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    prabhupAda: "Demigod worship means followers of Vedas."

    I found the following text on vAnIsource.org, which seemed to have caught my attention:

    Room Conversation -- October 3, 1977, Vṛndāvana:
    Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about the Tamils?
    Haṁsadūta: Well, the Tamils are in a very bad position. They've all fled to the Jafna area, the north area.
    Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why are they so against the Tamils?
    Haṁsadūta: Well, the government, the politicians, they incite the people to create trouble, and in this way they try to assume office. They just take advantage of the people in this way, stir them up.
    Prabhupāda: Tamils are poor men?
    Haṁsadūta: Tamils? No, the Tamils were all the business centers.
    Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's the reason.
    Haṁsadūta: It was actually the Tamils who agitated for the British to get out, and once the British got out, then the Singhalese pushed out the Tamils because they're a minority. About three million Tamils to eleven million Singhalese. The economic and political situation is very, very deteriorated in that country.
    Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What kind of preaching can you do now?
    Haṁsadūta: We can preach because we're not identified as Tamils or Hindus, because we are white, so that still attracts the people. We preach in public halls, rent hall...
    Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So they lifted the curfew.
    Haṁsadūta: The curfew's over now.
    Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Do the Singhalese take interest as much as the Tamils?
    Haṁsadūta: Yes, they do actually. Actually the Tamils in Śrī Lanka, they're all demigod worshipers. They worship Durgā and Gaṇeśa and Śiva. There's practically not a single Kṛṣṇa temple on the whole island. I was really surprised. Well, that's the situation. They're all demigod worshipers.
    Prabhupāda: Demigod worship means followers of Vedas.

    Why would prabhupAda make the last statement; wasn't he against worship of deities other than kR^iShNa? Perhaps prabhupAda wasn't actually as exclusivistic as he is often portrayed.
    படைபோர் புக்கு முழங்கும்அப் பாஞ்சசன்னியமும் பல்லாண்டே
    May your pA~nchajanya shankha which reverberates on the battlefield, last thousands upon thousands of years...
    http://archives.mirroroftomorrow.org...anchajanya.jpg

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    Light Re: prabhupAda: "Demigod worship means followers of Vedas."

    Quote Originally Posted by Jaskaran Singh View Post


    Why would prabhupAda make the last statement; wasn't he against worship of deities other than kR^iShNa? Perhaps prabhupAda wasn't actually as exclusivistic as he is often portrayed.
    Dear Jaskaran,
    Please accept my humble obeisances
    I'm sure this video will solve your query
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoBMyHSOJGs

    Hare KRishna
    Jai Srila Prabhupada!

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