The so-called Sports (including soccer) are GAMBLING

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> On 18 Dec 1999, Janesvara das wrote:

>

> Srila Prabhupada told us to

> follow, not imitate, the acaryas. If we want to imitate, then there are

> some rather interesting pastimes of Bhaktivinode Thakur or Vamsivadana das

> Babaji that we could try imitating, what to speak of so many others.

>

> Maybe it's best to ask Srila Prabhupada directly why he has told his

> disciples and also written in his books that a devotee doesn't engage in

> mundane sports.

 

C'mon. You are being fanatical and impractical out of some immature desire

to be considered more dedicated to Srila Prabhupada than so many other

senior disciples of his. No one is trying imitate acaryas. This is not even

close to that complicated. It is just people doing natural human things.

Simple. Innocent.

 

If Michael Jordan started chanting Hare Krsna do you think Srila Prabhupada

would tell him to give up basketball? Did he tell George Harrison to stop

playing guitar and rock music? Did Krsna tell Kubja to stop being a

prostitute?

 

You see only external stuff, Prabhu. Look for the change of heart and give

it a few decades to take effect. These are not people pretending to be some

big big leader or guru.