Frasi di A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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 come A.C. Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda o Śrīla Prabhupāda , è stato un mistico, 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
„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.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
„Religion means to know God and to love Him.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization
„Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:
"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Nectar of Devotion
„Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.“
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Science of Self-Realization
