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!
ISKCON and the BBT publish every year two Vyasapuja books at the time of Srila Prabhupada’s anniversary, which is usually in August or September (based on the lunar calendar). One contains offerings of different active individuals such as sannyasis, Iskcon board members also called GBCs for Governing Body Commissioner, ISKCON temples around the world and other affiliated entities. I was banned from that book some years ago. The other is called Tributes and “The Tributes book is open to all disciples of Srila Prabhupada without exception. All are welcome.” claims the Production Manager, a disciple of Jayadvaita Swami. But last year my offering to Srila Prabhupada was banned in toto, every single words of it! Let’s see whether I shall be luckier this year 2026. I personally own about fifty of such Vyasapuja books of both varieties, starting from the year 1972, even before I joined ISKCON in 1973..
Here is my Tribute-banned 2025 Vyasapuja offering to Srila Prabhupada:
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your divine feet. All glories to your constant, enduring, unyielding, and most effective global preaching!
Here are some of the formulas I have created lately:
1) Srila Prabhupada, You are simply the most intelligent person. You are also the most pre-eminent and evolved Spiritual Master of the entire modern world. These are not overstatements. These may indeed be broad statements, but they are fully justified. Nor can these be qualified as sentimental statements, even though we may have strong and positive sentiments for You.
2) Srila Prabhupada You are “The Attorney General of the Supreme Personality of Godhead!”
Your unique expertise and understanding in trust law and general law mindedness is confirmed by the mother of Ksudhi Prabhu, an American trust lawyer, who allegedly helped You establish the BBT. (https://www.dandavats.com/?p=35280. Comments by HG Shymasundara Prabhu, the lesser known of Your two Syamasundara diskha disciples.) And of course, You are presenting the law books for mankind for the next 10 000 years. So You are definitely “The Attorney General of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
3) Instead of simply writing “All glories to Srila Prabhupada”, we may glorify You further and write “All glories to Srila Prabhupada, the originator of ISKCON, the BBT, BTG magazine and 80 or so top-class books on self-realisation.”
This will constantly remind us of Your unparalleled achievements in the transcendental domain of self-realization.
Your God-brother HH Akincana Das babaji confirmed this to Your disciple HH BB Govinda Maharaja as follows:” From my experience there has never been a greater Acharya than your spiritual master. There has never been an Acharya in history Who performed miracles like your spiritual master. Do you know why? Because in history there has never been a greater servant of Sri Krishna’s holy name than your spiritual master. Because your spiritual master had so much absolute understanding of Krishna’s holy name and so much absolute faith in Sri Krishna’s holy name that He personally carried Sri Krishna’s holy name through the length and breadth of the world. Therefore he is the greatest Acharya Who has ever existed.” Jai Srila Prabhupada!
There is a special, so far unpublished, Prabhupada-story attached to the word “originator”. This is Your own personal choice of word in BGAII, OT, 10.8, purport: “All Vedic literature agree that Krishna is the originator of Brahma, Shiva and all other demigods.” Your editors, however, replaced the colourful “originator” with the dull “source” with no valid reason whatsoever. It rather represents a literary loss. I discovered this somewhat disappointing subterfuge in the second half of FEB 2025. I originally wrote:”“All glories to Srila Prabhupada, the CREATOR of ISKCON, the BBT, BTG magazine and 80 or so top-class books on self-realisation.” But now “All glories to Srila Prabhupada, the ORIGINATOR of ISKCON, the BBT, BTG magazine and 80 or so top-class books on self-realisation.” it will be!!! Thank you so very much for your literary inspiration, Srila Prabhupada! With You there is never a boring moment! There has never been. And there will never be! What a coveted relationship available to all! Your OT is available here: https://bookchanges.com/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-manuscript/
4) You are also a revolutionary, and originating from France, I personally appreciate that feature of Yours, especially in respect to women, to whom you grant equal opportunity in the domain of self-realization, including Guruship, and this goes against many so-called traditional values. This seems to be evident from Your statement found in Prabhupada-lila, Chapter 2, Seattle, September-October 1968 by HH Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami:
“Prabhupada took advantage of the presence of the traveling sankirtana party in Seattle. He told Tamala Krsna he wanted to organize a world sankirtana party, with twelve men, twelve women, and himself going all over the world. But for the present, the devotees went out daily in the downtown city.”
Additionally, every morning, in everyone of Your 1200 or so ISKCON centres around the world, (1200 figure sourced from Your international Vyasapuja book 2024) including my own, ISKCON Brisbane, Australia, a Vaikuntha place with consistently excellent prasadam, and on Your order we play HG Yamuna DD’s interpretation of two verses, 5.30 and 5.32, of Brahma Samhita.
5) Based on Shri Shri Gurvashtaka, stanza 7, I am also advocating that we ought to use capital letters in pronouns, possessives and associated expressions relating to Your Divine Person, as we do for the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
saksad-dharitvena samasta-shastrair
uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih
kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya
vande guroh shri-caranaravindam
The spiritual master is to be honoured as much as the Supreme Lord, because he is the most confidential servitor of the Lord. This is acknowledged in all revealed scriptures and followed by all authorities. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is a bona fide representative of Sri Hari [Krishna].
6) Srila Prabhupada, in the matter of asamordhva, You display the same qualities as Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: You strictly have no equal in the realm of the science self-realization and no one is superior to you in the real of the science of self-realization neither. Full stop!
“The word is a combination of three elements — a, meaning “not,” sama, meaning “equal to,” and urdhva, meaning “greater than,” which combine to mean “no one is equal to or greater than [Krsna].” The Sanskrit sandhi rules say that that combination makes asamordhva.”
VedaBase => FM 6: Concerning Corrections on VedaBase Updates.
7) Srila Prabhupada you are Purusottama, the best among humans, and because those transcendental qualities shine through your pure representatives scattered throughout the world, people in general are touched within their hearts and reciprocate. At ISKCON New Govardhana, NSW, Australia, a neighbour just recently agreed to sell another 170 acres of land adjacent to its already existing 1000 acres, including 80 acres of fertile river flats. This truly represents Krishna’s sweet smile of approval on NG for their good Krishna conscious works under Your guidance. And while I was trying to buy a quality mattress from Max, he decided to donate a free mattress instead because 30 years ago in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Hare Krishna Food for Life fed him while he was down and out. Now he is a successful business man owning factories in China.
Another thing Srila Prabhupada: We were a million miles (at least I was) from realizing the great importance and consequences of our decision to join, to surrender to and accept Your Divine Grace as our Guru 50 or so years ago. As a consequence we carry now all these sometimes heavy but inevitable, whence welcome responsibilities. As You say in The Challenge Bhagavad Gita As It Is, 2.14, purport: “The two different names of address given to Arjuna are also significant. To address him as Kaunteya signifies his great blood relations from his mother’s side. And to address him as Bharata signifies his greatness from the father’s side. From both sides he is supposed to have a great heritage. Great heritage brings responsibility in the matter of proper discharge of duties and as such he cannot avoid fighting.” So ALL members of ISKCON have the greatest spiritual heritage from Your person, Srila Prabhupada, and this facts brings to ALL “responsibility in the matter of proper discharge of duties” and as such we must preach strongly on your behalf. Thank you Srila Prabhupada for stepping forward and (con) fronting Maya.
So far I have understood one thing. It is not that the disciple has to fashion Guruvani to his own mind’s requirements. That will not get us very far at all. The disciples must bent his mind, and sometimes storm his own mind to adapt to Guruvani. To be successful in Krishna consciousness we must cling to you as close as we possibly can, whatever happens and whatever the circumstances.
Here are four helpful dictionary meanings for “cling”:
1) hold on tightly to: she clung to Joe’s arm | we sat clinging on to one another | sucker-like discs help them to cling on | they clung together| she clung on to life for 16 days figurative.
2) Adhere or stick firmly or closely to; be hard to part or remove from: the smell of smoke clung to their clothes | the fabric clung to her smooth skin.
3) Remain very close to: the fish cling to the line of the weed.
4) Remain persistently or stubbornly faithful to: she clung resolutely to her convictions.”
What it means:
One. This means we have to absorb ourselves in studying “scrutininzingly” Your own books- again one of your specifically chosen word i.e.“scutininzingly” – as well as books about Your activities such as HH Satsvarupa Das Goswami’s faithful biographical-Prabhupada-writings also called Prabhupada Lilamrita, which has now been re-published very exquisitely in a seven volume format by BBT India.
Two. This means we have to hear Your spoken vani in the form of Your classes as much as possible.
Three. This means also just watching and meditating on Your pictures or videos and mentally reviewing the circumstances behind it.
…..so that on the whole we may become totally and fully Prabhupadized. (Or baptized in Prabhupada) :):):)
In other words, we have to absorb ourselves as much as we can in Your “Gauravani”, as per Your second pranam mantra. The only alternative is Mayavani, whence all our difficulties. And there is no third alternative!
Finally:
You are a perfect gentleman.
You are a truth telling gentleman.
And You are an advocate of equal gender-opportunity.
We may therefore surrender to You unreservedly.
Henceforward my slogan will be:
All glories to Srila Prabhupada, the perfect truth telling gentleman, advocating equal gender opportunity!
Eternally thankful I remain
Your dedicated servant,
Sriman Yadavendra Das (acbsp1)
Gaura Purnima 14 th, March, 2025
Founder and Custodian of The Australian Society for Krishna Culture.
To summarise the conclusions of Bhagavad-gita it may be said that,
1) God is one and everything is in Him and He is in everything.
2) To render transcendental service unto God is to serve everything that be, just like to water the root of the tree is to water the different branches and numerous leaves of the tree or to supply food to the stomach is to vitalize all the senses and the sense organs of the body.
3) The parts are automatically served when the Whole is served but when the parts are served the whole may not be served or not served at all.
4) The parts and the Whole being eternally related, it is the eternal duty of the parts to render service unto the Whole.
5) A recipient of the services of the parts, God’s sat-cit-ananda vigraha i.e. the all-attractive Cognizant and all-blissful Personality eternal. He can reveal Himself by His own potency without any help of the external potency called maya in order to be cognizable by the limited potency of the parts and as such He is not only the greatest of all but he is the smallest of all. That is His prerogative.
6) He is better realized when He by His causeless mercy agrees to descend in this mortal world but he He is never realized by the partial speculations of the empiric philosophers however systematic and long-termed it may be.
7) Sri Krishna is the Personality of Godhead and is the Summum Bonum Cause of all Causes proved by fact and figures in the statement of Bhagavad-gita, but He reserves the right of not being exposed to the sensual speculations of the empiric philosophers.
8) One should therefore surrender unto Him if one wants to know Him as He is and that is the real process to approach the Infinite by the infinitesimals.
9) Sri Krishna is easily available by the religion of love i.e. by love and service as conceived by the damsels of Vraja who had practically no education whatsoever and much less any claim for high class birth right.
10) The highest service that can be rendered to the mankind is, therefore, to preach the philosophy and religion of Bhagavad-gita for all the times, all the places and all the people. I hope you may agree with me and thus make a combined effort in this direction for the benefit of the mankind.
“One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the two eyebrows and in full devotion engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord, will certainly achieve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
Hayagriva:
One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and in full devotion engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord, will certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Puppy Jayadvaita:
One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and, by the strength of yoga, with an undeviating mind, engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord in full devotion, will certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Hayagriva deferentially respects Srila Prabhupada’s rendition, whereas puppy Jayadavaita impudently feels a need to correct Srila Prabhupada and add “by the strength of yoga, with an undeviating mind” But Srila Prabhupada is perfectly aware of “yoga-balena”, as he develops it extensively in the purport. He just decided not to mentioned it in the verse and thats the way it should stay.
“What is that English proverb? “Fools rush in where angels dare not.”
Ref. VedaBase => Conversation on Train to Allahabad – January 11, 1977, India
Hayagriva however, completely ignores the subject matter of sat-chakra-yoga which Srila Prabhupada mentions in the purports 8.10 and 8.11. To his credit, Jayadvaita restores it in both cases. .
TRANSLATION. O Janardhana, although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing the family, quarrelling with friends and similar (other?) acts, why should we engage ourselves in these acts of sin, despite of our knowledge of the crime which lies in destroying the family.
PURPORT. A ksatriya is not supposed to deny a battle or gamble when he is so invited by a rival party. Under such obligation, Arjuna could not deny to fight because he was so invited by the party of Duryodhana. In response, Arjuna considered that the other party may be blind to the effects of such a fratricidal fight, whereas he could see the future ending of such a fight and how then could he accept such a false challenge? Obligation is actually binding when the effect is good. But when the effect is otherwise, nobody can be bound by such false obligation. Considering all these pros and cons of the challenge Arjuna decided not to fight with them.”
Hayagriva makes it:
TRANSLATION. O Janardana, although these men, overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one’s family or quarreling with friends, why should we, with knowledge of the sin, engage in these acts?
Hayagriva’s PURPORT is but for one or two words identical to Jayadvaita’s found below.
Jayadvaita makes it:
TRANSLATION. O Janardana, although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one’s family or quarreling with friends, why should we, who can see the crime in destroying a family, engage in these acts of sin?
PURPORT. A ksatriya is not supposed to refuse to battle or gamble when he is so invited by some rival party. Under such an obligation, Arjuna could not refuse to fight, because he had been challenged by the party of Duryodhana. In this connection, Arjuna considered that the other party might be blind to the effects of such a challenge. Arjuna, however, could see the evil consequences and could not accept the challenge. Obligation is actually binding when the effect is good, but when the effect is otherwise, then no one can be bound. Considering all these pros and cons, Arjuna decided not to fight.
ANALYSIS of the verse.
Jayadvaita substantially improves the poor rendition of the verse by Hayagriva but still does not get close enough. He reintroduces the concept of “the crime in destroying the family” which Hayagriva neglected completely and is to be found in Srila Prabhupada’s original rendition.
He also reintroduces the concept “heart over taken by greed” present in Srila Prabhupada’s original presentation of the verse.
But he still ignores Srila Prabhupada’s “and similar (other?) acts” and unnecessarily changes Srila Prabhupada’s better formulation “knowledge of the crime” to “see the crime”.
ANALYSIS of the purport.
Jayadvaita’s and Hayagriva’s purports are basically identical but differ substantially from Srila Prabhupada’s purport.
“Challenge” replaces the original “fratricidal fight”
The word “false”, which is taboo to these false and traitor editors, is dropped twice. This is how these FALSE and TRAITOR EDITORS drop BGAII standards from Srila Prabhupada’s coherent and truth telling philosophical treatise to becomes a Vaishya manual where there exists no falsity in making money and where all moves are allowed.
For good facade only, the editors introduce a hypocritical moral notion of ” evil consequences ” but factually drop Srila Prabhupada’s expressions “false challenge” and “false obligation”. To these Vaishya editors, supporters and followers there cannot be any falsity as the sole and overriding reality is moneymaking and not truthfulness as is originally intended by Srila Prabhupada and Shri Krishna.
Let the Vaishyas (mercantile class) mind their own business of “agriculture, trade, cow protection and banking” and not meddle in the Ksatriya’s and Brahmin’s business.
Full Prabhupada quote:”This means as stated in the Bhagavad-gita there are different symptoms of different classes of men — just like a Brahmana is truthful, clean, self-controlled, equipoised, tolerant, simple, full of knowledge, theist, and so on. Similarly a Ksatriya has symptoms — a tendency for ruling over others, martial spirited, charitable, does not flee away from the battlefield and so on. Similarly, the symptoms of a Vaisya is his tendency to agriculture, trade, cow protection and banking. And the Sudra’s tendency is to some way or other work anywhere and get some wages. Letter to: Janardana — Los Angeles 16 January, 1970
The Challenge BGAII 3.35 advises: “It is far better to discharge one’s own prescribed duties even though they are faulty, than another’s prescribed duties. If one is destroyed in the course of discharging one’s duty, that is also better than being engaged in other duties.”
Additionally in BGAII 1.15, purport, we find THE APOGEE OF SEXISM. Srila Prabhupada wisely types Goddess of Fortune with capital letters but the boor editors know better and will not allow it, thus disrespecting the Goddess of Fortune, the apogee of foolishness! These things will not go unnoticed. Repeated again in BGAII 1.20, purport, and in BGAII 1.36, both verse and twice in the purport. Due to dogmatism, these boors are slighting the Goddess of Fortune and the Goddess of Fortune will surely pay them back in due course!
This reminds us of Apple Corporation. If you spend AU$ 1500 or so you will get a miserly and sometimes dangerous for the equilibrium of your phone, 96 cm cord and if you spend AU$ 4000 you will get a generous 197 cm cord for your device.
In some cases Hayagriva just added a paragraph of his own fabrication and Jayadvaita rubber-stamps. as in BGAII purport 7.23:
The following is not Srila Prabhupada:
“However, worshipers of the demigods are less intelligent because they don’t know to what part of the body food must be supplied. Some of them are so foolish that they claim that there are many parts and many ways to supply food. This isn’t very sanguine. Can anyone supply food to the body through the ears or eyes?”
Ultimately it is Srila Prabhupada but out of proper context. Srila Prabhupada does not use. the word “sanguine” though.
First of all, the constant rain stopped and the 26 of April 2025, day after ANZAC, was a beautiful, warm, sunny day. Their Lordships Shri Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra paraded the main business district of Brisbane and bestowed Their blessings for one full hour and the melodious kirtan by HG Kalasamvara Prabhu of New Zealand and His Holiness Devamrita Swami, co-GBC for ISKCON Australia, reverberated among the tall buildings. A team of Channel 9 was present to record and report the Ratha Yatra news. Our request for mounted police was unsuccessful. Participation was good, up from previous years and the mood was friendly as HG Madhukanta Prabhu remarked. That means devotees are maturing. As His Holiness Vishvananda Swami of the Bhakti Marg Movement states: “If you dont know what is love your live is useless!”
Many dignitaries from public and private sector kindly attended and spoke well wishing words. Honourable Jess Pugh, state member for Mt Omaney, went as far as wearing a sari on the occasion in which she looked both comfortable and wonderful. Thank you Jess for the extra mile!
2025 was the tenth edition of ISKCON Brisbane, Australia, Ratha Yatra.
His Grace Dvijavara Prabhu of Poland and his good wife are the main architect behind this feat, and can be seen on the picture below along with the ten various Ratha Yatra posters on the wall for the last ten years.
Melodious kirtan such as this by Her Grace Premanjali DD is a sure recipe for instant and enlivening happiness. Just see how happy she seems to be with a wonderful smile. Besides that, because of its spiritual nature, one never grows tired of it, as happens with material happiness neither does it sap one’s vital energy. Who would not accept to participate in such joyous occasions unless that person “is to be understood very much bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord.”
Full quote:
“In this Age of Kali, if a person does not take advantage of chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, which is offered as a great concession to the fallen human beings of this age, it is to be understood that he is very much bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord.” SB 4.24.14, purport, last sentence.
ISKCON Perth || Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare || || Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare ||
Hare Krishna Dear devotees & well-wishersThe much-awaited Krishna Cultural Festival 2025 to celebrate Janmastami is fast approaching. Featuring an amazing line up of spiritual dramas, dance & musical performances , showcasing Krishna’s pastimes ranging from when Krishna was born, to Krishna’s avatars, His love for His devotees and much more!We are pleased to announce that we are celebrating Krishna Cultural Festival 2025 on:Sunday, 27th July 2025@ Indian Community Centre (ICC), Willetton from 3 PM onwards…..If you are interested in participating, please fill the below EOI https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGu-6fh-X2fN3Jh-RhgCMr-OXs1308ACkVZLhyP8pz3aN_iA/viewform?usp=header (Last date to fill EOI – 30th May 2025)Here’s a quick video on how wonderfully we celebrated last year- https://youtu.be/knqcSVeBIgo?feature=sharedCome forward and join us in offering our best to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Shri Krishna For other enquiries, please contact: Rashi Mataji – 0406 724 285Your humble servants, Krishna Cultural Festival 2025 Organising Team ISKCON PERTH
Our mailing address is: ISKCON PERTH155/159 Canning RdKalamunda, WA 6076Australia
We started our Australian Krishna conscious journey in the very special and unique Perth WA, where we stayed and served for 15 years from 1982 to 1997. The temple location successively changed from East Fremantle, under the leadership of HG Ganesh Prabhu (acbsp1), his wife HG Subhalaskmi DD (acbsp1) and their daughter HG Narottami DD to West Perth, Havelock st, and then to Bayswater, Railway Parade, before moving to the current Kalamunda location. I look forward to visit Perth and ISKCON Perth again indeed. YD.
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