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.
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.
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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, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
„Religion means to know God and to love Him.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 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
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights, Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 31, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/31/41
„The gross materialists do not believe in the existence of God or the demigods. Nor do they believe that different planets are dominated by different demigods. They are creating a great commotion about reaching the closest celestial body, Candraloka, or the Moon, but even after much mechanical research they have only very scanty information of this Moon, and in spite of much false advertisement for selling land on the Moon, the puffed-up scientists or gross materialists cannot live there, and what to speak of reaching the other planets, which they are unable even to count.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science, Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 2, Chapter 3, verse 11, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/2/3/11
„In this regard, the word vikhyatam is very significant. A man is always famous for his aggression toward a beautiful woman, and such aggression is sometimes considered rape. Although rape is not legally allowed, it is a fact that a woman likes a man who is very expert at rape.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights, Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 4, Chapter 25, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/4/25/41
„Just like Lord Jesus Christ. He never advised to, for economic development, for industrial development, or this and that. So many things. He sacrificed everything for God. That is one test, that "Here is a lover of God." He was punished that "You, you stop this preaching," but he did not. So that is love of God. He sacrificed everything. That is love of God. So the ideal is Lord Jesus Christ, and the follower must be, at least to some extent, to that point. That is test. So we say that you follow any religious path. That doesn't matter. We want to see whether you are lover of God. That is our propaganda. And if one is serious about loving God, it doesn't matter in which way he'll develop that dormant love.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God, Room Conversation - August 14, 1971, London. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/We_say_that_you_follow_any_religious_path._That_doesn%27t_matter._We_want_to_see_whether_you_are_lover_of_God._That_is_our_propaganda._And_if_one_is_serious_about_loving_God,_it_doesn%27t_matter_in_which_way_he%27ll_develop_that_dormant_love
„If you want to love God, there is nothing throughout the whole world which can check you. Simply you have to develop your eagerness: "Kṛṣṇa, I want You." That's all. Then there is no question of checking. In any condition you'll increase your love, increase your love.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God, Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 1 - Los Angeles, May 3, 1970. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/If_you_want_to_love_God,_there_is_nothing_throughout_the_whole_world_which_can_check_you._Simply_you_have_to_develop_your_eagerness:_%22Krsna,_I_want_You.%22_That%27s_all._Then_there_is_no_question_of_checking
„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
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science, Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 1, Chapter 15, verse 12, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/15/12
„Materialistic people are sometimes called sudras, or descendants of monkeys, due to their monkey like intelligence. They do not care to know how the evolutionary process is taking place, nor are they eager to know what will happen after they finish their small human life span. This is the attitude of sudras. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission, this Krishna consciousness movement, is trying to elevate sudras to the brahmana platform so that they will know the real goal of life. Unfortunately, being overly attached to sense gratification, materialists are not serious in helping this movement. Instead, some of them try to suppress it. Thus it is the business of monkeys to disturb the activities of the brahmanas.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Canto 5, Chapter 14, verse 31. (1999)
„When one's relationship with the Supreme Lord is established, the next program is to act in that relationship. This is called abhidheya, or activity in relationship with the Lord. After executing such prescribed duties, when one attains the highest goal of life, love of Godhead, he achieves prayojana-siddhi, or the fulfillment of his human mission.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā 7.146, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, (1975) Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/After_executing_such_prescribed_duties,_when_one_attains_the_highest_goal_of_life,_love_of_Godhead,_he_achieves_prayojana-siddhi,_or_the_fulfillment_of_his_human_mission]
„The topmost devotee sees everything in Krishna, and Krishna in everything.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Letter to Satsvarupa, San Francisco, http://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/san_francisco/april/09/1968/satsvarupa?d=1 (9 April 1968)
„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.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Letter to Satsvarupa, San Francisco, (9 April 1968)
