Imagine if I thought that I had something to offer for the greater good, and was told that for such and such a reason, my input was censored, and I was barred from speaking or submitting requests.
Or, because I was not friends of such and such a group, or a popular person, my views were not wanted, after all, who was I, what gave me the right to even stand straight in their presence.
Or who was I to even think,for one moment, that I could possibly have insights of use to anyone, unless they were also of my menial calibre.
And what If I was to actually expose that there were no elite overloads,and we were all equal, would that not pose a threat to there power base?
Or perhaps people like me should be UM ,,,, relocated to a better place, along with the other lepers.
Anyway,the point being,I can speak,and I do have views,I like respecting others and also like to be given respect.
I have feelings, and like to feel like part of a bigger family.
When I am with my brothers and sisters I do not like to feel excluded.
So,what does this site do.
Thanks once again prabhu for setting it up.
It opens my heart, my mind, my devotion, my connection.
It increases my love for the devotees,
It expands my love for all beings.
Fire contained in a pot, destroys the pot and the fire.
Mantras must be uttered, or they will destroy you from within.
Realizations must be shared, or they will turn to poison.
Music without singing will send you mad.
That is why I like this site
daso smi
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Wow! You are hired! ~(>,' )
The organizational structure here at SPI; loosely moderated anarchy;
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati;
The church that has the best chance of survival in this damned world is that of atheism under the convenient guise of theism. The churches have always proved the staunchest upholders of the grossest form of worldliness from which even the worst of non-ecclesiastical criminals are found to recoil.
It is not from any deliberate opposition to the ordained clergy that these observations are made. The original purpose of the established churches of the world may not always be objectionable. But no stable religious arrangement for instructing the masses has yet been successful. The Supreme Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, in pursuance of the teachings of the scriptures enjoins all absence of conventionalism for the teachers of the eternal religion. It does not follow that the mechanical adoption of the unconventional life by any person will make him a fit teacher of religion. Regulation is necessary for controlling the inherent worldliness of conditional souls.
But no mechanical regulation has any value, even for such a purpose. The bona-fide teacher of religion is neither any product of nor the favourer of, any mechanical system. In his hands no system has likewise, the chance of degenerating into a lifeless arrangement. The mere pursuit of fixed doctrines and fixed liturgies cannot hold a person to the true spirit of doctrine or liturgy.
The idea of an organised church in an intelligible form, indeed, marks the close of the living spiritual movement. The great ecclesiastical establishments are the dikes and the dams to retain the current that cannot be held by any such contrivances. They, indeed, indicate a desire on the part of the masses to exploit a spiritual movement for their own purpose. They also unmistakably indicate the end of the absolute and unconventional guidance of the bona-fide spiritual teacher. The people of this world understand preventive systems, they have no idea at all of the unprevented positive eternal life. Neither can there be any earthy contrivance for the permanent preservation of the life eternal on this mundane plane on the popular scale.
its a yes from me