PADA New Music / Krishna Meditates on Krishna / Cancer Update 12 08 24

LORD KRISHNA MEDITATES ON -- HIMSELF.

Lord Kṛṣṇa used to lie down with His sixteen thousand wives, but also He would rise up from bed very early in the morning, three hours before sunrise. By nature’s arrangement the crowing of the cocks warns of the brāhma-muhūrta hour. There is no need of alarm clocks; as soon as the cocks crow early in the morning, it is to be understood that it is time to rise from bed. Hearing that sound, Kṛṣṇa would get up from bed, but His rising early was not very much to the liking of His wives. 

The wives of Kṛṣṇa were so much attached to Him that they would lie in bed embracing Him, but as soon as the cocks crowed, Kṛṣṇa’s wives would be very sorry and would immediately condemn the crowing.

In the garden within the compound of each palace there were pārijāta flowers. Pārijāta is not an artificial flower. We remember that Kṛṣṇa brought the pārijāta trees from heaven and implanted them in all His palaces. Early in the morning, a mild breeze would carry the aroma of the pārijāta flower, and Kṛṣṇa would smell it just after rising from bed. Due to this aroma, the honeybees would begin their humming vibration, and the birds also would begin their sweet chirping sounds. All together it would sound like the singing of professional chanters engaged in offering prayers to Kṛṣṇa. 

Although Śrīmatī Rukmiṇīdevī, the first queen of Lord Kṛṣṇa, knew that brāhma-muhūrta is the most auspicious time in the entire day, she would feel disgusted at the appearance of brāhma-muhūrta because she was not very happy to have Kṛṣṇa leave her side in bed. Despite Śrīmatī Rukmiṇīdevī’s disgust, Lord Kṛṣṇa would immediately get up from bed exactly on the appearance of brāhma-muhūrta. An ideal householder should learn from the behavior of Lord Kṛṣṇa how to rise early in the morning, however comfortably he may be lying in bed embraced by his wife.

After rising from bed, Lord Kṛṣṇa would wash His mouth, hands and feet and would immediately sit down and meditate on Himself. This does not mean, however, that we should also sit down and meditate on ourselves. We have to meditate upon Kṛṣṇa, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. That is real meditation, Kṛṣṇa is Kṛṣṇa Himself; therefore He was teaching us that brāhma-muhūrta should be utilized for meditation on Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. By doing so, Kṛṣṇa would feel very much satisfied, and similarly we will also feel transcendentally pleased and satisfied if we utilize the brāhma-muhūrta period to meditate on Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and if we think of how Śrī Rukmiṇīdevī and Kṛṣṇa acted as ideal householders to teach the whole human society to rise early in the morning and immediately engage in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 

There is no difference between meditating on the eternal forms of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa and chanting the mahāmantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa. As for Kṛṣṇa’s meditation, He had no alternative but to meditate on Himself. The object of meditation is Brahman, Paramātmā or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but Kṛṣṇa Himself is all three: He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavān; the localized Paramātmā is His plenary partial expansion; and the all-pervading Brahman effulgence is the personal rays of His transcendental body. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is always one, and for Him there is no differentiation. That is the difference between an ordinary living being and Kṛṣṇa. For an ordinary living being there are many distinctions. 

An ordinary living being is different from his body, and he is different from other species of living entities. A human being is different from other human beings and different from the animals. Even in his own body, there are different bodily limbs. We have our hands and legs, but our hands are different from our legs. The hand cannot act like the leg, nor can the leg act like the hand. The eyes cannot hear like the ears, nor can the ears see like the eyes. All these differences are technically called svajtiya-vijtiya.

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CANCER UPDATE

PADA: Every week or so we find another devotee with cancer, many times terminal condition. This is clearly a Hare Krishna epidemic. Eating food offered to deviants is not healthy. Never mind so many devotees are very stressed out by all the bungling in the management. I also know one lady who said she got cancer after she discovered how badly her kids were treated by GBC fanatics. She was just stressed out -- and I do not blame her.

Sulochana said it is better to eat at TACO BELL than ISKCON because at least the workers there believe in Jesus, and they offer food to Jesus and not perverts! 

That being said, we feel sorry for this lady and hope Krishna does not make her suffer too much with her situation. Cancer is no picnic. And we wish her soul all the best. 

ys pd

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New Mayapur France / Nikunja Bihari / Kazakh Aircraft 12 27 24

Yep, PADA is a bogus Christian ritvik.

That means he does not promote the worship of 

illicit sex with men, women and children messiahs.

You got me there pardner!

NEW MAYAPUR

V Dasa: Nouvelle Mayapur occupying board is spending millions to save a castle, lodging mainly English tourists (read members of the Hindu community) in order to receive donations. When they come, they chant their own Hindu hymns, worship different and often bogus gurus, and demigods, and do not follow the ISKCON program. 

And some of them cook for their own Hindu festival feasts -- no matter if they are smokers or non vegetarians. And no one checks if the feasts are veg or non veg. And no one cares if the cooking is veg or non veg.

Most of local devotees have left, and no possibility of return. They are not welcome or wanted. A room in the guesthouse is denied for them unless paying the regular price of the night (40€). 

The co-presidents are mostly Hindu. The head is an English Sannyasi and the Woofers are everywhere from the prasad rooms to the guesthouse. And the Woofers are not following, maybe smoking pot and sometimes having sex, and listening to karmi musics.

No bhakta program. I left forever, and so have almost everyone else. It is no longer a spiritual program, it is a business, and not even a well managed one.

PADA: Yes, my friend complained that some of the ISKCON Hindu temple board managers are not veg, and he was told -- they only make sure the poojari is veg. OK. They don't have anyone else, so they are bringing in money from wherever they can, it is now a commercial Hindu cultural hall business. Agreed. 

No longer has any connection to the bona fide process. They are seeking out funds by using the buildings as commercial enterprises, and that is self evident. They kicked out all the devotees so they could use the property for their personal business. ys pd

PADA: Taking a trip to Vrndavana when he is already down and out financially does not sound like it will end well. Your difficult situation will just be transferred somewhere else. I have seen this before, devotees in bad situations in the West go to India, and unfortunately, their situation might be just as bad or worse there. Except now they are in a foreign land and there is not much of a support system there for foreign folks. This looks like a bad idea. But of course we have to ask why so many devotees are in dire conditions?  

Prabhupada is not a fan of the Hindus, plain and simple.

PADA: I know, a number of ex-kulis children told me -- when we had to eat rotten moldy oatmeal, the leaders were eating giant feasts and -- cakes. There is always tons of food for them, not for us.

Taking care of which devotees?

PADA: Oh oh folks, Russia takes down another commercial plane. Evidently! They did not want it to land in Russia to hide the evidence, and sent it over the sea, hoping it would crash in the sea and the evidence would be lost. 

Experts are saying the damage to the plane is "consistent with the Pantsir anti-aircraft weapon." Meanwhile Russia says the plane hit some birds, and the birds filled up the plane with sharp shrapnel and took it down. Really?

My Hindu nurse friend says her apartment was also hit with sharp shrapnel weapons and everyone was cut up badly, many were dead and severely wounded, includes children and babies, and she would have been too, except she was in a heavy bathtub at the time of the hit. Shrapnel not only cuts up airplanes, it cuts up people. 

Anyway this is the problem, Russia does not take a lot of care if the aircraft is commercial or not, if the apartment is military or not etc. That is the unfortunate state of warfare in Kali Yuga, the non military defenseless unarmed citizens also get taken out. Getting people filled up with sharp shrapnel pieces also sounds like a horrific manner to take out other living beings. There are probably international warfare laws about NOT using these horrible things on people, but -- who follows these laws?    

 

The preliminary results of Azerbaijan’s investigation into the deadly crash of a civilian airliner point to the plane being hit by a Russian antiaircraft missile, or shrapnel from it, said people briefed on the probe.

Azerbaijan’s initial findings came quickly after aviation experts said visible damage to the Azerbaijan Airlines flight—carrying 62 passengers and five crew members—was evidence that it was hit by a munition. The crash killed 38 people, and left 29 survivors, some of whom said they heard a loud explosion that preceded the flight’s problems.

Big big titles, teeny tiny preaching programs.

Niranjana Swami Vyasa Puja / Safala Ekadasi 12 26 24

https://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2021/07/message-from-iskcons-niranjana-swami.html

NIRANJANA SWAMI'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

A few days back Niranjana Swami had his Vyasapuja / birthday party in Mayapur Dham. The main guests were Indradyumna Maharaj, Sivaram Maharaj, Dhanurdhara and Madhavananda.

PADA: Madhavananda dasa (far right) was a follower of Gaura Govinda Maharaja, but now he hangs out all the time with GBC's guru folks --- just like GGM himself always did. And it is unfortunate that GGM was voted in as guru at the same time as they were reinstating oral sex with taxi drivers in the dham-pada, as "Vishnupada." 

OK for starters Vishnu, and / or any agents of Vishnu, are not ever going to be happy with this lot. In sum, making oral sex with taxi drivers the acharya successor to Vishnu is going to produce ill effects, and it has. And did we forget to mention thousands of kids are victims of this process? 

A concerned disciple reached out to inform me that Dhanurdhara had been invited to the party and explaining that they had been instructed to conceal his presence. Before I share my toughs I would like to point out that personally I do not have any bad feelings towards Dhanurdhara. Our exchanges have always been reasonably positive.

The last time we spoke was in Vrindavana in 2016. As I was leaving he asked me what I would do if I was in his shoes. I told him that I would strive to cut my ties with the institution and create a life entirely independent as I just didn't see how he could have his cake and eat it.

Given his history, I didn't see how he could continue to have the respect he wants, i.e. to be accepted as a Sannyasi and a guru and enjoy the benefits offered by the institution.

It is important to remember that Dhanurdhara was not forced to leave ISKCON he chose to leave ISKCON to avoid facing the consequences of his actions. At the time the CPO had imposed some temporary suspensions of privileges, but Dhanurdhara chose to leave rather than comply.

From Dhanurdhara's 2006 resignation letter:

“Therefore I will step away from ISKCON and perform devotional service outside the institution. I do this as a service to Srila Prabhupada’s Society and to ISKCON’s youth. I plan to live a simple, repentant life, where I hope my presence will not disturb others, taking shelter of the holy name and my godbrothers. I hope this will be a step toward mending the great rift that seems so destructive to our Society”.

I am convinced that it would be a lot easier for Dhanurdhara to obtain the forgiveness of his victims if he actually followed his promise. The problem here is not even the fact that Dhanurdhar holds the grim record of being the most named child abuser in the Turley case files.

The bigger problem now is that he did not honor the exit pledges he made. His ongoing attempts to slide in through the back door, aided by his influential supporters in ISKCON, are undignified and suggest a lack of goodwill on his part. 

PADA: And a lack of goodwill on the part of the other ISKCON leaders.

His conduct suggests that he did not mean the words in his resignation letter. It suggests that his well crafted letter was simply an empty political move. If we look at the story of Jagai and Madhai, after obtaining the forgiveness of Lord Nityananda, they spent the rest of their lives offering a menial service to the devotee community staying out of the limelight.

The problem with Dhanurdhara is that rather than living the simple repentant life, he said he would, he has continued to endeavor to be in the spotlight, to pursue prestige, honor and followers.

I suspect that many will say: “What is the big deal? Niranjana Maharaj is friends with Dhanurdhara and he had him over for his birthday bash”?

The thing is that when you are an ISKCON Sannyasi, guru or GBC you are no longer just a regular citizen, you are a leader and a public figure. Leaders teach by their example. The rules are different, they have greater privileges and greater responsibilities. As a public figure they no longer have much of a private life.

Niranjana Maharaj is one of the most senior leaders in ISKCON, to the best of my knowledge, he has never done anything to address the child abuse problems that plagues ISKCON. I have never known of him to offer any protection or support to the victims of child abuse.

What does this say about Niranajana Maharaja's stance on the issue? He is teaching his disciples that abusing children is NOT a big deal...

Madhavananda das holds regular retreat programs in Puri with Dhanurdhara for ISKCON devotees. Senior devotees like Bhurijan, Sacinandana Swami, Vaishesika and others also invite Dhanurdhara as one of the guest speakers at their Govardhana retreats. Their actions minimize the gravity of child abuse. With their endorsement of a notorious child abuser, they are helping sustain a culture where the welfare of children is not prioritized.

Every time a senior leader fraternizes or honors a child abuser or presents a him as a respectable sadhu, they are teaching their followers and disciples that child abuse is NOT a big deal. They are perpetuating a culture that minimizes and tolerates the abuse of children.

Every time Dhanurdhara seeks or accepts positions of honor provided by ISKCON devotees, he is dishonoring his pledge. This is a common phenomena, many child abusers could be welcome to live and serve in ISKCON, IF they could simply accept to live the simple life out of the spotlight, that Dhanurdhara wrote about. But this is hardly ever the case, invariably they vigorously seek out services and positions that come with considerable privileges and status.

Ironically this insatiable thirst and pursuit for respect, status and significance betrays their own lack of spiritual qualifications. We live in a society where prison inmates understand that child abuse is bad, but senior spiritual leaders do not...
So far, the efforts of the leadership towards child protection, have been mostly cosmetic. They appear to do the absolute minimum they can get away with to avoid bad publicity, but when they think nobody is looking, they conduct betrays a disturbing lack of awareness or concern.

I look forward to the day when ISKCON leaders demonstrate with their actions that they understand the paramount importance of protecting the vaishnava children that take birth in Mahaprabhu's movement.

PADA: An ex-gurukuli saw Dhanurdar getting his all star "resident of Vaikuntha guru welcome," with everyone falling on the ground to offer him humble respects, and then giving him an elevated big seat to lecture at the temple. That gurukuli was a victim of Dhanurdar, and he went home and took his life. They self evidently really don't really care much about the victims, and don't care much for us whistle blowers either. And that gurukuli is one of a number who have ended their lives. Yeah, there is a lot of concern to give forgiveness, assistance and welcoming to the perps, but where is the concern for the victims? Good question. Unfortunately, we already know the answer, they favor their fellow cabal members over victims and whistle blowers. ys pd

DD: Outside people are not easy to convince. They are not blinded by philosophy and always on alert because they are in day to day fight to survive etc. Maharaja probably thought that he will be a celebrity outside ISKCON, that didn't work. So he is trying to get his piece of cake again. 

I am not fully aware of what he was doing, but many of this came from hippy life and didnt have neither proper character nor proper mental state to deal with responsible roles. So resulting were disastrous actions. Best would be to sit down and chant and repent.

VC: "We live in a society where prison inmates understand that child abuse is bad, but senior ISKCON spiritual leaders do not..." BAM

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Safala Ekadashi..

Happy Ekadashi to all..

Safala Ekadasi Vrat Katha – The story of Saphala Ekadashi

Safala Ekadasi falls during the waning phase of moon in December. It is observed during the Krishna paksha of Paush month in North India and the corresponding month in other regions is the Krishna Paksha of Margashirsh month. There is an interesting story regarding the glory of Saphala Ekadashi. This Safala Ekadasi Vrat Katha is read or listened by those observing the fast.

Once there lived a very powerful and famous king named Mahishmata. He had four sons but the eldest son Lumpaka was arrogant and was indulged in all sort of bad activities including harming the citizens. The king was not ready to tolerate the behavior of his eldest son and exiled him.

Lumpaka began to live in a forest on the outskirts of the kingdom and started robbing travelers. He used to sleep during the day time under a banyan tree where there was a small idol of Lord Vishnu but he never bothered to worship it. His meals consisted of raw meat and fruits.

He lived like this for several years and once a couple of days before Safala Ekadasi he fell ill and became very weak. Due to illness, he became unconscious and woke up on Safala Ekadashi day but as he was weak he could not hunt or rob travelers. Unable to move, he prayed to Lord Vishnu idol under the banyan tree for recovery from illness and offered some fruits that had fallen from the banyan tree, which were eaten by birds.

He fasted the whole day and remained awake at night. Thus unknowingly Lumpaka performed the Saphala Ekadasi Vrat.

The next day morning he felt some kind of renewed energy. He felt sad about his wanton life and tears started trickling down from his eyes. He wept before the Vishnu idol and suddenly he heard a voice from the sky. The voice said that he had performed the Safala Ekadasi Vrat and Lord Vishnu has washed away all his sins and he should return to his father and start a new life.

As directed by the voice from the sky, Lumpaka reached the kingdom and started leading a good life and showed interest in the welfare of the people and in the course of time he became the king and was noted for his just and kind rule.
Hare Krishna..

Merry Christmas! / New Prabhupada Devotees / PADA to Rupanuga etc. 12 24 24

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

PADA: Some devotees are criticizing me for having too much attachment to Jesus. Well fine, but without Jesus -- and his followers -- i.e. law enforcement, feds, courts, media -- and their giving me jobs and income to maintain myself, I'd have been dead a long time ago. Jesus and / or his followers saved my life in many hundreds of different ways, and therefore I offer my humble obeisances to Jesus all the time. 

Credit must be given where credit is due, and he deserves the credit for saving my unworthy and humble self from -- not being here presently. So yeah, a departed guru can still save us now, and he has done that for me in spades. 

I therefore like to see people glorifying Jesus, and I see nothing wrong with that, and plenty good about it. These people are my life savers, quite literally. ys pd

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NEW PRABHUPADA DEVOTEES 

Suparna Govinda Dasa

I had the honor of participating in a dear God-sister's Harinama Diksha to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, today, December 23, 2024!

Done by the good son of His Divine Grace, His Grace Yasoda Nandana Dasa Prabhu!

https://www.youtube.com/live/FbzsFOmxcHY?si=M0sIJ7zncyUJDw_K

All glories to Her Grace Harsha Sharma - now Her Grace Hari-Prana devi dasi! An eternal daughter of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, through a Bona Fide Ritvik Initiation by a devotee properly initiated to His Divine Grace!

All glories to my new God-brother, His Grace Rupesh Chawan -now His Grace Rupa Gosvami Prabhu!!!!!! Another dear Godbrother!!!!!!!! Can't wait to meet you Prabhu! 

Hare Krsna!

ALL GLORIES TO OUR BELOVED LORD PRABHUPADA!!!!!!!

Ys

Suparna Govinda dasa

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Bhakti Visrambha Madhava departs.

PADA: OK he was made a sannyasa and a guru by Niranjan swami, and he started to take karma from people, which we said is NOT a good idea for a neophyte. And then he started to deteriorate, mentally and physically. He ended up sleeping on public benches etc. around Mathura and Vrndavana. And there were many pleas made for someone to help him, because evidently ISKCON would not.

So he made a huge mistake going along with the illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's club. They used him up. And after he departed, none of the GBC leaders or big shots attended his funeral. 

The good news? He only wanted to stay in the dham no matter what, so that was perhaps the only smart thing he was doing. The bad news? Even if a person is living in the dham, Srila Prabhupada says they can still end up in hell / naraka if they make offenses. It is not a free ride ticket back to home. 

And he never came out and said, their whole illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's club is a fraud, and he should have. Then again, a lot of these GBC leaders are going senile / full on bonkers / insane etc. and he is just another example. It goes with the territory of supporting massive offender's programs, taking karma etc. 

Having said that! We hold no grudges on this poor guy, and his battles here are over. He should not have participated in the GBC's homosexual and pedophile acharya's program, and he is no doubt realizing that right now in the higher courts of God's agents. So we hope he learns from all this, and he starts to turn around and begin to promote pure devotees as acharyas -- and not a bunch of drunks, bums, debauchees, predators and fools as God's successors. In sum, we wish his soul God speed, and may he find a way to get closer to Krishna. 

ys pd 

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In recent years, there has been much concern about the psychological and physical condition of HH Bhakti Visrambha Madhava Swami, an ISKCON guru and sannyasi. Despite repeated spiritual counseling, psychiatric treatment, and many efforts at intervention, it has become clear that BV Madhava Swami’s mental state no longer allows him to function in a leadership position.

It is our duty to advise you that BV Madhava Swami’s psychological condition is declining rapidly, and therefore, he should not in any way be encouraged to travel, speak publicly, or give spiritual guidance.

We have made arrangements for Maharaja to receive the care and support he requires from devotees who are trained professionals and willing to provide him with a living situation that will include medical treatment and the opportunity to remain in the association of devotees, should he be willing to accept it.

Thank you very much.

Hare Krsna,

Your servants,

Madhu Sevita Das
Bhaktivaibhava Swami
Ramai Swami,
GBC Executive Committee

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PADA to RUPANUGA / BHAKTA DAS ET AL:

Correct. Srila Prabhupada was taken out (poisoned) to cover up his real intentions, which is, he was never going to appoint a guru successor. Same reason Sulochan had to be taken out. He was forwarding the bogus appointment tape (he even said it was spliced at the time); the letters; the will, and other testimonies and documents. He was a threat -- and had to go due to -- uncovering what he called "the big (appointed guru) lie." I would have been taken out too -- except the FEDS came to my assistance.


In short. There was no guru appointment. And if Srila Prabhupada says this is the Ravana party in my room, then all the people who supported the Ravana party are implicated, and that would be many / most devotees in 1978 who failed to challenge them. As soon as I challenged them, I got the giant jack boots in face. And Jayatirtha also told me, "watch your back." Of course they did offer to make me the guru of Ireland first, to buy me out.


So ISKCON became a Ravana worship society. And since we become what we worship, all sorts of crimes and criminals began to manifest under the rule of the Ravana party -- includes -- banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders. And then ISKCON had: Saint poison pada; Saint Timothy Leary pada; Saint Andy Warhol pada; Saint Mott Street boys pada, Saint machine gun swami pada; Saint guru of pills pada; Saint condom pada; Saint porno swami pada -- and so on and so forth. I would have to say, the karma for giving poison to a pure devotee is perhaps the worst karma imaginable. However, even not knowing about the poison, making this degraded and odious lot into Krishna's "guru successors" will carry immensely bad karma all by itself, but if we combine that with aiding and serving Saint Poison pada -- knowing or unknowing, the karma is multiplied manifold. As Srila Prabhupada says, offenders of a great Vaishnava are punished whether they knew he was a great Viahnsava or not.


In fact, I do not believe any of us could even imagine this karma -- it is going to be so severe -- it is beyond our calculation. The worst horror movie you ever saw, multiplied many times over. So the people who went along to get along are implicated, just like the deviated and compromised people who served the asura kings were also punished by Krishna. So I feel actually bad for all the advocates of "the living gurus" because they really advocated for the worship of the poisoners / crucifiers / killers of pure devotees, the book changers, the mass molester program of children leaders, the lusty dogs, the criminals and etc. just so a few fools could sit in a guru seat for a few years -- and / or they could be their second tier enabling dedicated sycophants.


They ALL failed to comprehend the result of getting rid of the worship of pure devotees so they could be sitting in his seat, or could end up with perks being a sycophant supporter of the usurpers of that seat. The karma will be severe. And that is why Srila Prabhupada says -- false guru programs are going to the lowest regions, and for these people -- it would have been better to have never heard of the Vedas. That means the karma is severe. And that just seems to be the conclusion based on shastra and common sense, no one is allowed to promote deviants as God's successors without displeasing God, and / or the agents of God. And once a person displeases God, he has to suffer dire consequences. These are the insurmountable laws of God which no one is allowed to violate. And if the people being promoted are not only debauchees and deviants, but also poisoners of a pure devotee, everything becomes more enhanced. Of course this explains why some of the ex-kulis say ISKCON is a hell hole, because for them, it has been.


And that is why Sulochana said -- he would not trade 4 billion years of his past bad karma, for 30 seconds of their future karma. I agree with that assessment. So yeah, they hid all the documents, and came after us when we brought them out. And that is because they wanted to hide what Srila Prabhupada wanted, and that includes the poison tapes, which only landed in my hands in 1997. This was a criminal take over and not a guru process, plain and simple.

ys pd

Gurukripa Promotes The Ritvik Idea (Evidently) 12 22 24

Mahesh Raja

To:William Benedict

Sun, Dec 22 at 3:43 AM

GURU KRIPA ENDORSES RITVIK IDEA

Bhakta das Prabhu
Hare Krsna!

Although both you and Rupanuga, oppose Ritvik System July 9th 1977 ordered by Srila Prabhupada, here below in memories of Srila Prabhupada You tube video you will find that Guru Kripa Das Prabhu speaking VERY favourably ACCEPTING the Ritvik System:

Memories of Srila Prabhupada by Guru Kripa Dasa- Part 71

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfLWZbWbhY

Hare Krsna!

ys mahesh

PADA: Thanks Mahesh Raja prabhu. 

Yeah Gurukripa is correct, it could have been 11 or 50 named, because it was "whoever is nearest." Not "whoever is a resident of Krishna loka." 

Gurukripa is even more correct, mistakenly saying that Srila Prabhupada wants conditioned souls to be worshiped as good as God -- and absorb sins like Jesus as diksha gurus -- makes him appear as defective. This is blaming Srila Prabhupada for our deviations, and it makes him, and Krishna, and indeed the whole of ISKCON and the entire Krishna religion look severely misguided. 

Conditioned souls are God's successor gurus? 

Almost no one else accepts that, at least almost cent percent ordinary people reject that idea. Yeah good question, why has it taken so long for people like Gurukripa to speak up? This video is six years old, so it has been around for awhile, but hardly no one ever noticed because he does not emphasize this point.  

How many thousands and thousands of victims had to suffer, including many children, while most people just remained silent and did not do anything meaningful to challenge the cabal. 

Meanwhile, when I told Jayatirtha and Jayapataka that we are not qualified to absorb sins, they both laughed at me. OK how did that work out for them? 

Conditioned souls cannot be worshiped as pure, it never ends well, and there are thousands of examples of that from past and present India history. Moreover Srila Prabhupada told us that if we make conditioned soul gurus, it will produce malefic effect. And he said that over and over. 

Telling conditioned souls to absorb sins will cause them to degrade, and they have, and they are, and they will continue to fall down, get sick, die prematurely, and degrade. Gurukripa is right, the proof they are not, were not, could not have been -- gurus is -- they all fell down. Right on!

Oh oh! A devotee who visits and ISKCON temple says that when he complained to some of the seniors there that he thinks various Hindus who are taking up managing roles are also eating meat, he was told "we only make sure the poojaris are veg, not others." Yup. It just gets worse. 

This is the result of their "living gurus"! I think it is only a question of time and the poojaris will also be non-veg. It is deteriorating. And although we thank Gurukripa for finally speaking up, it is way too little and way too late to help many victims, and to turn around the mess in ISKCON in any short order period of time. This is going to be a long and hard haul. 

NARAYAN MAHARAJA

PADA: Satsvarupa was writing about how nice his daily enemas (stool passing) are, and on the next page, the colors of the saris of the gopis. BV Puri held SDG's book over his head and he was very upset. And BV Puri was complaining -- this is the result of the preaching of Narayan Maharaja! Now people are writing about their stool passing -- and the gopis -- all in the same book! This is way worse than anything the sahajiyas are doing, even the sahajiyas are not this disgusting. Rasika can only be presented to people who are qualified to receive it, and not to frauds. 

NM was giving rasika classes to these folks, and that means, he never understood the process. Of course NM also helped SDG write The Guru Reform Notebook, which is a guidebook for what to do when the gurus they are promoting are actually debauchees. Worshiped as good as God, and debauchees, and -- maid servants of the gopis no less. They do not know what is rasika and what is deviation. ys pd

ISKCON And The Sinking of the Concordia 12 20 24

PADA: This is a good analogy (below) where the captain of the Concordia abandoned ship -- and left all the passengers in peril. And many passengers suffered badly, many were injured, and some died. And ISKCON leaders, like Bhagavan, Bhavananda, Hansadutta, Harikesh, Jayatirtha, Kirtanananda, Ramesvara, Satsvarupa -- and many others -- steered the ISKCON ship into the rocks -- and then they all sort of abandoned and left the ship -- to sink -- and imperil, harm or even kill the passengers. See ya later suckers! 

And then Giriraja, Ravindra Swarupa and similar others sort of bailed out in a different way, they had to leave due to various forms of "health crisis." And some of them are supposedly "going senile" -- just at the time more and more questions are emerging about the whole mess they helped make. And Danavir, Jayapataka and others seem to be suffering another whole set of weird "health issues." 

OK this is maybe connected to their taking too much karma. Of course, we also have a number of guys like Hrdayananda, who has sort of left the captain's seat indirectly, since he lives off shore, and off ISKCON property. He is a leader de facto, but is not actively participating. OK he is essentially gone, although not officially. And then Bhakti vikas swami is making an independent Krishna Life program, Radhanath has his own Chowpatty charity, OK they also bailed out direct or indirect. And a number of these leaders started ISKCON's competing spin-offs like Sridhara, Narayan, BV Puru, BP Puri, Babajis etc. 

Even some of the former stalwart defenders of the GBC's sinking guru ship like Rupanuga had to bail out of the sinking ship. And that is why one devotee told me -- "we should advertise -- will the last person to leave ISKCON remember to turn the lights out."  

Yeah, it is like the Concordia ship sinking incident. All sorts of people became bogus gurus, and many others were cheer leaders who supported that deviation, and the odious results were banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits, murders and tons of bad public media publicity, but where are all of the people who steered ISKCON into the rocks now? OK they almost ALL bailed out. 

Someone else told me awhile ago -- that it is like they all started a big fire in the ISKCON house, then they poured gasoline onto the fire, and once the house was just about burnt to toast, they just wandered off and left ISKCON as a smoldering burnt out hulk. And then they started their own independent programs to mainly take care of themselves, while ISKCON continued, and continues -- to suffer, and so do many past and current citizens. One common complaint from victims? No accountability for the problems these leaders caused so many others.

Thus! Currently: most of these leaders are now gone; most of the original Prabhupada devotees are gone; most of the children of the original Prabhupada devotees are gone; and they have been replaced with a sort of "Hindu management board" taking control of many or most temples. Even in 1988 Lokanath swami was complaining the temples have become skeleton crew, ghost towns. OK a skeleton - like person is -- very, very sickly, or nearly dead.

And a number of people report "seeing hardly any Western people at ISKCON temples." Meanwhile, a friend of mine -- who still goes to one these Hindu-ized temples -- says he knows for sure at least 50% of the Hindus who come to the temple there -- eat meat. So original ISKCON is sort of being replaced or displaced with a Hindu cultural hall process. 

And never mind all the quotes Prabhupada gave about his desire to NOT have the Hindu program connected to his program. He said the Hindu program is Kaitava Dharma (cheating); if the Hindus take over ISKCON they will make it into a business; Hindus are a hodge podge; Hindus already know everything, and so on and so forth, and thus for sure he would not want them to be in charge of his program under any circumstances. 

But more and more, they are. And naturally that is one of the questions the media people ask me, where are all these leaders now? Dispersed, disbanded, and basically -- exited stage right. Took the money and ran. 

OK like the captain of the Concordia. But only -- after -- they drove the ship onto the rocks. The problem is that eventually, a person will be held accountable for their actions, here or next life. And if they aided, abetted, co-orchestrated -- banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing -- of Vaishavas -- by helping the elite cabal that made that process, they will have to answer for that. ys pd 

PATITA PAVANA DASA

AGE OF DISINFORMATION?

We have been discussing the similarities between the Concordia cruise ship disaster and mis-leadership by false prophets who pose as gurus. To review, the captain of the sinking Concordia abandoned the passengers, exactly as a blooped imitation acharya deserts his disciples due to the pull of his senses. Such acharya-bloopers leave their disciples in limbo, and at the mercy of an impersonal institution. This is exactly how the captain of the Concordia left those under his care to a listing ship, with dozens of deaths.

But there is one more similarity. After the Concordia hit a rock off the coast of Giglio Island, the captain downplayed the impending tragedy with disinformation. Passengers were urged to return to their cabins and to stay calm--as meanwhile the ship was sinking!

Spreading disinformation from the top has been an ongoing problem for many years in ISKCON. In fact, the greatest disinformation that ISKCON leadership has been guilty of broadcasting is the supposed divinity of its chosen few--the Original Imitation Acharyas.

Here in Europe, during the heyday of "His Divine Grace Shrila Harikesha Swami Vishnupada," this pretended "acharya" had over 10,000 disciples. Festive gatherings at his many centers in the Eastern European bloc and Russia attracted thousands of devotees.

Yet, around 1997-98, this pretended paramhamsa fell prey to his senses and went head over heels for a lady disciple, who used to massage the swami. To rationalize his affection, it was alleged that the "Maharaja" claimed she was something like an incarnation of Shrimati Radharani.

All the while, ISKCON's leadership played the cover-up card by spreading the disinformation that that "Harikesh is ill." Somehow, the "renounced" Harikesh soon landed on his feet, happily married to his divine better half and living in a beautiful and rich bungalow in Florida. There were whispers that the leaders gave him a very generous retirement package to go off and play his awful "elevator music" on his guitar.

Now, here is the point, as a result of the disinformation that Harikesh was a divinely-empowered totally enlightened "guru," his many thousands of devotees simply fizzled out and merged back into their karmi lives. Thousands were lost-- misled by disinformation into the dark hole of repeated rebirth.

In this case, disinformation meant that Harikesh -- like so many other swami posers -- claimed to be qualified messengers of Krishna who had appeared to take fallen souls back to Godhead. And people believed that disinformation. Had such guru posers just been honest, and explained that they were merely representatives of Shrila Prabhupada, then disciples would not have lost faith when the guru fell into the muck of Maya. 

Had he--and others--merely preached properly from the point of view of parampara--giving all credit to the previous acharya--then those tens of thousands of lost devotees might still be with us today.

When our minds tell us that we have become the Neo-Prabhupadas, then troubles are just around the corner--and those troubles wil lalso afflict anyone who is dumb enough to believe such a foolish charade.. When the leaders are honest, there can never be any need for cover-up embellishments with saccharine layers of dis-information.

Truth be told, our business is to direct others to the teaching of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada--exactly as Guru Maharaja has given in his original books. As it is said, "honesty is the best policy,," and being honest about our own struggles--and about the actual divinity of the previous acharya--is the only means to extend the sampradaya into the future.

Today, Harikesh still returns to ISKCON centers to boast about what a great devotee he is--even as thousands of his former "disciples" are languishing like drowning passengers aboard the Concordia. We are strongly advised not to criticize Harikesh, while no one really gives a damn for the thousands of people who have been misled back into the iron-like snares of Maya.

While researching this rant, I found this satire about the Harikesh (and ISKCON's) penchant for dis-information.

https://harekrsna.com/.../editor.../11-11/editorials7986.htm

IMAGES: (R) Days of divinity.: Harikesh on the "Vyasa Asan" receiving worship with a grin. (L) Robbie Campagnola today with his "divine goddess."

Gaura Keshava / Bhagavan ACBS / Krishna's Cows / Ukraine 12 19 24

PADA: Bhagavan dasa (William Erlichman) is evidently promoting Gaura Keshava dasa as an authority. He was the main person who instituted ISKCON's reversing the offerings -- originally from guru to Krishna, changed to -- Krishna to guru. Why? Just in case your guru is bogus, at least Krishna gets the offering. 

Really? 

Well why not figure out why we are promoting bogus gurus in the first place! That means, instead of just admitting their gurus are not authentic, they are just bending the rules into making bogus guru worship authorized. Guess what? It is not authorized. 

And according to Bhagavat Maharaja, Gaura Keshava has many other problems. If I recall properly, Gaura Keshava was doing some fire sacrifices at New Vrndavana many years ago, evidently not aware that Kirtanananda is not a pure devotee. 

Meanwhile one of Bhagavan's children told me, since I am an important contributor, he is going to get me unblocked from Bhagavan's forum, but that never happens. Anyway, worship of conditioned souls as God's successors is a bad idea, and bending the rules to make it appear as authorized, does not actually make it authorized. ys pd 

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GAURA KESHAVA DAS HAS BEEN AN ERRANT INFLUENCE

Widely known as a learned brahmana and scholar, Gaura Keshava das was a leading member of the Shastric Advisory Council (SAC) and he became ISKCON’s advising brahmana, touring ISKCON to train brahmanas and pujaris. Based upon his own defective opinion, after studying shastra, Gaudiya Math, sampradayas, and “technicalities,” he advocated reversing Srila Prabhupada’s ascending order of offering in temple or home altar worship, to a descending order, with Krishna first and last, down to the ISKCON conditioned “guru.”


Most of ISKCON in India, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere adopted the changed deity worship procedure, supported by Jayapataka, Bhavananda, many GBCs. ISKCON pujaris mentally seek the permission, in a meaningless exercise of imagination, of their conditioned “guru’s” photo on the altar and then make offerings first to Radha Krishna, then Gaur Nitai, the Guru parampara, Srila Prabhupada, and last to their “guru.”


But this was not how Srila Prabhupada taught us to offer altar worship or food, where we offer first to Srila Prabhupada, then previous acharyas, Gaura Nitai, and lastly Radha Krishna. Srila Prabhupada warned us not to make changes, but ISKCON has made serious changes to the deity worship and food offerings. This was an attempt to solve the quandary of conditioned “gurus” not being spiritually able to pass the worship up the disciplic succession.


But can a conditioned “guru” induce Krishna to accept worship directly, even if he asks his false guru for permission? The contradictions and anomalies that compound and multiply when ISKCON adopts defective initiation and guru doctrines cannot be solved with adding more defective doctrines to be applied in deity worship. These deity worship changes took place when ISKCON “gurus.”


Bhavananda and others were discovered in sinful activities. Should his disciples should first offer to him, or to Krishna and then to him? The GBC decided he should not be offered bhoga, but only prasadam, for his own good and that of others, thus changing the process of deity worship, adopting the descending sequence that is practiced in Gaudiya Math temples.


Some temples are still offering in the original ascending order (like Los Angeles). Gaura Keshava offensively wrote March 29, 2009: “… we must follow the shastra, and not imitate his personal example when it does not technically follow shastra. The system of arotike in all Gaudiya Vaishnava temples is to first pay obeisance to the guru and take his permission for worshipping Lord Krishna.


"Then worship Krishna first and then Radha, then Mahaprabhu and the guru parampara in descending (senior to junior) order, lastly to the assembled devotees. In ISKCON Srila Prabhupada instituted another order offering the items to the guru first. In this case, the item cannot technically be offered afterwards to the Lord, having first been enjoyed by the guru. This is technically not correct.


"Therefore we must in this case follow shastra and adapt our worship method to the one followed by all Vaishnava sampradayas. The doctrine or principle of worshiping the guru first is correct but the technicality of HOW that is to be done is incorrect.


"This system is followed in most Europe temples where I standardized the deity worship in the 1980’ s. It is not followed in some temples like Los Angeles, as some Prabhupada disciples find it hard to accept. They have no experience of the correct technical details as practiced in India.”

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KRISHNA AND HIS COWS

"Mother Yasoda would then address Nanda Maharaja, "See my dear son, whose eyes are white, who has a turban on His head, a wrapper on His body and leg bells which tinkle very sweetly on His feet. He is coming near, along with all of His surabhi calves, and just see how He is wandering upon the sacred land of Vrndavana!"

Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 43

"The cows in Krsna's abode are also liberated souls. They are called surabhi cows. There are many popular pictures showing how Krsna loves the cows, how He embraces and kisses them. That passive relationship with Krsna is called santa. Their perfect happiness is achieved when Krsna comes and simply touches them."
Science of Self-Realization, Chapter 8

"Krsna always tends the cows. His name is cowherd boy. To become animal of Krsna is a great, great fortune. It is not ordinary thing. Any associate of Krsna, either His cowherd boyfriends or calf or cows, or the Vrndavana trees, plants, flowers or water, they are all devotees of Krsna. They like to serve Krsna in different capacities. Somebody is serving Krsna as animal. Somebody is serving Krsna as fruits and flowers, as tree, as Yamuna water, or the beautiful cowherds men and damsels or Krsna's father and mother, so many with Krsna. Krsna is not impersonal.

So He has got so many lovers. Krsna also loves them. So Krsna's another name is pasu-pala, pasu-pala-pankaja. He is, mean, tender of the animals. Surabhir abhipalayantam. He takes pleasure in tending the cows, surabhi. These are surabhi cows, not these ordinary cows, surabhi cows. Surabhi cows means you can milk the cow as many times as you like and as much milk as you like. That is surabhi."

Srila Prabhupada Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam, 06-26-74, Melbourne

These cows are the Lord's pet animals. From the surabhi cows one can take as much milk as one needs, and one may milk these cows as many times as he desires. Of the surabhi cows, all of whom are very dear to Lord Krsna, seven are said to be the most important. They are: Mangala, Pingala, Ganga, Pisangi, Manikastani, Hamsi and Vamsipriya. Srimati Radharan also has pet surabhi cows, among whom Sunada, Yamuna and Bahula are the most important, along with Tungi, Her chubby pet calf.

In addition to these pet surabhi cows, many other types of pets belong to Krsna and Radharani. Krsna's pet dogs are Vyaghra and Bhramaraka. Padmagandha and Pisangaksa are His pet oxen, Suranga is His pet deer, and Dadhilobha is His monkey. Kalasvana is His pet swan, Tandavika His pet peacock, and Daksa and Vicaksana are His pet parrots.

Radharni's old pet monkey is called Kakkhati. Rangini is Her pet doe, Carucnadrika is Her pet cakori bird, and Madhuri is Her pet elephant. Tundikeri, Her pet swan, is fond of swimming in Radha-kunda. Suksmadhi and Subha, Her two parrots, like to perfectly imitate Lalita-devi's playful jokes spoken to her master and mistress (Sri Sri Radha-Krsna). 

By this wonderful repetition the parrots astonish the gopis.

"I think the drones that are buzzing all around You must have been Your devotees in their past lives. They cannot leave Your company because no one can be a better, more affectionate master than You. You are the supreme and original Personality of Godhead, and the drones are just trying to spread Your glories by chanting every moment. I think some of them must be great sages, devotees of Your Lordship, and they are disguising themselves in the form of drones because they are unable to give up Your company even for a moment. My dear brother, You are the supreme worshipable Godhead. 

Just see how the peacocks in great ecstasy are dancing before You. The deer, whose behavior is just like the gopis, are welcoming You with the same affection. And the cuckoos who are residing in this forest are receiving You with great joy, because they consider that Your appearance is so auspicious in their home. Even though they are trees and animals, these residents of Vrndavana are glorifying You. They are prepared to welcome You to their best capacity, as is the practice of great souls in receiving another great soul at home. As for the land, it is so pious and fortunate that the footprints of Your lotus feet are marking its body."

Krsna Book, Chapter 15

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.

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PADA: Remember when they said Russia needs to invade Ukraine to stop the dangerous alleged Bio-labs there? Well as it turns out -- Russia already blew up the dam and sent the contents of entire bio labs, chemical plants, paint factories, millions of gallons of gasoline, oil, and 100 tons of sewage into the ocean and now they are having 100s of tons of oil floating around the same sea. And so now there is another mass of dead animals and fish floating in the sea. 

The Russians are in fact the actual bio hazard ... there are now thousands and thousands of birds that are covered in oil. The Russian oil ships? OK some are 60 years old ships taken out of retirement. Oil only leaks 2 gallons a day they said ... what could go wrong here? 

Wow, they estimate now that millions and millions of fish and birds, and numerous other living beings will all SUFFER BADLY and then die, as well as unlimited small and microorganisms that the fish need to eat. It will be a horrible death for these creatures. This is the real bio-hazard -- in case no one noticed.

It looks like some of these ocean going ships were in fact never made for the ocean, and are only light weight river going ships, made for calm waters, and are not made for large ocean waves ... but they knew that all along ... and we knew that all along. 

To me it is ironic that in the name of saving the planet from biological disasters, they are making some of the worst bio disasters in history -- themselves. We are here to fix it! OK actually -- we are here to make it WAY worse. 

Wow, just like the ISKCON GBC! We are going to fix everything by making a pile of gurus! Ummm, nope, you are going to make things worse. How worse? Way worse. So many living entities have to suffer and die, all so that -- we can save the world! And 95% of the Prabhupada devotees have to be removed from ISKCON -- to save ISKCON. Oh oh pilgrims! The only good news is, all this makes people like me want to save -- ourselves -- from all these dubious folks!

ys pd

HK Kirtan VIDEO / Monkey Movie Review 12 18 24

 

THE MONKEY ON A STICK MOVIE

By a Devotee:

They missed the many statements that a Krishna conscious woman is on the spiritual platform, and if she can maintain that, then she is just as intelligent as a man. So in this particular case, they are saying that they are smarter than Krishna or God. What a joke. Like Srila Prabhupada would say can you float trillions of planets? Can you make the sunrise and sunset on time every day? 

Can you create time itself? So of course we know the answers to these rhetorical questions. So once again, we are so teeny tiny. So an intelligent person who has read some of the Vedic scriptures and have read some of Srila Prabhupada's purports and commentaries on the words of God would just listen and keep their dumb mouth shut. Then, in the movie, a woman was saying she felt bad because she should’ve been speaking up more about the deviations of her Godbrothers. 

Well, the reason why she wasn’t speaking up -- calling the police -- notifying the other devotees to the deviations and crimes -- because she was part of the problem. Early on Srila Prabhupada told Keith Ham through personal contact with him and through letters to his managers or GBC managers in that region more or less to kick Keith ham or Kirtanananda to the curb. 

But the letters against Kirtanananda, which Sulochana was bringing out, are not even mentioned in this movie? Why was Sulochana such a threat? He was bringing out the actual statements of Srila Prabhupada about Kirtanananda and the other GBC gurus.  

I read some of the actual letters which were hidden by GBC devotees up until recently. In addition to that, Srila Prabhupada personally went to meet with Keith ham and told him to not involve himself with management at all and he also told him to just chant and wear white. These incidents were hidden from the devotees but the GBC managers who kept Keith Ham on AS A PURE DEVOTEE GURU in spite of Srila Prabhupada warnings and orders, and his many deviations.

As we can see if we watch the movie, they went out of their way to re-create with actors some sexual scenes, and also some gory violent scenes. But the fact that this was the result of a bogus guru appointment, was not explained clearly if at all.

The lesson we must learn from all of this especially sincere, devotes is to have complete faith in the spiritual master and God, Krishna . If you can’t get to that platform, don’t bury yourself in a hole by thinking you are smarter than Krishna. That’s the reason why we’re here in these material worlds in the first place.

PADA: Yeah, the most important issue, why was Sulochana made a target, is not revealed clearly in this movie, ever. Real reason for his assassination? He was bringing out: the bogus appointment tape, the letters, the will, the July 9th letter and other documents, and that all proved -- there was no "guru appointment." 

That is the REAL reason he was a threat to these gurus, and he had to be removed, and that is not explained hardly in this movie -- if at all, but things like "women in ISKCON" and "going to the moon" are discussed and detailed. 

What about the guy who is supposed to be the main topic of the movie? What was the actual motive for his murder? He was exposing the bogus guru program, and so various big leaders combined and made him a target. The movie misses the target here big time, and it just looks like all sorts of random chaos was going on for no sensible reason, but there was a very sensible reason, the leaders had to stop the person exposing and undermining their claim to authority, and they did. 

Of course, a lot of the people involved with ISKCON as members at the time, who seem to be interviewed the most, also did not know what was Sulochana's issue or main complaint. And they still don't.

 

Why was his main complaint not made clear, right out of the gate? Because most of the film gives the speaking floor to the people who never understood these issues, and I was basically blocked out -- save for a few 4 second sound bites here and there. Very disappointing, but then again, if most devotees have no idea what happened and why, then the movie people are probably not going to grasp it either. 

But yeah, it does look like a lot of random chaos -- and violence -- and maybe murders -- was going on -- and a wide spectrum of assorted criminal activities, but the person challenging the authority of these gurus was made a specific target for a specific reason, and that is unfortunately missed. 

Yup. Unfortunate, a lot of people, including many devotees, still do not know -- these gurus were never appointed -- and the whole guru thing was a giant scam. Even today an older devotee was arguing with me that the new people were meant to be "disciples of my disciples." 

He still thinks we needed some sort of "disciples" to be the successors or GBC gurus, never mind he was booted out and no longer participates himself. Sorry, we do not need conditioned souls to be gurus, it just won't work, and hasn't. And the people who worship conditioned souls as their gurus will not be liberated, so the blind lead the blind into a ditch.

Henry Doktorski:

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BG 15 TEXT 16

dvāv imau puruṣau loke
kṣaraś cākṣara eva ca
kṣaraḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni
kūṭa-stho 'kṣara ucyate

SYNONYMS

dvau—two; imau—in this (world); puruṣau—living entities; loke—in the world; kṣaraḥ—fallible; ca—and; akṣaraḥ—infallible; eva—certainly; ca—and; kṣaraḥ—the fallible; sarvāṇi—all; bhūtāni—living entities; kūṭasthaḥ—in oneness; akṣaraḥ—infallible; ucyate—is said.

TRANSLATION

(Lord Krishna says) There are two classes of beings, the fallible and the infallible. In the material world every entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world every entity is called infallible.

PURPORT

As already explained, the Lord in His incarnation as Vyāsadeva compiled the Vedānta-sutra. Here the Lord is giving, in summary, the contents of the Vedānta-sūtra: He says that the living entities, who are innumerable, can be divided into two classes-the fallible and the infallible.

The living entities are eternally separated parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When they are in contact with the material world, they are called jīva-bhūtāḥ, and the Sanskrit words given here, sarvāṇi bhūtāni mean that they are fallible. Those who are in oneness with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, are called infallible.

Oneness does not mean that they have no individuality, but that there is no disunity. They are all agreeable to the purpose of the creation. Of course, in the spiritual world, there is no such thing as creation, but since the Supreme Personality of Godhead has stated in the Vedānta-sūtra that He is the source of all emanations, that conception is explained.

According to the statement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, there are two classes of men. The Vedas give evidence of this, so there is no doubt about it. The living entities, who are struggling in this world with the mind and five senses, have their material bodies which are changing as long as the living entities are conditioned. One's body changes due to contact with matter; matter is changing, so the living entity appears to be changing.

But in the spiritual world the body is not made of matter; therefore there is no change. In the material world the living entity undergoes six changes-birth, growth, duration, reproduction, then dwindling and vanishing. These are the changes of the material body. But in the spiritual world the body does not change; there is no old age, there is no birth, there is no death. There all exists in oneness.

It is more clearly explained as sarvāṇi bhūtāni: any living entity who has come in contact with matter, beginning from the first created being, Brahmā, down to a small ant, is changing its body; therefore they are all fallible. In the spiritual world, however, they are always liberated in oneness.

#SoulfulJapa #HareKrishna #SrilaPrabhupada pic.twitter.com/3rtahLnPbg

— Madhu Pandit Dasa (@madhupanditdasa) December 17, 2024