Letters from Srila Prabhupada Vol.1 1947-1969 (in pdf) - Krishna Path

e accepted as very intelligent man? Vivekananda
was not even an intelligent man
because he accepted Gadhadhar Chatterjeee
as incarnation of God without any
credentials. We accept Krsna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead on the evidence
of Vedic literature. There is no
evidence in the Vedic literatures that a
common unintelligent person by worshipping
a demigoddess Kali can become an
incarnation of Godhead. The goddess
Kali is divine mother for the conditioned
souls, not for the liberated souls. There is
no direction in the Vedic literatures that
one can become liberated even by worshipping
the goddess Kali. She is superintendent
of the prison house known as
material world. One can derive some material
facilities by worshipping Kali or
Durga, but nobody can become liberated
by worshipping such demigoddesses, so
what to shpeak of becoming incarnation
of Godhead. So the propaganda that Ramakrsna
became incarnation of God by
worshipping KDali is not accepted by any
authorized acharya and therefore it is a
bogus propaganda. One who follows
therefore, such bogus propaganda is also
misled as far as his spiritual advancement
is concerned.
You have to meet many opposing elements
in the matter of preaching work
therefore you should always be careful to
follow the principles of Bhagavad Gita as
it is. You will be glad to know that our arrangements
with MacMillin for publishing
Bhagavad Gita As It Is is alrady
completed, and the manuscript is handed
over to them. We should preach clearly
that our Krsna Consciousness movement
is surely on the basis of Bhagavad Gita as
it is. Any other movement which does not
tally with the principles of Bhagavad Gita
as it is, is considered by us as unauthorized.
All these so-called yogic or other
spiritualist movements in this country imported
from India are all against the prin-
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ciples of Bhagavad Gita. It is our
movement only which strictly follows the
principles of the Bhagavad Gita, under the
guidance of the authorities or acharyas in
disciplic succession from Lord Chaitanya
who practically demonstrated in life and
practice the principles of Bhagavad Gita.
The last word in the Bhagavad Gita is to
surrender unto Krsna and Lord Chaitanya
taught us to surrender unto Krsna. His
transcendental movement of chanting the
Holy name of Krsna and Rama in the sublime
movement, not only at the present
age, but for all the time past, present and
future.
68-2-46 Los Angeles
25th February, 1968
My dear Pradyumna,
Please accept my blessings. I am very
much satisfied with your transliteration
and request you to transliterate the 2nd
Canto of Srimad Bhagawatam, and the
original text is sent herewith . Please find.
On your completion of the transliteration,
the original copy may be sent directly to
the following address: Hitsaran Sharma,
Radha Press, 993/3 Main Road , Gandhi
Nagar, Delhi 31, India with the covering
letter as follows:
"Dear Sharmaji,
Please accept my respectful
obiesances. Under instructions from Our
Spiritual Master. His Divine Grace, Sri
Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj
, I am sending herewith the transliteration
of the 2nd Canto of Srimad
Bhagawatam with diacritic marks. Kindly
insert this transliteration in place of simple
transliteration which is already with
you . Swamiji has already requested you to
collect some letters with diacritic marks
and we wish you will kindly do the needful
. Hope you are well . Thanking you in