Category:My Friends (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s relationships with his friends were always characterized by deep gratitude, practical cooperation, and a transcendental vision. Whether it was his childhood companions, his college professors, or the new friends he met in the West, Śrīla Prabhupāda treated every relationship as an opportunity for spiritual reciprocation. He never forgot those who helped him in his early, difficult days, such as the Agarwals in Pennsylvania, and he often consulted professional friends for their expertise in legal or financial matters to ensure the stability of the movement. Most importantly, Śrīla Prabhupāda taught that true friendship means seeing the soul beyond the external "dress," and he often addressed his disciples as his dear friends, inviting them to join him in the sublime mission of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Gratitude for Support: Śrīla Prabhupāda expressed profound appreciation for those who provided hospitality and assistance when he first arrived in America, viewing their help as an essential service to the Lord.
- Practical Cooperation: He skillfully engaged his friends’ professional talents—such as law, medicine, or publishing—to facilitate the growth and legal standing of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
- Transcendental Vision of Friendship: Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasized that a learned person does not judge a friend by their external appearance or "dress," but by the soul within, fostering a bond based on spiritual equality.
- Spiritual Guidance and Affection: Even in his personal letters to friends in politics or other fields, Śrīla Prabhupāda acted as a sincere well-wisher, offering bold spiritual advice to help them achieve the ultimate goal of life.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Reciprocating with Friends.
Pages in category "My Friends (Prabhupada)"
The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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- Advice of friends here has been accepted by me that opening of too many branches at the present stage will be too heavy for us. Let us consolidate there in two places which we have already opened
- As I am planning to go out of Bombay in ten days time, I have sent a copy of your letter to my old friend and associate, Dr. G. Ghosh. Kindly see him. I have requested him to engage some lawyer for this purpose
B
- Because in our house, my father used to receive so many sannyasis, but some of them were not very to the standard, and due to my association with college friends, younger days, I lost my faith practically, although I was born in a Vaisnava family
- Because our process is chanting. So if my students, my sons, my friends, they are all in God's name, then I chant always. This is the significance - of giving spiritual name
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- He (the late minister Shastri) is receiving the Bhagwatam from me. He was very much respectful, and met me three times. He was to help me in so many ways, but he died; he was my friend
- He is my old friend and Godbrother, and so you should offer him all due respects whenever he comes, but do not try to engage him in some work in his old age
- Here (in London) some respectable friend has promised to publish my book, Krsna, in two parts. The manuscript is also ready. So after Nectar of Devotion, I want to take up this work immediately
I
- I (Srlia Prabhupada) beg to offer my sincere thanks to all my friends and disciples who are helping me to push forward the Krsna consciousness movement in the Western countries
- I approached many respectable friends for giving me at least one boy from each family to be trained up in this line of self-realization, but I was not successful. The parents had no interest, the same difficulty of sudra mentality
- I do not know why by talking on telephone you should decide such an important transaction. I hope either you or Tamala Krishna should not act anything in this connection without consulting our friends like Pannala Pittie and finally approved by me
- I saw that one friend asking another friend, "Can I take my showers in your room?" Then I understand, - Oh, there is no fixity of even taking bath
- I tell you as a sincere friend that you must immediately retire from active politics if you do not desire to die an inglorious death. You have 125 years to live as you have desired to live but you if you die an inglorious death it is no worth
- 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
- I was sponsored by a friend's son, Gopala Agarwal, who is settled up in this country by marrying an American girl, Sally. I was their guest, and I feel very much obliged to Gopala and his wife Sally for their nice treatment and reception
- In San Francisco one of our friends told me that long ago he left his young children and went to another country. Recently a letter came from his grown-up son, and at once the father remembered his affection for him and sent some money
R
- Regarding George's request to supervise the work in his monastery, I think you should help him because he is our good friend and by that way you shall be able to utilize his telegraph machine, etc. This is a good plan; I completely approve of this
- Regarding Sri Beni Madho Temple, I have already advised Sri Acarya Omkar Giri to see my friend Dr. G. Ghosh of Allahabad, for making a Deed of Gift. But I have not heard anything further in the negotiation. Perhaps you can let me know what has transpired
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- So many friends advised me to open some hospitals, dispensaries. Oh, I flatly said that "We are not interested in the hospitals." There are so many hospitals. So people who are interested in hospitals, they can go there. Here is spiritual hospital
- Suppose you come in a dress. You are my friend. Do I see your dress or you? Panditah sama-darsinah. Vidya-vinaya-sampanne (BG 5.18). You are reading BG. You know all these things. When you are learned, you won't see the dress. You will see the soul
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- We are preaching all over the world and you, my dear friends from Europe and America, you have taken this Krsna consciousness movement. Again I shall repeat the same logic. Andha-pangu-nyaya
- We respected our professors like our father. The relationship between the student and the professors was very good. I had one Scottish professor, Dr. W. S. Urquhart. He was my nice friend. He was professor of philosophy, psychology