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Re: Animal Liberation

• To: Mataji
• Subject: Re: Animal Liberation
• From: madhudvisa@krishna.org (Madhudvisa dasa)
• Date: Wed Sep 25 10:29:37 1996
• Message-Id: id6565

>Dear Madhuvisa Prabhu,

>

>PAMHO.AGTSP!

>

>Thank you for sharing your responses with me. They are very enlivening.  I 

>completely agree that an offering of bhoga will be most pleasing to Srila 

>Prabhupada when the person is following the 4 regs and chanting 16 rounds.  

>However, I don't think it's necessarily a *requirement*.  As long as someone is 

>following the rules of cleanliness, no tasting and is offering only offerable 

>foods there will still be some benefit and the person will gradually become 

>more purified  - which in turn should make it easier to give up sinful 

>activities and start following *all* the regs.  

>Thoughts?

>

>ys,

>Madhusudani

>



Dear Mataji



Hello. hare Krishna!! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble 

obeisances...



I think you must have subscribed to the mailing list. It is very irregular at 

present as I have lots of problems with accessing the net at the moment.



As for offering bhoga to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna, it's not such a cheap 

thing. Otherwise why did Srila Prabhupada teach us so many things? But you are 

correct of course. We have to follow everything as best we can and pray to 

Krishna and Srila Prabhupada that some day we can come to the proper 

standard... Not that we have one little problem and then give everything up...



But we have to always feel great sadness for our inability to follow the 

regulative principles, we have to feel very sorry, very ashamed and 

unqualified. AND WE HAVE TO ACT IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE CAN COME BACK TO THE 

PROPER STANDARD. Not that we can just go on breaking the rules and pretend we 

are a great devotee and continue all sorts of obnoxious sinful activities.... I 

have seen it and I have seen the tendency in myself, it's a great trap. 

Particularly these days when many "devotees" are not following very strictly, 

even "big" devotees, devotees living in the temples, etc. We have to know what 

Srila Prabhupada's standards are and we have to live them in our own lives no 

matter what the other devotees are doing around us...



Thanks for the letter and I'm sorry I have taken so long to respond.



Your servant



Madhudvisa dasa

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