Category:How Can We? (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The execution of pure devotional service requires profound practical and philosophical clarity. Using incisive, rhetorical questions—often framed as "how can we?"—Śrīla Prabhupāda challenges his followers to deeply evaluate their daily habits, purity, and dedication to the mission. He logically dismantles the idea that one can simultaneously indulge in material sense gratification and preach effectively, or follow unauthorized paths while claiming spiritual advancement. Through these powerful inquiries, he instructs his disciples on the absolute necessity of maintaining bodily health for service, cooperating to save humanity, and strictly adhering to the infallible instructions of the previous spiritual masters.
- Purity as the Preacher's Power: It is impossible to effectively distribute spiritual knowledge if one is still heavily bound by the lower modes of nature, such as excessive sleeping, eating, and sense gratification.
- Maintaining Body and Home for Service: Physical health and household family life must be carefully regulated and perfectly dovetailed to support a pure, uncontaminated environment for worship and preaching.
- Cooperation in the Preaching Mission: Because the entire material world is suffering in illusion, devotees have no time to argue among themselves; they must unite their intelligence, wealth, and words to save fallen souls.
- Strict Adherence to Authorized Knowledge: A sincere practitioner must reject speculative, materially conditioned knowledge and the foolish worship of demigods, safely remaining on the eternal platform of the guru's instructions.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples on How We Can Perfect Our Lives.
Pages in category "How Can We? (Disciples of SP)"
The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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- All our men should write. Otherwise how we shall know that he has understood the philosophy?
- All you boys and girls who are now married, follow this instruction of Lord Caitanya, and show vivid example to the world how man and woman can be united, not for sense gratification but for the service of the Lord
- Another thing is although I have brought this Sankirtana Movement to the Western World we cannot make it copyrighted. The Sankirtana Movement is not my invention. So how can it be copyrighted?
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- Here it is plainly said by Lord Krsna, "the self, one who is taking pleasure in self." How we can take pleasure in self? As soon as we engage ourself with the Supreme Self. That is enjoyment
- How can he claim proprietorship, everything is the property of the Guru
- How can we approve of this (worship of demigods) when it is condemned by Lord Caitanya and Lord Krsna? How can we allow people to become foolish and hrta-jnana (BG 7.20), bereft of intelligence?
- How could we mislead people into worshiping so-called gods in material bodies within this material world?
- How you can think of Krsna always? That is not possible unless you become too much addicted. Just like if you love somebody, then you can think of him always
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- If we sleep in the morning, snoring, then how we can understand?
- If you chant this Hare Krsna mantra, there is no expenditure and there is no loss. Just like we requested you while our students were chanting to join with. What was the loss? But if you do not do, then how we can help you?
- If you fall from the instruction, how you can remain eternal? You have to stay on the platform. Then eternally you are safe. If you fall down from the platform, then it is your fault
- It is a very good idea that you have to be more attached to the Deities above marriage. But, it is not good to live at home because there is where meat is eaten. That will be offensive, so how can you worship the Deity under such circumstances
- It is a very great science of understanding God. So we have decided to discuss this great science for a few days here (in New Vrndavana). You take advantage of it. Try to understand this great science, how we can be related with God and be happy
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- The less a person is concerned with material enjoyment such as eating, sex and sleeping, the more he is spiritually advanced. If the "devotee" himself lives like a hog or dog how can he preach?
- The whole world is going to hell and everyone is suffering. In light of this, how can we argue amongst one another and neglect our responsibility for reclaiming these fallen souls for going Back to Home, Back to Godhead
- This should be the motto, how we engage our life, our money, our intelligence, our words, to improve Krsna consciousness. That is success