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Excerpts from Prabhupada Memories DVD Series

(Part 5)

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(Following are selected notes taken from "Prabhupada Memories DVD Series" on YouTube

These DVDs are a series of interviews with the direct disciples of Srila Prabhupada reminiscing about him)

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Note:

The credits of creating the videos are with their producers, my part is only in distilling chosen words of Prabhupada from them that I found notable.

The youtube links to the DVDs are provided by their number; I encourage you to watch them yourself and share along.

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Haribol

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DVD #75:

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• Srila Prabhupad smelled like sandalwood & gardenias

• This (upavita=brahmana thread) doesnt make you a brahmana, it gives you the opportunity to become a brahmana

• To serve Krishna, nothing should be tasted prior by cook/server; but for Prabhupada it should be.

• Best if you can stay brahmachari; sex life is like an itch; if you keep scratching the itch it becomes infected

  • trivia

    • "mosquitoes in Miami have respect but mosquitoes in India have no respect"

• Tulasi should be on the altar

• "I think?" -- I think means I dont know

• before we can talk about Krishna, we have to hear and understand about Krishna (this is Sravanam')

• In Nector of Devotion, Prabhupada states "one can be moved to ‘spontaneos’ devotional service just by seeing a pure devotee"

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DVD #76:

 

• Dont be too smart with the spiritual master. hype doesnt cut it.

• Inside temple or outside temple. always remember Krishna, never forget Krishna..and your life will be sublime.

• Devotee : Srila Prabhupad do you know everything?

• SP: No, I just know what Krishna wants me to know

• Religion without philosophy is sentimentalism; philosophy without religion is aimless mental speculation.

• (If you are sincere), noone can impede your devotion to your guru, to Krishna..no matter how many obstacles

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DVD #77:

 

To Harikesh das prabhu:

• You never wear anything with the holy name (not even bead bags) because it will touch different parts of your body and you might accidentally sit on it (which is an offence)

• When you travel, you can go to mundane restaurants for food if you keep it quick

• For Srila Prabhupada good food meant good hot puffed steaming chapatis & Srutakirti das was the chapati ‘acharya’

• SP had an argument with Harikesh pr about chapati making; to prove his point SP himself went in to the kitchen and showed how to make chapatis on low heat. This incident happened in Bombay (the string of bad chapatis started during his travels in Mauritius but climax ended thus in Bombay)

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DVD #79:

• Janaki dd - you dont stop material activities, you replace (it with spiritual)

• Sivananda das - 90% of all sickness (of the body) is caused by the mind (ie mind affects the body)

• Bhakta das -Govinda prayers played first time in Los Angeles - Visnujan turned on the tape & SP liked it

  • at LA temple at the end of a grave lecture - "Either you Love Krishna or you love the vag*na"

(this was followed by a long deafening silence)

• Sahadevi dd - if you are reading my books then you are pleasing me

• Nandini dd - the most imp thing you need to teach children is to Love them

• During the Rathyatras, SP sat on the Subhadra mataji's chariot

• Is a pure devotee more merciful than Krishna — oh yes! said Prabhupada

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Jai JagatGuru Srila Bhaktivedanta Prabhupad ki Jai !