Finishing varnasrama dharma

[Guest guest]

>

> Again, all glories to your determination, mataji but are you willing and

> able to make your own paper, produce your own wool and linen and above all

> are you willing to give up your fridge, your phone, your car and your

> computer? Honestly. Even stalwarts like Madhava Gosh Prabhu seem to not be

> completely averse to TV or technology as we can gather from his occasional

> references to NFL league games or various movies.

 

Busted! Does that mean I don't get the cow dung?

 

> I lived in a bamboo mud

> hut for a year and I have to admit I much prefer the brick building I am

> presently living in, particularly in April and May when Hurricane storms

> have the roofs of bamboo cottages fly off like dry leaves. My point is.

> Simple living is an idyllic ideal but in actual practice it is tough and

> austere and not everyone is able to live that way.

>

> In conclusion, I would like to say that to be overly idealistic may also

> mean that one is naive or unrealistic and to say "I will try" with quiet

> determination may be more wise than publicly declaring that one is now ready

> to die to establish a self sufficient homestead and live there happily ever

> after. I feel you went a bit overboard when you wrote to Samba

 

I didn't get the impression she was going off so directly on Samba, more like

she was using his post as a launching pad for clearing some stuff off her own

chest.

 

This interchange is pretty much the crux of the problem

 

I have taken the liberty of changing the heading from Introducing VAD to

Finishing VAD.

 

I believe we have already been introduced.

 

Srila Prabhupada: My dear Western Devotees, please let me introduce you to

VAD. VAD, here are the Western devotees, Western Devotees, this is VAD.

 

Western Devotees: So nice to make your acquaintance.

 

VAD: The pleasure is all mine. Could I offer you an ashram or two as gift?

Also please take a varna.

 

Western Devotees: How thoughtful of you, even though by birth I am

unqualified to actually have such a thing.

 

Srila Prabhupada: Oh my foolish devotees, please don't confuse VAD with her

cousin, Caste System. Caste System would never even be caught dead in the

same

room with you.

 

Western Devotees: Oh, I see. Well, then yes, I would be interested in

sampling a little of what you have to offer.

 

VAD: Excellent. I always enjoy offering opportunities to those aspiring to

love Krishna, even if their material circumstances aren't so favorable based

on

their birth.

 

Srila Prabhupada: Please accept these offerings, Western Devotees. I can

vouch for VAD, and if you are pleased with these samples, I highly recommend

that you that you develop a continuing relationship.

 

Western Devotees. Hmmm, this Brahminical varna is a little strange to my

western trained palate, but I actually feel some attraction. This Sannyasa

thing is acctually quite attractive, atually I can hardly restrain myself from

endulging... ooops!

 

Now just see, in my hurry to try this out, I'm spilled some and made a mess.

I'm so embarassed.

 

VAD: No problem. Just please us the Brahmans to clean up the mess, and

continue, no permanent harm will be done. That is the nice thing about the

whole rest of the package, each part gives balance to another.

 

Srila Prabhupada: Well, now that you two have meet, I've just gotten a page

from Krsna, and have to hurry off to do some service elsewhere.

 

Western DEvotees: But Srila Prabhupada, I am afraid I am too shy to progress

in this relationship without you.

 

Srila Prabhupada: Don't worry, I am leaving you a lot of instructions in my

books, please read them.

 

Western Devotees: But those are all descriptions of what happened in other

yugas, when the Devotees lived much longer and were better qualified!

 

Srila Prabhupada: Don't worry, all the general principles are there. Try to

love Krsna and He will reveal to you how to apply them in this confused Kali

Yuga ugra karmic world you are stuck in. Bye for now. I will always be

thinking of you, please don't forget me. Hari Bol.

 

Western Devotees: Hari Bol , Srila Prabhupada, I will miss you.

 

(awkward silence)

 

Western Devotees: Well, gee, shucks, Miss VAD, I guess I will take my

Brahmanas and Sannyasis back to my place and try to understand the.

 

VAD: Well ,if that 's what you want. I'll be waiting for you with the rest of

the varnas and ashrams. But don't wait too long. Without protection of cows,

brahminical culture cannot be maintained; and without brahminical culture, the

aim of life cannot be fulfilled.

Cow protection means feeding the brahminical culture, which leads towards

God consciousness, and thus perfection of human civilization is achieved.

 

Western Devotees: That sounds good, but I think that this is enough for me

for

now.

 

VAD: Okay, do as you like. Let me know when you are interested in more.

Hari

Bol.

 

Western Devotees: Hari Bol.