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Re: Animal-Killing, and Soul-Merging Condemned
"H. Krishna Susarla" <susarla.krishna@studentserver1.swmed.edu> writes:
>gmadras@pinto.engr.ucdavis.edu (Giri) wrote:
>>
>> I *used* to read alt.meditation regularly; i no longer do. I have
>>seen this excerpts from this page referred to and even twisted beyond belief.
>>For example, I have seen the following :
>>
>>1. According to the Vedas, Shankara was an incarnation of Lord Shiva.
>This is mentioned in Shiva and Padma Puranas.
PuraNas are not vedas.
>>2. According to Shrimad Bhagavatam by Srila Prabhupada, Jesus was an
>>incarnation of Krishna [not vishnu].
>Where in SB does he say that? I have SB by Prabhupada, and he makes no such indication as far as I know. He has on other instances s=
>aid that Jesus could be considered a devotee, but I know of no such place where he said the Jesus was an incarnation of Krishna.
Why are you questioning me ? I am just quoting from a poster on
alt.meditation. Why don't you take it up with him if you want.
>>
>> I know ISKCON is not responsible for the views of its members and
>>I am not even sure whether they belong to ISKCON except that they say
>>*only* the path of worshipping krishna is correct and they quote from
>>Srila Prabhupada.
>They say that only worship of Krishna (or some form of Him) gives liberation, and they quote from Bhagavad-Gita as well as from Sril=
Who are these "they" in the above sentence ? Remeber the they in my
sentence 'they say only the path' refers to a poster on alt.meditation.
>a Prabhupada. The Gita itself says that worshipers of other gods go to the planets of those gods. But it also says in 8.15 that all =
>planets of the material world, right up to the planet of Lord Brahma, are places of misery and repeated birth and death. This is not=
> a question of some sectarian interpretation. The facts are there in the Gita itself, and it remains for the people who claim to res=
>pect Gita as to whether or not they will accept its conclusions.
>> I haven't questioned them on alt.meditation on this, since they
>>are on a right path [of worshipping Lord Vishnu], but not neccessarily right
>>on saying that only their path is their correct path.
>Please quote from one of their books wherein it was asserted that their path was the only path. It has repeatedly been asserted by P=
>rabhupada and by scripture that there are several Vaishnava sampradayas which are to be considered genuine.
HKSji, I can hardly understand what you are trying to point out here.
I was quoting a person from alt.meditation who said the hare krsna ideology
is the only path. I specifically said I did not know whether he was from
ISKCON etc. This is what the person said in the article on alt.meditation
subject bhakti.
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you should know fully, Hare Krishna ideology is the ONLY path.
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>I wish Hindus on SRH could learn to stop thinking in extremes. It seems that the prevailing logic is that a religious organization c=
>an only believe that:
>1) Theirs is the only path, or
>2) All paths are good
>Gaudiya Vaishnavas accept four sampradayas as genuine for distributing Vedic knowledge, as described in Padma Purana. They do accept=
> more than one path for obtaining liberation, but that does no mean that they accept that all paths are okay.
>regards,
Please read my post more carefully before responding. I was wpointing
out that people in alt.meditation quote Srila Prabhupada say that
Shankara was an incarnation of Shiva, and said so in vedas.
That hare krsna is the only path.
The people may or may not belong to ISKCON. Even if they do, it
does not reflect the ideology of ISKCON.
Hope this clears the situation up.
Giri
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