Guest guest Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 (If you are unsure why you are receiving this newsletter please jump to the end for clarification.) This Issue’s Feature Article: Strong Words For A Strong Purpose! (Hogs, Dogs, Camels & Asses) Hari Bolo Friends of the Vedas! Please accept my respects. All glory to the transcendental light of the Bhagavad-Gita as It Is! The Next Gathering Of: The American Vedic Association’s Bhagavad Gita Discussion and Fellowship is: 1st Tuesday - September 5, 2005 Strong Words for A Strong Purpose! - Hogs, Dogs, Camels & Asses” The Vedas warn that we should not waste human consciousness living like the animals. Instead we should use our God given intelligence to restore our lost relationship with the Supreme Lord and return Back to Godhead, our proper residence. Find out how at AVA - 7:30 p.m., 640-0405 Always Free! * * * * * * * * * * * * * Janmastami 2005 Wow! What a party! Thank You to All the Many Volunteers! This year’s annual Janmastami program was an overwhelming success! The evening got off to a slow start but by the time the night was over nearly all our food was distributed. Everyone got all they could eat of the many delicious vegetarian dishes that were prepared in honor of Krishna’s Appearance Day! The menu included: 1) orange marinated broccoli carrot walnut subji, 2) curried potato, squash, tomato, cabbage & curd subji, 3) toasted peas & potato samosa pastries, 4) nine fruits homemade yogurt salad, 5)genuine Bengali puries, 6)zingy tomato chutney, 7)150 intoxicating glub-jammas, 8) bay leaf & banana sweet rice 9) traditional halava, 10) strawberry orange passion Juice, 11) ethereal rice 12) seasoned sweet bread, (and of course!) 13) Krishna’s exotic banana cream cake garnished with blackberries, cranberries, walnuts, and strawberries! Anyone interested in learning how to cook some of these extraordinary foodstuffs are directed to read the section listed after the feature article called, “Vegetarian-cooking.” The AVA program would not have been such a tremendous success without all the wonderful people who stepped forward to assist in donating their time, vegetable/fruit produce, and energy required to make it happen. Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to the numerous volunteers who participated along the way. The preparations started three days prior to the event with massive cleaning efforts, gardening, setting up of the lights, chairs, exhibits, the main altar and flower arrangements etc. We are also particularly thankful to all of you who came even for short periods of time to help in the cutting of vegetables, stirring of the pots, rolling the pastries, and helping with the kitchen clean up when it was all over! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Lastly we would also like to thank the many members of the Kirtan who started this auspicious evening off with a robust chanting of Krishna’s names and various sacred prayers acknowledging his mystical descent into this material world. Based on the comments I’ve received from many of you, I am sure I speak for everyone, when I say Thank You to a dear friend of nearly 30 years, Bhaja Govinda for the wonderful presentation he gave about Krishna’s advent, His youthful pastimes, and ultimately His whole reason for appearing on this earth! Thank You BhajaGovinda Dasa Prabhu! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Start This Issue Feature Article *-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Strong Words For A Strong Purpose! - Hogs, Dogs, Camels & Asses Disturbing Drug Dispersions Persons who have recovered from serious drug addiction will sometimes be asked to speak to young potential drug users for the purpose of deterring them from being entrapped by destructive addictions. Those who have survived the horrors of drug addiction know how seductive drugs can be and that is why they often choose not to use polite elevator talk when describing the hell they have endured. Instead they have found that the most effective way to dissuade young people from using drugs is to use very strong words and graphic descriptions that are hard for an attentive mind to forget. In a similar way Sriman Dvipana Veda Vyasa, the literary incarnation of Godhead who narrated the thousands of volumes of Vedic Literatures, also uses strong word pictures. He knows how strong the material illusion is, and for the purpose of helping us pierce that mirage, he too has used very strong words with the hope that by doing so we will be more likely to see things the way they really are. Those not familiar with Vedic thought may consider some of these descriptions extreme, but for those who think that way, try to remember that from the point of view of Dvipana Veda Vyasa, we are addicted to mundane material objectives. For that reason, this extraordinary sage often used the same type of abrupt urgency that recovered drug users do when attempting to successfully communicate their important message to naive audiences. Powerful Analogies With that in mind, let us consider a powerful but unflattering verse from the Srimad Bhagavat Purana where our unconsciousness behavior is compared to that of four different animal types; “Men who are like hogs, dogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna, the deliverer from evils.” - Srimad Bhagavat Purana Second Canto, Chapter Three, Text 19 This underlying message conveyed in this verse is that those who have been blessed with human intelligence should take advantage of this opportunity to hear about the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Animals are simply not capable of understanding God, but man is, and restoring our lost relationship with God is what the Vedas emphatically declared is the whole purpose of life! Those who are addicted to animal life, epitomized by hogs, dogs, camels and asses have no interest in hearing about the pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna. Instead of glorifying God for the enormous bounty of this earth, they prefer to praise contemporary athletes simply because of the way they can toss, hit, kick, bounce, or run with a ball! Those who are like animals are also generally more enthusiastic about spending their time praising the achievements in science, art, music, literature, or politics than they are in acknowledging the one who magically floats millions of tons of water effortlessly in the sky and arranged for the Sun planet to burn enough hydrogen to heat and light the entire solar system for millions of years! Now let us consider what those animalistic habits are that the literary incarnation of Godhead warns us not to adopt. Hogs They say that hogs make great pets if you have a sizable enough property for them to wallow about and a lot of kitchen scraps to satisfy their enormous eating habits. Pigs have apparently earned the reputation for being as loyal and friendly as dogs, but we all know that they are notorious for not only eating a lot, but for having the most reprehensible culinary preferences than any other animal. The excessive nondiscriminatory eating habits of a hog are so well known, that even in the English language we have developed the saying: “He eats like a pig.” It is because the pig has such reckless eating habits that the great sage Dvipana Veda Vyasa chose to use this animal to remind us that human life is not meant simply for the purpose of eating like pigs. The pig makes no discrimination about what, where, or how much to eat. In India they are often seen lying in open sewers of black filth with their mouth open eating whatever stool or waste that floats in the stream of horrendous stench. Human beings are not only expected to eat food that is nourishing but we are also expected to eat only clean foods such as fruits, nuts, vegetables, grains, beans, and milk products. According to the Vedas, a human being is also expected to be a vegetarian and not make his stomach the burial ground for rotting carcasses of other species. Dogs When I was in college, I had a roommate who idolized the life of a dog. He observed that dogs were always frisky and concluded that was because they lived a carefree wonderful of wanton life. That appealed to him a lot more then the burden of having to work out stress loads in his civil engineering class, or comprehending the effects of tectonic plates on foundation designs! Needless to say, my hormone-saturated friend also noticed that dogs had absolutely no inhibitions about publicly sniffing out female dogs in heat and fulfilling their carnal interests whenever they liked! For these reasons my college roommate would often mockingly muse over his limited understanding of what reincarnation was all about and say: “Well… if I’m goanna come back again… I want to come back as a dog!” However, the Vedas teach that is a very inappropriate thing to wish for because human consciousness is rare and should not be wasted on the animalistic activities of dogs that are both proud and shameless. We may appreciate the loyalty of man’s “best friend,” their remarkable sense of smell, and all the wonderful things they can do to help us sniff out drugs or victims buried under earthquake rubble, but they are still dogs. As such, their instinct is to have indiscriminate sexual relations whenever it is possible with any other dog. Because they are so territorial, they also have the unclean habit of urinating everywhere to mark “their space” so when others come close to that space they proudly challenge those who tend to urinate and have the habit of proudly challenge anyone who comes close with loud barking. Even when bound up with a rope, or constrained behind prison-like fences, dogs are known for yelping at everyone who passes by as if to say: “Hey intruder, this is my space, my home! Get away! Leave me alone! Yelp! Yelp! Go somewhere else! Who do you think you are anyway! This is my yard, my prison! Don’t bother me! Yelp! Yelp! Go away! ” The Vedas advise us not to be like these proud dogs! Life is meant for more than marking your territory with “Private Property” or “No Trespassing” signs. With the help of our human intelligence we should soberly recognize how without the help of Vedic guidance, we are bound up by the laws of material nature and just as restricted as the dog is by his leash. Chain link fences encage canines and we are entrapped in the prison house of material cause and effect! Those caught in the dog mentality chase the opposite sex as if that were the prime goal in life and when they are asked to consider that there may be more to life than the pursuit of cardinal desires, they often respond just like a dog: “Get lost! Take your beliefs elsewhere! Don’t bother me! What do you know anyway?” “They say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust. Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.” - Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Chapter 16 “Divine & Demoniac Nature” Texts8-9 Camels Camels have the peculiar rude habit of spitting. It is not uncommon to read about how those who visit the Zoo will sometimes get too close to the head of the camel, at which time, this unusual animal will spit in their face as if to say: “What are you looking at?” Less well know by the Western public is the habit of the uncaged camel for mixing his own blood in with what he eats when they are not fed nice greens everyday by a zoo keeper! This happens when they are free to scavenge on their own and discover what they think is the taste of thorns. Camels will ignorantly eat this sharp vegetation and don’t realize that the taste they are attracted to is the blood flowing from their own tongue as it gets lacerated by the very barbs they masticate! The Vedas cite the behavior of the camel as a strong way of reminding us not to become pre-occupied with the chimera of sexual pleasures, which are compared to the illusionary pleasure the camel thinks he is getting when he chews on thorns! Biologists estimate that it takes approximately sixty drops of blood to create one drop of the semen discharged during the sexual congress we find enjoyable. Neither the camel, or the uninformed man, realize that the very thing they perceive as pleasurable, is actually wasting their own blood, which is required for strength and the ability to resist sickness and disease! This provides some scientific explanation for why those who recklessly indulge in excessive sexual activities are most prone to serious, complicated, and in some cases, life threatening maladies! Ass/Donkey Everyone is familiar with the cavalier insult; “You stubborn ass.” When this is said, many envision a Mexican Burro refusing to move, despite how many people pull his reigns and push his rump! A slight variation of this derogatory cliché is “You stupid ass,” but less people know where this slur came from or why the ass has such an ignoble reputation. Why is the donkey considered to be such a stupid animal? Once again, the Vedas provide dramatic insight into answering this question. Those who have traveled to third world countries may have had the opportunity to observe for themselves why the ass is considered to be so stupid. The donkey is often used in rural or mountainous situations to do extremely hard work Sometimes they are laden with incredibly large loads of straw grass that straddles both sides of their back and extends several feet into the air. The “dumb ass” is then bribed to carry this ridiculous burden over long distances that often include going up or down steep slopes. After struggling all day, the reward for their hard labor is a small bucket of that same straw grass that they carried on their back and is freely available on the side of the road! Similarly, all we really require for survival is a safe place to live and some simple vegetarian food. Not realizing this, a lot of people take on the tremendous burden of working very hard all day long to pay for so many things we simply do not need. Those things show up on the shelves of mega stores that sell endless varieties of “New and Improved” electronics, clothing, house-wares, grocery products, sundries, sporting equipment and appliances. In our attempt to achieve the ultimate country club lifestyle, we thoughtlessly pursue every insatiable lust, epitomized by a plethora of games, sporting equipment, entertainment, electronic toys, recreational vehicles and travel adventures. To relieve the stress created by the need to pay for all these things, we become further financially burdened with payments on time-share resorts, 2nd homes, and expensive theme-park vacations based on the insane idea that we will be able to cram relaxation into a carefully scheduled one-week annual time slot! When that doesn’t work, many people then fall into the deadly spiral downward ushered in by drugs, alcohol, or chronic dependency on a therapist’s office. All of these things reflect our desperate attempt to find new ways to cope in a society that has virtually ignored the fact that none of these things could ever really provide the satisfaction the soul seeks! “A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is un-bewildered, and who knows the science of God, is already situated in transcendence. Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always in trance, enjoying the pleasure within. In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.” - Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Chapter 5, “Karma Yoga, Action in Krishna Consciousness” Texts 20-21 It is our hope that the readers of the AVA newsletter will soberly consider the prudence of these powerful illustrations and not waste their human life pursuing the animalistic activities of hogs, dogs, camels or asses. Those who would like start learning more about how to do that are encouraged to join others with that same intention at one of the next Bhagavad Gita Fellowship gatherings scheduled on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month! For further information on this provocative verse from the Srimad Bhagavat Purana go to the following link: <http://vedabase.net/sb/2/3/19/en> How we engage the use of our ears and what we choose to speak about is further compared to the ears of a snake and the tongue of the frog in the verse that follows the one we chose to look at in this essay: <http://vedabase.net/sb/2/3/20/en> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-* End This Issue Feature Article *-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Vegetarian Cooking! We are happy to see how nicely the AVA congregational members are improving their Vegetarian culinary skills! Adopting a diet that allows other creatures to live their lives peacefully is a tradition that extends way back in both Vedic as well as Buddhist traditions. One would think that all serious transcendentalists would understand this simple principal, but unfortunately that does not appear to be true. Educating people about the importance of a Vegetarian diet is essential for anyone who is serious about escaping the serious laws of karma delineated in the Vedas. Unfortunately there are many teachers who will compromise the importance of the Vegetarian diet in order to attract more followers and promote their own watered down ideas about what real spiritual maturity is all about. AVA is committed to teaching the science of Self Realization the way it has been handed down and respected by the great sages for thousands of generations. That is why part of the service we offer is to teach anyone who is interested in this process how to eat properly. Those who are raised in a carnivorous society but then want to convert to a Vegetarian diet often experience a lot of cognitive dissonance. On one hand, they are intellectually convinced that they ought to be a vegetarian, but they simply don’t know how to convert their diet over to that lifestyle. Instead of postponing that on-going dilemma, why not consider learning how to cook wonderful Vegetarian foods using herbs and spices that not only taste good, but also make eating a tremendously fulfilling experience! You can do that prior to any AVA meeting where we always prepare a nice meal for all the guests who attend. Those who want to learn this tremendous skill are advised to contact us 36 hours prior to the AVA event so we can tell you what and when we will be cooking for that program. You can then join us at that time and start learning how to adopt the eating habits recommended in the Vedas for Human life, which is also the most beneficial for rapid spiritual maturity. :-) Pubic Engagements? As the AVA newsletter continues to find new audiences, some have asked about the possibility of bringing the subjects we discuss into other gatherings. If it is possible to schedule those requests we will be happy to do so as part of our service to the community. For this purpose AVA has compiled a list of contemporary subjects for which we have essays, books, charts, graphs, and in some cases, videos to augment our presentations. For more information about scheduling an engagement to learn more about the Vedic Siddhanta (Conclusion) please contact us directly. Suggest A Subject? Many of the subjects we cover in the AVA newsletter come from questions or subjects that are only vaguely commented on by other sources. If you have a subject you would like us to address, please send that in to us and we will consider it for a future AVA topic. Simple questions are also addressed at the Bhagavad-Gita fellowship for the benefit of all those who attend. Vedic Authority What makes the AVA program different from all other contemporary sources of transcendental learning is that we rely on the methodical, thorough and scientific way the Vedas portray the world we live in. The Vedas are so vast and unlike any other literature known to man, they are often criticized as confusing and esoteric. But this is because the secret of the Vedas can only be unlocked by one who has been properly trained how to “decode” them and although that sounds like an exhausting study, it is actually quite easy if the candidate is willing to accept instructions from a good source. In fact, the path of Bhakti (Loving Devotion to the Supreme Lord in His Personal Form) is so powerful that the essences of all the Vedas become automatically realized to that soul who surrenders to the Personality of Godhead and engages in devotional service to Him. “A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from studying the Vedas, performing austere sacrifices, being charity or perusing philosophical and furtive activities. Simply by performing devotional service he attains al theses and at the end he reaches the supreme eternal abode.” - Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Chapter 8 “Attaining the Supreme” Text 28 To grow transcendentally requires a reliable authority like the Bhagavad-Gita, (The torchlight of knowledge, Bg. 10.11) One is free to reject Vedic authority, but the consequences of doing so returns one to the words of speculation, conjecture, flawed empirical analysis, and a plethora of silly ideas about what spiritual life is from psychologists, therapists, self declared gurus, charlatans, and carpetbag religionists, to name just a few. Back Issues of AVA Newsletter All of the subjects that we have already covered in 2005 have also been included on the list that follows the feature article. If you would like a digital copy of a past AVA newsletter let us know and we will be happy to forward it to you for your further erudition. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hoping this meets you in good health, happy spirits and enthusiastically engaged in the service of Lord Krishna. Your Servant, Mayesvara dasa (md @ jagannatha.com) AKA: William Roberts* Director American Vedic Association Dispel the Darkness of Ignorance With the Torchlight of Knowledge! - Bg. 10.11 687 Villanova Road Ojai California, 93023 (805) 640-0405 Ava @ jagannatha.com * William Roberts is the founding director of The American Vedic Association. He began studying Vedic philosophy in 1973 and assimilated the works of eminent Vaishnava saints while living in India for several years. He became an ordained Brahman priest under the tutelage of the world-class authority on Bhakti Yoga, HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. The American Vedic Association is currently sponsoring the Free Bhagavad-Gita Gita Fellowship gatherings held on the first and third Tuesday of every month. For more information call: (805) 640-0405 Or Contact: william.roberts @ jagannatha.com Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Discussion Fellowship Every 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the Month Sanskrit, Mantra, Kirtan, Prasadam! • ۩ • ۩ • AVA Schedule 2005 • ۩ • ۩ • Date/Event Meeting Subject 1st Tue: Jan-04-2005 Vows, Resolutions & Austerities 3rd Tue: Jan-18-2005 You Are NOT Your Body! 1st Tue: Feb-01-2005 Defrocking Religious Phobias 3rd Tue: Feb-15-2005 Primordial Valentine 1st Tue: Mar-01-2005 What To Do; What Not To Do & Why! 3rd Tue: Mar-15-2005 Who Is Lord Caitanya? 1st Tue: Apr-05-2005 Are You an April fool Being Cheated? 3rd Tue: Apr-19-2005 Carnivorous Environmentalist = Kleptomaniac Security Guards ßHOT! 1st Tue: May-03-2005 Is Knowledge Necessary, Useful or Just Plain Irrelevant? 3rd Tue: May-17-2005 What Is Om & Why Vibrate That? ßHOT! 1st Tue: Jun-07-2005 Distinguishing Good From Evil 3rd Tue: Jun-21-2005 Derailed by Silent Meditation ßHOT! 1st Tue: Jul-05-2005 No-One Is Independent! 3rd Tue: Jul-19-2005 Nine Paths to Perfection 1st Tue: Aug-02-2005 Huge Ancient Rolling Temples! Festival of Chariots, All Day Venice Beach Sun: Aug-7-2005 3rd Tue: Aug-05-2005 Liberation Is The BOOBY Prize! Appearance Day of Lord Sri Krishna! - Sat: Aug-20-2005 1st Tue: Sep-06-2005 Hogs, Dogs, Camels & Asses 3rd Tue: Sep-20-2005 "Material" Fanatic American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Fellowship: "Materialistic Fanatics" - One of the things we all share in greater or lesser degree, is an addiction to our material condition. Some are fanatically attached to the mundane, while others know it is an illusion but can't seem to sidestep its influence. Find out how to get untangled at AVA! 7:30pm 640-0405 Always Free! October 1st Tue: Oct-04-2005 Prodigal Sons Know Everything, Adults Surrender American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Fellowship: "Prodigal Sons Know Everything, Adults Surrender" - We have all observed how proud an adolescent can be. Some mature into sober adulthood and get a good education, while others retain their childish pride and insist they: "Don’t need-nuthin'-from-nobody." Find out if you are you a spiritual adolescent at AVA! 7:30pm 640-0405 Always Free! 3rd Tue: Oct-18-2005 Party-Yoga or Hedonism? American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Fellowship: "Party Yoga or Hedonism?" - Bhakti yoga doesn't require entangling your limbs or staring at your nose. It's more equivalent to a galactic party where life is celebrated with intimate friends from all over the universe. Get with the program and take up Party-Yoga at AVA! 7:30pm 640-0405 Always Free! November 1st Tue: Nov-01-2005 Vedic Understanding of Universal Time & Creation American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Fellowship: "Vedic Understanding of Universal Time & Creation" - The Vedas provide a detailed descriptions of universal time and a scientific explanation of how the entire creation began with a sound vibration. Discover how the archaeological record seems to confirm the Vedic version of Genesis at AVA. 7:30pm 640-0405 Always Free! 3rd Tue: Nov-15-2005 The Non-Judgment Myth American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Fellowship: "The Non-Judgment Myth" - A lot of people plea - "Don't be judgmental!” But what does that really mean? At AVA you will learn how to make wise, non-prejudicial decisions, and avoid the trap of claiming aloofness, while your senses rage out of control and make all your decisions for you! 7:30pm 640-0405 Always Free! December 1st Tue: Dec-06-2005 All Faiths Equal Sophistry American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Fellowship: "All Faiths Equal Sophistry" - It is poor discretion that leads one to claim that "All religions are the same." They may share some characteristics like all schools do, but a junior college is not the same as Harvard University! Learn spiritual discrimination at AVA! 7:30pm 640-0405 Always Free! 3rd Tue: Dec-20-2005 Gods "Prayer-Order" Warehouse? American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita Gita As It Is Fellowship: "Gods Prayer Order Warehouse?"- There is only one legitimate thing that a devotee of God would ever request. Everything else springs from selfish ignorance and spiritual immaturity. If you don't know what that simple request is then find out at the next AVA meeting. 7:30 pm 640-0405 Always Free! C/o William Roberts / mayesvara dasa: AVA Director (805) 640-0405 ----- Why This Newsletter Was Sent To You & the AVA Purpose This newsletter is being sent to you because someone felt you might have an interest in the “Science of Self Realization” as it is explained in the Vedic literature of ancient India. It is posted only twice a month and its primary purpose is to remind the American Vedic Association congregation to attend the bi-monthly Bhagavad-Gita Gita Appreciation Gathering that is held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. The material presented in these newsletters is based on the conclusions of the Vedic Literature as understood by India’s foremost authorities on that subject namely: Lord Brahma, Maharaja Pariksit, Narada Muni, Madhavacarya, Ramanujacarya, Krishna Dasa Kaviraja, Narotama Das Thakur, the Six Goswamie’s of Vrindaban, Bhaktivenode Thakur and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to name just a few. The purpose of this correspondence is to help readers properly explain Sanskrit terms, clarify misunderstandings about Indian Theology, and make the Vedic conclusion more accessible to the common Western mind. Questions are always welcome and may be integrated into future newsletters. It is our hope that you will find the content to be informative and meaningful. It is also an invitation for you to consider joining us at one of our bi-monthly Bhagavad-Gita Gita as It Is meetings if you happen to be within a reasonable driving distance from Ojai, California, USA. Must Say No? Most people are familiar with the Biblical advice given in the Sermon on the Mount: “Give not what is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. Lest they trample them under their feet, and turn against and rend* you.” - Bible, Matthew Chapter7, Text 6. (*rend = tear you apart violently.) This is not only a common theme found in all great Scriptures, but even secular teachers have no interest in trying to explain something to a defiant student. Therefore, if you prefer not to receive any further information about the Vedas, AVA events, or the process of spiritual growth honored by the great sages of ancient India, then simply request us to remove you from our mailing list and we will lament seeing you go when we do, but will gladly comply with your wishes. “Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material activities and become attached. But the wise should not unsettle them, although these duties are inferior due to the performer’s lack of knowledge. “- BG 3.29 Thank you for your patience and interest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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