Guest guest Posted August 19, 1998 Report Share Posted August 19, 1998 > My understanding of varnasrama is that it means building each individual > up to his or her highest level of ability, and then engaging them > appropriately according to that ability. > > According to my understanding of varnasrama, no one should be excluded > from being a brahmana because he cannot read the scriptures without > wearing eye-glasses, and no one should be excluded from being a devotee > because he cannot maintain a sane condition without appropriate > medication. Wise words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 1998 Report Share Posted August 20, 1998 COM: Jatukarnya HKS wrote: > [Text 1610415 from COM] > > > Without the guru........you would not have Varnashram society. The > hands > > legs, and belly would lie lifeless on the ground. The vaisyas would > not > > produce grains, the ksatriyas would cease to protect and the sudras, > would > > not carry the loads. > > I agree that you seem to get hung up on the fact that Guru is the > single > most important thing in VAD. In your above example, I would suggest > that you > change the Guru with brahmana, and then you have it. Without the head, > the > rest of the body does not work. The brahmana represents the head, and > Gurus > would maybe normally be brahmanas, but that does not mean what you are > > indicating. Guru, sadhu and sastra are what we base our knowledge on. Here we go again. First point . Yes without a head, the body doesn't work, but the same thing applies to the stomach. As a matter of fact, Srila Prabhupada compares the stomach to the root of the plant, in that if the rest of the body doesn't work together to feed the stomach, the whole body dies. The sustanence for the body comes through the stomach. To obsess on the head and ignore the stomach is suicide. Second point. While the head may play a place of promenince in maturity, in infancy, the stomach is of primery importance. VAD is currently in it's infancy, with some vision of where it may be eventually, but as yet unable to feed itself. When VAD can feed itself, then the head and broader vision will have more importance, but now, it is just mostly imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 21, 1998 Report Share Posted August 21, 1998 > > While the head may play a place of promenince in maturity, in infancy, > the stomach is of primery importance. VAD is currently in it's > infancy, with some vision of where it may be eventually, but as yet > unable to feed itself. When VAD can feed itself, then the head and > broader vision will have more importance, but now, it is just mostly > imagination. > > Of course in childhood, the parents act as the 'head' for the immature youth. Naturally, such parents aren't imaginative well wishers, 'virtual parents' so to speak. .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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