Category:Our Working Together (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The success and expansion of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement rely entirely on the cooperative spirit of its members. Śrīla Prabhupāda passionately emphasized to his disciples that working conjointly is the ultimate proof of surrender and the secret to receiving Lord Caitanya's blessings. He warned that personal ambition, friction, and fighting for individual interests would fracture the society and stop the preaching work completely. By teaching his leaders to manage cooperatively, guiding married couples to work together for spiritual advancement, and instructing all devotees to place Kṛṣṇa at the center of every endeavor, he provided the perfect formula for maintaining a unified and spiritually powerful worldwide society.
- The Necessity of Cooperative Management: To manage a rapidly expanding global society, the leaders, GBC members, and temple presidents must act conjointly. Working cooperatively relieves the spiritual master of management burdens and ensures administration runs smoothly without friction.
- Avoiding Friction and Quarreling: Fighting for individual interests is a symptom of personal ambition and a lack of surrender. Devotees must tolerate minor disagreements, adjust inebrieties with maturity, and settle disputes quickly to prevent fracturing the solid body of the society.
- Husband and Wife Working Conjointly: The perfection of household life is achieved when a husband and wife assist each other in Kṛṣṇa's service. By working combinedly without argument, they experience transcendental pleasure and rapid spiritual advancement.
- Combined Preaching and Center Expansion: The mission of delivering suffering humanity cannot be accomplished alone. If devotees work conjointly with serious sincerity, they can open centers everywhere, spread the saṅkīrtana movement vigorously, and ensure the great adventure of preaching is successful.
- Pleasing the Spiritual Master and Lord Kṛṣṇa: The ultimate purpose of working together is not personal business, but the business of Lord Caitanya. By keeping Kṛṣṇa in the center and tolerating personal inconveniences for His sake, devotees transform feelings of separation into transcendental bliss.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Teaches His Disciples the Importance of Working Together.
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Pages in category "Our Working Together (Disciples of SP)"
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- Actually in the service of Krishna there is no botheration. Rather we feel more transcendental pleasure. I hope you will more and more appreciate this status as you work combinedly with your very good husband
- All of you are sincere devotees pledged to the missionary activities, so you should sit together and decide what to do and what not to do
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- I am fervently appealing to you all not to create fracture in the solid body of the Society. Please work conjointly, without any personal ambition. That will help the cause
- I am very glad to learn that you are all working peacefully together. This is the most favorable atmosphere for cultivating our Krishna consciousness
- I am very glad to note how nicely you are working, along with your wife Jyotirmayi and also Guy Prabhu. Continue in this way and Krishna will be pleased upon you and bless you with the intelligence to increase your service more and more
- I do not wish that the Gurukula should be closed. Please work combinedly and endeavour with great determination to keep it going on nicely
- I have advised him that the two of you can conjointly work together to open a centre in Colombo. That will be very nice, so if by mutual cooperation the two of you can begin a centre there it will very much please me
- I have examined the plans for the building on West 43rd Street just near the corner of 5th Avenue and I think it is perfectly suitable for us in every way. Please work together with Bali Mardan Maharaja and try your best to secure it
- I have nominated you as one of the members of the Governing Body because I know you are a very good soul and I shall be very pleased if the mistake which has already crept in our society can be rectified by your combined effort
- I know that you are a very intelligent devotee and that you are very capable. Why not contact Tamala Krsna Goswami in New York and see if you can work together with him
- I know that you are good preacher and sincere boy, and Revatinandana Maharaja is also sannyasi, so you work together with him and with the others in cooperative spirit to spread this Krsna Consciousness movement widely all over the British Isles
- I think by the Grace of Krishna my working has produced some sincere souls like yourself, Brahmananda, Hamsaduta, and others. Now we have to chalk out a solid program by consulting together
- I think for Krishna's sake we shall try to work together even at the risk of little personal inconvenience. Our foremost concern is Krishna. If Krishna's service is well done, then we should try to forget our personal inconveniences
- I understand also from him that Kirtanananda Swami is also eager to see me, and we shall be very glad if they come back and work with us conjointly. I am praying for this to Krishna
- I went to your country with a mission & you all good souls were sent by Krishna to me. So let us cooperatively work together to vigorously spread Krishna Consciousness, to the suffering humanity at large
- If people see us working together nicely, they cannot criticize anything against our Krishna consciousness movement
- If you all leaders cannot work together, then how can you expect the others to cooperate with you?
- If you can write this book nicely all together, it will be a great service to Krsna. And Krsna will bless you and help you
- If you work conjointly, without quarreling amongst yourselves, a tremendous service can be done towards the expansion of our mission
- In Kali-yuga, everything should be managed by society
- In my opinion your guiding the girls working under you for painting is very important, and if this business doesn't suffer, you can think of going to S.F. for organizing the asrama
- Inebrieties can be adjusted by the cooperative spirit, tolerance and maturity so I request you to kindly remain in the association of our devotees and work together
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- Kindly remain there and teach Upanandadas by nice example and work together with the devotees there. If we work hard for Krsna without personal consideration or ambition, then we are assured of success
- Krishna appreciates very much when His devotee becomes attached to Him in this way. Yes, the cooperative spirit of working together without any argument is especially prominent in Mayapur, more than other places in India
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- Now all my disciples must work combinedly and with cooperation to spread this Samkirtan Movement. If you cannot work together then my work is stopped up
- Now it will please me very much if you all can work together nicely and recruit many more young people to join our movement, it is their only future hope
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- Please continue to faithfully serve the Lord by chanting His Holy Names sixteen rounds daily on the beads, going on Sankirtana, following the regulative principles and avoiding the ten offenses, working in cooperation to spread this Sankirtana Movement
- Please work combinedly with great enthusiasm to establish our branch of ISKCON in Berlin. That is my desire
- Print books as many as possible and distribute. This is our main program. All other programs secondary. So with this aim in view, work all together. Our Caitanya-caritamrta is unique literature
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- She is a good asset for you as your wife, and I want that you two work combinedly. That is my desire
- She should be engaged fully in assisting her husband. In this way husband and wife can work together cooperatively and make rapid advancement in Krishna Consciousness
- Sometimes there may be disagreement and quarrel but we should not go away. These inebrieties can be adjusted by the cooperative spirit, tolerance and maturity so I request you to kindly remain in the association of our devotees and work together
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- Take over from me management of ISKCON affairs and work combinedly to open as many centers as possible all over the world. If you simply carry out the instructions which I have given you Krsna will reward you with all success
- Tamal Krsna and Shyamasundar are here with me as my liaison officers and the rest of the GBC members are spread all over the world. So please work closely together and do everything in cooperation
- The business which we have taken to work together is neither your business nor my business as far we are personally concerned, but it is the business of Lord Caitanya and His bona fide servants like my Guru Maharaja
- Their new names are: Bhojadeva das, Taraka dasi and Mukhara dasi respectively. Now it will please me very much if you all can work together nicely and recruit many more young people to join our movement, it is their only future hope
- There is great possibility of spreading our Krishna Conscious movement, and if we work conjointly, with serious sincerity, we are sure to come out successful in this great adventure
- This change of Presidents is to be made in the GBC meeting. In the middle of the year there is no question of change. Tejyas can continue as President. Three times changing president is not good. It should first be conjointly considered by the GBC
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- Under the circumstances, I have no objection to your staying there with your party until you receive the missionary visa for South Korea. Gurukrpa Maharaja should assist you in whatever way he can and both of you work cooperatively together
- Upananda and Anne are now married happily in Krsna Consciousness Please offer them my full blessings to work together in mutual cooperation for advancing Krsna consciousness
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- We are now growing in size, therefore, for general administration if you will act conjointly amongst the presidents, that will be a great relief for me
- We had got the wrong impression, and actually that everything is progressing in a spirit of mutual cooperation in all respects. This is Krishna Consciousness. Working together to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- We have to keep Krsna always in the center, and then although there are disturbances and sometimes fall downs we will be able to work together and keep our society intact
- We should all work together for satisfying Lord Krishna and in that way the feelings of separation will transform into transcendental bliss
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- You are both very nice householder couples, so work together in cooperative spirit, following the example you have seen in our other Krishna Consciousness centers
- You have to pick up such many persons, and if you work combinedly together, strictly following my instructions, I am sure you will be successful
- You must all jointly make these decisions about my program there, not that whimsically one man shall decide one thing another man shall decide another thing
- You must jointly work because both of you, you have started this New Vrindaban, and you have to work jointly. There may be sometimes disagreement, but you should settle up. Otherwise how you can make progress?
- You must work conjointly. That is my desire, and if you fight amongst yourselves for some individual interests, that is not surrender
- Your attempt to construct a temple from donation of life members is welcome. Also your plan to get large tax returns. Now do it cooperatively. You are intelligent and experienced - all work together there for the glory of Caitanya's sankirtana movement
- Your idea is very nice but regarding the practicality of it, you should discuss with either the temple president or the GBC man. You should work it out together with the leaders there