Boil the Milk.

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You can thin milk by adding water and you can make it

thick by boiling. Now is the time for us to begin the

boiling process. Now you know everything how to be a

Vaisnava brahmana, now you must practice these thing

or the whole thing will be a show only. Better to

develop the small number of devotees we have, make

them truly Krishna conscious boys and girls than to go

on getting many followers who do not understand and

practice the real principles. Better one moon than

many stars. - Letter to Damodara, Honolulu 9 May, 1972

 

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I am very much concerned that the devotees should be

given all good instruction and knowledge of Krishna

Consciousness, that is the duty of the GBC man. Better

to utilize time and train the devotees, especially the

responsible officers, and they can go out for

preaching to non-devotees and making new devotees. But

if they do not have any knowledge, how can they go out

and preach? ... I am very much stressing at this point

that all of my students shall be very much conversant

with the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness, and that

they should read our books very diligently at least

one or two hours daily and try to understand the

subject matter from varieties of angles. We are

holding our morning class here in Los Angeles in the

temple and I am speaking from 7 to 8 am, and the

process is that we are going through some chapters of

Srimad Bhagavatam by taking one sloka each day, and

reading the Sanskrit aloud, each word is pronounced by

me and repeated by the students and then altogether we

chant the sloka several times until we have learned

it. And then we discuss the subject matter very

minutely and inspect it from all angles of approach

and savor the new understandings. So you introduce

this system in all of the centers in your zone, and

you will discover that everyone becomes very much

enlivened by these daily classes. Read one sloka and

discuss and then go on to the next sloka on the next

day, and so on, and even you discuss one verse each

day it will take you 50 years to finish Srimad

Bhagavatam in this way. So we have got ample stock for

acquiring knowledge. And if the students get knowledge

more and more, they will automatically become

convinced and very easily perform their duties for

tapasya or renunciation of the material bondage, and

that will be their successful advancement in Krishna

Consciousness. - Letter to Madhudvisa, Los Angeles 16

June, 1972

 

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Yes, you have got the right idea when you say that

your preaching work shall be directed toward the

children and the devotees and not so much to the

Dallas public. We may thin the milk till it becomes

useless, or we may boil it until it becomes thick and

sweet, so now we have got enough followers, let us

train them up perfectly in the philosophy and

activities of Krishna Consciousness way of life.

Unless all of my students become very much fixed up in

their spiritual progress, what is the use of so many

programs for expansion? So you are the leader at

Dallas, now it is your task to become very, very

responsible for the spiritual well being of all of the

students there, so Krishna will give you all

intelligence and facilities to serve Him nicely if you

are very much sincere to do so. This will please me

very much. - Letter to Stokakrsna, Los Angeles 20

June, 1972.

 

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"Radha-Krishna prana mora jugala-kisora, jivane marane gati aro nahi mora."

 

"The divine couple, Sri Radha and Krsna, are my life and soul. In life or death

I have no other refuge but Them."

 

-- Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura

 

 

 

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