Frasi di A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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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. Wikipedia

Foto: Christian Jansen, Own work / CC BY 3.0

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.

„[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.

„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.

„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

„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

„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.

„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

„Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Canto 1, Chapter 17, verse 36.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

1999

„So we are engaged in these material activities, but we forget at the same time that there is ready, atom bomb. As soon as there will be declared war, these things will be finished, immediately. These people are not declaring war. America is not declaring war against Asia, Russia or China. They are thinking because they know they have got the deadly weapons, atom, and that is the now diplomacy. When there will be war, the first dropping of atom bomb will be victorious. Aah, victorious.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 6, Chapter 1, verse 6; Sydney; February 17, 1973
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: False Prophecies

„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

„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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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

Origine: The Bhagavad-gita

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

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Origine: The Science of Self-Realization

„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.“

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— 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.“

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— 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

„Prabhupada: Yes. That is Tulasi dasa’s remark. So in many passages of his poetry he has not done very justice to woman. And another poetry, he writes, dhol gunar sudra nari. Dhol gunar sudra nari ihe sab sasan ke adhikari. (?) Dhol gunar pasu sudra nari, ihe sab sasan ke adhikari. Dhol, dhol means drum, mrdanga. Gunar, gunar means… What is called English? A fool, fool. Illiterate fool, what is one word?
Brahmananda: Buffoon?
Prabhupada: Maybe buffoon. Buffoon is sometimes troublesome. But gunar means he doesn’t understand very nicely.
Brahmananda: Dullard.
Prabhupada: Dull, dull. Dhol gunar, dhol means drum and gunar means dull. Sudra, and the laborer class. Three. Dhol, gunar, sudra, and pasu, household animals, just like cows, dogs.
Brahmananda: Pet.
Prabhupada: Pet, like that. Dhol gunar sudra pasu and nari. Nari means woman. (laughs) Just see. He has classified the nari amongst these class, dhol, gunar, sudra, pasu, nari. Ihe sab sasan ke adhikari. Sasan ke adhikari means all these are subjected for punishment. And what about the guest?
Govinda dasi: Oh, the guest? It’s coming.
Prabhupada: So sasan ke adhikari means they should be punished. (laughs) Punished means, just like dhol, when the, I mean to say, sound is not very hard, dag-dag, if you beat it on the border, then it comes to be nice tune. Similarly, pasu, animals, if you request, “My dear dog, please do not go there.” Hut! (laughter) “No, my dear dog.” Hut! This is the way.(?) Similarly, woman. If you become lenient, then she will be troublesome. So in India still, in villages, whenever there is some quarrel between husband wife, the husband beats and she is tamed. (laughs) In civilized society, “Oh, you have done this?” Immediately some criminal case. But in uncivilized society they don’t care for court or civilized way of…“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Conversation, New York, April 12, 1969 PrabhupadaBooks.com http://prabhupadabooks.com/conversations/1969/apr/new_york/april/12/1969?d=1
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„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.“

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— 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
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„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.“

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— 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.“

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— 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
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