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October 13, 2020
Coca-cola victims
We don’t drink Coca-cola. We don’t drink Pepsi-cola. We don’t smoke. So many things which are selling in the market in huge quantity by advertisement, by victimizing the poor customer. But they are called unnecessary things. There is no need of such things.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.30 — 2 October,
1975
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October 11, 2020
Krsna sets the example of serving a guru
Even Krsna, whom we accept as the Supreme Lord, had to go to gurukula and serve the spiritual master as a menial servant.
So all of the students at the gurukula learn how to be very submissive and how to live only for the benefit of the guru. They are trained from the very beginning to be first-class submissive students. Then the guru, out of affection and with an open heart, teaches the boys all he knows. There is no question of money. It is all done on the basis of love and education.
Srila Prabhupada, as quoted in Journey of Self-discovery 1.3: The Science of
Spiritual Life.
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Catching Krsna
Krsna is everywhere. Simply you have to catch Him. And He’s also ready for being caught. Yes. If somebody wants to catch Him… Suppose you are a devotee. If you want to catch Him, He comes forward ten times than your desire. He’s so kind. Therefore, we have to simply receive Him.
Srila Prabhupada, Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda Deity Installation — 21 August, 1973
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October 9, 2020
Imitators fall
We should take any lila of Krsna as Supreme. Not that simply the most confidential… The vrndavana-lila, Krsna’s lila with the gopis, is the most confidential lila. We should not entertain this confidential lila unless we are liberated. It is a very difficult subject. And because they cannot understand what is Krsna’s lila, they imitate, they fall down.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.30 — 11 August, 1974
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When Krsna does not accept your service
A musician, because one has got a good attachment for music, tries to perform it very perfectly. So love is the basis. Similarly, when you serve Krsna, if you have no love for Krsna, you cannot serve Him very nicely. And Krsna also does not accept your service if it is not done in great love and affection.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.39 — 12 September, 1973
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October 7, 2020
Attachment means rebirth
Husband and wife dying together, it is admitted because asakti [attachment] is there. That asakti will help him, that the wife will become a husband next life, and the husband will become wife next. And in that way they’ll have to take birth again.
Srila Prabhupada, Conversation — 14 August, 1976
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English courage, Bengali heart
Formerly the Britishers expanded empire. You expand the empire of consciousness, Krsna consciousness. This is also the same view, but it is spiritual. Krsna has given you the ability. Do it enthusiastically with the courage of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother.
Srila Prabhupada to Prabhavisnu and Mahavisnu (British devotees) — 10
August, 1977.
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October 6, 2020
Starvation
It does not matter whether there is increase of population. But if the people are unfaithful, they must be punished with starvation. That is God’s will.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 7.1-3 — 10 September, 1973
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October 5, 2020
We must be unhappy
A fish, when it is put into the land, is unhappy, or death. Similarly, if you, the creature of the land, are put into the water, you are unhappy. And death. So because we belong to the spiritual nature… As it is explained by Krsna, this material nature is apara, apara. Apara means inferior, not fit for us. Therefore we are unhappy. So long we shall remain in the material nature, we must be unhappy.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 4.10 — 2 August, 1974
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October 4, 2020
Trying to deliver others is a great service
That is spiritual master’s qualification. He’s trying his best to deliver the soul from these clutches of maya. That is a great service. Therefore he is very dear. One who is chanting or executing devotional service for his personal benefit and one who is trying to deliver others for others’ benefit, there is difference.
From Srila Prabhupada’s Morning Walk Conversation — 2 September, 1976
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