Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 125 - I wanted to introduce this...

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Hare Krsna! Jaya Srila Prabhupada! May your desire become manifest!

 

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"Taraka (das) ACBSP (Gita Nagari, PA - USA)" wrote:

 

> Here's one of Srila Prabhupada's final instructions:

>

> Prabhupada: No luxuries. Live very simple life and you save time for

> chanting Hare Krsna.

>

> Hamsaduta: Yes, Prabhupada.

>

> Prabhupada: That is my desire. Don't waste time for bodily comforts. You

> have got this body. You have to eat something. You have to cover yourself.

> So produce your own food and produce your own cloth. Don't waste time for

> luxury, and chant Hare Krsna. This is success of life. In this way organize

> as far as possible, either in Ceylon or in Czechoslovakia, wherever... Save

> time. Chant Hare Krsna. Don't be allured by the machine civilization.

>

> Hamsaduta: Yes, Prabhupada.

>

> Prabhupada: This is soul-killing civilization, this kind way of life,

> especially European countries. Anywhere you can inhabit it. It is not very

> difficult. A cottage; you can produce your own food anywhere. Am I right?

>

> Hamsaduta: Yes, Prabhupada. We will do it.

>

> Prabhupada: And money, spend for Krsna -- for Krsna's palace, for Krsna's

> temple, for Krsna's worship, gorgeous, as gorgeously as... Not for false...

> This is the human civilization. And to organize this, varnasrama will help

> you to divide the society -- brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya -- as there is

> division in the body. That will help. Don't waste human form of body for

> sense gratification.

>

> I wanted to introduce this. Now I have given you ideas. You can do it. You

> are all intelligent. For Caitanya Mahaprabhu's para-upakara... So you do

> good to others. Not exploit others. Any human being who has been bestowed by

> this body has the capacity to chant Hare Krsna. Give them chance and make

> situation favorable. Is that clear?

>

> Hamsaduta: Yes, it's clear, Prabhupada. You have made everything very clear.

>

> >>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- October 8, 1977, Vrndavana

 

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