'I understand soy beans are nice'

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A comment:

 

Correct me if I am out of line here, but just because Srila Prabhupada said,

in one letter in 1969, that 'he understands that soy beans 'are nice* that

we should then conclude that Prabhupada condoned the use of soy beans.

 

He said "I understand". Probably his disciples told him that soy beans were

nice, and he was quoting them, because he says 'I have no personal

experience with it. This was in 1969, early days. We certainly have no

record of Prabhupada cooking with soy products.

 

We also recall that in the very early days, Prabhupada discovered frozen

vegetables and was using them once or twice, but later he wrote in a letter

that they were 'nasty'.

 

Surely Prabhupada was allowed to 'evolve' in his opinions, expectations and

perspectives of our Western lifestyle and habits, as he did certainly about

things like marriage.

 

So surely one comment in one letter at a certain point in time cannot be

taken as absolute culinary instructions for ever, especially without taking

the comment in light of many other LATER instructions on the matter of diet.

 

Isn't this a reasonable observation?

 

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Kurma dasa

 

*["So far this soy sauce, I have no personal experience with it. I

understand soy beans are nice, but I do not know about this soy sauce"]