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I do not think there will be difficulty if we just go there like the ordinary pilgrims and set up our Anyone will see we are only serious devotees of Lord Chaitanya and not Pakistani spies.

Then Prabhupāda discovered that his two women disciples had not actually done a thorough job. Prabhupāda said it was not a woman’s nature to do such organizational work. “It is not standard,” he said. It did not say “International Society for Krishna Consciousness,” but only “A. C.

Prabhupāda knew that shooting monkeys was illegal in Jaipur, and he did not expect his disciples to actually Indirectly he was advising them not to be so upset over a few monkeys.

Although Prabhupāda had not given permission, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa went ahead with his plans, even to the point The women were outraged; Mādrī was not even there to represent herself.

She picked it up, but Kṛṣṇa was not there.

Then Prabhupāda replied, “Well, you may be fit to hear rāsa-līlā, but I do not feel that I am qualified

“It may be possible,” Prabhupāda replied, “but generally not.

Are you not free from material attachment? If not, why not – The purest Vaishnava cult is indwelling there with pious Swamijis with Lord Krishna

Taking sannyāsa, therefore, not only meant giving up wife and family but also renouncing managerial posts Prabhupāda had set up his Governing Body Commission, he had also initiated several sannyāsīs, purposefully not Śrīla Prabhupāda, therefore, had to carefully consider whether or not to give Tamāla Kṛṣṇa sannyāsa and

That was what separated him from us – not only his learning or his knowledge, but his devotion. Not purposely, but he was just being himself. In these places it would come out.

The world was in dire need of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and even hundreds of sannyāsīs would still not be On these grounds, how could he not appreciate the request of one of his leading disciples to take sannyāsa

Knowing the mind of his disciple, Prabhupāda could understand that Tamāla Kṛṣṇa was not only determined

“They should not be moved more than three inches apart. Now do it nicely.”

A preacher, nevertheless, had to make sacrifices – not artificially or arbitrarily, but to expand the

Prabhupāda replied that actually the word bhakti, or “devotion,” could not properly be applied to the

Is that not māyā?” Prabhupāda said, “Lord Caitanya used to go swimming all the time.

The location was good – peaceful, yet not remote. The locale was ideal not only for hotels, but for a Kṛṣṇa conscious center.

“Unless you agreed to take charge,” Prabhupāda said, “I could not go ahead and pay so much money.

Prabhupāda would sometimes mention, in South India the original Vedic culture was most intact, he had not

Even the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra they sometimes do not say correctly.”