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| | <div class="section" id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div> |
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| | <div class="heading">In Bengal there is a proverb that instead of having no maternal uncle, it is better to have a maternal uncle who is blind. The King accepted this philosophy, thinking that a disobedient son would be better than no son at all.</div> |
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| == Srimad-Bhagavatam ==
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| <span class="q_heading">'''In Bengal there is a proverb that instead of having no maternal uncle, it is better to have a maternal uncle who is blind. The King accepted this philosophy, thinking that a disobedient son would be better than no son at all.'''</span>
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| <span class="SB-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:SB 6.14.29|SB 6.14.29, Translation and Purport]]: Thereafter, the great sage told the King, "O great King, now you will have a son who will be the cause of both jubilation and lamentation." The sage then left, without waiting for Citraketu's response.''' | |
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| The word harṣa means "jubilation," and śoka means "lamentation." The King was overwhelmed with joy when he understood that he would have a son. Because of his great jubilation, he could not actually understand the statement of the sage Aṅgirā. He accepted it to mean that there would certainly be jubilation because of the birth of his future son, but that he would be the King's only son and, being very proud of his great wealth and empire, would not be very obedient to his father. Thus the King was satisfied, thinking, "Let there be a son. It does not matter if he is not very obedient." In Bengal there is a proverb that instead of having no maternal uncle, it is better to have a maternal uncle who is blind. The King accepted this philosophy, thinking that a disobedient son would be better than no son at all. The great sage Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says: | | The word harṣa means "jubilation," and śoka means "lamentation." The King was overwhelmed with joy when he understood that he would have a son. Because of his great jubilation, he could not actually understand the statement of the sage Aṅgirā. He accepted it to mean that there would certainly be jubilation because of the birth of his future son, but that he would be the King's only son and, being very proud of his great wealth and empire, would not be very obedient to his father. Thus the King was satisfied, thinking, "Let there be a son. It does not matter if he is not very obedient." In Bengal there is a proverb that instead of having no maternal uncle, it is better to have a maternal uncle who is blind. The King accepted this philosophy, thinking that a disobedient son would be better than no son at all. The great sage Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says: |
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| "What is the use of a son who is neither a learned scholar nor a devotee? Such a son is like a blind, diseased eye, which always causes suffering." Nevertheless, the material world is so polluted that one wants to have a son even though he is useless. This attitude was represented in the history of King Citraketu.</span> | | "What is the use of a son who is neither a learned scholar nor a devotee? Such a son is like a blind, diseased eye, which always causes suffering." Nevertheless, the material world is so polluted that one wants to have a son even though he is useless. This attitude was represented in the history of King Citraketu.</div> |
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| == Conversations and Morning Walks == | | <div class="section" id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2></div> |
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| === 1976 Conversations and Morning Walks === | | <div class="sub_section" id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div> |
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| <span class="q_heading">'''What can be done? Ne māmā che kānā māmā. "If there is no uncle, one blind uncle is all right." So the matter is now clear.'''</span> | | <div class="quote" book="Con" link="Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad"> |
| | <div class="heading">What can be done? Ne māmā che kānā māmā. "If there is no uncle, one blind uncle is all right." So the matter is now clear.</div> |
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| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad]]:''' | | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation -- December 12, 1976, Hyderabad]]:''' |
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| Mahāṁśa: Yes, he himself will come. But he will have the habit of smoking and I think we can at the most regulate his smoking. "If you want to smoke, you go somewhere far away and smoke and before you start cooking you must wash yourself, have a bath, and then do the cooking." | | Mahāṁśa: Yes, he himself will come. But he will have the habit of smoking and I think we can at the most regulate his smoking. "If you want to smoke, you go somewhere far away and smoke and before you start cooking you must wash yourself, have a bath, and then do the cooking." |
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| Prabhupāda: Yes. What can be done? Ne māmā che kānā māmā (?) "If there is no uncle, one blind uncle is all right." So the matter is now clear. You do it and develop it.</span> | | Prabhupāda: Yes. What can be done? Ne māmā che kānā māmā (?) "If there is no uncle, one blind uncle is all right." So the matter is now clear. You do it and develop it.</div> |
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| === 1977 Conversations and Morning Walks === | | <div class="sub_section" id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3></div> |
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| <span class="q_heading">'''We have to accept whatever is offered. Kānā māmā [blind uncle]. Without māmā, better a blind māmā. That's all. That is our policy. So to remain without māmā is not very good choice. Must have a māmā. Never mind he is blind. That is our policy.'''</span> | | <span class="q_heading">'''We have to accept whatever is offered. Kānā māmā [blind uncle]. Without māmā, better a blind māmā. That's all. That is our policy. So to remain without māmā is not very good choice. Must have a māmā. Never mind he is blind. That is our policy.'''</span> |
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| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation "GBC Resolutions" -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation "GBC Resolutions" -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura]]:''' | | <div class="quote" book="Con" link="Room Conversation GBC Resolutions -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation "GBC Resolutions" -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura"> |
| | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Room Conversation "GBC Resolutions" -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation "GBC Resolutions" -- March 1, 1977, Mayapura]]:''' |
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| Prabhupāda: So what you have decided? Yogeśvara was doing nice in translation, his wife was doing nice. So why should we lose these important hands? | | Prabhupāda: So what you have decided? Yogeśvara was doing nice in translation, his wife was doing nice. So why should we lose these important hands? |
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| <span class="CON-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Conversation and Instruction On New Movie -- January 13, 1977, Allahabad|Conversation and Instruction On New Movie -- January 13, 1977, Allahabad]]:''' | | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Conversation and Instruction On New Movie -- January 13, 1977, Allahabad|Conversation and Instruction On New Movie -- January 13, 1977, Allahabad]]:''' |
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| == Correspondence == | | <div class="section" id="Correspondence" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2></div> |
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| === 1971 Correspondence === | | <div class="sub_section" id="1971_Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3></div> |
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| <span class="q_heading">'''If there are amply books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on books. One book is not very impressive. Still, a blind uncle is better than no uncle at all, so it is very nice that one book has appeared.'''</span> | | <div class="quote" book="Let" link="Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 28 December, 1971" link_text="Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 28 December, 1971"> |
| | <div class="heading">If there are amply books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on books. One book is not very impressive. Still, a blind uncle is better than no uncle at all, so it is very nice that one book has appeared.</div> |
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| <span class="LET-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 28 December, 1971|Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 28 December, 1971]]:''' am very pleased to see that the foreign literature is being produced nicely under your enthusiastic supervision. Just try to increase more and more our output of such books and magazines in many languages—otherwise how will preaching go on in these places? Though we have been settled in European countries for many years now, only now you are printing the first book in French language, and there is only one book done in German language. So the record has not been good, therefore our preaching work in these countries has not been going very well, and I think now things are not going too well in France and Germany centers. So if somehow or other you can produce profuse books for these places, spend your all time translating, organizing, printing and distributing such books in foreign languages, then I think you will be able to improve the situation there. If there are amply books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on books. One book is not very impressive. Still, a blind uncle is better than no uncle at all, so it is very nice that one book has appeared, and that BTG is appearing at least several issues in other languages. But now try to produce at least four or five new books per year in several languages, plus regularly BTG every month. That will be your success. You are very sincere and hard-working boy—now just take good direction from your senior godbrothers and apply yourself fully to this very great responsibility of producing numerous books in foreign languages.</span> | | <div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 28 December, 1971|Letter to Yogesvara -- Bombay 28 December, 1971]]:''' am very pleased to see that the foreign literature is being produced nicely under your enthusiastic supervision. Just try to increase more and more our output of such books and magazines in many languages—otherwise how will preaching go on in these places? Though we have been settled in European countries for many years now, only now you are printing the first book in French language, and there is only one book done in German language. So the record has not been good, therefore our preaching work in these countries has not been going very well, and I think now things are not going too well in France and Germany centers. So if somehow or other you can produce profuse books for these places, spend your all time translating, organizing, printing and distributing such books in foreign languages, then I think you will be able to improve the situation there. If there are amply books, everything else will succeed. Practically our Society is built on books. One book is not very impressive. Still, a blind uncle is better than no uncle at all, so it is very nice that one book has appeared, and that BTG is appearing at least several issues in other languages. But now try to produce at least four or five new books per year in several languages, plus regularly BTG every month. That will be your success. You are very sincere and hard-working boy—now just take good direction from your senior godbrothers and apply yourself fully to this very great responsibility of producing numerous books in foreign languages.</div> |
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