Category:Our Humility (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quotes compiled in this category highlight humility as the bedrock of spiritual advancement in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently reinforces Lord Caitanya’s foundational instruction: a devotee must be humbler than a blade of grass and more tolerant than a tree. This profound meekness is not a mundane weakness, but rather a spiritual weapon. It is the exact qualification required to chant the holy names without offense, to peacefully resolve interpersonal conflicts among devotees, and to successfully preach to an often hostile public. Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that while the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, is completely unconquerable, He willingly allows Himself to be conquered by the sincere, unadulterated humility of His pure devotees.
- The Foundational Formula: The absolute prerequisite for advancing in chanting and enduring the inevitable tribulations of spiritual life is to adopt the mindset of being lower than the straw in the street and more tolerant than a tree.
- Conquering the Unconquerable: Kṛṣṇa cannot be understood or controlled by mundane speculation or material prowess; He is conquered exclusively through a submissive, receptive, and deeply humble attitude.
- Humility in Leadership and Association: Being addressed as "prabhu" (master) should never cause a devotee to become puffed up. True Vaiṣṇava association requires tolerating the faults of others, feeling oneself the most faulty, and humbly apologizing when mistakes are made.
- Preaching Without False Prestige: A preacher succeeds not by adopting a tough or aggressive stance, but by presenting the message meekly. Whether dealing with local citizens, authorities, or the police, devotees must set aside personal prestige to push forward the mission.
- The Secret to Distributing Knowledge: The society's success in book distribution and preaching relies entirely on presenting the philosophy of the predecessor ācāryas without adulteration, in a mood of humble service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples on the Power of Humility.
Pages in category "Our Humility (Disciples of SP)"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
A
- Acaryas in the disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya teach us that we shall try to place the message of Lord Caitanya very humbly to the people in general and that will make us successful in our service to the Lord
- And by your quiet and humble attitude, you shall set the example of Vaisnava so that all may learn from you, and very soon their puffed-up attitude will disappear and they will come to you and seek your advice in matters
B
- Be assured, Krsna will give you all facilities gradually. Your attitude is nice, very humble. Maintain that attitude and gradually you will get all the facilities you require for serving Krsna
- By your own work you can recruit men locally, that is the best process. So immediately resume the preaching work amongst the Africans and show yourselves as always meek and humble and refrain from a tough attitude and in this way gain their confidence
D
- Do not be agitated with the criticism of your friends because Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that one should be humbler that a blade of grass and should be more tolerant than a tree for chanting Hare Krishna Mantra
- Do not be worried about the future. If you will simply work on very strenuously in humble state of mind as the sincere servant of the servant of the Lord, then Krsna will give you all facilities
- Do not fight with anyone, try to remain always very humble and meek like the advanced Vaisnava devotee, always thinking yourself lower than the straw in the street and more tolerant than the tree
E
- Encourage Siddhasvarupa Maharaja to continue to speak as much as possible and give him all facilities. Whenever there is some question or if he speaks something incorrect, you may humbly correct him
- Even though you might not have understood, you can correct it now and don't be disappointed. Your humble repentance is just like a Vaisnava student, so I thank you very much for this humbleness
I
- I am very glad to note your humble attitude, so keep this nice state of serving mood and your success is guaranteed in Krsna Consciousness
- I find in you some good qualities. You think yourself as very humble but you appreciate the services of your God-brothers and I am very much pleased on your such behavior
- I know you are always experiencing difficulties in living with devotees, but we must be tolerant and endure the personal differences, being humbler than a blade of grass, and stick to our duties to the spiritual master
- I thank you for your kind sentiments expressed and your nice attitude of humbleness and devotion
- I thank you very much for the humble sentiments which you have expressed, and I am sure that Lord Nityananda is seeing your sincerity and will be pleased to bless you
- I want that you approach Navayogendra with all humility and ask his forgiveness for the beating. In this way you can rectify things. You must bring them back
- If anyone becomes humbler than the grass and more tolerant than the tree, it is understood that he has accepted a Spiritual Master
- If you want to conquer over this unconquerable Krsna, then, according to the prayer of Brahma and appreciated by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu: "You remain in your place, it doesn't matter, but you become very humble. Don't be puffed up"
- In the meantime I have ordered the third printing of KRSNA Volume I, so I am confident of our distribution program's success if you all work on diligently. I am so pleased with your humble and sincere efforts in all these matters
O
- One quality of a devotee is that he is always very much tolerant of other people, so I request you simply to tolerate the faults of others and always think that I am myself the most faulty. In this way your humble attitude will qualify you to advance
- One should always feel very humble, that will help one to make progress in Krishna Consciousness. So your humble feeling that you are shrouded by illusion is very nice, at the same time your feeling that KC is so nice that it makes everything easy
- Our Krsna consciousness movement should be pushed on very humbly
S
T
- The mistake is that being addressed as boss or prabhu one thinks himself as exactly Prabhu or the boss. One should not forget himself as humble servant even though one is addressed as prabhu
- The pasandis were against the Hare Krsna movement of Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and now we see practically that they also do not like our humble attempts to spread Krsna consciousness all over the world
- The process which you are following is very nice. Your humbleness and sincerity will make you more and more advanced in Krishna Consciousness. I shall pray to Krishna for your welfare always
- There will be so many impediments in pushing on our movement, therefore Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has already advised us to be tolerant more than the tree and humbler than the blade of grass and give all respects to Karmis without expecting any respect
- These are young boys, so actually if you approach them humbly and you yourself go to their leaders and speak to them nicely about Krsna Consciousness they will agree to leave us alone, that I think
- This attitude will help you. Always pray to Krsna humbly and He will surely help you
- Try to keep nice peace with the police as far as possible, because our method is to be tolerant more than the tree and humbler than the grass on the street. We don't mind for so-called prestige. If keeping peaceful we can execute our KC
W
- We are glad that people are donating very liberally to the development of the Society's activities, and people are also eagerly accepting whatever humble contribution we are giving them in the shape of books and magazines
- We are teaching that you become humble, meek, surrender. You have got the independence. That is your business
- We do not become proud to have very scientific accurate knowledge by speculation. We are not such people. We are taught by the parampara system that we are humble servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and what our master says, we accept it
- We have simply to present them (Prabhupada's Books) without any adulteration, in humble service spirit. That is the secret of success
- We must be tolerant like the tree and humble like the blade of grass. Such persons can chant the Hare Krishna mantra and preach. In Bombay we are undergoing so many tribulations. What can be done?
- Whatever you do, you should always be humble: "Krsna, I am quite unfit. So whatever I could collect with my capacity, kindly accept." This is our only plea
Y
- You are a sincere devotee from the very beginning, coming from a very respectable family, intelligent, and your humbleness is a proof of your high parentage
- You are so humble and so sincere, this is a sign of your success. May Krishna bless you more and more. Krishna has placed you in that position. Now, you should always be fully conscious of your great responsibility
- You keep this humble attitude always, and your example will be a source of spiritual inspiration for everyone
- Your (JaiGovinda) attitude of humbleness is praiseworthy. A devotee should always remain humble and meek especially to the authorities and devotees
- Your feelings of appreciation are too much kind, and I can see you are making good advancement with your humble attitude of service to the Lord and His devotees
- Your humble attitude is very much appreciated by me. Always chant Hare Krsna and as far as possible help me push on this movement by preaching this philosophy and distributing our books