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> > everyone is

> > eating tons of sugar filtered through cow bones charcoal!

>

> Is that process still current?

 

A very important question!

 

Some devotees argue that Srila Prabhupada allowed this, but it has to be

said that that can only have been a circumstantial allowance, not a

permanent allowance.

 

Nowadays many, many foods are contaminated with meat derivatives. For

example, glycerin and the like have animal ingredients. So many E numbers

have anmimal products, there is a very big long list. Many years ago one

devotee in the UK compiled a very extensive list, revealing that many

devotees were eating meat unknowingly regularly.

 

For those who argue that Srila Prabhupada allowed contaminated white sugar

circumstantially and 30 years later use that as an excuse to offer it to the

Deities when there are plenty of uncontaminated choices available have

seriously missed the point and can only be guilty of being lazy to make the

effort to keep pure.

 

In Caitanya Caritamrita we read about Vaisnavas who would reject even

uncooked grains that had been seen by sinful persons!!! What to speak of

consciously eating sugar contaminated with slaughtered cow bones!

 

Nowadays there are so many good alternatives to white contaminated sugar.

And how can a devotee 'knowingly' offer to the Deities sugar that is

contaminated with cow slaughter? It beggars belief that some devotees

actually do that and justify that with Srila Prabhupada circumstantially

allowing the use of white sugar 3 decades ago when there were little or no

alternatives available.

 

Srila Prabhupada said he gave us the sky scraper framework and it was up to

us to fill in the pieces and decorate it nicely. It goes without saying that

he would want us to use uncontaminated sugar to offer to the Deities given

that there are so many health food stores in the world that supply excellent

alternatives.

 

You'll be surprised how many temples in the world today still use

contaminated white sugar for making the Deities sweets. This surely can't be

right, even if it has been wrongly going on for decades.

 

In the UK Tate & Lyle are a big producer of contaminated white sugar but

they also now offer uncontaminated alternatives owing to the demand.

 

This point raised by Bhakti Vikasa Swami is very important for the well

being of the entire ISKCON Society and it would be re-assuring if those

responsible for the standard for Deity worship worldwide would act

accordingly.

 

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