Srila Prabhupada's Quote Of The Day

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March 22

The life is meant for understanding what is my relationship with God. Athato brahma jijnasa. This is the vision of life: what is Brahman, what is God, what I am, what is my relationship with God. And so far eating, sleeping concerned, that is done by the cats and dogs. But the modern civilization, they are busy. Because they are busy for eating, sleeping and mating, they, by the laws of nature, that is also being minimized. I have already explained. The nature wants to help us because we are now forgotten souls. We have forgotten God. The animals have also forgotten God. They are thinking they are this body, bodily concept of life. They have no knowledge. But when you come to the, by evolutionary process, come to the human form of life, then it is your duty to inquire about the Supreme Brahman.

Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 4.2, Bombay, March 22, 1974

March 21

This Bhagavad-gita is meant for everyone to take perfect knowledge from Krsna and be happy. If you want to become happy actually, then Krsna's instruction you accept. We are already fallen. Now if we want to save ourselves from this fallen condition, take instruction from Krsna and do not try to deviate, do not try to interpret in your own whimsical way, in a rascal way. Simply try to understand what Krsna says. That's all. Then your life will be perfect.

Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 4.1, Bombay, March 21, 1974

March 20

So this material nature is very powerful. You cannot protect from the onslaught of material nature. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja advising us that you try to achieve the permanent. The permanent is the soul. God is permanent. And there is a world, a sky, which is also permanent. So why not transfer yourself to that permanent sky, permanent association, permanent life, permanent supreme knowledge? What we are seeking here in imperfectness? But people have no information. Some of them, they do not believe in it. Some of them are callous. This is our unfortunate condition. But it is neither false nor it is fiction. It is actual fact, truth, real truth, Absolute Truth.

Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.7.40-44, San Francisco, March 20, 1967

March 19

Nowadays people have discovered so many problems. But actual problem - janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi - they are not very much serious. Therefore they have been described here as pramattah, madmen. He does not know what is the real problem, but he is very busy with the superficial problems. Therefore sastra says that these people, blind, they do not know what is the problem.

Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.4, Vrndavana, March 19, 1974

March 18

So far the living arrangement is concerned, the grhasthas should be given chance to live together as husband and wife. If not, then all the girls can stay in a place and all the boys can stay in a place, if there is not sufficient space.

Letter to Hayagriva, 18 March, 1969

March 17

If there is one brahmana in a family, or one society, the whole family, whole society becomes sanctified.

Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 7.1, San Francisco, 17 March, 1968

March 16

Yes, there are two Boar Incarnations; one is reddish, and the other whitish. Varaha is the first, He is reddish just like a boar.

Letter to Jadurani, 16 March, 1968

January 14

Regarding sending children to Gurukula, that is also optional, not compulsory. The most important things are that you follow very carefully all of the rules and regulations such as rising early, and having mangala arati and classes, etc. and that you chant at least 16 rounds daily without fail. These things are most essential for your spiritual advancement and then everything will be alright.

Letter to Tirthanga dasa, 14 March, 1975

March 13

The conception of one world state can only be fulfilled if we can follow the infallible authority. An imperfect human being cannot create an ideology acceptable to everyone. Only the perfect and the infallible can create a program which is applicable at every place and can be followed by all in the world. It is the person who rules, and not the impersonal government. If the person is perfect, the government is perfect. If the person is a fool, the government is a fool's paradise. That is the law of nature.

Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.10.3-4, Tehran, March 13, 1975

March 12

Krsna was acting as a ksatriya. In His boyhood, He was acting like a vaisya. But Krsna is neither ksatriya nor, nor brahmana. This is the example. He was a cowherd boy. That is business of vaisya. And when He was fighting in the battlefield, He was a ksatriya. He was marrying as a ksatriya. So although He was acting sometimes as ksatriya, sometimes as vaisya, but He's neither of these. So devotee is like that. He may act in any position, but He is above all the material conception of life. That is perfection.

Varnasrama walk, Vrndavana, 12 March, 1974

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