Category:We Are Expanding (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The quotes in this category capture Śrīla Prabhupāda’s grand vision for the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement alongside his sober warnings regarding its execution. While he marvels at how the mission has expanded globally—comparing its reach to being greater than the British Empire—he repeatedly stresses that true expansion must be built on absolute spiritual purity. He cautions that rapidly opening centers without fixed-up, qualified leaders will ultimately spoil the society. To ensure lasting success, disciples are instructed to avoid internal quarrels, deeply consolidate their personal spiritual practices, and expertly utilize practical methods like the Life Membership program, literature distribution, and gorgeous deity worship to spread the absolute truth to every corner of the world.
- A Vision of Unlimited Growth: The spiritual mission is meant to expand infinitely, surpassing even the greatest historical empires, to reach every town, village, and university.
- The Danger of Hollow Expansion: Opening numerous centers is useless and dangerous if the devotees are not deeply fixed in their spiritual progress and guided by qualified leaders.
- The Power of Unified Cooperation: Internal friction is the greatest threat to the movement's progress; working conjointly guarantees tremendous success in spreading the philosophy.
- Practical Preaching Strategies: Programs like enrolling Life Members, distributing records, and collecting funds are essential, practical methods that directly fuel the mission's global reach.
- Multiplying Capable Leaders: For the movement to scale from thousands to millions, senior disciples must take up management responsibilities and actively train up new, pure-hearted leaders.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Guides His Disciples to Expand the Spiritual Mission.
Pages in category "We Are Expanding (Disciples of SP)"
The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
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- I am glad to know that you are working hard to expand the Krishna Consciousness propaganda in Boston. I may say that this practical devotion is the secret to understanding the Sastras
- I am so glad to hear how rapidly our New York center is expanding and how enthusiastic the devotees have become
- I am so glad to hear your program is steadily expanding in St. Louis and how you are regularly making university engagements and are being so well received
- I am very glad to note your eagerness for expanding your service. This attitude is very nice and it is required of the devotee at every stage. So do it very enthusiastically with great faith and patience strictly following the regulative principles
- I came to your country to execute the mission of my Spiritual Master at a very old age and by the Grace of my Spiritual Master within four or five years with your cooperation we have expanded beyond expectation
- I can appreciate that you are traveling widely in your recently expanded zone and you plan to first become acquainted with the temple presidents by traveling is good
- I have expanded with my disciples in so many ways and so many places, so if I can expand - I am a common man - then how Krsna can expand, just imagine
- I have read your statements regarding opening centers. I am not in agreement with Mr. Altman that we are expanding very thinly. In my opinion, a single sincere soul can maintain a center
- If the people of Trinidad are very seriously interested in our ISKCON Movement, then we should remain there and expand our preaching work
- If we simply go on expanding and there are no qualified men to lead, then everything will be spoiled eventually
- If you want to expand, but expand something which will be beneficial to the human society. Just like we are expanding Krsna consciousness. That is required
- If you work conjointly, without quarreling amongst yourselves, a tremendous service can be done towards the expansion of our mission
- It is my plan that in my old age I am handing over all matters of temple management to you and you may simply carry on and expand the programs which I have introduced, and in this way I will be free to translate
- It is my satisfaction that everything is going nicely in Los Angeles. I want to see that those programs that we have begun will go on expanding and improving more and more
- It is very good news to hear that the German government has granted you a 5 year visa and that your Sankirtana activities are expanding. This is all very encouraging
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- Now I want that we shall concentrate on making our devotees Krishna conscious and ourselves becoming Krishna conscious, and not be so much concerned with expanding ourselves widely but without any spiritual content
- Now please take the good opportunity to learn how to practically prosecute Krsna Consciousness Movement so that you may help start new centers for expanding our program to every nook and corner, village and city
- Now we are expanding very rapidly with so many centers throughout the world, and every day I am receiving not less than ten to fifteen important letters
- Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost
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- The British Empire had only a portion of the world, and we have not completed expanding. We must expand more and more unlimitedly
- The communists have an idea for feeding human society, but our idea is expanding. We want to see even a snake not fasting
- There are many Indians in Tokyo and if you canvass them one by one gradually all of them will become our life members and support our activities for expanding widely in Japan
- To help the preaching work, that is also preaching. If you can get money to help expand our preaching activities, that is preaching. We require money
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- We have a plan for expanding our Sankirtana and we will be needing so many hundreds of mrdangas. So you have got the fiberglass shells there, so I am informing Jayapataka Swami to arrange for one or two Bengali craftsmen to come and stay with you
- We shall expand to hundred thousand. That is required. Then hundred thousand to million, and million to ten million, So there will be no scarcity of acarya, and people will understand K.C. very easily. So make that organization. Don't be falsely puffed up
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- You are increasing always by enrolling many Life Members. That is the heart of our expanding progress in Africa, making Life Members
- You cannot sell the Hawaii house. It is a good house, and I do not approve selling it. If you want to expand, then you can purchase other houses for residences. I do not want any of our houses to be sold
- You should do everything combinedly. That is my request. Gradually, by Krishna's Grace, we are expanding. So if amongst ourselves there is friction, it will be very dangerous