Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 31, 1968 along with the letter from the Methodist Church. I suspected in the beginning that they would not allow us to work with freedom and, therefore, in spite of their promise to enter into lease agreement I wanted to clear up the situation. Now they have shown their real face so don't feel sorry for this. We know very well what is the world situation. It is my personal opinion that at the present moment except for a few persons, practically there is no man in the world who is strictly religionist, Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Buddhist.
In the ten commandments of the Bible it is clearly stated that, "Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not indulge in adultery, thou shalt not covet their servant or animals,'' but practically we see the so-called Christian world is full of the killing process reflected with adultery in every state encroaching upon other's property very organizedly. Similarly we find in India the so-called Hindu are doing all sorts of nonsense. So practically the whole world is without religion. Officially they claim some sectarian identification. Therefore, it is a fact that the religious principles of Krishna Consciousness which we are trying to preach under the direction of Lord Caitanya inducing people to chant HARE KRISHNA is the only panacea for the animalistic human society at the present moment. A man without religion is nothing but an animal and being every man is irreligious, therefore, the whole human society is certainly animalistic.
Please accept my blessings. Just on receipt of your last letter I sent you one detailed letter about the scheme of New Vrindaban. But since then I have not received any letter from you. In the meantime I also received one letter from Sriman Kirtanananda Swami which also I have replied duly, but I have not received any reply from him also. So I am very much anxious to know from you also how much this scheme has advanced. So far I could understand on the letter of Kirtanananda, that we had no freedom of action because the land belongs to Mr. Rose, who wants to develop an institution appealing to all sections of seekers in spiritual enlightenment. Such ideal of impersonal views can never be successful. That is the distinction between impersonalism and personalism. The impersonalists ultimate goal is something void, and therefore, any attempt for self-realization ending in voidness is all the same for the impersonalists. But we the personalists, we do not agree that all systems of self-realizing process ends in the same goal. In the Bhagavad-gita, it is explicitly said that the worshippers of different demigods ultimately reach the planets of respective demigods; the worshippers of forefathers also go to different pitri planets, respectively; the worshippers of mammon remain in the mammonish world; and the persons in Krishna Consciousness, ultimately reach to the planet of Krishna loka. So our mission is to reach the supreme planet, in the spiritual sky, namely the Abode of Krishna. As such, we cannot compromise that all sorts of meditation gives the same result. This sort of view is practiced and preached by the impersonalist missionaries like the Rama-Krishna mission, that one may follow any path, but he reaches the same destination. There is no Vedic evidence, neither any proof of the acharya principles. You know that Lord Buddha was Hindu, born in India, in a royal family, but because He advocated voidism, His philosophy was not accepted by the leaders of Vedic principles. For the time being, Lord Buddha's philosophy was accepted by emperor Asoka, and due to royal influence, it spread all over India. But later on, when Sankaracarya preached the Vedic principle, the voidism of Lord Buddha was driven out of India. Similarly, when Ramanujacarya found Sankaracarya a second edition of Buddhist philosophy, he also expunged Sankaracarya as compromising the Buddha, and he established Personal worship of Lord Visnu. Later on, other acaryas, including Sri Caitanya, developed the transcendental reciprocation of devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and Lord Caitanya preached that loving service in the highest conjugal love with Krishna is also possible. So we are preaching the highest principles of loving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as such, there is no scope for compromising with any of the kinds of philosophies of the impersonalist school.
Regarding the Christian's Trinity, I believe it is called God, the Holy Ghost, and the son. Person in Krishna Consciousness accepts this by the name Visnu, Paramatma, and Jiva. God is a Person, the holy spirit or the supersoul is a person, and the living entity is also a person. Also, Mary is the representation of the energy of God. Either as internal energy Radharani or as external energy Durga, the energy of Godhead can be considered the mother of the living entities.
It's just another step on a long journey for the crowdfunding provision of the JOBS Act. But a unanimous approval in a vote by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today ushers the proposal into its next phase and includes some important measures that could help the smallest businesses find funding from a broader array of individuals.
The SEC's goal here, commissioners say, is to both ease fundraising for small companies online and protect investors from fraud. Online crowdfunding has drawn scrutiny from the North American Association of Securities Administrators, which recently dubbed the practice a potentially risky one for investors.
It's taken the Commission longer than expected to hash out the details in Title III of the JOBS Act--remember, that was passed back in 2012--but with the historic lifting of the 80-year-old ban on general solicitation going into effect just last month, this level of scrutiny isn't uncalled for.
The proposal, which is hundreds of pages long, is open for public comment for the next 90 days. After comment, another SEC vote is required for the proposal to go into effect.
A company must provide educational information to investors, ensuring investors know what they are buying and understand their risks
Investors with a net annual income of less than $100,000 would be permitted to invest up to only $2,000 or 5 percent of their annual income or net worth every year
Investors with net income or annual income of more than $100,000 would be able to invest 10 percent of that every year
Securities would need to be purchased through online crowdfunding portals--a new class created by the SEC
Earlier this month I reported that the little-known provision that's been hailed as ushering in equity-based crowdfunding would limit the ability of entrepreneurs to take investment from non-wealthy individuals. In essence, it could crush very common friends-and-family investments. The SEC's move today seems poised to correct that major flaw.
"Before the new rules, startup companies raised money from unaccredited friends and family quite frequently," says San Francisco-based startup lawyer Andre Gharakhanian, a partner at Silicon Legal Strategy, a legal advisory service. "It's par for the course in an industry where only the most faithful will back a company at its earliest stages."
What's more, the proposed rules seem most applicable to the country's smallest businesses--perhaps a corner grocery or restaurant struggling to get a bank loan--for whom $1 million or less in funding could really move the needle. But this is in no way game-changing for the future Facebooks or Googles of the tech world, says Alex Mittal, the CEO and co-founder of crowdfunding site Funders Club.
"There's no point at which a million dollars would have moved the needle for Facebook or Google," he says. "They're in specific, hyper-growth industries and to keep doing that it requires much more capital."
SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar seems optimistic that the proposal creates an "outside of the box" regulatory framework for crowdfunding, while staying true to the SEC's goal of protecting investors. He cited support from both President Barack Obama in opening up investor status to more people, and referenced the South by Southwest Interactive festival as a place where the crowdfunding discussion gained some clout last year.
He also attempted a crowdsourcing joke: "I look forward to unleashing the 'wisdom of the crowd' on our crowdfunding rule proposal to tell us what we got right, what we got wrong, and how we can improve it."
An event with no admission fee specially held for the beginners in Blockchain industry. The event will be held in MergeSpace on this 28th of April from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The organizer, We merge Incubator aims to boost the growth of blockchain industry and cryptocurrency investment.
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The Greater Anderson Interfaith Network will host a panel discussion on Saturday, January 13, at 2 p.m. at the Anderson County Library, located at 300 N. Main Street in Anderson. Come hear a heartfelt panel discussion with local Muslims on common misconceptions about Islam in general and Muslims in particular. Each panelist will offer her own perspective on a range of topics and then answer questions from the audience. Light refreshments will be served.
Greater Anderson Interfaith Network's Finding Common Ground project aims to build bridges of understanding between residents and visitors within the greater Anderson community. This program is sponsored by Islamic Society of Clemson in cooperation with GAIN (Greater Anderson Interfaith Network), Anderson County Human Relations Council and Anderson County Library.