Remembering Srila Prabhupada - :on Christianity

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Srila "Prabhupada" Said: on Christianity

 

 

"Regarding the Christian Trinity, I believe it is God,

the Holy Ghost, and the Son. A person in Krsna

consciousness accepts this by the name Visnu,

Paramatma, and jiva. God is a person, the Holy Spirit

or Supersoul is a person, and the living entity is

also a person. Also Mary is the representation of the

energy of God. Either as internal energy, Radharani,

or as external energy, Durga, the energy of Godhead

can be considered the mother of the living entities.

There is no clash between the Bible and the Vedas;

simply some people formulate their personal ideas and

cause quarreling.

"Nobody can say the Bible is meant for the same class

of men as the Bhagavad-gita. Bhagavad-gita is the

ABC's of spiritual knowledge. Beyond that is the

Srimad-Bhagavatam. How great Srimad-Bhagavatam is,

nobody can imagine. And beyond that is

Caitanya-caritamrta. But beginning from the Bible or

Koran on up, the principle remains the same. Just like

beginning from the pocket dictionary up to the

international unabridged dictionary."

-- Letter of April 19, 1968

 

"The articles that appeared in the Christian paper

Southern Cross are very nice. I'm pleased how the

Christian community is appreciating our movement.

Actually we have no quarrel with them. We accept Lord

Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and he was a great

Vaisnava. Because he appeared in another country does

not mean that we should not offer him respect. If we

stick to our principles as I have given you, more and

more of these priestly class will come to respect us

and appreciate something of our philosophy. Therefore

I stress so much the devotional rules and

regulations."

-- Letter of August 5, 1974

 

"Those who are preaching in Christ's name are nonsense

because they do not follow even the simplest of his

orders, 'Thou shalt not kill.' I have met with so many

Christians, and when I ask them why Christians are

killing, they cannot answer. The first principle of

spiritual life is nonviolence. They will say killing

in this matter means actually murder. But accepting

even this argument, it means that the society in which

Christ was preaching was composed of murderers. So

what kind of men they were? And practically we see it

is a fact, because they murdered Lord Jesus Christ. At

any rate, there is nothing in the world that can

compare with our movement, our chanting and dancing.

Chant and dance, and when you get tired, take

prasadam. That is our actual solid preaching all over

the world."

-- Letter of August 3, 1973

 

Letters to Sivananda dasa, April 19, 1968; Amogha

dasa, August 5, 1974; Bhakta dasa, August 3, 1973.

 

- From the Prabhupada Nectar by HH Satsvarupa dasa

Goswami Maharaj

 

 

 

 

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