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Paramananda das's Blog – December 2013 Archive (4)

3 bogus sannyasis

In my years in ISKCON many sannyasis have proved to be bogus, all american sannyasis that ever served in ISKCON Europe deviated , and in most cases fell down from proper standards of Bhakti.Including Harikesa,Suhotra, Bhagavan, Jayatirtha .I will now tell some of my experience with Devamrta,Niranjana Swami and Dhanudhara.

Devamrta was always arrogant and offensive to devotees and manipulative laying and braking promises and never rendered any practical devotional…

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Added by Paramananda das on December 29, 2013 at 1:04am — No Comments

Bhagavad Gita 3.3

TEXT 3

sri-bhagavan uvaca loke 'smin dvi-vidha nistha

pura prokta mayanagha jnana-yogena sankhyanam

karma-yogena yoginam

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; loke--in the world; asmin--this; dvi-vidha--two kinds of;…

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Added by Paramananda das on December 11, 2013 at 5:09am — 1 Comment

Bhagavad Gita 3.2

Chapter 3. Karma-yoga

TEXT 2

vyamisreneva vakyena buddhim mohayasiva me tad ekam vada niscitya yena sreyo 'ham apnuyam

SYNONYMS

vyamisrena--by equivocal; iva--as; vakyena--words; buddhim--intelligence; mohayasi--bewildering; iva--as;…

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Added by Paramananda das on December 6, 2013 at 8:14am — No Comments

Bhagavad Gita 3.1

Chapter 3. Karma-yoga TEXT 1

arjuna uvaca jyayasi cet karmanas te mata buddhir janardana tat kim karmani ghore mam niyojayasi kesava SYNONYMS

arjunah--Arjuna; uvaca--said; jyayasi--speaking very highly; cet--although; karmanah--than fruitive action; te--Your; mata--opinion; buddhih--intelligence; janardana--O Krsna; tat--therefore; kim--why; karmani--in action; ghore--ghastly; mam--me; niyojayasi--engaging me; kesava--O Krsna. TRANSLATION

Arjuna…

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Added by Paramananda das on December 3, 2013 at 7:06am — 6 Comments