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Illusion (Letters)

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Shyamasuhagini:

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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMahatmaGandhiCawnpore12July1947_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="1" link="Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947" link_text="Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947|Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I tell you as a sincere friend that you must immediately retire from active politics if you do not desire to die an inglorious death. You have 125 years to live as you have desired to live but you if you die an inglorious death it is no worth. The honour and prestige that you have obtained during the course of you present life time, were not possible to be obtained by any one else within the living memory. But you must know that all these honours and prestiges were false in as much as they were created by the Illusory Energy of Godhead called the maya. By this falsity I do not mean to say that your so many friends were false to you nor you were false to them. By this falsity I mean illusion or in other words the false friendship and honours obtained thereby were but creation of maya and therefore they are always temporary or false as you may call it. But none of you neither your friends nor yourself knew this truth.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMahatmaGandhiCawnpore12July1947_1" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="1" link="Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947" link_text="Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947|Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You can very easily understand as to how some of your political enemies in the garb of friends (both Indian and English) have deliberately cheated you and have broken your heart by doing the same mischief for which you have struggled so hard for so many years. You wanted chiefly Hindu-Moslem unity in India and they have tactfully managed to undo your work, by creation of the Pakistan and India separately. You wanted freedom for India but they have given permanent dependence of India. You wanted to do something for the upliftment of the position of the bhangis but they are still rotting as bhangis even though you are living in the bhangi colony. They are all therefore illusions and when these things will be presented to you as they are, you must consider them as God-sent. God has favored you by dissipating the illusion you were hovering in, and by the same illusion you were, nursing those ideas as Truth(?).</p>
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<div id="LettertoMahatmaGandhiCawnpore12July1947_2" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="1" link="Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947" link_text="Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947|Letter to Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now by the Grace of God that illusion is going to be cleared and thus your faithful friends like Acarya Kripalini and others are accusing you for your inability at the present moment to give them any practical programme of work as you happened to give them during your glorious days of non-co-operation movement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSirCalcuttaMay1949_3" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="8" link="Letter to Sir -- Calcutta May 1949" link_text="Letter to Sir -- Calcutta May 1949">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sir -- Calcutta May 1949|Letter to Sir -- Calcutta May 1949]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Who is a daiva and who is a asura is clearly defined in the Bhagavad-gita. Thus the whole problem has to be solved according to expert advices and it is not possible to solve the world problem so easily as by holding occasional discussions by some who are already themselves under the influence of the asuric qualities. This should be done most scientifically which is above mistakes and illusion.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRPrakashAllahabad22June1951_4" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="10" link="Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951" link_text="Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951|Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the spiritual line of disciplic succession from Sri Brahmaji who was first transcendental student of the Vedas down to my spiritual master as above mentioned, the Vedic culture is aimed at reestablishing the eternal relation of living entity with the Absolute Truth of Whom the living entities are but parts & parcels.</p>
<p>Forgetfulness of that eternal relation is called maya or illusion. This illusory energy of Godhead is conducted under three modes of nature under the name of mundane goodness, passion and ignorance. The whole material world is the creation of the external illusory energy of Godhead and the living entities who forget the eternal relation with Godhead are so to say entrapped by maya to undergo a conditional life under the modes of nature.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriPadampatSinghaniaKanpur7May1957_5" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="30" link="Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957" link_text="Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957|Letter to Sri Padampat Singhania -- Kanpur 7 May, 1957]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as we get this information the whole conclusion that a man is mortal—is at once changed and we have to say that some men are mortal. In this way the research work of scientific thought are constantly changing because the very research work is done by person who is himself a condition by the four principles of mistake, illusion, cheating and imperfection.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrotherJhansiNovember1958_6" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="43" link="Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958" link_text="Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958|Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The way in which you are seeking to be happy or trying to make others happy in your manufactured ideology—is called "Maya" or illusion. By such illusory way of making yourself and others happy, you have simply been credited with creation of much disturbances and entanglement for all concerned. That is the record of history of the material world. Empire may come and empire may go, the problems of life remains the same. Please therefore be cool headed and patiently ask within yourself if you are really happy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrYGNaikMScPhDDelhi28March1960_7" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="44" link="Letter to Dr. Y. G. Naik M.Sc., Ph.D -- Delhi 28 March, 1960" link_text="Letter to Dr. Y. G. Naik M.Sc., Ph.D -- Delhi 28 March, 1960">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Y. G. Naik M.Sc., Ph.D -- Delhi 28 March, 1960|Letter to Dr. Y. G. Naik M.Sc., Ph.D -- Delhi 28 March, 1960]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the Visnu Puranam the material energy is called Avidya or nescience which is exhibited in the fruitive activities of sense enjoyment. But the living being belongs to the group of anti-material energy or spiritual energy while he has the tendency of being illusioned and trapped by the material energy for sense enjoyment.</p>
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMalatiNewYork4May1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="75" link="Letter to Malati -- New York 4 May, 1967" link_text="Letter to Malati -- New York 4 May, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Malati -- New York 4 May, 1967|Letter to Malati -- New York 4 May, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One should always feel very humble, that will help one to make progress in Krishna Consciousness. So your humble feeling that you are shrouded by illusion is very nice, at the same time your feeling that Krishna Consciousness is so nice that it makes everything easy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLongBranchNJ14June1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="101" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Long Branch, NJ 14 June, 1967" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Long Branch, NJ 14 June, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Long Branch, NJ 14 June, 1967|Letter to Brahmananda -- Long Branch, NJ 14 June, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 10 1967. Yes it is due to your prayers that this time my life has been saved. Your appreciation of the movement is very keen and interesting. Actually I was also attracted by my Guru Maharaja when he convinced me that God lives and we can live with Him. I find the same conviction in you and it has given me so great pleasure. Yes, it is the greatest discovery. Human society under the spell of illusion is doing things, each on his own responsibility and they are becoming entangled in material existence. This is the greatest blunder in human society. They have not only forgotten God but they've declared openly that God is dead. This declaration of the foolish human society is the greatest blunder in life. I therefore appreciate your conviction and I am still more glad that you are determined to progagate this message to the world at large. I am sure you can do this because all of you are determined to propagate this message to the world at large. I am sure you can do this because all of you who have come to me are sincere soul and you have understood the inner force of Krishna Consciousness. Please try to propagate this new movement combinedly.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrinalineVrindaban27August1967_2" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="131" link="Letter to Mrinaline -- Vrindaban 27 August, 1967" link_text="Letter to Mrinaline -- Vrindaban 27 August, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mrinaline -- Vrindaban 27 August, 1967|Letter to Mrinaline -- Vrindaban 27 August, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The feeling which you had by becoming compassionate to the fallen bum is very good, but the best way to deliver a bum is to revive his dormant Krishna Consciousness. If you can do that then give the bums good food and shelter. If you cannot do that, then simple supplying food and shelter, is serving the Maya. But there is no benefit to serving Maya, as you know, as it is all false, temporary or illusion. We are concerned with Reality, not Maya, and that should be the object of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayanandaDelhi29September1967_3" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="156" link="Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967" link_text="Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967|Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The mayavadi sannyasi considers himself as God, this concept of life develops under illusion. When a person fails to become the Lord of the universe it is like the sly fox who attempts to taste grapes and failing to do so says the grapes are sour. The mayavadi sannyasins are frustrated beings in their attempt to enjoy the world, therefore they say the world is fake or the grapes are sour, the world is not false, Krishna is the supreme truth and the world is His energy therefore the energy of the supreme truth cannot be false; but we must know that this energy is inferior to His spiritual energy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaCalcutta19October1967_4" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="187" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Calcutta 19 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Calcutta 19 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Calcutta 19 October, 1967|Letter to Brahmananda -- Calcutta 19 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I was completely confident of your sincerity of service & my choice of your being president of the society is right. I may disclose herewith that I never took Kirtanananda into complete confidence but I was trying to improve his position because he has also rendered much personal service to me. I am very much obliged to him for the service as I am to my other disciples & I am very sorry that Maya has taken advantage of his disobedience & he has fallen to Maya's illusion—but he should not continue for a very long time as I will always pray to Krishna for his recovery.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoYadunandanaSanFrancisco26March1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="126" link="Letter to Yadunandana -- San Francisco 26 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Yadunandana -- San Francisco 26 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yadunandana -- San Francisco 26 March, 1968|Letter to Yadunandana -- San Francisco 26 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 21, 1968, and may inform you that the horrible scene in the hospital is certainly ghastly. But we should at the same time know that this ghastly scene is in the matter of bodily concept of life. This is Maya's illusion, and although the spirit soul has nothing to do with this horrible affairs, but due to absorption of one's consciousness in the body, one has to suffer the consequences of bodily identification. So far we are concerned, we shall neither be sympathetic or apathetic in the matter of such bodily concept of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniMontreal18June1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="206" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Montreal 18 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Montreal 18 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Montreal 18 June, 1968|Letter to Gargamuni -- Montreal 18 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">By following the disciplic succession, beginning from Krishna, everything becomes ultimately connected with Krishna. And Krishna being absolute, anything connected with Him becomes absolute, without any duality of concept like in the material world. In the material world, it is called illusion because everyone thinks I or my. But in the spiritual world, everything is Krishna. We being part and parcel of Krishna, when we surrender fully unto Krishna with sincerity of purpose, through the transparent via media of the spiritual master.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRolandMichenerGovernorGeneralofCanadaMontreal24August1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="285" link="Letter to Roland Michener (Governor-General of Canada) -- Montreal 24 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Roland Michener (Governor-General of Canada) -- Montreal 24 August, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Roland Michener (Governor-General of Canada) -- Montreal 24 August, 1968|Letter to Roland Michener (Governor-General of Canada) -- Montreal 24 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">e are following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya to invoke the dormant love of Godhead. The sum and substance of this teaching is that the living entity is eternally the subordinate servant of God, but unfortunately, being sophisticated by illusion, everyone in the human society is trying to predominate over others without accepting the Supreme Predominator.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSyamaSanFrancisco11September1968_3" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="306" link="Letter to Syama -- San Francisco 11 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Syama -- San Francisco 11 September, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syama -- San Francisco 11 September, 1968|Letter to Syama -- San Francisco 11 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">rom your statement of the letter under reply, I can understand that by the Grace of Krishna, you are improving in Krishna Consciousness. And if you continue to keep up your attitude in this spirit, surely in this very life, you will be successful to reach the perfectional stages. It is my duty to open your eyes, because a Spiritual Master is he who can save his disciples from the darkness of nescience, illusion. So I am trying my best to do my duty, and if you cooperate with me, fully, certainly both yourself and myself will be successful in our missionary work.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMalatiLosAngeles12November1968_4" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="412" link="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968|Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The change of soul is like that water becomes ice in contact with refrigerator. And as soon as there is temperature the ice again becomes water. Similarly the changing nature of the soul is just like change of water to ice. The tendency of ice is to melt and become water again. So due to contamination of matter, the soul by illusion identifies with material existence. But the tendency is to melt again to Krishna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMalatiLosAngeles12November1968_5" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="412" link="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968|Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 12 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Atma, there is Paramatma and jivatma. Both are atma because they are spiritual, but the living entities are called jivatma. Jivatma means the small particle of atma which has tendency to fall down in the material atmosphere. He is called jivatma. And Atma or Supersoul, Who never falls in material contamination, is called Paramatma or Supersoul. And because He does not fall under material illusion, His another Name is Acyuta—Acyuta means never fallen.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAniruddhaLosAngeles14November1968_6" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="420" link="Letter to Aniruddha -- Los Angeles 14 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Aniruddha -- Los Angeles 14 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Aniruddha -- Los Angeles 14 November, 1968|Letter to Aniruddha -- Los Angeles 14 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yogamaya means the mercy of the Supreme Lord which connects a devotee in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and mahamaya means the external potency of the Lord which puts a conditioned soul into illusion that he will be happy by material adjustment. So great sages who are impersonalists are also under the spell of mahamaya, because a conditioned soul in the material world wants to improve his material position as exalted as possible, and the concept of becoming one with the Supreme Lord is the greatest illusion for them. Because it is a fact that nobody can be equal or greater than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as such, anyone desiring to become one with the Supreme means that he is still in the trap of maya.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhusudanaLosAngeles20November1968_7" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="434" link="Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 20 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 20 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 20 November, 1968|Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 20 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Where Krishna is present there cannot be any darkness of maya. So as Arjuna although always in the presence of Krishna as eternal companion in friendship, still he had some illusion in the battlefield of Kuruksetra, and Krishna had to dissipate that darkness by the teachings of Bhagavad-gita. The purport is, sometimes even a liberated person like Arjuna plays the part of a conditioned soul in order to play some important part.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniLosAngeles22November1968_8" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="438" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 22 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 22 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 22 November, 1968|Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 22 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So by Krishna's Grace, I learned from Tamala Krishna that your father has already given you a nice apartment. So it is a sort of tug-of-war between your material father and spiritual father. And you are the rope in between. So in the first test I think I have come out successful. But this is a sporting. I have already told you that your father and mother are very good souls. They might be under the illusion of maya but still I must say that they are good souls, otherwise they could not have produced such nice children like Brahmananda and Gargamuni.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJanakiLosAngeles28February1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="153" link="Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969|Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The modern world is puffed up with personal research knowledge, but the person who is engaging in this research work does not know that he is imperfect on account of his aptitude for becoming illusioned, for committing mistakes, for his cheating propensity and for his possessing imperfect senses.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSteveNewVrindaban16June1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="369" link="Letter to Steve -- New Vrindaban 16 June, 1969" link_text="Letter to Steve -- New Vrindaban 16 June, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Steve -- New Vrindaban 16 June, 1969|Letter to Steve -- New Vrindaban 16 June, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The first book you should study carefully is the Bhagavad-gita As It Is. The sum and substance of Bhagavad-gita is that we should surrender ourselves wholly and completely upon the Lotus Feet of Krishna. When one is not Krishna Consciousness, then he is Maya conscious, or in illusion. Just like when one is not in light, he is sure to be in darkness. Because absence of light means darkness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaLosAngeles24July1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="471" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 24 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 24 July, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 24 July, 1969|Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 24 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly said by the Lord that the only way of not coming back to the material world is to be promoted to the spiritual planets. For the impersonalists there is no such assurance of not falling down in the whole Vedic literature. The conclusion is that without developing the spiritual body and without being situated on one of the spiritual planets, the so-called liberation is also illusion, or it is not complete. A spirit soul who falls down from the Brahmajyoti to the Kingdom of Maya may have a chance of associating with a pure devotee, and then he may be elevated to the spiritual planets of Vaikuntha or to Goloka Vrindaban. From the Brahmajyoti there is no direct promotion to the spiritual planets, and it is clearly stated in the Bhagavatam that such souls fall down: patanty adha.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYadavanandaLondon2December1969_3" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="708" link="Letter to Yadavananda -- London 2 December, 1969" link_text="Letter to Yadavananda -- London 2 December, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yadavananda -- London 2 December, 1969|Letter to Yadavananda -- London 2 December, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Except for persons who are in Krishna Consciousness, everyone is to one degree or another the servant of Maya, or illusion. The purpose of our society for Krishna Consciousness is to train people in the science of breaking their servitorship to maya and re-establishing their relationship with Krishna as His loving servitor. When we act in this position of Krishna's servitor very soon we understand that this is our natural, constitutional position, and thus we regain our constitutional qualities of eternity, bliss and knowledge.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJayagovindaLosAngeles3February1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="72" link="Letter to Jayagovinda -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Jayagovinda -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayagovinda -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970|Letter to Jayagovinda -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You said that your job is maya, but you must know that maya is illusion. As soon as there is absence of Krishna Consciousness—that is maya. But you are working just to help and push Krishna's interest; therefore, it is not maya.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAnilGroverLosAngeles5February1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="76" link="Letter to Anil Grover -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Anil Grover -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Anil Grover -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970|Letter to Anil Grover -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Maya is illusion. When a soul renders, therefore, service as American or Indian or any other designation, he accepts Maya as his master, because thinking oneself as Indian or American is illusion. Therefore, one's perfect position of life is to render service to Krishna, and for that purpose control the mind and intelligence. So, the conclusion is, in either of his statuses of life, the soul itself is the controller of the mind and intelligence.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNityanandaLosAngeles6March1970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="150" link="Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 6 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 6 March, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 6 March, 1970|Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 6 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please follow the regulative principles strictly, and chant daily sixteen rounds of beads regularly without fail. This is the essential process for dissolving the clouds of illusion or Maya; and when the cloud of illusion is removed, then we can understand Krsna Consciousness perfectly and that is the highest perfection of human life. So be fixed in devotional service, chant Hare Krsna mantra and be happy. I am waiting to hear of your further progress in spreading this Krsna Consciousness movement for the benefit of all concerned.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles28April1970_3" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="274" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All living entities have become under control of the illusory energy by Your will, and therefore, if You like, by Your will they can also be released from the clutches of illusion.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles21June1970_4" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="369" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said in the Vedas asamga ayam purusa which means the living entity is always unaffected with matter. Another example is given that the reflection of the moon on water appears to be moving, but actually the moon is not moving, it is fixed up. So any living entity is like that. His reflection on the material body appears to be changing, but the spirit soul is fixed up, therefore this movement is called illusion. Liberation means liberation from this changing condition.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaAcyutanandaTokyo20August1970_5" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="493" link="Letter to Jayapataka, Acyutananda -- Tokyo 20 August, 1970" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka, Acyutananda -- Tokyo 20 August, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka, Acyutananda -- Tokyo 20 August, 1970|Letter to Jayapataka, Acyutananda -- Tokyo 20 August, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Krsna Consciousness Movement is not a sectarian religion, but it is a solution for all the problems of life. In other words, Krsna is good for everyone. The idea is Krsna is substance and Maya is illusion. Illusion is accepted as void and impersonal, but Krsna is the Summum Bonum Person. Krsna is one and Maya is zero. Zero by the side of One is ten, but thousands of zeros clogged together do not make one. So there are many ideas within this world put forth by many philosophers, politicians, religionists, philanthropists, etc., but all of them are considered as illusion or zeros if there is no Krsna Consciousness. We have to push forward this philosophy throughout the whole world. We have sufficient support for acknowledging this philosophy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGauraHariBombay20November1970_6" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="608" link="Letter to Gaura Hari -- Bombay 20 November, 1970" link_text="Letter to Gaura Hari -- Bombay 20 November, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gaura Hari -- Bombay 20 November, 1970|Letter to Gaura Hari -- Bombay 20 November, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The so-called institution of free love marriage is ruining the human society and it is our duty therefore to reestablish the correct procedure of human life in the matter of encouraging our disciples who wish to marry to enter into a contract of spiritual wedlock. Such contract is made on the basis of compatible service of the Lord because such mutual cooperation in serving the advancement of Krsna Consciousness minimizes the illusion of material compatibility and incompatibility. We are seeing practically that our householder couples are setting an example for all persons that the perfection of happy family life is not based on sense-gratification, but on sincere service to the Lord.</p>
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</div>
<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniCalcutta19May1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="213" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Calcutta 19 May, 1971" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Calcutta 19 May, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Calcutta 19 May, 1971|Letter to Jadurani -- Calcutta 19 May, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am so glad to hear that the devotees are appreciating that everything belongs to Krishna. That attitude is very nice and should be maintained. Actually it is a fact. By illusion only we think things belong to someone else. And if the painters are new, certainly they should be given instruction. They should be helped in every way.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCarolNairobi7October1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="486" link="Letter to Carol -- Nairobi 7 October, 1971" link_text="Letter to Carol -- Nairobi 7 October, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Carol -- Nairobi 7 October, 1971|Letter to Carol -- Nairobi 7 October, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The whole process is, of this Krishna Consciousness movement, to meet the waves of material nature. The waves are called agitation by hunger and thirst, lamentation, confusion, illusion in so called love and affection, pangs of old age and disease and at last meeting with death. All these things can be changed simply by engaging ourselves in the service of the Lord which keeps us always in the transcendental position.</p>
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<div id="LettertoUpendraNairobi9October1971_2" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="491" link="Letter to Upendra -- Nairobi 9 October, 1971" link_text="Letter to Upendra -- Nairobi 9 October, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Upendra -- Nairobi 9 October, 1971|Letter to Upendra -- Nairobi 9 October, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As a father is always sorry for the son is out of home, similarly Krishna is not very happy on account of so many bewildered fallen souls in the material world. He therefore comes personally to ask them to surrender again to Him. But the conditioned soul is so much illusioned that it is very hard to make him surrender to Krishna. Therefore each and every one of us, if we can give service to Krishna by making another man surrender to Krishna, then He will very much appreciate that service and that is our gain.</p>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniNewVrindaban4September1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="473" link="Letter to Jadurani -- New Vrindaban 4 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- New Vrindaban 4 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- New Vrindaban 4 September, 1972|Letter to Jadurani -- New Vrindaban 4 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is no difference between me and my picture. Therefore we should honor and keep pictures in that spirit. If we throw pictures this way and that way, that is offense. The name and picture are as good as the person in spiritual world. In the material world either picture or person, everything is illusion.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrLoyVrindaban7November1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="577" link="Letter to Mr. Loy -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972" link_text="Letter to Mr. Loy -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Loy -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972|Letter to Mr. Loy -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If wife is there, then some money must be coming, that means work, land or factory, children, home, friends, community, nation—like that there is increasing complication of illusion of thinking: This is mine, that is mine. But they do not know that one day death will kick them out, mercilessly, and neither home, nor wife, nor children, nothing can prevent that.</p>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoCaturbhujaLosAngeles9May1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="173" link="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973|Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Conditioned soul means one who has accepted something illusion as reality. Conditioned means that due to imperfect desires the spirit soul becomes dependent on material conditions for his satisfaction.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCaturbhujaLosAngeles9May1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="173" link="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973|Letter to Caturbhuja -- Los Angeles 9 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This body is illusion. It is only because of our attachment for this body that we have to remain within it. But as soon as one transfers his attachment to Krsna then no more is there any need for this body.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAjitaEngland11July1973_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="230" link="Letter to Ajita -- England 11 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Ajita -- England 11 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ajita -- England 11 July, 1973|Letter to Ajita -- England 11 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Everything appears to be going well there, just go on increasing. As you write that the Swedish society has placed great stress on material happiness so you can expose how this material life is actually full of miseries and temporary, and the so-called happiness is only illusion. People in the western countries are becoming gradually fed up with materialistic propaganda so you will find good response simply by chanting, speaking from Bhagavad gita as it is, and distributing prasadam to everyone. Unless the human society takes to this process the situation is very precarious.</p>
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<div id="LettertoIndiraGandhiNewDelhi6November1973_3" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="368" link="Letter to Indira Gandhi -- New Delhi 6 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Indira Gandhi -- New Delhi 6 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Indira Gandhi -- New Delhi 6 November, 1973|Letter to Indira Gandhi -- New Delhi 6 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We think that Bhagavad-gita As It Is without a wrong interpretation can solve all the problems of human society, namely social, political, religious, economic, philosophical, cultural, or from any angle of vision, because it is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is above all deficiency, namely mistake, illusion, cheating, and the imperfection of the senses.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBhavatariniBombay4May1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="177" link="Letter to Bhavatarini -- Bombay 4 May, 1974" link_text="Letter to Bhavatarini -- Bombay 4 May, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhavatarini -- Bombay 4 May, 1974|Letter to Bhavatarini -- Bombay 4 May, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your enthusiastic response to my instructions is very encouraging. Actually the disciple is supposed to find relief from all his problems just by carrying out the orders of the spiritual master. Just as Arjuna in the beginning was completely confused and lamenting, but after accepting Krsna and hearing from Him he said, "Now my illusion is over, and I am prepared to do whatever you say." If the guru is a representative of the Supreme Lord in disciplic succession and the student is sincere, only then he can get him out of the clutches of the material energy to become situated in spiritual happiness above all material desires, in Krsna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrSaralGuptaBombay22November1974_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="599" link="Letter to Mr. Saral Gupta -- Bombay 22 November, 1974" link_text="Letter to Mr. Saral Gupta -- Bombay 22 November, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Saral Gupta -- Bombay 22 November, 1974|Letter to Mr. Saral Gupta -- Bombay 22 November, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">At present humanity by and large is working simply for sense gratification. This is to be considered illusion. Actual life is devotional service to the Supreme Lord. By this devotional service one can become perfect and not become a cat or a dog. Please continue to take interest in our movement and read our books and chant Hare Krishna.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayadvaitaBombay20December1974_2" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="693" link="Letter to Jayadvaita -- Bombay 20 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Jayadvaita -- Bombay 20 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayadvaita -- Bombay 20 December, 1974|Letter to Jayadvaita -- Bombay 20 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, in the future you should make sure that all the books, no matter what size or color, have the words Bhaktivedanta Book Trust under the logos. Whether it is clear or unclear it should be there.</p>
<p>Yes you are correct, when one associates with one who is in illusion or mislead naturally he will also become influenced by that illusion. So you must pray to Krsna to protect you from such bad association. Do not forget our most important business which is to develop pure Krsna Consciousness by following our strict regulations and Vaisnava standards, and always be engaged in service.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoLataBombay19March1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="181" link="Letter to Lata -- Bombay 19 March, 1975" link_text="Letter to Lata -- Bombay 19 March, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Lata -- Bombay 19 March, 1975|Letter to Lata -- Bombay 19 March, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Krishna Consciousness is the only truth that exists. Without Krishna Consciousness everything is illusion. You must not waste this life away thinking that everything belongs to you. Everything belongs to Krishna and it must be used in His service. Even your body and mind belong to Krishna and it must be used for Krishna's glorification.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayanandaVrindaban1September1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="493" link="Letter to Jayananda -- Vrindaban 1 September, 1975" link_text="Letter to Jayananda -- Vrindaban 1 September, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayananda -- Vrindaban 1 September, 1975|Letter to Jayananda -- Vrindaban 1 September, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sex life is nasty, but out of illusion we think it is nice. Now you are experienced, so don't take sex life again. You should not take sannyasa out of sentiment nor artificially, but it is better to accept it anyway.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJayatirthaMayapur20January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="56" link="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 20 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 20 January, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 20 January, 1976|Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur 20 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If in illusion we think that we must spend money to come to that standard what guarantee is there that they will not simply find another standard for us to follow which will cause so much more trouble and cost so much more money and ultimately they will pass some law making the gurukula illegal.</p>
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<div id="1977_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="12" parent="Correspondence" text="1977 Correspondence"><h3>1977 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoVARIOUSUnknownPlaceUnknownDate_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="126" link="Letter to VARIOUS -- Unknown Place Unknown Date" link_text="Letter to VARIOUS -- Unknown Place Unknown Date">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to VARIOUS -- Unknown Place Unknown Date|Letter to VARIOUS -- Unknown Place Unknown Date]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far dreaming is concerned, we regard dreaming condition as another form of illusion or maya, only more subtle, that's all. But just like we may be serving Krsna in our waking state and thinking about Him then, so also it is possible to dream about Krsna and the Spiritual Master and so many things.</p>
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Challenge (Letters)

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Shyamasuhagini:

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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrotherJhansiNovember1958_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="43" link="Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958" link_text="Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958|Letter to Brother -- Jhansi November 1958]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I can challenge you that you are not happy in the present set up of your affairs. You may have in your possession your so called accumulated material wealth, health or happiness but still you are always feeling some insufficiency and frustration and thus you are not happy as you ought to have been. If you do not feel like this, then you must be either an abnormal man or a liberated saint or in gross ignorance of lower consciousness. Should you feel yourself abnormally happy, I shall ask you the following plain questions. They are as follows:—</p>
<p>1) Do you like to die?</p>
<p>2) Do you like to take your birth again?</p>
<p>3) Do you like to be an old man?</p>
<p>4) Do you like to be a diseased man?</p>
<p>I am sure you shall reply to all these questions by saying the only word "No." If you think yourself happy then have you solved all the above problems in any way? Have your vast resources of material knowledge helped you in solving these seemingly common but very big problems? Do you think that you shall ever be able to solve the above problems at any length of time? If you say so, I shall again call you in abnormal condition.</p>
<p>So do not become a madman in false conviction. Do not remain in ignorance for your problems. Be just like a fully developed conscious man and acknowledge that you have never been happy in the true sense of the term neither your ideal of happiness has ever been fulfilled.</p>
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSanFrancisco14March1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="42" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 14 March, 1967" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 14 March, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 14 March, 1967|Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 14 March, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In future if any one challenges our philosophy one may put his questions in writing and must be prepared to receive the answers from human understanding. We cannot talk with any one who is not within the purview of human understanding. You are completely right when you refuse to debate and accept invitation for chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra. Although we should not chant in a society which is disruptive but as soon as one invites us for chanting we take it for granted that they are friendly and we must take the opportunity.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRayaramaSatsvarupaSanFrancisco30March1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="54" link="Letter to Rayarama, Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967" link_text="Letter to Rayarama, Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama, Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967|Letter to Rayarama, Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If it can be proved that Hill has no money to purchase the house then it is clear cheating case arranged by Mr. Payne. So on the 31st March challenge them whether they have entered into agreement with Mr. Taylor or whether they have actually paid our money to Taylor. If it is a fact that he (Mr. Hill) has paid the $5000.00 to Mr. Taylor and if actually we are going to have the house, do not lag behind, we are prepared to pay the balance within a fortnight rest assured. I do not know why the Lawyers are not serious about this cheating case.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSumatiMorarjeeNewYork27June1967_2" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="105" link="Letter to Sumati Morarjee -- New York 27 June, 1967" link_text="Letter to Sumati Morarjee -- New York 27 June, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sumati Morarjee -- New York 27 June, 1967|Letter to Sumati Morarjee -- New York 27 June, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As stated by you, my missionary work is really a great challenge to the western way of life. But Krishna is so attractive that He is accepted even by the Westerners when the consciousness is presented in the right disciplic succession. The challenge is to the maya, or in other words it is a fight with the maya, and I may inform you that the maya has given me a great stroke very recently.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniLosAngeles11January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="3" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 11 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 11 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 11 January, 1968|Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 11 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am glad to learn that your co-operation for this society is appreciated by the authorities, We should learn to forget and forgive minor incidents because whenever there are two men in a place, there is always some misunderstanding. Such misunderstanding happens even between husband and wife—what to speak of others. But we have to adjust things on the basis of Krishna Consciousness. We should always remember that K.C. is a challenge to the modern misguided human society, and we have to meet many unfavorable incidents.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJanardanaLosAngeles7February1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="46" link="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 7 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 7 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 7 February, 1968|Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 7 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Our program for Krishna Consciousness is solid, and backed by most authoritative literature—Bhagavad-gita, and Srimad-Bhagavatam; there is no question of our not being popular to the world. Simply we have to present ourselves in true perspective. We can challenge any rascals of the world but the difficulty is that it is folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMukundaAllstonMass6May1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="160" link="Letter to Mukunda -- Allston, Mass 6 May, 1968" link_text="Letter to Mukunda -- Allston, Mass 6 May, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mukunda -- Allston, Mass 6 May, 1968|Letter to Mukunda -- Allston, Mass 6 May, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We shall not allow to remain vacant our mind, and if the mind is always filled up with Krishna Consciousness activities, there is no chance of Maya to sit on the mind and force us to act under her spell. Maharaja Ambarisa he did like that and in spite of his becoming a responsible emperor of the world, he was a great devotee of Lord Krishna, and he successfully winned the challenge of a great yogi, Durvasa.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSacisutaMontreal17June1968_3" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="205" link="Letter to Sacisuta -- Montreal 17 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Sacisuta -- Montreal 17 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sacisuta -- Montreal 17 June, 1968|Letter to Sacisuta -- Montreal 17 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Vedas order is that one must approach a spiritual master to understand that transcendental science. And the qualification of a spiritual master is that he has to have received the knowledge similarly from a bona fide spiritual master, and the result is that a spiritual master is completely convinced of the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he is fixed. That is the qualification of the spiritual master. In other words, this science is appreciated by service attitude only. It is never understood by any challenging spirit. One who is submissive and ready to give aural reception of the transcendental message, to him only the transcendence becomes revealed.</p>
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<div id="LettertoChristopherMontreal13July1968_4" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="237" link="Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968" link_text="Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968|Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far the hodge-podge men; they are gradually being defeated, and perhaps you may know that Maharishi Mahesa has left your land with great disappointment—but his mission to cheat your people was successful. He wanted to collect some money and he cheated so many people because they wanted to be cheated, and now he is in India, and so many western boys are still going there and paying some money for interview and hotel charges, and still following the so-called yoga system. I can challenge all this so-called yoga societies in the western countries that they are not standard in terms of Vedic yoga system.</p>
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<div id="LettertoChristopherMontreal13July1968_5" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="237" link="Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968" link_text="Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968|Letter to Christopher -- Montreal 13 July, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We do not say that you pay me something and I give you this chanting. But this chanting is open without any secret, and we do not ask anyone to pay for it. But the chanting is transcendental, and therefore, simply by vibration, one gradually becomes spiritually advanced, and thus he offers himself to become my disciple. In that discipleship also, I do not charge anything. Neither do I offer anything new. I offer the same Hare Krishna beads, but it becomes spiritually powerful on account of being delivered in disciplic succession. And practically we see that the students who are initiated in this way, they are advancing slowly and surely, and any one of my students can challenge any student of so-called yogis, and that is practical evidence.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHayagrivaSeattle7October1968_6" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="354" link="Letter to Hayagriva -- Seattle 7 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hayagriva -- Seattle 7 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hayagriva -- Seattle 7 October, 1968|Letter to Hayagriva -- Seattle 7 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please try to organize the students in the State University, that will be a great service to the cause, but do it very tactfully so that the administration may not be disturbed.</p>
<p>Hope this will find you in good health. I am sure by the Grace of Krishna you shall be able to meet the challenge offered by your enemy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYamunaMukundaSyamasundaraLosAngeles8November1968_7" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="406" link="Letter to Yamuna, Mukunda, Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 8 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Yamuna, Mukunda, Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 8 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yamuna, Mukunda, Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 8 November, 1968|Letter to Yamuna, Mukunda, Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 8 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the challenge in the International Times, I am sorry to read the letter of a rascal advertising himself as Swami Gitananda, but from his letter it appears that he is neither a Swami nor has ever read Bhagavad-gita. He is so rascal that he describes the River Yamuna as metaphysical in lower consciousness, although the River Yamuna is flowing so happily all over the Northern India. He is claiming yogi, but he does not know that the greatest yogi is the devotee of Lord Krishna.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles18November1968_8" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="430" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated Nov. 16, 1968, and it is very encouraging that Devananda is combating with Mr. Jarvis representing Maharishi Mahesa. Yes, in each and every such meeting you should go and challenge these persons, but you must be equipped very strongly with conclusions of the Bhagavad-gita. In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly said that the first class yogi is he who has in his heart always the eternal form of Krishna. I could not follow what Devananda said to the Jerry Jarvis when he said that he was also worshiping Krishna. It is very good to argue with him even at the suspension of meetings, and it is very good enthusiasm.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoVilasavigrahaLosAngeles22January1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="50" link="Letter to Vilasavigraha -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Vilasavigraha -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Vilasavigraha -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1969|Letter to Vilasavigraha -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So to understand these authorities you have to follow in their footsteps. You cannot speculate upon Krishna, neither can you ever know Him by such speculations. You can simply use your judgement submissively; that is all, and this cannot be done in a challenging spirit. Lord Jesus Christ also said that the Kingdom of God is only for the humble and meek.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMalatiLosAngeles28January1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="69" link="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 28 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 28 January, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 28 January, 1969|Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 28 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very much encouraged to learn that you are bold enough to challenge any nondevotee as you did with that impersonalist yoga student. That should be the temperament of all our preachers. We should not be aggressive, but we should not tolerate any sort of nonsense. One who says that God is not merciful because He has made one person happy and one distressed is most nonsensical. This very statement affirms that man as a godless rascal. All of these so-called yogis are therefore rascals because they have no actual realization of God. Falsely they think themselves as God, and their association should be avoided as far as possible.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles30January1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="72" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1969|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I can challenge to all the other organizations that they are all bogus from spiritual point of view. I am admitted as Permanent Resident as "Ordained Minister of Religion". I have duly received the card. Now you shall pay me $500.00 for this because you were going to appoint some lawyer at the cost but I have obtained it simply by spending $35.00 or utmost $50.00. So you can pay me the balance.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaLosAngeles15August1969_3" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="516" link="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 15 August, 1969" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 15 August, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 15 August, 1969|Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 15 August, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you have got a very nice thing, Krishna Consciousness, for distributing to the suffering humanity, and do it nicely, combinedly. It is so nice thing that anyone who distributes it and anyone who takes it, both are benefited; and Krishna also becomes very happy when all His children are benefited in this way. There is no doubt about it that our philosophy is the supermost perfect presentation. We can challenge any other philosophy and establish that this Krishna Consciousness is the panacea for all material problems.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaLosAngeles18February1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="104" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This excellent book of God-Consciousness should be introduced as study book for school and college students because it is so nicely explained about God-Consciousness. Any sincere gentleman serious about knowing God-Consciousness must read this book. A little education will make every one aware what is meant by God. It is a challenge to the atheists, agnostic, skeptics and gross materialists. Please get this book in quantities from Boston and try to introduce it.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBhagavanLondon21August1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="403" link="Letter to Bhagavan -- London 21 August, 1971" link_text="Letter to Bhagavan -- London 21 August, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan -- London 21 August, 1971|Letter to Bhagavan -- London 21 August, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Our mission is undoubtedly the highest welfare activity to the human society. Everyone has forgotten his real constitutional position. Therefore all of them are hovering in the air without any concrete knowledge of the goal of life. Actually we are in the position to teach everyone, never mind however great a philosopher or scientist he may be, but everyone must learn from us about spiritual activities. All the universities and educational institutions are in darkness and still they are very much proud of advancement of knowledge. This we shall challenge everywhere and come out victorious.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriGalimDelhi20November1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="531" link="Letter to Sri Galim -- Delhi 20 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Sri Galim -- Delhi 20 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Galim -- Delhi 20 November, 1971|Letter to Sri Galim -- Delhi 20 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am pleased also to learn that you are teaching university course in Krishna Consciousness. Try to make this program very stimulating for all the students at the university by challenging anyone and everyone to try to defeat our Krishna philosophy with their philosophy. If such discussions can be held they will be very lively and the student body may take note and enroll in increased number. Philosophy is the highest knowledge, but even higher than philosophy is the practice of philosophy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHiranyagarbhaDelhi22November1971_2" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="540" link="Letter to Hiranyagarbha -- Delhi 22 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Hiranyagarbha -- Delhi 22 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hiranyagarbha -- Delhi 22 November, 1971|Letter to Hiranyagarbha -- Delhi 22 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A man is known by his notions and by his words. But sometimes it may appear that he is doing something, but he may be thinking something else. So a man is really known when he speaks, then everything is revealed. So if this Mayavadi sannyasi does not speak, then he can fool everyone. But if you force him to speak he will expose himself, therefore he is silent. Even he remains silent, we shall speak very loudly and expose these bogus men. Let our philosophy be challenged by anyone and we shall defeat them. I want that you distribute our books very widely, as many as possible, then people will get the right information. We show people by the results: so many centers, happy devotees, big books, strong conviction—like that. Let people judge who is better by the results.</p>
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<div id="LettertoLocanaDelhi24November1971_3" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="542" link="Letter to Locana -- Delhi 24 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Locana -- Delhi 24 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Locana -- Delhi 24 November, 1971|Letter to Locana -- Delhi 24 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We can challenge any nonsense philosophy. Socrates, Plato, Kant, Darwin—all of them—so many mental speculators and word jugglers who have misled so many people. Now it is your task to find them out and expose them, so that the people may appreciate the real philosophy. We must become now very serious to save the people of the world from this very dangerous situation.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBahulasvaVrindaban30November1971_4" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="549" link="Letter to Bahulasva -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Bahulasva -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bahulasva -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971|Letter to Bahulasva -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very glad that you are challenging all of these so-called swamis and gurus. My Guru Maharaja appreciated devotees who boldly present our Vaisnava philosophy. We must take advantage of every opportunity to defeat these rascals and drive them away, so please continue this strong attitude.</p>
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<div id="LettertoUpendraDelhi8December1971_5" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="565" link="Letter to Upendra -- Delhi 8 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Upendra -- Delhi 8 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Upendra -- Delhi 8 December, 1971|Letter to Upendra -- Delhi 8 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge your letter dated November 22, 1971, and with pleasure I note that Melbourne Temple is going on very nicely under your supervision. Now keep the standard of our routine work very high, and you will always meet with all success. The best news is that you are increasing nicely the distribution of my books and literature. This is the best activity, to distribute solid information about Krishna. Our preaching stands solid on these books. No other movement or cult has such vast background of authority, so we are not afraid to challenge anyone and everyone to defeat their philosophy on the basis of that authority. Krishna appreciates such strong preachers as His dearmost servants, so let us work very enthusiastically to drive away rascal philosophy and establish the real religion of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAtreyaRsiDelhi12December1971_6" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="572" link="Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Delhi 12 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Delhi 12 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Delhi 12 December, 1971|Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Delhi 12 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So I want that you shall work nicely with Rupanuga, Karandhara and the other leaders to utilize what Krishna has given you to push on His movement very vigorously. Our philosophy cannot be challenged or defeated by any mundane philosophy ,and on this basis alone we stand substantial and certain of victory over all others. So Krishna has favored you to be one of the leading men, now you just become convinced yourself of this philosophy, and very soberly, with great determination infect the whole world with it.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDanavirDelhi12December1971_7" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="573" link="Letter to Danavir -- Delhi 12 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Danavir -- Delhi 12 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Danavir -- Delhi 12 December, 1971|Letter to Danavir -- Delhi 12 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am also glad to hear that Visnujana will lead kirtana. Why he also does not write? I have heard there is some plan to go to South America but I have not got any letter from Visnujana what is the plan. Also it is nice that you are infiltrating into the schools and colleges. These are the best customers for our philosophy. Give them nice philosophy, let them challenge us with any mundane philosophy and we shall very scholarly defeat them. The difference is that we have got absolute authority from the Source of Knowledge, Krishna, while your western mundane philosophers are simply speculating on the mental platform, which is always changing.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSivanandaDelhi12December1971_8" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="575" link="Letter to Sivananda -- Delhi 12 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Sivananda -- Delhi 12 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sivananda -- Delhi 12 December, 1971|Letter to Sivananda -- Delhi 12 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have heard that you may be going to Heidelberg, Germany, where there is a very large and important university. That is our best field. Become yourself very convinced and learned in our Krishna philosophy and take it into such university and contaminate everything with it. We are not afraid to challenge every mundane philosopher and defeat them, because they are simply operating on the mental platform which is constantly changing, so they cannot have any real authority. But because we are hearing from the Source of all knowledge, Krishna, through His representatives, the saints and acaryas in disciplic succession, we have got solid basis for understanding.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriGalimBombay17December1971_9" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="580" link="Letter to Sri Galim -- Bombay 17 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Sri Galim -- Bombay 17 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Galim -- Bombay 17 December, 1971|Letter to Sri Galim -- Bombay 17 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far the impersonalist rascal, you may simply challenge him by asking "what is your philosophy." It is not very difficult to defeat these persons, because they haven't got any substance, simply big words. But we have got our books, Bhagavad-gita—if you engage him in public debate, politely handle his statements with a cool head and reply from the authority of our books, that's all. Krishna will give you all help to expose his lack of knowledge and his faulty understanding.</p>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoUpanandaCalcutta19February1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="101" link="Letter to Upananda -- Calcutta 19 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Upananda -- Calcutta 19 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Upananda -- Calcutta 19 February, 1972|Letter to Upananda -- Calcutta 19 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 11, 1972, and I have noted with pleasure that you are increasing your book distribution and that you have "struck at the very heart of the city of Melbourne." You have understood our philosophy rightly, that we boldly challenge anyone—philosopher, scientist, educationist—to understand our philosophy, and for that we enter without hesitation into the heart of the biggest cities and preach to anyone and everyone the message of Lord Caitanya, who himself was like the lion in strength.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCaturbhujaMayapur28February1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="120" link="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972|Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I am pleased that you are making serious study of this our Krishna philosophy, so I want that you go on like this until you will able to defeat any challenge from atheists and rascals, then your preaching work will have real potency and combinedly with your Godbrothers around the world and at London Temple you shall preach so strongly that one day this Krishna consciousness movement will change the world from the most dangerous condition; that is the wish of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and tomorrow we shall be celebrating the Lord's Appearance Day by laying down the corner-stone for our World Headquarters here at Mayapur.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatyabhamaMayapur28February1972_2" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="123" link="Letter to Satyabhama -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satyabhama -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satyabhama -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972|Letter to Satyabhama -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we are able to employ our intelligence, then we kill the thoughts before they become manifest in activity, but because we are so much inclined to enjoy something unintelligently, we have to therefore daily sharpen our intelligence faculty by reading and discussing and preaching to others. In this way we are able very easily to defeat all challengers to our philosophy and everything becomes very clear as it is revealed from different angles of vision. Krishna makes promise to one who is striving to serve Him sincerely that He will give such devotee the intelligence by which he may come to Him. Therefore we should always pray that Krishna may kindly provide me the intelligence to kill all demons of doubt, and because He understands the heart of His sincere devotee, immediately He gives assistance. For my part, for example, I am absolutely certain that anyone who challenges me I can defeat you. Why is that? Because Krishna gives me the intelligence.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhavanandaTokyo25April1972_3" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="201" link="Letter to Madhavananda -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhavananda -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhavananda -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972|Letter to Madhavananda -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Mahamantra was given to Narada by Brahma. Other mantras made by ordinary men are not authorized by the Sastras, so they have only proportionate effect as much as they are authorized or unauthorized. Highest benefit is from the Mahamantra, or Hare Krishna Mantra, because this is said by authorities. You know these things, you are becoming strong yourself by chanting this mantra, so actually it is so. Compare what you were before to what you have become, now challenge any other mantra to produce such effect. You know it, now try to realize it yourself and convince others, that is Krishna Consciousness. Yes, the more one surrenders, the more he is enabled by the Spiritual Master to succeed.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalavantaAhmedabad13December1972_4" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="607" link="Letter to Balavanta -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Balavanta -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Balavanta -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972|Letter to Balavanta -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now we shall have to learn the art how to approach such higher-class of men and attract them to apply themselves to this Krishna Consciousness process of self-realization. That requires much tact, and we shall have to expect to meet all challenges by sharp minds. But if we remain always absorbed in remembering Lord Caitanya, how He converted so many intelligent men, even sitting for three days and nights to hear them speak without Himself speaking anything, and if we remember how Krishna was so much patient to explain everything to Arjuna, even Arjuna was speaking like a fool—in this way, being always tolerant of others and appreciating their points-of-view, it will be easy matter for us to convince them gradually to join us.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYasodanandanaGurukrpaBombay21December1972_5" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="629" link="Letter to Yasodanandana, Gurukrpa -- Bombay 21 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Yasodanandana, Gurukrpa -- Bombay 21 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yasodanandana, Gurukrpa -- Bombay 21 December, 1972|Letter to Yasodanandana, Gurukrpa -- Bombay 21 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is arrangement of "Questions and Answers" tents for the general public, just by the main street of the city, wherein we shall conduct throughout day and night preacing by my disciples by answering any and all questions put forward by the public. I think that you will enjoy preaching in that way, and I want to place my best preachers there for that purpose of defeating all challengers. Kindly oblige and do the needful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaBombay22December1972_6" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="630" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So the future of this Krishna Consciousness movement is very bright, so long the managers remain vigilant that 16 rounds are being chanted by everyone without fail, that they are all rising before four morning, attending mangal arati—our leaders shall be careful not to kill the spirit of enthusiastic service, which is individual and spontaneous and voluntary. They should try always to generate some atmosphere of fresh challenge to the devotees, so that they will agree enthusiastically to rise and meet it. That is the art of management: to draw out spontaneous loving spirit of sacrificing some energy for Krishna. But where are so many expert managers? All of us should become expert managers and preachers. We should not be very much after comforts and become complacent or self-contented. There must be always some tapasya, strictly observing the regulative principles—Krishna Consciousness movement must be always a challenge, a great achievement to be gained by voluntary desire to do it, and that will keep it healthy. So you big managers now try to train up more and more some competent preachers and managers like yourselves.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRevatinandanaBombay31December1972_7" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="655" link="Letter to Revatinandana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Revatinandana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Revatinandana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972|Letter to Revatinandana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have seen myself that you are perfectly well qualified to defeat all challengers so far our philosophy goes. You are good kirtana man, you can sing and play mrdanga like anything, you are also good cook, you are expert philosopher and preacher, you are in the renounced order of life, having given up all thoughts of wife, family and home, you are determined to assist me by training up so many younger devotees in Krsna consciousness, you have got good ideas how to push on our movement also—in so many ways you are among the best qualified and most appreciated of my disciples.</p>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaBombay2January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="1" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now you appear little restless, I know that is your nature, you like to do big things and you are very capable and intelligent young man for executing tremendous tasks on behalf of Krsna. But I think that you have got a huge field of endeavor in the German speaking countries and other countries of Scandinavia, Communist countries and other places like that. Now work very vigorously to develop these places, that is your great task at hand. You needn't look further to find some big challenge. The challenge is very near at hand. That means developing and expanding along the lines as you have begun. Of course we are not ever very much anxious to repeat the same activity many times, that is the nature of the living entity, that he seeks to enjoy varieties of flavors.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaBombay2January1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="1" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are preachers on behalf of Lord Krsna, that is our occupational duty, we haven't got to search any further some new challenge or change our engagement. No, that has been already settled up. Now best thing will be to develop more and more what we have begun. I have built the skeleton of the building, but there is so much more work remaining before us.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaBombay2January1973_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="1" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you have got a little facility now, utilize this opportunity to take advantage of Krsna's favoring you in this way. Consider that each day shall be a new challenge for you to push on Krsna Consciousness movement within your range of managing. But I think that you are developing things nicely already, you are one of my senior disciples, and you know these things already, only you are little humble so you have said like that.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPrabhavisnuBombay3January1973_3" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="4" link="Letter to Prabhavisnu -- Bombay 3 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Prabhavisnu -- Bombay 3 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Prabhavisnu -- Bombay 3 January, 1973|Letter to Prabhavisnu -- Bombay 3 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So I can understand that it is not an easy matter to travel extensively over long periods of time without proper food, rest, and sometimes it must be very cold there also, and still, because you are getting so much enjoyment, spiritual enjoyment, from it, it seems like play to you. That is advanced stage of spiritual life, never attained by even the greatest yogis and so-called jyanis. But let any man see our devotees working so hard for Krishna, then let anyone say that they are not better than any millions of so-called yogis and transcendentalists, that is my challenge! Because you are rightly understanding through your personal realization this philosophy of Krishna Consciousness, therefore in such a short time you have surpassed all the stages of yoga processes to come to the highest point of surrendering to Krishna.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaMayapur14June1973_4" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="209" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Mayapur 14 June, 1973" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Mayapur 14 June, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Mayapur 14 June, 1973|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Mayapur 14 June, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The deities may be immediately repaired and worshiped. Now we must take precaution as you have suggested. You may get some guns and some of the boys may be trained as ksatriyas. Such gun shots could have taken place long ago since we are challenging everybody. So we must be prepared to fight. We cannot stop this movement. It is actually a fight against Maya. So Maya may also sometimes cause casualties in our camp. So, we must only thank Krsna and seriously dedicate everything for Him. So, you are Kirtanananda Maharaja, take pleasure in performing kirtana.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaBhaktivedantaManor19July1973_5" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="236" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 July, 1973|Letter to Karandhara -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now we shall put this challenge against this wrong theory that life comes from matter. Undoubtedly matter has come from life, and we can present so many practical proofs of this. So let Svarupa Damodara and Ramananda think in their own chemical language how to push this fact to the scientific world. If by Krsna's grace they even partially admit it, it will be a great triumph.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhaktaDonLosAngeles1December1973_6" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="394" link="Letter to Bhakta Don -- Los Angeles 1 December, 1973" link_text="Letter to Bhakta Don -- Los Angeles 1 December, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakta Don -- Los Angeles 1 December, 1973|Letter to Bhakta Don -- Los Angeles 1 December, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, you should use your scientific credentials to present this Krsna Conscious philosophy. Everything may be used in Krsna's service. It may not be possible to convince the rascal scientists of this Krsna Consciousness philosophy because after all, Krsna gives everyone free will and if it is their determination to remain atheistic how shall it be checked? Our principle aim is to challenge their nonsense proposition so that the layman and common people may be saved from this rascaldom. You study our books very carefully under the guidance of Amarendra Prabhu and preach our philosophy from Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam in your scientific language.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoDrGhosh_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="78" link="Letter to Dr. Ghosh" link_text="Letter to Dr. Ghosh">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Ghosh|Letter to Dr. Ghosh]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes back, when I was in Moscow, I had discussion with a big professor, Kotovsky, and I challenged him. "Where is the difference between the Communist philosophy and any other? Everyone has to accept a particular leader and follow his instructions under a brand of ism." But because leaders are all fools and rascals, the ultimate result of following them is disappointment. In the western countries there have been many revolutions, in France, England, Germany and Russia, simply to change leaders of this ism to that ism.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaBombay3November1974_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="543" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 3 November, 1974" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 3 November, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 3 November, 1974|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 3 November, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have read your letter to the professor and it is a good challenge. You have written nicely. You have correctly cited the Vedas wherein it is stated: eko narayana asin na brahma na isano. . . In the beginning there was no Brahma, no Siva, only Krishna. The cosmic manifestation is from Mahat Tattva, and before the Maha Tattva there is Narayana. Sankaracarya is a Lord Siva worshipper and an incarnation of Lord Siva, and he admits that Narayana is the master, and Narayana is the Supreme. narayanah paro 'vyaktat. This is the best authority. What more evidence you want? This is in his Sanka Bhasya on Bhagavad-gita. This is not even the statement of the Puranas but of Sankaracarya's own writings. How can you deny if the incarnation of Lord Siva says that Krishna is Supreme?</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaBombay12November1974_2" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="555" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 12 November, 1974" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 12 November, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 12 November, 1974|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 12 November, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The report that the newly published books are all selling like mad is very, very encouraging. Now publish more books. Make more translations. You have not yet published Bhagavatam and also Krsna Book Second Part. Is this translated or not? And what about "Leben Kommt Von Leben?" Are they also selling? I have never studied science, but I am challenging them. They may take me as crazy, but I am not crazy. I am right.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJagannathasutaAhmedabad26September1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="562" link="Letter to Jagannatha-suta -- Ahmedabad 26 September, 1975" link_text="Letter to Jagannatha-suta -- Ahmedabad 26 September, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jagannatha-suta -- Ahmedabad 26 September, 1975|Letter to Jagannatha-suta -- Ahmedabad 26 September, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 15, 1975 with the enclosed copies of the latest issue of BTG No. 10. I can say that each issue you produce is an improvement on the previous one. This is very good. You are doing it enthusiastically. For the article of my touring they have selected the photos very nicely. We can talk with anyone. Marx. Darwin, all professors and politicians, we can challenge and defeat them. Our philosophy is so perfect. So go on exposing them, that is the purpose of Back to Godhead paper, to expose their materialistic ideas as all nonsense and present the real philosophy that Lord Krsna gives. This is the real knowledge.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSvarupaDamodaraBombay21November1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="707" link="Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Bombay 21 November, 1975" link_text="Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Bombay 21 November, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Bombay 21 November, 1975|Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Bombay 21 November, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am glad to note that your book about the origin of matter and life is progressing very well. This will be a great challenge.</p>
<p>From the Srimad-Bhagavatam we learn that the universe is like a tree with the roots being upwards. The pole star which is situated within the Asking question starts constellation is the root. The universe is pivoting around the pole star. That is one movement.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaMayapur21February1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="160" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Mayapur 21 February, 1976" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Mayapur 21 February, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Mayapur 21 February, 1976|Letter to Rupanuga -- Mayapur 21 February, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, this supplying of milk to the temple is wanted. Thank you. In the way that Atlanta is doing, every center must have a farm so we can get all milk and if possible vegetable, even fruit, flowers and milk.</p>
<p>They are getting a flat-bed truck, then no blocking. They can sit comfortably and chant and people will hear. He (Madhava das) is giving a class at MIT, that is very good. I challenged them where is the technology to understand the distinction between a dead man and a live man.</p>
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