organ/ blood donation

[Guest guest]

Pandava Vijaya Prabhu mentioned that organ donation should be done for a

devotee. Surely this is better because by donating the organ the devoteee may

reduce his or her life span in KC and increase the life span of another devotee

in KC. Which is somewhat okay. What is use of reducing our life-span in KC (for

preaching etc.) for increasing the life-span of a karmi who will use the

opportunity to commit more sinful activities. This cannot be accepted as

compassion.

 

I personally am not in favour of organ donation unless the devotee who donates

his or her organ is very very advanced and his own devotional service will in

no way be effected by the loss of that organ. Vasudev (associate of Lord

Caitanya) used to pick up the worms and put them back on the sores of his body

and would feel joyful due to his extraordinary compassion on other living

entities. And the pain would not affect his devotional service. If we imitate

Vasudev we may die or forget completely about Krsna due to the pain.

 

Yadu did not trade his youth with the old age of his father because he thought

that it would be detrimental to his devotional service. So in an emotional

decision if a devotee donates his or her organ and then finds out that without

that organ his or her service, preaching, chanting is being impaired, then only

he is to blame for this. Because by donating the organ he can save one other

devotee but if the organ is there and he is in sound health he can vigourously

preach and save millions of others.

 

But as devotees of Krsna, being engaged in the practical work of

spreading Krsna consciousness, that is already the highest realization.

That's all right, that is our real mission, to deliver the world by

preaching Krsna's message to others, but even higher realization, the highest

realization, is to save oneself.(Letter to: Ramesvara, India

9 January, 1973)

 

Ofcourse donating for the spiritual master is a completely different issue. One

should be ready to give up one's life for the guru what to speak of donating an

organ.

 

These are just my personal thoughts and may be wrong.

 

Your servant,

Nayana-ranjana das