How to start varnasrama

[Guest guest]

On 07 Aug 1999, Sumitra dd wrote:

 

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> My humble suggestion to those devotees who are really serious and

> convinced

> about Varanashrama is that we should go ahead and do it ourselves. We are

not children anymore. We do not have to depend on the GBC if we do not wish

to. We can follow the GBC and ISKCON laws, but there is no need to be so

completly dependent on them that we cannot use ourown initiative. Many of us

have businesses which are not dependent on

> the GBC.

>

 

 

Yes, exactly. VAD will never be established as long as we maintain a

Cinderalla complex where we expect our fairly god-mother to do it all for us.

 

 

 

> If we just manage to get one sucessful pilot project off the ground

> within the next few years the rest of the ISKCON world will want to follow

suit. One Varnashram College sucessfully run and bingo

> everyone will be converting our temples into Varnashrama colleges for

devotees to learn spiritual practices and

> be engaged and trained according to their varna.

>

 

 

Even if it is a failure, what is the loss? It will simply become a pillar for

future success. There is no failure in KC.

 

 

> PS Please moderate this conference so that we can get some practical

> results

 

 

There is also Samba's 'Practial VAD' conference if you feel such a discussion

requires some direct guidance.

 

 

ys,

 

Sthita

[Guest guest]

On 07 Aug 1999, Samba das wrote:

 

 

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> Yawn... this is so boring. I have had devotees joining the practial

> varnasrama conference, just because they find all this flaming so

> unproductive....

>

>

> I wonder why it is that so few other devotees join in on this conference?

>

 

 

Because it is not practical? Why not be happy with the nice devotees Krsna has

sent to your conference, instead of lamenting about the others? Let the good

works of our conference speak for itself.

 

ys,

 

Sthita