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==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1968#September 1968|1968]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:680924 - Conversation - Seattle|Conversation - Seattle]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/680924R1-SEATTLE_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"After all, anyone who is coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, man or woman, boys or girls, they are welcome. They are very fortunate. You see. And the idea of addressing "prabhu" means "you are my master." That is the... Prabhu means master. And "Prabhupāda" means many masters who bows down at his lotus feet. That is Prabhupāda. So each, everyone shall treat others as "my master." This is the Vaiṣṇava system."|Vanisource:680924 - Conversation - Seattle|680924 - Conversation - Seattle}} | |||
{| | {{VaniQuotebox|There was no force. Only proposal. That's all. When it was proposed before me, I also said, "It depends on the choice." So anyway, go on with your work, sankirtana movement you have started|There was no force. Only proposal. That's all. When it was proposed before me, I also said, "It depends on the choice." So anyway, go on with your work, sankirtana movement you have started.}} | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:680924 - Interview - Seattle|Interview - Seattle]]''' | |||
|< | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/680924IV-SEATTLE_ND_02.mp3</mp3player>|"There is no conflict at all. The conflict is between persons who are godless, who does not believe in God. Conflict is there. The conflict is not between East and West; the conflict is between the atheist and the theist. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not that we are trying to replace something by Indian method to Christian method or Jewish method. That is not our policy. This is... In one sense, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the postgraduate study of all religions. What is the method of religion? To accept the authority of God."|Vanisource:680924 - Recorded Interview - Seattle|680924 - Recorded Interview - Seattle}} | ||
| | {{youtube_ditl|oe9Pz_HQ7Ng|[[Vaniquotes:I was born in 1896, and I was my father's pet child, so my education began a little late, still, I was educated in higher secondary, high school for eight years. In primary school four years, higher secondary school, eight years, in college, four years|Prabhupada's Life In 3 Minutes - 0005]]|03:07 minutes from an interview in Seattle}} | ||
|} | {{VaniQuotebox|I was born in 1896, and I was my father's pet child, so my education began a little late, still, I was educated in higher secondary, high school for eight years. In primary school four years, higher secondary school, eight years, in college, four years|I was born in 1896, and I was my father's pet child, so my education began a little late, still, I was educated in higher secondary, high school for eight years. In primary school four years, higher secondary school, eight years, in college, four years.}} | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|Our method is very simple. If one is fortunate enough to meet a bona fide spiritual master and if he acts strictly under his discipline, he also becomes within a very short time another spiritual master|In spite of all arrangement, if people lost faith in God, so simply by hierarchy, what is the benefit there? There is no benefit. You see? Bambarambhe laghu-kriya, in the Sanskrit word, that you can make a very high-grade arrangement, but the result is zero. So that hierarchical arrangement is exactly not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But our method is very simple. If one is fortunate enough to meet a bona fide spiritual master and if he acts strictly under his discipline, he also becomes within a very short time another spiritual master.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|One of my friend, he dragged me forcibly to my spiritual master. And when I talked with my spiritual master, I was induced. And since then, the seedling began|One of my friend, he dragged me forcibly to my spiritual master. And when I talked with my spiritual master, I was induced. And since then, the seedling began.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|So far I am concerned, I belong to Lord Caitanya's disciplic succession, and my spiritual master, who was just ninth generation from Lord Caitanya, ordered me that "You try to spread this Krsna consciousness in the Western world"|So far I am concerned, I belong to Lord Caitanya's disciplic succession, and my spiritual master, who was just ninth generation from Lord Caitanya, he ordered me that "You try to spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the Western world." Therefore in pursuance of his order, I have come here.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|My oldest disciple|We have got so many temples. Gradually it is increasing. And boys and girls, especially younger generation... My, amongst my disciples, the oldest disciple is thirty-five years old. Otherwise they are between twenty to twenty-five.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am chanting on beads. There are 108 beads and each bead we chant sixteen names, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. So my disciples, they chant at least sixteen rounds|I am chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa whenever there is opportunity, and there are beads. So I am chanting on beads. There are 108 beads and each bead we chant sixteen names, Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare, Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare. So my disciples, they chant at least sixteen rounds.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1969#September 1969|1969]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:690924 - Conversation - London|Conversation - London]]''' | |||
{{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/690924R1-LONDON_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"So now people do not wish to consider also this point, that "If I am eternal, if I am changing my place, my dress, my occupation every fifty years or ten years or twelve years according to the dress..." The cats and dogs, they live for ten years. The cows live for twenty years, and the man lives for, say, hundred years. Trees lives for thousands years. But everyone has to change. Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya ([[Vanisource:BG 2.22 (1972)|BG 2.22]]). As we have to change our old dress, similarly, this body has to be changed. And we are changing. Changing every moment. That is a fact."|Vanisource:690924 - Conversation - London|690924 - Conversation - London}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|As we have to change our old dress, similarly, this body has to be changed. And we are changing. Changing every moment. That is a fact. This boy will grow also some day like you, like me. This body will not stay|As we have to change our old dress, similarly, this body has to be changed. And we are changing. Changing every moment. That is a fact. This boy will grow also some day like you, like me. This body will not stay.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1970#September 1970|1970]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:700924 - Letter to Bali-mardana written from Calcutta|Letter to Bali-mardana written from Calcutta]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Regarding a branch in the Fiji Islands, if you can open immediately a center in the very near future I will be able to send some Hindi knowing Indians to assist the preaching work there|Regarding a branch in the Fiji Islands, if you can open immediately a center in the very near future I will be able to send some Hindi knowing Indians to assist the preaching work there.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1971#September 1971|1971]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:710924 - Conversation - Nairobi| Conversation - Nairobi]]''' | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:710924 - Letter to Gaura Hari written from Nairobi|Letter to Gaura Hari written from Nairobi]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Even if the magistrate would object to such Sankirtana movement on the complaint of some demons, Caitanya Mahaprabhu would still send out his disciples and at the same time He exhibited a great civil disobedience movement|Even if the magistrate would object to such Sankirtana movement on the complaint of some demons, Caitanya Mahaprabhu would still send out his disciples and at the same time He exhibited a great civil disobedience movement on account of the magistrate's order to stop Sankirtana.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:710924 - Letter to Makhanlal and Tilaka written from Nairobi|Letter to Makhanlal and Tilaka written from Nairobi]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Our process is to work on Bhagavata and Pancaratriki systems simultaneously. Deity worship is pancaratriki system and preaching is Bhagavata system|Our process is to work on Bhagavata and Pancaratriki systems simultaneously. Deity worship is pancaratriki system and preaching is Bhagavata system.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|So long as Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working. So you devotees should pray to Krishna that I can go on giving Him service up to the last point of my death|So far my health is concerned, there was a slight indication of a heart attack but it was not very acute. Krishna saved me. I have had many times such slight heart attacks since 1970 but it does not hamper my activities in Krishna Consciousness. So long as Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working. So you devotees should pray to Krishna that I can go on giving Him service up to the last point of my death.}} | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Supersoul is sitting in everyone's heart, so when He hears the effect of hearing is there. So it is to be understood that the Spiritual Master is also hearing|Supersoul is sitting in everyone's heart, so when He hears the effect of hearing is there. So it is to be understood that the Spiritual Master is also hearing.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:710924 - Letter to Sukadeva written from Nairobi|Letter to Sukadeva written from Nairobi]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|There was a slight indication of heart attack but Krishna saved me. It was not very acute. So long Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working, so you devotees should pray to Krishna that I might go on serving Him up to the last point of my death|There was a slight indication of heart attack but Krishna saved me. It was not very acute. So long Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working, so you devotees should pray to Krishna that I might go on serving Him up to the last point of my death.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1972#September 1972|1972]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:720924 - Lecture SB 01.03.19 - Los Angeles|Lecture SB 01.03.19 - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|They do not believe in God. "Everyone is God. I am God, you are God, he is God, everyone is God. So whatever law you give yourself, that becomes your religion." This is going on. So God is not so cheap that you become God, I become God, he becomes God|Real religious principle means to abide by the laws of the Supreme Lord, God. But they do not believe in God. "Everyone is God. I am God, you are God, he is God, everyone is God. So whatever law you give yourself, that becomes your religion." This is going on. So God is not so cheap that you become God, I become God, he becomes God.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720924 - Morning Walk - Los Angeles|Morning Walk - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:720924 - Nitai Guna Mani Amara and Purport - Los Angeles|Nitai Guna Mani Amara and Purport - Los Angeles]]''' | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1973#September 1973|1973]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:730924 - Lecture BG 13.01-2 - Bombay|Lecture BG 13.01-2 - Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Those who are devotees of the Lord, they are called Vaisnava or devata, and those who are not devotees of Visnu may be devotees of other demigods, but they are called the demons, or the asuras. There are many instances in the sastra|Those who are devotees of the Lord, they are called Vaisnava or devata, and those who are not devotees of Visnu may be devotees of other demigods, but they are called the demons, or the asuras. There are many instances in the sastra. There were Hiranyakasipu, who was a devotee of Lord Brahma.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:730924 - Letter to Govardhan written from Bombay|Letter to Govardhan written from Bombay]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|I am pleased to accept the following students as my initiated disciples: Triyogi dasa (Mike Slockman); Udayananda dasa (Randy Cieslak); Yajnavalkya dasa (James Schwartz)|I am pleased to accept the following students as my initiated disciples: Triyogi dasa (Mike Slockman); Udayananda dasa (Randy Cieslak); Yajnavalkya dasa (James Schwartz); Visalaksa dasa (Robert Richardson); Nistraigunya dasa (Steven Forbes); and Madhyma dasi (Marsha Farmer). The sacred trread for the second initiation of Indrabarta dasa is also enclosed.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1974#September 1974|1974]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:740924 - Letter to Adi-kesava written from Calcutta|Letter to Adi-kesava written from Calcutta]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Upon your recommendation I am accepting the following as my initiated disciples: Ted Prior - Tatpara dasa, Louis Soules - Ladhvamsi dasa|Upon your recommendation I am accepting the following as my initiated disciples: Ted Prior - Tatpara dasa, Louis Soules - Ladhvamsi dasa. Also, I am accepting the second initiation of Bhudhara dasa, Prthusrava dasa, and Narindra dasa.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:740924 - Letter to Devotees written from Calcutta|Letter to Devotees written from Calcutta]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|By your prayers and by your chanting Hare Krishna, and by the grace of Lord Nrsimhadeva I am recovered from the serious illness|I thank you very much for your letter received at Vrindaban and your prayers for my health. By your prayers and by your chanting Hare Krishna, and by the grace of Lord Nrsimhadeva I am recovered from the serious illness.}} | |||
==== [[ | ==== [[Timeline of Srila Prabhupada's Life - 1976#September 1976|1976]] - September 24 ==== | ||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vrndavana|Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{| | {{youtube_ditl|NZSjcq0LLNc|[[Vaniquotes:Suppose I have established this temple. Now under my direction, my disciples are worshiping vigraha. Vigraha means the form of the Lord, rupa. But if there is no following of the regulative principles, then after my death it will be galagraha, a burden|If you Lose the Spirit of Service, <br/>this Temple will become a Big Go-down - 0611]]|07:53 minutes from a lecture on SB 01.07.27 in Vṛndāvana}} | ||
| | {{VaniQuotebox|Suppose I have established this temple. Now under my direction, my disciples are worshiping vigraha. Vigraha means the form of the Lord, rupa. But if there is no following of the regulative principles, then after my death it will be galagraha, a burden|Suppose I have established this temple. Now, under my direction, my disciples are worshiping vigraha. Vigraha means the form of the Lord, rūpa. But if there is no following of the regulative principles, then after my death it will be galagraha, a burden, that "Our rascal Guru Mahārāja established this temple, and we have to worship, early rise in the morning, all botheration." This will be... That is called galagraha, a burden, "He has left with us a burden." This is the risk. Then this such a big temple will be mismanaged, and you'll find that "This is breaking" and "This is unclean," and there is no attention.}} | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|As soon as you will lose the spirit of service, this temple will become a big go-down, that's all. No more temple. So we have to maintain that service spirit|As soon as you will lose the spirit of service, this temple will become a big go-down, that's all. No more temple. So we have to maintain that service spirit. Therefore we are so much particular—"Why fresh flower is not there?" If you think, "Here is a stone statue. What is the meaning of fresh flower or old flower? We have to give some flower. That's all." But no feeling, that "Here is Kṛṣṇa. We must give fresh flower." Just like I'm a living man, if you give me a fresh flower, and if you bring some garbage, and if you give me, shall I be pleased? Do you think?}} | |||
| | {{Audiobox_NDrops|Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada|<mp3player>https://s3.amazonaws.com/vanipedia/Nectar+Drops/760924SB-VRNDAVAN_ND_01.mp3</mp3player>|"Yaśodāmāyi wanted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as his (her) son, for which hundreds of years he undergone..., or she undergone austerities. And when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared before him..., before her, for both the husband and wife: 'What do you want?' 'Now we want a son like You'. So Kṛṣṇa said, 'There is no second one beyond Me, so I shall become your son', So He became son. So He must play perfectly, that Yaśodāmāyi may not understand that 'Here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead'. Then the feelings of mother and son will disappear. Anyway, Kṛṣṇa is playing exactly like a little child. So that is Kṛṣṇa's mercy."|Vanisource:760924 - Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vrndavana|760924 - Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vrndavana}} | ||
|} | :'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Gurudasa written from Vrndavana|Letter to Gurudasa written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | ||
{{VaniQuotebox|Harikesa has gone there to Poland to preach as you are doing, so take him with you. I have given him $1,000.00 for immediate expenditure|Harikesa has gone there to Poland to preach as you are doing, so take him with you. I have given him $1,000.00 for immediate expenditure and he has to return this as soon as possible.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Jayatirtha written from Vrndavana|Letter to Jayatirtha written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Harikesa was doing nice preaching work and recently he has received one letter from Sucandra. Both of them can work there very nicely|Harikesa was doing nice preaching work and recently he has received one letter from Sucandra. Both of them can work there very nicely. So, as you know, I am interested very much for preaching work. I have sent him yesterday to Poland.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Lokanatha written from Vrndavana|Letter to Lokanatha written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|If possible you can collect something for our Gurukula and Temple also, and if some high-class men want to offer their children to Gurukula we can accept|If possible you can collect something for our Gurukula and Temple also, and if some high-class men want to offer their children to Gurukula we can accept.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Manager, Central Bank of India written from Vrndavana|Letter to Manager, Central Bank of India written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Prabhanu written from Vrndavana|Letter to Prabhanu written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Sriman Srineketan das Brahmacari may take second initiation at the next Mayapur festival|With reference to your letter to Harikesa Swami dated 15th inst., Sriman Srineketan das Brahmacari may take second initiation at the next Mayapur festival.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Sukadeva written from Vrndavana|Letter to Sukadeva written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Gurukrpa Swami is coming there, and whatever he may advise may be done, regarding the deities|Gurukrpa Swami is coming there, and whatever he may advise may be done, regarding the deities.}} | |||
:'''[[Vanisource:760924 - Letter to Yasomatinandana written from Vrndavana|Letter to Yasomatinandana written from Vṛndāvana]]''' | |||
{{VaniQuotebox|Regarding against propoganda, it is going on practically everywhere, especially Bengal. So we have to work very sincerely and Krishna will give us protection|Regarding against propoganda, it is going on practically everywhere, especially Bengal. So we have to work very sincerely and Krishna will give us protection.}} | |||
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1968 - September 24
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "After all, anyone who is coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, man or woman, boys or girls, they are welcome. They are very fortunate. You see. And the idea of addressing "prabhu" means "you are my master." That is the... Prabhu means master. And "Prabhupāda" means many masters who bows down at his lotus feet. That is Prabhupāda. So each, everyone shall treat others as "my master." This is the Vaiṣṇava system." |
| 680924 - Conversation - Seattle |
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "There is no conflict at all. The conflict is between persons who are godless, who does not believe in God. Conflict is there. The conflict is not between East and West; the conflict is between the atheist and the theist. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not that we are trying to replace something by Indian method to Christian method or Jewish method. That is not our policy. This is... In one sense, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the postgraduate study of all religions. What is the method of religion? To accept the authority of God." |
| 680924 - Recorded Interview - Seattle |
1969 - September 24
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "So now people do not wish to consider also this point, that "If I am eternal, if I am changing my place, my dress, my occupation every fifty years or ten years or twelve years according to the dress..." The cats and dogs, they live for ten years. The cows live for twenty years, and the man lives for, say, hundred years. Trees lives for thousands years. But everyone has to change. Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya (BG 2.22). As we have to change our old dress, similarly, this body has to be changed. And we are changing. Changing every moment. That is a fact." |
| 690924 - Conversation - London |
1970 - September 24
1971 - September 24
1972 - September 24
1973 - September 24
1974 - September 24
1976 - September 24
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
| "Yaśodāmāyi wanted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as his (her) son, for which hundreds of years he undergone..., or she undergone austerities. And when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared before him..., before her, for both the husband and wife: 'What do you want?' 'Now we want a son like You'. So Kṛṣṇa said, 'There is no second one beyond Me, so I shall become your son', So He became son. So He must play perfectly, that Yaśodāmāyi may not understand that 'Here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead'. Then the feelings of mother and son will disappear. Anyway, Kṛṣṇa is playing exactly like a little child. So that is Kṛṣṇa's mercy." |
| 760924 - Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vrndavana |
- Letter to Manager, Central Bank of India written from Vṛndāvana
- Letter to Prabhanu written from Vṛndāvana
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