“It is a fact that by serving the bona fide Spiritual Master one becomes free from material life and makes spiritual advancement. Personally I have not done anything very wonderful. If I have done anything of credit it is that I have not changed the teachings. I have not added anything of my own interpretation.”
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 May 16
Now our policy should be that at Dallas we shall create first-class men, and we shall teach the girls two things. One thing is how to become chaste and faithful to their husband and how to cook nicely. If these two qualifications they have, I will take guarantee to get for them good husband. I’ll personally… Yes. These two qualifications required. She must learn how to prepare first-class foodstuff, and she must learn how to become chaste and faithful to the husband. Only these two qualification required. Then her life is successful. So try to do that. Ordinary education is sufficient, ABCD. This is all nonsense, so big, big, sound education and later on become a prostitute. What is this education? To make them prostitute, it doesn’t require education.
Morning Walk Conversation July 10, 1975
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada wrote to one of his female disciples:
"You ask about marriage, yes, actually I want that every woman in the Society should be married. But what is this training to become wives and mothers? No school is required for that, simply association…. A woman’s real business is to look after household affairs, keep everything neat and clean, and if there is sufficient milk supply available, she should always be engaged in churning butter, making yogurt, curd, so many nice varieties, simply from milk. The woman should be cleaning, sewing, like that. So if you simply practice these things yourselves and show examples, they will learn automatically, one doesn’t have to give formal instruction in these matters."
– (Letter to: Chaya dasi, Feb 16, 1972)
"So this Kardama Muni did it. Because he was a yogi, he strictly followed the principle. So as soon as Kapiladeva was grown up, the mother, Devahuti, was given in His charge and Kardama Muni left home. Therefore it is said that pitari prasthite aranyam matuh priya-cikirsaya.
Now it is the duty of the son. Women should be under the protection. In the Manu-samhita it issaid that woman should not be given freedom. Na stri svatantryam arhati. They cannot properly utilize freedom. It is better to remain dependent. That is very good. Independent woman cannot be happy. That’s a fact. We have seen in the Western countries, on, in the name of independence, so many women are unhappy. So that is not recommended in the Vedic civilization and on the varnasrama-dharma."
Prabhupada’s lecture given at Bombay on November 5, 1974 on Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.5-6
Srila Prabhupada:
visaya chadiya kabe suddha habe mana
kabe hama heraba sri-vrndavana
[Lalasamayi]
You have come to Vrndavana to see, but if you have got visaya, then you are blind. You cannot see Vrndavana. That is not possible. Visaya chadiya. Visaya means this ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithuna, eating, sleeping, mating and defending.
Vrndavana is meant for the paramahamsas, like the gosvamis. But we think that coming to Vrndavana we become gosvamis immediately. Of course… But those who are thinking like that, "Simply by coming to Vrndavana I have become gosvamis," and treating like cats and dogs — they are Vrndavana’s dogs. They, such persons who want to enjoy material facilities in Vrndavana, their next life will be to take birth as monkey and the pig and the dog in this Vrndavana. Then "My Vrndavana habitation is false?" No, it is not false. After this birth you’ll be delivered. But because he treated himself as cats and dogs, therefore he has to take the birth of dogs, pigs and like that, monkeys, and then next birth. So you don’t think that the Vrndavana dogs, monkeys and pigs, they’re ordinary living beings; they are also Vaisnavas, but due to their animal propensity they have to undergo. Material nature is so strong. Daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya [Bg. 7.14]. But this one life is sufficient for punishment –no more. That is the advantage. Therefore you will see there are many devotees in Vrndavana, just sticking. So this is one
side.
So visaya chadiya kabe suddha habe mana. We must remember this fact. Visaya chadiya kabe suddha habe mana: we have to cleanse our heart, completely free from desires of visaya. That is required. If we actually take advantage of Vrndavana, then we must.
Lecture in Vrndavana, February 8, 1974
So our plan is to chant “Jaya Rama!” and jump over the material world to the spiritual world. That is required, not working hard to improve our material condition.
From a lecture by Srila Prabhupada, quoted in BTG #33-01.
In that case they become foolish. Before zero and after zero, why in the middle for a few years so much struggle and plan?
Then they say that “We are doing it for our grandsons.” If the grandson is zero–he is going to be zero–who is grandson and who is grandfather? For zeros you are making so much struggle. From logical point of view, how much foolish they are. So much competition, so much plans, so many politics, so many intrigues, so many fight, war, and so on, so on, so on. Why? What for improvement, if it is going to be zero at last?
Srila Prabhupada, Conversation, 12 Aug 1976.
Srila Prabhupada, quoted in Back to Godhead Magazine #16-07, 1981
The other day some gentleman was asking me, "So why are there so many religions?" The reply is that religion is one. God is one; religion is one, because religion means the codes, the law given by God. So this law is this, that: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekamsaranam vraja. So therefore religion is one, but because we are disobedient to the orders of God, or Krsna, we have manufactured so many religions. So they are not actually religions.
They are concoctions, a kind of faith. That will not help us. Therefore we have already explained, sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje [SB 1.2.6]
Srila Prabhupada, Lecture
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India, unknown date
We act according to our whims, and the resultant action is there immediately. Nature’s law, God’s law, is there. It is not God’s creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No. We infect ourselves with some contamination because this material world is full of contamination. You must remain very cautious. Otherwise you will have to suffer.
Mayapur, March 19, 1976
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