A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - May 1972

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The Months in the Life of Srila Prabhupada present 2200+ of his lectures; 905+ of his conversations; 490+ of his morning walks;
65+ of his interviews and 6,570+ of his letters. This listing covers all available material,

and includes:
  • 10,300+ links to Vanisource - our repository of all of Srila Prabhupada's words;
  • 470+ short audio clips Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada sprinkled throughout the months;
  • 1,080 short video clips extracted from lectures, conversations, morning walks or interviews with subtitles in up to 93 languages sprinkled throughout the months;
  • 13,350+ concise statements, drawn from Srila Prabhupada's lectures, conversations and letters are highlighted within quoteboxes;
  • For further study on the different subjects addressed, each statement links to the various categories in our thematic section of Vanipedia named Vaniquotes;

These statements from the Months in the Life of Srila Prabhupada offer unparalleled insights into his devotional character; his vision to re-spiritualize human society; his dedication to translate, publish & distribute his books; his expertise to tirelessly lead & manage his worldwide movement; his empowered ability to encourage, care for, train & clearly communicate the disciplines he expects from all his disciples as he engages them in their pursuit of Krsna consciousness & performance of missionary activities. Through all these situations one can also experience how Srila Prahhupada consistently represents the pure teachings of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates.


May 1 to 5 - Tokyo

1972 - May 01

Lecture - Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is neither new nor any concocted manufactured thing. It is authorized, based on the Vedas, based on the Vedic authorities, and it is very simple and it has become simplified by the mercy of Lord Caitanya. Because Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa Himself.
Lecture SB 02.09.02-3 - Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		The GBC member means they will see that in every temple these books are very thoroughly being read and discussed and understood and applied in practical life. That is wanted, not to see the vouchers only, "How many books you have sold, and how many books are in the stock?" That is secondary.


1972 - May 02

Lecture SB 02.09.06-14 - Tokyo
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vanipedia.org 		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.Don't take advantage of eating and sleeping. Take advantage of these books. Then your life will be successful.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Don't take advantage of eating and sleeping. Take advantage of these books! Then your life will be successful. My duty—I have given you so valuable things, day and night trying to convince you, each word to word. And if you don't take advantage of this, then what can I do for you?"
720502 - Lecture SB 02.09.06-14 - Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		While you are discharging your devotional service even being immature you fall down, it doesn't matter even if you fall down. Bhajann apakvo 'tha. Apakva means nonmature. Patet tato yadi. He falls down from the path of devotional service. Yatra kva va abhadram abhud amusya kim: "What is the loss there?" And those who are sticking to their occupational duty... Ko vartha apto 'bhajatam sva-dharmatah, "If one, one sticks to his occupational duty, but he does not surrender to Krsna, does not take to devo..., what does he gain?"

vanipedia.org 		My duty - I have given you so valuable things, day and night trying to convince you, each word to word. And if you don't take advantage of this, then what can I do for you?
Letter to Bhakta dasa written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		So far the meaning of the word "cheating," there are only three things to be known, that Krishna is the Supreme Enjoyer, the Supreme Proprietor of everything, and the Supreme Friend of everyone, and we say that honesty is acting upon the knowledge of these three facts. So if one is always acting under these three facts, knowing Krishna to be the Supreme Proprietor, Enjoyer, and Friend, then he is truly honest, and if one is not acting in this knowledge, then he is always cheating or being dishonest.
Letter to Giriraja written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		I have got some reports that the deities in Bombay are being much neglected. This is most abominable affair. Radha and Krishna should not ever be neglected or left unprotected, so I am wondering what you have done to rectify this situation. I have heard that Madhudvisa intervened to get the deities a better place, so he has done nicely.
Letter to Hansadutta written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		I think a double-decker bus may not pass all the road obstacles such as bridges and tunnels between Germany and India, so I think a single-decker bus may be more practical for driving there. So far Germany, you can purchase one bus and let us develop that program gradually.
Letter to Jagadisa written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		Simply become more concerned with increasing the spiritual content of our lives, and in this way all other problems like management will be easily solved, not that they can be solved by making some legal formula and having big big meetings and talks.
Letter to Karandhara written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		The idea is that all the devotees must attend arati, prasada, and other temple services. If they miss they will be deviated. So if they are living far away, like in Laurel Canyon, then another temple should be started.

vanipedia.org 		Gradually, we shall replace the literatures which are currently popular with our own style of transcendental literature. I have tried it: any page you open, that is wonderful reading matter. My ambition is to spread these books far and wide all over the world so that everyone shall read at least one of our books and that will change his life. If only 1% become devotees, that will change the world.
Letter to Kirtanananda written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		At the present moment I take with me three assistants, so my books writing is going on, so that is not stopped by my travelling. So now I can go on touring and my writing will go on. So if we have got our own bus that will be very nice.
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		That is our real work, to educate people in spiritual life by giving them the practical example, so I wanted that the GBC would be a chosen body of men for that purpose, to see how the students are learning and reporting to me as my secretaries.

vanipedia.org 		Now Kirtanananda has bought me one bus, so now I am taking with me wherever I go three assistants, so my translating work is not stopped even while traveling, so I may continue to tour sometimes and my work will go on, therefore I shall certainly come to Dallas sometime after my coming back to USA.


1972 - May 03

Lecture SB 02.09.13 - Tokyo
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Although we find in the neophyte devotee some bad behavior due to his past experience, so we should not take him as nondevotee. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ (BG 9.30). He is sādhu—if he sticks to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And the bad habits which are visible now, it will disappear. It will disappear. So we have to give chance. Because we see some bad habits of a devotee, we should not reject. We should give another chance. We should give another chance, because he has taken the right things, but to past behavior he appears to be again going to the māyā's clutches. So we should not reject, but we should give chance. One may take little more time to come to the standard, but we should give him chance. If he sticks to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, very soon all these defects will be disappearing. Kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā (BG 9.31). He will be completely a dharmātmā, mahātmā."
720503 - Lecture SB 02.09.13 - Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		Although we find in the neophyte devotee some bad behavior due to his past experience, so we should not take him as nondevotee. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ (BG 9.30). He is sādhu—if he sticks to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And the bad habits which are visible now, it will disappear. It will disappear. So we have to give chance because we see some bad habits of a devotee, we should not reject. We should give another chance.
Letter to Bhagavan written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		I am anxious to know what has happened to Aravinda since he left me in India. I think his parents live there in Detroit, his other name is Arthur Friedman, so kindly search them out and ask them where he is.
Letter to Citsukhananda written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		The Mexican public is very sympathetic, so produce voluminously Spanish language literature.
Letter to Patita Uddharana written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 27, 1972, along with sample of your booklet. It is very nice, I have enjoyed it very much, but there are some direct criticisms and that we are not going to do. These men are not so important than our institution, so we shall not give them unnecessary publicity by criticizing. We shall consider it later after reading more carefully.
Letter to Rupanuga written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		Our idea to recruit many brahmacaris is nice. We need a class of men purely brahmanas. Your idea to recruit many brahmacaris is nice. We need a class of men purely brahmanas. The whole world is full of sudras. The Krishna Consciousness movement is meant for re-establishing the system of four varnas and asramas, then there will be progress of civilization. We have got such a nice process that even from the base sudras we can create brahmanas of highest calibre.

vanipedia.org 		All the presidents of our centers should see that all the members are strictly observing the brahminical standards, such as rising early, cleansing at least twice daily, reading profusely, attending arati, like that. You begin immediately this process. That is the main work of GBC. Sometimes we see that even they do not wash hands after eating. Even after drinking water we should wash hands. That is suci. Suchi means purest.

vanipedia.org 		Everyone should join the mangal arati. Gradually, we should become more regulated and strict for following the rules and regulations. Otherwise we shall fall down.

vanipedia.org 		So far merging of temples, do the needful. If there is waste of time they may be merged, I have no objection.


1972 - May 04

Lecture SB 02.09.15 - Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		If you know Krsna, then you know everything. If you get Krsna, then you get everything. Why should you try to get this thing, that thing, that thing? Simply try to get Krsna, Krsna's protection. Then you get everything. You simply try to know Krsna; then you know everything. Sriya-pati. Sriyah patim yajna-patim jagat-patim.
Letter to Gurudasa written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		I have already written to Gargamuni, and he will not bother to become president. So combinedly you do everything nicely, he will supply money, but you can supply accounts and vouchers to Gargamuni for checking.
Letter to Hrdayananda written from Tokyo
Letter to Karandhara written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		there is vast possibility for selling our books in England, I think more than in your country.
Letter to Ksirodakasayi written from Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		It is good news that you have come to your senses that nothing should be done by contractor. Everything should be done by ourselves. Mr. Saraf is experienced, so take his help. So go on raising funds, constructing, and send me the plans as soon as possible


1972 - May 05

Lecture SB 02.09.16 - Tokyo

vanipedia.org 		Here in this material world, service means neither master or servant. Service means to the senses. That's all. We are servant of our senses. We give service to the master—not to the master. I give service to the money—he pays me—not to the master. I have no love for the master.
Conversation - Kyoto
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"The things are supplied by God because He is giving me all facilities to enjoy this material world to my heart's content by supplying all the ingredients. That is the material condition. So these foolish persons are taking as chance, but it is not chance. God is omnipotent. As soon as He understands that I want this, He gives me some facility so that I get it. So it is not chance. It is by arrangement of superior authority. But because they are atheist, they have no sense of God consciousness, they are taking as chance, that necessity creates that chance; automatically it is coming. Not automatically."
720505 - Conversation - Kyoto

vanipedia.org 		The things are supplied by God because He is giving me all facilities to enjoy this material world to my heart's content by supplying all the ingredients. That is the material condition. So these foolish persons are taking as chance, but it is not chance. God is omnipotent. As soon as He understands that I want this, He gives me some facility so that I get it. So it is not chance.
Letter to Danavir written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		"Who God is" can be summed up in only five words. Krsna is the Supreme controller. If you become convinced of this, and preach it enthusiastically, success is assured, and you will be doing the greatest service for all living entities.
Letter to Niranjana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		"Give up all varieties of religiousness, and just surrender unto Me; and in return I shall protect you from all sinful reactions. Therefore, you have nothing to fear." This verse is actually the essence of the whole Bhagavad Gita.
Letter to Nityananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		the solution is to be always thinking of Krishna and the Spiritual Master, then maya cannot touch you. If you very strictly follow the regulative principles and chant 16 rounds minimum, there is no question of ever falling down.
Letter to Rishikumara written from Unknown Place

vanipedia.org 		This can be dovetailed when we are actually very sincere servant of Lord Krishna.
Letter to Rsabhadeva written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		In India, we had many pandal programs and they were very successful, so you try to have one there also.
Letter to Sridama written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Always there will be obstacles placed in our path by the demons and atheists, but if we can remain pure, nothing will be able to stop this great transcendental movement from spreading God consciousness all over the world.

vanipedia.org 		As president, you must make sure that all the students are regularly chanting 16 rounds, taking bath, attending mangal aratrik, reading our books, and following the regulative principles. If everyone keeps strictly these principles then success is assured.
Letter to Trai written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Take advantage of these books yourselves. Not that you just distribute but neglect reading them yourself. Always read them, especially Krsna book. Every time you have a spare moment, you should read. This will help you to advance in Krishna consciousness, and will give you the ability to convince others also.


May 6 to 17 - Hawaii

1972 - May 06

Lecture Arrival - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		If you can commit mistake, how you can give perfect knowledge? Knowledge means must be perfect, without any mistake, without any illusion. Illusion..., illusion means to accept something for something, the same mistake. And then our imperfectness of the senses: we acquire knowledge, we gather knowledge by perception of this our material senses, but our material senses are imperfect.


1972 - May 09

Letter to Amogha written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am very much pleased to hear from you that all the programs in Melbourne are increasing enthusiastically under your supervision. I like Melbourne very much. One thing is, too much competition between centers is not good, the emphasis should be on cooperation, not competition.
Letter to Bali-mardana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am very much disturbed that I shall work so hard and the manuscripts are lost. If they are not in that trunk, then I shall have to translate 14, 15, and 16 (part) again?
Letter to Bhavananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The servant must know what is God, what does He do, how He is satisfied: these things should be preached to them. How one is accepted as God, what are the symptoms: these things they should learn.
Letter to Damodara written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		So far your management of different centers in Eastern Zone, I have already advised Rupanuga to do the needful; if there is waste then you can merge various centres. You can thin milk by adding water and you can make it thick by boiling.

vanipedia.org 		Better to develop the small number of devotees we have, make them truly Krishna conscious boys and girls than to go on getting many followers who do not understand and practice the real principles. Better one moon that many stars.
Letter to Rupanuga written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		It is not good if such big temples who are setting the example for the whole Society do not pay their bills. This is most irregular. I am trying to retire from the administrative affairs, but if the presidents and GBC men make such disturbances then how I can be peaceful? Things should be maintained automatically, then it will be peaceful for me.

vanipedia.org 		Now I want that we shall concentrate on making our devotees Krishna conscious and ourselves becoming Krishna conscious, and not be so much concerned with expanding ourselves widely but without any spiritual content. Just like boiling the milk, it becomes thicker and sweeter. Now do like that, boil the milk.
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Your observations are nice, and I think this will be a nice way to arrange the world into zones for GBC management.


1972 - May 10

Lecture - Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Very simple method. Anyone can practice it. We are distributing this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, the holy words, the holy name of God, and everyone is chanting. It is not difficult. In the any foreign country, all over the world... It is not that because it is made of Sanskrit letters, pronunciation Sanskrit words, in other parts of the world they cannot utter it. Even a child can utter.
Letter to Anandavardhana (Axel Anderson) and Jogindra Vandana (John Berg) written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Upon the recommendation of Nityananda, I have gladly consented to accept both of you as my duly initiated disciples. Your beads have been duly chanted by me and they are sent under separate post. I have given you the spiritual names as follows: Axel Anderson - Anandavardhana das and John Berg - Jogindra Vandana das.
Letter to Cyavana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Our point is that in the house or skyscraper we shall simply accommodate for occupants either guests or purchasers. So these purchasers must be a devotee, that is, no intoxication, no gambling, no meat or fish, like that. There are many families in Bombay, they want such association, to live with us, attend arati, prasada. This is a very important item.
Letter to Niranjana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I shall be glad to know if you can translate our literature into Hindi with the help of friends in Varanasi. Varanasi is the learning site for Hindi language. Can you take charge of this translation work? Then it will be a great service to the Lord.
Letter to Nityananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Every temple president must be very expert in all these things.
Letter to Rupa Manohara, Vipina Purandara, Brajera Pakhala, Gopavrndapala and Kadambakanana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I can understand that all of you are very sincere boys, and are very eligible candidates for going back to home, back to Godhead. And the process is simple.


1972 - May 11

Letter to Bhaktijana written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		We have got very good response in Africa by our kirtana, so have sankirtana widely, with dancing, and that will attract everyone, and also distribute many of our Krishna Books, paperback edition - they were especially meant for the Africans.
Letter to Gargamuni written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		There is one request for 2nd initiation from Yadavacarya das, but I have not received any recommendation from the temple president or a sannyasi.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I may inform you in this connection about my family life. Actually, I never liked my wife. I was going to marry another, but my father saved me from the danger and he told me that you do not like your wife, that is the grace of Krishna. So don't be worried about your wife.
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		There will be no scarcity of money for the work, so you try to raise fund locally as far as possible. But whenever there is scarcity of money, you will have it in the usual way as you have already got it. So do everything very nicely and quickly.


1972 - May 12

Letter to Bhagavan written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		That is our real business, travel and preach, distribute literature and prasadam.

vanipedia.org 		I want now that all of my GBC secretaries do my work. Let me sit tight in Los Angeles and write my books. Now you be always travelling here and there, visiting the centers in your zone, seeing how things are going on and how the students are making spiritual progress.

vanipedia.org 		That is our real concern, the spiritual progress of life. That is duty of GBC.

vanipedia.org 		This ISKCON organization is there because I have been always travelling. I never sat down in my old age, no. So you follow my example and preach widely all over the world, that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's version.
Letter to Karandhara written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Abruptly if we stop, that will not be good. So we have to rectify by arrangement and agreement. I am simply surprised how you all GBC men agreed to give him $4000 per month. So the mistake has been made, now it has to be corrected by other ways.


1972 - May 13

Letter to Gurudasa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		You must construct something wonderful. Otherwise, it will be a discredit to you American boys. That will exalt the position of America in India. And in every temple food distribution must go on profusely with American food supplies.


1972 - May 14

Letter to Jadurani written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		The seven walls surround Vaikuntha, with seven gates, just like a building may be located there, but you have to pass through seven gates and courtyards, with walls surrounding, to reach there. Gardens, houses, everything is there between the walls.
Letter to Jagadisa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am very much encouraged by your increase in literature distribution for Canada zone, and I can understand that you are very methodical and careful to keep proper accounts. That is very good qualification for manager.
Letter to Jayananda, Trai and Rsabhadeva written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		We must try to avoid becoming too much overly organized like the material businessmen. Our business is to ourselves become Krishna conscious, advance in spiritual life, and to preach to others how they can also take advantage and come to the perfectional stage of life.
Letter to Radha Mohan written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Upon the recommendation of Balavanta I have gladly consented to accept you as my duly initiated disciple. Your beads have been duly chanted by me and they are sent under separate post. Your spiritual name is Radha Mohan das Brahmacary.
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am encouraged to hear that you are prepared to take sannyas and travel widely for GBC's real business.


1972 - May 15

Letter to Giriraja written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Somehow or other we have to make vigorous propaganda. These two words "Hare Krishna" must appear everywhere. So if we work sincerely without any material aspirations, Krishna will help in all respects, be assured. So far the donation of roses, utilize them nicely. There will be flowers for the deity, it will be a great service.

vanipedia.org 		It is the mission of Krishna to get back His parts and parcels to home, exactly like a father likes to get back his son at home because this son had gone out of home for false happiness. But the people are so mad, they are talking so many nonsense things—nonsense philosophy, nonsense science—and our task is to meet all of them and at the same time pacify them in their lunatic condition.

vanipedia.org 		I have suggested in previous letters that we want persons to live in our house who will observe our devotional regulations. We want to pick up some devotees who will be satisfied with regulated life, daily having darsana of the deity, chanting—we want some selected men to live with us, either as cooperative housing society or however.

vanipedia.org 		I have received letters from Puranjana, Varadhana, and Atmarama and either they are not willing to work according to direction or otherwise, how do they complain there is no sufficient engagement? I think there is more than sufficient engagement for everyone. We have got so much to do. We have to deal with so many men with different personalities. So kindly utilize their energies and at the same time keep them satisfied. That is leadership.

vanipedia.org 		If one man is appointed as leader, all must follow him and be obedient. "Obedience is the first law of discipline." They are pointing out irregularities, but they themselves are not doing their duty, so they are pointing out the irregularities in others. They came to serve, now they don't want to serve so there is some excuse. Oh, irregularity, let me go away. The workers should not suggest irregularities.
Letter to Ranadhira written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Rupanuga has got a tape of me reciting gayatri mantra, so you can get a copy from him. One thing is that the tape should be heard through earphones into the right ear.


1972 - May 16

Letter to Acyutananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Sometime ago you asked my permission for accepting some disciples, now the time is approaching very soon when you will have many disciples by your strong preaching work. Stick to the line of our strong preaching method and many misguided persons will be blessed by your proper guiding.

vanipedia.org 		I have already advised Tamala Krishna Goswami to go to Bangladesh and if you also sometimes join with him and preach this Krishna Consciousness movement amongst the Mohammedans in Bangladesh, it will be a great service.
Letter to Bhavananda written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Jayapataka took the quotation from one press, which quotation included printing, paper, everything, 10,000 books for Rs. 4,000. This rascal wants so much. It is simply joking. Anyway, I think you cannot find out, let Jayapataka find out. The composition charges should not be more than Rs. 250 for 100 pages, very small pages.
Letter to Gurudasa and Yamuna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		There is a system, bhetnama, it means the person who contributes, for his lifetime the room is reserved for him and after his demise it goes to the temple. There are many buildings in Vrindaban which are constructed on this principle, and for Delhi men it will be very convenient.
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Generally we do not discuss these incidents because a devotee of Lord Caitanya does not feel very happy to discuss them. But so far we have heard from authorized sources, He simultaneously entered Jagannatha Temple and Gopinatha Temple in Puri and He did not come out. That much is sufficient.
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		If the Americans can take up this movement seriously, why not the Bangladesh people? Try to meet with this educated public, and if you can convince them, it will be a great service. We are trying to unify the whole population of this globe by this cultural movement. There are blessings of Lord Caitanya in this connection, and if we try sincerely it will be successful.


1972 - May 17

Letter to Jayapataka written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		Our only ambition is that the birthsite of Bhaktivinode Thakura must be gorgeous and attractive so that people may come to see from all parts of the world. Bhaktivinode Thakura is no longer localized. His holy name is being expanded along with Lord Caitanya's. So let them understand this point. They are occupying the place for more than 50 years and none of their men could fulfill the desire of Bhaktivinode Thakura in the matter of preaching in foreign countries. With this spirit we should combine.
Letter to Satsvarupa written from Honolulu

vanipedia.org 		I am giving sannyasa to Rupanuga, Karandhara and Bali Mardan and as you have also asked me, I shall also be pleased to give you sannyasa. The others are coming to Los Angeles by the 25th May, 1972, and the ceremony will be held on the 27th May.


May 18 to 31 - Los Angeles

1972 - May 18

Lecture Arrival - Los Angeles
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with these pair of cymbal. Now you are so many chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is my success."
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vanipedia.org 		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 Kṛṣṇa. That is my success. It was the prediction of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu: pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma sarvatra pracāra hoibe mora nāma. Lord Caitanya desired that "In all the towns, in as many towns and villages as there are on the surface of the globe, My name will be broadcast."

vanipedia.org 		My Guru Mahārāja is tenth from Caitanya Mahāprabhu, I am eleventh, you are the twelfth. So distribute this knowledge. People are suffering. They are simply fighting on some false thing, māyā. They should be given the real fact of happiness. We have spoiled our life, many lives, coming through the evolutionary process of 8,400,000 species of life. Here is an opportunity, human form of life, and here is the message of Lord Caitanya, Kṛṣṇa. Human form of life can understand, and especially in America you can understand. You have got better intelligence, better facility.

vanipedia.org 		We are not sentimental, simply chanting and dancing. We have got more than two thousand volumes of books. If you want to learn it through science, philosophy, it is also there. Otherwise, the simple method—simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma, Rāma, Hare Hare, and you'll realize the whole thing. The child can take part, the philosopher can take part, the scientist can take part, the politician can take part, the religionist can take part, the public can take part. It is so universal.
Lecture - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love. Everything. As we have got many things within this material world, all of them, they are in Kṛṣṇa. Whatever you have got.
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vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for giving perfect knowledge to the human society: what He is, what is God, what is this material world, why you have come here, why you have to undergo so much tribulation, miserable condition of life, 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, these are to be solved. That is really problems of human life.


1972 - May 19

Lecture SB 02.03.01 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Just like a small child. Nobody can hurt him. The father will take care. He does not know. He's simply depending on father. "My father, mother." That's all. Kṛṣṇa says that "You surrender unto Me, I give you protection." He's not a liar. He's not inefficient. He's strong. He's sufficiently opulent. He can do that. So believe in Kṛṣṇa's word and surrender unto Him, and don't spoil this human form of life. Death is sure. Before death, we must prepare to go back to home, back to Godhead. Thank you very much.

vanipedia.org 		That's my credit. I did not like to take the position of Kṛṣṇa. I remained a servant of Kṛṣṇa, and I spoke what Kṛṣṇa said. That's all. This is my secret. So everyone can do that. There is nothing magic. The magic will act as soon as you become a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa.

vanipedia.org 		Hṛdy antaḥ-sthaḥ. Kṛṣṇa is within your heart. If you kindly continue to hear about Him, as you are doing, then Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased, "Oh, this person is now interested in me." Because nobody's interested in Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa is also silent to them. But as soon as you become interested, oh, Kṛṣṇa becomes very active: "Oh, he's trying to do something. I shall help him."
Letter to Aksoja written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		There are very many cows in that country and this especially is pleasing to me so if you can arrange some big engagement there then I shall gladly come.
Letter to Jagadisa written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Rupanuga, Satsvarupa, and Bali Mardan are coming here also, at least before the 27th of this month because I am giving them the sannyasa order of life on that date along with Karandhara. However, there is certainly no urgency for taking sannyasa. But if my senior disciples wish to take sannyasa then I shall give it. But there is no urgency.

vanipedia.org 		Now I want to retire, and you all appointed GBC men must do the work that I am doing. Therefore, I have recommended this traveling extensively for the GBC men, just as I am doing it.

vanipedia.org 		If I did not travel there would be no nice organization. Traveling and preaching, that is the Sankirtana movement. But now I am old man; let me retire for writing books in my last years.


1972 - May 20

Lecture SB 02.03.01-2 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		They're fighting just like cats and dogs, they fight, "I am cat, you are dog. You are dog, I am cat." That's all. So this challenge, that "You are all rascals," it is a very strong word, but actually that is the fact. 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."
Letter to Dayananda written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Our children in Dallas school should be trained because I want that a new generation of devotees shall carry on this great mission successfully.
Letter to Don written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Now you have got a first-class temple. Krishna is very pleased and has given you all facility, so you go on like this, increasing in your devotional attitudes and surely you will get the perfection of your life.


1972 - May 21

Lecture - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Because God, Kṛṣṇa, is sitting in everyone's heart—your heart, my heart, everyone. And He can give you instruction. His name is therefore Caitya-guru. Caitya-guru means who gives conscience and knowledge from within.

vanipedia.org 		Lord Brahmā gives his decision: "The greatest personality is Kṛṣṇa." Just like we are sitting, so many ladies and gentlemen here. We can analyze who is the greatest here. So, say, for arguing, you can accept that "You are the greatest." But I am not the greatest. I have got my spiritual master. He has got his spiritual master. He has got a spiritual master. In this way, we go up to Brahmā. Brahmā is the original spiritual master within this universe, who gave us the Vedic knowledge.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"It is a pleasure for the male to please the female counterpart. That is originally created. Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir ahlādinī-śaktiḥ. These Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa love affairs is the originally there. Rādhārāṇī, the female counterpart, is the manifestation of ahlādinī-śakti, pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
720521 - Lecture - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Vedānta-sūtra was compiled by Vyāsadeva. He is incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, Dvaipāyana Vyāsa. So therefore, it is compiled by His incarnation, so it is compiled by Him. Because His incarnation, He is the same. So vedanta-kṛt means Veda, compiler of the Vedānta, and the compiler of the compiler of the Vedānta is vedanta-vit, one who knows Vedānta. Because I have written some book, so I know what is the purpose of writing my book. You cannot know. My purpose you cannot know. There is a small instructive story in this—not story, fact—in this connection.
Letter to Bibhu written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I am going to London for Rathayatra this year but I think I can fly from London to Pittsburgh without any difficulty. So you can accept that engagement on September 8th and I shall be there. And the national TV show sounds very nice.
Letter to Jayadeva written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		You just try your best to serve Lord Krishna, and if any perplexing circumstances arise, just pray to Krishna to give you strength. These bodily relationships are only temporary. Our real relationship is with Krishna. Try to cultivate that.
Letter to Niranjana written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		My Guru Maharaja used to say that these literature are the "Brhat Mrdanga," that is to say, the big mrdanga, because like the mrdanga which can be heard from a long distance, simply a few words can have a tremendous effect on millions of people if they are propagated widely.
Letter to Ranadhira written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		You are very descriptive writer and I enjoy very much your descriptions and use of words. Actually, if we are engaged in writing and speaking on behalf of Krishna, this is the best process for advancing in Krishna Consciousness. Such activity forces us to think very clearly on the subject matter in order to speak or write on it to convince others. So I think that you should develop your ability for writing and spend sometime writing articles for Back To Godhead.
Letter to Yadubara written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Let us produce magazines in English and Hindi languages and perhaps at some later time we may be able to print in local languages our BTG also. But for that there must be many, many subscribers.


1972 - May 22

Lecture SB 02.03.01-3 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		So unfortunately, if our student falls a victim of vagina instead of Kṛṣṇa, that is very regrettable. Then better he worship, instead of Kṛṣṇa, let him worship Indra. That is the Bhāgavata direction.

vanipedia.org 		Eternally means, now we are in this material world, we are being trained up how to serve Kṛṣṇa. This Deity worship—this is training. The same thing will continue when you go to Vaikuṇṭha or Vṛndāvana. The same way we shall personally serve.
Letter to Amogha written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		If you want vagina instead of Kṛṣṇa, all right, do it. You have it. So unfortunately, if our student falls a victim of vagina instead of Kṛṣṇa, that is very regrettable. Then better he worship, instead of Kṛṣṇa, let him worship Indra. That is the Bhāgavata direction.

vanipedia.org 		Make the covers of the book very much attractive so that automatically they will read the knowledge inside. The covers are like the mind and the senses, and the contents of the book are the soul. So sometimes in order to attract people to find out what is the soul we have to decorate the mind and the senses and make the presentation of Krishna consciousness very palatable to them.
Letter to Himavati written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Now do not worry that your husband will take sannyasa. I think I have told you before that I will not give him sannyasa at this point. He may travel very widely throughout the Germany zone and still remain Grhastha. He is more than Sannyas.
Letter to Syamananda written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I think you should apply your talent for painting nice pictures of Krishna and the acaryas in our line, and also you may help Mohadananda in designing work for his press operation there in Sydney.


1972 - May 23

Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Varuna dasa. Varunadeva. Varunadeva is the demigod of sea? Yes. You have to control the Pacific Ocean. (laughter) Preaching. (laughter) All the Pacific islands, you have to preach. Is that all right? (laughter).
Letter to Cyavana written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		You can put one advertisement in a newspaper and many men will come for interview. Offer them nice place to live with the devotees and all prasadam and other conveniences should be offered to them. And in return they will see to the materials, labor, architects, etc., and give you their expert advice in all matters. Otherwise we have no construction experience and they may try to cheat us.
Letter to Friends written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Unless there is connection with a bona fide spiritual master, coming in the line of disciplic succession, there is no possibility of making progress in spiritual life. So I have established ISKCON centers for the purpose of catching up the Lotus Feet of Krishna by intimate connection with the spiritual master. These are my authorized centers for that purpose. You say that whatever I instruct you you will carry out, so again my instruction is that you abandon this independent scheme and join your good god-brothers and sisters at some one of our ISKCON centers.
Letter to Mr. B. D. Joshi written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I have decided not to give Jayananda das the sannyasa order of life at this time, let him wait.
Letter to Sudama written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		By reading these books regularly we become more and more convinced in Krishna Consciousness. And if we become more convinced, that will spread the potency of Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement with great strength.


1972 - May 24

Lecture SB 02.03.02-7 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Because Kṛṣṇa will not give you facility for possessing anything which will ultimately cause your falldown. Kṛṣṇa knows that "If he catches a fish, then he will have to become a fish again to be caught by the same fish. So why shall I give the facility?" So therefore our policy is not to ask anything from Kṛṣṇa. He knows what is good for me; simply I have to surrender unto Him. That's all. Why shall I bother Him, "Give me this, give me that, give me that"? Na dhanaṁ na janam.
Letter to Giriraja written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Actually it is the duty of the spiritual master to find fault with his students so that they may make progress, not that he should always be praising them. So if you find some criticism, kindly accept it in that spirit. I am only interested in that you along with all my other students should become Krishna Conscious.


1972 - May 25

Lecture SB 02.03.08 and Initiation - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Nobody's here? Where is Nanda Kumāra? Sleeping? As soon as there is opportunity, sleep. One has to conquer over sleeping, eating, and sense enjoyment. Nidrā, nidrā means sleeping. Āhāra means eating or collecting more, collecting. Eating, sleeping, and vihāra, sense gratification. Vijitau, the Gosvāmīs, they conquered over this.
Conversation with the GBC - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		GBC means now they should tour very extensive. That is the first principle, the GBC. Not sit down (in) one place and pass resolution. No, they must be active. They must act like me. As I am old man, I am traveling all over the world. Now to give me relief, the GBC members... I shall expand into twelve more so that they can exactly work like me. Gradually they will be initiators. At least first initiation. You must make advance. That is my motive. So, in that way I want to divide it in twelve zones. And we have to make more propaganda throughout the whole world.

vanipedia.org 		We have no theory, we have got a positive presentation, "Here is God." With that conviction we have to push on. So you must be prepared in that way. There will be so many questions, so many opposing elements. You have to face them by your arguments, by your knowledge. This is required.

vanipedia.org 		Now we have got very many centers, but the duty is very responsible. So as, so far the center is concerned, the local president is (indistinct) man. The GBC can supervise that things are going on. The first management is that each and every member in the temple is chanting sixteen rounds regularly and following the regulations, that's all. Otherwise we have no... That is our spiritual strength. That must be executed.

vanipedia.org 		So the president, local president, must see that the members are chanting. So this way the institution will be managed, then it will make progress. That is our spiritual strength—to observe the regulative principles and at least chant sixteen rounds. Then you do other things. This is the biggest institution of spiritual activities so everyone of us should be spiritually strong. Otherwise, superficially if we want to manage, it will not be possible.

vanipedia.org 		So many boys, young boys, you have understood. So do it and give me relief. I remain in the background. Let me finish my Bhagavata Purana and those who are assisting in the writing, I'll be there. That this institution, ISKCON will give to the world so many valuable jewels. There is no comparison.

vanipedia.org 		Our writing will be gospel. We have to edit in such a way, present our literature in such a way that it will be gospel truth. Authorized. That people will refer to our books. So we have to very cautiously print our literatures. It is not ordinary literature, fiction, or something, story. Just like Bhagavad-gītā and Bhāgavata. They are not ordinary. literature. Without any four defects of human frailties. Bhrama, pramāda, vipralipsa, also... We are following those literatures. So our writing should be so authorized that in future one may not find any fault, contradiction. We shall have to, cautiously.
Letter to Jayarge and Lindon Lomese written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		We can never expect to find any kind of utopia, even in the spiritual world. Where ever there are persons there are bound to be differences, so we should not expect any kind of perfect arrangement, especially here in the material world.


1972 - May 26

Lecture SB 02.03.09 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		This is significant. Those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, they have no material desires. Finished.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So to get this body means I have got material desire This (indistinct), this is the philosophy. Anyone who has got this material body, beginning from Brahmā... He is considered the first creature within this universe, most intelligent, most learned, but still, because he has got this material body, he's not akāma, without any material desire. He has got material desire. He wanted to become the supreme head of one universe. Just like we try to become supreme head of a family, then of a society, then of a nation, of a community. Then I desire to be head also. Go on, go on, increasing, to lord it over. So, so long there will be desire to lord it over, then we have to accept a body. It doesn't matter what kind of body. It may be Brahmā's body, it may be cat's body, it may be man's body, it may be bird's body, it may be beast's body. That will depend on my desire. But if I have got any desire, material desire, to fulfill, then I must be prepared for accept next body, another."
720526 - Lecture SB 02.03.09 - Los Angeles
Conversation - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		There is a story. Do you know it? Do you know? The crow imitated a peacock. He got some tail feathers and put, (laughter) holding his head up, and began to… So that is imitation. But if guru-vaiṣṇava blesses, even a crow can become a peacock. That is the... There is vast ocean of difference between peacock and crow. Still, by guru-vaiṣṇava, a crow can become a peacock.
Letter to Gurudasa written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		So far your question regarding women, I have always accepted the service of women without any discrimination, so I have no objection if Yamuna devi contributes her ideas on this construction project. Nothing should be done without group consultation.
Letter to Isho Kumar written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		At the present moment we are publishing our books in Japan, because in India there is no high class printing. But now just to supply cheap books in India, I want to publish there, so I shall be glad to know if you are interested in publishing both our Hindi and English literatures.
Letter to Ksirodakasayi written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		One thing, it is not good if we engage any professional translators, our own men must do the work.
Letter to Madhudvisa written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I can understand that you have become very much enthusiastic by shifting to Australia and this enthusiasm is very much desirable by Krsna. Do not become ever depressed. But go on spreading this enthusiastic quality throughout that part of the world and this will be a very very great service.

vanipedia.org 		If you think New Zealand can be fully reliant upon Sydney for printing work and that Sydney temple can become very responsible in this matter, then they should not purchase any press. New Zealand is first class dairy and farming country in the world, so if you can establish some nice asrama there for raising and protecting cows, that will be a great service.
Letter to Manager of Sparkasse written from Los Angeles
Letter to Niranjana written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		First make certain that our distribution is very nice organized. So after your exams you may plunge into this task whole-heartedly and try to enlist the help of all the others and make the project come out very successfully.
Letter to Omkara written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I am remembering always you and your father, that you so selflessly aided me in my preparation for coming to the western countries and distributing the great gift of Srimad-Bhagavatam to the western society.
Letter to Puri Maharaj written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I know that they admit foreigners into the temple who are certified by some mayavadi sannyasis living there. So why not they shall allow anyone who is certified by me or the society? You know how strictly we are following the principles of Vaisnava way of life. So kindly try to persuade the government officials on this point and it will be a very great service to Srila Prabhupada’s cause.
Letter to Sudama written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		There are many Indians in Tokyo and if you canvass them one by one gradually all of them will become our life members and support our activities for expanding widely in Japan.


1972 - May 27

Lecture SB 07.05.22-32 Festival Nrsimha-caturdasi - Los Angeles - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Only few could see Him, that He is Supreme Personality of Godhead. So even God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna comes before somebody; it is not possible to see him. The seeing process is different. Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena. 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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vanipedia.org 		To understand Krsna, God, we require to purify our senses. That is defined by Narada Pancharatra. Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ. Being freed from all kinds of designations. Just like we are seeing Krsna Consciousness, accepting Krsna Consciousness in a vision. And somebody else, ordinary man... Suppose somebody is Christian. He sees Krsna Consciousness as a movement of the Hindus. But actually it is not.
Lecture Initiation Sannyasa - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		It is our duty on behalf of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa wants it. Lord Caitanya wants it. Therefore, success or no success, that doesn't matter, Kṛṣṇa will help us, but it is our duty to enlighten the whole human society with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are forgetful of Kṛṣṇa. They do not know what is God, therefore they say that God is dead, there is no God, God is impersonal. So many theories they have got. Actually, they have no idea what is God.
Lecture Purport to Bhajahu Re Mana - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		If you train the mind, then mind is your best friend. And if you cannot train your mind, then will be your bitterest enemy. Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ. Therefore mind has always to be engaged on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then mind automatically will be controlled and will become friend.
720527 - Lecture BG The Yoga System - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		To understand Kṛṣṇa, God, we require to purify our senses. That is defined by Narada Pancharatra. Being freed from all kinds of designations. Just like we are seeing Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, accepting Kṛṣṇa Consciousness in a vision. And somebody else, ordinary man... Suppose somebody is Christian. He sees Kṛṣṇa Consciousness as a movement of the Hindus. But actually it is not. Therefore, he has to become free from the designation of becoming an American.


1972 - May 28

Lecture SB 02.03.10 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		There is no end of their desire, no end. They are called sarva-kamah.
Conversation - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Girl: It's my fault because I wasn't conscious of what I was doing.
Prabhupāda: It is your fault but is it grievous fault that you put something instead of something?
Girl: Well, I didn't know.
Prabhupāda: So somebody responsible should be in charge. That way instead of salt something may be put. So many people cooking is going on. All right. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Letter to Balavanta written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		So we want to give the citizens the positive value of Krishna consciousness way of life, so for that activity we must always be preaching very strongly in the public. Therefore I approve your plan to run for public office.

vanipedia.org 		If you want to devote fully time for this political campaign, I have no objection if you turn over your office of president to someone else. Your plan for bringing Lord Jagannatha to Atlanta is also approved by me, provided there are sufficient Brahmans and other suitable arrangements.
Letter to Bhagavan written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		This Gayatri Mantra function should be held amongst the devotees only.
Letter to Bhavananda written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I am expecting your long report about Mayapur project.
Letter to Deputy/Assistant Charity Commissioner written from Los Angeles
Letter to Gargamuni written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		If you simply chant and do not speak then that would be all right, but there must be some speaking. Because if there is no speaking everyone will say that we are just like Devanand's film. So to be very respectable, we must speak our philosophy, and that would be impossible for you in Hindi and other languages.
Letter to Giriraja written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		So far your question regarding Deity worship, during arati everything should be offered first to the Guru.
Letter to Jayadvaita written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I have received your letter dated May 26th, 1972, along with the blue-print copies of Bhagavad-gita As It Is from MacMillan Company. It is very nice. So I shall be looking forward to seeing the entire manuscript and book sometime around first July, 1972.
Letter to Jyotirmayi written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		So far our question is concerned there are two possibilities. You may say that Krishna is God the Supreme Personality and that He is God the Supreme Person.
Letter to Maitreya, Mahasakti, Arijit, Mitravinda and Nandita Gokula written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		When Hare Krishna Mantra is vibrating on your tongue and you are hearing attentively, then your consciousness becomes clear or Krishna Consciousness, and there is no question of maya or hazy consciousness. Just as when the light and the darkness come together, the darkness cannot stand before the light, so maya cannot remain in the presence of Krishna.


1972 - May 29

Lecture BG Introduction - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		Everything has got some scientific book, to understand that particular subject matter. Similarly, 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. Just like you are seeing me, I am seeing you. This is concrete fact. Similarly, God can be seen by you, and God is already seeing you. There is no doubt about it.
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vanipedia.org 		Formerly, the kings, the head of the administrative executive, they used to learn the thesis or the injunction given by God. So according to Bhagavad-gītā, only a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, a person who is intimately related with Kṛṣṇa, he can understand what is Bhagavad-gītā.
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vanipedia.org 		It does not mean that when Kṛṣṇa was present on this planet, Kṛṣṇa was absent in Goloka Vrndavana. No. It is not like that. Just like I am now present here, I am absent in my apartment. Kṛṣṇa is not like that. Kṛṣṇa can be present everywhere; at the same time, he can remain in his own abode. That is described in the Brahma-samhita: goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtaḥ. Although he is in his abode, which is known as Goloka Vrndavana, he can expand himself everywhere.
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vanipedia.org 		Either you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, or Kṛṣṇa's representative. Of course it is not possible for us to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, because Kṛṣṇa is not present at the present moment. But His representative is there. So one has to take shelter of His representative. And practice bhakti-yoga, concentrating his mind on Kṛṣṇa. This is called Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. One has to take shelter of a person whose life is devoted to Kṛṣṇa, and under his direction, we have to practice how to develop Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, and then Kṛṣṇa will be revealed. The revelation, proportionate revelation is proportionate advancement in seeing Kṛṣṇa directly.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"'My dear Lord, I am not anxious for myself, because I have got the thing. I have no problem how to cross over the nescience or how to go to Vaikuṇṭha or to become liberated. These problems are solved.' Why? How you have solved? tvad-vīrya-gāyana-mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ: 'Because I am engaged always in glorifying your activities, so my problem is solved.' Then what is your problem? The problem is śoce: 'I am lamenting', śoce tato vimukha-cetasaḥ, 'those who are averse to You. Being averse to You, they are working so hard', māyā-sukhāya, 'for so-called happiness, these rascals. So I am simply lamenting for them'. This is our Vaiṣṇava philosophy. One who has taken shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, he has no problem. But his only problem is how to deliver the rascals who are simply working hard, forgetting Kṛṣṇa. That is the problem."
720529 - Lecture SB 02.03.11-12 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		In this translation the Western reader has the unique opportunity of seeing how a Kṛṣṇa devotee interprets his own texts. So, about Kṛṣṇa... The devotees actually can interpret about Kṛṣṇa, book. Others, if they are not devotee, how they can interpret on Kṛṣṇa? Just like a member of a family can say very nicely about the head of the family; how outsiders can say about the family? That is not possible. Similarly, about Kṛṣṇa, a Kṛṣṇa devotee can speak nicely. Not others.
Lecture SB 02.03.11-12 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Of course it is not possible for us to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, because Kṛṣṇa is not present at the present moment. But His representative is there. So one has to take shelter of His representative. And practice bhakti-yoga, concentrating his mind on Kṛṣṇa. This is called Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. One has to take shelter of a person whose life is devoted to Kṛṣṇa, and under his direction, we have to practice how to develop Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, and then Kṛṣṇa will be revealed. The revelation, proportionate revelation is proportionate advancement in seeing Kṛṣṇa directly.

vanipedia.org 		In this temple every one of us trying to enjoy life in connection with Krsna. As soon as we are disconnected with KC, this kind of foodstuff or this kind of living, simple living, will not satisfy you. You'll be tossed by the waves of material nature.


1972 - May 30

Lecture SB 02.03.13 - Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		The first qualification is kind. Just like these sannyāsīs. Our Rūpānuga Gosvāmī. He has got a nice child, wife, nice wife. But, being kind to the humanity, he has accepted sannyāsa. This is kindness. No homely comfort. This is kindness. Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī, they were ministers. Ministers. Not ordinary men. And therefore their association was most aristocratic. Maṇḍala-pati means big, big man, who have got many followers, leaders of the society. So, he gave up that association.


1972 - May 31

Lecture SB 02.03.14-15 - Los Angeles
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vanipedia.org 		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."

vanipedia.org 		If you actually feel for your country, for your community, for your people, just spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They're dying. You spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They'll come again to life, and everything will be actually beautiful. That is my request. I came to your country with this mission, that "The American people, they are feeling frustration. If they take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they'll be happy, and others will follow their example."
Letter to Vasudeva written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		Nevermind what has past, whatever is done, is done. Now push on with full enthusiasm to save the fallen humanity from the most degraded and wretched conditions of material life. This Krsna Consciousness Movement is the only thing that will save them. So you yourself become very convinced of this fact and be very bold in preaching Krsna Consciousness there in Berlin.
Letter to Sankarsan written from Los Angeles

vanipedia.org 		I am currently now in Los Angeles. Tomorrow I am going to Mexico. After returning from there I will again go to Portland and this time I will go to London for Rath Yatra.


   
 
   
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