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As usual at the end of each year’s dialogue, in 2003 we decided on the next year’s topic: ‘Transformation in Christ and in Krishna.’ I agreed to present the Spiritual Exercises on that topic, and Ravindra Svarupa would present Bhaktirasamrtasindhu. My main endeavor in this article will be to reproduce my invitation letter of March 9, 2004, and my presentation of the Spiritual Exercises at the Vaisnava-Christian Dialogue of April 16, 2004, pretty much as they happened. And I shall end with some of the dialogue that followed the
presentation or that came later in the weekend. I’ll also make what might be called a “2012 Commentary” on one point raised in the dialogue, and I’ll label it as such (as I shall any other such reflections as have occurred to me). The text that we used is: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius: A Translation and Commentary, by George E. Ganss, S.J. (Chicago: Loyola Press, 1992). Passages will
be identified by, for example: (Ganss, 1), in the text or in an endnote, or quoted when necessary for the present reader’s understanding. First, then, the letter with which I introduced the readings on March 9.
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