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JUNE
JUNE 01
I came here with a great mission to execute my Spiritual Master's order, but my heart is stabbing me. Of course, I'm not afraid of Maya. I know Maya cannot touch me, but still if I die in this condition, my mission will remain unfulfilled. Please therefore pray to Prabhu Lord Chaitanya and Vrindaban Bihari, to rescue me this time. My mission is still not finished.
Letter to Sri Krishna Pandit, June 01, 1967
JUNE 02
Krishna is so grateful. If you give little service to Krishna sincerely, Krishna will never forget you. And He's so powerful. If Krishna becomes your friend and Krishna remembers you, then what you want more? Just imagine. So Krishna.. Here it is said, krishna-devatah. Fix up your mind in Krishna and be happy.
Geneva, June 02, 1974
JUNE 03
The transcendental ecstatic symptoms certainly become manifested in a devotee's body, but they should not be exhibited amongst common men.
Letter to Makhan Lal, June 03, 1970
JUNE 04
Initiation means beginning. Not that immediately after initiation one becomes perfect.
New Vrindavan, June 04, 1969
JUNE 05
We say that if Krishna is truth, the world is also truth because the world is a manifestation of Krishna's energy. So if Krishna is true, how His energy can be false? The Mayavadis preach so-called monism, but they always distinguish brahma and maya. They say brahma is true, maya is false. We say maya is true, and because it is Krishna's energy, she must be employed in Krishna's service.
Letter to Gopal Krishna, June 05, 1969
JUNE 06
The great liberated souls and incarnations who appear from time to time in this material world are not actually coming back, because they are never subject to material contamination or the laws of material nature. For the purpose of delivering the fallen living entities they come here temporarily and then go back when their business is finished, and this is all under the direct order of the Lord. So the appearance of the Lord or the great liberated souls in the material world is different from the appearance of the contaminated living entity who is forced to take birth in the material world due to his desire to lord it over the world.
Letter to Vrindavanesvari, June 06, 1969
JUNE 07
Any nonsense you do and if you say, "It is the latest fashion," everyone will do.
Honolulu, June 07, 1975
JUNE 08
If we make our Deity worship program extremely opulent and gorgeous, and if all of the devotees are always attending arati and holding kirtana in front of the Deities, that will be the best program for attracting the Indian people to Krishna Consciousness Movement.
Letter to Giriraja, June 08, 1972
JUNE 09
Vrindaban is meant for retirement. Elderly persons in Krishna Consciousness can devote all their time to devotional service. Such men are wanted to live in Vrindaban, not women and children. That is a fact, the holy dhamas are meant for the sannyasis and brahmacharis especially. If necessary, the management must be done by sannyasis and brahmacharis, not grhasthas.
Letter to Gopal Krishna, June 09, 1976
JUNE 10
A king is sitting on the throne and there is a bug. The bug and the king, they are on the same throne, but the bug and the king, much difference. Sitting on the same throne does not mean that they have become equal. Why? Due to the constitutional position. The bug's constitutional position is to bite only, and the king's position is to rule. Although they are on the same level, the difference is great gulf of difference. Similarly, God and the living entity may sit down together, may talk together, they lie together, eat together, but that difference will be there.
Montreal, June 10, 1968
JUNE 11
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
Letter to Narayani, June 11, 1972
JUNE 12
Lord Chaitanya, although Krishna Himself, appealed to His friends and helpers to help Him in His mission and what to speak of me; I am just an ordinary human being. So I need your help.
Letter to Yogesvara, June 12, 1971
JUNE 13
I can see you, you can see me, similarly, you can go directly, see God and live with Him, dance with Him, play with Him, eat with Him. That is the perfection of life.
Paris, June 13, 1974
JUNE 14
Vrindavan does not require to be modernized because Krishna's Vrindavan is transcendental village. They completely depend on nature's beauty and nature's protection. The community in which Krishna preferred to belong was Vaisya community, because Nanda Maharaj happened to be a Vaisya king, or landholder, and his main business was cow protection. It is understood that he had 900,000 cows and Krishna and Balarama used to take charge of them, along with His many cowherd boy friends, and every day, in the morning He used to go out with His friends and cows into the pasturing grounds.
Letter to Hayagriva, June 14, 1968
JUNE 15
Spiritual master is representative of God, similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna conscious by education, by culture.
Mayapur, June 15, 1973
JUNE 16
If you take one cent from somebody else without doing something good to him or without exchanging something, then you are debtor, and you have to pay him with interest and compound interest. That is the law of karma.
New Vrindaban, June 16, 1969
JUNE 17
Horse is controlled by the mouth. Therefore you have seen the harnesses are fixed in the mouth, the driver controls the mouth and the horse goes. So Krishna was a boy. How did He know that "This demon Kesi has come in the shape of a horse. If I have to control him, I will have to control his mouth." So He pushed His hand within the mouth of the horse, and the horse felt it was just like a hot iron bar, so he died. Similarly, when Krishna fought with Aristasura, He knew that to control the bull you have to control the horns. So He took up the horns and killed him. This is svabhaviki, natural. He knows everything.
Mayapur, June 17, 1973
JUNE 18
You are mine and I am Krishna's, therefore you are also Krishna's.
Letter to Gargamuni, June 18, 1968
JUNE 19
If there is lack of obedience then there cannot be discipline, and without discipline we cannot manage a huge world organization.
Los Angeles, June 19, 1972
JUNE 20
In Vrindavana, when we walk on the street, the cātra-men, the milkmen carrying milk, immediately they'll offer namaskāra, "Swamiji." The other day we were walking and we entered one field, just for walking. So the villagers, the cultivators, they came to congratulate us and receive us. "Swamiji, it is our great fortune that you have come to our field." But in your country if I would have entered in another's place, perhaps they would have brought charge of trespass or might have shot us down. So that is the different system. That by birthright they are Krishna conscious in Vrindavana.
Letter to Toronto, June 20, 1976
JUNE 21
A Spiritual Master is always liberated. In any condition of His life He should not be mistaken as ordinary human being. This position of a Spiritual Master is achieved by three processes: Sadhana siddha—one who is liberated by executing the regulative principle of devotional service; Kripa siddha—one who is liberated by the mercy of Krishna or His devotee; Nitya siddha—one who is never forgetful of Krishna throughout his whole life. These are the three features of the perfection of life.
Letter to Tamala Krsna, June 21, 1970
JUNE 22
In the Vedic conception of Grhastha, householder, it is recommended that a householder shall see that even a lizard living in the room or even a snake living in that house should not starve. They should be also given food. And what to speak of others?
Conversation with Prof. Kotovsky, June 22, 1971, Moscow.
JUNE 23
The disciple's duty is to be ready always to serve the spiritual master, at any cost.
Los Angeles, June 23, 1972
JUNE 24
If the wife is helpful in the spiritual progress of life, she is the best friend and philosopher. So in Krishna Consciousness the wife is never a burden, but she is completely a counterpart.
Letter to Vrindavana Candra, 24 June, 1970
JUNE 25
As soon as you offer yourself to be enjoyed by Krishna as servant, according to His order you serve, then immediately you are in the spiritual world. If you want to remain in the spiritual world, this temple is the spiritual world. We are not living in Melbourne. This temple is not Melbourne. It is Vaikuntha. It is Vrindavana. So if you stick to this temple service, Krishna’s service, then you are not in this material world.
Melbourne, June 25, 1974
JUNE 26
Innocent men, women, they are kept in that factory simply for livelihood. A little work will provide his needs. Nature has given so much facility. They can grow little food anywhere. The cows are there in the pasturing ground. Take milk and live peacefully. Why you open factories?
New Vrindaban, June 26, 1976
JUNE 27
When our eyes are anointed with love of God, we can see Him everywhere. We have to develop our seeing power by developing love of Godhead. When one is sufficiently developed in Krishna consciousness, he can see the Lord every moment within his heart and everywhere, wherever he goes.
San Francisco, June 27, 1971
JUNE 28
The holy name is so powerful that even by chanting with offense, gradually he becomes pure. Therefore we should not give up chanting. Any circumstances, we should go on chanting Hare Krishna.
Denver, June 28, 1975
JUNE 29
One old man and his wife, sitting together. The wife is requesting the old husband, "Chant, chant, chant," and the husband is replying: "Can’t, can’t, can’t." This cartoon we have seen. He will say three times: "Can’t, can’t, can’t." But not "Krishna, Krishna, Krishna."
Mayapura, June 29, 1973
JUNE 30
As God is good, we are also good. But due to our material association, we have become bad. So if we revive our old position, Krishna consciousness, then automatically we shall become all-good.
Calcutta, June 30, 1973