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“You cannot tolerate this misleading. People are innocent. It is our duty to become merciful upon them, to give them real knowledge. And these people are misleading. There must be strong protests against these rascals.”

(Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk, 19/4/1973

"Most of you will fall. Actually I haven't given any of you sannyas, but I am in a war with Maya, the material energy and I need leaders. It is called in wartime Battlefield commission. There are no qualified leaders but someone has to lead the charge. So you take every fifth man, now you are lieutenant of the squad. He really is a private but we make him lieutenant for the day and he leads the charge. It is to be understood that you are not sufficiently equipped for this fight and most of you will go down"

(Srila Prabhupada Conversation with Tamal Krishna 1976 after Mayapur festival)

Love Speaks the Philosophy of Love
by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja

September 22, 2002: Odessa, Ukraine

I want to give you a general idea of Srimad-Bhagavatam. It has been told by Srila Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa, who is one of the incarnations of Krsna, that this world was created by the Supreme Lord. He is very powerful, and that is why He is called God; G stands for ‘generator or creator’, O for ‘operator or manager’, and D stands for ‘destroyer’. Our Vedic sages, like Vyasadeva, Narada, and Brahma, have told us that the Supreme Lord has a very beautiful form and many millions of transcendental qualities. If a father has a form, then only his son may have a form. If the father has no form or qualities, the son will neither have form nor qualities, nor can He even exist. It is stated in our scriptures:

aho bhagyam aho bhagyam
nanda-gopa-vrajaukasam
yan-mitram paramanandam
purnam brahma sanatanam
["How greatly fortunate are Nanda Maharaja, the cowherd men and all the

"Madhavendra Puri's body was completely full of divine love; so were his followers. He displayed uncommon love of God. Seeing a dark blue raincloud, he would fall down unconscious. Day and night he was intoxicated from drinking the ambrosia of Krishna prema." (Vrindavana Dasa Thakura) (In the image: from right to left Shri Gopal and Shrila Madhavendra Puri).

   Before Lord Chaitanya appeared He sent His eternal associates like Shri Advaita Acharya, Shri Jagannatha Mishra, Sachi Mata, Madhavendra Puri, Ishvari Puri to earth. Shri Madhavendra Puri took initiation from Shri Lakshmipati Tirtha in the Madhvacharya sampradaya. He had many but Shri Advaita Acharya and Shri Ishvara Puri were the chief disciples of Madhavendra Puri. In one way or another, all the Vaisnavas in Bengal and Kshetra mandala (Jagannatha Puri) were connected with Shri Madhavendra Puri. After Lord Chaitanya came many of his disciples joined Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement.

   "Madhavendra Puri's body was completely full

Madan Mohan temple in 1789.

• Worm Instool This is actually a modern painting based on this historic "pencil and wash drawing".
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"Tamala Krsna: Only you are that powerful, Srila Prabhupada. We're like...

Prabhupada: Why you are not?

Tamala Krsna: We're like the bugs.

Prabhupada:You are my disciples. "Like father, like son." You should be. Gaurangera bhakta-jane. Everyone. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. He asked everyone, "Just become guru." Follow His instruction, you become guru. Amara ajnaya. Don't manufacture ideas. Amara ajnaya. "What I say, you do. You become a guru." Where is the difficulty? "And what is Your ajna?" Yare dekha tare kaha krsna-upadesa. Bas. Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gita. You simply repeat. That's all. You become guru. To become a guru is not difficult job. Follow Caitanya Mahaprabhu and speak what Krsna has said. Bas. You become guru."

"Religion might have been misused, but that does not mean that religion should be avoided

Real religion should be taken.

Simply because religion has not been properly executed by the so-called priests, that does not mean religion should be rejected.

If my eye is giving me some kind of trouble on account of a cataract, that doesn't mean my eye should be plucked out. The cataract should be removed.

So that is the idea of the Krsna consciousness movement—to remove the cataract from people's religious vision."

- Srila Prabhupada, Civilization and Transcendence - Replies to a Questionnaire From Bhavan's Journal June 28, 1976

Real bhakti… that is raganuga-bhakti. This raganuga-bhakti, we have to come after surpassing the vaidhi-bhakti [regulative process]. In the material world, if we do not try to make further and further progress in devotional service, if we are simply sticking to the shastric [scriptural] regulation process and do not try to go beyond that...

The shastric process is kanishtha-adhikara, lowest stage of devotional service… This is nice beginning, but one has to go above this… If I become satisfied only with these regulative principles for worshiping… but if I have no other idea, then sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah. Prakrta means on the material platform.

…So any devotee can fall down if he remains prakrta-bhakta. So he has to raise himself above this in the madhyama-adhikara [intermediate stage]…

Therefore, if we do not associate with the advanced devotees, uttama-adhikari, if we simply want to remain in the lowest stage of devotional service, then we are not making progress. Then we shall

Hare Krsna to all
Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below are a couple lectures where Srila Prabhupada sums up very nicely the entire Krsna Consciousness philosophy.

1. We are servants of either God or our senses.
2. The demigods are called devotees, but devotees with tinges of material opulence.
3. It is not that we are ALL liberated persons. We have so many gross and subtle attachments.
4. By following this process of bhakti marga (sravanama kirtanam, etc) we automatically develop detachment for all material things.
5. Without getting the "higher taste" its not possible to give up material desires. We have to increase our Love for Krsna then it all becomes possible. Follow the process.

Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das
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670313SB.SF                    Lectures              
Servant we are, because constitutionally I am servant. And because I am not servant of God or servant of Krsna, that I have become servant of my dog. In the morning I go with my dog.

Shri Purushottama Dasa constantly meditated on and served the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda. Kanu Thakura, his son, was such an exalted Devotee that Lord Krishna always lived in his body. When Kanu was five Ma Jahnava took him to Vrindavana. The Goswamis joyously greeted him upon seeing his genuine devotion.
 
   In Goloka Vrindavana, Purushottama Dasa Thakura serves Lord Balarama as a cowherd boy, dvadasha gopala. His samadhi is located in the 64 Samadhis Area.  - See more at: http://gaudiyahistory.com/sri-purusottama-dasa-thakura/#sthash.KRGF5ZBS.dpuf

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RMdd said;  "...Of course He likes Chandravali too, but the left wing gopi known as Srimate Radharani has Him wrapped around Her little finger and Sri Krishna stole Srimate Radharani's mood to taste the Highest manifestation of Radhabhava in His form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. "The left wing and right wing of the gopis has been explained by Rupa Gosvami in his Ujjvala-nilamani. The left wing is described in this way:

mana-grahe sadodyukta tac-chaithilye ca kopana

abhedya nayake prayah krura vameti kirtyate

"A gopi who is always eager to be jealously angered, who is very enthusiastic for that position, who immediately becomes angry when defeated, who is never under the control of a hero, and who always opposes Him is called a vama, or a left-wing gopi."

Srila Rupa Gosvami describes the right-wing gopis in this way:

asahya mana-nirbandhe nayake yukta-vadini
samabhis tena bhedya ca dakshina parikirtita

"A gopi who cannot tolerate womanly anger, who speaks suitable words to the hero,

For best ease of hearing, turn down the bass and increase treble and volume on your home system for the lecture... Jaya!