Category:My Retirement (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda's concept of retirement was never about ceasing activity for personal comfort. Instead, his entire life demonstrates that retirement is simply a transition into deeper and more focused spiritual service. When he retired from his family life in the renounced order, he completely dedicated himself to the mission of his spiritual master. In his later years, his repeated desire to retire from active management was an urgent, loving call for his disciples to step up, take responsibility, and allow him the peaceful time needed to translate the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for the benefit of all humanity.
- Leaving Household Life: Following the perfect Vedic system, Śrīla Prabhupāda naturally retired from family life as a vānaprastha to prepare for sannyāsa, moving to the holy dhāma of Vṛndāvana to absorb himself in the mission of his spiritual master.
- The Priority of Translating: His ultimate desire for retiring in his later years was to retreat from administrative burdens so he could focus entirely on translating Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, knowing these books would guide the world for thousands of years.
- Empowering the Next Generation: He viewed his physical retirement as a necessary step to train his disciples. By stepping back, he forced them to take up the preaching and management, ensuring the movement would survive and expand globally.
- Unceasing Service: For a pure devotee, there is no real retirement from serving Kṛṣṇa. Even when his health faded, Śrīla Prabhupāda continued to work tirelessly, adjusting his service according to Kṛṣṇa's desire rather than stopping it.
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Pages in category "My Retirement (Prabhupada)"
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- A materialistic man asked me, "Why are you living in Vrndavana? Why have you selected such a dirty place to live after retiring?" Such a person cannot understand that the earthly Vrndavana-dhama is always a representation of the original Vrndavana-dhama
- As I am getting old, I wish to retire from an active part. Of course, I shall be behind the scene, but I am thinking of writing a constitutional will on my return from Europe
- As soon as I see that you GBC members are managing everything very nicely I shall completely retire for writing my books only and I am thinking of staying in Mayapur for six months and in your camp, L.A., for six months
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- I am trying to retire from management to translate but if these things come then how can I translate. I have set up the framework and everything should be done within the framework
- I am trying to retire from the administrative affairs, but if the presidents and GBC men make such disturbances then how I can be peaceful?
- I do not think there is immediate prospect for my retiring. Therefore, as long as Krishna desires, I must go on working, but I am trying to give more time to my writing works
- I shall choose some guru. I shall say, "Now you become acarya. You become authorized." I am waiting for that. You become all acarya. I retire completely. But the training must be complete
- I want to retire now and simply concentrate on translating work, but how can I do it if I cannot give over the management of my society to you all my advanced senior disciples?
- I was living in a holy place called Vrndavana. I retired from my family life in 1954. Then, in 1959, I took sannyasa order. This is called renounced order of life. No family connection
- I was, after my retirement from family, I was staying at Vrndavana. From 1956. Then in 1965 I came to America
- I'm always retired. I began this movement in my retirement
- If I did not travel there would be no nice organization. Traveling and preaching, that is the Sankirtana movement. But now I am old man; let me retire for writing books in my last years
- In 1954, I retired from my family life and began to live alone in Mathura Vrindaban
- In Vrndavana he (Srila Jiva Gosvami) established the Radha-Damodara temple, where, after retirement, we had the opportunity to live from 1962 until 1965, when we decided to come to the United States of America
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- Now I am feeling inclination for philosophy, and I want to retire into the background for translating my Srimad-Bhagavatam more and more
- Now I am old man and a little inclined for retirement, but now our organization is expanding more and more and I simply want to see that the things get done, therefore I am relying on you, my senior disciples, to do everything nicely for Krsna
- Now I want to retire, and you all appointed GBC men must do the work that I am doing. Therefore, I have recommended this traveling extensively for the GBC men, just as I am doing it
- Now you have to lecture. I will have to retire. (chuckles) I want that all my students now should be prepared
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- We can prepare some preachers so that even if I retire, the missionary work will go on under the able guidance of some of my selected disciples, like you, Brahmananda, Rupanuga, etc
- When disciples are grown up and are able to preach, the spiritual master should retire and sit down in a solitary place to write and execute nirjana-bhajana
- When I was householder, I was just taking care of one or two children, but after retiring from my household life Krsna has given me chance to raise so many nice children for raising them to Krsna Consciousness