Prabhupada

[Guest guest]

Dear Madhu Gopal Prabhu.

Pamho. AgtSP.

 

>

> Some of the topics I would like to discuss are most controversial and I`m

> not sure if you can handle it. Having said that I`m sure you are all up

> for the challenge. Here it goes. Oh before I start I was hoping that we

 

As far as I am concerned, every topic is welcome. If anybody goes way off,

he will be corrected by others. Probably there will be zero-tolerance for

criticizing and minimizing Srila Prabhupada, but that can be expected.

But I'd say that every opinion is welcome.

 

> can also have a closed conference because of the extreme delicacy of soem

> of the topics I like to discuss. Let me also state here that I`m convinced

 

Conference will stay open at least untill there is some strong body of

members and discussions happen on daily basis. If after some time there is

need to close it, it can be done. But I'd prefer to keep it open, all

opinions are welcome. In the end we should be able to take any opinion and

explain it correctly according to Srila prabhupada's teachings.

 

Conference has now just a few members. Everybody is free to invite devotees,

which you would like to see in here. Probably it will take some time before

some serious discussions begin. In the meantime we can send Prabhupadas

quotes and discuss a bit. Any input is now more than welcome.

 

> Prabhupada`s position on the moon. Prabhupada says the moon is farther

> away from the earth then the moon, but if one study`s Sadaphuta`s (Richard

> Thompson`s) book (Vedic Cosmography And Astronomy (new98))then one can

> undertsand that this is not the case. It is a little technical (and in

> order to discuss this one must read this book) but the situation is as

> follows. The moon is further away from the Bhu mandala then the sun (in

> height) (the bhu mandala being a higher dimensional disc in the middle of

> the universe (from this came the idea of the flat earth) , the earth

> situated as part of the bhu manadala (floating in that higher dimensional

> disc). But the sun is further away (in distance) from the earth then the

> moon. (the sun goes around the whole bhu mandala) So off course the

> question is how do we understand this, relating to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Sun is closer to Bhumandala than Moon. Moon is closer to Jambudvipa and

Bharata-varsa. Moon is closer to planet Earth than Sun. I hope we can

explain this in more detail later on.

 

>

> There are more topics concerning this e.g. the size of the universe, the

> story of Vamanadeva lifting the earth (actually the bhu manadala), etc.

 

Varahadeva.

>

> And then there is another topic concerning Prabhupadas position concerning

> Hitler. How to understand that.

 

Maybe you can explain these two a bit more?

 

>

> The main point is, is Srila Prabhupada all knowing? I think most of us

> know the answer to that question but that does not fully solve the issues

> at hand.(Yes, those twelve symptoms of the spiritual soul are correct,

> except for ``all-knowing''. All-knowing it cannot be, but full of

> knowledge."Letter to: Rupanuga--Montrea,l3 July, 1968) and " Acarya is not

> God, omniscient. He is servant of God. His business is to preach bhakti

> cult. That is acarya."Morning Walk, April 9, 1975, Mayapur). At the same

> time we must be carefull not to see the "spiritual master as ordinary

> human being, these are hellish considerations."Morning Walk--June 29,

> 1974, Melbourne.

 

I'd say that the question is not "if Prabhupada is all knowing", but "how he

is all knowing".

 

 

 

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