http://soithappens.com/2008/06/24/%e2%80%9cplain-living-and-high-thinking%e2%80%9d-an-english-lesson-with-srila-prabhupada/ evam bhavati Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://soithappens.com/2008/06/24/%e2%80%9cplain-living-and-high-thinking%e2%80%9d-an-english-lesson-with-srila-prabhupada/#comment-418 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:15:52 +0000 http://soithappens.com/?p=34#comment-418 Plain and simple are simply synonyms as Ravindra Svarupa dasa suggests. Thank you all for restoring my faith that some with in Iskcon actually take the challenge of acting with knowledge to heart and so do not needlessly throw out the baby of material knowledge with the bath water of industrial civilization.
Still hoping to see that bath cleaned though, maybe the baby, though blue, is not beyond reviving.

]]> http://soithappens.com/2008/06/24/%e2%80%9cplain-living-and-high-thinking%e2%80%9d-an-english-lesson-with-srila-prabhupada/#comment-23 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:43:55 +0000 http://soithappens.com/?p=34#comment-23 I recall a decision by the Back to Godhead magazine editors, sometime around 1975, to change the slogan from “plain living” to “simple living.” They thought “simple living” would sound more attractive to the contemporary American ear than “plain living.” They were probably right in that. Test it out for yourself: “simple” carries mostly good connotations for us, and “plain,” mostly bad. Anyway, there had been a little controversy about the policy, and I was consulted as to my judgment. I stated my preference for “plain living” because one, Prabhupada had used it, and two, it recalled the Wordsworth sonnet. However, it seems both words were equally acceptable to Srila Prabhupada. And as for the Wordsworth sonnet, they asked, who would care about that, other than a scholar or a pedant? OK, guilty as charged.

]]> http://soithappens.com/2008/06/24/%e2%80%9cplain-living-and-high-thinking%e2%80%9d-an-english-lesson-with-srila-prabhupada/#comment-22 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:59:05 +0000 http://soithappens.com/?p=34#comment-22 What about ‘simple thinking and high living’? That seems to be the standard these days.

]]> http://soithappens.com/2008/06/24/%e2%80%9cplain-living-and-high-thinking%e2%80%9d-an-english-lesson-with-srila-prabhupada/#comment-21 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:31:24 +0000 http://soithappens.com/?p=34#comment-21 I’m curious about how and why the phrase changed from “Plain living and high thinking” to “Simple living and high thinking” in ISKCON. Thoughts?

]]> http://soithappens.com/2008/06/24/%e2%80%9cplain-living-and-high-thinking%e2%80%9d-an-english-lesson-with-srila-prabhupada/#comment-19 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:44:11 +0000 http://soithappens.com/?p=34#comment-19 I believe it was Albert Einstein who said, “All our lauded technological progress – our very civilization – is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.” Indeed, it is our good fortune to have been shown the way forward.

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