Frases de Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Data de nascimento: 1. Setembro 1896
Data de falecimento: 14. Novembro 1977
Outros nomes: ए सी भक्तिवेदान्त स्वमी प्रभुपद, Swami Prabhupada
Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada foi um líder religioso indiano, fundador da Sociedade Internacional para a Consciência de Krishna, comumente conhecida como Movimento Hare Krishna. Nascido em Calcutá, Prabhupada migrou para os Estados Unidos em 1965 e surgiu como uma figura importante da contracultura ocidental, apresentando a cultura védica a milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo. Seus seguidores o reconhecem como mensageiro de Krishna.Apesar dos ataques de membros da comunidade acadêmica e de grupos de apologética cristã, Prabhupada recebeu acolhida favorável de muitos estudiosos da religião, tais como J. Stillson Judá, Harvey Cox, Shinn Larry e Thomas Hopkins, que elogiou as traduções de Prabhupada e defendeu seu movimento contra as imagens distorcidas e as más apresentações veiculadas pela mídia.
Prabhupada foi descrito como um líder carismático, no sentido usado pelo sociólogo Max Weber, devido à sua bem-sucedida aquisição de seguidores nos Estados Unidos, Índia, Austrália, países da Europa, da África e outras regiões. Após sua morte, o Movimento Hare Krishna continuou a crescer e desenvolver-se e está presente até os dias de hoje, contando com diferentes sedes ao redor do mundo que celebram a vida de Prabhupada e seus discípulos.
Citações Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
„Quem se deixar guiar por Jesus Cristo certamente obterá a libertação. Mas é muito difícil encontrar um homem que esteja realmente sendo orientado por Jesus Cristo.“
— Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Actually, one who is guided by Jesus Christ will certainly get liberation. But it is very hard to find a man who is actually being guided by Jesus Christ.
citado em "Krishna meets Jesus: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's Interpretations and Conclusions about Christianity", página 57 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=7hxBlYmPOHgC&pg=PA57; Por Peter Schmidt; Publicado por BoD – Books on Demand, 2002; ISBN 3831135703, 9783831135707; 184 páginas
„É tolice ser sábio onde a ignorância é bem-aventurança.“
— Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss
em entrevista http://prabhupadabooks.com/?g=161265 a John Nordheimer para o "New York Times", 2 de setembro de 1972
„We have seen many rich persons, many powerful persons, many famous persons, many beautiful persons, many learned and scholarly persons, and persons in the renounced order of life unattached to material possessions. But we have never seen any one person who is unlimitedly and simultaneously wealthy, powerful, famous, beautiful, wise and unattached, like Kṛṣṇa, in the history of humanity. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is a historical person who appeared on this earth 5,000 years ago. He stayed on this earth for 125 years and played exactly like a human being, but His activities were unparalleled. From the very moment of His appearance to the moment of His disappearance, every one of His activities is unparalleled in the history of the world, and therefore anyone who knows what we mean by Godhead will accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to the Godhead, and no one is greater than Him. That is the import of the familiar saying “God is great.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Fonte: Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
„Religion means to know God and to love Him.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Fonte: The Science of Self-Realization
„A woman’s attachment to her husband may elevate her to the body of a man in her next life, but a mans attachment to woman will degrade him, and in his next life he will get the body of a woman.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 31, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/31/41
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights
„Now, in the Manu-samhita it is clearly stated that a woman should not be given freedom. That does not mean that women are to be kept as slaves, but they are like children. The demons have now neglected such injunctions, and they think that women should be given as much freedom as men.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Chapter 16, verse 7, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/16/7
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights
„Modern scientists and so-called scholars think that there are no living entities on planets other than this one. Recently they have said that they have gone to the Moon but did not find any living entities there. But Srimad-Bhagavatam and the other Vedic literatures do not agree with this foolish conception.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 7, Chapter 14, verse 36, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/7/14/36
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science
„Serving means developing love. So unless you develop your love for God you cannot serve Him. Anywhere. Whenever you give some service, it is based on love. Just like mother giving service to the helpless child. Why? Love. So similarly, our life will be perfect when our love is perfect with the perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then it is all right.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lecture - Seattle, https://vanisource.org/wiki/680927_-_Lecture_-_Seattle (30 September 1968)
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God
„However great a woman may be, she must place herself before her husband in this way; that is to say, she must be ready to carry out her husband’s orders and please him in all circumstances. Then her life will be successful. When the wife becomes as irritable as the husband, their life at home is sure to be disturbed or ultimately completely broken. In the modern day, the wife is never submissive, and therefore home life is broken even by slight incidents. Either the wife or the husband may take advantage of the divorce laws. According to the Vedic law, however, there is no such thing as divorce laws, and a woman must be trained to be submissive to the will of her husband. Westerners contend that this is a slave mentality for the wife, but factually it is not; it is the tactic by which a woman can conquer the heart of her husband, however irritable or cruel he may be. In this case we clearly see that although Cyavana Muni was not young but indeed old enough to be Sukanya’s grandfather and was also very irritable, Sukanya, the beautiful young daughter of a king, submitted herself to her old husband and tried to please him in all respects. Thus she was a faithful and chaste wife.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 9, Chapter 6, verse 53, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/9/6/53
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights
„Why not make me an Hon. teacher in the Religion Department for teaching the cult of Lord Caitanya which is the living religion of the world. All other religions of the world are carried by more sentiments than philosophy but Caitanya cult is full of philosophy and transcendental sentiments or emotions.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Letter to Kirtanananda, New York, 14 April, 1967 PrabhupadaBooks.com http://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/new_york/april/14/1967/kirtanananda?d=1
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Religious and Cultural Elitism
„The Moon is also on the level with the heavenly planets, and only persons who have performed virtues only — performing sacrifices, giving charity and undergoing severe austerities — can be allowed to enter into the heavenly planets after the duration of life of the body. Arjuna was allowed to enter into the heavenly planets in the selfsame body simply by the grace of the Lord, otherwise it is not possible to do so. The present attempts to enter into the heavenly planets by the modern scientists will certainly prove futile because such scientists are not on the level of Arjuna. They are ordinary human beings, without any assets of sacrifice, charity or austerities.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 1, Chapter 15, verse 12, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/15/12
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science
„We are not teaching some ritualistic process, that "You become Hindu. You become Christian. You become Muhammadan." We are simply teaching, "You try to love God. You have forgotten God. You have declared, 'God is dead.' These are all nonsense. God is there. You are here. You are suffering because you have forgotten God. You try to love God. Your normal life will come back. You will be happy."“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.7-10 - Los Angeles, (6 January 1969) Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/You_have_forgotten_God._You_have_declared,_%27God_is_dead.%27_These_are_all_nonsense._God_is_there._You_are_here._You_are_suffering_because_you_have_forgotten_God._You_try_to_love_God._Your_normal_life_will_come_back._You_will_be_happy._This_is_KC_movement
Quotes from other Sources
„Those who are yogis, bhakta-yogis, because they are in love with God, Kṛṣṇa, they are seeing every moment within their heart the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Anyone you love, you see always within your heart. Similarly, if you have love for God, Kṛṣṇa, then you can see Kṛṣṇa always. That is called yoga system.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lecture on The Nectar of Devotion - Bombay, December 27, 1972. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Anyone_you_love,_you_see_always_within_your_heart._Similarly,_if_you_have_love_for_God,_Krsna,_then_you_can_see_Krsna_always._That_is_called_yoga_system
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God
„Certainly we are not going to say these things about the negro people publicly; we have no distinction between black or white, or demon or demigod, but at the same time, so long as one is demon or demigod, we have to behave in the proper way. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu; He had no distinction between a tiger and a man. He was so powerful that He could convert even a tiger to dance. But so far as we are concerned, we should not imitate and go to some tiger and try to make him dance! But still, tiger is equally eligible like a man. So, you can understand that these talks are not for the public, as they have not got the ability to understand. Basically we have not got hatred for anyone, but when one is demoniac or atheistic, we should try to avoid their company. A preacher’s business is to love God, to make friendship with devotees, to enlighten the innocent, and to avoid the demons. This principle we shall follow. But in higher devotional life, there is no such distinction.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Letter to Satsvarupa, San Francisco, 9 April, 1968 PrabhupadaBooks.com http://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/san_francisco/april/09/1968/satsvarupa?d=1
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Racism and Homophobia
„When a husbandless woman is attacked by an aggressive man, she takes his action to be mercy. A woman is generally very much attracted by a man’s long arms. A serpent’s body is round, and it becomes narrower and thinner at the end. The beautiful arms of a man appear to a woman just like serpents, and she very much desires to be embraced by such arms. The word anatha-varga is very significant in this verse. Natha means “husband,” and a means “without.” A young woman who has no husband is called anatha, meaning “one who is not protected.” As soon as a woman attains the age of puberty, she immediately becomes very much agitated by sexual desire. It is therefore the duty of the father to get his daughter married before she attains puberty. Otherwise she will be very much mortified by not having a husband. Anyone who satisfies her desire for sex at that age becomes a great object of satisfaction. It is a psychological fact that when a woman at the age of puberty meets a man and the man satisfies her sexually, she will love that man for the rest of her life, regardless who he is. Thus so-called love within this material world is nothing but sexual satisfaction.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 25, verse 42, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/4/25/42
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights
„Love of God is not an ordinary commodity. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was worshiped by Rūpa Gosvāmī because He distributed love of God, kṛṣṇa-premā, to everyone. Rūpa Gosvāmī praised Him as mahā-vadānya, a greatly munificent personality, because He was freely distributing to everyone love of Godhead, which is achieved by wise men only after many, many births. Kṛṣṇa-premā, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is the highest gift which can be bestowed on anyone whom we presume to love.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 chapter 23 verse 8, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, (1972) Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Love_of_God_is_not_an_ordinary_commodity._Caitanya_Mahaprabhu_was_worshiped_by_Rupa_Gosvami_because_He_distributed_love_of_God,_krsna-prema,_to_everyone
Quotes from Books: Loving God
„As far as the approved method is concerned, it is enjoined in the sastras that intelligent men in this age will take to the sankirtana movement, and by so doing they shall worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Caitanya, whose bodily complexion is golden and who is always accompanied by His confidential devotees to preach this Krishna consciousness movement all over the world. In its present condition, the world can only be saved by introducing this sankirtana, this Krishna consciousness movement. As we have learned from the previous verse, one who is not in Krishna consciousness is considered a thief.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 18, verse 8, purport. Vedabase http://vedabase.net/sb/4/18/8/en1
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Religious and Cultural Elitism
