Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This practice should be adopted. Don't waste time. As much as possible, try to hear about this transcendental subject matter, Srimad Bhagavatam. yad vaisnavanam priyam — It is stated that theSrimad Bhagavatam is very, very dear to the devotees." In Vrindavan, you will find, they are always reading Srimad Bhagavatam. That is their life and soul. So now we have got already six volumes, and further eight volumes are coming. You will have enough stock, so you should read. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh is the main business. That is pure devotional service. Because we cannot devote twenty four hours in hearing and chanting, therefore we have extended our activities, program activities, in so many ways. Otherwise, Srimad Bhagavatam is so nice. If you practice anywhere, any condition, simply by reading Srimad Bhagavatam, you will be happy. So adopt this practice and make your spiritual life perfect more and more. (From a lecture in Geneva, 3 June 1974.)
Your first job should be to make sure that every one of the devotees in your zone of management is reading regularly our literatures and discussing the subject matter seriously from different angles of vision, and that they are somehow or other absorbing the knowledge of Krishna Conscious philosophy. If they are fully educated in our philosophy and if they can get all of the knowledge and study it from every viewpoint, then very easily they will perform tapasya or renunciation and that will be their advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So the first thing is to instruct all of your temple presidents and the other devotees to read daily, just as we have done in our morning class in Los Angeles. You may remember that we were reading one sloka each morning in Sanskrit and reciting it altogether, and then discussing it thoroughly by seeing different new things. So you introduce this system and train the devotees first. Don't be too much concerned for the time being with non-devotees. Now we must fix-up what devotees we have got in the knowledge of Krishna Consciousness. Then we will succeed. What good are many, many devotees if none of them are knowledgeable? (Letter to Satsvarupa, 16 June 1972.)
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