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If one can search out the original pure identity of the soul or self, then all the temporary isms will evaporate. Meanwhile down here on the earth plane, all who live have a right to exist, as Krsna says "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor at any time in the future shall any of us cease to be". Supremacy may or may not be there in any given sphere, but among humans, in allegory, the best son does not have a right to kill and eat all the other sons. In nature, all but the unfit survive, so there is no question of struggle for existence and the topmost only survive, that's a lie. But some want to lord it over others...

So this "being" that Krsna mentions, ie we, manifest pastimes either in the pure ego realms called the spiritual sky para-vyoma, or else in the temporary seperatist realms that we call the material worlds, such as Earthly existences. Different laws apply to each realm. Bearing these things in mind, spiritual culture enthrones itself in a material for

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strength to work on both sides


In a 15 September, 1971 letter to Madhudvisa Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada wrote the following:
 
"Our only strength is chanting Hare Krishna Maha-mantra. So if we stick to the principle of chanting Hare Krsna Mantra, following the rules and regulations, that will give us strength to work on both sides - namely to enlighten people in Krsna Consciousness and cut down the bad government full of atheistic people."
 
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