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One word Srila Prabhupada often used in respect of His books is “SCRUTINIZINGLY”.

Read scrutinizingly. What does that means? It means Srila Prabhupada’s writings are like books of mathematics and have been written with the same rigour.

For rigour the dictionary gives:

the quality of being extremely thorough and careful: his analysis is lacking in rigour. 

 severity or strictness: the full rigour of the law

Srila Prabhupada often talked about how carefully he chose the words of His Bhaktivedanta Purports. Writing is an art. But preaching requires even more talent.

We can just take one favourite sentence and repeat it over and over again until it becomes second nature and then go to the next, the next, the next, the next etc until we come to the end and in this way we become PRABHUPADIZED. Every sentence is a mantra and mantra means repeating over and over again as we do with the Hare Krishna mantra.

Christians call it baptised, we call it PRABHUPADIZED.

We also have to ponder over the meaning and message of the mantra.

,

esu purusanam ayuta-purusayur-varsanam deva-kalpanam nagayuta-prananam vajra-samhanana-bala-vayo-moda-pramudita-maha-saurata-mithuna-vyavayapavarga-varsa-dhrtaika-garbha-kalatranam tatra tu treta-yuga-samah kalo vartate.

Word for word translation

esu — in these (eight) varsas, or tracts of land; purusanam — of all the men; ayuta — ten thousand; purusa — by the measure of men; ayuh-varsanam — of those whose years of life; deva-kalpanam — who are like the demigods; naga-ayuta-prananam — having the strength of ten thousand elephants; vajra-samhanana — by bodies as solid as thunderbolts; bala — by bodily strength; vayah — by youth; moda — by abundant sense enjoyment; pramudita — being excited; maha-saurata — a great deal of sexual; mithuna — combinations of man and woman; vyavaya-apavarga — at the end of their period of sexual enjoyment; varsa — in the last year; dhrta-eka-garbha — who conceive one child; kalatranam — of those who have wives; tatra — there; tu — but; treta-yuga-samah — exactly like the Treta-yuga (when there is no tribulation); kalah — time; vartate — exists.

TRANSLATION

In these eight varsas, or tracts of land, human beings live ten thousand years according to earthly calculations. All the inhabitants are almost like demigods. They have the bodily strength of ten thousand elephants. Indeed, their bodies are as sturdy as thunderbolts. The youthful duration of their lives is very pleasing, and both men and women enjoy sexual union with great pleasure for a long time. After years of sensual pleasure — when a balance of one year of life remains — the wife conceives a child. Thus the standard of pleasure for the residents of these heavenly regions is exactly like that of the human beings who lived during Treta-yuga.

PURPORT

There are four yugas: Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga and Kali-yuga. During the first yuga, Satya-yuga, people were very pious. Everyone practiced the mystic yoga system for spiritual understanding and realization of God. Because everyone was always absorbed in samadhi, no one was interested in material sense enjoyment. During Treta-yuga, people enjoyed sense pleasure without tribulations. Material miseries began in Dvapara-yuga, but they were not very stringent. Stringent material miseries really began from the advent of Kali-yuga.
Another point in this verse is that in all eight of these heavenly varsas, although men and women enjoy sex pleasure, there is no pregnancy. Pregnancy takes place only in lower-grade life. For example, animals like dogs and hogs become pregnant twice a year, and each time they beget at least half a dozen offspring. Even lower species of life such as snakes give birth to hundreds of young at one time. This verse informs us that in grades of life higher than ours, pregnancy occurs once in a lifetime. People still have sex life, but there is no pregnancy. In the spiritual world, people are not very attracted to sex life, due to their exalted devotional attitude. Practically speaking, there is no sex life in the spiritual world, but even if sometimes it does occur, there is no pregnancy at all. On the planet earth, however, human beings do become pregnant, although the tendency is to avoid having children. In this sinful Age of Kali, people have even taken to the process of killing the child in the womb. This is the most degraded practice; it can only perpetuate the miserable material conditions of those who perform it.
SB 5.17.13

Ref. VedaBase => SB 5.17.12

THE CHALLENGE BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS 10.41 SAYS:”Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.”

Ref. VedaBase => Bg 10.41

Some women are beautiful

Some women are wealthy

Some women are beautiful and wealthy

And here lies the attraction.

So if we think in terms of BGAII10.41, then we see Krishna and remain transcendental. But if and when cupid strikes then we become helpless.

Georgina Hope Rinehart (Gina) is a wealthy lady. She is the richest person in Australia. 2021 estimated worth: 31.6 Billion. Born 9 Feb 54 now 72. A blatant example of good karma.

In Yogindra kirtan 2024 /3/ Dubai watch how gracefully some ladies move their arms and hands under the influence of the rhythm of the kirtan. This is extremely aesthetic.

For “aesthetic” dictionary gives:

adjective

concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty: the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure. • 

giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty: the law applies to both functional and aesthetic objects. 

That beauty is Krishna

But in a sense this is playing with fire cause Cupid can strike at any time.

TEXT
Uddama bhava pishunah amala valguhasa
Brida avaloka nihito’ madano’ api yasam.
Sammuhya chapam ajahat pramadottamas ta
Yasya indriam vimathitum kuhakair na sethuh.

ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS

Uddama — very grave, Bhava — expression, Pishuna — exciting, Amala — spotless, Valguhasa — beautiful smiling, Brida — corner of the eyelids, Avaloka — looking, Nihita — conquered, Madano — cupid (*amadano — Shiva the great tolerant) Api — also Yasam — whose, Sanmuhya — being overpowered by, Chapam — bows, Ajahat — gave up, Pramoda — women who maddens, Uttama — of high grade, Ta — all, Yasya — whose, Indriam — senses, Vimathitum — to cause perturbance, Kuhakair — by magical feats, Na — never, Sekuh — was able.
*There is ‘amadano’ reading also.

TRANSLATION

Although the queen’s beautiful smiling and looking on from the corner of the eyelids were all spotless exciting and grave which could have conquered even the cupid personally because he gave up his bows in frustration (or even the tolerant Shiva also became a victim) still by all these magical feats of attractive features, they could hardly agitate the senses of the Lord.

PURPORT

The path of salvation or the path of going back to Godhead does always forbid association of women and the complete Sanatan Dharma or Varnashram Dharma scheme forbids or restricts association of women. How then one can be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead while the Person Himself is addicted to so many women more than sixteen thousands of wives? This question may be relevantly raised by inquisitive persons really anxious to know about the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord. And to answer such undue question the sages at Naimisaranya have discussed very nicely about the transcendental character of the Lord in this particular and the following verses before ending the chapter. It is clear herein that the feminine attractive features, which can conquer even the Cupid or even the Supermost tolerant Lord Shiva,-could not conquer the senses of the Lord. The cupid’s business is to invoke mundane lust of living being on another living being. The whole universe is moving being agitated by the cupid’s arrow. The activities of the world is being carried on by the central attraction of male and female affinity. A male is searching after a mate to his liking and the female is looking after a suitable male. That is the way of material stimulus. And as soon as a male is combined with a female the material bondage of the living being is at once tightly interlocked by the two opposite hearts by sex-relation and as a result of this, both the male and female’s attraction for sweet home, motherland, bodily offsprings, society and friendship and accumulation of wealth by all means become the illusory field of activities and thus a false but indefatigable attraction for the temporary material existence which is full of miseries, becomes a fail. Those who are therefore on the path of salvation, for going back to home and back to Godhead, are specially advised by all scriptural instruction to become free from such different paraphernalia of material attraction. And that is possible only by the association of the devotees of the Lord who are called the Mahatmas. The cupid, therefore, throws his arrow upon the living being to become mad after his opposite sex never mind whether the party is actually beautiful or not. Such action of the cupid is going on even on the negroes and beastly societies who are all ugly looking in the estimation of the civilized nations. Thus cupid’s influence is exerted even in the ugliest forms (of living being) and-what to speak about the most perfectional stage of personal beauties. Lord Shiva who is considered to be the most perfect tolerant, within this material world, was also struck by the cupid’s arrow because He also became mad after the Mohini incarnation of the Lord and acknowledged himself to be defeated. The cupid however was himself captivated by the grave and exciting dealings of the Goddess of Fortune and he voluntarily gave up his bow and arrow in a spirit of frustration. Such was the beauty and attractive feminine dealings of the queens of Lord Krishna, but still they could not distrub the transcendental senses of the Lord. The reason is that the Lord is all perfect Atmarama or self-sufficient. He does not require anyone’s extraneous help for His personal satisfaction. Therefore, the queens could not satisfy the Lord by their feminine attractiveness but they satisfied the Lord by their sincere affection and service. By unalloyed transcendental loving service only they could satisfy the Lord and the Lord was pleased to treat them as wives in reciprocation of their spontaneous love and service. Thus being satisfied by their unalloyed service only the Lord reciprocated the service just like a devout husband. Otherwise He had no business to become the husband of so many wives. He is the husband of everyone but one who accepts Him as such He reciprocates the feeling just like a devout husband. This unalloyed affection for the Lord is never to be compared with mundane lust. It is purely transcendental. And the grave dealing, which the queens dispalyed in the natural feminine ways, were also transcendental because the feelings were expressed out of transcendental ecstasy. It is already explained in the previous verse that the Lord appeared like a mundane husband but factually His relation with His wives was trancendental, pure and without being conditioned by the modes of material nature.
1.11.37
TEXT No. 37
TEXT
Tam ayam manyate loko hi asaktam api sanginam
Atma oupamyena manujam baprinwaman yatah abudhah.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Tam — unto Lord Krishna, Ayam — all these (common men) Manyate — do speculate within the mind, Loko — the conditioned souls, Hi — certainly, Asaktam — non-attached, Api — in spite of, Sanginam — affected, Atma — self, Oupamyena — by comparison with self, Manujam — ordinary man, Baprinwanam — being engaged in, Yatah — because, Abudhah — fool on account of ignorance.
TRANSLATION
The common materialistic conditioned souls or men do speculate within the mind that the Lord is one of them, out of foolish ignorance, taking the Lord as affected in matter although He is non-attached.
PURPORT
The word ‘Abudha’ is significant here. Due to ignorance only the foolish mundane wranglers misunderstand the Supreme Lord and spread their foolish imaginations amongst innocent persons by foolish propaganda. The Supreme Lord Sri Krishna is the Original Primeval Personality of Godhead and when He was personally present before the eyes of everyone, He displayed full fledged Divine-potency in every field of activities. As we have already explained in the first verse of Srimad Bhagwatam, He is completely independant to act whatever He likes but all His actions are full of bliss, knowledge and eternity. Only the foolish mundaners misunderstand Him without any depth of knowledge about His eternal form of knowledge and blissfulness and as confirmed in the Bhagwat Geeta and Upanishads, His different potencies do work in a perfect plan of natural sequence, and doing everything by the exigency of His different potency, He remains eternally the Supreme independant. When He descends on the material world by His causeless mercy on different patterns of living being, He does so by His own potency. He is not subject to any condition of the material modes of nature and He descends as He is Originally. The mental speculators misunderstand Him as the Supreme Person, and they consider His impersonal features as inexplicable Brahman the great. Such conception of Him is also product of conditioned life, because they cannot go beyond their own personal capacity. Therefore, one who brings about the Lord on the level of one’s limited potency is only a common man. Such man cannot be convinced that the Personality of Godhead is always unaffected by the modes of material nature. They cannot understand that the Sun is always unaffected by the contamination of infectious matter. Why it is so because they compare everything from the stand point of experimental knowledge of their ownselves. As such when the Lord is found to act like an ordinary person in the matter of tieing Himself in matrimonial bondage, they consider the Lord like one of them with poor fund of knowledge of the fact that the Lord can marry also at once sixteen thousands of wives or more than that. Due to poor fund of knowledge they accept one side of the picture while disbelieving the other. This means that due to ignorance only they always think of Lord Krishna as one of them and make their own conclusions which are absurd and unauthentic from the version of the Srimad Bhagavatam

Ref. VedaBase => 1.11.38

From THE October 1984 in PERTH WA incorporated WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR VEDIC CULTURE INC to the September 2nd 1996 name change to THE AUSTRALiAN SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CULTURE, we are now expanding as THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CULTURE Pty Ltd. With the help of Ms Katie Chan principal lawyer at KMB, Bundall, Cold Coast, Qld, Australia we are restructuring in a rather professional way.

We are already “international” as our website attracts an international audience mostly from USA and India.

My dear Turyadas Prabhu,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt your letter dated Feb.16, 1977.
Please continue to increase the deity worship and teach others to become a very good pujari like you. When I see my disciples doing deity worship nicely that engladdens me. ‘Sevonmukhe hi jivadau/ svayam eva sphuraty adah’, God realization is possible only by service. That is the only way. He is adhoksaja. ‘Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajantam priti purvakam/ dadami
buddhi-yogam tam yena mam upayanti te’, When one engages in devotional service, Krishna gives intelligence from within. Otherwise, how the unlimited can be served by the limited? So please continue to make the worship more and more beautiful.
Hoping this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
ACBS/tkg

Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Turyadas — Mayapur 27 February, 1977

Just see the expression on his face: disgust and frustration. He is disgusted with himself and rightly so. But I doubt very much his arrogance and egotistic self will allow such a degree of self-criticism.

It could also be an expression of contempt: In his megalomania, it is contempt for everything non-Jayadavaita including his own spiritual master. He wants to be God, the last snare of Maya! What a madman! What a Maya-man! What an agent of Maya he is!

Additionally his handling of BGAII 16.7, word for word, makes him an immoral individual. This DOES NOT APPLY TO Hayagriva as he handles this passage with all good sense. And as BGAII 18.78 confirms we are definitely after morality.

Jayadvaita the subverter. SUBVERT HIM, THE SUBVERTER. SUBVERT THE SUBVERTER!

Down with him. Kick him in the face as he did figuratively to Srila Prabhupada on innumerable occasions by whimsically and foolishly interfering in Srila Prabhupada original and perfect formulation of BGAII, thus misleading ISKCON and the whole world as well.

UTUBE YOGINDRA PRABHU’S KIRTAN, THE KING OF KIRTAN / DAY3 / KIRTAN RASA 2024/ 4K/ DUBAI KIRTAN MELA .

WHAT MAGNIFICENCE IN DISPLAY HERE !!!!!!! The Best, including mrdanga, flute and clarinet players. YOGINDRA PRABHU IS THE KING OF KIRTAN. THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. And where is the emperor of Kirtan? Is it Yogindra Prabhu? Future will tell.

All things considered and transposed, Henry David Thoreau’s: “In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seen puny and trivial.” applies here. I bathe my mind in Yogindra’s Hare Krishna melodies as much as is possible.

UN MOVEMENT DE CORPS. A WELL UNIFIED MESSAGE OF TRANSCENDENTAL POWER OR SHAKTI. AGAIN JUST SEE HOW DRUMS OR MRDANGAS ARE IMPORTANT AND FORM THE VERY CORE OF THE KIRTAN’S RHYTHM. WHO CAN STOP, WHAT TO SPEAK OF DEFEAT SUCH A TSUNAMI OF TRANSCENDENTAL SOUND. THE FLUTE IS AN EXQUISITE EXTRA.( MINUTE 38)

WHO WILL NOT AGREE TO SURRENDER TO THE CASCADE OF TRANSCENDENTAL SOUND AND HAPPINESS AND WILL NOT AGREE TO BE CARRIED AWAY? ONLY THE MOST UNFORTUNATE WILL KEEP THEMSELVES APART FROM LORD CAITANYA’S SANKIRTAN MOVEMENT.

“JAY JAY RADHE JAY JAY SHYAMA JAY VRINDAVAN DHAM”

THIS KIRTAN OFFERING REALLY DOES JUSTICE TO THE DIVINE COUPLE RADHA AND SHYAMA. THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!

Actually there are four different Bhagavad Gitas As It Is.

ONE. THE ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT (OT)

Srila Prabhupada’s Original Transcript available here https://bookchanges.com/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-manuscript/ Picture / screen shot above. CONDITION: BELOW AVERAGE. But much nectar can be extracted. It is a meticulous work of decipherment. Some passages are plain missing. It is accepted that Srila Prabhupāda Himself (with a capital H please) typed the first six chapters. Whereas the rest from Chapter 7 to 18 has either been typed by non-Prabhupada entities or edited by the untrustworthy Hayagriva. Hayagriva also sometimes produces absolutely first class renditions. That’s a fact to his credit.

TWO. THE BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS NOT BY HAYAGRIVA

THE BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS NOT by Hayagriva has many childish and adult mistakes. Visually much more attractive than BHAGAVAD GITA As It Is NOT by the subversive Jayadvaita . Preserving the original cover. On Book distribution, people will often comment: “O what a nice cover!” Has some serious mistakes and misleading speculations as well.

THREE. BHAGAVAD GITA As It Is NOT by subverter Jayadvaita

The amount of concoction added by cheater, traitor and subverter Jayadvaita is indescribable.

I have tried to describe many of them and am still adding more to the list as I progress through the OT. Please see on my site various article re this subject matter.

FOUR. The CHALLENGE BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS. Mean to be the most faithful presentation of all Bhagavad Gitas for Srila Prabhupada’s pleasure.

Introduction,

Chapter one,

and chapter two up to text 22 included are ready for publication.

Currently I am finally proof reading chapter 2.

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the devotees of the Lord who are called the Mahatmas.

Ref. VedaBase => 1.11.36

the devotees of the Lord who are called the Mahatmas.

Ref. VedaBase => 1.11.36

the devotees of the Lord who are called the Mahatmas.

Ref. VedaBase => 1.11.36

This picture by Yadavendra Das (acbsp1) in ISKCON BRISBANE’s new temple room, April 2026, AUSTRALIA. (HH Indradyumna Maharaja kindly agreed to look at camera.)

In the late 70ties, I had the privilege to be HH Jayapataka Maharaja’s dress adviser as he stopped over in Frankfurt on the way to USA and came to rented Schloss Rettershoff and wanted to go shopping for karmi cloth. I took him to a relevant department store in Frankfurt City, about 40 minute drive. I was awarded this very personal service. JAYAPATAKA means the victory flag a bit like the flag planted by American soldiers at the end of world war two at IWO JIMA. “the Battle of Iwo Jima between February 1945 and March 1945 was some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific War, with Imperial Japan and the United States both suffering over 20,000 casualties.”  Wikipedia

Rettershof literally means the court of the saviour or the place of the saviour. At least during these years the Schloss was properly used according to its nomenclature, as our business is the save fallen souls. May be we should buy this castle. It’s never too late. Later in the 80ties, HH Suhotra Maharaja was also residing there. In fact he was TP. and we have quite some fun together. All glories to departed HH Suhotra Maharaja. From Wikipedia we learn that Schloss Rettershof was a monastery previously, and it became a Hare Krishna monastery again in the 70ies and 80ies. Jay Sri Krishna

And this is the back of the Schloss where Srila Prabhupada kindly initiated me on the recommendation of HG Hansadutta Prabhu. This happened on the lawn to the right of the picture in June 1974 and there is a video about it. In the Prabhupada records it says there are 3 Yadavendras, all in Germany, but this is highly improbable, and must be some kind of a mistake. This is also the place where I experienced the only ghost attack ever and many other experienced it too.

These glorifications are not sentimental. These glorifications are based on Shri Krishna’s own words and verdict in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita 9.13:

Ref. VedaBase => Bg 9.13

mahatmanas tu mam partha
daivim prakrtim asritah
bhajanty ananya-manaso
jnatva bhutadim avyayam

Word for word translation
maha-atmanah — the great souls; tu — but; mam — unto Me; partha — O son of Prtha; daivim — divine; prakrtim — nature; asritah — having taken shelter of; bhajanti — render service; ananya-manasah — without deviation of the mind; jnatva — knowing; bhuta — of creation; adim — the origin; avyayam — inexhaustible.

TRANSLATION

O son of Prtha, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.

PURPORT

In this verse the description of the mahatma is clearly given. The first sign of the mahatma is that he is already situated in the divine nature. He is not under the control of material nature. And how is this effected? That is explained in the Seventh Chapter: one who surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, at once becomes freed from the control of material nature. That is the qualification. One can become free from the control of material nature as soon as he surrenders his soul to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the preliminary formula. Being marginal potency, as soon as the living entity is freed from the control of material nature, he is put under the guidance of the spiritual nature. The guidance of the spiritual nature is called daivi prakrti, divine nature. So when one is promoted in that way — by surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead — one attains to the stage of great soul, mahatma.
The mahatma does not divert his attention to anything outside Krsna, because he knows perfectly well that Krsna is the original Supreme Person, the cause of all causes. There is no doubt about it. Such a mahatma, or great soul, develops through association with other mahatmas, pure devotees. Pure devotees are not even attracted by Krsna’s other features, such as the four-armed Maha-Visnu. They are simply attracted by the two-armed form of Krsna. They are not attracted to other features of Krsna, nor are they concerned with any form of a demigod or of a human being. They meditate only upon Krsna in Krsna consciousness. They are always engaged in the unswerving service of the Lord in Krsna consciousness.