{"id":12407,"date":"2014-03-06T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12407"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:07:44","slug":"statement-of-hh-bhakti-vijnana-swami-on-the-latest-developments-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12407","title":{"rendered":"Statement of HH Bhakti Vijnana Swami on the latest developments in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nSource: http:\/\/www.krishna.ru\/news\/15-news\/3962-goswami-about-ukraine.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Bhakti Vijnana Swami: As Vaishnavas we should try to set an example of peace, integrity and at the same time, the nobility, the highest example of compassion, based on lofty principles of Vedic philosophy”<\/p>\n

Watch video (in Russian): http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zAmpBQnIJ_s&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dear Vaisnavas, please accept my obeisances! Glories to Srila Prabhupada!<\/p>\n

I would like to say a few words about the situation in Ukraine and in Russia. With great pain, anxiety and excitement I’ve been watching how the situation develops, and feel the need to call upon all the Vaishnavas to ensure that discussing this conflict, we remembered about the basic, fundamental provisions of the Vaishnava philosophy.<\/p>\n

We all must keep in mind that all living beings, regardless of nationality are part and parcel of God. Pain of any living being – it is our common pain, we are all connected very strong threads together, and it is impossible to find happiness expense of the pain and suffering of other living beings.<\/p>\n

Vedic philosophy initially insisted on the unity of all living beings, unity among themselves, community and unity of living beings before God. Nature of the living entity is to be an eternal servant of God.<\/p>\n

Very painful to see when Vaisnavas begin to fight each other in social networks because of their views on the conflict sometimes differ diametrically opposite way.<\/p>\n

Of course, it all played out the scenario of Kali. Age of Kali is called in the Vedic scriptures “age of hypocrisy and hatred”, and from all sides of the most important weapons becomes a weapon of propaganda, the media, the Internet now.<\/p>\n

We know that the last pillar of religion in our age should be considered truthfulness, which is now trying to undermine. Lies, penetrating into our hearts through the media, in the heart generates hostile feelings, hatred, that is completely opposite to what people should find in this life – the opposite of love. It’s horrible, inexcusable, because sometimes bloodshed of innocent people!<\/p>\n

But even more appalling that thousands and thousands, if not millions of people getting involved in this story, start to insult each other, quarrel with each other, thus giving up the war with the age of Kali.<\/p>\n

I would like to once again we remembered that we confess. We profess a religion of peace and love. We want to live in the country of love, in the realm of love, and for this we must banish from our hearts envy, hostility, anger. In our heart should be only good feelings that will emerge naturally, if we remember about our community, the higher unity of all living creatures before the Creator. The Upanishads says: “Vasudeva Kutumbakam – the whole world – is one big family.” And we as Vaishnavas especially closely related to each other. Srila Prabhupada made us really one big family, regardless of our beliefs in some secondary areas of this material world, one big family, really cemented the ties of love and spiritual kinship. This – the most precious thing we have: the spirit of service, the spirit of love, the spirit of mutual aid.<\/p>\n

Now as Vaishnavas we should try to file another example of peace, integrity and at the same time, the nobility, the highest example of compassion, based on lofty principles of Vedic philosophy.<\/p>\n

To share with you all these thoughts, I’m sure, of course, no external events will not prevent us to remain single family, grateful to Srila Prabhupada for what he shared with us these sublime knowledge.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much!<\/p>\n

Your servant Bhaktivigyana Goswami<\/p>\n

Recall that at the present time in Ukraine there are no less than 35 yatr (communities) Vaishnavas. Ever since the Soviet era, when the space was uniform, Ukrainian Vaishnava played a huge role in the development of a single in the former Union of Vaishnava community. For many years in Odessa and Crimea arranged regular spiritual enlightenment Vaishnava festivals, which involved thousands of Hindus from Russia and other countries of the world, including from India. The most popular are such yatra as Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lugansk, Odessa, Simferopol and others. Ukrainian yatra traditionally respected in the community and actively participate in the cultural life of cities, selfless social service and charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I would like to say a few words about the situation in Ukraine and in Russia. With great pain, anxiety and excitement I’ve been watching how the situation develops, and feel the need to call upon all the Vaishnavas to ensure that discussing this conflict, we remembered about the basic, fundamental provisions of the Vaishnava philosophy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}