Category:Who Can (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement across the globe, Śrīla Prabhupāda required a vast network of highly qualified and responsible individuals. He knew that the material world is devoid of genuine spiritual leadership, so he constantly searched for disciples "who can" execute specific, demanding duties with precision and purity. Whether identifying fastidious managers, intelligent writers, sober preachers, or renounced householders, Śrīla Prabhupāda expertly assessed the unique capabilities of his followers. By establishing rigorous standards and training a new generation of purely motivated brāhmaṇas, he ensured that the heavy responsibility of guiding human society would rest in the most capable hands.
- Capable Writers and Translators: The highest preaching is the distribution of books, requiring meticulous translators and intelligent writers who can flawlessly present the philosophy.
- Internal Purity and Self-Control: True capability is measured by one's ability to maintain strict vows of celibacy and spiritual discipline, whether living as a renounced monk or as a responsible householder.
- Fastidious Management: Expanding a global mission requires highly responsible, conscientious men who can be fully entrusted with solving problems, supervising tasks, and managing collections.
- Training Future Leaders: Because modern society lacks an intelligent, brahminical head, Śrīla Prabhupāda deliberately trained a new generation of youth specifically to preach and guide humanity.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Identifies Disciples Who Can Take Up the Heavy Responsibilities of Preaching.
Pages in category "Who Can (Disciples of SP)"
The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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- I am very glad to know that your pen is inspired to create, because we are in need of many intelligent writers who can express our Krishna consciousness philosophy nicely
- I receive so many letters daily that "I wish to marry." Immediately I sanction, "Yes, you get yourself married." But one who is strict, one who can follow very rigidly the orders of brahmacari and sannyasi, they continue
- If our books were translated into Japanese language, it will be a great help to us and to you also because it will be another opportunity for printing books. So, why not give us a good translator who can regularly translate all our books into Japanese?
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- Regarding your question about the husband becoming the Spiritual Master of the wife, anyone who can give instructing in spiritual life is treated as Spiritual Master. There are two kinds of Spiritual Master, initiator and instructor
- Regarding your report on Hanuman, I am forwarding your letter to Hrdayananda Goswami who can present this problem to the GBC for their solution
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- That is the real preaching, selling books. Who can speak better than the books?
- These two places will be reserved for those who cannot collect. For them I am making provision. Only the active members who can collect, they shall live in the city. Eating, sleeping members, they shall live in Mayapur, that's all
- To supervise this essential Krishna Conscious activity requires a very fastidious person, one who can remember everything and be very conscientious to prepare everything nicely, be timely
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- We are teaching in our Dallas children simply to learn Sanskrit. They have nothing to do anything else. They are not going to be technologist or servant of everyone. No. We want some generation who can preach Krsna consciousness
- We want some generation who can preach Krsna consciousness; so if they learn simply English and Sanskrit, they will be able to read this book, and that is sufficient
- We want to create some men who can give guidance to the human society, because at the present moment the society is without any intelligent head, namely Brahmins