Priorities, by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, from Grad class onsite, comment by Tamohara dasa , acbssp, A.Bh.S. , MSc

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
 

My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have sankirtana outside on the streets or in the park. That is your life and soul, first business. The next business is completing the chanting of 16 rounds every day. The next business is your editing. And if you find extra time then you can attend the temple ceremonies. Otherwise you can stop these activities. But outdoor kirtana, your editing work, and chanting of 16 rounds must be done. Outdoor kirtana must be done, even at the cost of suspending all editorial work. That is your first and foremost business. Temple worship is not so important. If need be, the whole temple can be locked. But the outdoor kirtana cannot be stopped.
(Letter to Rayarama, 17 May 1969)


The point being, service is required, and that service is chanting the holy Names.  Everything else is secondary. What more can be said about that? For me, this has meant an examination of the current itsaconco, which has the priorities reversed. Upside down.

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

Roupa Manjari Devi Dasi

"When the mirror of intelligence is polished, the real activities of the living entity begin. This means that when a person comes to the platform of Krishna consciousness, his real intelligence acts. At that time he knows that everything belongs to Krishna and nothing belongs to him. As long as one thinks that everything belongs to him, he is in material consciousness, and when he knows perfectly that everything belongs to Krishna, he is in Krishna consciousness."

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.29.5 Purport