Re: Offender chanting Hare Krishna

Dear Mihir, Swamiji and all Vaisnavas,

     Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

     If the offensive mentality was never there before, then where from has it come now? And why is it so hard to get rid of? It's not a fact that the atheists do not commit offenses. They do it very much by blasphemy of the Lord and His devotees and in so many other ways. History is the evidence. When you consider an eternity in material bondage until now, it is very possible to have committed unlimited offenses.

     Offenses here don't just refer to offenses while chanting. There are millions of ways to commit offenses before the Lord and His devotees. Just for an example, see the 64 offenses related to deity worship.

     The vast majority don't get knowledge and devotion instantly in one moment after millions of lives, that is too rare. It means that it takes so many lifetimes of slow development to get to this point and along the way so many offenses can be committed.

       Arjuna is a nitya siddha meaning he is an eternal devotee of the Lord and so there isn't any envy, etc. to be nullified. He is not an ordinary conditioned soul who became perfect by sadhaka.

       You must have seen by now that to study by logcially trying to analyse words is most imprecise and can cause a great deal of confusion. The English language is very imprecise in its usage of various words.

Sincerely,

Srinath     

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