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15. GITA
No one can be killed in this philosophy because no one really exists to be killed. All duality (e.g., people) is illusion and only the impersonal, undifferentiated God is real. In a letter to the editor, even Charles Manson once said, "I've killed no one." Given the influence of monism upon him, this attitude is not surprising
Srila Prabhupada
This also becomes evident from the contention of Prabhupada that "In transcendence notoriousness has the same absolute connotation as eminence". It is not surprising therefore to know tha ISKON holds that "The yogi should be able when the occasion arises, to reject even moral behaviours and do what is necessary to serve Krishna." A devotee, in other words, can commit any evil because no action done for Krishna has any bad reaction. In ISKON's version, Krishna himself says, "Anyone whose full consciousness is always absorbed in me, even in lust, is elevated." This in turn implies that not only is Krishna independent of the law of Karma, but that anybody who is in Krishna Consciousless can afford to be immoral.
As pointed out by Mangalwadi, "In theory this does not sound alarming, but it does whenPrabhupada's followers began to practice these teachings. In December 1975, an Americal devotee on a British passport was arrested for trying to smuggle 17 watches, 82 calculators, two cassette players 803 pounds and $100 in a scarf trunk. Even after being imprisoned for two months and disowned by the Hare Krishna Movement in India, he believed he had not done anything wrong because he wanted to smuggle this money to buy cars and settle in Inda as a preacher of Krishna Consciousness."
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