Varnasrama-Dharma Is Not Krishna Consciousness

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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Since my mouse is on strike I cannot quote any text.

To get a more clear picture it would be wise to read the whole verse and

purport to the text in S.B. 1. 2. 13.

Varnasrama seems to me unavoidable, since we can not eradicate it, it is

the way all societies work. But if it is not transformed into

varnasrama-dharma it becomes as useless as anything else which is not

offered or used for the Lords pleasure.

 

To be engaged in Deite-worship is not simply to wave a lamp now and then,

according to what I have understood, it includes all activities that are

nessecary also for a human being. How will you offer flowers and nice food,

without land or make sacrifices/elevation without the cow? How will you

dress the Lord without cloth and people who knows how to sew? Where does the

juvelery, vases, and other paraphanelia comes from? Who builds the temple

and so on. Therefor to create a society where the different activities are

going on smoothly is part of Srila Prabhupada´s mission.

 

The way of gentle vaisnava-behaviour is the protection envisioned in what

I see as Varnasramadharma, but a protector also have to be strong in order

to protect.

In our modern society we see unprotected women who are beaten up by

husbands and forced to sell their own bodies and still the police does not

protect them, we see gangs of criminals ruling in the cities and old people

hide alone behind bolted doors and are afraid of even walking on the street.

A violent person can beat up anyone on the street or break into someones

home and even if he is arrested, he will be free to do the same the next

day. People live in fear.

Small children are harrassed from the first day on when they start school

by those who are stronger and more violent, and the teachers can do nothing

and the parents are too busy making money to survive. Demoniac Varnasrama or

Varnasrama at all? Maybe it is only varnas?. The rulers dont protect the

citizens and they are not directed by brahmanas with saintly qualities.

Ultimately it is very very difficult to be elevated to such a status where

you can worship and meditate on The Supreme Lord. I see this every day. To

simply chant Hare Krishna and be happy is quite difficult, when you have to

live in such a society. Therefore in my limited understanding we must work

on the material and the spiritual platform simultaniously untill we have

fully realized that we are a spirit soul with no material needs. In that way

our material activities will slowly become purified. I see no other way for

us. How can we jump directly? I cannot. I feel pain for my children, fear,

I am attached to my husband, becomes weak without eating, weired if I dont

sleep.

But I am also attached to my service to Krishna, my spiritual master, The

holy name and the scriptures, without Them my life would be empty and

useless. So how can I progress without considering my mental state and my

material situation? Most of us need Varnasrama-dharma to become Krishna

Consciouss.

 

Hope I did not offend anyone by my insignificant wiev, but I think that it

is most essential that we start communicating about these subjects,

everywhere. Many people loose hope because they cannot find room in Srila

Prabhupada´s movement. We have to build more rooms instead of piling

everyone up in one room. I belive Srila Prabhupada came to save us all.

Your servant Gunamani d.d.