- tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavo
- yasmin prati-ślokam abaddhavaty api
- nāmāny anantasya yaśo 'ṅkitāni yat
- śṛṇvanti gāyanti gṛṇanti sādhavaḥ
- [SB 1.5.11]
Spiritual literature
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Satsvarūpa: You say now the standing orders, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, after the universities, should be sold in every home. So far, no one has learned how to do that.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Satsvarūpa: That remains to be done.
Prabhupāda: Every gentleman should have a valuable library of these. That we want. Then our preaching is successful.
Hari-śauri: Once people recognize the worth of spiritual literature, then they'll purchase. Just like they sell these Encyclopedia Brittanicas from house to house.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hari-śauri:...on the basis, "You've got so many children. They need this knowledge and education for when they go to school." So they purchase whole volumes.
Prabhupāda: Introducing as study book in higher colleges, universities, text book, then it will be... What is the use, a so-called scholar having a Ṣaṭ-sandarbha? And this has been failure... Our one Godbrother, he did. Simply he printed. It was not sold, and then it was mishandled, distributed like anything.
Hari-śauri: What was that?
Prabhupāda: That Ananta Vāsudeva, my Godbrother, he printed so many Gosvāmī literatures, but it was not successful.
Satsvarūpa: Even when I went to the convention in America, one convention, this woman professor, they were all excited. She has just translated Vidagdha-mādhava. But she had no understanding. She was talking about what the rasa is and Rādhārāṇī, but it's all like psychology or sex literature.
Prabhupāda: That's all. They say, "Sex religion. Religious perfection through sex." That is their idea.Correspondence
1969 Correspondence
Page Title: | Spiritual literature |
Compiler: | Labangalatika |
Created: | 06 of Feb, 2009 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=1, Let=1 |
No. of Quotes: | 3 |