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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2></div>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" level="3"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3></div>
<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 7 - 12"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3>
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<div id="BG1045_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="96" link="BG 10.4-5" link_text="BG 10.4-5">
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<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:BG 10.4-5|BG 10.4-5]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Asammoha, freedom from doubt and delusion, can be achieved when one is not hesitant and when he understands the transcendental philosophy. Slowly but surely he becomes free from bewilderment. Nothing should be accepted blindly; everything should be accepted with care and with caution.</div>
<div class="heading">Nothing should be accepted blindly; everything should be accepted with care and with caution.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 10.4-5 (1972)|BG 10.4-5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Asammoha, freedom from doubt and delusion, can be achieved when one is not hesitant and when he understands the transcendental philosophy. Slowly but surely he becomes free from bewilderment. Nothing should be accepted blindly; everything should be accepted with care and with caution.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 4"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div>
<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" level="3"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3></div>
<div id="SB42472_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1050" link="SB 4.24.72" link_text="SB 4.24.72">
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<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.72|SB 4.24.72]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Since there were not very many living entities in the beginning, Viṣṇu entrusted Brahmā with the business of creation, and Brahmā in his turn created many hundreds and thousands of demigods and great sages to continue with the creation. At the same time, Lord Brahmā cautioned all his sons and disciples by reciting the prayers now recited by Lord Śiva. The material creation means material engagement, but material engagements can be counteracted if we always remember our relationship with the Lord as that relationship is described in these prayers recited by Lord Śiva. In this way we can remain constantly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</div>
<div class="heading">Lord Brahmā cautioned all his sons and disciples by reciting the prayers now recited by Lord Śiva.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.24.72|SB 4.24.72, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Since there were not very many living entities in the beginning, Viṣṇu entrusted Brahmā with the business of creation, and Brahmā in his turn created many hundreds and thousands of demigods and great sages to continue with the creation. At the same time, Lord Brahmā cautioned all his sons and disciples by reciting the prayers now recited by Lord Śiva. The material creation means material engagement, but material engagements can be counteracted if we always remember our relationship with the Lord as that relationship is described in these prayers recited by Lord Śiva. In this way we can remain constantly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 5"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" level="3"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3></div>
<div id="SB587_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="180" link="SB 5.8.7" link_text="SB 5.8.7">
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<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:SB 5.8.7|SB 5.8.7]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence. By studying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata, we can learn the art of becoming completely freed from all material attachment. As it will be revealed in later verses, Bharata Mahārāja had to accept the body of a deer due to being overly compassionate for this infant deer. We should be compassionate by raising one from the material platform to the spiritual platform; otherwise at any moment our spiritual advancement may be spoiled, and we may fall down onto the material platform. Mahārāja Bharata's compassion for the deer was the beginning of his falldown into the material world.</div>
<div class="heading">Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.8.7|SB 5.8.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence. By studying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata, we can learn the art of becoming completely freed from all material attachment. As it will be revealed in later verses, Bharata Mahārāja had to accept the body of a deer due to being overly compassionate for this infant deer. We should be compassionate by raising one from the material platform to the spiritual platform; otherwise at any moment our spiritual advancement may be spoiled, and we may fall down onto the material platform. Mahārāja Bharata's compassion for the deer was the beginning of his falldown into the material world.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div class="heading">One should not be misled by mental concoctions, supposing his material body to be perfect and deeming oneself a sakhī. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has cautioned mundaners to abstain from such conceptions.
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2></div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.204-205|CC Madhya 8.204-205, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not be misled by mental concoctions, supposing his material body to be perfect and deeming oneself a sakhī. This is something like ahaṅgrahopāsanā, that is, a Māyāvādī's worship of his own body as the Supreme. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has cautioned mundaners to abstain from such conceptions. He also warns that thinking oneself one of the associates of the Supreme without following in the footsteps of the gopīs is as offensive as thinking oneself the Supreme. Such thinking is an aparādha. One has to practice living in Vṛndāvana by hearing about the talks of the gopīs with Kṛṣṇa. However, one should not consider himself a gopī, for this is offensive.</p>
<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" level="3"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3></div>
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<div id="CCMadhya8204205_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1600" link="CC Madhya 8.204–205" link_text="CC Madhya 8.204–205">
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<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.204–205|CC Madhya 8.204–205]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">One should not be misled by mental concoctions, supposing his material body to be perfect and deeming oneself a sakhī. This is something like ahaṅgrahopāsanā, that is, a Māyāvādī’s worship of his own body as the Supreme. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has cautioned mundaners to abstain from such conceptions. He also warns that thinking oneself one of the associates of the Supreme without following in the footsteps of the gopīs is as offensive as thinking oneself the Supreme. Such thinking is an aparādha. One has to practice living in Vṛndāvana by hearing about the talks of the gopīs with Kṛṣṇa. However, one should not consider himself a gopī, for this is offensive.</div>
<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" level="3"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3></div>
<div id="CCAntya322_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="409" link="CC Antya 3.22" link_text="CC Antya 3.22">
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<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.22|CC Antya 3.22]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">“I see no one but you to protect her, for you are so careful that you can caution even Me."</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.22|CC Antya 3.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"I see no one but you to protect her, for you are so careful that you can caution even Me."</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2></div>
<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" level="3"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3></div>
<div id="TLC16_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="22" link="TLC 16" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16">
<div id="TLC16_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="22" link="TLC 16" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:TLC 16|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">One should follow the regulative principles of puraścaraṇa and accept Kṛṣṇa prasāda, rejecting foodstuff which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa. Lord Caitanya also cautioned that one should not indulge in defaming a devotee who has the actual symptoms of a devotee.</div>
<div class="heading">Lord Caitanya also cautioned that one should not indulge in defaming a devotee who has the actual symptoms of a devotee.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 16|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One should follow the regulative principles of puraścaraṇa and accept Kṛṣṇa prasāda, rejecting foodstuff which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa. Lord Caitanya also cautioned that one should not indulge in defaming a devotee who has the actual symptoms of a devotee.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Lectures</h2></div>
<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" level="3"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3></div>
<div id="LectureonSB126LondonAugust271971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971">
<div id="LectureonSB126LondonAugust271971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">This is Vedic injunction. You marry. But don't have sex daily, like cats and dogs. When you require child, then you have sex. That is Vedic injunction. And when the wife is pregnant, no more. These are Vedic injunctions. It's allowing to sex life, but under caution. Similarly, those who are meat-eaters: "Oh, I cannot do without eating meat." "All right. Eat meat." Vedic injunction. "You just, on amāvasyā, on the dark night, you just take a goat and go to the goddess Kālī and kill this animal. And the mantra is... The animal is given this mantra: 'My dear animal, you are giving your life for this man. So you get next a human life and you have the right to kill this man.' " Now any sane man, who will take this risk, "Oh, I am killing this animal again to be killed by him"? Better give up this job. (laughter) These are the Vedic injunctions. If you want to drink wine, "All right. Have canḍī-pūjā." Everything is there.</div>
<div class="heading">These are Vedic injunctions. It's allowing to sex life, but under caution.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is Vedic injunction. You marry. But don't have sex daily, like cats and dogs. When you require child, then you have sex. That is Vedic injunction. And when the wife is pregnant, no more. These are Vedic injunctions. It's allowing to sex life, but under caution. Similarly, those who are meat-eaters: "Oh, I cannot do without eating meat." "All right. Eat meat." Vedic injunction. "You just, on amāvasyā, on the dark night, you just take a goat and go to the goddess Kālī and kill this animal. And the mantra is... The animal is given this mantra: 'My dear animal, you are giving your life for this man. So you get next a human life and you have the right to kill this man.' " Now any sane man, who will take this risk, "Oh, I am killing this animal again to be killed by him"? Better give up this job. (laughter) These are the Vedic injunctions. If you want to drink wine, "All right. Have canḍī-pūjā." Everything is there.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2></div>
<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" level="3"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div>
<div id="MorningWalkDecember121975Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="259" link="Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana">
<div id="MorningWalkDecember121975Vrndavana_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="259" link="Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana|Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana]]:</b> </span><div class="text">Harikeśa: One has to be very careful.
<div class="heading">A civilized man takes process, caution, "Oh there is smallpox disease, I shall not go there. Or if I go there, I must take vaccine." This is human civilization, caution.
 
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Prabhupāda: Yes. Otherwise even a devotee like Bhārata Mahārāja, he had to accept the body of a deer. A little careless. Then nature's law will act. Hm? If you do not become cautious and if you infect the smallpox disease, you have to suffer. Therefore a civilized man takes process, caution, "Oh there is smallpox disease, I shall not go there. Or if I go there, I must take vaccine." This is human civilization, caution. And if you are animal, you do not know. So human life means not animal life. Very reasonable, very cautious, educated, cultured, that is human life. Not animal life.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana|Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Harikeśa: One has to be very careful.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Otherwise even a devotee like Bhārata Mahārāja, he had to accept the body of a deer. A little careless. Then nature's law will act. Hm? If you do not become cautious and if you infect the smallpox disease, you have to suffer. Therefore a civilized man takes process, caution, "Oh there is smallpox disease, I shall not go there. Or if I go there, I must take vaccine." This is human civilization, caution. And if you are animal, you do not know. So human life means not animal life. Very reasonable, very cautious, educated, cultured, that is human life. Not animal life.</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" level="2"><h2>Correspondence</h2></div>
<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" level="3"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3></div>
<div id="LettertoSrutasravaDelhi18November1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="524" link="Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971">
<div id="LettertoSrutasravaDelhi18November1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="524" link="Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971|Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">I have instructed Sridama, that if he is willing then the match may take place. However I must caution that we must be careful to avoid so far as possible affection for family based on sense gratification. Be happy in your family life by working cooperatively to please Krishna, and she should be your assistant. We must always feel the grave responsibility of serving Krishna.</div>
<div class="heading">I must caution that we must be careful to avoid so far as possible affection for family based on sense gratification.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971|Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have instructed Sridama, that if he is willing then the match may take place. However I must caution that we must be careful to avoid so far as possible affection for family based on sense gratification. Be happy in your family life by working cooperatively to please Krishna, and she should be your assistant. We must always feel the grave responsibility of serving Krishna.</p>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" level="3"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3></div>
<div id="LettertoAmoghaMadras15February1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="88" link="Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972">
<div id="LettertoAmoghaMadras15February1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="88" link="Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972|Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Now I have just got a complaint, both in writing and in person, from a man studying here in Madras who is supposed to be engaged to marry a young girl by name of A. Satyabama, who lives at #8A Krishnan Temple, Taiping, Malaysia. He complains that you and others of our devotees in Malaysia have somehow or other caused some disturbance in the girl's family, especially Hanuman, and has requested me to ask you to not interfere in the matter anymore. Now I do not do not know what are the details, but you may inform me. We must be very careful to avoid anything scandalous in our dealings, and always keep to the highest standards of respect and courtesy. So kindly deal with such matters in future with great caution and tactfully so that our Movement may not get a bad reputation, especially among people who are very sensitive to such things. I know in your country the mixing between boys and girls is very ordinary thing, but in our Asian countries one must be very very careful about such matters, so kindly inform Hanuman and the others in this way.</div>
<div class="heading">We must be very careful to avoid anything scandalous in our dealings, and always keep to the highest standards of respect and courtesy. So kindly deal with such matters in future with great caution and tactfully so that our Movement may not get a bad reputation, especially among people who are very sensitive to such things.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972|Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I have just got a complaint, both in writing and in person, from a man studying here in Madras who is supposed to be engaged to marry a young girl by name of A. Satyabama, who lives at #8A Krishnan Temple, Taiping, Malaysia. He complains that you and others of our devotees in Malaysia have somehow or other caused some disturbance in the girl's family, especially Hanuman, and has requested me to ask you to not interfere in the matter anymore. Now I do not do not know what are the details, but you may inform me. We must be very careful to avoid anything scandalous in our dealings, and always keep to the highest standards of respect and courtesy. So kindly deal with such matters in future with great caution and tactfully so that our Movement may not get a bad reputation, especially among people who are very sensitive to such things. I know in your country the mixing between boys and girls is very ordinary thing, but in our Asian countries one must be very very careful about such matters, so kindly inform Hanuman and the others in this way.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGunagrahiNewYork3July1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="348" link="Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972">
<div id="LettertoGunagrahiNewYork3July1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="348" link="Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972|Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Worship of Radha-Krishna Deities is the ultimate pinnacle of Deity worship, and it must be done with the utmost caution and attention to every detail of giving opulent service. I am not recommending more temples to install Radha-Krishna Deities until I have become more convinced that they can properly manage. At least five to ten persons must be engaged full time to worship Radha-Krishna properly, and for any small temple especially that is a detrimental factor to maintaining the highest standard in other temple activities besides, because there are not enough men. You may worship Lord Jagannatha, or if you like to install Gaura-Gauranga, Gaura-Nitai, or simply Gaura Deity, He is also very liberal and will forgive and tolerate any service offered to Him even by Jagai and Madhai.</div>
<div class="heading">Worship of Radha-Krishna Deities is the ultimate pinnacle of Deity worship, and it must be done with the utmost caution and attention to every detail of giving opulent service.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972|Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Worship of Radha-Krishna Deities is the ultimate pinnacle of Deity worship, and it must be done with the utmost caution and attention to every detail of giving opulent service. I am not recommending more temples to install Radha-Krishna Deities until I have become more convinced that they can properly manage. At least five to ten persons must be engaged full time to worship Radha-Krishna properly, and for any small temple especially that is a detrimental factor to maintaining the highest standard in other temple activities besides, because there are not enough men. You may worship Lord Jagannatha, or if you like to install Gaura-Gauranga, Gaura-Nitai, or simply Gaura Deity, He is also very liberal and will forgive and tolerate any service offered to Him even by Jagai and Madhai.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" level="3"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3></div>
<div id="LettertoBhaktiBombay23March1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="90" link="Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974" link_text="Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974">
<div id="LettertoBhaktiBombay23March1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="90" link="Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974" link_text="Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974">
<span class="link"><b>[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974|Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974]]:</b> </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Please accept my blessings. I have received from you the name of one devotee recommended for second initiation, Santipani devi dasi. So I am enclosing one gayatri mantra. Have her hear the mantra through the right ear, of me chanting gayatri. I have already cautioned you that the second initiation should be given out only when you are certain that the devotee is really following all our principles, so now instruct her further on the seriousness of following the regulative principles of Krsna Consciousness. All the devotees there are in your charge so by your example they will best be encouraged to enthusiastic advancement.</div>
<div class="heading">I have already cautioned you that the second initiation should be given out only when you are certain that the devotee is really following all our principles.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974|Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I have received from you the name of one devotee recommended for second initiation, Santipani devi dasi. So I am enclosing one gayatri mantra. Have her hear the mantra through the right ear, of me chanting gayatri. I have already cautioned you that the second initiation should be given out only when you are certain that the devotee is really following all our principles, so now instruct her further on the seriousness of following the regulative principles of Krsna Consciousness. All the devotees there are in your charge so by your example they will best be encouraged to enthusiastic advancement.</p>
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 7 - 12

Nothing should be accepted blindly; everything should be accepted with care and with caution.
BG 10.4-5, Purport:

Asammoha, freedom from doubt and delusion, can be achieved when one is not hesitant and when he understands the transcendental philosophy. Slowly but surely he becomes free from bewilderment. Nothing should be accepted blindly; everything should be accepted with care and with caution.

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 4

Lord Brahmā cautioned all his sons and disciples by reciting the prayers now recited by Lord Śiva.
SB 4.24.72, Purport:

Since there were not very many living entities in the beginning, Viṣṇu entrusted Brahmā with the business of creation, and Brahmā in his turn created many hundreds and thousands of demigods and great sages to continue with the creation. At the same time, Lord Brahmā cautioned all his sons and disciples by reciting the prayers now recited by Lord Śiva. The material creation means material engagement, but material engagements can be counteracted if we always remember our relationship with the Lord as that relationship is described in these prayers recited by Lord Śiva. In this way we can remain constantly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

SB Canto 5

Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence.
SB 5.8.7, Purport:

Spiritual salvation and liberation from material bondage must be worked out with great caution, otherwise a little discrepancy will cause one to fall down again into material existence. By studying the activities of Mahārāja Bharata, we can learn the art of becoming completely freed from all material attachment. As it will be revealed in later verses, Bharata Mahārāja had to accept the body of a deer due to being overly compassionate for this infant deer. We should be compassionate by raising one from the material platform to the spiritual platform; otherwise at any moment our spiritual advancement may be spoiled, and we may fall down onto the material platform. Mahārāja Bharata's compassion for the deer was the beginning of his falldown into the material world.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Madhya-lila

One should not be misled by mental concoctions, supposing his material body to be perfect and deeming oneself a sakhī. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has cautioned mundaners to abstain from such conceptions.
CC Madhya 8.204-205, Purport:

One should not be misled by mental concoctions, supposing his material body to be perfect and deeming oneself a sakhī. This is something like ahaṅgrahopāsanā, that is, a Māyāvādī's worship of his own body as the Supreme. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has cautioned mundaners to abstain from such conceptions. He also warns that thinking oneself one of the associates of the Supreme without following in the footsteps of the gopīs is as offensive as thinking oneself the Supreme. Such thinking is an aparādha. One has to practice living in Vṛndāvana by hearing about the talks of the gopīs with Kṛṣṇa. However, one should not consider himself a gopī, for this is offensive.

CC Antya-lila

CC Antya 3.22, Translation:

"I see no one but you to protect her, for you are so careful that you can caution even Me."

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Teachings of Lord Caitanya

Lord Caitanya also cautioned that one should not indulge in defaming a devotee who has the actual symptoms of a devotee.
Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16:

One should follow the regulative principles of puraścaraṇa and accept Kṛṣṇa prasāda, rejecting foodstuff which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa. Lord Caitanya also cautioned that one should not indulge in defaming a devotee who has the actual symptoms of a devotee.

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

These are Vedic injunctions. It's allowing to sex life, but under caution.
Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 27, 1971:

This is Vedic injunction. You marry. But don't have sex daily, like cats and dogs. When you require child, then you have sex. That is Vedic injunction. And when the wife is pregnant, no more. These are Vedic injunctions. It's allowing to sex life, but under caution. Similarly, those who are meat-eaters: "Oh, I cannot do without eating meat." "All right. Eat meat." Vedic injunction. "You just, on amāvasyā, on the dark night, you just take a goat and go to the goddess Kālī and kill this animal. And the mantra is... The animal is given this mantra: 'My dear animal, you are giving your life for this man. So you get next a human life and you have the right to kill this man.' " Now any sane man, who will take this risk, "Oh, I am killing this animal again to be killed by him"? Better give up this job. (laughter) These are the Vedic injunctions. If you want to drink wine, "All right. Have canḍī-pūjā." Everything is there.

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

A civilized man takes process, caution, "Oh there is smallpox disease, I shall not go there. Or if I go there, I must take vaccine." This is human civilization, caution.
Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana:

Harikeśa: One has to be very careful.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Otherwise even a devotee like Bhārata Mahārāja, he had to accept the body of a deer. A little careless. Then nature's law will act. Hm? If you do not become cautious and if you infect the smallpox disease, you have to suffer. Therefore a civilized man takes process, caution, "Oh there is smallpox disease, I shall not go there. Or if I go there, I must take vaccine." This is human civilization, caution. And if you are animal, you do not know. So human life means not animal life. Very reasonable, very cautious, educated, cultured, that is human life. Not animal life.

Correspondence

1971 Correspondence

I must caution that we must be careful to avoid so far as possible affection for family based on sense gratification.
Letter to Srutasrava -- Delhi 18 November, 1971:

I have instructed Sridama, that if he is willing then the match may take place. However I must caution that we must be careful to avoid so far as possible affection for family based on sense gratification. Be happy in your family life by working cooperatively to please Krishna, and she should be your assistant. We must always feel the grave responsibility of serving Krishna.

1972 Correspondence

We must be very careful to avoid anything scandalous in our dealings, and always keep to the highest standards of respect and courtesy. So kindly deal with such matters in future with great caution and tactfully so that our Movement may not get a bad reputation, especially among people who are very sensitive to such things.
Letter to Amogha -- Madras 15 February, 1972:

Now I have just got a complaint, both in writing and in person, from a man studying here in Madras who is supposed to be engaged to marry a young girl by name of A. Satyabama, who lives at #8A Krishnan Temple, Taiping, Malaysia. He complains that you and others of our devotees in Malaysia have somehow or other caused some disturbance in the girl's family, especially Hanuman, and has requested me to ask you to not interfere in the matter anymore. Now I do not do not know what are the details, but you may inform me. We must be very careful to avoid anything scandalous in our dealings, and always keep to the highest standards of respect and courtesy. So kindly deal with such matters in future with great caution and tactfully so that our Movement may not get a bad reputation, especially among people who are very sensitive to such things. I know in your country the mixing between boys and girls is very ordinary thing, but in our Asian countries one must be very very careful about such matters, so kindly inform Hanuman and the others in this way.

Worship of Radha-Krishna Deities is the ultimate pinnacle of Deity worship, and it must be done with the utmost caution and attention to every detail of giving opulent service.
Letter to Gunagrahi -- New York 3 July, 1972:

Worship of Radha-Krishna Deities is the ultimate pinnacle of Deity worship, and it must be done with the utmost caution and attention to every detail of giving opulent service. I am not recommending more temples to install Radha-Krishna Deities until I have become more convinced that they can properly manage. At least five to ten persons must be engaged full time to worship Radha-Krishna properly, and for any small temple especially that is a detrimental factor to maintaining the highest standard in other temple activities besides, because there are not enough men. You may worship Lord Jagannatha, or if you like to install Gaura-Gauranga, Gaura-Nitai, or simply Gaura Deity, He is also very liberal and will forgive and tolerate any service offered to Him even by Jagai and Madhai.

1974 Correspondence

I have already cautioned you that the second initiation should be given out only when you are certain that the devotee is really following all our principles.
Letter to Bhakti -- Bombay 23 March, 1974:

Please accept my blessings. I have received from you the name of one devotee recommended for second initiation, Santipani devi dasi. So I am enclosing one gayatri mantra. Have her hear the mantra through the right ear, of me chanting gayatri. I have already cautioned you that the second initiation should be given out only when you are certain that the devotee is really following all our principles, so now instruct her further on the seriousness of following the regulative principles of Krsna Consciousness. All the devotees there are in your charge so by your example they will best be encouraged to enthusiastic advancement.