Manu Dasa: Can you believe that an initiated devotee (Fijian Indian) told me that I should do an Arati to my son (6 years old) with a plate of chilies and salt etc so that I could help remove the evil spirits from him! Show me where in Prabhupada's books where he suggests we do this to Vaikuntha children! It is this infiltration oh Hindu custom and superstition that has made this Vancouver temple totally hindu. It's official, I hate it here. Can you believe they let someone go on the altar who suggests such things? He would need some authority to give him some etiquette on only using guru sadhu shastra for teaching. So glad we are moving into our new place on Sunday and won't have to deal with this kind of crap. I so regret not telling him to clean his own garden as his grown children are hardly exemplary Vaisnavas.
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SRILA PRABHUPADA: No, no. Why not take this... Suppose he is attracted by some woman. Let him dress like a gentleman and keep with the woman as husband and wife and preach. What is the wrong there? Whatever is done, you close up that chapter. Now you become a householder. There is no harm. And live as a gentleman householder and preach. But don't play duplicity in the dress of sannyāsī to keep private relations. That is not good. That is duplicity. Better openly become a respectable householder and serve Kṛṣṇa. Our service is main thing, either in this dress or that dress. So if you cannot keep yourself sincerely as a sannyāsī, then get yourself married. But you cannot keep the girl as friend. That is also not good.
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