05-24-2008, 02:54 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Pandyan+May 22 2008, 06:43 PM-->QUOTE(Pandyan @ May 22 2008, 06:43 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->....Are you serious? The main reason this is happening is only because of the already effeminate Vaishnavas, sending in ISCKON (the king of emasculated organizations) would only worsen the problem. What are they going to do? Scare them away by banging their cheap brass cymbals?
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Effeminate Vaishnavas? Hmph..hardly think so. They are just like any other sect of Sanatana Dharma - no more effeminate and no more valour than the other sects.
My suggestion (to send in the ISKCON) was meant to be taken with a pinch of salt. However, one thing is for sure - the GOI is certainly NOT going to solve the issue, nor take one step in the direction of even acknowledging the problem. So, ultimately, its going to be left to the ingenuity of the locals to find a way to solve the problem and survive in that hostile environment.
And surviving in hostile environments is what the ISKCONS do VERY well. Not only do they survive in those communities that set bear traps for them regularly, but manage to slowly widen their membership. How they manage to say up on their feet, after repeated attempts by their neighbours to use them for target practice - can't really say. But perseverence, steely determination, and guts - plenty of it - seem to contribute partly to their survival. And all this coming from strict vegetarians.
But with all the scandals that have rocked the sect in the last 10 years, one can only hope that they would stop shooting each other in the foot, and aim the guns at the more 'deserving' groups - in the case of Assam, the two deluded groups of "messiahs" from across the borders - one carrying packs of koran and the other bibles. The ISKCON would be doing a great service to all, especially the Vaishnavas trapped in Assam, if they aimed their cymbals at the two Abrahamic peddlers.
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Effeminate Vaishnavas? Hmph..hardly think so. They are just like any other sect of Sanatana Dharma - no more effeminate and no more valour than the other sects.
My suggestion (to send in the ISKCON) was meant to be taken with a pinch of salt. However, one thing is for sure - the GOI is certainly NOT going to solve the issue, nor take one step in the direction of even acknowledging the problem. So, ultimately, its going to be left to the ingenuity of the locals to find a way to solve the problem and survive in that hostile environment.
And surviving in hostile environments is what the ISKCONS do VERY well. Not only do they survive in those communities that set bear traps for them regularly, but manage to slowly widen their membership. How they manage to say up on their feet, after repeated attempts by their neighbours to use them for target practice - can't really say. But perseverence, steely determination, and guts - plenty of it - seem to contribute partly to their survival. And all this coming from strict vegetarians.
But with all the scandals that have rocked the sect in the last 10 years, one can only hope that they would stop shooting each other in the foot, and aim the guns at the more 'deserving' groups - in the case of Assam, the two deluded groups of "messiahs" from across the borders - one carrying packs of koran and the other bibles. The ISKCON would be doing a great service to all, especially the Vaishnavas trapped in Assam, if they aimed their cymbals at the two Abrahamic peddlers.