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- Mentally contaminated
- Dhotis and saris are the best!
- The purpose of this movement: to become saintly persons
| Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:55 PM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011)
"One cannot drink water from the bathroom". You cannot do that, but here you know the bathroom is on the one side and then there is a kitchen sink on the other side. It said: "One cannot fill one's drinking water from the bathroom!" "Well why not? It's like the same water. Maharaja it is the same water. It comes from the same water line. One goes to the left and the other goes to the right that's all. It is the very same water…there is no difference!" "Yes it maybe the same water….that is true. But the water from the bathroom is meant to be contaminated". So in this way many things are mentally contaminated, and maybe all within the four regulative principles, but vegetarian hotdogs are meant to be contaminated. On a subtle plane you maintain a connection to a sinful culture. So this is something that we have to consider!   |
| Dhotis and saris are the best! Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:43 PM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Finland, 2011) Each set of clothes brings with it a certain mood and a certain mentality. I was in Bengal on a train, and I was wearing these clothes. There was a young Bengali boy who was wearing Bermuda shorts with some designs….colourful…….and he laughs at me. He says: "Look at that! " I asked: "What's your problem?" "Look at those clothes!" So I said: "Well, you know look at those clothes…look at those clothes!" And what he was wearing. So I asked him: "Do you like those shorts?" "I like them very much". "Ok. So do you wear them everyday?" "No, of course not. Not everyday. Only sometimes". I said: "Well I wear these clothes everyday because they are spiritual and therefore, they are fully satisfying. I do not need to change. But you have your shorts today, and then you wearing something else, only because you are not completely satisfied". Some people they say: "Why do we have to wear these Indian clothes in the West?" There is a certain group of devotees who are feeling like that…and are speaking out like that. Even some senior leaders have spoken up like that. Srila Prabhupada has explained this: "India is a very special Country. It is very special, because in India they speak Sanskrit…traditionally it is Sanskrit. Sanskrit is 'deva nagari' – is the language spoken in the heavenly planets! It is even spoken in Vaikuntha!" So the Indian culture is parallel to the culture of the heavenly planet, and that means that whatever is in the heavenly planets, is predominating by goodness. Whatever is going on in our regions is predominating by passion. The earthly regions are predominating by passion. So therefore, this dress, this culture has a value because it is related to the culture of the spiritual world, and that is coming through India. So India is an amazing place. Not only is the Ganges coming from the spiritual world onto material world, but there is a whole culture within it. Both Krishna and Lord Ramachandra wears dhoti…..Sita wears a sari and therefore dhotis and saris are the best! So it's not Indian culture, but a spiritual culture!  |
| The purpose of this movement: to become saintly persons Posted: 18 Sep 2011 02:15 AM PDT (Kadamaba Kanana Swami, lecture from 17.07.2011. at Fruska Goranga Summer Camp, Serbia)
Through this Bhagavatam one can make a major change, and the aim is to become saintly persons. It is not sufficient to just be a member of the Hare Krishna movement, to even be initiated from the Hare Krishna movement, to wear tilak and neckbeads and to do those things… It's not only about what we do, but it is also about who we are. We have to be saintly persons. That is truly the aim of connecting to this movement.  |
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