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<div id="LettertoMarkandeyaRsiBombay1May1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="169" link="Letter to Markandeya Rsi -- Bombay 1 May, 1974" link_text="Letter to Markandeya Rsi -- Bombay 1 May, 1974">
<div class="heading">You have asked what is the origin of the black race. This is not an important question. Why should you be curious about the temporary body.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Markandeya Rsi -- Bombay 1 May, 1974|Letter to Markandeya Rsi -- Bombay 1 May, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have asked what is the origin of the black race. This is not an important question. Why should you be curious about the temporary body. If I am very interested in knowing about my clothing that I am wearing only temporarily it is not a very important thing. We have had many bodies which we change like sets of clothes; to be very absorbed in the present body one has, whether it is black or white or yellow is not the sign of a wise person or Krsna Conscious devotee. As to whether the personality of Kali was black, (African) may not have been so. After all, Krsna is black also, although His body, is different, He is sat cit ananda. So our inquiries should be on the point of Krsna not in references to the so called race or religion or nationality of this temporary miserable body.</p>
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