Category:Our Temple Programs (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category establish the absolute necessity of maintaining a vibrant and strictly regulated daily schedule within the spiritual community. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that participating in the standard temple program—which includes rising early, attending morning and evening ārati, chanting sixteen rounds, and going out for saṅkīrtana—is the foundational source of spiritual strength. This methodical routine is specifically designed to keep devotees constantly engaged in transcendental service, thereby providing perfect protection against the influence of māyā. Whether one is a new student, a seasoned preacher, or a gṛhastha, adhering to these structured activities ensures steady advancement and prevents the temple from becoming stagnant.
- The Standard Schedule: A successful spiritual center requires a rigorous daily routine of chanting, deity worship, and reading to keep everyone fully absorbed in devotional consciousness.
- Protection from Illusion: Steadfastly attending morning and evening ārati and fulfilling all prescribed duties forms a protective shield that prevents practitioners from falling down into material habits.
- Immersion Through Deity Worship: Serving the deities is a highly serious responsibility that demands the utmost standard of cleanliness and twenty-four-hour engagement.
- Nourishing the Mind with Literature: Regular, communal discussions from sacred texts like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and The Nectar of Devotion are potent activities that provide necessary philosophical guidance.
- Inclusive Participation: The temple program is not exclusively for renunciates; the entire community, including householders, must participate actively to maintain their spiritual vitality.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Urges His Disciples to Maintain Strict Temple Programs.
Pages in category "Our Temple Programs (Disciples of SP)"
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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- I am so glad to hear that temple worship is going on nicely and that you have made program for discussing all our books. Such group discussion of transcendental topics is so much potent and all should participate
- I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 10th August, 1970, along with a list of schedule for Temple activities. It is very nice program
- I hope the methodical way you are conducting our Tokyo Temple will improve more and more and there may not be any more poisonous effects as it happened in the past
- I want that in our temple there should be program that we are always engaged in devotional service, twenty-four hours
- If anyone will read this Nectar of Devotion very carefully, he will have all guidance in Bhakti cult. So in the temple class some portions of this book must be regularly discussed
- If we steadfastly perform daily program of rising early, cleansing, chanting 16 rounds, holding kirtana wherever we are at least twice daily, reading, worshiping the deity, going on Sankirtana - then our all success is guaranteed in whatever we do
- It is good that you have gone to Amsterdam temple to help with the deity program there. It must be done very nicely
- It is not that anyone is excluded from being my disciple if they do not cent per cent attend all of temple programs, but they should be encouraged to attend as far as possible
- It is pleasing and encouraging to me to hear how all your programs, book distributing, temple worship etc., are going on so nicely in our Cleveland Center. That you have distributed 10,000 pieces of literature in the last month is very impressive
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- Temple worship is necessary for the beginners so that by following the regulative principles such devotees become more and more purified
- That is our business - we shall chant Hare Krishna or read Srimad-Bhagavatam or or associate with devotees in the temple, so that program shall go on continually for constantly remembering Krishna, and we shall not forget Him, even for a moment
- The Deity worship program is meant for us to keep us safe. If we neglect Deity worship, we shall also fall
- The Deity worship, the kirtana, the street sankirtana, distribution of literature, books. You should carry on this program with great enthusiasm. That is my request
- The program of the Temple worship is as follows...
- The students must all attend morning and evening arati and classes. If we follow this simple program along with regular sankirtana, distributing the books and preaching, then there will be no fall down
- There is no harm if the devotees chant in the temple during the time when the Deities are resting
- This deity worship is very serious program, and it must be kept to the utmost highest standard and never allowed to be neglected. So if you are willing and able to initiate such program in Baltimore center, I have no objection
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- You may have heard that here at L.A. Temple, they are holding Kirtan and chanting 24 hours in the temple, and the program is very encouraging to all the devotees. Of course, that is only possible in a very large center such as L.A
- You should have such program for worshiping the Deity that you may be engaged twenty-four hours, twenty-four hours. Sri-vigraharadhana-nitya, nitya-nana, nitya-nana-srngara, dressing, decorating. Daily, new dress, or twice new dress, or four times
- You should not install the Deities until you have a complete program to see that regulated worship may go on nicely. Until then, simply worship Guru and Gauranga in pictures