Everybody is following Prabhupada as the Founder-acharya, so if we're involved in something that's useful within that mission, then taking the instruction of guru to see that you're doing that, that's following the instruction of the guru.
You are attracting others to Krishna. But once that is done you still have to inspire that attraction, Krishna is unlimited. So that Sankirtana mission is going on.
We think simple means no opulence. But in the Vedic the opulence is designed for the mode of goodness. We say marble is very expensive, but from the Vedic perspective it’s very pure. It’s more pure the gold. So it’s simpler because a floor of gold would be quite expensive.
We forget that there are 14 planetary systems, 13 of them, all they do is following Vedic culture, and on this planetary system, the 14th, there are 9 islands and 8 of them are following Vedic culture. All it leaves is this part of one of the islands where people
The rules that do matter are where we don't care, and the ones that don't really matter, that becomes the 'make it or break it' deal. So these things, peacock feather, the fall of the soul, these things, these are not actually important issues. But they make them into it,
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year1/bg101/2010-10-28-BVPS-BG-3.24-3.34.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 1 and consists of 91 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/bhagavad-gita-seriatim/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents. 02:45 There is no material solution to material problems, if there are problems, it means the material world
Attachment to sexual activities keeps you in the material world. The point is to give it up, not transfer it. Being in the material world is wrong, so no situation in the material world they should champion and try to make it special.