🔥 Removing the Tilaka Don't Open Doors — Close those that Srila Prabhupada Opened When a sannyasi removes tilaka, kanthi mala and shikha — signs prescribed by Scripture and Prabhupada insisted onining always — it's not facilitating access to tradition but accommodating its own discomfort and projecting it onto an audience that has historically shown to be attracted precisely to what's authentic and visibly different. People are attracted to what's authentic, not to what's diluted to look like what it already has. ______ "I find no evidence in our sacred texts that there is an impediment to a Western being who adopts the basic principles of Krishna consciousness, gradually and according to their ability."