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>> But there's a nagging little example or two which come directly from our

>> sastra Srimad-Bhagavatam. Prahada Maharaja, a mahajana, was preaching to

>> his classmates *not* to waste time in play. Narada Muni tells that as boy

>> he did not waste time in sports. Pariksit Maharaja is described similarly.

>> These are examples to be glorified, not condemned. Do you agree?

 

>At least you are sailing away from that "zombi" argument "It was not

instructed by >Prabhupada".

 

Oh, don't relax yet, prabhu. Whatever the particular item might happen to

be, for me it *does* matter if something was instructed or prohibited by

Srila Prabhupada. Imperfect as I certainly am in my ability to follow a

particular order or prohibition, nevertheless it will make a difference in

how I approach the matter. So I guess that means I'm still a zombie, no?

 

>You seem to got that deeper insights of how to be executing a pure life of

a >mahabhagavata style that none else have ever heard about here.

 

You give me much more credit than I'm due. I have no realizations of

anything of value and am simply like a parrot repeating some words that I've

heard or read from pure devotees. But I don't know what else to do with my

life!

 

>Can you simply understand that people are not mahabhagavatas, and that some

will >still like to get out on a field sometimes and kick a stupid ball with

a stupid >foot?

 

Well, that's kind of how I was thinking, but I didn't feel right to just

come out and say it that way, you know

 

>Really, who does bother what you have read in Srimad bhagavatam how Narada

Muni has >never kicked a ball in his life.

 

That's a good point, prabhu. You're right to say it doesn't matter whether

anyone cares about what we hear and chant from Srimad-Bhagavatam. We should

simply absorb ourselves in the process of *krsna-katha* whether others

appreciate it or not. I definitely agree with you on that.

 

>Too many gurus in ISCKON have deserted and left their dogs tooling

painfully. To >become a *dog* of a guru in ISCKON may be at the moment for

many the

>most stupid thing to do (again) in life.

 

Here's where we *really* disagree! We always have Srila Prabhupada as our

perfect siksa-guru. We cannot go wrong by becoming his dog.

 

>Please, stop rubbing our noses with "our puny independence" and "guru's

dog" >demagogy. Too many have already got mentally and emotionally screwed

up with it.

 

We all have to get tough and tolerate so much pain in this material life, as

you surely know. But if we take full shelter of Srila Prabhupada, he

definitely helps us to cope. I say that from my personal experience (so no

one needs bother to challenge me for that statement).

 

>But, what this "dog of the guru" has anyway to do with our sanity to find

it our >for ourselves wether "to kick a damn ball or not to kick a damn ball"?

 

I don't know, prabhu. Some questions can be answered only by Krsna Himself

 

(Peace, love, and Hare Krsna!)

 

ys,

gkdas