Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Sannyasi asrama is not a good idea

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> So why did Tamil Krsna Goswami's disciples and others build the opulent

> sannyasi & bramachari ashram at Govadharn I wonder?

 

Although this seems to me to be a rather foolish comparison, may I suggest

you address it to those devotees you are referring to at Govardhan, rather

than implying in a public forum that they are "eating and sitting" like the

sahajiyas Srila Prabhupada refers to? That would be the intelligent course

of action, wouldn't you say? That may not have been your intention, but it

looks a little that way when you go public instead of making a submissive

enquiry to those involved. They're all easy enough to find, and all of them

have an address on PAMHO: HH Kesava Bharati Goswami (who, when he's not

travelling and preaching, works with the BBT, translating the writings of

the six goswamis of Vrindavan); or His Grace Gopiparanadhana prabhu, who

also translates the writings of the six goswamis (they both worked on the 3

volume "Srimad Bhagavatamrita," by Srila Sanatana Goswami), and who also

teaches at the college that has been recently set up to teach Sanskrit and

study the Srimad Bhagavatam and other literatures, all with the intention of

training devotees to continue the long Vaisnava tradition of translating

sacred texts and distributing them throughout the world; or several other

devotees you might find in PAMHO's address book under "Govardhan". I'm sure

they're well equipped to answer any queries you have, and to explain to you

how translating these great works doesn't reduce them to sahajiyas who are

eating and sitting, though I'm quite sure you never intended to imply that.

 

BTW, I've been to Govardhan, and I'd hardly describe it as "opulent." It has

nice gardens. But I recall seeing it in 1993 (I think it was) when it was

originally given to HH Tamal (not Tamil, incidentally) Krishna Goswami by

the King--I can't really recall the details of that, so I'm reluctant to say

much, but his disciples definitely didn't build it, nor did "others" (by

that I assume you mean ISKCON devotees?). However, I do recall it was quite

a wreck of a place, totally uninhabitable, and hardly what one would call a

'palace.' It had no plumbing, nothing--crumbling walls, a real wreck. It's

certainly been renovated so that it is inhabitable, but "opulent" is a

misnomer.

 

Your servant

Braja Sevaki devi dasi

 

 

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> Ys Arjunanatha dasa

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> At 10:56 12/06/2005, Radha Krishna Nambiar wrote:

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> >August 14

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> >Guru-krpa Maharaja was thinking of purchasing some

> >land here in Vrndavana for building a sannyasi asrama.

> >I asked His Divine Grace about this plan. He replied,

> >"sannyasi asrama is not a good idea. This is

> >sahajiya's idea-eating and sitting. There are

> >different types of sahajiyas, but they are all

> >rejected. Our men should actively preach, just like

> >Hamsaduta Maharaja is doing. We don't want to

> >encourage idle sitting, solitary bhajana. The

> >sahajiyas, they manufacture so many stories about how

> >the best pious activity is to feed the saintly persons

> >in Vrndavana. And they are the only saintly persons.

> >They eat and sit and gossip. --- is also sahajiya;

> >therefore, he mentions Ramakrishna. --- [another

> >Vrindaban resident] is sahajiya number one. Simply mix

> >with him to take some service from him. At the same

> >time, be very careful that he may not exploit. In

> >Vrndavana, ninety percent are sahajiya. And sahajiyas

> >are rejected by Bhaktivinoda."

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> >- From the TKG's Diary by HH Tamal Krishna Goswami

> >Maharaj

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