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Posted: 1 year 4 weeks ago
(edit 7-11: more on monolaurin with refs)
Since spring I keep spreading my long-term successfull prevention-cure of viral infections:
At the first symptoms of an infection I take 1-2 tsp of coconut fat.
This much is enough to stop it. Its active ingredient is Monolaurin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolaurin). It doesn't work as a prevention though. When I missed the onset of the infection last year, I used 2 tsp 3x per day and was ok after about 3 days.
Keeping my body pH up (i.e. making it...
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Posted: 1 year 11 weeks ago
This was one of the main contentions discussed in ISKCON since 90's.
Srila Prabhupada states that the jiva was originally in the association of Sri Krsna, taking part in His lila.
It's difficult to conceive why would she leave the perfect situation and enter the world of suffering. Some Gaudiya Vaisnavas therefore gave an answer that the jiva was never with the Lord. This view was rejected by the GBC in its resolution 79/1995.
But with the lack of clear sastra pramana (the central pramana as...
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Posted: 1 year 11 weeks ago
There are two different accounts - in SB and Mbh (see below). (The question was brought up in https://iskcondesiretree.com/forum/topics/what-king-parikshit-did-after-...
but the answer wasn't given.)
This type of variant accounts in different sastras is usually attributed to the so-called kalpa-bheda, lila differences in various cosmic time cycles.
MBh Adi Parva, Hridayananda das Goswami edition:
Srila Suta Goswami said:
That ascetic sage of noble vows gave the message to a disciple, and, his...
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Posted: 1 year 11 weeks ago
Some years ago BBT put up a section on its website called 'Tough ones' dealing with controversial topics in SP books by some of his disciples. This section was later taken down for reasons unexplained but it can be seen in archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160203214811/http://bbt.info/information/t...
I thought that it shouldn't disappear but on the contrary, be expanded. So I'll post some answers to issues in this 'tough' category. Feel free to provide some feedback.
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Posted: 1 year 11 weeks 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: 1 year 4 weeks ago(edit 7-11: more on monolaurin with refs) Since spring I keep spreading my long-term successfull prevention-cure of viral infections: At the first symptoms of an infection I take 1-2 tsp of coconut fat. This much is enough to stop it. Its active ingredient is Monolaurin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolaurin). It doesn't work as a prevention though. When I missed the onset of the infection last year, I used 2 tsp 3x per day and was ok after about 3 days. Keeping my body pH up (i.e. making it...2 Comment(s)