The so-called Sports (including soccer) are GAMBLING

[Guest guest]

> On 18 Dec 1999, Janesvara das wrote:

>> 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.

 

I said the above only because I am taking the heat for things that Srila

Prabhupada said. So I say "Ask Srila Prabhupada why he said what he said,

not me."

 

>No one is trying imitate acaryas. This is not even close to that

complicated. It is >just people doing natural human things. Simple. Innocent.

 

OK. But I thought we are discussing philosophy. So the philosophy is that

even the simple and innocent (sattva-guna), what to speak of the passionate

(sports-guna) is binding. If I am not mistaken, the goal of all humans

should be to go back to Godhead--as soon as possible.

 

>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?

 

Individual cases are individual cases. I understand that.

 

>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.

 

But I'm not judging anyone's heart, prabhu. As far as I understand, the

topics that arise on these conferences are philosophical and general

discussions, not analyses of individuals' hearts. I am not presuming to do

that.

 

"All you need is love!" (and a basketball,...or is it a soccer ball?).

 

Hare Krsna.

 

--gkdas