Bingo hall in ISKCON NY and meat for firemen at ISKCON building

[Paramananda das]

dear Ramabhadra Prabhu

Please accept my humble obaisences 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

  I have one humble request, stay far away from  me as long as you have a Bingo hall at ISKCON Brooklyn and allow yearly meat cook  out

by NY firemen .Unless this is resolved do not talk to me.Last year in 2010 you asked me to help you obtain Govardhana Sila in Vrindavan.I did

not know these things still was going on or would have advised against it.

However 

Giriraja worship is not allowed  where such things as meat eating is going on.I therefore humbly request you to place Giriraja back on Govardhana

until Brooklyn temple discontinues a Bingo hall and yearly meat cookout.Fascilitating eating meat is also a sin and is opposed to GBC rules of 1996.

as I posted to you in my previous email.

The worship of Giriraja is for those on the path of Niskama bhakti and Vraja Bhakti and who daily chants 64 rounds as shown by Srila Raghunath

das Goswami.The worship of Giriraja is not only opposed to demigodworship but all kind of ulterior motives such as a Bingo hall.

Srila Prabhupada was furious  chicken was cooked at the temple in New York, but you allow yearly meat cook out for many.

 

Srila Prabhupada chastised the devotee who did not tell him about the cooking  of chickens, but my dear Sir ,I am no 'chicken', and thus I am reporting

this to the lotusfeet of Sri Sri Radha Govinda , Mahaprabhu, Srila Prabhupada and the vaisnavas, I  have done my duty in this matter ,and 

even offered to help you get rid of this 

deviation.

LORD NARASIMHA  is watching and is not pleased with serving grains on HIS holy appearance day or with meat eating at the temple or with Bingo. 

If you have any vaisnava friends they will tell you the same, if they are not vaisnavas,  they will say it is ok.

sincerly 

Paramananda das

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The Bingo is not in the Temple but a building next door. It was there since long before I was in charge and when the lease expires in about ten years I would recommend a different use for the building if we remain at this location. My hope is to build a new Authentic Vedic Mandira for Sri Sri Radha Govindadeva in Queens New York where a very large base of our membership and laks of other Hindus reside. The GBC Body granted permission for Sri Sri Radha Govindadeva to have a new Temple built many years ago and they have been presented with complaints of the Bingo hall next door before. We have a very good relationship with many of these persons and they respect us very much. Many frequent our Govinda's Restaurant and are friendly although ignorant of higher spiritual values. In my estimation however these very people are certainly a better class than Mayavadis (See Srila Prabhupada's conversation below) and they are definitely superior to those who repeatedly commit Vaisnava Aparadha.

We were told the story in Mayapura one year that when Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura was hosting a British dignitary in Mayapura Dhama BST  directed disciples to privately provide the British Official with Tamasic food preps that were a normal part of the Britishers diet. What do you think Pyonidhi das any recommendations for purifying BST?

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What is the story with the Bingo hall at the Brooklyn temple?

 

> Srila Prabhupada called us into his room very early in the morning. The 
> leaders of the Gita Pratisthana had told Aksayananda Maharaja to talk 
> about ISKCON, not about the Gita. When Brahmananda Maharaja talked about 
> Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, many of them became very 
> argumentative, stating that Krsna simply meant "the divine consciousness." 
> Eventually, Mr. Bajaj told him not to discuss Gita philosophy, but only 
> how to popularize it. 
> Prabhupada, being very alarmed, said, "The danger is Mayavadi. Vrndavana 
> is full of Mayavadis. Do you accept it? And I am afraid our men may be 
> influenced. These people are gradually coming to our Vrndavana and Bombay 
> temples. They may occupy it. We have to be very careful. It is clearly 
> written in the Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya 6-169]: 'Mayavadi-bhasya 
> sunile haya sarva- nasa.' If one hears the commentary of Sankaracarya, 
> everything is spoiled. This is the position. The whole of Vrndavana is 
> full of Mayavadis. We have to be very careful. Find out the way to stop 
> this class of men from speaking in our halls. So I am on the deathbed. I 
> may go at any moment. It is up to you to give protection to our 
> institution." 
> Srila Prabhupada had us each give our opinions, so that by stating our 
> positions, we would become more thoroughly convinced. "I cannot do now. 
> I can simply give warning," Srila Prabhupada said. I pointed out that in 
> Bombay they were planning to rent out the hall for all kinds of nonsense 
> performances, but Prabhupada did not seem to think there was anything 
> wrong. "Suppose you construct a house. You can do as you like, renting 
> to whomever you like. Similarly, if Bombay hall is constructed for making 
> some money, you must rent to common people. It is like when one pays for 
> marriage ceremony [he may rent a hall]. So whoever pays for one night to 
> your satisfaction, let anyone come. It will be a good source of income. 
> You have to allow." 
> Bhavananda Maharaja: How will that affect the atmosphere of the temple? 
> Prabhupada: Well, all around there is pollution. You can't check the 
> atmosphere all around. That is not possible. 
> Bhavananda Maharaja: But to preach, we have to attract all types. 
> Prabhupada: Preaching means to convert Mayavadis to Vaisnavas. Otherwise, 
> where is the question of preaching? 
> Bhavananda Maharaja: Preaching means risk. 
> Prabhupada: No risk. We take money from them. No Mayavadis gratis. 
> Lectures allowed. You pay, you can talk all nonsense.