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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot stop our activity. The activities are to be purified. And these purified activities are called bhakti. Bhakti means they are, they appear also just like ordinary activity, but they are not contaminated activities. They are purified activities.

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Now, when these senses are used for other than God's purpose, that is bondage, conditioned life. When the senses are purified and it is used for God's purpose, that is natural life.

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The whole New York City is flooded with the snow, and we are all put into inconvenience. That's a sort of suffering. But you have no control. You cannot stop snow falling.

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The, the necessity of a spiritual master is for him who is conscious of his material suffering. If one is not conscious of his material suffering, then he is not even on the human being status. He's still in the animal status.

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In other planets, somewhere water is very prominent, somewhere fire is very prominent. In the sun planet, the bodies there... There are also living entities, but their body is so made that it is fiery. They can exist in the fire.

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I am here, always working, something reading or writing, something reading or writing, twenty-four hours. Simply when I feel hungry, I take some food. And simply when I feel asleep, I go to bed.

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Ruci means you will simply hanker after spiritual things. You won't like to hear anything except spiritual message. You won't like to do anything except spiritual activities. You won't like to eat anything which is not spiritualized.

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There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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It is so beneficial for successful human mission, so I must have it. I must execute this Krsna consciousness. This is called utsahat, to become energetic, not lethargic but energetic. So utsahad dhairyat.

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I remember, there was heavy bombing. But fortunately, we stayed perplexed.(?) He saw something, fireworks, is going on. "So let us enjoy." (laughter) You see? (makes sound of bomb coming down) Do-do-dee-dee-dong!

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There is a story Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact that one gentleman, he was a king's son, prince. His name was Satyavan. But he was to die at a certain age his horoscope said. But one girl Savitri, she fell in love with that boy.

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There are many stories. One of them I am citing. It is very interesting. Visvamitra Muni. Visvamitra Muni, he was a great king, ksatriya, but his priest, Vasistha Muni, he had great spiritual power. So he renounced his kingdom. He wanted to advance.

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The logic of the frog in the well.

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You must hear about the Supreme Personality of Godhead and nothing more. That should be your profession. Then what will be the result? The result will be sthane sthitah.

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A son is surrendering to his father. It is quite natural. There is no insult. Father is always superior. So if I touch the feet of my father, if I bow down before my father, it is glory. It is glorious for me.

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The logic of the frog in the well.

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When you hear the sound of the wind, "Ohnnhnn Shaah Shaah," you say, "Oh, today wind is very violently blowing." You can feel, but you don't see the air. So don't stress on seeing only.

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Story of Narada Muni and the cobbler.

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There is a nice story about Sanatana Gosvami, of whom we are now studying. Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, two brothers, they went to Vrndavana for devotional service.

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I'll cite one story. It is very interesting story. If you go to India, you'll find one nice temple in Orissa. It is called the temple of "Witness-Gopala," Saksi-Gopala, Witness-Gopala. This Gopala was situated in a temple at Vrndavana.

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Saksi-gopala.

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By the order of the sastra, by the guidance of the spiritual master, you are being trained up as apprentice. This is called abhidheya - practice.

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Bilvamangala Thakura voluntarily made himself blind.

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Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani.

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Cut coat tail is the latest fashion.

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I will give you one example how Krsna sometimes breaks His promise. It is very nice story.

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To understand yourself, that you are not this body, you are Brahman, and when you act factually in that Brahman stage, that is called bhakti.

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Five millions and four thousands of Manus are there in one Brahma's life. Five million and four hundred thousand of manvantaravatara, incarnation of Manu, in one brahmanda.

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Bhakti minus respect, that is not bhakti. With love, with respect, with designated duties, if you be engaged in Krsna consciousness, then your life will be successful.

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The intelligent man, who is not crazy, he should understand that I am not this body.

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And it is very easy. And you can do in happy mood. And what is the process? We chant Hare Krsna and eat Krsna-prasada and study Bhagavad-gita philosophy, hear nice musical sounds. Is it very difficult? Is it very difficult? Not at all.

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Everyone is trying to get himself free from anxieties, but he does not know how to get out of this anxiety. This taking shelter of intoxication is no use to get oneself free from anxieties. It is a drug. It is oblivion.

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Buddhih means intelligence. Jnanam means knowledge. Asammohah means freedom from illusion. Ksama. Ksama, forgiveness. Satyam, truth. Damah. Damah means controlling the senses, and samah, to keep the mind equibalanced.

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The krsna-katha, the Lord's name, fame, quality, entourage, all these things are very sweet. To whom? Those who are liberated from this jaundice of materialism. For them it is very sweet.

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Just like Krsna is dressed, similarly, His friends, cowherd boys, they are also dressed. In the spiritual world, when you go, you'll not be able to understand who is Krsna and who is not Krsna. Everyone is like Krsna.

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Brahma is the first creature in this universe. He is the first living entity. He accepts his inability to understand about Krsna, and what to speak of others.

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There are many authentic Vedic literatures. They are accepted by the spiritual societies. And one's learning is proved if he can give evidences from these Vedic literatures.

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All those thousands of people assembled in the market, they have got their sleeping place. They have got their eating place. So by arrangement. There is arrangement. Similarly, there may be millions and millions of living entities; God has arrangement.

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How can you write or how you can speak unless you think of Him? You are hearing about Krsna; you have to think, then you can speak. Otherwise not.

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Who wrote the other Lord Caitanya? That other play?

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Caitanya Mahaprabhu does not follow the formality, only the sannyasis should be the spiritual master. Anyone who knows the science of Krsna, he can be spiritual master.

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You mentioned something about Caitanya dancing with Haridasa?

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I also speak from the Bhagavad-gita and the students also speak from the Bhagavad-gita. The Bhagavad-gita is the same in all the centers. But it may be because I have little more experience I can explain them a little more nicely.

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I want to work, I want to work.

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Alexander and the thief.

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First thing is that calculation of Candra, moon planet, there are different views. Different scientists, they have different views. It is not a standard.

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You are all chanting sixteen rounds? No? (laughs).

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People are, in modern day, they cannot sit down in a place for a long time. Therefore so much traveling. The traveling business is very prosperous. Everyone wants to travel. They cannot fix, fix up.

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All the senses, they are, being material. So constitutionally, they cannot see God, they cannot hear of God, they cannot chant of the holy name of God. But it is possible. The sastra gives you indication.

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Sleeping, eating, mating or defending. It is simply due to my bodily consciousness these things are required. But when one is actually spiritually advanced, he has no such appreciation. Just like Lord Jesus Christ, he was crucified, but he never protested.

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Krsna does not say that you have to become like this, like that, like that, then you can serve Him. Does not say.

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He (one European gentleman) said that "I find in this temple there is God." "Why? Why you conclude like that?" "That in every temple I saw, that the god, deity, is doing something. But here I see the God is enjoying. He has nothing to do".

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Physical conception is temporary. The vibration conception is eternal.

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He (Jaya) doesn't mind that "I am going to be enemy of Krsna." The principle is that he's following. If Krsna says that "You become My enemy," I can become His enemy. That is bhakti-yoga. Yes. I want to satisfy Krsna.

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Devotee means he can act anything and everything for the Lord. That is bhakti-yoga. But under the direction. Not whimsically.

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Krsna consciousness means to have all kinds of knowledge. Not that we Krsna conscious people are being carried away by some sentiment. No. We have got philosophy, science, theology, ethics, morality, everything.

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Actually, these discussions of scripture is not to be acted unless there is relationship between the speaker and the audience. So audience means the disciples. Disciple means who accepts the discipline. Sisya.

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Actually we are serving money. Any why you are serving money? Because with the money we can satisfy our senses.

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Krsna consciousness, or devotional service, means purifying the senses. That's all. We haven't got to eradicate, get out of the sensual activities. No. We have simply to purify the senses.

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Man is rational. Man is animal, but rational animal. The special gift to man is that he can decide what is good, what is bad. He has got an extra knowledge than the animals.

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We have to follow the footprints of the acaryas. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. We cannot understand higher things unless we follow the footprint of great personalities.

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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.

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Even in his own apartment one can keep a picture of Krsna and offer a lamp, a candle, and one, I mean to say, incense. He will feel tremendously spiritually advanced.

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The sun is your witness, the moon is your witness, the day is your witness, the night is your witness, the sky is your witness. So how you can supersede the laws of the Lord?

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One does not know that this consciousness, that "I shall become the master," is the cause of his suffering. This philosophy has to be understood. Because constitutionally we are all servants.

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If every one of us, we become reinstated in the transcendental platform of loving Krsna, then our aspiration of mastership will be fulfilled. That is not known at present, but if we agree to serve Krsna, then gradually we'll see that Krsna is serving you.

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By the dictation of the senses we are committing sinful activities life after life; therefore we are in different grades of bodily presentation. Don't think that everyone is of the same standard.

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The Lord and the devotee, they are on the same status. Every one of them. Lord, His name, His form, His quality, His associates, His paraphernalia. Everything, they are absolute.

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Never think that service is perfect. That will keep you in the perfect stage. Yes. We should always think that our service is not complete.

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Of course, I am old man. I may die. If you have taken up this formula very nicely, then you will go on preaching, and it may be spread all over the world. Very simple thing.

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Maya is also serving Krsna, but there is no thanks.

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Our program is to love, to place your love in the proper place. That is our program. Everyone wants to love, but he is being frustrated on account of his love being misplaced.

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I want to be subordinate because my nature is to be subordinate. But I do not know. I prefer, I reject this subordination; I accept another subordination. But subordination is there.

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Lord Caitanya's mission - that the only lovable object is Krsna and His land Vrndavana.

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All these loving affairs are also temporary and they are not pure. They are simply a perverted reflection of the pure love that is existing between you and Krsna.

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Our loving object is Krsna. Somehow or other, we have forgotten Him. We don't trace the history when we forgot. That is useless labor. But we have forgotten, that is a fact. Now revive it. Here is reminder. So take opportunity.

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Anything, whatever you see or experience or try to understand, there must be some definition. So when you speak of God, do you know what is the definition of God?

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Is Rama synonymous with Jesus?

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When you are too much influenced with the modes of passion, you become lusty. And when your lust is not fulfilled, then you are angry.

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You cannot declare that "I am free. I am not subordinate." If you are wishing that "I don't wish to be subordinate, don't wish to bow down," that is your disease.

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Krsna consciousness movement means to approach the original person. The original person is not dead.

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Spiritual master is eternal.

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If Lord Jesus Christ says, "Through me," that means he's representative of God, and hari-nama is God. So either through the representative of God or God, the same thing.

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Lord Buddha said, "Meditate," but the followers of the Lord Buddha could not. They failed. We are giving new light, that "Meditation will fail. You take this".

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The dancing has got great value; that, if you dance with us, you'll feel. It is not that some crazy fellows are dancing. No. The most intelligent persons, they are dancing.

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People are not inclined to surrender; therefore he has to learn so many things.

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Transcendental. "You are beyond".

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Maya can cover the minute particles of the spirit soul, but maya cannot cover the supreme whole.

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When the material concept of life covers me, we cannot understand what is God. We say God is dead. So we have to uncover our eyes from this illusion. Then you'll see directly God.

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If you are serious to understand, we should submit our doubtful questions and then understand.

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You have to fix up your mind not only thinking of Krsna, but also working for Krsna, feeling for Krsna. That is complete meditation. That is called samadhi. Your mind cannot go out.

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Function of soul is Krsna consciousness, working in Krsna consciousness.

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Whatever department of knowledge or whatever department of activities you are engaged in, it doesn't matter. But if you can find out the Supreme by your pursuit of knowledge, that is your perfection.

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You can establish relationship with Krsna any way. There are twelve kinds of rasas, humor.

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There are six points of surrender unto Krsna. One point of surrender is to believe that "Krsna will protect me." Just like a small child has got full faith in his mother: "My mother is there. There is no danger." Confident. I have seen it.

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Eko bahunam vidadhati kaman. The meaning is that one living force is supplying all the demands of all other living entities.

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Lord Jesus Christ, he gave information of God. Although he was crucified, he never changed his opinion.

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One who is inquisitive to understand the Absolute Truth, he requires a spiritual master.

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If you are anxious to serve Krsna, that is the real asset.

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A sannyasi cannot meet his wife. A sannyasi is forbidden to go home.

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Don't remain in this darkness. Just transfer yourself to the kingdom of light.

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Darwin has taken the idea of evolution from this Padma Purana. You won't find any philosophy, any doctrine in the world which is not found in the Vedic literature.

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Aryans means those who are advanced.

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We shudder as soon as we hear that we have to become servant of God.

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Dependence is not bad if there is dependence on the proper place.

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We have not manufactured a new type of religious sect or method of philosophy.

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Prabhupada? How do we explain to impersonalists inductively the existence of the Personality of Godhead?

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Prabhupada, can you explain mahamaya and yogamaya? Was Arjuna under yogamaya or mahamaya?

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Krsna consciousness movement means that we have to train our senses to satisfy Krsna. That's all.

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Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena. Simply you have to prepare your eyes, your mind in that way. Here is a television box within your heart. This is the perfection of yoga. It is not you have to purchase one machine, or television set. It is there.

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Christ consciousness and Krsna consciousness, the words are so similar. Please combine the words, explain how the words came to us.

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Prabhupada, sometimes there may be differences between what is love of Godhead between Christian and Moslem, Moslem and Buddhist, Buddhist, Hindu. They may quarrel at what is love of Godhead.

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While we are chanting our rounds, or while we are chanting out loud in kirtana, is it all right to be engaging our mind in thinking?

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There are so many ducks. As soon as somebody goes there with some little food, oh, they go gather: "quack! quack! quack! quack!".

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When you understand your actual position, then your activities actually begin.

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Whatever you see in yourself, that is there in God. So God cannot be impersonal, because we are all persons.

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Krsna is all-attractive. Krsna is beautiful. Krsna has so many activities. The whole Vedic literature is full of Krsna's activities.

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Mind is the vehicle for being attached.

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How you can think of Krsna unless you develop love for Krsna?

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What is the difference between bhava and prema?

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I would like you to explain the origin and significance of what you, what they call the Jagannatha car festival.

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If a person who is working in the factory, if you stop sex, he cannot work. And when he's unable to enjoy sex life, then he takes intoxication. This is material life. So energy must be there. Here in the material world the energy is sex.

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Krsna consciousness movement means to approach the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. This is Krsna consciousness. Directly.

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Ten offenses to avoid while chanting the maha-mantra.

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Within six months you'll become God - very foolish conclusion.

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Simply chanting, dancing, and eating nice sweetballs, kachori. So su-sukham and kartum avyayam. While performing, while practicing this process, it is very pleasurable, and avyayam.

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Take to this Krsna consciousness movement and be happy in this life and next life. If you can finish your loving affairs to Krsna in this life, then you have done cent percent.

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Initiation means beginning of the activities.

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This initiation means the third stage of Krsna consciousness. Those who are being initiated, they should remember that they have to follow the rules and regulations.

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Radharani dasi means you are maidservant of Radharani. Don't think that you are maidservant of this world.

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Ten offenses to avoid while chanting the maha-mantra - 1 to 5.

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Ten offenses to avoid while chanting the maha-mantra - 6 to 10.

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The logic of the frog in the well.

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Mr Chakravarti and the circus.

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Hearing is our main business. You are hearing. If you go out from this temple you will also hear. Or the sound is always going on. If we do not want to hear, the hearing is going on.

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Try to spread this Krsna consciousness movement. And this is your sadhana, execution of austerity, penance. Because you have to meet so many opposing elements. You have to fight with them. That is tapasya.

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There is an instructive story about a saintly person blessing, "You may either live or die".

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Spirit soul is evergreen. The body is changing. That is to be understood. Body is changing. That everyone can understand.

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Without understanding our real position we are perplexed with these all worldly problems, which are all false.

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Gopis, they are not conditioned souls. They are liberated spirits.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This knowledge one must have. Then he'll be cheerful in all cases and he'll be interested simply in Krsna consciousness. There is nothing to be lamented for the body, either alive or dead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like we keep conchshell in the Deities' room. Conchshell is considered very pure, transcendental; otherwise, how we can keep before Deity and you blow conchshell?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In Ayur-veda, cow dung dried and burned into ashes is used as toothpowder. It is very antiseptic toothpowder.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My spiritual master found Me a great fool.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Mayavadi theory is that the ultimate spirit is impersonal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Spiritually, eternally, the fragments are fragments, and the Supreme is Supreme. Krsna is the Supreme, and we are fragmental parts. We are fragments eternally.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In Christian theology, the individual goes to the church and prays God, "Give us our daily bread." Why he's asking God?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This voidism, impersonalism, they are artificial ways of negating the perplexing variegatedness of this material existence.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Utsahad dhairyan niscayat. The first principle is one must be very enthusiastic. He must believe that Krsna has said that, na me bhaktah pranasyati, "My devotee will never be vanquished." So "Let me become Krsna's devotee sincerely".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Jayananda looks like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (laughter) Yes. He was tall and stout and strong, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (laughing) Yes. Very good.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our activities are conditioned, not free. But you can attain a life of freedom, life of unlimited energy, unlimited happiness, unlimited bliss. There is possibility. This is not story or fiction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not that because you are born in a very rich family, you'll be immune from diseases. It is not that you'll not become old. It is not that you'll be saved from the troubles of birth or you'll be saved from the troubles of death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Any method we manufacture, we discover, to conquer over the laws of material nature, it is backed by another set of dangerous things. That is the law of nature. That is not the way to get out of this material pangs of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness persons, they are not after will-o'-the-wisp, phantasmagoria. No. They're actually making progress to the concrete Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are chanting, we are hearing, we are dancing, we're enjoying. Why? Just to detach our life from all nonsense things and attach to Krsna. This is the process. This is Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My policy is following the footstep of Rupa Gosvami. He says that somehow or other, let them become first of all attached to Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are so many stories of Lord Caitanya converting so many rascals. By just His presence, they would chant Hare Krsna. How can we get His mercy so that we can help the people around us to chant Hare Krsna?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What is the difference between an incarnation and an avatara?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In Chapter Four in Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is said that Arjuna was present at the speaking of Bhagavad-gita to the sun-god so many years ago. What position did he have there?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prabhupada, when I'm serving you sometimes I feel very nice, but then when I think of how bad and imperfect this service is, I feel terrible. Which is right to feel?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are in maya's kingdom, so maya is strong very here, but if we catch Krsna very strongly, maya cannot do anything. Yes. That we should be fixed up in catching Krsna very tightly. Then there is no falldown.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Is taking prasadam one of the exchanges of love, where we accept food from a lover?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is an instructive story about a saintly person blessing, "You may either live or die".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I can also pass away at any moment. That is nature's law. Nobody can check it. So that is not very astonishing, but my appeal to you on this auspicious day of the departure of my Guru Maharaja, that at least to some extent you have understood the essence.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means to become Vaisnava and feel for the suffering humanity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have come forward to help me. I shall request you all that I shall go away, but you shall live. Don't give up pushing on this movement, and you'll be blessed by Lord Caitanya and His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Prabhupada.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is little foothold of this movement. So on this occasion of my spiritual master's departure, as I am trying to execute his will, similarly, I shall also request you to execute the same order through my will. I am an old man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is directly offering the spiritual platform which is above the mode of goodness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So this bluffing, these cheating things are going on. And because we are unable to cheat and bluff, nobody cooperates with us. They want to be cheated and bluffed. That is the business.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How one is spiritually advanced will be tested how he has acquired all the good qualities. Not that a yogi talking with a cigarette in hand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How one can, unless one is spiritually advanced, how he can sacrifice his hard-earned money for Krsna? Everyone thinks, "Oh, I have earned this money working so hard. Why shall I spend it for Krsna? Let me keep it".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that there are three planetary system, upper, lower and middle.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vrndavana, that is ninety miles off from New Delhi. The atmosphere is almost the same. So, if I could live at Vrndavana, I could live at New Delhi also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Generally, at least in, say, three thousand years ago, all the inhabitants of India were strictly followers of Vedic principles. After the advent of Lord Buddha, a different religious system developed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now, if you cooperate, then I can change the whole thing in your country. This Krsna consciousness movement is so nice. Provided you cooperate.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am old man, 73 years old; I may die at any moment. But I am now assured my movement will go on. These boys will carry it. My mission is in that way successful.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

From our practical experience we can say we got this chance. We got this chance. We got very nice parents. And I was born in a family, a very pure family.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One boy, he went out of home and mixed with yogis for several years. Then, after some time, he came to his village, and all the friends and relatives gathered: "Oh, you have been so many years with yogis. What you have learned?".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By your chanting some public is satisfied - no, we are not concerned with that. He may be satisfied or not satisfied. But if I chant in the proper way, then my predecessors, the acaryas, will be satisfied. That is my business, finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should be ready always that this "ka-ka-ka," this material vibration, this lecturing, this planning, at any moment can be finished. Chant Hare Krsna. If you are finished, then you go to Vaikuntha immediately.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness practice is turning this material body into spiritual body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are advanced in Krsna consciousness, they have to work for Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everything is there in Krsna consciousness. We want music, there is music. We want dancing, there is dancing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee may seem to be living in some place which is far from Vrndavana, but he's living in Vrndavana. That's a fact.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee has no demand. He simply engages himself to serve Krsna for the satisfaction of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Yoga system is not that, that you go on doing all nonsense in sense gratification and simply sit down meditation. This is simply colossal hoax. It has no meaning.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you actually connect yourself with God, then you feel yourself many millions of times satisfied than enjoying this material world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By nature we are living entities, we must act. It is not possible to stop activities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You keep Krsna on the mind. The maya, darkness will never be able to come. That is the first-class yoga system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have to get out from this entanglement by this yoga, or perfect yoga of Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The whole yoga system means to make the mind our friend.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Padma Purana is meant for the persons who are in the modes of goodness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If God is not a person, then how His sons become persons?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You cannot see God by your endeavor because your senses are all nonsense. You have to purify your senses and you have to wait for the time when God will be pleased to reveal Himself before you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is the purpose. Any religious system. If it teaches you how to love God, then it is first-class. Otherwise it is useless.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sinner is illusioned. He's mad. If you hate him, then how you can deliver him? Therefore those who are devotees, those who are really servant of God, they have no hate for anyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Temple is the only secluded place for this age. You cannot go in a secluded place in a forest.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srimad-Bhagavatam is the supreme jnana-yoga and bhakti-yoga combined.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you simply hear sincerely and submissively, then you will understand Krsna. Krsna will reveal to you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even if you don't do anything, if you simply restrain your sex life, you become a very powerful man. People do not know the secret. So anything you do, if you want to do it with determination, you have to stop sex life. That is the secret.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nobody is better meditator than these boys. They are simply concentrating on Krsna. Their whole business is Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are anxious, they are full of anxiety because they have captured something nonpermanent.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Yoga practice should be performed to understand Krsna, that's all. Or to make your lost relationship with Krsna reestablished. That is yoga practice.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Where do you find void? This void philosophy is another illusion. There cannot be any void.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That planet, Krsna planet, Goloka Vrndavana, that is self-illuminated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If sun can penetrate within your room, cannot Krsna penetrate within your heart and room and every corner?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whole misconsciousness has come into existence due to this body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The more you can reduce your sleep and eating, you keep good health, especially for spiritual purposes. But not artificially. But when you advance, naturally you'll not feel, just like Raghunatha dasa Gosvami.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To fix up the mind means to keep your mind in Krsna, then finished, all yoga. You are perfect yogi.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Motionless means, when you are fixed up in Krsna, there is no more material motion. That is motionless. This material propensities will not anymore disturb you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Enjoyment alone is not possible. Enjoyment means two - Krsna and you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you are in Krsna consciousness, your perfection is guaranteed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just see, a sparrow is trying to dry up the ocean. This is called determination.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you commit mistake, by taking less food, that mistake is not bad.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That endeavor, that "I shall go and preach Krsna consciousness," is the best service to the Lord.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the only method. That you chant loudly and hear. Hare Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Gosvami is not a hereditary title. It is a qualification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are many commentators, they deviate from Krsna. I do not know why. That is their nefarious motive.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You should take sympathy with every living being, that he is part and parcel of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In one sense the heat is also fire, the illumination is also fire. Similarly this material energy is also Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you love Krsna, then your universal love is counted. Otherwise it is nonsense.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Maha-Visnu is plenary portion of the plenary portion of Krsna. Krsna is the original.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who is in Krsna consciousness, he's already on the Brahman platform. That means liberated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here is the crucial test of yoga system - if you can concentrate your mind on the form of Visnu.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the only yoga system, bhakti-yoga system, that one can practice for quick result and self-realization and liberation even in this life. He hasn't got to wait for another life. It is so nice, Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who has concentrated his mind, someway or other in Krsna, he has already attained the perfection of yoga. This is the substance of Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who is trying to concentrate his mind on the imperson, or voidness, it is very difficult and troublesome.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When we accept any self-realization process, it is practically declaring war against the illusory energy, maya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you keep divine association, then your consciousness is made divine.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God is pure, and His kingdom is also pure, and anyone who wants to enter there, he must be pure also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you simply follow these four principles, then you become immediately uncontaminated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti-yoga is the highest platform of yoga principles.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you have got any, I mean to say, affection for the spiritual master, then you should finish your business in this life so that he may not come again to reclaim you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Every conditioned soul has natural inclination. Pravrtti. But one has to control that. That is human life. If you put yourself in the waves of natural inclination, that is not human life. You have to restrict.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you absorb your mind with Krsna then it is samadhi.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have got the tongue and you have got the ear. Chant Hare Krsna and use this instrument to hear. Finished. All perfection is there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want to know how God is great then you have to take reference of this Vedic literature. No other literature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When we speak of service, there is no motive. Service is love.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we want to revive our original position, we must be placed again into that service attitude. That is the perfect cure. Otherwise we shall suffer pain and God will be suffering pain on account of us.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without knowing the supreme position of the Lord. Cheaply they select God. God has become so cheap. "I am God, you are God." What is the meaning of God? Do you know? If I am God, you are God, then what is the meaning of God?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Other yoga system there must be mixture of bhakti. But bhakti-yoga is unadulterated devotion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Please engage me in your service, that's all. That should be the demand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am giving them the right information - that service you have to render. But instead of serving your senses, please serve Radha-Krsna, then you'll be happy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee in love, wants to love Krsna in His original form.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless you accept God there is no question of bhakti-yoga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I had no desire to accept the sannyasa order and preach, but my spiritual master wanted it. I am not very much inclined, but he forced me. That is also done. That is special favor.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want to love Krsna, there is no check. There is no check. The road is open. Simply you have to become sincere. That's all. Then Krsna will clear the way. And if there is no sincerity, then Krsna's maya is there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is like this, that whatever qualification you have got, that is sufficient. You begin with that qualification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is my personal experience. In the beginning, when my Guru Maharaja ordered me, I thought it that "I shall first of all become very rich man; then I shall preach".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't worry. Krsna will give you better place.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You just give service to Krsna, impressing people that these Krsna conscious people are not hippies.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In some hotels, that "Such and such persons are not admitted." No. We cannot. We admit everyone. Our mission is to elevate persons from down state of life to the highest state of life. So everyone is in down state.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I wish to narrate one short story, that one man, one boy, was attracted by a beautiful girl. So the girl does not agree, and the boy is persistent.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Alexander and the Cynic.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As Krsna will be satisfied, everyone will be satisfied. So take to this Krsna consciousness service by hearing, by speaking, by remembering, by giving actually service, by worshiping, by making friendship, and after all, everything for Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Take to this Krsna consciousness service by hearing, by speaking, by remembering, by giving actually service, by worshiping, by making friendship, and after all, everything for Krsna. That is perfection.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That was my qualification, whatever you may say. I was simply asking, "When Guru Maharaja will speak? When?" & I will sit down & go on hearing, & I will understand or not understand-others will disperse-I will not disperse. That he marked.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

From my life I experience, when I was very little child six or seven years old, I was very much fond of Krsna. And I got the opportunity of this two things. Although my father was not very rich, but he was pure Vaisnava.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Next book is coming, Nectar of Devotion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we vibrate sound Krsna, then I am immediately in contact with Krsna, and if Krsna is whole spirit, then immediately I become spiritualized.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am changing my body daily every moment. Your childhood body and this body is not the same. You have changed your body, but that does not mean you have, you are different person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are begging you, "Don't spoil your life. Please take this mantra. Chant wherever you like." It has no hard and fast rules you have to follow.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should love God without any cause. Just like we go to temple, church, with a motive. We go there: "O God, give us our daily bread. I have come to You for my bread." That is not love of God. That is love of bread.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bilvamangala Thakura voluntarily made himself blind.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't be disappointed, don't be confused. Your life has value. You, in this life, you can realize your eternal life, eternal blissful life of knowledge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My spiritual master took this risk, preaching work, and he inspired us also to do that preaching work. And we are also imploring you to take this preaching work.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A literature presented to the people, to the public for reading, which are even grammatically incorrect, but because there is glorification of the Lord, it can produce revolution. It can purify the whole human society.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't make it a stool society. You see? Make it a honey society. At least, give chance, those who are seeking after honey. Don't cheat people. So they'll come.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The whole world is infected with the maya's influence, and this Krsna consciousness movement, Hare Krsna mantra, is disinfectant. It is sure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have begun chanting. Maybe there are offenses, but if I continue, Krsna will be pleased to place me on the transcendental platform when I shall relish what is this chanting Hare Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Citta means...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not an "ism" just to make some temporary appeasement. It is the ultimate solution of all the problems of life, this Krsna consciousness movement. And this chanting is pavement of the heart, where you'll receive this message.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you have got always within your heart Krsna, by sound or by mental thoughts, by work, some way or other, by reading books, any way, if simply you keep your consciousness in Krsna, then your life is successful. That's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am also obliged to them (my students) because they are helping me in this missionary work. At the same time, I shall request them all to become spiritual master. Every one of you should be spiritual master next.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If for fifty years one chants simply Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, he is sure to become perfect. There is no doubt about it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are coming to the touch of Krsna consciousness and initiated to execute, they should be very determined that "In this life we shall make a solution. No more. No more coming again." That should be our determination.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Any nonsense can come to me, and I shall prove that there is God; that is my Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee should not be angry. But that does not mean that he has lost his capacity of anger. No. Everything is there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First birth, then growth, then to stay, then to produce by-product, then dwindling, then vanish. This is the law of material nature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you get this human form of life, there is responsibility. You have to chalk out. Here is a chance you can become Krsna conscious and make your life solve all problems. If not, then again go to the cycle of birth and death again, 8,400,000.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Before that moment (death) comes, one should be very dexterous to realize Krsna conscious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whatever we are seeing, animate or inanimate, there is control of the Supreme Lord.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Two energies are working in this material world: the spiritual energy and the material energy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The godless men, those who are of opinions that this material energy is working automatically, they are fools. That is the explanation of Isopanisad. Everything is being controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Lord Buddha propagated, "Yes, there is no God. But what I say, you follow." "Yes, sir." But he is God. This is cheating. Yes. They do not believe in God, but they believe in Buddha, and Buddha is God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Lord Buddha, he cheated the demons. Why he cheated? Sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He was very compassionate. God is always sympathetic to all living entities because everyone is His son.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna, although He is always in Goloka Vrndavana, He has nothing to do. He is simply enjoying in the company of His associates, the gopis and the cowherds boy, His mother, His father. Free, completely free.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Under the spell of maya we are thinking that this kicking of maya, this slapping of maya, this thrashing of maya is very nice. You see? This is called maya. And as soon as you get into Krsna consciousness, then Krsna takes care of you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Culture of knowledge means spiritual knowledge. That is real knowledge. And advancement of knowledge for comforts or to protect this material body, that is the culture of nescience.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why there are dissimilarities? One man is born millionaires; another man is born, he cannot even have full meals twice a day, although he's struggling very hard. Why this discrimination.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here it is said that the supreme predominating Deity is Krsna, in the spiritual, in the topmost planet in the spiritual sky. This is material sky. In the material sky this is one of the universes. There are millions and trillions of universes.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It was the request of Radharani to Krsna, "There in Vrndavana You were a cowherd boy, and We used to meet in the jungles, in the bushes. So I want to take You there. Then I will be happy".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am lower than you. I am the lowest of the all creatures. I am simply trying to execute the order of my spiritual master. That's all. That should be the business of everyone. Try best. Try your best to execute the higher order.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because in our house, my father used to receive so many sannyasis, but some of them were not very to the standard, and due to my association with college friends, younger days, I lost my faith practically, although I was born in a Vaisnava family.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I was maintaining myself by selling these books for one year. There was no friend, and I was living in apartment with great difficulty. Still, the whole, I mean to say, stock, and my typewriter, my tape recorder - everything was stolen.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement, for the first time, India is giving something to them. It is not a begging propaganda; it is giving propaganda. Because they are hankering after this substance, Krsna consciousness. They have enjoyed enough of this material consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In order to mitigate this troublesome position (to meditate on impersonal feature), some of their acaryas, Sankaracarya, has said that "You imagine a form. There is no real form, but you imagine some form".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The beginning of real human civilization is observance of the institute of four varnas and four asramas. That is the beginning of civilized life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mayavadi philosophy means they accept Krsna as God, but He has assumed a body which is given by this material nature, as it is given to us. That is their policy. They count Krsna an ordinary man, on the same level. But that is not a fact.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to show our example, how we are becoming Krsna conscious, how we are worshiping Krsna, how we are going on the street for vibrating Krsna's name, transcendental name. Now we are distributing Krsna's prasadam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is expanding by their help. I am alone, but they are helping me. They are my gurus. I am not their guru, because they are helping me in executing my Guru Maharaja's order.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement is to create sadhus. You have to cooperate. This incarnation of Krsna, Krsna and nama, Krsna's name, is the same: "There is no difference between Krsna's name and Krsna." Krsna has already come by this Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So far I am concerned, I don't take any credit, but I am confident that because I am presenting the Vedic knowledge as it is, without any adulteration, it is being effective. That is my contribution.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When our eyes are anointed with love of God, we can see Him everywhere.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want to learn this Krsna consciousness movement, we have got enough books. You can scientifically and philosophically study.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am very insignificant. I have no capacity. My business is only to convey the message of Krsna. Just like a postal peon; his business is to convey the letter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja ordered me that "You go and preach this philosophy to the Western world." So under his order I came, and I presented Bhagavad-gita As It Is, as you have read.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Simply wonderful.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As living entities, we are eternal. So temporary business is not our business. Our business should be eternal because we are eternal. And that eternal business is how to serve Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are eternally related with Krsna. At the present moment it is simply forgotten, suppressed. Therefore we are thinking that we have no relationship with Krsna. But that is not the fact. Because we are part and parcel of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you will be strong enough, the eyes will say, "Please take me to the cinema," and you will say, "No, you cannot go to the cinema." Then you are ruler.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You cannot stop war and go on killing animals. That is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If people are trained to become Krsna conscious, then automatically everyone will be happy. Any one who will join, one, anyone who will hear, anyone who will cooperate - everyone will be happy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You know, your religion is not the only one which teaches this particular precept.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How many followers have you got now throughout the world or can you not count?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Fifteen days after Krsna's birth, Radharani appeared. Radharani is Krsna's pleasure potency.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The loving affairs of Radha and Krsna is not ordinary, these material loving affairs, although it appears like that.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One can be out of distress when he approaches Visnu.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This evening, we are talking about Radhastami. We are trying to understand the chief potency of Krsna. Radharani is the pleasure potency of Krsna. As we understand from Vedic literature, Krsna has many varieties of potencies.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If one has to give up everything material for Brahman realization, do you think that Param Brahman, the Supreme Brahman, can enjoy anything material? No. Krsna's enjoyment is nothing material.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Radharani is hari-priya, very dear to Krsna. So if we approach Krsna through Radharani, through the mercy of Radharani, then it becomes very easy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The more you feel separation from Krsna, you should understand that you are advancing. Don't try to see Krsna artificially. Be advanced in separation feeling, and then it will be perfect. That is the teachings of Lord Caitanya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should adore, we should worship Bhaktivinoda Thakura, because in the modern age he reintroduced the disciplic succession.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

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.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One has to purify his existentional life; otherwise, if he does not purify his existence, then he has to transmigrate from one body to another, and that is material existence.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nature, under the order of Krsna, is giving chances to us, giving chance to us to come out of the entanglement of birth and death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without becoming devata he'll be entangled. He'll be entangled. He'll have to. He has to continue this four process of birth, death, disease, and old age. That he has to.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We know that gambling is allowed on the kali-puja day. We know. Especially northern Indian people, mercantile people, they take it, advantage, gambling.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are different duties of the varna and asrama. A brahmana has got his duty, a ksatriya has got his duty. Now, a ksatriya's duty is fighting. So how this fighting can be utilized as perfection of life?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now you can say that "Arjuna was a fighter, and there was great need of the Kuruksetra fighting, so he satisfied Krsna, but I am a poor man, I am not Ksatriya, not (indistinct)." That doesn't matter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do you read? So if you don't read, then you will feel restless: "Oh, let me go from Japan to India, from India to Japan." You are restless because you don't read. I am laboring so hard for you, but you don't take advantage.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Krsna. That is my success.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why I die. I do not like to die, but death is compulsory. I do not like to be old man, but still, it is compulsory. I do not like to suffer from disease, but it is compulsory. These are to be solved.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That's my credit. I did not like to take the position of Krsna. I remained a servant of Krsna, and I spoke what Krsna said. That's all. This is my secret.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are 24-hours engaged in rendering loving devotional service to the Lord. To such person Krsna gives intelligence, not others.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is the fact. It is a revolutionary movement. We are challenging everyone that "You are all set of asses and cows and animals, because you have no knowledge beyond this body".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Shah Jahan.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Simply sit down and hear about Krsna. That's all. But that hearing must be from a person who is realized. Then it will act.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Once washed off, now keep yourself in that washed-off condition. That is required. So that will be possible if you keep yourself constantly in touch with Krsna by hearing about Him. That's all. You have to remain uncontaminated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If your children do not become Vaisnava in the future, then it is a great, I meant to say, fault on your part. So you should be very cautious, careful, that children are not going astray, they are becoming actually Krsna conscious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prajalpa means talking nonsense. Just like as soon as the crows, they gather together, caw caw caw caw.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As long as you are reading, the sun is unable to take your life. It is not possible for the sun to take your life. So if you constantly read, then where is the opportunity of sun's taking your life?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The frogs ... You have got experience during rainy season. They use their tongue very nicely. They sing ka-ka-kan, ka-ka-kan, ka-ka-kan.. (laughter) Yes. But what is the result of singing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who does not hear about the brave activities of Krsna, they are satisfied with teeny activities of this material world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is an instructive story about a saintly person blessing, "You may either live or die".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Indians who are outside India, they have got a special duty.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In order to enjoy this material world we have come here. Every one of us who is existing within this material world has a desire to lord it over the material nature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This institute, Krsna consciousness movement has spread because the students who have joined us, they have given aural reception, by hearing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am laboring so hard that before I leave this body, I may give you some books who you can enjoy after my death. So utilize it. Read every sloka nicely, try to understand the meaning, discuss amongst yourselves.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is said that one who is learned, he does not lament either for the living or for the dead body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Well, his question it is why must we do something to become God when we're already God?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Human society must be divided into four classes of men. Just like in our body, there are four different departments: the brain department, the hand department, the belly department, and the leg department. You require all these.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Bhagavad-gita, God says that "All living entities are My part and parcels." He's undergoing a great struggle for life under the bodily impression that he is this body, but this kind of understanding is animal civilization.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the English dictionary the name of Krsna as stated "a Hindu god." But actually, that is not the fact. Krsna is the name of God. Krsna means the all-attractive, all-good.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that each and every name of God is as powerful as God. Because God is Absolute, therefore there is no difference between His name, form, pastimes.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our philosophy is that we prepare nice foodstuff and we offer to Krsna, and after He has eaten, then we take it. That is our philosophy. We don't take anything which is not offered to Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He wants to know if you believe that the Virgin Mary who is the mother of Jesus is the same as Parvati.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He wants to know more about those who are asleep and those who are awake in our eyes. What is a sleeper and who is awake?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is meant for taking into account of the nonperishable. So it is the movement of the soul, not the movement as political movement, social movement or religious movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The thief who wanted to plunder child Krsna's jewels.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He (a thief) saw Krsna the same way as he was informed by the Bhagavata reader. Then he saw, "Oh, oh, you are so nice boy, Krsna." So he began to flatter. He thought that "Flattering, I shall take all the jewels".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One should be intelligent enough to understand or to hear katha of Krsna. Simply you have to do this. Just like you are all sitting here. It doesn't require that you have to pass M.A. examination, Ph.D. examination. God has given you the ear.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Motorcar civilization will be finished within another hundred years. It has begun, say, for the last hundred years, and after a hundred years, when... The scientists say the petroleum will be finished within fifty years or like that, so, say hundred years.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are getting the sword one after another, simply by hearing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have to take this sword of Krsna consciousness. Then you become free. The knot is cut by this sword. Now how we can get this sword? That process is described here that you simply, with faith, you try to hear.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mr Chakravarti and the circus.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the present moment we are jiva-bhutah. We are thinking that I am this body, but when you come to the platform that I am Brahman, I am part and parcel of Krsna, or God, then my duty changes. That is called bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you are going on as a happening program to the church, to the temple, or to the mosque, but there is no spontaneous attraction for hearing about God, then it is simply labor, simply waste of time, that's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are trying to spread this Krsna consciousness movement for total benefit of the human society.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the problem at the present moment. People are not educated about the vital force of this body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

After getting my telephone, I was disturbed always. Some of my students asking, phoning me, cling, cling, and "Swamiji, how you are feeling?" At twelve o'clock at night.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In our society, you are all Godbrothers, Godsisters. Or those who are married, they are like mothers. So you should be very careful. Then you will remain dhira, sober.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our relationship is just like sometimes there is wind and some straws gather together, and as soon as the wind is finished the straws are again strewn everywhere.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I may control my disciples, but I am controlled by somebody else, by my spiritual master. So nobody can say that "I am the absolute controller".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not that one has to become very learned scholar to become a preacher. Simply it requires enthusiasm, "My Lord is so great, so kind, so beautiful, so wonderful. So I must speak something about my Lord".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This book, Nectar of Devotion, Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, if you read regularly, try to understand, this means you are associating with Srila Rupa Gosvami directly. And if you act accordingly, then you are serving their lotus feet.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got practical experience how a great institution was lost by whimsical ways. Without carrying out the order of the spiritual master, they manufactured something and the whole thing was lost.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna has sent me so many spiritual masters.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to see what is favorable to Krsna, not sense gratification, not favorable to me. Or to my country, or to my society. No self-interest. Only Krsna's interest. That is bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we actually serious to get out of these material clutches, then we should hear regularly about Krsna from a pure devotee of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When intelligence is used for developing Krsna consciousness, that is fortune. So we can set up our own fortune or misfortune. The fortune means that we must be serious after hearing about Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As we are active in the karma, karmi life, so bhakti life is also activity. It is not sitting down idly or gossiping. One must find out some job to serve Krsna. That is bhakti life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sevanam means activity. Sevanam does not mean sit down idle, inert. No. As soon as seva... Seva means activity. One has to preach, one has to write, one has to do this, do that, cook, offer the prasadam, everything. Seva, activity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Forget good government for millions of years, unless you establish this varnasrama-dharma.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business is not to be attracted by the glimmer of this material world, but to be attracted by Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our purpose is not to construct big, big buildings. That is required for propaganda work, for giving shelter to people. But our main business is how to turn the face of the bewildered conditioned souls towards Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vaidhi-bhakti, that is apprenticeship. Real bhakti, para-bhakti, that is raganuga-bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Going to the forest is not the main purpose of life. Because in the forest there are many animals. Does it mean they are advanced in spiritual life? That is called markata-vairagya. Markata-vairagya means "monkey renunciation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now, everyone is trying not to die, everyone is trying not to become old, everyone is trying not to be dead, meet death. This is natural. Because, by nature, we are not subjected to these things.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here is the recommendation. Try to become Krsna conscious. And then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vaisnava is very kind-hearted, merciful, because he feels for others. He feels for others in this sense that he knows what he is. He sees every living entity as part and parcel of God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who have realized the Absolute Truth, they have concluded that the matter has no permanent existence and spirit soul has no annihilation. These two things would be understood.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Every living entity has accepted a material body. Therefore they are called dehi. So dehinam, every dehi, because he has accepted this material body, he's always full of anxiety.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Real renunciation means you have to give up the andha-kupa life and take shelter of Krsna, harim asrayeta. If you take shelter of Krsna, then you can give up this, all this "ism" life. Otherwise, it is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are trying to educate people to understand the value of life, the value of spiritual life especially, Bhagavata.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The motor accident dying in America is not very astonishment, if one is little slow, immediately: tarak taka tak.

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If you hear about Krsna, then you should know that you are touching Krsna by aural reception.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Be Krsna consciousness. Just become a devotee of Krsna. Offer your respects..." You have to offer your respect to anyone. You are not supreme. You have to flatter somebody to get some service. That is an... Even if you get nice position.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is educating people to become first-class yogi. Think of Krsna. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare - Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. It is not bogus thing. It is actual fact. You can become yogi.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mirabhai challenged Rupa Gosvami, "I know that only Krsna is purusa here, and everyone is woman".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As we have understood by the parampara system from my Guru Maharaja, so any of my students who will understand, he will keep it running on. This is the process.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you take the lift of bhakti, then immediately you come in contact with Krsna directly, instead of going by step by step by step.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Any systematic religious process is to be understood: "It is given by God." Man cannot make any religious system. So this Aryan system, progressive system, is catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Parantapa means...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our policy is not bhoga-tyaga. Our policy is satisfaction of Krsna. That is pure bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Gopis were approached: "Oh, Krsna is sick. They want, oh, dust of...?" Immediately: "Please take. Please take." She did not care that "We are going to hell by offering our dust of feet on the head of Krsna. Never mind. We shall go. Krsna will be happy".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This devotional service is the pushing process. Pushing process. And as soon as the energy comes, then automatically: clak clak clak. No more pushing. Automatically. This pushing process is required.

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Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami. These verses, Brahma-samhita, it was composed by Lord Brahma. Therefore in the Vedic literature this is called Samhita. Samhita means part of the Vedic literature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srimad-Bhagavatam is the original explanation of Vedanta-sutra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we want to understand Krsna, then we have to follow. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mrgari the hunter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Out of many, many thousands and millions of people, one takes to the scientific institute of varnasrama-dharma. That means followers of the Vedas, strictly.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In our Krsna conscious society, if there is no mutual cooperation, then it will fall down immediately.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You are lamenting because a few yards of land has been taken away from your country as Pakistan, but if you spread this Krsna consciousness movement, the whole world will become Hindustan. There is such potency; I give you my direct perception.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One day the king asked him, "Gopala, what is the difference between you and an ass?" So he immediately measured the distance from the king. He said, "It is three feet only, sir. The difference is only three feet." So everyone began to laugh.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This present edition, Bhagavad-gita As It Is, is now published by Macmillan Company, the biggest publisher in the world. And we are doing very nice. We published this Bhagavad-gita As It Is in 1968, in small edition. It was selling like anything.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My only request is that you take some interest, active interest in this movement, try to understand it, and if you cooperate, the whole human society will be happy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We do not think in terms of that simply my brother is good, I am good. And all bad. This kind of narrow, crippled consciousness we hate, we kick out.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Somebody questioned me somewhere that: "Why you have come to America?" Why not I shall come? I am servant of God, and this is kingdom of God. Why shall I not come? It is artificial to check me. If you check me, then you'll commit sinful activities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As I am puppet of my Guru Maharaja, if you become my puppet, then that is success. Our success is there when we become puppet of the predecessor.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We can convert the crows into swans. That is our philosophy. One who was crow is now swimming like swan. That we can do.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for giving food, means diet and medicine, to the soul. The medicine is the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One must be qualified to receive the knowledge. Krsna is helping us from within. He is giving us knowledge from within. Without also. So without, He's spiritual master. And within He's Supersoul, caitya-guru. In this way, we are getting knowledge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Hearing's so important. Even amongst the Mayavadi school, they hear Vedanta-sutra. We also hear, but we hear, hear real Vedanta-sutra. Because they falsely interpret, their hearing is spoiled, but we don't interpret. We hear actually.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What is the subject matter? The subject matter is Krsna. We are not hearing here any market report. What is the price of this, what is the price of this share or that share. No. We are hearing about Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The lion asked the jackal: "So who are you, sir?" "I am sent by God to rule over you." "Oh?" So they began to worship him as God, as leader. Then one day other jackals, they were crying, "Wa, wa," but the jackals cannot stop. If others jackals cry.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So if we simply become renouncer, that will not help us. Then again we shall become enjoyer, so-called enjoyer. That is like pendulum, balancing, tak, tak, this way, this way.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna was doing everything; still he was to fight. He was inducing, "You must fight." Neither Arjuna said, "Krsna, You are so, my friend. Better You do it. I sit down. Let me smoke ganja." No. Arjuna also did not say. This is not Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna will remain perpetually with you if you love Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I will give you one example how Krsna sometimes breaks His promise. It is very nice story.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do you direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We must see the inconceivable mystic power. Just like Krsna, as a child, lifted a hill. This is inconceivable mystic power. Ramacandra, He constructed a bridge of stone without pillar.

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So ultimately Krsna is working. Another, untrained man cannot come and work on it because there is no intelligence. And a particular man who is trained up, he can work. So these things are going on.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have got my this body, a dress, covering. And when I go India, this is not required. So they are taking that the body has evolved like that. But no. Here, under certain condition, I accept this dress.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the argument. You are so rascal that you cannot admit your rascaldom. Just like this moon planet expedition. But I, sixteen years before, I told that these are rascals. Therefore I am right.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is nobody better than Krsna. Therefore the order given by Krsna is dharma. Our Krsna consciousness movement is that dharma.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

With priti, with love. Chant every name, "Hare Krsna," and hear. Here is Krsna; here is Radharani. That kind of chanting, quality.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are so many things to understand from Srimad-Bhagavatam, full knowledge, all knowledge, as it is required by the human society. So we have to study from all angles of vision, not simply by sentiment. This is Srimad-Bhagavatam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I will give you one example how Krsna sometimes breaks His promise. It is very nice story.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a cartoon picture in New York. One old man and his wife, sitting together. The wife is requesting the husband, old husband, "Chant, chant, chant," and the husband is replying: "Can't, can't, can't".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mrgari the hunter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sanskrit language means...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a cartoon picture in New York. One old man and his wife, sitting together. The wife is requesting the husband, old husband, "Chant, chant, chant," and the husband is replying: "Can't, can't, can't".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business is very thankless task. We say any man who is not a devotee, he is rascal. We say generally. It is very harsh word, but we have to use it. As soon as we see that he is not a devotee of Krsna, then he's a rascal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In this material world everyone individually has to take care of himself. How he can be saved from the clutches of maya. That is Krsna consciousness movement. A teacher can give you hints. The acarya can give you hints.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you work for Krsna with love and enthusiasm, that is your Krsna conscious life. If you think that "It is hackneyed, it is troublesome, but what can I do? These people ask me to do it. I have to do it," that is not Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you think that "It is hackneyed, it is troublesome, but what can I do? These people ask me to do it. I have to do it," that is not Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you kindly hear about Krsna and your heart becomes purified, the original dormant Krsna consciousness is immediately awakened.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means solution of all problems. Teaching people not to become sinful. Because a sinful man cannot become Krsna conscious. To become Krsna conscious means that he has to give up his sinful activities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually if the monarch becomes Krsna conscious, actually becomes representative of Krsna, then the whole face of the kingdom will change. That is required. Our Krsna consciousness movement is for that purpose.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The system of the country, the women and men, they intermingle. How can I check it? Then the women, shall I not give them any chance for chanting Hare Krsna? No, I shall do this chance, I shall give this chance to woman even at the risk.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

ABCD.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We become in touch with Krsna by chanting His name, Hare Krsna. That is the beginning of our connection with Krsna. Namadi. So sastra says, atah sri-krsna-namadi. Adi means beginning.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even a Vaisnava acarya, what he is doing, even the most expert intelligent man cannot understand why he is doing this. Therefore we should not try to imitate the higher authorities, but we have to follow.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To understand Krsna, one requires special senses, special senses, not ordinary senses. Special senses means you have to pluck your eyes and you have to put another eyes? No. You have to purify.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is Gaudiya-Vaisnava philosophy. It requires time. So the activities of Krsna, the rascals, if they simply see that "Krsna is enticing Arjuna to fight; therefore Krsna is immoral," that is, means wrong vision.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A flower should be in the garden, but if somebody imagines the flower in the sky, it is something imaginary. So for a devotee, this heavenly promotion to the heavenly planet is just like a flower in the sky.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes in disguise the king used to see whether this varnasrama-dharma is being maintained, properly being observed, whether somebody is simply wasting time like hippies.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When Arjuna was chastised by Krsna as a friend that "Why you are so weak? Don't be weak. This is sentiment. This kind of compassion is sentiment. Uttistha. You better get up and fight".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna has enemies. Arisudana. And He has to kill them. Krsna has got two businesses: paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is Vaisnava son. Prahlada did not ask anything for himself. And although he knew that his father was the greatest enemy, still, he is asking his benediction, "This poor fellow may be liberated".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unqualified guru means who does not know how to guide the disciple. Guru's duty is to guide. So such kind of guru can be at least rejected.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhiksa is also sometimes prohibited from a person who is too much materialist. But bhiksa is allowed for sannyasis, for brahmana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because a ksatriya family, it is to be understood they must go on fighting. Even in their marriage there would be fighting. Without fighting, no marriage takes place in ksatriya family.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whatever you do, it must have some relationship with the satisfaction of Krsna. If Krsna is satisfied, then you act. That is Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whatever you do, it doesn't matter. You have to test it, whether you are doing it for Krsna. That is your perfection. Not only perfection, that is the perfection of your mission of human life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to learn how to act only for Krsna, how to love only Krsna. Then our life is successful. And the human life... Because we have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Hanuman policy is: "Take out Sita from the hands of Ravana and get her seated by the side of Rama." The same Sita. Sita means Laksmi. So Laksmi means Narayana's property, God's property.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Karpanya-dosa. Miserly, dosa means fault. When one does not act according to his position, that is fault. And that is called miserly. So everyone has got his natural propensities, svabhava.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna has got loving propensities with His pleasure potency, Srimati Radharani. Similarly, because we are part and parcel of Krsna, we have also got this loving propensity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When one is in goodness, he's sober. He can understand what is the value of life, how one should live, what is the aim of life, what is the goal of life. That goal of life is to understand Brahman.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Arya-samaja does not mean to become rascal and fool and deny the existence of God. No. That is Anarya. Just like Krsna rebuked Arjuna: anarya-justa. "You are talking like anarya".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you approach a person, guru, who is not representative of Krsna, you are approaching a rascal. How you'll be enlightened? You must approach Krsna, or His representative. That is wanted.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because we, with our teeny brain, we cannot find out what is the actual niscitam, fixed-up sreya. That we do not know. That you have to ask from Krsna. Or his representative.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A Vaisnava is praying guru: "Sir, you are devotee of Krsna. You can give me Krsna if you like." This is the position of sisya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are sometimes in difficulty. Not sometimes. Always, we are in difficulty, but we call it sometimes, because to get over the difficulty, we make some attempt, and that attempt - making is taken as happiness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The principle is to understand things in reality one has to approach Krsna as Arjuna has approached.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can make your own opinion to understand God. So all foolish rascals, they're making their own opinion. No, that is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is no yajna in this age. There is no yajnic brahmana. This is the only yajna: chant Hare Krsna mantra and dance in ecstasy. This is the only yajna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Gopal Banh said: "You can pass stool, but you cannot pass urine. If you pass urine, then I shall kill you." Passing stool without passing urine, how it is possible? "So you have come to pass stool. That you can do here, but don't pass urine".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Friendly talking cannot decide any serious question. When there is some serious matter, it must be spoken between authorities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This body is working. The whole body is working, everyone's, to enjoy life, but wherefrom the enjoyment begins? The enjoyment begins from the stomach. You have to give sufficient nice foodstuffs to the stomach.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone is trying to satisfy his or her senses. A woman is loving a man for satisfying her senses, and the man is loving a woman for satisfying. Therefore, as soon as there is some little disturbance in the sense gratification, divorce.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not that senses should be stopped. No. It should be controlled. "When I require, I shall use it; otherwise not." That is master of senses. "I shall not act impelled by the senses. Senses should act under my direction".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It doesn't mean that you follow this religion or that religion. You may follow any religion. It doesn't matter, either Hindu religion or Christian religion or Mohammedan religion, anything you like. But we have to test.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is mentioned here as Hrsikesa. He is solid. He is Acyuta. He is solid. He is not changed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhismadeva, in Rajasuya-yajna, admitted that "Nobody is better brahmacari than Krsna. He was within the gopis, all young girls, but He remained a brahmacari".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who cannot understand Krsna, what is Krsna, which Vyasadeva has described what is Krsna in nine cantos, to understand Krsna, and then in the Tenth Canto he begins the birth advent of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because your senses are engaged in the service of the Hrsikesa, the senses have no other opportunity to be engaged. Locked up.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By my mental speculation, by rascal interpretation, by showing one's scholarship, you cannot understand Bhagavad-gita. That is not possible. Submissive.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Simply chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare - Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and gradually you'll realize how to become immortal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you are actually reasonable, you'll understand that this Krsna consciousness movement is the sublime movement for the welfare of the whole human society. That's a fact. Anyone may come. We are prepared to discuss this subject matter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We living entities, we never die, never take birth. Nityah sasvato yam, na hanyate hanyamane sarire. Every one of us, we are eternal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What is the use of studying Vedas if you do not understand Krsna? Because the ultimate goal of education means to understand the Supreme Lord, the supreme father, the supreme cause.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As far as possible try to worship the Deity, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Krsna does not want your whole property. Krsna is open to the poorest man for being worshiped.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Law means the word given by the state. You cannot make law at home. That is not possible. Whatever the government gives you, that "You should act like this," that is law.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You should try to understand this Krsna consciousness movement. It is very scientific, authorized. It is not a mental concoction or sentimental movement. It is most scientific movement. So we are inviting all leaders from all countries: try to understand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Indians are meant for para-upakara. Indians are not meant for exploiting others. That is not Indians' business. Indian history is all along for para-upakara.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My dear sons and daughters, I am so much obliged to you that you have become so enthusiastic for offering Vyasa-puja. Now try to understand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have to thank you. It is all due to you. It is not my credit, but it is your credit that you are helping me in executing the order of my Guru Maharaja.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This body, antavat, it will be finished. However you may try, so scientifically, applying cosmetic and other things, you cannot save the body. That is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So many rascals come, they challenge, "Can you show me God?" So... Yes. We can show you God, provided you have got the eyes. God can be seen by different type of eyes. Not these eyes. That is stated in the sastra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You cannot calculate. You cannot go to Brahma, you cannot go even to the moon planet. And what to speak of Brahmaloka is the ultimate, the remotest part of this universe. So by your direct experience, you cannot calculate.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How we can say there is no soul? No. This is foolishness. The whole world is going on under this foolishness. Not only now, before also. Like Carvaka Muni, he was atheist, he did not believe.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These people say the animals have no soul. But that's all right, but he's feeling pain when you are killing the animal. So you also feel pain. So why should you give pain to others? That is Lord Buddha's theory.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The test is within our hand. If during mangala-arati we feel laziness, that means I'm not yet spiritually advanced. And if one feels enthused, "Now it is time for mangala-arati, let me stand up, let me do this," then it is spiritual.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do not be very much serious about this body. The soul is the subject matter to be considered. But the modern civilization, they are concerned with this body. Just the opposite.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Material starvation may be there, but actually that is not a problem because there is sufficient arrangement for maintaining this material body. Real starvation is of the soul. The soul is not getting spiritual food.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This civilization, modern civilization, having no information of the soul, it is simply a pack of animals only, that's all. Therefore they do not care what is the resultant action of their activities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business should be not to associate with the material qualities. Even up to goodness. Material quality, goodness means the brahminical quality. Sattva sama damas titiksa. So devotional service is transcendental.

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According to our Indian system, their enjoyment is not meat-eating as in the Western countries. Their enjoyment is eating ghee more, become chubby, fatty. That is their enjoyment.

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Your problem is how to be reestablished again as eternal. Because we are eternal. Some way or other, we have fallen in this material world. Therefore, we have to accept birth and death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mrgari the hunter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot claim that we can enjoy everything in this world. Although we have got the desire, but limited power to enjoy. The unlimited enjoyer is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Anything about Krsna is Krsna. This is called absolute knowledge. So either you chant the Krsna's name or you worship Krsna's form - everything is Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not that the previous acaryas and others, they did not know what is airplane, what is speed, how to run. Don't think foolishly, as if they have manufactured. It is nothing, not even third-, not even fourth-class, tenth-class.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It may be that government may take action against me because I'm speaking something revolutionary. Yes. But that is the fact. Why you should work?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The economic development's cow killing. Just see, rascal civilization. Don't be sorry. It is Sastra. Don't think that I am criticizing the Western civilization. It is sastra says. Very experienced.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business is how to become recognized by Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These rascal so-called commentators, they want to avoid Krsna. Therefore this Krsna consciousness movement is a challenge to these rascals. It is a challenge that "You want to make Krsna without Krsna. This is nonsense.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Bhakti means when you engage your senses for the service of the master of the senses, Hrsikesa. That is called is bhakti. Bhakti is not sentiment.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Blind civilization.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Before going to your Moon planet here is the information: "Anywhere you go rascal these things will follow, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi and inconveniences. You'll have to suffer".

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The gopis came with lust. They became purified with Krsna's association. Gopis actually, superficially, externally, they are, means, nitya-siddha, ever-liberated expansion of Krsna's energy, internal energy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement was started only for the satisfaction of my spiritual master. He wanted. So I thought, "Let me try in this old age".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The first thing is we must hear. Srotavyah. Just try to hear what is God, what is His kingdom, how He acts, how He is cheerful. These things are to be heard. Sravanam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you do not know who is Bhagavan, if you do not know who is Hari, if you do not know who is Isvara, then what you will hear about Him? That is the problem.

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Bhakti does not mean stop your work. Bhakti does not mean sentimental fanaticism. That is not bhakti. Bhakti means to engage all your senses for the satisfaction of the proprietor of the senses. That is called bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we understand perfectly well that we are not enjoyer, Krsna is enjoyer, then that is spiritual world. This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to convince everyone that we, we are not enjoyer, enjoyer is Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They (priests) must have (sex) because they have no spiritual knowledge. Anyone who is not spiritually advanced, he cannot avoid the sex.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now we are world organization. There is spiritual side, and there is material side also. That is not material side. That is also spiritual side, means systematic management. Otherwise how it will be done?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness is eternally a fact. Otherwise you European, American boys and girls, you, three or four years ago, you did not know what is Krsna. Why you are so much attached to Krsna?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means you have to keep yourself always connected with the original powerhouse.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You cannot imagine what my spiritual master said. Or even if you read some books, you cannot understand unless you understand it from me. This is called parampara system. You cannot jump over to the superior guru, neglecting the next acarya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My health is not always going on nicely. Still, why I am trying? I want to begin one revolution against godless civilization. That is my ambition.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless we take care of the books and preach and read ourself, understand the philosophy, this Hare Krsna will be finished within few years.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The body is awarded by God according to your karma. Just like according to your payment, the landlord gives you an apartment. The apartment does not belong to you. That's a fact.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are willingly, against the principle of religion that "Thou shalt not kill," we have opened so many thousands of slaughterhouse, giving a nonsense theory that the animal has no soul. Just see the fun.

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Devotional life means renounced life. Vairagya-vidya, vairagya means renunciation. Anyone who has no more interest in materialistic way of life, that is bhakti-yoga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we fully depend on Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then He will guide us how to make progress back to home, back to Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Spiritual master is servant authority, and God is the master authority. Therefore sevya bhagavan, seva bhagavan.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You carry my order due to the basic principle is love. And our whole philosophy is love.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is definition of Bhagavan. Not that any rascal advertises himself Bhagavan and he becomes Bhagavan. No. Parasara Muni, father of Vyasadeva, gave us what we mean by Bhagavan.

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Prahlada Maharaja says that dharman bhagavatan, to become Krsna conscious, or God conscious, is so important that we should not lose even a moment's time. Immediately we shall begin.

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The spiritual master's mercy is described, mukham karoti vacalam. Mukham means dumb, one who cannot speak. He becomes a great lecturer or speaker.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We want some generation who can preach Krsna consciousness; so if they learn simply English and Sanskrit, they will be able to read this book, and that is sufficient.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Draupadi prayed, "Krsna, if You like, You can save." So this is the position. So long we try to save ourself, then that is not very good. If you simply depend on Krsna, "Krsna, if You save me, that is all right. Otherwise kill me, as You like".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like a devotee wants to satisfy the Lord in all respects, similarly more than the devotee, the Lord wants to satisfy the devotee. This is the exchange of loving affairs.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna can be present more acutely in separation. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching: to love Krsna in separation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Guru is coming from the disciplic succession. What five thousand years ago Vyasadeva instructed or Krsna instructed, the same thing we are also instructing. Therefore there is no difference between instruction. Therefore guru is one.

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You should take food just to maintain your health nicely. Similarly, other necessities of body must be taken care of. If you become diseased, then how you can execute Krsna consciousness?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The workers, laborers, he (the Christian priest) was preaching amongst them that "Lord Jesus Christ will save you. If you don't take shelter of Lord Jesus Christ, then you'll go to hell".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee cannot be equally interested with material pleasure and transcendental pleasure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The aim of education, the aim of civilization, perfection of civilization, should be how people should get liberated from this conditional life. That is the whole scheme of Vedic civilization, to give liberation to the people.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our attention should always be how we are executing our spiritual life. That is very simple. We observe strictly the regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds minimum. That will save us.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The more you develop your consciousness, the more you become a freedom lover.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are fallen conditioned souls. In this material world we have come with an enjoying spirit. Therefore we are fallen. If one keeps his position rightly, he does not fall. Otherwise he is degraded. That is fallen condition.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First of all, you have to understand that this body or any field of action, anywhere, the three things are there: the field of activities, the owner of the field and the supervisor of the field. You can check and tally anywhere.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without Krsna being friend of everyone, nobody can live for a moment. Krsna is protecting everyone, supplying food to everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Rascal guru will say, "Yes, you can eat anything. You can do anything. Religion has nothing to do with eating".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Foolish activity has no value. It is dangerous. So this modern world, they're very active, but they're foolishly active, in the ignorance and passion. Therefore there is confusion activity. Foolish activity, there is accident. Sober activity is required.

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I am speaking simply what the Supreme Personality of Godhead has said. I'm just repeating the same words. That's all. Don't think that I am speaking. I am simply instrument. Real speaker is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is without and within.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Dancing girl, when she was on the stage, she saw that her relatives are there as visitors. So she began to draw the veil. So this is not required. You are a dancing girl. Now you have to dance. You cannot be shy. You must freely dance. That is your duty.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Complete freedom. Eternity, blissful and full of knowledge. That is spiritual life. Completely distinct from this bodily concept of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

People do not understand what is material bondage, but those who are in Krsna consciousness, they are educated what is bondage and what is liberation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Karl Marx. He is thinking how the laborer, the worker, their senses will be gratified. That is his philosophy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot cheat Krsna. Krsna can immediately understand how much serious and sincere you are for understanding Krsna or approaching Him or going back to home, back to Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How do we enter into the modes of goodness?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Asrama means situation for spiritual cultivation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They (people) like it, to work very hard. But our Krsna consciousness movement is transferring that hard working to the business of Krsna. That tendency for hard working may be utilized.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Acarya's duty is to point out the sastric injunction. They're already there in the Vedas.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja used to say if somebody complained that "We go and chant, but nobody attends our meeting," so Guru Maharaja would reply that "Why? The four walls will hear you. That is sufficient. Don't be disappointed. Go on chanting".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the Vaisnava philosophy. We are trying to be servant. We don't identify with anything material. As soon as we identify with anything material, we become under the clutches of maya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot follow asadhu-marga. We must follow sadhu-marga. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. We cannot follow an upstart, manufacturing some song, manufacturing some ideas. We cannot follow that.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should be prepared to sacrifice anything for perfection of this human form of life. Then perfection is guaranteed. Simply we should be very serious, that's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We may be very powerful so long Krsna keeps us powerful. We are not independently powerful, even in the case of Arjuna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everything will be null and void when there is no God. That's all. The modern civilization has got everything, but without God consciousness, any moment it will be finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Although this is the disappearance day of Srimad Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, so there is nothing to be lamented. Although we feel separation, that feeling is there, but spiritually, there is no difference between appearance & disappearance.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If the king is real representative of God, then simply by pleasing the king, you please the almighty father, God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This description of the Kali-yuga is given in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. This is called sastra. This Srimad-Bhagavatam was written five thousand years ago when the Kali-yuga was to begin. Now, what will happen in future, everything is given there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We want to see God, but we do not acknowledge that we are not qualified. How we can see? If I cannot see even an ordinary president. By my whims I want to see the president or such and such big officer. You cannot see unless you are qualified.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because one happens to take birth in a brahmana family, without any qualification, he claims to become a brahmana. That is the falldown of Vedic civilization in India. A rascal number one, he's claiming that he's brahmana - without any qualification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Humbleness is very good in devotional service.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

She tests very rigidly whether you have taken Krsna consciousness to disturb Krsna, or you are actually serious. That is maya' s business. So there will be, in the beginning, test by maya, and you will feel so much disturbances in making progress in KC.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By the grace of Kunti, we can understand that although the Supreme Person is invisible, now He has appeared to be visible, Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is very much anxious to take you back home, back to Godhead. But we are stubborn. We do not wish. So He's always finding out the opportunity how you can be taken back home, back to Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't waste your time how to solve your economic problems. This is nonsense. Of course, it is very revolutionary. People will hate me. "What Swamiji's speaking?" But actually this is the fact. This is another madness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are sitting down and inquiring about Krsna. This is life. This is life. And what is this life? Working day and night like the ass? No. That is not life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are thinking that "I'm enjoying," but that is not ananda. This ananda is not fact, because we cannot enjoy this material sense pleasure for long. Everyone has got experience. It is finished. But spiritual enjoyment does not finish. It increases.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavata is spiritual master. Vaisnava, he's also bhagavata. Acaryas, bhagavata. Grantha-bhagavata and person, person bhagavata. So person bhagavata or book bhagavata, you always serve. Then you will be fixed up. Naisthiki. Nobody can move you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A man is working and thinking: "Let me work now very hard, and let me have some bank balance so when I shall get old, I shall enjoy life without any working." That is the inner intention of everyone. Nobody wants to work.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The duty must be done. Even it is little suffering. That is called tapasya. Tapasya means we must proceed with our Krsna consciousness business in spite of all dangerous and calamitous condition of this world. This is called tapasya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee never takes dangerous position as very reverse position or very calamitous position. He welcomes. Because a surrendered soul, he knows either danger or festival, they are all different demonstration of Krsna. Krsna is absolute.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now when we are selling book, that is Krsna consciousness. We are selling book. But if we think that the selling book may be diverted into selling jewelry, that is not very good idea. Then we become again jeweler. Punar musika bhava. Again become mouse.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As you think of Krsna, as you see Krsna, as you read of Krsna, as you work for Krsna, some way or other, if you remain in Krsna consciousness, that is your benefit. And that benefit will save you from taking birth again in the material world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't think that: "Because I have become a devotee, there will be no danger, no suffering." Prahlada Maharaja suffered so much. The Pandavas suffered so much. Haridasa Thakura suffered so much. But we should not be disturbed by those sufferings".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God means without competition: one. God is one. Nobody is great... asamordhva. Nobody is greater than Him. Nobody is equal to Him. Everyone is lower. Ekale isvara krsna ara saba bhrtya. The only master is Krsna, God; and everyone, servant.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Hrsikesa-sevanam. Not hrsika-sevanam. Hrsika means senses. So when senses are used for sense gratification, that is maya. And when senses are used for the gratification of the master of the senses, that is called bhakti. A very simple definition.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You test yourself, "Whether I am jealous, envious of my other associates, friends, everything?" Then I am in the material world. And if I am not jealous, then I'm in the spiritual world. Anyone can test.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually there is no scarcity. The scarcity is Krsna consciousness. So if you become Krsna conscious then everything is ample. There is no scarcity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You drink something, become intoxicated. But as soon as that intoxication is over, all your intoxicated dreams are over, finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You drink something, become intoxicated. But as soon as that intoxication is over, all your intoxicated dreams are over, finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Every living entity is a child of God. God is the Supreme Father. Krsna says: "I am the seed-giving father of all living entities. In whichever form they may live, they're all living entities, they're My sons." Actually that is the fact.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So long you remain intoxicated with, it is all zero. But as soon as you put Krsna, it becomes ten, hundred, thousand, millions. You American boys and girls, you have got this opportunity. You have got zeroes. Put Krsna. You become ten.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Any activities spiritual, that is all good, and any activity, material, that is all bad. This is the difference. Here, the so-called morality, goodness, they're all bad. And in the spiritual world, so-called immorality is also good.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee knows that: "Whatever intelligence, I have got, I may try to become happy, if Krsna does not sanction, I'll never be happy." This is the distinction between devotee and nondevotee.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I started my own factory, the business was very successful, but everything was dismantled; I was forced to come to this position to carry out my order of my Guru Maharaja.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we want to become predominator falsely in this material world, that is illusion, That we must give up. That we must give up. We shall always try to become predominated by Krsna. That is successful life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We write: "We trust in God," but we make discrimination. If you trust in God, then you must be equally kind and merciful to all living entities. That is God consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Antah means within and bahih means without. "Those who are less intelligent, they simply try to find out God within, and those who are advanced in intelligence, they can see You within and without." That is the difference.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Brahma's past, present and future is different from my past, present and future. But Krsna has no past, present and future. Therefore He's eternal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The atheist scientists say that life comes out of matter. That is nonsense. No. Matter is one energy of Krsna, & spirit is another energy. The spirit is superior energy, and the matter is inferior energy. The matter develops when there is superior energy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a verse that: "Sadhu is My heart, and I am also the sadhu's heart." The sadhu is always thinking of Krsna and Krsna is always thinking of His devotee, sadhu.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Try to understand this fact. Krsna does not require your nice dress or nice flower or nice food. Krsna does not require. But if you give Him, then you become benefited. It is Krsna's favor that He's accepting.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually the whole world is serving the senses, servant of the senses. Godasa. But if we engage the senses in the service of Krsna, then we shall no longer remain the servant of the senses. We shall be the master of the senses.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He (Krsna) sends some devotee in the garb of enemy and Krsna comes here to fight with him. At the same time, to teach us that becoming enemy, enemy of Krsna is not very profitable. Better become friend. That will be profitable.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna has no enemy. Krsna has no friend. He is completely independent. He does not depend on enemy. But He plays like that for the benefit of the so-called friend and so-called enemy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The vital force is the atma, the living being, living entity or soul. So because the vital force, the soul is there, the whole body is working.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you are associating personally with President Nixon, how much proud you feel? "Oh, I am with President Nixon." So will you not feel very much proud if you are associating the supreme Nixon? Who can create millions of Nixons.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are requesting everyone: "Please chant, chant, chant." And they are replying: "Can't, can't." This is their misfortune.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The sinful list we have given, the four principles, illicit sex life, intoxication, meat-eating & gambling. These are the four pillars of sinful life. We request our students first of all break these four pillars. So the roof of sinful life will collapse.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We simply don't say that: "No illicit sex, no intoxication, no, no..." Simply negative is no meaning. There must be something positive. Because everyone wants engagement. That is because we are living entities. We are not dead stone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like Krsna's another name is Madana-mohana. Madana means Cupid. Cupid enchants everyone. Cupid. And Krsna enchants Cupid. Therefore His name is Madana-mohana. He's so beautiful that even Cupid is enchanted by Him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should not love Krsna for some material gain. It is not that: "Krsna, give us our daily bread. Then I love You. Krsna, give me this. Then I love You." There is no such mercantile exchange. That is wanted. Krsna wants that kind of love.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are thinking of first of all analyzing Krsna, whether He's God, they are not first-class devotee. Those who have got spontaneous love for Krsna, they are first-class devotees. How you will analyze Krsna? He's unlimited. It is impossible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is explaining Himself in the Bhagavad-gita so much. Don't bother very much to know Krsna. That is not possible. Simply increase your unalloyed love for Krsna. That is perfection of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When I came to your country I saw that taking bath is also difficult thing. Taking bath, that is also not in practice. Perhaps once in a week. We are accustomed to see in India thrice in a day.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The negative way, to make it zero. That is void philosophy. But actually that is not the case. The case is that you are in trouble on material condition. You get out of this material condition. Then there is real life, eternal life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If one is not born, how he can die? There is no question of death. Death is for a thing which has got a birth. If one has no birth, there is no question of death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Kuntidevi knows that Krsna is unborn. Krsna does not take birth, but it appears like that to some fools. Therefore they say that Krsna has taken birth.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is trying to save people from going down to animal life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you simply look after the bodily necessities and do not care to look after the necessity of the soul, that is foolish civilization.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The real necessity of life is to supply the comforts of the soul. And the soul can be comforted not by material adjustment. Because soul is a different identity, the soul must be given spiritual food. That spiritual food is this Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Science means that you advance in knowledge so that your miserable condition of life can be reduced, minimized. That is science. Otherwise, what is this science? They are simply promising; "In future." "But what you are delivering just now, sir?".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even in the animals, there are divisions. Swan class and crow class. Natural division. The crow will not go to the swan. The swan will not go to the crow. Similarly in the human society, there are crow class men and swan class men.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we analyze, what is the fault of Jesus Christ, there is no fault. The only fault he was preaching about God. And still he'd find so many enemies. He was cruelly crucified.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nobody will marry the husband who has married sixty-four times.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Spiritual world means there is no work. There is simply ananda, joyfulness. That you see from reading Krsna book. They're not working. Krsna is going with the calves and the cows. That is not working. That is amusement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Some of our students, they think that "Why should I work in this mission? Oh, let me go away." He goes away, but what does he do? He becomes a motor driver, that's all. Instead of getting honor as brahmacari, sannyasi, he has to work as ordinary worker.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have created unnecessary problems simply by forgetting Krsna. This is the material nature. Bhave 'smin klisyamananam. Therefore you have to work so hard.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nothing belongs to me. Isavasyam idam sarvam, everything belongs to Krsna. Therefore our movement is for awakening this Krsna consciousness. We should know that everything belongs to Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you study the whole situation, creation of the Lord, you will find everything is complete, perfect. That is philosophy. Everything is complete. There is no necessity. Our only necessity is that we take advantage of Krsna's arrangement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavata-dharma means the relationship between the devotees and the Lord. The Lord is Bhagavan and the devotee is bhagavata, or in relationship with Bhagavan.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Independently means if we want to enjoy life according to my whims. That is called so-called independence. But by such independence, we are never happy, so we transmigrate for this so-called illusory happiness from one body to another.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got immense independence, but we are now conditioned by this body. Therefore in the human form of life it is an opportunity to get back our original independence. That is called Krsna consciousness. Freedom.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This age called Kali, it is not very good time. Simply disagreement, fighting, quarreling, misunderstanding.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are advancing in education, but we do not study even of our teeth. We simply go to the dentist. That's all. This is our advancement of civilization. The tiger never goes to dentist.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the present moment if one man is attacked, the passersby will not care for it because they have lost their sympathy or mercifulness for others. Our neighbor may starve, but we don't care for it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

On the top of the mango tree there is a very ripened fruit, and that fruit has to be tasted. So if I drop the fruit from up, it will be lost. Therefore it is handed over, after one, after one.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti means realization of God consciousness. And the symptom of God consciousness is that he is averse to all material activities. He has no interest.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are different types of concepts of God. Generally, they take it as an idea but we don't take it as idea. We take God as concrete fact.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

According to Bhagavad-gita, only a devotee of Krsna, a person who is intimately related with Krsna, he can understand what is Bhagavad-gita.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It does not mean that when Krsna was present on this planet, Krsna was absent in Goloka Vrndavana. No. It is not like that. Just like I am now present here, I am absent in my apartment. Krsna is not like that. Krsna can be present everywhere.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One has to take shelter of a person whose life is devoted to Krsna, and under his direction, we have to practice how to develop Krsna Consciousness, and then Krsna will be revealed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One can see when the eyes are anointed with the ointment of bhakti. The eyes have cleansed to see God. That is revelation..

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To understand Krsna, God, we require to purify our senses.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Western philosophy is hedonism, that eat, drink, be merry and enjoy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you employ your tongue in the service of the Lord, He'll reveal Himself to you. He'll reveal, revelation. So therefore we have to control the tongue. What is the tongue's business? The tongue's business is taste and vibrate.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Tongue should be used always for glorifying the Supreme Lord. That is our business with the tongue. And the tongue should not be allowed to eat anything except krsna-prasada. Then you become liberated, simply by controlling the tongue.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So long you are in the bodily concept of life, you are no better than the animal. That is the Bhagavata philosophy. You are animal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who is intelligent, he should try to understand that "What kind of body am I going to get next?" That is intelligence. So that is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita, what kind of body you can get.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Anyone who has accepted this Krsna consciousness movement, if he follows the principles, then he's surely going to home, back to home, back to Godhead. That is certain. But if you deviate, if you become attracted by maya, that is your business.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If one spark falls on your body, on your garment, it burns. But it is not as powerful as the big fire. Similarly, God is all powerful. God is great. We are part and parcel of God. Therefore, our greatness is very, very small, infinitesimal. God is great.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are small gods, we can say, small gods. Teeny, sample gods. Therefore, we are so much proud. But we should not be proud because we should know that all our qualities are taken from God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is no question of overpopulation. This is a false theory. If God can create, He can maintain also. And actually, this is the fact. I am travelling all over the world. There are so much vacant places upon the surface of the globe.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Your coat is cut according to your body. Similarly, this material body is cut according our spiritual body. So we have got our spiritual body. This material body is covering.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In order to keep smooth facilities for human life, there must be four divisions. If you say that "We don't require brahmana." If you don't require brahmana, then you'll suffer.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In India, although a person born in a brahmana family, but his guna, qualities, are less than sudra, but still he's being accepted as a brahmana. That is the difficulty. Therefore, India's condition is so chaotic.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot be happy by material prosperity, that is a fact.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Formerly every brahmana used to learn these two sciences, Ayur-veda and Jyotir-veda.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As soon as we get a car, however rotten it may be, we think that it is very nice, and identify with that car.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Adanta means unbridled, uncontrolled. Go means indriya or senses. Materialistic persons, they cannot control their senses. They are servant of the senses, godasa. Go means indriya, and dasa means servant.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God is one, God cannot be two. It is not that Hindus have got one God and Christians have got another God. No. God cannot be two.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This human form of life is especially meant for inquiring about the absolute truth. In animal life we cannot do.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nobody can be wiser than God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't think that you will starve in God consciousness. You will never starve. You go on with your duty, loving God and preaching love of God. You will always be opulent, be sure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even in your house there is a serpent, see that he is not fasting without food. This is the spiritual communism. They are now after communism, but they do not know what is communism. Everyone will be taken care of. That is communism, real communism.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are also person, God is also person. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam. He is also living entity, we are also living entity. So what is the difference between God and ourself?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Brahmana is meant for doing the brain work. He will give advice. Just like we, Krsna consciousness movement, we are not meant for the ksatriya's or vaisya's business, the devotees, but if required they can take. But real business is brahmana's business.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I began in this New York in that storefront simply by chanting. So I did not bribe you American boys and girls to come after me. This is the only asset was chanting.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna's business is meant for everyone. We therefore welcome everyone. There is no distinction. "Come here and chant," loka-hitam. And a sadhu, a saintly person should always think of loka-hitam. That is the difference between sadhu and ordinary man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A sadhu's business is for the benefit of all living entities. A sadhu does not like to cut even a tree, because he knows, "Here is a living entity. He is standing here for many years by his karma, and he has to continue this for many years more".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Atmavit means one who knows atma.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you very strictly adhere to the principle of Krsna consciousness, then maya will not be able to touch you. That is the only remedy. Otherwise maya is always looking after the opportunity, loophole, how she can capture you again.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless there is some living force behind the matter there cannot be anything created. We have no such experience.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavatam says that the original source of everything is sentient. Conscious. And consciously is controlling everything.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God created the ingredients and the manufacturer also, and Brahma created this universe. But he's not the original creator. The original creator is Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whatever we are worshiping Radha-Krsna, that is Radha-Krsna in His Narayana form - Laksmi-Narayana. In the beginning we should worship Radha-Krsna in the level of Laksmi-Narayana, with awe and veneration, very strictly following the rules and regulations.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you think of Krsna twenty-four hours, Krsna will think of you twenty-six hours. (laughter) Krsna is so kind. If you do some service for Krsna, Krsna will reward you hundred times.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we do not love Krsna, then our hearts will be harder and harder and harder. Heart is there for love, but why you are so hard-hearted?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If actually there is any sympathizer for the fallen conditioned souls, he is a Vaisnava. He knows why they are suffering. Therefore he wants to give him the information: "My dear friend, you are suffering simply for forgetting your real lover, Krsna".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First thing is that we have to learn how to love. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo. That is first-class religion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They say that God cannot come. But if I put the question: "Why God cannot come?" what is the answer? If God is all-powerful, why you are curtailing His power, that He cannot come? What kind of God is He? God is under your law, or you are under God's law?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't eat anything which is not eaten by Krsna - your tongue becomes your most intimate friend. And don't talk anything except Krsna. If you follow these two principles, Krsna will be within your grip.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone of us is very intimately connected with Krsna, and Krsna is sitting in everyone's heart. Krsna is so kind, that He is simply waiting, "When this rascal will turn his face towards Me".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even in this material world, if we understand perfectly well that we are not enjoyer, Krsna is enjoyer, then that is spiritual world. This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to convince everyone that we are not enjoyer, enjoyer is Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Each and everyone of us, we are thinking, "I am independent, and my wife, my children, my society, they are my soldiers. If I am in danger, they will help me." This is going on. This is called maya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All these politicians, they're spoiling the situation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Death means sleeping for seven months. That's all. That is death. When this body is unfit for living, the soul gives up this body. And by superior arrangement the soul is put again into the womb of a particular type of mother.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our only request is that you make your life successful. Come to the real understanding of your existence and this is possible simply by chanting Hare Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is seven planetary systems over us and seven planetary systems down also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In this material world we find almost everyone has forgotten God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The fruits are meant for human being. The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. So tiger's food is another animal. Man's food is fruit, food grains, milk products.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Original mother, wife of the spiritual master, wife of the priest, wife of the king, cow, nurse and Earth. These are seven mothers. Cow is mother because we drink cow's milk. How can I deny that she's not mother? So how we can support killing of mother?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavad-gita is known also Gitopanisad, the essence of Vedic knowledge, and one of the most important of the various Upanisads in Vedic literature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The speaker of the Bhagavad-gita is Lord Sri Krsna. He is mentioned in every page of the Bhagavad-gita as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone has got a particular relationship with the Lord and that relationship is evoked by the perfection of devotional service. At the present status of our life we have not only forgotten the Supreme Lord, but also our eternal relationship with Him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless one receives this Bhagavad-gita in a submissive spirit and aural reception, it is very difficult to understand Bhagavad-gita because it is a great mystery.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In this Bhagavad-gita the subject matter is comprehending five different truths. The first truth is what is God. It is the preliminary study of the science of God. So that science of God is explained here.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have the tendency of controlling over the material nature, lording it over the material nature, but we are not the supreme controller. So that thing is explained in the Bhagavad-gita..

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are engaged in various activities undoubtedly, but we do not know what sort of activities we shall adopt that will give us relief from the actions and reactions of all activities. That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Lord lives within the core of heart in every living being, therefore He is conscious of the psychic movements, activities, of the particular jiva. We should not forget.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One has to get free from the bodily conception of life. That is the preliminary activity for a transcendentalist who wants to get free, who wants to be liberated. And he has to learn first of all that he is not this material body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vigraha means form. Avyaktam vyaktim apannam manyante mam abuddhayah. People with less intelligence, they consider the Supreme Truth as impersonal, but He is a person, a transcendental person. This is confirmed in all Vedic literature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We accept a certain portion of Bhagavad-gita and reject another portion. That is also not accepted. We must accept the Bhagavad-gita without interpretation, without any cutting, and without our own whimsical participation in the matter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly explained that there are three kinds of activities according to the different modes of nature: the activities of goodness, the activities of passion, the activities of ignorance.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The word religion is a little different from sanatana-dharma. Religion conveys the idea of faith. Faith may change. One may have faith in a particular process, and change the faith afterwards and adopt another faith. But sanatana-dharma cannot be changed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Service is a thing which is the constant companion of the living being, and therefore it may be safely concluded that rendering of service by a living being is the eternal religion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Lord is also perpetually happy, and if we associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him, take part in His association, then also we become happy. The Lord descends on this mortal world to show His pastimes in Vrndavana full of happiness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are given the opportunity for leaving this material world and get our eternal life in the eternal kingdom.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We want to lord it over the material nature. So, so long we do not give up this propensity of lording it over the material nature, up to that time there is no possibility of going back to the kingdom of the Supreme, the sanatana-dhama.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The body is perishable, full of ignorance, and nirananda. Instead of becoming full of bliss, it is full of miseries. All the miseries that we experience in this material world, it is all due to this body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Acts of this life, the activities of this life are preparation ground for the next life. We are preparing for our next life by our activities of this life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the time of death, either we can remain in the material energy, or this material world, or we can transfer into the spiritual world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the absolute status there is no difference between one thing to another. That is the absolute status. So the Lord being absolute, there is no difference between His name and Himself.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Learn this art - how one can be absorbed both by the mind and intelligence twenty-four hours thinking of the Lord. And that will help one to transfer himself into the kingdom of God or in the spiritual atmosphere after leaving this material body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavad-gita is a transcendental literature which one should read very carefully. And the result will be, if he properly follows the instruction, then he can be freed from all miseries of life, all anxieties of life and all fears of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

People are very much anxious to have one religion, one God, one scripture, and one business or one activity of life. This is summarized in the Bhagavad-gita - that one God is Krsna. Krsna is not sectarian God. Krsna means the greatest pleasure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The brahmana will not be required to fight. A brahmana will not be required to work like sudra. A brahmana will not be required to work like vaisya. Therefore brahmana can beg.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

According to Vedic civilization, everyone has his own sva-dharma. This has been misinterpreted by the rascals. Sva-dharma means anyone can discover his own religious principle. Yato mata tato patha.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not that sudra is not required. Sudra is required, but if you make propaganda simply to make people sudras, then who will give direction? If there is no head, who will give the direction?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So a ksatriya's business is always prepared to fight. Fight means that to see that everyone is acting nicely. Because if you are not acting nicely, and if I say that "You are not acting nicely," you'll be angry.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unfortunately, the so-called government men, they are also sudras. The so-called priests, they are also sudras. The so-called vaisyas, they are sudras. The whole world is now full of sudras. So you cannot expect anything very nice.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So far we are concerned, Krsna conscious, so long our bodily concept of life is not completely eradicated, we must follow the sva-dharma of the body. Brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, ity adi. But when actually advanced, that is maha-bhagavata.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How is that you are simply claiming that "India, there is sanatana-dharma"? "In India there is brahmana"? What Krsna creates, that is for everywhere. Because Krsna is the father of everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Go means senses. So unless you become gosvami, your life is spoiled. Gosvami. You cannot be dictated by the senses. You have to dictate to the senses.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Dharma means characteristic. So what is our characteristic? I was going to explain. That we are now serving our senses. This is our material characteristic. Material characteristic because originally I am servant. I am not master.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The every living entity is sanatana. And Krsna is sanatana. And there is place, sanatana. So our business is how to transfer ourself in that sanatana-dhama.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Anything which I own, that should be utilized for my purpose. Your things should be utilized for your purpose. So if God is the proprietor of our senses, then these senses must be used for God's purpose. That is the constitutional position.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You should not stop working, but you have to work cautiously for the supreme cause. That is the way of working on the spiritual platform.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the present status of our life we have not only forgotten the Supreme Lord, but also we have forgotten our eternal relationship with the Lord.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

But spiritual purpose, if you work more than twenty-four hours... Unfortunately, you haven't got more than twenty-four hours at your disposal. Still, you won't feel fatigued. I tell you. This is my practical experience.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We must work for Krsna's sake. We shall go to the Krsna's temple, or we shall go for selling Krsna's books, or meeting some Krsna devotee.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is no literature throughout the universe like Srimad-Bhagavatam. There is no comparison. There is no competition. Every word is for the good of the human society.

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So we may not create any disruption amongst our solidarity. Then things will not make progress.

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Alexander and the thief.

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Father is the leader of the family. And why father is the leader? Because he earns, he maintains the children, wife, servant, and establishment; therefore naturally, he's accepted the leader of the family.

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When I was also a child, I was looking very beautiful, but kalena, in due course of time, I'm now old man, a ugly man. Nobody likes. (laughter) So this is the influence of time.

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Sleeping is not good. The Gosvamis used to sleep only two hours. I also write at night book, and I also sleep, not more then three hours. But I take sometimes little, sleep more.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Inside, we should be pure, purely thinking, no contamination. We should not think anyone as my enemy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Not only guru. Anyone who is spiritually advanced, he has no more material body.

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Story of Narada Muni and the cobbler.

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I prayed simply Krsna, "My dear Krsna, anyway, You have come here (to Juhu). You have sat down here. It will be great insult if You are removed from this place." So Krsna heard it, and we won the battle. Now the land is ours.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Suppose we are in a group, this, our International Society. If everyone becomes ruler or acarya, then how it can be managed? No. There must be some head. That is the principle in our practical life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness society is a bhakta-sanga, is a society of devotees. Never try to go away. Never try to go away. Discrepancies there may be. You should adjust.

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The spiritual master or the father, he does not become envious. He feels himself very, very happy, that "This boy has advanced more than me." This is spiritual master's position.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nobody will be unemployed. Everyone should be trained up to sleep six to eight hours and attend meeting, chant, and arati. And balance - he must work hard. Not that sleeping unlimitedly. There is no limit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

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.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As soon as any of the disciples in the succession distort the knowledge, then it is lost.

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Real problem is how to stop death, how to stop birth, how to stop old age, and how to stop disease. That is real problem. That can be done when you are liberated from this material world. This is our problem.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you have got one rupee, if you take one anna, then it is fifteen annas. Or if you take two annas, it is fourteen annas. If you take sixteen annas, it becomes zero. But Krsna is not like that. He can expand Himself unlimited forms.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

From frying pan to the fire.

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This is bhakti definition. When one becomes freed from all designation. "I am American." This is designation. "I am Indian." This is designation. "I am brahmana." This is designation. "I am ksatriya." This is designation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna did not come to establish the so-called Hindu religion or Muslim religion or Christian religion. No. He came to establish real religion. Real religion means we have to submit, surrender to the real person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are surrendering, but we are not surrendering to Krsna. This is the disease. This is the disease. And Krsna consciousness movement means to cure this disease.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By the supervision of the external energy, and superior superintendent, we are transferred to a different body by the subtle body.

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Deity of Krsna should be seen. That is the benefit of the eyes. The ears should be engaged hearing about Krsna. The tongue should be engaged for eating Krsna's remnants of foodstuff, prasadam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we want to stop this miserable condition of getting another material body, then we must know what is karma, what is vikarma. That is Krsna's proposal.

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They are becoming leaders. So what kind of leader? Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah. One blind man is leading several other blind men. So what will be the result? The result must be disaster. That is being done.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If one wants to understand something about Bhagavad-gita, about the spiritual movement, he may consult me.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why you should eat animals? That is uncivilized life. When there is no food, when they are aborigines, they may eat animals, because they do not know how to grow food. But when the human society becomes civilized, he can grow so many nice foods.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

From frying pan to the fire.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means everyone wants to become friend of everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, there is a story... Not story. Fact. It is described there that one brahmana - he was a great devotee - he wanted to offer very brilliant service, arcana, in the temple worship. But he had no money.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business is to go back to the spiritual world, not that we remain in the material world and change body from bad to worse or worse to good. That is not our business.

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Mind cannot be detached. We have got so many desires. So mind's business - to become attached. Therefore, I accept something, I reject something. This is mind's business. So you cannot become zero, you cannot become desireless. That is not possible.

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The animal propensity - he is seeing his wife daily naked, and still he is going to see naked dance, and paying some fees. Because they have no engagement except this animalism. Is it not?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Alexander and the thief.

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The truth is that this body is formed on the basis of that spiritual spark. That is the truth.

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Yamaraja is one of the GBC of Krsna. Yes. As we have got twelve GBC's, similarly Krsna has got GBC's.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am old man. I will die. If they take it seriously, it will go on, and there will be revolution. Because we are not working whimsically, capriciously. We are taking authoritative version from the sastra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Vedic civilization is varnasrama-dharma. If the varnasrama-dharma is not properly protected, then there will be population who are called varna-sankara, mixed population.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mrgari the hunter.

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You make your society so strong that you be not cheated, and others may not cheat. Then it will be first-class. And if you make another society of cheaters and cheated, there is no profit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The story of the learned scholar and the boatman.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

According to Vedic civilization, there are four divisions of the society. Everywhere the same divisions are there all over the world. This is very natural. Just like we can study from our own body, there is head, there is arm, there is belly.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are proud of possessing a few acres of land, and Bhagavan means who is the proprietor of the whole universe. Therefore He is considered the richest. Similarly, He is considered the strongest. And similarly, He is considered the wisest.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Christian method, the offering prayer. That is bhakti, that is bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sruti means by hearing from the Supreme. So our process is sruti. Sruti means we hear from the highest authority. That is our process, and that is very easy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To take birth either as a dog or as a king, the distress is the same. There is no difference because the dog has to keep itself within the womb of the mother in an airtight condition for so many months.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If my mother would not have been little strict, I would not have gotten any education. My father was very lenient. So she used to force me. One man would take me to school.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

From the beginning of this body within the womb of the mother, it is simply troublesome. Against my will so many distresses are there, so many distresses there. Then as you grow, the distress grow, grow.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Combination of earth, water, air, fire, ether, mind, intelligence, ego - eight material elements, five gross and three subtle. This body is made of that. So the Buddha philosophy is that you dismantle this body, nirvana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are packed up. Just like this body is packed up with shirt and coat, so the coat is the gross body, and the shirt is the subtle body. So when this gross body is resting, the subtle body is working.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Napoleon constructed strong-built arches, but where he has gone, nobody knows.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like a rabbit. Enemy is in his front, and he is going to die, but he thinks, "Let me close my eyes. I am out of danger." This is atheistic view.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Present life means so long we possess this material body, it is full of inauspicity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because you are eternal, you are not meant for death, but nature is forcing you, Must die.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is asking all us, all rascals, that, "You are manufacturing so many things for becoming happy. You'll never be happy, rest assured. But surrender to Me, and I will make you happy." This is Krsna consciousness, that's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a very humorous story that one man... He was a yogi.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This blunt material eyes, he cannot see Krsna, or cannot hear Krsna's name, namadi. Nama means name. Nama means name, form, quality, pastime. These things cannot be understood by your material blunt eyes or senses.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you can see twenty-four hours Krsna, within and without, then the that is the end of all tapasya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A vaisya will find out some business. He'll find out some business. So there is a practical story.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the business of the disciple, how to glorify the spiritual master, parampara. I glorify my spiritual master, you glorify your spiritual master. If we simply do that, glorify, then Krsna is glorified.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am not manufacturing the words "foolish" and "rascal." It is said by Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is the only movement - I can declare very proudly - which can actually do some benefit to the human society.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To work for Krsna's sense gratification and to work for one's own sense gratification, this transformation change, this changing process, is called bhakti. Process is the same, simply account should be changed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Go on cooperating in this way, and I am sure this mission of Caitanya Mahaprabhu will be successful. It must be successful because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted it to be done.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It was the desire of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura that Europeans and Americans would come here (Mayapur dhama) and chant Hare Krsna mantra. That prophecy is now being fulfilled, and that is my satisfaction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Western world, there is no such thought (as in my books). They agree. So why it is revolutionary? Because there is an attempt to glorify Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nothing more. There is no literary career.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our test tube is: if one does not know Krsna, if one does not know how to follow Bhagavad-gita, we immediately take him as a rascal. That's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we become fixed up in this resolution, that "Whatever we have heard from my guru, the representative of Krsna, I must execute. I do not care for my personal convenience or inconvenience. This is my life and soul," then your life is perfect.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna sometimes became sick and nobody could cure Him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Personally one can understand how much he is advanced in spiritual life. Spiritual life does not mean that a sannyasi is smoking and drinking tea, one gallon of tea. That is not spiritual life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means they are creating a society of swans, not of crows.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is a story in Sanskrit, udarendriyanam. Udarendriyanam. There was a meeting of all the parts of the senses, that, "We are working, and the stomach is sitting idly, and he is simply eating. So let us get into strike. We shall not work."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When I take this Bhagavad-gita book, I see one picture, that Krsna is so kind that He has taken the chariot driver, sarathi, of Arjuna. He is His devotee. So Sri Krsna is so kind that He can accept the position of a servant because Arjuna was ordering.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Alexander and the thief.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bilvamangala Thakura voluntarily made himself blind.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are doing the same thing. When we go to God we ask Him, "Kindly give me the bundle on my head. My family become may happy. I may have a large amount of money to enjoy material things." We ask that. That is our foolishness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The mother said, "My dear son, we are so poor, we cannot give anything. But if Krsna gives, He is dina-bandhu, the friend of the poor. So if He gives something to you, you can promise".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have got hundreds and thousands of servants who I haven't got to pay. This is spiritual relationship.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti is not applicable anywhere except in relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Simply preaching, glorifying, or speaking about the Lord, that is also kirtana. And performing kirtana as we do here in the temple, with mrdanga and karatala, chanting, that is also kirtana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Shah Jahan.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you begin your service in Krsna consciousness, that is perfect service. That is perfect life. So the Krsna consciousness movement is trying to raise the human society to the perfect platform of rendering service.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Saguna means...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Saguna means...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As soon as we hear about Krsna attentively and try to assimilate it, then the purification of the heart begins.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna dictated that "You are sitting here (in Radha-Damodara Temple) very peacefully without any botheration. No, you go to the Western countries. Teach them".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Monkey's business is simply waste of time. He's very busy. You'll find always busy. So the busy fool is dangerous. There are four classes of men: lazy intelligent, busy intelligent, lazy fool and busy fool. So first-class man is lazy intelligent.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are not accustomed, they'll become mad simply by chanting. It's difficult. You cannot imitate Haridasa Thakura, that "Now I shall go in a secluded place and chant Hare Krsna." It is not possible, sir.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is religion. Not only surrender, but to act as He desires, or you become a lover of God. This is first-class religion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Wherefrom the citric acid chemical comes? Because the living entity's there in the tree. Therefore the conclusion should be the chemicals come from life; life does not come from chemical.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Radha-Krsna lila is not material. One who understands Radha-Krsna lila as material, they are misled. Krsna cannot enjoy anything material.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First spiritual knowledge is this, that "I am not this body." Then the spiritual knowledge begins. Otherwise there is no possibility of spiritual knowledge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the purpose of Krsna consciousness movement: wholesale, thorough, overhauling of the human society. We have not manufactured anything, concocted things. It is very scientific.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is very instructive struggle between the atheist and the theist. This story of Prahlada Maharaja is eternally true. There is always a struggle between the atheist and the theist.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You should be fully conscious, that "Everything belongs to Krsna and nothing to us." Then Krsna becomes your suhrt. He takes charge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srimad-Bhagavatam is so nice, if you practice anywhere, any condition, simply by reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, you will be happy. So adopt this practice and make your spiritual life perfect more and more.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mukti means no more material body. That is called mukti. We are now conditioned by this material body. In the material world, we are changing one body after another, but there is no mukti. There is no liberation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I love the soul. This is the fact. This is atmavit, atma-tattva-vit. And why I love soul? Because I love Krsna. Soul is part and parcel of Krsna. So why I am so much fond of soul? Because it is part and parcel of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So long we have got this body, material body, we must be unhappy. First of all, we must try to understand why we are unhappy. We are unhappy because we are in this material body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Shortcut of "demon-cracy" is "democracy." All the demons and rogues, they gather together, somehow or other votes, and occupy the seat, and the business is plundering.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the study of Krsna, that if you become Krsna conscious, a sincere servant of Krsna, don't be agitated by the dangerous condition of this material world. You simply depend on Krsna, and He'll save you.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is available so cheaply for the people, especially kalau, in this age of Kali. Still, we are reluctant to chant the holy name.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God has nothing to do. He is self-sufficient. Neither He has got any aspiration.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Kovida means intelligent, very intelligent person. So what should he try for? Tasyaiva hetoh: to get shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna. Human life should only endeavor how to get in touch of the lotus feet of Krsna. That should be the only one business.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Actually, our material conditioned life means the mind is covered with dirt, all unclean, dirty things. That is the disease.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti is only for Bhagavan. Not that "My bhakti for this or that, for this demigod, for that demigod, for my family, for my country, for my society, for my wife, for my cat, for my dog." This is not bhakti. They are imitation only. That is lust.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The material world is shadow reflection of the spiritual world. Unless the original thing is there in the spiritual world, it cannot be reflected in the material world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Guru means who is above the siddhas. Krsna-tattva-vetta. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei guru haya. One cannot become guru unless he knows krsna-tattva. Not ordinary man. The yogis, the karmis, the jnanis, they cannot become guru. That is not sanctioned.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Dehi means the possessor, the owner of the body. It is said clearly, and we can understand that when I meditate upon my body, actually what I am. So if one is deep thinker, he'll immediately understand that "I am not this body".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Communists means the so-called low-class people, sudras and candalas, they are now in majority. They have formed a government that on principle, as soon as some brahmana comes for government service, he will reject. So the brahmanas are now hiding.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because he's a rascal, he's his greatest enemy. So just get out of this rascaldom, and you become your friend. Nobody is enemy. You are yourself your enemy. Nobody is enemy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All the good ideas we are manufacturing, they will be manifested in God consciousness automatically. Therefore our duty should be, if we want to make all human being well-behaved, then we must try to make every one of them God conscious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Adhoksaja means knowledge which beyond your perception. But there is source of knowledge, adhoksaja. Therefore God's another name is Adhoksaja.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually, if we study what is the position of chemical theory, the so-called scientists, they could not produce life from chemicals, although their theory is that from matter life comes.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A man is suffering from some disease, infected. That does not mean when the physician comes to treat him he is also infected. He knows how to protect himself, disinfectant.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone is in agreement with God. That is spiritual world. Therefore there is no question of revolution.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone has got experience. When we want to do something wrong, there is conscience: "Don't do it." "No, no, let me do." There is struggle. So this is the struggle between the soul and the Supersoul.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Either you are in temple or outside the temple, you'll be able to see Krsna always - if you practice.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't try to approach Krsna directly, jump over. That is useless. As you receive knowledge through the steps, parampara system, similarly, we should approach Krsna through these step.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Dhari' macha na chonya pani, that we should fish, but don't touch the water. If on the plea of fishing, you become fall down in the water and you are gone, washed away, then what is this?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Deity worship is arcanam. Chanting is vandanam. Dasyam, to work for Krsna, go and see people, preach Krsna consciousness, distribute books.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am speaking to you; this is also kirtanam. And you are hearing; this is bhakti. Sravanam kirtanam, about Krsna. The chanting, dancing about Krsna, this is bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are printing Krishna literature almost in all languages of Europe, in English language, in Spanish language, in French language, in Swedish language, in Dutch and German language, and then Italian, we are publishing, and it is being sold like hotcakes.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here, in the material world, as we are engaged, unalloyed happiness is not possible. But if you actually want unalloyed happiness, then you have to be advanced in spiritual consciousness, unalloyed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Grow grass, let them (the cows) pasture.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Geneva lake. And a few steps forward, a French lake. So either to the French or Geneva, it does not belong. It belongs to God. He's a fool. Why don't you say, "God's lake"?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Full knowledge means "What I am, what is God, what is this material world, what is our relationship." That is called knowledge. And that knowledge, when practically applied in life, that is called vijnanam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone less than human being, they cannot inquire about the Absolute Truth: "What is the aim of life? What is the Absolute Truth? What I am? What is my relationship?" These things are the subject matter for discussion in the human form of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone is serving his senses. This is the position. This is dharmasya glanir bhavati. As soon as we are engaged in serving our senses, that is dharmasya glanih. And as soon as we agree to serve the senses of Krsna, that is dharma.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not rejecting; it is reforming. The Catholic religion also teaches love of God, or love of Christ. So if I say the truth, it will not be very palatable, but this movement is reformation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is a fact that so long you'll be here in this material world, however you may try to adjust things to become happy, it will be never possible. It will be never possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Instead of serving our senses, if we serve the senses of Krsna, that is perfection of life. So you learn how to serve the senses of Krsna, you'll be happy. That's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In our Krsna consciousness movement we are educating people that "You are always subordinate to Krsna. You surrender unto Him and you be happy. Do not remain in rebellious condition of life. Just surrender to God and you will be happy".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In order to stop this stupidity of serving our senses, which will never come to an end, simply increase our bondage, we have to come to the spiritual master. He'll teach how to convert or to divert the activities of the senses to please Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want to learn the transcendental subject matter, then you must adopt three things. First of all surrender. Find out that kind of person where you can surrender. If there is no surrender, it is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you take the shelter of the plug which is connected with the powerhouse, you get immediately electricity. Similarly, if you take shelter of a person who is coming in the parampara system...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you keep this parampara system and if you try to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then whatever you do, that is perfection. It doesn't matter. The test is whether Krsna is satisfied, whether your spiritual master is satisfied.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you are defective, if you have got so many defects in your life, how you can become teacher? You are a cheater.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I never criticized church, mosque, never. Because whatever it may be, at least there is God consciousness. So they're good. I criticize only these rascals, disobey the commandments.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I hear from a perfect person, and I distribute the knowledge the same way, without any change. So Krsna gives us knowledge in the Bhagavad-gita. We are distributing the same knowledge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am writing all these books simply for selling, not for reading. This is not good.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prasanna means happy mode of life. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma. What is the happy mode of life? Na socati na kanksati. He does not lament. He does not hanker.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Practically the majority of the human society, they are Christian. They are the persons who are indulging in killing. And where is Christian? Judging from the Ten Commandments, there is not a single Christian, not a single.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who has got no brain substance but cow dung, they will understand something else. So we are selecting, or even if he is filled up with cow dung, by this Krsna consciousness education, we can make him su-medha, fine brain.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The spirit soul is person as much as God is also person. Imperson means the covering. Try to understand. The covering is impersonal, not the living being. He is covered. He is not imperson. He is person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Artificially we are thinking it is American pain or it is Indian pain. That is artificial. This artificial covering has to be removed. Then we come to Krsna consciousness. Feelings, consciousness is not American, African or Indian.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My wife gave birth at the age of fourteen years. She is still living. She is ten years younger than me. So sixty-eight, sixty-nine she is. She gave birth child at the age of fourteen. In 1918 I was married, and 1921 she gave birth to child, my first son.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja's Guru Maharaja, he was illiterate, Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja. He could not sign even his name. But my Guru Maharaja was the best scholar of his time. He accepted him as guru.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Minority, majority, all these are foolishness. The whole platform is mistaken. Rupa Gosvami was a minister. He was in the majority. But voluntarily, he accepted minority. He went to Vrndavana and living alone, underneath a tree.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Majority wants to be godless. So government is following that. Therefore they are against our movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is within you. He'll give you. As soon as you become a pure devotee, all dictation will come from within. And besides that, Krsna is helping, inside and outside. Outside is spiritual master; inside Krsna Himself. Where is the difficulty?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like in New Vrindaban. They are coming to the city for preaching. So not absolutely we can abstain immediately because we have been dependent so long, many, many lives. You cannot. But the ideal should be introduced gradually.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are two isvaras. I am also isvara. So far my, this body is concerned or my family is concerned, I am controlling. But the supreme controller, He is controlling everything. That is God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The majority of Indian population, they are personalists. Yes, majority. Either they worship God or demigod, but they are personalists. Recently the Mayavadi philosophers, they have poisoned, the impersonalism, calamity. God is person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The best example are the gopis. They, they had no other business than to keep Krsna always within the heart. Gopis requested Krsna, "Please, if You get out from our hearts then we can concentrate to our household duties.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sravanam kirtanam, this is our main business. Sravanam. If you don't hear, what you will do? You will do simply sense gratification. That's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Somehow or other if you can engage them in chanting and dancing, the whole world will be united. What the United Nations has failed, this movement can do - if it is not checked by the rascals.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Some people use the argument, Srila Prabhupada, that by this advancement of technology, it will free us to think of philosophical.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vivasvan means the present predominating deity of the sun globe. Just like we have got a president, similarly, but he has got a particular name, similarly, the president of the sun globe is called Surya, Suryadeva. But he has got a particular name.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To write books, that is also krsna-kirtana. And to read books, that is also krsna-kirtana. Not that simply this kirtana is kirtana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for giving education to the people of this sankhya-yoga system or bhakti-yoga system, because it is the recommended process by authorities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is educational movement. It is not a religious sentiment; it is a science. And as we have got our books also. You have seen. There is demonstration of the book. We have got already twenty books of four hundred pages each.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is tendency for dancing, for chanting, for singing. They are holding ball dances, and musical instrument. The same thing we are propagating: chant and dance Hare Krsna mantra. This is satisfaction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is no difference between the internal and external instructor. We should take advantage of this instruction. That is called vyavasayatmika buddhih, fixed-up resolution. Fixed-up resolution.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you chant, that is also kirtana; when you distribute book, that is also kirtana. When you read book, that is also kirtana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Woman also should be taken care of. They should not be given freedom. That is not good for them. They should be protected by the father in childhood, by the husband in youthhood, and by the grown-up children in old age.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We sometimes accept one guru. But why should we accept guru? What is the necessity of accepting guru? This is the necessity for tattva-jijnasa, for inquiring about the Absolute Truth.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got fifty bighas of land, and I have calculated in Mayapur, setting aside twenty bighas for the temple and grazing ground for the cows, thirty bighas of land.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have been discussing the aim of life. That is described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that kamasya nendriya-pritih. Kama... Labho jiveta yavata. The purpose of life is not sense gratification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We do not make cheap disciples. Our condition is first of all you must give up these things: illicit sex and meat-eating and intoxication, up to the drinking of tea and cigarette. You have to give up. And gambling.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are not after the office; we are after educating people. Yes. Even if you go to office, you cannot do. Even if give manifesto, that you will stop slaughterhouse, and you are elected a senator, you cannot stop. Because they are majority there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You just keep one picture of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda, and the family members sit down, around. Just like we are sitting now and chanting: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. This kind of performing yajna, is there any expenditure?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have got very nice good planet, very nice city, Rome and London and America, this and that. That's all right. But as soon as it is dark, you cannot see anything. The mercy of sunshine, Krsna's mercy, is there. Therefore you can see. You can enjoy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can criticize, if you are right. You cannot criticize wrongly.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless my Guru Maharaja had produced me, how this Krsna consciousness movement is going all over the world? And what he has done? Simply criticizing is no use. We want to see practical. Do you understand or not?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The leaders are rascals.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The dirty things are stocked within our heart. Just like in the water, in a pond sometimes you will find all of a sudden one bubble comes from within. Phat! That means the dirty things are within, stocked.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The center is open to give chance people to hear about Krsna, to chant about Krsna, to see Krsna, to take prasadam of Krsna. So we request, take advantage of these facilities and be fully Krsna conscious and make your life successful.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So we, of course, we are not so advanced, but we have got many examples of advanced devotees. Still there are in India. You will find in Vrndavana and other places. Actually, they have no means - simply depending.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna-bhajana is not so easy. But if you voluntarily, if after hearing so many qualities of Krsna, transcendental qualities, if you somehow or other become attracted to Krsna consciousness, then your life is successful.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you make a revolution of this sankirtana movement, everyone chanting and dancing, the government will be changed immediately. So push this movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

For every action of Krsna consciousness movement there is support from Vedas, Vedic literature. Just like whenever we speak something we immediately give evidence from the Bhagavad-gita.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't give up the company of devotees. Then it will be lost. We are opening so many centers because to cooperate between devotees and devotees. Even there is inconvenience, don't give up the company of the devotees.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti means the business between Bhagavan and bhakta. That is bhakti. If there is no Bhagavan then where is bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes a diksa-guru is not present always. Therefore one can take learning, instruction, from an advanced devotee. That is called the siksa-guru.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I was reading in the newspaper that a few days ago India exploded a nuclear bomb, an atomic bomb, underground. This was the first step.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I find an overall bad atmosphere in India. Resentment against many of the devotees. Party politics and different things like that are going on.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He says, "That may be so, but in the Bhagavad-gita Krsna orders Arjuna that 'You must kill.' ".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He says that he is a fruitarian. He does not eat vegetables. He says that to be good consciousness in spiritual life, one must not eat any vegetables but only fruit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He says but he doesn't sit on a throne and he doesn't ask people to pay obeisances in front of him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He said, if it were an absolute truth, it would be evident to everyone (yes. But everyone is not advanced in knowledge) He says the question remains because there are other, very spiritually advanced men who don't accept that idea.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God not merely is there to improve upon what you might say would be a natural goodness of man, but man has a natural deficiency he needs God to overcome. And as he overcomes, of course, he progresses further and he is enriched by God?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First they say the songs are maya, then the tunes are maya. They have, behind my back I hear all kinds of things they are saying. So nobody takes my words seriously. Even though I may quote from any scripture right, they don't respect me.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, earlier you were speaking that Krsna means everything past, present and future and...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So an interpretation of a scripture, whether it be Bible or Bhagavad-gita, cannot simply be an opinion, but it must be based on logic and reason.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prabhupada, Jesus had a relationship with Krsna, or God, as his father.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Not in ISKCON. No, no it doesn't. They do not respect sannyasis.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My organization is not directly concerned with giving people brains.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is benevolent, and the material nature is not.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is written in many scriptures that God is light.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It can be realized in small rural communities which acquire the necessary surface to have each member in the community to be self-sufficient. Like in the Middle Ages the monks were self-sufficient but outside this, the peasants were really always hungry.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Your spirituality is in a Rolls Royce and you're all into money, you Krsnas. You rip off people in the streets. When you said "Violence with violence," that's what you believe. Jesus turned the other cheek.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Well, they say "You are distributing food, and we are also distributing food. You are opening schools, and we are also opening schools."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We who had this Vedic knowledge and all the things which you have just now said is the solution to all our problems, with all this knowledge, we have not been able to keep our society free from so many evils to come.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This gentleman says that real wisdom is not manifested by any exterior show, and that it is interior, and the real sage cannot be seen.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They say that this is, the body is made by God. Why cover it up? Nakedness is the work of God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Their argument is that Krsna consciousness is just another kind of conditioning, that you leave one kind of conditioning, a material conditioning, but then you also enter into another kind of conditioning when you live in the temple.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The difference between the transcendentalists and the scientists is that they do not know the standard of research.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You said that researches are all right, but there has to be a standard.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When they chant and dance, I simply remember Bhaktivinoda Thakura. That's all. I pray to Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "Now they have come to your shelter. Give them protection." That's all. What can I do more? I cannot do anything more.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are learning here Krsna's service. So Krsna's service is here, and if you are perfect, then Krsna's service is there after death also, the same thing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Any moment, any time you spend for thinking of Krsna, working for Krsna, chanting for Krsna, eating for Krsna, dancing for Krsna, that time is saved.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A murkha, a dull rascal, is very beautiful so long he does not speak. Because as soon as he speaks, then his knowledge, his learning, his capacity, his position will be immediately exposed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A man comes and joins this Krsna consciousness movement, and in the middle he falls down, he does not make further progress because he falls down. But whatever he has done, that is permanent credit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee never prays to Krsna. They have to undergo so much trouble; still they never pray to Krsna. They know that "Krsna will give us ultimately protection. Let us do our duty".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I was translating Bhagavatam, and when three books were published, I prepared myself to go to America, singlehanded. Not for getting any material reputation, but simply to try, because I knew my Guru Maharaja was very, very anxious to preach this cult.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I accept a guru, but in my mind I remain independent, "Oh, why shall I abide by the orders of guru?" That means there is no surrender. There is no surrender. It is false. It is just to satisfy some motive, but that will not help.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He knows everything, even within your heart, what you're thinking, what you are planning. It cannot be concealed to Krsna. This is our foolishness, that we are doing something, concealing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

For management, this division must be there. Otherwise it will be mismanagement. Yes. A Vaisnava coming to the position of doing the work of a sudra does not mean he has become sudra. He's Vaisnava.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everything will be satisfied. Just like our women, Krsna conscious, they are working. They don't want equal rights with men. It is due to Krsna consciousness. They are cleansing the temple, they are cooking very nicely. They are satisfied.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't think that because you are teaching a sudra how to work like this, you have become a sudra. You are not sudras, any circumstances. Even though you teach to a sudra how to work like a sudra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement, is killing these Jagai-Madhai principles: no illicit sex, no intoxication, no gambling, and no meat-eating. So one side killing the Jagai-Madhai principle, and other side protection, chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Judgment is for the criminals, the rascals who are not Krsna conscious. But if you become Krsna conscious, even if you cannot finish the job in this life, even if you fall, still, you will be given another chance of human body, to begin where you ended.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Invite them, "Come and see." Give them prasadam. This is our policy. We are not constructing big, big buildings and temples for our convenience. For their convenience. This is sannyasi.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you catch up Krsna's lotus feet very tightly, then you will not fall down.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our only duty is to carry out the order of the Supreme. Other things is already done by Him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One cannot become guru unless he knows krsna-tattva. Not ordinary man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who is engaged in Krsna's service with firm faith and devotion, it means he has already freed himself from all kinds of reactions of sinful activities. This is the test.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Not that sitting one place doing nothing and become Krsna conscious. Then there will be fall down. Don't imitate Haridasa Thakura. That is not possible. You must work.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My point is: by serving the Supreme Lord, one gives the best service to the family, because if one becomes a Vaisnava, pure Vaisnava, the whole family, up to fourteen generations, they become liberated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is ready to talk with you. He has come. He has descended in arca-murti to talk with you, to be visible by you. Now you make yourself ready and fit to talk with you; then He will exchange conversation. This is possible. This is a qualification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu distributed this Krsna love immediately, anyone. That is Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu's, I mean to say, contribution to the human society. If you simply become under His lotus feet, then love of Krsna is very easily achieved.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So-called brahmacari, so-called grhastha, or so-called sannyasi, then you will fall down.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So long I deny Krsna, that is disunity, and as soon as I agree, "Krsna, yes," then this is unity. This is unity. Unity does not mean that Krsna and Arjuna become united, homogeneous.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

People want to be satisfied with little benefit, with little benefit. No, that is not our mission. We want the supreme benefit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Building is not very important. Work is important. Activity is important. I started my movement not with buildings, but real activity. So building is opulence. You can do without opulence. You can start anything, even underneath a tree.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One living being is providing, maintaining all other living beings. So our position is being maintained by God and God is maintainer. Our position is being predominated and God is predominator.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like you brush something with broomstick or something and throw away the dust, similarly, the dusty things, so-called sentimental religionism, is not here in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is a science. Parama-guhyam: very confidential.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna-prapti hoy jaha hate: by the favor of guru one gets Krsna. Yasya prasadad bhagavat. Everywhere. This is bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. So one who has not attained this state, what is this bhagavad-bhakti? This is rascaldom.

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Love does not mean "I love myself" and meditate upon love. No. There must be another person, lover. Therefore dvaitavada. As soon as you come to the bhakti school, there must be dvaitavada: two - Krsna and Krsna's devotee.

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Jugala-piriti: the loving dealings between Radha and Krsna. Jugala means "couple"; piriti means "love."

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If we are not serious about understanding the science of Krsna, if you take some opportunity to become this, to become that, and make some money, and this and that, then the whole thing is finished. For opportunists there is no Krsna consciousness.

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Our religion does not say asceticism. Our religion teaches to love God. You can love God in this dress. There is no harm.

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This human life is meant for understanding God. That is the only business of human life.

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This material body is my covering, just like dress. Every one of us is dressed, covered by some kind of dress. Similarly, all living beings, they are dressed by the material covering. The gross dress or coat and the subtle dress.

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The process is to transfer yourself from material energy to spiritual energy. We are under energy. The God has got two energies - material energy and spiritual energy. We are also energy. We are marginal energy.

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Lord Jesus Christ is son of God, the best son of God, so we have all respect for him. Yes. Anyone who is teaching people about God consciousness, he is respectful to us. It does not matter in which country, in which atmosphere, he was preaching.

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A sudra, if he is working, he cannot take brahmana initiation, but he can take hari-nama, is that it?

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According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible?

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All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna?

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Also based on karma, that one man is meant to have more than another of material things? Is that an argument against...?

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And Bon Maharaja also has told he is a graduate. What is he?

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Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?

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Any other type of concentration (meditation) you do?

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Are sudras supposed to take sannyasa also?

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Are you God?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At Radha-Damodara, did you cook yourself?

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Brahmana is not to accept any employment?

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But from '65-'66 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you.

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But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world?

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But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him?

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But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance?

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Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?

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Can our religion bring something more than other religions?

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Can you say something about the training for a brahmana (in the varnasrama college)?

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Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna?

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Did you write all these books?

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Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop?

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Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye?

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Do we use machines and modern methods on our asramas and farms.

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Do you believe in love of God, and that God is a person? Some people say that God is not a person, and we say God is a person.

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Do you believe in the Holy Bible?

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Do you have an opinion on the Hebrew scripture, the Kabbalah?

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Do you have the powers of Jesus? Can you say to a person, "Rise up and walk," when they're paralyzed?

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Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united?

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Do you think meditation is a way to see God inside yourself?

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Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group?

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Do you think that the Russian society is not put off by this bhajana?

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Do you think that, that stage (to be united on the spiritual platform) is possible within this generation?

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Does a devotee, who is working as a sudra, get second initiation?

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Does God need service?

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Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu?

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Does karma-yoga mean to follow exactly the sastras?

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Does Krsna makes us ignorant or are we ignorant?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Does such a comet (comet Kohoutek) affect consciousness as well as matter?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This morning these press reporters were asking me, "What is the purpose of your movement?" So I said, "To educate the mudhas, that's all." This is the sum and substance of this Krsna consciousness movement, that we are trying to educate the mudhas.

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They (persons living in the sun) have got fiery body. As your body is made of earth, the fish body is made of water, and the so many others, different elements, so similarly, there the body is made of earth..., er, fire, fiery body.

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Krsna did not come to reorganize the so-called dharmas: Hindu dharma, Muslim dharma, Christian dharma, Buddha's dharma. No. According to Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo 'tra.

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Sambandha, what is our connection God. That is called sambandha. And then abhidheya. According to that relationship we have to act. That is called abhidheya. And why do we act? Because we have got the goal of life, to achieve the goal of life.

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We are thinking independent and we are planning so many things independently to become happy. It is not possible. That is not possible. That is maya's illusory play.

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In the Bhagavad-gita Arjuna says, asamaurdhva. Asama: "There is no equal to you, asama, and urdhva, nobody is greater than You." That is God. Supreme means who has no equal, neither anyone is greater than. Everyone is under. That is called asama urdhva.

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Preach this truth to the world, that "You are all rascals. Why you are thinking independently?" Huh? "Why I am rascal?" "Because you are thinking independently. That is the proof that you are a rascal".

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You go to the Parliament and Westminster Abbey. They have kept all the statues of Sir Isaac Newton and this Churchill, this.... Mean, they want to show that "It is only our nation who has produced all these intelligent persons".

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Because you have accepted this material body, you are foolishly thinking that you are not eternal. Otherwise, as God is eternal, you are also eternal.

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The logic of the frog in the well.

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Mrgari the hunter.

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These boys, they are playing mrdangas, they are playing cymbals, dancing, every item is taken into account. Every item. Not that it is going futile. No. That is Krsna consciousness, that is bhakti-marga.

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These sixteen thousand wives, how they became wives? You know the story, that many beautiful, sixteen thousand beautiful, I mean to say, king's daughters were kidnapped by the asura. What is the name of that asura? Bhaumasura.

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Apart from his life, we are especially stressing on the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.

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Real welfare activity means to see to the interest of the soul. So what is the interest of the soul? The interest of the soul is that the soul is part and parcel of Krsna, God.

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I especially request my disciples who are cooperating with me that try to publish books as many as possible and distribute throughout the whole world. That will satisfy Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as well as Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes some man comes in our society; after staying for days, he goes away. This is praksepata, thrown away. Unless he's very sincere, he cannot stay with us.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A hunter spread his net. So some little birds, they fell down in the net and they are crying.

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We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called parampara servant.

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Krsna consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master.

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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.

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Gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-dasanudasah. This is our process. We don't approach Krsna directly. We must begin our service to the Krsna's servant. And who is Krsna's servant? One who has become the servant of another Krsna's servant.

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Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, melancholy.

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I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying.

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When I was a child my father gave me one red gun, and then I was not more than eight years. Then, after getting one, I said, "I must have another one".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The rabbit killed a big lion by intelligence.

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You require a leader; we require a leader. That is wanted. Without leader we cannot go. But if you select a bad leader, blind leader, then you remain blind.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have made a Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. That is my will, and I have given my will that fifty percent of the collection should be spent for reprinting the books and fifty percent should be spent for spreading the movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Krsna is the Supreme Person. He knows everything. You take the information, knowledge, from Krsna. Then your life will be successful. That is the propaganda of this Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This initiation by the grace of guru and Krsna, do not take it very leniently. Take it very seriously. It is a great opportunity.

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We are servant; we take the remnants of foodstuff left by Krsna. We are neither vegetarian nor nonvegetarian. We are prasad-ian.

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Sleeping - oh, there is no limit, twenty-four hours sleeping if it is possible. Go on, this is going on. Eating, sleeping, mating. And defense - and discover atomic weapon, this weapon, that weapon, and kill innocent persons, unnecessarily, defense.

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So don't spoil the movement by manufacturing ideas. Don't do that. Go on in the standard way, keep yourself pure; then movement is sure to be successful. But if you want to spoil it by whimsical, then what can be done?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This landing point is very dangerous. If the pilot cannot handle very nicely, immediately smashed. The crash takes place while going up and coming down, generally. That is due to mismanagement of the pilot.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am cutting throat of one poor animal under my protection. If somebody cuts my throat, how much I am unhappy. And I'm doing the same business and I'm human being? How can I call myself a human being? I have no sense even of compassion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By serving the spiritual master, you keep your weapon always sharpened. And then take help from Krsna, the words of spiritual master sharpen weapon and the spiritual master is happy, then Krsna immediately will help. He gives you strength.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is our mission. All of you who have come to Krsna consciousness movement, that is our request, that you, all of you, become guru but don't speak nonsense. That is request. Simply speak what Krsna has said.

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Here in this material world there is no love because the man and woman, they have no idea that "I mix with the man, the man who satisfies desires with me." No. "I will satisfy my desires." This is the basic principle.

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Kali-yuga is so fallen. If a young man sees another young man he's enjoying with another young girl, then naturally his lusty desires increases. So these things are forbidden therefore.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All the students who used to come to England for higher studies, naturally he'd carry one white elephant. They used to say - it is not my coined words - they used to say, "Oh, to maintain European wife, it is like maintaining white elephant".

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All the gopis, girls, before their marriage, they prayed to Katyayani that "You give me Krsna as my husband." So Krsna..., it is not possible socially, but Krsna makes such a plan that He accepted every one of them as His wife. That is vastrana-lila.

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The mosquito will bite, the flies will disturb you, the bugs are there, and then the dogs will bark unnecessarily. You are passing, and his business is barking. Ha? "Bow! Bow! Bow!" So this is also suffering.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First of all, I started the book. That is, by Krsna's grace, it is becoming successful. Then diorama. Then I shall give next idea.

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You cannot stop death. You cannot stop old age. You can manufacture advanced medicine, but why don't you stop disease? Take this pill, there will be no more disease. Where is that science.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Mrgari the hunter.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is for very intelligent, high-class, fortunate persons. Because they are going to guide the destiny of the human society.

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At the present moment, there is no intelligent class of men. All laborer, worker class of men, fourth class. No first class, second class. Therefore society is in chaotic condition. There is no brain.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here in this Bhagavad-gita, it is ordered that the human society must be divided into four divisions, and they should cooperate for understanding God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As cats and dogs, if they are practiced to run here and there, either on legs or on cars, is that advancement of civilization?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are showing some mysticism. Stop death. Then I shall see your mysticism. What is this nonsense mysticism? Can you stop death? Is it possible? Then what is the meaning of this mysticism? All bogus.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone is trying to become God. Now practice here how to become a servant of God. And if you are qualified, factually, that now you are rest assured that you have become a servant of God, that is bhakti-marga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not Krsna consciousness movement is for the lazy fellow. No. It is meant for the strong man: strong in body, strong in mind, strong in determination. Everything strong, strong in brain.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I never came here because American boys or people wanted me. They did not feel any need of my presence. But I came here, because it is my duty. My Guru Maharaja ordered me.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness does not mean to keep a set of men lazy, who cannot work. That is not Krsna consciousness. Everyone must work to his capacity. Prescribed duties.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is how to increase detachment for this material life. Therefore it is called vairagya-vidya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prabhupada, you were a chemist before, but I think you are the greatest alchemist to have taken so many leaden souls and turned them into golden Vaisnavas.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement is sri-caitanya-mano-'bhistam.

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In trance, you'll find yogi picture, their trance, they are in meditation, completely silent, stop breathing and seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, within the heart. This is actual yoga system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna did not come to establish some sectarian religious system. That is not God's system. God is for everyone. God is not for the Hindus, for the Muslims, for the Christians, or anyone. God is for everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement means to find out the supreme father. Supreme father. That is the sum and substance of this movement. If we do not know who is our father, that is not a very good position.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement can be pushed on vigorously so long we are devotees, otherwise it will be finished. It cannot be conducted by any outsiders. No. Only the devotees. That is the secret. So long we remain devotees, our movement will go, without any check.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our subject matter is not material things, that somehow or other you get a car and a good apartment and a good wife, then all your problems solved. No. That is not solution of problems. The real problem is how to stop your death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is Krsna consciousness movement, that we are inducing people to understand the problem. It is not a sectarian movement or so-called religious movement. It is not a religion. It is educational cultural movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I tell you frankly, whatever little success is there in this Krsna consciousness movement, I simply believed what was spoken by my Guru Maharaja. You also continue that. Then every success will come.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I came to this foreign country without any acquaintance. So Krsna has sent so many fathers to love me. In that way I am fortunate. At the last stage if I live very peacefully, that is a great mercy of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone is hankering, working so hard day and night, and there is fire brigade, "gon-gon-gon-gon." It is going on. (laughter) This is life. That is not happiness. Here is happiness. Come here.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did...?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do you think that some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Could you go over each of the three functions you've been mentioning-eating, sleeping and sex - and tell me what specifically, what rules or hints that you would give people who are seeking spiritual enlightenment to aid in their lives in these ways.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Servant's business is to surrender, not to argue with the master or to claim that "I am equal with you." These are all fanatic, mad proposal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Gaudiya Matha people, those who were leaders, they wanted to supersede the order of Guru Maharaja. Therefore it was failure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So we generally speak that Arjuna was military commander. So before understanding Bhagavad-gita, he was commander, and after understanding, he remained a commander, but he became Krsna conscious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Anything grown in the garden, that is hundred times valuable than it is purchased from the market.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavad-gita teaches how to become a brave hero in the battlefield.

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Woman should stay under the father, under the husband, and under the elderly sons. Nothing more.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are all recklessly wasteful sons of God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like the electricity energy, is coming from the same source. But it is being utilized for different purposes. Sometimes it is helping to make cooler, and sometimes it is helping to make heater.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have seen Krsna's effulgence is coming. That is the source of everything. That expansion of that effulgence is the brahmajyoti, and in that brahmajyoti, innumerable spiritual planets, material planets, are generated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are many differences. The same example, electricity. So many things are working, difference of energy. Even the dictaphone is working, electricity. By the same energy, electricity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When you see the sunshine, moonshine. Krsna says "I am the sunshine, I am the moonshine." So as soon as you see in the morning, sunshine, you see Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Neophyte is neophyte. Why do you bring him to become a devotee? A devotee is different. A "one plus one equal to two," he's not mathematician. He's learning.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He says it's always been difficult for him to keep walking or climbing up the stairs in the right direction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Liberty means whatever you like, you can do. That is liberty. But at the present moment, you cannot do that.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Spiritual training means...

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If my mother would not have been little strict, I would not have gotten any education. My father was very lenient. So she used to force me. One man would take me to school.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can do it (to surrender to Krsna) immediately, but unfortunately you'll not do it. What can be done? There is a story, I may narrate it. One poor man was begging on the street, and Lord Siva and Parvati was passing as ordinary man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot spare our valuable time for bodily comforts, sacrificing our real aim of life, self-realization. That is not civilization. That is animal civilization. First consideration is self-realization.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is no credit for me, but it is only a teeny attempt, and humble attempt. So if one man could do, if you say, some success, why not all of us?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I must explain my position because in these days, a person being worshiped as most exalted personality is something revolution. Because they like democracy, by vote somebody should be elevated however rascal he may be.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you offer prayers, honor to the acarya, then Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased. To please Him you have to please His representative. "If you love me, love my dog".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The world is full of rascals, therefore there is need of so many gurus to teach them. But what is that qualification of the guru? How everyone can become guru?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You become a guru at your home. It is not that you have to make a gigantic show of becoming guru. The father has to become guru, the mother has to become guru.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My father never prayed that "My son may become very rich man." He never prayed like that. Actually, his ardent desire that his son may become a Vaisnava. And my Guru Maharaja's training has put me this position.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When there is not a tinge of karma and jnana, that is pure bhakti. That is Krsna's mission. So everything is there, direction is there. We can guide you, not according to our whims, but according to sastra.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My life is ended, now eighty-one. But so long I shall live I shall make no compromise, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. Drdha-vrata. And that is a fact. Why shall I mislead people?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Never mind we die by preaching. Still, it will be glorious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So we are not devotees, therefore we should first fast. And those who are devotees, they'll take as much as they like. I was telling fasting because I am not a devotee. (laughs) For me fasting is good. If I eat more-atyaharah.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to follow the Gosvamis literature, especially Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, which we have translated in The Nectar of Devotion, every one of you should very carefully read & make progress. Don't be victimized by the Mayavadi so-called Vaisnava.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Tin, tin, tin, tin - International Society String Band, combined together, now we have become a stringed instrument.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When Gandhari saw, she saw that he was not fully naked, so she regretted, "O my dear son, I asked you to come before me naked. Why you have got this...?" "No, Krsna advised." Then she began to smile, that "My attempt is failure." So Krsna knew it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am sitting here, and the bug is also sitting here. That does not mean we are very confidential. No... and bug's business is biting. That kind of association will not help. Association means to develop love for the person. That is association.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One who is surrendered, he can understand. Arjuna is surrendered. In every case he surrendered to Krsna. As soon as there is any problem... Problem or no problem, he surrendered.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to follow. People are searching after God. They do not know God. They are asking this question, "Can you show me God?" So, so many questions are there about God, but here is God, pointed out by Arjuna, a mahajana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whole world, especially at the present moment, it is a great disastrous condition, godless civilization. They won't accept the real God, and they'll create some artificial God and become God, "Everyone is God," like that. No.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The more you become servant of the servant, you are perfect. And as soon as you declare independence, you are rascal. This is the process. We should always remain most obedient servant of my master.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What is that difficulty?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep; he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't think that Krsna consciousness movement, those who are Krsna conscious, they'll become lazy and imitate Haridasa Thakura. That is not Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We do not allow any lazy man. He must be engaged. That is Krsna consciousness movement. That is Krsna's order.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti means three things: bhakta, Bhagavan, and the service. That is bhakti. They're individual.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One intelligent person, he thought, "I shall be free from the touch of Yamaraja by one tactics." What is that? "Stool is very obnoxious. Nobody comes to stool. So let me smear my body, whole body with stool so that Yamaraja will not come and touch me".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Shah Jahan.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is first-class, His devotees are also first-class. The trees, the birds, the cows, and the calves are all first-class. Therefore it is called absolute. No conception of relative, second-class, third-class, fourth-class.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are bound up by the laws of nature, but those who are fools, vimudhatma, under false prestige, such person thinks that he is independent. No. That is not. So this is misunderstanding. So this misunderstanding has to be cleaned. That is the aim of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our present position is bondage. We are bound up by the laws of nature. We may foolishly declare independence - that is our foolishness - but actually we are bound up by the laws of nature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is educating people how to become advanced in devotional service and how to go back home, back to Godhead. And this is not a very difficult task. It is very easy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To become a spiritual master is not easy job. One must be very learned scholar and must have full realization of the self and everything.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are trying to go there, Mars planet, Moon planet, by rising on the sky by their aeroplanes, sputniks. But they have not been able to understand what is the position of these planets. This is called aroha-pantha.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the whole history of Mahabharata, intriguing, politics, and ultimately there was fight between the two parties, Kurus and the Pandavas, to decide. By logic, by morality and other things, everything failed. Then there was declaration of war.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we take the position of Arjuna - sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam prapannam - then Krsna will speak to the disciple like Arjuna, and everything will be clear.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Constantly, twenty-four hours, if you hear and chant. Hear means somebody chants or you chant yourself or hear, or some of your colleague may chant, you hear. Or he may hear, you may chant. This process must go on. This is sravanam kirtanam visnoh.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By gradual process, to bring one to the platform of vasudeve pritir, that is bhakti. Pritir means love, how to love Vasudeva, Krsna. That is civilization - to bring one to the platform of loving Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, melancholy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You don't require any education for this karma. They are making big, big plans to educate people how to work hard. This is waste of time. Educational institution should be for teaching people how to become Krsna conscious, not to become this or that.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are simply dreaming. With few pots we are simply dreaming that "These pots will be increased into so many pots, so many pots, so many pots," then finished. Don't make imagination.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Some new boys come, and as soon as they are given some work, not very good for sense gratification, they go away. That means they are not prepared. It is better they may go away.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't make any addition and alteration of your so-called learned scholarship That will not help you. You must present Bhagavad-gita as it is. There is everything, very easily done, provided we follow parampara system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When I do not act for any material purpose, that means my sense activities are purified, and that is bhakti.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We shall use our hand in cleansing the temple, in playing the instruments, karatala, for chanting. So, ear for hearing Krsna's pastimes, nose for smelling the flower offered to Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This beating with shoes and broomstick is also another tapasya. For men like us, who have no control over the mind, we should practice this tapasya, beating the mind with shoes and broomstick. Then it can be controlled.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My disciples they are part and parcel of me. Whole mission is going on with their cooperation. But if he says that I am equal to my Guru Maharaja, then that is offense.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What I am, then you have to study in this way, whether you are this body or you are something else. Is it not? So that is in the beginning of the Bhagavad-gita explained, dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How to seek a master? How to find a master?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How to give up this bad habit (Krsna is not subjected to your thinking. You have to give up this bad habit first of all, that Krsna will be subordinate to your thinking. That is not God)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Any question, any problem, it is solved not by the whims of the student, but it is solved by the expert master by explaining it very elaborately.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A karmi, he is thinking that "I am poor man. If I become rich man, I will be happy." He is thinking in that way. Jnani is thinking that "Poor and rich doesn't matter. I am Brahman. I am spirit soul. If I merge into the Supreme Brahman I will be happy".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So long one wants to become Brahman, he is ignorant.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That much intelligence, we must have that intelligence, that who is master. Suppose if you want gold, if you do not know where gold can be purchased, then he is cheated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Very simple thing, that you are part and parcel of God. God is eternal. So if you understand God, then you become eternal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why do we say like that? Why? Why you are bringing physical concept He is a person, He is saying. Why do you say physical, material, and this and that way. He is father.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Simply to understand Krsna is liberation. And that is also explained. What is that tattva? How one can understand tattvatah, that is explained by Krsna. Bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah. That tattva is bhakti, not karma, jnana, yoga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because one cannot understand, therefore He has explained karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, hatha-yoga, this yoga. And He has explained also the meaning.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have no higher consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I do not claim that I am Sanskrit scholar, I am this big man, that man, no. Whatever books I have written, only about this-Krsna. In our book in every page you will find Krsna, Krsna, Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I planned that "I must go to America." Yes. That was the reason. Otherwise, generally they go to London. I did not go to London.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The spiritual master will say that "You work like this." So that should be determined. That is karma, guna-karma. Spiritual master sees that he has these qualities. That is natural.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

After you pass the examination, there is no more test. But before coming to the post of recognized devotee, Krsna tests very severely. That one has to pass.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the age of seventy years, nobody goes out. At least from Vrndavana nobody goes at the age of seventy years. But Krsna asked me. I thought that I must go, Guru Maharaja wanted it, Caitanya Mahaprabhu... Let me try.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What Vyasadeva said, your guru will also say the same thing. Not that "So many hundreds of thousands of years have passed away. Therefore I will give you a new formula." No. There is no new formula.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our book distribution is the most important task in our society. Therefore I am giving so much stress and I am working so hard on this. Because this is my life and soul according to the order of my Guru Maharaja.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The aim is how to improve spiritual life. That is grhastha-asrama. And one who has no such aim, he simply wants to enjoy the senses, and for that purpose he's decorating the house, decorating the wife, children - that is called grhamedhi.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

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.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we take it that "Here is an institution where we can have free hotel, free living and free sense gratification," then the whole institution will be spoiled. Be careful. All the GBC's, they should be careful that this mentality may not increase.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our life is simple. We don't want luxury. We don't want luxury, but as we are accustomed in so many ways, as far as possible. But life should be very simple. To increase unnecessary things unnecessarily, that is material life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement will go for ten thousand years without any impediment. You should take this opportunity. You work sincerely; it will increase, it will increase.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you seriously hear and chant, seriously - "Yes, this life I shall engage only for increasing my love of Vasudeva" - if you are determined, it can be done. There is no difficulty. And as soon as you do this, you increase fully your love for Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You mentioned that soon there will not be so much use for automobiles. What will be our means of spreading the sankirtana movement?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Frozen means nasty. I never take frozen. In the beginning I thought, "Oh, it is very nice. You can get fresh vegetable." But they are not at all fresh.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are engaged in Krsna consciousness, devotional service, make your association with them. We are therefore making different centers to give everyone the opportunity to have the association of devotee.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Follow the rules and regulations, worship the Deity, and chant Hare Krsna mantra, as you have given, then you will remain as strong as Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Hard struggle. So Krsna gave us some facility. Now we have got some framework. Do it very cautiously.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Very cautiously and intelligently we have to make progress in spiritual life. Don't take it very insignificantly. We should be very much careful. Otherwise there is falldown, and once falldown means a gap of millions of years.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are so many pains when you're old. The body is not strong. We suffer in so many ways, especially rheumatism and indigestion. Then blood pressure, headache, so many things. Therefore one should be trained up how to become dhira.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Devotee means the first sign will be happy, brahma-bhutah prasannatma. If he's not prasannatma, he's a rascal. He has not entered even devotional life. He's outside. That is the test.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Nectar of Instruction. We should follow, strictly follow. Then prthivim sa sisyat. Then you'll be able to preach and make disciples all over the world. This is the injunction. That is called gosvami. Don't be cheap preacher, cheap guru.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Under the pretext that "Krsna said," "My spiritual master has said," "Prabhupada has said," we manufacture something. Don't do that. Unless you are directly ordered, you cannot do at least such things as to chastise a brahma-bandhu.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The whole devotional process is purificatory process. The more he is purified, he becomes high-class devotee. But the process is the path of liberation. Just like mango. The green mango, this green mango will be ripe mango. The same mango.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is stated in the sastra, nivrtta-tarsair upagiyamanad bhavausadhac chrotra... This is the medicine, panacea, for material disease. So kindly let me hear kirtana as far as possible, long as I live.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere, that He's never out of your vision, and at the same time in Siksastaka prayers Lord Caitanya explains that "Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be twelve years or more." Could you explain this?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually, although the actual number of initiated devotees is still few, there is a growing, ever-growing number of sympathizers - So you make good supporter, then government is yours - Then it's all based on selling your books more and more?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

After the scattering of these Aryans, they have come different place. How is it that we brought all the cultural heritage in north, east and western countries?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Almost everyone, except me perhaps, is concerned about death. But how about the smaller obstacles which nevertheless can make people very depressed, neurotic? How do you recognize and live with them or eliminate them?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Although, Srila Prabhupada, it's somewhat easy for us to convince that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the summary study of all the Vedic literatures, how can we take that Bhagavad-gita is the summary study?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And how to surrender to God, how to do this?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And the interpretation is by you yourself?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And what do you mean by surrendering, sir?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How to surrender?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And you are sure this is the truth?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And you choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Are there any books particularly that focus on all this (when you are able to describe God very philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, then your education is perfect)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What is the response in the Islamic countries?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are no changes in the higher nature?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So how can one be out of this cakra?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So I have no other goal but to have the phala of past karmas. Or can I change my fate?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How can all sections of Hindus be made to take an equal interest and have the same sense of belonging to the Hindu religion?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All right. But in terms of specific, say, choosing, specific things, specific details (Krsna said this knowledge to Arjuna and Arjuna said to others and it is open. Everyone can take it, there is no secrecy. We have to accept only, that's all)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the family. Any formal?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Anxiety for one's self is maya?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They use flesh for curing diseases?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Are there different prajapatis for the different species?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Is that kind of information given in the Vedas (a class of men, they are called vaidyas (doctors). They know all these herb, which herb is medicine for certain disease, and they sell in the market)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Animal-killing is only allowed when it is absolutely necessary, for medicine. Suppose by killing one animal hundreds of lives are saved, so that is allowed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How does one establish clearly (your studies of philosophy will be perfect when you establish, "Yes, there is God.")?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are so many translations (of the Gita). How does one decide...?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you?

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Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world?

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What is the response in Iran?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have some project here. Can you kindly explain what is that?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You are selling your books in Moscow?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This sankalpa-vikalpa is there as long as we have our independence, though. Even as devotees, that accepting and rejecting? That is there even in devotees?

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Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Would you accept conclusions from science that..., only if it agreed with the Vedic scriptures?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon?

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Do you feel - maybe you answered this, but I didn't understand the answer - do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet?

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Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)?

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Is there time in the higher nature?

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Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it?

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Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now.

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We are not for facility; we are for service.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By the grace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu you are taking sannyasa, some of you. Keep it very perfectly and go from town to town, city to city, village to village, all over the world and spread this Krsna consciousness movement so that everyone will be happy.

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Not only one, you construct hundreds of temples. Village to village, town to... And it will revolutionize the whole rascal situation. At the present moment, it is rascal situation. They're simply satisfied by driving the motor...putputputputputputput!

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Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat. This is the test of bhakti. If one has entered the domain of devotional service, this material world will be not at all tasteful for him. Virakti. No more.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who have taken to Krsna consciousness preaching work, they should always know that things are not going to happen so easily. Maya is very, very strong. But still, we have to struggle against maya. It is a declaration of war with the maya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Siddhanta, what is Krsna, if you study from the sastras, then siddhanta boliya citte, don't be lazy in understanding Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are so foolish that we do not believe in the next life. That is simply foolishness. There is next life, especially when Krsna says. You can say, "We don't believe it." You don't believe or not believe, it doesn't matter.

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I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna - That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Krsna's service. That is perfection.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is the verdict of the acaryas. Vrajendra-nandana, Hari, Krsna, He is worshipable, everyone knows. But His dhama, Vrndavana, is also as good as Krsna. It is also worshipable.

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You may be very rich man, you may take many pills, many injection to prolong your life, but that is not possible. That is not possible. But as soon as you see Krsna, then you get your eternal life.

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You believe or not believe, the words of Krsna cannot be false. That's a fact. You may be rascal, you do not believe, but those who are dhira, they believe.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why we offer our respect to mother? Because when you are helpless, we cannot eat anything, the mother supplies milk from the breast. Mother means who supplies the food.

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Surfer. I call "sufferer, Sea-sufferer." Sea-surfer, it is practical, because we are creating a situation by which we shall become a fish. Yes. Contamination. Just like if you purposely contaminate some disease, you must suffer from that disease.

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All these big, big men, let them have one set of books and study. It is not any expenditure for them, but if at their leisure hour they read some of the line - they are all intelligent men - they'll get ideas, what is this Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Modern education there is no real knowledge. Real knowledge begins in the Bhagavad-gita.

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Bhakti-yoga means not only dedicating life to Krsna but also to serve the Vaisnava, tat-purusa. Tat-purusa means to serve a person who has dedicated his life to Krsna.

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Whichever asrama is suitable for you, you accept, but sincere. Don't be hypocrite.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Take this opportunity, chanting Hare Krsna. I'm very glad that you are doing, but be very strict; sincerely chant. Your life is saved, your next life is saved, everything is all right.

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Everyone will become guru when he is expert disciple, but why this immature attempt? Guru is not a thing, imitation. When one is mature, he becomes guru automatically.

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When anartha-nivrttih syat, all these rascal habits are gone, then nistha, then firm faith, not to be agitated. Tato nistha tatah rucis. Then taste. You cannot live outside this camp. Taste has changed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to follow the injunction of the sastra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Family attachment is the greatest impediment in the matter of advancing in Krsna consciousness, but if the whole family is Krsna conscious, that is very nice.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By speculation, by our research, it is impossible, but we can get a glimpse of knowledge of the Absolute Truth when we receive it through the Absolute Truth, Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just like fighting soldiers, they are facing danger for the country. They are recognized. Similarly, those who are preachers - on behalf of Krsna preaching people to take to Krsna consciousness - they are great soldiers.

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Technology means sudra. Technology is not the business of a brahmana, ksatriya, or vaisya. No. Just like blacksmith, goldsmith, carpenter, craftsman. These are technology. They are meant for the sudras.

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We have to become dhira from adhira. But this Krsna consciousness movement is so nice that adhira can be dhira. This is the profit of this movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Pure devotion means to pray to the Lord, begging some service: "My Lord, kindly engage me in Your service." That is the perfection of life, when one is engaged in the service of the Lord in love.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have learned from our Guru Maharaja that preaching is very, very important thing, and when one is actually an experienced preacher, then he is able to chant Hare Krsna mantra without any offense.

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If you simply speak what Krsna says, then you become His representative. Don't manufacture. Don't be over good at manufacturing. Simply to follow Krsna and His representatives, then you become mahajana. Otherwise you are a nonsense. Mudha.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have discussed about brahmastra. It is almost similar to the modern nuclear weapon or bomb, but it is made with chemicals, but this brahmastra is made of mantra. That is the subtle way. Modern science has not reached to that point of subtle existence.

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This is Rupa Gosvami's instruction. Somehow or other, you become attached to Krsna. Then your life is successful.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Guru means whatever instruction he'll give, we have to accept without any argument. Vedic knowledge is like that. You cannot interpret. As it is, you have to accept.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Pandita does not mean one who has got degree. Pandita means sama-cittah.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Anyone who takes care of his subordinate, he is guru. The first charge is that you should not become a guru unless you are completely in awareness how to save your dependent from the path of birth and death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna said, bhaktya mam abhijanati. Never said that "I can be understood by yogic process or by karma, by jnana." The modern politicians, they stress on karma because they want to work hard like hogs and dogs.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is training of nivrtti-marga, the basic principles, so many no's. "No" means nivrtti. No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. So this is the no, "no" path.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This asuric public, they do not know which way their destination is. They say it is self-interest, but these rascals, they do not know what is the self-interest, because their very beginning of life is mistaken. They are thinking this body is the self.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the dog knows how to use sex life. It doesn't require a Freud's philosophy. But the rascal human society, they are thinking that "Here is a big philosopher. He is writing about sex".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everything can be used properly for peaceful condition, and when you become peaceful, no disturbance, then you can very happily chant Hare Krsna and your life becomes successful. This is our program. We don't want to stop anything.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone has mixed-up ideas because nobody is properly trained up. Some ideas they have got, inquiries they have got. But unless one comes to the right person, he cannot be enlightened.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

End justifies the means. End is that everyone should have a Krsna literature. Doesn't matter what is the means. Because he has taken one Krsna literature, that justifies everything. This is the principle.

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Don't think that our books are simply meant for selling; they are meant for reading also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do you think this lump of matter is giving life? But they are not dhira. All rascals, they cannot understand. The word is very important. How the rascals will understand? Therefore our Krsna consciousness movement is to educate the rascals.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Change is no rectification. If somebody is not working he should be trained up.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Big sankirtana is book distribution and small sankirtana is with mrdanga. Big sankirtana is going on all over the world. Small sankirtana locally.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because He has spoken to Muhammad, and Muhammad has come, he is speaking the same thing. So recently... There is no need of God's coming. If Muhammad is speaking on behalf of God, then that is all right. There is no need of God's coming. This is parampara.

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As soon as there is bhajana-kriya, or devotional service, immediately anartha-nivrtthi syat. Anartha means unwanted things, they become vanquished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And he has known 'missing link'? (before the caveman was the missing link).

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In India there is an astrological system, it is called Bhrgu-samhita. According to that Bhrgu-samhita, the astrologer can say what the man was in the past and what he's going to be in future. And present also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want philosophy, the aim of life, the destination of life, then we can talk, what is the destination of life, what is required. If you criticize me, then I can criticize you also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you stop kirtana, then it is ordinary.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you print books, some day somebody will read. But if we keep money, it creates disturbance. I am therefore always insisting, "Print books, Print books".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If I purchase from you and give it, distribute it free to somebody else, that is not wrong thing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am dealing with all neophytes. If I don't keep them alive by personal presence.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How to become completely free from all our attachment of this material world, that is being exemplified by Rsabhadeva. He doesn't take care even of the body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He was my spiritual master, and whatever he taught, we are speaking, that's all. We don't talk any nonsense.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Guru must come through the parampara system, and in order to understand tad-vijnanam, transcendental science, you have to approach guru. You cannot say that "I can understand at home".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Gaura-Nitai is worshiped simply by kirtana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My spiritual master appointed me that "You do this." Similarly I shall appoint somebody else, this is the way.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness means our mission is to present before you what Krsna says. That's all. We are not concerned what other says.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja wanted that some books should be published. So I tried my best, and he's giving success more than expectation. In the history nobody has sold religion, philosophical books in such large quantity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is always yasoda-nandana. He is always ready to be chastised by Mother Yasoda, by the gopis, and sometimes by His friends. That is Vrndavana Krsna. That is real Krsna; that is real God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My only endeavor is to understand God, that's all. There is no sectarian. And I am selling my books all over the world. So it's not that everyone is foolish.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The Europeans have invented tractors, and the bull is a problem. Therefore they must be sent to the slaughterhouse. So we can not create that problem. How the bull should be utilized? They should be used for transport and plowing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The difficulty is that we cannot come to the pure stage of chanting Hare Krsna mantra. Due to our past habits our mind is disturbed. We cannot concentrate. Therefore we have fixed up the minimum.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The acarya's parampara is there. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is our process. What Krsna has said, we say, that's all. Therefore there is little success. I don't manufacture. I have no extraordinary power or I cannot show magic or jugglery of words. But I do sincerely, to present what Krsna has said.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So the cows, they should be given as much as possible pasturing. If you simply drink little milk, and little vegetables, that will supply all vitamins. You do not require to take vitamin pills.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So many rascals are there. And this is the only shelter, these our centers, to be protected from all these rascals. These ISKCON centers are the only shelter. So you have to maintain it very nicely. There is no other shelter. All bogus, more or less.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So bhakti is not very ordinary thing. It begins after one is liberated. The Mayavadi says that "By bhakti one can become one with God." No. That is not bhakti. That is Mayavada. That is mistake.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sitting in a right-angle posture and the eyes half-closed. Not fully closed. If you fully close then you will sleep. I have seen so many yogis snoring, sleeping. Yes. Naturally, if you close your eyes and you have no subject matter to think.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Service and reading are nondifferent?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Preaching means kirtana, not that simply with mrdanga we can have musical kirtana. No. Preaching is also kirtana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is just to educate man that you believe or not believe, it doesn't matter. There is God. There is the proprietor, but He's coming personally and He's saying, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business is to stop slaughter. Meat-eating we cannot stop.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nowadays it is democratic days, majority. So as this Krsna consciousness movement is also taken as one of the sentimental movements... It is the most scientific movement, but because there are so many gurus, rascals, they imagine something and cheat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Less disease (in the country). Less brain-taxing. Everything is less. So balance time, utilize for Krsna consciousness. And if you have got temple, it is very happy life. Just for your food work little, and balance time engage yourself in K.C..

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even dog is afraid, what to speak of man. The animals, when they are taken to be slaughtered, they cry. So animal is afraid of death, why not man? Everyone is afraid.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You should always remember that you are helping me. Without your help I cannot do anything, so you do not be disturbed. Try to help me. That is my request.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why you should give any importance to weakness? Weakness is weakness. Rectify it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We present Bhagavad-gita as it is. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna is the Supreme Lord. In the, all the Vedic literature, Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Lord, person, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We must learn how to see Krsna. So we should not think that "Here is a stone statue." As soon as we think of stone statue, then our this feeling, bhava, will be lost.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We don't manufacture any ideas. That is not our business. Therefore we present this Bhagavad-gita as it is. As it is. We don't change it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They should follow what their spiritual master says. Book selling, there is no question of moral and immoral. They must sell. Just like in fighting. Where there is fight, the soldiers, to gain victory, there is no question of moral and immoral. He must.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are two kinds of ruler or controller. One is the government, and the other is the teacher. Or guru means spiritual master. Spiritual master can control. The disciples obey the order of the spiritual master out of love.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The upper portion of the sugarcane will be fodder for the cows.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The library party said that everywhere in Delhi they went, they found that you had already placed your three volumes of Bhagavatam.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

No one is getting any salary here (in New Mayapura), they are just working and taking...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Misery of life is to be like this only. To live like this without the divine knowledge or without...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It would be easier for them if they didn't live in the cities, because the cities make it so hard for anybody to understand there is a God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In regards to the organization of the movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada, you are mentioning that prostitute is needed in the society.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you can appreciate krsna-prasadam without filling up to the neck...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If someone forces his mind, Srila Prabhupada, to think of Krsna...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I think that some of the comments of Your Divine Grace, some of the purports of the Fourth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, if they come to the notice of the Indian government, it may give us some... They may seriously consider about banning.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

His argument is that "I should never be allowed to misuse my independence".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He says there's a definite connection between the flesh and love, and you can't deny it, he said. I argued with him, but that was his viewpoint, that love is expressed through the flesh.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He says that maya keeps making him full of material desires.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He said that you remarked that our society is not love-making society. But there are so many of these things are going on.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He (Sai Baba) says, "Rice is the equivalent of God in man while the husk can be compared to desire which reduces God to man".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even if there is one bhakta, that is Vrndavana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Brahmacaris don't like to take the instructions from the elder devotees, and then they want to take sannyasa, so they think they can be independent and give orders themself and not listen.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Brahmacaris don't like to take the instructions from the elder devotees, and then they want to take sannyasa, so they think they can be independent and give orders themself and not listen.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

And then the materialist says, "If Krsna is all good, then how is there any evil?".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All they could say was how Prabhupada, how he is empowered by Lord Gauranga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prabhupada, your temples are the real spaceships. We can go to the other planets and to Krsnaloka from your temples.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One of the things which this council handles is freedom of religion throughout the world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

No, even in Ramayana and Mahabharata we find this kind of, Ekalavya was discriminated, Karna was discriminated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whenever they make some report about India, they always make some joke about how the people will think the animals are sacred and how this is actually the real problem.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They may say that we have arbitrarily given some specific duties to different people.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They have fashioned a way for the spacemen that they can drink their own urine and eat their own stool.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are preparing for installation of Radha-Krsna on September lst, (Radha-Gopinath) and otherwise the sankirtana is distributing Bhagavad-gitas, about fifteen hundred a week.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are preparing for installation of Radha-Krsna on September lst, (Radha-Gopinath) and otherwise the sankirtana is distributing Bhagavad-gitas, about fifteen hundred a week.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are advertising that "These Hindus, they are so fool, they are worshiping an animal, a cow".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These books are very revolutionary. You are very strong. You have put everything in a very clear-cut, strong words. You have attacked everyone who is not Krsna conscious, as fools and rascals.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There's some connection still. When the soul is..., when the body..., when you are dreaming, and the soul leaves the body, but still there must be some connection between the soul...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There was some trouble with your movement in America recently.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are too many sections of religion, Hindu religion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are so many children in the world that are suffering.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Then they will say, "Well, you are proselytizing by rice".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The argument is sometimes put forward that not everyone will be able to embrace Krsna consciousness fully. Therefore it may be better for them to accept some portion, like vegetarianism or hatha-yoga...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, you said yesterday, or a few days ago, that this movement will go on unimpeded for ten thousand years...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, you mentioned the principle of intuition, that this is coming from Krsna. There's another principle called conscience which means the feeling that something is right and something is wrong.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we go preaching, people do not want to take Krsna consciousness. Sometimes they actually...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, it mentions in The Nectar of Devotion that in the viddhi-marga there are many things we don't want to do but we must do in order to make advancement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes if we are faced with a service we think is beyond our means.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes devotees, they want to love Krsna, but they fall down, they can't seem to...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes a devotee thinks, "Oh, it is so difficult to be strict. Maybe I'll just take it easy and remain engaged in devotional service, then I'll take another birth as a devotee and maybe next time I'll finish up my business".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Some of our brahmacaris, they've been drafted into the army. We've lost several devotees like that, because it's very hard for them to maintain their Krsna consciousness in the army.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You are the greatest teacher in recorded history, Prabhupada, because your movement is so well founded in these books, more so than any religious teacher-Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus Christ. Your movement is perfectly founded even during your own lifetime.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Yes, they're getting pinched. You have really come as an aggressor, Prabhupada. (Prabhupada laughs) Actually I think we are the most dangerous revolutionaries in the whole world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You were saying that by intelligence one can just accept what the father says will be good for him and he'll do it, but most people have such a bad experience in the material world, they get cheated so often...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Abhidheya is acting actually. Sambandha is understanding. So if you do not come to the platform of acting, abhidheya, then simply understanding will not help you. And acting also with the aim to achieve.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually one who has attained the perfection, she can become guru. But man or woman, unless one has attained the perfection.... Yei krsna-tattva-vetta sei guru haya. The qualification of guru is that he must be fully cognizant of the science of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Actually that mentality is sannyasa. It doesn't matter whether we have changed the dress or not, but if we decide it, that "I am eternal servant of Krsna; my only duty is to serve Krsna," that is sannyasa.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Another definition of Krsna is He's full with six kinds of opulences. So He's sufficient to fulfill His desire. He doesn't require anyone's service.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Anyone who is Krsna conscious, who knows Krsna, he is guru. Otherwise all rascals. Why should you go to a rascal? Immediately you can understand he is guru who has fully surrendered to Krsna. He is guru. Others? They are all rascals.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As soon as we become envious of the acarya, there is falldown, immediately. Yasyaprasadan na gatih kuto 'pi. Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah. This is the teaching of Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura. He's also acarya. Acarya-parampara.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because Krsna loves you so much that even you accept this material atom, He goes to help you. Therefore He is within. Because sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisthah (BG 15.15). The living entity has a..., enjoying this material world. So he has got everything.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because people are in darkness, we require many millions of gurus to enlighten them.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Before me so many swamis, yogis went there. They came and go. No effect. Now I have created a community which will continue.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Beginning from Brahma down to the insignificant worm in the stool, they are coming down and going up, coming down. This is going on. This is called samsara-cakra, cycle of birth and death.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Better we should try to stay in this determination than to accept the sannyasa order by changing the dress and then again we fall down. That is not very good. There are instances like that, but it is not at all good. We should not trust the mind.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavad-gita is the entrance. Then Bhagavata is graduate and Caitanya-caritamrta... This is the step by step. But if one is sincere everything becomes revealed. He does not commit mistake.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

But who is chanting, he must be a sincere devotee. Then his chanting will be effective. A gramophone machine will not do. He must be realized, then his chanting will be effective.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Caitanya Mahaprabhu's order, yare dekha, tare kaha, 'krsna-upadesa.' Bas, finished, "You become a guru." The trouble is there. You haven't got to manufacture your ideas. Just like I'm quoting from Krsna's preaching.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Can you tell me a little bit about the future direction of the movement, how you plan to expand?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't become paramahamsa immediately. Paramahamsa is the last stage of sannyasa. First stage is kuticaka. Then second stage is bahudaka. And third stage is parivrajakacarya, and fourth stage is paramahamsa. Therefore paramahamsa stage is the topmost.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Every one of you become guru and deliver the residents of your neighborhood. Ei desa. Wherever you are living, just deliver them. Become their guru.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First of all, you must have faith that, "In this life I shall understand thoroughly about God."Then associate with persons who are busy with God's business.Then you act as they are acting.Then your misconception of material life will be finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here in our institute, we teach all the students practically how to become God conscious. Theoretical knowledge will not help us. There must be practical behavior.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How many Mahesh Yogi has brought, disciples like this? This is my answer. Thousands of them are working here on my behalf. Just see their character and behavior.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How to spend the money for Krsna, that is our policy. We do not want to keep money. We cannot keep, that is not possible. Somebody will take it. Ultimately the government will take. Better spend it for Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America - land. Then I worked - labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am now eighty years old, I am working twenty-four hours. I think I work more than my young disciples.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I wanted first of all the residential place. And they criticize me, "Oh, you did not construct temple first." And a temple of the devotees is first, our temple. Then God. God will come if there are devotees.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If one is intelligent, he takes immediately: "Oh, it is so nice. He'll give me all protection? Let me surrender." Business finished in one second. But if he's a rascal, he wants to search out, make research work, then after many many births it will take.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you at the time of death think of that, how to swim very nicely within the water, that means next life nature will give you a fish life. You get it. That is God's mercy. Why you artificially try to become a fish? You become actually fish.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you live in the temple or if you live in God's business, Krsna consciousness, then you are in the spiritual world. You are not in the material world. Material world means where God is forgotten.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you remain to your principles, you can make the whole world your disciple.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not that you have become a student and you'll remain student. No. One day you shall become also guru and make more students, more students, more.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is the duty of the father and mother to train children in such a way that they will be interested in guru and Krsna. Why? By the mercy of guru and Krsna, he'll get bhakti-lata-bija. And that is real life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is to be understood by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva-guna. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Jahnava devi was-Nityananda's wife. She became. If she is able to go to the highest perfection of life, why it is not possible to become guru? But, not so many.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Keep your movement very pure. You don't mind if somebody goes away. But we must keep our principles pure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Leadership is already there - Krsna. Just like Arjuna is learning from Krsna. So if you learn from Krsna you become perfect leader. But we do not take Krsna's instruction. We manufacture our own ideas. That is failure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Master is one: Krsna. There cannot be two master. The master can expand Himself as masters. That is another thing. The master is one.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Money is not our aim. Our aim is how people will understand Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja left alone, so he has sent so many gurus to take care of me. You are all my Guru Maharaja's representatives.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My spiritual master appointed me that "You do this." Similarly I shall appoint somebody else, this is the way.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nitya means eternal. And nityanam. Nityanam means plural number of nityas. So there are many nityas, means many living entities, but there is one nitya Supreme. That is God. He is also a living entity like us.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nobody can protect anyone. That is not possible. Everyone has to take care of himself. This world is like that. Don't depend. Only Krsna can protect you - nobody else.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now there should be one rule that unless they are husband-wife, man and woman should not worship together.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Oh. Yes, there was no hope for my coming (to New Mayapura). Now I've come, they (the devotees) must be (ecstatic).

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One should remain perpetually a student, but he has to act as guru.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Otherwise it is ordinary movement. This same man, he's guru, so long he gives the real knowledge of Krsna. And the same man, he's ordinary man, as soon as he cannot give.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our aim is how to become free from this material bondage and real sneha, real affection, real love should be spread. And that can be done through Krsna consciousness. Otherwise, it is all false.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our duty is only to become Krsna conscious. Other things will be supplied by Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our mission is not to make a nonvegetarian a vegetarian. No. Our mission is that "Either you are vegetarian or nonvegetarian, it doesn't matter. You become Krsna conscious." That is our mission.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prahlada Maharaja and every Vaisnava who is actually following the parampara system of Vaisnava duty, they are anxious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prahlada Maharaja was put into so many trials when he was only a child, still he never forgot Krsna. That is the sign of maha-bhagavata. In any circumstances.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Preacher means when you become fully Krsna conscious by worshiping the Deity regularly, as we have got prescription to rise early in the morning, offer mangala-arati, then kirtana, then class, in this way practicing, practicing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Preaching is independent. If you have got desire, you can preach in any circumstances and Krsna will help you. I have practically experienced. I went to your country without any help, without any money. Alone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Say that all the ten thousand devotees, each of them is a moon, not a star.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Suppose we are worshiping Deity. That is the duty of brahmana; but somebody is called that "You cleanse this floor." So he should not think that "I am cleansing the floor; therefore I am lower than the person directly worshiping the Deity." No.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is sastra. Not that "So many years have passed and it has become old. Now let us reform it and put it into new way." No. You can put the same thing in a new way, but you cannot change the principle.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is the idea of my Guru Maharaja, a Gurukula. We are not going to make some big, big scholars. We don't require scholars. We require ideal men by character, by behavior, by Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The cats and dogs, they cannot fight with maya, but a human being, he can fight. So if we don't fight, we don't take that adventure, then we remain cats and dogs. The cats and dogs, they fight amongst themselves but not with the maya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The central point is to love Krsna and offer Him service, but that service may be of variety.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The foolish persons, they do not take care. They think they are very much advanced, they have no need to attend arati or to play on the mrdanga or cymbal. But that is not fact. So many items are there given by the acaryas.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The man, the man or woman, one who are very much sexually attached, he is a rascal. One should give up his company. And another rascal who is not a devotee of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The real platform of unity is Krsna consciousness. Our members, although they speak different languages from different countries, but still they are united.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The temple is not a free hotel for learning how to gratify senses. No. This is not our aim and object.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Their expenditure is at my direction. Not a single paisa they can spend in their own discretion. They are laboring hard to get this collection, but the money is mine. This is the arrangement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There is so much envy in my heart, and when I'm chanting I'm understanding the envy is causing me so much distress. And yet I can't give it up. I cannot leave off these envious feelings. How is it that the spirit soul...?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Ultimate is always be absorbed in glorifying the Lord, but not in the beginning. In the beginning you must work very hard; you come to the stage of pure devotional platform.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vietnam, send all the men to fight, and kill them. As soon as there is overpopulation, they declare war so that people may be killed.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You make a choice; you can change it. But as soon as you change it, God knows what you are going to do. This is very common sense.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can take Arjuna as guru. Krsna spoke to Arjuna, evam parampara-praptam. He directly listened to Him. And he's guru therefore, because the guru is by the parampara. So he understood Krsna. So you take Arjuna's instruction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This whole science is understood through service only. Everything becomes revealed. Everything is revelation. Unless one is very sincere servant, there is no revelation.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam, they are Vedic mantras. They're not ordinary wording, set of wording. It is not. Veda-mantra; samhita. So every one of you must try to chant. This is required.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are also educated, they are young men, and they are coming from respectable family. They are not dull-headed dogs. So why they are sticking to this principle unless they feel, "Yes, I am making progress"?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They must be engaged twenty-four hours. That is wanted. It is not a lazy free hotel. Anyone lives, he must be engaged twenty-four hours.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is also nature. Everything is nature. Are you outside nature? That is another nonsense. Your body is nature; your activities are nature; everything is nature. How you can say you are out of nature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is an opportunity, this human form of life, to decide where you want to go. Are you going to hell or heaven or back to home, or back to Godhead? That you have to decide.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This material world is garbage. And still, we live so comfortably. Now just imagine what is His dhama. It is the garbage tank, still so nice. And just think what is His real place, Goloka Vrndavana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why enviousness? You are human being, I am human being. Why we should be envious of one another. This is artificial. There is no need of. But we are put into certain condition that we have to become envious by nature or someone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Envy means the cow has got right to live. He does not allow the cow to live. That is envy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Who is my disciple? First of all let him follow strictly the disciplined rules.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When one is jealous of God, then gradually jealous of everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When guru speaks, you cannot argue. That is not the process. You should accept a guru who is infallible. Otherwise it is useless. He accepted guru Krsna because Krsna is infallible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We worship the guru as Vyasa-puja because representative of Vyasa. And who is Vyasa? Representative of Narada. What is Narada? Representative of Brahma. What is Brahma? Representative of Krsna. This is called parampara system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should not be sentimentally very much anxious - "Please give me sannyasa, give me sannyasa" - and then fall down and go to hell. That is not good. That is not good. If one is able to strictly follow the sannyasa rules and regulation, he should take.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krsna. That engagement you have fully in the Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. So stick to these two books, or Caitanya-caritamrta. Caitanya-caritamrta is still far advanced.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should be very much strictly follower of the Vaisnava principle. Vaisnava's only business is how to deliver these fallen souls. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He appeared as a Vaisnava. The business is to deliver.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got very simple test in Krsna consciousness movement how to distinguish between an intelligent man a rascal. As soon as we understand that he's not Krsna conscious, he's a rascal. Bas. There is no need of testing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got everything in writing, in books, in instructions. Our duty is to take them rightly and utilize it properly, advance in Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got business. Why shall I keep in the bank? This is the policy. If your money is idle, we can spend it in our books, in our purchasing land in temple, constructing temple, developing...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are not idle preachers, we are working. All, very hard, more than the karmis.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are selling books to the extent of sixty thousand dollars daily. That is our only hope, that we shall not be financially in difficulty. People are taking our books very nicely. People are accepting our literature.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are trying to establish this brahminical culture, go-brahmana-hitaya ca. You'll be very much pleased that in a country where go-hatya is so prominent, now we have established so many farms in Europe and America.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We cannot become sympathetic with everyone. That is not our policy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We got this information from His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, and that knowledge is still going on. You are receiving through his servant. And in future the same knowledge will go to your students. This is called parampara system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even if there is one bhakta, that is Vrndavana.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is gradually developing up to the stage of raga-bhakti or para-bhakti. Then life is successful. In that way we should not be disturbed by these ethereal interactions.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Devotee's business is to glorify. He doesn't take any credit for himself. Actually, there is nothing to be taken credit. The all credit goes to Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The smell is creation of God, or Krsna, punyo gandhah prthivyam ca. Therefore the smell should be used for Krsna's pleasure. This is bhakti, not for my pleasure. This is called tyaga. Tyaga means that actually it should be used for Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is meant for this purpose, that "You have already attachment for sound. Now just transfer this attachment for spiritual sound. Then your life will be successful".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The industries, they are mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita as ugra-karma. Ugra-karma means ferocious activities.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My request is that the inhabitants of Bombay, especially those who are our members, they will kindly take active part, how to make this institution very successful in Bombay.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Today is very auspicious day. With great difficulty we have got now sanction. Now please cooperate with this attempt as far as possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavan means He is also a living being. He is not nirakara. When we say bhagavan nirakara, that means either we have no knowledge of Bhagavan or nirakara means He is not a form like us. Our form and Krsna's form - different.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God cannot be imagined. That is another foolishness. How you can imagine God? Then God become subject matter of your imagination. He is no substance. That is not God. What is imagined, that is not God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want to get out of the maya's activities, prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani, then you have to take to Krsna consciousness. There is no way out.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the material condition of life we, the proprietor of the body, we are changing, tatha dehantara-praptih, from one body to another. This is the first knowledge, preliminary knowledge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Yoga means connecting link. Our link is now separated.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The voidists, they say sunyavadi. They say, "There is no God." And the impersonalists, they say that there is God, but there is no head, there is no leg, there is no hand, there is no mouth, there is no, no, no... Ultimately, what is their God?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavan creates this whole universe, He does not require anyone's help. He creates the sky. From the sky there is sound; from the sound there is air; from the air there is fire; from fire there is water; and from water the earth is there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We can create a small airplane, airship, and flying in the sky, and Bhagavan has created innumerable universes flying in the sky, and He has created the sky also. The creative energy is there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One energy is working in one way, another energy is working another way. But they are all Krsna's energy. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everything is there in the sastra. So it is our duty the human life to get knowledge from sastra. That is, means Veda. Veda means knowledge. Get knowledge from the standard Veda.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Here is the chance of getting freedom from this evolutionary process.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

From the sastra we know in the moon planet... That is one of the heavenly planets, and there are living entities. They are living for ten thousand years, and it is very cold there. Therefore they drink soma-rasa.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee, when he understands thoroughly that "Here is one Supreme Person, who is the leader, who is the controller, who is the maintainer of everything," then he surrenders unto Him and becomes His devotee.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By the characteristics we can understand who is a godly man and who is a demonic man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As we contaminate the different material modes of nature, we get different situation of life, different forms of body, different circumstances. Krsna has arranged everything very accurately. His arrangement is very perfect.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you do not agree with Krsna's desire, if you want to enjoy your own desire, then also, Krsna is also pleased, He will supply you the necessities. But that is not very good. We should agree to Krsna's desires.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you do not agree with Krsna's desire, if you want to enjoy your own desire, then also, Krsna is also pleased, He will supply you the necessities. But that is not very good. We should agree to Krsna's desires.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Karma means to fulfill my desires, and bhakti means to fulfill Krsna's desires. That is the difference. Now you make your choice, whether you want to make your desires fulfilled or if you want to make Krsna's desire fulfilled.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is meant for educating everyone to become divine. That is the program.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So don't believe your so-called senses as the source of knowledge. No. The source of knowledge should be by hearing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Follow the instruction. Then you are secure anywhere. It doesn't matter. Just like I told you that I saw my Guru Maharaja not more than ten days in my life, but I followed his instruction. I was a grhastha, I never lived with the Matha, in the temple.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First of all, you have to take it as axiomatic truth that there is no happiness and there cannot be any satisfaction in this material world. Then you'll make, spiritually advance.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't misuse this opportunity. Some way or other, you have come in contact with this movement. Properly utilize it. Don't go to the darkness. Always remain in bright light.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the English dictionary when you consult the word God, it is stated there, "the Supreme Being." What is that Supreme Being? We are all living being, but amongst ourself there is comparative, superlative positions.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We should approach the Supreme or the representative of the Supreme, just like the same example: when there is any controversy, we refer to the law book or to the lawyer, or we take the decision of the law court.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Guru means one who has complete knowledge of Vedic version, and not only that, he is a staunch or fixed-up devotee of the Supreme Lord. These are the qualification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for making things very simplified. Accept God, accept your position as God's servant and serve God. That's all, three words.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

One of the devotional quality is titiksa, tolerance. That should be learned, how to tolerate in every condition of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We can exist in lower grade of life like cats, dogs, insects, trees, aquatics, like that. And we can exist also in the same way as we are existing now. And we can exist also exactly like God - eternal life of bliss and knowledge.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the material world, even if you promote to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, still, you'll have to come back again.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If cats and dogs can live at the mercy of God, the devotees can live very comfortably by the mercy of God. There is no such question.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First of all you take your birth where Krsna is now present. Krsna is present in one of the universes. There are innumerable universes. So you take your birth in the next universe, or where Krsna is now. Then you become trained up.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These rascals they have created a gorgeous civilization. What is that? Just like in your country especially, a gorgeous truck for sweeping. The business is sweeping, and for that they have manufactured a gorgeous truck: Gut, gut, gut, gut, gut, gut, gut.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you all, ladies and gentlemen present here, take advantage of hearing about God from this institution, you will also become God conscious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Jnanis want to become one with the Supreme or liberation, so it should be uncovered by the result of jnana and karma and fully devoid of any other desire. That is bhakti. So those who are bhaktas and desiring after liberation, they are not pure bhakta.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is bhakti-marga, means simply to satisfy Krsna. That is bhakti-marga, no other desire, no other motive.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna has appeared as the son of mother Saci, and Balarama has appeared as Nityananda, and Their business is to deliver all fallen souls, especially in this age, Kali-yuga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are passing through many varieties of life, and this human form of life is a good chance to get out of this chain of changing body one after another.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The rules and regulation are that nobody should accept blindly any guru, and nobody should blindly accept any disciple. They must behave, one another, at least for one year.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These centers are being opened just to give the opportunity to the people who are suffering not only in this life, life after life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vrscika means...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now the child is dead. Now you give some chemical injection and bring it into life. Why you cannot do that? If you cannot do that, then what is the nonsense, saying that some chemical is missing? If it is missing, you replace it. Why you cannot replace?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This kind of answer, that if I ask you that "You produce life from chemicals," and if you answer that "Yes, we shall do it in future," that is not very scientific answer. What do you think? Is that very scientific answer?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To save us from death... That is the first business of humankind. We are teaching this Krsna consciousness movement for this purpose only.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The logic of the frog in the well.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My father was Vaisnava. He was Vaisnava, and he wanted me to become a Vaisnava. Whenever some saintly person would come, he would ask him, "Please bless my son that he can become a servant of Radharani." That was his prayer.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This rascal civilization do not admit this. They are so fool that they are conditioned in every step, and still they are thinking they are free. This is called illusion. Therefore, to get that freedom, you have to work for it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Freedom does not come so automatically. Just like you are diseased. You are under the control of fever or some other painful condition, under some disease. So you have to undergo some penance.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Yudhisthira Maharaja, he was unwilling to accept the kingdom because he thought that "For me so many men have been killed in the battlefield of Kuruksetra. So I am so sinful, I am not fit for the throne".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The conception of one world state can only be fulfilled if we can follow the infallible authority. An imperfect human being cannot create an ideology acceptable to everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is my greatest encouragement, that even in my absence, things are going on very nicely, improving.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In this institution, I am guru, and if everyone becomes guru, then who will carry out the order of guru? There must be disciple also, who will carry out the order of guru. So it is not required.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am simply messenger. Mercy is of Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Srila Prabhupada. Before your coming they predicted, that "Somebody will bring." Maybe that somebody I am. Bhaktivinoda Thakura predicted.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our mission is to establish the desire of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That is our business.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now, at least for me, this Krsna consciousness movement is no more theoretical. It is practical. I can solve all problems.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You should always remember this. A little mistake will spoil the whole scheme, little mistake. Nature is very strong.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Simply prepare yourself how to repeat Krsna's instructions very nicely. Suppose you have got now ten thousand. We shall expand to hundred thousand. That is required. Then hundred thousand to million, and million to ten million.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We shall expand to hundred thousand. That is required. Then hundred thousand to million, and million to ten million, So there will be no scarcity of acarya, and people will understand K.C. very easily. So make that organization. Don't be falsely puffed up.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Bharatavarsa, Bengal is the most important place, and in Bengal, the district Nadia is most important place, because Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared. Don't take it leniently.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is educating people that "You are not this body, not this mind, not this intelligence, but above this. You are spirit soul." So Krsna confirms that mamaivamsa.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Karyam means "It is my duty." That is real sannyasa. "Krsna wants that this Krsna consciousness movement must be spread. So this is my karyam. This is my duty. And the direction is my spiritual master. So I must do it." This is sannyasa.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If there is one moon, that is sufficient. What is the use of millions of stars twinkling. So that is our propaganda. If one man can understand what is Krsna philosophy, then my preaching is successful, that's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you make propaganda, if he's not ghost, you can make him ghost. This is propaganda. This is called propaganda. By propaganda you can establish a false thing as real. That's all. This is going on. They know how to do it. They're expert.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is very strict. But the devotees are very lenient. Krsna doesn't want to speak even with demons. But the devotees are so kind, they go to the demons and pray, Kindly hear. Kindly hear about Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can hear anywhere. There is no specific mention that it can be heard in such and such place. You can anywhere. But a holy place like Vrndavana, the hearing has got a special effect.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You foreigners, you have taken some interest. I am very much pleased. So constantly come here and hear about Krsna. This is the pastimious place of Krsna, Vrndavana. So make your anarthas vanquished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you are a devil, you cannot do it. The devil and divine. Divine means spiritually advanced, and devil means materially advanced. And because we are manufacturing divine, the devils are afraid of it. The devils do not like this movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now some result is there because I am practically training them. And before me, all the swamis went there. They lectured, that's all. So what is the meaning of lectures unless you train them?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement means we want to become friends of everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That atma is present within this body, that is understood by the presence of consciousness. Just like we are here in this room, but this light is the reflection of the sunshine. We understand there is sun in the sky.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I'm not very familiar with the Hindu scriptures, but I have read some Upanisads, and there's the idea that somehow atman is Brahman? I don't understand that at all, so perhaps you could say something about that?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now the Krsna consciousness movement is going on in my presence. Now after my deparature, if you do not do this, then it is lost. If you go on as you are doing now, then it will go on.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, if the knowledge was handed down by the saintly kings, evam parampara-praptam (BG 4.2), how is it that the knowledge was lost?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is, that don't hear the cheaters and don't try to cheat others. Be honest and hear from the authorities. That is Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When we say that "You shall not have illicit sex," and their inclination is illicit sex, so therefore it is revolutionary. They are materialistic persons. They want sex enjoyment to the best capacity.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The preacher must love the people. Why at eighty years old I have come here if I do not love? So who can love better than a preacher? He loves even the animals.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is your kindness that you accepted me. But I never expected. I never expected that "These people will accept".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My life? According to sastra, if we have actually developed Krsna consciousness, we are going to Krsna. I may not, but they will go.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Alexander and the thief.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavan is for everyone. God is God. Just like gold is gold. If gold is handled by Hindu, it does not become Hindu gold. Or the gold is handled by Christian, it does not become Christian gold. Gold is gold. Similarly, dharma is one. Religion is one.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Why did you choose to go to America and propagate the teachings of Lord Krsna in a western country?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Devahuti's position is a perfect woman. She got good father, she got good husband, and she got excellent son. So woman has got three stages in life. Man has got ten stages.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Cut coat tail is the latest fashion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes our devotees fall down because he has not come to that platform, ever-existing. Therefore the fire extinguished. That is possible, but everyone should be very, very careful that the fire may not be extinguished. Then again maya.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Material civilization means they are taking care of the body and no information of the soul which is within the body. This is material civilization. And our KC movement is not so much attention for the body, but full attention for the soul.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes they (yogis) go early in the morning to Jagannatha Puri, to Ramesvaram, to Haridwar, and take their bathing in different Ganges water and others. That is called laghima-siddhi. He became very light.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we keep ourself on the material platform, then for thousand years we may chant, it will be difficult. That is called namaparadha. Of course, holy name is so powerful that even by chanting with offense, gradually he becomes pure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

People do not understand what is the aim of life. They do not care at the present moment. They have no distinction what is sinful life or what is pious life. But we may not believe in these things, but things are there like that.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Stag and the jackal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is teaching people that "Don't live irresponsibly".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have to take shelter of a person who is a devotee of Krsna, and you have to serve. That means you have to accept a devotee, a true devotee, a pure devotee, as your guide. That is our process.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is teaching people how to go back to home, back to Godhead.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means brahminical culture.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless he is pleased, what I am worth? It is due to his pleasure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Too much attachment for material enjoyment is disqualification for spiritual life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

She can become equal with man. Spiritually advanced man and woman, they are equal. So long one is materially encaged, this is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just take up this movement, Hare Krsna movement, with patience and with diligence and intelligence. It is very easy. You are already experienced. Do not stop it. Increase more and more. Your country will be happy, and the whole world will be happy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Man proposes; God disposes. God is very kind. Whatever you desire, He will fulfill. Although He says that "This kind of material desires will never satisfy you," but we want. Therefore God supplies us, Krsna, different types of body.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I have no capacity, but I took it, the words of my guru, as life and soul. So this is fact. Guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya. Everyone should do that. But if he makes addition, alteration, then he is finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sastra, says tad-vijnanartham: "If you want to know the real problem of your life and if you want to be enlightened how to become Krsna conscious, how to become eternal, go back to home, back to Godhead, then you must approach the guru".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How does one become humble and remain humble?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I would have collected millions of dollars if I would have cheated like that. But I do not want that. I want one student who follows my instruction. I don't want millions.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They cannot stop death, neither birth, nor old age, nor disease. And during the short period of life, birth and death, they are making big, big buildings, and next time he is becoming one rat within the buildings.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I will never die, I shall live for my books, and you will utilize.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is a fight against all the owls.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja passed in 1936, and I started this movement in 1965, thirty years after. Then? I am getting the mercy of guru. This is vani.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That purity is said, adau sraddha: "Beginning is faith." Now tato sadhu-sangah: "You mix with faithful men." Then it will develop. Otherwise, if you take simply initiation and then sleep, then faith will be lost. That is happening.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Prabhupada? If you say that purity is required for faith to develop, what are the symptoms by which one can be said to be pure?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This is not life, that "Because I can run in more speed than the dog, therefore I am civilized".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Servant of desire means just like the street dog. He is also desiring: "If these gentleman will accept me as his dog?" But he is going there, and he is driven away: "Hut! Hut!" He is going to some house, moving his tail, "My dear sir, will you give me..."

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are teaching people that you are suffering life after life. Now the human society has come to such a position that they do not know that there is life after this life. They are so advanced. Exactly the cats and dogs.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you engage yourself in pure devotional service incessantly, without any stop, then you always remain transcendental, above these three gunas. So our Krsna consciousness movement is to keep the devotee above the three gunas.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So this civilization, modern civilization, is just like madman civilization. They have no knowledge of past life, neither they are interested in the future life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In this parampara system, this knowledge has come to your country, America. You are intelligent. You are prosperous. So take this knowledge seriously and at least distribute this knowledge properly for the benefit of your people.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

By the association of devotee we awaken our inquisitiveness about God. Therefore the centers are required. It is not unnecessarily we are opening so many centers. No. It is for the benefit of the human society.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee like Mother Yasoda, a devotee like Radharani, devotees like gopis, devotees like the cowherds boy, they can control Krsna. That is Vrndavana life. So this Krsna consciousness movement is trying to take you there.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Without working for Krsna, everyone is under the spell of these modes of material nature. And there is no training how to work for Krsna. That is the defect of modern civilization.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In my absence you read the books: what I talk, I have written in the books.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Read our books, chant Hare Krsna, live very simple life, produce your own necessities. Don't go to the town.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone is poor. Who is rich? Unless one has got knowledge of Krsna, he is poor.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If a man is diseased, you can try to bring to him nice physician, nice medicine, but that is not guarantee that he will be cured. That depends on Krsna. Therefore Krsna is the ultimate, I mean to say, beneficiary, or benevolent.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Maya is so strong that after being kicked so many lives, life after life, still he is thinking, "I am purusa. I am enjoyer." This is the disease.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Not that because he is poor man and we are giving prasada, no. This is not our idea. To our eyes, the so-called poor man and rich man, they are all suffering, not that the simply poor man suffering and the rich man is not suffering.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A devotee is neither karmi nor jnani. Therefore bhakti means jnana-karmady-anavrtam. If one is involved in jnana and karma he cannot become bhakta.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is most scientific movement to get the whole human society from the pitch of darkness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If I see one woman for enjoyment, so I am man. And if woman also sees another man for enjoyment, she is also man. Woman means enjoyed and man means enjoyer. Anyone who has got feeling of enjoyment, he is considered to be man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We always advise, "Don't read newspaper. Don't read any other book," because it is full of gramya-katha. These externally very attractive news, we should avoid it completely. We shall simply talk of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All our members, the members of the Krsna consciousness society, should be ideal. At least people may see that "Here is a class of men - ideal character, ideal behavior, spiritual advanced, and very frugal and very nice".

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Without taking to the devotional service, life is very, very risky. Risky means now we can dance and laugh because we have got this human form of life. But after death we do not know. We do not know unless we are very much cautious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Jackal without tail is the fashion.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They are making scientific researches to become happy, but these rascals, they do not know how to stop death. So what is the nice? But they have no brain to understand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This Krsna consciousness movement is preaching that "This material world is not your home. Don't try to be happy here".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you go on constructing your big building on a defective foundation, then it will not stay. There will be danger. So modern civilization is based on this defective idea that "I am this body".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You have violated from the very beginning the orders of Christ, 'Thou shall not kill,' and you are killing, only killing. So what you have not done?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Pleasure potency is not painful to Krsna. But it is painful. It is painful to us, conditioned souls. This Golden Moon (name of a bar?), everyone comes there for pleasure, but he is becoming implicated in sinful activities. Therefore it is not pleasure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They must be moved. Government means, nowadays, all rascals. They are elected by rascals and they are rascals. That is the difficulty.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Kali-yuga there is no good men at all—all bad. Strong you will have to become to deal with all bad men.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Swamiji, do you think that Bible, about the Adam, Adam is Brahma? It has been copied from the Indian philosophy to put it there in different name?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All religious system of the world, they are taken from Vedas, from different parts. Therefore they are not complete. The age of Bible is not more than two thousand years. The age of Veda you cannot calculate, millions and millions of years.

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It is prohibited to consume, consume flesh, meat. It's because there is soul in the body and if we kill it, therefore we are doing a sin. I think it's because that we can't consume meat according to the Vedic literature. But what about plants, Swamiji?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You learn from the sastra. You learn from Bhagavad-gita what Krsna says and do it. Then you are not responsible for anything. Just like there is lawbook.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have to live. The same thing: we are also working, we are also eating, we are sleeping, we are also marrying - but according to Krsna's direction. Then it is Krsna conscious life and perfect life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The frogs in the well, they cannot understand. You should be not a frog in the well; you should be liberal to hear from the authorities, Vedas. Then you will understand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are sinful, they do not take immediately birth. They first of all trained up in the hellish planet how to suffer to become accustomed and then they are taken birth, then suffer.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I wanted to say this, Swamiji, that hell also is situated in this world itself, because where do you think that we can pay our debt?... The sin, the debt of our sin. Where do you think that we pay it? In the hell, which is not...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As they have been trained up to rise early in the morning, this will give you spiritual strength. If you simply becomes a gramophone speaker, then it will not be effective. Gramophone or tape record speaker, that will not be. You must be live speaker.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Gradually we shall develop a society that all these unnecessary rubbish things should be rejected. That is the idea.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This movement is not started by me. This was started long, long years ago by Krsna Himself.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavad-gita, Chapter Seven, "Knowledge of the Absolute." There are two things, absolute and the relative. This is relative world. Here we cannot understand one thing without the other.

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At the present moment, as soon as one wants to be educated, he requires money. But in the Vedic society there is no question of money. Education free.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we follow Bhagavad-gita from all angles of vision - social, political, economical, religious, cultural - you will be perfect. This is Bhagavad-gita.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When we become puzzled with these material affairs, what to do - to do or not to do, this is the example - at that time we must approach a guru. That is the instruction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

No more friendly talking because Arjuna has accepted Krsna as the teacher. So He's the teacher. It is the duty of the teacher to punish or to chastise the disciple when he is wrongly going on.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is addressing Arjuna, anarya: "Non-Aryan. You are ksatriya. Your service is now required to fight with persons who have created injustice. So what is this, that you are denying to fight?".

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Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just lend your, this aural reception and try to hear about God from the self-realized person, from Mahatma. Then one day it will become so, that although God is unconquerable, you will conquer Him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So everything requires qualification. So this Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to make the people qualified to see Krsna. Without being qualified, how can you see? That requires qualification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You must always remain dressed like a Vaisnava. That is necessity. So preksaniya: "is very beautiful to see." Otherwise how they became impressed?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Wherefrom the fire came? That is natural inquiry. Wherefrom the sky came? How the stars are situated, so many millions and millions? So these are the inquiries of the intelligent person. That is the beginning of philosophical life.

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After realization of Brahman, when he is actually on the Brahman platform, then the symptom is na socati na kanksati: he has no more lamentation and no more aspiration. Aham brahmasmi. Then he can see everyone one equal level.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Brahma is the first created being, so Brahma was instructed the sruti, perfect knowledge, by Krsna. Krsna is the original spiritual master. Vedanta-vit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhinna prakrtir astadha. Just like I am speaking, it is being recorded, recorded. But in my absence, if the record is played, it will exactly vibrate the same sound. So that is my energy or anyone's energy, but bhinna, separated from me.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you remain Krsna consciousness, fully dependent on Krsna, then there will be no scarcity. I started this Krsna business with forty rupees. Now we have got forty crores of rupees.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

A spiritual body is not burned. They are kept, samadhi. Just like in Western countries they give samadhi to any, everyone, tomb, entombing. In India the tomb is offered to a very advanced spiritually person.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vrndavana means that Krsna is the center. He is the lovable object of everyone.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vivasvan, the sun-god, he explained to Manu, and Manu explained to his son. In this way, by the disciplic succession the knowledge has come down.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There are two kinds of living entities. One kind of living entities, they are trying to go back to home, back to Godhead. They are called devatas. And the asuras, they are not aware of the spiritual world; neither they are endeavoring to go back to home.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This material body is simply outward covering of the spiritual body by physical atmosphere, but real body is within.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are not enthusiastic, lazy, lethargetic, they cannot advance in spiritual life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The difference between the life of the fish and my life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Because the mind is now contaminated, and under the creation of senses and sense activities, we are making millions and trillions of ideas and become entangled in that idea.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Fortunately, we had the good opportunity of learning bhagavata-dharma from our very childhood. My father was a devotee, and he trained us.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Naisthika-brahmacari - throughout the life, celibacy. But that is not possible in this age, neither it is possible to become a brahmacari. The time is changed, this age. Therefore you can control your lusty desire by Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You cannot speculate, "Krsna may be like this." Just like Mayavadis, they imagine. The imagination will not help you. You cannot imagine God. That is foolishness. God is not subjected to your imagination. Then He is not God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Brahmacarya means, strictly. Brahmacarya means that one should not look upon woman, "Oh, here is a very beautiful girl." That is also sex, subtle sex. And to talk, "Fsh, fsh, fsh, fsh," that is also subtle sex. So these things are to be avoided.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If I ask the dog that "What is your next life?" he cannot say. "Gow! gow!" That's all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we study all these books, to finish them it will take at least twenty-five years. So you are all young men. I request you to engage your time in reading books, in chanting, in Deity worshiping, in going to preach, selling books. Don't be lazy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

According to Vedic civilization, one should rise early in the morning and chant Hare Krsna, perform mangala aratrika, worship the Deity. This is the morning business. But the richest nation of the world, they are going to work at six-thirty for earning.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Others may violate the laws, and so many sinful activities they are doing, but nobody takes very serious care. But when a religious group or a sannyasi commits little offense, it is magnified a thousand times.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhagavata-dharma is not meant for such persons who are envious. It is meant for the paramo nirmatsaranam, who has given up this envy or envious attitude ultimately.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless one is person, how can I serve him? I cannot serve the air or the sky. I must serve a person. Love does not exist in the sky or in the air. It must be a person. Man or woman, it doesn't matter. Otherwise where there is love? Whom to love?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To become Krsna conscious means we have to give up all these so-called or cheating type of religious system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Now these same two brothers (Krsna and Balarama) have again descended, as Sri Krsna Caitanya-Nityananda. Sahoditau: simultaneously They have appeared. Not that one is appeared, another is not there. No. Both of Them.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We shall try to construct a very nice temple for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This morning we were thinking of this. So from this place, this moon, Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, will distribute.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we want to know visnu-tattva, if we want to know Krsna, His exalted position, then here are the description of the sastra. And if we take them as it is, without malinterpretation, without showing any extraordinary intelligence by us.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you manufacture your program of enjoyment, then you will be slapped. And if you enjoy according to the direction of the father, then you'll enjoy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is feeling pain. So you become Krsna conscious, then Krsna will feel pleasure. That is Krsna consciousness movement.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless we accept inconceivable power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning of God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Real good is: "He has forgotten God. Revive his consciousness." That is real good. Then he'll saved from the so-called good and bad and everything. That is wanted.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In New Vrindaban we are keeping cows. That is an example. And the cows are giving milk, delivering milk, double than other farmers. Why? Because the cows know that "These people will not kill me." They are not in anxiety.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We have got so many books. Whoever comes here must read the books, devotee, the inmates of the temple, outsider, then you will understand what is Krsna consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Vaisnava himself is very happy because he is in direct connection with Krsna. He personally has no complaint, because a Vaisnava is satisfied simply by serving Krsna. That's all. He doesn't want anything.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The education is that a university student, if he is informed, that "If you live irresponsibly, then you may become dog next life," so they say, "What is the wrong if I become a dog?" (laughter) This is the result of education. He doesn't care.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The greatest contribution to the human society is knowledge. To keep them in ignorance, in darkness, that is not human society, that is cats' and dogs'.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This material world is full of danger. It is dangerous place. It is the place of miseries. You cannot become happy in a place which is meant for miseries. That we have to understand.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Real perfection of yoga means to fix up the mind at the lotus feet of Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Do not give up chanting. Then Krsna will protect you. This is the example. "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna," you practice. Naturally, when you are in danger, you will say, "Hare Krsna".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bad work means maya and good work means God. There are two things: God and maya. If we do not act in godly situation then we must be acting in maya's clutches.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Dictatorship is good, provided the dictator is highly qualified spiritually. That is the Vedic verdict.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The conclusion is that everyone should take to this Krsna consciousness movement; otherwise, he is awaiting punishment by Yamaraja.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

People misunderstand that Bhagavad-gita is ordinary warfare, violence. But it is not that. It is arranged by Krsna because, to fulfill His mission.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Nowadays the education is how to make friendship with others' wife and how to take away others' money by tricks. This is not education.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Neither any material opulence, nor a qualified brahmana with twelve high qualifications can satisfy the Lord simply by such acquisition. One can satisfy the Lord simply by love and devotional service.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are dependent on the laws of nature. And suppose we become independent, so-called independent, for a few days. That is not independence. Real independence is how to get out of the clutches of these material laws.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God is witness. He is along with us always. Whatever we are desiring, whatever we are working, He is witness and He is giving the result.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Yantrarudhani mayaya. We are riding on a machine. This body is a machine, but we are accepting machine as myself. This is called sammohita, "bewildered." If you are running on a car, if you think, "I am the car," as it is foolishness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Whether you have understood God and whether you have become a lover of God. Then your religion is perfect. Simply for stamping that 'I am Christian,' 'I am Hindu,' 'I am Muslim,' there is no profit.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The more you glorify the Lord, you become pious simply by kirtana. It is not necessary that you understand, but if you go on chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra, then you become pious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is the birthright in India - they are automatically Krsna conscious. Automatically. Therefore all the demigods, they also desire to take birth in India.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the spiritual world there is no disagreement. That God is great and we are small, there is no disagreement. That is spiritual world. And the material world means, "God is great, we are small" - there is disagreement. That is material world.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You are taking this pledge for serving (as a sannyasi) in front of Krsna, Vaisnava, guru and fire. So you shall be very much cautious not to forget your duty.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When he is engaged in so many nonsense service, it will be very difficult to drag him from this false engagement and again establish him to the Krsna's service. So when we are children - we are not polluted - we should be trained up in bhagavata-dharma.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

There was a prostitute whose charges was one lakh of pieces of diamond. It doesn't matter, a big diamond or small diamond. That was her charges. So one man was suffering from leprosy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement is little difficult for ordinary persons who are interested with the material gross and subtle elements. For them it is little difficult.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

All your senses are imperfect. How you can get perfect knowledge? That is not possible. Therefore the injunction is, tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet: "You must go to guru." And who is guru? This parampara system.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

As we are servant of Krsna, it is our duty to present the real thing. Now you accept, not accept. That is not my business.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti does not mean that you give up your living conscience. Attachment is the function of the living being.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

But we were all cheaters before we came to you, Srila Prabhupada. So how is it that we're not accepting a cheater? How is it that we cheaters have accepted some knowledge from you?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Everyone thinks that he is right and everyone is wrong. We do not think like that. We take the words of the authority, that's all. Or we have no respect. This is our program. That is the way of parampara.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Hold classes at least five hours. As in the schools and colleges there are regular classes, forty-five minutes' class, then five or ten minutes' recess, again forty-five minutes' class, in this way, so we have got enough subject matter to study.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

First of all we must understand what is spirit and what is Krsna and what is Radharani, and then we try to understand what is Krsna and Radharani's loving affairs.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If there is little pain in the finger, I become so much disturbed because I have got intimate connection with this finger. Similarly, we have got intimate connection with Krsna, and we are fallen. Therefore Krsna also feels little pain.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we become sinful every moment, how we can become happy? It is not possible. If you want to become happy, you have to become pious. And the standard of piety is to become Krsna conscious, devotee of Krsna. That is the highest perfection of life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If we keep to the vani to the words of spiritual master, then we remain very fixed up.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you want to do business, you must take the first opportunity, the greatest opportunity, do your business. That is intelligence. And if we think, "All right, I shall do slowly. In seven hundred lives I shall become perfect," that is another thing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the human form of life, if we are actually intelligent, we shall try our best how to get that life or body where there is no more death, birth, old age and disease. So this Krsna consciousness movement means to educate people for that purpose.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It is not possible to purchase food for the cows. So maintain in this way, so, by natural food. And in your Germany I have seen, they are not given extra food. They are living by pasturing ground. That should be arranged.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the material world a servant works when money is paid, wages. A devotee is not like that. A devotee serves Krsna out of duty. That is God consciousness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the material platform your interest, my interest, sometimes clash. There may be fight. But why fight on religious, mean God consciousness? If everyone is God conscious, where is the question of fight?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna recommended evam parampara-praptam. We have to receive knowledge through the disciplic succession. Mahajana-gatah. You cannot manufacture. This concoction has killed the spiritual life of India. "You can think any way; I can think in my way".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness movement means vairagya-vidya: to get detached.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Just see the fun. Even water, three-fourths of water, you cannot use a drop of water for drinking unless God gives you. He creates the cloud and give you. That is not your arrangement. You cannot do.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, he was gosthyanandi. He wanted to increase the number of devotees. And the more you increase the number of devotees, the more you become very much recognized by Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Material life means everyone is trying to become victorious in the struggle of existence without God consciousness. That is our material disease.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Majority or minority, it doesn't matter. But why you should take Bhagavad-gita to establish your rascal theories? That means you are cheating.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is to educate people on the principles of the teachings of Bhagavad-gita. So if you understand Bhagavad-gita thoroughly, then you will understand Lord Rama also and other incarnations, because Krsna is present with all.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our business is to conquer over the demands of the body. The demands of the body is eating, sleeping, sex and defense. So spiritual life means make it almost nil.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Our Krsna consciousness movement is for this purpose, that simply we are trying to educate people how to give up the control of the material energy, and under the control... Not to control the material energy; that we cannot do, that is not possible.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Only hope is that you distribute books, as much as possible, whole Europe, whole America. If they come to some day, they will realize what is this value.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Not during while I am talking. You don't take. That disturbs me. My attention goes to your photograph. It is very much disturbing.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

This boy is fanning me. Why? There is little miserable condition here: we are feeling too hot. So again, if you go outside, you may feel too cold. So either inside or outside, you are in miserable condition. This is called adhyatmika.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They also speak on Bhagavad-gita, but not a single person was Krsna conscious. And since we have presented Bhagavad-gita As It Is, hundreds and thousands. This is the proof, that they presented something concoction.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

These transcendental literature, we have taken much pain to translate them into English so that you can understand. We have got fifty books. So take advantage.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The superior energy is not produced by the inferior energy. That is nonsense. The inferior energy is produced by the superior energy. This is perfect.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Moon planet is further (than the sun)?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That democracy is the ruination of civilization... So we want to remain in the minority. We don't want to be ruled by the majority.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Those who are not devotees, Godless, without any God consciousness, they are all asuras. So this movement is to make asuras as suras.

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This Krsna consciousness movement is trying to educate men that "After all, you are servant. You have to serve somebody. You are now serving your senses. Now just divert your service to Krsna, or God, and you will be happy. That's all".

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This Krsna consciousness movement is for educating people how to think of God constantly. And if we practice like that, then, after giving up this body, we are going to get a body which is exactly like God.

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This Krsna consciousness movement is educating that the varieties of service should be concentrated for the satisfaction of Krsna. That is pravrtti.

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This Krsna consciousness movement is educating people in this way, that Krsna is the enjoyer. You have seen Krsna's picture. He is always enjoying. He is not working. That is Krsna. God.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, sometimes you say only a very small percentage can take to Krsna consciousness. But yesterday morning in your lecture you were saying it can expand to ten thousand, million, or ten million.

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You should produce enough food grains, enough fodder for the cows, and live peacefully, chant Hare Krsna, make this life. At least one life we should do like that. It is very happy life.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can conjecture that "Swamiji may be like this, may be like that, may be...," and if I say, "All right, sit down. I shall explain what I am," then where is the difficulty?

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Writing means sravanam kirtanam. Sravanam means hearing from the authority and again repeat it. This is our business, sravanam kirtanam visnoh, about Visnu, not for any politician or any other man.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When my Guru Maharaja ordered me (I became the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness). This is the guru-parampara.

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We present Bhagavad-gita as it is. We don't make any addition or alteration. Therefore it is perfect. The Krsna consciousness movement, whatever knowledge they are spreading, that is perfect.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the time of death some people becomes unconscious.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

At the temple there is much maya and the people who live in the temple are phonies.

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As you have explained, Lord Krsna forbade Arjuna to do this duty.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Adolf Hitler adopted the idea of Aryan, but his criteria for Aryan was one who had blond hair and blue eyes.

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God is the whole, and we are parts, and we are evolving to integrate ourselves with that whole.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

God is light and that, within us, inside of us.

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But you give brahminical initiation to unmarried women.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

But sir, I often wonder that Jesus Christ was so wonderful, I mean brotherhood and all these things, and these, practically people following his creed are warring like this.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

But it can also mean that He is not everywhere because...

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He's saying that he accepts that we can receive perfect knowledge, but then because I am imperfect I make an imperfect interpretation.

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He says that because he doesn't know what the transcendence is, there's no value for him. It's only a name. He doesn't know why to look for it.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He has understood from what he thinks is Indian philosophy that you cannot give God a name because that would be limiting God.

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He has said that we have given the name Krsna to God, but actually there are so many names of God, that it doesn't matter what the name of God is.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

He (God) is a nice master.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In other words, Srila Prabhupada, without practice of the method, it's very difficult to understand the philosophical concepts.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I am thinking more in terms of the question, it is perhaps more suitable to make the question a question, not affirmation. "Who am I?" perhaps, is the best of the mantrams instead of affirming, "I am," because we cannot realize who I am.

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I have heard there is a philosophy here amongst some of the devotees that if you chant Hare Krsna, you can go back to the spiritual world even if you do not give up your independence.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

I'm still puzzled about the relationship of the soul to God. If the soul is eternal, as God is, and yet some souls have the tendency to fall and others don't have that tendency...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If the temple president doesn't understand it, teach him.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna is doing it. He is taking the water from the sea and putting it up in the sky, and it becomes very pure.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness is the oldest teaching of God, or Krsna. But the Gita was written about five thousand years ago.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

It's a lot of fun to drive fast cars and have sex and see movies and... This is fun you know. It's the only way to enjoy!

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Krsna consciousness is the oldest teaching of God, or Krsna. But the Gita was written about five thousand years ago.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Christian Bible it says that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and you can only get to God through him.

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In the Christian Bible it says that God created all of earth. He created the waters, he created the animals, but He created the human being in His image, which was the same.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

In the Bible they say that the animals don't have soul; therefore it's not the same as killing.

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Srila Prabhupada, it's very difficult to control my mind when I chant. It wanders.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, from time immemorial we see that in India every time there has been a religious reform...

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Sri Vallabhacaryaji, a devotee to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, wrote commentary on Srimad-Bhagavata, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected his commentary.

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Lord Siva is the greatest Vaisnava.

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Sometimes there is some disagreement, that "Why one should not live outside the temple?".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sometimes people ask where Swami Prabhupada get his meanings for different words, because they would differ, they would disagree and pick some other word.

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Some of us are Muslims, and in the Koran Mohammed says that eating meat is all right. In fact it is required to be a good Muslim, to eat meat.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

She's saying that Christ said that "I am the way".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

She says that she sees it as a mantra, and from her point of view it seems like we're repeating this mantra over and over again, and it's something like hypnotism.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sanka dasa, you know, in Bombay? He was in the CIA. And they..., when he was in Vietnam, they knocked him out one day and they brought him to a dentist and they took out three of his teeth, and they put in these little transistors.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Most people would go crazy if they didn't have any work.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Maybe religion is simply imagination or a big business.

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This is the end of their knowledge. A pile of junk.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They say God's name should never be spoken out loud.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

They argue that this Vedic philosophy is coming from India, and in India there is so much disease and so many problems, but here, where we have our science, there is no disease.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The sun, you see, is a ball of fire. Nothing can exist there.

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The process of hearing and then asking questions is the way to clarify our understanding, just like Krsna and Arjuna. So actually we must have some questions in our minds; otherwise we would all immediately surrender to Krsna.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The majority believe that Christ is also God, not just His son, but he is God also.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The foolish Darwin's theories, they also claim that monkey is our forefather.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The argument could come that "If He is directing the wanderings of all living entities then I don't have to worry about surrendering. He will direct me to it".

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Srila Prabhupada, of course, in fact, we are fallen, and sometimes I would like every time to think about Krsna, and...

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Your calculation of the world. If it is preached anywhere, that is preached on the world. It was not spread, you can say, but it was preached.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You say that because the earth isn't too hot or too cold. But they say that just by chance it came into this order.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When they tried to contact other professors, none of them wanted to come because they said, more or less, that we are like fanatics and we wouldn't actually discuss things in a philosophic way, that we would just use the conference to proselytize.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We've been trying more and more, Srila Prabhupada, to make our techniques of distribution more honest and straightforward, not to cheat so much as some of these methods in the past.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are born as human being with inherent weaknesses and shortcomings, like kama, krodha, moha, lobha...

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unfortunately, many people have put their faith in the material scientists today.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When they tried to contact other professors, none of them wanted to come because they said, more or less, that we are like fanatics and we wouldn't actually discuss things in a philosophic way, that we would just use the conference to proselytize.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

My Guru Maharaja told me personally that "If you get some money, print books." Therefore I am stressing on this point: "Where is book? Where is book? Where is book?" So kindly help me. This is my request. Print as many books in as many languages.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Repetition of chewing the chewed. This is material life.

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Within the core of your heart, the Lord is there. You sit down anywhere - in the cave, in the jungle or anywhere. If you like, you can find out the Lord is there within your heart.

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Actually that is the fact. We are traveling all over the universe. Not only that we have come to this planet. We have traveled many other planets.

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The conception of God, greater than the greatest, and smaller than the smallest. That is God. He can produce these big, big universes simply by breathing, and again - we do not know how many atoms are there in each universe - He can enter in each atom.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Don't aspire for material enjoyment. Enjoyment is there. Don't think that "If I stop my material enjoyment, then my life of enjoyment is finished." No. It is not finished.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We are training, we are advocating that illicit sex is sinful. Our first condition is that one must give up these four things: illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. This is my first condition before accepting. So they agree and they follow.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

That is the defect of Western civilization. Vox populi, taking opinion of the public. But what is the value of this public? Drunkards, smokers, meat-eaters, woman-hunters.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

When British rule came, their Lord Macaulay's private report was that "If you want to keep them as Indian Hindu, you will never be able to rule over." So it was British government's policy to condemn everything Indian.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

We say everyone, "Come and eat." Why he should remain hungry? We invite everyone, "Come here, eat, no charge." We don't charge. Why he should remain hungry? Let us increase this program. All hungry men of Melbourne city, come here.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Unless you change the society, how you can make social welfare? If you keep them as it is, then where is the question of welfare?

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You can eat meat, but you cannot eat meat by killing your father and mother. That is human sense. You are taking milk from the cow; it is your mother.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

To make the whole human society happy, this God consciousness movement must spread.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Sastra takes of the planets, not of the country. Your idea is very crippled: "country," "national." But sastra is not... There is no such thing as national. They take the whole universe as a whole. They consider from that angle of vision.

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At the end there will be no rain. Then this whole planet will be ablaze with fire. That is the beginning of destruction. Everything will die - all trees, plants, animals, everything. It will be made into ashes by the fire.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Materialistic point of view is like that. They do not know that we are eternal & we are responsible for our activities. That is knowledge. But they have no knowledge. They simply want to enjoy. They do not care for death also. Simply sense gratification.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

You can say that "We are escaping this horrible condition of life: meat-eating, drinking and intoxication." We are escaping that, these thing, not escaping happiness. You are escaping happiness.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Lazy foolish is foolish but he's lazy, he'll not do so harm. But the busy foolish he'll simply create harm. At the present the population is busy foolish. So we are creating lazy intelligent. An intelligent man must be lazy.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The king is responsible. The government is responsible that any one of his subject, either animal or man, he is not disturbed; he feels secure of his property, of his person. And it is the duty of ksatriya to save, to protect.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

The kings were governed by first-class brahmanas, sages. The brahmanas should not take part in the management of the government, but they would advise the ksatriya kings that "You rule over the citizens like this".

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You cannot expect any happiness guided by the fourth-class men. That is not possible. Therefore throughout the whole world there is chaotic condition. Nobody is happy. So this is essential that the human society must be divided into four divisions.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Bhakti means that we have to clear ourself from the designations. What is that designation? Everyone is thinking, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am European," "I am Australian," "I am cat," "I am dog, "I am this," "I am that" - bodily.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

So long we are materially engrossed, bodily concept of life, there will be always anxiety. This is the test. Anyone who is in anxiety, means he is materially situated. And anyone who is elevated to the spiritual platform, he is prasannatma. He is jolly.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you have no objection, you can chant Hare Krsna, & if you think that "The Hare Krsna is imported from India. We shall not chant," all right, you chant your own God's name. Where is the objection? But chant the holy name of God. That is our propaganda.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Ambudhi means the ocean. So this ocean does not increase, but when you come to the spiritual ocean of ananda, blissfulness, it will increase daily.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

If you are not ideal, then it will be useless to open center. You behave nicely, they will come, they will see, and they will learn. If you go to some school and the professors are rascals, then what you will learn? It is both, reciprocal.

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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks

Veda means knowledge, and anta means last stage, or end. Everything has got some end. So you are being educated. You are taking education. Where it shall end? That is called Vedanta. Where the ultimate point.

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If you accept this simple process, that "Chant Hare Krsna and realize God," that is also fact. And if you think, "What is this nonsense, chanting Hare Krsna?" then you read books. Both ways we are prepared. Come and take advantage of this movement.

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