from Mahanidhi Swami-purushottama adhika masa vratas

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Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

>Resorting to Criticizing something they don't understand or can't apply

are

>sometimes opted by the weak minded sense gratifiers who are trying to

cover

>up their possible own lack of determination to purify their senses, but

>Krsna knows who's who.

 

Very nasty.

 

>Yet, watch out for saying, "Preaching" yet meaning--"I can't give up my

>regulated sense gratification I'm getting from the temple-not even for

one

>month.

 

Let us also watch out for becoming hard-hearted because of austerities and

criticizing other devotees. And this also applies to the preachers. Now

we are seeing a battle. The preachers are attacking the tapasvis, and the

tapasvis are attacking the preachers.

 

We need all kinds of people in our society. We need preachers in the field

and tapasvis in the holy places. We need cooks in the temples and teachers

in the schools and businessmen in the offices and so on. No one should

think that he is the only one doing something valid and that the others

are weak-minded sense gratifiers.

 

Every service requires some kind of austerity, but when we think our own

particular austerity makes us better than the others, then the benefits of

our austerity are lost.

 

>I do remember one brahmacari in 1976 in LA who did chaturmasya, but at

the

>end of it got married, so one devotee said sarcastically," Oh I

understand,

>the fruit of his austerities was to get a good wife." Naturally when

>someone sees adverse things happening at the end of the vrata....

 

If he waited till Caturmasya was over before he married, where is the

fault? Is there some regulation that one must wait a certain amount of

time before marrying? And since when is marriage something adverse? It may

not be for everyone, but it is still a Vaisnava asrama, and we have many

wonderful householder devotees in our society.

 

Your most humble servant,

 

Umapati Swami

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In a message dated 8/2/01 11:00:42 PM EST, Babhru.ACBSP (AT) pamho (DOT) net writes:

 

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Thank you, Maharaj, for seeing to the heart of the matter, as always. There

is a disturbing hint of self-righteousness in many of these comments. >>

 

Personal realizations or practices are not absolute. If it is good for one,

it is not necessarily good for another.

 

Thankfully, Krsna did not create us all the same. If we were all the same, it

would be scary.

 

Ys, Mahatma das