The so-called Sports (including soccer) are GAMBLING

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"COM: Madhusudani Radha (dd) JPS (Mill Valley - USA)" wrote:

 

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> >from the very beginning, they are trained to refrain from the following four

> >principles of degradation: 1) sex life outside marriage, 2) intoxication, 3)

> >meat eating, and 4) gambling and IDLE SPORTS*. (Letter to: Archbishop of

> >Canterbury, Los Angeles 1969)

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> Thanks, now it's clear.

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> Madhava Gosh Prabhu,

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> 1) no betting on any teams

> 2) keep those boys moving - don't let them be idle.

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> OK?

>

> Ys,

> Madhusudani dasi

 

I believe that an example of idle sport would be debating. as the siksa guru

of

the GHQ, Kirtanananda, so amply provided us with an example. He was on the

Columbia University debating team, so had good training in the sport, and has

set a high standard for use of debating techniques, that has been well

emulated

by his followers. They (GHQers) have really taken it to a high level, and are

excellent debators. They are so good at it, that, in my opinion, they are

all masterdebators.

 

Hence, for myself, I prefer to stick to the active sport of soccer, and

reserve my mental energy for positive solutions to real problems that are

useable

in real time. Building theoretical constructs of idealized societies in

cyberspace is, IMHO, simply an idle sport. I believe the Spanish have some

phrase for it that translates roughly as "Building castles in the clouds".

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> On 18 Dec 1999, Janesvara das wrote:

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> Srila Prabhupada told us to

> follow, not imitate, the acaryas. If we want to imitate, then there are

> some rather interesting pastimes of Bhaktivinode Thakur or Vamsivadana das

> Babaji that we could try imitating, what to speak of so many others.

>

> Maybe it's best to ask Srila Prabhupada directly why he has told his

> disciples and also written in his books that a devotee doesn't engage in

> mundane sports.

 

C'mon. You are being fanatical and impractical out of some immature desire

to be considered more dedicated to Srila Prabhupada than so many other

senior disciples of his. No one is trying imitate acaryas. This is not even

close to that complicated. It is just people doing natural human things.

Simple. Innocent.

 

If Michael Jordan started chanting Hare Krsna do you think Srila Prabhupada

would tell him to give up basketball? Did he tell George Harrison to stop

playing guitar and rock music? Did Krsna tell Kubja to stop being a

prostitute?

 

You see only external stuff, Prabhu. Look for the change of heart and give

it a few decades to take effect. These are not people pretending to be some

big big leader or guru.