Taking care of each other

09-24-1999, 04:04 AM

At 21:49 -0800 9/23/99, COM: Dvarakadhisa (das) IDS (PL) wrote:
>>
>> Am I the only one who found it sad that Indrayumna Maharaja never answered
>> his disciple's question?
>
>Why you suggest that he NEVER answers? It was not said by him.

Please let me clarify. If you re-read my text, you will see that I didn't
say that Maharaja never answers any letters. I commented that it was sad
that in that entire darsana, he never answered the question posed to him by
the disciple (in the introductory paragraph). That was the question about
what to do with their questions when Maharaja doesn't have the time to
answer them. Instead of providing a practical answer re. where they can
turn when he is too busy to answer them, he instead focused on why it's not
necessary for the spiritual master to answer all of the disciples'
questions. Thus, the original question was ignored.

I don't mean to be picking on your Guru Maharaja. This is a much bigger
problem in ISKCON than only one guru. We have countless members who are not
receiving the care and guidance they need. Since *many* gurus have large
numbers of disciples, we need to start figuring out how their disciples can
receive sufficient care. Besides setting up systems whereby sr. disciples
can help care for jr disciples, or disciples who need more support can take
additional (informal or formal) siksa gurus, what other solutions can the
members of these conferences think of?

Ys,
Madhusudani dasi