clarification for Madhumati

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At 08:26 AM 3/7/2002 -0800, you wrote:

> > The only reason I brought this up is that Braja previously slammed another

> > devotee, writing him so many nasty texts that he left the forum in pain

> > and shock. Why? Because he wanted to discuss Tripurari's Gita. Braja and

> > Jahnu told him that we didn't need any other Gitas besides Prabhupada's

> > and questioned whether Tripurari Swami was indeed following Prabhupada's

> > instructions.

>

>My understanding of this is that the discussion about Tripurari Swami's Gita

>was taking place on the Granddisciples conference. I would have to agree

>that that discussion on that conference was not appropriate.

 

Well aware of the danger of perpetuating this thread, I feel compelled to

ask why. Rama Keshava is a granddisciple, too. It would have been

inapproriate, I think, if he had made remarks critical of Tamal Krishna

Maharaj or Jayapataka Maharaj, or any of the members' gurus; it seems to me

just as inappropriate for them to criticize his.

 

Babhru das

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>

> My understanding of this is that the discussion about Tripurari Swami's

> Gita was taking place on the Granddisciples conference. I would have to

> agree that that discussion on that conference was not appropriate.

 

The point was that the reason why it was not appropriate

was to protect the granddsiciples of Srila Prabhupada from

the deviations in the literatures of the non-ISKCON Vaisnava

authors. Particularly, one translation of BVT Swami in his

Bhagavad-gita was literally speaking "taken apart" as to

"demonstrate" how he was deviating from Srila Prabhupada's

translations/comments, how BVT Swami was simply a kind

of a "muni" who misinterprets Krsna's words for the sake

of diverting our attention from Krsna onto himself..

And so on, and so on.

 

Yet, outside of that forum, there seems not to be any problem

to promote the same books for the sake of selling them, even

to same granddsiciples of Srila Prabhupada. Personally, I

really could care less, for I do understand that we got to

make some money for the living. So sell what you want. Just

that it is painful to see how the devotees (the pottential

cutomers) get so much attacked by the same persons somewhere

else as not loyal to ISKCON and Prabhupada for their interst

to read and understand the writings of these same non-ISKCON

authors.

And the very disciple of BVT Swami was attacked as the

one who was intruding another Matha (not really just "GD"

conference) for lobbying the audience against Srila Prabhupada's

instruction not to read any other books like these, that he

bettter keep staying aside with his "splinter" group of his

Guru Maharaja in this regard and not disturb the members of

ISKCON with this work of his Guru-Maharaja, the work that was

judged as an unncesarilly pretentious product, a kind of

show-off for the sake of his name, fame and glory...

BWT Sami, his Guru Maharaj, was put up on the stand and

scrutinized for his "crime" of splitting with the GBC and

leaving ISKCON.. Much more.

 

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Btw.

What Akhilesvara meant with his analogy was that those

"Arabs" who criticize and call Americans "demons" for their

culture and the way of living, go and consume/distribute

the very products of that criticized culture -- themselves.

 

(It had nothing to do with you personally and your family,

nor calling anybody here a demon, nor reading into anybody's

heart...)

 

 

 

- mnd