Guest guest Posted October 20, 2000 Report Share Posted October 20, 2000 "Mahamantra (das) ACBSP (Vrindavan - IN)" wrote: > > Is it true the other way around too. If one's Guru asks one not to get > > married, and one gets married anyway. Any scriptural references? YHS Vpd > > h Yes, devotees got married and had hard times - to a great degree because the leadership of the society was heavily influenced by misogynist early disciples of Srila Prabhupada. Time for the soicety to grow up a little and not apply instructions meant for immature bramacaris to capable adults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 24, 2000 Report Share Posted October 24, 2000 Hare Krishna PAMHO, AGTSP Prabhuji, calling those disciples of Srila Prabhupada as "immature brahmcharis" is bit too much. Srila Prabhupada did mention in his books about the hardships and problems one might face if one gets married. Does that mean he was only writing for some immature brahmcharis or for all of us? Ofcourse, a good grihasta is far better than a bad brahmchari, but that doesn't imply that everyone should get married or remain brahmchari. I guess one's guru is in a better position to decide on that. Just my $0.02 worth YHS VPd > > "Mahamantra (das) ACBSP (Vrindavan - IN)" wrote: > > > > Is it true the other way around too. If one's Guru asks one not to > > > get married, and one gets married anyway. Any scriptural references? > > > YHS Vpd > > > > h > > Yes, devotees got married and had hard times - to a great degree because > the leadership of the society was heavily influenced by misogynist early > disciples of Srila Prabhupada. Time for the soicety to grow up a little > and not apply instructions meant for immature bramacaris to capable > adults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 24, 2000 Report Share Posted October 24, 2000 At 01:07 PM 10/24/00 -0500, Vidura Priya (das) (Dallas TX - US) wrote: > Ofcourse, a good grihasta is far better than a bad brahmchari, According to Prabhupada, a good grhasta is as good as a good brahmacari (if by "good" you mean "following") >I guess one's guru is in a better position to decide on that. Is that necessarily true? Do you mean that we need to wait for our gurus to tell us if we should or should not get married? I thought at least sannyasis (which is by far the most common asrama among ISKCON gurus) shouldn't get too involved in householder issues. I know some ISKCON gurus delegate that responsibility to senior grhastas. Ys, Madhusudani dasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 25, 2000 Report Share Posted October 25, 2000 On 24 Oct 2000, Madhusudani Radha wrote: > Is that necessarily true? Do you mean that we need to wait for our gurus > to tell us if we should or should not get married? I thought at least > sannyasis (which is by far the most common asrama among ISKCON gurus) > shouldn't get too involved in householder issues. I know some ISKCON gurus > delegate that responsibility to senior grhastas. Also I have heard, that Srila Prabhupada said if someone is *thinking* whether he should get married *or* not then he should better get married. I do not have a ready quote on that. YHS Bhadra Govinda Das. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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