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Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

Srila Prabhupada states that HE is the representative of God.

Jan 28 1977–

Pṛthu-putra: …to show me. They were telling me that “You are going to see the representative of God.” And when I came to that vision, I saw the person. At that time I didn’t know who (it) was. But I had some doubts in my mind, and I was thinking, “Oh, that’s probably another kind of propaganda.” This was all in the dream. But when I came to that person sitting on the elevated seat in that forest, surrounded by many, many devotees, that person looked at me and proved to me that he was the representative of God. But after, I forgot. Maybe one year or something like this. One or two years after…

Prabhupāda: So there is no doubt about it that I am the representative of God.

Pṛthu-putra: Yes. But when I was…

Prabhupāda: Either you dream or not dream, I claim.

Pṛthu-putra: Yes. But this thing was just confirming. When I saw you the first time in Amsterdam, you were the same person that I saw in my dream one or two years previously.

Prabhupāda: That… You have read Caitanya-caritāmṛta? Guru-tattva. Guru-tattva. So there it is clearly said that guru is the manifestation of God. So it is confirmed in the śāstra. And all the ācāryas accept it. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ **.

Satsvarūpa: But is it possible to also learn spiritual truths from this…, from representatives on the subtle plane?

Prabhupāda: There is no question of subtle plane. You are on the gross plane. You first of all study gross things, and subtle, we shall see later on.

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Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

1) Sept 8 1966 NY
So by this process, the transcendental name, the sound incarnation of the Supreme Lord, becomes manifest, manifest so that we can realize God simply by chanting and hearing. Simply by chanting and hearing that will be realized. Of course, there are some rules and regulations for chanting, but in the beginning we haven’t got to observe those rules and regulation at the present. First of all let us have the taste for chanting; then we shall be little careful that the rules and regulations are followed. In the beginning, if we stick up to the… Rules and regulations are subordinate, subordinate thing. Just like you enter into an office. You are appointed in some office to work. So on the very day, you do not know all the rules and regulations. But because you do not know all the rules and regulation, that does not mean that you cannot be appointed. First of all let yourself be appointed. Now, working, working, yourself you will know that rules and regulations: “This is the rules, and this is the regulation.”

Just like in my life, I will say one instance. When I met my spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, so as a gentleman meets as a gentleman, so he was sitting in a couch like that. So, and I also sat down on that very couch. So I did not know that what are the rules and regulations. Now, when I saw that his other disciples are coming, and they are sitting down, (laughs) so I thought myself, “Oh, I have done this wrong. I should not have sat with His Divine Grace.” So of course, I did not get down immediately, but I took it, and from next day I did not sit. So rules and regulations automatically was taught. So that rules and regulations is not very important. The important is… The thing is that we must take up. The first rules and regulation is that we must have some attachment for this. Attachment for this. Then, automatically, rules and regulation we shall learn. There will be no difficulty.

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Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

Krishna is very kind to the meek and simple,
so dullness of the material world and consciousness about Krishna go well together.
Too much intelligence in material activities are detraction from Krishna Consciousness. …
There is a nice story about Bharata Maharaja,
who remained just like a dullard, in order to avoid material association.
And he was known as Jada Bharata, but when he was tested,
Maharaja Rohugan found him highly advanced in Krishna Consciousness, and became his disciple.

Srila Prabhupada letter, June 20, 1968

Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

Hare Krsna–

Below is a series of quotes by Srila Prabhupada where he gives us very important information about our “real” status as Vaisnavas, devotees, aspiring devotees, students, or just inquisitive followers. Unless we accept our actual position as conditioned souls within the confines of this universe, we simply cannot advance in spiritual understandings. From the very beginning student of bhakti, to one who has been practicing sadhana bhakti for decades, or even lifetimes, these purports below, give us valuable insights on our own personal progress towards total and 100% Krsna (God) Consciousness. I hope many will find them useful.

Hari bol
damaghosa das
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Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

Your ambition for chanting Hare Krishna exclusively is very good.
But sacrificing the results of action is as good.
A concrete example is Arjuna.
He fought very chivalrously under the instructions of the Lord,
and the Lord certified him to be the best devotee and friend of the Lord.
So there is no distinction between chanting and offering the results of one’s activity.
Sometimes under the garb of chanting people take to the habit of laziness.

– Srila Prabhupada letter, May 10, 1968

Submitted by Gauridasa Pandita Dasa

Dear Prabhu’s,

Dandavats! AGTSP!

Thanks for the nectar! I gave class in Berkeley today and all this nectar is helpful.

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Srila Prabhupada in Atlanta

One of the best things about being on the Sri Sri Radha Damodar Traveling Sankirtan Party was that when Srila Prabhupada was in America we could go see him and get very enlivened.

Srila Prabhupada arrived in Atlanta on February 28th 1975. When he first took Darshan of Sri Sri Goura Nitai he was very ecstatic and pleased. He told us he was pleased that the devotees were doing such nice Deity worship. He said he started most of the worship in most of the temples, but the devotees started it in Atlanta. He started talking about how Lord Krsna asked us to surrender; but Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda are so merciful they didn’t even ask us to surrender. When he said that his voice choked up.

We got to meet Srila Prabhupada in his room. We all wore matching vests and Prabhupada hats that were made by Minaketana Ramdas. He also made one for Srila Prabhupada and he offered it to him personally. The hat was too small so it sat high on Srila Prabhupada’s head. It looked funny and we all laughed heartily except for Minaketana Ramdas. He was devastated! But since Srila Prabhupada was smiling nicely and chuckling it eased his pain and we were in bliss.

In the room Srila Prabhupada told us that if we remained brahmachari’s we would go back to Godhead; but if we got married it would be a 50% chance.

Srila Prabhupada told us if we studied the 7th Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita we would be good preachers because everything is in that chapter.

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Submitted/compiled by: Yasoda nandana Dasa & Damagosha Dasa

Srila Prabhupada explains about the glories of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

Books : Bhagavad-gita As It Is – Macmillan 1972 Edition : Bg: introduction :

1) Kṛṣṇa, 2) Brahmā, 3) Nārada; 4) Vyāsa, 5) Madhva, 6) Padmanābha, 7) Nṛhari, 8) Mādhava, 9) Akṣobhya, 10) Jayatīrtha, 11) Jñānasindhu, 12) Dayānidhi, 13) Vidyānidhi, 14) Rājendra, 15) Jayadharma, 16) Puruṣottama, 17) Brahmaṇyatīrtha, 18) Vyāsatīrtha, 19) Lakṣmīpati, 20) Mādhavendra Purī, 21) Īśvara Purī, (Nityānanda, Advaita), 22) Lord Caitanya, 23) Rūpa (Svarūpa, Sanātana), 24) Raghunātha, Jīva, 25) Kṛṣṇadāsa, 26) Narottama, 27) Viśvanātha, 28) (Baladeva) Jagannātha, 29) Bhaktivinode, 30) Gaurakiśora, 31) Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, 32) His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Srila Prabhupada gives all credit to his Guru Maharaja

“…In Los Angeles many fathers and mothers used to come to see me to express their feelings of gratitude for my leading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement throughout the entire world. Some of them said that it is greatly fortunate for the Americans that I have started the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in America. But actually the original father of this movement is Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, since it was started a very long time ago but is coming down to human society by disciplic succession. If I have any credit in this connection, it does not belong to me personally, but it is due to my eternal spiritual master, His Divine Grace Om Viṣṇupāda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakācārya 108 Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Prabhupāda..”
Books : Bhagavad-gita As It Is – Macmillan 1972 Edition : Bg: Preface :

Srila Prabhupada explains his birth in a family of transcendentalists and his meeting His Guru Maharaja

Books : Bhagavad-gita As It Is – Macmillan 1972 Edition : Bg 6: Sankhya-yoga : Bg 6.42 : PURPORT :

Birth in a family of yogīs or transcendentalists-those with great wisdom-is praised herein because the child born in such a family receives spiritual impetus from the very beginning of his life. It is especially the case in the ācārya or gosvāmī families. Such families are very learned and devoted by tradition and training, and thus they become spiritual masters. In India there are many such ācārya families, but they have now degenerated due to insufficient education and training. By the grace of the Lord, there are still families that foster transcendentalists generation after generation. It is certainly very fortunate to take birth in such families. Fortunately, both our spiritual master, Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, and our humble self, had the opportunity to take birth in such families, by the grace of the Lord, and both of us were trained in the devotional service of the Lord from the very beginning of our lives. Later on we met by the order of the transcendental system
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Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa

(Either initiated or not ) Devotee Forehead should always be adorned with tilak and neck should always be laddened with neckbead.

Sometimes it is not practical to put tilak due to restriction in workplace but neckbead there should not be any restriction as it is neither weird nor odd.

In this 21st century every odd is a style and every style is odd . Just like a torn jeans can be upmarket or latest trend.

How imporatant neckbead is we can read from below incident
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When I was Srila Prabhupada’s servant in Los Angeles in 1970, my neckbeads broke one day and I set them aside to restring later in the day. I went into Srila Prabhupada’s room and He immediately said, “Where are your neckbeads?”

I told Him they had broken and I was going to fix them later in the day. He said very strongly “You must go now and fix them. If you knew how dangerous it is to be in this material world without neckbeads on, you would be shaking in your boots!”

A big reason is that the Yamadutas, the monster-like servants of Lord Yamaraj, who come at the time of a person’s death to escort them in their subtle body to a place where they can suffer the results of negative karma, have orders from their master that they cannot touch a person with tilak or neckbeads on.

Instead, the Visnudutas come to protect that person and assure their safe progress into their next physical body, or ideally, back to their original spiritual body. It is so important to have kunti mala around our neck at all times, you never know when the time will come to leave the body.

(Nanda Kumar Das, as told by Palaka Dasa)

Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

Maya will attack the body always, because the body itself is the source of all troubles.
We try to make a solution of our misfortunes, but at the same time we want to keep this body.
People do not understand the simple truth that if anyone wants real happiness,
he has to get out of the entanglements of this material body,
which is only possible by practice of Krishna Consciousness.

– Srila Prabhupada letter to Brahmananda dasa, March 1, 1968

Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa

Srila Prabhupada explains the exalted position or Sri Nityananda Prabhu

TEXT 61

rāḍhadeśe janmilā ṭhākura nityānanda

gaṅgādāsa paṇḍita, gupta murāri, mukunda

SYNONYMS

rāḍha-deśe—the place where there is no Ganges; janmilā—took birth; ṭhākura nityānanda—Nityānanda Prabhu; gaṅgādāsa paṇḍita—of the name Gaṅgādāsa Paṇḍita; gupta murāri—of the name Murāri Gupta; mukunda—of the name Mukunda.

TRANSLATION

In Rāḍhadeśa, the part of Bengal where the Ganges is not visible, Nityānanda Prabhu, Gaṅgādāsa Paṇḍita, Murāri Gupta and Mukunda took birth.

PURPORT

Here rāḍha-deśe refers to the village of the name Ekacakrā in the district of Birbhum, next to Burdwan. After the Burdwan railway station there is another branch line, which is called the Loop Line of the eastern railway, and there is a railway station of the name Mallārapura. Eight miles east of this railway station Ekacakrā Village is still situated. Ekacakrā Village extends north and south for an area of about eight miles. Other villages, namely Vīracandra-pura and Vīrabhadra-pura, are situated within the area of the village of Ekacakrā. In honor of the holy name of Vīrabhadra Gosvāmī, these places are renowned as Vīracandra-pura and Vīrabhadra-pura.

In the Bengali year 1331 (A.D. 1924) a thunderbolt struck the temple of Ekacakrā-grāma. Therefore the temple is now in a broken state. Before this, there were no such accidents in that quarter. Within the temple there is a Deity of Śrī Kṛṣṇa established by Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu. The name of the Deity is Baṅkima Rāya or Bāṅkā Rāya.

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Srila Prabhupada states that he is the representative of God

SP tells a nice story of his first meeting with Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaja

Srila Prabhupada re: Too much intelligence in material activities are detraction from Krishna Consciousness

If we want to know the pure devotee- we must study his writings

Re: Srila Prabhupada re: No difference between chanting and offering the results of one’s activity.

Re: Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada

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How important is it to always wear neck beads-and tilak??

(Either initiated or not ) Devotee Forehead should always be adorned with tilak and neck should always be laddened with neckbead.

Sometimes it is not practical to put tilak due to restriction in workplace but neckbead there should not be any restriction as it is neither weird nor odd.

In this 21st century every odd is a style and every style is odd . Just like a torn jeans can be upmarket or latest trend.

How imporatant neckbead is we can read from below incident
—
When I was Srila Prabhupada’s servant in Los Angeles in 1970, my neckbeads broke one day and I set them aside to restring later in the day. I went into Srila Prabhupada’s room and He immediately said, “Where are your neckbeads?”

I told Him they had broken and I was going to fix them later in the day. He said very strongly “You must go now and fix them. If you knew how dangerous it is to be in this material world without neckbeads on, you would be shaking in your boots!”

Instead, the Visnudutas come to protect that person and assure their safe progress into their next physical body, or ideally, back to their original spiritual body. It is so important to have kunti mala around our neck at all times, you never know when the time will come to leave the body.

(Nanda Kumar Das, as told by Palaka Dasa)

Srila Prabhupada re: Solution for real happiness

Sri Nityananda Prabhu Appearance day, Saturday Feb 20, 2016

(Either initiated or not ) Devotee Forehead should always be adorned with tilak and neck should always be laddened with neckbead.

Sometimes it is not practical to put tilak due to restriction in workplace but neckbead there should not be any restriction as it is neither weird nor odd.

In this 21st century every odd is a style and every style is odd . Just like a torn jeans can be upmarket or latest trend.

How imporatant neckbead is we can read from below incident — When I was Srila Prabhupada’s servant in Los Angeles in 1970, my neckbeads broke one day and I set them aside to restring later in the day. I went into Srila Prabhupada’s room and He immediately said, “Where are your neckbeads?”

I told Him they had broken and I was going to fix them later in the day. He said very strongly “You must go now and fix them. If you knew how dangerous it is to be in this material world without neckbeads on, you would be shaking in your boots!”

Instead, the Visnudutas come to protect that person and assure their safe progress into their next physical body, or ideally, back to their original spiritual body. It is so important to have kunti mala around our neck at all times, you never know when the time will come to leave the body.

(Nanda Kumar Das, as told by Palaka Dasa)

How imporatant neckbead is we can read from below incident
—
When I was Srila Prabhupada’s servant in Los Angeles in 1970, my neckbeads broke one day and I set them aside to restring later in the day. I went into Srila Prabhupada’s room and He immediately said, “Where are your neckbeads?”