Sep 21, CALGARY, ALBERTA — Once upon a time, some four years ago at ISKCON Sri Sri Radha-Gopinatha Mandira in Toronto, one of the Indian-Canadian devotees, if you please pardon my bodily designation, was giving a lecture to the assembled devotees. In it, he described that the early followers of Srila Prabhupada “easily joined ISKCON because they had no love for their families”. Further, he described that we Westerners have no strong family attachments, and so it is easy for us to leave our families to join ISKCON, and that it is so much more difficult for most Indians because they have natural love for their families. Seems to me that this cheap excuse for failing to surrender to the Lord has gone so far that now it has become a rally cry for those who need excuses for their failure to serve. Instead, they dare to criticize the surrendered souls out of their extreme ignorance and envy.
Today, I again saw this sort of mentality, held by some foolish Indian-body devotees, touched upon b
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