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On 8 Jul 1999, Krishna Kirti wrote:

 

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> There is a saying in Sanskrit: yatha rajas, tatha prajas, "As the king, so

the citizens." Prabhupada may have been lenient with so many devotees, but we

cannot do everything that Prabhupada can. If we are to be lenient to

Harikesh, why not everyone else? And if everyone else, then you lower the

standard because such blanket tolerance renders the consequences of falling

down inconsequential.

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I'd propose that the definition of what is leniency is a critical issue.

Certainly we can be 'lenient' if that means accepting someone's offering of

service to Krsna as long as it is not something tied in with a request to

change the Vaisnava siddhanta. Too often we might have a tendency to seek out

some fault and then reject everything outright. There is the principle of

seperating the milk from the water.

 

All the same, we should always be careful. There is danger on the royal road,

and spiritual life is a razors edge are another couple of trueisms that come

to mind.

 

Sthita