Guest guest Posted January 30, 2000 Report Share Posted January 30, 2000 > > So it is true that varnasrama dharma is not *necessarily* pure devotional > service. In the Prabhuapda on Varnasrama book we hear Prabhupada in > Moscow telling Professor Kotofsky that varnasrama already exists > everywhere in the world. And that kind of spontaneous or haphazard > varnasrama will do nothing to help elevate people to the spiritual > platform -- because it is a social system which is not set up to please > Krsna. I can understand that, but my question would be if, let us say, a person with ksatriya or brahmanic qualities who gets his education acording to his natural inclinations in a future ISKCON varnasrama academy or college, is he therefore bound to engage himself after his education is completed in a devotee comunity, in order that his service may be considered devotional service performed through his "varna" or can he also make advancement if he engages his nature and qualitiys in the service of the greater society. Is not ultimetely everything Gods property, meant to please Him by ones actions? > But, the kind of varnasrama that Prabhupada wanted the Krsna consciousness > movement to establish is a different type of varnasrama, because it is a > social system which is consciously and deliberately organized for "Visnu > aradhyate" to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The very purpose > of that kind of varnasrama, the original or daiva varnasrama is exactly > that: to elevate all participants to the level of suddha bhakti. That's > really the basic purpose of Prabhupada's varnasrama. So we should not > mistakenly dismiss it, confusing it with a materialistic variety of > varnasrama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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