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Dear Stavavali Matayi, pranams

 

<<i just wonder why it wasn't picked up beforehand astrologically

speaking..>>.

 

I know how you feel about this case. We get many feelings, many questions. Even

if we knew the outcome what we can do? We can not stop destiny. Yes, it would be

better to screen people beforehand, that has been done in other sampradayas to

avoid fallings. But we need conscripts willing to fight Maya, to give to others

a little bit of vedic knowledge. When I was a little boy I read encyclopedias

saying that Krishna is a myth and I accepted because I thought they knew better.

I went against my imposed religion while a teenager but later on I saw that most

of the great cultures in the past worshipped the Sun as God. I thought that the

Sun must be God then, but time later by God's mercy, a revelation came to me

that God is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna and that He has many

names according to religions. It made sense and I was grateful of having found

God at last.

 

The Aztecs were very nasty in general because of their human sacrifices. Imagine

when the Spaniards landed in Mexico in 1519 and walked from the coast to Mexico

City. They encountered that in every village and on the road, the Axtecs had pot

rituals were they had human remains. They sacrificed humans and were cannibals.

The Spaniards were destined to finish with those ghastly rituals. But some

aztecs were very artistic and had good astrologers. They knew when to procreate

to get a child that was going to be a doctor, musician or whatever they needed

in their society according to their horoscope.

 

In an ideal society, we could chose the best but we are in Kali yuga.

 

Going back to your question. I almost died and when I was in hospital I thought

"why me?I think that I am a nice guy to suffer this", but I knew that I was

paying for some unseen karma and that I was lucky that it was not worst. In my

childish desire, I wanted to meet Yamaraja, Lord of death, and tell him that it

was unfair to see other souls suffering, that he had to change his ways. But I

knew that he and the other demigods know better than i and that I do not have

the whole picture.

 

<<if you take sanyassa you will have a falldown>>

 

Not necessarly but it is a risk to take and it requires a lot of courage. I know

about a devotee wanting sanyass. My guru asked some questions beforehand and

told him "I am sorrry, I can not give you sanyass because you are too young". My

friend was disappointed but he understood and next day he did his baggage and

was ready to go home. At that moment a devotee came to him and stop him to tell

him. "Guru Maharaja did dont want to give you sanyass because you are very young

but last night he had a dream that the Lord told him to give you sanyass" So for

some unknown reasons, my friend became sanyass and went to preach in far away

places and eventually became a guru. He gave Krishna to many thirsty souls,

books, Maha Mantra etc. but eventually he "fell". Who to blame? At least he had

the courage to go to those souls and give nectar to them. They lost a guru but

got the nectar, the maha Mantra.

 

Hare Krishna

 

Natabara Das

 

 

 

 

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obeisances

thanks for your mail...very much appriciated..

i don't really feel like writing so much at the moment...Tribuvanath Das...a

disciple of Srila Prabhupada left his body this week...the funeral is at the

manor on friday and saturday..naturally we are all devastated, although it was

not unexpected as he had been having treatment for stomach cancer for some

time...

he was a great vaisnava serving Srila Prabhupada to the end....

hare krishna

Stavavali devi dasi