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So therefore for complete happy society, this Kåñëa consciousness movement is

essential. All intelligent persons, they should join this movement and reform

the present social, political, religious. All field of activities, they should

reform. Then people will be happy. Not only happy in this life, but also next

life.

— Evening Darçana

Washington, D.C. 8 July 1976

 

Gita Talk LA 11-25 -68

 

Of course, intentionally one should not break these laws. But even sometimes

we may find that there is some flaw in one’s part... Suppose if I see somebody

smoking, but he is doing Kåñëa consciousness very nicely. So we should not

deride. We shall give him concession to reform. It does not mean that because

he has accidentally smoked, smoking, that does not mean he has become

immediately disqualified.

 

Letter August 25 1972

 

So try to reform Mohananandan there. What he will do by coming here? Amogha

has indicated he has already shaved his sikha and has left everything. do you

think U.S.A. is a magic place, simply by coming here he will become reformed?

If possible you can send to the U.S.A., but it is better to correct him to the

standard point by friendly gestures. We can reject anyone, that is very easy,

but to reform him that requires great skill and tact and if you can reform him

there by kind words and dealings, that is best.

 

Letter 11-6-73

 

Another request I have to you is that there have now been two instances of

when somebody does not agree you try to get them out by calling the police.

This is never to be done. This is the mistaken policy of Shayamasundar, but do

not follow this principle. With great difficulty we get a man. We have to

reform them. Our business is to become sympathetic to fallen souls. So in

future do not do it all. Everything should be done amicably.

 

 

Letter 4-28-74

 

As for drugs, not just one party, but everyone was involved. Our process is to

reform. Everyone is under the clutches of maya. If we follow the regulative

principles we can get out and come to spontaneous love. A diseased man is

always under the clutches of disease. But if he follows the prescribed orders

given by the __ __ he can be cured. Now, how to reform? If we ask him to go

away the whole society will be finished. In the hospital many patients are

there and the attempt is made to cure them, not to tell them to go away or to

kill them. They try their best to cure them. If they tell them to get out of

the hospital or if they kill them, that is easy.

 

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COM: Mahadyuti (das) ACBSP (TP Soho St. London - GB) wrote:

 

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> Dear Vaisnavas,

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> Please accept my humble obeisances and please forgive all my offenses

> against you. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

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> Can someone tell me the reference for the oft-repeated quote (in

> multifarious variations), "Reform rather than remove"? I tried to find it

> in the Vedabase without success.

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> Thank you.

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> All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

>

> Your servant,

> Mahadyuti dasa

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> Here are some quotations from Prabhupada's letters.

 

Eminently relevant quotes. Thank you!