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SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

 

Camp: St. Petersburg, Russia

DaNDavats Dear all. Jaya Krishna BalarAma!

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

 

Thank you for your letter.

> What on earth have they "won" except a free ticket to Yamaraja's

> Wonderland, all rides free...

really quotable and hillariously funny observation.

 

> Anyone who considers the editors or operators of Chakra loyal ISKCON

> devotees needs their own head examined anyway. If someone hasn't the sense

> to figure out that they are all--either directly or by association--

> anti-ISKCON and offenders to Srila Prabhupada, then ISKCON is in greater

> trouble than anyone imagines, and I don't believe that's the case.

 

many innocent devotees "don't have brains or discrimination" so they need to

be protected and warning in no uncertain terms." I think the EC GBC

resolution was really watered down in comparison to the NA GBC comments on

KS.

 

many devotees are bound by habits, not all of them good, and contaminated by

bad association, even SP refers in CC to so-called disciples, and says their

association must be avoided.

 

 

 

look at SB 3.32. 40

 

na lolupäyopadiçen

na gåhärüòha-cetase

näbhaktäya ca me jätu

na mad-bhakta-dviñäm api

SYNONYMS

na—not; lolupäya—to the greedy; upadiçet—one should instruct; na—not;

gåha-ärüòha-cetase—to one who is too attached to family life; na—not;

abhaktäya—to the nondevotee; ca—and; me—of Me; jätu—ever; na—not; mat—My;

bhakta—devotees; dviñäm—to those who are envious of; api—also.

TRANSLATION

It is not to be instructed to persons who are too greedy and too attached to

family life, nor to persons who are nondevotees and who are envious of the

devotees and of the Personality of Godhead.

PURPORT

Persons who are always planning to do harm to other living entities are not

eligible to understand Kåñëa consciousness and cannot enter into the realm

of transcendental loving service to the Lord. Also, there are so-called

disciples who become submissive to a spiritual master most artificially,

with an ulterior motive. They also cannot understand what Kåñëa

consciousness or devotional service is. Persons who, due to being initiated

by another sect of religious faith, do not find devotional service as the

common platform for approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead, also

cannot understand Kåñëa consciousness. We have experience that some students

come to join us, but because of being biased in some particular type of

faith, they leave our camp and become lost in the wilderness. Actually,

Kåñëa consciousness is not a sectarian religious faith; it is a teaching

process for understanding the Supreme Lord and our relationship with Him.

Anyone can join this movement without prejudice, but unfortunately there are

persons who feel differently. It is better, therefore, not to instruct the

science of Kåñëa consciousness to such persons.

Generally, materialistic persons are after some name, fame and material

gain, so if someone takes to Kåñëa consciousness for these reasons, he will

never be able to understand this philosophy. Such persons take to religious

principles as a social decoration. They admit themselves into some cultural

institution for the sake of name only, especially in this age. Such persons

also cannot understand the philosophy of Kåñëa consciousness. Even if one is

not greedy for material possessions but is too attached to family life, he

also cannot understand Kåñëa consciousness. Superficially, such persons are

not very greedy for material possessions, but they are too attached to wife,

children and family improvement. When a person is not contaminated by the

above-mentioned faults yet at the ultimate issue is not interested in the

service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or if he is a nondevotee, he

also cannot understand the philosophy of Kåñëa consciousness

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.32.40

 

> Everyone knows Chakra is a joke. Why bother giving it any more energy than

> it deserves?

 

warning the devotees not to waste their energy in the future on chakra is

good use of a superiors energy.

 

TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava