Guest guest Posted December 16, 1999 Report Share Posted December 16, 1999 INDIA NEEDS A STRONG RULER and I need a therapy. Dear Pancha Tattva Prabhu. I told my wife about your thinking mode: " The sword is necessary. When dealing with the Personality of Kali. [...] yes, the sword by all means." And she told me how Mandela transformed a whole country bent on racism and demonic (and this is not an euphemism) government. He succeeded because he loved his people. Pardon her, she's just a sentimental woman. (She don't understand what real love is.) Lord Chaitanya "at first refused to intervene" you said. His dear devotee was going to be through on stakes and He thought that justice must be done. This is your standard of justice. Happily there were devotees who thought that this cruel sentence by the Muslim ruler should be avoided at any cost. I want to serve such devotees who are against the "raised stakes" and who plotted against the Lord so that He changes His mind. You choose this example to make your point and I prefere to choose the one when Lord Caitanya advised his followers not to use violence against the Kazi, but congregational chanting. Just like Jesus Christ who abandoned the old laws, "Eye for an eye, teeth for a teeth", Lord Caitanya proposed a new Vedic approached. A new system of thinking is in place in our present world and to go against it is unconscious. The technological reality makes all this "dharma" concept obsolete, or at least of an other age. Anyway, I don't think I am talking to the right person when sharing these concerns. But what I like to say is that Caitanya's preaching example, I just gave, suits me better than the "sword by all mean." Do you know what a "sword" government does when they want to "protect" its people? They cut off the head of the intelligencia. They shut down the newspapers and forbid free speech. The real power in a country is not the politicians, it is its singers, its poets; its artists. They are always the first to be killed. That is what they did in my country, Algeria. I like to see myself as an artist, that why I feel pained to hear your iron rule. I feel that if governments were to adopt your "sword" policy, KC will never be able to develop. And this is evident by what I hear on these forums, here, amongst my own people. In his Dictionary of Philosophy, Voltaire paraphrases the old Bible: If a prophet arises and speaks of wonderful things; if his preaching is sincere and his prediction comes truth, but he advises you to worship foreign gods, then kill him right away. Etc... As I recalled it. It is the dharma scriptures of the West. Thanks God that they don't follow it anymore! When I was 6 years old, my parents quited they community and went to leave with "Kefirs" (karmis for us). They felt they were more civilized. It was in contradiction with their beleave. The vague reason which I remember, stuck in my subconscious, is that: they were harassing them with their fanaticism. Will that pattern repeats for me? I really need a therapy. Ys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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