Die to Live? / Bhakti Niskama Shanta / Mahatma / Revatinandana 09 25 24

 

Bhakti Niskama Shanta Maharaja: What does the phrase 'die to live,' often used by Om Visnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaja, Founder Acharya of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, truly signify? Death marks a transition between planes. 

Our mundane existence is characterized by a misguided self-identification with our physical bodies, resulting in a 'living to die' reality, driven by false ego. This pursuit is inherently self-destructive. In contrast, 'die to live' entails the surrender of false identity, revealing our true essence. This transformation necessitates submission to the Absolute, achievable through the guidance of Sadhu-Guru-Vaisnava. 

By embracing their discipline and loving service, we gradually recognize our eternal servitude to the Absolute, yielding a profound and beautiful transformation.

PADA: Die to live? No idea what Sridhara Maharaja is going on about here. First, he sets up false gurus, over and over. And then the "dissenters" are getting banned, beaten, sued and killed, and whacked in general, never mind all the scandals, lawsuits, child abuse and other crimes his false gurus generate. 

And he thinks he has the authority to set these things in motion because -- ok because he wants to have us dissenters -- die to live? I have to get whacked from his false gurus, to live? This makes absolutely no sense. 

Yep, we are going to make false gurus, and yep, dissenters are going to be purged, maybe murdered, and all that will help the dissenters -- die to live. OK but they won't be living anymore, at least not here. But that will be fine because, they died -- to live. The dissenters might go back to Godhead, and maybe not, but there is no authority to send them packing from their current bodies. 

Sridhara Maharaja also says "none should protest" his false gurus. OK that sets us up as targets when we protest, just like he set up dissenters in the 1940s to "die to live" because some of them were beaten and assassinated, and never mind the lawsuits, bad media etc. Sorry, this is not authorized. Us small time dissenting devotees are little teeny insignificant entities, and we should not be made into cannon fodder for the "greater cause" of establishing the worship of illicit sex with men, women and children, therefore we have to die -- so Sridhara's pedophile messiah's project can live. 

This is what some people were saying at the time, in a war -- sometimes a few soldiers have to die for the greater good of the overall army. Great, who made us into soldiers to die in your wars? Sorry, none of us volunteered to be whacked in the 1940s, and we did not volunteer to be whacked in the 1980s. You guys volunteered us to participate in your war, i.e. your idea of establishing debauchees as messiahs, and then said -- ok now it is your time to -- die -- to live. Really? 

Sorry, you people are nuts, and dangerous cult fanatic producing nuts too. You have no authority to create conditions where Vaishnavas have to die, in any way, shape or form. And that is why Srila Prabhupada says -- Sridhara Maharaja acted without authority. And so now, the higher authority will want to know -- why he and his minions were orchestrating having people -- die -- at all? Die to live? Hee hee, honestly people, where do they come up with this stuff? 

ys pd  angel108b@yahoo.com

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Beware of Sahajiyaism in our society

Srila Bhakti Niskama Shanta Maharaja, Ph.D. 

At present, after the sudden disappearance of Srila Acharyadev, we see in our society that many have adopted a naïve process of choosing someone as Guru based on some public opinion and rumours circulated by a cook and a room / dress cleaner (two personal servitors) of Srila Acharyadev. Has Srila Acharyadev ever given any instructions or directions to anyone to accept spiritual directions from those two personal servitors of Srila Acharyadev? 

Has anyone considered the level of spiritual realization of those personal servitors of Srila Acharyadev? Are they spiritually qualified to give our mission its spiritual successor? Hardly anyone in our mission has considered all these things. On the other hand, they simply want to follow a pope without any consideration of how that pope is being selected.

PADA: Yep, Sridhara Maharaja never asked how did the 11 actually become appointed as gurus, after Srila Prabhupada said guru by appointment is bogus for 40 years? He accepted blindly without ever seeing any evidence. 

We notice a significant difference in conception between Bimala Prasada (Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur) and his own brother (son of Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakur), Lalita Prasada. Being a proponent of Diksha Guru Parampara, Lalita Prasad was a staunch opponent of the Bhagavat / Siksha Sampradaya concept that Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur was preaching in society.

PADA: Correct. Sridhara Maharaja said our idea of having proxies or ritviks (the shiksha parampara) is bogus, and we need to worship his living deviants as gurus. That is what he said, we need the living person, and these 11 are his living persons, never mind they had no qualifications.

People want to adopt an easy (sahaj) way to achieve the highest things and thus adopt cheap methods (shajiyaism). 

PADA: Correct, the sahajiyas worship bogus persons as acharyas, which is what Sridhara Maharaja advocated.

Following Srila Saraswati Thakur, Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaja has explained that Diksha is more or less a formal thing. Therefore, Srila Sridhar Maharaja has said that, according to his Guru Maharaja, Siksha is a more substantial thing. Srila Sridhar Maharaja has said that his Guru Maharaja considered them as Sahajiyas who have accepted the Diksha Guru line as the real Guru Parampara.

PADA: Right, so worship of Sridhara's 1936 guru was bogus, and worship of his post-1977 11 gurus is also bogus, or at best -- sahajiya. Because the sahajiyas make unqualified persons acharyas.  

All these historical teachings are now completely forgotten, and many in our society have adopted Sahajiyaism by embracing the Diksha Guru lineage. It is very sad to see that the majority of people in our community have gone against the very foundational concept that our Gurus have practiced and preached. We have to pray for them, and because some are very passionate and adamant about following this Sahajiyaism, thus following the advice of Srila Sridhar Maharaja, we have to wish them good luck.

PADA: But Sridhara was the biggest cheer leader of making artificial diksha gurus in 1936, and after 1977. 

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HG Mahatma Das’ Health Update, September 25, 2024

Hare Krishna,

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

The doctors have reported that the setbacks have been resolved. HG Mahatma Das is currently in the hospital, stable, and in a more favorable condition for a full recovery. It is still very early in his recovery process, so please kindly continue with your prayers and kirtans.

They are helping so much!

Radhapriya Devi Dasi

PADA: I have to say -- it always amazes me that when the leaders / founder fathers / defenders / apologists of the illicit sex with men, women and children guru sampradaya fall into bad health, as they do on a regular basis, then people pray for their good good health. Save these leaders. Meanwhile, I know ex-children who are victims of their regime who tell me, we are praying every day that all of them will leave the planet. Evidently, Krishna is getting opposing orders. From the looks of it, a lot of them are getting wiped out. ys pd    

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Chandra Dasi

 

Remembering my stepfather, Robert Cusimano also known as Revatinandana Das aka Shambhu. 

January 20, 1947 - December 16, 2021. 

He was a scholar, was offered a scholarship to Stanford but attended UC Berkeley and was a world class astrologer, a musician, a chef, and spent many years living the life of an ascetic monk. 

But to me he was ultimately a first class gentlemen. 

He had several articles published in the Back to Godhead magazine on the philosophical discourse of the nature of the soul and reincarnation. Most of which I only have read in the last few days. He spoke throughout Great Britain lecturing consciousness to college audiences and left a vast impact on many he met during those days. 

He was a prominent ‘Sannyasa’ an ascetic or wandering monk, in the early days of the Hare Krishna movement and spent several years in his early 20’s in a renounced order of life, dedicating his life to learning and preaching about the ancient Vedic culture and spiritual teachings of India. His first cousin was the person responsible for bringing him out of the dirty commune conditions he was at the time living under and into the cleanliness of Temple living. 

Where rising very early in the morning and bathing and offering prayers to the tulsi plants is the norm. Where the temple floors are wiped and mopped down daily. And where fruit and flower offerings are of the utmost importance. His cousin, known as Vishnujana Swami -- is famous for his melodic voice and kirtans. I still to this day will play his album on YouTube where he is singing in Sanskrit in glorification of Lord Krishna and it brings me so much peace of mind.

 

My stepfather was most humble and singlehandedly cooked a feast for an entire festival. He scrubbed toilets and acted as janitor at the London Temple he served in when everyone around him was more fixated on hobnobbing with the higher ups. He sat and ate with George Harrison of the Beatles and never once boasted about it to us kids, my mother only recently found out herself. 

He -- for one reason or another -- eventually left his position and ended up in Hawaii where his only child, his sweet son Nila Chandra lived with his mother, Dear Pushpanjali. It was here in Hawaii that he met my beautiful mother. I admit I was hard on him in the beginning for I was only a young child who had recently had my family ripped apart and was not ready for someone else to take my father’s position. 

In hindsight I wish so badly that I could have expressed my gratitude for his caring nature. To take a family of 4 children with 3 wildling boys and a wallflower shy daughter was no easy task. But he did so with chivalry and grace. There were no doubt times of roaring raging fights between us all but in the end he was most respectful. And I owe him the honor of sharing his story. 

At least the little I know as he certainly left an impact on my life as well as my brothers. He could make an Indian samosa like no one else spending hours in the kitchen perfecting every batch. It was an absolute delight to bite into one. 

He was socially awkward like so many highly intelligent folks are and I believe it was hard for him to carry on mundane conversations as his mind was moving at warp speed in a distant realm. He loved music and I can remember how he used to snap his fingers in the most goofy but fun loving way. It made me chuckle every time he’d do it.

 

He instilled a love of astronomy in my younger brother and a love of astrology in me. I can remember being so utterly in awe and excited hearing my astrological chart calculated and read by him. It was like a map of my life laid out before my young self. I still have the cassette tape that he recorded it on. And I still follow astrology in reverence of the stars and all the mystery and wisdom they carry with them. 

He was truly a sannyasa in every sense, for he lived a simple peaceful life in the forests over the last two decades of his life in the most remote part of the Big island of Hawaii and did not own a computer or use a cell phone. There aren’t many souls left like him in this world. 

And if I can so humbly share my favorite memory of him I recently came across after my younger brother Dhruva shared it with me. It is taken from an Interview of him describing his experience with the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada… 

So I said “Prabhupada can you answer me a question about the consciousness of a pure devotee?” And he said yes, well he said “ask.” So I said, “Sometimes it may appear that a pure devotee is very very angry or very happy. How does that affect him?” 

Prabhupada replied “the consciousness of a pure devotee is very very deep. It is like the ocean. Near the surface of the ocean there may be so many waves that are kicked up but as you go down even a few feet into the ocean you will find that it is very still.” 

I understood what he was saying immediately. Prabhupada continued “so in this way the consciousness of a pure devotee is so deep that nothing really disturbs it. There may be some ripples on the surface but underneath it remains very very deep and still.” And I said “is it like that even at death?” And Prabhupada replied “yes.” 

All glories to his recent departure, may his spirit carry on into the heavenly realm.