Guest guest Posted September 9, 2005 Report Share Posted September 9, 2005 Dear Maharaja. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you for this. ys Giri-nayaka das BVS > > I like to play basketball very much. Is playing > > basketball one form of gambling? Should i give it up completely? > > > In this age, men are victims not only of different political creeds and > parties, but also of many different types of sense-gratificatory > diversions, such as cinemas, sports, gambling, > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.1.10 > > > > There is always someone who wants to gamble at nightclubs or enjoy > so-called sports. All these propensities are already within the hearts of > the living entities, but some living entities stop to enjoy these > abominable activities and consequently fall down to a degraded platform. > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 4.29.4 > > > > If you indulge in intoxication, if you indulge in meat-eating, and if you > indulge in gambling and sporting—all nonsense—you cannot at the same time > become a yogi. > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => TYS 4: The Goal of Yoga > > > > And no gambling or unnecessary sporting. People are wasting time. So many > sportings they have invented-sporting balls, this ball, that ball. You > see? Human life is very short. We do not know when we shall die. Before > that, we must prepare ourself for the next life. > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => Initiation Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 19, 1968 > > > > And the fourth restriction is that you cannot take part in gambling or > some unnecessary sporting because you have to utilize your time. Your time > is very short. If you miss this opportunity of human form of life... > Because we do not know when death is coming. It is not that because I am > old, I am nearing death, and you are young, you are not nearing death. Who > knows that you may die before me? So there is no certainty. So the > principle is that because this human form of life is so important to > perfect oneself in Krsna consciousness, he should not waste even a minute. > You see? So therefore we don't allow unnecessary sporting. You see? This > is simply waste of time. > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => Interview -- March 9, 1968, San Francisco > > > > From the very beginning, they are trained to refrain from the following > four principles of degradation: 1) Sex life outside of marriage, 2) Meat > eating, or eating of any animal food, 3) All forms of intoxication, 4) > Gambling and idle sports. > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Pope Paul VI — Montreal 3 August, 1968 > > > > MY INITIATED STUDENTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO INDULGE in the following > principles of degradation: (1) All forms of intoxication, including > coffee, tea, cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, etc. (2) The eating of animal > foods, such as meat, fish, and eggs. Rather, their diet consists of > Prasadam, especially offered foodstuffs (vegetarian), (3) Unmarried sex > indulgence, (4) Gambling, or idle sports of any sort. > > >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Selective Service System (for Tosana > >>> Krsna) > — Hawaii 20 March, 1969 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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