Equal Rights - Using folio to credit Srila Prabhupada....

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> Guru-Krsna (das) HDG (Alachua, FL - USA)

> 12-Nov-99 00:07 -0500

> DMW (Dharma of Men and Women) [3291]

> Equal rights--Using Folio to CREDIT Srila Prabhupada

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> [Please excuse the former two incomplete messages. This is the complete

> message as was meant to be sent:]

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>

> On 11 Nov 1999, Kusha dd wrote:

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> > Krishna Seva Ki Jaya,

> > kusha devi dasi

> > Responding to this:

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> >>If I am understanding correctly, no "preferential treatment of male

> devotees >>in any form" means "equal treatment of male and female

> >devotees," or in other >>words, "equal rights." But Srila Prabhupada had

> the following (and much more >>of the same) to say about equal rights:

> >>

> >> 1. It will be failure. (Arrival Lecture: Philadelphia, 7/11/75)

> >> [...]

> >> 26. Equal rights is impossible (Cc. Adi. 17.44)

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>

> Dear Venerable Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis,

>

> Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to His Divine

> Grace Srila Prabhupada on this most holy occasion of his departure from

> this mortal world.

>

> The following few words are simply to inform you that Mother Kusha dd has

> included you as a receiver to her reply to a missive which I had posted to

> DMW (Dharma of Men & Women), and so any further discussion that might

> ensue between Mataji and me would be conducted thereon.

>

> I will now humbly take this opportunity to affirm that my message was

> meant not to "discredit the Chairman of the GBC" but to CREDIT our beloved

> founder-acarya, Srila Prabhupada.

>

> Please forgive me for these most recent unsolicited intrusions upon your

> privacy but also bless me that I may one day become a perfect follower and

> representative of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

>

> Thank you very much.

> Hare Krsna.

>

> this most unfortunate, insignificant beggar and so-called servant of the

> servants of the servants of ISKCON,

>

> guru-krsna das ("janiya suniya visa-kainu")

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