fall down

[Guest guest]

Dear Sridhari Prabhvi

Pamho. AgtSP!

 

How my text made it into this conferences is a mystery for me. I wrote this

comment one year ago, but kept it in my computer. Now I have to realize that

somehow it went out to all of you. How I dont know, I was not sending it

into the outbasket. I changed my computer at that time from Win95 to Win98

and somehow this knew program is playing games with me.

Anyway I will coment to your text. In the meantime Harikesa Prabhu maried

already long ago and is living hapily in France.

 

>>I,m shure Srila Prabhupada would not judge him diferently since I,m

> convinced that Prabhupada was aware that he was in a emergency situation,

> where he tryd to introduce the vedic system of varna and asramas in 12

> years time, and that many who where in this asramas, where there more or

> less in an artificial place in the long run, like we could see it manifest

> over the years.<<

 

>I agree that noone has to judge him except the Supreme Lord. He has done a

>lot of nice service to please Srila Prabhupada, and we have to remember the

>best of him.

 

Thats certainly the best atitude in this regard.

 

>But we also have to be carefull because actually Harikesa Prabhu is

>critizizing Srila Prabhupada's books, and is preaching against the four

>regs,and said that he wish to be independent of ISKCON and doesn't want to

>be under anyone, and it is out of Srila Prabhupada standart.

 

You know, its better "to not eat the sup as hot as it is cooked" if you

understand what I mean. There is a lot of hearsay about Harikesa Prabhu, but

having first hand information I can tell you for certain that he is not

critizizing the books of his spiritual master nor is he preaching against

the four regs, what he speaks and what he wants is that what many in this

conference also whant - to reform this movement so that the devotees can

become happy in theyr life and asrama, especially the grhasta asrama, the

family, the healthy basis of every society of people.

 

Your servant

Harsi das

[Guest guest]

On 8 Jul 1999, Krishna Kirti wrote:

 

>

> There is a saying in Sanskrit: yatha rajas, tatha prajas, "As the king, so

the citizens." Prabhupada may have been lenient with so many devotees, but we

cannot do everything that Prabhupada can. If we are to be lenient to

Harikesh, why not everyone else? And if everyone else, then you lower the

standard because such blanket tolerance renders the consequences of falling

down inconsequential.

>

>

 

 

 

I'd propose that the definition of what is leniency is a critical issue.

Certainly we can be 'lenient' if that means accepting someone's offering of

service to Krsna as long as it is not something tied in with a request to

change the Vaisnava siddhanta. Too often we might have a tendency to seek out

some fault and then reject everything outright. There is the principle of

seperating the milk from the water.

 

All the same, we should always be careful. There is danger on the royal road,

and spiritual life is a razors edge are another couple of trueisms that come

to mind.

 

Sthita