The Mercy of Mother Saraswati

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> Dear Isvara prabhu,

>

> Please be careful. She is a devotee, and your mother. I agree with you

> that she may have missed the obvious point that the "Christians" are, by

> and large, grossly degraded meateaters. It isn't necessary, though, to be

> insulting and say that "westerners like you" are responsible for the

> pollution of Vedic culture. She's a Vaishnava; you must be respectful,

> even if you claim that "westerners like you" means other westerners, not

> her. It still doesn't sound very nice. To suggest that she "doesn't see

> nothing wrong" with killing cows is a bit absurd. On the other hand, since

> you've employed a double negative in your writing, you've literally said

> that she sees EVERYTHING wrong with killing cows. Therefore, by the mercy

> of Mother Saraswati, your apparent insult has become praise.

>

> Congragtulations!

>

> Your servant,

>

> Pancha Tattva dasa

>

 

Dear Panca Tattva Prabhu,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank

you for your short rebuke. Actually I did not mean to insult her. It is just

the tone of her message that are very much in line of Madhusudani Radha that

prompted me to write that. Judging from the contents of that text, it looks

she is on the borderline of loosing faith in Krishna consciousness or Vedic

culture. Feminist issue in our movement is a big cancer that needs to be

taking very seriously. This issue is leading to the blaspheming of Srila

Prabhupada and the erosion of faith in Vedic culture, by all these devotee

feminists. It is unfortunate that our leaders are not doing anything about

it or are even supportive of it. Bir Krishna Maharaja, the GBC chairman was

very quick in passing jugdement on Vrindavana incident but did nothing about

the blaspheming of Srila Prabhupada being portrayed by the ISKCON devotee

feminists. Our mainly Western leaders are very eager to protect the women

and give them equal rights, but not so eager about protection and

preservation of the Vedic culture as taught to us by Srila Prabhupada?

 

Sorry if my language seems too harsh. I just can find better ways to express

it.

 

Your servant,

 

Isvara dasa.

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At 8:30 -0800 12/1/99, COM: Isvara (das) GGS (Vrindavana - IN) wrote:

>

>Actually I did not mean to insult her. It is just

>the tone of her message that are very much in line of Madhusudani Radha that

>prompted me to write that. Judging from the contents of that text, it looks

>she is on the borderline of loosing faith in Krishna consciousness or Vedic

>culture.

 

Thank you for your concern. However, my faith in Krsna, Prabhupada and the

original vedic culture is as strong as ever. My only heart-break and

disappointment is in the things I've seen in our beloved India which do

*not* live up to those standards. And from the recent texts by other

devotees who have lived in India for many years, what I saw, doesn't seem

to be exceptions. I *don't want to* see meat eating, alcoholism, domestic

violence, adultery, corruption etc. in this wonderful place. I want it to

be a country where I can go to forget those things and be inspired in my

Krsna Consciousness. That's why I'm trying to do something about it and in

the process I've actually been able to do some preaching too - certainly

much more than I can do when conducting my work here in the US. For

example, my Indian colleagues become ashamed and embarrassed to eat meat

and often change their orders in the restaurants to which they take me when

they hear that I'm a vegetarian. And they love it when I (a blond blue-eyed

Westerner) quote the Bhagavad Gita to make some point in my presentations.

Indian porfessionals who invite us over to help them look up to us Western

experts. I know it's unwarranted, but if I can take advantage of that to

help them appreciate Krsna more - I don't mind taking advantage.

 

Hope that makes things clearer. We're really on the same side here.

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi