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Submitted by Damagosha Dasa

Inspirational Quotes on Book Distribution.

Inspirational quotes on the importance of book distribution from the conversations, lectures and writings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

In 1965, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada arrived in America. He had bravely left India at the age sixty-nine to translate and distribute Indi,s wisdom texts in the West. He departed this world twelve years later, and in that short period managed the astonishing feat of writing more than fifty volumes of translation and commentary. It was a remakable achievement that has led to the establisment of more than three hundred centers for Krishna Consciousness around the world.

– Now I am trying for printing arrangement and this book also can be nicely printed provided you take charge of distribution. I am very much anxious for sale of my books. It has to be organized; please think over this matter. If the books are not properly sold how can I print so many books?
[Letter to Kirtanananda, 27 April 1967]

“So this press propaganda, this literary propaganda, is required because it is not sentiment. Krishna consciousness is not sentiment. It is not that some sentimental people have gathered here and dancing and chanting. No. There is background. There is philosophical background. There is theological understanding. It is not blind or sentimental.”
June 11, 1969

“You are trying for the new temple, but our main business is sankirtan and distribution of literature. If Krishna gives us a better place, that is all right. Otherwise, we can remain at any place never mind hell or heaven; but we shall be only very cautious about propagating our sankirtan movement.”
Letter to Madhudivisa, March 26, 1970

Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity. Without books, our preaching has no solid basis.
Letter to Cyavana, 26 December 1971

“Yes, my order still stands. Please organize BTG distribution and do it nicely. Sankirtana Party and distribution of our magazines and books is our real program. Other things are secondary. So during the summer time you should utilize this program of Sankirtan and book distribtuion vigorously. ”
Letter to Satsvarupa, 21, June 1971

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Submitted by Damagosha Dasa

Hare Krsna-
Below are two different things- a lectures and a conversation-but they both are on the same topic.
Sannyasa or renunciation of actions. In order to serve Krsna, or enter fire, as Srila Prabhupada explains, we have to become like fire or like Krsna-namely pure.
Now here below in this example he explains how one works in this material world outside the walls of some Krsna temple, where he or she may have a job or some business.
It is easy to understand if one is a bramacari or sannyasi then all his business (at least in theory) is Krsna related and therefore no reaction comes from this transcendental work.
Now what happens to the rest of us who don’t live as a bramacari, brahmacarini or sannyasi? How do we live in this world and still incur no reactions to our work?
I would think this is a good question most devotees have asked themselves at least once or twice. Srila Prabhupada, as our guru gives us that answer below.

damaghosa das
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April 30 1972 Tokyo

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Submitted by: Yasoda nandana dasa

Krishna Consciousness means to be on the platform of deathlessness.
Every sloka in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam is informing us of this.
If you read these books carefully you will understand this platform of deathlessness
as opposed to the material condition in which no one wants to die but no one can check death.

Srila Prabhupada Correspondence, January 7, 1974

Submitted by: Yasoda nandana dasa

Our book distribution program is most important work.
Anyone reading our KRISHNA book, Teachings of Lord Chaitanya, Nectar of Devotion, 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,
either through schools, colleges, libraries, life membership program or ordinary sales.
It is an important and most valuable service to Krishna.

– Srila Prabhupada correspondence, March 5, 1971

Hare Krsna-Below we have several short bits of info from various lectures/purports by Srila Prabhupada where he so easily explains how we can act in this material world , be blissfully happy by this action AND at the same time experience NO karmic reaction to these acts.
OR, we can choose to ignore our spiritual masters teachings and again become implicated in past karma. We all know his example of pulling the plug on the fan or karma and then because of misuse of our eternal freedom to act, we again return to producing more bad karma for ourselves.
He starts out below at an initiation lecture explaining how an iron rod become fire when kept in a fire long enough. Similarly, we have to keep ourselves IN that fire of Krsna Conscious activities, all the time in order to produce the effect of fire, or complete KC,otherwise, we must go thru the gradual process of in the fire and out of the fire before we understand being out of the fire means only perpetual suffering thru re birth with only “one “pinch” of material desire.
As Srila Prabhupada has said many times, “this Krsna Consciousness is not for the less intelligent.”

damaghosa das

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Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

In this present day, people are very much eager to have one scripture, one God, one religion, and one occupation.
Therefore, ekam sastram devaki-putra-gitam: let there be one scripture only,
one common scripture for the whole world – Bhagavad-gita.
Eko devo devaki-putra eva: let there be one God for the whole world – Sri Krishna.
Eko mantras tasya namani: and one hymn, one mantra, one prayer — the chanting of His name:
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Karmapy ekam tasya devasya seva: and let there be one work only —
the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
– Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is

Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

Bhagavad-gita comes from the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
and the Ganges is said to emanate from the lotus feet of the Lord.
Of course, there is no difference between the mouth and the feet of the Supreme Lord,
but from an impartial study we can appreciate that Bhagavad-gita
is even more important than the water of the Ganges.
– Srila Prabhupada’s Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

Hare Krsna-just read the below is this morning’s class

Below is a nice explanation of the first order of business for devotees-to give up unwanted association. Both Krsna and Caitanya say the same thing only in opposite ways as pointed out below by Srila Prabhupada. In the NY temple back in 1971 it appears from this lecture there was one bogi yogi living therewith his girlfriend who presented himself as some sanskrit scholar and had fooled the local devotees into thinking this was true.

So conditions have not changed since then. We now have rascals or demons as Srila Prabhupada calls these so called sanskrit scholars, who change the sastra and words of the Acaryas, who are not only living in Srila Prabhupadas temples but also changing his books !!! And worse still, being followed by practically the entire iskcon movement-except for those who can detect these demons. I think we all know who these people are that I am speaking of here.

damaghosa das

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Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

Hare Krsna-

Below we have some very interesting things for you-Srila Prabhupada kindly explains some of the inconceivable aspects of actual spirit life.

For example-he tells us of trees in Vaikuntha that can move from one place to another,

or about Srila Gadadhara Pandit who was considered the incarnation of Radharani and her luster was the incarnation of Gadadhara das,or

when we spiritualize our eating process, any part of our body will be able to eat,or

how we will be able to change spiritual forms like from a flower to a human form. Etc.

damaghosa das

ADI 9.32 purport
It is our experience in the material world that trees stand in one place, but in the spiritual world a tree can go from one place to another. Therefore everything in the spiritual world is called alaukika, uncommon or transcendental. Another feature of such a tree is that it can act universally. In the material world the roots of a tree go deep within the earth to gather food, but in the spiritual world the twigs, branches and leaves of the upper portion of the tree can act like the roots.

ADI 10.53 purport
Śrīla Gadādhara dāsa was known as an inhabitant of this village (eṅḍiyādaha-vāsī gadādhara dāsa). The Bhakti-ratnākara (Seventh Wave), informs us that after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Gadādhara dāsa came from Navadvīpa to Katwa. Thereafter he came to Eṅḍiyādaha and resided there. He is stated to be the luster of the body of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, just as Śrīla Gadādhara Paṇḍita Gosvāmī is an incarnation of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī Herself. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is sometimes explained to be rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalita, or characterized by the emotions and bodily luster of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Gadādhara dāsa is this dyuti, or luster.

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Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

This Gitopanisad, Bhagavad-gita, the essence of all the Upanishads, is just like a cow,
and Lord Krishna, who is famous as a cowherd boy, is milking this cow.
Arjuna is just like a calf, and learned scholars and pure devotees
are to drink the nectarean milk of Bhagavad-gita.
– Srila Prabhupada’s Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is

Hare Krishna Society

THIS IS MY REQUEST—SP

Everyone should be sannyasi-even householders–SP

Srila Prabhupada re: Krishna Consciousness and the platform of deathlessness

The power of His books

Pulling the plug on the Fan of Karma

Srila Prabhupada’ regarding “Let there be one scripture’

Srila Prabhupada glorifies the Bhagavad Gita and the Ganges

SP warnings about asat sanga and how Karma can be finished and come back again to us

SOME AMAZING ASPECTS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-THE BEST IS YET TO COME !!!

Srila Prabhupada regarding the unique position of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita