new details about a counter example

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Dear Devotees,

 

PAMHO.

 

I am in New Simhachalam (Germany) for the Nrsimha-caturdasi festival, where

I was able to speak with two of the devotees we are discussing.

 

Ajamila Prabhu wrote:

> We know the ritviks are recruiting on some small scale, so I don't see

> whats the point in posting such info here as to suggest they merit our

> valuable time.

 

Today I met the teenager I told you about. He said that D G pushed him to

shave up and join a temple rather than waiting an indefinitely long time.

 

Basu Ghosh Prabhu forwarded this accurate assessment:

> > We know that the notion to join an ashram never occurs to

> > the vast majority of people who go to a therapist, yet it frequently

> > occurs to people who associate regularly with devotees. It is most

> > likely that the boy has had sufficient contact with devotees in the

> > past, and that because the course was taken in the association of

> > devotees. That additional association was what he needed to inpsire him

> > to join the ashrama.

 

Yes. This teenager also said that although he grew up around devotees, he

had become bored by their association; during the course, in the association

of young devotees like himself from Germany and Austria, however, he began

to want more sat-sanga.

 

As for D G's course, this teenager said that the contents of it impressed

him at the time, but now the course seems to him less valuable than he first

thought.

 

Babhru Prabhu wrote:

> what specifically in DG's course does Parivadhi prabhu see as

> violating "KC moral principles"?

 

Today I sat with Parivadi Prabhu on a bus going to Passau for a big

harinama, and he said that he meant mixing between the sexes. It seems that

he took this as an effect of the course because, after taking the course,

one married woman he knows approached him in a parking lot with open arms

and hugged him. "This is unclean," he said with a special German sort of

disdain. He elaborated a bit on this theme and said that Srila Prabhupada's

movement is not meant to accommodate such open displays of physical

intimacy, but nowadays we are seeing this.

 

I should add that this festival here is wonderful. Please see

>simhachalam.de< for photos of Sri Sri Prahlad-Nrsimha dressed in outfits

made of (1) turmeric, (2) butter, (3) leaves, and (4) pavitras.

 

--ys, td