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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3><br />
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<div id="LettertoRevatinandanaSydney2April1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="156" link="Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972"><br />
<div class="heading">Everyone who is chanting Hare Krishna is getting benefit. Sanatana Goswami says that one should not hear from an aVaisnava, or non-Vaisnava. So people who are imitating are hearing from a Vaisnava. They are not a Vaisnava, because the Hare Krishna Mantra is introduced by us only into the western world, so whatever they have heard is from a Vaisnava.<br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972|Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your questions, 1) The devotee always takes bodily pains as the mercy of Krishna. 2) Everyone who is chanting Hare Krishna is getting benefit. Sanatana Goswami says that one should not hear from an aVaisnava, or non-Vaisnava. So people who are imitating are hearing from a Vaisnava. They are not a Vaisnava, because the Hare Krishna Mantra is introduced by us only into the western world, so whatever they have heard is from a Vaisnava.</p><br />
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<div id="LettertoPranadaDelhi27March1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="209" link="Letter to Pranada -- Delhi 27 March, 1976" link_text="Letter to Pranada -- Delhi 27 March, 1976"><br />
<div class="heading">"Even if a brahmana is very learned in Vedic literatures and knows the six occupational duties of a brahmana, he cannot become a guru or spiritual master unless he is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, if one is born in a family of dog-eaters but is a pure devotee of the Lord, he can become a spiritual master."<br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pranada -- Delhi 27 March, 1976|Letter to Pranada -- Delhi 27 March, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Concerning your questions about tantric sastras; the Vaisnava tantras are bona fide literatures, just like Narada-pancaratra, but not the atheistic tantra which have nothing to do with the Vedic literatures.</p><br />
<p>sat-karma-nipuno vipro, mantra-tantra visaradah,</p><br />
<p>avaisnava guru na syad, vaisnavah sva paco guruh</p><br />
<p>(Padma Purāṇa)</p><br />
<p>"Even if a brahmana is very learned in Vedic literatures and knows the six occupational duties of a brahmana, he cannot become a guru or spiritual master unless he is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, if one is born in a family of dog-eaters but is a pure devotee of the Lord, he can become a spiritual master."</p><br />
<p>The point is that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He is always purusa (male) not female (prakrti). "purusam sasvatam divyam, adi devam ajam vibhum." Worship of the mother aspect is prakrti, not recommended by Krishna for the intelligent class of men.</p><br />
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