Category:We Do Not Want (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To protect the purity of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Śrīla Prabhupāda clearly defined not only what the movement stands for, but what it strictly avoids. This category compiles his essential instructions regarding the motives, attitudes, and material desires that have no place in genuine spiritual life. The underlying principle is that pure devotional service must be rendered without any tinge of personal ambition, exploitation, or the desire for mundane prestige. By explicitly rejecting material luxury, cheap numerical expansion, and superficial religious titles, the devotees are guided to focus exclusively on pleasing the Supreme Lord through sincere, active preaching and unalloyed surrender.
- Rejecting Material Luxury: The society adheres to the principle of simple living and high thinking, intentionally avoiding the unnecessary accumulation of wealth, luxury, and facilities meant for sense gratification.
- Purity Over Numerical Strength: Rather than seeking superficial popularity or millions of unqualified followers, the movement focuses on cultivating a few sincere souls, knowing that one pure devotee shines like a single moon in the darkness.
- Condemning Exploitation: True spiritual life is based on love, trust, and the desire to see everyone happy; therefore, the devotees strictly avoid cheating the innocent public or exploiting others for personal gain.
- Avoiding Dry Renunciation: The philosophy does not endorse artificial austerities, the complete stopping of natural instincts, or becoming dry renunciates; instead, all human tendencies are expertly dovetailed into the service of the Lord.
- The Servant of the Servant: Rejecting the Māyāvāda desire to merge with or become God, as well as the ambition to become a master in this world, the true Vaiṣṇava only wants to eternally serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Prabhupāda Instructs His Disciples on What They Do Not Want.
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Pages in category "We Do Not Want (Disciples of SP)"
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- Give me some LSD, give me something else. This will go on. We don't want that
- Gradually develop (New Mayapura), make little cottages, grow little vegetable, little barley or wheat and milk. That is sufficient. We don't require much. We don't want luxury
- Growing, cultivating, producing, there will be not possibility of, and we don't want more than the necessity. If by God's grace we get more, then you can make sale, but we are not going to work for selling purpose
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- I also understand that you do not want to get married now, but if you marry at all, you should marry now. Because after the age of 30, marriage is not so pleasing
- I am wonderful so long I serve Krsna. Otherwise useless; no value. If I can serve Krsna, then I am wonderful certainly. We don't want to become cheap wonderful. We want to become really wonderful by serving Krsna. That is our mission
- I want that some ideal families of Krishna Consciousness should be established in your country, so that people can see that our movement is not one sided or dry. So we do not want dry renouncers
- If a human being does not understand this fact - that he is not this body, he is changing his body, but he is spirit soul - then he is no better than the cats and dogs. We do not want to keep the human society in the category of cats and dogs
- If we can sell some copies of our publications, books and literature, and we can maintain our establishment, somehow, we shall think it is a great success; we don't want anything more
- If you can help to organize our cow program in Mayapur, it will be a great credit for you. We must be able to grow our own fodder for the cows. We don't want to have to purchase food for the cows outside from some other party
- It is not our proposition that you are Christian, you become Hindu, or you become Christian, increase our numerical strength. We don't want. We don't want any numerical strength. We want one sincere person who has learned to love God, Krsna. That's all
- It is not that if you do not come in that dress in our temple you will not understand our philosophy. That is not... We don't mean that. But it is convenient. But anyone who does not want to change this dress, that does not matter. We don't insist
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- Our life is simple. We don't want luxury. We don't want luxury, but as we are accustomed in so many ways, as far as possible. But life should be very simple. To increase unnecessary things unnecessarily, that is material life
- Our mission is very nice. We want to see everyone happy. We don't want anything from anyone
- Our position is servant of the servant. We don't want to become master of the master
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- That democracy is the ruination of civilization... So we want to remain in the minority. We don't want to be ruled by the majority
- That is being explained, that we don't want to stop sleeping, but minimize it
- The progress which is going on, let it go; we do not want that, but it has come so far, it is not possible to stop it. But here is the remedy: you can purify it
- These so-called Hindus are generally impersonalists, and we do not want to have anything to do with them; better we stick to our own standard, and eventually they will all come to us for learning what is God
- These young boys and girls, they do not go to cinema. They do not smoke. They do not go any restaurant or club. Why? Virakti! Don't want this!
- They are pointing out the irregularities in others. They came to serve, now they don't want to serve so there is some excuse. Oh, irregularity, let me go away. The workers should not suggest irregularities
- This business, cheaters and cheated. We preach to the innocent persons who are being cheated, and we don't want to cheat anybody, but what Krsna says. Our business is very simple
- This whole campus should be for devotees. We don't want tenant. And it should be developed for that purpose, for developing Krsna consciousness. Either here or outside India or anywhere, this principle should be followed
- Those who are devotees, they have no kama. Anyabhilasita-sunyam (Brs. 1.1.11). Anya. Anya means other than Krsna's service. They have made all, everything zero. We don't want all these things. We simply want to serve Krsna
- To have immediate result of material profit, the Vedas recommend, "All right, you worship this demigod, that demigod." So our concern is we don't want any material profit; we want Krsna. Therefore we do not require to worship demigods
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- Ultimately, you become so-called healthy or not healthy, you'll die, that is the fact; so we do not want that kind of healthy life
- Unless there is absolute necessity, we do not wish to kill even a tree, what to speak of animals
- Unnecessarily we do not want to criticize anyone. But when there is necessity, because we are preacher, it may be sometimes you'll be faced with opposite elements, so we have to criticize in that respect
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- We actually do not want anyone to live there who is not a devotee. Note this policy and do the needful
- We are anxious to open centers; people, the go-khara people, may come and take advantage of it. That is our mission. We don't want that they remain go-kharas and lose the chance of this human body
- We do not want any extra money for sense gratification, but Krishna is so kind He is supplying the necessary amount
- We do not want any remuneration for this service because we have engaged ourselves in the service of the Lord
- We do not want liberation. We want to serve the purpose of the Gosvamis, in association with pure devotees. To stop birth and death is not our purpose
- We do not want money. But they are having money by so many ways. So we take their money and construct a temple. We can sit down here and chant Hare Krsna. We don't require that temple
- We do not want stopping the natural instincts of the living entities, we simply want them to be dovetailed in Krishna's service
- We do not want to become alone guru, but we want to preach in such a way that every, the chief man, or any man, he can become guru in his surroundings
- We do not want to become great philosophers but rather to understand the philosophy in our own books
- We do not want to become Krsna. We are trying to become Krsna's servant. That is the difference between Mayavada philosophy and Vaisnava philosophy
- We do not want to create a group of prakrta sahajiya, or devotees who do not know the science of Krishna and do not know the science of devotion, but simply worship the Deity with no depth of knowledge
- We do not want to see how . . . what kind of rituals and performances you are doing. Phalena pariciyate. We want to see the result, how much you have tried or how much you have developed your love of Godhead. That's all
- We don't want any numerical strength. We want one sincere person who has learned to love God, Krsna. That's all
- We don't want any political independence, social reformation, or humanitarian benefit, nothing; we simply request people, "Please chant Hare Krsna and come with us," that's all
- We don't want babaji class. We want active preachers
- We don't want cities; for the time it may go on, but as we make progress, there will be no necessity
- We don't want even the exalted place like Brahma in this material world. We don't want. That is our determination. We want Krsna, go back to home, back to Godhead
- We don't want men giving some quotation from a book just like these so-called scholars do. He has not gone through the book, but take some suitable passage and note, and then he advertises himself that he has studied so many book
- We don't want millions of stars; we want one moon. That will save you. You always remember: try to become moon, not to become star. Useless
- We don't want Rolls Royce, we can walk. But if you offer Rolls Royce, I have no objection
- We don't want these professional men. We want men who have sacrificed their life for God
- We don't want to disturb the present condition of the society. No. But we try to make them understand that, "There is a great necessity of you to understand this Krsna consciousness." That is our goal
- We don't want to disturb your position. Whatever you are, you remain. But you hear about Krsna. Then gradually Krsna will be conquered by you. Ajita Allah Krsna
- We don't want to give any chance for Maya to enter in our business. That should be our motto, and we should be very much vigilant
- We don't want to irritate anyone; if he goes away by your aggressive tactics, then you are nonsense and it is your failure
- We don't want to stop all the activities. But they are busy always. Ask all these men, they are obstructing, "What these people are doing?" You see? There is no end of their sense gratification
- We know Krsna is feeding. But if he's a rascal, we don't want. We don't want to feed the rascals, we want to feed the devotees
- We should always ask: "Krsna, I don't want any facility of this material world. I am not worthy to serve You; still, I am begging. Give me this facility so that I can get the chance to serve You."
- We want men who will follow the rules and regulations and fully trained up; otherwise we don't want
- We want one moon, not millions of stars. We don't want
- We want to educate; we don't want to take part in administration, but the administration should be under our guidance
- We want to keep that land, we do not want to break the agreement, therefore I have formed this committee
- We want to serve Krsna. We want to offer everything to Krsna. We do not want to enjoy anything ourself. That is Vaisnavism
- Why he should be given this business? He's such irresponsible man. He should not be given any responsible work. Our first business should see how he is advanced in devotion. We don't want so-called scholars
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- You are experienced and if you take up the charge of our gurukula, it will be a great relief for me, but the principles are described above. We do not want anything more or less
- You can save this money by minimizing the expenditures in the luxury departments of Sanskrit and artists. We do not want these departments for the time being. One or two men must suffice for Sanskrit work
- You have been married for a year and a half but do not have any desire for children. Then why did you marry? That is my question. If you do not want children, then why did you marry? You should not take sannyasa