Paramananda das's Blog – September 2012 Archive (31)

Dandavat pranams

Jaya Sri Guru Gauranga, Gandharvika Giridhari

Jaya Srila Prabhupada

I was thinking about when "devotees" develop hatred towards Gaudiya math devotees , or for that matter any living being or other devotees in ISKCON even for socalled non devotees

Sri Isopanisad is very clear and simple:

yas tu…

Text 12

yad aditya-gatam tejo jagad bhasayate ’khilam yac candramasi yac cagnau tat tejo viddhi mamakam

Translation

The splendor of the sun, which dissipates the darkness of this whole world, comes from Me. And the splendor of the moon and the splendor of fire are also from Me.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

The unintelligent cannot…

Dandavat pranams

Jaya Sri Guru,Gauranga , Gandharvika Giridhari

Jaya Srila Prabhupada

When Srila Prabhupada started ISKCON he introduced no illicit sex.Many of his first disciples where even homosexuals.

  Still he allowed them to live in the temple to become KC.Some of them later still engaged in these demoniac acts and some even molested children...

  He also allowed women (in Gaydiya math and any…

Text 10

utkramantam sthitam vapi bhunjanam va gunanvitam vimudha nanupasyanti pasyanti jnana-caksusah

Translation

The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this.…

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is15.9

śrotraḿ cakṣuḥ sparśanaḿ ca

rasanaḿ…

Text 8

sariram yad avapnoti yac capy utkramatishvarah grhitvaitani samyati vayur gandhan ivasayat

Translation

The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another.

Commentary by Srila…