it not? If you put little pure ghee on the rice, it will be so tasteful that he'll want it again. But give the pure thing. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Try to give Him to the people. And how to take it? Hare Kṛṣṇa. He hasn't got to pay anything. God has given him the tongue. Induce him, "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." And that is the beginning.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Letter to Cittahari written from Vrndavana|Letter to Cittahari written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|On your recommendation I am accepting Usapati das for brahminical initiation|On your recommendation I am accepting Usapati das for brahminical initiation and Kedara dasa shall be the spiritual name for Bhakta Kevin.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Vrndavana|Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Vrndavana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|This attitude will help you. Always pray to Krsna humbly and He will surely help you|This attitude will help you. Always pray to Krsna humbly and He will surely help you, tesam satata yuktanam bhajatam priti purvakam dadami buddhi yogam tam yena mam upayanti te (BG 10.10), to those who worship Me with love, I give them the intelligence by which they can come to Me.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Letter to Dvarakesa and Prabhujaka written from Vrndavana|Letter to Dvarakesa and Prabhujaka written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|It is up to you to reestablish their (unfortunate peoples) lost relationship with Krsna by being sincere to preach the message of Krsna purely by yourself following the instructions of the Lord and his bona-fide representative, the spiritual master|People are suffering greatly presently due to having lost all proper vision. They are completely without knowledge as to what is the real purpose of life. They have forgotten what is the real purpose of life. It is up to you to reestablish their lost relationship with Krsna by being sincere to preach the message of Krsna purely by yourself following the instructions of the Lord and his bona-fide representative, the spiritual master.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Letter to Gurudasa written from Vrndavana|Letter to Gurudasa written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am very very pleased with your preaching in Poland and you should continue this program with full enthusiasm|I am very very pleased with your preaching in Poland and you should continue this program with full enthusiasm. Your coming to Vrndavana is not so important and it may wait. Please expand this program more and more for there is a very good and favorable field there. Try and start a center there, it seems possible.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Letter to Satadhanya written from Vrndavana|Letter to Satadhanya written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|As you depend on me I similarly depend on you, parasparatam. The brahmanas and ksatriyas should cooperate, that is the Vedic civilization. The hands and legs should cooperate with the brain in order for the whole society to work properly|As you depend on me I similarly depend on you, parasparatam. The brahmanas and ksatriyas should cooperate, that is the Vedic civilization. The hands and legs should cooperate with the brain in order for the whole society to work properly.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760912 - Letter to Vikas written from Vrndavana|Letter to Vikas written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|There is nothing to be very sorry for. According to Bhagavad-gita your father has not died, he has changed his body|Naturally I am very very sorry to learn the death news of your father, my beloved friend. So offer your mother my condolences for the bereavement, but there is nothing to be very sorry for. According to Bhagavad-gita your father has not died, he has changed his body.}} | |||
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1968 - September 12
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "So anyone, in a..., however... A dog, in such abominable condition, still, he's joyful. He thinks, "I am very happy." A hog, any animal... We are human beings; we are given better facilities of life. The animals are not given so much facilities by nature, but still, they feel happy. If we say, of course, straight, somebody may be sorry, but this is nature's law. So however abominable condition it may be, one feels that he's happy." |
| 680912 - Lecture SB 06.01.06-15 - San Francisco |
1969 - September 12
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "The higher and lower grades are calculated in terms of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Consciousness is there everywhere, every living entity. Not only human being, but also animals, the consciousness is there. But the difference is, consciousness without Kṛṣṇa is lower grade, and consciousness of Kṛṣṇa in different degrees, they are higher grade. And when the consciousness is completely Kṛṣṇa, that is the highest position, or that is the real position of living entity." |
| 690912 - Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Tittenhurst |
1971 - September 12
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Everyone is trying to live, struggle for existence, but these living conditions are different according to the body. The body is made according to his destination of happiness and distress by superior authority. I cannot say that I will have such-and-such body in my next life. But in one sense, if I am intelligent, I can prepare my next body. I can prepare my body to live in certain planets, in certain societies. Even you can go to the higher planets. And if I like, I can prepare my body to go to the abode of Kṛṣṇa, Goloka Vṛndāvana. That is the function. Human body is meant for that intelligence, that 'What kind of body I shall have in my next life?'" |
| 710912 - Lecture SB 07.07.30-31 - Mombasa |
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