What to do when material conditioning directly affects the holy names?
Sadhana · asked by user [] · 2010-07-06 · 2 answers
Greetings.
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I grew up in a society where items named such are common:
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There are a few other words in my native language that oddly mingle with Sanskrit.
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I thus feel some awkwardness about some holy names, and some other words.
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For example, I feel awkward even just saying "Haribol" in my mind, hearing or reading it, because my automatic association to it is the brand of candy, made of gelatine.[br]
"Kri" means blood in my native language; again, not a comfortable association.
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What can be done about this? How can the automatic cultural/language association be broken?
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Thank you for your replies.
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I grew up in a society where items named such are common:
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[img]http://www.wissen.de/wde/generator/substanzen/bilder/Ressorts/Bildung/madeingermany/haribo_goldbaren_100759311,property=zoom.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://www.heimat-kleve.de/geschichte/chronik/15_02_03.jpg[/img]
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There are a few other words in my native language that oddly mingle with Sanskrit.
[br][br]
I thus feel some awkwardness about some holy names, and some other words.
[br][br]
For example, I feel awkward even just saying "Haribol" in my mind, hearing or reading it, because my automatic association to it is the brand of candy, made of gelatine.[br]
"Kri" means blood in my native language; again, not a comfortable association.
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What can be done about this? How can the automatic cultural/language association be broken?
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Thank you for your replies.
user [38] · 2010-07-06
Sanskrit comes first.user [418] · 2010-07-06
Srila Prabhupada, "Keep chanting. It will go away.".