A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Indian Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual teacher, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and the man who, at sixty-nine years of age in 1965, sailed from Calcutta to New York with seven dollars and a trunk of books to carry the Hare Krishna lineage of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534) to the West. Born Abhay Charan De in 1896 in Calcutta, initiated by his guru Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati in 1933, he received the order to bring Krishna consciousness to the English-speaking world and spent the next twelve years preparing — translating, writing, and finally embarking on the voyage that would establish ISKCON in 1966. By the time of his death in 1977 he had circled the globe fourteen times, founded over a hundred temples, written or translated more than seventy volumes (including the canonical Bhagavad-gītā As It Is and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam), and trained the disciples who would carry the movement forward. His teaching centers on bhakti-yoga — the path of devotion — and on the chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra as the most accessible spiritual practice for the present age (Kali Yuga).
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Quotes by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
115 quotes“You are not this body. You are spirit soul, eternal servant of Krishna.”
“The soul is not born, nor does it ever die.”
“The soul is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval.”
“It is not slain when the body is slain.”
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
“Weapons cannot cut the soul, nor can fire burn it.”
“Water cannot moisten it, nor can wind dry it.”
“This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble.”
“Love of God means love of every living entity.”
“You cannot love God without loving every living being.”
“And you cannot truly love every living being without loving God.”
“The Hare Krishna mantra is the easiest method of self-realization in this age.”
“Just chant Hare Krishna and your life will be sublime.”
“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy name of the Lord.”
“There is no other way, no other way, no other way.”
“Real religion means to know God, to love God, and to serve God.”
“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, sometimes fanaticism.”
“Philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”
“The simplest way to think of Krishna is as the all-attractive person.”
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