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- From: system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: The demons are getting nervous
- Message-ID: <9RNZXB1w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:36:55 GMT
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- I just received an e-mail from Richard A. Schumacher. Although he made a
- public show of saying "goodbye" to me in a recent post on this
- newsgroup, he has apparently only "gone underground."
-
- Judging from the content of his unspeakably blasphemous letter, this is
- understandable. If I were he, I also would not want a lot of people to
- see the kind of things that letter contained.
-
- However, since the God he rages against lives in his own heart, this
- letter is already public knowledge in the ruling circles of the
- universe.
-
- It is characteristic of the unregenerate that they cannot long maintain
- peace of mind when constantly reminded of the presence of God and the
- necessity of surrendering to Him. Every time Schumacher and persons like
- him read my posts, they are reminded of this. It is natural, therefore,
- that such persons, hounded by the thought of the Lord, Whom they hate
- with all their hearts, eventually lose their carefully maintained
- pretense of decency and become like roaring beasts, fit only to be
- hunted and killed by other, stronger beasts.
-
- What did I expect? The majority of the participants in this newsgroup
- follow a doctrine that places us all on the level of beasts. And the
- doctrines a man follows determine his actions and his fate.
-
- Beast eats beast, but those who love God are never vanquished. Animal
- torments animal, but the Lord's devotees are always transcendental. This
- is the causeless mercy of God, and no one can understand it. It is known
- that God is impartial, that He neither favors nor hates anyone. However,
- it is also known that He is the protector of those who love Him and the
- annihilator of those who do not.
-
- At the end of our present life, all-powerful Time appears before us in
- the form of the lord of death, Yamaraja. If we are devotees, if we have
- done our best to rekindle our forgotten relationship with the Lord, if
- we have glorified His name, if we have looked favorably on His service -
- if we have done these things then Yamaraja will not detain us.
-
- But if we have not followed these simple rules, which are the trademark
- of all who are fit to be called "human" - if instead we have spent our
- lives as beasts, envying God and His servants, determined to destroy
- what we cannot exist without - if we have lived this way, then we will
- be taken by Yamaraja to a place just suited to the mentality of beasts,
- and there we will experience the full implementation of our own
- doctrines upon ourselves.
-
- As Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad-Gita:
-
- Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the
- demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who
- is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and
- blaspheme against the real religion.
-
- Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among
- men, I perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence,
- into various demoniac species of life.
-
- Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, O
- son of Kunti, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they
- sink down to the most abominable type of existence.
-
- (Bhagavad-Gita 16.18-20)
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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