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For some, these videos will seem too much to understand, but for those devotees

who actually do understand things in a subtle or psychic way, the information

contained in these two videos are powerful information on how we can raise

our level of Krsna Consciousnes by becoming more fully aware of what we are

doing every second of our lives. And more importantly how we can change our lives by being conscious and not dull headed as we move about life.

The first video is very short-a Japanese Dr. who did a simple experiment with three bowls of rice with water added to each, and passing by each one daily and saying a different thing to each bowl of rice. Three different effects were caused by three different things said to each bowl over a months time. This shows the powerful effect on our lives of thought and emotion and how we think.

The second video is a bit longer but well worth the time viewing it. The man is a person trained in western science who later started looking at eastern traditions and how the teachers from each tradition used inner

thought or consciousness linked with emotion, and thought can change their lives. Even watching a women in a hospital in China who had cancer, see the tumors disappear due to the positive effects of three people in that room. This was viewed live on hospital monitors. This section appears around 6-8 minutes into it.

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Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

If you like great stories heard from the earliest devotees of how things took place,

then watch these remembrances…..

Hari bol

Damaghosa das

How to love Krsna? Love His Pure Devotee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_sgM_HFS3o

Highest blessing? Serve the devotee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDaD7oMeFts

Shyamasundar tells amazing story of how George Harrison paid for Krsna Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnqMbu94Nv0

Brahmananda tells how Mac millan Co. printed the first Bhagavad Gita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_sgM_HFS3o

760618SB.TOR Lectures

B.G. 16.23 yah sastra-vidhim utsrjya vartate kama-karatah na sa siddhim avapnoti na sukham na param gatim

Anyone who transgresses the regulative principles recommended in the sastra, sastra-vidhi, yah sastra-vidhim utsrjya, giving up sastra-vidhi, vartate kama-karatah, whimsically does something, na siddhim sa avapnoti: he never gets success. He’ll never be successful. Na siddhim na param gati: neither any salvation. Na siddhim, na sukham: neither even any material happiness. So we must accept the sastra vidhi. Sastra-vidhi, as in the sastra it is said, I have already quoted, kalau tad dhari-kirtanat.

krte yad dhyayato visnum tretayam yajato makhaih dvapare paricaryayam kalau tad dhari-kirtanat

In this age the sastra-vidhi is hari-kirtana. The more you chant Hare

Krsna maha-mantra, the more you become perfect. This is sastra-vidhi. And Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirmed it. Sadhu-sastra-guru-vakya. We have to be fixed up, first of all, what is the injunction of the sastra. Then what the sadhus, those who are devotees, what they are doing. What they are doing, sadhu, sastra, and guru. And what guru is asking. We have to follow these three principles. Sadhu-guru-sastra-vakya tinete koriya aikya. Who is sadhu? Who is abiding by the injunction of the sastra. Or guru? Guru means he’s also abiding by the injunction of the sastra. Then he’s guru, he’s sadhu. He’s sadhu. And if one, sastra vidhim, yah sastra-vidhim utsrjya… If sastra-vidhi you give up, then where is the question of guru and sadhu? Na siddhim. He’s not siddha. He has not attained the perfection, because he has rejected the principles of sastra. So he’s bogus. We have to test like that who is guru.

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“We never compromise. All my students, they will never compromise. Why shall I compromise? If I am confident that I am speaking the truth, why shall I make compromise? Those who are not confident of his position, they will make compromise. One who does not know where he stands, he will make compromise. And if I know where I am standing, why shall I make compromise? Let others do whatever he likes. This is our position.”

[Press Interview: Bombay Dec 31 1976]

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

This a a response to Dravida Prabhu’s article “The Book Changes – A Defense” (posted on the Sampradaya Sun (01.13.2014).

Basically Dravida Prabhu’s attempted defense boils down to two wellknown fallacious arguments often presented by the BBT International:

1. Prabhupada trusted Jayadvaita Swami pre Nov 14th 1978. Therefore the editing Jayadvaita Swami has done after Prabhupada’s disappearance (post Nov. 14th 1978) is also approved.

2. The books are made “closer to Prabhupada” by making them closer to the so called original manuscript (which is really only a draft).

Let us look at each of these fallacious arguments.

The “he is good” argument

I have posted an article on my blog defeating this fallacious argument so often presented by the BBT International:

Is Jayadvaita Still Good?

BBT International and their supporters often attempt to justify the changes made to Prabhupada books by Jayadvaita Swami by pointing out that Prabhupada a couple if times spoke highly of his editing work.

This article will show that these statements by Prabhupada can’t be construed to mean that Jayadvaita Swami’s editing work after Prabhupada’s disappearance is pleasing to Prabhupada.

From BBT International’s website:

“Of course, regarding Jayadvaita Swami, the BBT’s chief editor, Srila Prabhupada wrote, “Concerning the editing of Jayadvaita Prabhu, whatever he does is approved by me. I have confidence in him.” (letter to Radhavallabha, 7 September 1976) Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The mood of hope against all hope, could also be called the mood of separation. What hope

do I have of ever seeing Krsna? We saw Srila Prabhupada for a very brief time and those moments

in time should be sufficient to whet our appetites for “more”.

68-01-13.Jad Letter: Jadurani Yes, the ecstasy of separation of Spiritual Master is even greater ecstasy than meeting with Him.

Whenever Prabhupada would come to some city, the devotees would run there in

ecstasy and madness sometimes, almost like what we read in Krsna book when the

gopis of Vrndavana or the queens of Dvarka would come to meet with Krsna.

So we , who were there, all remember these feelings very acutely, and to hear Srila Prabhupada

say that the feelings of separation are even greater than feelings of meeting, is not

comprehensible to this limited mind I presently possess.

The devotees were literally mad, some of them, in meeting with Srila Prabhupada, So all we can do, at present, is just “imagine” what is in store for us when we finally arrive at the stage of “separation” !! And it is just this mood that one is supposed to cultivate, following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. .

And finally this mood of separation can be made possible only by hearing from the mouth of a realized soul.

This is the Paramahamsa path recommended by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Here below, is the evidence…

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

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Antya 14.37 … Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu showed by practical example how one can cultivate the mood of Radharani and the other gopis in separation from Krsna. Devotees absorbed in this mood do not like to see Krsna anywhere else but Vrndavana. Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu lamented, “I found Krsna in Vrndavana, and now I have again lost Him and come to Kuruksetra.” Unless one is a very highly advanced devotee, he cannot understand these intricate feelings. The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, however, has tried to explain this divyonmada as far as possible, and it is our duty simply to appreciate it as far as possible. Therefore the author has made the following request in verse 11: Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

If you dont want to be shocked-then don’t read any further….

I would suspect there are literally hundreds of thousands of devotees all over this planet that consider

the brutish mentality of changing even one word of Srila Prabhupadas book a gross offense, or hati mata, the mad elephant offense.

What to speak of the wholesale change to thousands of passages in the Bhagavad gita , Srimad Bhagavatam and Caitanya Caritamrta.

Now dear readers please hear what the author himself of these same books says about anybody who dares to touch his translations and purports.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

740704BG.HON Lectures 207301/530501 Prabhupada: Then so siksa and diksa-guru… A siksa-guru who instructs against the instruction of spiritual, he is not a siksa guru. He is a demon. Siksa-guru, diksa-guru means… Sometimes a diksa-guru is not present always. Therefore one can take learning, instruction, from an advanced devotee. That is called the siksa-guru. Siksa-guru does not mean he is speaking something against the teachings of the diksa-guru. He is not a siksa-guru. He is a rascal. … Because that is offense. Guror avajna. First offense is guror avajna, defying the authority of guru. This is the first offense. So one who is offensive, how he can make advance in chanting? He cannot make. Then everything is finished in the beginning. Guror avajna. Continue reading →

Adi 5.52 The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama Surrounding Vaikuntha is a mass of water that is endless, unfathomed and unlimited.

TLC 7 Unlimited Forms of Godhead The spiritual world of the Vaikuntha planets and Krsnaloka, the supreme planet, is situated in His energy of thinking. Although there is no creation in the spiritual world, which is eternal, it is still to be understood that the Vaikuntha planets depend on the thinking energy of the Supreme Lord. This thinking energy is described in ▼Brahma-samhita (5.2), where it is said that the supreme abode, known as Goloka, is manifested like a lotus flower with hundreds of petals. Everything there is manifested by Ananta, the Balarama or Sankarsana form. The material cosmic manifestation and its different universes are manifest through maya, or material energy.

Here is my question:

Why is the spiritual sky,with all it planets, all surrounded by water, unlimited amounts of water??

Because it resembles a lotus flower whorl, that “needs” water to support it?

Who knows the answer to this question? Is it possible to know?

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

(with that subject title I know the attention was captured)…

Below is the end of a lecture by Srila Prabhupada where he nicely explains how 99.9% of the world operates.

Namely, everybody (maybe even some of us) is trying for happiness thru this material body, but what we get is already fixed by karma or destiny-either the happiness or the distress.And whatever happiness and distress is experienced in each body, is always the same thing. This is also called chewing that which has already been chewed. Sense enjoyment, materialism, and so called society, friendship, and “love”. Same old same old…

Hare Krsna,

Damaghosa dasa

751204SB.VRN Lectures 231214/530501 There is a story of a prostitute, Laksahira. (aside:) You can sleep this way. I am asking you. Yes, you’re sleeping. You can go and sleep. Don’t make here. So there is a story of the prostitute, Laksahira. There was a prostitute whose charges was one lakh of pieces of diamond. It doesn’t matter, a big diamond or small diamond. That was her charges. So one man was suffering from leprosy and he was being assisted, (sic:) she was being assisted by his wife, very faithful wife. So still, he was morose. The wife asked the husband, “Why you are morose? I am giving you so much service. You are leper, you cannot move. I can take you… I take you on a basket and carry you. Still, you feel unhappy?” So he admitted, “Yes.” “Oh, what is the cause?” “Now, I want to go to the prostitute, Laksahira.” Just see. He is leper, a poor man, and he is aspiring to go to a prostitute who charges 100,000 of pieces of diamond. So anyway, she was a faithful wife. She wanted to satisfy her husband. Some way or other, she arranged. Then, when the leper was at the house of the prostitute, the prostitute gave him very nice dishes of food but everything in two dishes, everything, one in the golden pot, another in iron pot. So while he was eating, so he inquired the prostitute, Continue reading →

Studying Bhagavad-gita As It Is according to the logic of the hen

by Ajit Krishna Dasa

CUT CUT

“Ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. All rascals, they accept this Bhagavad-gita on the principle of ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. In the nyaya, in the logic. There is a logic, ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. What is that ardha-kukkuti-nyaya?

Kukkuti means the hen. So hen gives one egg every day. So the man, proprietor of the hen, he is considering that “This hen is very good, giving every day one egg. But the, its mouth is expensive. It eats. So let me cut the mouth, simply take the egg.”

So there are rascals, they study Bhagavad-gita on this principle of ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. “Cut this, take this, cut this, take this.” So if you cut the head, there will be no more egg. The rascal does not know. If you cut the head there will be no more production of egg.

So similarly, if you try to study Bhagavad-gita according to your whims, cut this and take this, that is not study of Bhagavad-gita.

That is something else. That is something else. That is something else.”

(Bhagavad-gita 1.28-29 – London, July 22, 1973)

Hare Krishna Society

Two very interesting videos for elevating our (Krsna ) consciousness‏

4 stories from early devotees‏

How one gets material success, later salvation and then perfection‏

“We never compromise”—SP‏

Great article on “no change” to the books‏

Meeting vs. separation and hearing from a realized soul–SP‏

Srila Prabhupada himself calls Jayadvaita and Dravida–DEMONS‏

A Transcendental question ??

The story of the Prostitute Laksahira—-SP‏

Studying Bhagavad-gita As It Is according to the logic of the hen

Studying Bhagavad-gita As It Is according to the logic of the hen