Thread 4: A prayer, ---honestly speaking

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Thank you, Vaiyasaki prabhu, for brillantly enlivening us with your personal

comments on Srila Prabhupada's purports. that is most inspiring.

 

"I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaisnava devotees of the

Lord. They are just like desire trees who can fulfil the desires of

everyone, and they are full of compassion for the fallen conditioned souls."

 

Your servant in Srila Prabhupada's mission, Krsna-kirtana dasi.

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At 11:14 PM 9/8/00 +0900, Bhadra Govinda (das) JPS (Singapore - SG) wrote:

 

>>But since society means 99% grhastha,

>

>I do not know where you got that fantastic figure of 99%, but logically it

>should be 25% in a Varnashram society. Unless all our Grihasthas want to

>cling on to their administrative positions and decide to leave this world as

>Grihasthas. But according to Shastra they have to follow in the footsteps

>of Yudhisthira Maharaja.

 

Where so you get the fantastic figure of 25%? If only 1/4 of society were

grihasthas, who would support the other 75%? That's similar to the problem

the US faces in the near future, with progressively fewer workers

supporting more and more old pensioners. It's not going to work.

 

And we should note Srila Prabhupada's example of old age. He simply

dedicated his life to preaching, whcih did not preclude managing when

necessary. He personally told me that devotees and devotional service

cannot be stereotyped, and there is nothing that cannot be engaged in

Krishna's service. The only trick, he said is that we require guidance from

the expert spiritual master how to engage everything in Krishna's service.

 

Babhru das