Category:My Order (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category reveal the deep, personal connection between Śrīla Prabhupāda and his disciples, centered around the execution of his instructions. Rather than a formal or mechanical duty, following his order is presented as an act of pure love and the very lifeblood of a disciple's spiritual journey. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that his orders are non-different from the will of Kṛṣṇa and the paramparā, and executing them sincerely is the guaranteed path to spiritual success and empowerment.
- The Foundation of Love: The relationship between Śrīla Prabhupāda and his followers is built on unconditional affection, meaning disciples execute his instructions not for material gain but out of genuine devotion and gratitude.
- The Lifeline of the Paramparā: Taking up the order of his guru connects the disciple directly to the disciplic succession, empowering them to act as spiritual masters themselves in due course.
- Uncompromising Surrender: Accepting Śrīla Prabhupāda's instruction means being ready to travel anywhere, give up personal comforts, and dedicate one's life fully to the mission without thoughts of resignation.
- Protection from Illusion: Strictly adhering to his directives protects the disciple from personal sense gratification and ensures the continued purity and success of the entire spiritual institution.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Executing Prabhupāda's Order.
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Pages in category "My Order (Prabhupada)"
The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
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- As far as studying my books is concerned, I have already given the order. One hour in the morning class and one hour in the evening and if there is extra time during the day it may be used for studying but we cannot expect everyone to be studious
- As you have pleased me, you should take it that you have pleased Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is for this I have given you sannyasa, to be prepared to go anywhere on my order and preach sincerely and purely without any other consideration
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- Four or five years ago, I came here, I had no student. I was loitering in the street. Nobody was caring for me. Now I have got hundreds and thousands of student. They are executing my order simply out of love
- From Mayapur I may go to Haridasapur and begin work immediately. Our architect has been ordered to make a design plan. The boundary wall you can begin immediately
- From the very beginning of your meeting with me you have very sincerely & honestly carried out my orders & I am so much obliged to you for your simple and plain behavior
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- I am enclosing one letter to Hayagriva and I am ordering him to return to New Vrndavana immediately and not to become misled himself and thus mislead everyone else
- I am very very proud of you both as you have given up everything and gone to a far away part of the world just on my order to carry out the will of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- I had to leave my own family and children because I was unable to tolerate seeing them remain servants of their senses. All the American children who are staying with me have shaved their heads, have mala and tilaka and always follow my orders
- I have given order that once a temple is opened it cannot be closed under any circumstance. This is bhakti cult. In whatever condition I will depend on Krishna
- I have now issued orders that all my disciples should avoid all of my godbrothers
- I may inform you that in Bombay they have received the sanction for constructing the temple in Juhu. Until further order whatever money you collect should be sent to Bombay
- I say that you cannot take meat, you cannot smoke. So all my students, they were accustomed to this habit, but by my order they have restrained
- I want that now this Mayapur-Vrindaban Trust money to be very carefully managed and deposited into a separate bank account and not be spent under any circumstances without my direct order
- I'm so pleased upon you that on my order you have gone to distant places and faithfully served the cause. I thank you for this attempt
- I'm very pleased that you are taking my order to distribute books so seriously. All blessings of Krishna are on these girls who are working so hard to distribute my books
- In my presence one should not become guru, so on my behalf, on my order... Be actually guru, but by my order
- In this institution, I am guru, and if everyone becomes guru, then who will carry out the order of guru? There must be disciple also, who will carry out the order of guru. So it is not required
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- My blessings are there that you may always have the strength to act according to my orders. Yes, I am feeling a little better. You are welcome to come in January. Thank you for your wanting to help relieve me from the management burdens
- My open order is... I get... I receive so many letters daily that "I wish to marry." Immediately I sanction, "Yes, you get yourself married." But one who is strict, one who can follow very rigidly the orders of brahmacari and sannyasi, they continue
- My order means Bhagavad-gita. We don't say anything extra. That is our principle. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that "You become guru"
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- Obedience should be without any motive. Just like see here the Europeans & American boys, they are obeying Krsna or Krsna's representative without any condition. They have not come here to obey my order for earning livelihood or for some material purpose
- One astrologer sometimes he read my hand. He said in Hindi, "Your hand speaks that your order will be executed"
- One can understand the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he can become guru. Or one who understands his guru's order, the same parampara, he can become guru. And therefore I shall select some of you
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- That's all right. If you cannot do anything else, you simply chant sixteen rounds, take prasadam, and sleep. It is special prerogative for you. There is no then. This is, this is order for you
- They are engaged in carrying out my order. There is no payment, no monetary benefit, because they have understood me, that he is representative of Krsna
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- Under the circumstances, it is my open order for everyone that everyone can marry without any artificial pose. But if somebody is able to remain a Brahmacary, there should not be any canvassing for his marriage
- Unfortunately, we misuse. We don't carry out the order of the superior. That is misuse. So any subordinate who does not carry the order of the master, he is dangerous
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- We have got now a position. People like us. So we should not spoil by personal sense gratification. That is my request. If we can maintain this institution rigidly according to the order, then many people will be benefited
- When I order, "You become guru," he becomes regular guru. That's all. He becomes disciple of my disciple. That's it
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- You become a spiritual master under my order, under His order. Don't manufacture yourself. Under the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That is called parampara system, one who is following in disciplic succession the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- You carry my order due to the basic principle is love. And our whole philosophy is love
- You must execute the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, parampara, Caitanya Mahaprabhu and your guru. That is real life of devotional service, to take some responsibility for working and execute it to your best capacity
- Your duty is to carry out my orders. There cannot be any question of resignation. If anyone surrenders to Krishna wholeheartedly and engages in His service he cannot say later on I resign. It is not something like material service