Guest guest Posted November 7, 2000 Report Share Posted November 7, 2000 Krishna Kirtan Mataji wrote: > That is, > > unless someone is advocating something which boils down to a democracy. > > Democracy does have some value in checking the abuse of power. But it > > has its own set of even worse problems. > > Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das > > Here is an interesting excerpt from a conversation with Srila Prabhupada > in New-Vrndavana in 1969, showing clearly that it was some devotees who > were against democracy and not Srila Prabhupada: Srila Prabhupada here is talking about committee system. This is not true democracy, although they are using the term here. Committee means a limited, selected group which acts by majority vote. Democracy usually means on a large scale everyone votes. Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das > Hayagriva: ...According to you...If the president is in charge, then if he > says to cut it (the tree) down, it gets cut down. > > Prabhupada: No. The committee. The majority decision will be... > > Hayagriva: That's democracy. That's democracy. that's no good. > > Prabhupada: Democracy? This is the age of... > > Hayagriva: I thought you said we should have enlightened monarchy. > > Prabhupada: No. Monarchy is out of date now. when you form a committee... > But what can I say? If you disagree in that way, then...if you have to > live together, you have to work together; if you disagree in that way, it > will be a difficult job... > Kali-yuga, everything should be managed by society. In bhagavat also. Yes. > > Hayagriva: Oh, democracy. in Kali-yuga, democracy. > > Prabhupada: Yes. Society. Body. > > Hayagriva: This is not best. This is not best. You mention that in the > books,that this is not very good. > > Prabhupada: This is not very good in this sense...But at that time one man > was so advanced that his order was perfect. Actually these kings like > Maharaj Pariksit and others, they were consulting learned brahmanas, not > that they were actually autocrat. No. They used to consult how the > government should be conducted. > > Kirtanananda: They had a council of brahmanas. > > Prabhupada: Yes, council of brahmanas. Yes. The brahmanas, they are not > politicians, but they would give from sastra direction, "You are a king. > You do like this." > > Kirtanananda: There were instances when the king wouldn't follow the > brahmanas, so they were thrown out, weren't they? > > Prabhupada: Yes. There were such instances also. Just like prthu Maharaj. > His father was dethroned. I think same thing was in England also... > > All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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