Category:Preaching Work
Theme Analysis
The essential activity of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is active and sincere preaching work, which is recognized as the highest service to the Supreme Lord. Throughout his instructions, Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently distinguishes between the self-satisfied practitioner and the compassionate preacher, highlighting that taking physical and social risks to distribute transcendental knowledge is what truly captures the Lord's attention. This dynamic mission is not reserved for the renounced order alone; rather, it is a universal mandate where householders, students, administrators, and distributors must combine their efforts. By doing so, they perfectly execute the deepest desires of Lord Caitanya and the paramparā.
- The Superiority of the Compassionate Preacher: While a bhajanānandī focuses on personal salvation in a solitary place, a goṣṭhy-ānandī takes tremendous risks to spread the holy name, making this active preaching the superior path.
- Pleasing the Supreme Lord: The Lord openly declares in the Bhagavad-gītā that no one is dearer to Him than the devotee who faces difficulties to distribute His message to the conditioned souls.
- A Universal Duty for All Āśramas: The responsibility of preaching is completely inclusive, empowering sannyāsīs to travel extensively while enabling married couples to set a perfect example for society through joint outreach.
- Practical Execution and Management: Distributing literature, performing kīrtana, and even maintaining strict temple administration are all integral components of preaching work that require systematic training and dedication.
- The Legacy of the Ācāryas: The previous teachers, including the Gosvāmīs, dedicated their lives to this exact mission by writing books and constructing temples, proving that active preaching is the historical lifeblood of the Gauḍīya tradition.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Pleasing Lord Caitanya through Sincere Preaching Work.
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
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Pages in category "Preaching Work"
The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
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- A bhajananandi is not interested in preaching work, but a gosthy-anandi is interested in spreading Krsna consciousness to benefit the people and increase the number of Vaisnavas
- A preacher is giving real sense. To awaken this sense, Krsna had to come personally. And he is doing the same work: "Surrender to Krsna." How much great service it is
- Actually this Tirtha Maharaja, he wanted to be acarya. People did not like him, so they made another bad acarya. Why acarya? They should have continued the preaching work uncontaminated
- An advanced devotee like Narada Muni who is engaged in preaching work can serve the Supreme Lord anywhere. Sometimes he even goes to the hellish planets
- As a bona fide disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami, and because I am trying my best to fulfill His holy desire in the matter of preaching work in this part of the world, I have got the right to ask from you a plot of land for this purpose
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- Become always attentive to all aspects of temple's activities, especially to the regulative spiritual life & preaching work. If this standard of devotional practices is maintained at the highest level, everything else will become automatically successful
- Bhagavata-vidhi includes preaching work - sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23) - the hearing and chanting of the glories of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pancaratrika-vidhi includes arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-niv
- Bhajananandi is interested for his own welfare, or they think it that he is not competent enough to preach; therefore he does not go for preaching work. Sva-vimukti-kama: "Let me look after my own affairs." "Oil your own machine"
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- For preaching work we have to accept many disciples - for expanding preaching - even if we suffer. That's a fact. The spiritual master has to take the responsibility for all the sinful activities of his disciples
- For preaching work, especially in India, preachers are generally sannyasi. And I know that even in Buddha philosophy, a Buddhist, a person following Buddhist religion, he has to take sannyasa at least for some time
- For preaching work, sannyasis are essential
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- I (Prabhupada) am so glad and proud of you that you two young boy and girl have gone to Trinidad to preach the mission of Lord Caitanya and you have impressed the public so nicely by your preaching work
- I (Prabhupada) have quoted so many slokas from Lord Caitanya's writing - He has actually taught how to love Krsna, or God. That is the most significant point of His preaching work
- I am so pleased to see you and your good wife in every picture in different poses of preaching work. That is real Krsna consciousness service to preach the message of the Holy Name to all persons
- I can understand this cunning Purusottama das has taken advantage of your simplicity. So any one of my godbrothers cannot help me in this way of book writing because they are unfortunate in the matter of preaching work
- I do not wish to discuss about activities of my Godbrothers but it is a fact they have no life for preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of a temple
- I hope you are becoming more enthusiastic by your stay in Mayapur and when you return to Canada you will go on increasingly in your preaching work
- I want to sell as many books as possible, that is the main thing. By selling books, that is the best preaching work
- If money is utilized by unqualified spiritual masters for living comfortably in costly temples without actually doing any preaching work, this is not acceptable
- If one has no money, no intelligence, he can use his words. He can go to the people, and he can say: "Please chant Hare Krsna." So this preaching work, the service of Krsna, is not, blocked by any disqualification if one is ready to serve
- If your preaching work is strong, automatically management will be easy. And preaching work is strong if our routine work is strong. Never neglect our regular program and that will be your success
- It is a principle that a preacher must strictly follow the rules and regulations laid down in the sastras yet at the same time devise a means by which the preaching work to reclaim the fallen may go on with full force
- It is not so important that you have no temple building just now. The main thing is that somehow or other preaching work goes on and literature is distributed. We are prepared to sleep under a tree, so what is there need for a fancy house
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- Now combinedly go on with your preaching work. I am very glad to know that you are keeping your accounts up to date with BTG and the book fund. This is good and proper management. So you continue to keep these accounts weekly
- Now if your preaching work in Bombay is going nicely, then you can stay there for some time and do preaching work as they are doing here in Calcutta. Otherwise, you can immediately come here and work jointly
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- One of the devotee of Lord Caitanya says, he says that through Lord Caitanya - because I have quoted so many slokas from Lord Caitanya's writing - He has actually taught how to love Krsna, or God. That is the most significant point of His preaching work
- One person is advised to act in Krsna consciousness by working in the Deities' room, another is advised to act in Krsna consciousness by performing editorial work, another is advised to do preaching work
- Other devotees are atmanandi, or self-satisfied, and do not take the risk of preaching work
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- People cannot understand actually what is God. A vague idea. They do not know actually what is the nature of God. So gradually it will be forgotten. But still, because still people have got some sense, therefore this preaching work is going on
- Preaching work is meant for advanced devotees, and when an advanced devotee is further elevated on the devotional scale, he may retire to chant the Hare Krsna mantra in a solitary place
- Presently arrangements are being made for me to go to Moscow, Russia. We have one invitation to speak in the university there. If I see that you are understanding our philosophy, then I shall be glad to take you with me to Russia for preaching work
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- Sannyasis are generally meant to travel all over the country for preaching work, but during the four months of the rainy season in India, from July through October, they do not travel but take shelter in one place and remain there without moving
- So the best service, as recommended by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is this preaching work. Yare dekha tare kaha krsna-katha, krsna-katha. That's all. This is preaching. Doesn't require any good academic qualification
- Some of the Brahmacharies may be engaged in the publication work, some of them may be engaged in the Kirtan party preaching work, and some of them in distributing our literature. That will make our mission perfect
- Sometimes a Vaisnava who is a bhajananandi does not take the savitra-samskara (sacred thread initiation), but this does not mean that this system should be used for preaching work
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave protection to devotees and killed many demons in the course of His preaching work. He specifically mentioned that the Mayavadi philosophers are the greatest demons
- Sri Ramacandra Kaviraja, who was perpetually disinterested in family life, greatly assisted in the preaching work of Srinivasa Acarya and Narottama dasa Thakura
- Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has said that a Vaisnava is recognized by his preaching work - that is, by convincing the conditioned soul about his eternal position, which is explained here (in CC Madhya 20.6) as nija-dharma
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- The Gaudiya Math institution has become smashed, at least stopped its program of preaching work on account of personal ambitions
- The Gaudiya Mission has failed in preaching work because they adopted this principle
- The Gosvamis carried out the preaching work of devotional service on the basis of an analytical study of all confidential Vedic literatures. This was in compliance with the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- The Gosvamis not only engaged in writing books but also constructed temples because both are needed for preaching work
- The Lord has declared openly in Bhagavad-gita how He becomes pleased with us, and the same process is practically demonstrated in the life and preaching work of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
- The old way of leaving the matter to the irresponsible class of men will not help the preaching work of this important mission
- The picture in which your wife and child are engaged in preaching work--it is simply wonderful. You are ideal householder and you are teaching the world who to live with wife and children as a householder
- The sannyasi reaches the paramahamsa stage when he finishes his preaching work and sits down in one place, strictly for the sake of advancing in spiritual life
- The second-class devotee accepts disciples from the section of third-class devotees or nondevotees. Sometimes the first-class devotee also comes down to the category of the second-class devotee for preaching work
- The word bhajananandi refers to the devotee who does not move, but remains in one place. Such a devotee is always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. He chants the maha-mantra as taught by many acaryas and sometimes goes out for preaching work
- They (materialistic persons) offer obeisances to saintly persons or the Supreme Lord and give something in charity for preaching work with a view that they will be rewarded with further economic development
- This Krsna conscious preaching work, we must be very cautious that those who are preachers, they must be pure Vaisnava
- Those who have stopped preaching work and easy-going imitation, that is not very good. Because how far he's advanced?
- To face difficulty in the course of preaching work is a kind of austerity. These difficulties do not go in vain. The more we face difficulties, the more we draw the attention of Krsna
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- We have just received advance copies of the Bhagavad-gita Chinese translation, the first 6 chapters. Might this be of some value to your preaching work in South Korea
- We must be fully equipped, and the preaching work by pairs of husband and wife will be an unique example to the world
- When I was at Jhansi, I was provided with a big palatial building to live in associated with 40 workers who are being trained up for intinerary preaching work
- When I was twenty-five years old, my Guru Maharaja, my spiritual master, ordered me to go preach. But I thought, - First of all I shall become a rich man, and then I shall use my money to finance the preaching work
- When one engages in preaching work, he must distinguish between people and understand that some people are not engaged in the devotional service of the Lord. The preacher then has to take compassion upon such innocent people