Picking up the mood of Srila Prabhupada

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"COM: Janesvara (das) ACBSP (Syracuse - USA)" wrote:

 

> [Text 2831711 from COM]

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> > > So, I wonder what are we trying to introduce?

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> > Srila Prabhupada constantly exhorted/exhorts the world and us to take

> > shelter of Bhagavad-gita, and we of ISKCON want and are obligated to

> > express the flavor and tenor of Bhagavad-gita/Vedic knowledge/Vedic

> > culture, as best as we can "pick up" his mood, as expressed in his

> > writings, etc.

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> Srila Prabhupada writes:

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> "...the whole purpose of Bhagavad-gita is to revive our sanatana occupation,

> or sanatana-dharma, which is the eternal occupation of the living entity."

> Bg Intro

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> And further Srila Prabhupada writes:

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> "In other words, the system of varnasrama-dharma is known also as

> sanatana-dharma, or eternal occupation." S.B. 1.19.4.

>

 

> ...So if "we of ISKCON want and are obligated to express the flavor and tenor

> of Bhagavad-gita/Vedic knowledge/Vedic culture, as best as we can "pick up"

> his mood, as expressed in his writings, etc." how is it that ISKCON's

> leaders for the past 25 years have failed to even show a glimpse of interest

> in implementing varnasrama-dharma/sanatana-dharma?

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> It would seem that varnasrama-dharma should be a priority agenda especially

> when Srila Prabhupada said, just before leaving this planet, that the ONLY

> thing he lamented was not starting varnasrama-dharma in his movement and

> that he had completed HALF of his mission and that the other half of his

> mission was to start varnasrama-dharma.

 

Again, let me humbly suggest that the best first step to starting varnasrama is

to study Srila Prabhupada's instructions on the matter. I suggest that every

temple, no matter how small, can obtain one copy of *Srila Prabhupada on

Varnasrama and Farm Community Development, Vol. 1: Speaking about Varnasrama*

and use it as a text for weekly classes meditating and discussing Prabhupada's

instructions on varnasrama in the company of devotees. This text was produced

by the ISKCON Farm Research Committee and the Bhaktivedanta Archives just to

aid

the devotees in fulfilling Srila Prabhupada's desire. This would be an

important

step to setting up a varnasrama college in every temple, as requested by Srila

Prabhupada in Vrndavana in March 1974.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi