Guest guest Posted April 24, 1998 Report Share Posted April 24, 1998 > >So my point is WE CAN LEARN WHAT WE NEED TO LEARN FROM QUALIFIED AND >EXPERIENCED PEOPLE. > >So my point is WE CAN LEARN WHAT WE NEED TO LEARN FROM QUALIFIED AND >EXPERIENCED PEOPLE. I also think so. We should learn. But we cannot invite them as teachers on the position when devotees HAVE to accept the association from them as teachers. So how to learn but in the same time don't associate with? That would be individual, but we cannot institutionalize the situation when nondevotees are gurus in ISKCON. Consider Prabhupada's words in 1975: <<Don't sleep, but work." This is our teaching. Satam prasangat, this is also, and Rupa Gosvami says, sato vrtteh sadhu-sange sadbhir bhaktih prasidhyati: "If you live with the association of sadhu, devotee, then it will be quickly fruitful." And if you live with these ordinary men, then whatever you have got will be finished very soon. There is another verse. It is said there that it is preferred to live within the cage surrounded by fire than to live with the nondevotees. It is preferred.>> ys ccd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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