Guest guest Posted May 13, 2001 Report Share Posted May 13, 2001 Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga! Saving our saviours? I would like to offer you my thoughts about the current gbc issue. Hoping that the serious reader does not feel offended. For years my self and others thought about the gbc. But suddenly something came up into my mind, which I must share. To the point: Assume that many gurus and sanyasis are on the intermediate stage in devotional service. With bhakti comes pratishta. Right? But pratishta is the last trick of Maya. So there we have all those devotees again with difficulties. Again in maya. Now we hear sometimes in our institution that pratishta get removed by humbly continuing in service, or by yukta vairagya. I believe that the devotee has to approach a resident of Vrindavan as advised by Srila Rupa Goswami, which is confirmed by Srila Prabhupada in NOI verse 8. (Please read for your self. It is very clear stated what Srila Prabhupada want every one of us to do.) His association and further engagement in devotional service will remove this pratishta. (this is not stated there, but I hope it will be confirmed by the devotees who have overcome pratishta in this way) If not, I think that all who come to the second-class stage ultimately have to fall down. What a pitty. y.s. Murari Caitanya dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2001 Report Share Posted May 13, 2001 If you don't want pratishta, don't preach. - "Murari Caitanya (das) (Radhadesh - B)" <Murari.Caitanya (AT) pamho (DOT) net> "GBC Unmoderated" <GBC.Unmoderated (AT) pamho (DOT) net> Sunday, May 13, 2001 2:05 PM Saving our saviours? > Please accept my humble obeisances > All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga! > > Saving our saviours? > > I would like to offer you my thoughts about the current gbc issue. > Hoping that the serious reader does not feel offended. > For years my self and others thought about the gbc. > But suddenly something came up into my mind, which I must share. > > To the point: > Assume that many gurus and sanyasis are on the intermediate stage in > devotional service. > With bhakti comes pratishta. Right? > But pratishta is the last trick of Maya. > So there we have all those devotees again with difficulties. Again in maya. > Now we hear sometimes in our institution that pratishta get removed by > humbly continuing in service, or by yukta vairagya. > I believe that the devotee has to approach a resident of Vrindavan as > advised by Srila Rupa Goswami, which is confirmed by Srila Prabhupada in NOI > verse 8. > (Please read for your self. It is very clear stated what Srila Prabhupada > want every one of us to do.) > His association and further engagement in devotional service will remove > this pratishta. > (this is not stated there, but I hope it will be confirmed by the devotees > who have overcome pratishta in this way) > If not, I think that all who come to the second-class stage ultimately have > to fall down. > What a pitty. > > y.s. > Murari Caitanya dasa > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2001 Report Share Posted May 13, 2001 If not, I think that all who come to the second-class stage ultimately have > to fall down. > What a pitty. no one has to "ultimately" fall down. that's totally absurd! ys braja sevaki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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