Guest guest Posted April 25, 1999 Report Share Posted April 25, 1999 On 24 Apr 1999, Vyapaka Dasa wrote: > For the benefit of the readers who were upset by my use of certain words I > again apologize. However, it seems that it was my misunderstanding that most > everyone was aware of Srila Prabhupada's use of these terms during a > conversation. That conversation can be found in the Feb. 19, 1977 conversation > (770219r2.may) with Adi Kesava dasa and others in Mayapura. I was aware that you were alluding to that conversation, and I can appreciate the exasperation that would come from wanting more from a varnasrama conference that gets lost in a long discussion of surgical alteration of genitalia, however just because Prabhupada has said it doesn't make appropriate for the crowd that's gathered here. Quite an overkill. Dripping WINNEBAGOS? Cutting off RICHARD? Way too much. We got a rough and tumble PC crowd here, you gotta watch your imagery. Prabhupada was trying to drive home a point and was speaking to a particular group. If we were to look for some fault, we might want to look towards Prabhupada's audience; that they needed such strong imagery. Ugra-karma was right. Jeesh, how could there even be a debate? Why can't we sympathize with, be accepting of, and encouraging towards devotees with unusual situations, without creating a weird version of Krsna Consciousness? OK, so we're not exactly Vedic, but how far off the mark need we go? Thinking of lipo-suction myself, I go to lick the dripping VEGI-BURGER, YS Jiva Goswami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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