Category:Married Couples (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quotes compiled in this category highlight Śrīla Prabhupāda’s revolutionary approach to the gṛhastha (householder) ashram. Rather than viewing marriage as a concession for sense gratification, he trained his married disciples to function as powerful, cooperative units for preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Young couples were frequently sent to open new centers across the globe, demonstrating vividly how men and women can unite solely for the service of the Lord. However, this empowerment came with strict spiritual responsibilities. Śrīla Prabhupāda demanded that marriages be legally formalized and cemented with absolute vows against separation. He warned that if married couples neglect their temple attendance, strictly regulated sex life, and daily spiritual duties, they risk falling away from the path and degrading into ordinary, materialistic householders (gṛhamedhīs).
- The Preaching Power of Couples: Unlike previous traditions that relied solely on sannyāsīs, Śrīla Prabhupāda expertly engaged young married couples to travel, open centers, and successfully spread the movement worldwide.
- Establishing an Ideal Example: The purpose of a Kṛṣṇa conscious marriage is to show the world a vivid, practical example of how a husband and wife can live peacefully and cooperatively without being driven by sense gratification.
- Strict Vows and Regulations: Marriages must be legally sound and accompanied by a fire ceremony where couples vow never to separate. Furthermore, they must strictly follow the regulative principles, reserving sex exclusively for procreation.
- Avoiding Materialistic Entanglement: Married devotees must secure an honest livelihood and contribute to the temple, but they must never neglect their regular temple attendance, lest they become ordinary karmīs.
- The Ultimate Spiritual Progression: Raising Kṛṣṇa conscious children is a great service, but the gṛhastha stage is not meant to be permanent; eventually, couples must transition to the vānaprastha order, with the husband ultimately accepting sannyāsa to preach full-time.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples on the Duties of Married Couples.
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Pages in category "Married Couples (Disciples of SP)"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- Actually, you are an ideal householder couple, and I want that such grhastha couples should manage things as they have a tendency to organize and manage
- Actually, you are an ideal householder couple, and I want that such grihastha couples should manage things as they have a tendency to organize and manage, and so I am confident that you will help me deliver these children back to Home, back to Godhead
- 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
- As you are married, there is no need of separation as you are practicing artificially. You must live just like a respectable married couple and earn money as a Grhastha, and spend 50 percent for Krishna
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- I always advise married couples that the male should be engaged in some work; but if somebody is busily engaged in our activities and therefore he cannot work outside, that is also nice. We do not press people to contribute
- I am a sannyasi and I have no interest with family life, neither we are expected to take part in this man and woman relationship. But still, purposely I have married so many couples, boys and girls, just to see them happy
- I am getting reports from outside that some of our family disciples, they are not very much attending temples regularly. So if they do not attend temples, do not take to the service, then gradually they'll become grhamedhi, just like ordinary karmis
- I am glad to learn that you are with your wife and doing very nicely. Combine together and do everything well together. Raise your children in Krishna consciousness and be an ideal household couple
- I am so glad that you are now together, husband and wife, engaged in serving Krsna as an ideal Krsna Conscious householder couple
- I am so glad to learn that you are active in preaching Krishna Consciousness in London. You all 3 couples are expert in the matter of preaching Krishna Consciousness, and your last effort in the matter of performing Ratha Yatra festival was so successful
- I am very glad you decided to marry and I quite approve of it. My married couple disciples are doing very nice service to Krishna Consciousness in Hawaii, Japan, London, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, etc
- I feel happy when I see my spiritual boys and girls especially those who have been married by my personal presence are very happy in their conjugal relationship. Even if there is some misunderstanding you should always remain rigid in service of Krishna
- I have adopted the method of sending young married couples for such preaching work, and you will be pleased to know that this system in these countries has proved more effective
- I have got many disciples, they are married couples, but all of them, husband and wife, they are helping this movement. Here is Bhagavan dasa, he's also married man, children
- I hope all the small babies who are now being raised by our married couples will one day do tremendously in the matter of Krishna Consciousness
- I like this marriage ceremony because it has given practical proof of my ideas that boys and girls of this country better be married and engaged in preaching work
- I may request you in this regard to please immediately send Mandakini there (to Moscow) for being married to Ananta Santi Das. Both of them will get good strength from it. So please do the needful
- I want that all married couples should open new centers and carry on by dint of hard labor
- In order to fix the devotees in concentration on the service of the Lord, marriage is sometimes allowed. We have experienced that such married couples actually render very important service to the mission
- In the Krsna consciousness movement there are many young couples engaged in the Lord's service. Eventually they are supposed to take vanaprastha, and after the vanaprastha stage the husband may take sannyasa in order to preach
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- Married couples should be paramahamsas
- Most of my disciples who are preaching are married couples. As such, I hope both you and your wife will continue to help me substantially in the Krishna Consciousness Movement, and Krishna will bless you more and more
- My Spiritual Master used to send preachers who were all in the renounced order of life (sannyasis), but I am doing a completely different process - namely, preparing some young couples of husband and wife to take up this job
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- Our ISKCON Society married couples means that both parties fully are engaged in Krishna's service
- Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me
- Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me. Do not worry for anything in this connection
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- The ceremony should be observed by chanting Hare Krishna before the fire, offering the clarified butter with the word Saha, and the bride and groom should exchange their garlands before the Lord Krishna deity and promise not to be separated in life
- The six couples who are working very hard there have been very much appreciated by the people of London, and their character, behavior, and devotion are attracting sincere people to our movement. I want similar thousands of couples for my disciples
- They are all married couples. I got them married. Yes. I got them married. They're young boys, all within thirty. My oldest disciple, he is twenty-eight. Otherwise, twenty-five, twenty-four. Utmost thirty
- This is our process, no illicit sex, no meat eating, no intoxication, no gambling. Unless one is married, there is no sex. And unless one is going to beget child, there is no sex. Not for pleasure. This is our regulative principle
- This marriage is serious business and not to be taken lightly. There is no question of separation in Krishna Conscious marriages. Therefore I am asking all those who want to be married that they sign one paper promising that there will be no separation
- Today Gurudasa and his wife Yamuna are going there. You wanted some married couple. They are the best pair and if required they can remain in Delhi to organize things nicely