# PERSONALITY DESCRIPTIONS ## Advaita Acarya ![[letters/1972/720612_acyutananda|the descendants from Advaita are to be considered dvija-bandhu,]] —Acyutananda, 12 June, 1972 --- ![[letters/1975/750406_mr._vincent_karl._vincent_karl._vincent_karl|The basic understanding is that Sadasiva is an expansion of Maha-Visnu and that same Sadasiva incarnates as Advaita Acarya.]] —Mr. Karl, 6 April, 1975 --- ## Ananta Sesa ![[letters/1968/681205_jadurani|Sesa, or Ananta, serve Visnu as His mattress and protects Him from all atmospheric disturbances by making His heads like a canopy or umbrella.]] —Jadur**ani, 5 December, 1968 --- ## Arjuna ![[letters/1968/680614_purusottama|’Why did Arjuna ask Krsna to go to His four-armed form rather than His two-armed form after Krsna had shown Arjuna his Visvarupa?’]] —Purusottama, 14 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681212_saradia|you should know that Arjuna and Kunti-devi are not in Krsnaloka. They are eternally associated with Krsna only in the material world.]] —Saradiya, 12 December, 1968 --- ## Balarama ![[letters/1967/671229_balai|“To answer your question regarding your names: Balai is the name of Baladeva, Krsna’s elder brother. His wife is called Balai dasi or His girlfriend is called Balai dasi. Baladeva is not different from Krsna. He is the first expansion from Krsna. ...]] —Balai, December, 1967 --- ## Bali Maharaja ![[letters/1968/680703_rupanuga]] —* SPL to Satsvarupa, 3 July, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680703_satsvarupa]] —Satsvarupa, 3 July, 1968 --- ## Bhakti Devi ![[letters/1969/690131_rukmini|Bhakti Devi is the expansion of Srimati Radharani. I hope this letter will meet you in very good health. Thanking you once more for your nice letter.]] —SPL to Rukmini, 31 January, 1969 --- ## Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ![[letters/1968/681202_upendra|On the disappearance day of my Guru Maharaja, you may hold meeting to discuss his activities and offer respect to his memory. Practically, this movement is his because it is under his order that I have come to your country.”]] —Upendra, 2 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690205_gargamuni|My Guru Maharaja claimed to be one of the sub-devotee assistants of the 8 gopis.]] —Gargamuni, 5 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/701114_acyutananda|he had actually no Godbrothers, but there were many disciples of Bhaktivinoda Thakura who were considered as Godbrothers who protested against this action of my Guru Maharaja, but he didn’t care for it.”]] —Acyutananda Maharaja, 14 November, 1970 --- ## Bhaktivinoda Thakura ![[letters/1968/681120_madhusudana|sometimes even a liberated person like Arjuna plays the part of a conditioned soul in order to play some important part. Similarly, Bhaktivinoda Thakura for some time was associating with the impersonalists and then he exhibited himself in his tru...]] —Madhusudana, 20 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681124_hayagriva|Thakur Bhaktivinoda, in the year of my birth, first attempted to introduce these missionary activities in McGill University and the same attempt is being renovated by your combined efforts.]] —Hayagriva, 24 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690514_ananda|“Enclosed are a few nice poems by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura which you may hand over to Mandali Bhadra for translation into German and to be submitted for publication in German Back to Godhead.”]] —Ananda, 14 May, 1969 --- ![[letters/1972/720620_yadubara|his plan is to photograph all of the original manuscripts of Bhaktivinoda Thakura which are held by his son, Lalita Prasada Thakura, in Birnagara. This is a very, very important work, so I think you are just the right man for going there with Acyu...]] —Yadubara, 20 June, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720722_acyutananda]] —*SPL to Jayapataka, 22 July, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720729_yadubara|Yes, that is nice, you may continue to photograph all of the manuscripts of Bhaktivinoda Thakura and other great acaryas in our Vaisnava line, but for now do not photograph anything of Lalita Prasada’s manuscripts. When I go there I shall see. Fi...]] —Yadubara, 29 July, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720729_acyutananda|Let Yadubara take his photos as he has taken so much trouble and they may be valuable for the future,]] —Acyutananda, 29 July, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720821_yadubara|“Regarding Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s manuscripts, immediately we do not have any program for printing them. You keep them carefully and when I return I shall consider the matter. The translating work can be done both by Ramananda and Niranjana in Ben...]] —Yadubara, 21 August, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721213_candravali|“Regarding your questions, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura never took formal sannyasa. He was babaji, living in seclusion away from wife and family as paramahamsa. One can have as many children as Bhaktivinoda Thakura as long as one is as good as Bhakt...]] —Candravali, 13 December, 1972 --- ## Bhismadeva ![[letters/1967/671229_jadurani]] —Jadurani, 29 December, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680617_sacisuta|’Did Bhismadeva get wounded by the arrows at the battle of Kuruksetra or did he simply choose to leave his mortal body and thus lay down for passing on a bed of arrows?’]] —Sacisuta, 17 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681113_tosana_krsna|“And your question about Bhismadeva, after he left this planet, he went to Vaikuntha because he was Narayana worshiper. In Bhisma’s prayer, it is clear that he is worshiper of Four Handed Narayana. Although he knew that Narayana and Krsna are non-...]] —Tosana Kṛṣṇa, 13 November, 1968 --- ## Bilvamangala Thakura ![[letters/1967/671229_balai|Bilvamangala Thakura was a great devotee of Krsna and he wrote a famous book Krsna Karnamrta recognized by Lord Caitanya.]] —Balai, December, 1967 --- ![[letters/1975/750903_acyutananda_swami|“Regarding your question, Sukadeva and Bilvamangala Thakura developed the conjugal ecstasies later on.”]] —Acyutananda Swami, 3 September, 1975 --- ## Brahma, Lord ![[letters/1968/680409_aniruddha|“There are two kinds of dissolution. One is when Brahma goes to sleep and another is when Brahma dies.]] —Aniruddha, 9 April, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680709_jadurani]] —Jadurani, 9 July, 1968 --- ![[letters/1973/730509_caturbhuja|Lord Brahma is a conditioned soul means that due to his desire to become the creator of the material manifestation he had to take birth within the material world. But although he was conditioned by such desire, still he is a great devotee of Lord ...]] —Caturbhuja, 9 May, 1973 --- ## Buddha, Lord ![[letters/1968/680710_hayagriva|“You know that Lord Buddha was Hindu, born in India, in a royal family, but because He advocated voidism, His philosophy was not accepted by the leaders of Vedic principles.]] —Hayagriva, 10 July, 1968 --- ![[letters/1970/700418_bertl|Lord Buddha was the embodiment of renunciation. He was in the princely order, grown up very luxuriantly and he accepted the order of a mendicant, devoting his whole time to mediation.]] —Bertl, 18 April, 1970 --- ## Caitanya, Lord ![[letters/1973/731108_jadurani|“Regarding Lord Caitanya’s danda, it was broken for good. So after Puri, He never took danda.]] —Jadurani dasi, 8 November, 1973 --- ## Demigods ![[letters/1968/680312_balai|“Yes, the wind, the earth, the water, and so forth, all have controlling personalities.]] —Balai, 12 March, 1968 --- ![[letters/1970/700307_rupanuga|“The demigods are included within the species of human life.”]] —Rupanuga, 7 March, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701121_upendra]] —Upendra, 21 November, 1970 --- ## Durga ![[letters/1967/671017_pradyumna|“Vaisnavas are not concerned with Durga Puja.”]] —Pradyumna, 17 October, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680528_uddhava|“Durga is the expansion of the internal energy and Radharani is the quintessence of internal energy. In that sense Durga is expansion of Radharani.”]] —Uddhava, 28 May, 1968 --- ## Einstein ![[letters/1969/690302_janardana]] —Janardana, 2 March, 1969 --- ## Ekayani ![[letters/1967/671229_balai|“Ekayani was the wife of a great sage who was in the Satya-yuga when all persons were paramahamsa or liberated persons. Ekayani’s husband was a liberated person.”]] —Balai, December, 1967 --- ## Gadadhara ![[letters/1970/700527_tamala_krsna|“Regarding your two questions, the first, Sri Gadadhara is an expansion of Radharani and Srinivasa is the expansion of Narada Muni, or in other words they are the internal and devotional energy respectively.”]] —Tamala, 27 May, 1970 --- ## Gandhi, Mahatma ![[letters/1949/490705_mahatma_gandhi_national_memorial_trust_fund|The Bhagavad-gita gives a clear idea of doing this work and the Gandhi Memorial Fund should be utilized mainly for this purpose. Myself with a batch of sincere workers are ready to take up this work, and I shall be glad to have your reaction to my...]] —Mahatma Gandhi National Memorial Trust Fund, 5 July, 1949 --- ![[letters/1975/751218_tulasi_das|At the end of his life he frankly said, ’I don’t believe there was ever such a historical person as Krsna.’ So what did Gandhi know about Bhagavad-gita?”]] —Tulasi dasa, 18 December, 1975 --- ## Ganega, Ganapati ![[letters/1971/710709_jadurani|“Vyasadeva did not speak all the Vedas to Ganesa. He simply dictated.”]] —Jadurani, 9 July, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/710825_sivananda|“So far worshiping Ganesa is concerned, that is not necessary. Not that it should be done on a regular basis. If you like you can pray to Ganapati for removing all impediments on the path of Krsna consciousness. That you can do if you like,”]] —Sivananda, 25 August, 1971 --- ![[letters/1974/741121_sudama|“The Ganesa puja may not be performed. No, it is not to be done. No need of it.”]] —Sudama dasa Goswami, 21 November, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750201_bhakta_dasa|“Concerning Ganesa worship, it is not actually necessary for us.]] —Bhakta dasa, 1 February, 1975 --- ## Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji Maharaja ![[letters/1969/690501_dayananda|The spiritual master is divided into 2 parts, siksa-guru and diksa-guru. So officially Bhaktivinoda Thakura was like siksa-guru of Gaurakisora dasa Babaji Mahajara.”]] —Dayananda, 1 May, 1969 --- ## Gauri Dasi ![[letters/1974/741218_rupanuga|“Your sankirtana reports are very encouraging, especially that one girl, Gauri dasi, who has set an all ISKCON women’s record of 108 big books. This is very wonderful.]] —Rupanuga, 18 December, 1974 --- ## Gopis ![[letters/1967/671229_balai|“Kancanbala was one of the gopis in the association of Krsna. Indira was also one of the gopis in the association of Krsna.”]] —Balai, December, 1967 --- ![[letters/1970/700527_tamala_krsna]] —Tamala, 27 May, 1970 --- ## Gosvamis, the Six ![[letters/1967/670909_jadurani|The six Goswamis are not all eternal associates of Krsna. Only Rupa and Raghunatha Goswami are eternal associates.]] —Jadurani, September, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680312_rupanuga|“Rupa Goswami’s eternal rasa is conjugal love. He is one of the associates of Radharani, and he helps Radharani while engaged in the service of Krsna. He is known as Rupamanjari in the spiritual world.”]] —Rupanuga, 12 March, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690116_hansadutta|“Regarding the six Goswamis of Vrndavana, actually they are our guidance in Krsna consciousness.]] —Hamsaduta, 16 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700527_tamala_krsna|“Yes, Rupa Goswami is a gopi by the name of Rupa Manjari, but not all the Six Goswamis of Vrndavana are gopis.”]] —Tamala, 27 May, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701103_dr_cakravarti|there was no comparison with Jiva Goswami and any other philosophers of the world. Gaudiya Vaisnavism is very much proud of having such a great acarya as Jiva Goswami.”]] —Dr. Cakravarti, 3 November, 1970 --- ## Guru Nanak ![[letters/1975/750610_caitya-guru-guru-guru|“Will you kindly let me know what Guru Nanakji has said about Lord Krsna and Lord Rama in his Grantha Sahib? How we can cooperate with the Sikh Community?”]] —Caitya-guru dasa, 10 June, 1975 --- ## Haridsa Pandita ![[letters/1973/730628_jadurani|“No, Haridas Pandita is not the nama-acarya Haridasa Thakura. Haridasa Pandita was the pujari of the temple.”]] —Jadurani, 28 June, 1973 --- ## Haridsa Thakura ![[letters/1973/730628_jadurani|“No, Haridas Pandita is not the nama-acarya Haridasa Thakura. Haridasa Pandita was the pujari of the temple.”]] —Jadurani, 28 June, 1973 --- ## Hirji Baba ## Hitler ![[letters/1972/721107_krsna_dasa]] —Krsnadasa, 7 November, 1972 --- ![[letters/1976/760520_dr._wolf._wolf._wolf|p4]] —Dr. Wolf, 20 May, 1976 --- ## Incarnations ![[letters/1969/690115_krsna_dasa|“Balai is the name of Baladeva, Krsna’s elder brother. His wife is called Balai dasi or His girlfriend is called Balai dasi. Baladeva is not different from Krsna. He is the first expansion from Krsna. All the incarnations and expansions begin from...]] —Kṛṣṇa dasa, 15 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690115_krsna_dasa|When the Lord incarnates within this material world, He does not come in Visnu Murti.]] —Kṛṣṇa dasa, 15 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700725_ekayani|“So far the avataras are concerned there are two types. One is called nitya and the other is called naimittic.]] —Ekayani, 25 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1974/740512_lilavati|The answer is when Krsna comes all the incarnations are within Him.]] —Lilavati, 12 May, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750216_dr._santosh_kumar._santosh_kumar._santosh_kumar|The incarnation of Godhead must be indicated in the scriptures, otherwise we cannot accept him as being incarnation.]] —Dr. Kumara, 16 February, 1975 --- ## Jambavan ![[letters/1970/700604_jadurani_bharadraja_muralidhara|“Jambavan the name does not suggest a bear, because his daughter was one of the queens of Dvaraka married by Krsna.]] —Jadurani, 4 June, 1970 --- ## Jaya and Vijaya ![[letters/1968/681015_nandarani|There are so many demons, so Krsna has opportunity to fight with them. But that was a special case, who played the part of Ravana, Jaya and Vijaya.”]] —Nandarani, 15 October, 1968 --- ## Jayananda ![[letters/1967/670929_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 29 September, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/670916_jayananda]] —Jayananda, September, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680224_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 24 February, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680301_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 1 March, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680303_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 3 March, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680712_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 12 July, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680817_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 17 August, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680822_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 22 August, 1968 --- ![[letters/1976/760719_jayananda_dasa]] —Jayananda dasa, 19 July, 1976 --- ![[letters/1977/770226_jayananda]] —Jayananda, 26 February, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770505_jayananda]] —Jayananda dasa, 5 May, 1977 --- ![[letters/1977/770511_ramesvara]] —Ramesvara, 11 May, 1977 --- ## Jesus Christ, Lord ![[letters/1968/681114_aniruddha|“Yes, Lord Jesus was jiva-tattva. He is not Visnu-tattva. When a jiva-tattva becomes specifically empowered by the Lord, he is called Saktyavesa-avatara. Lord Buddha and Lord Jesus Christ were in this group of Saktyavesa-avatars. But they were not...]] —Aniruddha, 14 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690731_hayagriva|There is a book called Aquarian Gospel in which it is stated that Lord Jesus Christ lived in the temple of Jaganatha. Without being His devotee, how could he live there and how could the authorities allow a non-devotee to live there?]] —Hayagriva, 31 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690914_tamala_krsna|“Regarding the Aquarian Gospel of Lord Jesus the Christ, I have taken some stray extracts just to support our views, but we don’t give any importance to that book. The best thing is that we accept Lord Jesus Christ as a great devotee of the Lord a...]] —Tamal Kṛṣṇa, 14 September, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691208_sucandra|You have asked to know what is the difference between Jesus Christ and Krsna. That we have several times explained in many meetings, that Krsna is God and Jesus Christ is the son of God. And as there is no difference between the father and the son...]] —Sucandra, 8 December, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700516_gurudasa|So far we are concerned, we have all our obeisances for Lord Jesus Christ because His whole life was devoted to the service of the Lord.”]] —Gurudasa, 16 May, 1970 --- ## Kapila, Lord ![[letters/1976/760124_nitai|“In the syllabus of Nrsimha Vallabha Goswami, the Sankhya-karika must be by Kapiladeva, Devahuti-putra. The other is atheistic. There are two sankhyas]] —Nitai, 24 January, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760826_radhaballabha|we must make the distinction between Devahuti-putra Kapila, and the atheistic Kapila.]] —Radhaballabha dasa, 26 August, 1976 --- ## Karna ![[letters/1968/680429_nandarani_and_dayananda|Karna was born before Kunti was married so in order to keep it silent, he was kept in a package and floated in the ocean.]] —Nandarani and Dayananda, 29 April, 1968 --- ## Kṛṣṇa, Lord ![[letters/1967/671229_jadurani|As military man, Bhisma had no right to shoot the chariot driver but he knew Krsna’s body was not material, and will not be harmed, so he took pleasure in piercing the body of the Lord.]] —Jadurani, 29 December, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680112_kirtanananda|Krsna belongs to the nitya-lila. Nitya lila means that all of His pastimes are going on in either of the so many universes. It is just like the rising of the sun.]] —Kīrtanānanda, 12 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680118_jaya_mazo|Krsna does not transform but He has millions and billions of expansions which are all eternally existing simultaneously.]] —Jaya Mazo, 18 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680208_brahmananda|“I think you are missing the four points of Krsna’s superexcellent qualities to be added in the Teaching of Lord Caitanya. The four points are as follows:]] —Brahmananda, 8 February, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680614_purusottama|’Why did Arjuna ask Krsna to go to His four-armed form rather than His two-armed form after Krsna had shown Arjuna his Visvarupa?”]] —Purusottama, 14 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680617_sacisuta|And Lord Krsna accepted those arrows piercing His body as if somebody is worshiping with soft rose flowers. That is Krsna’s transcendental body. But those who are materialists, they are cheated by Krsna that He is wounded.]] —Sacisuta, 17 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680617_sacisuta|So we have to avoid using our material thinking and material concepts when we think about Krsna.]] —Sacisuta, 17 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680630_kirtanananda]] —Kīrtanānanda, 30 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681007_tosana_krsna]] —Tosana Kṛṣṇa, 7 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690812_yamuna|“Regarding the footprint on Krsna’s chest which you say is Radharani’s, that is not correct. That footprint is of Bhrgu Muni.”]] —Yamuna dasi, 12 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691123_madhusudana]] —Madhusudana, 23 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700130_jayadvaita|You have inquired about the quality number 63 of Krsna, that He is surrounded by loving devotees can be explained as follows:]] —Jayadvaita, 30 January, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700604_jadurani_bharadraja_muralidhara|“Krsna is our head man in the family. Kartamasi means head man. According to Vedic system, Kartamasi is asked in the morning by His wife what kind of foodstuffs He will like to take on that day.]] —Jadurani, 4 June, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700725_ekayani|it is correct that the transcendental body of Krsna and Krsna Himself are non-different.]] —Ekayani, 25 July, 1970 --- ## Kunti ## Laksmi ![[letters/1969/691102_krsna_devi|“Regarding your final question about Laksmiji, she never has conjugal relations with Lord Narayana. Neither does she desire to have conjugal relations with Krsna. Her desire is to follow the gopis of Vrndavana.”]] —Kṛṣṇa devi, 2 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700102_bhagavan|Your country is fortunate enough by the grace of the Goddess of fortune. The Goddess of fortune or Laksmi-devi is eternally engaged in service of the Lord.]] —Bhagavan dasa, 2 January, 1970 --- ## Madhu, Demon ![[letters/1970/700210_ekayani|“The Madhu demon was killed a very long time ago, in the beginning of creation. The story may be found in one of the Puranas.”]] —Ekayani, 10 February, 1970 --- ## Madhavacarya ![[letters/1976/760410_sri_viswesha_tirtha_swami|“Yasodanandana Swami has written an article on Madhvacarya and Udupi and it has been submitted to my monthly journal Back to Godhead, which has a circulation of 10 lakhs copies monthly.”]] —Sri Viswesha Tirtha Swamiji, 20 April, 1976 --- ## Maharishi ![[letters/1969/690817_govinda|Maya means things which have no existence independent of Godhead, but its business is to cover Godhead. Similarly, either the Ramakrishna Mission or Maharishi’s group they have no existence independent of Krsna, but their activities are just like ...]] —Jaya Govinda, 13 August, 1969 --- ## Mahavisnu ![[letters/1975/750406_mr._vincent_karl._vincent_karl_karl|The basic understanding is that Sadasiva is an expansion of Maha-Visnu and that same Sadasiva incarnates as Advaita Acarya.]] —Mr. Karl, 6 April, 1975 --- ## Mohammed ![[letters/1976/760402_mr_dhawan|Mohammed, the inaugurator of Islam religion, I accept him as empowered servant of God because he preached God consciousness in those parts of the world and induce them to accept the authority of God.]] —Mr. Dhawan, 2 April, 1976 --- ## Narada Muni ![[letters/1970/700527_tamala_krsna|“Regarding your two questions, the first, Sri Gadadhara is an expansion of Radharani and Srinivasa is the expansion of Narada Muni, or in other words they are the internal and devotional energy respectively.”]] —Tamala, 27 May, 1970 --- ## Nityananda ![[letters/1969/691208_jayagovinda|“Lord Nityananda is Balarama Himself, not an expansion of Him. Srila Narottama dasa Thakura has sung that the Lord who appeared as the son of Nanda Maharaja has now appeared as the son of Sacidevi; and the same Balarama has appeared as Nityananda.”]] —Jaya Govinda, 8 December, 1969 --- ![[letters/1972/720612_acyutananda|Nityananda has no seminal descendants, his son Birbhadra never married. If someone said he is descended from Nityananda, that means one of his disciples.]] —Acyutananda, 12 June, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/740307_muralidhara|“In Panca-tattva everyone has an effulgence, but especially Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda…Lord Nityananda never took sannyasa. He was independent, like a brahmacari, and later he became married.”]] —Muralidhara, 7 March, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740515_jadurani|Nityananda was brahmacari and became grhastha but you should always paint them in the Gaura-Nitai style and feature you are already accustomed to doing.]] —Jadurani dasi, 15 May, 1974 --- ## Radhakrishnan, Dr. ![[letters/1968/680111_rayarama|Dr. Radhakrishnan foolishly makes such distinction on the body of Krsna, and therefore when Krsna says that one should become His devotee, he comments that it is not to the Person Krsna, but to the Light within Krsna.]] —Rayarama, 11 January, 1968 --- ## Radhani ![[letters/1969/690131_rukmini|“Bhakti-devi is the expansion of Srimati Radharani.”]] —Rukmini, 31 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1968/680204_labangalatika|“The proper spelling of your name is LABANGALATIKA. The meaning of Labangalatika is delicate, sometimes Radharani is addressed as Labangalatika.]] —Labangalatika, 4 February, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680528_uddhava|Durga is the expansion of the internal energy and Radharani is the quintessence of internal energy. In that sense Durga is expansion of Radharani,]] —Uddhava, 28 May, 1968 --- ![[letters/1970/700527_tamala_krsna|“Regarding your two questions, the first, Sri Gadadhara is an expansion of Radharani and Srinivasa is the expansion of Narada Muni, or in other words they are the internal and devotional energy respectively.”]] —Tamala, 27 May, 1970 --- ## Ramacandra ![[letters/1968/680616_satsvarupa]] —Satsvarupa, 16 June, 1968 --- ## Ramadevi ![[letters/1970/700307_rupanuga|Yes, Ramadevi is the sandhini attribute of cit-sakti because her function is for creation, and the jivas are members of the samvit attribute of the cit-sakti. The demigods are included within the species of human life.]] —Rupanuga, 7 March, 1970 --- ## Ramakrishna ![[letters/1968/681116_brahmananda|I am not very much in favor of this unnecessary publicity to a person whom we do not like. We know that this institution is a bogus humbug only without any substance, and why should we bring them in prominence by criticizing them.]] —Brahmananda, 16 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690817_govinda|Maya means things which have no existence independent of Godhead, but its business is to cover Godhead. Similarly, either the Ramakrishna Mission or Maharishi’s group they have no existence independent of Krsna, but their activities are just like ...]] —Jaya Govinda, 13 August, 1969 --- ## Ramanujacaraya ![[letters/1968/680710_hayagriva|when Ramanujacarya found Sankaracarya a second edition of Buddhist philosophy, he also expunged Sankaracarya as compromising the Buddha, and he established personal worship of Lord Visnu.]] —Hayagriva, 10 July, 1968 --- ## Sahajananda Swami: Divine Life ![[letters/1975/751012_swami_sahajananda]] —Swami Sahajananda, 12 October, 1975 --- ## Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya ![[letters/1967/670909_jadurani]] —Jadurani, September, 1967 --- ## Siva, Lord; Sankaracarya and Sambhu ![[letters/1968/680528_uddhava|“Sambhu is the principle by which the Lord impregnates the material nature with the seeds of living entities.]] —Uddhava, 28 May, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690121_jayapataka|This is Sankara’s last instruction to his followers and the purport is that the Mayavadi philosophers are very much accustomed to draw favorable meanings from unwanted interpretations by grammatical jugglery.]] —Jayapataka, 21 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700503_ekayani|why Lord Siva was ordered to appear as Sankaracarya and teach Mayavada philosophy to turn the people to atheism and thus increase the population, that nobody can understand.]] —Ekayani, 3 May, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700725_ekayani|“Yes, Mahesh-dhama is in the spiritual sky. That is the described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam and Brahma-sahhita. At the time of dissolution of the material worlds, Lord Siva remains in His spiritual abode while the cosmic manifestation merges into t...]] —Ekayani, 25 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701112_damodara|Dr. Cenkner is correct in saying that Sankaracarya’s belief is personal. Actually he is a covered personalist. He became impersonalist just to drive away Buddhism.]] —Damodara, 12 November, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701112_damodara|From the Padma Purana, it is learned that Sankaracarya is Lord Siva, and who can be a greater devotee than Lord Siva. Lord Siva is considered to be the foremost Vaisnava.”]] —Damodara, 12 November, 1970 --- ![[letters/1974/741103_satsvarupa]] —Satsvarupa, 3 November, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750406_mr._vincent_karl._vincent_karl_karl|The basic understanding is that Sadasiva is an expansion of Maha-Visnu and that same Sadasiva incarnates as Advaita Acarya.]] —Mr. Karl, 6 April, 1975 --- ## Sridhara Swami ![[letters/1976/760809_madame_sumati_morarji]] —Madame Sumati Morarji, 9 August, 1976 --- ## Srinivsa ![[letters/1970/700527_tamala_krsna|“Regarding your two questions, the first, Sri Gadadhara is an expansion of Radharani and Srinivasa is the expansion of Narada Muni, or in other words they are the internal and devotional energy respectively.”]] —Tamala, 27 May, 1970 --- ## Subhadra ![[letters/1968/680301_upendra|This internal potency is called yogamaya. All the pastimes and activities of the Lord are administered by yogamaya.]] —Upendra, 1 March, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680919_hansadutta|“I am pleased to learn that Subhadra is looking on you, it is a good sign, that she is favoring you in your activities. She is sakti of Krsna, or the internal potency and by her mercy glance you will be more and more successful in your advancement...]] —Hamsaduta, 19 September, 1968 --- ![[letters/1970/700210_ekayani|“We do not find who is the mother of Subhadra, but she was one of Vasudeva’s wives. So far putting kohl on the eyes of the Deities that is not required. The Madhu demon was killed a very long time ago, in the beginning of creation. The story may b...]] —Ekayani, 10 February, 1970 --- ## Sukadeva Gosvami ![[letters/1974/740608_acyutananda|“Your question of how did Sukadeva Goswami hear Srimad-Bhagavatam it was in the womb of his mother.”]] —Acyutananda Swami, 27 June, 1974 --- ## Supersoul ![[letters/1968/680114_kancanbala|I think on account of your becoming a sincere soul, Krsna is dictating from within and you are doing things so nicely. There are two gurus—one internal and one external.]] —Kancanbala, 14 January, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680514_hansadutta|“Our only business is to spread Krsna consciousness to the best of our possibility and Krsna has given us discrimination and judgement. So, Krsna is within you, you chant and ask Him, Krsna and He will give you proper instruction.”]] —Hamsaduta, 14 May, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680630_rupanuga|“Yes, we have got all the qualities of the Supersoul. Therefore, unless the Supersoul has got consciousness, how we can have consciousness?]] —Rupanuga, 30 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681124_hansadutta|The Supersoul will never fall under the clutches of this illusory maya and the jiva soul has this tendency.]] —Hamsaduta, 24 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681112_malati|the Supersoul and the soul are both unchanged. The difference is that in material contact, the soul appears to be changed.]] —Malati, November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690305_krsna_dasa|Don’t you see the indication by Krsna that we must make propaganda in the German language in that part of the world? So you have to adjust things to the indication of Lord Krsna. Don’t do anything whimsically.]] —Kṛṣṇa dasa, 5 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690314_rupanuga|“Your sixth question, ’Is it that the Supersoul controls every movement in this world through the agency of maya and the inferior energy according to the desires of the dreamer-jiva?” Yes.”]] —Rupanuga, 14 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690403_ananda|“Don’t feel yourself to be alone because Krsna is always with you. Krsna is always with every living entity as Supersoul, and to His devotee especially He talks and gives instructions]] —Ananda, 3 April, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690521_sivananda|you are fortunate enough for your sincere service, Krsna as Paramatma Who is sitting within your heart is now dictating.]] —Sivananda, 21 May, 1969 --- ![[letters/1972/720222_rupanuga|this surrender to Supersoul is in the advance stage of Krsna consciousness. So long one is not advance, he has to take information and direction from the representative of Supersoul or the spiritual master.]] —Rupanuga, 22 February, 1972 --- ## Vallabhacarya ![[letters/1972/720425_madhavananda|Vallabhacarya is a follower of Visnusvami or Rudra sampradaya,]] —Madhavananda, 25 April, 1972 --- ![[letters/1971/710831_ekayani]] —Ekayani, 31 August, 1971 --- ![[letters/1976/760809_madame_sumati_morarji]] —Madame Sumati Morarji, 9 August, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760828_jaganatha_suta_dasa|“There has been some disturbance created by the publishing of a few comments on Vallabhacarya in Back to Godhead Vol. 10, no. 8, page 5, column 3, paragraph 2. Kindly avoid comments such as these in future publications.”]] —Jaganatha Suta dasa, 28 August, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/761125_giriraja|We can’t rectify what is written in Caitanya-caritamrta. We have no bad feeling or disrespect for Vallabhacarya. We consider ourselves the most obedient servants of Vallabhacarya.]] —Giriraja, 25 November, 1976 --- ## Varaha, Lord ![[letters/1968/680316_jadurani]] —Jadurani, 16 March, 1968 --- ## Vasudeva ![[letters/1970/700210_ekayani|“We do not find who is the mother of Subhadra, but she was one of Vasudeva’s wives.”]] —Ekayani, 10 February, 1970 --- ## Vedas ![[letters/1970/700428_citsukhananda|“Regarding your first question, ’Who is the speaker of Isopanisad?’ The speaker is the Vedas personified.]] —Citsukhananda, 28 April, 1970 --- ## Visnu, Lord ![[letters/1974/741103_satsvarupa]] —Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, 3 November, 1974 --- ## Visnupriya ![[letters/1972/721213_candravali|“Visnupriya, the wife of Lord Caitanya, was a young woman of sixteen years old when her husband took sannyasa, leaving her without any children, but she always remembered Him, so in that way she was always serving Him and she was never separated f...]] —Candravali, 13 December, 1972 --- ## Vyasadeva ![[letters/1970/700825_bali-mardana-mardana-mardana|Vyasadeva was a real person accepted by all authorities and any one can judge how wonderful he was to compile the Vedic literatures. He is therefore known as Mahamuni.]] —Bali Mardan, 25 August, 1970 --- ![[letters/1971/710709_jadurani|“Vyasadeva did not speak all the Vedas to Ganesa. He simply dictated.”]] —Jadurani, 9 July, 1971 --- ## Yadu Dynasty ![[letters/1969/691102_krsna_devi|at the end the members of the Yadu dynasty when they were fighting, took advantage of the log and beat one another and thus the whole family was dead and gone.”]] —Kṛṣṇa devi, 2 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1971/710822_nayanabhirama|“Because there is some similarity of the word Jew and Yadu so some historian or scholar, so-called, created this notion.]] —Nayanabhirama, 22 August, 1971 --- ## Yogananda ![[letters/1968/681113_kris]] —Kris, 13 November, 1968 --- --- **[← Back to Śikṣāmṛta](wiki/compile/siksamrita)**