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FOOTNOTE. BGAII 3.21. Lots to be said here.

First of all, it’s not “great man”. Prabhupada writes in singular number “by the respectable leader of human society.” So “respectable leader of human society” it is, and NOT “great man”, (you speculator and guru-aparadhi Hayagriva,) as in BGAII 3.21, version 3 :

“Whatever and whichever action a respectable leader of human society performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets as exemplary acts, all the world pursues.”

Both editors are equally responsible here for this malinterpretation and misleading:

Hayagriva is responsible for introducing it in the first place and Jayadvaita, in his repeated stupor, for rubber stamping it. What a dull animal he is, this Jayadvaita! Wikipedia flatteringly calls him “one of ISKCON’s most independent-minded and respected thinkers.” I have no qualms however, in calling him a dull, stupid, and UNFAITHFUL animal. Please note that I refrain from using the word “dog”, as that is the ultimate humiliation, that Jayadvaita does not deserve at this point of discovery of his personality. To his great loss, he is repeating the same non-sense perhaps hundreds of times throughout Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

Now the purport:

Flagrant sexism here. They don’t even realise how sexist they are, these people. It’s their second nature. Expert Srila Prabhupada ,however, carefully writes “anyone who desires to improve”, and we can see clearly that someone scribbled in superimposition “himself” on the OT paper.

But Hayagriva entirely misses the sentence. Perhaps he was on drugs or having sex with his homosexual partner. Who kows?

Jayadvaita gives ” anyone whom wants to improve “HIMSELF”. That’s flagrant sexism by all standards. He doesn’t even realise how sexist he is. That means Jayadvaita is a loooooooong way from Krishna consciousness. Jayadvaita definitely needs to vastly improve himself. And he is banned from editing. Does Jayadvaita think that women are not into improving themselves? This is a maha-holy-illusion for his holiness and he better watch out because women may give him a very stiff competition in self-improvement. The women I meet every day on Book Distribution are very much switched on. May be he should go on Book Distribution himself and face the realities of the Book Distribution Battlefield or BDB. The BDB mode can best be described as quick and decisive.

For comparative studies’ sake please find the three renditions of the purport:

ONE. Srila Prabhupada Bhagavad Gita As It Is, version three:

Purport 3.21. People in general always require a leader who can teach the public by practical behaviour. You cannot teach the public to stop smoking if you smoke yourself. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave practically before he begins teaching. One who treaches in that way is called acarya or the ideal teacher. Therefore a teacher must follow the principles of shastra to reach the common man. The teacher cannot manufacture rules against the principles of the revealed scriptures. The revealed scriptures like Manusamhita and similar other scriptures, are considered the standard books to be followed by human society. As such the leader’s teaching should be based on the principles of such standard shastra. Anyone who desires to improve must follow the standard rules as they are practiced by the great teachers. The Bhagavatam also affirms that one should follow the footsteps of great devotees and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. The king or the executive head of the state, the father, the school teachers—all are considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. Therefore, all such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependents, and as such they require to be conversant with the standard boks of moral and spiritual codes.

TWO from Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita:

People in general always require a leader who can teach the public by practical behavior. A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called acarya, or the ideal teacher. Therefore, a teacher must follow the principles of sastra (scripture) to teach the common man. The teacher cannot manufacture rules against the principles of revealed scriptures. The revealed scriptures, like Manu-samhita and similar others, are considered the standard books to be followed by human society. Thus the leader’s teaching should be based on the principles of such standard sastras. One who desires to improve himself must follow the standard rules as they are practiced by the great teachers. The Srimad-Bhagavatam also affirms that one should follow in the footsteps of great devotees, and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. The king or the executive head of a state, the father and the schoolteacher are all considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. All such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependents; therefore they must be conversant with standard books of moral and spiritual codes.

THREE from Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Hayagriva:

People in general always require a leader who can teach the public by practical behavior. A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly even before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called acarya, or the ideal teacher. Therefore, a teacher must follow the principles of sastra (scripture) to reach the common man. The teacher cannot manufacture rules against the principles of revealed scriptures. The revealed scriptures, like Manu-samhita and similar others, are considered the standard books to be followed by human society. Thus the leader’s teaching should be based on the principles of the standard rules as they are practiced by the great teachers. The Srimad-Bhagavatam also affirms that one should follow in the footsteps of great devotees, and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. The king or the executive head of a state, the father and the school teacher are all considered to be natural leaders of the innocent people in general. All such natural leaders have a great responsibility to their dependants; therefore they must be conversant with standard books of moral and spiritual codes.

First sentence coincides in all three editions.

Second sentence, the deviations begin:

Prabhupada says: “You cannot teach the public to stop smoking if you smoke yourself.” A crystal clear statement by Srila Prabhupada. Any editor in his right mind will not dare to touch it. But both editors Hayagriva and Jayadvaita foolishly and brazenly insult Prabhupada and replace it with their own concoction and meaning because of course, their position is superior to Srila Prabhupada’s and because of course they both know better than Srila Prabhupada. So they kick Srila Prabhupada in the face whereas they are the ones who ought to be kicked in the face with boots:”A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes.”The unspoken message is: “Prabhupada, we are really sorry to have to tell you that, but you really dont know what you are talking about and let the Hayagriva and Jayadvaita parampara talk here please, ok? Especially the fact that we have a lot of experience in smoking all kinds speaks in our favour!!! Whereas You Srila Prabhupada you haven’t even smoked one single cigarette in your entire life. So what do YOU know about smoking? Please be quiet now and let us do the speaking as we are most qualified in smoking matters, ok? Besides that how can you address us so directly since we are still involved in smoking. So its go to be the leaders who got to show the example to stop smoking first and then we’ll follow the leaders We ll do that when the leaders do it. ” That is a typical adulterated devotee situation, where the bhakta considers his own interest supreme and every else subordinate to it.

Third and fourth sentence.

Srila Prabhupada says:”Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave practically before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called acarya or the ideal teacher.” Here again in their restlessness the editors feel a need to replace Prabhupada’s “practically” with their own “properly”. But Srila Prabhupada “practically” is better by miles because it implies the idea of putting one’s philosophy into practice. But the editors think” He, we are here and we got to do something. So let’s do anything.” That is monkey philosophy of active foolishness. We are lucky again as the editors agree with Srila Prabhupada on sentence four.

Sentence five.

Here something funny happens. Hayagriva fully agrees with Srila Prabhupada. But the so called super-intelligent and super-nasty Jayadvaita must contradict both. He just cannot resist it. This is why I say that Hayagriva is at least an honest person, whereas Jayadvaita is just a NASTY CHEATER. Jayadvaita, you NASTY CHEATER it’s not “to teach the common man” as you would have it. It’s “to reach the common man” as Srila Prabhupada writes it Himself and you know it. Jayadvaita is a NASTY, UNPRINCIPLED, VAISHYA CLASS FELLOW CHEATER whose main aim is to confuse everything and everyone. He ought to be kicked out. At the very least he ought to be silenced. That includes indeed to repudiate his rendition of BGAII immediately.

Sentence six, no problem.

Sentence seven. Both monkey-like editors feel the irresistible need to drop the word “scripture.”The sentence is weakened by their whimsical decisions.

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The point is that we are being brainwashed big time by Hayagriva and Jayadvaita into thinking that we are reading Srila Prabhupada. But actually we are not. We are reading the private ravings and rantings of these two dubious individuals. Hayagriva was a drug addict and a homosexual. Are these your ideals of spiritual life? You will simply become a drug addict and a homosexual yourself as well. As far as homosexuality is concerned and even in this promiscuous society , we simply say: “Please, no illicit sex.” That’s all. Licit sex is godly as per Sri Krishna’s statement in Bhagavad Gita 7.11 and illicit sex is demoniac. I shall not quote the verse itself as 7.11, 7.12 and part 7.13 along with purports are missing in the Original Transcript (OT) Please look it up yourselves in whatever version you prefer.

And Jayadvaita has no principles whatsoever. He only works for his vanity. And his thinking is purely reactive: meaning to say if Hayagriva writes black or right, Jayadvaita out of his smart ass mentality will sometimes write white or left. This is just about the apogee of his thinking. There is nothing beyond that in Jayadvaita’s mind. His first principle is to bluff and mislead the innocent, the GBC and the whole world as well. What a cheater this Jayadvaita is! And he very impudently pretends to knows better than Srila Prabhupada, his Guru. What a Maha-Aparadhi! What a Maha-offender at the lotus feet of his Guru, Srila Prabhupada, this Jayadvaita is! And so far he is successful in his foolish and criminal enterprise. Who is going to stop him and when is he going to be stopped?

He is a third class mercantile man or Vaisya, representative of his community, trying to be a first class man or Brahmin. Nothing wrong with that. It’s an open competition and every willing player gets his chance. It’s a bit like in a svayamvara ceremony. He is trying to be a peacock but in reality he is a crow only and always will remain a crow or even less. Again from this particular instance, we may say that the Governing Body of ISKCON, who adopted Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita in 19?? or 20?? did not display much due diligence either.

Then there is BGAII 3.21. (Version 3)

“Whatever action a respectable leader of human society performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets as exemplary acts, all the world pursues.”

Srila Prabhupada very elegantly and cooly speak about “the respectable leader of human society” But crazy and drug addicted Hayagriva felt a need to make the higher bid of “great man”. Perhaps he suffered from megalomania as well.

Here is the definition of megalomania: “the delusional belief that one is important, powerful, or famous, as a form or symptom of mental disorder.” And he had a homosexual relationship with another customer of New York, USA, Bellevue Psychiatric hospital, the late Kirtanananda. All these details are accurate and are given in Srila Prabhupada’s Letters. Please read Srila Prabhupada’s letters.

Even though unpalatable, these details are important to be aware of to make an accurate assessment of the situation.  

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Actually we see all around us irresponsible actions. Yesterday at the bank there were no personal tellers, there was only one single ATM machine for all customers and the machine did not work properly so that after much time wastage, I could not bank the whole amount. Besides that the banks are saving their resources to the maximum and make you sweat just to get to a branch, of which they have closed down most of them. They are trying to save their own resources and trying to spend their customer’s resources instead. A very sneaky policy. They think we are fools and they think they are smartest. But I trust customers will fight back in due course. Please give people the credit of some intelligence. That is totally irresponsible on the part of the bank which I may not name for now. But an appropriate letter to their general management would be appropriate. THIS IS TIME and OTHER RECOURCES THEFT. THEY ARE TIME THIEVES. WATCH OUT FOR TIME AND OTHER RESOURCES THIEVES.

This type of behaviour on the part on any bank is both extremely disrespectful and distressful for its customers and we wonder where it comes from. We wonder who makes these inappropriate and reckless decisions in the restricted circle of their corporate board rooms. To be more pinpointed, we wonder whether these decisions are gender related, if you get what I mean.

And some people are dangerously driving their cars like madmen. They speed where it is very dangerous to speed. Actually speeding is always dangerous everywhere and should be avoided at all costs. Speeding causes death for sure. Some drivers refuse to give priority where they ought to. Monday October 14th 2024, a vehicle all of a sudden appeared before me from a left side, secondary, tributary road. I had to quickly and hard-maximum brake to avoid a collision.

The Team Global Express parcel tracking system is irresponsive as well and has been so for three days now. Big words: Team Global Express but lame entity with a lame tracking service!

The point is that people are very much disturbed in their minds due to a lack of guiding ideology and resulting mental structure and due to their aural input from the distressing world news.

Krishna consciousness has the potential to fill this omnipresent void. But if the Krishna consciousness movement itself and its leadership is failing, falling apart and travelling on the wrong Bhagavad Gita track then were is the hope??? These are signs of a decaying social structure. The questions are:” How far will it go?” and “Where will it take us?” “Will the seemingly LNP state election win in Queensland solve the problem?” So we may be heading for a rough ride. Better be prepared for it. As the French saying goes: “Un homme averti en vaut deux.” or in English” A person who knows what lies ahead is worth two people.” That’s double the resources to counter adverse circumstances.

So the leaders of ISKCON have a very heavy responsibility but as far as Bhagavad Gita As I Is is concerned they are failing. Fortunately we have some Christians who are fixed in their views and believes. I can see that much. And it is a great credit to hem. Their faith in Lord Jesus Christ is very strong and we can only congratulate them for it. But as I always say Krishna consciousness is the post graduate study of religion. Consequently the Christians and all other religionist may advance to Krishna consciousness anytime they will decide to do so.

But the stubborn adhesion to Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita, their silence on the matter and lack of appropriate action, remains criminal on the part of the ISKCON and BBT leaderships. Srila Prabhupada clearly states in the Nectar of Instruction also called Upadeshamrita verse 1, purport that “Silence may appear helpful for some time, but ultimately it proves a failure. So the ISKCON and BBT leaderships may not be a failure, break their silence and finally discard to a far distance Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by the unprincipled Jayadvaita NOW!!!

Signed: TKCO or The Krishna conscious Observer.

“Among cheating processes I am gambling; of the splendid I am the splendour, of the industrialist I am adventure, I am victory and I am the strength of the strong.” BGAII 10.36, version 3.

“I call you when I need you, my heart’s on fire

You come to me, come to me wild and wired

mmmm you come to me

Give me everything I need

Give me a life time of pomises and a world of dreams

Speak a language of love like you know what it means

mmm it can’t be wrong, baby

Take my heart and make it strong baby

YOU ARE SIMPLY THE BEST

BETTER THAN ALL THE REST

BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I’VE EVER MET

I AM STUCK ON YOUR HEART

I HANG ON EVERY -Bhagavad Gita- WORD YOU SAY

Tear us apart, no, no baby, I would rather be dead

In your heart I see the star of every night and every day

In your eyes I get lost, I get washed away

Just as long as I am here in your arms

I could be in no better place

YOU ARE SIMPLY THE BEST

BETTER THAN ALL THE REST

BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I’VE EVER MET

I AM STUCK ON YOUR HEART

I HANG ON EVERY -Bhagavad Gita- WORD YOU SAY

Tear us apart, no, no baby, I would rather be dead.

EACH TIME YOU LEAVE ME I START LOOSING CONTROL

YOU’RE WALKING AWAY WITH MY HEARD AND MY SOUL

I CAN FEEL YOU EVEN WHEN I AM ALONE

O baby don’t let go

YOU ARE THE BEST, BETTER THAN ALL THE REST

BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I’VE EVER MET

I AM STUCK ON YOUR HEART

I HANG ON EVERY -Bhagavad Gita- WORD YOU SAY

Don’t tear us apart, no, no, no

Baby, I would rather be dead

OOH YOU ARE THE BEST!”

Queen Tina is praising the BEST MALE.

And Who is the best MALE?

Sri Krishna is, who else ?

5000 years ago, He has abundantly proved it by expanding Himself into 16108 forms and marrying 16108 beautiful queens like Tina. They each had ten children or 161080 children. And He treated them perfectly, like a perfect gentleman, except for when he was playing affectionate and teasing games, as happened with Queen Rukmini, the Goddess of Fortune, when Krishna made her faint by his joking divorce proposal and as happens in all dynamic couples-not specifically in relationship to divorce proposals. But Rukmini, being Queen of good fortune quickly turned the table on Krishna. Please refer to the Krishna Book published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust., Chapter 60, Talks between Krishna and Rukimini. All details are described there. International division: https://bbt.org/books or Australasian division http://www.bbt.org.au in Sydney.

And in Bhagavad Gita 10.36 Krishna actually reciprocates with Tina when He says:

“I am the splendor of the splendid”

Tina is “the splendid” without any doubt. and her talent, beauty and outstanding personality is Krishna.

Here is the full verse Bhagavad Gita As It Is, version 3, chapter 10, verse 36:

“Among cheating processes I am gambling; of the splendid I am the splendor, of the industrialist I am adventure, I am victory and I am the strength of the strong.”


All glories to the now departed Tina Turner!

What a topmost show lady!

According to Wikipedia she also has a pious back ground.

Tina, you are definitely THE BEST.

We trust that by Lord Krishna’s grace, you achieved a wonderful destination, all to your liking. Thank you Tina for sharing your God-given talent.

TKCO or The Krishna Conscious Observer.

Due to absorption in book distribution, I did not plan ahead for my morning milk. As long as the weather is still a little fresh in the morning, it’s nice to accept little warm or hot milk prasadam.

So I had no choice but to drive the small distance to the market place where Aldi and Woolworth compete. It was 7.30 AM and sleepy Aldi was still closed till 8.30 AM, whereas hard working Woolworth opens at 7 AM. I just took $4.50 for 3 litres of milk.

When I arrived at milk fridges from the corner of my eye(s), I noticed a yellow sticker on one first bottle of milk in the many rows of bottles. It was discounted to $2.00, which is quite rare these days. When I removed that first bottle the second bottle behind was also discounted but nothing more after that. So for my initial money of $4.50 I got 6 litters off milk instead of 3 litres only, thats twice the expected amount and a residual money of $0.50. I call that a miracle because Krishna’s hand was definitely involved here. And I call this effective money management as well. Doubling one’s value is standard business practice for financial success. Thank you Woolworth for this opportunity!

But that was not all. When at the check out I requested Trish to please kindly chant the Hare Krishn mantra with me, she gladly complied. And we went

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

I led and she followed. O course, I was wearing my Hare Krishna baseball cap for more preaching bang. And thank you Trish for taking up the Hare Krishna Mantra challenge.

Someone may say: And what are you going to do with 6 litres of milk?

Well Sir or Madam, dont you know that milk is such a wonderful and practical foodstuff that it can be consumed in the “fresh” state as well in the curdled state. In other words, milk never perishes. Besides that I contains all the ingredients that are needed for a healthy life. Babies are the living proof for that.

But to be fair to Aldi, they also have a miracle. Starting from Saturday 19th of October, Aldi is selling a Ferrex lawn mower, including battery and charger for just $249.00, with an astounding 5 years warranty. That’s a significant economic miracle! How does Aldi do it? There is certainly is a lot of good will behind this action, good will to benefit the people. I have been waiting for this “miracle”for quite some time. Thank you Aldi! One Aldi employee confided that he previously had a Ferex lawn mower for the five year warranty period and there were no problems whatsoever. At the end of the five years period, he simply upgraded.

Signed: TKCO or The Krishna Conscious Observer

Please chant 

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

and thus make your life perfect.

Please find the specifics here:

BGAII 3.16, purport.

Srila Prabhupada:

“Indirectly, it is the practice of Krishna consciousness, because when advanced in such performances of yajnas, one is sure to become Krishna conscious.”

Hayagriva:

“Indirectly, it is the practice of Krishna consciousness, because when ONE MASTERS THE performance of yajnas, one is sure to become Krishna conscious.”

Jayadvaita: 

“Indirectly, it is the practice of Krishna consciousness, because when ONE MASTERS THE performance of yajnas, one is sure to become Krishna conscious.”

Hayagriva has the supreme audacity to unecessarily correct Srila Prabhupada, the World Acharya, by increasing the degree of force of Srila Prabhupada’s statement. From “being advanced”, it becomes “when one masters.” The two are not equal. One who is advanced only in a subject matter has not yet mastered the subject matter. Besides that, in Srila Prabhupada’s version it is typically easier to become Krishna conscious, whereas in the current and official version both Hayagriva and Jayadvaita want to make people sweat to become Krishna conscious. And sweat for whom? Sweat for themselves of course, sweat for their own benefit, these lazy rascals.

And Jayadvaita, in his great wisdom, does not actively correct the deviation, as his duty of second editor calls for, but instead rubber stamps the Prabhupada offence, thus making himself and everyone else in ISKCON and the BBT an accomplice of the plot to change or modify Srila Prabhupada’s absolute message, thus cheating the whole world out of Prabhupada’s real words. To modify unnecessarily Srila Prabhupada’s message and without authority is the greatest crime of manipulation against humanity. Such is the vitality, importance and relevance of the benevolent Prabhupada Vani. The benevolent Prabhupada Vani is so essential to the positive and healthy future of the planet!

In plain words, this is here the following unspoken message:

“Really Srila Prabhupada, you are an old family fool and idiot. Please get out of our way. We, your up and coming western disciples, we know better and we shall fix it all. You please just shut up. You don’t even know your English properly. What to speak of expressing yourself properly. Just trust us, your so-called Western disciples.”

That is a very offensive attitude and a very offensive action by all standards to which I CANNOT AGREE. This is exactly where our paths part. This is were the red line lies. You ISKCON and BBT people ought to be reformed by ALL POSSIBLE MEANS to save you from the hell were GURU APARADHIS live, especially the hell where Srila Prabhupada aparadhis live.

The first step and probably the most important step of reform will be for the ISKCON authorities to repudiate officially, immediately and without further delay Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is Not (or FBGAIIN) by Jayadvaita and go back to the drawing board of Srila Prabhupada Original Transcript (OT), as I have also been trying to do myself. Once this is done everything may fall into place.

The point being that anyone who supports in anyway, anyone of these two polluted and corrupted versions of Bhagavad Gita As It Is becomes automatically enveloped in this offensive mentality and hallo generated by both editors, Hayagriva and Jayadvaita. Lets get out off this quick before it is too late! Let’s get out before the building crumbles.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is, version 3, 2.49 exhorts:

“2.49. O Dhananjaya, keep all abominable activities at a far distant place by dint of devotional service, and in such consciousness, try to surrender unto Him. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of work are misers.”

Signed:

TKCO (The Krishna Conscious Observer)

Is the fact that Srila Prabhupada uses the expression “a self realised, Krishna conscious man” in OT purport a sufficient reason to replace His own expression ” A self realised person (in Krishna consciousness)” in the OT verse itself with “A self-realized man (in Krishna Consciousness)? Here again Srila Prabhupada with His contradictory statements prompts us to think hard. Due to the sensitive nature of the topic, we believe it is NOT a sufficient reason and we shall call both editors sexists. Besides that why did they drop the two expressions “Krishna conscious” and “Krishna consciousness”. That is not at all acceptable either and we shall call them lacking in their Krishna consciousness for this blunt and flagrant Krishna neglect.

And for the sake of the same balance between verse and purport sought in both editions V1 and V2 previously and considering the times we live in, we shall move in the opposite direction and replace Prabhupada’s “A self-realized, Krishna conscious MAN has no longer any obligation to fulfil to any prescribed duty, save and except the activities in terms of Krishna consciousness.” of the purport with Prabhupada’s own expression in the verse itself “A self-realized, Krishna conscious PERSON has no longer any obligation to fulfil to any prescribed duty, save and except the activities in terms of Krishna consciousness.” Srila Prabhupada, I hope I am passing your test successfully and I know that you are a progressive and sometimes revolutionary philosophic-religious-scientific innovator. All glories to you! When I offer them Your Bhagavad Gita, people often ask me point blank: Is this a religion? It seems I have just found the very correct answer to this people’s question. Yours is a “pilosophic-religious and scientific ideology.” It is not a religion in the traditional sense of the term. My MacBook Pro Dictionary gives for religion:

“religion | rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n | noun [mass noun] the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods: “

Krishna Consciousness is not just a belief!

I can believe anything I like and the crazy person will believe any crazy thing he or she likes. Does that make it a reality? Obviously not. It is only a clever strategy for the atheist to advertise religion as a “belief”only, thus making it totally a subjective subject matter, outside the realm of reason and science. But they are wrong! They are wrong at least as far as Krishna consciousness is concerned and Srila Prabupada has clearly proven this fact by debating and defeating all opposing elements. And as His representatives we must be able and willing to do the same.

This is in line with Srila Prabhupada’s statement in purport of BGAII 3.3:

In the Second Chapter, verse 39, the Lord explained two kinds of procedures — namely sankhya-yoga and karma-yoga, or buddhi-yoga. In this verse, the Lord explains the same more clearly. Sankhya-yoga, or the analytical study of the nature of spirit and matter, is the subject matter for persons who are inclined to speculate and understand things by experimental knowledge and philosophy. The other class of men work in Krsna consciousness, as it is explained in the 61st verse of the Second Chapter. The Lord has explained, also in the 39th verse, that by working by the principles of buddhi-yoga, or Krsna consciousness, one can be relieved from the bonds of action; and, furthermore, there is no flaw in the process. The same principle is more clearly explained in the 61st verse — that this buddhi-yoga is to depend entirely on the Supreme (or more specifically, on Krsna), and in this way all the senses can be brought under control very easily. Therefore, both the yogas are interdependent, as religion and philosophy. Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. The ultimate goal is Krsna, because the philosophers who are also sincerely searching after the Absolute Truth come in the end to Krsna consciousness. This is also stated in the Bhagavad-gita. The whole process is to understand the real position of the self in relation to the Superself. The indirect process is philosophical speculation, by which, gradually, one may come to the point of Krsna consciousness; and the other process is directly connecting everything with Krsna in Krsna consciousness. Of these two, the path of Krsna consciousness is better because it does not depend on purifying the senses by a philosophical process. Krsna consciousness is itself the purifying process, and by the direct method of devotional service it is simultaneously easy and sublime. (This passage is from version 2 and will still have to pass the Version 3 test. Unfortunately this is not possible for the time being as Original Tanscript is missing for now)

The communists have their ideology. The capitalist have their own ideology and conflict with one another. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder of the International Hare Krishna Movement, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) and Back to Godhead Magazine (BTG) offers the synthesis of both with His very own philosophic-religious dialectism and ideology.

Proposed final versions three for BGAII 3.18:

Verse.

A self-realized person (in Krishna consciousness) has no purpose to fulfil while executing his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to take shelter of any other living being. (This is Srila Prabhupada’s own style of expression in particular in regard to the use of “person” and pronouns attached to the word.)

Purport.

A self-realized, Krishna conscious person has no longer any obligation to fulfil in regard to any prescribed duty, save and except the activities in terms of Krishna consciousness. Neither represents such Krishna consciousness inactivity, as it will be explained in the following verses. A Krishna conscious person does not take shelter of any other person–man or demigod. Whatever he does in terms of Krishna consciousness is sufficient in the discharge of his obligation. 

or alternatively in gender neutrality:

A self-realized person (in Krishna consciousness) has no purpose to fulfil while executing its prescribed duties, nor has it any reason not to perform such work. Nor has it any need to take shelter of any other living being.

Purport.

A self-realized, Krishna conscious person has no longer any obligation to fulfil in regard to any prescribed duty, save and except the activities in terms of Krishna consciousness. Neither represents such Krishna consciousness inactivity, as it will be explained in the following verses. A Krishna conscious person does not take shelter of any other person–man or demigod. Whatever it does in terms of Krishna consciousness is sufficient in the discharge of its obligation. 

Just recently I have received advise from an authorised source that

“In the Sanskrit dictionary, mahātmā can be masculine, feminine, or neuter” Similarly a person can be a male of a female but for all practical purposes the word “person” should be a neuter and be represented by the pronoun “it”. So it all makes grammatical sense and we are herewith reforming the English language as well. Please be prepared to move your border / frontier anchors and get accustomed to it. After everything is said and done my final inclination is as follows: 3.18 A self-realized person (in Krishna consciousness) has no purpose to fulfil while executing his prescribed duties, nor has he any reason not to perform such work. Nor has he any need to take shelter of any other living being. Purport. A self-realized, Krishna conscious man has no longer any obligation to fulfil in respect to any prescribed duty, save and except the activities in terms of Krishna consciousness. Neither represents such Krishna consciousness inactivity, as it will be explained in the following verses. A Krishna conscious man does not take shelter of any person–man or demigod. Whatever he does in terms of Krishna consciousness is sufficient in the discharge of his obligations.  Let us just stick to Srila Prabhupada as tightly as possible. The principles of editing being as follow: Modify Prabhupada’s rendition only if there is no alternative. Twist OUR OWN MINDS IF WE HAVE TO to understand what Srila Prabhupada wants to say. Don’t add non Prabhupada text as Hayagriva and Jayadvaita are doing. This is the symptom of an uncontrolled mind. Don’t subtract for ultimate motives. Don’t modify unnecessarily.

Here in OT BGAII 3.17, Srila Prabhupada positively sets up a trap for all foolish editors to come, and Jayadvaita walks right into it like a foolish animal that he actually is. What Jayadvaita subsequently renders as BGAII 3.17 also makes him look like a total monist and philosophically a fool as well, more epithets that he consequently deserves. So altogether impersonalist, monist, usurper, traitor and pretender, and above all, philosophically speaking, a FOOL.

Actually Jayadvaita has no principles whatsoever. He only works for his vanity. And his thinking is purely reactive: meaning to say if Hayagriva writes black or right, Jayadvaita out of his smart ass mentality will sometimes write white or left. This is just about the apogee of his thinking. There is nothing beyond that in Jayadvaita’s mind. His first principle is to bluff and mislead the innocent, the GBC and the whole world as well, and to impudently pretend he knows better than Srila Prabhupada. What a Maha-Aparadhi! What a Maha-offender at the lotus feet of his Guru, Srila Prabhupada! And so far he is successful in his foolish enterprise. Who is going to stop him and when is he going to be stopped?

He is a third class man or Vaisya, representative of his community, trying to be a first class man or Brahmin. Nothing wrong with that. It’s an open competition and every willing player gets his chance. It’s a bit like in a svayamvara ceremony. He is trying to be a peacock but in reality he is a crow only and always will be. Again from this particular instance, we may say that the Governing Body of ISKCON, who adopted Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita in 19?? or 20?? did not display much due diligence either.

Hayagriva, however, being much more intelligent and much smarter than Jayadvaita gets it right. All glories to him. Despite superficial defects of BGAII V1, this episode represents the undeniable proof that BGAII V 1 is much better than BGAII V2 by Jayadvaita and the GBC of Iskcon should without further delay revert to it as the official version. In French high school we used to call this “la preuve par 9” or undeniable proof. Not quite sure where the expression comes from though. Would be interesting to find out. What’s it got to do with 9?

The collective GBC must have thought: “This is new and we need a change. Let’s adopt it. Whatever is new is good! All glories to our deepest wisdom! We shall worry about eventual problems later. This “later” is here now!” What a throughout thoughtless philosophy and action!!! How many times did Srila Prabhupada strongly chastise this merry-go-round mentality, how many times?

To correct this mistake the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON (the GBC) ought to immediately and officially revert to Hayagriva’s version one of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. It is the very best we have at this time, there is no doubt about that.

The most crucial question therefore is:

WHEN IS THE GBC OF ISKCON GOING TO WAKE UP TO IT and once and for all STOP THIS NONSENSE??? GBC of ISKCON, you are misleading the whole world by your wrong choice of Bhagavad Gita. And the whole world will fight back at you. This is the law of karma. You better be prepared for that impact. The sooner you act the better. But the consequences are accumulating still. Therefore there is great urgency and the best time to act is NOW!!! Please immediately and officially retract the appropriate resolution on the adoption of Freewheeling Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita and revert to Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Hayagriva. There is no alternative. Just do it!!!

Srila Prabhupada remains as cool headed as ever. He must be laughing. Srila Prabhupada is a great mystic. No one can cheat Him. You try to cheat Him and you will only cheat yourself. You think you outmanoeuvred him. But he tricked you big time. You are lying on your back in the mud, covered with cow stool and urine, which is very auspicious indeed. Hopefully it will get you to your proper senses. And the world is laughing at you: “Well done, well done. What a farce this ISKCON! Serves you right for betraying its founder.” The so called “karmis” understand very well the concepts of faithfulness and loyalty which you have abandoned. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was asked to commit suicide because he was perceived to having betrayed the Fuhrer, Mr. Hitler. And as a professional soldier, he did it.

Let me ask you two simple questions:

Most important question One:

“Is everyone of the 30 or so GBC members strictly chanting 16 rounds minimum of Japa daily?” What is your answer? I am challenging you! What is your answer please??? Those who don’t chant at least 16 rounds of japa daily are disqualified from being members of the GBC board.

Question two:

” Is everyone of the 30 or so GBC members strictly following the four regulative principles of no ILLICIT SEX, NO GAMBLING, NO INTOXICATION,. and NO EATING OF MEAT, FISH or EGGS. Again I am challenging you. What is your answer please???? We hope that everyone is following the four regulative principles but those who don’t are not qualified to be members of the GBC board.

Let us see some ACTION NOW, PLEASE!!!

I am now starting to understand what sometimes seems to be some mysterious, contradictory and consequently baffling translator’s and commentator’s strategies by Srila Prabhupada and need to scrutinisingly redouble my attention and concentration on the Original Transcript (OT) by Srila Prabhupada. Thank you Srila Prabhupada for your tests.