Digest Number 1491

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hi

i am not receiving the Bhagvatgita 'shlokas' from 3-4

days..

 

kindly let me know ..

 

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> Topics in this digest:

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> 1. RE: Bhagavad-gita doesn't teach giving

> relief to the poor

> "Krishna Maheshwari"

> <kkm

> 2. RE: social welfare work is the business of

> dogs and cats

> "Krishna Maheshwari"

> <kkm

> 3. New upload on annamAcAri Lyrics on bAlAji

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> 4. Re: Bhagavad-gita doesn't teach giving

> relief to the poor

> "Jai Simman R. Rangasamy"

> <rjsimman

> 5. prasada distribution: do not go to poor

> areas

> "Bhakti Vikasa Swami"

> <Bhakti.Vikasa.Swami

> 6. Re: Re: Bhagavad-gita doesn't teach giving

> relief to the poor

> "rupavi" <rupavi

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> Message: 1

> Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:25:45 -0700

> "Krishna Maheshwari" <kkm

> RE: Bhagavad-gita doesn't teach giving

> relief to the poor

>

> Despite the Bhagavad-Gita not specifically teaching

> giving relief to the

> poor, in the Mahabharat, Yuddishtira was always

> giving charity to the

> Brahmins and other castes. In fact, a lot of wealth

> was required for the

> Rajsuya Yagna and also the Ashwamegha Yagya. The

> reason for that was

> because it was to be given in charity. In the

> Aswamegha Yagna, Yudhisthira,

> than the emperor of the entire earth, gifted it to

> Vyasadeva.

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>

> Also, Srila Prabhupada himself said that no one

> should go hungry within 3

> miles of a temple. He had setup huge Sunday feasts

> so that prasadam could

> be freely provided. Expanding on this, the ISKCON

> food-for-life program

> provides charity to all sorts of poor people around

> the world. They are

> doing a fantastic job building schools and providing

> prasadum to the

> villages around Vrindavan (this I have personally

> seen).

>

>

> So, I am a little confused by this excerpt, and it

> feels like it is being

> quoted out of context.

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>

>

> Krishna

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> Bhagavad-gita doesn't teach

> giving relief to the poor

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> Asocyan anvasocas tvam prajna-vadams ca bhasase:

> [bg. 2.11] "Arjuna, you are

> talking like a learned man, but you are a fool

> number one." Gatasün

> agatasüms ca nanusocanti panditah. That means "If

> you had been actually

> pandita, learned man, then you would not have

> lamented for this body."

> Gatasün. "The body is neither a subject matter for

> lamentation, either

> living condition or dead condition. It has no

> value." This is the

> instruction, Krsna's word. But the modern

> civilization, they are giving all

> value to this body, all their philanthropic work,

> hospitalization, and this,

> so many things. Just like our Mr. George Harrison,

> he raised how many

> millions dollars for...

> Karandhara: Nine million.

> Prabhupada: Nine million dollars, and, to the...

> This is going on. In the

> Bhagavad-gita we don't find anywhere a single line

> that "You raise funds

> for," I mean to say, "giving relief to the poor" or

> "to the suffering." Is

> there any instruction in Bhagavad-gita? You have

> read. Can you find out? But

> these people, they have become more learned than

> Krsna. In our country,

> Vivekananda: daridra-narayana-seva. The whole

> Ramakrishna Mission is

> collecting funds only on this rascal plea.

> --Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.9.4 -- Japan, April 22,

> 1972

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> Message: 2

> Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:28:45 -0700

> "Krishna Maheshwari" <kkm

> RE: social welfare work is the business of

> dogs and cats

>

> "That was the purpose of human life-not simply

> barking social welfare and

> getting nothing done."

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> I think this statement is the one to be focusing on.

> Instead of simply

> "barking" and "doing nothing", we should quietly _do

> something_! After all,

> this is why we have organizations like ISKCON's Food

> For Life. They do true

> service by serving Prasadum which serves both as

> "social

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