Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 7 January, 1973, and have noted the contents with great care. Thank you very much for the information enclosed. There is no difference between
brahmacari,
grhastha, vanaprastha, and
sannyasi.
Grhastha-Sadana 08">Simply Grhastha-Duties of Husband & Wife 42">grhastha means that he lives outside the temple with wife, that is the only difference. Otherwise grhastha must follow the same regulative principles and remain fully engaged in the temple activities. There in London we have such big field for pushing on the preaching work, so I want that you should assist the other devotees there as much as possible and cooperate very closely for helping me in this way. These temples, they are just like oasis in the desert for the conditioned souls to quench the thirst of their desire for real happiness. So they must be organized as nicely as possible, and I know you have many talents which can be put to good use. So in cooperation with
Dhananjaya and Syamasundara.
Prabhu, let us work together. You may assist me in this way and I shall be very much pleased upon you.
Krsna says in the
Bhagavad-gita that anyone who surrenders unto Me, whether a woman,
sudra,
vaisya, etc.,
they all attain the highest perfection of bhakti-yoga, not that now I am grhastha, I am doing karma-yoga, or now I am vanaprastha, I am doing sankhya-yoga, this is all nonsense. So if you read my books, this is explained in so many places that by taking to the path of pure
bhakti all the other yogas are achieved automatically, because
bhakti is the culmination of
yoga and the highest perfection of life. Yet at the same time it is very simple and sublime. So I do not see what is the difficulty. So as I am your spiritual master, it is my obligation to answer any questions that you may have. So please send the tape and I shall reply.
