Preaching sensitively

Gita 17.15

• Thoughtless words can inflict cureless wounds

• What people may resent is not the Truth, but our presentation of the Truth

The self-righteous make the right seem wrong

• People come from a culturally and intellectually authority-defying background

• Post-modern ethos: from scripture to science to experience

Limitations of surgeon-patient metaphor

• People don’t know or accept that they are sick

• People don’t accept us as surgeons • Even surgeons give anesthesia

before surgery and painkillers after it,

Vedic culture is inclusive, not exclusive

• Vishvanath C T quotes Madhusudana Saraswati

Voice differences sensitively

• Jiva Goswami in Sandarbhas – positive quotes from SS’s BD attributed; negative quotes, unattributed

5 point summary

• Loving Krishna enables our love to break free from all limitations,

• Krishna is eminently lovable, • Krishna loves all of us impartially, • Krishna’s love for us is unconditional, • Krishna engages his omnipotence to

help us when we choose to love him.