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Prabhupāda: “I do not follow.”

“This is not the business of the guru,” said Prabhupāda “ – how to increase sex life and family life. They are not happy, these Western men and women. They become married, but they are not happy.

“Renunciation is not artificial,” said Prabhupāda. “It is a process. Like sometimes in a health club there is artificial swimming, is it not? Artificial swimming is not actual swimming, but it is to practice.”

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: “So is it correct to say that if we are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, then if it’s not the gṛhastha

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: “Yes, they are not talking Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.”

“It is not a free hotel for love-making,” Prabhupāda began, even before Gopāla Kṛṣṇa entered the room “Vṛndāvana is not a joking place. They must be serious for Kṛṣṇa, and I shall give them everything. There is not scarcity of money. There is scarcity of management. It is not simply a place for husbandless women.

It is not possible. Better not inform me anything, and let me sit in Vrindaban.

* “The soul is not destroyed with the destruction of the body.” (Bhagavad-gītā 2.20)

Prabhupāda: “Niyamāgraha is not good. Niyama means ‘regulative principles,’ and āgraha means ‘not to accept.’ So the basic principle is that niyamāgraha is not recommended.

Not spoiled children, varṇa-saṅkara hippies.”

But they’re not accepting.”

“But they are not happy. Therefore I recommend brahmacarya and sannyāsa.”

Sense gratification, laziness, and failure to attend the temple programs should not be tolerated. But this condemnation of malpractices in devotional service did not fall exclusively on any particular

resolutions pertaining to the divisions of āśrama in ISKCON: Husbandless women with children could not Husband and wife could not live in ISKCON temples, even if separately. Before entering marriage, devotees should have a means of supporting themselves and not expect to “live

If they do not follow the rules and regulations, then what is the use?”

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: “No, that is not the problem, because everyone comes together for association. There’s no question that we should not have common activities between all the āśramas.

But when he heard the resolution that husbandless women with children could not stay in the temples, Then he said, “As for me, my only concern is that they shall not waste their valuable human life.” He was speaking not in the tone of the official head of the society, who could veto resolutions, but “After so much struggle,” he said, “they have got this human form, and I do not want that they should Let them all come, and let them take Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so that they will not waste their human life

It was not only the words but the way Pañcadraviḍa said them, jesting in the role of an overly-critical And Prabhupāda immediately entered the joking spirit: “We are not against marriage.

Devotee: “I heard, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that you remarked our Society is not a love-making Society, but

If you are too sick, then also you should not eat. There should not be sleeping at the time of maṅgala-ārati because he says he’s sick, then at the time