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By Kesava Krsna Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n There is one publication issued by the Watch Tower called, \u201cMankind\u2019s Search For God.\u201d In this book, they probe all the major world religions and thought systems with a view to guide the readers to the \u201cTrue God\u201d.<\/p>\n Any laypersons reading this book could easily think this is an impartial and balanced analysis, but make no mistake, it is pleasantly biased in favour of the \u2018Biblical\u2019 observation that the world is 6,000 years old, and all religions, including Hinduism, spread out from the cesspool of Babylonian times.<\/p>\n As we would suspect, the references to Srila Prabhupada are found in the chapter entitled, \u201cHinduism \u2013 a search for liberation\u201d. While it is pleasing to acknowledge he is cited as a major authority on \u2018Hinduism\u201d, sadly his, and Lord Chaitanya\u2019s message get enmeshed in the tangled web of whatever Hinduism is supposed to be. They are mashed together with the tantrics, impersonalists, and demigod worshippers, sharing equal status with them.<\/p>\n Before highlighting the quotes, we should be aware of one aspect of belief for the Jehovah Witnesses, that there is no such thing as a soul separate from our bodies. The body made of flesh and bones is the soul \u2013 we are this body. Satan and his demoniac hordes inspire any belief in an immortal soul distinct from the body, along with all related phenomena such as reincarnation.<\/p>\n The first quote comes under the sub-heading, \u201cHinduism\u2019s holy writings\u201d. \u201cAccording to Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada\u201d, they say, \u201cFounder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Bhagavad-Gita (part of the Mahabharata) is the supreme instruction of morality. The instructions of Bhagavad-Gita constitute the supreme process of religion and the supreme process of morality\u2026.The last instruction of the Gita is the last word of all morality and religion: surrender unto Krishna\u201d \u2013 BG. <\/p>\n Later, under the sub-heading, \u201cHinduism and the soul\u201d, they quote BG 2.13 in answer to what happens after death: \u201cAs the embodied soul continually passes in this body, from boyhood to youth, and then to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death\u201d.<\/p>\n In the next paragraph, without mentioning Srila Prabhupada by name, they say a Hindu comment to the verse is as follows; \u201cSince every living entity is an individual soul, each is changing his body at every moment, manifesting sometimes as a child, sometimes as a youth, and sometimes as an old man – although the same spirit soul is there and does not undergo any change. This individual soul finally changes the body itself, in transmigrating from one to another, and since it is sure to have another body in the next birth \u2013 either material or spiritual \u2013 there was no cause for lamentation by Arjuna on account of death\u201d.<\/p>\n Since this contradicts the \u2018we are this body\u2019 belief, how do they respond? Surprisingly, they use, \u201cevery living entity is an individual soul\u201d, from Srila Prabhupada\u2019s purport to support their notion that we are this body. They say this statement agrees with the Bible Genesis verse 2.7 in which it says that man was created from the dust of the earth, and having air blown into his nostrils became a living soul\u201d.<\/p>\n It is strange how in the early chapters of the second chapter of the Bhagavad-Gita, where all philosophical reasoning presents the distinction between the body and the soul, a discreet statement as above quoted can be used to bolster something completely contrary.<\/p>\n Next, they quote BG 2.17, \u201cThat which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul\u2019. Borrowing from the purport to this verse, they show: \u201cEach and every body contains an individual soul, and the symptoms of the soul\u2019s presence is perceived as individual consciousness\u201d. Their response to this is that Hindu ideas teach that we all have a soul; whereas their version of the Bible states that, we are the soul. In any case, the blame again lies with Babylonian culture.<\/p>\n Under another sub-heading called, \u201cHindu teaching of hell\u201d, Bhagavad-Gita is again mentioned: \u201cO Krishna, maintainer of the people, I have heard from authorities that those who destroy family traditions dwell\u2026.in hell\u201d (BG1.43). If the body is a soul, then after-life complications fall away, so to be buried – preferably whole – means to await the final judgement, at which time all the bodies will arise to inhabit an eternal earth planet.<\/p>\n And who are the fortunate few to dwell upon this earth perpetually? As this book says, all the Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and other believers and non-believers, which comprise almost the entire world population, will be thrown into an eternal furnace at judgement time. The elite few will have chosen the \u2018True God\u2019 of course.<\/p>\n Ys, Kesava Krsna dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is one publication issued by the Watch Tower called, \u201cMankind\u2019s Search For God.\u201d In this book, they probe all the major world religions and thought systems with a view to guide the readers to the \u201cTrue God\u201d.<\/p>\n Any laypersons reading this book could easily think this is an impartial and balanced analysis, but make no mistake, it is pleasantly biased in favour of the \u2018Biblical\u2019 observation that the world is 6,000 years old, and all religions, including Hinduism, spread out from the cesspool of Babylonian times.<\/p>\n As we would suspect, the references to Srila Prabhupada are found in the chapter entitled, \u201cHinduism \u2013 a search for liberation\u201d. 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By Kesava Krsna Dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n