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Commander (Letters)

2011-12-27T19:42:51Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRobertHendryLosAngeles3August1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="492" link="Letter to Robert Hendry -- Los Angeles 3 August, 1969" link_text="Letter to Robert Hendry -- Los Angeles 3 August, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Robert Hendry -- Los Angeles 3 August, 1969|Letter to Robert Hendry -- Los Angeles 3 August, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far as your dress is concerned, that is immaterial. But as a soldier you know that every soldier has got a uniform dress according to the army etiquette of regulation. Therefore, the army of Krishna Consciousness must have at least the tilak on the forehead in all conditions. For your business you can wear your naval service uniform; similarly, if you have tilak on your forehead as a soldier of Krishna Consciousness, you may not have so much objection, because it is essential. Your ideas are great, and your efficiency is laudable. The best thing would have been if you could come here and live with me at least for a week. We could have discussed it very nicely, so in the future you can become a great commander of the Krishna Consciousness soldiers.</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="LettertoHanumanPrasadPoddarLosAngeles5February1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="77" link="Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970|Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Our initiation system is as follows: In our general thrice weekly classes we chant Hare Krishna Mantra in the beginning and at the end, and in the middle we speak on Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam regularly. In this class we do not prohibit anyone to come within the Temple, everyone is welcome. The only thing we ask visitors to leave their shoes at a specified place and sit down in the Temple crosslegged. If somebody finds difficulty to sit down crosslegged, we offer him a chair. So out of the members of the audience who come regularly, when one becomes more interested he is invited to participate in the program of Krishna Consciousness daily life and study. After some time of appreciating our program and trying to understand our philosophy, when someone is very interested and recommended by the Temple Commander, for becoming initiated, I accept him and give him first initiation in the form of Harinama in a regular ceremony with fire sacrifice. I chant Hare Krishna Mantra on the 108 beads and then the beads are offered to the disciple with a change of name as Krishna das. He is advised to strictly follow the regulative principles of 1. no eating of meat, fish, or eggs; 2. no taking of intoxicants including coffee, tea, and tobacco; 3. no illicit sex-life; and 4. no gambling or mental speculation.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaGargamuniLosAngeles31July1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="458" link="Letter to Brahmananda , Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 31 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda , Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 31 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda , Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 31 July, 1970|Letter to Brahmananda , Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 31 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is the injunction of the Vedas that the Spiritual Master should not be treated as ordinary man even if sometimes the Spiritual Master behaves like ordinary man. It is the duty of the disciple to accept Him as Superhuman Man. In the beginning of your letter your comparison of the soldier and commander is very appropriate. We are on the battlefield of Kuruksetra—one side Maya, the other side Krsna. So the regulative principles of a battlefield, namely to abide by the order of the commander, must be followed.</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="LettertoBatuGopalaEdEnglehartLosAngeles8July1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="285" link="Letter to Batu Gopala (Ed Englehart) -- Los Angeles 8 July, 1971" link_text="Letter to Batu Gopala (Ed Englehart) -- Los Angeles 8 July, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Batu Gopala (Ed Englehart) -- Los Angeles 8 July, 1971|Letter to Batu Gopala (Ed Englehart) -- Los Angeles 8 July, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am so glad to see that Krishna is giving you good intelligence in the matter of executing your duties, previously in Chicago as sankirtana leader, temple commander and treasurer, and now in Detroit as temple commander. Krishna says like that; that simply if you are endeavoring to serve Him sincerely, then He will give you all facility and intelligence for engaging in His service more and more.</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="LettertoBapiNewDelhi27April1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="155" link="Letter to Bapi -- New Delhi 27 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Bapi -- New Delhi 27 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bapi -- New Delhi 27 April, 1973|Letter to Bapi -- New Delhi 27 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When you come to New York, I shall advise the Temple Commander to receive you. As you have been granted visa, you can secure a job. I think you can get it easily because you are qualified. I shall advise my disciples to help you, but this will have to be arranged when you come here.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJagadisaBhaktivedantaManor23July1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="246" link="Letter to Jagadisa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Jagadisa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jagadisa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 July, 1973|Letter to Jagadisa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You are setting a very good example in that you yourself are going with the travelling party. The Vedic concept of the commander is that he must be in front in the fight, not that he sit back behind the lines.</p>
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Germinate

2011-12-27T19:37:03Z

SushilaRadha:

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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3527_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="170" link="SB 3.5.27" link_text="SB 3.5.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.27|SB 3.5.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In due course of time, the impregnated material energy was manifested first as the total material ingredients. Everything takes its own time to fructify, and therefore the word kāla-coditāt, "influenced by time," is used herein. The mahat-tattva is the total consciousness because a portion of it is represented in everyone as the intellect. The mahat-tattva is directly connected with the supreme consciousness of the Supreme Being, but still it appears as matter. The mahat-tattva, or shadow of pure consciousness, is the germinating place of all creation. It is pure goodness with the slight addition of the material mode of passion, and therefore activity is generated from this point.</p>
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<div id="SB32842_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1188" link="SB 3.28.42" link_text="SB 3.28.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.28.42|SB 3.28.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The word sarva-bhūteṣu is to be understood as follows. There are four different divisions of species-living entities which sprout from the earth, living entities born of fermentation or germination, living entities which come from eggs and living entities which come from the embryo. These four divisions of living entities are expanded in 8,400,000 species of life. A person who is freed from material designations can see the same quality of spirit present everywhere or in every manifested living entity.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.31.24|SB 3.31.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The child thus falls on the ground, smeared with stool and blood, and plays just like a worm germinated from the stool. He loses his superior knowledge and cries under the spell of māyā.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.144|CC Antya 3.144, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">By inducing a prostitute to disturb Haridāsa Ṭhākura, Rāmacandra Khān caused a seed of offense at his lotus feet to germinate. This seed later became a tree, and when it fructified, Rāmacandra Khān ate its fruits.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Isopanisad" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Sri Isopanisad"><h3>Sri Isopanisad</h3>
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<div id="ISO13_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Isopanisad" book="OB" index="15" link="ISO 13" link_text="Sri Isopanisad 13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:ISO 13|Sri Isopanisad 13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Īśopaniṣad advises us to pour water on the root, the source of all germination. Worship of the mass of humanity by rendering bodily service, which can never be perfect, is less important than service to the soul.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureLosAngelesDecember41968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="31" link="Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 4, 1968" link_text="Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 4, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 4, 1968|Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 4, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Protection? Cleanliness. Just like if you keep your apartment very cleansed, if you keep your clothes and body very cleansed, you won't find this insect disturbing you. Just like the flies, they go in a nasty place. So you should be cleansed. You should take protection in that way. You cannot kill them. The cockroaches, the modern method of bathroom attached in 600th floor... So (laughs) this is unclean. Therefore the cockroaches are born there, you see? So if you keep yourself clean, there will be no more disturbances. The incense will keep off all insects. You make fresh food, there will be no germs. You take warm, immediately prepared, that is germicide foodstuff. But if you keep for months together in the refrigerator, that will contaminate with germ, disease. Therefore the brahminical culture means cleanliness is next to godliness. You have to keep your body clean, you have to keep your apartment clean, everything clean, and there will be no more disturbance. Bahyābhyantaraḥ śuciḥ. The Vedic literature says that you should keep yourself externally and internally cleansed. Externally, you can keep yourself clean by soap, water, and change of dress, washed dress, externally. And internally, by thinking of Kṛṣṇa. Then there will be no more disturbance.</p>
:apavitraḥ pavitro vā
:sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā
:yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ
:sa bahyābhyantaraḥ śuciḥ
<p>Śuciḥ means cleansed. Therefore we prescribe so many things just to keep you cleansed—cleansed within, cleansed outside. Then there is no affection of māyā. Otherwise, you will be harassed by three kinds of miserable condition: adhyātmika, adhibhautika... I have seen many persons in India, within two or three days, by perspiration, within their coat, they germinate so many germs. Do not take bath, unclean. You see? So cleanliness is the protection from infection. And water is very disinfectant, natural disinfectant. This is the medical opinion, water. Therefore God has supplied unlimited quantity of water. You can spend it as much as you like. Yes?</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="LifeComesFromLifeSlideshowDiscussionsJuly31976WashingtonDC_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="180" link="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.|'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is abortion. By force you are destroying the shelter. Therefore you are criminal.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: So we can utilize this experiment.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, this is... When the life comes from outside, then there is germination.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationAugust31976NewMayapurFrenchfarm_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="242" link="Room Conversation -- August 3, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)" link_text="Room Conversation -- August 3, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 3, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)|Room Conversation -- August 3, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Ah. In East Germany also, they have placed order. So this is joining. Just like for us, if you bring any other literature, we throw it away immediately. We take it as useless. Actually it is. We have nothing to learn from them, anything. All bogus. Either he's scientist or astronomer, or..., we know they are talking all bogus things. There may be some truth. Even that truth is there when a child speaks, there is some truth. When a child speaks to his parents, there is some truth, otherwise where is the question of talking? So little portion truth is there, everywhere. But when they talk of big, big things—they are going to Mars and scratching sand there—that we don't believe. That we don't believe. When they talk of this tape recorder, some electronic machine, joining together and it is working, that much care you can take. But when you speak of so many things, that millions of years there were germs and germination, now they are trying to come out, and it is all vacant—these are all bogus, we don't accept. Talking too much. In Bengal it is called yatap(?) When the same child speaks something too much, "Ah, stop." To the extent of his capacity, that's all right. But if you talk more than that, then you are rascal. So they are doing that now.</p>
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Loose (Letters)

2011-12-27T19:30:15Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="LettertoAnandPrakashBombay14August1958_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="40" link="Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958" link_text="Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958|Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I wish that a personality like you may accept the head man ship of this institution and conduct the missionary work in a suitable manner befitting the time circumstances of the modern civilization. The old way of leaving the matter to the irresponsible class of men will not help the preaching work of this important mission. Responsible gentlemen who are managing all other affairs, must also take up the responsibility of this branch of activity and then it will successful. The present world situation is too much entangled. It is the duty of all sane men to loosen the tightened condition by the simple method of Bhagavad-gita and the result is sure to be successful.</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="LettertoUnitedShippingCorporationSanFrancisco23March1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="125" link="Letter to United Shipping Corporation -- San Francisco 23 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to United Shipping Corporation -- San Francisco 23 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to United Shipping Corporation -- San Francisco 23 March, 1968|Letter to United Shipping Corporation -- San Francisco 23 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Also, please send me a statement of account of $500 sent by us, and the balance which is still with you. Please also let me know, besides the books sent by the Institute of Oriental Philosophy for shipping, whether some loose Bhagavatams are still lying there. When I was in Calcutta, I sent some loose Bhagavatams. I do not know whether you have sent them or not. Please enlighten me.</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="LettertoIsanaVibhavatiHawaii8March1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="159" link="Letter to Isana, Vibhavati -- Hawaii 8 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Isana, Vibhavati -- Hawaii 8 March, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Isana, Vibhavati -- Hawaii 8 March, 1969|Letter to Isana, Vibhavati -- Hawaii 8 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, in New Vrindaban Hayagriva and his wife Syama dasi are doing very nicely. So it is a part of my missionary work; I want to see that the Western boys and girls who are very much loose with their sex life should get themselves married and take to Krishna Consciousness seriously and they will be happy both materially and spiritually. So if you go to London to join Mukunda and his company you will be very much pleased to see how husband and wife combined together can so nicely preach this Krishna Consciousness movement.</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="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles20March1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="185" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 20 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 20 March, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 20 March, 1970|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 20 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding picture pages, sections of 8 pages together is not nice. The pictures should be just at the appropriate place of description in the text. There are many modern glues which will not loosen for a very long time, so glueing is not a problem. I think that this method of insetting the picture pages is best, and even better if they can be each protected by a leaf of waxed paper also. That will be best. So do what ever you think is best for getting the book ready (printed) as soon as possible.</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="LettertoAllCentersLosAngeles13December1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="424" link="Letter to All Centers -- Los Angeles 13 December, 1973" link_text="Letter to All Centers -- Los Angeles 13 December, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to All Centers -- Los Angeles 13 December, 1973|Letter to All Centers -- Los Angeles 13 December, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In addition to thieves and rogues, there is risk that even our own men may fall victim to stealing. We have the examples of Kausika and Mahadeva, both devotees who stole from Temples. Prabhupada said, "Our men are coming from outside with so many bad habits and the stealing mentality is there. We are trying to reform, but if the opportunity is there, the mentality may come forward and they may fall down. We will loose our money, our prestige and out students. Why expose them in that way? No jewelry! It is not the time for that."</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="LettertoAcyutanandaParis8June1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="228" link="Letter to Acyutananda -- Paris 8 June, 1974" link_text="Letter to Acyutananda -- Paris 8 June, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Acyutananda -- Paris 8 June, 1974|Letter to Acyutananda -- Paris 8 June, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rather you should avoid strictly meeting with them. They are not after preaching but material gain and reputation and adoration. Otherwise why they are non cooperating with me? So no cooperation is possible. Do not think or indulge in loose talks. Be careful always. Let us do the duty of propagation sincerely and seriously on our own principles. Krsna and Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura are our only hope and they and helping us.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKurusresthaBombay28December1974_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="719" link="Letter to Kurusrestha -- Bombay 28 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Kurusrestha -- Bombay 28 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kurusrestha -- Bombay 28 December, 1974|Letter to Kurusrestha -- Bombay 28 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your farm, that will be very nice. But be sure to maintain your temple there in Denver. It is a very beautiful temple. Do not loose it. Also your idea of forming a trust between ISKCON and the leading men in the Indian community is approved by me. That is very nice.</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="LettertoAbhiramaBombay16January1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="52" link="Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 16 January, 1975" link_text="Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 16 January, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 16 January, 1975|Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 16 January, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone must rise early, take bath attend mangala arati, chant at least 16 good rounds, attend class, and follow the four regulative principles strictly. If these things are lax, then there is no question of spiritual life. Any one who does not accept these things staunchly will have to fall down. You must teach them by your own personal example otherwise how will they learn. If you are loose in your habits, then everyone in your temple will also be loose in their habits. So, as one of my elder disciples, be strong. Do not deviate and you will be blessed.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaJohannesburg22October1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="615" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Johannesburg 22 October, 1975" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Johannesburg 22 October, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Johannesburg 22 October, 1975|Letter to Giriraja -- Johannesburg 22 October, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Do the account under Mr. Vyasa' instruction. They must not remain loose. Accounting is simple, receipts and expenditures. Why complicated? From all centres receipts and expenditures should be taken and everything properly adjusted in the Bombay centre. Do it nicely.</p>
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Enforce (Letters)

2011-12-27T19:21:42Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSanFrancisco21March1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="118" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 March, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You should consult a suitable lawyer in connection with this matter, and do the needful. We can submit a copy of the remark made by a judge of a court here, in relation to the imprisonment of one of our students, Upendra das, in which the man said, "Be lenient with this boy, as he belongs to an established religious organization, which is doing much to combat against drug-addiction, and to promote the general health and welfare of the young people." (These are not the exact words, but we are presently awaiting a certified letter from the judge saying in essence, this statement.) And as minister of the association, I can give certificate that all my students are ecclesiastical. They are neither fighting men, nor mercantile people, so they cannot be called for fighting for unnecessary waste of time and valuable energy. In this connection, the caste system of the Hindus, in which Ksatriyas are trained up for fighting from the very beginning, in martial spirit. They are fighting with young men recruited from the sudra class, enforced to fighting; so there is a gulf of difference. Anyway, Krishna will save Advaita. You just take help of the psychiatrist.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAniruddhaMontreal16June1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="204" link="Letter to Aniruddha -- Montreal 16 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Aniruddha -- Montreal 16 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Aniruddha -- Montreal 16 June, 1968|Letter to Aniruddha -- Montreal 16 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">What is the difficulty of enforcing these rules? They are rules, and they are simple rules, and must be followed. One must be prepared to follow the rules for Krishna. Otherwise where is the proof that he loves Krishna. And they are not very difficult to follow.</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="LettertoGurudasaLosAngeles27January1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="56" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 27 January, 1970" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 27 January, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 27 January, 1970|Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 27 January, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Krishna Consciousness Society will never experience any poverty stricken life because the members are so rich being constantly in association with Krishna; that while others may feel the pinching scarcity enforced by Maya, Krishna Conscious persons will feel the whole world full of enjoyment.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSyamasundaraLosAngeles15April1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="236" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So God has two features of appearance—to the atheist He appears as Death and to the devotee-theist He appears as the Supreme Beloved. The hypocrite atheist says that he does not believe in God, but he cannot say that he does not believe in death. Our definition of God is that He is great. That the atheist does not believe in God means that nobody is greater than him—he is "God" himself, but he is enforced to believe that Death is greater than him. In other words, Death is the representation of God before the atheist.</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="LettertoVamanadevaIndiraDelhi8December1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="563" link="Letter to Vamanadeva, Indira -- Delhi 8 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Vamanadeva, Indira -- Delhi 8 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Vamanadeva, Indira -- Delhi 8 December, 1971|Letter to Vamanadeva, Indira -- Delhi 8 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Living outside and working are not prohibited, and it is not recommended that such strict rule as no outside living should be enforced, but living in the association of devotees is better. From our side there is never any objection if it is inconvenient for temple living, but if you are in charge of organizing your new center, I think you should live in the company of the other devotees there, to train them and work with them for distributing our books and magazines and pushing on this Krishna Consciousness Movement full-time.</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="LettertoTamalaKrsnaGirirajaManila11October1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="541" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Giriraja -- Manila 11 October, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Giriraja -- Manila 11 October, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna, Giriraja -- Manila 11 October, 1972|Letter to Tamala Krsna, Giriraja -- Manila 11 October, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am writing this letter aboard the airship from Hawaii to Manila. I am reaching Manila in the morning 7:00 A.M. on the 11th October 1972. As scheduled I am reaching Delhi on the night of the 14th, so if need be you can see me at Vrndavana on the 15th or 16th, but my definite instruction is this,</p>
<p>1. We have fulfilled all the conditions as purchaser.</p>
<p>2. Mr. Nair has purposefully delayed with a motive to cheat us as he had done with some others in this connection.</p>
<p>3. But this time he cannot cheat us because we are in possession of the land and our deity Radha-Krsna is installed there.</p>
<p>4. Therefore we must immediately go to the court for enforcing him to execute the conveyance immediately.</p>
<p>5. Even the court case goes on for a long time, still our business there cannot be stopped.</p>
<p>6. Without going to the court, we cannot make any compromise with him.</p>
<p>7. But I think we can arrange the full amount of 14 lacs to get out this rascal out of the scene.</p>
<p>8. But we cannot do it without going to the court otherwise we shall become a party for breaking the purchase agreement. Therefore we have to go to the court before making any compromise.</p>
<p>9. In the meantime, take definite information from the bank whether they can loan us 50% of the whole value.</p>
<p>10. The whole value is 14 lacs. We have already paid 2 lacs. We can arrange to pay farther 5 lacs. That means we pay 7 lacs, the bank may pay the balance 7 lacs.</p>
<p>11. Actually the bank may not have to pay even 7 lacs because according to the purchase agreement, the last payment of 4 lacs has to be paid upon the decision on the court case pending about Chiman lal and company.</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="LettertoMohananandaBombay13October1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="335" link="Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973" link_text="Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973|Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But, on the whole the Gurukula standard should be free education, boarding, and lodging. People shall voluntarily contribute as far as possible. That should be introduced. We cannot enforce that if you do not pay, then take back your child. Rather the opposite. We must give free education to our children. We have to if need be provide money from the incense business or Book Trust, like that if sufficient income is not there.</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="LettertoRamesvaraVrindaban18September1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="511" link="Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 18 September, 1976" link_text="Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 18 September, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 18 September, 1976|Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 18 September, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These management affairs sometimes disturb me. Kindly manage nicely. I want that the properties should not be jeopardized. So the idea of the declarations from the presidents is absolutely required. Nobody can do anything without my signature; that should be enforced.</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="LettertoAllIskconTemplePresidentsCalcutta18January1977_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="28" link="Letter to All Iskcon Temple Presidents -- Calcutta 18 January, 1977" link_text="Letter to All Iskcon Temple Presidents -- Calcutta 18 January, 1977">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to All Iskcon Temple Presidents -- Calcutta 18 January, 1977|Letter to All Iskcon Temple Presidents -- Calcutta 18 January, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now you must arrange in each temple there must be sufficient stock of prasadam for distribution. You can keep first class cooks, two or three, and they should be always engaged. Whenever any guest comes, he must get prasada. This arrangement must be made, that the cooks prepare ten-twenty servings at a time, of puris and subji, and you can add halava and pakoras, and the visitors must be supplied immediately. Whenever a gentleman comes, he must be served. As the twenty servings are being distributed, immediately the cooks prepare another twenty servings and store it. At the end of the day, if no one comes, our own men will take, so there is no loss. You cannot say, "it is finished," "it is not cooked yet," "there is no supply for cooking" etc. This must be enforced rigidly. The temple is managed by Srimati Radharani, Laksmiji; so why should there be want?</p>
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Sanskrit scholars (Letters)

2011-12-27T15:15:02Z

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<div id="LettertoUpendradasa20September1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="323" link="Letter to Upendra dasa -- 20 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Upendra dasa -- 20 September, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Upendra dasa -- 20 September, 1968|Letter to Upendra dasa -- 20 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">(What follows is written in Śrīla Prabhupāda's handwriting:)</p>
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<p>Dear Sir,</p>
<p>I the undersigned Mr. George E. Taylor professor of oriental languages after offering obeisances to the lotus feet of Guru beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter which I received a few days ago. I beg your pardon because I am delayed in replying your letter on account of my being engaged in some other business. I hope all success to Bhaktivedanta swami for his great endeavour in preaching religious activities which I come to learn by your kindness. In your letter you have asked for some time to see us but there is no such opportunity to meet you. The authorities of the Washington University does not encourage anyone's religious activities and it is well known that there is specific stricture.</p>
<p>yours faithfully</p>
<p>George E. Taylor - Director</p>
<p>Reply</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Taylor,</p>
<p>While thanking you for your letter dated 20th September, 1968 I beg to inform you that our spiritual master Om Viṣnupāda Bhaktivedānta Svāmi Mahārāja is not preaching a type of faith which you have described as yasya kasyapi dharmasya protsāhanaṁ. He is preaching svarupa dharma. He is preaching the svarupa dharma of all living entities. As a great Sanskṛt scholar you must have come across the following famous Sanskṛt passages like sa vai pumsām paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje, dharman tu sākṣāt bhagavat praṇitaṁ dharmena hīna pasubhiḥ samānāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.6|SB 1.2.6]]). We practice and preach svabhāva dharma but not that dharma which is taken as a matter of faith. The svabhāva dharma of every living creature is to become a servant. Even a great scholar like yourself is also a servant of Washingtondesiya rajya. Similarly everyone is servant of somebody superior. This servitorship is constitutional position of all living beings. But in conditional state everyone is serving his senses. This is called virupa dharma. The svarupa dharma is to serve the master of the senses namely hṛṣikesha. This hṛṣikesha servitorship is liberation of the conditioned soul. Without this, namely hṛṣikena hṛṣikesha sevanam bhaktir ucyate. Harāv ābhaktasya kuto mahat gunāḥ manorathena asato dhāvato vahiḥ, a man is pasubhisamānāh. According to Asian sanskṛt scholars vidya bhāgavatabadhi. I wish therefore to request you to introduce in your department of Asian language and literature the study of Srimad Bhāgavatam, the summit of Sanskṛt literature as accepted by great Sanskṛt scholars like Sridharsvami, Virraghavacharya, Jiva Gosvami, Visvanāth Chakravarty and above all Lord Chaitanya who was known as Nimāi Pandit the greatest sanskrit scholar in the 15th century. As you are teacher in a great visvavidyalaya you may introduce the study of Srimad Bhagavatam in your department because it is said in the Bhāgavatam koumāra acaret prājno dharmān bhāgavatāniha dūrlabham mānusam janma tadapyadhruvamarthadam. I am sorry I cannot reply in Sanskṛt because our process of study is not academic but by sruti.</p>
<p>yours sincerely,</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="LettertoKrsnadasaLosAngeles4July1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="417" link="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 4 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 4 July, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 4 July, 1969|Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 4 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Sankirtana Party, whatever heads you have got at the present moment, you continue. That is our main function. The pictures and pamphlets Jaya Govinda has sent me are very much encouraging. You can make my program for lecturing in the Indo-German society, taking it that I shall be going there in the month of August. I know there are many Sanskrit scholars in Germany, but unfortunately I have no practice to speak in Sanskrit. I can read and write, but I cannot speak in Sanskrit. But I don't think my speaking in Sanskrit will be required, and if I read from Sanskrit literature like Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, that will be sufficient. After all, I am not going to Germany as a Sanskrit scholar, but my attempt will be to deliver the message of Lord Caitanya in the shape of Krishna Consciousness. I hope this will meet you in good health.</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="LettertoHarerNamaLosAngeles15March1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="174" link="Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970|Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Neil's study of Sanskrit, I am very glad to learn of his seriousness to study, and we need many such Sanskrit scholar devotees. When it is convenient, he may study with Pradyumna in Boston, and there are Sanskrit courses at the university there also. In the meantime, for his studies, Manva Dharma Sastra is not bona fide. The Hitopadesa is alright for study.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPradyumnaLosAngeles5April1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="217" link="Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 5 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 5 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 5 April, 1970|Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 5 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far grammar is concerned, one has to learn Sanskrit grammar for at least 12 years, then he becomes an expert grammarian. In India, those who are Sanskrit scholars studied in the beginning, from 5 to 15 years—that is for ten years continually—and they study grammar thoroughly. When one is expert in grammatical rulings and formation—that is to say: sabda, dhatu, sandhi, samasa, prakaran, vidhan, pratyaya, adhikarana—after this they study nyaya. In this way, when one is expert in 10 to 12 years, that is by the age of the 17th year, a student becomes very much expert and any departmental knowledge he can master in 1 to 2 years.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaLosAngeles16April1970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="237" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970|Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Sanskrit class, it is very encouraging that Mr. Parikh is helping you in this connection, but the chief aim for learning Sanskrit would be how to pronounce the Sanskrit verses especially in our published books just like you have already chanted the Govinda verses in the record. Similarly all the verses you have to chant combinedly and melodiously along with musical instruments, and it will be a great charm to the people of the world. When we shall lead our World Sankirtana Party at that time if we can demonstrate the chanting of the mantras as they are stated in Isopanisad, Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Brahma Samhita, that will be our unique position. Therefore the main aim of this Sanskrit class should be how you can learn this chanting in the proper accent. It is not our aim to become a Sanskrit scholar.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrChakravartiBombay3November1970_3" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="564" link="Letter to Dr. Chakravarti -- Bombay 3 November, 1970" link_text="Letter to Dr. Chakravarti -- Bombay 3 November, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Chakravarti -- Bombay 3 November, 1970|Letter to Dr. Chakravarti -- Bombay 3 November, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your tendency to give Srila Jiva Goswami the proper position a philosopher is very much appreciated. Some years back I attended a meeting in Calcutta wherein Pramathanath Trakvhusna, the learned Sanskrit scholar, was present. He said about Jiva Goswami very highly that there was no comparison with Jiva Goswami and any other philosophers of the world. Gaudiya Vaisnavism is very much proud of having such a great acarya as Jiva Goswami. Your tendency to present Bengal Gaudiya Vaisnavism in its proper perspective is very much welcome.</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="LettertoSatsvarupaNewDelhi2November1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="367" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- New Delhi 2 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- New Delhi 2 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- New Delhi 2 November, 1973|Letter to Satsvarupa -- New Delhi 2 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I will especially draw your attention to articles written by Dr. O.B.L. Kapoor. He has many such philosophical articles, and he wants to get the book published by us. I shall be glad to have your opinion in consultation with Karandhara whether we can take up the publication of such philosophical books. Another gentleman whose name is Hari Goswami is a Sanskrit scholar, as well as knowing English. He is enthusiastic to join us. Please let me know if you can utilize him for our Dallas Gurukula institution. He is coming from a respectable brahmana family belonging to Radha Raman goswami house, but he is very much pleased with our activities and wants to join us wholeheartedly.</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="LettertoSriPannalaljiBombay16May1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="204" link="Letter to Sri Pannalalji -- Bombay 16 May, 1974" link_text="Letter to Sri Pannalalji -- Bombay 16 May, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Pannalalji -- Bombay 16 May, 1974|Letter to Sri Pannalalji -- Bombay 16 May, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are of course increasing the number of centers all over the world, but the difficulty is that as soon as foreigners accept the cult our men in India especially the rigid Brahmin society does not accept them as regular Vaisnavas. In some temples they are not even allowed to see the deity. The learned sanskrit scholars with English education must be well versed in the Vaisnava sastras, especially Bhagavad-gita and Srimad bhagavatam. In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly said that anyone even from the lowest papayoni can be elevated to Krsna Consciousness and thus go back to home, back to Godhead.</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="LettertoPrapujakaAvinasaCandraCalcutta16January1977_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="25" link="Letter to Prapujaka, Avinasa Candra -- Calcutta 16 January, 1977" link_text="Letter to Prapujaka, Avinasa Candra -- Calcutta 16 January, 1977">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Prapujaka, Avinasa Candra -- Calcutta 16 January, 1977|Letter to Prapujaka, Avinasa Candra -- Calcutta 16 January, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A little attempt is required, then all other things will come from Krsna. This is my practical experience I made a little attempt and Krsna has sent so many representatives like you to help me. Regarding that Sanskrit student who bought six books, yes, our word meanings will induce any Sanskrit scholar to purchase.</p>
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One who understands... (Letters)

2011-12-27T15:10:11Z

SushilaRadha:

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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaHamsadutaVrndavanaIndiaAugust1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="116" link="Letter to Satsvarupa, Hamsaduta -- Vrndavana, India August 1967" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa, Hamsaduta -- Vrndavana, India August 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa, Hamsaduta -- Vrndavana, India August 1967|Letter to Satsvarupa, Hamsaduta -- Vrndavana, India August 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your appreciation of my Spiritual Master is very commendable. One who understands and appreciates the disciplic succession is certainly advanced, and we should always be very careful to give full respect to those who have so carefully handled this Divine Fruit of transcendental knowledge before us. Even a slight change will spoil it. That is why I have always been so careful to give you only those things which I have heard from my Guru Maharaja.</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="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles30January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="37" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I understand that some of our students are in Boston, and they are not attending the Temple or cooperating with you. This means they are under the clutches of Maya more or less. After all, Krishna Consciousness is difficult job for less intelligent persons. But one who understands Krishna Consciousness and acts accordingly, he should be accepted as spiritually the strongest man. In the Caitanya Caritamrta it is said that persons who take to Krishna Consciousness are supposed to be the most intelligent man.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles30January1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="37" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You know that out of many millions of people, somebody tries to be spiritually advanced. And out of many millions of spiritually advanced men, hardly there is one who understands Krishna Consciousness. So, in your country there are many who may be spiritually inclined, but because they want to be cheated, Krishna sends them many kinds of cheaters to bewilder them. It is understood that Maharishi Mahesa says that one can drink, and at the same time make advancement in meditation, is clearly a cheating process. But what can be done, your countrymen also wants to be cheated like that. They want to continue their illicit sex relationships, intoxication habit, meat eating, and all other nonsensical things, and at the same time they want to make spiritual advancement. This is clear indication of being cheated; nobody can make any advancement in spiritual life keeping himself conditioned by the above sinful activities.</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="LettertoGirirajaLosAngeles5July1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="420" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969|Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Living entities are roaming within the universes in different species of life and in different planetary systems enjoying or suffering the reaction of pious or impious activities. But they have no information how to get out of this entanglement of repetition of birth and death. Due to the darkness of ignorance, most living entities have no idea about the values of life. Therefore, one who understands the importance of Krishna Consciousness must be a very fortunate soul. So I marked it in your person when I was in Boston, and I prayed to Krishna that this good soul may be aware of the importance of Krishna Consciousness. With my blessings I am sending herewith your beads, duly chanted upon by me. You should avoid the ten offenses as far as possible, and follow the four regulative principles as Satsvarupa will instruct you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSaiTittenhurst27October1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="633" link="Letter to Sai -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969" link_text="Letter to Sai -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sai -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969|Letter to Sai -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The summary is that the Absolute Truth is the sum total of eternity, bliss and knowledge. Impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth is realization of eternity. Localized Paramatma realization is realization of transcendental knowledge. But above all these as they are described in Bhagavad-gita there is Purusottam, the Supreme Person. That is Krsna. In the Vedas it is stated that one who has understood the Supreme Person has understood everything. This is because everything is subordinate to the Supreme Person. So if you kindly try to understand this philosophy of the Supreme Person as described in Bhagavad-gita, 8th chapter, you will understand our activities more clearly.</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="LettertoMandaliBhadraLosAngeles3February1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="73" link="Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970|Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So actually Krishna Consciousness is personal. Anyone who understands the philosophy is benefited. It does not mean that a Krishna Conscious person has to leave a legacy as far as possible, but at the end it depends on a particular person's fortune to accept it or reject it. The point is very delicate. The example is given in the Upanisad just like manipulating a sharpened razor; if one is careful in plying the razor on the cheek there is clean shaving, but a little inattention makes the same cheek a bloody affair. So we have to remain very much careful in Krishna Consciousness and the method is also very simple—to chant regularly the beads and follow the rules and regulations.</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="LettertoGeorgeBombay4January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="9" link="Letter to George -- Bombay 4 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to George -- Bombay 4 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to George -- Bombay 4 January, 1973|Letter to George -- Bombay 4 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"After many births and deaths, he who is actually wise surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare." Mahatma means great soul, and such great soul is sudurlabhah, very rare. Great soul does not mean politician, or scholar, or so-called yogi, or any other so-called big, big man, famous musician, or scientist, or anything like that. No, great soul is one who understands that Vasudevah, Krishna, is the cause of all causes and all that is, and then surrenders unto Him. You are doing that, therefore I say that you are great soul, not because you have got some material name, fame or wealth. But that will vanish at the time of your death, so what good it is? But because you are serving Krishna in devotional loving mood, therefore I say great soul. There is one Bengali proverb that the person who is actually famous is the Devotee who is known by all other Devotees to be great.</p>
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<div id="LettertoLynneLudwigLosAngeles30April1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="159" link="Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973|Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This verse is spoken by Krishna, or God, Himself in Bhagavad-gita so who can be more final authority? That means that anyone who has understood that the material worlds are places of misery and temporaryness, duhkhalayam asasvatam, they never return here again, and because they are mahatmanah, the great souls, Krishna keeps them with Him, having qualified themselves to escape this nasty place by becoming His pure devotees. So the point is that to make advancement in spiritual life, everything material, unless it is utilized to serve and please Krishna, must be viewed with a pessimistic eye. We are not very much hopeful for any lasting pleasure or satisfaction for our deepest cravings within this realm of gross matter.</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="LettertoArtistsUnknownPlaceUnknownDate_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="127" link="Letter to Artists -- Unknown Place Unknown Date" link_text="Letter to Artists -- Unknown Place Unknown Date">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Artists -- Unknown Place Unknown Date|Letter to Artists -- Unknown Place Unknown Date]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your question, how could Visnu appear from the nostril of Brahma? The answer is that Visnu being all pervading, He can appear from anyplace. He appeared as Nrsimhadeva from the pillar. So, one may question how Visnu may appear from pillar, but actually He appeared. He is all powerful with inconceivable potency, and therefore He can appear Himself from anywhere He likes. When Lord appeared as a small hog from the nostril of Brahma He began to expand Himself more and more and gradually He became a gigantic boar. So these are inconceivable energy of the Supreme Lord. It does not, however, mean that Brahma's nostril is the birthplace of Visnu. The sun rises from the eastern horizon. That does not mean that eastern horizon is the birthplace of the sun. I hope you will understand the transcendental appearance and disappearance of the transcendental Personality of Godhead as such. In the Bhagavad-gita therefore it is stated that anyone who understands the transcendental position of the appearance, disppearance, and activities of Krsna becomes liberated immediately after quitting the present body.</p>
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That is the defect (Books)

2011-12-27T13:49:10Z

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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.25.35|SB 3.25.35, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Māyāvādīs and atheists accept the forms of the Deities in the temple of the Lord as idols, but devotees do not worship idols. They directly worship the Personality of Godhead in His arcā incarnation. Arcā refers to the form which we can worship in our present condition. Actually, in our present state it is not possible to see God in His spiritual form because our material eyes and senses cannot conceive of a spiritual form. We cannot even see the spiritual form of the individual soul. When a man dies we cannot see how the spiritual form leaves the body. That is the defect of our material senses. In order to be seen by our material senses, the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts a favorable form which is called arcā-vigraha. This arcā-vigraha, sometimes called the arcā incarnation, is not different from Him. Just as the Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts various incarnations, He takes on forms made out of matter—clay, wood, metal and jewels.</p>
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<div id="SB52414_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="602" link="SB 5.24.14" link_text="SB 5.24.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.24.14|SB 5.24.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the defect of material existence. Everything in the subterranean heavens is very nicely arranged. There are well situated residential quarters, there is a pleasing atmosphere, and there are no bodily inconveniences or mental anxieties, but nevertheless those who live there have to take another birth according to karma. Persons whose minds are dull cannot understand this defect of a materialistic civilization aiming at material comforts. One may make his living conditions very pleasing for the senses, but despite all favorable conditions, one must in due course of time meet death. The members of a demoniac civilization endeavor to make their living conditions very comfortable, but they cannot check death. The influence of the Sudarśana cakra will not allow their so-called material happiness to endure.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7140_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1084" link="CC Adi 7.140" link_text="CC Adi 7.140">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.140|CC Adi 7.140, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Partial realization of the Absolute Truth as impersonal Brahman denies the complete opulences of the Lord. This is a hazardous understanding of the Absolute Truth. Unless one accepts all the features of the Absolute Truth—namely impersonal Brahman, localized Paramātmā and ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead—one's knowledge is imperfect. Śrīpāda Rāmānujācārya, in his Vedārtha-saṅgraha, says, jñānena dharmeṇa svarūpam api nirūpitam, na tu jñāna-mātraṁ brahmeti katham idam avagamyate. He thus indicates that the real identity of the Absolute Truth must be understood in terms of both His knowledge and His characteristics. Simply to understand the Absolute Truth to be full of knowledge is not sufficient. In the Vedic literature (Muṇḍaka Up. 1.1.9) we find the statement yaḥ sarva-jñaḥ sarva-vit, which means that the Absolute Truth knows everything perfectly, but we also learn from the Vedic description parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport) that not only does He know everything, but He also acts accordingly by utilizing His different energies. Thus to understand that Brahman, the Supreme, is conscious is not sufficient. One must know how He consciously acts through His different energies. Māyāvāda philosophy simply informs us of the consciousness of the Absolute Truth but does not give us information of how He acts with His consciousness. That is the defect of that philosophy.</p>
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Sex desire (Letters)

2011-12-09T15:38:11Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles21January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="24" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated 1/15/68. And I have noted the contents, especially the activities of Maya, carefully. Krishna Consciousness movement is actually declaration of war against Maya. The conditioned souls who wanted to enjoy this material world are captivated by the sex desires. If one wants to get out of this material existence, he must control sex desire. The whole scheme of Vedic civilization is based on this principle of controlling sex desire. There were 4 orders of life; Brahmacari, Grhastha, Vanaprastha, and Sannyasa. The majority of the orders namely Brahmacari, Vanaprastha, and Sannyasa are forbidden sex life. Only the householders are allowed sex life. That is also restricted. That means sex life is condemned throughout because that is the cause of material bondage.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles21January1968_4" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="24" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagatananda must subdue his sex desire by constant chanting of Hare Krishna, and praying to Krishna to help him. If not he must be prepared to marry and take the responsibility fully.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhaktijanaLosAngeles12February1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="50" link="Letter to Bhaktijana -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Bhaktijana -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhaktijana -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1968|Letter to Bhaktijana -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">For a young man it is very difficult to check sex desire, therefore best thing is for him to get himself married, and live like a responsible gentleman. Irresponsible man cannot make progress materially, or spiritually.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaMontreal16June1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="203" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Montreal 16 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Montreal 16 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Montreal 16 June, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Montreal 16 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmacaris and Brahmacarinis can live in the temple provided there is separate arrangement. The restriction is there because if they live together there might be sex impulses agitated. The whole principle is especially for the Brahmacaris to avoid causes which may give impetus to the sex desire.</p>
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<div id="LettertoUpendraLosAngeles9December1968_3" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="479" link="Letter to Upendra -- Los Angeles 9 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Upendra -- Los Angeles 9 December, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Upendra -- Los Angeles 9 December, 1968|Letter to Upendra -- Los Angeles 9 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received your letter of December 6, 1968 arriving last night and I have duly noted the contents. In your letter you have made it clear that you are finding some difficulty with sex desire and have asked guidance from me to instruct you how to handle this problem of the material body.</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="LettertoHrsikesaLosAngeles8February1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="104" link="Letter to Hrsikesa -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hrsikesa -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hrsikesa -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969|Letter to Hrsikesa -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far as your occasional agitation from the maya, the answer is very simple that one must either strictly control his senses, or else he must get himself married. If one is strong enough in Krishna Consciousness, then there is no reason to become grhastha, but if one is still disturbed by sex-desire, then marriage is the only other possibility. But if one is still brahmacari, then he must be sure to follow all of the rules and regulations very strictly. There is no place in spiritual life for cheating in this matter. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has never criticized a householder for having sex life for the purpose of bearing children</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaHawaii14March1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="173" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969|Letter to Rupanuga -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your ninth, "You once said that in case of a strong rush of sex desire to think of the Gopis, the Dearmost to Lord Krishna. Is there another help in case of anger or harshness?" Yes, think of Krishna, how He was angry on Hiranyakasipu and nobody could pacify Him, even Brahma with beautiful hymns. In anger also we can think of Krishna.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniLondon20November1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="689" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- London 20 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- London 20 November, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- London 20 November, 1969|Letter to Gargamuni -- London 20 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That means capatis, dahl, vegetables, some butter, some fruits and milk. This is necessary for keeping good health. But we should not indulge in sweetballs or halevah or like that daily. Too much first-class eating may stimulate our sex desires, especially sweet preparations.</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="LettertoTrivikramaLosAngeles7March1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="154" link="Letter to Trivikrama -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Trivikrama -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Trivikrama -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1970|Letter to Trivikrama -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Marriage is a concession for a person who cannot control his sex desires. Of course it is a difficult job for the boys in this country because they have free access to intermingling with the girls. Under the circumstances, it is my open order for everyone that everyone can marry without any artificial pose. But if somebody is able to remain a Brahmacari, there should not be any causing for his marriage.</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="LettertoMrLoyVrindaban7November1972_0" 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;">In your country the girls are independent, and from very young age they are accustomed to mix with young boys, so naturally there will be attraction, sex desire and marriage. Actually this whole material world is running on this attraction between man and woman. It is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam that once the boy and girl unite intimately the hard knot is formed, and the girl is thinking Oh, without him I am lost, and the boy is thinking Oh, without her I am lost, that is Maya's arrangement for keeping us bound-up tightly in the material atmosphere.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSankarasanaBombay31December1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="656" link="Letter to Sankarasana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sankarasana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sankarasana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972|Letter to Sankarasana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a spiritual desire, so it is not like any material desire and it is all right to desire for Krsna in this way. but great Vaisnava or famous Vaisnava means that you have no sex desire. Whether you can be like that? First of all you be like that, without any sex desire, then you think famous Vaisnava. Vaisnava means he has no material desire, what to speak of sex desire. All material desires become zero, even he has no desire for jnana, karma, like 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="LettertoMadhukaraBombay4January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="5" link="Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973|Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But if there is sex desire, how to control it? Women are normally very lusty, more lusty than men, and they are weaker sex, it is difficult for them to make spiritual advancement without the help of husband. For so many reasons, our women must have husband.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhukaraBombay4January1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="5" link="Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973|Letter to Madhukara -- Bombay 4 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Householder life means wife, children, home, these things are understood by everyone, why our devotees have taken it as something different? They simply have some sex desire, get themselves married, and when the mater does not fulfill their expectations, immediately there is separation—these things are just like material activities, prostitution.</p>
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<div id="LettertoLynneLudwigLosAngeles30April1973_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="159" link="Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973|Letter to Lynne Ludwig -- Los Angeles 30 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The word for love, actually love we find in Vedas is "prema", meaning one's love of God, only. Outside God, there is no possibility of loving. Rather it is lusty desire the whole range of human activities, whatever and whenever, so long with this atmosphere of matter, the every activity of the human being—or any living entity—is based upon or given impetus, and thus polluted, by the attraction between male and female, sex-desire. For that sex-life, the whole universe is spinning round—and suffering! That is the harsh truth</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="LettertoRupanugaBombay9January1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="36" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Bombay 9 January, 1975" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Bombay 9 January, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Bombay 9 January, 1975|Letter to Rupanuga -- Bombay 9 January, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone must be full-time engaged and the best engagement for them is to sell books. That will be very nice. Don't allow anyone to simply eat and sleep. All should attend classes 2 or 3 times daily, chant 16 rounds, and go out for street sankirtana. Eating should be minimized. Too much eating leads to too much sleeping, and then sex desire. So, management should be done very carefully to see that there is not easy-going, lazy attitude which will only end in fall down.</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="LettertoRadhavallabhaVrindaban7September1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="486" link="Letter to Radhavallabha -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1976" link_text="Letter to Radhavallabha -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Radhavallabha -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1976|Letter to Radhavallabha -- Vrindaban 7 September, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">By controlling sex desire one becomes the most perfect sober person, kandutivan manasajivam visaheta dhirah.</p>
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Governing (Lectures)

2011-11-29T01:35:34Z

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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG231LondonSeptember11973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="97" link="Lecture on BG 2.31 -- London, September 1, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.31 -- London, September 1, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.31 -- London, September 1, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.31 -- London, September 1, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So, sva-dharma. Sva-dharma means the division, kṣatriya division of the society. The brāhmaṇa division, the kṣatriya division, the vaiśya division and the śūdra division. Everything is required. It is not that śūdra is not required. Śūdra is required, but if you make propaganda simply to make people śūdras, then who will give direction? If there is no head, who will give the direction? So a kṣatriya, kṣatriya has got a very difficult task to see. Kṣatriya means government, the governing division. So the governing division has got a very important duty to see that everyone is following his duty. The brāhmaṇa is following his duty, a kṣatriya is following his duty, vaiśya is following the duty, and śūdra... That is, government's duty is... Just like in India nowadays it has become a secular government. Secular government means impartial to any religious system.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1841StockholmSeptember71973_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="403" link="Lecture on BG 18.41 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 18.41 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 18.41 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973|Lecture on BG 18.41 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The kṣatriya is, he must come forward first of all. Then others will follow. Yuddhe cāpy apalāyanam. And dānam, he must be very charitable. That is another qualification of the administrator. Īśvara-bhāvaś ca, and the governing spirit. These are the kṣātraṁ karma svabhāva-jam. Similarly, this is second class.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB11538LosAngelesDecember161973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="306" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.38 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.38 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.38 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.38 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The India was governing. India, the king or the emperor of Hastināpura, he was the emperor. Now, seven seas, seven islands, they are mentioned in the Vedic literature. Seven islands. So the emperor would be emperor of the whole earth and there was everywhere the Vedic culture.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB2125MontrealOctober231968_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="360" link="Lecture on SB 2.1.2-5 -- Montreal, October 23, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.1.2-5 -- Montreal, October 23, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.1.2-5 -- Montreal, October 23, 1968|Lecture on SB 2.1.2-5 -- Montreal, October 23, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Government means they should be always thinking how the citizens should be peaceful and happy and spiritually advanced. That is government. And who is caring for the citizens? They are simply exacting tax. That's all. So actually, in the Kali-yuga, because there is no kṣatriya, where is the government? Śūdra government is no government. Śūdra has no right to govern, but by force they are governing. That's all. "Might is right."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB618HonoluluMay91976_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="595" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.8 -- Honolulu, May 9, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.8 -- Honolulu, May 9, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.8 -- Honolulu, May 9, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.8 -- Honolulu, May 9, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, the Gosvāmīs, they were ministers. They were not ordinary men, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī. Practically they were governing the whole affairs of government at that time, a very exalted post. So about them also, it is written by Śrīnivāsācārya, tyaktvā tūrṇam aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati-śreṇīṁ sadā tuccha-vat. Aśeṣa-maṇḍala. Maṇḍala-pati means big, big leaders, big, big leaders of the society. He was minister, so he was associating with big, big men, not ordinary men. But he gave up. He's such a position, minister, drawing high salary, and association, all the big, big men of the country or the society. But he gave them up—sadā tuccha-vat, that "What is the use of this?" This is called vairāgya.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6141LosAngelesJune71976_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="668" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.41 -- Los Angeles, June 7, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.41 -- Los Angeles, June 7, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.41 -- Los Angeles, June 7, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.41 -- Los Angeles, June 7, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Kṛṣṇa, guṇa nāma-rūpair vibhāyvante yathā-tatham. He has innumerable means and innumerable forms, according to the necessity. Unlimited forms: Nārāyaṇa, Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, thousands and thousands of names. But He's situated in His own place, and He's governing the whole creation.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB614142SuratDecember231970_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="669" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.41-42 -- Surat, December 23, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.41-42 -- Surat, December 23, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.41-42 -- Surat, December 23, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.41-42 -- Surat, December 23, 1970]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Daṇḍavat class(?). Surrender means you must abide strictly the orders, sad-dharma-pṛcchā, ādau gurvāśrayam. To accept a guru means... Śiṣya means one must agree to be governed by the spiritual master. That is called śiṣya. Śiṣya... Śās-dhātu. From śās-dhātu all these terms—śāstra, śiṣya, śāsana. These are words derived from the root śās-dhātu. Śās-dhātu means śāsana, governing. The governing is done by military, governing is done by lawbooks, governing is done by personal instruction, so many things. So śiṣya means who voluntarily accepts to be guided or being governed by the representative of God. That is śiṣya. Yes.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Lectures" text="Nectar of Devotion Lectures"><h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember11972_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="29" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 1, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 1, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 1, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 1, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I do not know whether we were harassed in New York, but more or less... And in Japan also, they are talking that "You become bona fide religious organization. Otherwise you cannot come on the street." So although there is harassment by the governing agents, still we are coming out successful. Paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam. All glories to the Śrī-Kṛṣṇa-Saṅkīrtana! Practically. So you stick to this principle, go on chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra anywhere it is possible, and you'll be victorious. That is the blessings of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Believe in it and you'll be successful. Yes. Go on.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononThomasHobbes_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="33" link="Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Hobbes" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Hobbes">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Hobbes|Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Hobbes]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So king, in Vedic civilization, the king was absolutely following the regulation given by God, and it was confirmed by saintly persons, sages. Then it was executed; not whimsically. There was advisory board of the monarchy always. They were not politician, diplomat, but they were all saintly person, knew very well the Vedas, and they used to guide the monarch. Therefore the monarch is absolute governing body. The ministers were helping, but the king was educated by God's direct instruction, as Kṛṣṇa said, imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān. Vivasvān, the sun-god, there are tradition two kṣatriya family—one from the sun-god and one from the moon-god. Sūrya-vaṁśa and candra-vaṁśa.</p>
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Literal (Lectures)

2011-11-29T01:28:44Z

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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG85NewYorkOctober261966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="289" link="Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966|Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest: I have one more question. If in taking on a body like Kṛṣṇa we assume a nature like Kṛṣṇa's nature...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest: When you say taking on the body of a dog or a cat or a pig or whatever, is this also... Do you mean literally a body like a pig, or do you mean the nature of a pig or dog or cat?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Here the body and the soul different. The soul is spirit, and the body is matter. But when you attain a body like Kṛṣṇa's, that means that is spiritual body. There is no difference between the soul and the body. Here there is difference between soul and body. But in the spiritual world there is no difference between soul and body.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB126LondonAugust261971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="33" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Adhokṣaja means the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The real, literal meaning of adhokṣaja: adhaḥ—this is Sanskrit word—adhaḥ means "made down," and akṣaja, akṣaja means sense perception, knowledge acquired by sense perception. So adhokṣaja means the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who cuts down all kinds of sense perceptional activities.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB15911NewVrindabanJune61969_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="134" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.9-11 -- New Vrindaban, June 6, 1969" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.9-11 -- New Vrindaban, June 6, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.9-11 -- New Vrindaban, June 6, 1969|Lecture on SB 1.5.9-11 -- New Vrindaban, June 6, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You write something; the aim should be simply to glorify the Supreme. Then your literature is pavitra, purified. And however nicely, either literally or metaphorically or poetically, you write some literature which has nothing to do with God, or Kṛṣṇa, that is vāyasaṁ tīrtham. That is pleasure spot for the crows.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila20121124NewYorkNovember251966_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="72" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.121-124 -- New York, November 25, 1966" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.121-124 -- New York, November 25, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.121-124 -- New York, November 25, 1966|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.121-124 -- New York, November 25, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Veda means the Vedic literatures. Veda, real literal meaning is veda means knowledge. Vetti veda vido jñāne. There is a Sanskrit root, vid-dhātu. From that vid-dhātu, veda. Veda means knowledge. And Purāṇa, Purāṇa means supplementary, Vedic instruction described in story form. That is called Purāṇa, story. This Bhāgavata is also one of the Mahā-purāṇa. Mahā-purāṇa means the science of Kṛṣṇa is described in story form. This is called Purāṇa. People better understands in stories, in history.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureSeattleOctober91968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="23" link="Lecture -- Seattle, October 9, 1968" link_text="Lecture -- Seattle, October 9, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Seattle, October 9, 1968|Lecture -- Seattle, October 9, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: What is... You give the example, "This is this symbol," "This is this symbol." What is the symbol of battlefield? That you do not know?</p>
<p>Young man (6): Are you saying that it should be taken literally?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. What is your idea? You are putting question. Are you clear in your question? Or you are simply questioning without any clear idea? What is your position?</p>
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<div id="LectureatStPascalsFranciscanSeminaryMelbourneJune281974_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="151" link="Lecture at St. Pascal's Franciscan Seminary -- Melbourne, June 28, 1974" link_text="Lecture at St. Pascal's Franciscan Seminary -- Melbourne, June 28, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture at St. Pascal's Franciscan Seminary -- Melbourne, June 28, 1974|Lecture at St. Pascal's Franciscan Seminary -- Melbourne, June 28, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Adhokṣaja means beyond your sense perception. Another word is used, avāṅ mānasa-gocaraḥ, "beyond the expression of your mind, words." Avāṅ gocaraḥ. And another meaning, literal meaning, adha: adha means subdued. Adhakṛta akṣaja-jñānam. Akṣa. Akṣa means eyes, or... In Sanskrit there are letters beginning from a, a, i and, at last, kṣa. So beginning from a to kṣa, a-kṣa, means we understand by combination of words. So you can combine so many words, but still, it is beyond that expression. That is called adhokṣaja.</p>
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<div id="Departure_Talks" class="sub_section" sec_index="12" parent="Lectures" text="Departure Talks"><h3>Departure Talks</h3>
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<div id="DepartureLectureLondonMarch121975_0" class="quote" parent="Departure_Talks" book="Lec" index="5" link="Departure Lecture -- London, March 12, 1975" link_text="Departure Lecture -- London, March 12, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Departure Lecture -- London, March 12, 1975|Departure Lecture -- London, March 12, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tad-vāg-visargo, na tad vacaś citra-padam, very nicely, literally very nicely decorated, na tad vacaś citra-padaṁ harer yaśo na pragṛṇīta karhicit, but there is no mention about Kṛṣṇa and His glories... Just like especially in the Western countries you have got newspaper, big, big bunch of newspaper, but not a single line is there about Kṛṣṇa, not a single. So for the devotees this kind of literature is compared with the garbage.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononOrigen_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="30" link="Philosophy Discussion on Origen" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Origen">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Origen|Philosophy Discussion on Origen]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: As far as seeming contradictions and seeming absurdities in scripture are concerned, Origen considered these as stumbling blocks allowed by God to exist in order for man to go beyond the literal meaning. He says, "In some cases no useful meaning attaches to the obvious interpretation, but everything in scripture has a spiritual meaning, but not all of it has a literal meaning."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Literal... Generally, every word in the scripture there is literal meaning, but one who cannot understand properly because one does not hear from the proper person, he makes some interpretation. But there is no need of interpretation in the words of God.</p>
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Unending (Letters)

2011-11-29T01:22:55Z

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<div id="LettertoWilliamOdellLosAngeles4February1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="44" link="Letter to William Odell -- Los Angeles 4 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to William Odell -- Los Angeles 4 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to William Odell -- Los Angeles 4 February, 1968|Letter to William Odell -- Los Angeles 4 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The hand and body is created all at a time. It is not that the body is created first and then the hand is created. Our relation with Krishna is like the hand and the body. Therefore, Krishna and we both are eternal, and there is no history of eternity. It has no beginning and no end. Krishna is blue because He is all attractive. The sky is blue because it reflects Krishna's blue color in the spiritual sky as much as the sunlight is reflected through skylight glasses.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniLosAngeles25December1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="515" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1968|Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter without any date. Purusottama says that this is a particular specialty of your letters that you write without any date. I think that you are right, because you are eternal. There is no beginning and no end and your enthusiasm is also eternal. You never get tired of serving Krishna, so I hope you shall eternally be engaged in serving Krishna because there is no end of such service.</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="LettertoUnknownTittenhurst1October1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="595" link="Letter to Unknown -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969" link_text="Letter to Unknown -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Unknown -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969|Letter to Unknown -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">7) We can, by sincere cultivation of bona fide spiritual science attain to the state of pure, unending blissful consciousness, free from anxiety in this very lifetime.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKrsnaDeviTittenhurst2November1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="647" link="Letter to Krsna Devi -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Krsna Devi -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna Devi -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969|Letter to Krsna Devi -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is called the limitless ocean of the nectar of devotion. This ocean is unending, and therefore the pleasure of relishing the nectar of this ocean is also increasing unendingly. Regarding your questions, yes, a woman can certainly reach the perfectional stage of devotion to Krishna.</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="LettertoHayagrivaCalcutta26September1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="532" link="Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970" link_text="Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970|Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">1) As you state, Krishna is identical with His name. That means that His name has the same qualities as Himself, i.e. sat, chit, ananda. No mundane vibration is eternal, otherwise why does it grow tiresome and have to be changed every other week. Nor do mundane songs produce real knowledge or bliss unending. Also, this transcendental vibration purifies one. Anyone can see practically how our students are becoming purified, but the chanters of material songs are not.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHayagrivaCalcutta26September1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="532" link="Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970" link_text="Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970|Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">5) Some analyst or priest or lover may widen the consciousness from this to that, but only Krishna is without limit and therefore can widen the consciousness infinitely. That is the difference. The material world has varieties of this and that, this thing more than that thing, but only Krishna is without limit, and if we desire ananda, bliss unending, we must go to Krishna.</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="LettertoSatsvarupaDelhi21November1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="537" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Delhi 21 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Delhi 21 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Delhi 21 November, 1971|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Delhi 21 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, preaching is more important than managing. Just because you are preaching nicely and distributing so much prasadam, the management will follow like a shadow and Krishna will send you no end of help.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaVrindaban30November1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="551" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971|Letter to Rupanuga -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is no limit to expanding—you talk of expanding—we have to invest more and more to remain modern by purchasing machines, etc. But if the machines we have cannot even be utilized properly, then what is the use of expanding? I want that all of these big plans should be realized, and there will be no end to the resources Krishna will provide, but first there must be good management.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNityanandaBombay17December1971_2" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="578" link="Letter to Nityananda -- Bombay 17 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Nityananda -- Bombay 17 December, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nityananda -- Bombay 17 December, 1971|Letter to Nityananda -- Bombay 17 December, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So it is also very encouraging to learn that you are preaching in the schools. If you do this nicely, then you will have no end to your success, because these students can understand our Krishna philosophy and become convinced by it, more easily than others. So if they join you, then our Movement will grow like anything.</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="LettertoMadhucaraBombay4February1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="73" link="Letter to Madhucara -- Bombay 4 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhucara -- Bombay 4 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhucara -- Bombay 4 February, 1972|Letter to Madhucara -- Bombay 4 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very much encouraged to hear from you that you are teaching KC in the schools. This is our best field for making demons into devotees, so if you give intelligent presentation of our Krishna philosophy in all the schools and colleges, there will be no end of devotees to push this movement on all over the world. Simply demonstrate chanting and dancing, and induce them to participate, then give them nice philosophy talk, with questions and answers, distribute prasadam profusely, ask them to buy our books and magazines and study them closely—that's all.</p>
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Svakiya

2011-11-29T01:09:56Z

SushilaRadha:

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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.10.28|SB 1.10.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord is always perfect in Himself, and thus He has no hankering for Himself. He, however, becomes a master, a friend, a son or a husband to fulfill the intense love of the devotee concerned. Herein two classes of devotees of the Lord are mentioned in the stage of conjugal love. One is svakīya, and the other is parakīya. Both of them are in conjugal love with the Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. The queens at Dvārakā were svakīya, or duly married wives, but the damsels of Vraja were young friends of the Lord while He was unmarried.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi450_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="385" link="CC Adi 4.50" link_text="CC Adi 4.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.50|CC Adi 4.50, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Of the four kinds of reciprocation of loving service—dāsya, sakhya, vātsalya and mādhurya—mādhurya is considered the fullest. But the conjugal relationship is further divided into two varieties, namely svakīya and parakīya. Svakīya is the relationship with Kṛṣṇa as a formally married husband, and parakīya is the relationship with Kṛṣṇa as a paramour. Expert analysts have decided that the transcendental ecstasy of the parakīya mellow is better because it is more enthusiastic. This phase of conjugal love is found in those who have surrendered to the Lord in intense love, knowing well that such illicit love with a paramour is not morally approved in society. The risks involved in such love of Godhead make this emotion superior to the relationship in which such risk is not involved. The validity of such risk, however, is possible only in the transcendental realm. Svakīya and parakīya conjugal love of Godhead have no existence in the material world, and parakīya is not exhibited anywhere in Vaikuṇṭha, but only in the portion of Goloka Vṛndāvana known as Vraja.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1085_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1339" link="CC Adi 10.85" link_text="CC Adi 10.85">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.85|CC Adi 10.85, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to another accusation, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī did not approve of the principles of the parakīya-rasa of Vraja-dhāma and therefore supported svakīya-rasa, showing that Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are eternally married. Actually, when Jīva Gosvāmī was alive, some of his followers disliked the parakīya-rasa of the gopīs. Therefore Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, for their spiritual benefit, supported svakīya-rasa, for he could understand that sahajiyās would otherwise exploit the parakīya-rasa, as they are actually doing at the present time. Unfortunately, in Vṛndāvana and Navadvīpa it has become fashionable among sahajiyās, in their debauchery, to find an unmarried sexual partner to live with to execute so-called devotional service in parakīya-rasa. Foreseeing this, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī supported svakīya-rasa, and later all the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas also approved of it.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya1324_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2754" link="CC Madhya 13.24" link_text="CC Madhya 13.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.24|CC Madhya 13.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord enjoys Himself in two ways, known as svakīya and parakīya. The Lord's conjugal love in the svakīya-rasa relates to the regulative principles observed in Dvārakā, where the Lord has many married queens. But in Vṛndāvana the conjugal love of the Lord is not with His married wives but with His girlfriends, the gopīs. Conjugal love with the gopīs is called parakīya-rasa. Lord Jagannātha leaves the secluded place where He enjoys the company of the supreme goddess of fortune in svakīya-rasa, and He goes to Vṛndāvana, where He enjoys the parakīya-rasa. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura therefore reminds us that the Lord's pleasure in parakīya-rasa is superior to His pleasure in svakīya-rasa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya23Summary_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5204" link="CC Madhya 23 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 23 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23 Summary|CC Madhya 23 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He also describes the mellow derived from conjugal love, which is the supreme emotion. Conjugal love is divided into two categories-svakīya and parakīya. Svakīya refers to loving affairs between husband and wife, and parakīya refers to loving affairs between two lovers.</p>
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Fry (Letters)

2011-10-18T01:20:45Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoKrisLosAngeles13November1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="414" link="Letter to Kris -- Los Angeles 13 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Kris -- Los Angeles 13 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kris -- Los Angeles 13 November, 1968|Letter to Kris -- Los Angeles 13 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have noted your questions carefully, and regarding your question about the Prasadam recipes; Krishna is offered foodstuff in goodness. The foodstuffs in the modes of goodness are wheat, rice, pulse (beans, peas), sugar, honey, butter and all milk preparations, vegetables, flowers, fruits, grains. So these foods can be offered in any shape, but prepared in various ways by the intelligence of the devotees. The ingredients are always the same as above, whether you fry them, boil them, bake them, powder them, or whatever way they are combined or cooked, the idea is that they must come from this group of foodstuffs. So you can make your own recipe if you like, so long as the ingredients are within this group. This foods group is stated by Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita, and we follow accordingly. Now the thing is that you must consider by whom you are being taught what is healthy and what is not healthy.</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="LettertoKirtananandaLosAngeles5July1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="419" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I thank you very much for your letter of July 3, 1969, sent along with the cheese. But the cheese has gone bad. Perhaps you did not note it what I said that this cheese should be made into sandesh; that is 1/4 part of cheese should be mixed with sugar and fried in a pan, constantly stirring till it is almost hard. Then after taking it down, knead it nicely and then prepare small balls. This sandesh can be kept at least for a fortnight without damage, but cheese cannot be kept more than three days.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaLosAngeles21July1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="460" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 21 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 21 July, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 21 July, 1969|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 21 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received the cheese you have sent, and although it was nice, there are yet some improvements to be made. The improvements are that first you should put the cheese in a frying pan and stir vigorously, adding 1/4 of sugar. While on the fire it should be stirred and mixed as nicely as possible. Then while it is cooling it should still be stirred as nicely as possible. Then when it is cooled you should knead it to make dough. When it is soft enough you can shape it into squares or round shapes as you like. The cheese you have already sent was not bad, but this procedure will improve upon it further.</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="LettertoKrsnadasaLosAngeles18February1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="105" link="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970|Letter to Krsna dasa -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You may hold the celebration open to the public on the following Sunday. The preparation to be offered specially on this occasion is bhuni kichri: Fry equal parts dal and rice in ghee and massala. Add two times water as dal and rice, and add vegetables (if you use more ghee, use less water). Cook it until it is dried and the rice is soft.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYamunaLosAngeles24June1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="380" link="Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 24 June, 1970" link_text="Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 24 June, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 24 June, 1970|Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 24 June, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your first question, while Lord Jagannatha is on His Ratha, and for the duration of the festivities for eight days following, bhuni kicrie may be offered along with other preparations. So for Rathayatra day feast should consist of bhuni kicrie which you make by first frying the dahl and rice in ghee. Also fry the vegetable with little ghee and massala. Then after the kicrie is cooked add some sugar, not enough to make it sweet, but just a little sweet taste, and some nutmeg, cinnamon, and other sweet spices. In this way it is like push pana.</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="LettertoKarandharaBombay3December1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="598" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 3 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 3 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 3 December, 1972|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 3 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That policy of "frying the fish in its own oil" is all right, but don't touch the bonds. It should be kept as it is. And now I am thinking to pay Dai Nippon for supplying books to India because there is no money in Mayapur Fund. There is huge demand for books in India, especially Bhagavad-Gita.</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="LettertoGopijanavallabhaBombay27December1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="709" link="Letter to Gopijanavallabha -- Bombay 27 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Gopijanavallabha -- Bombay 27 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopijanavallabha -- Bombay 27 December, 1974|Letter to Gopijanavallabha -- Bombay 27 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your telegrams dated the 23rd and 24th of December and have noted the contents which reads as follows "WE WOULD LIKE TO INTIMATE THE FOLLOWING QUALIFIED DEVOTEES FOR ABHISEKA CEREMONY JANUARY 1 DOUGLAS CURRIE FRANK NATALI GABRIEL FRIED BHARAT JAGERNAUTH ORVILLE GRIFFITH PAUL HERSHEY TAB MATTLER KAREN SILVERSTEIN KATHY MCGUIRE PAULA GENSTSCH FOR SECOND BHADRA SEN LOKA MANGALA SADACARA TIRTHAPADA ALARKA DUKHAHANTRI HARANETRANI THEY HAVE ALL WRITTEN NICE PAPERS RUPANUGA CAN CHANT BEADS IF PRABHUPADA AUTHORIZES PLEASE WIRE NAMES AND AUTHORITY FOR 7 BRAHMANAS CAN ALL INTIMATED DISCIPLES POUR WATER ON SMALL DEITIES AT ABHISEKA AS IN LA YOUR SERVANT GOPIJANA BALLAVA DAS" "PLEASE INCLUDE BHUMI DASI AND MATSYA DAS FOR SECOND INITIATION GOPIJANA BALAVA DAS."</p>
<p>I have answered your telegram also by telegram but I am confirming with this letter and also enclosing threads and mantra sheets for the second initiations. I have accepted as initiated disciples for first initiation the following; Douglas Currie—Darpaha, Frank Natali—Pravartaka, Gabriel Fried—Gopisa, Bharata Jagernauth—Bhtadi, Orville Griffith,—Arcita, Paul Hershey—Paramaradhya, Tab Mattler—Taraka, Karen Silverstein—Kamra, devi, Kathy McGuire—Kamalini devi, Paula Genstsch—Parasakti devi. Their beads should be chanted on by a sannyasi preferably Kirtanananda Swami if he has not already done so.</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="LettertoTustaKrsnaBombay9November1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="655" link="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Bombay 9 November, 1975" link_text="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Bombay 9 November, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Bombay 9 November, 1975|Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Bombay 9 November, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is a very good idea for people to come to our vegetarian restaurant and take so many nice things, especially the panir, fried cheese, and sandesh, kachori, rasagulla, samosa and in this way they will forget their meat-eating. If you make a soup of fried panir with asafoetida and ginger, this will replace lobster soup nonsense. Of course we are not interested in giving them vegetarian food; we are wanting to give them prasadam. Then gradually they will become devotees.</p>
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Son of God (Letters)

2011-10-18T00:56:04Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaSanFrancisco12March1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="110" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968|Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the spiritual world there is no such relationship as God as the father. In the material world such conception is appreciated very much. In the material world everyone wants to take from God because the conditioned soul wants to enjoy senses. And the concept of fatherhood is to drag resources from the Supreme. But in the spiritual world there is no question of drawing from the Supreme. Everything there is to serve the Lord, and service is rendered in 5 different rasas or transcendental humors as described above. In the transcendental world instead of taking the Lord as father, He is treated as son, because son derives service from the Father, whereas in the material world the father maintains the conditioned souls or sons of God.</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="LettertoTamalaKrsnaTittenhurst14September1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="563" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 14 September, 1969" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 14 September, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 14 September, 1969|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 14 September, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Aquarian Gospel of Lord Jesus The Christ, I have taken some stray extracts just to support our views, but we don't give any importance to that book. The best thing is that we accept Lord Jesus Christ as a great devotee of the Lord and the son of God.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSucandraLondon8December1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="720" link="Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969" link_text="Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969|Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The process should be to follow the example, not to imitate the exact activities. For example, Lord Jesus Christ wanted to preach amongst some persons who were practically against the principle of accepting God as the Supreme, and the result was that these people crucified him. At the present moment, the world situation is more dangerous than before. People have become actually Godless. So if you follow the footsteps of Lord Jesus Christ to preach God-consciousness against Godlessness and dedicate your life in that way, that will be the real purpose of following Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ revealed that he was the son of God, and Krishna revealed that He is God Himself, the Supreme Father of all living entities.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSucandraLondon8December1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="720" link="Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969" link_text="Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969|Letter to Sucandra -- London 8 December, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krishna. That we have several times explained in many meetings, that Krishna is God and Jesus Christ is the son of God. And as there is no difference between father and son, so there is no difference between Krishna and Lord Jesus Christ; but still the son is never equal to the father.</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="LettertoVrndavanaCandraLosAngeles19July1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="441" link="Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970|Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Question the fifth: If Mohammed as the servant of God and Lord Jesus Christ is the son of God, then where is the break of the disciplic succession. After all the disciplic succession is beginning from God, so how do you find that there is no disciplic succession? If the original tree has branches, twigs and leaves and they are in touch with the original tree, it is alright. The test is whether the line is in touch with the Supreme—that is all.</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="LettertoGeraldISKCONAkashGangaBldg89BhulabhaiDesaiRoadBombay26India19thFebruary1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="72" link="Letter to Gerald -- ISKCON Akash Ganga Bldg; 89 Bhulabhai Desai Road; Bombay-26 India 19th February, 1971" link_text="Letter to Gerald -- ISKCON Akash Ganga Bldg; 89 Bhulabhai Desai Road; Bombay-26 India 19th February, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gerald -- ISKCON Akash Ganga Bldg; 89 Bhulabhai Desai Road; Bombay-26 India 19th February, 1971|Letter to Gerald -- ISKCON Akash Ganga Bldg; 89 Bhulabhai Desai Road; Bombay-26 India 19th February, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Every living entity is the son of god, but not all of the sons are faithful to their Father. This is explained in Bhagavad Gita. So one who turns away from his father naturally cannot see his father; but the faithful son can see his father at any time. Under the circumstances, we can understand the word of John because amongst all the people of that place Jesus Christ was the only faithful son of God, Krsna. Lord Jesus says (John 6:46), "Not that any man hath seen the father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father." So one who is a devotee of the Lord in pure love, who teaches others how to love God is the messenger of God and he can see God without any doubt. Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad Gita (11:54), "My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you; and I can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of my understanding." So the method of approaching God, bhaktiyoga or devotional service, and the supreme goal of life, pure love of Krsna, is the same message taught by Lord Jesus Christ as well as Krsna Himself. The matter is very simple: Lord Jesus is the faithful son of God and his Father God is Krsna, so there cannot be any disagreement between them. Therefore the Father and Son are one, in agreement.</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="LettertoKrsnadasaDallas9September1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="478" link="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Dallas 9 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Dallas 9 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna dasa -- Dallas 9 September, 1972|Letter to Krsna dasa -- Dallas 9 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As for the second question I do not know what you mean by this statement, but we accept Jesus Christ as a very good son of God. So far His preaching is concerned, that was with reference to the people amongst whom He preached. Just like "Thou shalt not kill." That means they were accustomed to killing. So you can just imagine what class of men they were. It is simply a difference of mode of teaching, that is all. But we accept Him as the son of God, and He talked about God consciousness. That much we accept.</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="LettertoSirAlistairHardyBhaktivedantaManor28July1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="257" link="Letter to Sir Alistair Hardy -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Sir Alistair Hardy -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sir Alistair Hardy -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973|Letter to Sir Alistair Hardy -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">ow so far as ideology of religion is concerned: Religion means to abide by the orders of God, that's all. God is great, we are his sons, he is supplying all our necessities these are the right understandings. Why should there be any difference in religious practices. If you come to God consciousness then we can understand the birds the beasts the plants everyone is son of God, we have no right to kill.</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="LettertoAmoghaVrindaban5August1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="296" link="Letter to Amogha -- Vrindaban 5 August, 1974" link_text="Letter to Amogha -- Vrindaban 5 August, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Amogha -- Vrindaban 5 August, 1974|Letter to Amogha -- Vrindaban 5 August, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The articles are very nice, and I am very pleased how the Christian community are appreciating our movement. Actually we have no quarrel with them. We accept Lord Jesus Christ as the son of God and he was a great Vaisnava. Because he appeared in another country does not mean that we should not offer him respect.</p>
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Godly (Letters)

2011-10-15T13:17:02Z

SushilaRadha:

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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;">But I know that you never underwent such transcendental training except some severe penances which you invented for your purpose as you have invented so many things in the course of experimenting with the relative truths. You might have easily avoided them if you had approached the Guru as abovementioned. But your sincere efforts to attain some Godly qualities by austerities etc surely have raised you to some higher position which you can better utilize for the purpose of the Absolute Truth. If you, however, remain satisfied with such temporary position only and do not try to know the Absolute Truth, then surely you are to fall down from the artificially exalted position under the laws of Nature.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGandhiMemorialFundCalcutta5July1949_1" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="6" link="Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund -- Calcutta 5 July, 1949" link_text="Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund -- Calcutta 5 July, 1949">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund -- Calcutta 5 July, 1949|Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund -- Calcutta 5 July, 1949]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A part of this movement is the harijana movement. The harijana means the God's man or the godly man as distinguished from the satanic devils. How a man of satanic principles can be turned in to a God's man is enunciated in the Bhagavad-gita.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGitaMandirTrustCalcutta1September1949_2" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="7" link="Letter to Gita Mandir Trust -- Calcutta 1 September, 1949" link_text="Letter to Gita Mandir Trust -- Calcutta 1 September, 1949">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gita Mandir Trust -- Calcutta 1 September, 1949|Letter to Gita Mandir Trust -- Calcutta 1 September, 1949]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The answer for this is also given in the Bhagavad-gita. It is said that there are two classes of men in the creation. One class is called the devas (godly) and the other class is called the asura (demonic or godless). As sons of the almighty Father Supreme Godhead, all individual living individuals have their respective independence. One can utilize this god-gifted independence properly or improperly.</p>
<p>When a living entity improperly uses god-gifted independence and apply such independence for sense-gratification without fulfilling the will or the plan of Godhead, he at once develops the demonic qualities in contact with the illusory Energy of Godhead and becomes a full-fledged asura. But one who do not misuse the God gifted independence and does not engage himself in the act of sense-gratification but fulfills the plan of the Godhead, continues to be a deva or godly. In this act of sense-gratification the asura children of Godhead forgets the plan of Godhead and therefore tries to exploit the state of Godhead for their own benefit which is sometime centralized but sometimes extended. The gods or the godly sons of Godhead do not act like this and they are therefore distinguished from the asuras.</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;">The answer for this is also given in the Bhagavad-gita. It is said that there are two classes of children in the creation of Godhead and nature. One class is called the daiva (godly) and the other class is called the asura (demonic or godless).</p>
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<div id="LettertoSirCalcuttaMay1949_4" 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;">As sons as the asura, however, surrenders unto Godhead as the obedient son and servitor of the plan of Godhead the asura is turned into a devata. The angry mode of Mother Nature at once subsides and she appears to such godly sons as the most affectionate Mother in the role of Yogamaya (commonly known as Laksmi, Sita and Radharani etc)</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrBaileyAllahabad7July1953_5" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="15" link="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953" link_text="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953|Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The present Godless civilization has to be remoulded into Godly one and for this purpose all missionaries (Hindu or non-Hindu) who have regard for scientific proselytizing method may join this "League of Devotees"</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="LettertoNandaraniKrsnaDeviSubalaUddhavaDelhi3October1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="162" link="Letter to Nandarani, Krsna Devi, Subala, Uddhava -- Delhi 3 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Nandarani, Krsna Devi, Subala, Uddhava -- Delhi 3 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nandarani, Krsna Devi, Subala, Uddhava -- Delhi 3 October, 1967|Letter to Nandarani, Krsna Devi, Subala, Uddhava -- Delhi 3 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Another thing I request is that everything in the Temple should be kept nice and clean. Everyone should wash hands before touching anything of Krishna's. We should always remember that Krishna is the purest & similarly only the pure can associate with Him. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.</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="LettertoMadhusudanaLosAngeles1February1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="40" link="Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968|Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, Sanskrit is spoken not only on Krishna Loka but also in higher planets, of the demigods. It is called the language of God and the demigods. It was spoken also on this planet, when people were all godly, they used to speak in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the origin of all languages of the civilized peoples.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNandaraniDayanandaSanFrancisco29March1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="131" link="Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968|Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee should try to enlighten innocent persons, and a devotee should reject opposite elements. As father and Mother they should be offered proper respect according to social custom, but you cannot accept their non-Godly instructions. Best thing is, to avoid misunderstanding, to remain silent without any affirmation or negation of their instructions.</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="LettertoSelectiveServiceSystemforTosanaKrsnaHawaii20March1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="190" link="Letter to Selective Service System (for Tosana Krsna) -- Hawaii 20 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Selective Service System (for Tosana Krsna) -- Hawaii 20 March, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Selective Service System (for Tosana Krsna) -- Hawaii 20 March, 1969|Letter to Selective Service System (for Tosana Krsna) -- Hawaii 20 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">MY INITIATED STUDENTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO INDULGE in the following principles of degradation: (1) All forms of intoxication, including coffee, tea, cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, etc. (2) The eating of animal foods, such as meat, fish, and eggs. Rather, their diet consists of Prasadam, especially offered foodstuffs (vegetarian), (3) Unmarried sex indulgence, (4) Gambling, or idle sports of any sort. Their lives are dedicated to serving God, and as such, they have no time to squander on unbeneficial activities or non-Godly activities.</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="LettertoKancanbalaLosAngeles20April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="253" link="Letter to Kancanbala -- Los Angeles 20 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Kancanbala -- Los Angeles 20 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kancanbala -- Los Angeles 20 April, 1970|Letter to Kancanbala -- Los Angeles 20 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We shall touch the Deity altar and Deity in very clean condition, after taking bath and washing mouth nicely. Practice washing hands after eating and wash with soap and water after toilet. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, so this point should be very carefully observed, then you will advance very quickly to the perfectional stage of Krishna Consciousness.</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="LettertoSriGovindaLondon5August1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="339" link="Letter to Sri Govinda -- London 5 August, 1971" link_text="Letter to Sri Govinda -- London 5 August, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Govinda -- London 5 August, 1971|Letter to Sri Govinda -- London 5 August, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far brahminical rules for cleanliness, those I have already described in the letter mentioned by you. Brahminical means cleanliness. We are trying to create a brahminical society. So all the devotees under your care there in Cleveland should be trained up in that light. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.</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="LettertoNityananda_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="435" link="Letter to Nityananda" link_text="Letter to Nityananda">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nityananda|Letter to Nityananda]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hold a fire sacrifice and present the beads and gayatri mantra tape with brahmana thread at that time. The initiates should follow our four principles of Godly life namely; no eating of meat, fish or eggs; no gambling, no intoxication, and no illicit sex. All devotees must also chant the prescribed 16 rounds on the beads daily, without fail.</p>
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Innocent (Letters)

2011-10-14T19:04:47Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="LettertoRPrakashAllahabad22June1951_0" 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;">Such process is not only transcendental to all sorts of mundane speculation, but is very simple and innocent. The principle is a sort of curing a disease not only by administering proper medicine but also by supplying proper diet at the same time.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRatanshiMorarjiKhatauBombay5August1958_1" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="39" link="Letter to Ratanshi Morarji Khatau -- Bombay 5 August, 1958" link_text="Letter to Ratanshi Morarji Khatau -- Bombay 5 August, 1958">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ratanshi Morarji Khatau -- Bombay 5 August, 1958|Letter to Ratanshi Morarji Khatau -- Bombay 5 August, 1958]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As I know what sort of Bhagavata week can be observed by the Mayavadins for misleading the innocent public and therefore I not only restrained myself from attending the function but also I advised many others not to attend for the very reason that the recitation of holy Bhagavata is being performed by men who have no access in this great scripture in which only the liberated persons, who are freed from all pretentious religiosities, can take part.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSallyNewYork19November1965_2" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="70" link="Letter to Sally -- New York 19 November, 1965" link_text="Letter to Sally -- New York 19 November, 1965">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sally -- New York 19 November, 1965|Letter to Sally -- New York 19 November, 1965]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am obliged to your good daughter for awarding me a good degree as SWAMI JESUS which is actually a great honour for me. Some time the Lord speaks through innocent child and I take this honour as sent by Lord Jesus through an innocent child free from all formalities of the current society.</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="LettertoRupanugaSanFrancisco11February1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="17" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 11 February, 1967" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 11 February, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 11 February, 1967|Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 11 February, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The child is innocent and therefore he has taken the consciousness so quickly. And he appears to be previously practiced to such consciousness. Please help him more and it is the duty of good parents to help their children advanced in Krishna consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaSanFrancisco15February1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="22" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 15 February, 1967" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 15 February, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 15 February, 1967|Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 15 February, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You are all innocent boys without any experience of the world. The cunning world can befool you at any time. So please be careful of the world in Krishna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaSanFrancisco21March1967_2" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="50" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 21 March, 1967" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 21 March, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 21 March, 1967|Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 21 March, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmananda has asked me whether San Francisco Branch will pay some money for purchasing the house. But where is your house and where is the purchase? So far it is talks of Mr. Payne and company in which you innocent boys have been entrapped.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRayaramaDelhi4October1967_3" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="163" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Delhi 4 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Delhi 4 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Delhi 4 October, 1967|Letter to Rayarama -- Delhi 4 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">From the very beginning of your meeting with me you have very sincerely & honestly carried out my orders & I am so much obliged to you for your simple and plain behavior. Kindly continue this attitude & advise all your God-brothers to do so & they will be happy consequently I shall also be happy. Please guide your innocent God-sisters who have come to our shelter. Girls are more susceptible to the finer attack of maya. Boys are a little stronger in getting out of the intricacies of Maya.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LettertoAatieNavadvipa28October1967_4" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="197" link="Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967|Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am so happy that the Krishna Consciousness movement is attracting young innocent hearts of America. From this I can think that the future of this movement is very hopeful. I was very glad to learn that you are following our four principle rules, therefore your picking up of the process of acquiring spiritual knowledge from Bhagavad-gita is very nice.</p>
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</div>
<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="LettertoNandaraniDayanandaSanFrancisco29March1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="131" link="Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968|Letter to Nandarani, Dayananda -- San Francisco 29 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee should make friendship with devotees. A devotee should try to enlighten innocent persons, and a devotee should reject opposite elements. As father and Mother they should be offered proper respect according to social custom, but you cannot accept their non-Godly instructions.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LettertoJaduraniMontreal30August1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="291" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Montreal 30 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Montreal 30 August, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Montreal 30 August, 1968|Letter to Jadurani -- Montreal 30 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This girl is very innocent, and nice student; please try to keep her under your care, at least for one year. Then I shall get her married with Vaikunthanatha das Brahmacari.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LettertoRayaramaSeattle17October1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="378" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968|Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All animals like deer, camel, ass, monkey, even flies and snakes, none should be ill treated. Even they enter into the house or in the fields and take their eatables, they should not be stopped. Because they have also got the right to eat, eatables supplied by the Lord. And they will not eat more, neither they will take at home, They are better than human beings. If a human being is allowed to enter into the field or into the garden, he will try to take away something for selling or stocking, but the animals do not. So the innocent animals should be accepted as children of the householder.</p>
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</div>
<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="LettertoSatyaPalHamburg31August1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="536" link="Letter to Satya Pal -- Hamburg 31 August, 1969" link_text="Letter to Satya Pal -- Hamburg 31 August, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satya Pal -- Hamburg 31 August, 1969|Letter to Satya Pal -- Hamburg 31 August, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Srila Prabhupada said that it was better to accept some menial service for maintaining oneself then to get some money by showing the Deities to the innocent public and being satisfied thereby. Now there is great necessity to train preachers in all the camps of our Godbrothers and send them all over the world.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LettertoMukundaHamburg1October1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="594" link="Letter to Mukunda -- Hamburg 1 October, 1969" link_text="Letter to Mukunda -- Hamburg 1 October, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mukunda -- Hamburg 1 October, 1969|Letter to Mukunda -- Hamburg 1 October, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We worship all worthy sons and servants of God, but we kick on the face of all rascals who claim to have become God so cheaply to mislead many innocent persons.</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="LettertoSyamasundaraLosAngeles24April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="263" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 24 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 24 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 24 April, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 24 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This man (Vivekananda) has no understanding either of soul or of God and still he has posed himself as a Swami to mislead so many innocent persons.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTosanaKrsnaLosAngeles23June1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="376" link="Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1970|Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Better spend that time for enlightening a person who is innocent. Do not try to enter into the details of New Testament, but simply say that we agree on the principle that God is great.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LettertoBenBombayNovember221970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="610" link="Letter to Ben -- Bombay November 22, 1970" link_text="Letter to Ben -- Bombay November 22, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ben -- Bombay November 22, 1970|Letter to Ben -- Bombay November 22, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually it is the only factual presentation of our true relationship with God, Krsna. And it is our earnest endeavor to preach this philosophy very vigorously to clear out the diseased condition of impersonal and voidist philosophy which are so much misleading the innocent persons.</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="LettertoNandaraniMayapur27February1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="118" link="Letter to Nandarani -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Nandarani -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nandarani -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972|Letter to Nandarani -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So-called transcendentalists who have no real stock of knowledge they are fond of these miracles, and for the most part, because the innocent public is generally foolish, therefore they accept these rascals of magicians as saintly persons. But real knowledge means science or knowing everything about something.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMandaliBhadraSydney2April1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="155" link="Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Sydney 2 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Sydney 2 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Sydney 2 April, 1972|Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Sydney 2 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually, everyone in the world can accept this Movement very easily. My angle of vision is that throughout the whole world everyone is good and innocent, only they have been misled and corrupted by rascal leaders. If you can organize everything nicely, the Americans and Europeans of the future will come out very nice, that is my opinion.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAmarendraLosAngeles12June1972_2" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="311" link="Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 12 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 12 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 12 June, 1972|Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 12 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In your country many fools elect the biggest fool to be their leader, it is like one blind man leading so many other blind men. But for the most part, the ordinary citizens of the society are innocent enough, they simply require good leaders and everything can be rectified. So it is our great responsibility to become very serious in the matter of executing Krishna Consciousness, and if we are sincere and go on expanding this movement all over the world, gradually we shall induce the leaders to accept our philosophy more and more.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles14September1972_3" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="495" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Better to resolve the whole situation by approaching their leaders at once and reconciling everything with them by bringing them prasadam and other nice gifts and giving them our philosophy, and if they are willing to hear it, also teach them how to chant Hare Krsna mantra. These are innocent young boys, they are simply misled, so you go to them and give them the right information and then you will have nothing more to fear from them.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSukadevaAhmedabad13December1972_4" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="613" link="Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972|Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are servants of Krishna, that means because we understand that Krishna is our Protector under all circumstances, we have no more any anxiety, so we become very liberal and tolerant of all kinds of seeing others' sinful activities, and we see them innocent victims of maya, and we try to help them understand what is the real position of life.</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="LettertoGirirajaLosAngeles8May1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="170" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973|Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have to do your best to same the land with heart and soul and you are an innocent devotee completely dedicated. I wish that you may be blessed with all success in this connection.</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="LettertoSukadeva1LosAngeles9January1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="21" link="Letter to Sukadeva 1 -- Los Angeles 9 January, 1974" link_text="Letter to Sukadeva 1 -- Los Angeles 9 January, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sukadeva 1 -- Los Angeles 9 January, 1974|Letter to Sukadeva 1 -- Los Angeles 9 January, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Better you remain there and go on with the preaching work, maintaining the devotees and approaching innocent persons. I think you have already a good preaching field there. After you are fifty years of age you can consider this move.</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;">Therefore our young men must be trained at the earliest age to not be attached to so many things like the home, family, friendship, society, and nation. To train the innocent boy to be a sense gratifier at the early age when the child is actually happy in any circumstance is the greatest violence.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalavantaNewYork8July1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="385" link="Letter to Balavanta -- New York 8 July, 1976" link_text="Letter to Balavanta -- New York 8 July, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Balavanta -- New York 8 July, 1976|Letter to Balavanta -- New York 8 July, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Concerning the distinction between the innocent and the atheists, those who give time to listen to us are innocent. Those who naturally oppose us and have no time are atheists, because we are the only ones talking about God.</p>
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Bharata (son of Rsabhadeva) (Letters)

2011-10-14T18:27:38Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="LettertoMadhaviLataMontreal20June1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="210" link="Letter to Madhavi Lata -- Montreal 20 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Madhavi Lata -- Montreal 20 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhavi Lata -- Montreal 20 June, 1968|Letter to Madhavi Lata -- Montreal 20 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I am so much pleased to receive your nice letter of June 11, 1968, all full with humility and love and very nice sentiments. Your simplicity is a great asset for Krishna Consciousness. Krishna is very kind to the meek and simple, so dullness of the material world and consciousness about Krishna go well together. Too much intelligence in material activities are detraction from Krishna Consciousness. Better to remain dull and simple as you are, and thus make advancement in Krishna Consciousness. There is a nice story about Bharata Maharaja, who remained just like a dullard, in order to avoid material association. And he was known as Jada Bharata, but when he was tested, Maharaja Rohugan found him highly advanced in Krishna Consciousness, and became his disciple.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTosanaKrsnaSeattle7October1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="353" link="Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Seattle 7 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Seattle 7 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Seattle 7 October, 1968|Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Seattle 7 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now since the day of Emperor Bharata, this planet is know as Bharatavarsa, but in course of time, the human race divided, therefore we find so many other names. But the original name of this planet is Bharatavarsa, and in the Vedic literature, it is stated that anyone who takes birth on this planet, they are very fortunate.</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="LettertoBhagavanLosAngeles2March1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="139" link="Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1970|Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Goswamis left their government service, and there are many other instances. Bharata Maharaja left his kingdom and Lord Buddha left his kingdom—these are all different attempts to get out of Maya's influence.</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="LettertoSriSrinivasanBombay23December1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="705" link="Letter to Sri Srinivasan -- Bombay 23 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Sri Srinivasan -- Bombay 23 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Srinivasan -- Bombay 23 December, 1974|Letter to Sri Srinivasan -- Bombay 23 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All great previous personalities such as Arjuna and the Pandava brothers, Maharaja Rsabhadeva, King Bharata, so many great kings and great saintly persons all finished the last part of their lives living as mendicants, sannyasis. Therefore following in the footsteps of the authorities we should understand the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna.</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="LettertoTamalaKrsnaBombay20December1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="697" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 20 December, 1976" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 20 December, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 20 December, 1976|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bombay 20 December, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are two ways of bringing the opposition under control. One is by logic and philosophy, the other is by force. That was done by Bharata Maharaja when he was king of this planet.</p>
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There is no God (Letters)

2011-10-14T18:24:14Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoHayagrivaLosAngeles15January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="13" link="Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 15 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 15 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 15 January, 1968|Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 15 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated January 10, 1968; it is very nice. I do not find any basical difference of philosophy. From the very beginning I have always preached that basically we have no difference between the Christians, the Mohammedans, the Hindus, or the Buddhists, the four principal religionists in the world. But there is a class, Impersonalists, whom we consider as atheists. The atheists directly say there is no God, and the Impersonalists say there may be God, but He has no form. It is indirectly saying that there is no God. I am very glad to read in your letter a nice line, "My main concern is seeing Him constantly in my daily life, that is, to constantly remember Him and not to forget Him."</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="LettertoPattiBirnackTittenhurstHouseEnglandSeptember13th1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="561" link="Letter to Patti Birnack -- Tittenhurst House, England September 13th , 1969" link_text="Letter to Patti Birnack -- Tittenhurst House, England September 13th , 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Patti Birnack -- Tittenhurst House, England September 13th , 1969|Letter to Patti Birnack -- Tittenhurst House, England September 13th , 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is suffering or enjoying in this material world is doing so as a result of his own activities. Krishna says that if we surrender unto Him, He will relieve us of all sufferings, so if someone rejects this offer of Krishna and then says that there is no God because he is experiencing some suffering, that is not a very intelligent position.</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="LettertoSyamasundaraLosAngeles15April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="236" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the presence of God, both the theist and atheist have practical experience in two different ways. They are as follows: The atheist is hypocrite that he says there is no God. There is presence of God both for the theist and atheist. The vivid example of this presence of God both before the theist and atheist simultaneously is Lord Nrsimhadeva. Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared before the atheist Hiranyakasipu as Death and He appeared before Prahlada Maharaja the theist as the Benedictor of Blessing.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKennethLosAngeles1May1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="281" link="Letter to Kenneth -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Kenneth -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kenneth -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970|Letter to Kenneth -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Unfortunately, the demons do not even acknowledge the gifts from Krishna, and they talk nonsense that there is no God, God is dead, I am God, and similar things. So as you are acknowledging your obligation to Krishna, as well as chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra, so I hope Krishna will give you more facilities so that you can become perfect in this very life.</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="LettertoRobertMayapur8March1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="187" link="Letter to Robert -- Mayapur 8 March, 1976" link_text="Letter to Robert -- Mayapur 8 March, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Robert -- Mayapur 8 March, 1976|Letter to Robert -- Mayapur 8 March, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You mention that the scientists try "to simplify the problem at hand by neglecting any complex factors that may be present." What is that simplification? That there is no God. Their position is "sour grapes." They try by their speculation to understand things, and being unable they say there is no God. So we can use this science to defeat them, just as I have many other disciples, such as Svarupa Damodara. He is Ph.D. in Chemistry and now he is using his scientific background to defeat their atheistic arguments.</p>
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Another body (Letters)

2011-10-14T17:31:44Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="LettertoAnilGroverLosAngeles5February1970_0" 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;">Now coming to the point of questions—your first question is: "What am I? Is the body itself matter, or spiritual soul, or a combination of both?" Answer: You are eternal servant of Krishna. The body is matter. The spirit soul is different from the body—it is not exactly combination, but it is encagement. Just like if you put oil in the water, the oil does not mix up with the water. Similarly, soul does not mix with the material body; but due to our material consciousness, we are thinking that the movement of this body is movement of the soul. Therefore, when the body is destroyed, we think the soul is destroyed. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, that the soul does not die with the destruction of the body. With the destruction of one body, the soul transmigrates to another body, thus the bondage of material existence. Therefore, to train the soul properly to revive his original consciousness, or Krishna Consciousness, is the real purpose of human life.</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;">People must understand intelligently that they are transmigrating from one body to another at every moment. The body is dying at every moment, and the soul is transmigrating to another body at every moment—this is medical fact. The blood corpuscles are changing at every moment and new corpuscles are taking their place. The old order changes, yielding place to the new. This is going on continually. In this way, the soul is transmigrating from baby body to child body, from child body to boy body, from boy body to youth body. So, at the end, when the material of the body does not act very nicely, the soul has to take another material condition of body, giving up the present one.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAnilGroverLosAngeles5February1970_2" 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;">That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, that the soul does not die with the destruction of the body. With the destruction of one body, the soul transmigrates to another body, thus the bondage of material existence. Therefore, to train the soul properly to revive his original consciousness, or Krishna Consciousness, is the real purpose of human life.</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="LettertoDrBigelowAllahabad20January1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="27" link="Letter to Dr. Bigelow -- Allahabad 20 January, 1971" link_text="Letter to Dr. Bigelow -- Allahabad 20 January, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Bigelow -- Allahabad 20 January, 1971|Letter to Dr. Bigelow -- Allahabad 20 January, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The central question you say is "where is the soul and where does it come from?" That is not difficult to understand. We've already discussed how the soul is residing in the heart of the living entity and that it takes shelter after death in another body. Originally the soul comes from God. Just like a spark comes from fire, and when the spark falls down it appears to be extinguished. The spark soul originally comes from the spiritual world to the material world.</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="LettertoRevatinandanaMayapur16October1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="492" link="Letter to Revatinandana -- Mayapur 16 October, 1974" link_text="Letter to Revatinandana -- Mayapur 16 October, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Revatinandana -- Mayapur 16 October, 1974|Letter to Revatinandana -- Mayapur 16 October, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyway, go on with preaching to the college students there on the West Coast. Explain to them that after death they have to take another body. The body even in this life is constantly changing, and at death they change and take another body according to one's work in this life. They must know this fact. By taking to Krishna consciousness they can become purified and no longer have to take birth again in this material world where they are the four-fold miseries of the body.</p>
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Subtle body (Letters)

2011-10-14T17:24:37Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniVrindaban9September1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="140" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 9 September, 1967" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 9 September, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 9 September, 1967|Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 9 September, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, he decended from higher planet for being liberated in the association of Lord Caitanya, so his conditioned life came to an end after he contacted Lord Caitanya. The distinction between subtle and gross bodies is elementary. There are eight elements: five gross and three subtle. When a living entity has only subtle body he is considered to be a ghost, and when he has both, he is considered in full strength. To remain in subtle body in this material world is very uncomfortable. Regarding your work in the temple by painting, wherever you remain, if you are fully absorbed in your transcendental work in K.C., that place is eternally Vrindaban—It is the consciousness that creates Vrindaban. The Lord remains in the hearts of every living entity. He lives in the heart of a hog, and the hog lives in a filthy place. That does not mean that the Lord lives in a filthy place. The Lord lives always inconceivably in His transcendental abode. Similarly, a fully K.C. person lives always in the pastimes of Lord Krishna by such consciousness only. The material atmosphere is no impediment for continuing our K.C. in any circumstance.</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="LettertoAniruddhaLosAngeles14November1968_0" 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;">Your next question, "Is there a difference between Arjuna's body and his soul, and how does this apply to all Krishna's eternally liberated souls described in the scriptures. Is Arjuna always the same in his appearances with Krishna or is a new soul taking his body each time?" Yes, there is difference. Therefore he forgets his past activities. Just like we forget ourselves while dreaming because our subtle body acts at that time differently from the gross body. Similarly, by changing this body or transmigrating from one body to another, we forget all the activities of our previous body. The associates of the Lord, even though they have a different body, or even though they forget the activities of their past body, still they are associates of the Lord. These explanations are given in the Bhagavad-gita as it is.</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="LettertoHimavatiLosAngeles26April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="268" link="Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 26 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 26 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 26 April, 1970|Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 26 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your question, a sinful person, never mind what kind of sinful man is he, is taken in subtle body to the place of Yamaraja, and there he is trained up in a particular type of suffering. As soon as he is trained up, he is given a particular body by which he can endure such sufferings.</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="LettertoParamanandaAllahabad27January1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="38" link="Letter to Paramananda -- Allahabad 27 January, 1971" link_text="Letter to Paramananda -- Allahabad 27 January, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Paramananda -- Allahabad 27 January, 1971|Letter to Paramananda -- Allahabad 27 January, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far as your questions are concerned: 1) How the five great elements are a gross representation of the subtle false ego. Where is the problem? By false ego, which is part of the subtle body, we are thinking that we are this gross material body made up of the five great elements. That is all. (2) There are 16 factors—10 senses, 5 sense objects and the mind. When the three modes of nature react, then from these 16 factors the gross and subtle elements come out. The soul is the 17th factor.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniLosAngeles9July1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="292" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 9 July, 1971" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 9 July, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 9 July, 1971|Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 9 July, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you can depict the whole scene or a suitable part, as the endeavor; Krishna appeared as Narayana and when requested, he became a baby. But the picture is all right; The position of the four symbols for all three purusa avataras is the same; All the planets within the stem, that is to be understood. But they are seedling planets and are coming out of the stem, all below the lotus flower, just as seedling universes come out from the body of Maha Visnu; You don't have to paint the subtle bodies. They are entering—that you have to show. Gross and subtle, everything is entering; (In picture no. 4, S.B. 1.1.1, it is all right, but Brahma's features in the darkness must be distinct.)</p>
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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;">Your fourth question: "Whether or not it is possible for the soul to exist without having this external gross and subtle body covering it? So if the bird is existing within the cage and someone takes away the cage does that mean that the bird can no longer exist? No. This body is illusion. It is only because of out 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="LettertoJaduraniNewDelhi8November1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="374" link="Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973|Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I want for Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day one book of Ādi lila published, 400 pages at least, hardbound, for being distributed at Mayapur. Regarding the enclosed photo, the Yamadutas are all right. Yes, it is all right to show the subtle body looking just like the gross body. Regarding Lord Caitanya's danda, it was broken for good. So after Puri, He never took danda. So for painting Him as sannyasa, it depends on the time as to whether He had danda or not.</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="LettertoSvarupaDamodaraLosAngeles23June1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="357" link="Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1975|Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Los Angeles 23 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your second question is not very clear what you want to ask, but the fact is that each and every living entity is covered by two kinds of bodies, one subtle and one gross. So the subtle body causes the living entity to take another gross body. We have got experience that in dreaming the gross body is inactive while the subtle body is continuing activities; and again in deep sleep the subtle body is continuing activities. The living entity after being carried by the subtle body to another gross body, it sometimes remains in deep sleep in the womb of the mother. Then gradually the subtle body begins to act within another gross body. When this gross body is fully developed befitting to come out of the mother's body, that is called another birth.</p>
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Dead body (Letters)

2011-10-02T11:33:28Z

SushilaRadha:

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<div id="LettertoMadhusudanaNavadvipa2November1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="203" link="Letter to Madhusudana -- Navadvipa 2 November, 1967" link_text="Letter to Madhusudana -- Navadvipa 2 November, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhusudana -- Navadvipa 2 November, 1967|Letter to Madhusudana -- Navadvipa 2 November, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He cannot say anything genuine any more till he has had revival of his pure consciousness in the spiritual world as mentioned above. Differentiation between spirit & matter is clear & practical experience, when a living creature is dead no amount of material advancement of science can bring back a dead body to life. The thing which is absent from a dead body is the spirit. As there is individual spirit in individual body, similarly there is the Great Spirit in the universal material form. As the individual spirit is working systematically within the individual material body, similarly, the Supreme Spirit is conscious of the universal body. The lord knows what is happening in each & every planet as much as an individual soul knows what is happening in each & every part of his body. Therefore, the individual consciousness which is limited, when dovetailed with the Supreme Consciousness of the Lord is called Krishna Consciousness.</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="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles22January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="28" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhagavatam it is said that the Brahmanas are the head of the social body, the Ksatriyas are the arms of the social body, the Vaisyas are the waist of the social body, and the Sudras are the legs of the social body. The legs may be placed in a lower position than the head ephemerally, but actually the legs are as important as the head for maintaining the body as it is. It is not that the legs should not be taken care of and just the head should be cared for. But it is a fact that if there is not a head it is a dead body. The modern civilization is a sort of a social body without a head, or actually it is a dead body. The body is dead since the very beginning of it's birth, and it is the spirit that keeps it moving. Therefore, spiritual enlightenment is the basic principle of civilization.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSeattle16October1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="376" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 16 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 16 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 16 October, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 16 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you can also write to them that they have gone there on a mission to work for the society, so they should try their best to remain in India and work for the society. Simply if they approach big business firms in Bombay, I think they can collect not less than 100 to 200 Rs. daily. But they must be enthusiastic. If they become dead bodies, then it is not possible.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaLosAngeles1July1970_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="346" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970|Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This material world seems to me like a dead body, and even though they try to decorate it very gorgeously, what use can we enjoy from such dead body? So practically we see the youth of your country have become very much frustrated by trying to enjoy this dead body, and they are seeking to find the point of real life which has been lost, but they are thinking that to become animals will give them new life, just like standing naked or growing long hairs. But without Krishna that is not possible. Therefore, it is your duty to inform them very seriously and tactfully that this dead body of material nature can only be revived if we inject it with Krishna Consciousness movement. If we do like this, then your country will become the most gorgeous place, it will be Vaikuntha.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaLosAngeles1July1970_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="346" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970|Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore, I am especially appealing to the GBC men to take this mission of Krishna Consciousness movement very, very soberly and without any inebrieties for advancing the knowledge of how to inject Krishna Consciousness into the dead body of material nature</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="LettertoSadajeewatlaljiBombay20November1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="585" link="Letter to Sadajeewatlalji -- Bombay 20 November, 1974" link_text="Letter to Sadajeewatlalji -- Bombay 20 November, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sadajeewatlalji -- Bombay 20 November, 1974|Letter to Sadajeewatlalji -- Bombay 20 November, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we should not be confused in the matter of violating the orders given by Lord Krishna. bhagavad-bhakti-hinasya/ jatih sastram janas tanah/ apranasyaiva dehasya/ mandanam loka-ranjanam. A big nation, a big worker, a big ascetic, and all similar big attempts, if they are devoid of bhagavad-bhakti, or devotional service, then such high qualities are exactly like the decoration of the dead body.</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="LettertoPurusottamaLosAngeles4June1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="326" link="Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976" link_text="Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976|Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Life cannot be prolonged by heart transplant. You cannot increase the duration of life. One can perhaps give some relief to disease, that is another thing, but the duration of life is destined. From the dead body, one cannot bring life. Similarly, it may appear that one is prolonging the duration of life by medicines or heart transplant, but that is not the case. If one lives 4 years after having had a heart transplant, then by nature's law he was destined to live four years with or without having had a heart transplant. So what is the value of heart transplant?</p>
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<div id="LettertoPurusottamaLosAngeles4June1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="326" link="Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976" link_text="Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976|Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Life cannot be prolonged by heart transplant. You cannot increase the duration of life. One can perhaps give some relief to disease, that is another thing, but the duration of life is destined. From the dead body, one cannot bring life. Similarly, it may appear that one is prolonging the duration of life by medicines or heart transplant, but that is not the case. If one lives 4 years after having had a heart transplant, then by nature's law he was destined to live four years with or without having had a heart transplant. So what is the value of heart transplant?</p>
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<div id="LettertoTustaKrsnaHyderabad23August1976_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="462" link="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Hyderabad 23 August, 1976" link_text="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Hyderabad 23 August, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Hyderabad 23 August, 1976|Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Hyderabad 23 August, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Generally people are spoiling their lives for decorating the dead body and giving no attention at all to the spirit soul within. Our business is just the opposite, to give more time to the spiritual life and accept material necessities only as required. This makes life perfect. This is the Vedic way of life.</p>
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Partially (Letters)

2011-10-02T10:43:47Z

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<div id="LettertoRajaMohendraPratapCawnpore13July1947_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="2" link="Letter to Raja Mohendra Pratap -- Cawnpore 13 July, 1947" link_text="Letter to Raja Mohendra Pratap -- Cawnpore 13 July, 1947">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Raja Mohendra Pratap -- Cawnpore 13 July, 1947|Letter to Raja Mohendra Pratap -- Cawnpore 13 July, 1947]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As you say the waves of the creations are the different aspects, why a particular type of waves namely the mankind should be partially selected and offered services and why other types of waves such as the beasts or birds, the plants and the stone shall not be offered a similar type of services? In that case how can you say that the worship of a stone is sinful while a man who is more than a stone shall be considered as the object of love? These are some of the questions that arise out of a critical study of your book.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrYGNaikMScPhDDelhi28March1960_1" 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;">Any way the subject matter of this spiritual energy exhibited by the living being is undoubtedly very complicated thing for an ordinary man. The ordinary man is therefore astounded in the subject. Sometimes he partially understands it through the imperfect senses and sometimes he fails to know it altogether. The best thing is therefore to hear the grave subject matter from the highest authority Sri Krishna or His devotee representative coming down in the chain of disciplic succession. Bhagavad-gita is the essence of all the Upanisads and Vedanta.</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="LettertoHanumanPrasadPoddarLosAngeles5February1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="77" link="Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970|Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Then I began translating Srimad-Bhagavatam in 1960; and, perhaps in 1961, I was your guest in the Gita Bagicha. You were very kind to help me partially for publishing my first volume of Srimad-Bhagavatam through the Dalmia Charitable Trust. With great difficulty, I then published the second and third volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam until 1965, when I prepared myself to come to this country with some books.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHanumanPrasadPoddarLosAngeles5February1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="77" link="Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970" link_text="Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970|Letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar -- Los Angeles 5 February, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In most of the centers our activities are in rented houses, only in Boston and Buffalo we have our own houses. In Boston we have got our own press, ISKCON Press, where our books and magazines are published partially. The major portion is printed outside our press especially in Japan.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHayagrivaLosAngeles22May1970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="318" link="Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 22 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 22 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 22 May, 1970|Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 22 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The result of material education is that the living entity forgets his own identification and takes to the business of a particular type of body which is given to him by the grace of Maya. The Vedic education means one has to understand his real identity as brahman or the spirit soul. Unfortunately the modern educational system is so defective that everyone is educated to accept this body as self. At the present moment they have no clear idea of identification, so much so that even a person who is partially advanced about the importance of the soul does also improperly identify himself with the Supreme Brahma.</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="LettertoKarandharaBhaktivedantaManor19July1973_0" 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;">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. My point is even if they partially accept then they have to find out what is the original life. In the sastras we have information that the original life in the universe is Brahma and Brahma is also a product of Garbhodakasayi Vishnu.</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="LettertoTaittiriyaMayapur3March1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="61" link="Letter to Taittiriya -- Mayapur 3 March, 1974" link_text="Letter to Taittiriya -- Mayapur 3 March, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Taittiriya -- Mayapur 3 March, 1974|Letter to Taittiriya -- Mayapur 3 March, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding grains, if rice and mung dahl is available from Formosa please try to secure as much as possible as donation or by purchase. India is now practically without food grains on account of, partially, nature's punishment, and partially, the hoarding plan of the rogues. We wish to distribute cooked food such as rice, dahl and capatis to as many hungry men as possible.</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="LettertoGirirajaDetroit4August1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="446" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975|Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The idea is that local inhabitants will be satisfied with their bare necessities of life and their attention will be diverted towards spiritual development of life. That is the aim of human birth. We are trying this also in Africa, and it is partially successful.</p>
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Material entanglement (Letters)

2011-10-02T10:04:42Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoDevoteesSanFrancisco30March1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="55" link="Letter to Devotees -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967" link_text="Letter to Devotees -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Devotees -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967|Letter to Devotees -- San Francisco 30 March, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you chant always Hare Krishna, read my books, and preach this philosophy sincerely, then Krishna will provide you with all facility, and you will not fall down into material entanglement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniDelhi15September1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="141" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Delhi 15 September, 1967" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Delhi 15 September, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Delhi 15 September, 1967|Letter to Gargamuni -- Delhi 15 September, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> People who therefore not exerting to improve Krishna Consciousness are simply wasting there valuable time and human life. Their human life is a chance to be out of the entanglements of material bodies. We get material bodies according to our activities, doggish men get the bodies of dogs in the next life, men in Krishna Consciousness get bodies like Krishna, so developed consciousness of human life is to concentrate of Krishna Consciousness so that we may be out of the clutches of material entanglement. These truth should be preached all over the world and those who are intelligent enough will take to Krishna Consciousness very seriously.</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="LettertoMrJimDoodyLosAngeles8February1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="102" link="Letter to Mr. Jim Doody -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Mr. Jim Doody -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Jim Doody -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969|Letter to Mr. Jim Doody -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> Material entanglement is no problem; if Krishna was not so powerful that He can easily undo our material entanglement then there would be no need to follow the path of Krishna Consciousness. Krishna has given His instruction in the Bhagavad-gita that one should simply surrender unto Him, and immediately He takes charge of solving all of the problems of life. So if you decide to surrender unto Krishna, and if you are sincere of purpose, there is no problem of your life. Material entanglement is not a new thing for you. Everyone who is in this material world has got material problems. Who hasn't got the problem of birth? Who hasn't got the problem of death? Who hasn't got the problem of old age? And who hasn't got the problem of disease? Nobody can escape these problems, so everyone in this material world is entangled. The difference is only of varieties of types of entanglement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYamunaLosAngeles3July1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="411" link="Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 3 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 3 July, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 3 July, 1969|Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 3 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> There is a verse in Caitanya Caritamrta in which Krsna dasa Kaviraja says that the whole world is busy to enjoy or to suffer by their respective results of karma, pious or impious, from past life. So in this material world, somebody is enjoying material life in some higher planet and somebody is suffering some material inconveniences in some lower planets. But they do not know that suffering or no suffering, this material existence itself is not at all congenial to the living entity. In the Western countries, Europe and America, they appear to be enjoying life in the view of the Eastern people, and therefore they hear so much about the opulences in the different universities and towns of the Western countries. But actually, they have no knowledge how to get out of the material entanglement. The only bona fide engagement is Krishna Consciousness for the all around benefit of the human society. That is a fact.</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="LettertoYugalakisoraGorakhpur15February1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="64" link="Letter to Yugalakisora -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971" link_text="Letter to Yugalakisora -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yugalakisora -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971|Letter to Yugalakisora -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> Maya is always peeping for a chance to allure the neophyte devotees from the path of Krsna Consciousness and this potential danger is always there everywhere in the material world. The only solution to the danger of material entanglement and consequent unhappiness is to surrender unconditionally at the Lotus feet of Krsna because only He can give assurance of protection from all sinful reactions.</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="LettertoMrLongoAAliNairobi29October1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="627" link="Letter to Mr. Longo A. Ali -- Nairobi 29 October, 1975" link_text="Letter to Mr. Longo A. Ali -- Nairobi 29 October, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Longo A. Ali -- Nairobi 29 October, 1975|Letter to Mr. Longo A. Ali -- Nairobi 29 October, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> I am glad to note your determination to be freed from the material entanglement by chanting Hare Krishna mantra. This is the recommended process for this age of disagreement for achieving Krishna consciousness. It is authorized, very easy, and it does not cost anything. I understand that you have got japa beads, so this is very good that you are seriously taking to the process. So if you continue Krishna will bless you, and you will go back home back to Godhead.</p>
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Duration of life (Letters)

2011-10-02T09:57:14Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="LettertoJawaharlalNehruAllahabad20January1952_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="13" link="Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru -- Allahabad 20 January, 1952" link_text="Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru -- Allahabad 20 January, 1952">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru -- Allahabad 20 January, 1952|Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru -- Allahabad 20 January, 1952]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">1. People in the present age are generally shortliving. The average duration of life being 30 years or so.</p>
<p>2. They are generally not very simple. Almost everyman is designing and crooked.</p>
<p>3. They have no scope for high thinking because they are perplexed with different relative truths.</p>
<p>4. Unfortunate as they are in this age their problems remain unsolved for the whole life even though they are tackled by their leaders. They make the best effort to solve a problem but unfortunately the same becomes more acute and stringent.</p>
<p>5. And above all, people in this age are always distressed by famine, scarcity, grieves and diseases in an increasing ratio.</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="LettertoChristopherMontreal13July1968_0" 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;"> The people of this age are of short duration of life, they are very slow in the matter of seriously understanding spiritual importance of life, and even some of them are inclined, like yourself, by misfortune they associate with hodge-podge men like those you have mentioned in your letter—namely, Yogananda, Alan Watts, Maharishi, Leary, etc.—because they are unfortunate and severely disturbed in mind on account of various frustrations and desires.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPopePaulVIMontreal3August1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="253" link="Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968|Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> The human society cannot anymore be allowed to continue a Godless civilization at the risk of decreasing truthfulness, hygienic principles, forgiveness, and mercifulness. Because on account of predominance of these principles at the present moment, duration of life, strength, and memory of the human being is decreasing. The human society is gradually degrading in the matter of religiosity, and justice; and "might is right" is gradually taking the place of morality and justice. There is practically no more family life, and the union of man and woman is gradually degrading to the standard of sexuality.</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="LettertoMrsLevineLosAngeles10January1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="9" link="Letter to Mrs. Levine -- Los Angeles 10 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Mrs. Levine -- Los Angeles 10 January, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mrs. Levine -- Los Angeles 10 January, 1969|Letter to Mrs. Levine -- Los Angeles 10 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> We believe that every plot of land belongs to Krishna. The sooner it is engaged in the service of Krishna the better it is for the temporary owner. We come to this material world empty-handed and go away empty-handed. The things which we possess during our duration of life are first achieved and then let out along with all of our other temporary possessions. Therefore the best use of possessions during our lifetime is to dedicate it to the service of the Lord. The success of human life is considered when one fully surrenders his life, his wealth, his intelligence and his words for the benefit of the Lord.</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="LettertoSridamaLosAngeles10April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="224" link="Letter to Sridama -- Los Angeles 10 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Sridama -- Los Angeles 10 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sridama -- Los Angeles 10 April, 1970|Letter to Sridama -- Los Angeles 10 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> As soon as a center is open and my disciples conduct it nicely, it gives me Vaikuntha bliss. Vamanadeva is doing very nicely in St. Louis, and I am sending herewith some pictures of his activities. So Bali Mardan and Upendra are doing in Sydney also. All these newses are to me life-giving ambrosia, so the more you open branches, the more I increase my duration of life. Therefore, if you all my students want me to live for some days more, go on opening nice branches as many as possible.</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="LettertoPurusottamaLosAngeles4June1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="326" link="Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976" link_text="Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976|Letter to Purusottama -- Los Angeles 4 June, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> Life cannot be prolonged by heart transplant. You cannot increase the duration of life. One can perhaps give some relief to disease, that is another thing, but the duration of life is destined. From the dead body, one cannot bring life. Similarly, it may appear that one is prolonging the duration of life by medicines or heart transplant, but that is not the case. If one lives 4 years after having had a heart transplant, then by nature's law he was destined to live four years with or without having had a heart transplant. So what is the value of heart transplant?</p>
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Cannot deny (Letters)

2011-10-02T09:53:55Z

SushilaRadha:

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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="LettertoAnandPrakashBombay14August1958_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="40" link="Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958" link_text="Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958|Letter to Anand Prakash -- Bombay 14 August, 1958]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The process recommended by the Lord is very simple and plain. It is just to create a favorable condition for hearing only the message of Krishna (The Bhagavad-gita) or the messages about Krishna (The Srimad-Bhagavatam) or both and I have therefore come to you for getting your co-operation. I hope you will not deny the co-operation.</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="LettertoSyamasundaraLosAngeles15April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="236" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> This appearance of God as Death before the atheist is also the kindness of the Lord. Both God's killing and protection are the same because He is Absolute, but His mercy is shown to the atheist by killing and His mercy is shown to the theist by protecting; so both are seeing God in different features. This is the practical demonstration of the presence of God, it is everyone's practical experience to see Death. There is never any question of the presence of God, only the lying rascal atheist tries to cheat by saying that he does not see God. He tries to cheat others to believe that he is "God," but he himself cannot deny God when He comes before the atheist in the form of Death.</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="LettertoGargamuniGorakhpur16February1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="67" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Gorakhpur 16 February, 1971" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Gorakhpur 16 February, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Gorakhpur 16 February, 1971|Letter to Gargamuni -- Gorakhpur 16 February, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> My suggestion to you for going to Pakistan was on the following point: if any mission goes to Pakistan from India, they will not allow. But Pakistan is on good friendly terms with the U.S.A. as far as we know from the political situation. Therefore my idea was that an ISKCON mission may go to Pakistan directly from America. I am sure that if a mission from America goes there they will not deny to admit them. It is not very difficult task, but it is difficult also, simultaneously. It is not a difficult task in this way: as we are going in so many countries, you can also go there with the Krsna Consciousness mission. But as they are not very advanced in culture, there is possibility of misunderstanding also. So both yourself and Brahmananda Maharaja may thoroughly consider this point also, before going there. On the whole, I am not insisting you to go there, but if it is possible for you to go there four to five men and preach this Krsna cult there, that will be a great achievement.</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="LettertoSecretarytoMinisterofEducationandCultureLosAngeles7June1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="302" link="Letter to Secretary to Minister of Education and Culture -- Los Angeles 7 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Secretary to Minister of Education and Culture -- Los Angeles 7 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Secretary to Minister of Education and Culture -- Los Angeles 7 June, 1972|Letter to Secretary to Minister of Education and Culture -- Los Angeles 7 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> Our institution, as above mentioned, is a philosophical and cultural movement originating long ago in the Vedic period of history of your friendly neighbor, India, and it is meant for awakening peoples' dormant acceptance of the absolute truth, or God-consciousness, without which a human society is no better than animal society. By the progressive evolutionary process, the human being is enriched specifically with dormant obeisances for the supreme authority. We cannot deny logically and scientifically the supreme authority of the whole cosmic manifestation. In abnormal conditions only we deny this authority, but normally it is not possible to deny this fact.</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="LettertoGargamuniAhmedabad29September1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="572" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Ahmedabad 29 September, 1975" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Ahmedabad 29 September, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Ahmedabad 29 September, 1975|Letter to Gargamuni -- Ahmedabad 29 September, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 25/8/75 and have noted the contents. Regarding the disturbance made by the women devotees, they are also living beings. They also come to Krishna. So consciously I cannot deny them. If our male members, the brahmacaris and the sannyasis, if they become steady in Krishna consciousness, there is no problem. It is the duty of the male members to be very steady and cautious. This can be done by regular chanting like Haridasa Thakura did. Whenever there is a young woman, we should remember Haridasa Thakura and beg his mercy to protect us, and we should think that these beautiful gopis are meant for the enjoyment of Krishna.</p>
<p>It is a dilemma for our Society that we cannot deny these girls, and at the same time they are a great dangerous allurement to the young boys. Yes, as you say, I never think in terms of Indian or American regarding my students. I take you all as part and parcels of Krishna.</p>
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Creeper (Other Books)

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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 16|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who becomes attracted by the transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa begins devotional service. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.15.8) Kṛṣṇa glorifies the land of Vṛndāvana as He addresses Balarāma in this way: </p>
:dhanyeyam adya dharaṇī tṛṇa-vīrudhas tvat-
:pāda-spṛśo druma-latāḥ karajābhimṛṣṭāḥ
:nadyo ’drayaḥ khaga-mṛgāḥ sadayāvalokair
:gopyo ’ntareṇa bhujayor api yat-spṛhāśrīḥ
<p>"This land of Vrajabhūmi is made glorious by the touch of Your feet. Being touched by Your fingers, the creepers have also become glorious. When You look on the hills, rivers and lower animals, they too are all made glorious, and the gopīs, being embraced by Your transcendental arms, are also made glorious." The gopīs glorified Vṛndāvana in the following words: "Dear friends, all these inhabitants of Vrajabhūmi—everyone, including the birds, beasts and trees—are glorified when they see Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma singing on Their flutes as They go to the pasturing ground with Their friends."</p>
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<div id="TLC23_1" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="29" link="TLC 23" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 23|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 23]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pure devotees know that they are meant to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that all things that exist can be means by which one can serve the Supreme. Because a devotee has been blessed by the Supreme from within his heart, he can see the Supreme Lord wherever he looks. Indeed, he can see nothing else. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.2.55) the relationship between the devotee and the Supreme Lord is confirmed as follows:</p>
:viṣṛjati hṛdayaṁ na yasya sākṣād
:dharir avaśābhihito 'py aghaugha-nāśaḥ
:praṇaya-raśanayā dhṛtāṅghri-padmaḥ
:sa bhavati bhāgavata-pradhāna uktaḥ
<p>"If a person's heart is always tied to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord with the rope of love, the Lord does not leave him. Indeed, even if his remembrance is not perfect, he is to be considered a first class devotee." There is an example of this described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Daśa-skandha (10.30.4). When the gopīs assembled to join the rāsa dance with Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa left them. Consequently the gopīs began to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa and, being overwhelmed with madness, began to inquire about Kṛṣṇa from the flowers and the creepers in the forest. Kṛṣṇa is like the sky; He is situated everywhere.</p>
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<div id="TLC31_2" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="37" link="TLC 31" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 31|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 31]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The associates of Rādhārāṇīinclude Her personal associates, called sakhīs, and Her near assistants, called mañjarīs. It is very difficult to express the dealings of Rādhārāṇī’s associates with Kṛṣṇa because they have no desire to mix with Him or enjoy with Him personally. Rather, they are always ready to help Rādhārāṇī associate with Kṛṣṇa. Their affection for Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī is so pure that they are simply satisfied when Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are together. Indeed, their transcendental pleasure is in seeing Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa united. The actual form of Rādhārāṇī is just like a creeper embracing the tree of Kṛṣṇa, and the damsels of Vraja, the associates of Rādhārāṇī, are just like the leaves and flowers of that creeper. When a creeper embraces a tree, the leaves and flowers of the creeper automatically embrace it. The Govinda-līlāmṛta (10.16) describes the pleasure of Rādhārāṇī’s associates as follows: "Rādhārāṇī, the expansion of the pleasure potency of Kṛṣṇa, is compared to a creeper, and Her associates, the damsels of Vraja, are compared to the flowers and leaves of that creeper. When Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa enjoy Themselves, the damsels of Vraja relish the pleasure more than Rādhārāṇī Herself."</p>
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<div id="TLC32_3" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="38" link="TLC 32" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 32|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmānanda replied that one should give up all other pleasures and should live in Vṛndāvana where Lord Kṛṣṇa had so many pastimes. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.47.61) Uddhava says that it is best to live in Vṛndāvana even if one has to live as a plant or creeper. It was in Vṛndāvana that the Supreme Lord lived and it was there that the gopīs worshiped the Supreme Lord, the ultimate goal of all Vedic knowledge.</p>
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<div id="TLC32_4" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="38" link="TLC 32" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 32|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A similar passage is found in the Tenth Canto (10.35.9) where it is stated that all creepers, plants and trees, laden with flowers and fruits, were bent in the ecstasy of love for Kṛṣṇa, for Kṛṣṇa was the Soul of their soul. After Kṛṣṇa left them, those trees and plants became thorny.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<div id="NOD27_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="210" link="NOD 27" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 27|Nectar of Devotion 27]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When a devotee laughs very loudly like a madman, it is done out of an extraordinary agitation of ecstatic love within the heart. Such mad laughing is an expression of the condition of the heart which is technically called aṭṭa-hāsa. When a devotee becomes affected with this mental condition, his love is expressed through the lips. The laughing sounds, coming one after another, are compared to flowers falling from the creeper of devotion which grows within the heart of the devotee. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta devotional service to the Lord is also compared to a creeper which rises up to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa in Goloka Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="NOD28_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="221" link="NOD 28" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 28|Nectar of Devotion 28]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When the gopīs were searching after Kṛṣṇa and all of a sudden He came out from the bushes and creepers, all of them became stunned and almost senseless. In this state the gopīs appeared very beautiful. This is an example of pralaya, or devastation, in happiness.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 44|Nectar of Devotion 44]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The conjugal love of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa is never disturbed by any personal consideration. The undisturbed nature of the conjugal love between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa is described thus: "Just a little distance away from Kṛṣṇa was mother Yaśodā, and Kṛṣṇa was surrounded by all of His friends. In front of His eyes was Candrāvalī, and, at the same time, on a chunk of stone in front of the entrance to Vraja stood the demon known as Vṛṣāsura. But even in such circumstances, when Kṛṣṇa saw Rādhārāṇī standing just behind a bush of many creepers, immediately His beautiful eyebrows moved just like lightning toward Her."</p>
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<div id="NOD44_3" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="289" link="NOD 44" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 44|Nectar of Devotion 44]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As far as māna, or anger, is concerned, there is the following incident described in Gīta-govinda: "When Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī saw Kṛṣṇa enjoying Himself in the company of several other gopīs, She became a little jealous because Her special prestige was being dimmed. Therefore, She immediately left the scene and took shelter in a nice flower bush where the black drones were humming. Then, hiding Herself behind the creepers, She began to express Her sorrow to one of Her consorts." This is an instance of a seeming disagreement.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Instruction" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Instruction"><h3>Nectar of Instruction</h3>
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<div id="NOI1_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Instruction" book="OB" index="2" link="NOI 1" link_text="Nectar of Instruction 1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOI 1|Nectar of Instruction 1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Some persons are attracted to the eating of meat, fish, crabs, eggs and other things produced by semina and blood and eaten in the form of dead bodies. Others are attracted by eating vegetables, creepers, spinach or milk products, but all for the satisfaction of the tongue's demands. Such eating for sense gratification—including the use of extra quantities of spices like chili and tamarind—is to be given up by Kṛṣṇa conscious persons.</p>
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<div id="NOI3_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Instruction" book="OB" index="4" link="NOI 3" link_text="Nectar of Instruction 3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOI 3|Nectar of Instruction 3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"In the course of traversing the universal creation of Brahmā, some fortunate soul may receive the seed of bhakti-latā, the creeper of devotional service. This is all by the grace of guru and Kṛṣṇa." ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.151|CC Madhya 19.151]]) The material world is a place of confinement for the living entities who are by nature ānandamaya, pleasure-seeking. They actually want to be free from the confinement of this world of conditional happiness, but not knowing the process of liberation, they are bound to transmigrate from one species of life to another and from one planet to another. In this way the living entities are wandering throughout the material universe. When by good fortune one comes in contact with a pure devotee and hears from him patiently, one begins to follow the path of devotional service. Such an opportunity is offered to a person who is sincere.</p>
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3>
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<div id="KB5_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="9" link="KB 5" link_text="Krsna Book 5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 5|Krsna Book 5]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Vasudeva continued: "My dear friend, it is very difficult for us to live together. Although we have our family and relatives, sons and daughters, by nature's way we are generally separated from one another. The reason for this is that every living entity appears on this earth under different pressures of fruitive activities; although they assemble together, there is no certainty of their remaining together for a long time. According to one's fruitive activities, one has to act differently and thereby be separated. For example, many plants and creepers are floating on the waves of the ocean. Sometimes they come together, and sometimes they separate forever: one plant goes one way, and another plant goes another. Similarly, our family assembly may be very nice while we are living together, but after some time, in the course of the waves of time, we are separated."</p>
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<div id="KB15_1" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="19" link="KB 15" link_text="Krsna Book 15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 15|Krsna Book 15]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"It is quite natural for these Vṛndāvana inhabitants to thus receive a great personality like You. The herbs, creepers and plants are also so fortunate to touch Your lotus feet. And by Your touching the twigs with Your fingernails, these small plants are also made glorious. As for the hills and the rivers, they too are now glorious because You are glancing at them. Above all, the damsels of Vraja, the gopīs, are the most glorious because You embrace them with Your strong arms, being attracted by their beauty."</p>
<p>In this way, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma began to enjoy the residents of Vṛndāvana to Their full satisfaction as They herded the calves and cows on the bank of the Yamunā. In some places Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma were accompanied by Their friends.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 20|Krsna Book 20]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Plants and creepers grow by drinking water from the ground. Similarly, a person practicing austerities becomes dry, but after the austere performances are completed and he gets the result, he begins to enjoy life in sense gratification with family, society, love, home and other paraphernalia. He becomes jolly, like newly grown plants and grass. Sometimes it is seen that cranes and ducks meander continually on the banks of the lakes and rivers, although the banks are filled with muddy garbage and thorny creepers.</p>
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<div id="KB21_3" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="25" link="KB 21" link_text="Krsna Book 21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 21|Krsna Book 21]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The aborigine girls became fully satisfied when they smeared their faces and breasts with the dust of Vṛndāvana, which was reddish from the touch of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet. The aborigine girls had very full breasts, and they were also very lusty, but when their lovers touched their breasts, the girls were not very much satisfied. When they came out into the midst of the forest, they saw that while Kṛṣṇa was walking some of the leaves and creepers of Vṛndāvana had turned reddish from the kuṅkuma powder which fell from His lotus feet. His lotus feet are held by the gopīs on their breasts, which are smeared with kuṅkuma powder, but when Kṛṣṇa travels in the Vṛndāvana forest with Balarāma and His boyfriends, the reddish powder falls on the ground of the Vṛndāvana forest.</p>
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<div id="KB30_4" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="34" link="KB 30" link_text="Krsna Book 30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 30|Krsna Book 30]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Some of the gopīs then addressed their gopī friends: “Dear friends, why don’t you question these creepers, who are so jubilantly embracing the big trees as if the trees were their husbands? It appears that the flowers of the creepers must have been touched by the nails of Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise, how could they feel so jubilant?”</p>
<p>After searching for Kṛṣṇa here and there, the gopīs became fatigued, and then they began to talk like madwomen.</p>
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<div id="KB47_5" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="51" link="KB 47" link_text="Krsna Book 47">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 47|Krsna Book 47]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The active principle of Kṛṣṇa consciousness will equally manifest itself everywhere; it does not matter how and where one has taken his birth. Kṛṣṇa will bestow His benediction upon anyone who takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, without any doubt.</p>
<p>Uddhava continued: “The supreme benediction attained by the gopīs in spite of their being born in the families of cowherd men was never attained even by the goddess of fortune herself, and certainly not by the denizens of heaven, though the bodily scent of the women there is exactly like the scent of the lotus. The gopīs are so fortunate that during the rāsa-līlā Kṛṣṇa personally embraced them with His arms and kissed them face to face. Certainly it is not possible for any women in the three worlds to achieve this except the gopīs.</p>
<p>"Therefore I wish to take birth as one of the plants or creepers in Vṛndāvana, who are so fortunate that the gopīs trample them. The gopīs have so lovingly served Kṛṣṇa, Mukunda Himself, the giver of liberation, who is searched after by great sages and saintly persons. For His sake they left everything—their families, their children, their friends, their homes and all worldly connections."</p>
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<div id="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Renunciation Through Wisdom"><h3>Renunciation Through Wisdom</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 1.9|Renunciation Through Wisdom 1.9]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.151|CC Madhya 19.151]]), the Lord says,</p>
<p>According to their karma, all living entities are wandering throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down to the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Lord Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Lord Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.</p>
<p>By the mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, this seed of devotion is available in the Bhagavad-gītā. Only one who is able to receive this devotional seed can understand the purport of the Bhagavad-gītā. Otherwise, simply repeatedly reading the Bhagavad-gītā and discussing its teachings will not produce any results.</p>
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<div id="Light_of_the_Bhagavata" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Light of the Bhagavata"><h3>Light of the Bhagavata</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:LOB 18|Light of the Bhagavata 18, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">18. Many plants and creepers that were almost dead during the months of April and May are now visible again in various forms, for they are nourished by their roots in the moist earth. These numberless plants and creepers resemble persons who dry up in severe penances for some material gain but then achieve their objectives and become luxuriously fat, nourished by sense enjoyment.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>In Bhagavad-gītā it is said that when the daytime of Brahmā is over, the manifested creations of the universe all vanish, and after the end of Brahmā's night the creation is manifested again. Thus the cosmic creation, in its manifestation and nonmanifestation, resembles the creepers and plants that appear during the rainy season and gradually vanish when the season is over.</p>
<p>Even when the plants and creepers are no longer to be seen, their seeds remain, and these dormant seeds fructify in contact with water.</p>
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Extremely (Other Books)

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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 5|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 5]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear Uddhava, neither philosophical speculation nor meditational yoga nor penances can give Me such pleasure as devotional service practiced by the living entities. I am dear only to My devotees, and I can be achieved only by devotional service. Even an extremely lowborn person will become free from all contamination if he takes to My devotional service." Devotional service is the only path by which one can achieve the Supreme Person.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 21|Nectar of Devotion 21]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, after consulting various scriptures, has enumerated the transcendental qualities of the Lord as follows: (1) beautiful features of the entire body; (2) marked with all auspicious characteristics; (3) extremely pleasing; (4) effulgent; (5) strong; (6) ever youthful; (7) wonderful linguist; (8) truthful; (9) talks pleasingly; (10) fluent; (11) highly learned; (12) highly intelligent; (13) a genius; (14) artistic; (15) extremely clever; (16) expert; (17) grateful; (18) firmly determined; (19) an expert judge of time and circumstances; (20) sees and speaks on the authority of Vedas, or scriptures; (21) pure; (22) self-controlled; (23) steadfast; (24) forbearing; (25) forgiving; (26) grave; (27) self-satisfied; (28) possessing equilibrium; (29) magnanimous; (30) religious; (31) heroic; (32) compassionate; (33) respectful; (34) gentle; (35) liberal; (36) shy; (37) the protector of surrendered souls; (38) happy; (39) the well-wisher of devotees; (40) controlled by love; (41) all-auspicious; (42) most powerful; (43) all-famous; (44) popular; (45) partial to devotees; (46) very attractive to all women; (47) all-worshipable; (48) all-opulent; (49) all-honorable; (50) the supreme controller. The Supreme Personality of Godhead has all these fifty transcendental qualities in fullness as deep as the ocean. In other words, the extent of His qualities is inconceivable.</p>
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<div id="NOD49_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="300" link="NOD 49" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 49|Nectar of Devotion 49]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is an example of a mixture of several humors with devotional service as follows. When Kṛṣṇa was holding up Govardhana Hill with His left hand, His hair became scattered all over His shoulders, and He appeared to be perspiring. When mother Yaśodā saw this scene, she began to tremble. Then, as she stared at the scene with broadened eyes, she saw Kṛṣṇa begin to exhibit varieties of facial caricatures. Mother Yaśodā then became very happy and began to smile. Then again, when she thought that Kṛṣṇa was holding up the hill for such an extremely long time, her clothes became soaked with perspiration. May mother Yaśodā Vrajeśvarī protect the whole universe by her infinite mercy! In this example, the whole is parental love, and the parts are dread, wonder, laughter, compassion, etc.</p>
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3>
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<div id="KB6_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="10" link="KB 6" link_text="Krsna Book 6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 6|Krsna Book 6]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa simultaneously sucked the milk from her breast and killed her by sucking out her life. Kṛṣṇa is so merciful that because the demon Pūtanā came to offer her breast milk to Him, He fulfilled her desire and accepted her activity as motherly. But to stop her from further nefarious activities, He immediately killed her. And because the demon was killed by Kṛṣṇa, she got liberation. As Kṛṣṇa pressed her breast extremely hard and sucked out her very breath, Pūtanā fell down on the ground, spread her arms and legs and began to cry, "Oh, child, leave me, leave me!" She was crying loudly and perspiring, and her whole body became wet.</p>
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<div id="KB51_1" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="55" link="KB 51" link_text="Krsna Book 51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 51|Krsna Book 51]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa appeared more beautiful than a human can conceive. Not only did He appear in this feature, but He glanced over Mucukunda with great affection, attracting the King's mind. Although He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the oldest of all, He looked like a fresh young boy, and His movements were just like those of a free deer. Still, He appeared extremely powerful; His influence and vast power are so great that every human being should be afraid of Him.</p>
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<div id="KB54_2" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="58" link="KB 54" link_text="Krsna Book 54">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 54|Krsna Book 54]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The story of Rukmiṇī’s being kidnapped by Kṛṣṇa was poeticized, and professional readers recited it everywhere. All the assembled kings and their daughters especially were struck with wonder and very much pleased upon hearing the chivalrous activities of Kṛṣṇa. In this way, all the visitors as well as the inhabitants of Dvārakā City were joyful to see Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī together. In other words, the goddess of fortune was now united with the Supreme Lord, the maintainer of everyone, and thus all the people felt extremely jubilant.</p>
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<div id="KB60_3" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="64" link="KB 60" link_text="Krsna Book 60">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 60|Krsna Book 60]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rukmiṇī was conscious that her husband was not an ordinary human being. He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of the three worlds. By the way He was speaking, she was afraid of being separated from the Lord, for she had never heard such harsh words from Kṛṣṇa before. Thus she became perplexed with fear of separation, and her heart began to palpitate. Without replying to a word of Kṛṣṇa's statement, she simply cried in great anxiety, as if drowning in an ocean of grief. She silently scratched the floor with her toenails, which reflected reddish light on the floor. The tears from her eyes mixed with the black cosmetic ointment from her eyelids and dropped down, washing the kuṅkuma and saffron from her breasts. Choked up on account of great anxiety, unable to speak even a word, she kept her head downward and remained standing just like a stick. Due to extremely painful fear and lamentation, she lost all her powers of reason and became weak, her body losing so much weight that the bangles on her wrists became slack. The cāmara with which she was serving Kṛṣṇa immediately fell from her hand. Her brain and memory became puzzled, and she lost consciousness. The nicely combed hair on her head scattered here and there, and she fell down straight, like a banana tree cut down by a whirlwind.</p>
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<div id="KB77_4" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="81" link="KB 77" link_text="Krsna Book 77">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 77|Krsna Book 77]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śālva was killed, all his soldiers and followers cried, "Alas! Alas!" While Śālva's men were thus crying, the demigods from the heavenly planets showered flowers on Kṛṣṇa and announced the victory by beating drums and blowing bugles. At that very moment, other friends of Śiśupāla, such as Dantavakra, appeared on the scene to fight with Kṛṣṇa and avenge the death of Śiśupāla and others. When Dantavakra appeared before Lord Kṛṣṇa, he was extremely angry.</p>
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<div id="KB80_5" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="84" link="KB 80" link_text="Krsna Book 80">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 80|Krsna Book 80]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regardless of which stage one is in, when I see that one is engaged seriously and sincerely in discharging the duties ordered by the spiritual master and is thus dedicating his life to the service of the spiritual master, that person becomes most dear to Me. As far as the life of brahmacarya is concerned, if one can continue the life of a brahmacārī under the direction of a spiritual master, that is extremely good; but if in brahmacārī life one feels sex impulses, he should take leave of his spiritual master, satisfying him according to the guru's desire.</p>
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<div id="KB81_6" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="85" link="KB 81" link_text="Krsna Book 81">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 81|Krsna Book 81]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When the brāhmaṇa saw his position suddenly changed to one of opulence, and when he could not determine the cause for such a sudden change, he began to consider very gravely how it had happened.</p>
<p>He thus began to think, “From the beginning of my life I have been extremely poverty-stricken, so what could be the cause of such great and sudden opulence? I do not find any cause other than the all-merciful glance of my friend Lord Kṛṣṇa, the chief of the Yadu dynasty. Certainly these are gifts of Lord Kṛṣṇa's causeless mercy.</p>
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<div id="KB87_7" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="91" link="KB 87" link_text="Krsna Book 87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 87|Krsna Book 87]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The conclusion is that any process of self-realization or God realization other than bhakti-yoga, or devotional service, is extremely difficult. Taking shelter of devotional service to the Lord in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness is therefore the only way to become free from the contamination of material, conditioned life, especially in this age. Those who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness are simply wasting their time, and they have no tangible proof of spiritual life.</p>
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<div id="KB89_8" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="93" link="KB 89" link_text="Krsna Book 89">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 89|Krsna Book 89]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are actually eager to be liberated from material entanglement would do well to accept at once the conclusion given by Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī. In the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is spoken by Śukadeva Gosvāmī, it is said that hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is extremely conducive to liberation.</p>
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<div id="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Renunciation Through Wisdom"><h3>Renunciation Through Wisdom</h3>
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<div id="RTW14_0" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="6" link="RTW 1.4" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 1.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 1.4|Renunciation Through Wisdom 1.4]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is extremely degraded and sinful cannot find the accurate path to realization by studying the Vedas. It is a waste of time even to explain the meaning of the Vedas to such persons, who are devoid of proper up-bringing and discipline. Lord Caitanya has indeed showered His mercy upon these Kali-yuga people.</p>
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<div id="RTW51_1" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="39" link="RTW 5.1" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 5.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The pure devotees of the Lord are all embodiments of perfection in yoga; thus the four Vedic goals are truly at their beck and call. And beyond these four goals is the supreme destination: superconsciousness, or God consciousness. This is the fifth and paramount Vedic goal. One who has reached the state of unalloyed Kṛṣṇa consciousness is an extremely rare personality—one in a million devotees, according Lord Caitanya.</p>
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<div id="RTW51_2" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="39" link="RTW 5.1" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 5.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Certainly there are other methods for spiritual advancement, such as rāja-yoga, by which one can become equipoised, or difficult prāṇāyāma exercises, severe austerities, and renunciation, and these practices are very powerful. But when the Lord's divine potency acts, they all seem extremely ineffectual compared to the process of surrender, which invokes that potency. All these other methods, though very potent, are human endeavors. So how can they compare with the Supreme Lord's divine potency? With this divine potency the Lord blesses particular persons in particular circumstances.</p>
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<div id="RTW51_3" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="39" link="RTW 5.1" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 5.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 5.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya taught and exhibited ideal brahminical behaviour. He propounded irrefutable arguments that destroyed materialistic views. Furthermore, his erudition, realization, and renunciation were of an extremely high caliber. Yet when his so-called followers dilute and mutilate his philosophy, we are moved simultaneously to tears and laughter.</p>
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<div id="Message_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Message of Godhead"><h3>Message of Godhead</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:MOG 2|Message of Godhead 2]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The people in general are extremely busy in the affairs of the material body and mind. Those who are in the lowest stage of such mundane activities very rarely can understand the activities of the spiritual plane. These people are generally baffled because their various acts of sin and virtue are directed merely toward ameliorating the distress and enhancing the happiness of the temporary body and mind by behavior like eating, sleeping, defending, and gratifying the senses.</p>
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<div id="Light_of_the_Bhagavata" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Light of the Bhagavata"><h3>Light of the Bhagavata</h3>
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<div id="LOBPreface_0" class="quote" parent="Light_of_the_Bhagavata" book="OB" index="1" link="LOB Preface" link_text="Light of the Bhagavata Preface">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:LOB Preface|Light of the Bhagavata Preface]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Prabhupāda considered deeply how he could best present the timeless teachings of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam suitable to the Oriental people. The original Bhāgavatam was written over five thousand years ago as an extremely large book composed of eighteen thousand verses. Participants to the conference would not have the time to hear it all. He therefore chose one chapter from the original version for presentation.</p>
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<div id="LOB39_1" class="quote" parent="Light_of_the_Bhagavata" book="OB" index="40" link="LOB 39" link_text="Light of the Bhagavata 39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:LOB 39|Light of the Bhagavata 39, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the autumn there is a gulf of difference between the day and the night. During the day the extreme heat of the sun is unbearable, but at night the moonlight is extremely soothing and refreshing. Similarly, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is soothing for both the gopīs and the mundane man in illusion, who accepts the body as the soul.</p>
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