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Parividha Das: My godsister Uma Devi Dasi recently departed due to blood cancer. She worked as a psycho-therapist. I have never met her, but I wanted to share her answer to a question my godbrother Gaura das asked her:
\nYou asked ” . . . what is your advice
\nto depressed or disgruntled devotees ? . . . ”
\nas a Prahbupada disciple and psychotherapist . . .
\nto . . . ISKCON devotees . . . or ‘ex ‘ISKCON devotees
\n. . . devotees of any identification . . .
\nto ISKCON leaders . . . or even to ‘ex ‘ISKON leaders
\nor children\/disciples of all the above . . .
\nor even so . . . to . . . my ‘other’ clients
\n( who do not know that they are devotees yet )
\neven to the ones who . . . did . . .
\nor feel like killing them selves . . .
\n( . . . even the ones who turned to murder
\nas the means to be killed . . . )
\n(( of coursed i have my own story . . .
\nlets just say . . . i have first hand insight
\nto\/from . . . all sides . . . ))
\n. . . my realisation is . . .
\n. . .
\nRESPONSIBILITY ALWAYS LAYS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL .
\ni was lucky . . .
\nto be able to come to this conclusion . . .
\nif we . . . come\/accept . . . to anything . . .
\n( including therapy . . .
\nor Sree Krishna . . . especially Him 📷 )
\n. . . with the expectation
\nto be freed from this freedom
\n. . . to self responsibility . . .
\n( like . . . ‘ hallelujah . . . i have been touched . . . ‘ )
\nwe will be . . . inevitable be disappointed . . .
\n. . . even our hero and Krsnas intimate . . . Arjuna . . .
\neven after . . . BG 18.73 . . .
\n. . . ‘ still ‘ . . . had to fight . . .
\nthe Battle of Kuruks\u0323etra . . .
\n( and even . . . look at their . . . end later
\n. . . hhmm . . . )
\n. . . i came to the association of devotees . . .
\nfor . . . Knowledge of karma . . .
\nand the process to freedom . . .
\nluckily no one promised me falsely
\nliberation from the responsibility of freedom . . .
\n( lucky . . . time place and circumstances )
\n. . . even to SrilaPrabhupadas times . . .
\nthere was abuse in gurukula Texas . . .
\nand all the tendency of new vrindavan . . .
\n. . . all this was always with us . . .
\nit is IN us . . .
\nand it always was . . .
\nand will be . . .
\n. . . our very personal responsibility
\nof our freedom to love . . .
\numa dd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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