Category:Our Sacrifice (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To genuinely advance in spiritual life, a practitioner must learn the art of sacrifice. Throughout his teachings, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that true yajña (sacrifice) and tapasya (austerity) mean giving up self-centered, demonic desires and dedicating one’s life, wealth, intelligence, and words entirely to the Supreme Lord. He expresses profound gratitude for his disciples who have sacrificed their previous habits and personal comforts to push forward the preaching mission, describing their efforts as shedding "gallons of blood" for the benefit of humanity.
- The Essence of Surrender: True love for Kṛṣṇa is demonstrated by the willingness to sacrifice everything for His pleasure, utilizing one's life, wealth, intelligence, and words strictly in His service.
- Renouncing Material Desires: Giving up deep-rooted material habits—such as illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling—is the fundamental tapasya required to cleanse the heart and accept Kṛṣṇa's desires as one's own.
- The Great Sacrifice of Preaching: Distributing Kṛṣṇa consciousness to a suffering world is the ultimate welfare work, requiring preachers to tirelessly spend their energy and "gallons of blood" to save conditioned souls.
- Dedicating the Fruits of Labor: Whether one is a brahmacārī, sannyāsī, or householder, the practical beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is willingly offering the fruits of one's work and income to the Supreme Father.
- Protecting the Standard: While a devotee must be willing to sacrifice personal comforts, they must never sacrifice their core spiritual principles, daily devotional routines, or the reputation of the society for mundane considerations.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Inspires His Disciples to Make Great Sacrifices for Kṛṣṇa.
Pages in category "Our Sacrifice (Disciples of SP)"
The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
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- A good boy surrenders to his father means whatever he earns, the money, at the end of month he puts in the hand of the father: "Oh, this is my month's earnings"; similarly, we have to sacrifice the fruits of our labor to Krsna. This is the beginning of KC
- A Grhastha or householder like you, you are also tridandi. Because you have sacrificed everything, your life, your home, and your child, so you are a tridandi sannyasi, in fact
- Another principle is that those who are brahmacaris, they should sacrifice all of their income and collection for the Krishna Consciousness Movement
- At the present moment, we are not in a position to make charities but for the devotees we can sacrifice anything. So you can stop preparing prasadam for persons who are not willing to work neither to pay
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- Either you or Ranadhira can hold a fire sacrifice & present sacred threads to Kutila & Mahendra. One thing, you can get a copy of me reciting Gayatri Mantra from Rupanuga in New York but the tape must be heard through earphones into the right ear
- Every member and worker must learn to sacrifice for Gods' sake that is the principle of this movement
- Every one of us as good as sannyasi because we have sacrificed everything for Krsna
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- I am so glad to learn that you have sacrificed your long beard and hair
- 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 thank you very much for your kind presentation which you have given, even sacrificing your husband's interest. I think, though, that your husband, Mukunda, is also pleased with this action
- I think you know all the procedures by now and you may give them the Gayatri as I have already prescribed by using the tape record of the mantras and performing the fire sacrifice
- If we do not perform sacrifice, yajna, which means method of activities for pleasing the lord; it is stated in Bhagavad gita that any work not done for the Lord's satisfaction must entangle the doer in the complication of stringent laws of material nature
- It is very much pleasing to me that you are so much sacrificing everything for Krishna. Krishna will surely bless you
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- Krishna always appreciates when his devotee makes some sacrifice on His behalf, so there is no real difficulty under any conditions so long as we remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- Krishna is not in need of our service but if we sacrifice everything for Krishna, that is for our good. You should always remember this maxim
- Krishna wants to see that the life is sacrificed, but also accumulation, money, should be given to Krishna. Life to Krishna and money to wife is not a good decision
- Krsna consciousness movement needs many exalted, learned persons who will sacrifice their lives to revive God consciousness throughout the world
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- Many thousands of boys and girls in the Western countries are seriously taking to this movement sacrificing many things. Especially they do not indulge in illicit sex life, gambling, meat eating, and intoxication
- My directions were not followed and now this is becoming a very burdensome situation unnecessarily. Why should we sacrifice the reputation of our Movement for one boy?
- My disciples have sacrificed their life for me. But you have got regard for me, but you cannot sacrifice your life for me
- My standing request is this: Amongst yourselves there should not be any disagreement. Whatever you do, do it by joint consultation. Because our center of activities is Krsna, for His sake we can sacrifice our life, wealth, words, intelligence, everything
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- That is the art of management: to draw out spontaneous loving spirit of sacrificing some energy for Krishna
- That is the sign of the first-class devotee, that he is always willing to sacrifice everything to please Krishna by preaching His glories, even under all sorts of difficult conditions. I am very encouraged by your attitude of sincere Krishna Consciousness
- The boy Bruce is improving and becoming more interested. He has now sacrificed his hairs for Krsna - that is a good sign
- The idea is like that of a Bible society in India which distributes millions of dollars in the shape of biblical literature without any consideration of return. Similarly, we have to sacrifice each $750 on this principle
- They (these European and Americans) are pure devotees. They have no other business. They have sacrificed everything. They are coming from rich family, rich nation, educated, everything. There is no scarcity in their country
- To love Krsna we don't require anything. Ahaituky apratihata. It is open for everyone, but we should learn to sacrifice for Krsna. That is the sign of love
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- We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them (nondevotees) bhagyavan. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollar from me." You get immediately rich
- We are teaching nothing, but training them how to love God, how they can sacrifice everything for God. So that is religion
- We do not allow devotees to perform sacrifices until they are properly initiated in the sacred thread ceremony
- We don't want these professional men. We want men who have sacrificed their life for God
- We have got very serious mission. Don't be fickle. When you have come and sacrificed your life for the mission, don't be fickle. Be very steady and capture Krsna's lotus feet tightly. You'll never be attacked by maya
- We have sacrificed our life for Krsna's service, where is there scope for sleeping and gossiping? You can see in my example, not a single moment is wasted
- We prescribe to our students no illicit sex-life, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling, but they are not ends in themselves; the real end is how to serve Krishna and sacrifice everything for Him
- We should be satisfied with our pictures hanging in our different temples. But we may not sacrifice our valuable time for becoming famous artists so that pictures may be sold like hotcakes
- We should not allow our desires, demonic desires, to grow. That is called tapasya. Our desires we should sacrifice. That is called sacrifice. We should only accept Krsna's desire. That is the instruction of the Bhagavad-gita
- We should try to keep our friendship with everyone in the world, but we cannot sacrifice the principles of Krishna Consciousness on being employed by some relative of this world
- We train our children in KC, just be keeping them always attending regular program & associating with Krsna devotees, teaching them spiritual realization by giving the idea that sacrifice & tapasya to achieve life's highest goal is a nice way of life
- While performing such dramas, always the actors must be Vaisnavas. Outsiders may help but devotees should have all the major roles. So you may perform such plays conveniently. It is a very nice program, but do not sacrifice other programs on account of it
- Without tapasya there is no question of making advancement. So if still the material nature is so much attractive to you that you are unable to sacrifice things in this way, then better you give up the whole thing and do as you like outside
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- You have written that you are wishing to leave for Toronto with Kanupriya, but this can be done only if there is no sacrifice of the Montreal temple. You are doing so nicely there as you have written, so why should you leave
- Your ambition for chanting Hare Krishna exclusively is very good. But sacrificing the results of action is as good
- Your life should be sacrifice for Krsna. That is wanted. Otherwise you shall be pretender