The so-called Sports (including soccer) are GAMBLING

[Guest guest]

So after reading all of the following, why did Abhay Charan De play soccer?

Why would his Vaisnava father "allow" him to play? And the sporting

activities of my worshipable Arjuna and his great brothers?

 

Were all of these gurus of mine in maya???? I knew there was some reason I

was still such an idiot.

 

Of course, MAYBE, there is a difference between the sporting activities of

someone favorable to the Lord and someone who is not favorable to the Lord?

 

Maybe varna has something to do with it? I know this "varna" is a dirty word

and that we are all supposed to be one varna; ISKCON "brahmanas" the example

for which is who?: Bhavananda, Kirtanananda, Ramesvara, Jayatirtha,

Bhagavan, Harikesha, etc?

 

Maybe they SHOULD have played a little more soccer and not so many other

games.

 

 

 

> In this age, men are victims not only of different political creeds and

> parties, but also of many different types of sense-gratificatory

> diversions, such as cinemas, *SPORTS, gambling, clubs, mundane libraries,

> bad association, smoking, drinking, cheating, pilfering, bickerings, and

> so on. Their minds are always disturbed and full of anxieties due to so

> many different engagements. (SB 1.1.10 purp)

>

> ...where there are restrictions against meat-eating, intoxication,

> gambling and illicit sex, still one may want to enjoy these forbidden

> things. There is always someone who wants to go to a prostitute for

> illicit sex or to a hotel to eat meat and drink wine. There is always

> someone who wants to gamble at nightclubs or enjoy SO-CALLED SPORTS*. All

> these propensities are already within the hearts of the living entities,

> but some living entities stop to enjoy these abominable activities and

> consequently fall down to a degraded platform.

>

> 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)

>

> ...4) Gambling & idle sports of any sort [Letter to: Selective Service

> System (for Tosana Krsna) Hawaii 20 March, 1969]

>

> Finally, you should not take part in any gambling, including so-called

> SPORTS*, cinema, theater, or any such entertainment. (Letter to: Mr. Kair

> Los Angeles 8 July, 1969)

>

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>

> In the above quotes from Srila Prabhupada we see that Prabhupada mentions

> sports always with gambling as a breaking of the regulative principles and

> in the last quote he confirms that actually the so-called sports are a

> form of gambling.

>

> Now onw can argue that soccer is not a so-called sport but a real sport.

> But according to the other quote posted earlier Prabhupada says soccer is

> a materialistic sport and we can safely conclude that materialistic sports

> are so-called sports whereas sporting with Krsna is the real sport.

>

> Your servant,

> Nayana-ranjana das