Dear Hanumat Preshak Swami. Greetings from Sri Mayapur Dhama.
He who lives in Sri Mayapur Dhama is very fortunate. for he achieves attraction for Krishna. He who happens to go there becomes freed from all offenses. What yogis obtain after ten years in all other tirthas is obtained in three nights at Sri Mayapur Dhama.
HpS - -[;o}/\_____
Please excuse me for complaining about the brain bending web sites on Ajnana Suta Association. Uncle Gizmo worked hard setting up all those sites. It is not his fault that I am computer illiterate. You get enough complaints.
ASA - Our website is super simple. It only has four choices: Hello. which is obvious where you go if you are a new dude. That explains every thing, even to the illiterate. Ja! Ja! Ja!
Then New - That's the News.
Then Archives - Which is a jumble of stuff but if you are looking for something specific it is there. Then,
Peru - Which is por Spanish speaking Dudes.
You letters here, which are wonderful, prove that even a computer inliterate person can use it.
There was a woman in Mississipppi who wrote a letter to the Principal of her son's primary school complaining that her son's teacher had called him illiterate. She protested: How dare he call my son illiterate. Why I was married four months before he was born.
I read with interest the devotee's letter from Chile. Srila Jayapataka Swami asked me to go to Chile and perform sankirtan there. If Krishna allows I will attempt that mission.
The Vegan issue concerns me. The devotee who preached that vegans are demons was simply repeating what Srila Prabhupada said in the 8th canto of Srimad Bhagavatam that "people who say there is something wrong with drinking milk are demoniac. " In that canto the nectar of immortality sought after by everyone has been compared to cows milk which gives good health, brain substance and devotional service to Krishna. This can be found on page 57 of your book "The Higher Taste".
The devotee who took offense from the one giving class may consider that although he may not be a demon from wanting to be vegan, he serves the demons whose goal is to minimize the importance of the Cow in human society. When Queen Kunti prays, go dvija surati haravatara she indicates that Govinda, Krishna, descends to this world especially to protect the cows , the brahmans, and the devotees. If people stop buying Dairy Products, who is going to pay for cow protection?
When I worked at the Paul McCartney show, Sir Paul had a strict "no meat eating" policy in the entire stadium. The crew were quite angry with this prohibition. Especially angry that the catering was vegan. I felt so sorry to see that their opportunity to eat a meatless meal was spoiled by veganism. One crew member called it a vegetarian shitfest. I wish that they could have been served a nice plate of prasadam like I received in 1974 at the Portland Hare Krishna temple. There was dairy in every preparation. Srila Prabhupada said that every ISKCON feast should start with puris cooked in ghee, halavah in butter, and sweet rice cooked in cows milk. Prasadam cooked in ghee can make meat eaters become vegetarian.
I admire the demoniac class of men for propagating the vegan craze. It is brilliant really. The demoniac in this world are the greatest enemies of the cows. By convincing the Hare Krishna people to go non dairy they use their adversaries to accomplish some of their main objectives; To minimize the importance of cows in human society, to silence Brahmans and sastra, and eliminate the International Society for Krishna consciousness from having super food that no one else could compete with. With his dairy based diet, Srila Prabhupada had a secret weapon that made thousands of people join ISKCON in a decade. He kept a jar of gulabjamins cooked in ghee by the door, to be used as " ISKCON bullets" in the war against Maya.
The other issue that the bhakta . . .
HpS - ASA - Thank you so much for the post. We saw about three more paragraphs but we erased them because it gets too long for our dull head. Can you send that part as a separate topic, or post a link for a longer essay? Monkey have small brain (though fine (from Millk))): Did you see our essay? We were saying that Vegan diet is O.K. if you live in the jungle, gle, and don't have much brain work. Ie, chanting HK/HR from your heart, but if you gotta use your head as the councilor to a King then you gotta have Milk! Of course, offering it to Krsna as He wants, not as our lust wants, and of course He wants us to use it for preaching like you say.
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