Srila Prabhupada Quote of the Day: "...see that we ourselves are protected..."

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Srila  Prabhupada  Quote  of  the  Day: "...see that we ourselves are protected..." His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement     Saturday, 12 October, 1974   Mayapur Letter to: Muckerheide: Purpor    Please accept my best wishes. I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 12, 1974 and have noted the contents.     From your letter I can see that you are an intelligent boy and that you have desire to assist me in spreading this movement of Lord Caitanya all over the world. Due to the influence of the Age of Kali everything is deteriorating, but by taking to this chanting of Hare Krishna mantra our real life of bliss and knowledge is awakened. But before saving others we must first see that we ourselves are protected from the dangerous effects of maya. Therefore my recommendation to you is that you should associate yourself with my disciples in one of our Krishna Consciousness centers, practice our regulative principles, and study my books very carefully. You are now living very near to our Los Angeles center, so please take advantage of this and participate fully in the program there. In this way your intelligence will become more and more purified and in consultation with the others there Krishna will give you the proper idea of how to spread Krishna consciousness. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs                              Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health.   Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami           Unsubscribe NityanandaRam108.vedavyasa@blogger.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile You are receiving this nectar from Srila Prabhupada because at one point you requested to be on the mailing list Hari Bol, Your most humble servant Nityananda Rama dasa naradhama HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY, NEW JERSEY http://www.krishnaconsciousnessmovement.com/ "If you concoct, 'I am more intelligent than my Guru,' 'I can make additions and alterations,' then you are finished." -- Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa. Copyright (C) 2010 HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY All rights reserved.

Srila Prabhupada Quote of the Day: "Such a mentality awakens in a person"

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Srila  Prabhupada  Quote  of  the  Day: "Such a mentality awakens in a person" His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement     Sri Caitanya Caritamrita- 1975 Edition Antya Lila 8.27 Ramacandra Puri Criticizes the Lord Purpor  TEXT 27 TEXT śuṣka-brahma-jñānī, nāhi kṛṣṇera 'sambandha' sarva loka nindā kare, nindāte nirbandha SYNONYMS śuṣka—dry; brahma-jñānī—impersonalist philosopher; nāhi—there is not; kṛṣṇera—with Lord Kṛṣṇa; sambandha—relationship; sarva—all; loka—persons; nindā kare—criticizes; nindāte nirbandha—fixed in blaspheming. TRANSLATION One who is attached to dry speculative knowledge has no relationship with Kṛṣṇa. His occupation is criticizing Vaiṣṇavas. Thus he is situated in criticism. PURPORT Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura has explained in his Anubhāṣya that the word nirbandha indicates that Rāmacandra Purī had a steady desire to criticize others. Impersonalist Māyāvādīs who have no relationship with Kṛṣṇa, who cannot take to devotional service and who simply engage in material arguments to understand Brahman regard devotional service to Kṛṣṇa as karma-kāṇḍa, or fruitive activities. According to them, devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is but another means for attaining dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa. Therefore they criticize the devotees for engaging in material activities. They think that devotional service is māyā and that Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu is also māyā. Therefore they are called Māyāvādīs. Such a mentality awakens in a person who is an offender to Kṛṣṇa and His devotees.  TEXT 27 TEXT śuṣka-brahma-jñānī, nāhi kṛṣṇera 'sambandha' sarva loka nindā kare, nindāte nirbandha SYNONYMS śuṣka—dry; brahma-jñānī—impersonalist philosopher; nāhi—there is not; kṛṣṇera—with Lord Kṛṣṇa; sambandha—relationship; sarva—all; loka—persons; nindā kare—criticizes; nindāte nirbandha—fixed in blaspheming. TRANSLATION One who is attached to dry speculative knowledge has no relationship with Kṛṣṇa. His occupation is criticizing Vaiṣṇavas. Thus he is situated in criticism. PURPORT Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura has explained in his Anubhāṣya that the word nirbandha indicates that Rāmacandra Purī had a steady desire to criticize others. Impersonalist Māyāvādīs who have no relationship with Kṛṣṇa, who cannot take to devotional service and who simply engage in material arguments to understand Brahman regard devotional service to Kṛṣṇa as karma-kāṇḍa, or fruitive activities. According to them, devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is but another means for attaining dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa. Therefore they criticize the devotees for engaging in material activities. They think that devotional service is māyā and that Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu is also māyā. Therefore they are called Māyāvādīs. Such a mentality awakens in a person who is an offender to Kṛṣṇa and His devotees.  Sr Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami      Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated 12th and 15th September, 1971 respectively and have noted the contents.   I am so glad to hear how you are doing well. I am always thinking of you and praying to Krishna when you will be relieved and join us again. But in any circumstance simply go on chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra and think of Krishna always.   So you should take it that your hospitalization is an opportunity of chanting Hare Krishna mantra 24 hours. After all we are not this body so bodily disorders cannot hamper our advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So long the tongue is active we can chant. Even if the tongue is not active we can think of Krishna. Someway or other if we can keep in touch with Krishna that is our success of life.   Yes, taking meat was undoubtedly a great offense, so don't do it again consciousness or unconsciously. Krishna will excuse you for whatever you have done, but don't do it again.   Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health.   Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami           Unsubscribe NityanandaRam108.vedavyasa@blogger.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile You are receiving this nectar from Srila Prabhupada because at one point you requested to be on the mailing list Hari Bol, Your most humble servant Nityananda Rama dasa naradhama HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY, NEW JERSEY http://www.krishnaconsciousnessmovement.com/ "If you concoct, 'I am more intelligent than my Guru,' 'I can make additions and alterations,' then you are finished." -- Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa. Copyright (C) 2010 HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY All rights reserved.

Srila Prabhupada Quote of the Day: "...touches the particles of saffron dust..."

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Srila  Prabhupada  Quote  of  the  Day: "...touches the particles of saffron dust..." His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement   Sr           Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Pre-1978)  4.20.25 Purport   "The transcendental vibration from the mouth of a pure devotee is so powerful that it can revive the living entity's memory of his eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In our material existence, under the influence of illusory māyā, we have almost forgotten our eternal relationship with the Lord, exactly like a man sleeping very deeply who forgets his duties. In the Vedas it is said that every one of us is sleeping under the influence of māyā. We must get up from this slumber and engage in the right service, for thus we can properly utilize the facility of this human form of life. As expressed in a song by Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda, Lord Caitanya says, jīva jāga, jīva jāga. The Lord asks every sleeping living entity to get up and engage in devotional service so that his mission in this human form of life may be fulfilled. This awakening voice comes through the mouth of a pure devotee. A pure devotee always engages in the service of the Lord, taking shelter of His lotus feet, and therefore he has a direct connection with the saffron mercy-particles that are strewn over the lotus feet of the Lord. Although when a pure devotee speaks the articulation of his voice may resemble the sound of this material sky, the voice is spiritually very powerful because it touches the particles of saffron dust on the lotus feet of the Lord. As soon as a sleeping living entity hears the powerful voice emanating from the mouth of a pure devotee, he immediately remembers his eternal relationship with the Lord, although up until that moment he had forgotten everything. For a conditioned soul, therefore, it is very important to hear from the mouth of a pure devotee, who is fully surrendered to the lotus feet of the Lord without any material desire, speculative knowledge or contamination of the modes of material nature. Every one of us is kuyogī because we have engaged in the service of this material world, forgetting our eternal relationship with the Lord as His eternal loving servants. It is our duty to rise from the kuyoga platform to become suyogīs, perfect mystics. The process of hearing from a pure devotee is recommended in all Vedic scriptures, especially by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. One may stay in his position of life—it does not matter what it is—but if one hears from the mouth of a pure devotee, he gradually comes to the understanding of his relationship with the Lord and thus engages in His loving service, and his life becomes completely perfect. Therefore, this process of hearing from the mouth of a pure devotee is very important for making progress in the line of spiritual understanding."   I am so glad to hear how you are doing well. I am always thinking of you and praying to Krishna when you will be relieved and join us again. But in any circumstance simply go on chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra and think of Krishna So you should take it that your hospitalization is an opportunity of chanting Hare Krishna mantra 24 hours. After all we are not this body so bodily disorders cannot hamper our advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So long the tongue is active we can chant. Even if the tongue is not active we can think of Krishna. Someway or other if we can keep in touch with Krishna that is our success of life. Yes, taking meat was undoubtedly a great offense, so don't do it again consciousness or unconsciously. Krishna will excuse you for whatever you have done, but don't do it Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami      Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated 12th and 15th September, 1971 respectively and have noted the contents.   I am so glad to hear how you are doing well. I am always thinking of you and praying to Krishna when you will be relieved and join us again. But in any circumstance simply go on chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra and think of Krishna always.   So you should take it that your hospitalization is an opportunity of chanting Hare Krishna mantra 24 hours. After all we are not this body so bodily disorders cannot hamper our advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So long the tongue is active we can chant. Even if the tongue is not active we can think of Krishna. Someway or other if we can keep in touch with Krishna that is our success of life.   Yes, taking meat was undoubtedly a great offense, so don't do it again consciousness or unconsciously. Krishna will excuse you for whatever you have done, but don't do it again.   Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health.   Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami           Unsubscribe NityanandaRam108.vedavyasa@blogger.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile You are receiving this nectar from Srila Prabhupada because at one point you requested to be on the mailing list Hari Bol, Your most humble servant Nityananda Rama dasa naradhama HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY, NEW JERSEY http://www.krishnaconsciousnessmovement.com/ "If you concoct, 'I am more intelligent than my Guru,' 'I can make additions and alterations,' then you are finished." -- Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa. Copyright (C) 2010 HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY All rights reserved.

Srila Prabhupada Quote of the Day: "...will ruin everything"

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Srila  Prabhupada  Quote  of  the  Day: "...will ruin everything" His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement   Sr           18 September, 1972 Los Angeles Letter to Bali Mardan & Pusta Krishna    "The standards I have already given you, now try to maintain them at all times under standard procedure. Do not try to innovate or create anything or manufacture anything, that will ruin everything. Simply do as I am doing and be always serious and sincere to serve Krsna, and He will give you intelligence how to do everything." I am so glad to hear how you are doing well. I am always thinking of you and praying to Krishna when you will be relieved and join us again. But in any circumstance simply go on chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra and think of Krishna always. So you should take it that your hospitalization is an opportunity of chanting Hare Krishna mantra 24 hours. After all we are not this body so bodily disorders cannot hamper our advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So long the tongue is active we can chant. Even if the tongue is not active we can think of Krishna. Someway or other if we can keep in touch with Krishna that is our success of life. Yes, taking meat was undoubtedly a great offense, so don't do it again consciousness or unconsciously. Krishna will excuse you for whatever you have done, but don't do it again. Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami      Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated 12th and 15th September, 1971 respectively and have noted the contents.   I am so glad to hear how you are doing well. I am always thinking of you and praying to Krishna when you will be relieved and join us again. But in any circumstance simply go on chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra and think of Krishna always.   So you should take it that your hospitalization is an opportunity of chanting Hare Krishna mantra 24 hours. After all we are not this body so bodily disorders cannot hamper our advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So long the tongue is active we can chant. Even if the tongue is not active we can think of Krishna. Someway or other if we can keep in touch with Krishna that is our success of life.   Yes, taking meat was undoubtedly a great offense, so don't do it again consciousness or unconsciously. Krishna will excuse you for whatever you have done, but don't do it again.   Hoping this will find you in rapidly improving health.   Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami           Unsubscribe NityanandaRam108.vedavyasa@blogger.com from this list | Forward to a friend | Update your profile You are receiving this nectar from Srila Prabhupada because at one point you requested to be on the mailing list Hari Bol, Your most humble servant Nityananda Rama dasa naradhama HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY, NEW JERSEY http://www.krishnaconsciousnessmovement.com/ "If you concoct, 'I am more intelligent than my Guru,' 'I can make additions and alterations,' then you are finished." -- Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa. Copyright (C) 2010 HARE KRISHNA SOCIETY All rights reserved.