On 17 Mar 2013 06:50:08 GMT, "Pettersen,Roald" <ro...@nomail.invalid>
wrote:
>Det er det samme. Det er ingenting.
>Hare Krishnas budskab og had kommer af ingenting.
Den eneste, der tror, at det er hadefuldt at kende den Absolutte
Sandhed, er dig og andre ateister. Du hader, n�r Hare Krishna, som den
eneste organisation i verden, fort�ller dig sandheden om alting.
I was watching Breaking Bad, and he was saying how important to him it
is to be remembered well by his family when he is gone - that they
should miss him.
From a spiritual point that makes so little sense. Who cares if you
are missed, when you are not there to experience it? YOU certainly
don't. Why care how you are remembered, if you are dead? And if you
are in a new body why would you care? Or if you are in heaven or hell,
why should you give a hoot? Or if you're in eternal sleep, as atheists
believe - even less reason to care about how you were remembered by
people who will also soon die.
See, that's the whole point - what to remember. To remember Krishna,
now, that makes sense, and it makes one blissful. But to remember who
did what, who said what, and do they like me? - I mean, if you are
dead, who cares? ... it leads to lamentation anyway you look at it.
And from the point of view of reality, i.e. from an eternal point of
view - it's all going on in a few seconds, nay, not even that.
And these short fleeting moments, that's what the whole world revolves
around - the news, politics, sports, movies, series, literature,
magazines etc. - that, what most people consider real, is but a
fleeting moment in eternity. Therefore Krishna says:
Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the
nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the
eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by
studying the nature of both. (Bg 2.16)
The reality portrayed by Hollywood is totally ridiculous. The way they
speak and interact, how they cannot just tell someone about their
problems, how they don't get hurt and get right back up to fight even
after being flung 10 m through air and crashed into a wall. Add to
that some romance, gambling, sex, drugs rockn'roll, and you have
yourself a bona-fide Hollywood dream. Clearly they want to be God.
Don't worry everything's going to be alright, he promises in a deep
voice. Hahaha :) Nothing is ever going to be alright in this world,
for it invariably ends in old age, disease and death. Only God can
promise you, that everything is going to be ok, because only God knows
the future.
Take for example Jason Bourne. Now, that was superb action, but the
dialogues and story were ridiculous. - Oh, who AM I, I don't know
who I am, he laments desperately. I mean, who does that? A normal
person would ponder the situation: I'm a martial arts expert. I just
downed 2 police officers in 10 seconds using aikido, which is the
hardest martial art to learn, but Jason is all confused and
bewildered. To possess those skills, you are obviously a trained
operative - a secret agent of some sort. Could it be that since you
are an American you must be trained by CIA, NSA, Secret Service, FBI,
or any other government agency of the US? Instead the hero wails - I
don't know who I am - with tears in his eyes he bangs his head against
the wall (exaggeration enhances the understanding, as they say in
Denmark :).
Or the scary-movie� there's a deep dark hole in the ground, and
gurgling, snarling, hissing sounds can be heard from inside. Gee,
says the girl (it's always a girl) let me stick my head in there and
check it out - I wonder what's making that gurgling sound� I mean, can
it get any more foolish?
Or the dominant, aggressive, pushy woman. No woman, by nature, is like
that. The female nature is to be passive and non-aggressive. The
aggressive, go-get-it woman who hits on men - clearly a dream of
Hollywood producers, who are all lusty men. A woman's nature is to be
passive. Instead we are fed endless streams of ass-kicking,
aggressive, dominant women. In the end women begin to think that this
is how they should be.
The question of theodis� - how evil entered the world in the face of
an almighty, all-good God, has baffled church-fathers for ages. Even
after 2000 years the Church has not managed to come up with a good
answer. That's Satan, is all they say. But why would a benevolent,
almighty God allow Satan to perform his nefarious activities? Only the
Vaishnava religion has a coherent, consistent and philosophically
sound answer to that question.
In former ages atheists and demons tried to kill Krishna with weapons,
today they try to kill God by propounding brain-dead philosophy to the
masses. And the population laps it up like pudding, because it is what
they want to hear, because we all came here to the material world to
get away from Krishna. Real Evil is the soul's desire to be away from
Krishna, to forget Krishna.
It's a fact - all living entities seek love. It's what everyone wants
- to love someone and to be loved and appreciated in return. We seek
this love in spouse, family, off-spring, friends, society, nation and
so on.
It is also a fact that the love we develop in a body, without
exception, ends in lamentation. Either she dies, or I die, or she goes
away and stops loving me, or I stop loving her. In any case, love
always ends. Yet we yearn for eternal love. - I will love you forever,
the hero says, and I will always love you in return, she answers.
But in the 'real' world love forever never happens. That is life in a
material body - temporary and full of suffering. As a solution to this
hopeless existence Krishna comes again and again and offers us the
chance to come back and enjoy with Him on the eternal plane.
Krishna says:
O learned Uddhava, those who fix their consciousness on Me, giving up
all material desires, share with Me a happiness that cannot possibly
be experienced by those engaged in sense gratification.
--Srimad Bhagavatam 11.14.12