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Srila Prabhupada refers to the entire material world as a " perverted

reflection of the Spiritual World".

 

bhaktijan das

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, ranganathan narasimhan wrote:

> Infact this is one of the main objections raised by the anti-brahmin

movements of India that this Varnasrama system is caste based . . . pray

no more pondering over this any further as this is a big subject matter fit

for some other forum.>

 

Not necessarily; the "varnasramaacaravata" verse alone occurs

nearly 100 times throughout Srila Prabhupada's books and lectures. If

practicing varnasrama is as important to Krsna consciousness as I've tried

to demonstrate by quoting Srila Prabhupada, then it would seem wholly

germane to this list. Although caste issues are a complex and perennial

problem for Indians in particular, that wouldn't make dharma irrelevent

for discussion here. It's dynamic and universal, and eternally operative.

It isn't static or moribund; we aren't talking about something mundane.

Lord Aniruddha is the supersoul of dharma; he sustains all the material

cosmos, Manu, and the devatas.

 

MDd

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achintya, "M. Tandy" <mpt@u...> wrote:

 

> Not necessarily; the "varnasramaacaravata" verse alone occurs

> nearly 100 times throughout Srila Prabhupada's books and lectures.

If

> practicing varnasrama is as important to Krsna consciousness as

I've tried

> to demonstrate by quoting Srila Prabhupada, then it would seem

wholly

> germane to this list. Although caste issues are a complex and

perennial

> problem for Indians in particular, that wouldn't make dharma

irrelevent

> for discussion here.

 

Just to clarify:

 

As moderator I am 100% in agreement here. This is the kind of forum

for which varnaashrama issues should be discussed, even if we aren't

explicitly invoking devotional service. We always understand here

that varnaashrama is meant to encourage devotional service, although

in a nondevotional forum that might have to be explicitly stressed.

 

There may be other issues of "dharma," that don't seem to have

obvious devotional relevance. Nevertheless, I do consider them

relevant here. As always, just be aware that Srila Prabhupada's

instructions and the scriptures are the topmost authorities to be

used when judging anything. And of course, just maintain a polite

Vaishnava tone, and we will be able to discuss even controversial

topics properly.

 

yours,

 

- K