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EDITORIAL January 9, 2000 VNN5243 Comment on this story Enemy Of Hypocrisy BY MAHAVEGAVATI DASI EDITORIAL, Jan 9 (VNN) — Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and our Guru Varga. PAMFO For the pleasure of the assembled Vaisnavas, I am submitting the following powerful statement from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada, Enemy of Hypocrisy: A chanter of the kirtan of Hari is necessarily the un-compromising enemy of worldliness and hypocrisy. As a chanter of the kirtan of Hari, it is his constant function to dispel all misconceptions by the preaching of the truth in a most unabmiguous form without the influence of person, place or time. That form has to be adopted which is least likely to be misunderstood. It is his bounden duty to oppose ANY PERSON who tries to deceive and harm himself or other people by MISREPRESENTING THE TRUTH, either due to malice or genuine misunderstanding. (My capitals.) This will be possible if the chanter of kirtan is always prepared to submit to be trodden on by thoughtless people if any discomfort to himself will enable him to do good to his persecutors by chanting the truth in the most unambiguous manner. If he is unwilling to chant the kirtan under all circumstances due to consideration of self-respect or personal discomfort, then he is UNFIT to be a preacher of the Absolute Truth. Humility implies perfect submission to the truth and NO SYMPATHY for untruth. A person who entertains partiality for untruth is unfit to chant the kirtan of Hari. ANY clinging to untruth is opposed to the principle of humility born of absolute submission to the truth. Those who serve the truth all time, by means of all their faculties, and have no hankering for the trivialities of this world, are always necessarily free from malice born of competing worldliness, and are therefore, fit to admonish those who are actively engaged in harming themselves and others by thie method of opposing or misrepresenting the truth in order to attain the rewards of such a policy in the shape of a perpetuation of the state of misery and ignorance. The method which is employed by the servant of the good preceptor for preventing such misrepresentation of the truth, is a part and parcel of the truth itself. It may not always be pleasing to the diseased susceptibilities of deluded minds, and may even be denounced by them as a malicious act with which they are only too familiar, but the words of truth from the lips of a loyal and humble servant of Hari possess such beneficent power that all effort to suppress or obstruct them only serves to vindicate to IMPARTIAL minds the necessity of complete submission to the Absolute Truth as the only cure of the disease of worldliness. Humility that is employed in the unambiguous service of the Truth is necessarily and qualitatively different from its perverted prototype, which is practiced by CUNNING people of this world FOR GAINING THEIR WORLDLY ENDS. The professor of pseudo-humility have reason to be afraid of the preachings of the servants of Hari, (one whose DUTY IT IS to expose the enormous possibility of mischief possessed by the many forms of SO-CALLED spirituality), when they are taken to task for serving the untruth. satyam eva jayate Submitted for the scrutiny of the Vaisnavas by the servant of the servants, Mahavegavati Dasi Hare Krsna About the Author  Other Stories by this AuthorComment on this story Contact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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