Tamal Krsna Goswami: Actually, Prabhupada never appointed any gurus. He didn’t appoint eleven gurus. He appointed eleven ritviks. He never appointed them gurus. Myself and the other GBC have done the greatest disservice to this movement the last three years because we interpreted the appointment of ritviks as the appointment of gurus.
Topanga Canyon Pyramid House Talks,
December 3, 1980.
Joshua Davis quotes; “A wise person should not enter an assembly if he knows the participants there are committing acts of impropriety. And if, having entered such an assembly, he fails to speak the truth, speaks falsely or pleads ignorance, he will certainly incur sin.”
— Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.44.10
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Welcome, Gaura Haribol! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! (AGTSP)
Prabhupada, London, August 20, 1973: [...] My Guru Maharaja used to say that if we pray to God for all these nonsense things, it is just like a man goes to a king and the king says, “Whatever you want you can ask from me,” and if the man says, “Kindly give me a pinch of ashes.” It is like that. If we ask from God for some material benefit, it means that I am asking from a king a pinch of ashes. Full Lecture
Śrīla Prabhupāda Quote of the Day:"...a pure devotee is never under the modes of nature." |
 His Divine Grace Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement February 14, 1970 |
Spoken about Srila Prabhupada, in response to one of the vidoes .
Must confess, although I am a Christian, you are a wonderful person, a holy person, sent by God. I consider you a Man of God,much better than our pope, bishops, and company..
Now you are in the Heaven. Thank you for being so good person. Pray for me.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati;
422. How does a genuine disciple think? (p.338)
For the genuine devotee of a spiritual master, the genuine disciple, the spiritual master is his entire life, his ideal. His vow is to serve the spiritual master, and though he adores both Krishna and the spiritual master equally, he gives special preference to his spiritual master.
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Srila Prabhupada Quote of the Day:"... this will deviate your principle of sannyasa." |
 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement 9 January, 1974 Los Angeles Letter to Revatinandana Swami
"I know you are a very good cook and I can understand that you have found the books useful for distribution. I have no objection to your printing it with the name "Revatinandana Swami's Cookbook," but the royalty should go to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Just as I am publishing Bhagavad-gita As It Is with Macmillan Co. but the royalty is going to the BBT. I think this method is appropriate. 9 January, 1974
Los Angeles Letter to Revatinandana Swami "I know you are a very good cook and I can understand that you have found the books useful for distribution. I have no objection to your printing it with the name "Revatinandana Swami's Cookbook," but the royalty should go to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Just as I am publishing Bhagavad-gita As It Is with Macmillan Co. but the royalty is going to the BBT. I think this method is appropriate. |
 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement Wednesday, 16 August, 1972 "Go on in this way, reading, chanting, worshiping the deity, and offering the fruits of your labor to Krishna, and attend Mangala Arati at the temple and classes as much as possible, and very soon you will feel yourself becoming perfectly happy. This spot life is meant for becoming God conscious and there is no other purpose or meaning to life outside of this.
So now you have got the right spiritual master, the process I've given you, so now it is up to you. If you really want to achieve the goal of your life, then become very serious to always pursue it at every moment and not be distracted by anything false." |
Not Hindu
BY: B. RADHA-GOVINDA
Jun 20, 2010 — USA (SUN) — In a June 10, 1969 letter to Mukunda prabhu, Srila Prabhupada wrote:
My Dear Mukunda,
Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter of June 3, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. Regarding Mataji Syamadevi's temple in Leicester, your version is all right, and I am not very interested to establish a Hindu temple. Perhaps you know from the very beginning I never described my movement as Hindu religion.
Certainly SO MANY within ISKCON are deluded, they're still thinking that these "upper positioned folks" "are pure," but it seems more devotees are awake and also beginning to wake up.
Looking at everything in a "positive" way, I feel Krsna is allowing for all of this to happen so that we will all learn the various lessons we as individuals are supposed to be learning from the various goings on. As Srila Prabhupada described in SB 1.15.50, ultimately we have to "fly our own airplane," use all of these experiences to get the ULTIMATE result: Attaining the Lotus Feet of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, and Their Eternal Associates.
"When flying an airplane, one cannot take care of other planes. Everyone has to take care of his own plane, and if there is any danger, no other plane can help another in that condition. Similarly, at the end of life, when one has to go back home, back to Godhead, everyone has to take care of himself without help rendered by another. The help is, however, offered on the ground before flying in space. Similarly, the spiritual master, the father, the mother, the relatives, the husband and others can all render help during one's lifetime, but while crossing the sea one has to take care of himself and utilize the instructions formerly received".
Your servant,
B. Radha-Govinda
Hare Krsna
 Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. PAMFO
From Srila Prabhupada:
Pressman: "Do you know how many followers there are in the United
States now?" Prabhupada: "Unlimited. Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That's all. (laughter) Everyone is eternally servant of God, but some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But anyone who does not admit, he is servant of somebody. That is a fact. He cannot be master. Everyone is servant. But one who knows that "I am servant of Krsna," his life is perfect. That's all. Please try to understand this point that everyone is servant. Even your president is servant of the nation. So nobody can say that "I am no one's servant." He is servant, but he does not know that actually he is the servant of the Supreme Lord. That is his ignorance. We are just eradicating this ignorance, that "You are servant, but you admit that you are servant of God. That will make your life successful." That's all. Therefore I say that there are unlimited followers. Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But if anyone comes to me, I shall make him to admit." Your servant, B. Radha-Govinda Hare Krsna |
Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya!
Srila Prabhupada – "This material creation is the spirit soul's dream. Actually all existence in the material world is a dream of Maha-Vishnu, as the Brahma-Samhita describes – "This material world is created by the dreaming of Maha-Vishnu. The real, factual platform is the spiritual world, but when the spirit soul wants to imitate the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is put into this dreamland of material creation".
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.29.83)
Srila Prabhupada - "Everything happening within time, which consists of past, present and future, is merely a dream. This is the secret in understanding in all the Vedic literature."
( Srimad-Bhagavatam. 4.29.2)
Srila Prabhupada - "Our contact with matter is just like dream. Actually we are not fallen. Therefore, because we are not fallen, at any moment we can revive our Krishna consciousness, we break the dream. Similarly, we can break this So this situation"
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.1, Tokyo Japan 1972)
Srila Prabhupada - "When the dream is finished, we come to another dream: "Oh, this is my house. This is my family. This is my bank balance." This is going on. Dream. One dream at night, one dream at daytime. But who is dreaming? That is the living entity. So his business is different. Not dreaming, daytime dreaming and night-time dreaming. He has to come to the actual platform. That is Krsna consciousness. If he takes to Krsna consciousness, that is his actual life. Otherwise, he's in the dreamland"
(Srila Prabhupada, Bombay, December 27, 1972)
Srila Prabhupada - "Our separation from Krishna is like that. We dream this body and so many relationships with other things. Just like in a dream we are thinking very long time, but as soon as we awaken we look at our watch and see it has been a moment only".
( Srila Prabhupada Letter to Australian devotees)
November 17, 1975, Bombay
"If you have studied, you will find in the petals of the flower the color, exactly symmetrical, everything. Whatever color is required, it is coming out. We say "automatically." No automatically. Svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya. The knowledge and the action of Krsna is so perfect, it is coming out."
Srila Prabhupada
