Varnasrama-Dharma Is Not Krishna Consciousness

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> Hope I did not offend anyone by my insignificant wiev, but I think that it

>is most essential that we start communicating about these subjects,

>everywhere. Many people loose hope because they cannot find room in Srila

>Prabhupada´s movement. We have to build more rooms instead of piling

>everyone up in one room. I believe Srila Prabhupada came to save us all.

 

Thanks Mataji, your letter was very inspiring.I hope that one day they

will get tired of pretening "transcendentals", but in any case

we need to begin from ourselves, from those who vote for varnasrama.

Varnasrama doesn't deal with temples or buildings, it deals directly

with every person involved. Varnasrama needs social organization, but not

in means of some official papers, rather it starts when you stop pretend

to be what you are not, and begin to discharge your own duties and

cooperate with others, who dischard their own duties. If you decide

to begin varnasrama with yourself, then you're already in varnasrama.

 

yhs, bh Oleg.

[Guest guest]

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Thank you Prabhu. I need all the blessings I can get.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Your servant Gunamani d.d.

[Guest guest]

> We live in a rented house, and every month we pay a certain amount of money

> to the houseowner. If ISKCON could buy land and sell it on to the devotees

> on a monthly basis those money would not be wasted into some houseowners

> pocket, but could be used instead to increase land for the devotees to

> cultivate.

 

That is one idea of the Cow Trust that it could hold rental properties and use

the rent generated to fund cow protection programs which could hire the

devotees, recycling the capital.

 

> However maybe that is not the purpose of ISKCON?

 

With the pasage of the Minimum Cow Standards by the GBC, establishment of Cow

Trusts is both allowed and encouraged. Certainly not the sole purpose of

ISKCON, but a contributing practice to ultimately sustain brahminical culture.

 

> Or could it be included under the 6. purpose: "To bring the members closer

> together for the purpose of teaching a simpler and more natural way of

> life." What do you think?

 

Bingo.