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November 10, 2009 1965 November 10: "Under the guidance of a bonafide devotee the way is open. Americans, Kirata, Pulinda, Pukkasa, Yavana, all can be trained up under the pure and bonafide devotee. That is the instruction of Sukadeva Goswami." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 18:21 | 1970 November 10: "All of our success is due to following the regulative rules of devotional service. So our good standing will be diminished if we join with groups who permit intoxicants, etc. If we wish to remain pure and strong we should not compromise on this point." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 18:14 | 1975 November 10: "As a child going to the neighboring Mallik temple, I was thinking when will I have such nice Deity. Now Krsna is so kind, I am establishing temples all over the world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 18:08 | 1975 November 10: "This is the way for the neophyte devotee to absorb his mind. The more the Deity is decorated, the more your heart will be decorated with Krsna consciousness. Never think stone or wood. Krsna is personally present." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 18:05 | 1975 November 10: "The Deity is proof of the sincere service. It is the duty of GBC to maintain this. Their duty is how to enthuse and maintain. Now I want that there should be established 108 temples before my death, so you think how to do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 18:00 | 1975 November 10: "I have introduced this Deity worship amongst the non-believers, the mlecchas and yavanas. I pray to Krsna, I am inviting You, come. And may He not be insulted by disrespectful behavior." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 17:58 | 1975 November 10: "Now the GBC has become more than Guru Maharaja? GBC is simply for looking after pounds, shilling, pence? The GBC does not look after spiritual life? They will have to become Guru, but our students are not qualified - this is a difficulty." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 17:57 | 1975 November 10: "As soon as one thinks that he is greater than the Spiritual Master that is the greatest offense. Krsna will give one everything, but to these offenders - everything is lost." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 17:56 | November 9, 2009 1967 November 9: "I am now thinking about our society. We were very smoothly going on but this disruption created by Kirtanananda has plagued and disturbed the situation. The best thing is to do our duty nicely with faith in Krishna and everything will be adjusted." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 16:14 | 1967 November 9: "Kirtanananda is a crazy man. That is proved. Try to convince by argument and reason but do not become angry. We should always try to represent Lord Nityananda Prabhu in the matter of preaching work." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 16:12 | 1970 November 9: "As President, see that everyone is following a regulated schedule of chanting sixteen rounds, reading, Sankirtana, and temple worship. Any breakage in the performance of one's duties will surely be a hindrance in one's advancement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 16:06 | 1970 November 9: "Universities are very important. There they can appreciate our philosophy. When you speak in the classroom, just quote from my books and explain in your own words. They will appreciate very much." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 16:03 | 1973 November 9: "I was sick when I left Calcutta for London. For the time being I am keeping my health. So after all, this is an old body. I am 78 years, and still by the grace of Krsna it is going on." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 15:59 | 1975 November 9: "We have to request them humbly to correct if there is any discrepancy, not changing or dismissing. Our whole process is to humbly request and like Nityananda Prabhu sometimes falling down on the feet and flattering." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 15:58 | 1975 November 9: "The temples should save more and not exceed expenditures. Our principle is tyaga, to renounce material activities as far as possible. It is not good that all the temples are spending more than they are receiving." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 15:54 | 1975 November 9: "We are not interested in giving them vegetarian food; we are interested to give them prasadam. They may take so many nice things, especially the sandesh, kachori, rasagulla, samosa and in this way they will forget their meat-eating." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 15:43 | November 8, 2009 1965 November 8: "Srila Prabhupada had a strong desire to open our preaching centres in the Western countries and both Bon Maharaja and Goswami Maharaja were deputed for this purpose without any tangible result." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 04:52 | 1965 November 8: "I have no ambition for becoming the proprietor of any Matha or Mandir but I am working day and night for my Bhagavatam publication and I need centres in the western countries." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 04:50 | 1965 November 8: "Every camp of our god brothers should supply a man good for this purpose and they must agree to work under my direction. Then you will see how our beloved Srila Prabhupada will be satisfied on all of us." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 04:50 | 1968 November 8: "There are 42,000 students in your university, and if 5% of them purchase our Gita, then we can sell at least 2,000 copies there. So I hope you will try for this and it will be both propaganda as well as income." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 04:38 | 1970 November 8: "Here I am working in Bombay to establish one Krishna Consciousness Headquarters for India. So if Krishna desires, we will have a temple here." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 04:28 | 1974 November 8: "He has done much service. He cannot be removed whimsically. The local members must agree for him to be removed by you, according to the Direction of Management." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 03:31 | 1975 November 8: "We haven't got to invent something by our fertile brain for preaching. Study my books and reproduce the purports in your own language. Everything is there. Instruct your temple presidents to preach like this." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 03:25 | 1975 November 8: "So any one of my godbrothers cannot help me in this way of book writing because they are unfortunate in the matter of preaching work. They are simply trying to infiltrate our society to do something harmful." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 03:24 | November 7, 2009 1970 November 7: "The big temple on the bank of the Yamuna at Kesighat is for sale. I know of this temple. I used to live next to it before living in the Radha-Damodara temple. We would like to get this temple at all costs." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:18 | 1970 November 7: "Instead of Sankirtana if you, husband and wife, try to see so many ministers and other important men, that will be nice. You may try and see Indira Gandhi. And perhaps you can meet with this President Giri." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:17 | 1972 November 7: "Just like in our ISKCON there are so many false things: 'Prabhupada said this, Prabhupada said that.' Do not be deviated by such ideas. Krishna is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, He is the goal of knowledge." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:00 | 1973 November 7: "Now my program is fixed up for going to Nairobi on November 23, instant, and from there I will return to Los Angeles via Rome. I will stop there for two days for meeting with the Pope." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 13:56 | 1973 November 7: "I want that there be published one volume of Caitanya Caritamrta for Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Appearance Day. So please arrange for this." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 13:54 | 1974 November 7: "Regarding Washington, D.C., that Damodara is also resigning, we are increasing in so many ways, but our men are deteriorating. What to do?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:02 | 1974 November 7: "N.B. I refer to the Direction of Management as follows: 'Removal of a Temple President by GBC requires support by the local Temple members.' Therefore you should take a vote of the Temple members." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:00 | November 6, 2009 1965 November 6: "Yes I have got this nice typewriter by the Grace of the Lord and I am very much satisfied with its working. I have left my hearth and home in India but here by the Grace of the Lord I have got good sons and daughter like you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 13:08 | 1965 November 6: "Next time when I shall go to your home, I must serve you with my good cooking without fail. Now I am far away from you otherwise I would have at once gone to you and entertained you with such lunches." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 13:06 | 1965 November 6: "Please offer my good wishes to your friends who still remember me. Had I the means to rent a house I would have gone back again to Butler to hold my Bhagavatam discourses daily with good friends." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 13:03 | 1965 November 6: "So far I have studied the American minds they are eager and apt to receive Bhakti Cult of Srimad-Bhagavatam. My mission is not to turn anyone away from a particular religion but I want to give them more knowledge about God and devotion." Prabhupada Letters :: 1965 letters | 13:02 | 1968 November 6: "So I have no objection if you decide to marry as a matter of necessity. I think you should consult your Godbrothers in this connection. Do your duty nicely & go Back to Godhead." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 12:52 | 1973 November 6: "Describing your plans for traveling Sankirtana party, it is very much encouraging news for me. If there were three or four such traveling parties, it would be a grand scale propaganda. So do it with great enthusiasm." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 12:49 | 1973 November 6: "When somebody does not agree, you try to get them out. This is a mistaken policy. With great difficulty we get a man. We have to reform them. Our business is to become sympathetic to fallen souls. So in future do not do it at all. Everything should be done amicably." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 12:46 | 1975 November 6: "If this man comes to see me in Vrindaban, I do not wish to see him. We do not require his editing, neither should he correspond with our men. He is very heinous. He wants to become more important." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 12:41 | November 5, 2009 1967 November 5: "I offer to you my sincere blessings for the most kind words that you have sent me. This attitude of service will help you progress in Krishna Consciousness and will help you to go back to home, back to Godhead." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 14:10 | 1967 November 5: "I've received one letter from him expressing his sorrow. The fact is, once combined in Krishna Consciousness, one cannot be separated at any time. The boy who spat upon him must send a letter of regret and apology for the mistake he has done." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 14:08 | 1967 November 5: "I advised that he be asked not to speak. I never asked that he should not enter the Temple. Kirtanananda's attempt to defy me might have provoked all these undesirable incidences. In future we shall be very much careful." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 14:06 | 1972 November 5: "People may come attracted by some show but not by the real thing. All these things are nonsense inventions. The whole thing will gradually deteriorate. Such inventing spirit will ruin our movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:58 | 1972 November 5: "Gradually the Krishna Consciousness idea will evaporate: another change, another change, every day another change. Our standard is to have kirtana, start temples. Stop all this. Don't manufacture ideas." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:55 | 1975 November 5: "He is affected by sex, and he wants to take sannyasa? Is sannyasa so cheap? He will be a victim. He is not fit for sannyasa. Everyone wants to fulfill their own whimsical desires; this is going on." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 13:50 | 1975 November 5: "They promised before me to follow. One may remain separate but it does not mean that they may disobey. So long as one follows the principles that I have laid down, they continue to be my disciple." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 13:40 | 1975 November 5: "Why are you always calling on the telephone? Are you such important men that you have to call all over the world? We are poor men sons, what can I do?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 13:38 | November 4, 2009 1967 November 4: "As you say that my absence is being felt now more deeply than ever, so I also feel to start immediately without waiting. Every minute I think of you and and as you asked me to go to San Francisco while returning from India, I am trying to fulfill my promise." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 15:30 | 1970 November 4: "That is what I wish to see from the GBC members; that they work combinedly to open as many centers as possible all over the world. I am very hopeful that this GBC will work in such a way." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 15:27 | 1970 November 4: "I have seen better orators, better scholars and better organizers - but no one is becoming pure by following the regulative principles. If you simply practice the regulative principles you will remain pure. This is our only strength." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 15:24 | 1971 November 4: "For Spiritual life chanting Hare Krishna is sufficient but keeping our temples clean, this is essential. Unless we can maintain the temples superexcellently clean, we should not open new centers." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 15:20 | 1971 November 4: "You can show flowers actually falling from the sky on Bhismadeva. That is nice. The other paintings are bona fide but for the ordinary man they appear sensual. So better not to display them even in our temples." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 15:16 | 1975 November 4: "You are doing solid work, even alone. Simply by depending on the mercy of the Lord and carrying out the order of the spiritual master. This is the test for a sincere devotee and I am very pleased." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 15:10 | 1975 November 4: "So the best way to associate with the Spiritual Master is by following his instructions. Vani is eternal. Bhagavad-gita is the vani of Lord Krishna. Although He is no longer physically present, still Bhagavad-gita continues." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 15:07 | 1975 November 4: "Now I am getting old, so if you can do things without me, that will be a great pleasure for me. I am sure that you can carry on things nicely. Still if I get the chance, I will come to your festival." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 14:59 | |
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