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Chocolate Coated Compassion

August 3, 2011 Srila Gurudeva No comments

Chocolate Coated Compassion

Our hearts are like a Cadbury’s chocolate. On the outside is a sweet, sweet coating. This coating is our love for our Lordships, or Gurudeva, and fellow devotees, our brothers and sisters.

Inside the core of our heart (hrd core) is a soft, flowing centre, filled with loving compassion for the suffering souls of the kali-yuga.

A Pick-A-Path Story

Annette Hoare (Annie) is 17 years old. She lives with her mum and her stepdad not far from MurBah and catches the bus home from the Brisbane St bus stop. Her mum is good to her but always takes the side of her stepdad in any arguement. Annie feels hopeless, her stepdad rapes her regularly, she is afraid to say anything to her mum for fear that Mum will not believe her in favour of her stepdad. She is miserable and often contemplates suicide. She feels that women are all just suckers and men are no different to dogs. She often sees the funny Hare Krsna devotees on harinama. There’s only a few of them. They don’t look like anyone that could help her.

Sylvester (Sly) Gambale is 20 years old. Sly is a cadet journalist for a local publication. Every Friday arvi he cruises MurBah looking for action that he can write about. Sly has a nice heart. He really likes to be kind but his experience in life is not to wear your heart on your sleeve and, full of bravado, he acts like an insensitive, macho, clot. Sly is bursting with energy, a real powerhouse, he often drinks himself into a stupour for something to do. He has no friends, since he always gets in fights with them. He wishes he had a friend that he could really communicate with. His favourite fun is to gamble on the horses. He lives for the adrenaline rush he experiences once the race is underway. Sly sometimes wins, he often loses.

Ending #1

Annie runs away. She tries drugs, gets hooked on heroin. Quite used to impersonal sex, she becomes a prostitute to pay for her habit. Eventually she overcomes her heroin addiction, saves up lots of money, starts her own brothel, becomes quite wealthy. Annie lives a long miserable life and dies at age 80, a bitter, burned out bordello madam. After another 1700115 lives filled with fear and suffering, as hogs, dogs, etc she finally comes in contact with the devotees again and finally chooses to speak with a devotee.

Sly, keeps on working as a cadet journalist, graduates and takes on a senior position up at Tweed Heads. He still gambles. Seeking bigger and bigger thrills he bets heavily and often loses heavily. Eventually he is in major debt and turns to crime to pay his bills, he is arrested and sentenced to 16 years for armed robbery. Whilst in prison, Sly gets in lots of fights, he dies from loss of blood when stabbed repeatedly in the neck and face with a biro. He is a mere 29 years old. He lives out his material desires during his next 50239744 lives, many in hellish situations, many as horses and as horse parasites. Eventually, after an unendurable time he comes in touch with the devotees and hears vaisnava philosophy.

Ending #2

Lots of devotees come on harinama sankirtana, knowing it to be the yuga dharma. Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga are happy with them and the devotees are, consequently, happy too.

Annie sees the devotees, gathered en masse, in a different light. As a 17 year old contemplating suicide she turns to the devotees for help. The devotees, kind and compassionate as are they are, listen to her plight, sympathise deeply and advise her to speak with the police, even escorting her to the police station. Her stepdad is arrested, Annie becomes a devotee. Eventually she marries, has 5 children, 4 of whom becomes devotees themselves, the other child although not a devotee per se, remains favourable and often gives a donation.

Sly, seeing the large gathering of devotees on harinama, decides to do an article about Hare Krsnas and why they chant and dance in the streets. Upon meeting the devotees, Sly is impressed by their tolerance and bravery, but more so by the sweet, honest relationships that they have. He wants to join. Blessed by an abundance of energy, Sly forms a youth group and leads the other Hare Krsna kids into more and more enthusiasm for krsna consciousness; harinama, book distribution, krsna-lila plays, every year they all go on parikrama. He becomes a well known and much loved brahmacari and temple organiser. Eventually he accepts sannyasa and goes on to become a leader of the world wide pure bhakti movement of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

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