Sudra supposed to become a brahmana? No kidding.

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> I've just find in mailbox a message from "Ask HDG" conference

> about a topic, which is significant. I wanted to fully understand the same

> thing about this verse long time ago. So let's try a brainstorm session

> about it, shall we?

> I'm still a bit confused, even with HDG answer.

 

 

HH HDG answered that what he was asked, i.e. how a sudra may

become a brahmana. Well, by seriously practicing KC. That is

not confusing, though.

 

Every human being is supposed to advance in his spiritual

life and not to stay on the level that will provide him with

another birth and another possibility for degrading even

more. In that sense I do not find it confusing that a sudra

also is expected to rise up to the highest level of the

human life and thus get the chance for the braking out the

circle of the repeating birth and death. Just as Prabhupada

writes in that purport:

 

<<"He says that persons following the paths of karma-kanda and

jnana-kanda (fruitive activities and speculative thinking) are

missing the opportunities for human birth and gliding down into

the cycle of birth and death. Thus there is always the chance

that he may be put into the Puyoda Naraka, the hell named Puyoda,

where one is forced to eat stool, urine, pus, mucus, saliva and

other abominable things.">>

 

And that is our position, isn't it? This is about us, low

born sudras with the pile of bad habits and qualities. And

we are trying now to develop some brahminical qualities, aren't

we? Why remain in the described category: "The shameless husbands

of lowborn sudra women live exactly like animals, and therefore

they have no good behavior, cleanliness or regulated life." ???

I think it is all fine with the idea that we are supposed to

become brahmanas and, finally, Vaisnavas. In some life time, at

least, perhaps...

 

 

Isn't what ISKCON is all about, after all? That's what we preach

all the time to the people, at least: "Don't miss the purpose of

the human life! Elevate yourself".

I find it a paradox that ISKCON devotees (who were till recently

engaging themselves in all kind of low class and sinful activities,

perhaps even worse than low class "vedic" sudras) to be in the

situation to be now confused over - "it's difficult to understand

how a sudra by guna and karma can adopt the guna and karma of a

brahmana, as specified by Srila Prabhupada." Just look at yourself.

Well, as you did (are doing) it, so other sudras can also. No

kidding.

 

 

 

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