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Sai Baba
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Expressions researched:
"Satya Sai Baba's" |"Satya Sai" |"sai baba" |"satya sai baba"

Contents
1 Lectures
1.1 Philosophy Discussions
2 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.1 1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.2 1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.3 1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.4 1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.5 1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.6 1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
2.7 1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
3 Correspondence
3.1 1974 Correspondence
3.2 1975 Correspondence
3.3 1976 Correspondence
Lectures
Philosophy Discussions
Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson:
Śyāmasundara: But the modern interpretation of the word mystic is something different.
People take mystic to mean someone who is very mysterious and magic.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It has come to that. God consciousness... Just like at the present moment
if a guru can show some miracles, just like that Sai Baba, so they accept. That's a mystic.

Śyāmasundara: Yes. That's the modern meaning of mystic.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Although it may be rascaldom, false, still if they see like that, miracles...
That means less intelligent class of men. They want to see some miracles. That is
mysticism.

Philosophy Discussion on The Evolutionists Thomas Huxley, Henri Bergson, and Samuel
Alexander:
Prabhupāda: Yes. It has come to that. God consciousness... Just like at the present moment,
if a guru can show some miracles, just like that Sai Baba, (laughter) so they accept that he's
mystic. Yes.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
Discussion with Indians -- January 18, 1971, Allahabad:
Prabhupāda: ...a bona fide spiritual master. Bona fide spiritual master means who carries out
the order of higher authorities. Otherwise he is not spiritual master. Anyone who
manufactures his own process of religion, that is rascaldom. dharmāṁ tu sakṣād
bhagavat-praṇitam (SB 6.3.19). Just like lawyer, representative of the law, means who
carries the order of the supreme executive. He is lawyer. Similarly, a spiritual master means
who carries the order of superior authority. We are carrying the order of Caitanya
Mahāprabhu or Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa taught this Bhagavad-gītā, and He has said that "Anyone who
will preach this confidential message of Bhagavad-gītā, he is very dear to Me."
Guest (1): (indistinct) ...and believers in Sai Baba and other we believe in an incorporeal
God, nirākāra. So if Kṛṣṇa as Rāma or any other deity or devata, one who was definitely a
superior ātman, no doubt about it, but Paramātman is all other religions' God, if something
incorporeal is there, without referring to the...

Prabhupāda: Who says, "incorporeal"? Who says?

Guest (1): It is scripture. (?)

Prabhupāda: No, no. Who says, "incorporeal"?

Guest (1): Śiva-liṅga. You find it all over India, that, a summary of everything, that
incorporeal form, jyotir-rūpa, incorporeal. Jyotir-liṅga, the Hindu svarūpa.

Prabhupāda: That's all right. You are bringing something else besides Bhagavad-gītā. Just
try to understand. We are preaching... This International Society for Krishna Consciousness,
we are preaching...

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation -- August 1, 1972, London:
Prabhupāda: Yes. There was a boy.
Dhanañjaya: His other idea is, he said he was working for Sai Baba, Satya Sai Baba. He
said that in India he had raised so many thousands of lakhs of rupees by making posters.
They are impersonal posters, so much nonsense in them, but they sold like lottery tickets. In
this way he printed them and made so much money.

Prabhupāda: I mean he cannot suggest. We cannot accept anyone's suggestion.

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Morning Walk -- February 28, 1973, Jakarta:
Prabhupāda: So therefore these rascals come, they give them (Hindi or sounds like "ashes
bath", maybe referring to Sai Baba), I give them, "I am so powerful, I give you (Hindi)," and
they give them money, "Oh, here is a sādhu." They'll get (Hindi) very cheaply, and make
money. Instead of two lakhs, I'll make ten lakhs, by the (Hindi). And he's Sai Baba, like
rogues, they come to show them some magic, that "I have got some power, I can do
anything I like, and if you become my devotee, you will improve." All these yogis, everything,
they do like that. Mahesh Yogi also: "Take my mantra. Within six months you become perfect
man and whatever you like, you can do."
Morning Walk -- December 11, 1973, Los Angeles:
Prabhupāda: "Yes, anybody can claim. But we think you are a rascal. Therefore we do not
come. Now, if you can show us something like Kṛṣṇa, then we shall immediately come. Our
difficulty will be solved. We shall see Kṛṣṇa. But we know that you are a rascal." You go
there. Go there, somebody, and tell like that.
Prajāpati: No. There is one rascal, Prabhupāda, who can do tricks. His name is Sai Baba.
He can make jewels appear, give people photographs of himself, give them to people like
tricks.

Prabhupāda: But another rascal will be victim of that tricks. Why shall I accept him as God?

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- February 23, 1974, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: No, kuhakam means illusion, magic. Something magician showing. So much
money. Just like your this, one bābā, what is...? Satya...? He creates some gold.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Satya Sai.

Dr. Patel: (Hindi) A magician in Gujarat, some Muslim magician. He would ask, not ask for a
(indistinct)

Guest (3): He would not...? He would not...?

Dr. Patel: (Hindi)

Indian (3): Mama Chel.

Dr. Patel: Mama Chel. There was one man called Mama Chel. And when the ticket taker
comes and asks for a ticket he would say, "All right, take this," and there would be a heap of
tickets, railway tickets.

Prabhupāda: Oh. So a magician can do...

Dr. Patel: A magician he was. He would stop that train. Stand behind and stop the train.
Stop. He must, people must have got some siddhis by...

Prabhupāda: Ah, the yogic siddhi, aṣṭa-siddhi, aṇimā-laghimā...

Morning Walk -- April 4, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Here Kṛṣṇa is addressed, "Yogeśvara," because the yogic power, that is
estimated very much important by the ordinary class of men. So He is the master of all yogic
power. Just like here, that gold maker?
Girirāja: Sai Baba?

Prabhupāda: Sai Baba. He is showing little yogic aiśvarya. But people are, because they do
not know, they are not aware of Kṛṣṇa, they are taking him as God. You see?

Girirāja: (reads rest of synonyms for this verse) "Translation: If you think that I am able to
behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly show me that
universal self."

Prabhupāda: Now, here is the description of how God manifests. So unless one reads
Bhagavad-gītā carefully, they will be misled by this avatāra, that avatāra, that avatāra. You
see?

Morning Walk -- April 24, 1974, Hyderabad:

Prabhupāda: Bombay. And he's speaking on Gītār Gān. Gītār Gān means to construct a big
śiva-liṅga temple. He's proving himself a rascal by his activities. He's a rascal number one.
He has gone many times to foreign countries, but not a single foreign student he has got.
(break) ...from atheistic fools who are not prepared to follow any rules and regulations, they
are after him.
Akṣayānanda: That Sai Baba too...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Everyone.

Morning Walk -- April 29, 1974, Hyderabad:

Prabhupāda: Actually, if we become successful then all these things will be finished. Yes.
(break)
Devotee: They are attracted by wonderful things such as Sai Baba. He is doing so many
wonderful things. People...

Prabhupāda: That is, means rascal. He does not see Kṛṣṇa's wonderful. If you want to see
wonderful things, why don't you see the more wonderful things? But they are foolish; they
are captivated with small wonderful things. That means less intelligent. Just like small
children, they will be amazed by seeing small wonderful things, but his father will not be.
What is the amazement, wonderful thing, Sai Baba has done? If he is creator of gold, then
why he is doing business of incense? You know that? He has a big incense business exactly
like us. He can create gold? Why there is incense business? (break) Caitanya Mahāprabhu
used to give to His mother some gold when there was need of money. "Mother, I got this
gold. So you can utilize it." The mother would think that "We are poor men, we have no gold.
Wherefrom this boy brings gold?" So he (she) was doubtful because he (she) was thinking,
"My son is mad, sometimes crazy." So he (she) would go, "Is it real gold? Just see." Then.
"Yes, it is real gold." "Hm, how He got it?" You see. (break) ...many yogis, they make such
gold for meeting their expenditures. Yes. Still in India they know how to make gold from
copper. Yes. The process is they will drink mercury at night, and in the morning they will
urine on the copper coins. And then, after some hours, the copper coins taken and put into
the fire, it becomes gold. And it is scientific that some molecules of mercury, if mixed with
copper, it is gold.

Room Conversation with Christian Priest -- June 9, 1974, Paris:

Prabhupāda: No, no, I mean to say...
Priest: ...that "I am an avatāra" or "I am Guru Mahārāj-ji" or "I am," so to say, "Meher Baba or
Satya Sai Baba," so many bābās exist, you know as well as I do. Now, who has to say this
one is really bābā. They are all abusing us. Now, if so many people today pretends to be
avatāra and they have many disciples.

Prabhupāda: But we don't believe them.

Priest: No, but they have many disciples.

Prabhupāda: Many disciples, that is another thing.

Priest: Millions.

Prabhupāda: Millions, trillions, that is another thing. But we have to see what is the disciple.
That we have to see. Simply if somebody... So many disciples by number, we have to see
the quality. What is the quality, not the number, not the quantity.

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12,
1975, Mexico:
Guest (2): Sai Baba?
Prabhupāda: Sai Baba, he also says, "I am Bhagavān." Therefore he's bogus. How you can
say yourself that you are Bhagavān, God? What is your power? What you have shown? And
this is cheap. Now, supposing Sai Baba is God. So people accept him God, why? Because
he shows some jugglery. He creates little gold. Is it not? So if, by creating gold, he is God,
then there is bigger God who has created gold mine. Why shall I go to this tiny god? I must
go to the big God who has created gold mine. This is common sense. But foolish people,
they have no common sense even. Therefore it is called mūḍhā. Mūḍhā nābhijānāti mām
ebhyaḥ param avyayam. Tribhir guṇamayair bhāvair mohita, mūḍhā nābhijānāti. Everything
is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. Just like mostly people take: "The nature is all in all." The
scientist, they take nature. But nature is matter. So where is our experience—the matter is
working automatically? Where is our experience? Hm? Matter... Does matter work
automatically? What is your opinion?

Room Conversation -- August 21, 1975, Bombay:

Lalitā: I told you that Mr. Mani is Sai Baba's bhakta. So he is harassing, sending a letter and
all. It's not especial any, that "Send to the member of ISKCON. They must leave." No. There
is no report like that, but they are sending to say that he should learn and come to the Mr.
Mani's bhakta of Sai Baba. (Bengali) There is nothing special. So if you are feeling better,
then tomorrow or the day after tomorrow... (Bengali) ...can I mention that you must fit to see?
Prabhupāda: Yes. (Bengali) You know that? (Bengali) Between twelve to end of the day.
(Bengali) Indira Gandhi... (Bengali) ...position plus spiritual knowledge, it will play wonderful
in the world. (Bengali) Third-class, fourth-class rogue, they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa
consciousness. Rājarṣayo. He must be royalty, at the same time great sage, saintly person.
Then he will understand. (Bengali)

Room Conversation -- August 21, 1975, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: I don't allow them to sit down.
Lalitā: At other āśramas you go and see. I go every āśramas. So I reported that now you
catch all the sādhus. I'm giving a secret letter that, "All the black marketeers with them,
sitting, chatting and patting, and you catch them. Then all the smugglers you will get. Sai
Baba... (Bengali) He will throw you out. And he is exploiting that girl, and I have got a picture,
very bad picture, with me. (Bengali) "Bhagavān Satya Sai Baba." So she hates him. And
(Bengali) I have seen Satya Sai Baba. I know he is, what type of man he is. (Bengali)
Government letter, certified.

Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the foreign countries.

Morning Walk -- September 27, 1975, Ahmedabad:

Prabhupāda: Rajashtan-seva.
Yaśomatīnandana: Our festival is to be held at Sai Baba. (?)

Indian man (4): From seven to ten.

Prabhupāda: So I have to go there?

Yaśomatīnandana: If you wish.

Prabhupāda: No, no.

Yaśomatīnandana: There is going to be a lot of people there.

Prabhupāda: All right. What time? Seven to ten.

Morning Walk -- October 3, 1975, Mauritius:

Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vāñchā kare. When they forget to serve Kṛṣṇa
and wants to enjoy this material world... Don't you see that these Māyāvādī philosophers are
trying for liberation, and still, they are expecting to become God. That is another desire.
Daridra-nārāyaṇa. The high ambition, to become God or equal to God, that is going on,
struggle for existence.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: What about these rascals like Sai Baba? They use Kṛṣṇa's philosophy, and
then they twist it in such a way that it becomes Māyāvāda.

Prabhupāda: No, no. He's a cheater. People want to be cheated. They come to sādhu for
some material benefit. Don't you see that people are so much anxious to touch the feet of a
sādhu? What is the reason? Reason is that if he gets some favor of the sādhu, "Then I shall
be happy materially." That's all. They have no idea, becoming servant of Kṛṣṇa. Āśīrvāda
(Hindi).

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- January 18, 1976, Mayapur:
Prabhupāda: Very, very great trouble. You have not seen the yogis? Of course, there are
some.... But still, they have to undergo very severe processes for achieving this yogic power.
And a devotee, they kick it, that "What is this nonsense?" That is devotee. "What is this
nonsense? What shall I do by producing gold?" And I never tried for making gold, but is
there any scarcity of gold? I never tried for that, how to make gold. That Sai Baba is showing
some magic power. What of the Maharsi? Maha.... He was also after some yogic power.
Morning Walk -- February 3, 1976, Mayapura:
Sudāmā: (break) ...very curious: "What is the power and mystery of A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupāda, how he is doing so many things but yet he does not appear like these
others yogis who are..., like Satya Sai Baba who is making magic and..."
Prabhupāda: But why? Because they have no eyes. Has Satya Sai Baba so many properties
all over the world? He is creating gold but has he got so many properties? One property like
this? Huh? I started this business with forty rupees; now it is forty crores. Has this rascal has
any property like this? (laughter)

Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi:

Reporter (2): Your Divine Grace, this is actually not very relevant to the press conference,
but have you ever met people like the Sai Baba or Bala Yogeshwara or...
Prabhupāda: Why shall I meet these nonsense? Why shall I meet? What is the business?
Fools and rascals may meet them. Why shall I meet? What can I get from them? What is
their special value? Tell me, why shall I meet? What is the business I have got to meet him?
You are suggesting?

Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi:

Reporter (2): Swamiji, do you think that there are some people in this country in thousands
or maybe tens of thousands who are getting spiritual solace from, say, people like Sai Baba
or any of these other people who have interpreted the Vedas or who have followers all over
the country? Do you think these followers are getting some amount of spiritual solace?
Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all, do you know what Sai Baba is preaching? Do you know?

Reporter (2): No.

Prabhupāda: Then how you are asking on behalf of Sai Baba?

Reporter (2): No, just like that. Just like.... I am just going.... I am very far removed from
these...

Prabhupāda: No, no, why you are interested.... Twice, thrice you have said Sai Baba.

Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi:

Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all, do you know what Sai Baba is preaching? Do you know?
Reporter (2): No.

Prabhupāda: Then how you are asking on behalf of Sai Baba?

Reporter (2): No, just like that. Just like.... I am just going.... I am very far removed from
these...
Prabhupāda: No, no, why you are interested.... Twice, thrice you have said Sai Baba.

Reporter (2): No, anybody. Because he is among the better-known people. I, I am, I have
nothing to do with.

Prabhupāda: So, but better known...

Reporter (2): It could be someone like, say, the Bala Yogeshwara, who also got some kind of
following there.

Prabhupāda: That is.... That has spoiled our India's Vedic culture. Everyone has invented
some ways, and they have misled the general people, people, followers. That is the
misfortune of modern India. Yes. The standard instruction is there in the Bhagavad-gītā.
They do not care to know it. They want to know about the greatness of Bala Yogi, Sai Baba,
this bābā, that bābā. That is their misfortune. They give up the real instruction,
Bhagavad-gītā, which is accepted by the great ācāryas—Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya,
Śaṅkarācārya, Caitanya Mahāprabhu—and all over the world, they are not interested to
know Bhagavad-gītā; they are interested to know about Sai Baba. Just see misfortune.

Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi:

Prabhupāda: India is so misguided that it will take some time to come. Because what I....
Even if you speak to India, what I shall speak? I'll speak Bhagavad-gītā. The Bhagavad-gītā
was already there, still already there. But India's misfortune is they are so neglectful, they
don't take care of Bhagavad-gītā. They'll bring, "Why not Sai Baba? Why not this bābā? Why
not that bābā?" That is the difficulty.
Conversation with News Reporters -- March 25, 1976, Delhi:
Prabhupāda: India is so misguided that it will take some time to come. Because what I....
Even if you speak to India, what I shall speak? I'll speak Bhagavad-gītā. The Bhagavad-gītā
was already there, still already there. But India's misfortune is they are so neglectful, they
don't take care of Bhagavad-gītā. They'll bring, "Why not Sai Baba? Why not this bābā? Why
not that bābā?" That is the difficulty.
Reporter (5): No, I wanted to ask...

Prabhupāda: They have become overintelligent. Not simple intelligent but overintelligent.
That is.... They are not overintelligent. That is the facility for them. We are preaching Kṛṣṇa is
the Supreme Lord. That is in the śāstra and the Vedas, in everywhere. But you won't believe
it. You'll say, "Why Kṛṣṇa Supreme God? Another.... Here is God. Here is God." Hundreds
and thousands of Gods you'll bring. That is the difficulty.

Room Conversation -- June 15, 1976, Detroit:

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: (reading) "...who has made it his life's work to debunk the so-called material
powers of god-men the world over, and said that he is afraid for his life. Amongst those he
has challenged is Satya Sai Baba, a mystic who has thousands of followers in South Africa.
The man who is said to expose fraudulent practices amongst miracle workers is Dr.
Abraham T. Kavoor, who recently held a spell-binding magic show at the Bangalore Town
Hall to debunk the miracles of god-men. He claimed that several of the tricks demonstrated
had, in fact, been learned from persons who had duped the public that they could perform
miracles and other extraordinary acts. And this, he believed, would lead to an attempt on his
life. 'I am not afraid of gods. They don't exist. But I am afraid of god-men, because they are
alive. They have thugs as agents. If a good man like Gandhi could be assassinated, what
keeps a Kavoor from suffering the same fate?' Addressing a press conference, Dr. Kavoor
implied that an attempt might be made on his life if he tried to expose the fraudulent practice
by god-men because this would involve a physical search of the persons involved. Hence his
insistence that his investigation would have to be preceded by their permission. (The
permission of these so-called mystics, registered letters.) To date, he said, he had written six
registered letters to Satya Sai Baba issuing his famous challenge, but had no reply from him
as yet. Asked how he produced ash and other objects out of nowhere, Dr. Kavoor indicated
that one of the methods was by concealing the objects to be materialized inside of his coat.
The rest was pure sleight of hand. Photographs of him (Sai Baba) exposing his coat have
been published both in the national and international press, he said. Reporting that
haṭha-yogī L.S. Lal had confessed to him that his much-vaunted show of walking on water
had been pure trick designed to make some money, Dr. Kavoor said, 'How long can the
government of India tolerate such hoaxers who claim to have supernatural powers and
exploit the ordinary men?' "
Prabhupāda: You keep this. We shall have to show to the Indian government authorities.

Room Conversation -- June 15, 1976, Detroit:

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. This is produced once a week. All of the Indians in Durban read it. Durban
has half a million Indians.
Prabhupāda: But two things are very important: condemning this Sai Baba and welcoming
our Ratha-yātrā.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: We have two copies.

Conversation with Prof. Saligram and Dr. Sukla -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.:
Dr. Sukla: We have another mentally retarded person in India, Sai Baba.
Prabhupāda: Yes, magic.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: We have that newspaper from South Africa.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Anyway, we are not after all this magic. We are laymen. We do not want
this magic, neither we want to show magic. We simply, as canvasser of Kṛṣṇa, we are
preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, "Sir, Kṛṣṇa says like this, you do like that," that's all. If you
like, you can do; otherwise let us do our own business. We don't show any magic, neither we
speak anything which is not in the Bhagavad-gītā. If there is little success, it is due to this
secret, that's all. (Bengali) Kṛṣṇa says that He is Supreme, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat (BG
7.7). So we are preaching, "Yes, Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme," that's all.

Room Conversation -- July 17, 1976, New York:

Indian man: :In fact, you might have heard of Satya Sai Baba in India.
Prabhupāda: Yes.

Indian man: Now there are some people in our community there at Poughkeepsie, they are
all followers of Satya Sai Baba, and they were telling me that "Anyone you pray, Kṛṣṇa,
Rāma, Viṣṇu, it comes to Satya Sai Baba." I said, "Don't tell me that nonsense," I said.
(laughter) "Satya Sai Baba is not Kṛṣṇa, and don't tell me that." In fact for Guru Pūrṇimā they
invited me to Satya Sai Baba's bhajana. I said, "No, I have my guru. I'm very happy. Don't
disturb me. I have Kṛṣṇa, I have my guru, and I have my path. I don't have to go to
anybody's gurus, and I don't have to take anyone's teachings." I say, "My Gītā is here,
written by Prabhupāda. I follow it, and that's it. I don't have to have extraordinary brains to
follow everyone's Gītā or everything else. Here is my path."

Room Conversation -- July 17, 1976, New York:

Prabhupāda: Of Satya Sai.
Hari-śauri: One man, he challenged that he could prove that Sai Baba is a fake. So he's
written so many letters to Sai Baba to challenge him, but he's never received a reply. So that
paper gave this article criticizing Sai Baba like that and other gurus, and then in the same
paper there was a very nice article concerning our Jagannātha Cart Festival. So practically
they were appreciating that Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is bona fide and these other
people are nonsense.

Indian man: Right. In fact, several people, even in our community in Poughkeepsie, received
letters from Satya Sai Baba's followers that "Here is a letter. Make ten copies and send the
ten copies to ten different people. If you don't, Satya Sai Baba's thunderbolt will come and
strike your family, and they'll be destroyed." Now no guru ever puts a thunderbolt on his
devotee, and I said, "If that is a guru, I'll stay ten thousand miles away from him, because my
guru is very kind and he'll bless me." I said, "No guru should ever put a thunderbolt on his
devotee."

Room Conversation About Blitz News Clipping -- August 21, 1976, Hyderabad:
Prabhupāda: Charge in the court, "What do you know about godly that you have charge us
ungodly." Then it will be exposed. Do, immediately do. Immediately plan to bring in the court.
Hari-śauri: Actually, in the same newspaper they were doing a whole thing about Sai Baba.
They had a big article about Sai Baba.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: They're supporting him.

Hari-śauri: Supporting him.

Prabhupāda: Which newspaper, this?

Hari-śauri: Yes, this paper.

Prabhupāda: Just see.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Sai Baba has a very big political following, including the chief minister of
Bombay also.

Gargamuni: Home Ministers, Home Ministers wear his ring, Sai Baba ring.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: So I think they're doing it just...

Prabhupāda: We don't touch about Sai Baba. We charge him, "What do you know about
godly?" Don't bring any other men. Don't try to become that "All are useless, we are
important." No. But whatever they are there. But they have directed "ungodly." "What do you
know about godly, that you have said as ungodly?" Let him explain. And we are background
Bhagavad-gītā, approved. So why you are taking my pad?

Room Conversation About Blitz News Clipping -- August 21, 1976, Hyderabad:
Hari-śauri: That's Sai Baba.
Pradyumna: One man is trying to prove Sai Baba is fraud. One professor.

Hari-śauri: He's a scientist. He says he can prove that Sai Baba's making things appear and
disappear is just a trick.

Prabhupāda: He is a fraud. What is this paper?

Hari-śauri: This is the same issue.

Pradyumna: But there's something very interesting. When he manifests something, he gives
evidence, he says, "This cannot be a creation, because to be a creation, to be God you must
be creator. To be creator you must produce something which is uniquely not made by
anyone else." So he said he's only making things that are already created by someone
else—a watch. So he is...

Hari-śauri: He's producing a watch, then it's a watch that's made by some manufacturer. It's
not made by Sai Baba. Like that. So there was a comment that even if he has some... He
may have some supernatural power, but he's not God.

Room Conversation About Blitz News Clipping -- August 21, 1976, Hyderabad:
Pradyumna: He has some yogic siddhi, but he cannot be God because he does not create.
Prabhupāda: So this paper is against Sai Baba also?

Pradyumna: No. On the front page it says... Because he is doing a lot of educational... He
has made all these universities and health centers and everything. So it says that he is doing
good to the people. So for that reason they said, "We don't want to see him criticized."

Hari-śauri: They're supporting him.

Prabhupāda: So the case is already in the court?

Pradyumna: No, it is just a challenge. The Bangalore University, some people at Bangalore
University want to investigate his things. And then Sai Baba sometimes, he won't submit to
be examined.

Prabhupāda: He submits?

Room Conversation About Blitz News Clipping -- August 21, 1976, Hyderabad:
Hari-śauri: Still, even if he can do those things, it's only mystic siddhi. That doesn't mean to
say he's God or an avatāra or anything. But these people are so foolish they think anybody
with a little magic, he must be avatāra.
Pradyumna: They worship him as God. "Bhagavan Sai Baba."
Prabhupāda: Anyway, we must bring this man charges. "Ungodly face."

Hari-śauri: Just like it says in the Bhagavad-gītā, they think religion is irreligion...

Prabhupāda: "Ungodly face," what is that?

Pradyumna: "The ungodly face of Kṛṣṇa cult."

Prabhupāda: What is that ungodly face?

Hari-śauri: They're trying to make out we're political.

Pradyumna: That we... He said he has "Now unmasked the ungodly face of Kṛṣṇa cult." That
we're putting on a false face of being devotees of Kṛṣṇa, but actually we have an ungodly
purpose. That we want to...

Prabhupāda: What ungodly we have done?

Pradyumna: That he does not come out and say, but he implies that we are foreign, that we
want to exploit India somehow.

Prabhupāda: Anyway, they are feeling the weight. Now they are feeling the weight. That is
the progress. Otherwise, if our movement would have been a trifle thing, the government
and newspapers they would not have taken care. Now they are feeling that this movement is
going to be more and more important, all over the world.

Garden Conversation -- September 7, 1976, Vrndavana:

Indian man: Sir, what is your opinion about Sai Baba? (laughter)
Prabhupāda: (Hindi) Jugglery.

Indian man: No avatāra has declared so far that "I'm avatāra."

Prabhupāda: He is... What is called avatāra? He has no, nothing on the śāstra basically. And
anyone who has no śāstra basics, he's useless. Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate
kāma-kārataḥ na sa siddhim avāpnoti (BG 16.23). He can cheat so many fools and rascals,
it has no meaning. That is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam about this kind of guru.
They have been condemned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. I think you'll find out at the end of the
Twenty-fourth Chapter, Eighth Canto. They have been condemned. (break) Now what is the
benefit? From rational point of view, suppose he can manufacture gold. That is his jugglery.
Eh? He can manufacture some gold? So far I have heard. I've not seen.

Garden Conversation -- September 7, 1976, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: So that is done by medical men also, so what is the excellence. Huh?
Hari-śauri: One man said that once he was traveling in his car and a train came, and the
train hit the car and he was thrown out, but somehow or other he survived. He said he was
thrown out to the left hand side and the train stopped, came to a sudden standstill just as it
hit the car. So then he said he went to see Sai Baba, and then Sai Baba looked at him and
he said, "Oh, you have been in an accident and your car was hit by the train. But I stopped
the train and threw you to the left and therefore you were not injured." Like this. And he also
mentioned that at that time you should think of God.

Prabhupāda: If he can do so, can he save him from death? If he's so powerful.

Room Conversation -- September 11, 1976, Vrndavana:

Hari-śauri: This is... And then the next part's even worse. "For the doubting or confused
minority, to which section I then belonged, Swamiji has this message. "Those who want to
secure pearls from the sea have to dive deep to fetch them. It does not help them to dabble
among the shallow waves near the shore and say that the sea has no pearls and that all
stories about them are false. Likewise, if a person wants to secure the love and grace of the
avatāra he must also dive deep and get submerged in Sai Baba. Then only will he become
one with me and carry me in his innermost heart."
Prabhupāda: Everyone can say like that. What you have done as God? God is an Indian.
Making things very complicated.

Hari-śauri: Yes, and this man goes on to describe the aura. He goes on to describe how
spiritual his presence is. They chant oṁkāra. They chant oṁkāra.

Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana:

Pradyumna: Putaparti is in Andhra. "His contemporary avatāra rests in the trinity of Sirti
Baba, Sai Baba, and Prem Baba to come. So Satya Sai Baba, the second of the triple
incarnation, asserted in the course of a marathon interview to add, 'In my present avatāra, I
have come armed with the fullness of the power of the formless God to save humanity.' "
Prabhupāda: So, to whom we shall address this letter?

Pradyumna: Well, it depends where we want to send it for publishing. To this or to another
magazine.

Prabhupāda: He says that "I'm avatāra." So therefore it should be addressed to him. He

says. So address to Satya Sai Baba. Where is he, at Bombay?

Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: Andhra. Hmm. Dear Sai Baba, just recently in the Blitz paper, published
on—give the date—we were surprised to find one article "God is an Indian." And you have
claimed to become an incarnation of God to save the human society. What is the ground of
your claiming as incarnation? And what you have done to save the human society? Will you
explain for enlightenment of us. Or many of us. We have got the list of incarnations recorded
in the Vedic scriptures and their respective activities also. So where is that record in the
Vedic scripture about your appearing as incarnation? Lord Kṛṣṇa's incarnation is fully
described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Lord Kṛṣṇa's incarnationship or give... What it should
be?
Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana:
Prabhupāda: What you have written.
Pradyumna: "Dear Sai Baba, just recently..."

Prabhupāda: No, no, no. Last what you have written.

Pradyumna: "Similarly, Lord Rāma's incarnation, Lord Buddha's incarnation, Lord Caitanya's
incarnationness, we have got full information from the Vedic scriptures. Where is your
incarnation described? Will you kindly give the reference. Anyone can say like you, that one
is an incarnation, as it has become a fashion nowadays. But is that claim only the proof of
one's becoming an incarnation? Such unauthorized claim of one's becoming an incarnation
is certainly ridiculous. Then you have claimed to take a form of the formless God. But we see
in the Bhagavad-gītā that God is never formless."

Prabhupāda: (dictating:) Only the rascals and less intelligent class of men think that God is
formless and when He incarnates, He takes a particular form. In this connection, a verse
from Yāmunācārya may be quoted as follows. You have quoted the Bhagavad-gītā? That
quote?

Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: This is another rascaldom. God is always distinct from man.
Pradyumna: Sai Baba also quotes later, He is also directly saying, also later.

Prabhupāda: What he says?

Pradyumna: Now here's the quote. "Baba personifies this philosophy. As he told me, 'God is
man and man is God. All of us have something of God, the divine spark, within us. All men
are divine, like myself, with the spirit embodied in human flesh and bone. The only difference
is that they are unaware of this Godhood.' " I'll get it for you.

Prabhupāda: So?

Pradyumna: Here he says, "The mission of the present avatāra is to make everybody realize
that since the same God or divinity resides in everyone, people should respect, love, and..."

Prabhupāda: No, no. If he resides in everyone, then why he has special claim?

Room Conversation -- October 31, 1976, Vrndavana:

Hari-śauri: Yeah, because the demons, they think anyone who will allow themselves to
become the servant of someone else, then they think he has got very weak character. Then
they accuse the person who is in charge of manipulating that person.
Prabhupāda: Just like there are so many men now, they are against this Sai Baba.

Haṁsadūta: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Sai Baba is actually doing that brainwash. But they don't think of... (break)

Haṁsadūta: Yes, because people cannot discriminate. They have no power to discriminate.
They group us with all these other bogus people.

Prabhupāda: But that happened when Caitanya Mahāprabhu was being praised by the
Nawab. They were asking about Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "What is the position of this man
that so many people are following him?" So, Sanātana Goswami, who was very bright, took
it as a warning and asked Caitanya Mahāprabhu that you leave this place as soon as
possible.

Room Conversation on New York court case -- November 2, 1976, Vrindaban:

Prabhupāda: They should be half closed and concentrate your eyesight on the top of the
nose. That is meditation. Not that closing and snoring and huhuh. These rascals are going
on. Who cares for the genuine thing? Nobody cares. Dharma (indistinct). That "I am your
guru, I have followers," dharma principle, but he does not know this. This is going on. Neither
the rascal guru knows neither his disciple knows. This is going on. Everywhere this is going
on. All bluff. This very word used, adharma (indistinct), get a plan, "That I am (indistinct)."
That's all. And have it, that's all, and do nothing, that's all. I do not know nothing but
(indistinct), that's all. All these gurus all these chelas are doing that. This Anandamayi, Sai
Baba, this, that, so many. What do they know?
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: That is why these leaders are getting confused, so many bogus people are
there.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That should, action should be there. If we come out successful in this,
how you say, messing, and that will be very good. It is called that, messing?

Room Conversation -- November 15, 1976, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: So many rascals. Why Rajneesh? There are many other.
Mr. Saxena: There are others, Satya Sai Baba, and so many others.

Prabhupāda: This is going on. What? People also do not ask that "How you become God?"
That's also so foolish. They accept any rascal as God. That Rajneesh, what he is? He
advertises "Bhagavān," and there are many rascals, they accept him. What he has done?
(Hindi)

Room Conversation -- November 18, 1976, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: Guru Maharaja. So many. Ramakrishna is not very prominent. Sai Baba.
(aside:) Little, little, everyone. Who asked for them? Aurobindo. Even Aurobindo. Who will
protest against Aurobindo? Aurobindo has got some influence in the Western...
Evening Darsana -- December 3, 1976, Hyderabad:
Prabhupāda: Yes, I know these rascals. Therefore the country's position is the Godless
India. They lost their culture.
Vāsughoṣa: They had big propaganda that Sai Baba is God also. He was saying in the...
These professors challenged him, so he said, "How can an ant try and understand an
ocean?" He made that statement, that the Professor at Bangalore University, Vice
Chancellor said that, you know, so many... (break)

Prabhupāda: Does that mean we have to accept him? That does not mean we accept.
(break) ...one is against this movement because we are presenting Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme.
(break)

Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad: Guest (7) (Indian man): Satya Sai Baba
says...
Prabhupāda: Satya Sai Baba is not authority.
Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad:
Prabhupāda: Why...? Magic is magic. That is another thing. That is not knowledge.
Guest (7): Suppose if I want to talk here Kṛṣṇa consciousness among the masses...

Prabhupāda: No, we have to push on Kṛṣṇa consciousness according to the direction of

Kṛṣṇa, not by the ways and means by Sai Baba. That is foolishness.

Morning Walk -- December 5, 1976, Hyderabad:

Guest (7): Suri Bhavantam (?) is a scientist. He was convinced by him just because of his
magical powers. Otherwise he could not influence me. One of my friends who was sitting
there, he told me, "Satya Sai Baba, he won't come this side," he said. I said, "I'll make him to
come this side."
Prabhupāda: No, these are words. He has been challenged also by a group of educated
men. So there are some fools, rascals. That is all...

Guest (7): I have got belief in God, and so Narendra, my friend was sitting by my side. "No, if
I sit there only, he will go that way. I want to see him this side."

Prabhupāda: Do you accept Sai Baba as God?

Guest (7): No, no, not at all.

Prabhupāda: Then why do you speak all this? That's...

Room Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra -- December 22, 1976, Poona:
Prabhupāda: And this is the fact, Kṛṣṇa says. What Kṛṣṇa says you have to accept.
Otherwise, what is the use of reading Bhagavad-gītā? You cannot accept Bhagavad-gītā
through your whims. That is nonsense. You must accept as it is. That is wanted.
Mr. Malhotra: This Satya Sai Baba, he is also disciple of Kṛṣṇa. How he produces...?

Prabhupāda: Then if he is disciple of Kṛṣṇa, he would not have foolishly said that he is
Bhagavān. That means he is bogus. It is bogus... You cannot say... You are disciple... Just
like they are my disciples. They will never say that they are equal to me. They will never say.

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Room Conversation -- January 7, 1977, Bombay:
Dr. Patel: The greatest number, sir, is being carried out here in Bombay some fifty miles
away by this Muktananda Swami. His statue is being worship as, in place of God by...
Prabhupāda: Sai Baba is also. Sai Baba is also doing, Satya Sai.

Dr. Patel: They say that they are worshiping the guru as God. And why not as their guru?

Prabhupāda: Rajaneesh. Rajneesh

Dr. Patel: Rajneesh calls himself Bhagavān, that man.

Prabhupāda: He also says, "Bhagavān."

Dr. Patel: He's doing a sort of mass hypnotism to my mind. Psychologically I try to analyze
him.

Prabhupāda: Without analyzing, we take him as rogue. (laughter) That's all.

Room Conversation -- January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara:

Rāmeśvara: Seems as soon as these people die, like this Sai Baba, Maharishi, then their
movement will be finished.
Prabhupāda: And another rascal will come. (laughs)

Gargamuni: Now there's another Sai Baba. He has the same hairs and everything. He's in
competition. He's called something else. He's also from the South.

Rāmeśvara: He does magic?

Gargamuni: Yes. Same type of thing.

Rāmeśvara: Ash coming from his dhotī.

Gargamuni: Yes. But Sai Baba is under fire now because they say that he produces small
things which he can hide in his robe. So they ask, "Why can't you make a big thing? Like a
big pumpkin or something big? Why only apples and oranges and small things? (laughter)
Why don't you make a big thing?" Some scientists at Bangalore University, they have
started...

Prabhupāda: He doesn't deny.

Gargamuni: No. He says, "I have come. You can accept me or reject me."

Nanda-kumāra: Some people say they put a picture of him on their altar, and honey drips
from the picture, and they collect it, and it gives them health.

Prabhupāda: His bodily feature is just like rākṣasa.

Room Conversation -- January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara:

Rāmeśvara: It's ugly! And in Jagannath Purī I saw one shop which was selling pictures of
him. One of the pictures he was wearing cosmetics like a woman. His hair was cropped like
a woman. It was the most ugly thing I ever saw.
Hari-śauri: He was called the "Universal Mother." A picture of Sai Baba looking like a
woman, and then they put "The Universal Mother."

Gargamuni: This Tarun Kanti Ghosh, he wears a ring, Sai Baba ring. He is wearing. We
always make joke with him.

Prabhupāda: Acchā?
Gargamuni: "This is not Mahāprabhu. How you can wear this? This is foreign." So he laughs.
We make joke with him, "Why you are wearing this ring? This is not in your custom to follow
this..."

Prabhupāda: He is hodge-podge. But he has got love for Caitanya. That will save.

Room Conversation -- January 24, 1977, Bhuvanesvara:

Prabhupāda: No aim how to make people understand about God. They have no such,
neither they do know personally. Their only aim is that "If I become a God-man, if I can bluff,
jugglery of words and this magic and..., then I'll..." The same material thing, pratiṣṭha. As
ordinary people, they are working so hard for some material gain, material reputation, these
people are like that, in a different manner. This Satya Sai Baba, this Vivekananda, this, all of
them, like that. They want some material position, misusing their mediocre knowledge.
That's all.
Room Conversation -- February 25, 1977, Mayapura:
Prabhupāda: Yes. The rascal Sai Baba says, "I am God."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Now it seems that they have detected him for sure. He's really becoming
publicly denounced now all over the world.

Prabhupāda: Ācchā.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yes. They were saying, those two Bengali gentlemen this morning, the
film producers, were saying that the scholars here now and some of the newspaper people
are beginning to expose, that "This is a complete cheater. This Sai Baba is cheating, and
why are the innocent people falling for him? What kind of fool is he that he says he's God?"
It's a good thing that they're exposing him, because he was the most acclaimed so-called
"bhagavān" of them all. He is the most respected around India of all of these bogus gurus.

Bali-mardana: Now all the other gurus have faded away. You are...

Hari-śauri: There's only you left, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Bali-mardana: You're the only one left. All the bogus gurus have faded away. The
Maharishi...

Prabhupāda: That Sadaji Vilal has said that "Bhaktivedanta Swami... (Hindi)"

Room Conversation -- March 26, 1977, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Speak in important institution like that. That will command respect.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: He is going to speak about quantum physics and Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: These things the swamis cannot do.

Girirāja: No. None of them. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: Either Cinmayananda or this Sai Baba or this...

Indian man: Muktananda.

Prabhupāda: They cannot.

Gargamuni: None of them. Especially in India, this will be a great attraction, if we speak
these subjects... We should call a press conference. Whenever these scientists make some
new discovery they hold a press conference. So we should also hold a press conference and
say "Life comes from life."

Prabhupāda: That will come automatically. We are not very great scientists.(?) Let us speak
important institute.

Morning Conversation -- April 11, 1977, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Now so many charges are coming against her. (pause) Hm? She and her son
are the destiny of India? A woman and a debauch? They can do whatever they like. It's a
farce condition. That so-called democracy is nonsense demoncracy. And by this
demoncracy, it can be done. A demon may be, if he can simply secure votes. What is the
position? Without any training Formerly the destiny was by rājarṣi. Royal power, but ṛṣi,
saintly person. See the character of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Parīkṣit, Ambarīṣa. (aside:) At
least, you cover some way or other with some cloth. Find out some cloth or towel, and cover
it. Yes. All rogues, they are political leaders. Political leader means rogue. Nowadays,
these... Here is so-called religious leader, Sai Baba, another rogue. This is Kali-yuga. (Hindi)
There is no good man politician. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyāḥ (SB 1.1.10).
Sumanda-matayaḥ. They have got a conception which is very, very bad, conception of
religion, social, political. All condemned.
Room Conversation -- April 13, 1977, Bombay:
Prabhupāda: Jaya Prakash Narayan. Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi, and... What they'll do?
Churchill and this and Napoleon, Hitler. Simply misguiding, whole history. Simply mis... They
are rascals. They do not know what is what, and they lead. Gandhi... All rascals.
Vivekananda and Sai Baba, this, that, so many... They should be stopped. That is real
philanthropic activities. Where is...? Now we are going to show this planetarium. These
rascal scientists: "All desert. All rocks and desert." Simply this planet, for his father's
property. This is now happening. "The moon planet is a desert." And from the desert such
brilliant light is coming that is illuminating at night the whole universe. And we have to
believe it because they are spoken by scientists. You see? All rascals, fools, rogues, thieves,
they are leading. And our determination is to stop these rascals. That is our... It is not that
"Let the rascals go on with their... Let us make our salvation." Prahlāda Mahārāja said, "No,
no, no, I don't want. I don't want. If there is salvation, I must take them also." This is
Vaiṣṇava. "I don't want such salvation for my personal..." This is Vaiṣṇava,
para-duḥkha-duḥkhī. Para-duḥkha-duḥkhī kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye (CC
Madhya 6.254). Naturally a Vaiṣṇava will be unhappy. Śoce tato vimukha-cetasa
indriyārtha-māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān (SB 7.9.43). You know this verse? So
we must know that these so-called leaders... Just see. He could not do it nicely.
Talk with Svarupa Damodara -- June 20, 1977, Vrndavana:
Prabhupāda: And the knowledge distribution takes some time. They have distributed
ignorance by taking time. We have to distribute knowledge by taking time. False
knowledge... Simply promise, future hope... Durāśayā. Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām
(SB 7.5.30). Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum durāśayā bahir-artha-māninaḥ, andhā
yathāndhair upanīyamānā... (SB 7.5.31). The society remains in darkness, misled by blind
men. We want to save the human society from this catastrophe. This is our noble mission.
Why they should remain in darkness? Karmīs, jñānīs, yogis.... That should be. Just like
some professor in Bangalore, they are trying to expose this Sai Baba. Why? Because they
are scientific men, they are protesting, "Why this rascal should keep so many men in
darkness? The same rascal. By false propaganda he is appearing mukta, God. What about
Sai Baba? We don't see anything.
Room Conversation -- July 10, 1977, Vrndavana:
Mr. Myer: Hindi is good. Hindi, English. In fact, he's now very obvious data.(?) He's very well
connected. He's known to local governor and people each end in Calcutta. In fact, (indistinct)
recommended you to start a center there. But only, you see, that so many faiths people start
believing in. He has been believing in Sai Baba sometime. So I was not wanting... But he'll
change. It's just a matter of time.
Prabhupāda: The Sai Baba has been challenged in so many ways.

Mr. Myer: I went one day. I was sitting. I watched him, and he said "Come with me," and... It
was a while back. So like that, he's... But then when I told him about ISKCON he's definitely
interested to know all about that. Because my eldest brother, he became a member first in
Māyāpura about four or five years ago.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda said Sai Baba has been exposed in so many ways now.

Mr. Myer: Yes. Biggest problem with him is, see, that he has some sort of a charm over
people. Mainly people who go to him, they want some miracles. People who want some...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Room Conversation -- July 10, 1977, Vrndavana:

Prabhupāda: This Sai Baba.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sai Baba is a drunkard.

Mr. Myer: He is chewing pān twenty-four hours a day. His teeth are all red. Most of the time,
when he goes there, he is...

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda said he doesn't just chew pān. He drinks. He's a heavy drinker.

Mr. Myer: But these are all nothing. It is all temporary. When the sun shines, then all these
little glows, they just automatically go off.

Prabhupāda: You are leaving when?

Correspondence
1974 Correspondence
Letter to Dr. Santosh Kumar -- Bombay 20 December, 1974: I am in due receipt of your letter
dated 18, November 1974. I thank you very much for your kind appreciations of our
movement. Actually this Hare Krsna Movement is going all over the world, because the
message of Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spoken. I am just like a
peon carrying the message of Lord Krsna and Lord Krsna's message, being perfect, it will be
appreciated everywhere in any part of the universe. So far others are concerned, as you
spoke of Satya Sai Baba, he wants to claim himself as Bhagavan, unfortunately. He can not
give any faultless message. The definition of Bhagavan is given in the sastras as one who
possesses six kinds of opulences. Nobody is greater than Bhagavan, Krsna. Therefore if we
take Krsna's message we will actually be benefited, otherwise not. It will be partial and
insufficient.
1975 Correspondence
Letter to Mahamsa -- Honolulu 3 June, 1975: Regarding Acyutananda's preaching, what is
the use of criticizing Sai Baba and creating some enemies? Do not do this in public
meetings. It is different to do it in a private meeting. You can discuss all details about the
farm with Hamsaduta and then do the needful. He will be coming there very soon. Anyway I
am forwarding your report to him for his information. Regarding registration with the
Endowments dept., you can discuss this with Gopala Krishna.
1976 Correspondence
Letter to Riddha -- Detroit 15 June, 1976: In that newspaper, The Leader, it is very good
indication of our acceptance by the South African community. They are clearly rejecting all
these bogus rascals like Sai Baba and in the same issue they are glorifying our Rathayatra
festival. So this is good sign that they welcome Jagannatha and so you can arrange to have
Jagannatha Deities and Rathayatra festival in Durban. Just like when I first began our
Rathayatra in San Francisco, all we had was a flatbed truck for the Ratha-cart. So do it
immediately. They are eager for it, and this will give life to the Hindus in South Africa.
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