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             “All glories to Sri Sri Krsna Balaram.

             All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krsna.”

             See the last paragraph of Bhagavatam 4.20.15 purport for the
             cause of communal riots.

             11 December 1990

             Enclosed please find 3 new books published by BBt. “Endless
             Love” and “Krsna Consciousness and Christianity” are reprints
             of books printed in America which I thought could be valuable
             for our preaching here. “The Hare Krsna Challenge” is a book
             which I compiled and is printed in this format for the first time
             in the world.

             Regarding Sri Ramajanmabhumi—we are all wondering what
             Srila Prabhupada’s response would have been; though it is
             interesting to note that, despite being personally sent by Krsna
             to spread bhakti throughout the world, he always emphasized
             the spreading of the chanting of the Holy Names and decried
             all types of sectarian bodily identification (such as that between
             Hindus and Muslims) as animal-like ignorance and never talked
             about re-establishing Ramajanmabhumi. In fact, he said that our
             ISKCON temple at Mayapur was more important than that at the
             birth site of Lord Caitanya because it was much more involved in
             activities of Lord Caitanya; the karma of the Lord, in this case,
             preaching Krsna consciousness being more important than the
             janma (cf. Gita 4.9).

             Notwithstanding, the agitation has got many people all over the
             world talking and thinking of Rama and Ayodhya and chanting
             the  holy  names.  From  a  sociopolitical  point  of  view  (which
             actually we have nothing directly to do with) it was long overdue
             for Hindus to wake up lest they were lost to Islam, Christianity,
             atheism and gross materialism. Actually, the present wave of
             Hindu revivalism has probably been sparked off over the recent
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