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As a well-wishing teacher, guide, and guru, Srila Prabhupada constantly trained students to progress to more mature stages of discipleship. His numerous instructions were recorded in his books, letters, lectures, and conversations. After many years of thematically mapping those instructions, Vanipedia now offers these introductory articles showing the training Srila Prabhupada personally imparted to his disciples. A delightful presentation of his instructions on Our Misunderstandings is found within this Vaniquotes category '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Our Misunderstandings (Disciples of SP)| - Our Misunderstandings (Disciples of SP)]]'''.  
As a well-wishing teacher, guide, and guru, Srila Prabhupada constantly trained students to progress to more mature stages of discipleship. His numerous instructions were recorded in his books, letters, lectures, and conversations. After many years of thematically mapping those instructions, Vanipedia now offers these introductory articles showing the training Srila Prabhupada personally imparted to his disciples. A delightful presentation of his instructions on Our Misunderstandings is found within this Vaniquotes category '''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Our Misunderstandings (Disciples of SP)| - Our Misunderstandings (Disciples of SP)]]'''.  


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== Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's teachings ==
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{{VaniQuotebox|Do not make any misunderstanding by devaluating any of the spiritual activities|So, you are all advanced students. You should understand the importance of each and every item of devotional service. Do not make any misunderstanding by devaluating any of the spiritual activities. You are one of the advanced students. One who distinguishes a particular type of service as inferior or superior, he does not know the value of devotional service. It is all transcendental. '''(Letter, 19 January 1975, Bombay)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|Do not misunderstand that after the variegatedness of the material world being finished, everything becomes impersonal, that is nonsense. Try to understand Bhagavad-gita nicely|Krishna and His Kingdom, the spiritual world, are eternal. We have to understand things in this method. That is Krishna Consciousness. Do not misunderstand that after the variegatedness of the material world being finished, everything becomes impersonal, that is nonsense. Try to understand Bhagavad-gita nicely. Your faith in the Christian religion is very strong, I can understand. So, when you want to convert Christians into Krishna Consciousness, you should understand first of all the philosophy of Krishna Consciousnes. '''(Letter, 13 April 1968, San Francisco)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|Do not misunderstand that by accepting Krsna consciousness everything will be stopped. No. Nothing will be stopped. Simply one has to change the consciousness|Do not misunderstand that by accepting Kṛṣṇa consciousness everything will be stopped. No. Nothing will be stopped. Simply one has to change the consciousness. '''(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, 20 April 1972, Hong Kong)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|Do not misunderstand that we are trying to spread Hinduism. Hinduism is a fictitious term. Because there is no fixed-up conclusion|Do not misunderstand that we are trying to spread Hinduism. Hinduism is a fictitious term. Because there is no fixed-up conclusion. Somebody's accepting this, somebody... Even the Jains and the Sikhs and many other sub-religions, they are also ruled by the Hindu rules, Hindu law. So actually this word Hindu is given by the Muhammadans. We don't find this word in the Vedic literature, Hindu. '''(Nectar of Devotion Lecture, 27 October 1972, Vrndavana)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|Even if there is some misunderstanding between husband & wife that should be completely neglected & you should always remain rigid in service of Krishna|Even if there is some misunderstanding between husband & wife that should be completely neglected & you should always remain rigid in service of Krishna as you have written to say, it is pleasing to be in the service of Krishna. '''(Letter, 8 October 1967, Delhi)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|I have asked you all to address your Godbrothers as prabhu. This prabhu means boss. If everyone of us thinks of his fellow worker as boss there is no question of misunderstanding|If Subala das or anyone thinks that he has attained perfection he will be wrongly directed. I have asked you all to address your Godbrothers as prabhu. This prabhu means boss. If everyone of us thinks of his fellow worker as boss there is no question of misunderstanding. The mistake is that being addressed as boss or prabhu one thinks himself as exactly Prabhu or the boss. One should not forget himself as humble servant even though one is addressed as prabhu. '''(Letter, 28 November 1967, Calcutta)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|I never said there should be no more marriage. By all means legally you can get married. How can I object? They misunderstand me. Unless it is there from me in writing, there are so many things that "Prabhupada said"|I never said there should be no more marriage. By all means legally you can get married. How can I object? They misunderstand me. Unless it is there from me in writing, there are so many things that "Prabhupada said." '''(Letter, 2 September 1975, Vrndavana)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|If there is any misunderstanding with the GBC men, that can be readjusted by mutual understanding. I wanted to see you all to mitigate this misunderstanding|If there is any misunderstanding with the GBC men, that can be readjusted by mutual understanding. I wanted to see you all to mitigate this misunderstanding, but I was very busy in Bombay for the same Juhu land of Mr. Nair. '''(Letter, 7 November 1973, New Delhi)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|If you neglect siddhanta, conclusion, given by the acaryas, then you will misunderstand Krsna|If you neglect siddhānta, conclusion, given by the ācāryas, then you will misunderstand Kṛṣṇa. '''(Nectar of Devotion Lecture, 20 October 1972, Vrndavana)'''}}


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{{VaniQuotebox|In the Society there may be sometimes misunderstandings, but that does not mean you should live separately|In the Society there may be sometimes misunderstandings, but that does not mean you should live separately. '''(Letter, 26 December 1971, Bombay)'''}}
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As a well-wishing teacher, guide, and guru, Srila Prabhupada constantly trained students to progress to more mature stages of discipleship. His numerous instructions were recorded in his books, letters, lectures, and conversations. After many years of thematically mapping those instructions, Vanipedia now offers these introductory articles showing the training Srila Prabhupada personally imparted to his disciples. A delightful presentation of his instructions on Our Misunderstandings is found within this Vaniquotes category - Our Misunderstandings (Disciples of SP).

An introduction is given below in the following 10 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's teachings


vanipedia.org 		So, you are all advanced students. You should understand the importance of each and every item of devotional service. Do not make any misunderstanding by devaluating any of the spiritual activities. You are one of the advanced students. One who distinguishes a particular type of service as inferior or superior, he does not know the value of devotional service. It is all transcendental. (Letter, 19 January 1975, Bombay)



vanipedia.org 		Krishna and His Kingdom, the spiritual world, are eternal. We have to understand things in this method. That is Krishna Consciousness. Do not misunderstand that after the variegatedness of the material world being finished, everything becomes impersonal, that is nonsense. Try to understand Bhagavad-gita nicely. Your faith in the Christian religion is very strong, I can understand. So, when you want to convert Christians into Krishna Consciousness, you should understand first of all the philosophy of Krishna Consciousnes. (Letter, 13 April 1968, San Francisco)



vanipedia.org 		Do not misunderstand that by accepting Kṛṣṇa consciousness everything will be stopped. No. Nothing will be stopped. Simply one has to change the consciousness. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, 20 April 1972, Hong Kong)



vanipedia.org 		Do not misunderstand that we are trying to spread Hinduism. Hinduism is a fictitious term. Because there is no fixed-up conclusion. Somebody's accepting this, somebody... Even the Jains and the Sikhs and many other sub-religions, they are also ruled by the Hindu rules, Hindu law. So actually this word Hindu is given by the Muhammadans. We don't find this word in the Vedic literature, Hindu. (Nectar of Devotion Lecture, 27 October 1972, Vrndavana)



vanipedia.org 		Even if there is some misunderstanding between husband & wife that should be completely neglected & you should always remain rigid in service of Krishna as you have written to say, it is pleasing to be in the service of Krishna. (Letter, 8 October 1967, Delhi)



vanipedia.org 		If Subala das or anyone thinks that he has attained perfection he will be wrongly directed. I have asked you all to address your Godbrothers as prabhu. This prabhu means boss. If everyone of us thinks of his fellow worker as boss there is no question of misunderstanding. The mistake is that being addressed as boss or prabhu one thinks himself as exactly Prabhu or the boss. One should not forget himself as humble servant even though one is addressed as prabhu. (Letter, 28 November 1967, Calcutta)



vanipedia.org 		I never said there should be no more marriage. By all means legally you can get married. How can I object? They misunderstand me. Unless it is there from me in writing, there are so many things that "Prabhupada said." (Letter, 2 September 1975, Vrndavana)



vanipedia.org 		If there is any misunderstanding with the GBC men, that can be readjusted by mutual understanding. I wanted to see you all to mitigate this misunderstanding, but I was very busy in Bombay for the same Juhu land of Mr. Nair. (Letter, 7 November 1973, New Delhi)



vanipedia.org 		If you neglect siddhānta, conclusion, given by the ācāryas, then you will misunderstand Kṛṣṇa. (Nectar of Devotion Lecture, 20 October 1972, Vrndavana)



vanipedia.org 		In the Society there may be sometimes misunderstandings, but that does not mean you should live separately. (Letter, 26 December 1971, Bombay)


Srila Prabhupada's instructions on Our Misunderstandings - explore more within this category.

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