“Our Movement is a declaration of war against Maya, that you can understand very well, so we have to recruit many fighting soldiers–so do it vigorously.”
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 3/5/1970)
“The temple is a place not for eating and sleeping, but as a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya.”
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 3/8/1973)
“Because you are very sincere and enthusiastic boy, and very intelligent also, Krishna has given you this position of leadership in His army, to win the war with Maya and establish Krishna Consciousness as the perfect way of life for every living entity.”
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 15/11/1971)
Syamasundara: ‘And by putting out this book, The Origin of Species, they at once did away with God to be able to… After that Nietzsche, another philosopher who said, “God is dead,” he made that statement first, right after Darwin’s book came out: “God is dead.”"
Srila Prabhupada: “So we have to fight against all these nonsense philosophers.”
(Discussions with Syamasundara Das)
Sila Prabhupada: “So we have to fight against all this nonsense. Nonsense scientists, nonsense religionists. What do you think? It is not easy-going, sleeping business. We have to fight with so many demons. [...] As all our Godbrothers are doing. They have got a little temple, and a few devotees go and beg rice and cook it and eat and sleep, that’s all.”
Pusta Krishna: “Like being dead almost.”
Srila Prabhupada: “No fighting spirit.”
(Room Conversation, 2/7/1976)
Srila Prabhupada: “Without preaching, without understanding philosophy, you cannot keep your strength.”
(Morning Walk, 12/12/1973)
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