The mission has to go on !

[Paramananda das]

The mission has to go on !
Srila Prabhupada never gave up his mission to preach KC and please his spiritual master,, Gaudiya Math fell apart,, some of his godbrothers even called him "rotten Grhastha" why? Srila Prabhupada was an advanced devotee and chanted 64 rounds of the Mahamantra..Srila Sridhara Swami send his top most disciple that later became Bhaktisundara Govinda Swami to learn Bhagavad Gita from Srila Prabhupada,, he even went with Srila Prabhupada to distribute Back to Godheads in Delhi and other places .
This is a prayer to Srila Prabhupada by Bhakti Sundara Govinda Swami that was a disciple of Srila Sridhara Swami (Prabhupadas godbrother),he recently left this world and entered Bhauma Vrindavana lilas of Radha Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada
namah om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale svami sri bhakti-vedanta prabhupadaya te namah
I offer my humble obeisance’s unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Sri Krsna on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
guruvajnam sirasi-dharyam saktyavesa svarupine hare-krsneti mantrena pascatya-pracya-tarine
Taking the order of his guru upon his head, he became empowered by Nityananda Prabhu to act as a saktyavesa avatara. He distributed the Hare Krsna mantra all over the eastern and western world, delivering and uplifting all fallen souls.
visvacarya pravaryaya divya karunya murtaye sri bhagavata-madhurya gita-jnana-pradayine
He is the best of millions of jagad-gurus, because he is the personification of divine mercy. He has distributed the sweet nectar of Srimad Bhagavatam and the transcendental knowledge of Bhagavad-gita all over the world.
gaura-sri-rupa-siddhanta-sarasvati nisevine radha-krsna-padambhoja-bhrngaya gurave namah
He is constantly engaged in exclusive devotional service to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu. I offer my humble obeisance’s unto Srila Prabhupada, who is like a bumblebee always tasting the nectar of the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha and Govinda.
Srila Prabhupada was also close with Srila Bhakti Prajana Kesava Maharaja the first disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada ,,Srila Prabhupada was a co founder of the Gaudiya Samiti in 1941 when it was registered. Later after his acceptance of Varnaprastha Srila Prabhupada stayed for some time in Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya math in Mathura and took sannyasa from Bhakti Prajana Kesava Maharaja
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But not long after Srila Prabhupada preached in Agra with the Gaudiya Samiti and some families requested to take initiation from Srila Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami which was now Srila Prabhupadas sannyasa name ..but one Brahmacari objected that initiation should only be given by Bhakti Prajana Kesava Maharaja.This episode is shown in the TV series created by Bhakti Caru Swami ..did you see all series ?It is another "Prabhupada Lilamrta " though not based on Sastsvarupa Maharajas glorification .Srila Bhakti Prajana Kesava Maharaja chastised the Brahmacari that had said this,By this time Srila Prabhupada had settled in Radha Damodara temple to write Srimad Bhagavtam ,,from my understanding Srila Prabhupada had finished more or less what would later become his Bhagavad Gita as it is,,at Kesavaji Gaudiya Math in Mathura and in he also wrote Gitar Gan Gitar Gan it is the Bhagavad Gita translated from Bengali into English ,,the interesting part is all these translations of Srila Prabhupadas Gita Gan later was the translations in Srila Prabhupadas Bhagavad Giita As it is.However the BBTI has changed Srila Prabhupadas original translations and made their own ,,that is actually "Prabhupada Maha Aparadha " a great offense to Srila Prabhupada.
for example if you compare Srila Prabhupadas Gitar Gan translation that you also find in the Macmillan Bhagavad Gita as it is with Jayadvaitas Swami concocted version you will find this translation and see how Jaaydvaita has changed the translation but the BBT and GBC are blind :
1) Arjuna said: O Janardana, O Kesava, why do You urge me to engage in this ghastly warfare, if You think that intelligence is better than fruitive work?
2) My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions. Therefore, please tell me decisively what is most beneficial for me.
3) The Blessed Lord said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who realize the Self. Some are inclined to understand Him by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others are inclined to know Him by devotional work.
4) Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection.
5) All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.
6) One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.
7) On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachment, is by far superior.
😎 Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.
9) Work done as a sacrifice for Visnu has to be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world. Therefore, O son of Kunti, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage.
10) In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Visnu, and blessed them by saying, "Be thou happy by this yajna [sacrifice] because its performance will bestow upon you all desirable things."
11) The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you; thus nourishing one another, there will reign general prosperity for all.
12) In charge of the various necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajna [sacrifice], supply all necessities to man. But he who enjoys these gifts, without offering them to the demigods in return, is certainly a thief.
13) The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.
14) All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by performance of yajna [sacrifice], and yajna is born of prescribed duties.
15) Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice.
16) My dear Arjuna, a man who does not follow this prescribed Vedic system of sacrifice certainly leads a life of sin, for a person delighting only in the senses lives in vain.
17) One who is, however, taking pleasure in the self, who is illuminated in the self, who rejoices in and is satisfied with the self only, fully satiated--for him there is no duty.
18) A self-realized man has no purpose to fulfill in the discharge of his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to depend on any other living being.
19) Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme.
20) Even kings like Janaka and others attained the perfectional stage by performance of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of educating the people in general, you should perform your work.
21) Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
22) O son of Prtha, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three planetary systems. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I need to obtain anything--and yet I am engaged in work.
23) For, if I did not engage in work, O Partha, certainly all men would follow My path.
24) If I should cease to work, then all these worlds would be put to ruination. I would also be the cause of creating unwanted population, and I would thereby destroy the peace of all sentient beings.
25) As the ignorant perform their duties with attachment to results, similarly the learned may also act, but without attachment, for the sake of leading people on the right path.
26) Let not the wise disrupt the minds of the ignorant who are attached to fruitive action, they should not be encouraged to refrain from work, but to engage in work in the spirit of devotion.
27) The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature.
28) One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results.
29) Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in material activities and become attached. But the wise should not unsettle them, although these duties are inferior due to the performers' lack of knowledge.
30) Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with mind intent on Me, and without desire for gain and free from egoism and lethargy, fight.
31) One who executes his duties according to My injunctions and who follows this teaching faithfully, without envy, becomes free from the bondage of fruitive actions.
32) But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not practice them regularly, are to be considered bereft of all knowledge, befooled, and doomed to ignorance and bondage.
33) Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows his nature. What can repression accomplish?
34) Attraction and repulsion for sense objects are felt by embodied beings, but one should not fall under the control of senses and sense objects because they are stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization.
35) It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though they may be faultily, than another's duties. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties, for to follow another's path is dangerous.
36) Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?
37) The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.
38) As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is covered by different degrees of this lust.
39) Thus, a man's pure consciousness is covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.
40) The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.
41) Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bharatas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.
42) The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
43) Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus--by spiritual strength--conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
44) Thus Bhaktivedanta sings the song of Sri Gita, with the hope that hearing this, Krsna conscious pure devotees will be pleased.
for example : 11) The demigods, being pleased by sacrifices, will also please you; thus nourishing one another, there will reign general prosperity for all.
Jadvaita Swami speculated that the demigods are not nourished by the offering of the humas to Lord Visnu where they also benefit,,so he changed the translation I discussed this with him already in 1987 but as he is stubborn he did not change it back ,,I gave the example of Indra being nourished by human offerings via Agni from the 6 Canto when Indra was hiding in the Manasa Sarova lake in the Himalyas as this in the lotuslake of Sri Laxmi and as such Sin personified could not enter the water as Agni can not enter water and thus Indra starved..
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later in the same chapter last verses has also been changed :Like Bhagavad Gita 3.43 :
43) Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus--by spiritual strength--conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
But because devotees are trained to blindly follow any bogus changes done by BBT and GBC etc only a few years ago devotees like Garuda Das had conferences with many shcolars that was reading Srila Prabhupadas books and they all agreed Srila Prabhupadas books should never have been changed.
The mission has to go on ,,but we should know right from wrong ,currently some temples are still serving grains on Visnutattva days and some female now Diksa Gurus like Mother Narayni teach devotees should take grains on Visnutattva days,,that clearly show women are less intelligent and can not be Gurus ..Srila Prabhupada was also against a salary system ,,here in our local Hindu bindhu Hare Krsna temple ISKCON Potomac ,, everyone gets a salary,,espelly lured from Mayapure and Nepal to get money and US green card .The temple recently had some kind of Hindu Match Maing ,,and sometimes I have seen Caitanya Nitai das the temple commander do Satya Narayana Pujas ,that is from the Karma Khanda section of I belive Padma Purana,, but it was banned in ISKCON in 1996 after I complained to the International GBC,,it is in the GBC resolutions of 1996 but still going on ,,not only in ISKCON Potomac but other ,,fifty percent ISKCON" Hindu smindy bindhu " temples like ISKCON Seattle and other places .
Anyhow I sound like I am just complaining but if you study carefully what I have written here you will see it makes sense,,and if you do not understand all this you are simply a nonsense washed up excuse of a devotee
With all humility at my command I beg to remain the servant of the servant at Srila Prabhupadas lotusfeet
Paramananda das