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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