zrIla PrabhupAda's first instruction

August 14, 1999

Thank you for your understanding. YS KKdasi

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De : COM: Harsi (das) HKS (Timisoara - RO) <Harsi.HKS (AT) bbt (DOT) se>

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Cc : COM: Prabhupada Said <Prabhupada.Said (AT) bbt (DOT) se>

Date : samedi 14 août 1999 20:38

Objet : zrIla PrabhupAda's first instruction

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>> > "My first instruction to all of my disciples is that they should help

me

>> > spread this Krsna Consciousness movement all over the world, utilizing

>> > their energy as best they are able to do it." Letter to: Hasyakari and

>> > others, 9 January, 1973

>>

>> It is important that in this forum we do not take the quotes out of

>> context. It is very easy to give a different meaning to these quotes,

>> since we are not acquainted with the overall situation when Prabhupada

>> said those words.

>>

>> Prabhupada also said that his first and most important instruction was to

>> chant 16 rounds.

>

>How about - "Save yourself first", before one may attempt to save others,

>and I mean not only on the spiritual platform.

>Often we could see in out ISKCON history that devotees who are living

>together in a project are themselves made so dependant from others for

their

>maintanance that they have problems to save themselves what to speak of

>others. To decentralize this autoritarian communistic structures and allow

>more privat personal initiative would be, I think also a favorable way to

>"help SP spread this Krsna Consciousness movement all over the world,

>utilizing (our) energys as best (we) are able to do it."

>What do you think?

>

> Your servant

> Harsi das

>

August 14, 1999