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Should we have karmi photographs in our magazines?

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"Should we have karmi photographs in our magazines"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

That is not good.
Room Conversation With Artists and About BTG -- February 25, 1977, Mayapura:

Brahmānanda: Should we have karmī photographs in our magazines?

Rāmeśvara: What do you mean?

Brahmānanda: Like in the English issue they have three photographs of torture.

Prabhupāda: That is not good.

Rāmeśvara: Torture? What do you mean?

Brahmānanda: They show a man being burned by fire, a man being pulled his body apart, a man hanging.

Prabhupāda: No, that is not...

Brahmānanda: Three photographs.

Rāmeśvara: But not all karmī photographs are bad. Sometimes we use karmī...

Brahmānanda: And now our magazine has no pictures of Kṛṣṇa. The last English edition had not one picture of Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: That's not good.

Rāmeśvara: In the past we were using either a photograph of devotees on the cover doing something or a painting. And in the middle of the magazine we used to have stories either from Kṛṣṇa book or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Prabhupāda: Hm.

Rāmeśvara: Then there was the use for some pictures.

Prabhupāda: So, do this.

Rāmeśvara: Sometimes they don't... They print different contents.

Prabhupāda: No, we are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa must be there.

Hari-śauri: We can't produce a magazine without Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Without Kṛṣṇa. That is not good. We cannot allow.

Rāmeśvara: I mean, the only place for pictures of Kṛṣṇa...

Prabhupāda: No, every, every...

Rāmeśvara: ...is in illustrating a story. When illustrating one of the pastimes....

Prabhupāda: No. We print... We must, therefore, publish Bhāgavatam, Kṛṣṇa philosophy.

Rāmeśvara: We're publishing Bhāgavatam as an insert in each magazine.

Prabhupāda: Yes, so that must be there.

Rāmeśvara: So then there could be a picture to relate to that.

Prabhupāda: A picture of Kṛṣṇa philosophy in the... Yes.

Hari-śauri: There's always an article of Your Divine Grace anyway, and you're always speaking about Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Hm.

Hari-śauri: So surely you could put an illustration on that.

Rāmeśvara: We could, but the standard is we use just Prabhupāda speaking, showing Prabhupāda.

Hari-śauri: But there was that hand pouring that thing into the test tube, which... No one liked that.

Rāmeśvara: No one heard the reason. I don't like it either, but I understand why they did it. You have to hear both sides, you know.

Hari-śauri: Well, there's always a reason. But you have to get to the point-Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Even it is eso..., esopheric? What is called?

Devotees: Esoteric.

Prabhupāda: Still, Kṛṣṇa must be there.

Rāmeśvara: So you think... You say that in every issue there should be at least one picture, painting, of Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Hm. And Bhāgavata.

Page Title:Should we have karmi photographs in our magazines?
Compiler:Rishab
Created:25 of Aug, 2011
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