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“CHAPTER 77: IN DISGUISE (Cont.) -HOW CAN A DEVOTEE BE A “DEMON”? Simply because someone has the dress of a devotee, wears tilak, knows the walk and the talk, does not mean he cannot be capable of the crime of killing the spiritual master for his own material benefit. Rather than being a fantasy, it is accepted by many that agents of Kali entered ISKCON and conspired to assassinate Srila Prabhupada by poison.
His poisoners should be criminally indicted and tried in courts of law. The suspects should in any case "honorably" resign their posts when such a cloud of doubt covers their reputation, like is done in the honorable Japanese culture. Lord Rama banished Sita simply because of one person’s criticism; to be suspected of poisoning Srila Prabhupada is not a good qualification for continued leadership.
The conditioned souls in this material world have a combination of divine and demoniac natures, and according to their association and their free will choices, their beha
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Hare Krsna Guru, 1977, on gold and money...
(Prabhupada laughs) So this artificial way of banking, that will be also collapsed.
Room Conversation -- January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara:
Rāmeśvara: Actually most purchasing in America is done on credit now. Even a step beyond paper money is credit, no money, buying on no money, loans.
Prabhupāda: That is in India also.
Rāmeśvara: We don't find these things in Vedic culture too much.
Prabhupāda: There was never paper money.
Hari-śauri: No. They used to...
Prabhupāda: That barter system. You have got rice; I have got something else. So I give you something; you give me something.
Hari-śauri: But isn't inflation possible even with coins? Even if you have gold coins, isn't inflation still possible?
Prabhupāda: No, gold is acceptable by everyone.
Rāmeśvara: The main point is the barter system.
Hari-śauri: Yes, well its value is recognized by its purchasing power.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Hari-śauri: So you can alter... Say, you have
QUOTES FROM LATE 1977 CONVERSATIONS:
“Better To Be Killed By Rama” (Srila Prabhupada)
“Someone has poisoned me.” (Srila Prabhupada)
“Some Rakshasa Has Given Poison” (Damodara Sastri)
“My Guru Maharaja Also (concerned about poisoning)” (Srila Prabhupada) “So they may kill me also.” (May 1976, Srila Prabhupada)
“So who is it that has poisoned?” (Tamal Krishna Goswami)
“He’s saying that someone gave him poison.” (Bhakticharu)
“At the last stage, don’t torture me and put me to death.” (Srila Prabhupada, 3.11.77)
ALL TRUTH PASSES THROUGH THREE STAGES:
“First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”-Mahatma Gandhi
SRILA PRABHUPADA DISCUSSION WITH CARETAKERS:
SP: (Someone says that I have been poisoned… it’s possible.) Kaviraja: (What are you saying?) SP: (Someone says that, somebody has given me poison.) Kaviraja: (To whom?) SP: (To me.) Kaviraja: (Who is saying?) SP: (All these friends.) BCS: (Who said, Srila Prabhupada
HH Mother Devaki Devi Dasi
for those of you who think the only way the bona fide disciplic succession can continue is by physical presence at all times of some qualified spiritual master… Better to see what Srila Prabhupada has to say about that. He only instructed us to go to one of the 11 he appointed to do the official formal ceremony but it would be on his behalf and he continues being the spiritual master in our line who is the one who is delivering us.
he never said we had to seek somebody else out to deliver us. They decided they wanted to do more than just the formal ceremony on behalf. That would've been very glorious if they had followed that instruction. But they decided they wanted to be little Srila Prabhupadas.
We are not to be concerned with any gaps regarding physical presence of the bona fide spiritual master. Following is a conversation by Srila Prabhupada.
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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur in his last speech to the members of the Gaudiya Math, delivered on December 23, 1936.
“Living in this world one has to face many kinds of difficulties. It is not our job to try and remove those difficulties. Nor should they depress us. We have no attachment or hostility towards anyone in this world.
All arrangements of this world are temporary. Everyone has an indispensable need for the Absolute Truth. May all of you with one goal and in harmony with each other, attain the right to serve the asraya vigraha (Sri Krsna)"
Question ; Can you think of any large important aspect of societies, such as food, that does not have professional people managing or regulating ?
Similarly, all the important functions of this universe have professional persons running or working with them. Weather and gravity are examples. We Vaisnavas call the authorized working managers DEVAS or demigods. God Himself arranges their appointments, so they are His people and should be shown proper respect and consideration and service. They have individual names and lives, and most fill positions that have a beginning and an end, like any other workers, but on a much more powerful level than most of us. Each universe has different persons filling these positions. We ourselves can also fill most such positions when empowered to do so.
The blasphemers and fault-finders try to say we "Hindoos" worship 33 million Gods etc , lol, such a big lie. Yet, they themself have angels and demons in their visions. The fact is, the corporate religionis
Bhaktivinoda Thakura: Sri Krishna-samhita:
"The provisional character of scriptural texts is evident, but the authors of the scriptures do not explicitly indicate this because those qualified to discard the scriptural bindings naturally become independent of scripture with the help of the hidden indications of the scriptural authors and also by their own purified knowledge.
Such persons carry on sinless activities with the help of their own intellect as well as by the advice of the scriptures. In that stage the scriptures do not have any binding power over them, but only serve as their guides.
On the other hand, those who are unable to understand their own spiritual path for want of self-evident knowledge may not be able to ascertain their duties and so may fall into misery due to sensuality; for such people the scriptural rules are imperative.
Such persons should not know that there is any way for them apart from the bindings of the scriptures. When they become authorized due