dasanudas Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Now there's a mission for the brave at heart! This is sacrifice for the one you love. Mahaprabhus men Ki jaya. All glories to their divine service, no mistake about it. Glad someone is doing what I only aspire to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valaya Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Originally posted by dasanudas: Now there's a mission for the brave at heart! This is sacrifice for the one you love. Mahaprabhus men Ki jaya. All glories to their divine service, no mistake about it. Glad someone is doing what I only aspire to. Yeh, I know what you mean, prabhu. Talk about putting our devotion where our mouth is, eh? RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krsnacandra dasa Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Are there actually Hindus in Pakistan? Or are they all preaching to a Muslim population? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDas Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 I believe Amoga Lila Das spent more time preaching in a Muslem country (Pakistan) than anyone else in the modern age of Gaudiya Vaisnavism. In order to preach he learned Urdu and spent many years going in and out of Pakistan. According to this letter he was there again. I saw him about six months ago at a Narayana Maharaja darshan near Berkeley and we talked about preaching in Muslem countries. At that time he said he was earning a living as a professor of theology at some type of Divinity school near Berkeley. During the late 70s Tribuvanath was the leader of preaching in Arab countries. I joined him for a short time in 79. Mostly we did programs and made life members among the Hindus of the Gulf States. The money from that was used to print an Arabic Bhagavad Gita that we sold on the streets of Lebanon. Other than that we did some undercover preaching in Egypt in the guise of vegetarian cooking and yoga classes. Preaching anything other than Islam is illegal in all these states except Lebanon. Which at that time had really no central government. It was because of the confusion in Lebanon that we could find a printer to publish the Arabic Gita. In Egypt and the Gulf States there are many foreign workers and they are allowed to practice their religion but preaching to Muslems or giving them religious literature was a deportable offence. And if a Muslem was caught preaching anything other than Islam than the penalty could be much worse. About preaching in Muslem countries Prabhupad said they could keep their culture, Koran, and continue to eat meat. Just somehow try to get them to chant Hare Krishna and everything will procede from there. Hare Krishna, Brahma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasanudas Posted September 24, 2001 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Brahma Prabhu dandavats, can I contact you thru Sanga Email address? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karthik_v Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Originally posted by Krsnacandra dasa: Are there actually Hindus in Pakistan? Or are they all preaching to a Muslim population? There are a few. But their numbers are declining. A friend of mine remarked that you can count them with the fingers of your hands..but by the time you finish counting you have to recount, as their numbers might have diminished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDas Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 Dear Das, I can be contacted through sanga or at brahmadasa@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karthik_v Posted September 25, 2001 Report Share Posted September 25, 2001 This is a letter from the gurukulis who are prteaching out there in Pakistan, in the midst of all the hostilities. It was quite inspiring to read this. May be this is the spirit we need to have to spread the message of Srila Prabhupad all over. ***************************************** Ananda Tirtha Fri Sep 14, 2001 8:36 pm Preaching Krishna Consciousness in Pakistan.. Letter PAMHO:4650969 (35 lines) Ananda Tirtha (das) PVS (Mayapur Gurukula, SRPV - IN) --------------------------- Camp: Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Just want to re-invite all of you to come to Pakistan some time. Devarsi Prabhu, Gaura Bhagavan and I have been here for since the 17th of August. We have travelled to quite a few places along with Amoghalila Prabhu and Deena Bandhu Prabhus, whose association has been very enlivening. The printing of the Urdu Gita is also finally underway which should be a source of great pleasure to Srila Prabhupada and all our Acaryas. It has been quite tough on our minds and bodies, but we are hanging in there somehow. Last night we did a Harinam in the Hindu colony of Khairpur, a nearby town, and I gave a short talk in my broken Urdu/Hindi or whatever it was that came out. No translators in these small towns. The kids were as usual the most enthusiastic. Going by their stares, they may have never seen a white man before. We also went to another place for another programme in a Sindhi gentleman's house. Then they made us go around in Harinam to each house in the area. I tend to question the rationale of doing Harinams at midnight in the middle of nowhere, but everyone else seemed to think it was perfectly normal. We will spend a couple more days in this area before heading back to Lahore side and India. So our humble request to all the respected receivers of this letter is to please take some time to come here and give your association to the starving souls. It is really inspiring to meet fired-up congregational devotees in these remote towns who already have ISKCON-style altars and know the songs and philosophy. . . . Your servants from Pakistan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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