It is very difficult at the present moment to introduce all these principles, because the days are different. If we become very strict, so then . . . Ordinarily they are not coming. There is no such strict principle, and we are constructing very nice palatial building with attached bathroom and everything complete. Still, people are not coming. This is different days. So it is very difficult to introduce the original way of brahmacarya, vānaprastha, sannyāsa and gṛhastha. Everything has topsy-turvied. But there is only one way. That is there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that "Although this age is full of faults . . ." Kalau doṣa-nidhe rājan. The Śukadeva Gosvāmī said, "My dear King, Parīkṣit Mahārāja, I have described so many faults of this age, and you must be perplexed. It is just like the ocean of faults. But there is one benefit. That is specially for this age." What is that? Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51): "If simply this system is introduced, Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra," kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya, this Hare Kṛṣṇa . . . Sometimes they come to fight with us, that "Why you say 'Hare Kṛṣṇa'? Why you do not say 'Hare Rāma'?" Perhaps you have got experience. But śāstra says, kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya. It does not mean that we do not accept Rāma as the Supreme Per . . . That does not mean. Śāstra said, kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet. And it is said in the śāstra that if you chant viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma, after chanting thousand times Viṣṇu's name, it is equal to one rāma-nāma. And after chanting thrice rāma-nāma, it is equal to one kṛṣṇa-nāma. This is said in the śāstra. So this Hare Kṛṣṇa . . . Of course, in some Purāṇas the beginning is Hare Rāma, but in many Purāṇas it is Hare Kṛṣṇa. So we have no objection. Either you begin with Hare Rāma or Hare Kṛṣṇa, we have no objection. But the śāstra says, kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya. The Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, there is no difference, but why in the śāstra it is said, kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya? So Hare Kṛṣṇa is quite to the rulings of the śāstra. There is no discrepancies, although we have no objection—either you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa or Hare Rāma.
There is no such strict principle, and we are constructing very nice palatial building with attached bathroom and everything complete. Still, people are not coming
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"There is no such strict principle, and we are constructing very nice palatial building with attached bathroom and everything complete. Still, people are not coming"
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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
It is very difficult at the present moment to introduce all these principles, because the days are different. If we become very strict, so then... Ordinarily they are not coming. There is no such strict principle, and we are constructing very nice palatial building with attached bathroom and everything complete. Still, people are not coming. This is different days. So it is very difficult to introduce the original way of brahmacarya.
Categories:
- There Is No
- Strict Principles
- We Are (Disciples of SP)
- Constructing ISKCON Temples
- Very Nice
- Palace
- Buildings
- Attached
- Bathroom
- Everything
- Complete
- Still
- People
- Are Not
- Coming
- Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1966 - 1977
- Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, 1976
- Prabhupada Speaks - Lectures, Srimad-Bhagavatam
- Prabhupada Speaks - in India, Bombay
Page Title: | There is no such strict principle, and we are constructing very nice palatial building with attached bathroom and everything complete. Still, people are not coming |
Compiler: | Ionelia |
Created: | 2015-12-27, 15:58:56 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 1 |