Please chant the Maha-Mantra HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, dance, honor prasadam and your life will be sublime in all respects and at the end we go Back Home Back to Godhead! This is called BHAKTI YOGA, the topmost yoga system!
Dear devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We would like to share three exciting updates. First Update: In addition to the amazing lineup of kirtaniyas, over 11 sannyasis, over 70 disciples of Srila Prabhupada, we just received confirmation of the attendance of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaja! This is so befitting for the event this year as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and Maharaja is the only remaining member of the original 11-member GBC team who is still serving in that capacity and having received his sannyasa in 1970 at the youthful age of 21, he’s also the longest-standing sannyasi of ISKCON with unwavering dedication to the mission. As Jayapataka Maharaja’s attendance just got confirmed, we have extended the registration deadline to May 15 to allow for disciples and well-wishers of Maharaja who may not want to miss this golden opportunity to have his rare association. Please note that, due to hotel security requirements and other logistics, everyone that wants to attend the retreat needs to be registered ahead of time with either a full pass for the whole event or at least a day pass for those who aren’t able to attend the whole retreat. There are no walk-ins. To register, please visit https://sadhusangaretreat.com. Second Update: Has anyone not seen this famous picture of Srila Prabhupada cooking ? It’s there in almost every ISKCON kitchen throughout the world. Do you know where this iconic photo was taken ? It was in New Talavan, the farm community that Srila Prabhupada established in 1974. Although it’s in the neighboring state of Mississippi, it’s only an hour drive from the Sadhu Sanga venue. A handful of devotees there have worked so hard for the last several years and have built a beautiful brand new Temple from scratch. Every one is welcome to join this grand opening kirtan: Third Update:
The prasadam that’s included as part of your Sadhu Sanga registration starts from dinner on Friday, May 22 and ends with to-go lunch on Monday, May 25. Please note that Tuesday is Ekadasi in New Orleans. There are many of you who are arriving early or leaving late for volunteering or for saving flight costs or for sight-seeing. So we are arranging prasadam for those extra days as well. For all those who volunteer in any pre-festival or post-festival services for at least two hours per meal, we’re happy to provide the prasadam for free. If you are unable to volunteer due to schedule or other constraints, we’d still like to provide prasadam for you at a nominal cost of $10 per person as we have to pay for the devotee caterers who are providing those meals. If you are interested in this service, please fill up this form by Friday, May 15 so that we can finalize all counts and give it to the caterers. We will be sending out the detailed instructions for hotel and retreat check-in, services, t-shirts, sponsorship opportunities, etc. throughout this week. Please add info@sadhusangaretreat.com to your email contacts so you don’t miss any of our emails! “Not attainable by the faithful performers of pious deeds, not understood by those engaged in austerity, meditation, and yoga, not guessed by those absorbed in detachment, renunciation or prayers, and unknown even to the devotees full of love for Lord Govinda, the secret of pure devotional service has been revealed by the holy name during Lord Gaura’s advent. Let me glorify that Lord Gaura.” (Sri Caitanya Candramrita 1.3) your servants,Govinda caran das & Rasika siromani dasi.View email in browserYou are receiving this email as you signed up for one of the Sadhu Sanga Kirtan Retreats organized by Indradyumna Swami. Friends Forever · 888 Nieves St · Milpitas, CA 95035 · USA
My informed guess is that this picture is taken in Germany, as well as the following.
And here below is Her Grace Rambhoru DD (acbsp1) It could also be her on the above picture extreme right, second position. (May be) She spent many years in Germany and that’s were she got her name Brinkman from.
2.19 Anyone who thinks that the living entity is killing somebody or that a living entity is being killed by others, does not know a thing. He who is in knowledge knows that nobody kills anybody and nobody is killed by anybody.
Purport. 2.19 When an embodied living entity is hurt by fatal weapons, it is to be known that the living entity within the body is not killed. Because the spirit soul is so small that it is impossible to kill him by any material weapon, as will be evident from the subsequent verses. Nor is the living entity killable, on account of his spiritual constitution. What is killed or is supposed to be killed is the body only. This, however, does not encourage killing of the body at all. The Vedic injunction is “ma himsyat sarva bhutani” never commit violence to anybody. To understand that a living entity is not killed does not mean encouraging animal slaughter. Even killing of the body of anyone without authority is abominable and punishable by the law of the state as well as by the law of the Lord. Arjuna, however, is being engaged in the matter of killing on the principle of religion and not whimsically.
Besides the regal Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivracakacarya Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Tridandi Goswami Srila Prabhupada we find here His Grace Allen Ginsberg not to be confused with Hayagriva Prabhu.
IN BGAII 2.18 P. we find the typical smart ass, whimsical, artificial, and kick-in-the-face-of-Srila-Prabhupada fake alteration.
“What do you mean Prabhupada, this cant be right. There is no way we will let you use the word “immaterial.” You are just an old Indian gentleman, with a disused and outmoded knowledge of the great ,whimsical (ironical) English language. But we are the big U ASS YAY university scholar and whether correct or not, the world will have to surrender to our personal view in this matter. So your “immaterial” is definitely out and my most common “unimportant” is in. Like it or leave. Actually best is if you go back to India. And we shall repackage the whole Bhagavad Gita to our U ASS YAY requirements. All glories to USA, we know everything better. And whoever opposes us we shall shoot inffallibly because this is the land of “the brave gun.” Hayagriva uvaca.
Apologies for the anti US rant, but this is how I felt many times while in coming in contact with anything USA. For example when I got in touch with BTG magazine, I was naturally treated as an incoming enemy a priory and in principle. Neither do USA presidents acknowledge receipt of courtesy Bhagavad Gitas when we send them. Former Australia Premier Scott Morrison did so, when he was leading the country. And he did send a very nicely worded letter of acknowledgement. Above all he wrote: “…a book is the most personal kind of gift we can offer … ” A personal gift for a personal Prime Minister. Let us not forget the meaning of the second pranam mantra to Srila Prabhupada and we might as well quote the first one too:
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta-svaminn iti namine WORD FOR WORD TRANSLATION namah — obeisances; om — address; visnu-padaya — unto him who is at the feet of Lord Visnu; krsna-presthaya — who is very dear to Lord Krsna; bhu-tale — on the earth; srimate — all-beautiful; bhaktivedanta-svamin — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami; iti — thus; namine — who is named. TRANSLATION I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krsna on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
Ref. VedaBase => SVA 1: Srila Prabhupada Pranati
In the original transcript Srila Prabhupāda writes verbatim:
“Body is therefore immaterial and thus Arjuna was advised to fight without consideration of the material body and sacrificing the cause of religion.”
Granted the last part of the sentence is a little ambivalent and therefore requires interpretation. Consequently Hayagriva interprets it in one way and Jayadvaita in a second, different, way.The question then is: Who is right and who I wrong. Can the two be right? NO! When writing this sentence Srila Prabhupāda had something specific in mind and one thing only and he expressed it in the Prabhupada way. its up to us to understand properly.
uneAnd what that is we have to find out.
But let us go back to the “smart-ass, whimsical and kick-in-the-face-of-Srila-Prabhupada fake alteration.
Without hesitation smart ass Hayagriva jumps and replaces Srila Prabhupada’s more elegant “immaterial” with the common “unimportant” thus misrepresenting Srila Prabhupada and lowering the literary quality of the whole presentation. And puppy Jayadvaita just follows on this point only. Later he wakes up. Besides that dictionary will give “unimportant” for “immaterial”. So the meanings are the same. But Srila Prabhupada “immaterial” is just more elegant English. So if the meanings are the same and if one formulation is more elegant than the other. Then we know who to choose : Srila Prabhupāda Therefore there is no reason to replace it and there are all reasons to keep it. Gentleman editors Srila Prabhupāda just reflects your foolishness and is much smarted that you give Him credit for. In these ways these unqualified editors are constantly lowering the literary value of Srila Prabhupada
Parenthesis: In this hospital- the Princess Alexandra Hospital- one really feels like in the spiritual world cause the requirements of life are deferentially supplied, just say the word. All glories to the denizens of the Princess Alexandra Hospital and all glories to Princess Alexandra Herself.
So why not take to Krishna consciousness now and be prepared for the tough times as follows
ONE: CHANT
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
at least 1728 times without fail every single day of the rest of your life.
TWO: No intoxication.
THREE: No gambling.
FOUR: No meat eating, no fish eating, no egg eating and no onion and garlic eating no mushroom eating, no acceptance of overt or covert gelatine.
FIVE: NO ILLICIT SEX means no sex outside heterosexual AND civil AND religious marriage and only for the purpose of procreation. Animals do that naturally and intuitively and don’t need to be told, you silly! Of course animal don’t get married :):):) So that is definitely the natural and progressive way.
SIX: To overcome the baser modes of passion and ignorance, attend everyday Magal Arartik at 4.30 AM at home or local ISKCON or ISKCULTURE temple.
SEVEN: study and try to understand and realise reference books such as The Challenge Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, Srimad Bhagavatam, Caitanya Caritmarita and other books by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada’s 6000 letters are also a very good source of inspiration. If u are very lucky, you might find a set of 6 Vols hard copy. I have a spare set of 6 volumes of the letters. For a donation of $100 000 I shall part with it. Thats what it is worth to me anyway. Donation will go to my charity: Iskculture
EIGHT: Conquer the world with these eight basic yoga rules and principles of godly life.
End of rules. No more rules. Wonderful is it not? Who wants rules? No one wants rules. Everyone wants to be FREEEEEEEEEEEEE
Here above comes the real king: The regal Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajacacarya Astotara sata Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of Iskcon, ORIGINATOR of the BBT, BTG magazine and author of 80 or so top-class books on self-realisation.
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JAYADVAITA is as much an IMPOSTER AND COUNTERFEITER plus TRAITOR and OFFENDER to SRILA PRABHUPADA as DHRITARASHTRA was 5000 years ago to the legitimate royal Pandus and the final battle to unseat him for everyone’s benefit is drawing closer.
My best advice is: Slap him in the face as many times as it takes to bring him down. My estimation is that offences committed in his so-called and at times farcical editing work far out number the number of slaps required to bring him down. So he gets a good deal.
My other best advice: Slap him in the face as many times as it takes to bring him down and let him lose the will to get up again. Just like in a boxing ring. Knock him KO.
Knock him KO for his attempt to cheat and mislead the whole world and also for his utter disrespect to Srila Prabhupada and for what at times seems to me envious contempt for Srila Pabhupada. I am also told that he rejects Pranam Prayers to Srila Prabhupada in the beginning of kirtan. This is nonsense and he is a nonsense teacher if thats what he does. WE should always carry Srila Prabhupada on our head figuratively and physically.
Knock him KO for his whimsical editing style of Bhagavad Gita As It Is and for his at times utter disrespect for Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, ORIGINATOR of the BBT and BTG magazine and author of 80 or so top-class books on self-realisation.
His followers and supporters better start using their brains tooin that respect.
All glories to the regal Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajacacarya Astotara sata Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of Iskcon, ORIGINATOR of the BBT and BTG magazine and author of 80 or so top-class books on self-realisation.
The Regal Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajacacarya Ashtottara-shata Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada wainting for HIs next flight.
DHARMA!!! WHAT IS DHARMA??? HOW DOES SRILA PRABHUPADA DEFINE DHARMA? MY POINT IS IF YOU WANT TO SEE DHARMA IN ACTION PLEASE GO TO THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL IN WOOLLONGABBA, BRISABNE, QLD AUSTRALIA . AND OBSERVE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CUSTOMERS AND STAFF AT ALL LEVEL, SUPPORT WORKERS, NURSES AND DOCTORS. Then you will understand what is the meaning of the word DHARMA.
Let it be known equally that we owe an unpayable debt of gratitude to HG Madhudvisa Prabhu for bringing all these things into the public domain.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Hayagriva
And Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita and all glories to the office fish who has got the great Bhagavad Gita within reach. (This picture was taken in some office in Queensland)
Dear devotees,
As Jayapataka Maharaja’s attendance just got confirmed, we have extended the registration deadline to May 15 to allow for disciples and well-wishers of Maharaja who may not want to miss this golden opportunity to have his rare association. 
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