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Prabhupāda: “It doesn’t matter that Hare Kṛṣṇa can be sounded in Sanskrit only. You can sound it in English tone also, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Is there any difficulty? These boys are also sounding Hare Kṛṣṇa. Just like the piano. If you touch, there is dung. Similarly, this piano, Hare Kṛṣṇa, you just touch it and it will sound. That’s all.”

Why did Kṛṣṇa ask Arjuna to fight? What about Christ consciousness? What about the Trinity?

His Divine Grace took compassion on my struggle to be Kṛṣṇa conscious. He then penetrated my impersonalism with a beautiful description of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s form. His Divine Grace said, “Just see how beautifully Lord Kṛṣṇa’s hair is resting on His shoulders. Just see how nicely Lord Kṛṣṇa has wrapped His shawl about His thighs. I don’t know whether he was looking at a Deity or a picture of Kṛṣṇa or whether Lord Kṛṣṇa was standing

If Prabhupāda said, “Very nice,” your life was perfect – whether he said it for your cooking capātīs or peanuts, or doing a drawing, or a kīrtana, or anything. If he said, “Very nice,” and smiled and nodded his head, then your life’s ambition was achieved, for Getting him to smile, seeing him happy, was the goal of life, and you didn’t really remember things like It was almost as if the idea of going to a heavenly planet or even Kṛṣṇaloka became distant.

On the left wall was a painting of Kṛṣṇa driving Arjuna’s chariot.

which is humanly inconceivable, at least to me, at this time …, how can it have the form of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa which I, from my reading in yoga philosophy, impersonally called “universal presence,” was actually Kṛṣṇa

Student: “If our first concern should be to serve God, or Kṛṣṇa, then why should there be a movement?

At the University of Washington, he had Tamāla Kṛṣṇa give an introductory talk. Speaking directly what he had heard from Prabhupāda, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa spoke boldly about “so-called holy

“This is the preparation,” Prabhupāda explained, “that the mothers make for Kṛṣṇa and the friends of Kṛṣṇa to take with them in their lunch bags. One of the guests asked Prabhupāda, “Who is Kṛṣṇa?”

Just like in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, ‘My dear Arjuna, whenever people are misguided and there is

explained that the God consciousness he was advocating was not a particular rigid religion like Christian or Hindu or Muslim, but it was universal. The unalterable characteristic of the living entity, he said, is the tendency to love and do service, and that is our eternal religion.

Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Surrender to Me and give up all other engagement, and I shall give you protection.’ And we are saying the same thing, that you surrender to Kṛṣṇa and you’ll be happy. So we are voluntarily giving service to Kṛṣṇa. You have to simply say the same thing as Kṛṣṇa.”

“Rādhārāṇī is the most beautiful girl,” he said, “and Kṛṣṇa is the most beautiful boy.” He explained that Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are the perfection of the conjugal relationship, and when that same

And that is Kṛṣṇa. Your bowing down will not be stopped, because you are meant for that; but if you bow down to Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s representative, then you become happy.”

They also walked in an area filled with many rose bushes and many birds. Peacocks roamed freely. It is written in the śāstras that wherever a saintly person goes becomes a tīrtha, or a place of pilgrimage In India are many tīrthas, most of which are places where the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His great But after Prabhupāda’s preaching – beginning in New York City in places like 26 Second Avenue and Tompkins Square Park, and later in Golden Gate Park, at Stowe Lake, Venice Beach, or Volunteer Park – then even

But Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu had said the chanting of the Lord’s holy names, Hare Kṛṣṇa, would go to

He told Tamāla Kṛṣṇa he wanted to organize a world saṅkīrtana party, with twelve men, twelve women, and young Americans with shaven heads, saffron robes, women in sārīs, playing cymbals and singing “Hare Kṛṣṇa , Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare.” The devotees would chant Hare Kṛṣṇa for hours, give out cards with the mahā-mantra printed on them, and

If Kṛṣṇa says, ‘You obey Me,’ and if I say, ‘You obey Kṛṣṇa,’ is this not service?”

I mean, does one attain a communication, something understood between you and myself and my brother, an experience like the sound dong or aung?

of his arm, he said, “But you just associate with these nice boys and girls here, chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, eat kṛṣṇa-prasādam, study my books scrutinizingly, and engage yourself in a little service,