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All glories to srila Prabhupada
If we try and talk about God, God realisation and things from scriptures to people in our school or to someone whom we know, is that also considered preaching?
If it is should we do it, even if we are not free from lust, anger, greed,etc?
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Not answering but only talking and not to people who are envious.
I will tell you one incident, one day I was talking to one of my classmates and from what I can remember we were talking about kalki avatar, so I said just in the conversation that kalki avatar will appear on a horse on the end of kaliyug then he said that he won't be on a horse, when I asked why, he said that because at that time there we will be no horse due to kaliyug being at its end so lord kalki ant GET ANY HORSE to ride, I was shocked to hear that and then I said that he Is god he will not take birth like an ordinary person , then he said that God DOES take BIRTH. so I am talikg. About such things, like if I tell them (from what I have read and heard from scriptures and from devotees) I was aking whether such things aould be considered preaching. And if we should engage in them or not. He is not envious of god or anything, atleast that's what I think. Also his name is krishna.
So we can do that right! Like I was talking to someone whose father (and my teacher) is a very great devotee of lord hanuman ji, about how even many "great" scientist believe in god, so I wanted to tell them one samll incident of srila Prabhupada which I headed from HG amrendra prabhu, so this question than arises in my mind whether I should do that or not, since I am not a pure devotee vaishnav, so if it is considered preaching then k shouldn't do it.
Ok prabhuji thank you
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What is considered preaching?
sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati
The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.(SB 1.2.6)
Any activity that informs / inspires / enlightens / enables / empowers / contributes to a living being to render unmovitvated uninterrupted loving devotional service to Sri Krsna is preaching. The effect it has on individual is very important.
Recently there was one individual in these forums who was claiming to be God, and labelling others as associates of God. Seemingly such talk is about God. But the effect it had on others was like vomiting. That is not preaching, even though topic is seemingly God.
On the other hand pure devotees don't need to do any particular activity to preach. Just by their presence they inspire Krsna consciousness. And certainly by any/every activity they inspire the same
gangara parasa hoile pascate pavan
darsane pavitra koro—ei tomara gun
After bathing in the waters of the sacred Ganges many times, one becomes purified, but just by the sight of you (Vaishnava) , the fallen souls are purified. This is your great power.- Narottaman das
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I will be fair, for I actually had my doubts that you are Madhav Das prabhuji
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the person who you said claimed to be God, what did he preach?
He didn't. That's not preaching at all. That's bogus, even though someone may be quoting from here & there. Completely bogus !
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I don't think when a christ comes, he just randomly gives other names and tell them you are Radha, you are Lalita, etc.
I also knew him for when I came to IDT, of course we can't blame it on the person, since we don't know their mental state from here, but I don't think he was a chosen one.
No i understood, I also used Christ as it means 'the chosen one' .
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Ok prabhuji, I think there seems to be a misunderstanding I didn't meant to say that God is the chosen one, when I said about Christ I actually meant about the people who come to preach about God. Not about GOD himself. But I think we can just end it here, since the person who was doing all this is banned and we don't need to talk abut that.
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Yes, you are right prabhuji, srimati Radha Rani married him to give spice to leela by meeting Krishna even though being married. I know of that and of the churning of ocean. Although I fail to see it's connection with topic being discussed above due to ,y ignorance maybe
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