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Quotes of Srila Prabhupada.
Simply our prayer should be, My dear Krishna, please remind me to always chant Your Holy Name, please do not put me into forgetfulness.
You are sitting within me as Supersoul, so you can put me into forgetfulness or into remembering You.
So please do not put me into forgetfulness.
Please always remind me to chant, even You send me into the hell,
it doesn't matter, just so long as I can always chant Hare Krishna.
- Correspondence, Los Angeles, November 1968
Krishna is not ungrateful but rather He sees all our efforts and appreciates our sincere service. Krishna is interested in how we engage our energies in His service. We are very small, very insignificant, so what can we do?
Simply He wants to see that we are engaging our time and energy in His service.
And you always remember to abide by the laws of Krishna as described by His bona fide Representative, and the passage of going back to Godhead is assured.
This is Krishna's Mercy.
- Correspondence, Los Angeles, November 1968
When we remember always to have unflinching faith in the spiritual master and the message of Krishna then automatically we become free from the attacking Maya. In the material concept also everyone is trying to avoid the onslaughts of Maya but with no success.
To the sincere devotee, however, this ocean of maya is easily crossed by the cool breeze of Krishna's Grace.
- Correspondence, Los Angeles, November 1968
Many men come here and by their talents, earn huge amounts of money, but it remains here, and he goes alone with his works only to accept another different kind of body, forgetting everything behind.
But if he acquires some spiritual assets it goes with him, and even if it is not perfect in this life,
it begins again from that point in next life.
- Correspondence, Los Angeles, November 1968
All devotees are more or less poets. Out of 26 qualifications of a perfect devotee, one is poetic sense.
So we can write so many poetries in praise of the Lord, or about His pastimes.
Similarly we can draw so many nice pictures about His different activities,
and such engagements will give us chance to elevate ourselves to the perfectional platform of spiritual understanding.
- Correspondence, Los Angeles, November 1968
When we are spiritually perfect we develop the spiritual form to live eternally in the spiritual world.
In the spiritual world there are exactly the same things as we see here;
namely the land, water, trees, birds, beasts, human beings, etc.,
and all of them are spiritual as all the varieties here are material.
- Letter to Gurudas, May 16, 1970.
If Krishna does not supply you this light, sunlight, you will die.
But He does not charge anything.
But because you are human being, you should try to repay:
“Oh, Krishna is giving us so much facilities. Let me render some service unto Him.”
This is Krishna consciousness. This is to acknowledge:
“O God, You are so kind. You are giving so many things. So I have collected this fruit.
It is Your fruit, I know. Still, please accept.”
- Columbus, May 9, 1969.