the guru's order

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> > when he clearly spoke both in the beginning and at the end beaming

> widely as he spoke. "My Guru Maharaja, very much liked this brahmacari

> life." He said it *twice*. that means he was emphasising it once again

for every

> > brahmacaries *general* benefit in ISKCON.

> > Please differenciate when you make those statements.

> > ys MMDASBR

> We also see where the broader view of scripture shows that

> brahmacary life is a midpoint and not an endpoint. It is student life.

If during

> student life we give no instructions on how to be anything other than a

student,

> and treat everyone leaving student life as a failure, that sets the

stage

> for a high level of failure in post student life.

> gourdmad (AT) ovnet (DOT) com

 

Sunday, November 5th,

NC

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Thanks to all of you for your compassionate, mature presentations of

Srila Prabhuada's instructions from all angles. HH Bhakti Vikas Swami,

MMDAS, Gourdmad, Hari Sauri Prabhu, and others. These conferences are

very educating & inspiring and all of you are brilliant in your

presentations of Prabhupada's teachings.

 

Srila Prabhupada's purport, BG "The Opulence of the Absolute", text 32:

 

"....Among logicians there are different kinds of argument. Supporting

one's argument with evidence that also supports the opposing side is

called jalpa. Merely trying to defeat one's opponent is called vitanda.

But the actual conclusion is called vada. This conclusive truth is a

representation of Krsna."

 

ys

SD

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> MOther Sucarya wrote:

>

> >Actually, what I've always been curious about is those devotees who have

> >Lord Krsna Himself as their spiritual master. Are they always Nitya

> >siddhi devotees? Or have these devotees passed the tests of their

> >initiating spiritual master, and their spiritual master has subsquently

> >delivered them to Krsna's lotus feet? Does a person born in Vrndavan

> >naturally have Krsna as their spiritual master? I'm completely satisfied

> >to serve my spiritual master eternally, but I was just curious.

 

On a morning walk in Vrndavana Satsvarupa Goswami asked Srila Prabhupada,

[paraphrased] "You have said that that residents of Vrndavan have Krsna as

there spiritual master, but we see them smoiking and dong other irregular

things. How can it be.?? Srila Prabhupada stopped walking and looked at

him and said, "Just like I am your spritual master, but you don't always

follow."