The ranting of Indra , meditation on Govardhana lila and ISKCON management and the importance of bookdistribution

[Paramananda das]

dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Lets look at the defenition on ranting: rant·ed, rant·ing, rants

v.intr.

To speak or write in an angry or violent manner;  rave.

v.tr.

To utter or express with violence or extravagance: a dictator who ranted his vitriol onto a captive  audience.

n.

1. Violent or extravagant speech or writing.

2. A speech or piece of writing that incites anger or  violence: "The vast majority [of teenagers logged onto the  Internet] did not encounter recipes for pipe bombs or deranged rants  about white supremacy" (Daniel  Okrent).

3. Chiefly British Wild or uproarious  merriment.

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Indra got upset  because the Vrijabasis did not want to worship him ,but Govardhana hill:

He stated:

SB 10.25.1: Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King Parīkṣit, when Indra understood that his sacrifice had been put aside, he became furious with Nanda Mahārāja and the other cowherd men, who were accepting Kṛṣṇa as their Lord.

SB 10.25.2: Angry Indra sent forth the clouds of universal destruction, known as Sāḿvartaka. Imagining himself the supreme controller, he spoke as follows.

SB 10.25.3: [Indra said:] Just see how these cowherd men living in the forest have become so greatly intoxicated by their prosperity! They have surrendered to an ordinary human being, Kṛṣṇa, and thus they have offended the gods.

SB 10.25.4: Their taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa is just like the foolish attempt of men who abandon transcendental knowledge of the self and instead try to the great ocean of material existence in the false boats of fruitive, ritual sacrifices.

SB 10.25.5: These cowherd men have acted inimically toward me by taking shelter of this ordinary human being, Kṛṣṇa, who thinks Himself very wise but who is simply a foolish, arrogant, overtalkative child.

SB 10.25.6: [To the clouds of destruction King Indra said:] The prosperity of these people has made them mad with pride, and their arrogance is backed up by Kṛṣṇa. Now go and remove their pride and bring their animals to destruction.

SB 10.25.7: I will follow you to Vraja, riding on my elephant Airāvata and taking with me the swift and powerful wind-gods to decimate the cowherd village of Nanda Mahārāja.

In 1984 I had been selling paintings for a year in  ISCKON Germany , this is was an  illegal painting business that did not pay any goverment taxes or followed so many rules and regulationes. Anyhow we where told some russian Bhagavad Gitas was printed by the money we collected so I agreed to do it on blind faith. However after one year of this I realized this is not my dharma, I did not join ISKCON to become a painting sales man. I wanted to go back into the streets to perform the sankirtana yajna of distributing Srila Prabhupadas books. However this was seen as an act of rebellion by Harikesa ,Suhotra and Devamrta Swami, ergo I had to leave the temple to distribute books and lived in a flat by myself for some months and distributed Prabhupadas books doing more books than most that lived in a temple  .99.999 percent  of devotees would have given up at this point and properly left ISKCON.I did not care because I saw these leaders as some other arrogant Indras trying to stop my sankirtana yajna.

Most ISKCON leaders and general ISKCON devotees, never distribute Prabhupadas books , but what has Srila Prabhupada said?

SB 7.9.44:

"I know that without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, without taking shelter of Your lotus feet, one cannot be happy." One wanders within the universe, life after life, but by the grace of a devotee, a servant of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, one can get the clue to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and then not only become happy in this world but also return home, back to Godhead. That is the real target in life. The members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are not at all interested in so-called meditation in the Himalayas or the forest, where one will only make a show of meditation, nor are they interested in opening many schools for yoga and meditation in the cities. Rather, every member of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is interested in going door to door to try to convince people about the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, the teachings of Lord Caitanya. That is the purpose of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. The members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must be fully convinced that without Kṛṣṇa one cannot be happy. Thus the Kṛṣṇa conscious person avoids all kinds of pseudo spiritualists, transcendentalists, meditators, monists, philosophers and philanthropists.

99 percent of ISKCON leaders and devotees  think this is not their duty: But they are mistaken, this bookdistribution is the duty of everyone that is in ISKCON. If you never distribute Prabhupadas books you are in 100 percent violation of Srila Prabhupadas instructions. The fact is almost everyone is to lazy to distribute Prabhupadas books and do Harinama :

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.1.10

prāyeṇālpāyuṣaḥ sabhya

kalāv asmin yuge janāḥ

mandāḥ sumanda-matayo

manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ

O learned one, in this iron age of Kali men have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.

But many distribute Srila Prabhupadas books and my pranams to them they are the real members of ISKCON.

What version should we distribute? Srila Prabhupada has stated not to change his books ,however the BBT has not headed this instruction of june 22 1977, so devotee where forced to make a lawsuit against the BBT because the BBT refuse to follow Srila Prabhupadas instructines on not changing his books .

Jayadvaita Swami was ranting showing one letter that no one but the BBT should print Prabhupadas books , but when the BBT has become illegal according to Prabhupadas instructiones and changing his books , not just editing then that is the issue.

Our ISKCON leaders live high lives of ISKCON with everything paid for without taking the sankirtana mission to heart, they will never personally sell even one book, so I reject their assocaition as asat. And if they did they will sell a changed version of Srila Prabhupadas books , not his Bhagavad Gita as it is.

Not only have the books been changed ,women been made managers against Prabhupadas clear instructions, and things as demigod worship was once allowed in ISKCON temples.

Anuttama das the GBC for ISKCON Potomac stated in 1995 that demigod worship is in the mode of goodness.And it is ok for the indian congregation to have this demigod worship in the temple room. I was asked to leave the temple because I objected to this.

However the purport of the Govardhana lila is that Krsna did not want demigod worship but worship of Himself as the Supreme personality of Godhead and of Govardhana , Govardhana is a transcendental mountain that comes from Goloka Vrindavana.

(as explained in BRAHMA VAIVARTA PURANA) .However Krsna does not want demigod worship in ISKCON nor does He want mayavadis to   sing his glories in the temple room of any ISKCON temple  ( as milk trouched by a snake is poison).

Recently a mayavadi was singing in Bhaktivedanta Manor as posted on Sampradaya sun.Srila Prabhupada would have replaced the management for sure .

But our ISKCON leaders just are interested just like Indra, in making money and have no to little interest in purity or spreading KC, when it involves they having to to anything .A few great souls also sannyasis will be doing Harinama at least on occasiones and one or two may distribute Prabhupadas changed books. I will admit though the books are changed and are no longer as it is, they are close enough to be considered ok, but future generationes of women liberated and neophyte ISKCON leaders will start to pick more and more on the text and Jayadvaita Swami and Dravida has just opened a can of worms. (at least the BBT should print Srila Prabhupadas books as pre 1978)

And of course Anuttama das is wrong about demigod worship is in the mode of goodness and can be allowed in the temple room:

(he told me so in 1995 and never apologized)

Śrī Īśopaniṣad 12

andhaḿ tamaḥ praviśanti

ye 'sambhūtim upāsate

tato bhūya iva te tamo

ya u sambhūtyām ratāḥ

Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute.

Iso 4: Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence.

But though ISKCON leaders properly know all these things still they allow mayavadis to sing in the temple room, why?  Because they have some nefarious motivations   behind this and they want to be the Supreme controllers. No GBC is Krsna ,as is any sannyasi .  

It is about time to start following Srila Prabhupada and give up Indra mentality ....

your servant

Paramananda das