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Several times Prabhupada mentions that women have softer hearts and are more inclined towards Krishna (God) Consciousness so where did He express surprise at the number of women gravitating towards Krsna?

Yes there are exceptions. Devotees are special souls whether encased in male or female bodies.

Why speculate? Ask her. She is at New Goloka. Anyway, I don't think this has anything to do with her since she is on the list to become diksa guru not sannyasi. You don't have to be sannyasi to be diksa guru in Iskcon.

by Ananta Purusottama das Posted on Chakra News site May 21, 2005 I am not entirely sure what the gist of Subhadra Mayi prabhu's article is ("Are we in darkness", Nov. 1, 2004), but as far as her example of the story of Rahu, I can offer my own realisation on such seemingly far-out events. The Srimad Bhagavatam is written by Srila Vyasadeva, and within it are many wonderful prayers and pastimes of the Lord. It is not written by fools, and they would have no time for stories. By Lord Krsna's various potencies, many wonderful phenomena occur in the world, such as a spider weaving a web, a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, and countless other wonders. Whilst I don't fully understand such wonders, still I have no real good reasons not to accept them, except my own conditioning, partly influenced by atheists who cannot accept what they cannot see. I think we all know the arguments to defeat that, however. What gain is there for me not taking the Srimad Bhagavatam as it is, 100 percent, and accepting only the parts I like? What will I lose by accepting every word of Srimad Bhagavatam as it is? Nothing but my pride and vanity. I can't explain how it is Lord Brahma has four heads, but centipedes have 100 legs, so we can see many amazing things already. I listen to recordings of Srila Prabhupada a lot, and I like the way he said, regarding those who do not believe in so many incredible stories: "They should disprove; we do not have to prove," or words to that effect. In other words, the scriptures were written before I was born in this body. What use is my intellect in trying to fully comprehend them? What audacity do I have to say they are not true, but only myths written by some uneducated people from times gone by. Taking a closer look, what about the wonderful verses contained within scripture, predictions, wonderful prayers, great characters and so forth? How could all that be written by some third-class fools? At the end of the day, I guess it's up to us what we are able to accept. On one morning walk, Srila Prabhupada told the devotees that they have to accept "acintya-sakti", inconceivable power, as they cannot understand the Lord's potencies. I think it is only faith to accept or not accept, but perhaps it is not right even to try to guess what might be meant by some event or pastime.

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Your post is what I mean by the answer to the original question goes deeper than what I posted above.

I am still thinking on this question. It would seem that while training someone to perform the activities of a devotee the seed of Bhakti would be planted and the continued activities would water this seed until it blossomed into love of Krishna. That is just a surface, off the top of my head type of answer. I feel it is much deeper than this and look forward to hearing the responses from others on this board.

This question was presented at an Iskcon devotee training seminar several years back. "Can you train someone to be a devotee or can you merely train someone to do the activities of a devotee? "

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This is how it is written in the translation I am reading.

Please pin this thread so it stays at top.

This is an excellent website. Bravo

I like your poety very much gHari. Should the other topic be put into another thread so as not to distract from the original intent of this thread?

Nice! Sastra Dana

If this was said then why wasn't it made public knowledge in 1977? When was this book written?

Did Srila Prabhupada ever express this instruction to any of His disciples and/or did He put this instruction in writing to any one or anywhere?

Is there any reference where Srila Prabhupada put this in writing or spoke this desire to any of His disciples?

God speaks your language, my language, their language.

Ahhh. Yes the example of the Himalayas helped. Thanks.

Can you elaborate more on this please?

That helps.

http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/waw/mad/mad19.html