shastra should be mediator

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Dear Madana Mohan Prabhu.

 

Thank you for your kind instructions. You are right, my words were not

pleasing.

 

This tendency, to publicly blame personally perceived deviations, is surely

useless. My opinion is just one of many. Luckily I didn't blame any

devotees, who stand behind such projects, because I don't even know any, but

still, thats no excuse. I'm a fool, but you already know that from our past

"confrontations". I like to explore variety of viewpoints, please don't

consider this too seriously. Its just discussion.

 

Thank you for reminding me of Vaisnava etiquette.

 

ys gnd

 

> >Vastu (vasati) is another example. Ayurveda courses, communication

> >courses, and so on. ... It is just cheating. Cheaters and cheated.

>

> Dear Giri-nayaka Prabhu,

>

> Sorry, but I have very little to add to what has already been written on

> the topic. Somehow, you still have not convinced me that mediation in

> itself, provided it is used properly, is so perilous for the safety of

> ISKCON.

>

> What is perilous, however -- and much more so -- is our tendency to

> publicly blame and condemn not just what we imagine to be deviations, but

> also the devotees behind them, by calling them what you called them in the

> above quotation -- without even bothering to know their rationales and

> motives.

>

> Knowing some of them very closely, in your place I would not have dared to

> speak even tangentially about these worshipable devotees in such terms in

> fear of what could indeed prove spiritually fatal if not for ISKCON at

> large, but for me for certain. Rather, I would have gratefully taken your

> kind offer to learn more Vaisnava etiquette instead.

>

> Begging to remain.

>

> your servant,

> Madana-mohana das