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Prabhupāda: “I have not attracted them. Kṛṣṇa has attracted them.”

So it is not bad that a devotee becomes angry for Kṛṣṇa.” But many people in the crowd could not understand this point – how a devotee is not impersonal.

Prabhupāda was not alarmed. War was not the only “ugly reality”; birth, death, old age, disease, and so many other material sufferings

“The first knowledge, then, that must be understood by human society is that we are not these bodies. If we do not know what spirit is, then what is the question of advancing in spiritual knowledge?”

“This war will not last long,” Śrīla Prabhupāda said immediately. “It will soon be finished.

“I am not your servant, I am Kṛṣṇa’s servant. You must answer my question!”

“We should not consider that Kṛṣṇa is Hindu or Indian. Kṛṣṇa is for all. They are not accepting a form of religious principles, like Hindu or Muslim or Christian. If I am calling myself a Hindu, this is not my religion – this is my designation. But our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not for such designated personalities.

Prabhupāda: “You do not realize that you are in ugly reality twenty-four hours a day?

“I do not mean a principle,” Prabhupāda replied. “I mean a person like you and me.”

Although usually he retired at ten, rising three or four hours later to translate, tonight he had not

Prabhupāda: “But suppose Yahya Khan does not kill you? Will you be safe? Even if you go to Yahya Khan, and he does not fight, then you mean to say that you will live forever?

Gosvāmī meant one who controlled the senses, and the title could not be adopted simply because one was

My disciples are giving me residential quarters even a governor could not imagine. You cannot say, ‘No, I shall not lie down in this nice apartment. I shall lie down in the street. Therefore, Rūpa Gosvāmī says that you should not be attached to that, but for the service of Kṛṣṇa if

“Why not surrender immediately? Be intelligent. Real religion means to surrender immediately.

building, Prabhupāda said, should be a large guesthouse, four stories high, and his design, although not The building should run east-west, so that the sun would pass lengthwise over it and not shine directly

Are you not suffering from bodily pains? Why don’t you go to Yahya Khan to cure your pains?

According to śāstra, they should not be considered as coming from families of mlecchas and yavanas – they should not be considered like that – because they are now purified.

International politics would not stop the oncoming wave of Lord Caitanya’s movement.

must approach Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa’s representative with a submissive attitude, by serving and inquiring, not

A devotee should not simply daydream, expecting Kṛṣṇa to accomplish everything with “miracles.”