From: system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: The demons are getting nervous
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:36:55 GMT
Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA


I just received an e-mail from Richard A. Schumacher. Although he made a
public show of saying "goodbye" to me in a recent post on this
newsgroup, he has apparently only "gone underground."

Judging from the content of his unspeakably blasphemous letter, this is
understandable. If I were he, I also would not want a lot of people to
see the kind of things that letter contained.

However, since the God he rages against lives in his own heart, this
letter is already public knowledge in the ruling circles of the
universe.

It is characteristic of the unregenerate that they cannot long maintain
peace of mind when constantly reminded of the presence of God and the
necessity of surrendering to Him. Every time Schumacher and persons like
him read my posts, they are reminded of this. It is natural, therefore,
that such persons, hounded by the thought of the Lord, Whom they hate
with all their hearts, eventually lose their carefully maintained
pretense of decency and become like roaring beasts, fit only to be
hunted and killed by other, stronger beasts.

What did I expect? The majority of the participants in this newsgroup
follow a doctrine that places us all on the level of beasts. And the
doctrines a man follows determine his actions and his fate.

Beast eats beast, but those who love God are never vanquished. Animal
torments animal, but the Lord's devotees are always transcendental. This
is the causeless mercy of God, and no one can understand it. It is known
that God is impartial, that He neither favors nor hates anyone. However,
it is also known that He is the protector of those who love Him and the
annihilator of those who do not.

At the end of our present life, all-powerful Time appears before us in
the form of the lord of death, Yamaraja. If we are devotees, if we have
done our best to rekindle our forgotten relationship with the Lord, if
we have glorified His name, if we have looked favorably on His service -
if we have done these things then Yamaraja will not detain us.

But if we have not followed these simple rules, which are the trademark
of all who are fit to be called "human" - if instead we have spent our
lives as beasts, envying God and His servants, determined to destroy
what we cannot exist without - if we have lived this way, then we will
be taken by Yamaraja to a place just suited to the mentality of beasts,
and there we will experience the full implementation of our own
doctrines upon ourselves.

As Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad-Gita:

        Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the
        demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who
        is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and
        blaspheme against the real religion.

        Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among
        men, I perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence,
        into various demoniac species of life.

        Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, O
        son of Kunti, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they
        sink down to the most abominable type of existence.

                                         (Bhagavad-Gita 16.18-20)

Sincerely,
Kalki Dasa


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