Category:Our Saving Time (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The human form of life is an exceedingly rare and valuable opportunity meant exclusively for spiritual realization. Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly warns his followers not to squander this precious gift on unnecessary material endeavors, hellish factory labor, or endless scientific research. He provides a practical formula for success by advocating for plain living and high thinking, ensuring that all physical and mental energy is reserved for spiritual cultivation. By adopting simple, self-sufficient lifestyles and accepting absolute knowledge without speculative research, devotees can safely finish their spiritual business in this single lifetime.
- Plain Living and High Thinking: Minimizing artificial bodily necessities through yukta-vairāgya is the basic principle of Vedic civilization.
- Rejecting Hellish Work: Devotees are restricted from working hard like animals in factories for mundane economic development.
- Agricultural Self-Sufficiency: Developing peaceful farm communities to produce local food and cloth easily frees up vast amounts of time for chanting.
- Trusting Vedic Authority: Accepting perfect scriptural injunctions without making experimental research saves lifetimes of doubtful speculation.
- Practical Devotional Efficiency: Even within temple duties, management should protect devotees from unnecessary heavy labor so they can focus on studying and chanting.
- Total Absorption in Kṛṣṇa: Any moment spent thinking, working, or eating for the Supreme Lord is eternally saved, liberating the soul from further entanglement.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples to Save Time for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
Pages in category "Our Saving Time (Disciples of SP)"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
A
- Although you are all European and American, these things are practically . . . you are not accustomed. But if you develop this kind of civilization - plain living and high thinking - save time for advancing Krsna consciousness, that is real profit of life
- Any moment, any time you spend for thinking of Krsna, working for Krsna, chanting for Krsna, eating for Krsna, dancing for Krsna, that time is saved
- As soon as one is highly qualified medical man, he comes to Australia. So who will take care of them? So therefore they imported some brain from India. Anyway, our time should be saved for self-realization
- As we are doing in Mayapur and many other places, I want to develop self-sufficient centers with cloth and food production by the devotees locally and save time as much as possible to devote themselves to chant Hare Krishna
I
- I am now organizing in Europe and America many farm lands so that my devotees can live there peacefully, grow their own foodstuffs, produce cloth, and save time for chanting Hare Krishna
- If the teachers are available, why you should become a teacher? Let them teach. We have to save our time for advancing in Krsna consciousness
- If we accept Vedic knowledge, we save so much time. We may go on experimenting with our limited power of senses, but that will always remain doubtful. But if we accept Vedic knowledge, apaurusa knowledge, then it is perfect
- If you are getting enough milk from the cows simply by pasturing them, then that is all right. But if you require more then you may have to feed them special grains. We want to do whatever is easy and save time for Krishna consciousness
O
- Our mission is to protect our devotees from unnecessary heavy work to save time for advancing in Krsna consciousness. This is our mission
- Our only motive is how to interest people in Krsna consciousness. That's all. There is no economic problem. We can produce our own food and clothes, gradually, and save time for spiritual life
T
- The human form of life is meant for saving time for spiritual cultivation. We should be satisfied with the bare necessities of life, and the time should be saved to cultivate self-realization. That is the basic principle of Vedic civilization
- The idea is that people can be self sufficient and raise their own foodstuffs and have sufficient milk to save time and chant Hare Krishna. Why should they work so hard in the hellish factories? Let everyone live simply and be Krsna conscious
- The idea is to save more time from this materialistic business and utilize it for Krsna's service. When our anxieties are how to utilize life in that way, that stage is abyarthya kalatvam, utilizing life without spoiling it
- The Krsna consciousness movement is to simplify, to save the valuable life, to save the time of valuable life. This human form of life is very valuable
- There is an English proverb - "yielding to the new" But the Vedic civilization is "Do not try to invent some order. That will create disturbance. Be satisfied. Whatever you have got by nature's way, be satisfied. Don't spoil your time. Save time for KC"
- There is no economic problem. We can produce our own food and clothes, gradually, and save time for spiritual life
- To minimize this material work means the energy should be employed for Krsna. Minimize work this, means this side, material side. And save time and chant Hare Krsna. That's all
W
- We accept the Vedic injunction as truth. We haven't got to make research. We save time. So according to Vedic civilization, whatever is stated in the Vedas, we take it, fact. That's all. Sruti-pramanam
- We are restricting, that "Don't work hard like hog and dog or animals. Just satisfy your minimal necessities of life, save time and advance in spiritual understanding." This is our mission
- We don't make any adulteration or alteration or addition. No. We accept, as it is. That is our process. And if you accept, then our time is saved and we can make progress very quickly
- We have to save our time for advancing in Krsna consciousness. After all, this, in the modern world they have invented so many varieties of occupations unnecessarily, to develop economic condition
- We should save time (in New Mayapura), as much for this purpose, for chanting, discussing grantha. Not for any personal so-called comforts
- We want to do whatever is easy and save time for Krishna consciousness
Y
- You can produce your cloth also if you produce cotton. And we are trying in Mayapura to produce our own cloth. So we require our own cloth, own food, and time saved for advancing in Krsna consciousness. That is required. That is actual civilization
- You have got this land; develop it. Don't go away. Develop it. That is my instruction. Keep cows, as many cows as possible. You don't require practice. Produce your own food, own milk - save time; chant Hare Krsna. This is perfect
- Your determination to remain as brahmacari is very encouraging. Actually, a living entity does not require to be entangled more and more. Rather he should save his time to finish the Krishna Consciousness business, and thus be liberated in this life
- Yukta Vairagya means that we should simply accept the bare necessities of our material part of life, and try to save time for spiritual advancement. This should be the motto of New Vrindaban, if you at all develop it to the perfectional stage