Maya kicks ISKCON

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Dear devotees,

please accept my respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all other Vaisnavas!

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai and Sri Sri Radha-Govinda!

 

I generally do not take part in conversations of such character,

because they can easily drag one into anger or any other undesired

condition, so that it's quite unusual for me to speak now here. But there

was/is a serious reason for that, too. And though I guess that there may

come comments to this text of mine, which will maybe try to say something

against my conclusions, I feel myself obliged to write.

Yes, we have to be honest while speaking on our spiritual lives,

otherwise it's just a farce, self-bewildement, or similar. And this Rule of

Honesty applies to both when we speak on ourselves and when on others.

All (I mean really all) of us, except for liberated ones, have

commited, still commit, or maybe even will commit faults. And thus one is to

be punished, either mentally, or by words, or by deeds, because punishemt

makes one purified from the fault. Then, how to punish?

Different persons will punish in different ways. Or, saying in other

words: It depends on who is punishing whom. We have to properly tell one

thing from another one.

Now, we are fighting against illusionary energy, maya, in order to

become pure and honest devotees of Sri Sri Radha-Govinda. This makes things

different from the case when one is a common materialist, because a Vaisnava

has to behave himself in a very particular way, not somehow or other. Of

course, in Bhagavad-Gita Lord Krsna says: api cet su-duracaro bhajate mam

ananya-bhak sadhur eva sa mantavyah ... , so that one might think, one MAY

be a su-duracara, a person of a very very bad conduct, but that is rather

wrong understanding of sastra, since everywhere in scriptures the regulative

principles for any social circle are given and supposed to be followed. That

text from Gita tells us rather of how potent the undivided devotional

service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, is, that it

brings the most fallen to the most elevated position. Definitely, we are

invited to get regulated by the rules given in sastra.

Being regulated, a Vaisnava will not wish to indulge in pointing out

someone's faults, he will rather come to that person and lovingly try to

help him. We are all situated in one and the same misirable material world,

and one who thinks, he is in a better position, is wrong. A person with a

soft heart will be touched by the sight of someone's falldown, he will cry

before Govinda to order maya to let that fallen person free. We are

co-devotees of one Lord. It is not that I have my Lord and he has his one,

and that's why he is rascal. No, simply being put in a particular, maybe a

very unfortunate situation, he can not properly carry out his devotional

duties; still that does not give us right to make a joke of him, he is dear

to Govinda, how can I joke on somebody, who is dear to my dearmost Lord?!

I can only hope that I made my point clear, and, coming nearer to

the discussion held, I would like to express the will to passify both

parties. The existing evil will always be there, in this material world,

then why fight? Memory tells me that there is a verse in the Bible, which

says something like: "A sage falls down for six times, but each time I [the

Lord] will raise him with My hand, and he will go on." If someone considers

himself to be so elevated, be better silent, for the advanced ones do not

speak bad of others.

So, both parties have tried to defend this or that point of view,

but it was done in such way, which is not worthy of a gentleman.

Indeed, only those who wimsically perverse the Lord Gauranga's

teaching, may, or better to say, must be punished. But a devotee is not much

interested in that business. He would rather continue his own preaching,

since rascals are always and everywhere there, why bother with them?

 

Please, accept my respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet.

Your insignificant servant, Sergei.

Hare Krsna.