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<div id="LettertoAtreyaRsiBombay15November1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="568" link="Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 15 November, 1974" link_text="Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 15 November, 1974">
<div class="heading">You say that you are all fools. When you can understand that you are a fool that means that you are a little intelligent because you can detect your own foolishness. Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to remain a fool just to teach us how to make progress in spiritual life.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 15 November, 1974|Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 15 November, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You say that you are all fools. When you can understand that you are a fool that means that you are a little intelligent because you can detect your own foolishness. Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to remain a fool just to teach us how to make progress in spiritual life. All Vaisnavas not artificially but seriously think themselves as foolish. The more we remain foolish, the more we remain eager to learn for spiritual advancement in life.</p>
<p>Now you are a practical business manager, so we are expanding by Krishna's grace; so try to make some formula so our institution may go on without any difficulty. In your letter to Ramesvara you call for a meeting of GBC to develop a system of management and communications which will eliminate chances of recurrences. This is a good suggestion you have made, so when we next meet together, you must give it some practical shape.</p>
<p>You have also mentioned to repeatedly offer obeisances to your spiritual master. This is very important. A disciple should offer dandabats, not namaskara. The more one becomes fixed up in guru obeisances, the more he advances in spiritual progress. yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau (ŚU 6.23).</p>
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