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EDITORIAL May 31, 1999 VNN3997 Comment on this story Speculation BY MAHANANDA DASA  EDITORIAL, May 31 (VNN) — Dear assembled devotees, please accept this poem humbly submitted. Reality evades the brains of us illusioned fools who rely on speculation as our only searching tool. The conclusions hereby made in such a faulty way can never reveal the truth and light but can only find the gray. Our reasoning is full of fault-- not one or two but four defects will muddle up the way. So hear the wise advise from the chain of realized souls "Please don't take shelter there, the pilgrimage of fools." but abandon now this path to certain hell for in your heart a flame does burn with love which reasoning can kill. But take instead the shelter of the Holy Name 'tis there that truth is quickly found by one to speculation's bound. Remember now my brothers the lessons of the past when twenty of your friends or so had said "such and such is true." Believing it so logically their truths just grew and grew and they tasted so-called nectar once already chewed. And they settled for tiny bits of glass held out by logic's charms but couldn't find the precious jewels that might have laden down their arms. So take heed my beloved pilgrims as our teachers to us have warned and beware of mental speculator and logicians to be sure. They lie as thieves and robbers on the path that we are on and strip us of our serving mood and rob us of our song. What could be more sad than this what could be more wrong to interrupt our journey back to our Beloved Lord for Whom we've searched so long! But herein lies an irony too obvious to conceal that my poem is on the mental plane 'cause I've forgotten how to feel all the love that's trapped inside and like all the rest have long believed that only logic's real. But now our Blessed Gurudev has come to save the day lighting up the gloomy word with what he has to say Now a thousand times we bow to him or ever a million times or more and still our debt to him I'm sure we never can repay! (offered to my beloved spiritual master A.C. Bhaktivadanta Swami Prabhupada) written Oct 1 1992 by Mahananda dasa About the Author | Other Stories by this Author Comment on this story | Contact VNN about this story | Send this story to a friend
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