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| .: Prabhupada Letters :. Anthology a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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March 7, 2009 1966 March 7: "Lord Chaitanya's Birthday. Seven ladies and gentlemen attended today's meeting. There was topics on Gita and Kirtan. The collection made out of contribution & books -- $28.00" Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 14:45 | 1967 March 7: "The interpretation that one has to be naked before the Lord is mayavada philosophy. The pictures are certainly unauthorized. In future before publishing any picture you must consult me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 14:43 | 1970 March 7: "Our students, either Brahmacari or Householder, are being trained up for constant engagement in Krsna Consciousness service without any personal interest. This is perfect order of Sannyas." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:40 | 1970 March 7: "So in accordance with your recommendation, I have accepted him as my bona fide disciple. Please keep him nicely advancing in Krsna Consciousness under your guidance." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 14:38 | 1972 March 7: "If outsiders want to send their children to us, it will not be for accreditation, but because they will get the best education for relieving them of all anxieties of material life." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:36 | 1972 March 7: "Let the children learn our method of Krishna Consciousness by rising early, knowledge of Sanskrit, English, a little Mathematics, history, that's all. We haven't got to take any help from the government by getting so-called accreditation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:34 | 1973 March 7: "Meanwhile he can be encouraged to continue his literary contribution of articles, editing of the smaller books, etc. We shall see what he can do, and if at all possible he should be brought back to the standard." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 14:28 | 1973 March 7: "Four things can be surrendered: Our life, our words, our intelligence, and our money. So just try to gradually engage these things in Krishna's Service." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 14:21 | March 6, 2009 1966 March 6: "Today is Gour Purnima. I am here alone without any devotee companion. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wanted that His mission should be propagated all over the world and that is my objective. I do not mind the inconvenience personally felt." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 19:21 | 1968 March 6: "Yes, whoever you tell the chant to, it is effective. My disciples are my agents, my representatives, so by hearing it from them, you are receiving it from me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 19:20 | 1969 March 6: "When the American boys are disgusted with cigarette smokers, or listening to rock music and meaningless chattering, it means there is Krishna's Grace. May Krishna bless you more and more, as you advance." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 19:18 | 1970 March 6: "We are in the midst of an ocean of Maya so you must have a boat very strong, and Krsna is the nicest boat to carry you over the ocean of Maya." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 19:15 | 1973 March 6: "I am not the actual bestower of mercy, rather I am just a messenger. So work hard for Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His mercy will fall upon you like torrents of rain in the monsoon season." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 19:13 | 1973 March 6: "So is it possible to save him from this dangerous position? He is important man in our Society and we cannot allow him to deviate from our principles. Please try to save him." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 19:10 | 1973 March 6: "I am very glad to hear that the film, Hare Rama, was defeated there, it is Krsna's grace. This man is a very bad man for our movement's sake, that movie is a great insulting to us." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 19:08 | 1975 March 6: "Our movement is completely a spiritual movement, therefore sometimes it appears to be a little different from the materialistic cultural movement. Still, we are trying to push on in the western countries." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 19:06 | March 5, 2009 1966 March 5: "Today I have sent one letter to the Secretary Salvation Army for exchange. At 2 o'clock went to Ananda Ashram. Kirtan was performed in the evening. Very much appreciated." Prabhupada Joural :: 1966 letters | 11:56 | 1968 March 5: "Please be happy in separation. I am separated from my Guru Maharaja since 1936 but I am always with him so long I work according to his direction." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 11:52 | 1971 March 5: "Anyone reading our KRSNA book, TLC, NOD, and Bhagavad As It Is, is sure to become a Krishna Conscious person. Therefore somehow or other we must push on this literature distribution program." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 11:50 | 1972 March 5: "You are the flowers of your nation, the most exalted and never inferior or less than even the most so-called elevated materialistic person." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 11:48 | 1972 March 5: "Even I cannot give you any nice thing, still, because you have got some love for Krishna and your Spiritual Master, you are working very hard in every way just to push on this movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 11:45 | 1972 March 5: "Practically now it is in the hands of you big guns to manage everything. if you go on helping me in this way, you may know it for certain that very soon you will see Krishna face-to-face." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 11:42 | 1973 March 5: "We want to avoid skin disease and the Indian people are like the tannery expert. Such a cobbler is expert at skin disease. They will see our Sankirtana Party and think it is a white dance." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 11:37 | 1974 March 5: "We do not say that one has to leave home. Either you leave home or remain there, you go on with your progressive interest and participation in this great movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 11:34 | March 4, 2009 1967 March 4: "The money and society is yours. You can spend in any way but it is my duty to give you guidance as ever well wisher. Pray to Krishna for your successful transaction." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 16:13 | 1968 March 4: "There is no doubt about our success if we can make this Kirtana party successful. We shall never be professional; we shall try to make the Kirtana party perfect from the point of view of Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 16:10 | 1970 March 4: "This Krsna Consciousness movement has such a vast potency that by its philosophy the whole human race can be united politically, socially, religiously, and culturally." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 16:08 | 1972 March 4: "I am glad you are entering politics. But our platform must be very simple, that there is no other sacrifice necessary for the well-being of the citizens save and except this Sankirtana yajna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 16:06 | 1972 March 4: "We are not very much keen to engage Christians in argument because for the most part they are sentimentalists and have no philosophy and this type of person we cannot change." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 16:04 | 1973 March 4: "It is good that you have invited the other devotees. Let them come, and combine together in cooperation, not to be aloof. We must, in Krsna consciousness, do the needful and cooperate." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 16:02 | 1974 March 4: "Since you have gone we have not gone an inch forward. It is still lying there and they do not say yes or no. There is no sanction as yet. Our position is not clear. I require your help very much." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 15:59 | 1974 March 4: "It is very encouraging that you are preaching and getting good reception from the student class. Please go on and try to establish something substantial there and develop it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 15:57 | March 3, 2009 1966 March 3: "Today Ekadasi observed. In the evening two visitors came. Dr. Mishra wants my kirtan in his meetings. I am considering the proposal. Jones presented me a copper cup. Very nice. Thanks." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 13:47 | 1968 March 3: "Do not feel any feeling of uselessness. On the transcendental plane, one service is as good as another. There is no question of higher or lower." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:44 | 1968 March 3: "Responsive chanting is very nice; one good singer may lead, and the others may join in. That is the system. You may also have melodious accompaniment instruments, and amplifiers." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:41 | 1968 March 3: "I have tested it definitely that melodious vibration of Sankirtana performed by serious devotees can attract from the very spiritual platform." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:39 | 1968 March 3: "My mission of one God, Sri Krishna; one scripture, Bhagavad-gita; and one mantra, Hare Krishna. This idea is not manufactured by me, but it is authoritative statement in the Gita Mahatma Skanda Purana." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:36 | 1970 March 3: "It is very encouraging that you are regularly chanting twenty rounds daily. Be careful never to decrease but increase the number and you will become more strong in Krsna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:34 | 1974 March 3: "We cannot deviate even an inch. Our ideal Vedic community will attract everyone on its own merit and we shall be glad to welcome everyone without compromising in order to attract them." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:31 | 1974 March 3: "Your plan to convince Prince Charles about Krsna Consciousness is another utopian idea. Do not work at it. Live with your Godbrothers and prosecute our standard practices." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:28 | March 2, 2009 1966 March 2 : "Dr. Mishra gave me a pot for drinking milk. Robert brought some whole wheat flour. Cohen brought one cotton jersey for me. Thanks." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 20:35 | 1969 March 2: "We should train our disciples in such a spirit that even if the whole world is against us the Sankirtana Movement must be pushed on." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 08:15 | 1969 March 2: "We have nothing to do with compromising with Christians or Buddhists. Our principle should be to preach Krishna Consciousness as it is spoken in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 08:13 | 1969 March 2: "Never mind if one is Christian, Jew, or Moslem, most people are Godless and don't care for God. They simply take an official stand. They have no idea what is God." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 08:10 | 1969 March 2: "There are many things to criticize in any faith, and if we want to criticize we can, but it will simply increase our enemies. Better let us try to invoke the dormant transcendental emotion by chanting and dancing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 08:08 | 1970 March 2: "Maya is covering all the material energies, therefore one who is materially advanced, covered with riches, covered with learning, covered with fame or any material opulence, he is understood to be covered with Maya." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 07:27 | 1970 March 2: "One should be very careful to estimate how every moment of his life is being utilized. Save more time from this materialistic business and utilize it for Krsna's service." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 07:04 | 1970 March 2: "She may be trained to assist, but she may not conduct Arcana without being dvija. Only one who is qualified with Gayatri initiation may directly worship the Deities." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 07:02 | March 1, 2009 1966 March 1: "Received letter from Secretary of Indian Prime Minister. Disappointing. Saw the India office and Mr. L. L. Mehotra for extention passport. Still hopeful." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 18:04 | 1968 March 1: "This Maya will attack the body always, because the body itself is the source of all troubles. If anyone wants real happiness, he has to get out of the entanglements of this material body." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 18:02 | 1968 March 1: "The real thing is that you are feeling alone, and because you are so to say, child, you have become nervous. Otherwise for a preacher there is no difficulty anywhere, irrespective of climate and conditions." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 18:00 | 1968 March 1: "I was staying in Radha Damodara Temple in my room by closing the door, making it complete dark and running on the fan. I was never in trouble. So if one is determined to stay, things could be adjusted." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 17:58 | 1968 March 1: "If we call for you and a party of nice kirtana singers, it means rupees 100,000. I am therefore training local boys and girls for kirtana and very soon we shall be out on world tour with this kirtana party." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 17:56 | 1972 March 1: "Maintain to the highest standard and do not neglect for anything - rising early, cleansing, reading books, chanting, street Sankirtana, deity worship - then everything we try for will come out successful without fail." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 17:54 | 1972 March 1: "Flood this famous seat of learning with our books and literatures. If we can convince the intelligent class of men of our Krishna philosophy then our success for changing the world is assured." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 17:53 | 1972 March 1: "Instruct him to be always pure or suci. One's actions are not pure until the body is pure. By stressing all kinds of cleanliness habits, eventually one can become qualified to meet God face to face." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 17:51 | |
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