Guest guest Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 CAN MEAT EATERS BE SAVED?: UNDERSTANDING MORTAL VERSUS VENIAL SIN AND PERSONAL CULPABILITY by BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI CONTENTS OF THIS PAPER: PART 1. CAN MEAT EATERS BE SAVED? : THE RECENT HISTORY OF 'VEGETARIANISM' AND OCCULT ARYANISM PART 2. CAN MEAT EATERS BE SAVED? : SIN AND ITS EFFECT IN THE CONSIDERATIONS OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM AND MORAL THEOLOGY ....UNDERSTANDING PERSONAL CULPABILITY AND MORTAL VERSUS VENIAL SIN *********************** PART 1. CAN MEAT EATERS BE SAVED? PART ONE: VEGETARIANISM AND OCCULT ARYANISM A DEVOTEE ASKED: "DO NON-VEGETARIAN, GOOD AND DEVOTED CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND FOR THAT MATTER VAISHNAVAS ATTAIN THE FINAL DESTINATION ? FROM JESUS' WORDS IT APPEARS THAT "WHAT CONDEMNS IS WHAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH AND NOT WHAT GOES INTO IT...KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT ABOUT EATING AND DRINKING ETC..." "ISKCON DEVOTEES DISAGREE ON THIS POINT. PLEASE CLARIFY MAHARAJ." BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI'S ANSWER: 'VEGETARIANISM' AS A MODERN RELIGION, AND ITS HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO MAYAVADI AND VOIDIST OCCULT ARYANISM WHILE 'FLESH ABSTINENCE' HAS A LONG HISTORY IN JUDEO-CATHOLIC AND EVEN PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM OR PIETY, AND CONTINUES TO HAVE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN PRACTITIONERS AND ADVOCATES TODAY, THE MAYAVADI HINDU AND BUDDHIST-RELATED ESOTERIC RELIGION OF ARYAN OCCULT 'VEGETARIANISM' IS A RECENT HISTORICAL PHENOMENON. THIS 'WESTERN' RELIGION OF VEGETARIANISM HAS CONSISTENTLY MISREPRESENTED JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY AS ESSENTIALLY BLOOD-THIRSTY, DEGRADED, CORRUPT OR EVEN DIABOLICAL RELIGIONS, ONLY FIT FOR THE LOWEST OF MANKIND. THIS NEW GLOBALLY PROMOTED RELIGION OF VEGETARIANISM WAS AGRESSIVELY PROMOTED BY WESTERN ARYANIST WHITE RACIST OCCULTISTS FROM ITS VERY BEGINNING. THEY IMAGINED THEMSELVES TO BE A SUPER RACE AND THAT THEIR RACE WAS HISTORICALLY OPPOSED BY THE BLACK RACES AND MIXED RACES, ESPECIALLY WHAT THE ARYAN RACISTS IMAGINED TO BE THE (SEMITIC) MUD (MIXED) 'RACE' OF THE JEWS. THE RELIGION OF VEGETARIANISM EXCLUSIVELY EQUATED 'VEGETARIANISM' WITH THE OCCULT WEST'S 'HIDDEN HIGHER WISDOM' OF THE EAST, AND JUXTAPOSED THIS 'HIGHER' (ATHEISTIC) 'INNER WISDOM' / GNOSTIC TRADITION' AGAINST THE EXOTERIC MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS OF THE 'WEST' AND THEIR 'BLOOD THIRSTY', BARBARIC TRIBAL DEMIGOD, YAHWEH OF THE BIBLE'S SUPPOSEDLY DEGRADED 'ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS'. IN THIS OCCULT RELIGION, MAYAVADI IMPERSONALISM OR VOIDIST ATHEISM WAS EXALTED AS THE 'HIDDEN HIGHER WISDOM' AT THE SECRET CORE OR APEX OF THE WORLD'S 'GREAT RELIGIONS'. STUDENTS IN THE HIGHER INITIATED DEGREES OF THIS SECRET LORE LEARNED TO SEE WORLD HISTORY IN TERMS OF A BATTLE BETWEEN (WHITE) ARYANS AND THEIR SUPREME BRAHMAN AND COSMIC ARYAN DEVA GODS, AND THE CURSED OR BESTIAL BLACK RACE AND MIXED MUD RACES AND THEIR REBELLIOUS ENVIOUS TRIBAL DEMIGOD YAHWEH, WHO THEY IDENTIFIED WITH THE EAST'S DEVA-ANTAGONIST ASURA-DEMONS. THUS THEY CREATED AN ARTIFICIAL DICHOTOMY BETWEEN THE RELIGIONS OF THE EAST AND WEST, AND PROMOTED 'ARYAN' HINDU MAYAVADA AND THERAVADIN BUDDHIST VOIDISM AGAINST ABRAHAMIC MONOTHEISM. THE MAIN SPOKESPERSONS OF THIS OCCULT WORLD VIEW, SUCH AS H.P. BLAVATSKY AND ALBERT PIKE, ARTICULATED 'WHITE' RACIST DOCTRINES OF ARYANISM. IN BLAVATSKY'S ROOT RACES IDEOLOGY, THE PERSONAL GODS OF ALL THE MONOTHEISTS ARE ALL DARK "Ma-Mo Chohans". WHEN SHE ARTICULATED HER RACIST ARYAN ROOT- RACES IDEAS, SHE ASSOCIATED THE ARYANS WITH THE COSMIC CHOHANS OF LIGHT, AND THE NON-ARYANS WITH THE COSMIC MA-MO CHOHANS OF DARKNESS. EVERY OCCULT SOCIETY HISTORICALLY RLEATED TO THEOSOPHY SINCE HAS CONTINUED THIS ASSOCIATION. PLEASE NOTE IN HER FORGED 'MAHATMA' LETTER BELOW, THAT SHE UNEQUIVICOALLY IDENTIFIES HERSELF AS A THERAVADIN (VOIDIST) BUDDHIST AND BLANKETLY CONDEMNS MONOTHEISM! SHE EVEN STATES THAT IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR HINDUS ("...100 of thousands of Fakirs, Sannyasis and Saddhus leading the most pure lives,...") TO BE PERFECTLY PIOUS, BUT THEY ARE "on the path of error,..." IF THEY ARE NOT HER FOLLOEWERS !!! SO WE SEE THAT THE AGENDA OF THE ARYAN OCCULTISTS WAS NOT JUST TO PROMOTE WHITE SUPERIORITY AND POWER, OR 'VEGETARIAN' PIETY ETC, BUT WAS FROM THE BEGINNING TO PROMOTE THERAVADIN BUDDHIST-LIKE ATHEISM AND VOIDISM. http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-134.htm The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett Theosophical University Press Edition Letter No. 134 Dehra Dun. Friday. 4th. It is useless for a member to argue 'I am one of a pure life, I am a teetotaller and an abstainer from meat and vice. All my aspirations are for good etc.' and he, at the same time, building by his acts and deeds an impassable barrier on the road between himself and us. What have we, the disciples of the true Arhats, of esoteric Buddhism and of Sang-gyas to do with the Shasters and Orthodox Brahmanism? There are 100 of thousands of Fakirs, Sannyasis and Saddhus leading the most pure lives, and yet being as they are, on the path of error, never having had an opportunity to meet, see or even hear of us. Their forefathers have driven away the followers of the only true philosophy upon earth away from India and now, it is not for the latter to come to them but to them to come to us if they want us. Which of them is ready to become a Buddhist, a Nastika as they call us? None. Those who have believed and followed us have had their reward. Mr. Sinnett and Hume are exceptions. Their beliefs are no barrier to us for they have none. They may have had influences around them, bad magnetic emanations the result of drink, Society and promiscuous physical associations (resulting even from shaking hands with impure men) but all this is physical and material impediments which with a little effort we could counteract and even clear away without much detriment to ourselves. Not so with the magnetism and invisible results proceeding from erroneous and sincere beliefs. Faith in the Gods and God, and other superstitions attracts millions of foreign influences, living entities and powerful agents around them, with which we would have to use more than ordinary exercise of power to drive them away. We do not choose to do so. We do not find it either necessary or profitable to lose our time waging war to the unprogressed Planetaries who delight in personating gods and sometimes well known characters who have lived on earth. There are Dhyan-Chohans and "Chohans of Darkness," not what they term devils but imperfect "Intelligences" who have never been born on this or any other earth or sphere no more than the "Dhyan Chohans" have and who will never belong to the "builders of the Universe," the pure Planetary Intelligences, who preside at every Manvantara while the Dark Chohans preside at the Pralayas. Explain this to Mr. Sinnett (I CAN'T) -- tell him to read over what I said to them in the few things I have explained to Mr. Hume; and let him remember that as all in this universe is contrast (I cannot translate it better) so the light of the Dhyan Chohans and their pure intelligence is contrasted by the "Ma-Mo Chohans" -- and their destructive intelligence. These are the gods the Hindus and Christians and Mahomed and all others of bigoted religions and sects worship; and so long as their influence is upon their devotees we would no more think of associating with or counteracting them in their work than we do the Red-Caps on earth whose evil results we try to palliate but whose work we have no right to meddle with so long as they do not cross our path. (You will not understand this, I suppose. But think well over it and you will. M. means here, that they have no right or even power to go against the natural or that work which is prescribed to each class of beings or existing things by the law of nature. The Brothers, for instance could prolong life but they could not destroy death, not even for themselves. They can to a degree palliate evil and relieve suffering; they could not destroy evil. No more can the Dhyan Chohans impede the work of the Mamo Chohans, for their Law is darkness, ignorance, destruction etc., as that of the former is Light, knowledge and creation. The Dhyan Chohans answer to Buddh, Divine Wisdom and Life in blissful knowledge, and the Ma-mos are the personification in nature of Shiva, Jehovah and other invented monsters with Ignorance at their tail). TO THE ARYANISTS LIKE HPB, SRI KRISHNA WAS ONE OF THEIR OCCULT MASTERS OF THE IMPERSONAL OR VOIDIST 'HIGHER WISDOM'. HE WAS NOT A TRANSCENDENT PERSONAL GOD AT ALL, BUT RATHER WAS A 'SELF REALIZED' ASCENDED MASTER, ONE OF THE 'WHITE BROTHERHOOD' OF THEIR FICTIONAL 'ASCENDED MASTERS', ALONG WITH THEIR 'ARYAN JESUS' AND OTHER APPROPRIATED AND FICTIONALIZED RELIGIOUS OR HISTORICAL FIGURES. BECAUSE THIS WORLD VIEW IGNORED, DENIED OR DIABOLIZED THE HISTORICAL REALITY OR AT LEAST THE IMPORTANCE OF EASTERN MONOTHEISM IN DEVOTION TO VISHNU, SHIVA AND SHAKTI, GLOBALLY IT PROMOTED THE GROSSLY ERRONEOUS IDEA THAT 'HINDUISM' WAS PRIMARILY MONISTIC OR POLYTHEISTIC AND 'BUDDHISM' WAS PRIMARILY VOIDIST. THIS FURTHER DROVE A PERCEPTUAL WEDGE BETWEEN THE GREAT BHAKTI TRADITIONS OF THE EAST AND WEST. IN CONCLUSION, THE RACIST ARYANIST PARADIGM CONTRASTED THE ARYAN SUPER RACE'S IMPERSONAL 'HIDDEN HIGHER WISDOM' OF THE EAST, WITH THE DEGRADED WORSHIP OF THE BLOOD-THIRSTY BIBLICAL DEITY AND HIS ASURIC DEMONIC FOLLOWERS, THE DESCENDENTS OF 'SHEM' AND 'HAM' IE, THE 'MUD' MIXED RACES, ESPECIALLY THE SEMITES AND THE BLACK RACES, WHO WERE PRESENTED AS BARELY HUMAN, IF HUMAN AT ALL. THE ARYAN HIGHER WISDOM WAS ASSOCIATED WITH VEGETARIANISM AND ALL KINDS OF HINDU CASTE-LIKE 'PURITY' RESTRICTIONS. IT CONVENIENTLY DISTORTED AND ABUSED, IGNORED, OR SUPPRESSED ANY EVIDENCE OF ACTUAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN DEVOTIONAL MONOTHEISMS, AND CREATED AN ARTIFICIAL DICHOTOMY BETWEEN THE GOD(S) OF THE ARYAN 'VEGETARIAN' EAST, AND THE 'BLOOD THIRSTY GOD' OF THE ASURIC ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS. BELOW IS A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE PARTICULARS OF HOW THIS WORLD-VIEW DEVELOPED AND SPREAD, AND HOW IT HAS INFLUENCED ATTITUDES TOWARDS JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT. IF ONE DOUBTS THAT 'VEGETARIANISM' IN THE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN COUPLED WITH THEOSOPHY AND OCCULT-RELATED ANTI-JUDEO-CHRISTIAN (ESPECIALLY ANTI- CATHOLIC) HATE-MONGERING, IT IS EASILY CONFIRMED BY VISITING MANY WEBSITES AND READING THE BOOKS ETC. OF MOVEMENT DEVOTEES, INCLUDING SENIOR LEADERS AND EVEN GURUS. THEIR DISCUSSIONS OF RELIGION RELATIVE TO VEGETARIANISM ALMOST INVARIABLY USE ACTUAL WESTERN ESOTERIC OR ARYANIST SOURCES, IN SOME SUBTLE OR OVERT 'ARYANIST' DOCTRINAL ATTACK ON THE BIBLICAL RELIGIONS AND THEIR 'BLOOD THIRSTY' GOD. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE ISSUE DISCUSSED HEREIN IS NOT THE GENERAL MORALITY OF FLESH ABSTINENCE VERSUS FLESH EATING OR ANIMAL SACRIFICE. ASCETICISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN RELATED TO IDEAS OF HOLINESS IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS, AND FLESH ABSTINENCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE MAIN ABRAHAMIC ASCETICAL PRACTICES. HOWEVER, EVEN IN INDIA AMONG 'BRAHMINS', FLESH EATING HAS NOW BECOME COMMON IN SOME AREAS AND SOCIAL GROUPS. SO IT IS CLEAR THAT IN BOTH THE EAST AND WEST, THERE WAS THE SAME ANCIENT ASCETICAL IDEAL OF HOLINESS, BUT THE DEGENERATIVE INFLUENCES OF THE AGE HAVE ERODED THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF ASCETICISM IN BOTH REGIONS. IN THE BHAKTI TRADITIONS SURRENDERED 'FAITH' AND THE GRACE OF THE PERSONAL GOD ARE SUPREME. MORALITY IS A RESPONSE TO GOD'S LOVE, NOT A MEANS TO BECOMING GOD. IN THE ATHEISTIC TRADITIONS OF THE EAST, ONE MAY GAIN A HIGHER MATERIAL STATUS THROUGH MORALITY, AND MAY EVEN ATTAIN 'BRAHMAN' IMPERSONAL GOD-HOOD THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA AND AUSTERITIES. THUS THE ATHEISTS PLACE NO VALUE ON THE FRIENDSHIP, MERCY, LOVE OR GRACE OF A SUPREME GOD, AND PREACH A PURE DOCTRINE OF 'WORKS', WHICH MAY INCLUDE MANY KINDS OF MANDATORY AND OPPRESSIVE ASCETICAL PRACTICES, CASTE AND PURIFACTORY OBLIGATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. WHERE THE BHAKTI TRADITIONS HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY CONTACT WITH THIS KIND OF GRACE-LESS IMPERSONAL RELIGIOUS LEGALISM, THEY HAVE SHIFTED THEIR TEACHING EMPHASIS FROM FOCUSING ON GOD'S MERCY, ACCESSIBILITY AND ATTAINABILITY, TO FOCUSING ON HIS RIGHTEOUS HOLINESS, REMOTENESS AND INAPPROACHABILITY. TO SUCH SPIRITUAL ELITISTS, ONLY THE MOST SEVERE AND PERFECT ASCETICS WILL GAIN THE BEATIFIC VISION AND DWELL IN THE PERSONAL PRESENCE OF THE ORIGINAL SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD. FOR THEM GOD'S LOVE AND GRACE AND POWER TO PURIFY SEEMS INADEQUATE TO THE TASK OF OUR SALVATION. EITHER THAT, OR THEIR GOD SIMPLY LACKS THE WILL TO PURIFY US AND BRING US BACK TO GODHEAD ! IN EITHER CASE, FOR SUCH LEGALISTS, THE DOCTRINE OF THE SAVING GRACE OF GOD HAS BEEN MINIMIZED, AND THE NECESSITY OF THE EXTREME EFFORT OF THE SOUL TO EARN THEIR WAY INTO THE DIVINE PRESENCE HAS BEEN MAXIMIZED. CATHOLIC THEOLOGY AFFIRMED BOTH THE IMPORTANCE OF GRACE AND WORKS BY SHOWING THAT AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN 'WORKS', WHICH ARE ALWAYS MOTIVATED BY LOVE, ALWAYS FLOW FROM A SOUL TOUCHED BY GRACE. GRACE COMES FIRST, AND THE HUMAN HEART RESPONDS TO GRACE BY LOVING AND LIVING WELL, PERFORMING GOOD WORKS AS A NATURAL RESPONSE TO HAVING FIRST BEEN LOVED BY GOD! GOD HAS FIRST LOVED US. IF WE HAVE ANY GENUINE LOVE TO GIVE, IT IS BECAUSE HE HAS GRACED US WITH IT. WORKS UNDERTAKEN SELFISHLY WITHOUT LOVE, FOR SOME MUNDANE MOTIVATION OF REWARD, MAY HAVE SOME MATERIALLY BENEFICIAL RESULT, BUT THEY CAN NEVER GAIN ONE THE BEATIFIC VISION. IT IS GOD'S LOVE THAT REACHES OUT TO US IN THE PERSON OF THE REDEEMER, AND IT IS HIS LOVE IN US THAT RESPONDS, DRAWING US BACK INTO HIS SPIRITUAL FELLOWSHIP IN OUR REDEEMER'S SAVING EMBRACE. WORKS WITHOUT LOVE MAY EASE OUR CONSCIENCE OR EVEN PUFF-US-UP OR MAKE US POWERFUL AND VENERATED, BUT SUCH WORKS HAVE NO POWER TO SAVE US FROM LOVE-LESS-NESS IN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT. ALTHOUGH SRILA PRABHUPADA STRONGLY PREACHED ASCETIC MORALITY, HE NEVER EXALTED IT OVER THE DOCTRINE OF GOD'S PERSONAL SAVING GRACE. HE CONSTANTLY CONDEMNED THE IMPERSONAL HINDU EMPHASIS ON WORKS (KARMA YOGA) AND EXALTED THE DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES OF BHAKTI YOGA OVER THOSE OF MUNDANE KARMA YOGA. HE DECLARED THAT OURS WAS A CALL "BACK TO GODHEAD", NOT A MISSION TO RECRUIT SOULS FOR A MERE GOOD-KARMIC TRIP TO SOME 'HIGHER' MATERIAL PLANETARY SYSTEM ! HE BROUGHT THE RELIGION OF SRI SRI RADHA-KRISHNA AND BALARAMAS' SAVING GRACE TO THE WESTERN CULTURES, NOT THE RELIGION OF 'VEGETARIANISM' THAT DENIES NOT ONLY THE POWER-TO-SAVE OF ANY PERSONAL GOD, BUT THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A GOD AT ALL. HOW 'VEGETARIANISM' IS GLOBALLY RELATED TO WHITE RACIST OCCULT ATHEISTIC ARYANISM FOR OVER 100 YEARS VEGETARIANISM HAS BEEN USED AS THE PRIMARY PUBLIC RELATIONS 'HOOK' OF WESTERN ESOTERICISM TO CATCH SOULS AND REEL THEM INTO ESOTERIC ARYANISM. IF WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF WESTERN WHITE RACIST (OCCULT) ARYANISM, FROM ITS BEGINNING AND IN ITS GREATEST DEVELOPMENT IN THE OCCULT MASONIC RELATED AND THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENTS, ESOTERIC ARYANISM HAS ALWAYS USED VEGETARIANISM AS ONE PRIMARY MEANS TO RECRUIT PEOPLE. THIS IS SUCH A PROBLEM THAT BY THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY THE CATHOLIC AND OTHER MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WERE ALREADY ASSOCIATING THE GLOBAL VEGETARIAN MOVEMENT WITH THE COVERED ATHEISM OF OCCULT SOCIETIES, ANTI-SEMITISM, OCCULTISM, IMPERSONAL ATHEISM, NEO-PAGAN POLYTHEISM AND NEO-BUDDHIST WESTERN EXTREME 'APOPHATIC' ABYSS VOIDISM. THE RESULT OF THE ATHEISTS USING VEGETARIANISM AS A KIND OF DISEASE VECTOR TO SPREAD DOUBT, FEAR AND HATRED OF GOD AND HIS CHURCH, WAS THAT MAIN-STREAM CHRISTIANITY GREW TO ASSOCIATE FLESH ABSTINENCE, WHICH WAS AN ANCIENT PRACTICE OF JUDEO-CATHOLIC PIETY, MORE AND MORE EXCLUSIVELY WITH ANTI-YAHWIST ANTI-JUDEO CHRISTIAN, ATHEISTIC, POLYTHEISTIC AND IMPERSONAL PANTHEISTIC OR MONIST RELIGIOUS FORCES. THUS THE MAIN STREAM CHURCHES DEVELOPED A KIND OF AVERSION TO 'VEGETARIANISM'. VEGETARIANISM BECAME RIGHTLY ASSOCIATED WITH MORTAL DANGERS TO ONE'S FAITH. PARENTS DREADED THEIR CHILDREN TO TAKE IT UP, BECAUSE SOON THEY WOULD BECOME PUFFED-UP 'HOLIER THAN THOU' AND ALIENATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES. THEY WOULD GROW TO HATE THE CHURCH AND THEN GOD HIMSELF. THEY WOULD REJECT THE SAVING JESUS OF CHRISTIAN PERSONALISM FOR THE COSMIC CHRIST OF MAYAVADI PSEUDO-HINDU OR PSEUDO-BUDDHISM, MUSLIM SUFISM OR WESTERN OCCULTISM. THEY WOULD REJECT THE COSMIC REDEEMING JEWISH MESSIAH JESUS FOR THE MORTAL ARYAN CHRIST WHO LEARNED MYSTICAL POWERS IN INDIA AND DIED IN KASHMIR. THIS IS WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN A HUGE WAY DURING THE GREAT FLOWERING OF THE BACK-TO-THE -LAND NEO-PAGAN ARYANISM MOVEMENT IN PRE THIRD REICH GERMANY. THE SPREAD OF ANTI-JEWISH-JESUS OCCULT-CHRIST ARYANISM THROUGHOUT 'WHITE' SOCIETIES FROM THE TIME OF BLAVATSKY ONWARD WAS RAPID AND CONCENTRATED BOTH IN THE DISGRUNTLED WHITE UNDERCLASS, AND THE ECONOMICALLY POWERFUL SOCIALLY PRIVILEGED AND INTELLECTUAL ELITE, AND PROTESTANT (ESPECIALLY ANGLO-GERMANIC) OCCULT SOCIETIES. THESE PERSONS IMAGINED THEMSELVES TO BE THE ARYANS OR BRAHMINICAL MASTER RACE. THE PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC IDEA OF THE WHITE MASTER RACE GREW OUT OF SOCIAL DARWINISM. THE WHOLE DARWINIST EUGENICS PROJECT, THAT RESULTED IN THE WWII HOLOCAUST, WAS ROOTED IN WHITE RACIST ARYANISM. IN FACT DARWIN'S SON WAS THE LEADER OF THE FIRST EVER EUGENICS SOCIETY. ALL ALONG THE WAY ARYANIST WHITE RACISM WAS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH NORSE OR WHITE NEO-PAGANISM AND A STRANGE FASCINATION WITH VEGETARIANISM. IT WAS STRANGE BECAUSE THEIR ROMANTICIZED 'ARYAN' ANGLO-GERMANIC TRIBES WERE HUNTERS AND FLESH EATERS, NOT PRIMARILY AGRICULTURALISTS. NON-THE-LESS 'VEGETARIANISM' BECAME SOMETHING USEFUL TO THE NEO-PAGANS AND OCCULTISTS, WITH WHICH TO ATTACK THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION. AS NORDIC SO-CALLED ARYANISM HATED AND OPPOSED JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY, IT ALLIED ITSELF TO EASTERN TRADITIONS THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY STARTED BY RACIAL 'ARYANS'. BLOND NORTHERN EUROPEAN 'ARYANS' HAD ALWAYS FEARED AND HATED THE DARKER 'MIXED RACE' TRIBES OF SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. IT DID NOT HELP THAT THESE SOUTHERN TRIBES WERE OFTEN CONQUERING THE NORTH. TO THE BLOND NORTHERNERS, CHRISTIANITY WAS ULTIMATELY JUST ANOTHER IMPOSITION OF ROME (THE MIXED RACES OF THE SOUTH) ON THE UNMIXED 'WHITE' PEOPLE OF THE NORTH. WHEN THE ANTI-CATHOLIC GNOSTIC AND MUSLIM INFLUENCED PROTESTANT OCCULT SOCIETIES ALLIED THEMSELVES TO EASTERN ARYANISM, A POWERFULLY DESTRUCTIVE FORCE CAME INTO EXISTENCE. H.P. BLAVATSKY AND HER FRIENDS ALLIED THEMSELVES TO SRI LANKAN THERAVADIN (VOIDIST) BUDDHISM, AND THEN TO INDIAN MAYAVADA, AND THEN TO TIBETAN TANTRISM. IN THE USA, ALBERT PIKE SYSTEMATIZED HIS OWN PSEUDO-HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY OF RACIST ARYANISM. SO FROM THE EAST (ARYANIST THEOSOPHY) AND THE WEST (PIKE'S ARYANIST MASONRY) A GREAT EVIL POURED FORTH INFECTING THE 'WHITE' RACE GLOBALLY. EXTERNALLY THIS EVIL WAS GARBED IN PIETY, A PIETY THAT INCLUDED 'VEGETARIANISM' AND PROMOTED A BUDDHIST-LIKE OR MAYAVADI ARYAN CHRIST. IN THE USA THE KU KLUX KLAN EVOLVED OUT OF PIKE'S RACIST ARYANISM, AND IN THE ANGLO-GERMANIC WORLD OF EUROPE, BLAVATSKY'S ARYANISM INFLUENCED THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH. ALL ALONG THE OUTWARD FACE OF THIS MOVEMENT WAS 'PIOUS' AND PROMOTED 'VEGETARIANISM'. THUS THERE IS A PROFOUNDLY EVIL MODERN HISTORY OF ATHEISM AND RACISM TIED TO 'VEGETARIANISM', THAT IS INEXTRICABLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WHOLE OCCULT ARYANIST MOVEMENT. THUS IT IS NOT SURPRISING AT ALL THAT THE MAIN-STREAM JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN BODIES BEGAN TO TREAT THE STRANGE 'ARYAN' RELIGION OF 'VEGETARIANISM' AS A DANGER TO FAITH AND MORALS. LOOK AT THE WORD AND ITS USE. IT IS A RELIGION WITH LOTS OF HISTORICAL BAGGAGE. THAT BAGGAGE IS LOADED WITH GNOSTIC, NEO-GNOSTIC AND OCCULT ANTI-YAHWISM THAT IS ESSENTIALLY MAYAVADI AND PROFOUNDLY 'ARYAN' OR WHITE RACIST. WHEN SRILA PRABHUPADA BROUGHT AUTHENTIC GAUDIYA VAISHNAVISM TO THE WEST, HIS PRESENTATION WAS STILL RELATIVELY PURE AND FREE OF WESTERN ESOTERIC ARYANISM. THIS PRESENTED A NEW OPPORTUNITY, AN HISTORICALLY 'TEACHABLE MOMENT' FOR JEWS AND CHRISTIANS TO RECONSIDER FLESH ABSTINENCE FROM THE UNIVERSAL NON-SECTARIAN MORAL PERSPECTIVE, WITHOUT ANY ANTI-YAHWIST TEACHINGS ATTACHED. HOWEVER, THE HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT WAS QUICKLY HI-JACKED BY NEW AGE ARYANISTS AMONG HIS HIPPIE OCCULT-FASCINATED DISCIPLES, AND THESE PERSONS COMPLETELY POLLUTED HIS PURE BHAKTI YOGA MOVEMENT WITH ALL THE SAME OLD ESOTERIC ARYANISM STUFF AGAIN. THEY INTRODUCED THE BASIC TENANTS OF THEOSOPHY AND IN THEIR HANDS THE WHOLE MISSION WAS DIVERTED INTO JUST ANOTHER BUT MORE POWERFUL NEW AGE VECTOR FOR ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN ARYANIST PROPAGANDA. LIKE FISHERMEN, THE ARYANIST LEADERS OF ISKCON DANGLED ATTRACTIVE TEACHINGS OF NON-SECTARIANISM, AHIMSA, 'LOVE AND TRUST' ETC. IN FRONT OF PEOPLE, AND ONCE THEY WERE HOOKED, CONSUMED THEIR VICTIMS LIVES WITH THE SAME IMPERSONAL CALLOUSNESS THAT THE NAZIS EXHIBITED IN THEIR DEATH CAMPS. I WAS THERE. I SAW IT. MY FAMILY AND I EXPERIENCED IT. THERE IS A CADRE OF COVERED NEO-NAZIS IN ISKCON AND THE MOVEMENT, AND THEIR DEFINING WORLD-VIEW IS HATRED FOR THE JEWISH GOD, THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, WHO WORSHIP THE JEWISH GOD AND HIS JEWISH MESSIAH JESUS. THEIR PREACHING HAS A HIDDEN OBJECTIVE. EXOTERICALLY THEY APPEAR TO BE TEACHING SATTVIC LIVING AND PURE GAUDIYA VAISHNAVISM, BUT ESOTERICALLY THEIR MISSION IS TO DESTROY FAITH IN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE, AND HIS MESSIAH JESUS. WHILE SPEAKING THE FLOWERY WORDS OF THE VEDAS, THEY ARE HOOKING AND TRAPPING / ENSLAVING SOULS FOR THEIR OWN SERVICE, NOT FOR THE SERVICE OF GOD AND HIS SAINTS. THUS WE HAVE SEEN THE HORRIFIC FRUIT OF THEIR EFFORTS, IN THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED IN THE MOVEMENT. EXOTERICALLY THE DANGEROUS LEADERS HAVE BEEN AND ARE VAISHNAVAS, BUT ESOTERICALLY THEY HAVE BEEN AND ARE IMPERSONALISTS AND ARYANIST ELITISTS, WHOSE ONLY ACCEPTABLE IDEA OF CHRIST IS THE ARYAN CHRIST OF THE PROTO-NAZIS. SO WHEN VEGETARIANISM IS USED AS A WEAPON TO 'DEFEAT' JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, LOOK CLOSELY AT THE TEACHINGS THAT ACCOMPANY THIS APPROACH. THERE WILL BE AN ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT AND DECONSTRUCT THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SHASTRAS. THERE WILL BE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE PROPHETS, SAINTS AND COMMON HEROS OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, WITH EVENTUALLY THE ENTIRE TRADITIONS BEING DIABOLIZED. THE PRESENT LEADERS AND MAGISTERIUM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OR ORTHODOX JUDAISM WILL BE DIABOLIZED. EVENTUALLY THE 'JEWS' AND 'CATHOLICS' WILL BE PRESENTED AS ARCH-ENEMIES OF GOD, WHO RUN A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY TO ENSLAVE HUMANITY, FORCING US ALL TO WORSHIP YAHWEH WHO IS THE DARK DEMIGOD OF A SOUL-LESS RACE OF CRUEL ANTI- ARYAN BARBARIANS ! UNTIL WE SEVER THE THREAD IN OUR PREACHING THAT CONNECTS BETWEEN DIET AND RACIST OCCULTISM, WHEN PEOPLE LATCH ONTO OUR DIETARY REFORM, MANY WILL CONTINUE TO END UP IN THE CLUTCHES OF ARYANISM. TO PROMOTE AHIMSA AND RELATED DIETARY REFORM AMONG JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, WE SHOULD PURELY PRESENT THE TIME-HONORED ASCETIC MORALITY OF TRADITIONAL JUDEO-CATHOLIC FLESH ABSTINENCE, AND THE SCIENTIFIC ECOLOGICAL, MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC (SOCIAL JUSTICE) REASONS FOR EATING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE 'FOOD CHAIN' INSTEAD OF AT THE TOP AS PREDATORS. WE MUST THUS DE-COUPLE THE ISSUE OF DIET FROM ALL OF ITS EASTERN ARYANIST AND WESTERN OCCULT ASSOCIATIONS AND USES. OTHERWISE, WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO HAVE A REALLY PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AUTHENTIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION. AS LONG AS OUR PREACHING IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OCCULT RELIGION OF 'VEGETARIANISM', WITH ALL OF ITS ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL BAGGAGE, OUR EFFORTS WILL CONTINUE TO ATTRACT ONLY NEW AGERS AND OTHERS ON THE FRINGES OF THE AUTHENTIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION. WE MUST NOT ALLOW EITHER THE ARYANIST RACISTS OR THE REACTIONARY CHRISTIANS TO FRAME OUR QUESTIONS AND SUPPLY OUR ANSWERS. INSTEAD WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS REALLY BEEN GOING ON HISTORICALLY IN THIS STRUGGLE. FROM THE BEGINNING THERE HAS BEEN ASCETICISM IN THE JUDEO- CATHOLIC TRADITION. ONE OF THE PRIME FEATURES OF ASCETICISM WAS ALWAYS FLESH ABSTINENCE. HOWEVER THE NECESSARY EATING OF FLESH FOR SURVIVAL WAS NEVER CONSIDERED A MORTAL SIN, JUST AS IT WAS NOT CONSIDERED A MORTAL SIN IN VEDIC CULTURE. SACRIFICE FOR SIN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAD NECESSITY OF KILLING IN SITUATIONS OF SURVIVAL. HUNTING AND FISHING PEOPLES IN ECOSYSTEMS WHERE PLANT LIFE CANNOT SUSTAIN HUMAN LIFE HAVE KILLED OUT OF NECESSITY. THUS THERE WAS ALLOWANCE MADE FOR SUCH KILLING AND FLESH-EATING IN THE BHAKTI TRADITIONS OF BOTH THE EAST AND WEST. THE ISSUE THEREFORE IS NOT WHETHER THE EAST AND WEST WORSHIP DIFFERENT GODS, THE GOD OF VEGETARIANISM AND THE GOD OF FLESH EATING. IT IS NOT WHETHER VICARIOUS ATONEMENT IS VEDIC OR NOT. BECAUSE, LIKE THE JUDEO- CATHOLIC THEOLOGY OF SACRIFICE, THE ENTIRE VEDIC SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM IS ONE OF VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, THROUGH THE COSMIC SELF-SACRIFICE OF LORD BALADEVA AS PURUSHA YUPA DHVAJA. THE ISSUE IS OUR PERSONAL MORAL REALIZATION AND CULPABILITY FOR SIN. THUS THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST RIGHTLY CONSIDERED DIET TO BE A SUBSIDIARY ISSUE TO THE QUESTION OF SALVATION THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD. GOD CAN SAVE ANY WILLING SOUL. OF THIS THERE IS NO DOUBT, AND THIS IS THE GOSPEL 'GOOD NEWS' THAT THE BHAKTI TRADITIONS OF DIVINE LOVE AND GRACE SEEK TO COMMUNICATE. THIS IS A 'DOGMATIC' TRUTH AT THE TOP OF THE HIERARCHY OF DIVINE REVELATIONS. THIS IS THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION. THEN THERE IS ASCETIC OR MORAL THEOLOGY, WHICH DEALS WITH BOTH IMPEDIMENTS TO SALVATION ( MORTAL SINS) AND IMPEDIMENTS TO CHRISTIAN PERFECTION, VENIAL SINS. THERE ARE ISSUES OF CULPABILITY THAT MODIFY A PERSON'S RESPONSIBILITY AND THEREFORE DEGREE OF GUILT INVOLVED IN ANY ACT OR OMISSION. CATHOLIC AND JEWISH MORAL THEOLOGY DISTINGUISH IN GREAT DETAIL THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN MORTAL OR VENIAL SINNING, AND IN CORPORAL AND SPIRITUAL SINS OF COMMISSION AND OMISSION. THUS IN CATHOLIC ASCETIC (ALSO CALLED 'MORAL') THEOLOGY, THERE HAVE BEEN WHOLE LIBRARIES OF WORKS WRITTEN ON THE SEVEN DEADLY (MORTAL) SINS, VENIAL SINS, AND THE CORPORAL AND SPIRITUAL WORKS OF MERCY OR CHARITY. OMITTING THESE WORKS IS A SIN. SINS ARE BOTH ACTS AND FAILURES TO ACT. SRILA PRABHUPADA CHALLENGED EVERYONE TO EXAMINE THEIR OWN LIFE FOR ITS ASCETIC MORALITY. HIS CHALLENGE WAS PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL IN SO FAR AS IT CALLED ON CHRISTIANS TO COLLECTIVELY RETURN TO THE ASCETICISM OF THEIR EARLY (CATHOLIC) CHURCH. HOWEVER, SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES WHO WERE 'VEGETARIANS' SAW THE MOVEMENT AS A STRUGGLE BETWEEN OPPOSING GODS AND RACES. THE GOD OF THE MEAT EATERS AND HIS (JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN) MELLCHAS AND YAVANAS AGAINST THE GOD OF THE VEGETARIANS AND HIS ARYANS. THUS THEY FRAMED THE DISCOURSE IN TERMS OF THIS STRUGGLE, AND IT BECAME NECESSARY FOR THEM TO ATTACK (SUBTLY OR OVERTLY) THE GURU, SHASTRA AND SADHU OF THE ENTIRE CENTRIC JUDEO- CHRISTIAN TRADITION. FOR ALLIES IN THIS ATTACK, THEY JOINED WITH OTHER OLD AND NEWER HISTORICAL ENEMIES OF THESE WESTERN BHAKTI TRADITIONS, SUCH AS THE GNOSTICS, OCCULTISTS, MAYAVADI SUFI MUSLIMS, OTHER ANTI-ABRAHAMIC HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS ETC. IN EACH CASE THEY REINFORCED THE FOCUS OF PREACHING AWAY FROM THE GRACE OF A LOVING AND ALL-POWERFUL (TO SAVE) GOD, ONTO MORAL THEOLOGY ISSUES LIKE DIET AND OTHER CORPORAL SINS. GLUTTONY IS THE SIN THAT INCLUDES UNNECESSARY FLESH EATING, AND IT CAN BE A MORTAL SIN. GLUTTONY, ILLICIT SEX, INTOXICATION AND GAMBLING ARE ALL CORPORAL 'SINS OF THE FLESH' THAT MAY REACH THE LEVEL OF A MORTAL SIN, WHICH IS DEFINED AS SOMETHING UNREPENTED THAT IS SO SERIOUS THAT IT CAN SEPARATE A PERSON FROM GOD. REVIVALS OF CHRISTIAN PIETY HAVE ALWAYS STRESSED THAT A CHRISTIAN MUST REPENT OF AND NEVER COMMIT SUCH MORTAL OR 'DEADLY CORPORAL SINS. BUT, CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM HAS ALSO ALWAYS COUNSELED AGAINST LACK OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY (MERCIFUL LOVE) AND THE SPIRITUAL SINS AS WELL ! SPIRITUAL SINS ARE THINGS LIKE PRIDE, ATHEISM, CRUELTY, ENVY, GREED, DISHONESTY, INFIDELITY, SPIRITUAL SLOTH LAZINESS OR LUKE-WARMNESS (THERE ARE MANY)ETC. IN THE HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT, SOME LEADERS HAVE IGNORED THE REAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPIRITUAL VIRTUES AND HAVE EVEN TAUGHT SINFULNESS LIKE IMPERSONAL CRUELTY TO PEOPLE, DISHONESTY, ENVY AND GREED. THUS WE HAVE SEEN A PATHOLOGICAL EMPHASIS ON THE 'FOUR REGS' OF CORPORAL MORALITY, WHILE THERE HAS BEEN A NEGLECT OF THE 'THINGS OF THE SPIRIT'. THE FOCUS HAS SHIFTED AWAY FROM GOD'S GRACE AND DEVELOPING THE INTERNAL SPIRITUAL VIRTUES, TO PREACHING GOD'S LAW AND THE EXTERNAL SHOW OF PIETY PRODUCED BY SEEMING TO 'FOLLOW THE FOUR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLES'. NOW CONSIDER THAT SINS OF THE MERE FLESH ARE GENERALLY NOT AS DANGEROUS TO THE SOUL AS SINS OF THE SPIRIT ! AFTER ALL WE ARE NOT THE BODY AND WITH THE BODY ITS CORPORAL SINS ARE DESTROYED BY DEATH, THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT FOR ALL CORPORAL SINS. WE ALL HAVE TO FACE PURIFICATION FROM OUR CORPORAL SINS BY DEATH ! WE MUST REPENT OF THESE TO ENTER THE NEXT WORLD UNATTACHED TO THEM, AND FREE OF THEIR EFFECTS. HOWEVER, THE SUBTLER 'SPIRITUAL' SINS OF THE SELF ARE WHAT WE MUST ALSO STAND BEFORE OUR MAKER AND OUR JUDGE WITH. THESE HAVE NOT BEEN DESTROYED BY THE DEATH OF OUR FLESH. SINS OF THE FLESH ARE PUNISHED IN THE FLESH. SINS OF THE SUBTLER SELF, AGAINST GOD AND OTHERS, ARE NOT PUNISHABLE IN THE FLESH. THESE, IF THEY ARE 'MORTAL' SEPARATE A PERSON FROM THE COMMUNION OF LOVE WITH GOD AND OTHERS. THE VAISHNAVA SHASTRAS ALSO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GROSS AND SUBTLE SINS, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE 'PUNISHMENTS' OR KARMIC REACTIONS. SO NOW LET US CONSIDER THE STATE OF 'SALVATION' OF THE PERSON WHO IS A PERFECT 'FOLLOWER OF THE FOUR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLES' OF ASCETICISM, BUT WHO IS GUILTY OF AN UNREPENTED MORTAL SIN OF PRIDE. SUCH A PERSON MAY BE EXTERNALLY HOLY, BUT INWARDLY EVIL AND DESTINED FOR THE 'DAMNATION' OF SEPARATION FROM GOD. IN FACT, ANYONE IN A STATE OF 'MORTAL SIN' HAS ALREADY SEPARATED THEMSELF FROM GOD AND THE COMMUNION OF HIS BELOVED. THE INTERCESSORY PRAYER AND SACRIFICIAL ACTS OF OTHERS, FINAL REPENTANCE AND SALVATION BY GOD'S GRACE ARE THE ONLY HOPE OF SUCH AS SOUL. THUS THE APOSTLES RIGHTLY TAUGHT THAT MORTAL SINS OF THE SOUL ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN VENIAL SINS OF THE FLESH, WHICH WHEN CONFESSED AND TRULY REPENTED, ARE PUNISHED IN THE BODY, FINISHED AT DEATH, AND HAVE NO POWER TO SEPARATE ONE FROM GOD IN THE NEXT WORLD. THE STUDY OF GLUTTONY AND UNNECESSARY CRUELTY IN OUR DIET AND OTHER ISSUES OF CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL SIN, LIKE SEXUAL SIN OR PRIDE, ARE PART OF THE ASCETIC OR 'MORAL' THEOLOGY OF OUR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION. THE APOSTOLIC (CATHOLIC) CHURCH HAS ALWAYS TAUGHT ASCETIC OR MORAL THEOLOGY ALONG WITH DOGMATIC THEOLOGY. THUS THERE IS A VAST REPOSITORY OF JUDEO-CATHOLIC GURU, SHASTRA AND SADHU WISDOM ON THE ISSUES OF CORPORAL AND SPIRITUAL SIN, SINS OF COMMISSION AND OMISSION, PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE CULPABILITY, CONFESSION AND PENITENCE, ETC. I CONTRIBUTED A CHAPTER ON FLESH ABSTINENCE AND CATHOLIC ASCETIC THEOLOGY, TO THE BOOK "EMBRACING EARTH, CATHOLIC APPROACHES TO ECOLOGY". ONLY BECAUSE OF A LACK OF GOOD CATHOLIC EDUCATION, CAN CHRISTIANS BE CONFUSED OVER SUCH LOADED QUESTIONS AS THOSE FRAMED BY THE GNOSTICS, NEW AGERS AND OTHERS. FLESH EATING CAN BE A MORTAL SIN, A VENIAL SIN OR NO SIN AT ALL, DEPENDING ON THE CULPABILITY OF THE PERSON INVOLVED AND THE TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE OF THE ACT. WHEN A SAINT APPEARS AND CALLS US TO REVIVAL, EXHORTING US TO HOLINESS, S/HE ALWAYS PROMOTES PIETY OR ASCETICISM, TO THE DEGREE THAT IS NEEDED AND POSSIBLE ACCORDING TO THE TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE. IN THIS CRUEL AND VIOLENT AGE, SRILA PRABHUPADA EXHORTED HUMANITY TO TURN AWAY FROM UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE, TOWARD AHIMSA, AND HE FOCUSED ON PROMOTING FLESH ABSTINENCE AS THE PRIMARY MEANS TO THIS END. HE DID NOT COME TO PROMOTE THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF THE RACIST ARYANIST MAYAVADIS' CONCOCTED ARYAN CHRIST. HE CAME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF SRI KRISHNA'S GRACE, MEDIATED THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF OUR LADY ROSA MYSTICA / RADHA, AND LORD BALADEVA THE SAVIOR OF ALL WORLDS. THIS MESSAGE OF SALVATION THROUGH GRACE SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF OUR PREACHING, AND ASCETICISM AND ABSTINENCE SHOULD BE PREACHED ONLY IN THE PROPER CONTEXT OF THIS ALL-IMPORTANT MESSAGE OF GOD'S LOVE AND MERCY. WHEN DID THE KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT BECOME A VEHICLE FOR THE ARAYANIST HATE JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY MOVEMENT? WHEN, FOR SOME DEVOTEES, DID THE RELIGION OF ARYAN OCCULT 'VEGETARIANISM' ECLIPSE THE MESSAGE OF SRI SRI KRISHNA-BALARAMA'S AND MOTHER RADHARANI'S GRACE? WHEN, FOR SOME DEVOTEES, DID THE NON-SECTARIAN SANKIRTAN MISSION OF SRI SRI GAURA-NITYANANDA-RAMA BECOME A FANATICAL SECTARIAN ELITISM OF SELF-APPOINTED ARYAN SUPERMEN? LET US CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT THE PURE MISSION OF OUR ACARYAS HAS BEEN COMPROMISED AND NEARLY RUINED BY THE PERNICIOUSLY IMPERSONAL INFLUENCES OF OCCULT ARYANISM, AND THAT THIS ARYANISM CYNICALLY USES 'VEGETARIANISM' AND THE 'FOUR REGS' TO EXTERNALLY PROMOTE ITSELF AS A 'HOLIER THAN THOU' TRADITION IN OPPOSITION TO JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY, WHICH IT FALSELY PRESENTS AS FUNDAMENTALLY DIABOLIC, OR AT LEAST PROFOUNDLY CORRUPTED. TO RETURN TO PREACHING THE PURE MESSAGE OF OUR VAISHNAVA TRADITION OF DIVINE GRACE AND SATTVIC MORALITY, WE MUST DISENTANGLE OURSELVES FROM THE INFLUENCES OF ANTI- JEWISH AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN OCCULT ARYANISM. PURITY IS POTENCY. POLLUTING PURE VAISHNAVISM WITH WESTERN CONCEPTS OF WHITE RACIST ARYANISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, OCCULT IMPERSONALISM AND VOIDISM IS AN ABOMINATION. IT IS A DANGER TO SOULS AND DESTRUCTIVE TO HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, RESPECT AND HARMONY. IT IS EXTREMELY COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE TO THE NON-SECTARIAN MISSION OF SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA, AND SUCH POLLUTION SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. CAN MEAT EATERS BE SAVED? PART TWO: SIN AND ITS EFFECT IN THE CONSIDERATIONS OF JUDEO- CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM AND MORAL THEOLOGY ANOTHE DEVOTEE RESPONDED TO MY FIRST LETTER AND ASKED A VERY GOOD QUESTION: "I FOUND THIS ARTICLE VERY VALUABLE. HOWEVER, I FOUND ONE THING CONFUSING, AND WOULD APPRECIATE CLARIFICATION IF YOUR TIME AND ENERGY PERMIT. YOU STATED THAT SINS OF THE FLESH (E.G., ILLICIT SEX) ARE PUNISHED BY THE DEATH OF THE BODY AND THEREAFTER DO NOT SEPARATE THE SOUL FROM GOD. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THOUGH THAT SUCH ACTS CREATE SAMSKARAS WHICH CONTINUE TO BURDEN THE SOUL AFTER DEATH AND AFFECT FUTURE LIVES. IS MY UNDERSTANDING INCORRECT, OR HAVE I MISINTERPRETED YOUR POINT?" HARI BOL! EXCELLENT QUESTION PRABHUJI! THE EFFECT OF ANY SIN IS RELATIVE TO ITS SEVERITY, THE PERSONAL INTERNAL CULPABILITY OF THE SINNER, AND THE EXTENUATING TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SINFUL ACT OR OMISSION. THUS WHAT IS NORMALLY A VENIAL SIN, MAY BECOME MORE SERIOUS AND EVEN CONSTITUTE A MORTAL SIN. CONVERSELY, AN ACT OR OMISSION THAT WOULD NORMALLY BE A MORTAL SIN, MAY BECOME A VENIAL SIN OR NO SIN AT ALL, DEPENDING ON THE ABOVE QUALIFYING REALITIES. FOR EXAMPLE, TO KILL A HUMAN BEING IS A NORMALLY A MORTAL SIN, BUT THERE ARE SOME CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT IS NOT A SIN, BUT MAY EVEN BE CONSIDERED A DHARMIC DUTY, IN WHICH CASE IT WOULD BE A SIN TO FAIL TO ACT, BY SUCH DHARMIC KILLING. IF I SAW A SUICIDE BOMBER ABOUT TO BLOW UP A GROUP OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, AND I COULD STOP IT WITH LETHAL FORCE, BUT DIDN'T, IT WOULD BE A SIN FOR ME TO FAIL TO ACT AND STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF MANY, EVEN THOUGH I WOULD BE ABETTING THE SINFUL SUICIDE OF ONE. SO THE QUESTION REGARDING ANY OF OUR ACTS OR OMISSIONS IS 'WHAT IS OUR PERSONAL DEGREE OF RESPONSIBILITY IN EACH SITUATION'. ONE CAN NOT SIMPLY GENERALLY AND IMPERSONALLY CITE SOME LAW AND IGNORE EVERY OTHER PERSONAL AND SPECIFIC ASPECT OF THE SITUATION. THERE ARE MORAL ABSOLUTES, BUT INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REALITIES MODIFY OUR RESPONSE-ABILITY REGARDING SUCH ABSOLUTES. SOMETIMES OUR ONLY CHOICE IS BETWEEN THE LESSER OF TWO OR MORE EVILS. WHETHER ONE BELIEVES IN MATERIAL REINCARNATION AFTER THE DEATH OF THIS BODY OR NOT, THE DISTINCTION IN APOSTOLIC (CATHOLIC) DOCTRINE IS THAT A MORTAL ('DEADLY') SIN AFFECTIVELY SEPARATES ONE FROM GOD AND THE 'REDEEMED' AND UNFALLEN COMMUNITY OF CREATION. IN A 'STATE OF MORTAL SIN' ONE HAS BY THEIR OWN FREE-WILL ISOLATED THEMSELF FROM THE GOD WHO-IS-LOVE AND THE LOVE OF GOD AND OTHERS. BY THEIR COMPASSIONLESS OFFENCE THE SINNER HAS CUT-THEMSELF-OFF. THINK OF THE VAISHNAVA STORY IN WHICH GOD HIDES FROM THE SINNER IN THE SINNER'S OWN HEART ! THIS DAMNATION OF SEPARATION IS NOT A PUNISHMENT FROM GOD, IT IS ENTIRELY THE SINNER'S OWN DOING. THE SINFUL ACT OR OMISSION OR ATTITUDE REQUIRED THEM TO SELFISHLY SEPARATE FROM OTHERS, AND AS LONG AS THEY REMAIN UNREPENTANT OF THE SEPARATING SIN, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE SEPARATED, ISOLATED OR DAMNED. HOWEVER, WHILE A VENIAL SIN OFFENDS GOD AND OTHERS, IT IS NOT RELATIONSHIP-ENDING. IT HURTS BUT DOES NOT UTTERLY DESTROY / SEVER ONE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. GOD CANNOT JUST OVERLOOK IT, BUT HE WILL NOT DAMN SOMEONE AND 'CAST THEM OUT FROM HIS PRESENCE' FOR IT EITHER. SIN IN SIN, BUT THERE ARE DEGREES OF SIN. IN FACT THE MEASURE OF 'SIN' WAS ORIGINALLY PROBABLY AN ARCHERY TERM, THAT DISCRIBED THE DEGREE OF DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TARGET AND THE FAILED EFFORT TO HIT IT. WE SEE THIS FAILING-TO-HIT-THE-TARGET MEANING IN THE STATEMENT THAT "ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD". THE ISSUES OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, CULPABILITY FOR SIN, AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF SIN BOTH THE VAISHNAVA AND JUDEO-CATHOLIC TRADITIONS TEACH THAT OUR ESSENTIAL NATURE IS SPIRITUAL AND THAT WE ARE SOMEHOW 'FALLEN' HERE. THESE TRADITIONS TEACH THAT IN BEATITUDE WE HAVE A 'SPIRITUAL BODY', AND THAT TO ATTAIN THAT STATE IN THE FRIENDSHIP OR PRESENCE OF GOD, WE MUST BE DIVINELY GRACED TO BECOME PURIFIED OF OUR PRESENT SINFUL STATE. IN VAISHNAVISM IT IS ASSUMED THAT WE ENTER LIFE AS NEWBORNS IN SOME KIND OF A STATE OF SIN DUE TO PAST-LIFE SAMSKARAS. IN CATHOLICISM THE ASSUMPTION IS ALSO THAT THE NEWBORN IS BORN WITH THE EFFECT OF SIN ON ITS SOUL. HOWEVER IN CATHOLICISM, NO ASSUMPTION OF A PREVIOUS-LIFE PERSONAL SIN IS MADE. INSTEAD, IT IS THE "ORIGINAL SIN" OF THE JIVA / EVE (H'EVA IN HEBREW IS EXACTLY THE SAME WORD AS JIVA IN SANSKRIT) THAT CAUSED THE SOUL'S INITIAL SEPARATION FROM GOD, WHICH IS ADDRESSED IN CATHOLIC TEACHINGS. TO GAIN GOD'S GRACE (BY THE INTERCESSION OF THE FAITHFUL) FOR THE REMOVAL OF THIS ORIGINAL EFFECT OF SIN ON THE SOUL, CATHOLICS PRACTICE INFANT BAPTISM. SUCH INFANT BAPTISM IS REVEALED TO RELIEVE THE PERSON OF THE SINFULNESS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN BORN INTO LIFE WITH. ALTHOUGH IT CLEANS THE SLATE FOR A NEW LIFE IN GOD, IT DOES NOT PREVENT SOMEONE FROM SINNING AGAIN. THE BLESSING OF BAPTISM CANNOT PROTECT ONE FROM THE JUDGMENT FOR PERSONAL SIN COMMITTED AFTERWARDS. THUS WHEN THE SOUL REACHES THE AGE OF REASON, THEY ARE TAUGHT WHAT SIN IS, THAT THEY MUST TRY NOT TO SIN, AND IF THEY FAIL, THEY MUST CONFESS AND REPENT OF THEIR SIN TO BE FORGIVEN, AND RETURNED TO A STATE OF GRACE. IT IS SIN THAT ALIENATES US FROM GOD AND OTHERS, AND IT IS 'PERFECT CONTRITION' OR PERFECT OTHER-CENTERED COMPASSIONATE SORROW THAT CEASES OUR ALIENATION, WHEN WE ARE FORGIVEN THROUGH GOD'S GRACE. NOT ALL SINS ARE EQUALLY SERIOUS AND ALIENATING. FOR EXAMPLE THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARELESSLY BREAKING SOMETHING AND DESTROYING THINGS PURPOSELY THROUGH VIOLENT ACTS OF VANDALISM. IF A STARVING PERSON 'SHOP-LIFTS' A PIECE OF FRUIT IT IS NOT THE SAME AS A GREEDY THEIVING CORPORATE EXECUTIVE CALLOUSLY DESTROYING THE LIVES OF MILLIONS. A LIE TOLD TO PREVENT A GREATER EVIL IS STILL A LIE, BUT MAY NOT BE A MORTAL SIN. SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE IS NOT THE SAME AS THE MORTAL SIN OF ADULTERY, BUT BOTH ARE THE SAME PHYSICAL ACT. ONE MAY HAVE SOME INTOXICATION FROM A NECESSARY MEDICINE, BUT THAT IS NOT THE SAME AS PURPOSELY TRYING TO GET DRUNK. A PERSON WHO EATS A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH IS NOT THE SAME AS SOMEONE WHO MURDERS THEIR PRECIOUS HUMAN BODY WITH FOOD. ONE WAY WE SEE THAT VEDIC CULTURE ADDRESSED THE ISSUE OF VARYING DEGREES OF SIN, WAS BY A SCALE OF FINES AND PROGRESSIVE PENALTIES FOR REPEATED OFFENCES, AND DIFFERENT PENALITIES FOR THOSE IN DIFFERENT VARNAS AND ASHRAMS. NOW THE DISTINCTION IS THAT THERE IS ALSO A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'SPIRITUAL' SINS (LIKE PRIDE, HATE, GREED, DISHONESTY ETC. ) AND CORPORAL SINS OF THE FLESH, SUCH AS SLOTH, SEXUAL SINS, GLUTTONY, INTOXICATION ETC., WHICH HAVE TO DO WITH THINGS LIKE PHYSICAL IMMATURITY AND LACK OF PHYSICAL DISCIPLINE, A STRONG SEX DRIVE, A WEAK WILL, POOR EDUCATION OR ENCULTURATION (CULTURAL DEPRIVATION) AND NOT HAVING A RELIGIOUSLY WELL-FORMED CONSCIENCE ETC. THUS THE SOUL'S CULPABILITY FOR MANY CORPORAL SINS IS GREATLY MODIFIED BY AGE, MENTAL ABILITY, HEALTH, SOCIAL FACTORS, A CRISIS OR COMPELLING CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE PERSON'S CONTROL. TRADITIONAL MORAL THEOLOGIES (NOT JUST CATHOLIC) HAVE TAKEN SUCH FACTORS INTO ACCOUNT. THUS SECULAR LAW IN EVERY NATION REFLECTS THIS IN THE FACT THAT CHILDREN ARE NEVER CONSIDERED PUNISHABLE IN THE SAME WAY AS ADULTS ARE FOR SOME OF THE SAME ACTS. THERE IS A PERVASIVE CONCEPT OF 'THE AGE OF REASON' THAT PROTECTS CHILDREN AND THOSE WHO CANNOT REASON FROM BEING HELD TO THE NORMAL ADULT REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW. IF OFTEN UNREASONABLE HUMANS CAN APPRECIATE THE CONCEPT OF MODIFIED CULPABILITY, WHAT ABOUT GOD? IS GOD LESS JUST THAN MAN? OF COURSE NOT, SO WE CAN APPRECIATE THAT THE SAME ACT MAY BE SEVERELY 'JUDGED' BY GOD FOR ONE PERSON, AND NOT CONSIDERED EVEN PROSECUTABLE FOR ANOTHER. GOD IS JUST. WHERE VOWS ARE CONCERNED, GOD IS MOST STRICT. THUS 'RELIGIOUS' UNDER VOWS ARE, BY THEIR OWN DEVOTED FREE WILL, HELD BY GOD TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD THAN OTHER SOULS. GOD RECIPROCATES PERFECTLY WITH US. A JUST AND MERCIFUL JUDGE, HE IS THE MOST LIBERAL TO THOSE WHO MOST NEED LIBERALITY, AND THE MOST STRICT TO THOSE WHO DESIRE AND REQUIRE HIM TO BE STRICT. "JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE JUDGED, FOR IN AS MUCH AS YOU HAVE JUDGED, YOU WILL BE JUDGED". THE PRINCIPLE IS CLEAR. IN GOD THE REDEEMER, PERFECT JUSTICE AND MERCY MEET AND ARE RECONCILED. IN CATHOLIC TEACHING, IF A PERSON 'DIES' IN THE GRACE OF GOD, BUT 'HAS VENIAL SINS' (ATTACHMENT TO NON-MORTAL SINS ) 'ON THEIR SOUL', AFTER DEATH THEY PASS THROUGH THE PURIFICATION PROCESS CALLED THE STATE OF PURGATORY. THIS CLEANSES THEM OF THEIR MINOR SINFUL ATTACHMENTS, SO THAT THEY CAN ENTER THE BEATIFIC STATE IN HEAVEN OR PARADISE. THE CHURCH HAS NEVER DEFINED WHERE PURGATORY IS, BUT SOME SAINTS HAVE SEEN SOULS IN PURGATION APPEARING AS MORTALS ON EARTH. THE HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY IS AMAZING, AND CLEARLY RELATED TO THE JEWISH, PLATONIC AND EASTERN TRADITIONS OF REINCARNATION FOR PURIFICATION. THE DIFFERENCE IN CATHOLIC TEACHING IS THAT ONCE A SOUL IS IN THE STATE OF PURGATION, THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN GUARANTEED SALVATION. DUE TO THEIR SINCERE SURRENDER AND RECONCILIATION TO GOD, THEY ARE IN FACT SAVED, AND CANNOT EVEN SIN ANY MORE. STILL THEY HAVE THE RESIDUAL EFFECTS OF THEIR ATTACHMENT TO NON-MORTAL SINS TO DEAL WITH, AND SO MUST SERVE THEIR TIME IN GOD'S COSMIC REHABILITATION CENTER, TO GET 'CLEAN AND SOBER' BEFORE GOING BACK TO HOME, BACK TO GODHEAD. SO DOES IT MATTER MORE WHERE WE BELIEVE 'PURGATORY' TO BE, OR THAT WE BELIEVE IN THE ABILITY OF GOD'S GRACE TO REDEEM AND FINALLY PURIFY US? IN EITHER CASE, ALL THAT IS REQUIRED OF US IS OUR CONSENT AND COOPERATION WITH GOD'S GRACE, IN HIS SECOND PERSON BALA-JESU, AS THE INTERCESSOR AND REDEEMER OF ALL 'FALLEN' SOULS. 'SAMSKARAS' MAY BE UNDERSTOOD AS EFFECTING US AFTER DEATH IN ANOTHER MATERIAL LIFE, OR IN SOME OTHER STATE OR FORM IDENTIFIED BY CATHOLIC TRADITION AS PURGATION. HOWEVER, THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN PURGATION MEANS THAT WE ARE HEADED FOR HEAVEN EVENTUALLY. OTHERWISE AFTER DEATH WE WOULD BE CONSIGNED TO ETERNAL SEPARATION FOR AN INVINCIBLE ATTACHMENT TO MORTAL SIN. THUS IT IS SAID THAT SOULS SUFFERING PURGATION (WHO REALIZE THEIR STATE) KNOW A JOY UNSURPASSED AMONG THE 'LIVING' WHO HAVE NOT YET MET THEIR 'FINAL JUDGEMENT'. SOULS 'IN PURGATORY' MAY KNOW THIS JOY, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY BACK HOME ! THE LIVING WHO HAVE YET TO FACE THEIR KRIMA / KARMA (GOD'S JUDGEMENT = KRIMA), DO NOT KNOW IF THEY WILL HAVE THE 'FINAL PERSEVERANCE' TO BE FULLY SURRENDERED AT THE TIME OF DEATH. THUS EVEN MANY GREAT SAINTS HAVE, IN GENUINE HUMILITY, DOUBTED THEIR SALVATION, REALIZING THAT THEY TOO COULD FALL INTO SOME SERIOUS SIN THAT WOULD SEPARATE THEM FROM GOD. THINKING THAT WE ARE SAVED AND CANNOT SIN ANY MORE, WHILE STILL LIVING IN THIS WORLD, IS CALLED THE SIN OF PRESUMPTION. IT IS RELATED TO THE SIN OF PRIDE. RELIGIOUS HISTORY IS LITTERED WITH THE TRAGIC HUMAN WRECKAGE OF THE LIVES OF ASTOUNDINGLY GIFTED PERSONS, WHO FELL FROM THE HEIGHTS OF RELIGIOSITY AND SPIRITUAL POWER, BECAUSE THEY BECAME SURE OF THEIR SALVATION 'NO MATTER WHAT', AND SUCCUMBING TO 'SPIRITUAL PRIDE', COMMITTED SOME GRAVE (MORTAL) SIN. WE HAVE SEEN THIS TRAGEDY IN OUR OWN TIME. OH HOW TRAGICALLY THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN IN ISKCON, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND OTHER RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS ! AT ANY TIME WE CAN FACE OUR 'FINAL JUDGEMENT'. THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE MOMENT-TO-MOMENT KRIMA / KARMIC REACTIONS THAT WE FACE ALL OF THE TIME. THIS IS WHY THERE IS SUCH AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF EMPHASIS ON PREPARATION FOR THE MOMENT OF DEATH IN BOTH THE JUDEO- CATHOLIC AND VAISHNAVA TRADITIONS. CATHOLICS DESIRE TO MAKE A LAST CONFESSION TO BE SURE THAT THEY FACE THEIR LORD FULLY SURRENDERED AND WITHOUT ANY PROUD ATTACHMENT TO THEIR SINS. SO LET US REMEMBER THIS AND PRACTICE THE PRESENCE OF GOD AT EVERY MOMENT. LET NOTHING ALIENATE US FROM HIS LOVE, INCLUDING A RESISTANCE TO HIS MERCY! NO ONE EARNS SALVATION, BUT ANYONE MAY REJECT IT. ALL JIVAS WHO HAVE 'FALLEN' HERE HAVE "SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD". WE JIVAS HAVE ALL COMMITTED VENIAL SINS OF SOME KIND, WHETHER OUR MINOR SINS HAVE BEEN 'SPIRITUAL' OR CORPORAL, SINS OF COMMISSION OR OMISSION. LET US NOT REMAIN ATTACHED TO OUR SINS, SO THAT GOD CAN GIVE US AN UNRESEVERED WELCOME BACK HOME, AS SOON AS WE LEAVE THIS LIFE! AS FAR AS THE EXTENT OF OUR CULPABILITY FOR OUR SINS IS CONCERNED, GOD ALONE IS THE FINAL JUDGE OF THAT. A VENIAL SIN FOR ONE PERSON MAY BE A MORTAL SIN FOR ANOTHER. THUS WE SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER TO "JUDGE NOT, LEST WE BE JUDGED". WISHING EVERYONE PEACE AND LOVE, BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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