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Pop Music Has No Place in Temples, Devotees Must Avoid Maya's Influence

📅 November 25, 1976 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 7 min
Pop music in temples distracts devotees from Krishna consciousness; use only pure bhajans and the spiritual master's recordings.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: At least once in a month you must be shaven-headed. Akṣayānanda: Actually, we usually shave more.

Prabhupāda: Hmm? Akṣayānanda: We usually shave more than once a month. Two weeks. 'Cause after even two weeks it looks a little dirty. Hari-śauri: We can get very good wigs.

Prabhupāda: No, no, there is no need. It is simply... That is also mental concoction. Nowadays, if you go with coat-pant, shaven headed, nobody will criticize you.

It has become a practi... Russians, they used... That Krushchev I have seen. Shaven head.

Prabhupāda: And so many. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: They don't have a śikhā, that's all.

Prabhupāda: Oh? It is practice only. Akṣayānanda: No, it's nice. We shouldn't be afraid to do that.

Then it will become more and more accepted. Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: That's so timely. Once we start diverting, like on these records... I was thinking after you told me not to do it. We started, now there's so many.

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