seeing through the eyes of scriptures
Srila Prabhupada only fits this catagory
PAMHO
AGTSP
Gurusuh narah matih, narakah sah," anyone who thinks that the guru makes mistakes lives in hell this is true for Srila Prabhupada".
Many persons that have taken the role of Guru and sannyasa in ISKCON think and thought they are beyond mistakes, thus they will never apologize even when they commit offences, they think they are infallibel and they reflect this mentality to their neophyte disciples. ( who also thinks they can not commit mistakes and not have to apologize for offences to Krsna and the vaisnavas).Thus how many has not fallen and more will fall ?
This is opposite of Trinad api sunicena.Most are in the catagory of regular devotees and thus one should not think I am beyond mistakes .The very proud attitude has made us take exclusive shelter of Srila Prabhupada.( because we have seen so many deviations)
If someone is saksad Hari as good as God... he can never attain this stage simply by only chanting 16 rounds and not even know all the main scriptures of our acaryas.And still if any Guru is having such knowledge has he realized his Sthiya Bhava?? Many have very little knowledge of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam even and still poss themselves as beyond mistakes this is clearly all due to lack of humility.
There has never been any high grade acarya in our line that did not chant minimum 64 rounds a day.It20is ample clear for any sincere devotee that studies Jaiva Dharma by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.The GBC should make it mandatory that all GBC's and sannyasis should chant minimum 64 rounds a day, it is hard to find a GBC or Swami that will go with us on Harinama and bookdistribution daily.Setting such a poor example others follwo their footstpes, also pretending to be infallibel and that they are beyond to have to join the sankirtana mission the yuga dharma:
krishna-varnam tvisakrishnam
sangopangastra-parsadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi su-medhasah
“In this Age of Kali, people who are endowed with sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord, who is accompanied by His associates, by performance of sankirtana-yajna.” Other yajnas prescribed in the Vedic literatures are not easy to perform in this Age of Kali, but the sankirtana-yajna is easy and sublime for all purposes, as recommended in Bhagavad-gita also (9.14).
The whole Bhagavad Gita is about sacrificing for Krsna.Anyone that claims I am a Guru but does not push the sankirtana mission of Mahaprabhu has fallen from Divine Grace ,only those who are properly engaged in theHarinama Sankirtana yajna can also chant 64 rounds a day, this is confirmed in Srila Bhaktisiddhantas Vaisnava ke:
(1)
0A
duṣṭa mana! tumi kisera vaiṣṇava?
pratiṣṭhāra tare, nirjanera ghare,
tava ‘ari nāma" kevala ‘kaitava"
(2)
jaḍera pratiṣṭhā, śukarer viṣṭhā,
jāna nā ki tāhā ‘māyāra vaibhava"
kanaka-kāminī, divasa-yāminī
bhāviyā ki kāja, anitya se saba
(3)
tomāra kanaka, bhogera janaka,
kanakera dvāre sevaha ‘mādhava"
kaminīra kāma, nahe tava dhāma
tāhāra--mālika kevala ‘yādava"
(4)
pratiṣṭhā-taru, jaḍa-māyā-maru,
nā pela ‘rāvaṇa" yujhiyā ‘rāghava"
vaiṣṇavai pratiṣṭhā, tāte kara niṣṭhā,
tāhā nā bhajile labhibe raurava
(5)
harijana-dveṣa, pratiṣṭhāśa-kleśa,
kara kena tabe tāhāra gaurava ?
vaiṣṇavera pāche, pratiṣṭhāśa āche,
tā'te kabhu nahe ‘anitya-vaibhava"
(6)
se hari-sambandha, śūnya-māyāgandha
tāhā kabhu naya ‘jaḍera kaitava"
pratiṣṭhā-canḍālī, nirjanatā-jāli,
ubhaye jāniha māyika raurava
(7)
kīrtana chāḍiba, pratiṣṭhā mākhiba",
ki kāja ḍhuḍiyā tādṛśa gaurava
madhavendra puri, bhava-ghare curi,
nā karila kabhu sadāi jānaba
(8)
tomāra pratiṣṭhā,--- ‘śukarer viṣṭhā",
tāra-saha sama kabhu nā mānaba
matsaratā-vaśe tumi jadarase
majeche-chāḍiyā kīrtana-sauṣṭhava
(9)
tāi duṣṭa mana, ‘nirjana bhajana,"
pracāricha chale ‘kuyogī-vaibhava"
prabhu sanātane, parama yatane,
śikṣā dila yāhā, cinta sei saba
(10)
sei du'ti kathā, bhula' nā sarvathā
uccaiī svare kara ‘hari nāma-rava"
‘phalgu" āra ‘yukta", ‘baddha" āra ‘mukta,"
kabhu nā bhaviha, ekākāra saba
(11)
kanaka-kaminī, ‘pratiṣṭhā-bāghinī",
chāḍiyāche yāre, sei ta' vaiṣṇava
sei ‘anāsakta", sei ‘śuddha bhakta",
saṇsāra tathā pāya parābhava
(12)
yathā yogya bhoga, nāhi tathā roga
‘anāsakta" sei, ki āra kahaba
‘āsakti-rahita", 8 0sambandha-sahita",
viṣaya samuha sakali ‘mādhava"
(13)
se ‘yukta-vairāgya", tāhā ta' saubhāgya
tāhāi jaḍete harira vaibhava
kīrtane yāhāra, ‘pratiṣṭhā-sambhāra"
tāhāra sampatti kevala ‘kaitava"
(14)
‘viṣaya-mumukṣu", bhogera bubhukṣu,"
du'ye tyaja mana, dui ‘avaiṣṇava"
‘kṛṣṇera sambandha", aprākṛta-skandha,
kabhu nahe tāhā jaḍera sambhava.
&nb sp;
(15)
māyāvādī jana", kṛṣṇe tara mana,
mukta abhimāne se ninde vaiṣṇava
vaiṣṇavera dāsa, tava bhakti-āśa,
kena vā ḍākicha nirjana-āhaba
(16)
ye ‘phalgu-vairāgī", kahe nije ‘tyāgī",
se nā pāre kabhu haite ‘vaiṣṇava"
haripada chāḍi', ‘nirjanatā bāḍi"
labhiyā ki phula, ‘phalgu" se vaibhava
(17)
rādhā dāsye rai', chāḍi ‘bhoga-ahi,"
‘pratiṣṭhāśa" nahe ‘kīrtana-gaurava"
‘rādhā-nityajana", tāhā chāḍi' mana
kena vā nirjana-bhajana-kaitava
(18)
vrajavāsigaṇa, pracāraka-dhana,
pratiṣṭhā-bhikṣuka tā'rā nahe ‘śaba"
prāṇa ache tāńra, sehetu pracāra,
pratiṣṭhāśā hīna -’kṛṣṇagāthā" saba
(19)
śrīdayitadāsa, kīrtanate āśa,
kar a uccaiī svare ‘harināma-rava"
kīrtana-prabhāve, smaraṇa svabhāve,
se kāle bhajana-nirjana sambhava
TRANSLATION
1) O wicked mind! What kind of Vaisnava do you think you are? Your pretentious show of chanting Lord Hari's holy name in a solitary place is only for the sake of attaining the false prestige of a worldly reputation -- it is nothing but pure hypocrisy.
2) Such materialistic prestige is as disgusting as the stool of a hog. Do you not know that it is only a mere illusion cast by the potency of Maya? What is the value of contemplating day and night your plans for enjoying wealth and women? All these things are only temporary.
3) When you claim wealth as your own, it creates in you ever-increasing desires for material enjoyme nt. Your riches should be used for serving Madhava, the Lord of all wealth. Neither is it your proper place to indulge in lust for women, whose only true proprietor is Lord Yadava.
4) The demon Ravana (lust-incarnate) fought with Lord Ramachandra (love-incarnate) in order to gain the tree of worldly reputation -- but that oasis turned out to be but a mirage cast in the desert wasteland of the Lord's illusory material potency. Please cultivate fixed determination to attain only the steady and solid platform whereupon a Vaisnava ever stands. If you neglect worshiping the Lord from this position, then you will ultimately attain a hellish existence.
5) Why do you needlessly suffer the torment of blaspheming the devotees of Lord Hari, attempting to achieve their eminence, thereby only proving your own fruitless foolishness? The desire for spiritual eminence is easily fulfilled when one becomes a devotee of the Lord, for eternal fame automatically follows the heels of a Vaisnava. And that fame is never to be considered a temporary worldly opulence.
6) The relationship b etween a devotee and Lord Hari is devoid of even a trace of worldly illusion; it has nothing to do with the materialistic cheating propensity. The prestige of so-called popularity in the material realm is compared to a treacherous dog-eating witch, and the attempt to live in solitude to supposedly engage in unalloyed bhajan is compared to an entangling network of distraction. Please know that anyone striving in either of these ways verily lives in the hell of Maya's illusion.
7) "I shall give up chanting the Lord's name publicly in kirtan and retire to solitude, thus smearing myself with worldly honor." Dear mind, what is the good of seeking such so-called glory? I will always remind you that the great soul Madhavendra Puri never deceived himself in that regard by committing theft in his own storehouse of perception the way you do.
8) Your cheap reputation is equal to the stool of a hog. An ordinary ambitious man like you can never be equated with a devotee of Madhavendra Puri's eminence. Under the sway of envy, you have drowned yourself in the filthy waters of material enjoyment after having abandoned the excellent perfection of congregational kirtan.
9) Truly, O wicked mind, the glories of so-called solitary worship are propagated only by false yogis using unscrupulous means to deceive others. To save yourself from these pitfalls, please contemplate the instructions that the Supreme Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu kindly gave us while addressing Srila Sanatana Goswami with the utmost care.
10) Do not forget for a moment the two most valuable concepts that He taught: 1) the principle of dry, apparent renunciation as opposed to real, appropriate renunciation; and 2) the principle of a soul being trapped in the bondage of matter as opposed to a soul who is liberated. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking that these conflicting concepts are on the same level. Please remember this while engaging yourself in chanting the Lord's holy names as loud as you possibly can.
11) One is truly a Vaisnava who has given up the habit of falling victim to the ferocious tigress of wealth, beauty, and fame. Such a soul is factually detached from material life, and is known as a pure devotee. Someone with this consciousness of detachment has thereby become victorious over the mun dane world of birth and death.
12) One is indeed detached who moderately partakes of worldly things that are deemed necessary for living in devotional service; a devotee acting in that manner does not fall prey to the disease of material infatuation. Thus devoid of selfish attachment, and endowed with the ability to see things in relation to the Lord, all sense objects are then directly perceived as being Lord Madhava Himself.
13) This is the standard of befitting renunciation, and one who realizes this is most fortunate indeed. Everything involved in such a devotee's life represents Lord Hari's personal spiritual opulence as manifest in the world of matter. On the other hand, one who engages in chanting the Lord's name with hopes of enhancing his own material reputation finds that all his activities and paraphernalia represent only the riches of hypocrisy.
14) O mind, please reject the company of two types of persons -- those desiring impersonal liberation from the material world, and those who desire to enjoy the pleasure of material sense objects. Both of the se are equally non-devotees. The things that are used in relation to Lord Krsna are objects belonging directly to the transcendental realm, and thus having nothing to do with matter they cannot be either owned or forsaken by persons interested in mundane enjoyment or renunciation.
15) An impersonal philospher is opposed to thinking of Krsna as an object of devotion, and thus being puffed up with the false pride of imaginary liberation he dares to criticize the true devotees of the Lord. O mind, you are the servant of the Vaisnavas, and you should always hope for attaining devotion. Why then do you make such a loud commotion by calling to me and trying to prove the supposed supremacy of your practice of solitary worship?
16) One who falsely gives up things that could actually be used in the Lord's service proudly calls himself a `renunciate,' but unfortunately he can never become a Vaisnava by such an attitude. Abandoning his servitorship to the lotus feet of Lord Hari, and resigning himself to his solitary home -- whatever is gained by that exercise can only be the worthless treasure of deception.
17) Ever engage yourself in the service of Sri Radha, and keep aloof from the vicious snake of materialistic sense gratification. The glory of participating in the Lord's kirtan is not meant to bolster anyone's ambitions for personal recognition. O mind, why then have you abandoned the identity of being Radha's eternal servant in favor of retiring to a solitary place to practice the cheating process of so-called bhajan?
18) The most valuable treasures amongst the Lord's preachers are the eternal personalities residing in Vraja-dham. They never occupy themselves with begging for worthless material reputation, which is cherished only by the living dead. The Vraja-vasis are truly infused with life, and therefore they preach in order to give life to the walking corpses of the mundane world. All the songs that the Vraja-vasis sing about the glories of Lord Krsna are devoid of any tinge of desire for fame.
19) Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati (servant of Radha and Her beloved Krsna) always hopes for kirtan, and he begs all to loudly sing the names of Lord Hari. The transcendental power of congregational chanting automatically awakens remembrance of the Lord and His divine pastimes in relation to one's own eternal spiritual form. Only at that time does it become possible to go off to a solitary place and engage in the confidential worship of Their Lordships
Has Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada not instructed us to chant 64 round or Srila Prabhupada yes there is no doubt .They have also asked us to do this sankirtana mission:
The world is feeling the weight of this Hare Krishna Movement, especially in your country. We have to increase this book distribution work more and more to firmly establish this Movement, which is the only hope for the suffering living entities.
Vrindaban 23 November, 1976
Atlanta
My dear Balavanta,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letters dated November 5 and 9.
I am very glad to hear how the book distribution is increasing more and more. This is our greatest weapon. The more the books are distributed, the more the ignorance of the Age of Kali will be smashed. The world is feeling the weight of this Hare Krishna Movement, especially in your country. We have to increase this book distribution work more and more to firmly establish this Movement, which is the only hope for the suffering living entities.
The plans for the new temple in Mississippi are very nic e.
Upon your recommendation I am pleased to accept the following devotees for initiation. Now hold a fire sacrifice. The first initiates must promise to follow the four regulative principles and chant a minimum of 16 rounds daily, avoiding the ten offenses. You may chant on their beads. The second initiates should hear the tape of me chanting Gayatri mantra in their right ears. Teach them how to count on their finger divisions.
1st: B. Warren Oeshawn–Dvaraka dasa; Bhakta Bill Chilack–Vrndavana dasa.
2nd: Munjakesa dasa; Madanamohini dasi; Vedaguhya dasa; Hamsagati dasa; Kokila dasa; Svaha dasi; Bhusaya dasa; Brahmanya dasa.
Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Some devotees ask why it seems there is less spiritual potency in ISKCON now, well the answer is there is less sankirtana yajna and for example in ISKCON we used to fast for Lord Balarama untill moon rise and glorifie Lord Balarama intensely, also Lord Nityananda Prabhus apperance days was observed like this.(then only taking ekadasi prasadam)
But this mood of comforting has crept in the mind so there is less sankirtana yajna and nto even proper fasting on Visnu tattva apperance days.Many neophyte leaders still serve grains on Narasimah Caturdasi , thus angering Lord Narasimha .How can their be auspisciouness?Those tempels that are strict and follow still are like Vaikuntha and m ore, and you can easy tell when you come to such a temple.Like ISKCON Mayapure or ISKCON Tirupati.We have to follow Srila Prabhupada.So if out leaders can not go on sankirtana bookdistribtuion at least they can do Harinama, why so many refuse to go? Where is all our sannyasis and GBC's joining us on Harinama?We want their association, but if they will not go then they must be envious of their own self and then how will junior devotees be inspired to go?This is why the Ratha Yatras are so nice when finally all Swamis also join in the congrgational chanting or in Mayapure.And some Swamis like Indraduymna Maharaja and BB Govinda Swami, Lokanatha Swami ,Radha Natha Swami they love Harinama.It is so nice when our sannaysis shows us how to chant and dance for Mahaprabhu, we need it more and more.We want you to lead and be those infallibe Gurus why not, we will follow, but you all please lead and set the example.
Vanca kalpa tarubhyas ca....
Parama Vijyate Sri Krsna Sankirtanam
your useless servant
Payonidhi das
PS In summary chanting 64 rounds and following the regulative principles of Bhakti and doing Harinama sankirtana and distributing bhakti sastras that Srila Prabhupada has given is what is desired by all true followers of Srila Prabhupada,to the degree I do not follow I have deviated from His Divine Graces Lotusfeet, I pray at the lotusfeet of all catagories of vaisnavas to come to platform of such suddha Bhakti,Srila Hari Das Thakura and Raghunatha das Goswami has set such high standards of Bhakti to obtain,,they never considered themselves beyond mistakes and tried to cheat anyone, though they where free from all contaminations of material modes of nature.
AGTSP
Gurusuh narah matih, narakah sah," anyone who thinks that the guru makes mistakes lives in hell this is true for Srila Prabhupada".
Many persons that have taken the role of Guru and sannyasa in ISKCON think and thought they are beyond mistakes, thus they will never apologize even when they commit offences, they think they are infallibel and they reflect this mentality to their neophyte disciples. ( who also thinks they can not commit mistakes and not have to apologize for offences to Krsna and the vaisnavas).Thus how many has not fallen and more will fall ?
This is opposite of Trinad api sunicena.Most are in the catagory of regular devotees and thus one should not think I am beyond mistakes .The very proud attitude has made us take exclusive shelter of Srila Prabhupada.( because we have seen so many deviations)
If someone is saksad Hari as good as God... he can never attain this stage simply by only chanting 16 rounds and not even know all the main scriptures of our acaryas.And still if any Guru is having such knowledge has he realized his Sthiya Bhava?? Many have very little knowledge of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam even and still poss themselves as beyond mistakes this is clearly all due to lack of humility.
There has never been any high grade acarya in our line that did not chant minimum 64 rounds a day.It20is ample clear for any sincere devotee that studies Jaiva Dharma by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.The GBC should make it mandatory that all GBC's and sannyasis should chant minimum 64 rounds a day, it is hard to find a GBC or Swami that will go with us on Harinama and bookdistribution daily.Setting such a poor example others follwo their footstpes, also pretending to be infallibel and that they are beyond to have to join the sankirtana mission the yuga dharma:
krishna-varnam tvisakrishnam
sangopangastra-parsadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi su-medhasah
“In this Age of Kali, people who are endowed with sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord, who is accompanied by His associates, by performance of sankirtana-yajna.” Other yajnas prescribed in the Vedic literatures are not easy to perform in this Age of Kali, but the sankirtana-yajna is easy and sublime for all purposes, as recommended in Bhagavad-gita also (9.14).
The whole Bhagavad Gita is about sacrificing for Krsna.Anyone that claims I am a Guru but does not push the sankirtana mission of Mahaprabhu has fallen from Divine Grace ,only those who are properly engaged in theHarinama Sankirtana yajna can also chant 64 rounds a day, this is confirmed in Srila Bhaktisiddhantas Vaisnava ke:
(1)
0A
duṣṭa mana! tumi kisera vaiṣṇava?
pratiṣṭhāra tare, nirjanera ghare,
tava ‘ari nāma" kevala ‘kaitava"
(2)
jaḍera pratiṣṭhā, śukarer viṣṭhā,
jāna nā ki tāhā ‘māyāra vaibhava"
kanaka-kāminī, divasa-yāminī
bhāviyā ki kāja, anitya se saba
(3)
tomāra kanaka, bhogera janaka,
kanakera dvāre sevaha ‘mādhava"
kaminīra kāma, nahe tava dhāma
tāhāra--mālika kevala ‘yādava"
(4)
pratiṣṭhā-taru, jaḍa-māyā-maru,
nā pela ‘rāvaṇa" yujhiyā ‘rāghava"
vaiṣṇavai pratiṣṭhā, tāte kara niṣṭhā,
tāhā nā bhajile labhibe raurava
(5)
harijana-dveṣa, pratiṣṭhāśa-kleśa,
kara kena tabe tāhāra gaurava ?
vaiṣṇavera pāche, pratiṣṭhāśa āche,
tā'te kabhu nahe ‘anitya-vaibhava"
(6)
se hari-sambandha, śūnya-māyāgandha
tāhā kabhu naya ‘jaḍera kaitava"
pratiṣṭhā-canḍālī, nirjanatā-jāli,
ubhaye jāniha māyika raurava
(7)
kīrtana chāḍiba, pratiṣṭhā mākhiba",
ki kāja ḍhuḍiyā tādṛśa gaurava
madhavendra puri, bhava-ghare curi,
nā karila kabhu sadāi jānaba
(8)
tomāra pratiṣṭhā,--- ‘śukarer viṣṭhā",
tāra-saha sama kabhu nā mānaba
matsaratā-vaśe tumi jadarase
majeche-chāḍiyā kīrtana-sauṣṭhava
(9)
tāi duṣṭa mana, ‘nirjana bhajana,"
pracāricha chale ‘kuyogī-vaibhava"
prabhu sanātane, parama yatane,
śikṣā dila yāhā, cinta sei saba
(10)
sei du'ti kathā, bhula' nā sarvathā
uccaiī svare kara ‘hari nāma-rava"
‘phalgu" āra ‘yukta", ‘baddha" āra ‘mukta,"
kabhu nā bhaviha, ekākāra saba
(11)
kanaka-kaminī, ‘pratiṣṭhā-bāghinī",
chāḍiyāche yāre, sei ta' vaiṣṇava
sei ‘anāsakta", sei ‘śuddha bhakta",
saṇsāra tathā pāya parābhava
(12)
yathā yogya bhoga, nāhi tathā roga
‘anāsakta" sei, ki āra kahaba
‘āsakti-rahita", 8 0sambandha-sahita",
viṣaya samuha sakali ‘mādhava"
(13)
se ‘yukta-vairāgya", tāhā ta' saubhāgya
tāhāi jaḍete harira vaibhava
kīrtane yāhāra, ‘pratiṣṭhā-sambhāra"
tāhāra sampatti kevala ‘kaitava"
(14)
‘viṣaya-mumukṣu", bhogera bubhukṣu,"
du'ye tyaja mana, dui ‘avaiṣṇava"
‘kṛṣṇera sambandha", aprākṛta-skandha,
kabhu nahe tāhā jaḍera sambhava.
&nb sp;
(15)
māyāvādī jana", kṛṣṇe tara mana,
mukta abhimāne se ninde vaiṣṇava
vaiṣṇavera dāsa, tava bhakti-āśa,
kena vā ḍākicha nirjana-āhaba
(16)
ye ‘phalgu-vairāgī", kahe nije ‘tyāgī",
se nā pāre kabhu haite ‘vaiṣṇava"
haripada chāḍi', ‘nirjanatā bāḍi"
labhiyā ki phula, ‘phalgu" se vaibhava
(17)
rādhā dāsye rai', chāḍi ‘bhoga-ahi,"
‘pratiṣṭhāśa" nahe ‘kīrtana-gaurava"
‘rādhā-nityajana", tāhā chāḍi' mana
kena vā nirjana-bhajana-kaitava
(18)
vrajavāsigaṇa, pracāraka-dhana,
pratiṣṭhā-bhikṣuka tā'rā nahe ‘śaba"
prāṇa ache tāńra, sehetu pracāra,
pratiṣṭhāśā hīna -’kṛṣṇagāthā" saba
(19)
śrīdayitadāsa, kīrtanate āśa,
kar a uccaiī svare ‘harināma-rava"
kīrtana-prabhāve, smaraṇa svabhāve,
se kāle bhajana-nirjana sambhava
TRANSLATION
1) O wicked mind! What kind of Vaisnava do you think you are? Your pretentious show of chanting Lord Hari's holy name in a solitary place is only for the sake of attaining the false prestige of a worldly reputation -- it is nothing but pure hypocrisy.
2) Such materialistic prestige is as disgusting as the stool of a hog. Do you not know that it is only a mere illusion cast by the potency of Maya? What is the value of contemplating day and night your plans for enjoying wealth and women? All these things are only temporary.
3) When you claim wealth as your own, it creates in you ever-increasing desires for material enjoyme nt. Your riches should be used for serving Madhava, the Lord of all wealth. Neither is it your proper place to indulge in lust for women, whose only true proprietor is Lord Yadava.
4) The demon Ravana (lust-incarnate) fought with Lord Ramachandra (love-incarnate) in order to gain the tree of worldly reputation -- but that oasis turned out to be but a mirage cast in the desert wasteland of the Lord's illusory material potency. Please cultivate fixed determination to attain only the steady and solid platform whereupon a Vaisnava ever stands. If you neglect worshiping the Lord from this position, then you will ultimately attain a hellish existence.
5) Why do you needlessly suffer the torment of blaspheming the devotees of Lord Hari, attempting to achieve their eminence, thereby only proving your own fruitless foolishness? The desire for spiritual eminence is easily fulfilled when one becomes a devotee of the Lord, for eternal fame automatically follows the heels of a Vaisnava. And that fame is never to be considered a temporary worldly opulence.
6) The relationship b etween a devotee and Lord Hari is devoid of even a trace of worldly illusion; it has nothing to do with the materialistic cheating propensity. The prestige of so-called popularity in the material realm is compared to a treacherous dog-eating witch, and the attempt to live in solitude to supposedly engage in unalloyed bhajan is compared to an entangling network of distraction. Please know that anyone striving in either of these ways verily lives in the hell of Maya's illusion.
7) "I shall give up chanting the Lord's name publicly in kirtan and retire to solitude, thus smearing myself with worldly honor." Dear mind, what is the good of seeking such so-called glory? I will always remind you that the great soul Madhavendra Puri never deceived himself in that regard by committing theft in his own storehouse of perception the way you do.
8) Your cheap reputation is equal to the stool of a hog. An ordinary ambitious man like you can never be equated with a devotee of Madhavendra Puri's eminence. Under the sway of envy, you have drowned yourself in the filthy waters of material enjoyment after having abandoned the excellent perfection of congregational kirtan.
9) Truly, O wicked mind, the glories of so-called solitary worship are propagated only by false yogis using unscrupulous means to deceive others. To save yourself from these pitfalls, please contemplate the instructions that the Supreme Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu kindly gave us while addressing Srila Sanatana Goswami with the utmost care.
10) Do not forget for a moment the two most valuable concepts that He taught: 1) the principle of dry, apparent renunciation as opposed to real, appropriate renunciation; and 2) the principle of a soul being trapped in the bondage of matter as opposed to a soul who is liberated. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking that these conflicting concepts are on the same level. Please remember this while engaging yourself in chanting the Lord's holy names as loud as you possibly can.
11) One is truly a Vaisnava who has given up the habit of falling victim to the ferocious tigress of wealth, beauty, and fame. Such a soul is factually detached from material life, and is known as a pure devotee. Someone with this consciousness of detachment has thereby become victorious over the mun dane world of birth and death.
12) One is indeed detached who moderately partakes of worldly things that are deemed necessary for living in devotional service; a devotee acting in that manner does not fall prey to the disease of material infatuation. Thus devoid of selfish attachment, and endowed with the ability to see things in relation to the Lord, all sense objects are then directly perceived as being Lord Madhava Himself.
13) This is the standard of befitting renunciation, and one who realizes this is most fortunate indeed. Everything involved in such a devotee's life represents Lord Hari's personal spiritual opulence as manifest in the world of matter. On the other hand, one who engages in chanting the Lord's name with hopes of enhancing his own material reputation finds that all his activities and paraphernalia represent only the riches of hypocrisy.
14) O mind, please reject the company of two types of persons -- those desiring impersonal liberation from the material world, and those who desire to enjoy the pleasure of material sense objects. Both of the se are equally non-devotees. The things that are used in relation to Lord Krsna are objects belonging directly to the transcendental realm, and thus having nothing to do with matter they cannot be either owned or forsaken by persons interested in mundane enjoyment or renunciation.
15) An impersonal philospher is opposed to thinking of Krsna as an object of devotion, and thus being puffed up with the false pride of imaginary liberation he dares to criticize the true devotees of the Lord. O mind, you are the servant of the Vaisnavas, and you should always hope for attaining devotion. Why then do you make such a loud commotion by calling to me and trying to prove the supposed supremacy of your practice of solitary worship?
16) One who falsely gives up things that could actually be used in the Lord's service proudly calls himself a `renunciate,' but unfortunately he can never become a Vaisnava by such an attitude. Abandoning his servitorship to the lotus feet of Lord Hari, and resigning himself to his solitary home -- whatever is gained by that exercise can only be the worthless treasure of deception.
17) Ever engage yourself in the service of Sri Radha, and keep aloof from the vicious snake of materialistic sense gratification. The glory of participating in the Lord's kirtan is not meant to bolster anyone's ambitions for personal recognition. O mind, why then have you abandoned the identity of being Radha's eternal servant in favor of retiring to a solitary place to practice the cheating process of so-called bhajan?
18) The most valuable treasures amongst the Lord's preachers are the eternal personalities residing in Vraja-dham. They never occupy themselves with begging for worthless material reputation, which is cherished only by the living dead. The Vraja-vasis are truly infused with life, and therefore they preach in order to give life to the walking corpses of the mundane world. All the songs that the Vraja-vasis sing about the glories of Lord Krsna are devoid of any tinge of desire for fame.
19) Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati (servant of Radha and Her beloved Krsna) always hopes for kirtan, and he begs all to loudly sing the names of Lord Hari. The transcendental power of congregational chanting automatically awakens remembrance of the Lord and His divine pastimes in relation to one's own eternal spiritual form. Only at that time does it become possible to go off to a solitary place and engage in the confidential worship of Their Lordships
Has Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada not instructed us to chant 64 round or Srila Prabhupada yes there is no doubt .They have also asked us to do this sankirtana mission:
The world is feeling the weight of this Hare Krishna Movement, especially in your country. We have to increase this book distribution work more and more to firmly establish this Movement, which is the only hope for the suffering living entities.
Vrindaban 23 November, 1976
Atlanta
My dear Balavanta,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letters dated November 5 and 9.
I am very glad to hear how the book distribution is increasing more and more. This is our greatest weapon. The more the books are distributed, the more the ignorance of the Age of Kali will be smashed. The world is feeling the weight of this Hare Krishna Movement, especially in your country. We have to increase this book distribution work more and more to firmly establish this Movement, which is the only hope for the suffering living entities.
The plans for the new temple in Mississippi are very nic e.
Upon your recommendation I am pleased to accept the following devotees for initiation. Now hold a fire sacrifice. The first initiates must promise to follow the four regulative principles and chant a minimum of 16 rounds daily, avoiding the ten offenses. You may chant on their beads. The second initiates should hear the tape of me chanting Gayatri mantra in their right ears. Teach them how to count on their finger divisions.
1st: B. Warren Oeshawn–Dvaraka dasa; Bhakta Bill Chilack–Vrndavana dasa.
2nd: Munjakesa dasa; Madanamohini dasi; Vedaguhya dasa; Hamsagati dasa; Kokila dasa; Svaha dasi; Bhusaya dasa; Brahmanya dasa.
Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Some devotees ask why it seems there is less spiritual potency in ISKCON now, well the answer is there is less sankirtana yajna and for example in ISKCON we used to fast for Lord Balarama untill moon rise and glorifie Lord Balarama intensely, also Lord Nityananda Prabhus apperance days was observed like this.(then only taking ekadasi prasadam)
But this mood of comforting has crept in the mind so there is less sankirtana yajna and nto even proper fasting on Visnu tattva apperance days.Many neophyte leaders still serve grains on Narasimah Caturdasi , thus angering Lord Narasimha .How can their be auspisciouness?Those tempels that are strict and follow still are like Vaikuntha and m ore, and you can easy tell when you come to such a temple.Like ISKCON Mayapure or ISKCON Tirupati.We have to follow Srila Prabhupada.So if out leaders can not go on sankirtana bookdistribtuion at least they can do Harinama, why so many refuse to go? Where is all our sannyasis and GBC's joining us on Harinama?We want their association, but if they will not go then they must be envious of their own self and then how will junior devotees be inspired to go?This is why the Ratha Yatras are so nice when finally all Swamis also join in the congrgational chanting or in Mayapure.And some Swamis like Indraduymna Maharaja and BB Govinda Swami, Lokanatha Swami ,Radha Natha Swami they love Harinama.It is so nice when our sannaysis shows us how to chant and dance for Mahaprabhu, we need it more and more.We want you to lead and be those infallibe Gurus why not, we will follow, but you all please lead and set the example.
Vanca kalpa tarubhyas ca....
Parama Vijyate Sri Krsna Sankirtanam
your useless servant
Payonidhi das
PS In summary chanting 64 rounds and following the regulative principles of Bhakti and doing Harinama sankirtana and distributing bhakti sastras that Srila Prabhupada has given is what is desired by all true followers of Srila Prabhupada,to the degree I do not follow I have deviated from His Divine Graces Lotusfeet, I pray at the lotusfeet of all catagories of vaisnavas to come to platform of such suddha Bhakti,Srila Hari Das Thakura and Raghunatha das Goswami has set such high standards of Bhakti to obtain,,they never considered themselves beyond mistakes and tried to cheat anyone, though they where free from all contaminations of material modes of nature.
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Comment by Paramananda das on September 23, 2009 at 10:36pm
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(a) There are many envious people in this Krishna Consciousness Movement and they should be completely neglected....(Cc.Mad. Ch.1 T218)
(b) Unfortunately, when the acarya disappears, rogues and non devotees take advantage and immediately begin to introduce unauthorized principles in the name of so call swamis....(S.B. 4-28-48)
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