Dinaatha's reply to Sanjay Rath

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Dear Shyamasundara Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

This is quite an interesting comment tree you have here.

It is especially interesting to me since I know most of the mentioned

persons involved.

In my opinion, it is yet another moneymaking fraud. These people have no

shame in dragging Srila Prabhupada's name into this whole fiasco.

In reply to some points in your letter please see the following quotes:

 

TRANSLATION

Käçé Miçra continued, “If one engages in devotional service for Your

satisfaction, this will result in his increasingly awakening his dormant

love for You. But if one engages in Your devotional service for material

purposes, he should be considered a number-one fool.

PURPORT

Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura comments that there are many

materialistic persons who become preachers, gurus, religionists or

philosophers only for the sake of maintaining a high standard of living and

sense gratification for themselves and their families. Sometimes they adopt

the dress of a sannyäsé or preacher. They train some of their family

members as lawyers and continually seek help from a high court to acquire

riches on the plea of maintaining temples. Although such persons may call

themselves preachers, live in Våndävana or Navadvépa, and also print many

religious books, it is all for the same purpose, namely to earn a living to

maintain their wives and children. They may also professionally recite the

Bhägavatam or other scriptures, worship the Deity in the temple and

initiate disciples. Making a show of devotional paraphernalia, they may

also collect money from the public and use it to cure the disease of some

family member or near relative. Sometimes they become bäbäjés or collect

money on the plea of worshiping the poor, whom they call daridra-näräyaëa,

or for social and political upliftment. Thus they spread a network of

business schemes to collect money for sense gratification by cheating

people in general, who have no knowledge of pure devotional service. Such

cheaters cannot understand that by offering devotional service to the

Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can be elevated to a position of

eternal servitude to the Lord, which is even greater than the position of

Brahmä and other demigods. Unfortunately, fools have no understanding of

the perpetual pleasure of devotional service.

 

============ REF. Antya 9.69

 

 

Hari-çauri: Of course, you have so many disciples around the world who are

always praying for your health, so ten brähmaëas would not achieve very

much. He repeated also what he said before, that the period up until next

March would be very difficult time.

Prabhupäda: Hm?

Hari-çauri: He said that up until next March, that would be a very

difficult time. But if Your Divine Grace goes beyond that time, then for

three or four years, then health will return.

Prabhupäda: Back side itching.

Hari-çauri: All the back? Are these astrological charts very much

applicable for a devotee, Çréla Prabhupäda?

Prabhupäda: No.

Hari-çauri: Because Kåñëa can do anything.

Prabhupäda: Yes. [break] Tamäla Kåñëa. Tamäla Kåñëa.

Tamäla Kåñëa: Yes, Çréla Prabhupäda?

Prabhupäda: Don’t waste money for this astrology.

Tamäla Kåñëa: Yeah. In London when we were going to get the astrologer to

do, when I heard it was expensive, then we cancelled. How much money he is

asking here?

Hari-çauri: He didn’t say a price. He said it would take two or three days

to do a detailed chart.

Prabhupäda: It is useless. Better arrange as many hours as possible to

chant kértana. That is...

Tamäla Kåñëa: Çréla Prabhupäda? Today we did kértana starting in the

afternoon till the evening. So do you want more than that?

Prabhupäda: I can hear day and night.

Tamäla Kåñëa: So should we arrange...? Maybe we should arrange starting in

the morning going till night.

Prabhupäda: That is according to your convenience. But kértana is very

sweet.

Hari-çauri: Last June we were doing twenty-four hours.

Prabhupäda: That is real business. These astrologer are karmés. We have

nothing to do with the karmé.

Hari-çauri: Their measurement of happiness and distress is how much nice

wife and children they get and how much money they get.

Prabhupäda: Yes. Bhägavata reading and kértana... Hm. Hm.

Hari-çauri: They don’t understand that the real happiness is giving

everything to Kåñëa.

Prabhupäda: Yes. Don’t waste time and money in any other way.

 

============ REF. Room Conversation -- October 4, 1977, Våndävana

 

Your humble servant,

Hrimati dasi

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