Vaishnava Aparadha
BY: KRIPAMOYA DAS
Nov 02, WATFORD, ENGLAND, UK (SUN) — Dear Rocana Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. With respect to your editorial, "Apologist for the Avant-Garde," the question still remains: Does the Sampradaya Sun 'traffic' in Vaisnava aparadha? I ask because what you seem to be saying in your response to Candrabhanu's letter is that, in your experience over many years you have found that the one principle that would have saved us all a lot of 'pain and anxiety, fall-out, and severe repercussions...' is if there were, within ISKCON, the practise of free speech. And that with the Sun you want to contribute an organ of free speech that our Society never had before. Is that correct?
Your editorial left me with other questions:
Are you saying that free speech, as a principle, is actually higher than the discipline of refraining from Vaisnava aparadha? And that Vaisnava aparadha can therefore be committed by any member of ISKCON if it appears to serve a higher purpose?
Are you saying that Vaisnava aparadha cannot factually be committed against anyone unless that devotee is a completely pure Vaisnava?
Are you suggesting that the current situation within the community of Srila Prabhupada's followers is so urgent that normal rules of Vaisnava behaviour be set aside for the time being?
Your servant, with all best wishes,
Kripamoya das
