BLISS / Purujit / Makhanchora RE: original book licence.

Purujit and Makhanchora program on the original book licence.

PADA: Now Purujit's BLISS society agent Makhancora prabhu is saying we should never have bothered to get a licence to print original books, because that means we have compromised with the bogus gurus, and they are benefiting from the agreement. OK so now we are coming down to: we should not be cooperating with the GBC folks in any way, even to obtain Srila Prabhupada's books, because that means we are supporting the bad guys. That means for starters, the BLISS society folks think particular BBT trustees own the books and not Krishna? Sorry, this is Krishna's book, He is the actual proprietor.

Ooops, and now under their idea, we cannot get Krishna's books printed? Anyone who distributes a Krishna book is -- helping the bad guys, because they control the BBT. OK so that means the BLISS people want to halt book distribution, or de facto. A BBT trustee owns these books and not Krishna? A BBT trustee owning the rights / benefiting / or not -- does not matter since the purpose of the book is to elevate someone to Krishna? 

This begs the question, why are these BLISS people so concerned for who benefits and or / where money goes / for the sales of books anyway? Why is money the main concern we should have? Should they not be happy that people are getting a book about Krishna, a book that might save them from rotting here in the material world?  

Nope, they are not happy whatsoever. This printing and distribution process should not be done because it operating under a bad arrangement. End result? No Krishna's books. The BBT are bad people, they own the books, lets stop all the book distribution, wait a minute? Yep! Krishna owns the books, and everything else? A person who gets a Krishna book has no idea who owns the ultimate "legal rights" of these books, nor does it have much bearing on their spiritual lives? That is because even the common man already knows that Krishna owns everything -- and not particular BBT trustees?

Giving people a book about Krishna serves the GBC's gurus, because they have the legal rights to these books? And we are bogus because we needed to adopt a system of cooperating to get the books, so its a waste of time for all parties. This process must be stopped, ok so then how will people be saved without the books of Krishna?   

In other words, the world would be better if the hundreds of thousands of books the agreement produced had never been produced and distributed. Yep! How will people be saved if there are no books? Rather these BLISS folks say we should have "figured out" a better plan. Like our associates did already, print with no agreement and be sued, or have the books blocked by the courts? That really does not sound like a better plan?

OK their actual plan is to print a small un-licensed edition here and there at a print copy shop, using their own edited edition of Srila Prabhupada's books. Fine except, that cannot be done large scale because there is no licence. Eventually, if printing reaches a certain noticed amount, the BBT clamps down on people for for independent printing. In other words, people have already tried their technique and it simply does not work over the long haul, because it is not legal. 

It cannot be done large scale. Nor will most rank and file devotees who distribute books want a book that might get them into legal troubles. Nor could anyone distribute any un-licenced book from any famous author for any extended period, they would be checked legally. Nor should we encourage people to act illegally without warning them that this is the case. Yes, we can print a Stephen King novel ourselves at our local photocopy shop, and sell it ourselves, ok up to the point where someone takes notice and sends us to court? This is the plan to fix things? Create a giant legal imbroglio for the people who just want to preach?  

Notice that they are saying paying for an arrangement with the BBT for a licence is not a good idea, because its serving the evil doers, but even at the time of Krishna the residents of Vrndavana paid an agreed tax to the evil King Kamsa:

"After the birth ceremony, Nanda Maharaja decided to go to Mathura to pay the annual tax to the government of Kamsa. Before leaving, he called for the able cowherd men of the village and asked them to take care of Vrndavana in his absence."

OK so Krishna's own family has a tax arrangement with the evil king, and that implicates Krishna in sinful activity? Or what? So Makhancora went on an on and on, that paying a fee to evil king implicates people in their agenda. Well maybe, but what about all sorts of devotees who lived at the time of Krishna and they had to pay taxes and fees to all sorts of evil leaders and kings? Even Krishna's family paid taxes to the king? So we should not have an agreement, then there won't be any way to mass produce books? That is the BLISS fix it idea? No books is better than a "bad agreement" book, which is at least something? 

And worse, a number of the devotees at that time of Krishna were the servants of the evil kings, like Kubja, the flower seller, and many hundreds of thousands of others. Many women were residents of Mathura under Kamsa, but they cried in happiness when they saw Krishna coming because they were devotees. OK Krishna could have "figured out something else," but that was not destined to happen. 

So we may have also deal with various unfortunate situations ourselves, in order to get a higher outcome. And for us, the books of Srila Prabhupada are worth getting out -- even if we have to make a deal with Kamsa's empire. I am a little surprised that their attitude is that we should not have made ANY agreement to get ANY of these books published. No books is their better plan? 

OK that leaves the Jayadvaita edition only? 

Or that leaves us with a few photocopied books here and there that cannot be distributed widely due to a lack of licence? 

Neither option sounds good to us? 

Then Makhanchora is worried we are not training people? We should train people that Krishna's entire program is doing the wrong thing by paying a tax to Kamsa? And Krishna did not stop people paying taxes to the Kauravas and many other bogus kings? So He is helping evil doers? Or don't people know that Krishna allows paying the evil king because, He has a higher principle that transcends these temporary arrangements? And so should we as His followers? And we should train people that bogus BBT folks own Krishna's books, and not Krishna? That simply proves that these BLISS people think these books are mundane items owned by mundane people.

The BLISS folks are not training people properly, that's all there is to it. To say that no books is better than some books sounds like extreme sour grapes too. A person gets a book, this saves them from rotting here for the next ten thousand kalpas, and ALL these BLISS people are worried about is -- who pays a tax to Kamsa? So that means for starters, they have no clue how Krishna operates. They have not read these books. Nor do they have any clue how to save others properly. Nor does the person who gets the book have any interest in whom owns what legal rights etc., its not relevant to the content?

Sorry, we cannot encourage people to stop distributing Srila Prabhupada's books just because we are not happy with the agreement that had to be done to create the distribution system. This also simply flies in the face of what Krishna consciousness is, its a program where people are happy to see that others are getting Krishna. It is not a program where we are begrudging that others are getting Krishna. 

Right now even a number of folks from ISKCON are reading our stuff and some are corresponding with us and asking nice questions and so on. And of course one question we get is about: which books should we should promote? So I should tell these people, they are serving the evil king, and drop working with them? How does that help? Its fanaticism. 

We need to learn how to cooperate with other devotees, and telling other devotees to halt all their book distribution and preaching is really not the way forward. Nor do I see any benefit from telling the people we are working with inside ISKCON that we cannot work with the servants of the evil king, that means the BLISS people are really saying, stop our preaching process. That is not going to be accepted by any sincere devotee. 

Bottom line!

They think they are the only preachers, and so did Jayatirtha. They think the bogus BBT owns Krishna's books. No, Krishna owns everything, including Kamsa and his taxes. This is not going to end well for them.

ys pd