Guest guest Posted March 6, 1999 Report Share Posted March 6, 1999 Namaskaram Dear Brothers and Sister, Bhagavatbhandus, Adyens, prabhus: XENA-KRSNA: MODERN-AGE MAYAVADA!!! In the Srimad-Bhagavatam a lot of time and effort to refute athiestic speculations on the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krsna, the Absolute Truth. The greatest problem of such speculations is they deprive us engagement in pure devotional service which is the one panacea for all the woes of everyone's lives. Although we, at Krishna Software, do not make it our business to implicate ourselves with the producers of the Xena-Krishna serial, the misportrayal and misunderstanding of Lord Krsna is of concern for all devotees. The fictional idea that Lord Krsna is a just a supreme *manifestation* of the deity conveys the idea of the impersonal Brahman being absolute not Krsna. [This is indicated in other ways as well.] Lord Krsna is NOT just a *manifestation* of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; this simply implies Krsna is the supreme form but NOT the Absolute Truth. The Srimad-Bhagavatam condemns this interpretation since the truth is that everything is manifested from Krsna including the impersonal Brahman. Krsna is not just a supreme form but the Absolute Truth. The impersonalism is conveyed throughout the show. At the end of the show, Kali becomes Xena (or Xena becomes Kali). What happened to the eternal individuality of Xena and Kali? Did they merge into one??? Given the speculation that everything is coming from the impersonal Brahman, it's no big deal for the Mayavadis to commit rasa-abhasa-- mixing up different mellows of devotional service-- Rama's pastimes, Krsna's pastimes, Hanuman, Kali etc. They have no knowledge about the eternal nature of devotional service on different Vaikuntha planets because for them, there are no Vaikuntha planets. Mayavadis want to merge into the supreme Brahman to become one with God and kill the eternal devotional service mood as promoted by both the Lord and His confidential devotees. Just by assisting in the service of Hanuman, one can be promoted to Vaikuntha and associate with Lord Rama eternally. Hanuman is always engaged in devotional service. Is this service attitude being promoted in the Xena show? If so, then why is Xena punching out Hanuman??? Why does Hanuman drop his devotional service to Lord Rama and assist Xena's whims? This shows complete defiance of devotional service and blasphemy of devotees. To watch the blasphemy of devotees or perform it or promote it is a major offense. So one may say, " it had some faults of impersonalism but it spread the name of Krsna to millions of people. " This is nonsense as indicated in the Srimad Bhagavatam (3.19.33): The Gaudiya Vaishnava Acarya " Sanatana Gosvami, therefore, has especially warned that one should not hear anything about the personality of the Lord from the lips of a nondevotee. Nondevotees are considered to be like serpents; as milk is poisoned by a serpent's touch, so, although the narration of the pastimes of the Lord is as pure as milk, when administered by serpentlike nondevotees it becomes poisonous... Once one is associated with impersonalists, he can never understand the personal feature of the Lord and His transcendental pastimes. " Nondevotee means one not engaged in devotional service; i.e., having no connection with devotional service as coming down through the disciplic succession. A devotee engages things in Krsna's service and everyone and everything engaged in assisting in Krsna's service is purified. Similarly, a nondevotee with the malicious intention to defame the Supreme position of the Absolute Truth, Lord Krsna, poisons everything and everyone who assist in his desires. Thus, every single frame of the current Xena-Krsna serial should be rejected because the purpose is defamation of Lord Krsna. It may not be apparent to most of the producers of the show but their so-called " Indian expert " is a Mayavadin misrepresentor of Krishna. So one may say, " Not many people will really deeply analyze things through the eyes of the scriptures as the audience is neophyte at best. " This is also nonsense since the mentality and intentions of the person behind the work shows up in his works. This association has a big impact whether someone understands the subject matter or not. We have seen it practically that Srila Prabhupada's books although imperfectly composed from the grammatical point-of-view caused many people to become devotees of Lord Krsna. On the other hand, so many so-called 'scholars' and 'experts' on Hinduism with no devotion wrote books with more elaborate logic and grammar on the same subject matter and no one became a devotee. Anyone who belittles Krsna and His devotees' position and eternal devotional service is a nondevotee. Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.19.37) is very clear regarding treating all forms as temporary or part of the illusory energy or maya: " The impersonalist philosophers cannot understand the activities of the Lord. They think that all His activities are maya. Therefore, they are called Mayavadis... Some impersonalists are reluctant to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam, although many of them are now taking an interest in it just for monetary gain. Actually, however, they have no faith. On the contrary, they describe it in their own way. We should not hear, therefore, from the Mayavadis. We have to hear from Suta Gosvami or Maitreya who actually present the narrations as they are, and only then can we relish the pastimes of the Lord; OTHERWISE THE EFFECTS ON THE NEOPHYTE AUDIENCE WILL BE POISONOUS. " [editor's emphasis] If you wrongly teach a young person mathematics like 2 + 2 = 5 and 3 + 3 = 9, then to correctly teach him is more difficult than to teach another person with no knowledge of mathematics. You will have to unteach him what he has improperly learned! So it's better to not hear about Krsna at all than to hear from a Mayavadi. The best is to hear from a devotee. For example, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's pure chanting of the mahamantra caused many drug-addicted hippies to also imitate and chant the Hare Krsna mahamantra. Since the hippies heard from a bona fide devotee, their repitition of the holy names purified them and whoever heard them in turn. So better to hear from pure devotees than to hear concoctions of Hinduism from non-devotees. [Thanks to WVA and other devotees for the details about the Mayavadi Xena-Krsna serial. 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