Maintaining Prabhupada Memories

A nostalgic appreciation of the early days is helpful, but it is also a fact that we have to live in the present situation.  If we make new efforts in our relationship with Prabhupada, we will recover the childlike faith in bowing down before him and appreciating him.  We have to deliberately fight off the deadening things that come by repetition and age.

It is also good that the caretakers of the Krishna consciousness movement pass resolutions that Prabhupada should be in the middle of all our activities and we should not forget him.  We should publish and distribute his books, and we should collect money to maintain his temples.  There is a need for institutionalized direction by responsible leaders in order to keep Prabhupada in the center of such a big movement.  But it cannot be done only by the force of the institution and its officers.  Those who make the resolutions must actually put Prabhupada in the center of their own lives in both substantial ways and in small personal ways.  They should honestly advise us that each one has to do this on his own.  One way to do this is to maintain our personal memories of association with Srila Prabhupada.