Prabhupada on intoxication. Have a nice Sabbath. I am going to read the sastra's, including the Torah, the Quran, The Vedas and the Bible.

 

Thanks to Prabhupada I could leave drug use behind. I must admit that MDMA sessions helped Me to heal My trauma so I don't want to judge the Native American shamans who can use medicinal plants with responsibility. Quite the opposite as how it is used in the West as a kind of escapism. Thanks to Prabhupada the hippies have been saved. That's why people like Prabhupada became enemy number 1 of the demons. I try to convince My friends to stay away from drugs but with little success. I stay true to Myself and stay clean. I am trying to get rid of cigarettes as well. I don't drink alcohol. People like Prabhupada and I are targetted by the demons and the target of smear campaigns what was exposed by my friend Chris Josh. Chanting got Me of drugs and that is a great thank you to His Divine Grace and not to the rehab clinics. Thanks to Prabhupada I could leave drug use behind. I must admit that MDMA sessions helped Me to heal My trauma so I don't want to judge the Native American shamans who can use medicinal plants with responsibility. Quite the opposite as how it is used in the West as a kind of escapism. Thanks to Prabhupada the hippies have been saved. That's why people like Prabhupada became enemy number 1 of the demons. I try to convince My friends to stay away from drugs but with little success. I stay true to Myself and stay clean. I am trying to get rid of cigarettes as well. I don't drink alcohol. People like Prabhupada and I are targetted by the demons and the target of smear campaigns what was exposed by my friend Chris Josh. Chanting got Me of drugs and that is a great thank you to His Divine Grace and not to the rehab clinics.

Finding it superior to the euphoria from any kind of drug, he said,

There’s no coming down from this. I can always do this any time, anywhere. It is always with you.

To San Francisco and Beyond

Early in 1967, several of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s disciples left New York and opened a temple in the heart of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, home for thousands of hippies and “flower children” from all over the country. Within a short time, Śrīla Prabhupāda’s temple there had become a spiritual haven for troubled, searching, and sometimes desperate young people. Drug overdoses were common, and hundreds of confused, dazed, and disenchanted young Americans roamed the streets.

Haridāsa, the first president of the San Francisco temple, remembers what it was like.

Haridāsa: The hippies needed all the help they could get, and they knew it. And the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa temple was certainly a kind of spiritual haven. Kids sensed it. They were running, living on the streets, no place where they could go, where they could rest, where people weren’t going to hurt them.

I think it saved a lot of lives; there might have been a lot more casualties if it hadn’t been for Hare Kṛṣṇa. It was like opening a temple in a battlefield. It was the hardest place to do it, but it was the place where it was most needed. Although the Swami had no precedents for dealing with any of this, he applied the chanting with miraculous results. The chanting was wonderful. It worked.

Michael Bowen, an artist and one of the leading figures of the Haight-Ashbury scene, recalled that Śrīla Prabhupāda had “an amazing ability to get people off drugs, especially speed, heroin, burnt-out LSD cases – all of that.”

Every day at the temple devotees cooked and served to over two hundred young people a free, sumptuous multi-course lunch of vegetarian food offered to Kṛṣṇa. Many local merchants helped to make this possible by donating to the cause. An early San Francisco devotee recalls those days.

Harṣarāṇī: People who were plain lost or needed comforting ... sort of wandered or staggered into the temple. Some of them stayed and became devotees, and some just took prasāda [spiritual food] and left. Just from a medical standpoint, doctors didn’t know what to do with people on LSD. The police and the free clinics in the area couldn’t handle the overload of people taking LSD. The police saw Swamiji [Śrīla Prabhupāda] as a certain refuge.

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 Buddhism teaches the same. Thanks Gautama.

“I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness/cloud the mind. (Suramerayamajja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami)” –fifth main Buddhist precept

“Warnings about tobacco and narcotics have been revealed as Térmas since early on in Tibet, by the great Tértöns…Warnings about tobacco and narcotics actually cross the spectrum of Vajrayana lineages, and advice on the subject is voluminous.” –from Introduction to Dudjom Rinpoche’s Avoiding the Precipice of Smoking/Drugs

“Understanding this, the wise will render themselves a great kindness by renouncing tobacco and narcotics. In doing so, may the honourable and wise who avoid the path to the precipice have the good fortune of finding respite in the ecstatic garden of liberation.” –Dudjom Rinpoche

 

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