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| .: Prabhupada Letters :. Anthology a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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January 17, 2009 1968 January 17: "I am old man, I have no objection to death, still I wish to live because I want to see that the mission I have started may be more stronger still before I leave. So I pray to Krishna for this." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:05 | 1970 January 17: "I duly received estimate of Krishna Picture Book. You have said the price is just at your rock bottom. I have accepted the estimate, and very soon I shall send you the manuscript." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:04 | 1971 January 17 : "You propose to print Krsna Book in the tens of millions. That is nice, but I think it is still insufficient." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 13:03 | 1972 January 17 : "I count you and your godbrothers among those few who are treading seriously the path Back to Godhead. We must maintain such exalted position and not fall back by neglecting our highest standards. " Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:01 | 1972 January 17 : "I am so much depending on you to take full responsibility for teaching others purely. Otherwise, this pure process will gradually become mechanical and fade away like every other so-called religious movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:00 | 1974 January 17: "I was surprised you are contemplating canceling the Vrindaban touring. In my opinion it must be carried out. If there is a little inconvenience, still the devotees must visit Vrindaban." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 12:34 | 1975 January 17: "If you are not intending to send for food distribution, then do not collect in the name of Food Relief. Whatever is collected for India food distribution, must be sent as soon as it is collected, to India." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 12:17 | 1975 January 17: "Secure the new building. Be cautious. Do not spoil the negotiation. That building is very nice. We want it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 08:15 | January 16, 2009 1968 January 16: "Be good boy and girl and always chant. You will be so pleased with the result. You are a little better than Janaki but don't get puffed up and be good to those a little less fortunate." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 08:00 | 1969 January 16: "One has to learn about the greatness of Krishna. To come to the stage of spontaneous love for Krishna is a very high stage, and it is not to be imitated. That is the system." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 07:58 | 1970 January 16 : "It is our desire that we shall always be engaged fully 24 hours in the service of Lord Krishna; in this way our lives will become perfectly joyful simply by singing and dancing and taking Prasadam." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 07:54 | 1971 January 16 : "Your body is already sold to Krishna. We are all sold to Krishna and we have no other business but His service. That should be our determination." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 07:49 | 1972 January 16 : "Upon your recommendation, I gladly accept them as my duly initiated disciples. Now you must take full responsibility to give them all guidance and facility for perfecting their lives in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 07:06 | 1974 January 16: "This poster will depict devotees as leaders, 'Select Real Leaders - Don't Spoil Life.' Distribute it all over the world, and use it widely in your campaign for Mayor." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974: letters | 07:03 | 1975 January 16: "Thank you for your concern. My disciples are getting ghee and other milk products daily. They are also taking fruits and vegetables. Some of them are getting very fatty." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:14 | 1975 January 16: "Please make sure these new devotees (as well as the old ones) follow all of my rules and regulations strictly. Without this, there is no spiritual life at all." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:13 | January 15, 2009 1968 January 15: "I am at present physically unfit; but still I am working. Physically and mentally we may be disturbed sometimes, but we have to stand erect on the spiritual platform." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 01:00 | 1968 January 15: "There is no scope of forgetting Krishna at any moment of our life. We can remember Krishna when we see the sunlight in the morning, when we see moonlight in the evening. This is actually Krishna conscioiusness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 00:58 | 1969 January 15: "This is a glorious death. I am so much grieved to learn the news of our revered god-brother, and I am so glad to learn that he passed away in full sense chanting 'Krishna, Krishna'." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 00:56 | 1970 January 15 : "No other religious institution is so much serious about God consciousness as we are. So you must train in such spirit of alertness, then we shall be able to open hundreds of centers." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 00:53 | 1970 January 15 : "Our most important mission is on the street. The Sankirtana program must be executed very nicely. Even though we do not have our own house, it does not matter, there is no cause for perturbation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 00:47 | 1975 January 15: "If there is a chance of your getting a residential permit, then you should go to Moscow and try to get it. By Krishna's grace you may be able to stay there and spread Lord Caitanya's movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 00:46 | 1975 January 15: "Our movement is based on love and trust, so if we do not co-operate, then how is that love and trust? Follow all the rules and regulations very strictly without deviation, then everything will be alright." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 00:44 | 1975 January 15: "How to please Krishna? - by following all the regulative principle I have given you, chanting 16 rounds and reading my books scrutinizingly - otherwise one cannot understand Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 00:40 | January 14, 2009 1966 January 14 : "I expected to get his special sanction for this purpose. Now the Prime Minister Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri, who was personally known to me, is suddenly dead and I am greatly perplexed." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 06:16 | 1968 January 14: "There are two gurus. The internal Guru is Krishna Himself and the external Guru is the Spiritual Master. The internal Guru dictates, but that has to be conformed by the external Guru - then it is all right." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:14 | 1968 January 14: "The bona fide Spiritual Master is accepted as guidance because he is transparent via media between Krishna and the devotee. The devotee has no access to Krishna without the via media of bonafide Spiritual Master." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 05:50 | 1970 January 14 : "Because she is the age of your mothers, she should be treated very respectfully. Nothing should be ordered to her but simply suggested so that she may work in her own way." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 05:40 | 1970 January 14: "All of the words spoken by you are due to my Spiritual Master. I always think about this with gratitude to this exalted personality coming directly from Vaikuntha World and we had the great fortune to meet Him." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 05:12 | 1975 January 14: "If you are sick, then fasting is the best medicine. For disease and unwanted guests, if you do not give them food, they will go away." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 04:26 | 1975 January 14: "You must make sure all of the devotees are following. If these things are lax, then there is no question of spiritual life. As one of my elder disciples, be strong. Do not deviate and you will be blessed." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 04:24 | 1975 January 14: "Your book sale statistics are astounding. You are sincere, so Krishna will give you all intelligence, strength and everything else you may need to distribute millions and millions of books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 04:20 | January 13, 2009 1968 January 13: "Please send me full photostat copy of the original Brahma Samhita. I shall begin writing my own commentation after my Guru Maharaja." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:34 | 1968 January 13: "Yes, the ecstasy of separation of Spiritual Master is even greater ecstasy than meeting with Him. Please continue your excellent service and I will always be so pleased with your sincere service, as I am so much happy with you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:31 | 1969 January 13: "I want you to concentrate your mind on utilizing your talents for Krishna's service. Any place you want to live, that is all right, but why don't you use your talents? That you cannot do, and that is your misfortune." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:17 | 1969 January 13: "I am so glad that Mr. Harrison is composing songs. He is very thoughtful. When we meet, I shall give him thoughts about separation from Krishna, and it will surely be a great success." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:12 | 1970 January 13: "In every center Sankirtana parties are going around the town. Sometimes the authorities are checking us but we have not yet stopped, neither we have in our mind anything to stop this Sankirtana Movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 06:08 | 1974 January 13 : "It is very pleasing to me that you are so happy in your service to the deities. Now please make the temple such a blissful, peaceful atmosphere that many persons will be attracted to come and live with us." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 05:56 | 1975 January 13 : "You must follow the principles that I have given at all times, under all circumstances. Without these four principles, there is no spiritual life." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 05:12 | 1975 January 13 : "I wish to know whether your Holiness will kindly participate in the opening of the temple in Vrndavana. The Governor of Uttar Pradesh has also kindly consented to join us during the ceremony." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 05:10 | January 12, 2009 1968 January 12: "A brahmacari is good for living a life of celibacy, but a person who can live a life of celibacy in the presence of a beautiful and obliging wife, he is more than a brahmacari." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 03:51 | 1969 January 12: "Thank you for your New Year wishes. Please accept the same from my side. So far as we are concerned, our new year is every day because Krishna belongs to the nitya lila." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 03:44 | 1970 January 12: "The sentiments you have expressed are all due to my Guru Maharaja who has deputed me to pick up all good souls like you in this part of the world. Fortunately, we are now together." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 03:44 | 1970 January 12: "I am so glad to read of your determination to preach. Please continue this determination and keep all your Godbrothers alive on this point. Surely we will bring in a new chapter in the history of the world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 03:42 | 1971 January 12: "Simply by vibrating the Hare Krsna Mahamantra sixteen rounds daily one advances to the stage of sadacara or good habits. And when one is pure one advances to the stage of ecstatic love of Krsna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 03:40 | 1974 January 12: "You are thinking of many plans but don't spoil much time in that kind of thinking. Without consulting me do not enact anything. You are the president, try to read our books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 03:38 | 1974 January 12: "All temple members must agree to the standard of tapasya. Everyone, without exception must rise by 4:AM and attend mangala arati. You should set the example and see that others are following." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 03:36 | 1975 January 12: "This is the duty of GBC, to see that all of our members are becoming fixed in Krishna's service. There are so many devotees in your zone. Keep everything nicely in this way." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 03:35 | 1975 January 12: "One who is engaged in self-realization - his material necessities become almost nil. Our philosophy is 'simple living and high thinking' - not sense gratification. The leaders must show this by example." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 03:32 | 1975 January 12: "I am in due receipt of your letter. If you like, you can come to India during Sri Caitanya's appearance day festival and live with me. Then everything will be alright." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 02:24 | January 11, 2009 1968 January 11: "Please ask him to come back. I am very sorry that he has left us. He is a good soul and he must be satisfied." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:45 | 1969 January 11: "George Harrison has many questions to ask me. It will be a great event if the Beatles try to understand this science of Krishna Consciousness with intelligent questions and try to understand it seriously." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:20 | 1971 January 11 : "Please encourage our devotees to continue their good efforts. The standard of purity must be kept intact along with firm faith in Spiritual Master and Krsna, then everything will go on smoothly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 06:16 | 1972 January 11: "If our preaching work is strong, automatically management will be easy. And preaching work is strong if our routine work is strong. Never neglect our regular program and that will be your success." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 06:04 | 1972 January 11 : "You must be the perfect example. Now you are leader, therefore Krishna is forcing you to become very responsible and advanced. This is Krishna's special favor upon you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 06:04 | 1972 January 11 : "I shall certainly come to live and translate there. I want to stay wherever they are selling the most books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 05:52 | 1974 January 11: "No, he must not be removed. This is a clique. I don't want this. This removal of the president is very unconstitutional. Why they are taking to politics? Please stop this." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 04:32 | 1974 January 11: "The only fear I have is that you may fight. Please do not. That will ruin everything we have done." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 04:26 | |
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