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So see what you can do. If we are sincere, Krsna will surely help
us. It is time to move up gear and get into some serious book
distribution.
Regarding S. I sent her a strong letter openly stating the fact
that RK and V were meat-eaters, misleaders, and rascals and
that she should not be attached to them. No doubt S is a very
good devotee but, like so many others, misled due to wrongly-
placed sentiment. Now you please preach to her also. When a
devotee actually understands what is what and who is who,
understanding philosophically how Krsna is the Supreme
Personality of Godhead and we are all His eternal servants, and
when he rejects everything bogus—at that time he (or she) can
really make a strong commitment to Krsna consciousness and
become a fixed-up devotee.

6 June 1992

The ISKCON Hare Krsna Gift Shop is a superb idea. Do it and
be blessed. Make it at least break even financially and you could
be opening a new frontier in preaching. Don’t sacrifice purity
for the sake of profit, though. Pictures of demigods and other
religious items not conducive towards Krsna consciousness
should not be sold.

Regarding the ekasloki Ramayana etc. I don’t know anything
about it. Srila Prabhupada has not mentioned it in his books.
Prabhupada gave us the 18,000 verse Bhagavatam, full of
variegated topics of Krsna. Why should we be anxious to get it
over within one minute? What is the evidence that this is actually
by Vedavyasa? And even if we were to get the same punya from
the “ekasloki-Bhagavatam,” we are not interested in punya, but
in bhakti. In Hinduism, so many people say so many things, it can
be bewildering. I just stick to what Prabhupada has given us and
feel safe and protected by that.