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Posted: 31 weeks 2 days ago
This is possibly the most favorite 'tough one', last year discussed at
https://iskcondesiretree.com/forum/topics/prabhupada-consent-to-rape
There is a survey related to this at
https://www.akincana.net/2018/07/12/pre-test-of-survey-for-sb-4-25-41-co...
and also the link to ongoing results. There, under Q4, see the answer dated 8/25/2018 9:44 PM quoting Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura's commentary and Kama sutra.
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Posted: 32 weeks 2 days ago
I was convicted and sentenced to ‘life plus 60 years in prison! I never stopped chanting the entire time I was there, I was strong in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness up until I heard them say ‘guilty’ and sentence me, then my entire mind, thoughts, actions ‘FROZE UP.’ Although I knew that the ENTIRE trial process was UNLAWFUL. I couldn’t chant, eat, or sleep for days. It took some Christian guy to remind me of the story of Job in the Bible to bring me back to reality. I accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme...
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Posted: 50 weeks 1 day ago
Author: Karnamrita Das
I have been a late bloomer my whole life, and yet time sometimes comes to my aid to teach me lessons that only are understood years later. A 19 ½ as a young brahmacari, we learned that “sleep was death” and was a waste of time, so if Prabhupada recommended 6 hours for those in the mood of goodness, then surely we should lessen that.
Thus, we experimented pushing the envelope back to 5½ to 5 hours etc. For a while, when I was a pujari in the old San Francisco, Valentia Street, temple, in the...
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Posted: 51 weeks 4 days ago
Author: Karnamrita Das
The irony doesn’t escape me
that I couldn’t leave Vrindavana
even if I wanted to. I ponder my life.
So many devotees want to visit
and here I’m on an extended stay
first for 11 months and now 5 more.
I know it is special mercy for me
yet, it is the toughest love ever
though I can still smile at my plight.
I am externally “in” Vrindavana
though far from eternal lila here
and the self-forgetfulness of love.
As usual I have to face my shortcomings
and yet also see my good fortune
with some...
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Posted: 1 year 4 days ago
Author: Karnamrita Das
As some of you know I have mainly been recycling older blogs and slightly modifying them to represent some of my current struggles in my treatment protocols. With this offering I am writing afresh, having to discontinue my treatment due to the lockdown here in Vrindavana, though I present similar themes to what I teach as a result of facing possible death for the last 4 ½ years as well as intense headaches and other pains for the last year. I still consider personal or horizontal growth work...
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Posted: 31 weeks 2 days agoThis is possibly the most favorite 'tough one', last year discussed at https://iskcondesiretree.com/forum/topics/prabhupada-consent-to-rape There is a survey related to this at https://www.akincana.net/2018/07/12/pre-test-of-survey-for-sb-4-25-41-co... and also the link to ongoing results. There, under Q4, see the answer dated 8/25/2018 9:44 PM quoting Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura's commentary and Kama sutra.0 Comment(s)