Sruti Kirti - Prabhupad - Remarriage

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Okay, whew. What a tangled web we weave,eh! Cutting and pasting ain't as easy

as it should be, but as a ksatria I have to learn how to do it. First of all I

just want to say I'm not in favor of Shruti Kirti getting remarried to stick

to the topic at hand. However I would like to comment on something and here it

is: PASTE

> It is really insidious how maya keeps us bound in the illusory world of

> familial affection, even though we understand that the relationships we have

> in this lifetime, as as transitory as the passing relationships we may make

> with people in a busy train station. Relationships which are unlikely to be

> ever repeated.

 

Whoah, it worked! Look out theives and dacoits for I brandish the paste! Yeah,

well, this point always sits uneasy on me, you know. So I don't get it cause

there I am sitting around for years in a bramacari ashram cause I'm givin' up

this familial affection or sex or whatever. And you know I didn't get too

advanced doing that, in fact I didn't have a clue, really. You know, if I

thought the danger was from being too loving that would be different, but it

seems to me my problem is being too fragmented, unrelated. In fact my

relations have been alot like the train station type, and I rejoice to find

something more than that. And words like love and relationship really work

for me. I know when I first joined the movement it was primarily to ground

myself in a community- and a community of devotees it was. And it was great!

Dancing and chanting and eating sweet halavah! It revived my faith that life

could be good, could be spiritual and worth living. And the ensuing years were

good and interesting what with the different permutations I pursued. But if

anything tore it apart it was this renunciation thing. It was all false

renunciation, I believe. The real type was described as connecting, as in

Sankirtan, congrgationaly. Complete renunciation gives up seperation, gives up

the very conception that you're all alone in a train station. So the world

becomes a place of old friends from the good old days that you haven't seen in

a while! Sankirtan could be like that sometimes when the love vibe is really

flowing. That's what Krishna's mercy is all about. Love rules!!

And isn't it this artificial renunciation that gets things so twisted up?

Would there be a huge court case today, if the emphasis hadn't been so

incredibly tilted toward a show of renunciation and misogyny in general. "Stay

bramacari whatever you do and if you are married, God forbid, don't love your

wife. Beat her, abuse her, ignore her, but God forbid you should love her.

Love, a little human love! Who knows; she could end up your good friend,

confidante, confessor, spiritual advisor. And who says our relations don't

last more than one lifetime, but I take on too much.

So please don't take this as a personal attack, Samba. You just gave me an

oppotunity to sound off on a favorite topic. Much obliged. I know what you

mean about these forums. Everybody seems peeeved off all the time. Well I do

like discussing issues, though. Thanks!