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NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER 01
These two things are always side by side---Maya and Krishna---Krishna is service and Maya is sense gratification. Our duty is therefore to be very very careful. The poison is personal ambition.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Satyabhama, November 01, 1970
NOVEMBER 02
Feeling of loneliness are simply temporary manifestations due to past conditioning. We should try to concentrate our attention to our eternal friendship with Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Kulasekara, November 02, 1969
NOVEMBER 03
Sometimes a person, the proprietor of the house, after death, remains in that house as serpent, sometimes as dog, sometimes as tree. Being too much attached to the possession, they cannot get better life. And sometimes we can get the body of a hog and monkey in Vrndavana also.
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan, November 03, 1972
NOVEMBER 04
Radharani and the gopis, they are on the same status, but the gopis know that "Radharani is the better worshiper than us. "Therefore their only business is how to take Radharani and join with Krishna. This is Vaikuntha understanding. They are not envious that "Krishna loves Radharani so much."
Srila Prabhupada in Delhi, November 04, 1973
NOVEMBER 05
Your description of past incidents may be forgotten. We are not concerned with past misunderstandings; we are concerned only with progressive service to Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Govinda dasi, November 05, 1970
NOVEMBER 06
If one renders even a small amount of sincere devotional service, Krishna becomes obliged to elevate such person; and what to speak of one whose entire life and soul has been dedicated to Krishna's service.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Harer Nama, November 06, 1969
NOVEMBER 07
The difference between a devotee and a non devotee is this, just like the bee and the fly: the bee always is attracted by the honey and flies go to the open sores. So the devotee is only attracted by the good qualities in other people and does not see their faults.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Badrinarayana, November 07, 1971
NOVEMBER 08
You have got this body. You have to eat something. You have to cover yourself. So produce your own food and produce your own cloth. Don't waste time for luxury, and chant Hare Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan, October 08, 1977
NOVEMBER 09
Hanuman was ordered to bring some medicine from some mountain. He was a monkey, he was animal, he did not know how to pick it up--"Take the whole mountain. Execute the order." And then Ramachandra and Laksmana, They'll find out what is that medicine." This is Vaisnava. In ones own capacity he should give the best service to the Lord.
Srila Prabhupada in Aligarh, October 09, 1976
NOVEMBER 10
Even Krishna, whom we accept as the Supreme Lord, had to go to gurukula and serve the spiritual master as a menial servant.
Srila Prabhupada in Durban, October 10,1975
NOVEMBER 11
A Krishna conscious person must be seen by ears and not by the eyes. One should try to know the depth of realization by Krishna conscious person and not see the beard, which has become the practice of the Hippies.
Srila Prabhupada in Letter to Brahmananda, October 11,1967
NOVEMBER 12
If you put butter before the fire, automatically it melts. Similarly, a woman is considered as fire and the man is considered as butter. So this is natural. But a person who is not agitated, he is called dhira.
Srila Prabhupada in Manila, October 12, 1972
NOVEMBER 13
A pure devotee is he who loves Krishna, without any material desire. Such pure deovtees are very rare. But by the Grace of Krishna, practically all the devotees and disciples who have kindly joined me, their symptoms are pure devotees. Even if they have got some ulterior desire, that will be removed very soon, because they have taken to the pure process of Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Janaki, October 13, 1968
NOVEMBER 14
I have given the ideas. Now you give the shape.
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan, October 14, 1977
NOVEMBER 15
As Brahma is thinking to create a universe, you are thinking to create a skyscraper building, the ant is thinking to create a hole within the room---the quality of the work is the same. But because we are fools, that these things are material, it will not stay.
Srila Prabhupada in Mayapur, October 15, 1974
NOVEMBER 16
What is this comfort of the skyscraper building? I think it is a mechanical prison.
Srila Prabhupada in Johannesburg, October 16, 1975
NOVEMBER 17
The six goswamis were merged in the ocean of the love affairs of the gopis with Krishna. Therefore this mendicantism (renunciation), it was external. They were enjoying better things. So unless you enjoy better thing, you cannot give up inferior thing.
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan, October 17, 1972
NOVEMBER 18
It is not in my hands, Krishna-Balarama. I want association of Vaisnava. You are all pure Vaisnavas. You have sacrificed everything, material comforts, for Krishna's sake. That is Vaisnava.
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan, October 18, 1977
NOVEMBER 19
To save a man from impersonal calamity is the greatest service to humanity.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Gargamuni, October 19, 1967
NOVEMBER 20
Simply we have to desire to please Him, and not desire anything for ourselves. Then we become simply instruments for His will. This is the important essence of Krsna consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Atreya Risi, October 20,1973
NOVEMBER 21
Anything can be done by practice. So if we take Krishna-prasadam, the tongue is restricted, locked to some limited... Then our all other senses become controlled.
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan, October 21, 1977
NOVEMBER 22
Decorate the Deity as nicely as possible with nice flowers and dress. You will forget all other false beauty.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Kirtanananda, October 22, 1968
NOVEMBER 23
Always remember that our first business preaching and distributing literatures, never mind we have to live under a tree.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Narottamananda, October 23, 1972
NOVEMBER 24
Renunciation is required, but when one makes further progress after renunciation towards spiritual life and enters into the Pastimes of Krishna, then things become perfect.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Kapiladeva, October 24, 1969
NOVEMBER 25
On the mirror if there is dust, you cannot see your face very nicely. If you wipe the mirror very nicely... So this Hare Krishna chanting is the process of wiping out the dust accumulated on the mirror of my mind.
Srila Prabhupada in Montreal, October 25, 1968
NOVEMBER 26
"I am the seed-giving father of all living entities." It doesn't matter in different forms. He does not say that "I am the father only of the white, not of the black."
Srila Prabhupada in Nairobi, October 26, 1975
NOVEMBER 27
If anybody calls for meeting and lecturing, we must charge. And if they want to hear free, they may come to our temple. Don't become cheap. My Guru Maharaja used to say: "If somebody becomes cheap, then nobody hears him."
Srila Prabhupada in Montreal, October 27, 1968
NOVEMBER 28
On our palms there are certain marks for a particular person indicating his fame an fortune. Similarly the Supreme Personality of Godhead has got certain signs on His Lotus Feet, which are unique for Him only, and they are not be found in ordinary living entities.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Bhurijana, October 28, 1969
NOVEMBER 29
One who has got a helpful wife at home does not require to accept sannyas.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Krishnadevi, October 29, 1967
NOVEMBER 30
People should not misunderstand that we are a band of musical artists. They must know that we are devotees of Krishna. Our devotional practice and purity shall be so strong that wherever we chant there will be immediately an impression in the audience for devotion to Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Tamal Krishna, October 30, 1969