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dear Vaisnavas
Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Now as ISKCON is again getting back to it former friendship with Narayana Maharaja http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/10-09/editorials5226.htm. I like to tell soemthing what happened in Gaudiya Samiti ,where Narayana Maharaja is one of the acaryas.
I took shelter of Narayana Maharaja in 1998 and got the name Paramananda das, I have actually asked permission from the GBC to go by this name, because Narayana Maharaja is a bonafide Guru though outside of ISKCON. Anyhow one devotee from former ISKCON Birmingham (UK) ,he was my godbrother when HArikesa was there (my younger godbrother) Harikesa gave him the name Parantapa. later he went to Gaura Govinda Maharaja while Harikesa was still Guru in ISKCON and got the name Prema Prayojana .I would sometimes tell him of the good KC instructions I recieved from Narayana Maharaja and after the disapperance of Gaura Govinda Maharaja he and Govinda Bhasya (now BV Asrama Maharaja) went and after some time took sannyasa. Preme Prayojana became
a sannyasi also BV Aranya Maharaja.The problem with Aranya maharaja was that though he had lots of knowledge of sastra he did not chant 64 rounds as advised by Narayana Maharaja and also he liked to constantly be in assocaition of ladies.
In 2001 we had a program in Virginia close to Washington DC (Prince Williams county) and during this time I was the main organizer for this festival, with more than 1000 devotees (many devotees from ISKCON visited and I had strictly advised no trying to ask anyone to join Narayana Maharaja 's sanga, though at this time I was a fullfledged disciple).Aranya would have this one lady also try to come into his room at night, I stopped her 3 times, she was a bit crazy anyway, he was there sleeping in a room with other brahmacaries. On the final day of the festival I got to talk more privatly with Narayana Maharaja and told him I would write him a letter with some concerns.He asked me to please do so.I wrote him a letter (because this was not the time and place after such an ecstatic festival).I told him about my concerns for Aranya (then Swami) and how he was mixing to much with ladies, and abotu the lady that wanted to come in his room.Narayana Maharaja took my concern very serious, and send Aranya to Durvasa Munis asrama across the Yamuna in Mathura, where he stayed for a year to read and chant, and teach some boys.Then again he was allowed to go out preaching,But he had not learned his lesson, and in 2004 after one Gaura Mandal Parikrama he just came back after he and I had talked all day long about Lord Caitanyas pastimes, and started to hang out with 20 matajis .I was disgusted and soon after that Srila Prabhupada told me in several dreams to return and serve him ISKCON. Anyhow not long after that Prema Prayonjana(Aranya Swami) got married to a russian lady.So after some time Narayana Maharaja still allowed him to preach as a grhastha, so he is a again preaching as he can preach nicely .So better these persons if they like women get married even in their old age and stop making a mockery of sannyasa.Then they can be saved without being decietful, falling down and staying a sannyasi is demoniac.(Srila Prabhupada called it Ravana sannyasa)Dressing as a sannyasi to kidnap Sita.
your servant
Payonidhi das

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Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 2:36pm
In the conversation between Ramananda Raya and Lord Caitanya the very beginning is about varnaasrama:
CC Madhya 8.57: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered Rāmānanda Rāya, "Recite a verse from the revealed scriptures concerning the ultimate goal of life."Rāmānanda replied, "If one executes the prescribed duties of his social position, he awakens his original Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
CC Madhya 8.58: "'The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, is worshiped by the proper execution of prescribed duties in the system of varṇa and āśrama. There is no other way to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One must be situated in the institution of the four varṇas and āśramas.'"

Obvious if one falls from the position of his sannyasa asrama he is not even properly situated in the varna asrama,then one will not even start to come to the next level,devotional service has not really started, one is unfit for bhakti,what to speak of being a Guru or sannyasi, rubber stamping oneself as a Prabhupada disciple ,Guru and sannyasi is thus all useless,those who then believe in such bodily concept of life is a rascal,no better than an animal..two legged animal

CC Madhya 8.59: The Lord replied, "This is external. You had better tell Me of some other means."Rāmānanda replied, "To offer the results of one's activities to Kṛṣṇa is the essence of all perfection."
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 7:10pm
Song Name: Stri Purusa Deha Geha

Official Name: Yamuna Bhavavali Song 21

Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Book Name: Gitamala

Language: Bengali



LYRICS:

(1)

hari he

strī-puruṣa-deha-gata barṇa-ādi dharma jata

tāhe punaḥ deha-gata bheda

sattwa-rajas-tamo-guṇa āśroyeche bheda punaḥ

ei-rūpa sahasra prabheda



(2)

jekhona śarīra thāki jekhona abasthā rākhi

se saba ekhona taba pāya

saḿpilāma prāṇeśwara mama boli' ataḥ para

āra kichu nā rohilo dāya



(3)

tumi prabhu rākho mora saba taba adhikāra

āchi āmi tomāra kińkora

e bhaktibinoda bole taba dāsya-kautūhole

thāki jena sadā-sebā-pora



TRANSLATION

1) Oh my Lord! I know that all bodily distinctions between female and male, as well as the divisions of the varnasrama system namely brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa are all simply materialistic distinctions based on bodily consciousness. All these fall under the jurisdiction of the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, and thus all these bodily discriminations multiply into thousands of different complicated classifications.



2) Whatever type of body I happen to live in, and whatever circumstantial position surrounds this particular body, I now offer all these things unto Your lotus feet, oh Lord of my life! From now on, I am no longer responsible for anything related to my very existence.



3) Therefore, please protect and maintain me, oh Lord, for I am but Your eternal humble servant. Bhaktivinoda is just informing You that I am living always absorbed in the curious amusement of the transcendental loving service attitude.
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 7:21pm
The Sinful Soul Fit for Punishment

(1)
hari he!
heno dusta karma nai, jaha ami kori nai,

sahasra sahasra-bara hari!

sei saba karma-phal, peye abasara bal,

amay pisiche jantropari

Oh my dear Lord Hari! There are not sinful activities which I have not performed thousands upon thousands of times! And by the fruits of all these sinful actions, I have become robbed of all strength, being helplessly taken for an excruciatingly painful ride on the machine of this material world.

(2)
gati nahi dekhi ar, kande, hari, anibar,

tomar agrete ebe ami

ja' tomar hoy mane, danda deo akincane,

tumi mor danda-dhara swami

Seeing no other hope for deliverance in sight, I am now continuously crying before You, my Lord. Please punish Your insignificant servant as You see befitting, for You are my Lord and ruling Master.

(3)
klesa-bhoga bhagye jata, bhoga mor hao tata,

kintu ek mama nibedana

je je dasa bhoga ami, amake na charo swami,

bhaktibinoder prana-dhana

Whatever difficulty my destiny prescribes for me, I will gladly undergo, but I have just one appeal to make to You. My dear Lord, no matter what condition I must undergo, please never gibe me up, for You are the only treasure of Bhaktivinoda's life.
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 7:24pm
Song 11 Exclusively Dependent Shelter of the Lord

(1)
hari he!
anya asa nahi jar, taba pada-padma tar,

charibara jogya nahi hoy

taba padasraye natha, kore sei dinapata,

taba pade tahar abhoy

Oh my dear Lord Hari! He who spends his time under the shelter of Your lotus feet, oh Lord, becomes completely fearless. Indeed, he has no ability to neglect Your lotus feet for he hasn't a pinch of desire to remain under any other shelter.

(2)
stanya-payi sisu-jane, mata chare krodha-mane,

sisu tabu nahi chare may

jehetu tahar ar, e jibana dhoribar,

mata bina nahiko upay

A mother sometimes neglects her breast-suckling children out of anger but still the children could never give up their mother. This is because such small helpless children are not able to maintain their lives at all without their mother, being totally dependent on her.

(3)
e bhaktibinoda koy, tumi charo doyamoy,

dekhiya amar dosa-gana

ami to' charite nari, toma bina nahi pari,

kakhan dhorite e jibana

Similarly, Bhaktivinoda says to You, oh Lord Who is overflowing with compassion, that You may reject me if You like, seeing all of my offenses. But still, I will never be able to abandon You, for I cannot maintain my life under any circumstances without You.
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 8:02pm
Song 16 The Soul's Position of Eternal Service

(1)
hari he!
ami sei dusta-mati, na dekhiya anya gati,

taba pade lo'yechi sarana

janilama ami, natha! tumi prabhu jagannatha,

ami taba nitya parijana

Oh my dear Lord Hari! I am most fallen, and seeing no other alternative, I have taken full shelter at Your lotus feet. Oh Lord! Now I have finally understood that You are known as Jagannatha, Lord of the Universe, whereas I am but Your eternal servant.

(2)
sei dina kabe ha'be aikantika-bhave jabe,

nitya-dasa-bhava lo'ye ami

mano-rathantara jata, nihsesa koriya svatah,

sebibo amar nitya-swami

When will that day come when I will take on the mood and behavior of Your unalloyed eternal servant? Then, all other distracting desires of my mind will automatically become totally exhausted, and I will be able to whole-heartedly render service to my eternal Master.

(3)
nirantara seba-mati, babibe cittete sati,

prasanta hoibe atma mor

e bhaktibinoda bole, krsna-seba-kutuhale,

cirodina thaki jena bhor

My soul will become fully satisfied when that day will be mine. My heart will be chaste only to You, and it will exhibit such a service attitude which flows from the core of the heart with uninterrupted devotion. Bhaktivinoda says that he will thus live eternally absorbed in such a delightful flow of ecstatic loving service to Krsna.
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 8:03pm
Somg 17 His Lotus Feet are the Only Refuge for the Fallen Soul

(1)
hari he!
ami aparadhi jana, sada dandya, durllaksana,

sahasra sahasra dose dosi

bhima bhavarnavodare, patita bisama ghore,

gati-hina fati-abhilasi

Oh my Lord Hari! I have been a great offender to You, and thus I am just quite fit to receive punishment for all of my misdeeds. I am sinister and ill-fated, and I am guilty of committing thousands upon thousands of sins. I have somehow fallen into the very belly of the terribly deep, dark, fearsome and horrible ocean of material existence, and I have no shelter at all in this hellish place. Therefore I am greatly desirous of finding some way to get salvation from this dreadful predicament.

(2)
hari! taba pada-dwaye, sarana loinu bhoye,

krpa kori' koro atma satha

tomar pratijna ei, sarana loibe jei,

tumi ta'r raksa-karta natha

Hari! Thus I have taken refuge at Your two lotus feet out of intense fear, Please be kind to me and make me Your own property. Your promise is that for whoever takes full shelter of You, then You will become his protector and maintainer, Oh Lord.

(3)
pratijnate kori' bhara, o madhava praneswara!

sarana loilo ei dasa

e bhaktibinoda gay, tomar se-ranga pay,

deho dase sebaya bilasa

Completely relaying on Your promise, this servant has now taken full shelter of You as his last hope, oh Madhava! Oh Lord of my life! Bhaktivinoda sings this prayer to You now just to be eternally fixed up in the service of Your two reddish lotus feet.
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 8:06pm
Song 19 The meaning of "The Most Merciful Lord (Doyamoy)"

(1)
hari he!
agre ek nibedana, kori, madhu-nisudhana!~

suno krpa koriya amay

nirarthaka katha noi, migudhartha-moy hoy,

hrdoy hoite bahiray

Oh my dear Lord Hari! I have just one appeal to make before You, oh killer of the Madhu demon! Please be kind enough to hear it from me. It is certainly not a useless talk for wasting time, for it is full of very deep meaning. Indeed, it is welling up from the very depths of my heart.

(2)
ati apakrsta ami, parama doyalu tumi,

taba doya mor adhikar

je jata patita hoy, taba doya tata tay,

ta'te ami su-patra doyar

I am most degraded, and You are most merciful; therefor I have full rights to stake a claim for Your mercy. For no matter how fallen I could possibly be, Your mercy easily extends to that degree; therefore I am quite a suitable candidate for receiving Your causeless mercy.

(3)
more jadi upeksibe, doya-patra kotha pabe,

'doyamoy' namati ghuca'be

bhaktibinoda koy, doya koro doyamoy,

jasah-kirti cirodina pa'be

If You were to neglect my appeal, then Your famous name as "the Most Merciful" would become null and void. And then where else could this recipient go to find the same e kind of mercy? Bhaktivinoda says, please be merciful, oh Most Merciful! If You would do this, then Your fame and glories will go on unblemished for all of time to come.
Comment by Paramananda das on October 27, 2009 at 8:08pm
Song 20 Natural Eternal Surrender

(1)
hari he!
toma chadi' ami kabhu, anatha na hoi, prabhu,

prabhu-hina dasa nirasroy

amake na nile satha, kaiche tumi ha'be natha,

doyaniya ke tomar hoy

My dear Hari! I will never, ever abandon Your shelter, oh Lord, for if I were to do that, I would become utterly helpless without my Master. When a faithful servant becomes bereft of his Master, then he remains helplessly lost and confused, with no shelter from any quarter. However, if You do not accept me into Your association, then how will You be known as my Master, and who else besides me will be a suitable recipient of Your mercy?

(2)
amader e sambandha, bidhi-krta su-nirbandha,

sa-bidhi tomar guna-dhama

ataeva nibedana, suno he madhu mathana!

chara-chari nahe kon kama

This is our eternal relationship which is unavoidably fixed up by our destiny, and which reflects Your abode of good qualities. Please hear my appeal to You now, oh Lord Who bestows nectar upon those that You punish! For there is no possibility whatsoever of separating us from our eternal relationship of being the Master (You) and the servant (me).

(3)
e bhaktibivoda gay, rakho more taba pay,

palo more na charo kakhan

jabe mama pao dosa, koriya ucita rosa,

danda diya deo sri-caran

Now Bhaktivinoda sings to You his appeal, dear Lord: Please keep me always under the shelter of Your lotus feet, always protect me, and never abandon me at any time. Whenever You find me deviating slightly from the shelter of Your feet, then I request You to please manifest suitable anger and punish me in a befitting way by mercifully kicking some sense into me with those same divine lotus feet

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