Category:My Difficulties (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
The establishment of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was not a casual achievement but a monumental sacrifice involving immense personal hardship. Śrīla Prabhupāda often noted that to convert even a single person to the path of devotion, a preacher must figuratively waste "gallons of blood." This analysis explores the cold isolation of his early days in New York, the physical toll of constant travel in his old age, and the subtle burden of managing an international society while maintaining an uncompromising spirit of duty to his spiritual master.
- The Sacrifice of the Preacher: Śrīla Prabhupāda describes the intense labor of preaching as a demanding task that requires total dedication, comparing the conversion of conditioned souls to the shedding of one's own blood.
- Solitary Hardships in the West: The first year in America was marked by extreme poverty, homelessness, and theft, yet Śrīla Prabhupāda remained determined to fulfill the desire of his Guru Mahārāja despite having no friends or institutional support.
- Duty Over Convenience: Even when faced with heart trouble, old age, and a lack of cooperation, he refused to become discouraged, viewing his presence in the West as a direct order from a superior authority.
- The Burden of Leadership: As the movement grew, his difficulties shifted from physical survival to the constant management of letters, legal suits, and the neophyte tendencies of his disciples, which he sought to mitigate through the GBC.
- Transcendental Resilience: Despite facing "opposite elements" and a rascal civilization, Śrīla Prabhupāda maintained a platform of spiritual comfort and enthusiasm, teaching that a devotee's honest attempt is never hindered by material obstacles.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Gallons of Blood - The Difficulties of Prabhupāda's Mission.
Pages in category "My Difficulties (Prabhupada)"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
A
- Although Indian people are by culture God conscious, yet on account of vigorous preaching of the Mayavadi philosophy, we sometimes feel a little difficulty preaching this cult in India
- At present, I am very busy and have very little time; still your ideas are very nice. However, unless we meet together, it will be difficult to give you help. Perhaps you can come to see me, as I will be in Vrindavan, at our Krsna-Balarama Mandir
E
- Even at the old age of 70, I started for America. There, for a full one year I had to experience great difficulties in my single handed mission on this account
- Even there is some difficulty or hardship, or even my godbrothers may not cooperate or there may be fighting, still, I must perform my duty to my spiritual master and not become discouraged and go away, that is my weakness
I
- I am getting older and older and it is getting difficult for me, therefore I am requesting all my younger disciples to preach all over the world. Otherwise, you are always welcome in Vrndavana. I have no objection
- I am going to London for Rathayatra this year but I think I can fly from London to Pittsburgh without any difficulty. So you can accept that engagement on September 8th and I shall be there. And the national TV show sounds very nice
- I am ordered by superior, my spiritual master, that "Whatever you have learned, you should go to the Western countries, and you must distribute this knowledge." So in spite of all my difficulties, all my inconveniences, I am here because I am in duty
- I had some difficulty in staying in my rooms at Radha Damodara Temple. They want me to go away and are now picking up some quarrel with me to get me out of my possession
- I have 102 houses, but nowhere I am allowed to live. That is the difficulty
- I was always determined that somehow I would do everything possible to fulfill the desire of my Guru Maharaja, and despite all difficulties I always remained enthusiastic
- I was maintaining myself by selling these books for one year. There was no friend, and I was living in apartment with great difficulty. Still, the whole, I mean to say, stock, and my typewriter, my tape recorder - everything was stolen
- In the beginning I was seriously corresponding with Indian friends to get good mrdanga players, but when I found it too difficult some students were given rudimentary lessons in playing & simply by practice they are putting on Sankirtana Party everywhere
W
- We know that our honest attempt to present this great literature conveying transcendental messages for reviving the God consciousness of the people in general and respiritualizing the world atmosphere is fraught with many difficulties
- When you become Krsnized, then you'll get more comfort than at the present moment. That's a fact. I am living alone for the last twenty years, but I have no difficulty
Y
- You can try to arrange programs in Panama, Trinidad, and Guyana, so I can get down there on my way to Brazil. But, if there is any difficulty in getting the visa for these countries, then we may suspend the program
- You have asked me something for which it is difficult to answer from such a distant place. You are grown up girl you should rather decide what to do. Fix up your mind always in Krishna and He will give you good counsel
- You have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Krsna consciousness. It is so difficult task