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<div id="LettertoKarandharaMayapur29January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="83" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Mayapur 29 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Mayapur 29 January, 1976">
<div class="heading">The photos of my murti are very nice. The murti of the Spiritual Master should be treated as good as the Deity. Saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair, uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih/kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya **, The guru should be treated as good as God.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Mayapur 29 January, 1976|Letter to Karandhara -- Mayapur 29 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear Karandhara,</p>
<p>Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated January 21st, 1976.</p>
<p>The photos of my murti are very nice. The murti of the Spiritual Master should be treated as good as the Deity. Saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair, uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih/kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya **, The guru should be treated as good as God. This is stated in all the sastras. The difference is that God is master-God and guru is servant-God. So the installation ceremony for such a murti should be similar to that done for other Deities. All Temples can have this Deity if they like. But Temples which have only Panca-tattva painting worship should not be given this Deity.</p>
<p>You should make a murti of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and then they may be worshiped together as is now being done in our Krishna Balarama Temple. They should be placed with Gaura Nitai—Guru Gauranga.</p>
<p>I hope this meets you well.</p>
<p>Your ever well-wisher,</p>
<p>A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami</p>
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