Hare Krsna-One verse one purport-so much to learn from Srila Prabhupada….

SB 6.9.36-O Supreme Personality of Godhead, all contradictions can be reconciled in You. O Lord, since You are the Supreme Person, the reservoir of unlimited spiritual qualities, the supreme controller, Your unlimited glories are inconceivable to the conditioned souls. Many modern theologians argue about right and wrong without knowing what is actually right. Their arguments are always false and their judgments inconclusive because they have no authorized evidence with which to gain knowledge of You. Because their minds are agitated by scriptures containing false conclusions, they are unable to understand the truth concerning You. Furthermore, because of polluted eagerness to arrive at the right conclusion, their theories are incapable of revealing You, who are transcendental to their material conceptions. You are one without a second, and therefore in You contradictions like doing and not doing, happiness and distress, are not contradictory. Your potency is so great that it can do and undo anything as You like. With the help of that potency, what is impossible for You? Since there is no duality in Your constitutional position, You can do everything by the influence of Your energy.

PURPORT-The Supreme Personality of Godhead, being self-sufficient, is full of transcendental bliss (ātmārāma). He enjoys bliss in two ways—when He appears happy and when He appears distressed. Distinctions and contradictions are impossible in Him because only from Him have they emanated. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all knowledge, all potency, all strength, opulence and influence. There is no limit to His powers. Since He is full in all transcendental attributes, nothing abominable from the material world can exist in Him. He is transcendental and spiritual, and therefore conceptions of material happiness and distress do not apply to Him.

We should not be astonished to find contradictions in the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Actually there are no contradictions. That is the meaning of His being supreme. Because He is all-powerful, He is not subject to the conditioned soul’s arguments regarding His existence or nonexistence. He is pleased to protect His devotees by killing their enemies. He enjoys both the killing and the protecting.

Such freedom from duality applies not only to the Lord but also to His devotees. In Vṛndāvana, the damsels of Vrajabhūmi enjoy transcendental bliss in the company of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and they feel the same transcendental bliss in separation when Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma leave Vṛndāvana for Mathurā. There is no question of material pains or pleasures for either the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His pure devotees, although they are sometimes superficially said to be distressed or happy. One who is ātmārāma is blissful in both ways.

Nondevotees cannot understand the contradictions present in the Supreme Lord or His devotees. Therefore in Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti: [Bg. 18.55] the transcendental pastimes can be understood through devotional service; to nondevotees they are inconceivable. Acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvā na tāṁs tarkeṇa yojayet: the Supreme Lord and His form, name, pastimes and paraphernalia are inconceivable to nondevotees, and one should not try to understand such realities simply by logical arguments. They will not bring one to the right conclusion about the Absolute Truth.

Some Conclusions-Let us go thru some of the highly informative points in this sloka.

1.)….Furthermore, because of polluted eagerness to arrive at the right conclusion, their theories are incapable of revealing You, who are transcendental to their material conceptions.

There was a picture of Srila Prabhupada that was put on a poster board where he appears very stern. Some devotee remarked to Prabhupada that he didnt look very happy to which Srila Prabhupada repied-I was in Bliss ! Here is that picture

1. 2. He enjoys bliss in two ways—when He appears happy and when He appears distressed.

3.)Because He is all-powerful, He is not subject to the conditioned soul’s arguments regarding His existence or nonexistence. …Such freedom from duality applies not only to the Lord but also to His devotees.

During the SanDiego ritvik debates in 1990,(which was banned by the way by Iskcon) Ravindra svarupa leaned back in his chair, hands behind his head and all puffed with body language and challenged to the ritviks-If Prabupada is still present , then write him a letter and see if you get a reply. And yet this fool still writes his vyasa puja offerings yearly-Does he get a reply back from Prabhupada? Then why does he write them?

In the Original Chaitaya Caritamrta Introduction it is said…

“Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura accepted Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji, who *initiated* Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who in turn initiated Srila Gaurakisora dasa Babaji” (C:C, Chapter 1)

In the new BBT changed 9-volume edition, the same passage reads:

“Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura accepted Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji, the spiritual master of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who in turn accepted Srila Gaurakisora dasa Babaji”

Dravida, the editor writes.…On the side of not changing the “initiated” phrases we have the strong bias against changing the books unless absolutely necessary and the fact that Srila Prabhupada did indeed say that Jagannatha das Babaji initiated Bhaktivinode.”
(BBT Editor, Dravida Das)

So what did they do?? Here is the new change…admitted by Dravida das…

“Leaving one or both “initiated”s will strongly imply that the use of the phrases “direct disciple” and even “accepted [as his disciple]” indicate formal initiation as we know it in ISKCON, which is far from the truth.”

(BBT Editor, Dravida Das)

Dravida then adds that this reason was paramount in justifying the change:

This last was the weightiest argument, in my view, for changing the passage.

(BBT Editor, Dravida Das)

So there you have it-iskcon pundits think they know more than the liberated soul and guru Srila Prabhupada.

…“Because He is all-powerful, He is not subject to the conditioned soul’s arguments regarding His existence or nonexistence. …Such freedom from duality applies not only to the Lord but also to His devotees. “

4.)There is no question of material pains or pleasures for either the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His pure devotees, although they are sometimes superficially said to be distressed or happy. One who is ātmārāma is blissful in both ways….Nondevotees cannot understand the contradictions present in the Supreme Lord or His devotees.

In Satsvarupas biography of Srila Prabhupada-he portrays him like a homeless street bum not knowing which way to turn when he got off the boat in Boston Harbor.

And worse still the “devotee” lawyers for the BBT lawsuit case over printing the orignal books said Srila Prabhupada was just a “hired hand” who wrote his books for Iskcon, the actual owner of those books.

1. 5. ) and one should not try to understand such realities simply by logical arguments. They will not bring one to the right conclusion about the Absolute Truth.

Because these people who masquerade as devotees of the Lord have had their intelligence hijacked by Maya devi, they will never come to the correct conclusions.

Just see-for over 40 years Iskcon still cannot come up with their Final guru tattva position paper-changing it almost every year. And yet the “ritviks” have always had the exact same conclusion for these same past 40 years-Srila Prabhupada is the only acarya for the Hare Krsna Movement and will continue to be so into the future.

“these things are going on…..” better to leave this corrupt iskcon organization altogether and just take shelter at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada thru his vani-instructions which is the real association anyway.

damaghosa das