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We would like to extend our appreciation to you, our subscribers. You have all contributed to making this course an enlivening and uplifting experience for our over 10,000 subscribers around the globe in over 100 different nations. And we thought you might be interested to see which are the top ten nations for the total number of subscribers. In the first list the top ten nations are ranked according to number of subscribers. In the second list they are ranked on a per capita basis by how many subscribers there are for each one million people.

Top ten nations-total subscribers:
1. India--3617 subscribers
2. USA--1559 subscribers
3. United Arab Emirates--369 subscribers
4. Australia--309 subscribers
5. United Kingdom--247 subscribers
6. Malaysia--235 subscribers
7. Canada--193 subscribers
8. South Africa--141 subscribers
9. Oman--106 subscribers
10. Mauritius--91 subscribers

Top ten nations-total subscribers per million:
1. United Arab Emirates--80 subscribers per million
2. Mauritius--72 subscribers per million
3. Oman--41 subscribers per million
4. Australia--14.2 subscribers per million
5. Malaysia--8.5 subscribers per million
6. Canada--5.7 subscribers per million
7. USA--5 subscribers per million
8. United Kingdom--4 subscribers per million
9. India--3.1 subscribers per million
10. South Africa--2.9 subscribers per million

If we disqualify countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Oman where the subscribers are all non-resident Indian workers, then we will have the top ten nations as follows:

Top ten nations-total subscribers:
1. India--3617 subscribers
2. USA--1559 subscribers
3. Australia--309 subscribers
4. United Kingdom--247 subscribers
5. Malaysia--235 subscribers
6. Canada--193 subscribers
7. South Africa--141 subscribers
8. Mauritius--91 subscribers
9. Singapore--67 subscribers
10. New Zealand--56 subscribers

Top ten nations-total subscribers per million:
1. Mauritius--72 subscribers per million
2. Australia--14.2 subscribers per million
3. Singapore--13.8 subscribers per million
4. New Zealand--13 subscribers per million
5. Malaysia--8.5 subscribers per million
6. Canada--5.7 subscribers per million
7. USA--5 subscribers per million
8. United Kingdom--4 subscribers per million
9. India--3.1 subscribers per million
10. South Africa--2.9 subscribers per million

We are now at 10,000+ subscribers and growing. Our next target is 100,000 subscribers. We are requesting each of our subscribers to convince ten more people to sign up for this e-course. If each subscriber can do this, we will easily and quickly reach our next goal of 100,000 subscribers. Kindly send them to www.backtohome.com to sign up. It is necessary that they sign themselves up. We cannot enroll people without their permission because then it is considered to be spam.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: God as One's Guru?

Do scriptures permit having God as one's guru?

Indupati Das

Answer: Yes, Both Internally and Externally.

We must accept Krishna or God as our guru because He is the supreme authority. He orders us in the Bhagavad-gita to surrender to Him. He is manifested within our hearts as the caitya guru, the guru within. And when He brings us into contact with His external manifestation, the guru without, He orders to also surrender to that guru, the bona fide spiritual master. So if we decide that we will only surrender to the guru within and not the guru without, we are guilty of the logical flaw known as ardha-kukuṭi-nyāya, half-hen logic.

The farmer had a hen who laid very nice eggs. But he was unhappy that the hen ate a lot of feed. So one day he got a so-called bright idea. He decided the cut off the end of the hen that he did not like (the head) and only keep the end he liked (the rear end). He was so dull that after cutting out the hen's head he could not figure out why the hen stopped laying eggs.

So if we accept the guru within, while neglecting the guru without, we will find ourselves with a hen that does not lay eggs. In other words we will find that we are without any access to that wondrous spiritual sky. Therefore let us not be half-hen logicians. Let us intelligently both the guru within and the guru without, the internal guru and the external guru.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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