Self Manifest Deities and Conqueror of All Quarters

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Self Manifest Deities





[Editors Note: The last segment of this article touches upon a very sensitive issue — the disappearance of the Deity at ISKCON Mayapura and the position of the acarya being eagerly taken by unqualified and ambitious disciples. The value of publishing this information in Krsna Talk may be controversial and some may not think that this should have been done. The editors have reflected on this deeply and after taking into consideration that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, on many occasions published articles in which offenders of the Vaisnavas and popular Sahajiya groups were taken to task, it was decided that the facts needed to be addressed. Truth is not always palatable, especially for those who want to continue in this world of illusion. Nonetheless the truth must be spoken — it is the duty of a disciple.]
Question: I have heard that sometimes in India the deities of Ganesa physically drink milk when offered to them. Is this true?
Answer: Yes. There were such rumors of Ganesa deities drinking milk; but what spirituality do we find there? None. You can add those rumors to the thousands of stories created by Hindus to excite the masses into reaffirming their faith in Hinduism. When these stories are let loose, then millions of Hindus crowd to the Ganesa temples and every Tom, Dick and Santosh claims that he or she saw the phenomena. Then everyone starts claiming that the photos of Ganesa in their homes are drinking milk. This is good business for the dairy industry but does not reflect any spiritual principle whatsoever. Rumor also has it that Ganesa drank beer, 7-UP and engine oil — so you can see how such rumors get carried away. Then after a few months everything is forgotten and it’s back to Hinduism as usual.
However, it is the opinion of some intelligent people here in India that the Ganesa milk phenomena was contrived to compete with some of the Christian evangelist propaganda. The incident certainly sounds like the claims of Christians showing the signs of stigmata on their hands and feet or like the weeping Madonna, etc. The Ganesa phenomena however would probably have been more convincing if he had eaten laddus and not simply drank a few drops of milk.
My conclusion is that, as with the stigmata and the weeping Madonna, etc — the Ganesa ‘milk phenomena’ is also a hoax.
Question: During my many travels in India I have visited certain temples where it is claimed that the Deity of Visnu or Krsna was self-manifest. So my second question is, whether it is possible that God self-manifests His Deity form or is it always necessary that an acarya or representative of God be instrumental in establishing a Deity?
Answer: When traveling in India and visiting holy places and ancient temples a ‘grain of salt’ is sometimes advised before blindly believing everything one hears, but it is a fact that since ancient times until quite recently the Supreme Personality of Godhead has indeed self-manifested His Deity form in many places in India. In every instance these self-manifested Deities can be believed as such when we see that great spiritual personalities such as Ramanuja, Madhvacarya, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and others worshipped these Deities. What great personalities accept, we take to be a reality. Otherwise simply believing at face value every story a priest, a panda or a brahmana tells can be misleading.

Some of the ancient self-manifested Deities include; Saligrama in Gandaki, Ranganatha at Srirangam, Nara-Narayana in Badarinatha, Balaji in Tirupati, Narasimha-deva in Mangalagiri, Ahobilam and Nrsimhapalli, Jagannatha in Puri, Vitthala-Krsna in Pandharpur and others. In more recent times, self-manifested Deities include: Radha-Ramana in Vrndavana, Tota-Gopinatha in Puri and Kasisvara Pandita’s Mahaprabhu Deity, now in Jaipur.
All these Deities mentioned above have been accepted by previous acaryas as self-manifest and therefore the same can also be safely accepted today.
An interesting point that I will attempt to make here is that all bona-fide Deities are actually self-manifest. It simply depends on how you define ‘self-manifest’ and under what conditions the ‘self-manifestation’ takes place. That is to say that, the acaryas and those that are near and dear to Krsna and Visnu are non-different from the Lord Himself. Therefore, if a bona-fide acarya or pure devotee installs the Deity we may also consider that it is self-manifest.
acaryam mam vijaniyan navamanyeta karhicit
na martya-buddhyasuyeta sarva-devamayo guruh
“One should know the acarya to be as good as Myself. One should never disrespect him. Never envy him or consider him to be a mundane man for he is the sum total of all the demigods.”(Srimad Bhagavatam 11.17.27)
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Subjective Reality or even more strongly put, Super-subjective Reality. The Deity [arca-vigraha] is the manifest form of Godhead that appears to accept service from His devotee or devotees. The potency of pure devotion attracts Krsna and He manifests Himself to accept His devotees service but the point still remains that ‘He manifested Himself,’ thus ‘self-manifest.’
If one is not a pure devotee or acting under the direct order of a pure devotee, then ones attempt to establish a Deity form of the Lord will amount to establishing a lifeless statue and nothing more. India has thousands of such statues.
Most of the principle Deities worshipped by Gaudiya Vaisnavas were either established by the direct family members of Lord Krsna or manifest by the pure devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Many of the main Deities in Vrndavana were established 4,500 years ago by Vajranabha the great grandson of Dvaraka Krsna. Vajranabha’s father was Aniruddha, son of Pradyumna, who was Krsna’s son. Under the direction of Vajranabha [then king of Mathura] the first Deities of Krsna were manifest in the Vraja such as Madan-mohana, Govindaji, Gopala the lifter of Govardhana, Gopinatha, Dauji [Balarama], Harideva, Garuda-Govinda, Kesava, Gopesvara Mahadeva [Siva] and so forth.
During the lila of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the first Deity of Mahaprabhu was established by Visnupriya-devi after Mahaprabhu had accepted sannyasa. The first Deities of Gaura-Gadadhara were established at Campahati by Dvija-Vaninatha, the brother of Gadadhara Pandita and the first Deities of Gaura-Nitai were established by Gauridasa Pandita. For one who has heard the narration of what transpired at Gauridasa Pandita’s house on the day of the installation it is quite clear that these were ‘self-manifest’ Deities in the truest sense of the word [for details of this event please see Chapter Seven of Bhakti-ratnakara].

During the time of Bhaktivinoda Thakura the Deity of Gaura-Visnupriya was manifest at Yogapitha in Mayapura. Following Bhaktivinoda, Sarasvati Thakura constructed the Adbhuta Mandira at Yogapitha and established Deities of Gaura-Radha-Madhava, Panca-tattva, Laksmi-Narasimha, Gaura-Gadadhara, Jagannatha Misra, Saci-mata and Nimai. Also the Deity of Ksetrapala Mahadeva was established at Yogapitha. Sarasvati Thakura also established Deities of Guru-Gauranga-Gandharvika-Giridhari and the four sampradaya-acaryas at Sri Caitanya Matha in Mayapura.
Then in various Gaudiya Matha establishments throughout India, Sarasvati Thakura established Deities such as Sri Sri Gaura-Vinoda-Madhava (in Puri), Sri Sri Gaura-Gopi-Gopinatha (in Alalanath), Sri Sri Gaura-Vinoda-Vilasa (in Naimisaranya), Sri Sri Gaura-Vinoda-Ramana (in Cuttack), Sri Sri Gaura-Vinoda-Vaibhavananda (in Mumbai), Sri Sri Gaura-Vinoda-Vinoda (in Benares) and so forth.
Sarasvati Thakura established Deities to preside over the holy places and to establish in this world the highest conception of Gaudiya Vaisnavism — nay, the highest conception of theism ever to see the light of day — Sri Sri Gaura-Radha-Govinda.
mahaprabhu sri-caitanya, radha-krsna nahe anya rupanuga janera jivan
“Mahaprabhu Sri Caitanya is non-different from Sri Sri Radha-Krsna and is the very life of those Vaisnavas who follow Sri Rupa Gosvami.”
Srila Sridhara Maharaja explains:
“Our Guru Maharaja [Bhaktisiddhanta] installed almost everywhere this Mahaprabhu and Radha-Govinda, meaning that Mahaprabhu is combined Radha-Govinda. Mahaprabhu means Radha-Govinda. Svarupa-damodara has given us a sloka about the ontological nature of Mahaprabhu-
radha-krsna pranaya vikrtir hladini saktir asmad
ekatmanav api bhuvi pura deha-bhedam gatau tau
caitanyakhyam prakatam adhuna tad-dvayam caikyam aptam
radha-bhava-dyuti-suvalitam naumi krsna-svarupam
‘The loving affairs of Sri Radha and Krsna are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Radha and Krsna are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now, these two transcendental identities have again united in the form of Sri Krsna Caitanya. I offer my obeisances unto Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Sri Radha although He is Krsna Himself.’ (Caitanya-caritamrta Adi. 1.5)
“Guru Maharaja [Bhaktisiddhanta] wanted to show in this form of installation of the Deities, that the highest order of worship is here – that Mahaprabhu combined, who is giving the rasa, and the Radha Govinda with Their paraphernalia which They are tasting within Their own circle – that highest order of sweetness is being distributed by Mahaprabhu Himself in His lila. They are of the same level, layer, and the same dignity, and same highest position. To show, to represent this to the worldly intellect and devotion, Guru Maharaja has taken this method in the worship, in arcana, as favorable for his preaching about Radha-Govinda in Vrndavana.” [Sridhara Maharaja, transcript: April 23, 1982]
To this end Sarasvati Thakura established many Deities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu standing by the side of Radha and Krsna — thus giving emphasis to this most high and exalted theistic conception. This above all is the essence of the Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy.
Since the time of Sarasvati Thakura many of his disciples carried on the disciplic succession and established Deities in the holy dhama, throughout India and around the world. These Deities included Gaura-Nitai, Radha-Govinda, Panca-tattva, Sri Narasimha-deva, Jagannatha, Subhadra and Baladeva, Krsna-Balarama, Gaura-Gadadhara, and particularly the Deities of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga-Gandharvika-Govindasundara, Gaura-Radha-Vinodananda, and Gaura-Radha-Vinodabihari — thus retaining and spreading the Gaudiya concept of mahaprabhu sri caitanya radha krsna nahe anya.
All these Deities and more were established by the bona-fide representatives of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta.
Our Guru Maharaja, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in keeping with the highest conception of Gaudiya Vaisnavism, also established Sri Sri Gaura-Radha- Govinda in Kolkata and Sri Sri Gaura-Radha- Madhava at Mayapura [the center of his preaching activities] but unfortunately after the disappearance of our Guru Maharaja some over intelligent disciples, not understanding our Guru’s intentions and being eager to occupy his position without authority took the post of acarya. In so doing they displeased our Guru Maharaja and eventually lost sight of the proper conception of Gaudiya Vaisnavism. Indeed, so many offences were committed during those dreadful years that the original Deities of Sri Sri Radha-Govinda, worshipped by our Guru Maharaja since his childhood, disappeared from the altar at Mayapura and a short time later the Deities of Sri Sri Gaura-Radha-Madhava also de-manifested! The details are too painful to recount here, but it is a fact that these things have happened. The saddest part of the story being, that those who are at present in charge of our Guru Maharaja’s institution have developed amnesia and are not willing to take the necessary steps to rectify the situation.

The point of contention involving the history of the Deities at ISKCON Mayapura and what should be the proper Deity conception in the futuristic temple being planned at ISKCON Mayapura [the Planetarium] is indeed a sensitive issue. Since the original Deities at ISKCON Mayapura disappeared, other much larger Deities have been placed there to right the wrong but the original Deity conception has been over-shadowed and all but forgotten. The fact is that the conception of the highest truth once visible in the original Deity arrangement of Mahaprabhu being the combined form of Radha and Krsna has been lost in the confusion.
In private meetings this was brought to the attention of numerous senior ISKCON members, sannyasis, gurus and GBCs before last years GBC meetings but to little or no avail. None of those approached had any argument or rebuttal to the above statements — most simply had a hazy memory of what had happened and showed apathy towards doing anything to rectify the situation. In fact one senior sannyasi commented that ISKCON was having too many land issue problems at Mayapura and that the leaders would not be willing to give attention to such a minor issue as the Deities.
Unfortunately worrying about land ownership issues and neglecting the Deity is not the way to solve their problems. Try to rectify things at the center and all other maladjusted issues will automatically fall into place. That is Krsna consciousness. Serve the center and all else will be adjusted.
The arrangements that Krsna manifests Himself and the arrangements that Krsna manifests through his pure devotees are non-different. One should give special care and attention to such matters, maintaining them for the benefit of future generations.



Conqueror of All Quarters




Since time immemorial, the world has seen and has gone through many ideas and conceptions pertaining to mankind and it’s ideologies. There have been a number of political systems in place like monarchy, socialism, democracy, communism, fascism and many other ‘isms’ have evolved. The world has even seen great reformers, thinkers, philosophers, religionists and revolutionaries who have tried to change the world with their own ideas and theories.
Of course, some of the reformers have been able to expel certain unacceptable practices in society, and some great thinkers and philosophers have triggered positive ideas and thesis amongst the people. Some revolutionaries have definitely upstaged many systems and beliefs in the society.
Hence, a few distinguished people have tried, but have had very little impact or success in bringing peace, stability, sense or prosperity into this world. Still, we are living in a world that is in chaos, which was in chaos and which will be in chaos for a very long time to come. The fundamental aspects or drawbacks of this material world have persisted along with mankind and its advancing civilization. Nothing much has changed in a world that has seen wars, famines, natural catastrophes, poverty and social discrimination for ages.
Does the world need more failed ideas, political systems and leaders or is there something that is beyond material comprehension? What the world needs to know is that mankind is in very urgent need of a new outlook on life that the material and intellectual advancement of modern times has repeatedly failed to provide. The real necessity is a purely religious movement of God consciousness.
The Absolute Truth can be known, and indeed must be known, if we are to solve all the problems of material existence. Yet the truth cannot be known by mental speculation or any other human endeavor. Mundane systems or leaders may create certain short-term happiness and hope in the world, but they certainly cannot diminish anybody’s material bondage. No matter how good a material system is or how great a leader is, they cannot deliver any one from birth, death, old age and disease.
Disparity in human society is due to lack of principles in a godless civilization. There is God, or the Almighty One, from whom everything emanates, by whom everything is maintained and in whom everything is merged to rest. Material science has tried to find the ultimate source of creation most insufficiently, but it is a fact that there is one ultimate source of everything that is. This ultimate source is explained rationally and authoritatively in the beautiful Srimad Bhagavatam. The very first verse speaks of Krsna as the cause of all causes. He is the primal cause, and He is the very form of eternal being, knowledge and bliss.
janmady asya yato ‘nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat
tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat surayah
tejo-vari-mrdam yatha vinimayo yatra tri-sargo ‘mrsa
dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam param dhimahi
O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahma, the original living being. By Him even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Sri Krsna, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth.
The world goes on in its own perfect way. The world stands in no need of any reformer. It has a very capable and a complete person for guiding its minutest happenings. The person who determines that there is scope for reform of the world, himself stands in need of reform.
No person can deflect the direction of the world even a hairs breadth from the course chalked out for it by providence. When we perceive any change being actually effected in the course of events of this world by the agency of any particular individual, we must know very well that the agent possesses no real power at any stage. The agent finds himself driven forward by a force belonging to a different category from him. The course of the world does not require that it be changed by the agency of any person.
All material political regimes under the name of many hundreds of ‘isms’ are simply mental concoctions or speculations of a certain class of people adulterated with materialism. The British writer, Ernest Benn once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” The whole material conception of politics, sociology, philanthropy, altruism etc, conceived by the conditioned souls is done so on the basis of this misconceived ‘I’ and ‘mine’, which are products of the strong desire to enjoy material life. Identification with the body and the place where the body is obtained under different conceptions of socialism, nationalism, family affection, and so on and so forth is all due to forgetfulness of the real nature of the living entity. The divine nature of the living entity is spiritual and is completely free from all the concoctions and speculations of any material political system or belief.
Great philosophers of India such as Sri Sankaracarya and Buddha renounced this material world to practice the means of attaining nirvana or the ultimate annihilation of all distress. Buddha preached the cult of non-violence. Sri Sankaracarya preached that this material world is non-reality and the spirit soul is the Supreme Truth. He stressed renunciation and culture of knowledge as the means to attain the highest stage of realization. Neither of them however preached that a material plan, under the guidance of modern scientific and experimental thought, could bring real happiness to a human being. Both of them preached different patterns of ultimate voidness and stressed renunciation. In other words, both of them only stressed the uselessness of the material world. Yet neither of them gave any positive information of the life in eternity.
On the other hand, Western philosophy and philosophers most definitely failed in their attempts to give any genuine knowledge of our purpose of existence and our relation and role in this creation. However, some philosophers of the west were able to understand and propagate some meaningful theories about evolution of consciousness, theism and some below par knowledge on creation, sustenance and assimilation of this material world, But yet again, in the end, these philosophers and their philosophies only influenced a certain type of people and may have provoked some sort of change in the mindset of the people during their time period – but certainly their influence did not pervade the entire world as we do not find their philosophies being followed everywhere today.
Nowadays it is not so much the reformers and philosophers, but the pseudo-religionists that are to be seen everywhere. These fake religionists are there only for the sake of name and fame and easily mislead people. They have neither knowledge nor detachment from material affairs, for most of them want to live with the golden shackles of material bondage under the shadow of philanthropic activities disguised as religious principles. By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities.
In this way, they place themselves as great spiritual leaders with many adherents blindly following these bogus leaders, Such worshippers ultimately follow the pseudo-religionists towards the most obnoxious place in the universe after the completion of their ‘spiritual master business’.
asurya nama te loka andhena tamasavrtah
tams te pretyabhigacchanti ye ke catma-hano janah
Such killers of the soul, whoever they may be, must go after death to the world of the demonic which is full of dense darkness. (Sri Isopanisad, mantra 3)
We find that these so-called gurus are more interested in doing social welfare activities such as opening hospitals, distribution of food, shelter and clothing and many programs for uplifting the poor. Such programs have become the most integral and fashionable part of every spiritual institution and leader because these acts immediately catch everyone’s attention and bring admiration. Such men are generally atheists, devoid of any true spiritual knowledge.
Without any doubt, these acts are appreciable in today’s society, but they are not the ultimate solution to the condition of humanity. Simply pouring water on the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of a tree is not the way to help it grow – rather it needs to be nourished from the root level and automatically every part of the tree will be energized.
Charity can be utilized as the initial way of bringing people’s attention to the realization of their existence in this material world and showing them the real path of spiritual progression for one’s ultimate benefit. But just mere welfare activities should not be the ultimate objective of any individual or institution. These kinds of welfare activities have been going on in this world since time immemorial – but has the situation changed?
Poverty, social discrimination, disease, lack of education and many social barriers still exist in our society. Hence, one should properly understand how the laws of nature in this material world work before venturing out for any social service of any kind.
What is necessary for this material world? The prime necessity is to change our outlook on this temporary world. The greatest example was shown for the contemporary generation by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Precisely 523 years ago Sri Caitanya appeared in this world as the personal manifestation of the Absolute Truth. He is known as the yuga-avatara – the incarnation of the modern age. Many scholars and historians may see Mahaprabhu as a great social reformer, philosopher and a religious leader and this is certainly true. Yet He was widely regarded as the most magnanimous of all spiritual teachers of mankind. He was the true conqueror of all quarters of humanity. Every true reformer, every great religious leader and even God Himself comes to this world in order to reclaim the conditioned souls back to the kingdom of God. That is the real idea of any genuine reformer, philosopher, religionist or anybody who is willing to make a difference in this world.
Mahaprabhu gave us the ultimate knowledge of understanding God, understanding our relationship with Him and taught us the activities that nurture that relationship. Real knowledge promotes that we are not this body, we are the soul. Real knowledge shows us that the soul is within the body and explains the nature of the soul, the necessity of the soul and the goal of soul.
Mahaprabhu and His followers taught us about real humanitarian work and social reform. Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted everyone in His sankirtana movement. He didn’t differentiate between higher and lower castes, rich or poor, or learned and illiterate. The teachings of Mahaprabhu give the clear connecting line between the mentality of modern day social reformers, philanthropists and philosophers, and the ultimate message of transcendence. The method detailed by Mahaprabhu Sri Krsna Caitanya is categorically different from the method that is presently followed as the study of religion in the east, as well as the west. The futility and inapplicability of the inductive method to the study of transcendence are self-evident.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s welfare activities were concerned to take the people ‘Back to Godhead’ by the simple devotional activity of sankirtana. His method of welfare work is not only simple, but also applicable universally. Sri Damodara Svarupa Gosvami rightly appreciated the welfare activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as:
heloddhulita-khedaya visadaya pronmilad-amodaya
samyac-chastra-vivadaya rasadaya cittarpitonmadaya
sasvad-bhakti-vinodaya sa-madaya madhurya-maryadaya
sri-caitanya daya-nidhe tava daya bhuyad amandodaya
Oh my Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the ocean of mercy! Let it be so that my heart may give rise to such non-corrosive welfare activities which are freed from all varieties of diffidence, which are completely pure and stainless, which are full of transcendental bliss, which stop all varieties of arguments of the revealed scriptures which turn the heart into intense madness, which make the devotional activities favourably pleasing and which bring in the real sweetness of happiness.
That is the picture of the welfare activities of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. People may misunderstand Him because He did not open any hospital, because he did not canvass for the undertakers or because he did not labor for any so-called social welfare work. But in fact what He did includes and surpasses all varieties of social, political, humanitarian, altruistic, moral and spiritual work.
So far as social work is concerned, He gave everyone an equal chance to rise to the highest order of life. Sri Haridasa Thakura was born in the family of a Mohammedan but Lord Sri Caitanya gave him the highest position of a brahmana and he was declared as the acarya of the transcendental Holy Name. He delivered Jagai and Madhai from the most fallen position and He turned Sarvabauma Bhattacarya and Prakasananda Sarasvati, the two great stalwarts of the Mayavada cult, into Vaishnavas. He engaged the services of Rupa and Sanatana Gosvamis in the culture of devotional science from their political activities as ministers of Nawab Hussain Shah. Therefore, He gave equal opportunities to all classes of people – politicians, scholars, the fallen, non-Hindus, atheists, the women, children, the cats and dogs, the beasts of the jungle etc. That is the universal application of the common cult and the standard of real welfare work.
He organized thousands of men armed with mrdangas and karatalas, when the Kazi of Navadvipa banned the sankirtana movement on the streets of Navadvipa. He was the pioneer of the first non-cooperation movement that finally resulted in the Kazi giving himself unto the lotus feet of Mahaprabhu.
Thus, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to turn everybody into mahatmas, even from the lowest position of mankind, by constant engagement in the chanting process of the transcendental name, fame and qualities of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna. The Lord was so liberal that by His mercy nobody was incompetent to adopt this transcendental process. Every human being who is articulate can adopt this principle of chanting and by gradual purification by this transcendental chanting process, one can rise up to the highest platform of perfection.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wished to divert the different misplaced channels of love into their original form, making use of this human form of life which is most rare to achieve. We therefore request all people in general – religionists, modern philosophers and all other enlightened men and women to take advantage of this opportunity and try to attain the ultimate perfection of life.
 








Om Tat Sat
                                                        
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