Varna: bit by bit / gurus/ dried tomatoes

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> > Are there any ISKCON gurus who are determining the varnas of their

> > disciples now? I have requested a list of the same but as yet have not

> > received a single name.

> I know of many who are guiding their disciples into both materially and

> spiritual longterm circumstances. However I would not bring up any names

> here because you would want me to defend my statement and I am unqualified

> for such a task and would feel like intruding on other persons private

> life.

 

"ISCKON guru" is really some undefined term/position. He is seen

as a kind of an ISCKON officer, thus people feel the right

to demand from him to perform this "social job" as they think he

ought to. Like here, Janesvara thinks they got order to be a "varna

gurus", and he thinks he got the right to get on their case for

not performing their ISCKON job rightly (in his conception of

"rightly"). On the other hand, as soon as it comes to sharing the

consequences and responsibilities after an "ISCKON guru's" fall

down, the indicator jumps from "our ISCKON guru" to "your guru,

prabhu". Then, all of sudden, it is the question of purely private

guru-disciple matter -- "He's not my guru, it's you who took him,

dear". If he is not your guru after, he wasn't before either, so

it's not really your business in any point of time (unless you

consider accepting him as a guru).

 

 

A guru is a guru for his disciples only. For everybody else he

is something else, depending of the relationship they got with

the person. One shouldn't even see him as "Oh, here is a guru

comming". If you see him like that, then you got to bow down

immediatelly and to offer him all the respect as a guru ought

to receive. But one doesn't. Because one actually sees "Here

is my godbrother comming". Or a sannyasi. Or a goduncle. Or a

GBC-man. Or a senior grhasta...

 

 

But people think they got to check the performance of other

people's gurus. Which even wouldn't be so bad, if they

would be able to make and fix their minds wether a particular

guru-disciple relationship is a sacred and private issue between

the two (and the God, as the third "party"), or is it a kind

of a social and managerial post (thus having the general

population as the third party, having the right to interfere

when feel the need for it).

 

 

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I got this lust for the salted sun-dried tomatoes (that I deep

in the olive oil). But it costs me lot to get buying them all the

time, so I thought if I could get a bigger quantity of fresh

tomatoes for the good price, then I could try to dry them myself.

Does anybody have some experience? What sort of tomatoes are the

best for this purpose, what one has to do in order to avoid them

rotting before they get nicely dried (and yet keeping soft)? Or

any other info and suggestion that someone could have, I would

appreciate greatly.

 

 

 

ys mnd