Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 15:27:46 EST
From: WWW: Gauranga Prema Dasa
(ISKCON San-Diego)
VD108@hotmail.com
Dear Dravida Prabhu
Please accept my respectful obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhu, I have a favor to ask. Could you please send me any
information you have access to which will answer the
following questions: Was Asvatthama cursed to wander this
earth for a certain amount of time? If so, who cursed him, and
are there other conditions of the curse described? Do the
sastras indicate where he is now, and whether or not he is
presently a pure devotee? Is there mention of him having to
tolerate many injustices? Is he sometimes allowed to enter
higher dimensions, and does he sometimes have to enter into
"hades"? In his wandering, does he sometimes find sages to
inquire from? Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu once told me he
believed that Hitler was Asvatthama. Could this be true? Is
Asvatthama destined to become a rajarsi (saintly king)?
Is it possible that he could become a rajarsi during the
golden age of Lord Caitanya's 10,000 year reign?
From: Dravida dasa
dravida@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Questions about Asvatthama.
> Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 12 TEXT 6]
> Sometimes we hear from the Vedic literature that some
> personalities from the Vedic age, such as Vyasadeva and
> Asvatthama, are still living.
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Dear Prabhus
Please accept my respectful obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Have I committed any offenses,
taken any quotes out of context,
made any mistakes, and/or
done anything I shouldn't have?
If so, I'm sorry.
Aspiring to be the sincere
servant of the servant,
Yours Truly,
Gauranga Prema Dasa
Hare Krsna