Category:I Have Already Explained (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
The phrase "I have already explained" is a testament to Śrīla Prabhupāda's profound patience and his intimate, loving relationship with his disciples and the conditioned souls. Knowing our tendency to forget our spiritual identity due to the influence of material nature, he relentlessly repeated the foundational truths of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. His explanations were never theoretical; they were practical, urgent, and delivered with the care of a father trying to wake his sleeping children. By examining what he repeatedly explained, we uncover the core pillars of his teachings and the perfect clarity of his spiritual vision.
- Awakening to Our True Identity: Śrīla Prabhupāda constantly reminded us that our real home is the spiritual world. He patiently explained that identifying with the temporary material body is the root cause of our miserable conditioned life, and that our actual identity is as eternal parts and parcels of God.
- The Shelter of a Perfect Guide: Recognizing our imperfect senses, he stressed that we cannot navigate the material world alone. He explained that we must take shelter of a bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa, someone like himself who strictly repeats the words of the Supreme Lord without alteration.
- The Universal Nature of Religion: Śrīla Prabhupāda cut through sectarian boundaries by explaining that true religion is not a temporary faith, but the eternal characteristic of the soul—just as sweetness is to sugar. He clarified that religion simply means to know God and to develop an unalloyed love for Him.
- Practical Devotional Service: He explained that spirituality must be practically applied. By engaging everything in the service of Kṛṣṇa and developing both spiritual knowledge and detachment (jñāna and vairāgya), our dormant love for God naturally awakens and our material lives become completely spiritualized.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: I Have Already Explained - Prabhupāda’s Compassionate Repetition of the Truth.
Pages in category "I Have Already Explained (Prabhupada)"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
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- As I have already explained to you that our miserable conditioned life is this; that we have to accept every fifty years or sixty or utmost hundred years, we have to accept another body
- As I have already explained to you, that we require a guide. That guide should be the representative of Krsna. Otherwise, he cannot be guide
- As I have already explained, endeavor means activity
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- Chemical evolution is part of life demonstration. That I have already explained. Just like the chemical, citric acid, coming from lemon tree, a life. It is coming. So all chemicals are being produced
- Completely devoted to the spreading of Krishna Consciousness and the propagation of the Gita and Srimad-bhagavatam. I have already explained to you my mind on the authority of the two great vedic scriptures, BG and SB
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- False ego I have already explained. It is neither matter nor spirit, but the junction - where the spirit soul comes into contact with matter and forgets himself
- First of all you must know what is your identity. Your identity is . . . that I have already explained. You are part and parcel of God. So far we understand, our philosophy is, from Bhagavad-gita: mamaivamsah
- First of all, you have to know who is guru. If you accept one rascal as guru, how you can be helped? First thing is who is guru. That I have already explained. Guru is he who repeats the words of Krsna. He is guru
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- Himalaya and other things - far beyond their limitation. That I have already explained. He's speaking within his limitation. Our position should be, correctly represent what is described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- How can one be happy? I have already explained the gross external energy and the subtle external energy. Those who are interested in this gross and subtle external energy will never have their ambition of life fulfilled
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- I have already explained in a previous letter, if we can establish a bona fide language school then our American and European disciples can acquire student visas for coming to India. This will solve our visa problem
- I have already explained that anything which is not utilized for Krsna, that is material. Either you are vegetarian or not vegetarian, it doesn't matter. If it is not utilized for Krsna, that is material
- I have already explained that because Sri Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and because He has got clear vision, and because He has full knowledge, He cannot give us misdirection
- I have already explained that once a temple is opened it cannot be closed. Before opening we must consider very carefully
- I have already explained that our idea of religion means that like the sugar, it must be sweet. It is not that in Europe sugar is not sweet, in India it is sweet. Sugar, wherever it is, it is sweet. Similarly, the spirit soul is the same everywhere
- I have already explained that our real occupational duty is to become servant. So instead of becoming servant of Krsna, we are now servant of our senses. This is our material life
- I have already explained that religion means to become lover of God. That is religion. When there is no love of God, that is not religion. Religion means - I have already explained - to know God and to love Him
- I have already explained that this is not our home, material world. We are spirit soul. Our real home is spiritual world
- I have already explained that, that this is my mission, to educate people to understand himself
- I have already explained the four kinds of sinful activities you should avoid. But if you think that you are chanting, therefore there will be no reaction of sinful activities, that is the greatest sin
- I have already explained what is meaning of religion. Religion means to render service to God. If you do not render service to God, that is not religion; that is cheating
- I have already explained, that any civilized human being - he has got some religion. Now, the basic principles of religion are the statements made by God
- I have already explained, that unless one is very intelligent, he cannot take to Krsna consciousness
- I have already explained, that we are training people in different parts of the world by opening centers
- I have already explained, the problem is that at the present moment there is no proper understanding of God
- I have already explained. There must be a class of men like me. They are called brahmana. They should help others
- If you can preach Lord Buddha or Krsna, it doesn't matter. I have already explained Lord Buddha is expansion of Krsna
- If you engage this body for the service of the Lord, it becomes spiritualized. As I have already explained, the iron rod, constantly in touch with fire, it becomes, at end, it becomes red hot
- In the modern society they have given women freedom. That I have already explained. In the name of freedom of woman, they are being exploited
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- Sadhu-sanga is so essential. And sadhu's symptoms are described. And suhrdah. Suhrdah, we have already explained. Suhrdah means well-wisher for everyone
- So called yoga followers are simply cheated and they are wasting their time. I have already explained these points in the Sankhya yoga chapter of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, so you read them carefully and present it in suitable occasions
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- That (Chirst's suffering) I have already explained. He took the sinful reactions of all the people. Therefore he suffered
- The American boys are being trained up strictly on spiritual line, which I have already explained to you in my last letter. Similarly, the Indian boys or girls must be spiritually trained
- They give example, "Others are eating vegetable. That is also killing." Yes, that is also killing. But I have already explained, that because one living entity is foodstuff for another living entity, that does not mean you shall eat your family members
- This devotional service is not artificial. In every one of you there is dormant devotional service, as I have already explained, but they are exhibited in a different way. Instead of loving God, that devotional service is diverted in loving a dog
- Two things must be there—jnana and vairagya. I have already explained that actually our aim of life, human life, is to acquire knowledge and vairagya. Simply talking of knowledge is useless. There must be vairagya also
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- Well, everyone dies. Death is inevitable. Nobody can avoid death. "As sure as death". And therefore, I have already explained that we have to take information from the Vedas
- Why it is called sanatana-dharma. That I have already explained. The living entity is sanatana, or eternal; God is sanatana; and there is sanatana-dhama, the Lord's eternal abode. As Krsna describes in the Bhagavad-gita (8.20), paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo