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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 7 - 12"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3>
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<div id="BG106_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="97" link="BG 10.6" link_text="BG 10.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.6 (1972)|BG 10.6, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The seven great sages and before them the four other great sages and the Manus (progenitors of mankind) come from Me, born from My mind, and all the living beings populating the various planets descend from them.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The Lord is giving a genealogical synopsis of the universal population. Brahmā is the original creature born out of the energy of the Supreme Lord, who is known as Hiraṇyagarbha. And from Brahmā all the seven great sages, and before them four other great sages, named Sanaka, Sananda, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra, and the fourteen Manus, are manifested. All these twenty-five great sages are known as the patriarchs of the living entities all over the universe. There are innumerable universes and innumerable planets within each universe, and each planet is full of population of different varieties. All of them are born of these twenty-five patriarchs. Brahmā underwent penance for one thousand years of the demigods before he realized by the grace of Kṛṣṇa how to create. Then from Brahmā came Sanaka, Sananda, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra, then Rudra, and then the seven sages, and in this way all the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas are born out of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Brahmā is known as Pitāmaha, the grandfather, and Kṛṣṇa is known as Prapitāmaha, the father of the grandfather. That is stated in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā (11.39).</p>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 13 - 18"><h3>BG Chapters 13 - 18</h3>
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<div id="BG181_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="117" link="BG 18.1" link_text="BG 18.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.1 (1972)|BG 18.1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As in the Second Chapter a synopsis of the whole subject matter was described, in the Eighteenth Chapter also the summary of all instruction is given. The purpose of life is indicated to be renunciation and attainment of the transcendental position above the three material modes of nature. Arjuna wants to clarify the two distinct subject matters of Bhagavad-gītā, namely renunciation (tyāga) and the renounced order of life (sannyāsa). Thus he is asking the meaning of these two words.</p>
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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_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Preface and Introduction"><h3>SB Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="SBIntroduction_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Preface_and_Introduction" book="SB" index="1" link="SB Introduction" link_text="SB Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB Introduction|SB Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">At Vṛndāvana the Lord took bath in twenty-four important bathing places and ghāṭas. He traveled to all the twelve important vanas (forests). In these forests all the cows and birds welcomed Him, as if He were their very old friend. The Lord also began to embrace all the trees of those forests, and by doing so He felt the symptoms of transcendental ecstasy. Sometimes He fell unconscious, but He was made to regain consciousness by the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. The transcendental symptoms that were visible on the body of the Lord during His travel within the forest of Vṛndāvana were all unique and inexplicable, and we have just given a synopsis only.</p>
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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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<div id="SB1520_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="151" link="SB 1.5.20" link_text="SB 1.5.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.5.20|SB 1.5.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is Himself this cosmos, and still He is aloof from it. From Him only has this cosmic manifestation emanated, in Him it rests, and unto Him it enters after annihilation. Your good self knows all about this. I have given only a synopsis.</p>
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<div id="SB178_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="217" link="SB 1.7.8" link_text="SB 1.7.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.7.8|SB 1.7.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a liberated soul from the very beginning of his birth, and his father taught him Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Amongst mundane scholars, there is some diversity of opinion as to the date of compilation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It is, however, certain from the text of the Bhāgavatam that it was compiled before the disappearance of King Parīkṣit and after the departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa. When Mahārāja Parīkṣit was ruling the world as the King of Bhārata-varṣa, he chastised the personality of Kali. According to revealed scriptures and astrological calculation, the age of Kali is in its five thousandth year. Therefore, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was compiled not less than five thousand years ago. Mahābhārata was compiled before Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and the Purāṇas were compiled before Mahābhārata. That is an estimation of the date of compilation of the different Vedic literatures. The synopsis of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was given before the detailed description under instruction of Nārada. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the science for following the path of nivṛtti-mārga. The path of pravṛtti-mārga was condemned by Nārada. That path is the natural inclination for all conditioned souls. The theme of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the cure of the materialistic disease of the human being, or stopping completely the pangs of material existence.</p>
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<div id="SB1711_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="220" link="SB 1.7.11" link_text="SB 1.7.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.7.11|SB 1.7.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a liberated soul even within the womb of his mother. Śrīla Vyāsadeva knew that the child, after his birth, would not stay at home. Therefore he (Vyāsadeva) impressed upon him the synopsis of the Bhāgavatam so that the child could be made attached to the transcendental activities of the Lord. After his birth, the child was still more educated in the subject of the Bhāgavatam by recitation of the actual poems.</p>
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<div id="SB11712_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="659" link="SB 1.17.12" link_text="SB 1.17.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.17.12|SB 1.17.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The kings or the executive heads of all states must know the codes of Lord Kṛṣṇa (generally Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam) and must act accordingly in order to fulfill the mission of human life, which is to make an end to all miseries of material conditions. One who knows the codes of Lord Kṛṣṇa can achieve this end without any difficulty. In the Bhagavad-gītā, in a synopsis, we can understand the codes of Godhead, and in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the same codes are explained further.</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="CCAdi137_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1579" link="CC Adi 13.7" link_text="CC Adi 13.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.7|CC Adi 13.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">First let me give a synopsis of the Lord's pastimes. Then I shall describe them in detail.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1351_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1623" link="CC Adi 13.51" link_text="CC Adi 13.51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.51|CC Adi 13.51, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear devotees of Lord Caitanya, let me now write a synopsis of the ādi-līlā; I write of these pastimes in brief because it is not possible to describe them in full.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi144_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1699" link="CC Adi 14.4" link_text="CC Adi 14.4">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 14.4|CC Adi 14.4, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have already briefly spoken about the pastimes of His birth in chronological order. Now I shall give a synopsis of His childhood pastimes.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1495_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1790" link="CC Adi 14.95" link_text="CC Adi 14.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 14.95|CC Adi 14.95, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a synopsis of the childhood pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, placed herewith in chronological order. Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has already elaborately explained these pastimes in his book Caitanya-bhāgavata.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi15Summary_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1793" link="CC Adi 15 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 15 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15 Summary|CC Adi 15 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A synopsis of the Fifteenth Chapter is as follows. The Lord took lessons in grammar from Gaṅgādāsa Paṇḍita and became very expert in commenting upon grammar. He forbade His mother to take grains on the Ekādaśī day. He narrated a story that Viśvarūpa, after accepting the sannyāsa order, invited Him in a dream to accept sannyāsa also, but the Lord refused and was therefore sent back home. When Jagannātha Miśra passed away, the Lord married the daughter of Vallabhācārya, whose name was Lakṣmī. All these events are summarized in this chapter.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi173_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1943" link="CC Adi 17.3" link_text="CC Adi 17.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.3|CC Adi 17.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have already given a synopsis of the kaiśora-līlā of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Now let me enumerate His youthful pastimes in chronological order.</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="CCMadhya18_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="9" link="CC Madhya 1.8" link_text="CC Madhya 1.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.8|CC Madhya 1.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have previously described in synopsis the ādi-līlā (initial pastimes), which have already been fully described by Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="10" link="CC Madhya 1.9" link_text="CC Madhya 1.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.9|CC Madhya 1.9, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have therefore given only a synopsis of those incidents, and whatever specifics were to be related have already been given in that synopsis.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya110_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="11" link="CC Madhya 1.10" link_text="CC Madhya 1.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.10|CC Madhya 1.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">To describe the unlimited pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is not possible, but I now wish to relate the chief incidents and give a synopsis of those pastimes occurring at the end.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11112_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="12" link="CC Madhya 1.11-12" link_text="CC Madhya 1.11-12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.11-12|CC Madhya 1.11-12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I shall describe only in synopsis that portion which Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has described very elaborately in his book Caitanya-maṅgala. Whatever incidents are outstanding, however, I shall later elaborate.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya190_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="89" link="CC Madhya 1.90" link_text="CC Madhya 1.90">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.90|CC Madhya 1.90, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Just to indicate those pastimes, I am presenting a general survey of the chief pastimes in the form of a synopsis.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya191_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="90" link="CC Madhya 1.91" link_text="CC Madhya 1.91">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.91|CC Madhya 1.91, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the first synopsis: After accepting the sannyāsa order, Caitanya Mahāprabhu proceeded toward Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1248_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="247" link="CC Madhya 1.248" link_text="CC Madhya 1.248">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.248|CC Madhya 1.248, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus I have given a synopsis of the madhya-līlā, the middle pastimes of the Lord. Now, O devotees, kindly hear the synopsis of the final pastimes of the Lord, known as the antya-līlā.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1286_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="284" link="CC Madhya 1.286" link_text="CC Madhya 1.286">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.286|CC Madhya 1.286, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have thus given a synopsis of the madhya-līlā. Now please hear the pastimes the Lord performed during the last twelve years.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1286_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="284" link="CC Madhya 1.286" link_text="CC Madhya 1.286">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.286|CC Madhya 1.286, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī, strictly following in the footsteps of Śrī Vyāsadeva, gives a synopsis of the līlās of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. He has given such a description at the end of each canto. In the Ādi-līlā he outlined the pastimes of the Lord in the five stages of boyhood, leaving the details of the description to Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura. Now in this chapter the pastimes that took place at the end of the Lord's life are summarized. These are described in the Madhya-līlā and Antya-līlā. The rest of the pastimes have been described in a synopsis in the Second Chapter of the Madhya-līlā. In this way the author has gradually described both the madhya-līlā and the antya-līlā.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2Summary_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="286" link="CC Madhya 2 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 2 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2 Summary|CC Madhya 2 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Second Chapter of the Madhya-līlā, the author describes the pastimes the Lord performed during the last twelve years of His life. Thus he has also described some of the pastimes of the antya-līlā. Why he has done so is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand. The author expects that reading the pastimes of the Lord will gradually help a person awaken his dormant love of Kṛṣṇa. Actually this Caitanya-caritāmṛta was compiled by the author during very old age. Fearing he might not be able to finish the book, he has included a synopsis of the antya-līlā here in the Second Chapter. Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī has confirmed that the opinion of Svarūpa Dāmodara is authoritative in the matter of devotional service. Over and above this are the notes of Svarūpa Dāmodara, memorized by Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who also helped in the compilation of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. After the disappearance of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī went to Vṛndāvana. At that time the author, Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī, met Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, by whose mercy he also could memorize all the notes. In this way the author was able to complete this transcendental literature, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya21_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="287" link="CC Madhya 2.1" link_text="CC Madhya 2.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.1|CC Madhya 2.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While relating in synopsis form the last division of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in this chapter I shall describe the Lord's transcendental ecstasy, which appears like madness due to His separation from Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya289_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="375" link="CC Madhya 2.89" link_text="CC Madhya 2.89">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.89|CC Madhya 2.89, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I have already given a synopsis of all the facts and figures of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's last pastimes, and I have a desire to describe them elaborately. If I remain longer and am fortunate enough to receive the mercy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, I shall try to describe them again more elaborately.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya47_12" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="604" link="CC Madhya 4.7" link_text="CC Madhya 4.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.7|CC Madhya 4.7, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I am therefore presenting only a synopsis of those events already described elaborately by Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura in his Caitanya-maṅgala (now known as Caitanya-bhāgavata).</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya16214215_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3705" link="CC Madhya 16.214-215" link_text="CC Madhya 16.214-215">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.214-215|CC Madhya 16.214-215, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Those narrations tell how Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu met the brothers Rūpa and Sanātana and how Nṛsiṁhānanda decorated the road. I have already described these in an earlier synopsis of this book; therefore I will not repeat the narrations here.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19136_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4375" link="CC Madhya 19.136" link_text="CC Madhya 19.136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.136|CC Madhya 19.136, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “My dear Rūpa, please listen to Me. It is not possible to describe devotional service completely; therefore I am just trying to give you a synopsis of the symptoms of devotional service.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24Summary_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5316" link="CC Madhya 24 Summary" link_text="CC Madhya 24 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24 Summary|CC Madhya 24 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The following summary of this chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. According to Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī’s request, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the well-known Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam verse beginning ātmārāmāś ca munayaḥ. He explained this verse in sixty-one different ways. He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations. Adding the words ca and api, He described all the different meanings of the verse. He then concluded that different classes of transcendentalists (jñānīs, karmīs, yogīs) utilize this verse according to their own interpretation, but if they would give up this process and surrender to Kṛṣṇa, as indicated by the verse itself, they would be able to comprehend the real meaning of the verse. In this regard, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu narrated a story about how the great sage Nārada converted a hunter into a great Vaiṣṇava, and how this was appreciated by Nārada's friend Parvata Muni. Sanātana Gosvāmī then offered a prayer to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explained the glory of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. After this, the Lord gave Sanātana Gosvāmī a synopsis of Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, which Sanātana Gosvāmī later developed into the guiding principle of all Vaiṣṇavas.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24329_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5645" link="CC Madhya 24.329" link_text="CC Madhya 24.329">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.329|CC Madhya 24.329, Translation]]: </span><div class="trans text">“Because you asked Me for a synopsis, please hear these few indications. In the beginning describe how one must take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master."
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<div id="CCMadhya24345_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5661" link="CC Madhya 24.345" link_text="CC Madhya 24.345">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.345|CC Madhya 24.345, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"I have thus given a synopsis of the Vaiṣṇava regulative principles. I have given this in brief just to give you a little direction. When you write on this subject, Kṛṣṇa will help you by spiritually awakening you."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25243_18" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5914" link="CC Madhya 25.243" link_text="CC Madhya 25.243">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.243|CC Madhya 25.243, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the First Chapter I have given a synopsis of the last pastimes (antya-līlā). Within this chapter is a vivid description of some of the pastimes of the Lord that took place toward the end of His life.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya112_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="12" link="CC Antya 1.12" link_text="CC Antya 1.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.12|CC Antya 1.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In accordance with the synopsis previously written, I shall describe in detail whatever I have not mentioned.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.84|CC Antya 20.84, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">What I have described was left aside by Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, but although he could not describe these pastimes, he gave us a synopsis.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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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="RTW51_0" 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;">Śrī Nārada instructed Śrīla Vyāsadeva with the following words:</p>
:idaṁ hi viśvaṁ bhagavān ivetaro
:yato jagat-sthāna-nirodha-sambhavāḥ
:tad dhi svayaṁ veda bhavāṁs tathāpi te
:prādeśa-mātraṁ bhavataḥ pradarśitam
<p>The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Himself this cosmos, and still He is aloof from it. From Him only has this cosmic manifestation emanated, in Him it rests, and unto Him it enters after annihilation. Your good self knows all about this. I have given only a synopsis.</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="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="LectureonBG25155NewYorkApril121966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="109" link="Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966|Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now, this... Now we are speaking the synopsis; the Bhagavad-gītā, this Second Chapter is the synopsis, what will be elaborately explained. Not very elaborately, but still more clearly, it will be explained in later chapters. Now Bhagavad-gītā is the preliminary study of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Just like introductory, introductory study. Now, how we can practically get into such activities which will not bound me, I mean to say, in a reaction? That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that,</p>
:sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
:yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
:ahaituky apratihatā
:yayātmā suprasīdati
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.6|SB 1.2.6]])
<p>Ātmā suprasīdati. Ātmā means self. Our present position is that we are not happy. We are always full of anxieties. That is our present position. Now, here just the opposite word is used that yayā ātmā suprasīdati. If you want to actually, if you want actually to make yourself jolly, full of happiness, then you should search out your occupation in such a way that it will lead you to the devotional service of the Supreme Lord.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG25155NewYorkApril121966_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="109" link="Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966|Lecture on BG 2.51-55 -- New York, April 12, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this is a great science, what Kṛṣṇa is—Kṛṣṇa science. It is simply a synopsis; Bhagavad-gītā is only a synopsis of the science of God, and it is more explicitly given in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavata. But after all, it is a great science. If we study it very seriously, then we can understand... We should not take so cheaply that "Here is a God, here is a God, here is a God." No, no. God is not so cheap. God is one, and He is great. "God is great," as in your English language it is said, and nobody can be greater than Him or equal to Him. That is the position of God. Now here, Arjuna, he accepts Kṛṣṇa and he says that "You are Paraṁ Brahman." Paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma ([[Vanisource:BG 10.12-13 (1972)|BG 10.12]]). Dhāma means in which everything rests. We are resting, everything is resting. Just like... This is scientific and practical, you know, that the innumerable planets that the, that you can see at night as, I mean to say, luminaries, stars in the sky, each and every one of them, more or less, they are all different kinds of planets. But do you know how they are floating in the space? They are floating on the sunshine, on the sun rays. They are floating. That you can see. Similarly, the sunshine is the imitation of the brahmajyoti that is coming out of the body of the Supreme Lord. So everything is resting on the shine of the Supreme Lord.</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="LectureonSB7123BombayApril141976_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="863" link="Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So especially in this age Bhagavad-gītā is essence of Vedic literatures, and it is based on the Vedānta-sūtra. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, hetumadbhir viniścita. Brahma-sūtra padaiś caiva hetumadbhir viniścita. This Bhagavad-gītā is based on Brahma-sūtra. Brahma-sūtra means Vedānta-sūtra. Vedānta-sūtra is very important. It is the summary of Vedic study, sūtra. The janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]), this is a sūtra, a synopsis. And you can explain very nicely from the Vedas. So there are small sūtras, aphorism. From that aphorism you can expand. The Vedānta is the summary of all the Vedic literatures, anta, the supplement of the Vedic literatures. And Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the explanation of Vedānta-sūtra. Bhāṣyāyāṁ brahma-sutrāṇām. In every chapter of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam you'll find brahma-sūtra-bhāṣya: "This is real commentary on the Brahma-sūtra." So one should read daily at least one, two hours. That is human life. They are going to the libraries for reading newspaper and nonsense literature, but they will not come to hear Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the essence of Vedic literature. Nigama-kalpa-taror galitaṁ phalaṁ idam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.3|SB 1.1.3]]). It is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, nigama. Nigama means Vedas. Agama, nigama. So nigama-kalpa-taru. Vedas just like desire tree. Whatever knowledge you want to get, there is perfectly there, without any mistake, without any illusion, without any cheating. All other literatures, man-made literatures, you will find these things: cheating, imperfectness, mistake, and illusion. In the Vedic literature you won't find these four defects. Therefore, according to Vedic civilization, if you give evidence from the Vedic literature, it is to be accepted. No more argument. Anything which is accepted in the Vedas, vedavatā, there is no more argument. This is Indian civilization. All our literatures you'll find, therefore, full of quotation from Vedic literature to prove it. That is the actual. It is not imaginary.</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="1967_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1967 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1967 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="DiscourseonLordCaitanyaPlayBetweenSrilaPrabhupadaandHayagrivaApril561967SanFrancisco_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="1" link="Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play Between Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva -- April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco" link_text="Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play Between Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva -- April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play Between Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva -- April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco|Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play Between Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva -- April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Every day. Especially at night. (Hayagrīva laughs) Simply... The whole program was the whole day He would see the visitors. And so many visitors were coming. In the evening He'll chant and dance in the temple. And at night instead of sleeping He was doing all these... Sometimes falling in the sea, sometimes here, sometimes there. That was His business.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: I see. Now this third scene.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Third scene. In the same way, one day when He was 48 years old He entered the Jagannātha temple...</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: And disappeared.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Disappeared. His friends outside waited and waited, and He never come back. That's all.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: They never knew what happened to Him. They never found...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, they knew that He was Kṛṣṇa. He has merged into the existence of Jagannātha.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: He left. Took off. All right. Now no more. That's the end.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now you write and I shall make some addition or alteration when you write. This is the synopsis and framework. Now you can proceed.</p>
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<div id="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1969 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MeetingwithDevoteesJune91969NewVrindaban_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="17" link="Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban" link_text="Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban|Meeting with Devotees -- June 9, 1969, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: Well, I think that until things are set in motion here... I don't know. Actually he does most of the supervision here, and things aren't in motion. I'm at a loss. I don't like to get people down and get them to do their job.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. That's all right. In the meantime, you prepare the literature. You give me the literature. I'll get it printed somehow or other. You give me the synopsis. Both you consult, make a literature. And as soon as the literature is prepared, you will be out with that. And we have got so many centers. There is no difficulty of staying. He can stay in some center and go and see the important men there. He is educated. He is learned. He has known our philosophy. He can convince people. He can arrange a big meeting of respectable men. They must know what we are doing, the importance of this movement. And your people, your government, is anxious to have something tangible because there are already frustration in so many departments, in so many factions. So this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, will, I mean to say, smooth everything, pave everything. So they must know. And our process is very simple. We can introduce this process even in factories, even in anywhere, and we make peaceful everything. That is a fact. School, college, university, factory, everywhere. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12]]). It is cleansing process. Everything is dirty. So we want to cleanse and make people peaceful and happy. That is our mission.</p>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril291973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="18" link="Morning Walk -- April 29, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 29, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 29, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- April 29, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Syn, synopsis. Synopsis. Just like in business there are codes, Bentley's codes. So to minimize the expenditure of telegraph, you give one word. From the other side, they will understand. There is code book. This code means that "Receive your letter. The quotation is supplied, that, that...," so many things, one code. You know that? Business codes. There are some stock words. That stock words is simply by two, one word, the whole stock word comes. Sūtra means that. Just like a, just like you missing something, as soon as you get one little code, you immediately remember: "Yes, yes, everything is there." That is called code, sūtra. Sūtra means thread.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationWithDavidLawrenceJuly121973London_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="44" link="Room Conversation With David Lawrence -- July 12, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation With David Lawrence -- July 12, 1973, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With David Lawrence -- July 12, 1973, London|Room Conversation With David Lawrence -- July 12, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">David Lawrence: Oh, yes. I've gone back over it about forty times now already. So I think I'm beginning to get hold of it. And then there would be lastly a reference section which would include all addresses that they would find useful, a glossary of the terms used, and an index, etc.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Very good. This...</p>
<p>David Lawrence: That...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...synopsis is very nice.</p>
<p>David Lawrence: You like the idea, do you?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh yes, very nice.</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithProfessorOlivierOctober101975Durban_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="210" link="Room Conversation with Professor Olivier -- October 10, 1975, Durban" link_text="Room Conversation with Professor Olivier -- October 10, 1975, Durban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Professor Olivier -- October 10, 1975, Durban|Room Conversation with Professor Olivier -- October 10, 1975, Durban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prof. Olivier: This is what is normally in the Hindu religion, you know, which it is not so, of course, in the Christian religion.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is not the question of religion. This is the, I mean to say, our position, real position. Religion develops. Religion is a kind of faith. That develops according to time, circumstances, people. But reality is this, that we are spirit soul. We are now conditioned by the laws of material nature, and we are carried away by the laws of material nature and transmigrating from one body to another, sometimes happy, sometimes distressed, or sometimes heavenly planet, sometimes lower planet. This is going on. And human life is meant for stopping this process of transmigration and revive our original consciousness, and go back to home, back to Godhead, and live eternally, blissful life of knowledge. This is the whole scheme of Vedic literature. And Bhagavad-gītā is the synopsis how to attain this life. Therefore, the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā begins to understand the constitutional position of the soul. Then other things. First of all we have to understand what we are, whether I am this body or something else. This is the first understanding. So I was trying to explain this, but that Mr. Chadda, he would bring that "You want to introduce Hindu conception." It is not Hindu conception. It is the scientific conception. I am a child for some time. Then I become a boy for some time. Then I become a young man, some time. Then I become old man. In this way I am changing body. This is not Hindu conception or Vedic conception. This is a fact. But he would not hear that. He would simply say, "You are trying to push Hindu conception of..." And what is this Hindu conception? It is equally applicable to everyone.</p>
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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="LettertoSirDelhi15April1961_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="52" link="Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961" link_text="Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961|Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This perfection of life will help also in building up the next progressive life after death. The human society is meant for liberal cooperation for this movement of all round perfection of the human society without any bar for class or nation or dogmatic faith. Spiritual culture is not dogmatic faith but it is based on philosophy, reason and culture. This can be introduced very easily through convenient methods of music, dance and refreshment which are acceptable by all grades of human being in all parts of the world. It requires only to be organized by combined effort of the intelligent class of men of all nations. I have tried to explain the human cultural synopsis in fifty pictographical explanation and I wish that these pictographical explanations may widely be distributed. The sponsors of the Congress have taken charge of this and I hope they will do the needful.</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="LettertoSyamasundaraCalcutta22September1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="527" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Calcutta 22 September, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Calcutta 22 September, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Calcutta 22 September, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Calcutta 22 September, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Krishna says in B.G. that what great men do the common man will follow. So if we want actually to be successful we must convince the influential men of your country, then everything will follow automatically. So I request you to take this matter very seriously, as I think you have some special talent for it. Regarding the motion picture, it is a great opportunity, and if they actually want to do something wonderful I can come there personally and see to its direction. If it is an important film I think my personal direction is necessary. If not, then I think you can send me a synopsis of the script so that there may be nothing objectionable from the start. If this film is properly done it will be very profitable, even from the commercial point of view; and if they are interested, we can give them hundreds of stories from Bhagavat which will make wonderful films, and simultaneously the people will be educated to the proper religious and moral standard. So please try very seriously for this and I think Krishna will give you all intelligence and facility.</p>
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<div id="LettertoProfessorSCChakravartiCalcutta3October1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="540" link="Letter to Professor S. C. Chakravarti -- Calcutta 3 October, 1970" link_text="Letter to Professor S. C. Chakravarti -- Calcutta 3 October, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Professor S. C. Chakravarti -- Calcutta 3 October, 1970|Letter to Professor S. C. Chakravarti -- Calcutta 3 October, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding our institution, please read the enclosed pamphlet and you will know the synopsis of our propaganda work and as well you will find herewith enclosed a booklist of our publications.</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="LettertoSatsvarupaVrindaban17September1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="414" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban 17 September, 1974" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban 17 September, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban 17 September, 1974|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Vrindaban 17 September, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge of your letter dated from Denver September 7, 1974 with enclosed outline of the book "A Vedic Reader: Sources of Indian Civilization" The synopsis is very nice, and if properly written the book will be very nice. From this book they will understand the importance of our society. So do it nicely.</p>
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