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Never Again Swami

NEVER AGAIN SWAMI

Never again Swami Navayogendra Swami chastised me on Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama in 2010 , he has never done a full Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama on foot for all those days I had many cuts and had to put on shoes and this dog like rascal comes and chastise me for wearing shoes ? He is also extremely envious of Srila Narayana Maharaja because he knows I took diksa from him so he asked if I was there to steal ISKCON devotees to bring to Narayana Maharaja .That is why I…

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Added by Paramananda das on May 24, 2020 at 8:36am — No Comments

reinitiation

The question was raised :

U took initiation from Harikesha Swami.

But what do you mean by reinitiation?

How can it possible?

The answer is Harikesa since i joined ISKCON never ever attended mangal artik and full morning program thus disobeying Srila Prabhupada ,he became more and more independent thinking he is an acarya.He did not chant 64 rounds as an acarya is supposed to do he also was way to much attached to money power and women ,thus he fell down and refused…

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Added by Paramananda das on May 8, 2020 at 7:57am — No Comments

Chapter 12 of Vaisnava Amrta : Fasting on Visnutattva days

 Skanda Purana   states:

matr ha pitr has caiva bhratr ha guru has tatha

ekadasyas tu ya bhunkte visnu-lokac cyuto bhavet

“Those who eat grains on Ekadasi and on the Day of Lord Hari (including Janmastami, Gaura Purnima etc.) obtain the sin equal to killing one’s own mother, own father, own brother and own Guru; and they cannot reach the spiritual world, which is why one should never eat grains on fasting days.”

yani kani ca papani brahma hatyadikani…

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Added by Paramananda das on May 7, 2020 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

thus nouring one another Gita 3,11

thus nourishing one another" Gita 3.11

In 1987 in ISKCON Vrindavana Jayadvaita Swami had his first Ista Ghosthi about book changes and I asked him about changes he had done to this sloka :

CHAPTER 3: KARMA-YOGA

TEXT 11

devan bhavayatanena

te deva bhavayantu vah

parasparam bhavayantah

sreyah param avapsyatha

SYNONYMS

devan—demigods; bhavayata—having been pleased; anena—by this sacrifice; te—those; devah—the demigods; bhavayantu—will please;…

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Added by Paramananda das on May 1, 2020 at 11:55am — No Comments

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