Guest guest Posted October 25, 2002 Report Share Posted October 25, 2002 Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I'm begging you to help me. I urgently needed "The classification of Friends". Tomorrow (Saturday) we have a Nama-hatta program and we wanted to discuss friendship: Who's a friend in material world? Who's a friend from Krsna angle of view? and so on and so forth. And in this connection I remembered a classification I was given by one devotee. He told that there're five types of friends: 1) bandhu -- just a friend, comrade... I don't remember the explanations. And the fifth is su-hrid -- a friend who feels all wories of others as his own ones. (Like Krsna says, "su-hrdam sarva bhutanam".) So, could anyone remind me those five levels of friendship? This's very urgent. Thank you. -- Your servant, Dennis. dennis_s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2002 Report Share Posted October 25, 2002 I know of 3 kinds of friendship which Srila Prabhupada mentioned in a lecture. Suhrt, Mitra and Bandhu. To quote Him"There are different names in Danskrit for different kinds of friends. One friend is called a bandhu, one is called mitra and one is called Suhrt. So Krishna says ," I am suhrt, which means "such a friend". A friend sincerely wants your happiness.A Suhrt is a real friend and mitra is socila friendship. Bandhu is official friendship.But Suhrt means one actually desires good for his friend.-" sincere friend" Krishns is Suhrt. He's always wishing my good, and He is therefore canvassing me, " Please, you surrender unto me".( Lecture, october 14, 1968, Seattle) Yours Narasimhan Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 26, 2002 Report Share Posted October 26, 2002 > > Dear Devotees, > > Mr Ranganathan Narsimhan Mentions Five levels of friendship but he has explained > only three levels. > > Which are the other two levels of friendship? > > - Yagnesh Buch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 27, 2002 Report Share Posted October 27, 2002 I am aware of only the three kinds of friendship, from the source I had quoted. I am not aware of the five kinds. R.Narasimhan Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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