The brahmacari should not bleach and iron his clothes.

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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

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DaNDavats Dear jm et al. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Sreela PrabhupAda..

 

Thank you for your letter.

> Well...yes, he should not do it himself. But if someone else does it for

> him?

 

brahmacaries try not to let anyone serve them, they try to serve everyone..

>

>For example most of our sannyasis give this service to their lady

> disciples,along with washing clothes and sometimes cooking. Is it wrong?

 

debatable- some say "no it's not wrong, they need to do some service, and

these are the only services they can do".

 

others say, "Of course sannyasi's should not allow women to cook for them,

unless they visit householders houses, and then the women can cook, but men

serve it out. otherwise certainly only the men should cook, as SBSST kept a

brahmacari cook.

 

> And if it is wrong,why they are doing it?

why are the sannyasi's falling down? due to too much association with eomen

that waters down their determination.

 

and possibly agitation arising from food cooked by women.

> If you are wearing silk dhoti then you don't have to worry about ironing

> much,but what if your pocket does not support idea of silk clothing?

 

buy art silk (Radha gopinatha temple style) for preaching cloth for visiting

the mayors office, if need be.

 

if you wash your cotton cloth and hang it straight, it pretty much irons

itself.

> Should you look cheap?

 

no, but then again, when one wears ironed cloth, a "deha abhimana" rises, 'I

look spiffy'. like the joke.

 

one afro american man went for a vasectomy and when he came back he was

wearing a tuxedo, a friend asked him, "why are you wearing that?".

 

"Well I thought if I'm gonna be impotent I might as well look 'impotant".

(important).

 

> I assume it is alright when you are traveling in

> remote corners of India, but even among the Indian devotees I saw desire

> to look neat. Not for the sense gratification and attracting the opposite

> sex,but just for looking better.

 

yes. the life member makers in the cities all payed money to have outside

people iron their clothes, but then again, they all ended up getting married

99% of those same fellas, so phalena pariciyate, look at the result..

 

Narada muni in th canto mentions as well not to Iron clothes I beleive.

 

> How would people react seeing priest wearing wrinkled robes and having

> unshaved face?

one the one hand SP commented, "first dress then address" so it's important

to look good while preaching, but the RGT devotees in Mumbai do not iron

their art silk clothes when they go preach, which is most of the time.

 

otherwise , wringled cloths, They see me like that all the time, they get

pretty used to it.

 

not a big deal.

> I did not find the exact quotation, but I believe Srila Prabhupada wanted

> his disciples to dress nicely, and in most cases that would mean having

> ironed cloth.

 

preachers.

 

> Or was this instruction given to householders only?

 

as I said before (some sannyasi's wear Ironed cloth and they are still

around-yet also since about 66 sannyasi's have fallen down- I wouldn't be

too quick to wear silked clothes all of the time).

 

mostly 99& of those who iron their clothes will eventually get married as a

cumulative result of the weight of compromises made to SB philosophy. when

they compromise so much they then say, "oh well, what to do, let him get

married..."

 

after marriage, yes, let them have their wives Iron their clothes,

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava