Guest guest Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Hari Bol! Yes I get your newsletters and have found them useful. I mean no personal offence, but I find the insistence on trying to make laws from Srila Prabhupada's simple and generally flexible guidelines to be both neophyte and fanatical. I’m not interested in debate on this topic as I feel the IRM position is fundamental and you cannot debate with a fanatic. If you don't believe me try it next time one knocks on your door clutching a Bible. You may easily defeat them with a higher argument, but they'll remain unchanged in their opinion. So what's the use? Krsna Consciousness is not a fundamentalist cult. Spiritual life is broad. It is possessed of eternal truths which are applicable to all people in all circumstances at all times. It is only sectarian religions that create narrow and artificial distinctions - and that is not the Vaishnava way. The Vedic approach is one of sense; that the greater good must predominate. Thus, a man may be sacrificed for the sake of a village and a village for the sake of a nation etc. The IRM argument is immediately defeated by saying that Prabhupada could have made his position clear if he did not want the disciplic succession to continue in his organisation. He was aware of the difficulties that occurred within the Gaudiya Math and could have drummed it into us daily. He didn’t. So we can understand from this that it is not what Prabhupada wanted. Indeed, he often said that a bad uncle is better than no uncle. I live in the UK (as you asked) and Prabhupada instructed me personally at Bhaktivedanta Manor to follow the authority of the GBC, saying that’s why he set it up. I didn’t think much of it at the time and continued in my independent way, but I’m 100% sure that he would be prepared to sacrifice / forgo any lesser principle for the higher sake of devotee unity. Amongst his last instructions in Vrndavan was that we should all work co-operatively together – how about calling that the ‘Final Order’? y.s. Yaduvendu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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