lack of commitment

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Home Base: Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Navadwip Dham, Nadia, WB, INDIA

Camp: Vaisnava Bhakti Seminars & Rathayatra Festival St. Petersburg, Russia

 

My Dear Spiritual Daughter,

 

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thankyou for your letter cited below with my comments. I have noted the

contents carefully.

 

> > That also illustrates that when we have no other goal in life but

> satisfying

> > Lord Sri Krishna in devotional service then getting preocupied with

> others

> > really doesn't help our ultimate goal. So why do it?

>

> Dear Guru Maharaja:

> please accept my humble obeisances. All the glories to Srila

> Prabhupada.

> Adding a question to the point above. I understand your instruction, but

> sometimes happen that is not that the devotees are looking for faults on

> the others, it is just that some behaviours of devotees with lack of

> commitment, make a bad look at the people from the Real face of the

> Movement...

 

Then some constructive criticism may be warranted.

 

> for example a devotee at her Nama Hatta program had been

> preaching that this movement isn't the ideal one, or devotees (initiated

> ones) have no shame to fight openly in the streets with devotional

> clothes, or going to the diskotequettes with their sika, or taking drugs

> openly, etc... and we have to deal in some way with this because we live

> here, we are preaching here to the people inviting them to our programs...

> So is not that we are looking to others, but in some way we have to find a

> way to deal with it... here were I live we have no Temple, no authorities

> at all, so Kali is making lot of noice within us... If we just keep

> silence to all these, is going to be really hard to improve... like a

> community, I understand that we have two ways to advance in Krsna's

> Conciousness, the individual conciousness, and the congregational

> Conciousness,...

> Can you correct me please if I am wrong?

 

Things must be said in a constructive way to help people from becoming

contaminated. If someone acts independently and does something sinful who

is living outside the temple then what can we do? How many Roman Catholics

are doing bad things. We can only be partially responsible for what our

priests and temple devotees do and that is limited as well. Everyone is an

individual and we give them freedom to come and go so sometimes they misuse

it.

 

> your eternal & willing servant, Sridhari devi dasi

 

Your being a willing servant is appropriate and inspiring.

 

I hope that this finds you in good health.

 

Your ever well wisher,

 

Jayapataka Swami