Re: how to defeat the Atheist

Dear devotees,

       Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! Dandavats and obeisances!

       My personal struggle is more against Mayavadis right now than others. The philosophers here aren't so tame like those who went to the west. They are very powerful people with very high qualifications except real devotion to the Lord. It would take the preaching of a Madhvacharya or a Bhaktisiddhanta to go over them. Except for the Sri Sampradaya or Madhya sampradaya, people believe that if anyone says we're brahman, he speaks the highest philosophy. You will have to see how many philosophers exist with how many millions of followers here, speaking everything other than devotion. If someone has to preach some bhakti, he has to give plenty of room to acknowledge the Mayavadis in the name of being liberal and non-critcal or else hardly anyone will come. Even the Sri Vaisnavas have had to mellow down their tone.

      Many devotees of Gaudiya Vaisnava dharma are looked down upon because they are foreigners. "You let a foreigner tell you about our philosophy?", is the perception. Others think that we're spreading Christianity because of the way the Gaudiya sampradaya emphasises on love and does not tolerate apasiddhanta. Unless one can manage to go above all the qualifications of these people, no one will listen to a word I say for e.g. That qualification only the Lord can give. We can only pray that he put us above all these things so that the preaching becomes successful.

      One observation I have made is that the worshippers of demigods, including Saivas, Saktas, Ganapatyas, etc... all culminate in impersonalism, without hardly any exception. Even those who start out as personalists become impersonalist later on. Why is that?

Narrating from experience,
Srinath

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