Guest guest Posted March 22, 1999 Report Share Posted March 22, 1999 On 20 Mar 1999, Payonidhi Dasa wrote: > Who do you think you are that you can understand Vyasadeva without the via > media of a bonafide Guru? Of course, if the Guru ends up becoming Monikapada, one will have to spend a lot of time _unlearning_ all those incorrect things one learned at his non-brahma-niSTha lotus feet. > There is no eternal karma,it starts when the jiva falls into material > existence. Now you are defying the direct words of the book _Our Original Position_ in Chapter 2. This book very clearly says that karma is eternal -- they just define karma as referring to material and spiritual activities. Additionally, Srila Prabhupada makes it clear: "The material activity of the living being is beginningless, but it can be rectified by transferal into the spiritual quality. Thus it can cease its material qualitative reactions." (SB 1.15.27 purport) Since Srila Prabhupada explicitly says _the material activity_, it's clear that he does not accept the OOP authors' view that beginningless karma of conditioned souls can refer to both material & spiritual action. (There are other places where the OOP authors try to second-guess Srila Prabhupada; for example, they claim that Brahman is described as "anAdimat" in BG 13.13, but that follows Sri Shankara's way of parsing the sentence rather than Srila Prabhupada's. Srila Prabhupada parsed it as "anAdi mat-param" -- beginningless and subordinate to Krishna.) Yours, Vijay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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