Hare Krishna! Reality is a Dance, not Bureaucratic Law
Urmila Devi Dasi: We know we are following dharma by the result. Prabhupada said to judge a tree by its fruits. What are the fruits? Our relationship of love and respect and peace and satisfaction, satyam, truth, are increased internally for ourselves and others. The result that we are looking for is that everyone comes closer to truth and peace and satisfaction. That’s our result. Then we go to sadhu, sastra, and guru with that in mind. Our action has to be within sadhu, sastra, guru. We can’t make something up. Which means, of course, we have to know sastra. We can’t just say, “Well, I think that this will bring me more peace so I can do this.” It has to be within the purview of sastra, it has to be within the purview of the sadhu, within the purview of guru. But the result has to be that Krsna and the devotees are pleased. Otherwise if you say that we are following the sastra and everyone becomes disturbed, that’s not dharma.
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