Govindaji's mahaprasadam sponsored by prostitute not for the

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In this particular story from

> "Saints of Vraja", by Dr. O.B.L. Kapoor, Srila Prabhupada's Godbrother. There

> are lots of lessons to be learned from that book.

 

 

The brahmans in your story were just thinking of their own spiritual success,

ie. me, me, me.

 

One of the most important saints of Vraja is probably not mentioned in O.B.L.

Kapoor's book, the three-world-famous HDG Srila Prabhupada. This particular

saint was celebrated throughout the three worlds for keeping his bhoga in a

fridge where meat was also kept, putting aside vedic injunctions in order to

serve his spiritual master. He even took the sins of the melecha and yavana

races and made them brahmanas by the thousand, on a higher platform than the

Jaipur brahmanas of O.B.L. Kapoor's story, because they also understood that

higher than one's personal spiritual benefit is to act for the welfare of

others "Atmaupamyena sarvatra...", not me...me...me. These disciples acted on

the higher platform mentioned in Bhagavad Gita "sabda-brahmativartate" -

"transcending the rules and regulations of the vedas."(Bg 6.44) because of

their preaching service.

 

Dr. Kapoor has written a very nice book, but we have to see evidence from Srila

Prabhupada's example to understand these things through parampara.

 

If I can be so bold, I would like to challenge the story being true. It seems

to me a bit philosophically incorrect. If Lord Krishna accepts prasadam, Srila

Prabhupada says He replaces the bhoga with transcendental food - so how could

it have anything to do with the offered food? Krishna either accepts or he

doesn't - how could he say "Although I have eaten the bhoga, my remnants

contain the prostitutes sins." Wacky or what?