Guest guest Posted May 19, 1999 Report Share Posted May 19, 1999 Dear Vidvan Prabhu PAMHO AGTSP The quotes from Jayadvaita Maharaja that you produced below sums up all the Ritviks false arguments. Now Adri is nowhere to be seen. Oh Krishna he is lagging behind again. ys ada > Rtviks wrote: > > > There is no sastric injunction prohibiting a guru from > > giving diksa just because he leaves the planet, at least > > none that anyone has found in Srila Prabhupada's teachings. > > My God! They are really a piece of broken record, aren't they? > > > I've also heard he never gave an direct order not to offer > > Domino's Pizza on the noon offering. But by intelligently > > applying various philosphical intructions offered by Srila > > Prabhupada through his writings, many senior devotees havve > > come to the conclusion that such an endeavor is > > innapropriate. > > Can't they REALLY understand this simple point? > > Here is some wisdom from HH Jayadvaita Swami Maharaja on this > point: > > <start> > 5. Argument from a lack of counter-evidence. > > We now come to another argument we can deal with quickly. > > Where, it is demanded, has the sastra or Srila Prabhupada said > that one can't approach an acarya for initiation merely > because he has physically departed? Where do the authorities > tell us that a post-samadhi ritvik system is no good? Can you > show me a verse? Can you point to a purport? How then can you > say it's not valid? > > This is simply a classic argumentative blunder, a textbook > fallacy. > > "How do we know that you don't beat your wife?" demands the > rumor-monger. And then you're stuck there, trying to come up > with evidence to counter a groundless accusation. > > How do you know there's not a celestial planet controlled by a > three-legged grasshopper with seven heads and superhuman > intelligence? Can you show me a verse that refutes it? Can you > point to a purport? > > How can you prove it's not bona fide to take initiation from > the ghost of Aristotle's mother or a picture of a self- > realized boa constrictor? > > One must support one's views by evidence, not by assertions > that a lack of counter-evidence makes them true. Enough said. > <end> > > YS VGD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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