Guest guest Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Hare Krishna Dear Devotees! Please accept our humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada !! Members from our Congregation here in berlin raised some doubts regarding the use of Mridangas and Harmoniums. The cow leather which is used for the Mridanga and the goat skin which is used for the Harmoniums are nowadays ,in most of the cases ,not anymore from animals who died a natural death. "According to Manu-samhita, there are eight kinds of butchers. The man who is killing the animal, the man who is ordering to kill the animal, the man who is skinning the animal, the man who is purchasing the meat, the man who is cooking, the man who is eating, they are called all butchers. Just like if there is a murder case and there is a conspiracy, so it is not the man who has directly killed some person, he is arrested, but everyone who is in the conspiracy, they are all arrested. That is the common law. So in that sense everyone is butcher. Besides that, because a person is killing some cow or some animal, we are calling butcher, but mostly they are killing their soul." (Lecture from Srila Prabhupada, Los Angeles, Nov. 18 , 1968). Dear Prabhus could you please give us some feedback to the following Questions : -Are devotees free from the karmic reactions , because they use the Instruments for glorifying Krishna ???????? -But what if we sell the instruments to non-devotees who use the instruments without glorifying Krishna.Are we then guilty according to Manu-Samhita ??????????????? Hope this meets you all in good health your aspiring servants Varaha Murti dasa and Syamacandra dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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