One Prabhupada disciple told me he stopped chanting for some years. Prabhupada came to him in dreams several times and asked him to chant. The last time Prabhupada asked him to chant in a dream, the devotee replied, “But I have to work to maintain my family.” Prabhupada responded, “So did I, but I chanted.” Since then the devotee has chanted sixteen rounds each day.
One young lady, although attracted by Krishna consciousness, had doubts when the devotees described Srila Prabhupada as being completely pure. “How can anyone be completely pure?” she thought. Later she had a dream in which she saw Srila Prabhupada conducting an initiation ceremony, chanting on the devotees’ beads, etc. The more she watched him, the more she appreciated the purity of his actions. Finally, she came to the point of accepting that Prabhupada really was a pure devotee. Just then, in the dream, Srila Prabhupada handed her some beads and told her to chant Hare Krishna.
For me, these kinds of dreams remind us that although Srila Prabhupada appears not to be present, he is still here, ready to reciprocate with us and elevate us to spiritual life. If we really are sincere, we need not worry.
Gaura Prabhu: Srila Prabhupada says that if someone leaves we should think that it is at least 50% our fault.
Gokulananda Prabhu: One devotee was telling Srila Prabhupada that many devotees, especially the big devotees, were coming where Prabhupada was for the Ratha-yatra. “Big devotees?” Srila Prabhupada replied, with surprise, “We are trying to become small devotees.”
From Srila Prabhupada’s CC Adi 5.66, purport: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Absolute Whole, and the living entities are parts of the Absolute Whole. This relationship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entities is eternal. One should never mistakenly think that the spiritual whole can be divided into small parts by the small material energy. The Bhagavad-gita does not support this Mayavada theory. Rather, it clearly states that the living entities are eternally small fragments of the supreme spiritual whole. As a part can never be equal with the whole, so a living entity, as a minute fragment of the spiritual whole, cannot be equal at any time to the Supreme Whole, the absolute Personality of Godhead.”
From his SB 5.18.4 purport: “No one should think of himself as a liberated person immune to the influence of maya. Everyone should very cautiously execute devotional service by rigidly following regulative principles. Thus he will remain fixed at the lotus feet of the Lord. Otherwise, a little inattention will create havoc.”
From his SB 5.18.11 purport: “All the great saints in the devotional line very strongly recommend the process of hearing. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu introduced the congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra to give everyone a chance to hear Krishna’s holy name, for simply by hearing Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, one becomes purified (ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]). Therefore our Krishna consciousness movement is chiefly engaged in chanting the Hare Krishna mantra all over the world.”
From NOD, Chapter 25: “Anyone who becomes exhilarated by hearing of the pastimes of Lord Krishna when He was present on this earth with His associates is to be understood as nitya-siddha, eternally perfect.”
From his SB 3.21.31, purport: “To award fearlessness to the common man is the great act of charity.”
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