Guest guest Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 > Since "tradition" has been mentioned, I thought it would be relevant to > know that this is what "parampara" means. From Monier Williams Sanskrit > Dictionary: > > para-m-parA: f. an uninteruppted fow or series, order, succession, > continuation, mediation, tradition. mfn (adjective) received by > tradition. (Williams, Monier M. _A Sanskrit English Dictionary_ page > 587) > Sorry to jump a bit away from Hitler. But i guess this intermezoo goes well with subject title. Parampara = Mediation? This explains many things. I certainly explains this: ====== Prabhupada: Sas. Sas means control. From sas-dhatu... Sisya means who voluntarily accepts the spiritual master's ruling. That is called sisya, disciple. From the same sas-dhatu. The spiritual master rules over him according to sastra, and he accepts voluntarily. So conflict there is, but the mediator is sas. ====== Thank you for this. We will come back to mediation in ISKCON, as another westernization, I'm sure. Amazing, mediation means parampara. And somebody was arguing, that Prabhupada didn't necessary consider mediation as "authoritative decision". Of course, western mediation (karmi mediation) is another thing, just the same word. Why is it propagated in ISKCON? ys gnd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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