–The Australian Society for Krishna Culture. AUSKCULTURE, operation start 1984 — ABN 65 231 425 870.

Above picture is for illustration purposes only.

Mind blowing quote of the day.

BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS 2.56, VERSION 3, BY FAR THE MOST FAITHFUL VERSION OF ALL!

ORIGINAL SANSKRIT (as spoken by Krishna Himself on the battlefield )

duhkheshv anudvigna-manah
sukheshu vigata-sprihah
vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah
sthita-dhir munir ucyate

WORD FOR WORD RENDITION

duhkhesu — in the threefold miseries; anudvigna-manah — without being agitated in mind; sukhesu — in happiness; vigata-sprhah — without being interested; vita — free from; raga — attachment; bhaya — fear; krodhah — and anger; sthita — dhih — whose mind is steady; munih — a sage; ucyate — is called.

TRANSLATION by Srila Prabhupada.

One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries and is not puffed up when there is happiness and thus is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage fixed in mind.

PURPORT  by  Srila Prabhupada.

The word “muni” means one who can agitate his mind in various ways for mental speculation without any factual conclusion. It is said that every muni has a different angle of vision and unless a muni is not different in view from another muni, he cannot be called a muni in the strict sense of the term. “Nasav rshir yasya matam na bhinnam” (Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.117). But a sthita-dhir muni, as mentioned herein by the Lord, is different from an ordinary muni. The sthita-dhir muni is always in Krishna consciousness after having finished all speculative business of creative speculation. He is called prashanta-nihshesa-mano-rathantara (Stotra-ratna 43), or one who has surpassed the stage of mental speculations, and has come to the conclusion that Lord Sri Krishna, or Vasudeva, is everything (vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma su-durlabhah). He is called a muni fixed in mind. Such a fully Krishna conscious person is not at all disturbed by the onslaughts of the threefold miseries. Such muni accepts all miseries as mercy of the Lord, thinking that he would have been in more trouble on account of his past misdeeds, but by the grace of the Lord, the miseries have been minimised to the lowest. Similarly, when he is happy, he gives credit to the Lord, thinking himself unworthy of the happiness but only due to the Lord’s grace he is in such comfortable condition to render better service to the Lord. And for the service of the Lord he is always daring and active without being influenced by any attachment or detachment. Attachment means accepting things for one’s own sense gratification and detachment is the absence of such sensual attachment. But one fixed in mind in Krishna consciousness has no such attachment or detachment because his life is dedicated to the service of the Lord. And because he has no such sensual attachment and detachment, he is not at all angry even when he appears to be unsuccessful in his attempts. Success or no success, a Krishna conscious person is always steady in his determination.

Among other carefully chosen words he vibrates (as in vibrating mantras not as ” move continuously and rapidly to and fro”), President Reagan quotes Alexander Hamilton, (1755/1795—1804), an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington’s presidency, (info supplied by Wikipedia):

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.”

A Krishna conscious person is not sectarian and does not think in terms of USA, Russia, China or France and of course INDIA. Lord Krishna chose to manifest His Janma (birth) and karma (activities) in the land of INDIA, 5000 years ago and again 500 years ago in a somewhat disguised manner as Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu- the Supreme Lord in the role of His own devotee. Therefore let us declare it boldly that it is a fact that INDIA is special among all lands due to its original association with Krishna and due to Krishna choosing to associate with the land of INDIA since time immemorial. And any individual, community or nation that choses similarly to associates with Krishna, as per due procedures, will not doubt also become “special”. Everyone wants to be special and unique. Here is the formula. With 1200 centres in the world, this opportunity is now offered to everyone by the master plan of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the form of His ISKCON or International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Further information is available on premises.”The centers of the Krishna consciousness movement are the only established hospitals that can cure man of birth, death, old age and disease.” Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 10.51

A Krishna conscious individual thinks in terms of Krishna, Who alone can make the world one in peace, friendship and harmony.

Stray editors Hayagriva and Jayadvaita have poisoned Srila Prabupada’s glorious Bhagavad Gita As It Is!!!

Srila Prabhupada is the affectionate and more intimate name for His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON, the founder of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, BBT, His publishing house, as well as the founder of the Back to Godhead Magazine, BTG in the 40ties (1940), which is still operating in the hands of His disciples in USA, although its CEO “His Holiness” (sacarstic mood) Sriman Nagaraja Prabhu posts an article here http://www.dandavats.com/?p=14324, which he cares to entitle “We’ re all in Maya”. This individual is also supposed to be my Godbrother. Frankly speaking, this is really a plain stupid title and proclamation for that which is supposed to be a Krishna conscious article from someone who is supposed to be a responsible officer for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). It also represents a lapse of judgement on the part of the dandavats website administrators. Why publish ostentatiously such a rascal article title?  

Let Nagaraja talk for himself!!!. He may be in Maya. This certainly is the proclamation of a servant of Maya Devi, the illusory energy, and not the proclamation of a Krishna bhakta. In the past, I had some distasteful dealings with this individual and he automatically assumes that the person in his front is an enemy. Without hesitation and without due diligence he at once assumes that you are his enemy. This is the sign of a demoniac mentality and perhaps the sign of a paranoid individual. Perhaps we need new blood here as Back to Godhead head executive. Perhaps we really do……

Some ISKCON preachers are always ready to shower their audiences with a copious amount of learned words mixed with some hackneyed day to day formulas, when actually they are not realising at all that their whole foundation stands on quick sands. This is true delusion. I am using this strong word “delusion” because the editors of Srila Prabhupada’s great rendition —-in he form of the Original Transcript (OT) available here: https://bookchanges.com/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-manuscript—-of Lord Krishna greatest book Bhagavad Gita, the departed Hayagriva and the living Jayadvaita, have literally poisoned it with their nefarious stray activities. 

To give one example only among hundreds and perhaps thousands. In verse BG 2.63. they have illegally embezzled Srila Prabhupada’s word “illusion” for their own replacement word “delusion”. Illusion is a common matter but delusion enters the pathological realm. In a subtle way they a trying to connive that the readers of Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Hayagriva and the readers of Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita are CRAZY. This is an enterprising endeavour of global manipulation, mental control and brain washing of the most underhand and vicious kind. Each and every unauthorised alteration, addition or subtraction to Srila Prabhupada’s Original Transcript (OT) truly represents a SLAP IN SRILA PRABHUPADA’S FACE. The time has come to stop this nonsense.

Srila Prabhupada glorious question may be raised here  as follows “WHO IS ACTUALLY CRAZY???” Are the readers of Bhagavad Gita As It Is crazy or are the editors of Bhagavad Gita and their followers crazy???

                                                    WHO IS ACTUALLY CRAZY?

  [or “cuckoo” as Sati Kasanova, the famous Russian singer, expresses it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWk8IRptwVs%5D

IMHO there is here an opportunity to make a very strong legal case for global dishonesty, deceit and fraud against ISKCON, the BBT and Jayadvaita Swami , the surviving editor. The first question will be:” Where in the world does the suit need to be lodged? In New York perhaps, the place where Srila Prabhupada incorporated ISKCON on July 13th 1966? In Los Angeles, or elsewhere…..?” Expert lawyers will work out these details, and please feel free to get in touch if your sense of justice is aroused by such situation where a gang of unscrupulous persons blatantly misrepresent and try to exploit on the sly a departed hero–Srila Prabhupada.

ISKCON is out of balance and needs a strong jerk to adjust its spine. It needs physiotherapy. We all need it from time to time. I visited the physiotherapist yesterday and have another appointment in two weeks. The dis-ease felt throughout the devotee community or part of the devotee community has all got to do with ISKCON’s stray interpretation of Srila Prabhupada’s and Sri Krishna’s glorious Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

For the moment we only have, on the one side, Bhagavad Gita As Is NOT by Hayagriva

and

On the other side, ISKCON’s official version, Bhagavad Gita As It Is NOT by Jayadvaita.

For the last 50 years, we have been waiting and are still waiting, for Srila Prabhupada’s glorious Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

Even though I am not a corporation health expert, still I can see that much.

So if someone ask or wonders why I do not participate in the official Janmashtami and Vyasapuja ceremonies, I have just given my answers above.

However, I am neither discourteous to the Supreme Personality of Godhead nor I am discourteous to my beloved Spiritual Master, Srila Prabhupada. I am in fact, and for the future “did in fact” participate in these blissful events. I just do it in my own way and from a distance. In the old ISKCON days there was a saying, something like “Spiritual life and devotional service are like walking on a razor’s edge and all it takes is a little inattention and there can be blood.” This is certainly still valid today and therefore care and caution is required at all times and for everyone.

Taking advantage of the Queensland Government extraordinarily glorious and generous 50 cents train rides, even up to the Sunshine Coast or down to the Gold Coast, I will be going on book distribution today in Brisbane City, as well as distribute the last leaflets for ISKCON Brisbane Janmashtami celebrations. I shall be meeting the beautiful people of Brisbane on a beautiful day. What a wonderful city Brisbane is! And what gentle and considerate people they are!  I have no choice for this course of action, as after this glorious 27th day of August 20242, the leaflets will become obsolete and therefore useless. Better distribute them. As per Srila Prabhupada own slogan “Utility is the principle.”  

And tomorrow for Srila Prabhuapada pleasure, I shall release on this website what is my proposed new version 3 of Bhagavad Gita As It Is, chapter 2.

I may wish everyone a blissful, stimulating and inspiring Janmashtami day 2024 and Prabhupada Vyasapuja day 2024.

Hare Krishna.

In eternal service to Srila Prabhupada, 

Yadavendra Das (acbsp)

Thought of the day:

KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS JUST MEANS ONE CUP OF NECTAR AFTER ANOTHER.

There is consequently always a DANGER OF SUFFOCATION and perhaps even a danger of DROWNING in the transcendental ocean of the nectar of devotion :):):)

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Krishna Kripa Prabhu likes my praise of Srila Prabhupada here: https://krishnamonk.blogspot.com/2024/08/quotes-from-srila-prabhupada-tributes.html in the 2024 Prabhupada Tribute:

“Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to your global, robust, expert and enduring preaching. “

Thank you for your appreciation, Krishna Kripa Prabhu!

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Here is an interesting passage in Srila Prabhupada’s Original BGAII Transcript 3.1. This is the second times it happens. Srila Prabhupada writes:

“O Janardan, O Keshava, why do you like to engage me in this ghastly warfare, if you think that intelligence (in Krishna consciousness) is better than fruitive work?”

OT is available here: https://bookchanges.com/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-manuscript/

I am specifically referring to the leisurely “why do you like to engage me”. Neither Hayagriva nor Jayadvaita liked this expression. Hayagriva writes “why do you urge me to engage…”, which sounds good and Jayadvaita writes ” why do you want to engage me…”, which is very common.

Srila Prabhupada writes similarly in BG 2.3 OT Purport or in BG 2.3 Version 3, Purport, which are meant to be identical: “but Krishna liked to counter that such sort of magnanimity was only a weakness of his heart.”

We have to consider who is speaking.

On the one hand we have Krishna who is KING. He is the KING of the Kingdom of Godhead, and He is also 16108 times the King of Dvaraka, with His 16108 palaces for his 16108 queens. Just see His mystic power! BG 9.5 “pashya me yogam aishvaram”

And Arjuna is also a thoughtful prince in the line of King Bharata.

“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 his 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.” BGAII  2.14 P.

So we may find a very polite, respectful, refined, polished and aristocratic mood and language between our two heroes of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. And that may be the reason why Srila Prabupada’s uses  “why do you like”.

Mac book dictionary says the word “aristocrat” comes from Greek “aristos” which means “the best”.

In 2.15, Krishna definitely addresses Arjuna as follows: “O best among men (Arjuna), the person who is not disturbed by such happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.” So Arjuna is an aristocrat by definition. So is Krishna because not only is Krishna the best among all personalities of Godhead, but more broadly Krishna is the BEST OF ALL LIVING ENTITIES. Krishna is the leader of all living entities. And who in his sane mind wouldn’t be enthusiastic to accept such a leader! Accept a leader we must. Everyone has one or many leaders in his life. So why not accept the very best of leaders of all: Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and surrender to Him, as He suggests in the Baghavad Gita:

sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam sharanam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
mokshayishyami ma shucah

Word for word rendition.
sarva-dharman — all varieties of religion; parityajya — abandoning; mam — unto Me; ekam — only; sharanam — for surrender; vraja — go; aham — I; tvam — you; sarva — all; papebhyah — from sinful reactions; mokshayishyami — will deliver; ma — do not; shucah — worry.

TRANSLATION
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.
>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 18.66

“The Supreme Personality Who possesses all riches, all strength, all reputation, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation is called Bhagavan. There are many persons who may be very rich, very powerful, very beautiful, very famous, very learned and very much detached, but none of them can claim that he is the possessor of all riches, all strength etc. entirely. Such claim is applicable to Krishna only and as such He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No living entity, including Brahma can possess such opulence, neither can Lord Shiva. Nor even Narayana can possess such fullness of opulence as Krishna. And by analytical study of such assets, it is concluded in the Brahma Samhita by Lord Brahma himself that Lord Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nobody is equal to or above Him. He is the Primeval Lord or Bhagavan, known as Govinda and is the Supreme Cause of all Causes.” BG 2.2, P, Version 3.

“A pure devotee who has firm faith in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be considered a most learned scholar, the topmost aristocrat and the richest man in the whole world. All godly qualities automatically exist in such a devotee. In the preaching work of the Krsna consciousness movement, we, as the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, fully believe in the words of Krsna and His servants, the disciplic succession [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. In this way we are presenting the words of Krsna throughout the world. Even though we are neither a rich man nor a very learned scholar, and even though we do not belong to any aristocracy, this movement is still being welcomed and is very easily spreading all over the world. Although we are very poor and have no professional source of income, Krsna supplies money whenever we need it. Whenever we need some men, Krsna supplies them. Thus it is stated in the Bhagavad Gita (6.22): yam labdhva caparam labham manyate nadhikam tatah. Actually, if we can attain the favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, we do not need anything else. We certainly do not need those things which a mundane person considers to be material assets.”

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 5.76

My suggestion would therefore be that we keep Srila Prabhupada’s expression “why do you like”.

OM TAT SAT

PS. In Macbook dictionary we also find:

kingdom | ˈkɪŋdəm | noun1 a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen: the Kingdom of the Netherlands. • a realm associated with or regarded as being under the control of a particular person or thing: the kingdom of dreams. 2 the spiritual reign or authority of God. • the rule of God or Christ in a future age. • heaven as the abode of God and of the faithful after death.  

That means they have absolutely no idea where God or Krishna lives. They think He lives in heaven, Lord Indra’s place. They need a good deal of education in this matter. That’s why Srila Prabhupada came and wrote all His books. That’s exactly His purpose-to educate them in God or Krishna consciousness. We have to find out where each and everyone of us fits into this grand education plan of Srila Prabhupada.

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The modern communication technology can help us to be Krishna conscious 24 hours / day.

If however we misuse it, it can lead us to hell as well.

Its a matter of choice.

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If we add a little turmeric to our rice, the rice becomes a shiny yellow, another opportunity to remember Krishna. Lord Krishna loves to wear yellow garments or pita-vasa.

The Personality of Godhead, appearing on the shoulder of Garuda, seemed like a cloud resting on the summit of the mountain known as Meru. The transcendental body of the Personality of Godhead was covered by attractive yellow garments, and His neck was decorated with the jewel known as Kaustubha-mani. The bodily effulgence of the Lord dissipated all the darkness of the universe.

>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 4.30.5

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Although not the ultimate advice, this is quite a sound and helpful advice for the body, mind, intellect and why not for the soul as well. Because in our gardens there are millions of living entities in different varieties of bodies, mostly animals and plant bodies.They struggle for existence and make rational choices, just as we humans do. And they tolerate the four cardinal problems of material existence — birth, old age, disease and death. Take for example the above trees at the Sherwood arboretum in Brisbane, the 2032 Olympic City, Australia . How can a tree, extend a very thick and heavy branch almost horizontally and maintain it in that position for years together? It almost defies the law of gravity. These are massive, sub- tropical trees, weighting tons and tons. Perhaps fig trees: Ficus carica, family Moraceae. (MacBook dictionary).

Something unusual happened in my own garden. I cut all the grass and then in just a few days, one single plant grew very quickly to about one meter height and was leaning forward just like a snake about to attack and bite as if saying:”Why dont you just leave us alone and let us grow as we like?”

In His writings, Srila Prabhupada likes to use the word “fig” in the sense of “a worthless trifle” as in BGAII OT and new version 3, 2.35. Here again the sometimes evil minded editors put up a veil between Srila Prabhupada and the world. This deception, grave injustice and insult / affront to Srila Prabhupada is now coming to an end.

BG 2.35, new version 3: “The great generals who had very high estimation for your name and fame will consider that you have left the battlefield out of fear only, and thus they will not care a fig for you.”

I vaguely remember a true story where one of Srila Prabhupada’s Godbrothers decided to accept the renounced order of life simply by observing some insects. Please feel free to contribute if you know the reference and further details on this incident.

The ultimate advice would rather be: ” Please take advantage of Srila Prabhupada’s books and message in general (vani) to become fully self-realised and perfect your human form of life”.

Srila Prabhupada is the affectionate and more intimate name for His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the founder of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, His publishing house, as well as the founder of the Back to Godhead Magazine in the 40ties (1940), which is still going in the hands of His disciples in USA, although its CEO “His Holiness” (sacarstic mood) Sriman Nagaraja Prabhu posts an article here http://www.dandavats.com/?p=14324, which he cares to entitle “We’ re all in Maya”. This is really a plain stupid title and proclamation for that which is supposed to be a Krishna conscious article from someone who is supposed to be a responsible officer for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) . Let him talk for himself. This is the proclamation of a servant of Maya Devi, and not the proclamation of a Krishna bhakta. In the past, I had some distasteful dealings with this individual and he automatically assumes that the person in his front is an enemy. Without hesitation and due diligence he at once assumes that you are his enemy. This is the sign of a demoniac mentality. Some ISKCON preachers are always ready to shower their audiences with a copious amount of learned words and other hackneyed formulas, when actually they are not realising at all that their foundation stands on quick sands. That is true delusion. I am using this strong word “delusion” because the editors of Srila Prabhupada’s great rendition of Bhagavad Gita have literally poisoned it by their nefarious activities. To give one example only among hundreds and perhaps thousands. In BG 2.63. they have illegally replaced Srila Prabhupada’s word “illusion” with the word “delusion”. Illusion is a common matter but delusion enters the pathological. In a subtle way they a trying to connive that the reader is CRAZY. This is manipulation, mental control and brain washing of the most underhand kind. There is an opportunity here to make a very strong legal case against ISKCON, the BBT and Jayadvaita Swami, the surviving editor.

Please chant:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

and see the world as it is.

In BG 2.61 P there a typical example of Jayadvaita’s only flaming imagination where he makes a “blazing fire” out of “small flames ” as given by both by Srila Prabhuapada and Hayagriva Prabhu. This is typical of his cheating tendency and also his somewhat sinister tendency to create fear in the mind of the reader by exaggerating out of proportion. What rascaldom! He has definitely lost his position as editor. He is definitely dismissed from his editor’s position.

This is a technic for manipulating people and probably borders with brain washing.

He probably belongs to the same class of people who originally created and now perpetrate the lie that Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross. Let us beware of these type of individuals.

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