animal products in KRsna service-karma or not?

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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

Camp: Sri Sri Krsna Balarama Mandir Farming Community, Mauritius

DaNDavats Dear Varaha Murti and syamacandra dasa's. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Sreela PrabhupAda..

 

Thank you for your letter.

 

> 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.

I think you should not be so worried, (see advise below) if you feel uneasy,

use plastic "balarama drums" they make good ones in Kiev Ukraine.

 

> -Are devotees free from the karmic reactions , because they use the

> Instruments for glorifying Krishna ????????

 

maybe if they got the instruments for free, but not after paying money for

it.

 

Don't worry about this. Devotees have tried their best. It's like asking if

there is karma for buying samosas off a Indian train platform (which SP

did-by explaining that when you pay for it, the karma is nutralized).

 

> -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

> ???????????????

 

no, the buyer and seller have bought it from the manufacturer, so the karma

is adjusted.

 

Although of course devotees should avoid as much as possible products that

contain Slaughterhouse by-products, I remember hearing from devotees that SP

had authorized us to use (usa Store bought vitamin D milk (cod liver oil),

because raw milk was practically nonexistant in the cities.

 

and He allowed NV devotees to use leather boots for the mud in heavy winter

New Vrndavana.

 

nowadays there is a lot of vegetable soaps, and in Usa in 1970's "Kirks

castile" was the prefered coconut devotee soap.

 

yet in Denver temple in 1972 I heard, (not verified by any authority I

knew-thus I add Hari sauri) That SP had mentioned that the animal products

were so far cooked down, that when put /used in "ivory" soap (which contains

animal slaughterhouse products in it,) it was not too sugnificant. comments/

clarifications.. Hari sauri?

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava