Identity Crisis
BY: RAY LANTHIER
Jul 01, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (SUN) Guru, Sastra and Sadhu state that one does not perform devotional service until one is brahma bhuta, freed from the bodily designation.
"After attainment of the brahma bhuta stage of freedom from material conceptions, devotional service begins by one's hearing about the Lord.”
(Bhagavad Gita As It Is 19.55 Purport by HDG Srila Prabhupada)
It would seem reasonable that if one finds devotees in certain capacities of leadership sharing the same bodily designation, say a Jewish background, that such a fact exceeds the probability due to chance, or if you philosophically discard chance, the free play of the material gunas. If the exalted hierarchy is indeed completely transcendent, then one should expect a truly random mix of bodily types, n’est-ce pas? There are, apart from the pure devotee, ninety-one varieties of devotees depending on the combination of gunas that influence them. So it is not surprising that devotees with similar consciousness would congregate in the same activities and roles, regardless of whether they be Jewish, or Muslim etc.
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