“surely all your problems will be solved without any difficulty“
Jan 11 1970 letter
So our propaganda is to transfer the taste of the general people from reading rubbish nonsense to reading of Bhagavad-gita, which solves the problems of life. As you are sincere devotee, you should always keep in mind these differences of hearing and try to understand how much important it is to hear about Krishna Consciousness. You are thinking that there are many problems in your life; I assure you that if you follow the regulative principles of chanting 16 rounds, observing strictly the prohibitive injunctions, keep association with pure devotees, plus taking care of the Deities in the Temple, surely all your problems will be solved without any difficulty. Please try it for at least one month and see the result.
Nov 10 1970 letter
So far, all of our success is due to our following the regulative rules of devotional service. So our good standing will be diminished if we join with groups who permit the use of intoxicants, etc. We should not compromise on this point, if we wish to remain pure and strong.
BG 3.41-–Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bhāratas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.
SADHANA BHAKTI-RESULTS OF FOLLOWING
Dec 28 1970 letter
I am very pleased to hear how nicely the activities are gong on there in our San Diego center under your expert guidance. Also your program for “Maha Sankirtana” in conjunction with Laguna Beach temple is very nice. Such engagements should be held whenever possible as it is very enlivening to all those involved.
Simply by keeping a nicely regulated temple schedule with many integrated devotional activities and our preaching program is sure to be a success. Following the regulative principles strictly is our strength in spiritual life. If they are neglected, then all our efforts simply become spoiled. So go on in the way you have described and Krishna will surely bless you.
Jan 4 1971 letter
So please do not ever become discouraged. That is one of the defects of conditioned life. Simply execute your duties in Krsna’s service, chant sincerely, and follow the regulative principles faithfully. If you carry out this simple order of life, all your uncertainties will come to nothing by the grace of the Lord and the whole matter will become clear. The Lord is very kind and He awards right understanding of His transcendental Supreme Personality to His faithful devotee. And there is no such thing as material pangs for such a pure devotee of the Lord, because the Lord protects His devotees from the demoniac material allurements provided the devotee sincerely keeps himself pure by the above mentioned process of regulated life in Krishna consciousness. Therefore there should be no fear for you. Just know the danger lurking at every step in the material world and continue to execute your devotional service with great enthusiasm and determination.
Feb 4 1971 letter
I think by now your good wife is with you in London once more. I am confident that if you simply take our principles very seriously and follow them rigidly, everything will come out successfully. Our Movement is being carried by spiritual strength from chanting of the Hare Krsna Mahamantra from the lips of pure devotees. Our disciples are pure and therefore the effect is that this movement is gaining in scope all over the world. Now people are highly appreciating our endeavors and they are asking us to open centers in their respective cities and towns. So this is practically the fulfillment of Lord Caitanya’s desire and it will come about for certain if you kindly keep the standard set by me and see that others are similarly enthused to follow.
Feb 8 1970 letter
Regarding the six months contract for L250 per week from engagements in halls, colleges, clubs, etc., it is very good news. But one thing we must remember that we are not professional musicians or concert party. Our main business is to vibrate the Holy Name of Krishna everywhere so that the people will be benefited by hearing the transcendental sound. The musical training is not so important as it is to keep ourselves spiritually fit in spiritual strength, that we should not forget. If we are in spiritual strength, there will be no scarcity of money; and the spiritual strength is that each and every one of us must chant the sixteen rounds of beads and follow the rules and regulations with great adherence.
Nov 4 1970 letter
The basic principle of our actions should be that they are all meant for pleasing Krsna. If we act always in this consciousness automatically everyone will be attracted to devotional service, and this is the secret of our preaching work. If you simply practice the regulative principles which I have introduced you will remain pure. Factually this is our only strength. I have seen better orators, better scholars and better organizers but no one is becoming pure by following regulative principles. Simply because we rise early, take bath, chant sixteen rounds and strive with every activity to please Krsna—this is what impresses others.
RESULTS OF NEGLECTING THE FOLLOWING SADHANA BHAKTI
Nov 9 1970 letter
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated 30th Sept, 1970 and I am glad to see how nicely you are reading my books. Please continue to do this. We need so many preachers who are soundly versed in the scriptures to convince the world to take to Krishna Consciousness. I am glad that you and the others are each writing one hour daily essays. That is parampara. All of our previous acaryas on our line have written substantially on the science of God-consciousness, so I would also like all my students to do this and I am very encouraged by this nice program you have initiated.
The important thing is to see that everyone is following a regulated schedule of chanting 16 rounds, reading, Sankirtana, and temple worship. Any breakage in the performance of one’s duties will surely be a hindrance in one’s advancement. So, as President, you should see that everyone stays engaged 24 hours a day in Krishna’s service.
Nov 16 1970 letter
I was thinking that the paintings should be produced at the rate of one per day. That was my thought. But if it is not practical, there is no cause for lamenting. Simply go on with your painting as far as possible. Please do not neglect to engage yourself in the prescribed duties for maintaining your spiritual strength. Without keeping spiritual strength there is no question of any accomplishment like painting or anything else. So Krsna Consciousness is first in all circumstances. Everything should be regulated in devotional service. Just like eating. Eating is necessary to remain fit, but too much eating means disease and too little eating means starving. One must adjust things properly, that is the program of Krsna Consciousness.
Dec 28 1970 letter
Simply by keeping a nicely regulated temple schedule with many integrated devotional activities and our preaching program is sure to be a success. Following the regulative principles strictly is our strength in spiritual life. If they are neglected, then all our efforts simply become spoiled. So go on in the way you have described and Krishna will surely bless you.
Jan 10 1971 letter
Please continue to distribute our books, that is a very important business. Your idea for film distribution is also good, so do it nicely in cooperation with the GBC. I am very much anxious that at the same time as you carry out all these outside activities you are maintaining a strict schedule of Temple activities. Such regular activities like attendance of Arati, chanting of rounds, study of literatures in the class will keep you fit for effective preaching work in the outer field. Our standard of purity must be kept, otherwise there will be loss of spiritual strength, and subsequent fall down. Everyone of you should be thoroughly convinced of the power of the Hare Krsna mantra to protect you in all circumstances and chant accordingly at all times without offense. Then advancement will be swift and you will gradually come to see everything clearly so that you may act for the pleasure of the Lord without uncertainty. When one is spontaneously engaged in this way, always in the service of the Lord and anxious to avoid all mundane activities, he is actually experiencing the taste of bliss in Krsna consciousness.
Feb 20 1972 letter
Now develop it very nicely, and especially make certain that the daily routine program is held nicely and to the regular highest ISKCON standard, that is, you should see that our rising early, holding mangala arati, chanting 16 rounds, reading books, having classes, street sankirtana, etc., go on just to the highest standard and are never for any reason neglected. In this way your success is assured, but if we neglect even for a moment our routine, work, if we allow the regular program to become slack then everything else we may try will fail. I think you have understood these things and you are doing things very nicely, and because your “number one concern” is distributing my books and preaching, I think Krishna will give you all facility to increase more and more and make advancement in Krishna Consciousness.
710729iv.gai
Television Interview
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July 29, 1971, Gainesville
Interviewer: How would I recognize a true follower of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement by his behavior? What would his traits be? What would his outward expressions be?
Prabhupāda: Yes. His behavior, he’s a perfect gentleman. That’s all. You cannot find any fault in him. That is perfect Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are prohibited not to eat meat.
Interviewer: Not to eat meat?
Prabhupāda: No. They are prohibited from illicit sex life. They are prohibited to intoxication. They do not smoke even, what to speak of other intoxications. And they are prohibited not to indulge in gambling. So if they can observe these four rules and regulations, they become perfect men. Simply.
Interviewer: Or women I presume.
Prabhupāda: Woman or man. Anyone.
Interviewer: Men or women. There is place for women in the religion too isn’t…?
Prabhupāda: Woman and man have got the same right. Just like we are getting married boys and girls. They’re following the same principles. The same principles. So these are the four pillars of perfect life. And if we indulge in these things, illicit sex life, meat-eating, and intoxication, and gambling, then they become the four pillars of sinful life. And If we take them away, then they become, the prohibited portion becomes the pillars of perfect life.
https://prabhupadabooks.com/conversations/1971/jul/television_interview/gainesville/july/29/1971?d=1
Pamho agtacbsp, you see how maha maya under the agency of yantrarudhani mayaya almost destroy the real sankirtana yajna of the brhat mrdanga by substituting the authentic books with the fake one,the real guru(HDG ACBSP) with the fake one,the real prasada with the fake one etc….and they make whoever distributes more fake books to speak the bhagavatam class as priority but they don’t know they are doing that in the fake reflection of iskcon because SRILA PRABHUPADA did not approved their fake life through disobedience by manufacturing almost everything HE said:do not change nothing but they are still working against the instructions of SRILA PRABHUPADA,nowadays the new and blind generation is thinking they are doing sankirtan by distributing SRILA PRABHUPADA books,they are thinking they take prasada but they been fooled by the guru hoax therefore whatever they are doing is against GURU SADHU SASTRA then they became so fools that they can’t see they can’t make any spiritual progress you see they are following all rules and regulations from many years but nobody is attracted by their false purity so is better they keep to sleep because when they wake up to the reality they can become very angry to know that they been cheated all life by serving stinky ordinary people in the guise of guru when they are not better then rogues and worse then politicians and prostitutes in few words they are dirty even if they follow the regulative principles and chant sixteen round daily but they are not clean because of GURU AVAJNA therefore their nasty misconception don’t let them to get the right result which is purity always connected to the spiritual strength .SRILA PRABHUPADA in a decade tranformed all the planet i mean there was not pandemic …. everything was nice less calamities because of the presence and work of a pure devotee but as soon as the pure devotee departed as soon as maya take over through fake things,KRSNA say you want this you want that is ok you can have it but fake not real SRILA PRABHUPADA also used to say that krsna use HIS the material energy like a net to check who is a real devotee and who is not, of course the material attraction is make by material ingredients which is dukhalayam asasvatam temporary and full of suffering, the smile represents KRSNA the big tooth in the back is representing YAMARAJA so mind that smile and more one laugh and more one reveal is foolishness without knowing the origin and traps of that smile anyway the wise man trying to not disturb the fools by leaving everything AS IT IS.agtacbsp ys haribol
Pamho agtacbsp, a such exalted vainasva since birth (who pass through pravritti marga to become the best sannyasi) can give freedom from the suffering of the material world because got perfect knowledge of both world materially and spiritually through eternity and ANANDA MAYA BHSYAT pure happiness which come from the last realization of the param brahman i mean HE could read any face and recognise any person through the smile connected to SRI KRSNA ,a tri kala jna beyond the factor time can see all these things because is a resident of the spiritual sky ,HE could see that George Harrison donated a cow to a brahmana in his previous life therefore is been connected to a pure devotee to finish his business by going back home through the quality of charity to HDG ACBSP ,to be lucky in this relative world means to be connected to a pure devotee and become free with the pure service to HIM and whoever find a real friend will find the lost treasure of immortality because unless one become immortal one can’t claim nothing i mean we are here today but don’t know tomorrow and everyone look in for the own spiritual personality because got stolen materially and SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU is giving us the own svarupa murti in back that’s our blissful spiritual body just by doing PARAM VIJAYATE SRI KRSNA SANKIRTANAM with sincerity we get the nectar that we been all the time look in for since ages we was waiting in for to get the nectar of immortality and fools only let this golden chance to be lost by serving the guru hoax.agtacbsp ys haribol
Pamho agtacbsp,that’s a good point i mean i know f-iskcon devotees that became free from bad habit by following all rules and regulations from four decade but as i can see they are still sleeping because they can’t see they are not doing any spiritual progress but if someone follow all rules and regulations with SRILA PRABHUPADA one can go back home and if someone else is trying to get rid of bad habit like smoking drink coffee by following SRILA PRABHUPADA is still more advanced spiritually then f-iskcon devotees because the most important thing is to be with a pure devotee,. one can follow all rules and regulations for many ages but is still not doing spiritual advancement by serving the guru hoax, that’s the worse habit to serve the fake means one live in the material world which is making by false things but if one serve the real master all the problems will be solved without any difficult otherwise one get more trapped because with anartha or without anartha one must learn from the real master how to know and love more VASUDEVA SARVAM ITI SA MAHATMA SUDURLABHAH.agtacbsp ys haribol
Pamho agtacbsp, i feel sorry to see f-iskcon still sleeping regarding their relationship with SRILA PRABHUPADA because SRILA PRABHUPADA said : whoever follow the four principles of liberation by chanting 16 rounds daily of MMHK is already initiated by ME even if they don’t know by giving their result of their devotion to someone who is more trapped then them by claiming they are guru and innocent and fools accept him,they must give the result of their devotion to SRILA PRABHUPADA then all the problems will be solved without any difficult otherwise keeping serving the guru hoax by going both to the hell.agtacbsp ys haribol