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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