Category:Our Ideal (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To influence the heavily degraded modern society, theoretical philosophy is not enough; the world requires living, practical examples of perfection. Throughout this category, Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly stresses that the ultimate success of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement relies upon his disciples developing into ideal human beings. By strictly following the regulative principles and absorbing themselves in pure devotion, they are meant to manifest an ideal character that is completely free from the material flaws of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. This standard of perfection extends to every aspect of the society—from the creation of ideal agricultural communities like New Vrindaban to the establishment of ideal gṛhastha families and the flawless behavior required of Vaisnava leaders and preachers.
- The Necessity of Flawless Character: Spiritual advancement is directly tied to an individual's practical behavior; without maintaining an ideal character through strict adherence to the devotional rules, a disciple cannot properly represent the movement or uplift others.
- Establishing Ideal Communities: To show the practical application of Vedic culture, Śrīla Prabhupāda pushed for the creation of ideal self-sufficient villages based on plain living, cow protection, and high thinking, proving that society can be happy without artificial material arrangements.
- The Perfect Householder Life: True renunciation does not simply mean taking sannyāsa; Śrīla Prabhupāda placed great emphasis on ideal gṛhasthas who manage their families and raise their children entirely for the service of the Lord, serving as perfect examples for the general public.
- Leadership Through Personal Example: Anyone in a position of authority, especially preachers and GBC members, must teach primarily by their own exemplary conduct; attempting to guide others without first becoming an ideal devotee oneself is useless.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Teaches His Disciples the Importance of Becoming Ideal Vaiṣṇavas.
Pages in category "Our Ideal (Disciples of SP)"
The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total.
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- Actually, you are an ideal householder couple, and I want that such grhastha couples should manage things as they have a tendency to organize and manage
- All our members, the members of the Krsna consciousness society, should be ideal. At least people may see that "Here is a class of men - ideal character, ideal behavior, spiritual advanced, and very frugal and very nice"
- As far as counsel is concerned, simply keep up your fresh utsaha or enthusiasm for service. That will accomplish wonders. And always remain ideal yourself by strict adherence to the bhakti principles
- At least if we keep a section of people ideal to the human society, they will be guided. At the present moment, there is no ideal section. Everyone is rascal, demons, rogues, everything. There is no ideal character
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- Be happy in Krsna Consciousness and be the ideal grihasta. Better to be satisfied with one nice Krishna Conscious child and the rest of your time being saved for making advancement in Krishna Consciousness
- Be ideal to all the devotees
- Be very serious to develop New Vrindaban nicely so that we can show the world how the ideal God-conscious community is working
- By competing with the politicians we may drop from our spiritual ideal
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- First of all, we have to live very regulated life. Sannyasa life is that regulated life. And then we can enter into the real life. That is idea
- For ourselves when we are in perfect stage of devotional service, we can know our eternal relation with Krishna and as such one of the associates of Lord Krishna becomes our ideal leader
- Fortunately, however, the Hare Krsna movement has come to America, and many fortunate young men are giving serious attention to this movement, which is creating ideal men of first-class character
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- GBC means that one must be ideal Vaisnava. That means there must be strict observance in following all the rules and regulations
- GBC must be vigilant by following the regulative principles and teach by ideal character
- Go on developing New Vrindaban into an ideal community, and I shall be pleased to see the new additions when I come there
- Gradually develop to the ideal university
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- I always want that my students should be very ideal in character and not discredit our society
- I am always praying to Krsna that the New Vrndavana attempt will be more and more successful and ideal for your country; that is my only prayer
- I am creating householder, ideal householder. And my ideas are being fruitful. Here in London I sent six householders, and they are doing nice; sincerely they are working. Therefore I am very much proud of them
- I am depending on you as one of my elder disciples to set a nice example for the others to follow. This is very much wanted. You must become ideal in all respects
- I am going in a few days to San Francisco to speak at the San Francisco State University there on the topic of "Krsna Consciousness: The Best Alternative Life Style, the Ideal Community, the New Social Order"
- I am so glad to see that one of my sincere disciples has sacrificed everything for spreading Krishna Consciousness, and I am so pleased upon you that you are showing the example of an ideal householder
- I am sure this Prasadam attraction will make our neighbors friendly and surely they will come in number in future so that New Vrindaban will be ideal place for visiting from the neighboring provinces, counties
- I am thinking that you would be ideal to go there and organize the temple as the president and propagate Sankirtana Party
- I am very much encouraged to know that you are all advancing in KC at New Vrndavana and I am very much eager to see your transcendental community grow still more to become an ideal Krsna conscious asrama
- I am very pleased with your activities, how you are leading householder life, Krishna conscious. This ideal I want to show your countrymen is only possible on the KC platform. You remain steady on this platform, and this will be your benefit
- I cannot give sannyas to any devotee who has not proven himself to be responsible in all respects. Better you prove yourself first by being ideal householder and forget all this nonsense
- I have given you the spiritual name of Prthu dasa Brahmacari. King Prthu was the ideal ruler of the citizens, so you should also set the example of ideal person and spread this ideal very widely to all the citizens of your country
- I think it will be ideal for beginning our printing department in Boston immediately. You have written that there are two big halls, so do you think one of these halls will be nice for printing machines and workshop?
- I want at least 25 men to become ideal followers of these Gosvamis
- I want that some ideal families of Krishna Consciousness should be established in your country, so that people can see that our movement is not one sided or dry. So we do not want dry renouncers
- I want to have a small Vaisnava state - varnasrama, ideal. Ideal Vaisnava state. Brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, they are doing very nicely, & people will be surprised, "Oh." There is no question of hatred. It is division for proper discharge of duty
- I wish to introduce this ideal now
- Ideal householder devotee
- Ideal pair amongst my disciples
- If there is one ideal Krsna conscious person, he can do benefit to many thousands
- If we are not ideal we cannot create others as ideal. Training is required for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes of social constitution. Persons who are not fit for being advanced by training are sudras or less than that
- If we follow it we will become ideal
- If you are not ideal, then it will be useless to open center. You behave nicely, they will come, they will see, and they will learn. If you go to some school and the professors are rascals, then what you will learn? It is both, reciprocal
- In our society we want to see some ideal householders as you are, so that preaching may go on with great speed
- ISKCON is meant to establish a clear, practical common formulation of the common ideal of all theists
- It is best to do the most ideal thing but whatever mode of living you chose the most important thing is to always remain one hundred percent in service of Radha-Krishna
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- Make it an ideal institution
- Make L.A. the ideal temple for all our temples to follow, in every respect. For this purpose, I purchased that house
- Military march, Manipur. Slogan: "Jaya Radhe! Jaya Krsna! Jaya Babhruvahana! Jaya Arjuna!" We shall organize Bombay headquarter, Manipur Vaisnava state, send missionary all over the world, bona fide, scientific system of religion, ideal character
- Most ideal devotee wife
- My idea is that the leaders must agree to stick at one place, even they may have to remain their life-long, that is the ideal leader, one who is conscious of his duty
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- New Vrindaban may be an ideal village where the residents will have plain living and high thinking
- New Vrndavana provides an ideal setting for demonstrating the simplicity of naturalistic living based on brahminical culture and cow protection in Krsna consciousness
- New Vrndavana, ideal for your country
- Now at the present moment, I am concentrating my energy in this Los Angeles Center as ideal for all other centers in respect of Deity worship, Aratrik, Kirtana and other necessary paraphernalia
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- Our business is to teach and become ideal ourself
- Our ideal is to create Prahlada
- Our ideal is to love God
- Our ideal is we are fighting with maya, so the fighting will conquer over maya when we see that we are not disturbed by these four processes: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. This is the test
- Our ideal should be always there
- Our ideal Vedic community will attract everyone on its own merit
- Our members of Krishna Consciousness society should be ideal human beings, and if they try to follow the principles, surely they will be the ideal men in the world
- Our position is that we are above varnasrama. But for management or ideal society, we are introducing this
- Our society will be ideal by practical application
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- Show yourself as an ideal Vaisnava, then you are my representative in fullness. We are not after titles and designations
- Simply theoretical knowledge. That is helpful, but training, that is the greatest need, that we have to create a set of first-class men. Then the world will be all right. That is an attempt of the Krsna consciousness movement, to make first class, ideal
- So my advice to you is that you remain ideal Vaisnava internally and externally, and everyone will respect you
- So people will take it provided you are ideal
- Spread this ideal very widely
- Such position of leadership and organization is regarded as Krishna's special favor upon you, because you are forced in this way to become very responsible and set the ideal KC example, and in this way you will make very nice advancement in spiritual life
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- Take care of all of these good souls that Krsna is sending you. By your own exemplary behavior, train them all as ideal Vaisnavas. This will greatly please me
- Taking of sannyasa order is in one sense only a formality. I was preaching and writing for eight or nine years as Vanaprastha and then in 1959 I took sannyasa. So if after a few years as Vanaprastha your behavior is ideal sannyasa can be considered
- That is the idea of my Guru Maharaja, a Gurukula. We are not going to make some big, big scholars. We don't require scholars. We require ideal men by character, by behavior, by Krsna consciousness
- The building there is complete, we are making it an ideal asrama. So if you go back there, you must find a suitable engagement. It is not a place simply for sleeping
- The first preaching work is that yourself should become an ideal devotee. Lord Caitanya said that one should first make himself perfect and then attempt to instruct others
- The ideal Krishna Conscious community
- The modern educational institutions are different grades of slaughter houses. If you can open an ideal institution for the future children of our associates, it will be a great service
- The most important thing is that we must be ideal Krsna Conscious persons, and then we can attract others. This means chanting, reading my books, going on sankirtana, following the regulative principles and worshiping the deity
- The temple is an ideal institution, and people should come to learn, because if they can make every house like our temples, then their lives will surely be successful
- There should be ideal life, at least the leaders, the president, the GBC. They will show the example, and they will follow. Then it is beneficial. And all of them are fools? Then it is fool's paradise
- They are an ideal pair amongst my disciples
- They felt an ecstasy so continue this ideal
- They must be all ideal acarya-like. In the beginning we have done for working. Now we should be very cautious. Anyone who is deviating, he can be replaced
- They must be ideal mahatmas
- This KC movement through music, philosophy, spiritual culture, and personal behavior culminating in ideal character of the devotees. All these heavenly contributions combined together will certainly bring about a major change in the life of Western people
- This university teaching should be vigorously done and our literatures introduced as well. It is an ideal opportunity to do so. And you are getting free ghee from the city school system
- Those who are members of this society, they should be ideal. Simply by their association people will become good, very good responsibility. And if they become bad themselves, there is no possibility because we are giving instruction
- To marry and to become an exemplary householder is the ideal life of Krishna Consciousness
- Try your best to develop an ideal society there to set a perfect example for the human society of how one can live very simply, chanting Hare Krishna and developing love for Krishna
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- We are endeavoring to create some ideal men, Krsna conscious men, their character, their behavior, their ideal aim of life. So those who have taken to Krsna consciousness seriously, they should be ideal men
- We are giving the ideal
- We are presenting ideal living on Vedic principles of purified life
- We are trying to establish an ideal colony in New Vrindaban and other places
- We are trying to present an ideal Society to the world, so although we are very rigidly following these principles, still, we are very liberal to everyone. For this reason we are being appreciated everywhere
- We have got already fifteen branches as follows: New York City; Boston; San Francisco; Vancouver, B.C.; Canada; Honolulu, Hawaii; New Vrindaban, an ideal Krishna Consciousness community; and London, England; and Berlin, Germany
- We have to all cooperate amongst ourselves, otherwise what will people think if we ourselves fight with one another? A devotee is always ideal in behavior
- We have to keep this ideal at least, varnasrama
- We keep the ideal style of life
- We keep the ideal style of life. You learn, and do it. I am not encroaching upon your independence, but if you want to be happy, you follow. This is our process
- We must all become ideal in our character and then people will be very impressed with such purity. A devotee is faultless. He has no flaws
- Whatever you want to do or whatever ideas you want to introduce in the management of our society, please write in a letter and distribute the copies to all the GBC members along with one copy to me also
- Who can take more care than the father and the mother? So you combine together, make a batch of good character, ideal character in the whole world. There is no ideal character
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- Yes, everyone of us should be ideal to the other so everyone can get impetus to make progress more and more
- You are sannyasi and the people will automatically respect you. So be ideal in behavior following strictly the rules and regulations
- You become ideal civilized man. Others will follow
- You cannot expect cent percent will be sinless. But there must be an ideal section - "Oh, here is..." That is wanted. That is wanted. Not that you can expect cent percent ideal
- You have dedicated your life for Krsna and therefore you should be ideal. We are introducing KCM for the harmony and good will of humanity. But if you are suffering from the very ills we are trying to remove, how can the people be influenced favorably
- You must become ideal in all respects
- You set the ideal standard of householder life for the benefit of others and they will gradually be influenced to follow your example of sincere service on Krsna's behalf
- You should be ideal
- You should make political propagation on the basis of reforming the whole human society. The leaders must be an ideal class of men, with ideal character, free from the four sinful activities
- You yourself must be ideal in following the rules and regulations, rising early, and restricting eating and sleeping. The less a person is concerned with material enjoyment such as eating, sex and sleeping, the more he is spiritually advanced