Category:My Training (Prabhupada)
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s life and mission are a perfect testament to the power of pure spiritual training. He repeatedly traces the roots of his global achievements back to his childhood, where his father instilled in him a deep reverence for Vaiṣṇava etiquette and Deity worship. This foundation was later solidified by the strict discipline and transcendental instructions of his spiritual master. Viewing his own success as simply the result of repeating what he was taught, Śrīla Prabhupāda systematically applied this exact training model to his disciples—educating them in the paramparā system, chanting, and practical service—with the ultimate goal of empowering them to become dedicated preachers and future spiritual masters.
- Childhood Foundation: Śrīla Prabhupāda expresses immense gratitude for his early training in a pure Vaiṣṇava family, noting that his father actively cultivated his devotion through the worship of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deities and training in everyday spiritual etiquette.
- The Guru's Discipline: He emphasizes that his ability to preach effectively and introduce practices like Ratha-yātrā to the West stems entirely from the disciplined training he received from his spiritual master, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura.
- Training Preachers: Recognizing the monumental task of spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness worldwide, Śrīla Prabhupāda prioritized training young, educated individuals to preach the philosophy of the Bhagavad-gītā systematically.
- Empowering Future Masters: The ultimate purpose of Śrīla Prabhupāda's rigorous training—which includes strict adherence to chanting sixteen rounds and following regulative principles—is to prepare his disciples to carry the mantle of the disciplic succession as future spiritual masters.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda's Training - From Childhood Vaiṣṇava to Global Preacher.
Pages in category "My Training (Prabhupada)"
The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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- I (Prabhupada) shall send chanted beads for him if you recommend. As we are doing here. Don't be allured by such maya. I am training you all to become future Spiritual Masters
- I am now considerably old; I will be 72 years next September. But the work which I have begun in the western world is not yet finished, and I require to train some of the American boys to preach this cult all over the western world
- I am therefore training local boys and girls for kirtana and very soon we shall be out on world tour with this kirtana party. In India, however, many rich business men maybe ready to spend this amount to spread the kirtana movement
- I was trained as brahmacari, as grhastha by the mercy of our spiritual master. Therefore I don't feel anything. But abruptly, if we take to sannyasa order, then...
- In our KC movement we are teaching our followers to chant the Hare Krsna mantra continuously on beads. Even those who are not accustomed to this practice are advised to chant at least sixteen rounds on their beads so that they may be trained
- In this Krishna Consc. Movement, I am training boys and girls all over the world how to act nicely by practically serving Krishna in their everyday lives. That is more important than trying for something which I may like to do but which will never happen
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- My father also trained me and instructed me to his best capacity, and he prayed for me that Radharani may be pleased upon me, and I think by my father's blessings and grace, I may have come to this position
- My father never prayed that "My son may become very rich man." He never prayed like that. Actually, his ardent desire that his son may become a Vaisnava. And my Guru Maharaja's training has put me this position
- My father was pure Vaisnava, and he gave me and my sister the Radha Krishna Deities to worship, and in this way we were trained
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- This Ratha-yatra, Radha-Govinda seva, prasada distribution. Only the new thing I am doing-writing of books by the order of Guru Maharaja. Otherwise, whatever I have introduced, I was trained up in childhood. I simply imitated. I am simply surprised
- This training from an early age is important, and I also was fortunate to have received such training when I was a child
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- We are trained up, because we belong to Krsna family. So this Radha-Krsna worship is our family tradition. Our forefathers, my father, my maternal uncles, we are Vaisnava family. Belonging to the Caitanya-sampradaya
- We are training, we are advocating that illicit sex is sinful. Our first condition is that one must give up these four things: illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. This is my first condition before accepting. So they agree and they follow
- We should train our disciples as well as ourselves in such a spirit that even if the whole world is against us, which is impossible to happen, the Sankirtana Movement must be pushed on without any reference to archeological evidence
- What I want to do immediately are as follows: To hold consecutive meetings at different Mohallus & houses of Delhi for impressing the ideas of the mission. To give training to at least 7 to 10 educated young men in the parampara lessons of Bhagavad-gita
- When I was at Jhansi, I was provided with a big palatial building to live in associated with 40 workers who are being trained up for intinerary preaching work