dear GBC please remove any GBCs that serve grains on Nityananda Trayodasi !

[Paramananda das]

It is opposed to Bhakti to take grains on Nityananda Trayodasi ,but many ISKCON temples serve cake and other grains , as they do not care about Bhakti only their belly Skanda Purana states:


matr ha pitr has caiva bhratr ha guru has tatha


ekadasyas tu ya bhunkte visnu-lokac cyuto bhavet


“Those who eat grains on Ekadasi and on the Day of Lord Hari (including Janmastami, Gaura Purnima etc.) obtain the sin equal to killing one’s own mother, own father, own brother and own Guru; and they cannot reach the spiritual world, which is why one should never eat grains on fasting days.”


yani kani ca papani brahma hatyadikani ca


annam asritya tiathanti samprapte hari vasare


“Every type of sin in this world, including the grievous sin of killing a Brahmana, reside in food grains on the Day of Lord Hari (Ekadasi and other fasting days). If grains are eaten on fasting days sins enter the body of that human being.”


Padma Purana:


bhuyo-bhuyo drdha vani sryatam syata janah


na bhoktavyam na bhoktavyam na bhoktavyam harer dine


“O human beings, please listen, I tell you repeatedly with steadfast determination, please never eat any grains on the Day of Lord Hari (Ekadasi day, the Lord’s appearance day like Janmastami day etc.). Please never eat any food grains even by mistake on the Day of Lord Hari. Please do not eat grains on the Day of Lord Hari even if forced or compelled to do so.”


na saiva na ca saurohasaun na sakta gana sevakah


yo bhunkte vasare visnor jneyah pasvadiko hi sah


“Whether one is a follower of Lord Siva, the goddess Durga, Kali, Surya (sungod), Ganesa, Bhairava or any other demigod, they should avoid eating grains on the fasting days of Lord Hari (Ekadasis and other fasting days of Lord Hari). If one does not rigidly follow this rule and eats grains on fasting days they are considered worse than an animal.”






here cakes being offered on Nityananda Trayodasi yesterday at ISKCON Boston, I served there in late 1990 to 1993 and no one used to do such a sin , but I guess Niranjana Swami has become old and senile and he keeps allowing grains on Visnutattva days ?



I like to ask the international GBC to please follow Srila Prabhupada and Sastra and replace GBCs that do not ophold the standards given by Srila Prabhupada