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D.Gilson on 14th December wrote:

 

And at the time he lived he had never to my

>> > knowledge been a farmer. I think sometimes while Prabhupada is an

>>elevated

>> > enlightened being some time, he was talking about things he had heard

>>about

>> > but had no actual hands on knowledge.

 

A liberated soul is above the 4 propensities of conditioned life:1.

imperfect senses, 2.

tendency to make mistakes, 3. tendency to be illusioned, 4. tendency to

cheat.

 

A pure devotee of the Lord is understood to have surpassed even the point of

liberation.

Using these criteria of sastra, judge for yourself the conclusion about

Srila Prabhupada

..That does not mean that everything that came out of S.P.'s mouth is gospel:

there are

two types of instructions the spiritual master gives: general, and specific.

General

refers to instructions everyone can benefit from, such as chanting, and

specific refer to

those instructions especially meant for a particular person, particular

time, place,

circumstance. He may have for instance told one disciple he should leave his

wife, but

that's obviously not for all of us. Therefore one must learn to

discriminate, and the

basis of discrimination is sastra.

I'm sorry, D.Gilson (is it Carol?), no offense, but your conclusion does not

tally with

sastra.

Srila Prabhupada defines cheating in Perfect questions, Perfect Answers, as

someone

who pretends he knows but doesn't really know, and this is definitely not

possible in

the personality of a pure devotee, who has surpassed even liberation.

Gopinatha Acarya has successfully burnt castor oil, he BOUGHT.If you can

burn

bought castor oil, then what are we doing wrong in the refinement that makes

the

home-made stuff unburnable?

Where in India do they burn castor oil for lighting and how do they refine

it there?

What particular type of castor oil plant do they use- a local strain? I

skipped the first

part of this discussion, so excuse me if these questions are already

answered. Even if

we can't use castor oil for lighting, it was more like a specific

instruction, we have to

see the general instruction it applies to, which is for everyone- at least

rural devotees-

to live simply to save time for chanting. If we serve that better by burning

candlenuts

than by castor oil, then that is simply adjusting the specific instruction

according to

time, place circumstance, to serve the general instruction. Krsna

consciousness is not

dogmatic, it is dynamic. It means following with intelligence.

Now how can we say that burning castor oil for lighting is specific, and

living simply to

save time for spiritual culture is general? The general is there in sastra,

the

Bhaktivedanta purports, the specific is not.

ys, niscala

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