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World Classical literature Rev. 18 01 11
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B. S. Damodara Das: Srila Prabhupada, can we build a laboratory for preaching to the scientists?
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Just sharpen you intelligence on Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam and then explain things in a better way. Then they will ask you where you got such ideas. Prabhupada: If funds are available then you might do it. But, really it is not necessary. They already have so much knowledge.
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World Classical literature
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Don Quixote The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in 1605 and It is considered the most influential work the entire Spanish literary canon. A founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels., The Bokklubben World Library collection cites Don Quixote as the authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written". Amazon.com Edith Grossman Translation
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Journey to the West One is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The Journey to the West (2012), a complete translation in four volumes by Anthony C. Yu. In 2006, an abridged version of this translation was published by University of Chicago Press under the title The Monkey and the Monk.
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If you know Journey to the West, you know Chinese people.
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Krsna: The Supreme Personality of Godhead
Nectar of Instruction Bhaktivedanta Vedabase Online Krsna: The Supreme Personality of Godhead A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Teachings of Lord Caitanya Bhaktivedanta Vedabase Online
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Of course Srila Prabhupada is our Guru, but he himself says:
In this verse, both blind following and absurd inquiries are condemned. We rank his book as the most orthodox World Classical Literature. There is a touchstone that can be used to examine the quality of gold, but You are like a touchstone that can verify all good qualities.
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Elementary my dear Watson.
Imitation of Christ, Thomas Akempis Hamlet, Shakespeare The Medium is the Massage, Herbert Marshal McLuhan Capitals for Callgraphy Grims Fairy Tales and 1001 Arabian Nights are both very grim. Sample a little. The Young Adventurers, Agatha Christie Sherlock Holmes etc. Cinema: Citizen Cane is considered great. Elementary my dear Watson.
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Why are they great? Can you show us that?
Bg 10.41 yad yad vibhūtimat sattvaṁ śrīmad ūrjitam eva vā tat tad evāvagaccha tvaṁ mama tejo-’ṁśa-sambhavam Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor. Can you show us that?
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We can think of one more immediately.
What do you think? Why? We can think of one more immediately.
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