Category:Our Expertise (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To correct the misconception that spiritual life is only for those who are highly educated or practically useless in the material world, Śrīla Prabhupāda redefines the true meaning of expertise. He explains that being expert in Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not require a mundane academic degree; rather, it simply means executing whatever task one is given—whether sweeping the floor or managing a business—to the absolute best of one's ability. By sincerely dovetailing their practical talents in carpentry, painting, or accounting for the Lord's service, devotees attain absolute perfection. Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda expects his followers to systematically develop their expertise in preaching, deity worship, and temple management, emphasizing that senior leaders and sannyāsīs must strive to become expertly capable in every department of the mission.
- Defining True Expertise: Expertise is not a measure of complex knowledge, but of sincerity and care; doing one's assigned duty nicely and perfectly for Kṛṣṇa is the highest expertise.
- Expertise in Devotional Practices: By constantly hearing the philosophy and regularly engaging in deity worship, a devotee naturally becomes an expert in the fundamental processes of bhakti.
- Utilizing Practical Skills: Worldly talents such as typing, carpentry, accounting, and painting are not rejected; they become supremely perfect when expertly utilized to push forward the spiritual movement.
- The Need for Expert Management: A growing, worldwide society requires cool-headed, expert managers who can resolve disputes and draw out the spontaneous loving service of all the devotees.
- Becoming an Expert Preacher: The more a devotee preaches and distributes transcendental literature, the more expert they become at defeating atheistic arguments and saving conditioned souls.
- The Ultimate Standard of Leadership: A true leader, especially a sannyāsī, must not be one-sided; they must strive to be expert in every single department—from cooking to accounting to preaching—so they can perfectly guide others.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Explains What it Means to Be Expert in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Our Expertise (Disciples of SP)"
The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.
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- A devotee's one qualification is daksa, daksa, expert. Out of the twenty-six qualifications, a devotee is always very expert in dealing. It is not that because they have left anything material, they do not know how to deal with material things
- All of you are expert painters, so your mutual decision for painting a picture is more valuable than my suggestion
- Any work you do, do it very nicely. That is expert. Don't do it haphazardly. To your best talent, to your best capacity, try to finish it very nicely, whatever it may be. You are entrusted with some work. Do it nicely. That is expert
- As soon as you become expert in hearing and chanting, then the next stage is smaranam. Smaranam, thinking of. Anything you speak or hear, later on you contemplate, you meditate, smaranam. So smaranam is the third stage
- As you go on preaching you will become expert. In every sphere of activity the more a man becomes active, he becomes more and more expert
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- Concerning Rathayatra festival, you can hold it in the warm months, just like in Melbourne, the festival is held in January. Pusta Krsna Swami is going to arrange to have Jagannatha Deities sent from Puri if there is no one expert enough to make Deities
- Consult seriously the GBC whether all these things can be taken in hand simultaneously. It requires a very cool brain and expert management
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- English is a foreign language to me also, but I try to speak it, not to be a big scholar, but to be a servant of Krishna. So do not be disturbed if you feel that your language ability is not yet very expert
- Everyone will become guru when he is expert disciple, but why this immature attempt? Guru is not a thing, imitation. When one is mature, he becomes guru automatically
- Expert means whatever he is doing, he must do it very nicely That's all. Suppose you are sweeping this room. You can do it very nicely, to your best knowledge. That is expert. The people will say, "Oh, you have very nicely done."
- Expertness is you just try to do which is easily performed by you. You don't accept anything heavy task because Krsna does not want that you have to do this heavy task. Whatever you know, you just apply it. You dovetail it in Krsna consciousness
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- I am always at your service to assist in any way that I can, but Tamal Krishna is gradually becoming more and more expert in managing temple business, and if he is able to solve things conjointly with you, that is the best system
- I am so glad to hear how nicely the Canadian temples under your expert guidance as GBC member are expanding so nicely
- I am so glad to hear how nicely you are engaged in devotional service there in our Philadelphia temple, under the expert guidance of Nayana Bhiram
- I am so glad to hear that you have been staying at our St. Louis center under the expert guidance of Sriman Vamanadeva Prabhu and have been chanting 16 rounds of beads daily
- 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 to hear from you that Berlin centre is progressing nicely under your expert supervision. You are one of my older disciples. I think you were the first devotee in European continent, so now you have got good experience how to do things well
- I am very happy to hear that the temple is improving more and more under your expert guidance. Now go on with our program and try to increase your attraction of KCM to the public and recruit local men more and more to become fixed up devotees of Krsna
- I am very much engladdened to hear from you that all the programs there in Berlin center are going on very nicely under your expert guidance
- I am very much pleased to hear that Mexico City center is developing very nicely under your expert supervision, and I also note that you say that Latin America is very much ready for Krishna Consciousness movement
- I am very pleased to hear how nicely the activities are going on there in our San Diego center under your expert guidance
- I have got about a half a dozen students who are Ph.Ds in different subjects, but they are all expert in Caitanya philosophy
- I have heard many nice reports from various parties complimenting the expert service you are performing in New York with your carpentry and handyman skills. So I am very pleased to hear that Krishna has blessed you with a very nice talent
- I have so many ideas for paintings, and we will be requiring so many expert paintings as you are able to do, so please be very serious to do this work nicely and quickly. It will be great service
- I shall begin Caitanya Caritamrta Essays & Text. If I am assisted by one expert typewriter like Neal, as he is doing now, we can publish every three months a book. And the more we have books, the more we become respectable
- I think that under your expert guidance many of the students in your class will eventually understand something of the great importance of what you are teaching
- I think you are now expert account keeper may Krishna bless you for talents and sincere endeavour for service of the Lord. The more you serve the more you become expert in everything
- I very much approve of your traveling widely throughout South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand zone, now you give all of the temple presidents your expert instructions and train them
- I want that all rooms and verandas in Mayapura and especially the Deity hall should have first class paintings. They will appreciate how expertly the American artists are doing
- I want to construct very big Temples in England so please take care and do it nicely and expertly
- I wanted that all our girls, they should be expert. And in America they are doing that. They should learn the art of cooking and prepare very nice foodstuffs, daily change of menu
- I wish that many of my disciples may become expert preachers so they may assist more and more in the great preaching work that we have to do for the benefit of mankind
- I would be very happy to see you living in the temple, following all of our principles of pure life and becoming an expert scholar in Vedic knowledge, through studying my books diligently. This is real education
- If the GBC which I have appointed for this task will kindly now assist me in this way, by handling very expertly and with all good consideration all matters of managing, I shall devote my full time to giving you further nice books
- If there is no expert manager, you create some manager. That is most important thing, to create
- If you are, you are fit for becoming a carpenter, why should you imitate a brahmana? Better be expert carpenter and serve Krsna with the result of carpentry work. Then there is perfection
- In your previous letter you stated that the deity worship in Detroit was superexcellent and that all programs were being expertly managed by goverdhan. Why should he leave therefore
- It is not that everyone should be equally expert. But the thing that is needed is that we should be serious and sincere in our engagement. Nobody can adequately serve Krishna because Krishna is unlimited
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- Just as I am doing. Sometimes I go to the bank, sometimes keep accounts, sometimes preach, hold the class, write books, sometimes cook, sannyasi should be expert in all departments, and he should distribute his experience to others, that's all
- Just read from my books and try and explain the meaning in your own words. It does not matter that you are not so expert at Sanskrit
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- Let the good men go with you to preach all over England, and the less advanced devotees may stay at the London temple and become trained up to the point of becoming experts and then they also may go out for preaching in traveling party
- London is the most important city in the world and as you originally opened this branch, it is my desire to see it come to full blossom under your expert management
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- Never mind even it is imperfectly done, we must execute the orders of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I may not be so very expert in delivering the message of Krsna, but my duty is to try to my best capacity how to distribute this knowledge to the suffering humanity
- No, everyone should do it (deity worship). Yes, everyone should learn. Everyone should learn. Sometimes somebody is doing something, somebody is doing something. Yes, like that. Everyone should be expert in every respect, twenty-six qualifications
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- One thing is whether they have collected enough to cover all the costs. I have heard that despite all this distribution, now there is a big debt to the Book Fund. The GBC has to manage so expertly that there will not be debts
- Our bhakti process, bhakti-yoga process is hearing. The more you give aural reception to the transcendental message, more you become expert. You haven't got to become a Ph.D. or very learned fellow, or very scholar
- Our movement is so large it requires expert management and strong vigilence. Now you (a GBC member) are finding out so many things were mismanaged, but why didn't you find out before? What is the use of complaining now?
- Our temple in Vrindaban must be managed expertly that everyone who comes is given caranamrta and prasadam of the Deity
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- Regarding reading Mahabharata, why divert your attention in this way? Bhagavatam is also Mahabharata. There are so many books I have presented already, so whatever you have got, just become expert in that
- Regarding the translations into Russian and other East European languages, you are the expert in the field, so however you decide to get the work done is alright. I will simply be very glad to receive any publications from these languages
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- Sannyasi simply means to do as I am doing, and sometimes I have to manage, sometimes cook, sometimes go to the bank, keep the money, write books, chant, preach in the class, keep accounts - sannyasi should be expert in every department
- She is expert in typing. Amongst the women, she is expert typist. She is expert in so many things. Only defect is that she is woman. But Krsna says, striyah sudras tatha vaisyah: "Never mind woman. If she is devotee, she also comes to Me."
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- That is the art of management: to draw out spontaneous loving spirit of sacrificing some energy for Krishna. But where are so many expert managers? All of us should become expert managers and preachers
- The deities in a moving vehicles is all right, providing they are cared for properly, so do the needful. Everything has to be done expertly that is my point
- The results show that there is no limit to our book distribution. Our books are qualified to be distributed unlimitedly. We are not fiction writers. It is a fact that no expert booksalesmen can compete with our men
- There is one boy, Bhagavatananda, in Pittsburgh temple, who wants to have some new engagement and he is expert carpenter who has built many houses in New Vrindaban, so you may correspond with him if he can come to help you there
- They cannot be expert, these men, managers. They are not... They are giving up everything. But as soon as there is big establishment, we require a top manager
- They may have had some disagreement with you, but expert management means to engage all of the devotees and not allow them to split into different parties
- They're also pure devotees because they're following my instruction. Just like a technician, he is expert, but somebody is assisting him
- Those who are less educated, not very much expert in preaching, they must be acting as ksatriya or vaisya, or as sudra
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- Yes I know very well that Gargamuni Maharaja is an expert collector and preacher. He is so expert in collecting therefore I call him Gargamoney
- Yesterday my deities were dressed with the clothing you made and it appears so nice. I do not know whether you have time to make similarly a few other sets. It will be very nice. I know that you are the most expert in making dresses than all others
- 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. So I am sure by your combined effort in London, there will be a great successful center
- You are a very expert book distributer, so I do not want you to give it up altogether. If you like, you can also do some painting
- You are always broadcasting the glories of the Sankirtana movement in the shape of ISKCONs book distribution and surely you will be recognized by Lord Caitanya for your unbounded enthusiasm and expertise
- You have got good experience for managing in business world, so why not you become also expert organizer for Krishna?
- You have to make yourself expert. Then you can help your children also. Then you can help your nation also. Then you can help your society also
- You will require a wife who is an expert typist to be your secretary. Such a wife with good typing ability will be a great asset in your writing activities
- Your spiritual name, Sripati Das*, means the servant of Lord Narayana, or Krishna. If you will simply continue to develop your Krishna Consciousness as you have been doing, then surely you will be an expert servant of Lord Krishna