lack of humility and whoes books I will distribute

[Paramananda das]

dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences at your lotusfeet
Jaya Sri Guru and Gauranga,Jaya Gandarvika Giridhari

Jaya Srila Prabhupada

I am watching this video again from 2000 in Alachua of Srila Gurudeva speaking about humility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtktrvP4ZZU

Some persons in ISKCON refuse to call me by my initiated name Paramananda das as they want to control me and they obviously lack vaisnava humility and try to back stap me and stap me in my heart.So it is a test for me in humility:

Now we can tolerate to some extend that others try to lord it over us, and in ISKCON we have seen and experienced for years how even sannyasis try to lord it over you for personal wealth and prestige reasons.Such persons must be avoided.

 

trinad api sunicena

taror api sahishnuna

amanina manadena

kirtaniyah sada harihi

One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige, and should be ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.

Humility means to also chant 64 rounds daily as ordered by Lord Caitanya, not out of false prestige but because it is the order of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya.My Gurudeva also ordered me in this matter.

One ISKCON sannyasi was angry I also distribute the books of my Gurudeva sometimes.Why not? Why will you think his books are not fit for reading? .This is your illusion. I read Srila Prabhupadas Bhagavad Gita and that of my Gurudeva and the commentaries of the acaryas.

But mainly I distribute and read Srila Prabhupadas books, again I have started to read and distribute the Nectar of devotion.Only a case I have gotten but each book is worth more than any wealth of this world , as it is the glorious writtings of Srila Prabhupada and the BBT has printed so many other books.Which is nice, but why they are not printing Nectar of devotion and make sure devotees read this important book? Bhanu Swami has also made commentaries to the Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu ,I have not read those yet.

Also I have the commentaries of Bon Maharaja that Srila Bhaktisidhdanta Prabhupada ordered to translate this book and write commentaries.But I am satisfied with Srila Prabhupadas Nectar of devotion.

To become actual humble is much needed in order for us to chant 64 rounds in pure KC. This lecture by my Gurudeva is such nectar and Srila Prabhupada also has given so many direction in his books about humility.Such as Bhagavad Gita 13: 8 to 12:

"Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. The material conception of life makes us very eager to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man in perfect knowledge--who knows that he is not this body--anything, honor or dishonor, pertaining to this body is useless. One should not be hankering after this material deception. People are very anxious to be famous for their religion, and consequently sometimes it is found that without understanding the principles of religion, one enters into some group, which is not actually following religious principles, and then wants to advertise himself as a religious mentor. As for actual advancement in spiritual science, one should have a test to see how far he is progressing. He can judge by these items. "

What are these items Srila Prabhupada is talking about that is mentioned by Krsna in this sloka:

Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; nonattachment to children, wife, home and the rest, and even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me, resorting to solitary places, detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization, and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth--all these I thus declare to be knowledge, and what is contrary to these is ignorance.

Jaydvaita Swami yelled at me to distribute his version of Srila Prabhupadas Bhagavad Gita not the 1972 one printed by KBI, "YOU WILL BECOME FAMOUS" I am still laughing ,I have been distributing Srila Prabhupadas books since 1979 and am still being mistreated by Jayadvaita Swami and his kind.

trinad api sunicena

taror api sahishnuna

amanina manadena

kirtaniyah sada harihi

your humble servant'

Paramananda das