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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Data di nascita: 1. Settembre 1896
Data di morte: 14. Novembre 1977
Altri nomi: ए सी भक्तिवेदान्त स्वमी प्रभुपद, Swami Prabhupada

Abhay Charan De, meglio conosciuto con il nome religioso A.C. Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda o Śrīla Prabhupāda , è stato un missionario e scrittore indiano viṣṇuita.

Fu maestro spirituale nella catena disciplica , fondata dal mistico bengalese del XVI secolo Caitanya .

Fondatore dell'ISKCON , associazione religiosa che si propone di diffondere il viṣṇuismo gauḍīya in Occidente, Prabhupada è anche autore di numerosi scritti, traduzioni e commentari alla letteratura dei Veda, alle Upaniṣad, alla Bhagavadgītā, al Bhāgavata Purāṇa e al Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

Frasi A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

„Colui che non mostra inimicizia verso gli uomini ma diventa il nemico o l'assassino di bestie innocenti è certamente animato da uno spirito demoniaco. Nell'era in cui viviamo è lo Stato stesso che dà prova di questa inimicizia verso gli animali, ridotti a vivere in un'angoscia continua.“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda
Origine: Da Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam [commentario], 1.10.6; citato in 1992, pp. 52-53.

Animali, Sugli uomini

„[Alla domanda: «è possibile che Kṛṣṇa autorizzi a mangiare carne?»] Sì, nel regno animale. Ma l'uomo civilizzato, religioso, non è fatto per uccidere gli animali e mangiarseli. Se smettete di uccidere gli animali e cantate il santo nome di Cristo, tutto migliorerà. […] Possiamo unirci nel glorificare il nome di Dio e se avete pregiudizi verso il nome di Kṛṣṇa, cantate "Cristo" o "Kṛṣta", non c'è differenza.“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda
Origine: Da La scienza della realizzazione spirituale; citato in 1992, pp. 47-48.

Animali, Cristo, Su Dio

„In realtà, gli animali non sono materia inerte, sono invece i loro uccisori ad avere il cuore di pietra […].“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda
Origine: Da Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam [commentario], 4.26.9; citato in 1992, p. 54.

Realtà, Animali, Cuore

„L'uomo veramente civile conosce l'arte di cucinare piatti nutrienti col latte. In alcune delle nostre comunità agricole produciamo decine di prodotti fatti con il latte, tutti squisiti. I visitatori si stupiscono nel vedere quanti deliziosi si possono ottenere col latte.
Il sangue della mucca ha certamente molte qualità nutritive, ma l'uomo civile ne beneficia sotto forma di latte. Il latte, infatti, non è altro che il sangue della mucca trasformato. Dal latte si possono ricavare lo yogurt, il formaggio, il ghī (burro chiarificato) e altri prodotti. E mischiandoli con i cereali, la frutta e le verdure, si ottengono centinaia di pietanze. Questo è ciò che s'intende per civiltà, e non uccidere direttamente un animale per divorarne la carne. In tutta innocenza, le mucche mangiano l'erba che fornisce loro il Signore e producono il latte di cui l'uomo si nutre. Pensa che sia civile sgozzarle per poi mangiare la loro carne?“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda
Origine: Da La scienza della realizzazione spirituale; citato in 1992, p. 51.

Erba, Animali, Sull'arte

„I sacrifici animali in nome della religione si svolgono praticamente in tutto il mondo e in ogni religione costituita. È detto che Gesù Cristo, quando aveva dodici anni, turbato nel vedere gli ebrei che sacrificavano uccelli e animali nelle sinagoghe, respinse il sistema della religione ebraica e iniziò quello della religione cristiana per seguire il comandamento del Vecchio Testamento "non uccidere". Ma oggi non si uccidono soltanto animali in nome del sacrificio, anzi, l'uccisione di animali è enormemente aumentata e il numero dei mattatoi è sempre maggiore.“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda

Sulla religione, Animali, Uccello, Cristo

„Lo scopo dell'alimentazione è di allungare la vita, purificare la mente e rinforzare il corpo: solo questo.“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda
Origine: Da Bhagavad-gītā [commentario], 17.8-10; citato in 1992, p. 57.

„Il grasso animale viene fornito dal latte, che è l'alimento migliore. Latte, burro, formaggio e prodotti simili offrono "grasso animale" evitando la necessità di uccidere creature innocenti per ottenerlo […].“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda

„Nella Bhagavad-gītā il Signore Supremo dice che Egli accetta verdura, cereali e latte offerti con devozione; naturalmente gli ingredienti più importanti sono l'amore e la devozione.“

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Citazioni di Śrīla Prabhupāda

„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.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

Origine: Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

„Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita

Origine: The Bhagavad-gita

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„Religion means to know God and to love Him.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization

Origine: The Science of Self-Realization

„It is understood from this verse that the predominating deity of the Moon is the maintainer of all the trees and plants throughout the universe. It is due to the moonshine that trees and plants grow very luxuriantly. Therefore how can we accept the so-called scientists whose Moon expeditions have informed us that there are no trees or vegetation on the Moon? Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says, somo vrksadhisthata sa eva vrksanam raja: Soma, the predominating deity of the Moon, is the king of all vegetation. How can we believe that the maintainer of vegetation has no vegetation on his own planet?“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 6, Chapter 4, verse 6, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/6/4/6
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science

„Although there is no difference between a devotee in śānta-rasa or dāsya-rasa, vātsalya-rasa or mādhurya-rasa, one can still make a comparative study of the intensity of love in these different transcendental positions. For example, it may be said that dāsya-rasa is better than śānta-rasa, yet transcendental love of God is there in both of them.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā 8.83, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1975. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/It_may_be_said_that_dasya-rasa_is_better_than_santa-rasa,_yet_transcendental_love_of_God_is_there_in_both_of_them
Quotes from Books: Loving God

„Nobody is enjoying the result of civilization created by atheists like Ravana, Kansa, Aurangzeb, Napoleon or Hitler. Everything is in oblivion and this teaches us the lesson that the materialistic plans of the present age will also meet with the same fate after a lapse of 50 years. Therefore blind materialism does not bring in any permanent relief in the world.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Back to Godhead article by Bhaktivedanta Swami, April 20, 1956. Vanipedia http://vanisource.org/wiki/1956_Back_to_Godhead_vol_3_part_04_-_Godless_Creation
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: False Prophecies

„Soma, the predominating deity of the Moon, is the source of food grains and therefore the source of strength even for the celestial beings, the demigods. He is the vital force for all vegetation. Unfortunately, modern so-called scientists, who do not fully understand the Moon, describe the Moon as being full of deserts. Since the Moon is the source for our vegetation, how can the Moon be a desert? The moonshine is the vital force for all vegetation, and therefore we cannot possibly accept that the Moon is a desert.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 8, Chapter 5, verse 34, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/8/5/34
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science

„How the Ganges water reaches the various planets from the top of the universe is explained herein. Celestial airplanes carry the water from the planets of the sages to other planets. So-called advanced scientists of the modern age are trying to go to the higher planets, but at the same time they are experiencing a power shortage on earth. If they were actually capable scientists, they could personally go by airplane to other planets, but this they are unable to do. Having now given up their Moon excursions, they are attempting to go to other planets, but without success.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 17, verse 4, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/17/4
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science

„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.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 2, Chapter 3, verse 11, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/2/3/11
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science

„Mahabharata is also a division of the Vedas, but it is meant for women, sudras and dvija-bandhus, the worthless children of the higher section. The less intelligent section of society can avail themselves of the Vedic instructions simply by studying the Mahabharata.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 7, verse 29, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/7/29
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

„As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone to degradation. Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family. By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery. According to Chanakya Pandit, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy. So the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them, and thus their chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varnasrama system. On the failure of such varnasrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men, and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population. Irresponsible men also provoke adultery in society, and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and pestilence.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Chapter 1, verse 40, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/1/40
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

„Love of God is dormant in every living entity.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Multiple books, 1970 to 1977. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Love_of_God_is_dormant_in_every_living_entity
Quotes from Books: Loving God

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