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Krishna, The Reservoir Of Pleasure (edition 2014)

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Author)

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Title:Krishna, The Reservoir Of Pleasure
Authors:His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Author)
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Krishna, The Reservoir Of Pleasure by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

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A short brochure. Still suffers from a lack of explanation of its key terms. What is 'constitutional position?' And why use terms of art such as this? Isn't the entire point of ISKCON to spread the message effectively? Why obfuscate it with Sanskrit terminology and barely-recognizable English terms ('Personality of Godhead,' 'the pastimes of Krishna') that get in the way of understanding for the uninitiated?

An exemplar of both:
"When we hanker for earning, that is a kind of distress. And when we suffer loss, that is also distress. But if we are situated in brahma-bhuta[?], we will neither be distressed nor will we hanker." [NB: The section this quote comes from is not about brahma-bhuta, and the term goes undefined; it is not a term with wide enough usage to even have any results in a Wikipedia search. It is just flatly used in a passage like this alongside English words straight from the thesaurus, and then we move on in the narrative.]

Okay, material pursuits are temporary and ultimately unfulfilling, I grant you. But to just assert that devotion to Krishna brings one the 'ultimate Answer,' so to speak, without even trying to explain why or how? How does any of this work? What does the part I can actually *do* really mean? ( )
  chuff | Feb 28, 2022 |
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