Jaya om vishnu-pada paramahamsa parivrajakacaryaastottara-sata sri srimad bhaktisiddhanta sarasvati goswami maharaja prabhupada ki jaya
I offer my respectful obeisances to
all of you. All Glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada remembers his Acaryadeva
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja used to say that “If people do not come to hear this philosophy, don’t be discouraged. You sit down in a room and try to preach.The four walls will hear you. Don’t be disappointed.”>>> Ref. VedaBase => Lecture-Day after Sri Gaura-Purnima- March 5, 1969, Hawaii
Prabhupada: Therefore my Guru Maharaja used to say, “Poor fund of knowledge.” Whenever he used todesignate these Mayavadi philosophers, he would say, “Poor fund of knowledge.”>>>Ref. VedaBase => Initiation – May 21, 1969, New Vrindaban
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja used to say, “Do not go to Vrndavana with return ticket.” So therefore it is very confidential.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.61 August 28, 1975, Vrndavana[Conclusion: If one has actually seen Vrindavana, one would not want to leave Vrindavana]
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja used to say that although this process is guaranteed, but don’t wait for another life. Finish this business in this life.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.20-21 – September 17, 1976, Vrndavana
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja has declared that the real life of a man is preaching. If one has at all got any life in him then he will preach.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Upendra – Bombay 4 January, 1971
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja said that Instead of earning livelihood by showing the Deity in the temple, it is better to take the profession of a sweeper in the street and live honestly. He said like that. The sweeper, he is working hard, toiling, and getting some money and living. This is honest living.>>>Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation – September 21, 1973, Bombay
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja used to say-that “Don’t try to see God. Do in such a way that God will see you. Similarly, don’t try to advise God, but follow the advice of God. That is our way.>>>Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk – January 22, 1976, Mayapur
Prabhupada: That is the version of my Guru Maharaja.The whole so-called human society means a bunch of cheaters and cheated. That’s all. So don’t be cheater don’t be cheated. That is intelligence.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk – March 14, 1976, Mayapur
Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja, sometimes he used tolament because so many disciples he had, but nobody was coming out very nice preacher. He was lamenting, “So only kanistha-adhikaris. We are keeping simplypeople in the kanistha-adhikara and engaging them in the arcana-marga.” So that is not required.>>> Ref. VedaBase => The Nectar of Devotion November 4, 1972, Vrndavana
Prabhupada: We have learned from our Guru Maharaja that preaching is very, very important thing, and whenone is actually an experienced preacher, then he is able to chant Hare Krsna mantra without any offense.>>» Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.19 September 16, 1976, Vrndavana
Haribol, jaya Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ThakurJaya Srila Prabhupada