Category:Our Trust (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is a dynamic spiritual organism that relies heavily on the delicate balance of faith, cooperation, and extreme vigilance. Śrīla Prabhupāda establishes that to successfully push forward a global preaching mission, the devotees must function as a united family bound tightly by mutual love and trust. However, while interpersonal trust is essential for management, he issues a severe warning regarding the internal landscape of the conditioned soul. A sincere disciple must never place their trust in the flickering mind, nor should they rely on the pleasant illusions of a material future. By placing their ultimate faith solely in Kṛṣṇa and maintaining strict adherence to the regulative principles, devotees successfully navigate these dangers and protect their devotional service.
- A Foundation of Love and Trust: The entire Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant to operate as a unified spiritual family, where cooperation and mutual trust replace the mundane fighting spirit.
- Empowering the Preachers: To focus on translating transcendental literature, Śrīla Prabhupāda placed immense trust in his senior managers and requested the society to respect these appointed representatives.
- The Illusion of the Future: Disciples are warned never to trust a "pleasant future" by hoarding collections for tomorrow, as the material world is inherently unpredictable and temporary.
- Vigilance Over the Mind: The most treacherous enemy is the unpurified mind; a devotee must never trust its dictates or falsely believe they have easily achieved liberation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Never Trust the Mind - How Prabhupāda Protects the Devotion of His Disciples.
Pages in category "Our Trust (Disciples of SP)"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- Bali Mardan is my trusted senior disciple, do you think I am a fool to choose him for running on My big New York temple. Rather, if anyone criticizes him, they must be the fool
- Better we should try to stay in this determination than to accept the sannyasa order by changing the dress and then again we fall down. That is not very good. There are instances like that, but it is not at all good. We should not trust the mind
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- I cannot tax my brain so much from such distant place what to do if there is any difficulty, therefore I am relying completely on you, my trusted senior disciples, to finish up these things nicely
- I wish to not be involved in management affairs and want to devote me time to translating books so please have some trust in those representatives I have placed as Temple presidents and GBC members
- If you think you shall keep the money you collect there for future use for temple, that's alright, but my Guru Maharaja used to say, "Trust no future, however pleasant"
- In the beginning there may be some mistake, but we must see that "Whether my mistakes are now correct?" That should be vigilance. Never trust the mind. That is the instruction here. Mind should not be trusted
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- Our movement is based on love and trust, so if we do not co-operate, then how is that love and trust? Follow all of the rules and regulations very strictly without deviation, chant 16 rounds, attend class and mangala arati
- Our Society is like one big family and our relationships should be based on love and trust. We must give up the fighting spirit and use our intelligence to push ahead
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- You are one of the trusted managers of the New York temple, and I am very much glad to see that the standard of temple activities is so nice
- You ask if children may be taken to ordinary medical doctors. Why not? Of course we do not always trust that these doctors maybe doing the right thing, but what can be done?