S.B. 4-7-31 and more

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Dear Prabhus,

Please accept my humble obeisances at the lotus feet of

Srila Prabhupada.

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.7.31

"Lord Brahma said : My dear Lord, Your personality

and eternal form cannot be understood by any person who is trying to know

You through the different processes of acquiring knowledge. Your position

is always transcendental to the material creation, whereas the emperic

attempt to understand You is material, as are its objectives and instruments."

Srila Prabhupada teaches us (partial purport)

: "... One has to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead simply

by the transcendental method of Krsna consciousness. This is confirmen

in Bhagavad-gita (18.55)... only by devotional service can one understand

the transcendental form of the Lord. The difference between the impersonalists

and the personalists is that the impersonalists, limited by their speculative

processes, cannot even approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whereas

devotees please the Supreme Personalty of Godhead through His transcendental

loving service...due to the service attitude of the devotee, the

Lord is revealed to him. The Supreme Lord cannot be understood by materialistic

persons even though He is present before them... In the tenth chapter of

Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna also confirmed that it is very difficult to understand

the personality of the Lord."

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(more from Bhagavad-Gita 9-2 purport)

"... This knowledge is the purest form of all activities, as is explained

in Vedic literature. In the Padma Purana, man's sinful activities have

been analyzed and are shown to be the results of sin after sin. Those who

are engaged in fruitive activities are entangled in different stages and

forms of sinful reactions. For instance, when the seed of a particular

tree is sown, the tree does not appear immediately to grow; it takes some

time. It is first a small, sprouting plant, then it assumes the form of

a tree, then it flowers, bears fruit, and, when it is complete, the

flowers and fruits are enjoyed by persons who have sown the seed of the

tree. Similarly, a man performs a sinful act, and like a seed it

takes time to fructify. There are different stages. The sinful action may

have already stopped within the individual, but the results or the fruit

of that sinful action are still enjoyed. There are sins which are still

in the form of a seed, and there

are others which are already fructified and are giving us fruit, which

we are enjoying as distress and pain, as explained in the twentieth verse

of the Seventh Chapter...."

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Your ever well-wisher

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( from a letter written by Srila Prabhupada in Los Angeles and

dated January 13, 1969)

Dear Mrs. H.....,

Please accept my New Year's greetings. I am so pleased

to accept your token of good will and the sounding Haribol with needlework.

This cloth is so nice that I have hung it in my room in front of me so

that I can see Haribol and remember you always.

Your are very fortunate lady to have such nice daughter

Your daughter is a first class typist, so in this way all are fully cooperating

with me, and I am happy in your country.

My endeavors might be sincere, but without their cooperation

I could not have executed my mission so quickly. I thank you once more

for your becoming the mother of two devotee girls.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

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your servant.....

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