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05-13-2008, 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by krsna
Speak the Truth when all are speaking lies?
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In all fairness and honesty, the most probably reason very few did not speak or even recognise the truth all those years ago is, we were too young, inexperienced and immature to know any better. When Prabhupada left us in 1977, the average age of the devotees was 26 years old
Therefore, many felt they were too fallen, useless and affraid to speak out about what little truth they new and expose the childish lies and difficult struggles of other very young devotees, who were also still learning how to be leaders and Gurus.
So they remained silent and lived the sentimental lie because they did not know any better, and look what happened - The hard way to learn a lesson.
In other words we were not smart enough to learn through knowledge of the Veda, we had to learn the hard way by trial and era
It was simply inexperience and immaturity these things happened, their was no plan of deceit by anyone in the Temple.
In all fairness, there was an special innocents back then that was in all the devotees because, when we were young, as we all were back then, our ideals and dreams of a new world order of Lord Caitanya were very strong, we were actually very young, innocent and inexperienced in our attempts to understand and follow an age old religion.
Maybe this is why so few spoke up in the past in early ISKCON when they saw wrong and lies going on, they simply did not know any better.
Many felt they were too fallen, usesless and affraid to speak out the the little truth they did understand and expose the childish lies and difficult struggles of other very young devotees, who were still learning how to be leaders and Gurus?
It was simply inexperience and immaturity these things happened, their was no plan of deceit by anyone in the Temple including myself.
However, without the flowery poetry in beautuful words of a great devotee of the Lord, which are nice, my point is simple and for the simple minded -
Never ever remain silent when you see things are not quite right, no matter how fallen you are.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" /><o:p></o:p>
Hare Krsna
Last edited by Vigraha; 05-13-2008 at 01:07 PM.
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