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Haridasdasdas

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  1. Everyone should chant Hare Krishna, you are completely correct. The regulative principles established within the Gaudiya Sampradaya are secondary and subordinate to the chanting of Hare Krishna.
  2. 1. Don't necropost. This thread is from 3 years ago! 2. Follow Dharma, stop manufacturing principles based on flawed speculation and your own selfish desires. Clearly it has been described several times in this post that there should be no meat eating. 3. You are not a 'Caveman', although I can see from your post why you made the mistake. 4. If you are going to reply to a 3 year old thread AT LEAST READ IT FIRST. Your unintelligent stance has been defeated several times.
  3. Yes, and you can keep making things up as you will. Perhaps if you weren't so inimical towards sanyassis you might know that they don't wear dhotis. Your stand shows a lack of faith in Srila Prabhupada, who said that even if the milk comes from dairies that sell cows to slaughterhouses, we should continue offering it to Krishna, who looks after his devotees.
  4. I'm very sorry, I can't understand your English very well, so I can't fully reply to everything you say. What makes a person a 'self realised saint'? There are so many people claiming that they are this or that, but what is your basis for saying this? Who are these saints and why are they saintly? If you don't beleive in the Vedic traditions, why are you in this forum, and why do you have Yasoda Krsna as your picture? Clearly you have some understanding, so you can appreciate that to be recognised as any kind of spiritual teacher, you have to be in a bona fide samparadaya, and your teachings need to be in conjunction with sastra, and not simply made up. To me it sounds like some more new age nonsense. You even say 'new age' in your message. What does this have to do with Rama? If you want to be a warrior for Rama, then go and practise Dharma, this airy-fairy nonsense is only suitable for drugged up hippies, it has nothign to do with Dharma.
  5. I don't think there is an inconsistency on the part of Srila Prabhupada, since Mahavisnu Swami suggests that devotees should always offer the products of the cows to Krishna in order to releive their suffering. That is, of course, if it is impossible to obtain milk from well-kept cows.
  6. So why in this case did Srila Prabhupada never suggest that devotees should abstain from milk? I apologise, I'm confused, and I'm certain that this issue had been brought to him before.
  7. Yes, that occurred to me. It was a difficult question to ask actually, I don't like to offend people, and I've met some really nice Narayana Maharaj devotees, I wouldn't want to offend them either.
  8. Srila Narayana Maharaj is a bona fide Guru in a bona fide sampradaya, so really it's all good.
  9. That's fair enough, as long as you understand the importance of the Bhagavatam and the Chaitanya Caritamrta. I don't know what is taught in Narayana Maharaj circles about the relationship with Iskcon, but I know Sri Caitanya Saraswat Math teach that their activities are supplementary and not independant. Is this also the case for Narayana Maharaj?
  10. There will always be some saint who says some thing and another saint who says something else. What does it say in scripture? Only sastra is definite, nothing else is infallible. That website all seemed a bit new-age to me. I'm sorry for my cynicis, but these predicitons are a dime a dozen, often just some plea for attention.
  11. How interesting. Does this man charge much money? What sampradaya is he in? What scriptural basis is there for his being Kalki, and who is it that made this claim initially? He seems to have captured your heart so I would be interested to hear what oyu have to say as his devotee. Simply saying that you have some extra material wealth is not sufficient. The Visnu tattva do nto descend for the purpose of giving people money, they descend to annihalate the miscreants and to restore dharma. In Sri Kalki's case it is for the purpose of annihalating the demoniac class. How does this Kalki Bagavan propose to do this? All avatars are written in Sastra, and Sastra is infallible. EDIT: I have found for myself the sayings of this man, and clearly he does not claim to be the Avatar Kalki, but has his own concoction of what an avatar is, and has 'come to accept' the title of Kalki. This is the kind of nonsense that turns people into maoists.
  12. I'm shocked that it hasn't been asked yet, but why exactly is it that you don't like the writings of Srila Prabhupada? It is my understanding that Narayana Maharaj uses the Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Caritamrta of Srila Prabhupada. These scriptures are essential to one's progression beyond the neophyte stage. It is not simply a matter of 'books', it is a matter of Sastra, scripture. You like Narayana Maharaj and the books he has written, but he also uses the translations of Srila Prabhupada, so why are you inimical to them?
  13. I understand fully the nature of the milk industry. Your post stated that milk is poison. Not that the milk sold in the western supermarkets from the maltreated cows whose offspring are slaughtered is poison, you said milk is poison. From that statement, I made the judgement that you don't beleive in taking milk, even under circumstances in which the cow is treated nicely and the calves are not killed. Is that what you meant? I apologise if I made some mistake. Edit: By Atheists and cow killers I'm referring to what I'd term the 'anti-milk crusade', which is currently sweeping America. They like to misrepresent facts about lactose intolerance and say that milk is indigestible. It's popular amongst people who love to eat cows and other dead animals.
  14. I beleive so, but I might be wrong. Also, it is spelt ISKCON.
  15. Adi Shankara is the incarnation of Siva(hence the name), so Vaisnavas shouldn't commit offenses to him. Also I think Caitanya is a better person to compare to Ramanuja than Srila Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. Caitanya was the initiator of Gaudiya practises, Shrila Prabhupada was following the teachings of Caintanya 400 years later. He was not creating his own beleif system.
  16. What a load of nonsense. Milk is the bringer of life and health and is mentioned as such in the Vedas. The Vedic literatures say nothing about poison. Maybe it's poison if it comes from abused cows fed on bad food, but in it's natural state it is not poison. This new American anti-milk fad is led by atheists and cow killers, why are you listening to these people?
  17. Sounds Kirtanananda-esque to me. If any of the Acaryas wanted this inter-faith stuff, why wouldn't they have established it long ago? Why are Vaisnavas reading unreliable Buddhist sutras as sastra? To me, this seems watered down. To my knowledge, Srila Prabhupada never described Jesus as an avatar. Rather, the exact words he used were 'empowered avatar' (I can never remember the sanskrit for this). This means that he is a great person empowered by Krishna to do important things. This does not put him on the same level as Ramachandra, Buddha, Kurma etc.
  18. I think perhaps it shows the change of focus towards serving the devotees of Krishna (Tulsidevi being one). Ultimately, Tulsi and Radharani are the same person, so I don't think it's consequential.
  19. You're saying that Srila Prabhupada's suggestion is impractical?
  20. Just this afternoon, a devotee I have talked to a few times at the temple has told me he is going to a farm in spain that has been set up. It was quite wonderful because he had his bag in the restaurant at that time. He only had £1 on him, and his bag was so heavy. He said he was going to hitchhike to Spain. To me, this is real devotion. Just trying to serve Krishna, and not worrying about eating, sleeping etc. I wonder why there is not so much emphasis on farms these days.
  21. WONDERFUL! Yes, we must always also remember that Krishna is without obligation, and does not need our advice, since he knows our desires already.
  22. I have never heard of this idea, but I beleive you are mistaking it with another. In the bible there is a substantial (20 years i think) period of Jesus' life which is unaccounted for, and the theory is that during this time he visited India. This is based also on reports of people with similar names visiting sights during this period.
  23. So you're taking 'Darwin's theory'? This is despite the fact that the evolutionary theories being currently propounded by scientists are not darwinian? Evolution may be well grounded in 'hinduism', but you will note that this is not the 'hindu' room, and Srila Prabhupada was quite adamnt that his followers did not use this nationalist term 'hindu'.
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