With marches going on in London, one wonders which side , if any , ISKCON is on .Certainly, when Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami came to the USA, he applauded the right to expression of responsible free speech and liked free movement as it recognised a self-evident truth, the spiritual platform of the soul .
Śrīla Prabhupāda:” The whole modern civilization is operating on the misunderstanding that the body is the self (dehātma-buddhi). This is the mentality of the cats and dogs. Suppose I try to enter England, and you stop me at the border: “I am an Englishman,” you say, “but you are Indian. Why have you come here?” And the dog barks, “Rau, rau, why are you coming?” So what is the difference in mentality? The dog is thinking he’s a dog and I’m a stranger, and you are thinking you are an Englishman and I am an Indian. There’s no difference in mentality. So if you keep people in the darkness of a dog’s mentality and declare that you are advancing in civilization, you are most misguided.”
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The rights of the Palestinians is in focus and their recent suffering in Gazza ,as well as historic encroachments on their lands , unnecessary killings are condemned by all civilised men , and wholesale killing is even more so.
“So on the whole, the Manu-saṁhitā, life for life is sanctioned. And that is practically observed all over the world. But similarly, there are other laws, that you cannot kill even an ant. Then you are responsible. You have no right to kill. And in the Bible also, we see, Lord Jesus Christ says, “Thou shall not kill.”So killing is not allowed in any religious principle. Anyone who is killing, he’s not considered in the human society. You cannot kill. The… Lord Buddha’s also principle is ahiṁsā paramo dharmaḥ, no killing. Lord Jesus Christ also says, “Thou shall not kill.” In our Bhagavad-gītā it is also said, amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā [Bg. 13.8]. Ahiṁsā means not to become violent, not to kill.”
AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Elevated consciousness solves many of the problems we face , a society advised by the true intelligentsia is the Vedic way . Low class men who are like sophisticated animals have pushed the intelligentsia away , silenced them, and have usurped power .Take a look at societies the world over and the ruthless killers and the encroachment of globalists’ empires , who, along with governments, have sponsored instabilities and terror .
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