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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

„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.

„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

„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

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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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Origine: 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.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 31, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/31/41
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

„Now, in the Manu-samhita it is clearly stated that a woman should not be given freedom. That does not mean that women are to be kept as slaves, but they are like children. The demons have now neglected such injunctions, and they think that women should be given as much freedom as men.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972. Chapter 16, verse 7, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/16/7
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

„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

„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
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights

„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
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science

„We are not teaching some ritualistic process, that "You become Hindu. You become Christian. You become Muhammadan." We are simply teaching, "You try to love God. You have forgotten God. You have declared, 'God is dead.' These are all nonsense. God is there. You are here. You are suffering because you have forgotten God. You try to love God. Your normal life will come back. You will be happy."“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
Lecture on Bhagavad-gītā 4.7-10 - Los Angeles, (6 January 1969) Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/You_have_forgotten_God._You_have_declared,_%27God_is_dead.%27_These_are_all_nonsense._God_is_there._You_are_here._You_are_suffering_because_you_have_forgotten_God._You_try_to_love_God._Your_normal_life_will_come_back._You_will_be_happy._This_is_KC_movement
Quotes from other Sources

„Those who are yogis, bhakta-yogis, because they are in love with God, Kṛṣṇa, they are seeing every moment within their heart the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Anyone you love, you see always within your heart. Similarly, if you have love for God, Kṛṣṇa, then you can see Kṛṣṇa always. That is called yoga system.“

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— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Lecture on The Nectar of Devotion - Bombay, December 27, 1972. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Anyone_you_love,_you_see_always_within_your_heart._Similarly,_if_you_have_love_for_God,_Krsna,_then_you_can_see_Krsna_always._That_is_called_yoga_system
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God

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