Egalitarian Animal Farm?

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> Why would one who is practicing bhakti-yoga (cleansing the mirror of the

> mind) *not* progress faster than a mundane religionist? (Ye yatha mam

> prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham) Has Krsna recently decided to

> become partial to mundane relgionists?

What Krishna is counting is love. We may practice different things

according to different religious systems, but what is counting is love,

not the rules and regulations. You might think that only those who are

practicing bhakti-yoga (or even more narrowminded, only ISKCON devotees)

are recepients of Krishnas mercy, but that isn't the truth. We might have

the highest knowledge, but that doesn't make US the highest. And depends

very much HOW one is practicing!

 

> >You can't see on which level of advancement they are. Krishna is

> recupricating with >everybody, not just with the souls in the bodies of

> Hare Krishnas.

>

> Agreed. So we should let Krsna be the judge of that which we cannot see or

> understand. But while He is the judge, our duty is still to preach. And

> preaching means recognizing and discriminating between higher and lower

> levels of spiritual advancement. We must heed the warning *not* to imitate

> the uttama-adhikari.

You don't have to imitate, but you could follow in their footsteps and

learn how to respect everybody. If you repeat what some utthama-adhikari

said it doesn't make it the same. When they are saying something their

message carries humility and love. If somebody else is saying something, the

message will be covered by their impurity. Otherwise why it is said that one

should not hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from professional reciters? It doesn't

count only what you are saying but also the kind of consciousness that you

have while saying a certain thing.

 

> Do you know that? Especially the neophyte devotee is

> warned *not* to imagine himself to be on the uttama platform and thus

> wreak havoc in his spiritual life by not properly making distinction

> between devotee and nondevotee.

Those who worship and have love for God are devotees, no matter which

religion they belong to. Some of them don't even identify with any religion.

And that's exactly Krishnas conclusion in BG:

"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall

deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."

 

I can tell you one thing that I have learnt on sankirtan. Whatever

impurities I have been seeing in people were actually dirty things in my

heart. The more pure is my heart the less dirty things I see in others. The

more love I have, the more they resupricate with love.

It is not the question of imagining anything. To see them as two-legged

animals is your vision, but I can't see them that way. I see them as spirit

souls, parts and parcels of Krishna. And it doesn't matter to me what kind

of outside covering they have.

Ys. Sraddha dd