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Prabhupada, I've heard that every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya. Is it so?

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"I've heard that every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya" |"Is it so"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

In other life may not, but he is associating at the present. That's a fact.


Room Conversation -- June 29, 1972, San Diego:

Kṛṣṇa-Kāntī: Prabhupāda, I've heard that every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Kṛṣṇa-Kāntī: Is it so?

Prabhupāda: Yes. He's associating with Lord Caitanya just now.

Kṛṣṇa-Kāntī: Yes, now. But in some other life, this is what is . . .

Prabhupāda: Well, other life may not, but he is associating at the present. That's a fact.

Ātreya Ṛṣi: When you first came, Śrīla Prabhupāda, a lot of people probably presented you arguments such as, "If you call the movement 'God consciousness' you'll be more successful. If you not wear tilaka and do not shave your head and do not wear robes and do not go on saṅkīrtana, you will be more successful."

And people still tell us things like this, that "You tell us the philosophy. We like the philosophy. But why do you go on saṅkīrtana?" So what were some of the arguments you presented to these type of people?

Prabhupāda: This is the same argument, ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya (CC Adi 5.176). You cut the mouth of the chicken because it eats, it is expensive, and keep the back side because it lays down egg. You see? Intelligent man said: "I am getting every day one egg. So that side, the back side, is very good. But this side is expensive, eats. Cut it."

So he does not know, he is such a foolish, that if I cut the head, then the egg-giving business will also stop. Similarly, if you accept this philosophy, then you must accept this also.

Page Title:Prabhupada, I've heard that every one of us who are in the movement now has had some association with Lord Caitanya. Is it so?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:27 of Jul, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1