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Posts to BVKS Sanga                                         7

           Also it is best to worship Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. Srila Prabhupada
           recommended  devotees  to  worship  Sri  Sri  Gaura  Nitai,  but
           not Laddu Gopal, who is usually worshiped in the Vallabha
           sampradaya.

           21 May 2000

           Some of the advice I would give to young men at school is
           similar to that my parents might have given me. My parents
           could hardly have envisaged my becoming a Hare Krsna
           monk; yet whether one opts for spiritual or material life, or a
           mixture of the two, certain principles, if followed, help lay a
           foundation on which a strong edifice may be built. I advise not
           to masturbate or take intoxication, as these disturb the mind
           and body; even if given up later, these habits render both mind
           and body permanently weakened and impaired. Furthermore,
           I recommend applying oneself to one’s studies. Not that most
           of what is taught in school is interesting, relevant, or even
           true, but that the habit and discipline of study strengthens the
           mental faculties, which is important for any person desirous of
           rising above the animalistic mode of unthinking life. Essential
           also for rising above the bestiality common to most supposed
           humans, including so-called scholars, is to avoid the trivia
           ubiquitous in human society today, disseminated in multi-
           forms such as sports, music, romance, scholasticism, TV and
           cinema dramas, desire for power and money, and so on.


           12 February 2001

           In this letter I would humbly like to ask you to dispel a doubt,
           placed in my mind. At my husband’s suggestion, I listened to
           a few tapes of S das, you might have heard them yourself also.
           There he speaks about ISKCON parampara and siddhanta. I was
           bewildered by the conclusions he makes about Prabhupada’s
           quotation of the Guru parampara that there is no evidence
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