Srila Prabhupada is still struggling alone because Prabhupada's iskcon never existed. A society of pure devotees. Always problems and problems. And Sriia Prabhupada being murdered and all that. Now what is going on in the society huh. What is going on.... moreSrila Prabhupada is still struggling alone because Prabhupada's iskcon never existed. A society of pure devotees. Always problems and problems. And Sriia Prabhupada being murdered and all that. Now what is going on in the society huh. What is going on. Prabhupada's statue is there but there is an effigy if Prabhupada saying Prabhupada is dead. Prabhupada is dead. Changing original books and putting lawsuits just for distributing original hooks and lawsuit to wipe out the existence of original books. So what are you people going to do about it. Just come on social media and the internet and lounge here or with the original books and being serious and sincere in being a devotee help change the face of the earth and save the like on this web page.world.https://krishna.org/ctfote/less
In New York, Srila Prabhupada had nowhere to stay but the asrama of an impersonalist svami. To see students listening to a speaker who denied the Personality of Godhead was painful for the pure devotee. But was he to go homeless and beg in the streets?
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Let's learn and memorize 108 Bhagavad-Gita slokas as prescribed by Srila Prabhupada one by one with our little Yadhava.
2.27
jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur
dhruvaṁ janma mṛtasya ca
tasmād aparihārye ’rthe
na tvaṁ śocitum arhasi
For one who ha...
"I want to know that how many people joined the ISKCON in 1966." Someone asked this question on https://back2godhead.com, the answer is actually very few devotees joined Srila Prabhupada in New York in 1966.
Maybe 200 at the most. But those 200 great... more"I want to know that how many people joined the ISKCON in 1966." Someone asked this question on https://back2godhead.com, the answer is actually very few devotees joined Srila Prabhupada in New York in 1966.
Maybe 200 at the most. But those 200 great souls spread Krishna consciousness all over the United States then all over the world under the guidance of Srila Prabhupada.
And Srila Prabhupada and those 200 devotees made Hare Krishna a household world. Almost everyone saw them chanting Hare Krishna and they distributed so much Krishna conscious literature.
Prabhupada's disciples in 1966 were out on the streets of all big cities chanting Hare Krishna and dancing and distributing Back to Godhead Magazines and Prabhuapda's books 10 hours a day every day. So those 200 great souls, followers of Srila Prabhuapda, trying to be pure devotees, under the guidance of Srila Prabhupada introduced millions and millions of people to Krishna consciousness.
But actually even out of those millions and millions who came into contact with Krishna consciousness only a very few were prepared to surrender to Krishna and engage in pure devotional service.
That will always be the way. Actual devotee is very, very, very rare in the material world. There is no shortage of mixed devotees, materialistic devotees, every religion is full of them. You can easily get thousands and millions of mixed devotees. But if you actually teach that one has to surrender to Krishna and only work for Krishna with no personal interest, then practically no one wants to do that.
One serious devotee is more valuable than millions of mixed devotees.
Most "devotees", in any religion, they believe in God, but they have their own seperate business. They main concern is to maintain their family, to become a powerful leader, to get a lot of money, to become famous, etc. So most "devotees" are full of material desires and when they understand that there is a God and He is very powerful they immediately think of praying to God and worshipping God with the idea that they will get some benefit from this powerful almighty God.
This is materialistic devotee. They believe in God, they worship God very seriously, they follow the principles and perform many pious activities. But ultimately it is all self-centered in the sense that they are worshipping God with the idea of getting some benefit for themselves out of this worship.
And of course this is good, this is pious, and God does bless them with good fortune and many other benefits.
But these "devotees" are not pure devotees and they can never actually understand Krishna or what Krishna consciousness is about. Krishna consciousness is about surrender. Krishna consciousness means we have to give up all personal interests and surrender to Krishna and work for the interests of Krishna only.
So, unlike anyone else before him particularly in the Western world, Srila Prabhupada was able to attract followers and disciples and imbibe in them the mood of total surrender of their life, the words, their actions, their money, everything, to Krishna. Of course not many will actually surrender. Because in the material world we all come here because we have rejected Krishna and we want to become the enjoyer, the lord, the master, ourselves.
But Krishna is the Lord, Krishna is the master, Krishna is the enjoyer, and we are all simply servants of Krishna. And a devotee practically realizes this, that his only purpose is to serve Krishna, and in serving Krishna automatically all other purposes are served. Srila Prabhupada gives the example of supplying water to the root of a tree. So there are many parts of the tree, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, etc. So you can try to water all the individual parts of the tree separately, but that will not be very successful. Because the correct way to water the tree is to supply the water to the roots of the tree. If you do this, water the roots of the tree, automatically the whole tree will become nourished and energized. You don't have to water the individual parts of the tree, if you just supply the water to the root of the tree automatically all the parts of the tree will become nourished.
So Krishna is like the root of everything. Krishna is the root of the entire creation, both material and spiritual, so if we simply worship Krishna, if somehow we can please Krishna, make Krishna happy, then that benefit will automatically be spread out over the entire creation.
So the best welfare activity, the best service to others, is to serve Krishna, because if Krishna is served, automatically the whole creation is served.
So these are very subtle things only understandable by the pure devotees of Krishna.
So the point is we don't require many devotees. We just need a few pure devotees and the whole world can be changed.
Mixed devotees, materialistic devotees, devotees who are not 100% surrendered to Krishna, they are more-or-less useless because they are unable to preach, they are unable to spread Krishna consciousness, they are unable to convince anyone else to surrender to Krishna because they are not surrendered to Krishna themselves...
So we don't need many devotees, those 100-200 devotees Srila Prabhupada had in 1966 were very surrendered and pure, inspired by Srila Prabhupada and together they changed the world.
In New York, Srila Prabhupada had nowhere to stay but the asrama of an impersonalist svami. To see students listening to a speaker who denied the Personality of Godhead was painful for the pure devotee. But was he to go homeless and beg in the streets?
Hare Krishna Prabhu and mata ji. So when we get Srila Prabhupada Deity in our house we can follow the procedure of receiving a saintly person in our house given in my post below. It would be very nice, and so fortunate for us. Haribol!
"When a saintly person comes to one’s home, it is the Vedic custom first to wash his feet with water and then sprinkle this water over the heads of oneself and one’s family. Pṛthu Mahārāja did this, for he was an... moreExcerpt from-
SB 4.22.5 Purport
"When a saintly person comes to one’s home, it is the Vedic custom first to wash his feet with water and then sprinkle this water over the heads of oneself and one’s family. Pṛthu Mahārāja did this, for he was an exemplary teacher of the people in general." less
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Ravivārāmr̥ta - Episode 3
ISKCON Praṇāma mantras:
Please click on the link below for meanings of all the Praṇāma Mantras,
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Jai Srila Prabhupada...
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Hare Krishna Prabhu! Please Get the Deity Worship Manual if it is available on krishnastore.com I'm not sure if it is available at present. The whole procedure of Deity Worshio is given in this book. Haribol!
Hello Dipanwita , I read your questions and I have same questions sometimes...Can we talk about if you got those questions , what do you think about and what do I ???...Where can we talk more about ???
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