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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="LettertoJaduraniLosAngeles15February1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="60" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 15 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 15 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 15 February, 1968|Letter to Jadurani -- Los Angeles 15 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The demons could assume any gigantic shape they liked. They can play jugglery; they are not ordinary human beings.</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="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles21June1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="369" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A Spiritual Master is always liberated. In any condition of His life He should not be mistaken as ordinary human being.</p>
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<div id="LettertoEkayaniLosAngeles25July1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="447" link="Letter to Ekayani -- Los Angeles 25 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Ekayani -- Los Angeles 25 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ekayani -- Los Angeles 25 July, 1970|Letter to Ekayani -- Los Angeles 25 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is a difference between the activities of Krsna which are exhibited to the perception of the conditioned souls in this world and His activities in Goloka Vrndavana. Because Krsna was playing as an ordinary human being, His activities here appear just like ordinary human activities, but in the Spiritual Sky there is no such requirement.</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="LettertoSatsvarupaCalcutta9February1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="51" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Calcutta 9 February, 1971" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Calcutta 9 February, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Calcutta 9 February, 1971|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Calcutta 9 February, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Chapter IX, The Most Confidential Knowledge, in the purport of the 34th verse you will read "Krishna is not an ordinary human being; He is the Absolute Truth, His Body, Mind and He Himself are One and Absolute". Immediately therefore you can add the following: In the Kurma Purana, as it is quoted by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami in his Anubhasya comments of Caitanya Caritamrta, 5th chapter Ādi lila, verses 41-48, "deha dehi bibhedo 'yang nesvare vidyate kvacit" which means that there is no difference in Krishna, the Supreme Lord, between Himself and His body.</p>
<p>This evidence is given here to show that there is no distinction between Krishna's body and Himself since such commentators as Dr. Radhakrishnan make such distinction.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYogesvaraBombay12June1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="244" link="Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 12 June, 1971" link_text="Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 12 June, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 12 June, 1971|Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 12 June, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya, although Krishna Himself, appealed to His friends and helpers to help Him in His mission and what to speak of me; I am just an ordinary human being. So I need your help.</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="LettertoHamsadutaVrindaban12September1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="400" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 12 September, 1974" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 12 September, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 12 September, 1974|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Vrindaban 12 September, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who considers the arca murti or worshipable Deity of Lord Visnu to be stone, the spiritual master to be an ordinary human being, and a Vaisnava to belong to a particular caste or creed, is possessed of hellish intelligence."</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="LettertoSriKRaghupatiRaoCalcutta13January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="39" link="Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976|Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You say that there is some contradiction in the Bhagavad-gita, that is your defective understanding. The direct meaning of the 15th Chapter 7th verse is that every living entity is the eternal part and parcel of Krishna. How can you think of contradiction in the Bhagavad-gita? Krishna is not an ordinary human being. How can you think that Krishna is contradicting Himself in His own statements? It is your concoction. The jiva is jivatma and Krishna is paramatma. Where is the contradiction? Why do you manufacture "iva"? That is the defect of Mayavadi philosophy. They concoct ideas.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrChittaranjanMohapatraMayapur21March1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="197" link="Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976" link_text="Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976|Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not think that Krishna is an ordinary man. If you think like that then you do not know anything about Krishna. Avajananti man mudha manusim tanum asritah . . . ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). "Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be." All the mudhas or rascals consider Krishna to be an ordinary man, but He is not ordinary, He is the Supreme Being. Where do you get this information that Krishna is an ordinary man like us? In no Vedic Literature is it said that Krishna is an ordinary human being. In the Brahma-Samhita it is said: Isvara Parama Krishna . . . He is described as the Supreme Being.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrChittaranjanMohapatraMayapur21March1976_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="197" link="Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976" link_text="Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976|Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I do not know on what authority you can say that Krishna is an ordinary human being like you or me?</p>
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