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Who Is Srila Prabhupada?Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the most recent Vaisnava guru in the parampara or disciplic succession emanating from Lord Sri Krishna Himself. Srila Prabhupada, late in his years, came to the United States as a simple beggar with one wish. His wish was that everyone get an opportunity to be engaged in the devotional service of God who is Krishna. His only satisfaction was to see that any willing individual was happy and progressing in God consciousness. Srila Prabhupada is a priceless commodity. Without his selfless service to his own spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja,who was also known as Srila Prabhupada to his disciples, we would not have the opportunities to gain advancement in devotional service. Even though the Supreme Lord is in the hearts of all the living entities, His wish is that we don't skip over His pure devotee, on the contrary, Lord Krishna is always glorifying His pure devotee and His wish is that we work together and approach Him in our hearts and also through a bona fide representative such as Srila Prabhupada who is an expert in delivering bhakti(devotion) to all of the fallen and conditioned souls.All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada!!!! Prabhupada ki jaya! Hare Krishna!....................................................
..............................................."So we have got this message from Krsna, from Caitanya Mahaprabhu, from the six Gosvamis, later on, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Bhaktisiddhanta Thakura. And we are trying our bit also to distribute this knowledge. Now, tenth, eleventh, twelfth... My Guru Maharaja is tenth from Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I am eleventh, you are the twelfth. So distribute this knowledge. People are suffering. They are simply fighting on some false thing, maya. They should be given the real fact of happiness. We have spoiled our life, many lives, coming through the evolutionary process of 8,400,000 species of life. Here is an opportunity, human form of life, and here is the message of Lord Caitanya, Krsna. Human form of life can understand, and especially in America you can understand. You have got better intelligence, better facility. We are not sentimental, simply chanting and dancing. We have got more than two thousand volumes of books. If you want to learn it through science, philosophy, it is also there. Otherwise, the simple method--simply chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare Hare, and you'll realize the whole thing. The child can take part, the philosopher can take part, the scientist can take part, the politician can take part, the religionist can take part, the public can take part. It is so universal. And it is open; there is no secrecy. It is not that "I shall give you some secret mantra, and give me some money, I go away." It is open." spoken by Srila Prabhupada , room conversation, may 18, 1972
