Response to Jayadvaita Maharaj's recommended article

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> > Absolutely. But wouldn't you consider that a Vaisnava who is determined

> > to remove elements of mundane, materialistic, demonic society from a

> > spiritual institute hardly qualifies as a 'resident of hell?' It's not

> > the people,

>

> "It is not the people"??? What are you talking about the animals or

> insects from America???

 

Let me rephrase then so it's clearer: it's not necessarily every individual,

but more a collective mindset. A few seem to have escaped the idiocy, but

the majority have failed.

 

> Jayadvaita Swami took birth in America as did your Guru Maharaja, are you

> lumping them in also?.

 

Are you trying to be alarmist or cause some kind of argument or controversy

by cornering me with my own words? I have consistently said "the majority".

Think again: you said I'm a smart girl. Surely you don't think I'm so stupid

to consider my own guru maharaja a product of his own environment over and

above being a product of his association with Srila Prabhupada?

>

> I don't see how the way you are using the term "American" is any different

> then from someone using a pejorative to lump everyone of a certain race or

> gender into a convenient package for them to dump on. Not exactly

> "preaching the glories of the Lord." as you profess you want to do.

 

Oh come on, Maharaja, really! You've successfully weaved out of admitting

that anything I said in my text was anything close to the truth by focussing

on one point of lumping everyone together! The FACT is that America as a

whole shoves their morals, ethics, values, and politics down the collective

throats of the world, stomps around the planet like they own it, and is

trying to turn every nation into a replica of itself. Are you trying to now

tell me that the people from this country are FREE from this influence??? Or

are you, as an American-bodied devotee, also in denial about the ruination

that America is bringing down upon the world?

 

Or gee, I'm just bitter, or insane, and I've made it all up...yeah, right...

 

I don't consider every American devotee an "American." I don't judge a

person by their birth first and their devotional nature second. But *most*

American devotees I know show strong traits of being American. How is this

avoidable? I'm an Aussie and show strong traits of being so; same with

anyone else who is born in and influenced by their country, and that would

possibly be everyone, to one degree or another. So for you to deny that a

great amount of American devotees are infected with their own version of

national zeal is embarrassing.

 

Your servant

Braja Sevaki dd ¾