Were You Being Offensive?

Answers According to the Vedic Version:
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Question: Were You Being Offensive?

Please forgive me for sounding petty, but I find it offensive that you would refer to Los Angeles as hellish. Is there not at least one ISKCON temple there? Aren't there several ISKCON devotees living in that area. Doesn't Lord Krishna say and Srila Prabhupada say that if one or more devotees are in an area that Lord Krishna is there too?

If that is true, then how could you call it hellish?

Your servant

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Answer: I Presented Krishna's Version of Reality

According to Lord Sri Krishna's statement in the Bhagavad-gita every place in this material existence is certainly a hell. So there was nothing wrong for me to describe Los Angeles as a hell. And by observation also we can see that so much pollution and so much crime does indeed make a place hellish.

Of course it is also true that wherever Lord Krishna's temple is present that place becomes the spiritual world. But this is only true for those people who take advantage of the temple. For those who do not that place remains for them a hell. At the present time this means 99.999% of the population is living in a hellish condition without taking advantage of the sublime process of Krishna consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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