lunes, 30 de septiembre de 2019

An interesting story

An interesting story, by Haripada dasa
Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share the story of the devotee who introduced me to Krishna consciousness, in the summer of 1984 there were 3 Krishna devotees to distribute books in my village, I went with my motorcycle and Devarshi prabhu stopped me and He offered me a Bhagavad gita and a Bhagavan tape, we were talking for half an hour, I gave him a donation of everything he carries, like 30 dollars, and I had the feeling that this person is as if I had known him for a lifetime It was a very spontaneous relationship, as if we were old friends, I read the Gita and I liked it a lot and in October of the same year I entered the Nueva Vrajamandala estate, Devarshi prabhu, he became a devotee in Barcelona, ​​Spain, in 1979 He was a devotee by nature, he liked Krishna's conscience very much, his father was like Hiranyakasipu, a first-class atheist, and when he learned that his son became Hare Krishna he went crazy, his father held a high position in the Spanish army, and He and another woman who also made his son Hare Krishna bought some bodyguards to kidnap them both, kidnapped them both and took them to a house in the Swiss Alps, there and to break the regulatory principles they took prostitutes very beautiful, very opulent food, etc., the other immediately broke the principles, but Devarshi in a miraculous way could escape from the house and left.
Then he appeared again in Barcelona, ​​and the devotees told him to leave Pujari to the Nueva Vramandala estate, there his father again attacked him and claiming that his son was crazy put him in an asylum, the doctors analyzed him and concluded that Devarshi was a very healthy person and left, then he went to Mayapur, Bengal, India, he lived there almost 30 years, his father regretted his behavior and went to see him in Mayapur several times, there Devarshi lived in a cabin in the gurukula, he became very expert in making fires of sacrifices, mantras, astrology, etc., he always said that my astrology guru was Nanili Kantha prabhu, he said he was the best astrologer in the world, he left the tuberculosis body in December 2011, for all it was a mystery why he let his health deteriorate so much, he stayed in the bones, he wrote me a message in the summer of 2011 and told me that Haripada this is full of demons, and I told him to do com or I, who left Iskcon not to be complicit in all the injustices and offenses they were doing to Srila Prabhupada, Devarshi was humility personified, although his father made his life impossible, before leaving his body he wrote a letter to his family and told them to please forgive me for all my offenses and for all the disturbances that I have caused them. As I said in the previous message, Vaisnava's behavior establishes the principles of religion.
Once Brahmananda told me in Vrindavana that Srila Prabhupada had told him that Krishna consciousness is beyond an institution, the great Acharyas establish institutions so that Krishna consciousness expands in an organized way, in SB 4, 28, 48 it is said that when the Acharya comes he establishes the principles of religion, but when he leaves he becomes disorder and thieves, bandits and opportunists take advantage of the situation, that has happened in Gaudiya Matha and in iskcon, we must be intelligent and not fall into their mistakes, if we all obey Srila Prabhupada's instruction to follow the example of Jayananda prabhu, we will all go back home back to Goloka Vrindavana.
No one can preach Krishna consciousness in an artificial way or by making arrangements or material tricks, that is not possible, the only person who can make devotees is the person full of mercy and love for Srila Prabhupada and for Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead .
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sábado, 28 de septiembre de 2019

Srila Prabhupada is here


Srila Prabhupada is here, by Haripada dasa
Bhaktivinoda Thakura wrote the magnificent stanza in glorification of Srila Haridasa Thakura, who says that it is wrong who says that Vaisnavas or pure devotees of God or Krishna die when their art still lives in sound, Vaisnavas die to live, and in doing so, They try to spread the Holy Name everywhere. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada always said that a pure devotee of God or Krishna is one who is beyond the influence of gold, women and the tigress of fame ... Such a person is detached and pure ... Such a person can defeat the ignorance of the whole world. Srila Prabhupada is here, he is in his pranam mantra, in his Deities, in his books, in his DVDs, in his classes, and in the heart of his serious and sincere followers who obey all his instructions, only the people who have practiced the Krishna consciousness in a serious and sincere manner like Jayananda prabhu, can feel in your life the presence of Srila Prabhupada. I sent more than 70 people the message entitled the perfect disciple, glorifying Jayananda prabhu, nobody has answered me, thank you prabhu for reminding us of Srila Prabhupada's instruction that we should follow the example of Jayananda prabhu, I have come to the conclusion of that the inhabitants of kali yuga live full of envy, selfishness, hypocrisy and we have a tendency to fight very hard, we all understand and accept that in order to purify ourselves of these 4 contamination we must sing the 16 rounds without offenses of the Maha Mantra Hare Krishna, we must all follow the 4 regulatory principles very strictly, 1, do not eat meat, fish or eggs, 2, no illicit sex, only sex is allowed to procreate and with one's wife, 3, not gambling, and 4, do not take tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., we must all sing the three daily gayatris, we must all follow the Ekadasis, the month Purusottama, the Chaturmasya, Kartika Vrata, the apparitions and disappearances of l Supreme Lord and His devotees, we must all celebrate the Jhulana Yatra or the Swing Festival, We must all avoid bad association and always be happy and eager to associate with the serious and sincere devotees of Srila Prabhupada, we must always carry the tilaka marks on the body, we must always have Srila Prabhupada at the center of our lives and help people to put Srila Prabhupada at the center of their lives and every day we must read Srila Prabhupada's books in the morning and evening, we should only eat Krishna prasada, food offered to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We must all obey the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada in his books on how we should use our hard earned wealth, Srila Prabhupada sets the example of Srila Rupa Goswami, when he retired from service to the Muslim government and surrendered to the lotus feet of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu divided his wealth into three parts. 1-50 percent gave it to the Brahmanas and Vaisnavas, 25 percent for their relatives and the other 25 percent for personal emergencies, by practicing this a transcendental atmosphere is created and selfishness is destroyed. No one should speculate, we understand and accept that a person is speculating, when he does things in a capricious manner without relying on the Guru, Sadhu and Sastra. If a person does not practice the aforementioned, he can already make the point that I am from Iskcon, Prabhupadanugas, Ritviks, an activist against the changes of Srila Prabhupada's books, you can wear a million seats, you will continue full of envy, selfishness, hypocrisy and the tendency to fight with others, have you now understood what Krishna consciousness is?
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viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2019

The behavior of the devotee

The behavior of the devotee, by Haripada dasa
Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share one of my favorite verses of Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya lila, 17, 185, there it is said that “The behavior of the devotee establishes the true purpose of religious principles. The behavior of Mādhavendra Purī Gosvāmī is the essence of these religious principles. ”Then Mādhavendra Purī Gosvāmī thought that the Gopinatha Deity has stolen a pot of condensed milk for me, and people will think that I am a devotee of Krishna, but I I am not a devotee of Krishna and he left. Then we have the story of Jada Bharata of the Bhagavatam, he was forced to carry the King's palanquin, but since he did not want to kill the ants on the road, he carried the palanquin badly, and King Rahugana got angry with him and began to insult him, Jada Bharata He ignored the insults but gave his mercy to the King by giving him spiritual instructions, and when the King realized that he was a pure devotee of Krishna he got off the palanquin and gave obeisances and spoke this verse that they put one The creeps, the King said that I do not fear the lightning of Indra, nor the trident of Lord Siva, etc., I only fear offending a devotee of Krishna. Then also of the Bhagavatam we have the story of Durvasa muni that without any reason offended King Maharaja Ambarisa, and as a punishment for this offense Krishna sent him his Sudarsana Chakra, and Maharaja Ambarisa prayed to Krishna not to punish him, seeing this Durvasa muni said that now I have understood who Krishna's devotees are, I have offended you and you have instead prayed for my good fortune. And in Srinivasa Acharya's prayers to the 6 gosvamis of Vrindavana in verse 1 he says that they are like an ocean of love for God, and they enjoy good fame both among good people and among outlaws, for they are not envious of anyone . They please everyone with everything they do, and they have all the blessings of Lord Chaitanya, so they engage in missionary activities designed to free all the conditioned souls of the material universe. Once a neighbor of my mother became very angry with her, to the point that she punched him, my mother as a good Christian turned her other cheek, the neighbor seeing my mother's attitude, threw herself at her feet and she apologized, my mother picked her up and hugged her, and then they were very good friends.
As I understand it, the most important thing about a devotee is his behavior, as it is said in the Harinama Chintamani that a true devotee is not known because he has a pleasant appearance, many followers, fame, etc., the symptom of a true devotee is that he has a great attachment to chanting the Maha-mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, that is my conclusion. Another point is that the oldest disciples of Srila Prabhupada who had very good experiences with Srila Prabhupada in their physical or vapu form, shared their experiences with Srila Prabhupada with the whole world, let's not forget that Srila Prabhupada told Yamuna devi dasi that if You don't share what you know, you will become envious.
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jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2019

The perfect disciple

The perfect disciple, by Haripada dasa
Hare Krishna, as I understand it, the association of devotees means helping each other to obey Srila Prabhupada's instructions, and so we will all go back home, back to God, one of Srila Prabhupada's instructions is that all We must follow the example of Jayananda Prabhu, I take this opportunity to thank Mahatma Prabhu for showing me the glories and transcendental qualities of Jayananda Prabhu, this great devotee is the example of the perfect disciple of Srila Prabhupada, this great devotee will be a great inspiration For future generations of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna's devotees, as I understand it, the essence of this great soul is that all he did was to make Srila Prabhupada happy, and he never did anything to dislike Srila Prabhupada, he didn't I was a politician, I like him, he is my friend, I like him, he is my enemy, he was humble, tolerant and the friend of the whole world, and he never criticized anyone, Srila Prabhupad He said that I am very proud to have had a disciple as good as Jayananda prabhu, everyone should follow his example, this great devotee enjoyed serving Srila Prabhupada and Krishna and everyone, and that is the perfection of Krishna consciousness, that It can only be done when one has awakened his great love for Srila Prabhupada and for Krishna. As I understand it, only people who have sacrificed their lives to make Srila Prabhupada happy can receive Krishna's mercy, if you want to watch a video about Jayananda Prabhu this is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=568&v=f1yfcamhTT0
With love and confidence I share this verse from CC Madhya 1.218
dui jane prabhura kṛpā dekhi ’bhakta-gaṇe
‘Hari’ ‘hari’ bale knows ānandita-mane
Word by word:
dui jane - to the two people; prabhura - of the Lord; kṛpā - mercy; dekhi ’- seeing; bhakta-gaṇe - all the devotees; hari hari - the holy name of the Lord; bale - sing; knows - all; ānandita - full of joy; mane - in the mind.
Translation:
Seeing the mercy the Lord had had with the two brothers, all the devotees became very happy and began to sing the holy name of the Lord: «Hari! Hari!
Meaning:
Purport: Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says: chāḍiyā vaiṣṇava sevā nistāra peyeche kebā: Without serving a Vaiṣṇava, it is impossible to break free. The spiritual master initiates the disciple in order to free him; If the disciple fulfills the order of the spiritual master and does not offend other Vaiṣṇavas, he can move forward without difficulty. For that reason, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked all the Vaiṣṇavas present there to be merciful to the two brothers, Rūpa and Sanātana, whom the Lord had just begun. The Vaiṣṇava, seeing that another Vaiṣṇava has received the mercy of the Lord, feels very happy. Vaiṣṇavas are not envious. When a Vaiṣṇava, by the mercy of the Lord, receives from Him the power to spread the holy name of the Lord throughout the world, the other Vaiṣṇavas, if they are true Vaiṣṇavas, feel very happy. Certainly, whoever is envious of the success of a Vaiṣṇava is not a Vaiṣṇava, but an ordinary mundane person. Envy and jealousy are characteristic of worldly people, not Vaiṣṇavas. Why was a Vaiṣṇava going to be envious of another Vaiṣṇava who succeeds in spreading the holy name of the Lord? The true Vaiṣṇava feels very pleased to accept that Vaiṣṇava who grants the Lord's mercy. Someone who wears Vaiṣṇavas habits but is a mundane person, should not receive respect, but should be rejected. This is ordered by śāstra (upekṣā). The word upekṣā means disdain. The envious person must be disdained. The preacher has a duty to love the Supreme Personality of Godhead, make friends with the Vaiṣṇavas, be merciful to the innocent, and reject or despise those who are envious or jealous. In the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement there are many envious people dressed in Vaiṣṇavas habits, and they should not be taken into account at all. It is useless to serve an envious person dressed as Vaiṣṇava. When Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says chāḍiyā vaiṣṇava sevā nistāra peyeche kebā, it refers to true Vaiṣṇavas, not envious or jealous people dressed as Vaiṣṇavas.
Hare Krishna, my obeisances, glories to Srila Prabhupada, received, I hope that upon receiving this message you will find yourself happy in Krishna consciousness, awaiting your reply, in the service of Srila Prabhupada and his devotees, Haripada dasa.

As I understand it

As I understand it, by Haripada dasa
If a person buys Srila Prabhupada's books, studies them, likes them and obeys the spiritual instructions in these books, that is, Hare Krishna sings and obeys the 4 regulative principles, that person is connecting with Srila Prabhupada, because the Srila Prabhupada and Srila Prabhupada's books is the same, then if that person is serious and sincere, Krishna will arrange for a disciple of Srila Prabhupada to send him in the name of Srila Prabhupada, so he will connect with the guru parampara, I remember a class of Srila Prabhupada that Madhuvisa asks him, if a person reads the Bible and obeys the instructions, what happens, and Srila Prabhupada replies that at the moment that one obeys the instructions of Jesus, that means that he is accepting Jesus as his guru or teacher, and then Madhuvisa tells him that you have to have a guru lived, and Srila Prabhupada replies that the guru is eternal, on this point, I have always had the intui tion that I have already served Srila Prabhupada in other lives and that it is now a continuity, in CC, ML, 15, 111, Srila Prabhupada says that a properly initiated Vaisnava may be imperfect, but who sings without offense the holy name of the Lord is completely perfect and an initiated person may be contaminated by Mayavadi philosophy, but the person who sings without offenses will not be subject to such contamination, in this meaning Srila Prabhupada twice emphasizes singing without offenses, on the other hand, Srila Prabhupada He instructed his disciples to initiate in his name, to be officiating acharyas or ritviks, in my personal case I thought that if I am fully convinced of this ritvik philosophy, I must pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna to send me a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and I started in his name, and Srila Prabhupada and Krishna made all the arrangements and so it happened, because I thought that if someone is convinced of the philosophy a ritvik and not put into practice, people will tell you that this person is a hypocrite. We all understand and accept that a disciple of Srila Prabhupada is one who obeys the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, the result of this will be that he will feel the presence of Srila Prabhupada in his life and will acquire the qualities of Srila Prabhupada, and will always be very happy to associate with serious and sincere disciples of Srila Prabhupada. The other point to discuss is who is an officiating acharya or ritvik, my humble opinion is that the main quality of this person is that he must be very expert in Srila Prabhupada's books to dispel the doubts of others, and he or Dreams will think he is guru, but everyone's friend.
On the other hand, in the lectures that Srila Prabhupada gave in Kartika 1972 in the Sri Radha Damodara of Vrindavana, there Srila Prabhupada spoke about SRIMATI RADHARANI, if we take refuge from the external energy of Krishna, where Krishna's forgetfulness is very prominent, then we move further and further away from Krishna, but if we take refuge in the internal energy of Krishna, Radharani, because She is directly serving Krishna, as well as in Vrindavana, there is always talk of Radharani, because they have taken refuge from Radharani in order to approach to Krishna very easily, daivim prakritim asritah, the ease of Vrindavana, is that if you take shelter of Radharani directly, She will help you get closer to Krishna very soon, that is the idea when you come to Vrindavana. Notice that Srila Prabhupada says to take refuge from Radharani directly, She will help you get closer to Krishna very soon, that is the idea when you come to Vrindavana. This is very deep.
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lunes, 23 de septiembre de 2019

We want nectar

We want nectar, by Haripada dasa
We all understand and accept that the truth will set us free, it will always be better to pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna for others than to criticize, to avoid criticism we must obey the instruction of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada that says that others do what they want, to I don't care, I already have enough work singing Hare Krishna to purify my damned mind, and Bhaktivinoda Thakura said that if you see a defect in others, it is not that the person has that defect, but that the defect you have and you reflect it in the other person, the only way to eliminate evil on a personal and collective level, is through goodness, he who does not live to serve, does not serve to live and peace and good. Nectar means obeying all the instructions that Srila Prabhupada and all the guru parampara have given us, in relation to the association of the devotees, Baktivinoda Thakura in the Bhakti Sudhodaya tells us that the devotees must relate to the most advanced, affective and have devotees the same temperament, and Visvanatha Chakravarti instructs us and tells us that if in the association of the devotees we see people with a very harsh character, that we respect them in the mind but that we do not associate with them, and I have done very well break the relationship with anyone that I feel wants to control me. I am very clear that my best friends in the spiritual life are those who transmit to Srila Prabhupada.
The Bhakti plant feeds on nectar, not rare stories, gossip, etc. We have very defined spiritual ideals, try to follow all the instructions given in Srila Prabhupada's books, and help each other do the same, by doing this we live with Srila Prabhupada and acquire their qualities. Our love and service is for Srila Prabhupada, and we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the authorized person who will take us back home, back to Krishna. The amara jivana song of Bhaktivinoda Thakura has helped me a lot, in this song he with all his humility puts himself in the role of an ordinary person so that we know the mentality of people in general, there he says three times that I only make him suffer the others and when that happens I feel great happiness, once a friend of mine separated from his wife, and his wife's strategy was for her ex-husband to suffer was to make him believe that it was his fault, and so my friend was 1 years suffering, until thanks to his friends he understood what was happening and freed himself from the sufferings, he took a weight off.
The worst thing that can happen to a person in the spiritual life is to think that I know everything, in relation to this Srila Prabhupada told a story, there was a violin teacher, there were two people there, the teacher asked them you can play something the violin, one replied that I do not know anything, and the other said that I already know how to play the violin, the teacher told them that so that he who does not know I will charge him 20 euros a month, and so that he who already knows 40 euros a month, and the one who said he knew protested by saying why he does this to me, charging me double, and the teacher told him that with you first I have to show you all the things that you think you know, but that you don't really know, and teach you everything again, so it's double work.
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viernes, 20 de septiembre de 2019

Turn back into mouse

Turn back into mouse, by Haripada dasa
According to Harinama Chintamani, the pure devotee of Krishna is an ocean of mercy, and he distributes this mercy in 4 ways, 1, through his instructions, 2, the remnants of his food, 3, the dust of his lotus feet and 4, the water that washes his lotus feet, when the pure devotee of Krishna enters his lilac samadhi, the only way to live with him is to obey his instructions. There are disciples who are so grateful for all their mercy, who sacrifice their lives to make their Guru happy, and they develop a great love for Sri Guru, and become perfect devotees, and Krishna loves those devotees very much, and there are others. that are very hypocritical, externally they pose as serious and sincere devotees, but internally they have many hidden desires, to illustrate this theme Srila Prabhupada exposed a story, the mouse and the wise, there was a mouse chased by the cats, and he was to see a great sage who has many mystical powers, and he said to the wise the cats want to devour me, and the wise said to him and that you want to be a cat, it is good to be a cat, he spent time and returned to the wise and He said the dogs want to kill me, and the wise man said and what do you want, to be a dog, okay, be a dog, and in the end he went again to see the wise man and told him that the tigers want to devour me, and that you want , be a tiger, okay, be a tiger, and stared or to the wise thinking that I have my lunch here, and the wise man told him to turn back into a mouse.
Srila Prabhupada criticized his disciples many times saying that they did not read his books, the result of not reading Srila Prabhupada's books is that one becomes a fanatic and sentimental, I have concluded that to establish relationships with the devotees based in love and trust at least you have to be on the platform of Madhyama or intermediate, between Kanisthas or neophyte devotees it is not possible, because in the Kanistha there is envy, selfishness, hypocrisy and the tendency to fight with others is very strong, there is a book by Raghunatha dasa goswami that is titled Mana-siksa or preaching to the mind, the essence of this book is that it tells us that the most difficult thing to purify is the tendency towards deception, we deceive ourselves and others, The only way to purify this is to plunge into the ocean of nectar of Krishna consciousness.
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martes, 17 de septiembre de 2019

The Prabhupadanugas

The Prabhupadanugas, by Haripada dasa
Hare Krishna, all Prabhupadanugas have to understand and accept that when our beloved spiritual master entered his samadhi lila, some very demonic people robbed Srila Prabhupada's movement, and changed Srila Prabhupada's books to maintain his personal interests, Srila Prabhupada gave us a movement full of nectar and these people have turned it into an asylum, asylum means total chaos, and in their madness they want people to serve them, love them and adore them, the Prabhupadanugas or the serious and sincere servants of Srila Prabhupada we are trying to keep the whole nectar of Krishna consciousness continuing to flow.
Everyone is welcome to the Prabhupadanugas, only the crazy and the lazy have no place, a madman is a person who does not believe in God and a lazy person is a person who does not like to cook and always leaves the door open. Here there is no place for opportunists or to climb positions, here we are all friends and humble servants of each other, we are all friends and spiritual brothers and sisters, and the one who has the greatest capacity to serve we accept as a natural leader, of course we follow the Spiritual label that says the most experienced senior devotee gives his mercy to the lesser devotee, and the lesser devotee is grateful and respects the older devotee. Here we do not speculate and obey Srila Prabhupada's order to initiate in his name, that way we do not deceive ourselves or others and Srila Prabhupada's family expands. All Prabhupadanugas sing their 16 rounds without offenses of the Maha Mantra Hare Krishna, all follow the 4 regulatory principles very strictly, 1, do not eat meat, fish or eggs, 2, no illicit sex, only sex to procreate and with the wife of one, 3, no gambling, and 4, no tea, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., all sing the three daily gayatris, all follow the Ekadasis, the month Purusottama, the Chaturmasya, Kartika Vrata, the Apparitions and disappearances of the Supreme Lord and His devotees, all avoid bad association and are always happy and eager to associate with the serious and sincere devotees of Srila Prabhupada, always carry the tilaka marks on their body, always have Srila Prabhupada in the center of their lives and help people to put Srila Prabhupada at the center of their lives and every day they read Srila Prabhupada's books in the morning and evening, they only eat Krishna prasada, food offered to Srila Prabhu Pada, to Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here everyone obeys the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada in his books on how we should use our wealth earned very hard, Srila Prabhupada sets the example of Srila Rupa Goswami, when he retired from service to the Muslim government and surrendered to the lotus feet of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu divided his wealth into three parts. 1-50 percent gave it to the Brahmanas and Vaisnavas, 25 percent for their relatives and the other 25 percent for personal emergencies, by practicing this a transcendental atmosphere is created and selfishness is destroyed. Here nobody speculates, we understand and accept that a person is speculating, when he does things in a capricious manner without relying on the Guru, Sadhu and Sastra. In the Prabhupadanugas only the original books of Srila Prabhupada are used, we are totally against all the changes that have been made to the original books of Srila Prabhupada.
The Prabhupadanugas have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the way, the truth and the life, and if someone goes back home to God or Krishna, it is through the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.
The Prabhupadanugas do not associate with Madhu Pandit of Bengalore, India, because he is diverted, he has said that he has learned a lot from the iskcon gurus, and the Prabhupadanugas believe that the iskcon gurus are first-class Putanas, and about MRI of Krishna Kantha, he does not want to associate with us, the Prabhupadanugas help each other to free ourselves from selfishness, hypocrisy and the tendency to fight.
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lunes, 16 de septiembre de 2019

Prophecies of Srila Prabhupada

Prophecies of Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share that Srila Prabhupada in his books makes prophecies, that can be understood by those serious and sincere devotees who want to experience the truth, I will put two examples, in Bhagavatam, 4, 28, 48, there He says:
The ācārya, the authorized representative of the Supreme Lord, establishes these principles, but when he disappears, things once again become disordered. The perfect disciples of the ācārya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master. At the present moment practically the entire world is afraid of rogues and nondevotees; therefore this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is started to save the world from irreligious principles. Everyone should cooperate with this movement in order to bring about actual peace and happiness in the world.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/sb/4/28/48
And in this mantra 12 of Sri Isopanisad, in these two paragraphs, Srila Prabhupada prophesies to the current iskcon:
The Lord states that as soon as one reaches Him by devotional service-which is the one and only way to approach the Personality of Godhead-one attains complete freedom from the bondage of birth and death. In other words, the path of salvation from the material clutches fully depends on the principles of knowledge and detachment gained from serving the Lord. The pseudo religionists have neither knowledge nor detachment from material affairs, for most of them want to live in the golden shackles of material bondage under the shadow of philanthropic activities disguised as religious principles. By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities. In this way they pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. Such violators of religious principles have no respect for the authoritative ācāryas, the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession. They ignore the Vedic injunction ācāryopāsana-"One must worship the ācārya"-and Kṛṣṇa's statement in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.2) evaṁ paramparā-prāptam, "This supreme science of God is received through the disciplic succession." Instead, to mislead the people in general they themselves become so-called ācāryas, but they do not even follow the principles of the ācāryas.
These rogues are the most dangerous elements in human society. Because there is no religious government, they escape punishment by the law of the state. They cannot, however, escape the law of the Supreme, who has clearly declared in the Bhagavad-gītā that envious demons in the garb of religious propagandists shall be thrown into the darkest regions of hell (Bg. 16.19-20). Śrī Īśopaniṣad confirms that these pseudo religionists are heading toward the most obnoxious place in the universe after the completion of their spiritual master business, which they conduct simply for sense gratification.
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sábado, 14 de septiembre de 2019

Everyone's friend

Everyone's friend
 Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share a paragraph from a small book by Srila Prabhupada entitled Meditation and Superconsciousness:
We are looking for a friend who provides us peace and tranquility. That friend is Krishna, God. Simply befriend Him, and you will find that everyone will become your friend. Since God is located in everyone's heart, if you make friends with God, He will instruct everyone inwardly to treat you friendly. One who befriends the police chief receives certain benefits. If you make friends with the president of the country, everyone will be your friend, since everyone is subordinate to the president. If you want something from an official, you just have to call the president and he will say, `` Okay, help this man, '' and that's how everything is resolved. Just try to make friends with God, and everyone else will become your friends. All people will become peaceful if they understand this truth so beautiful, that God is everyone's friend and that He is the supreme owner. Lord Chaitanya also explains this.
By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna I have been distributing Srila Prabhupada's books from 1984 to 2011, I will have spoken face to face with more than 4 million people, in this transcendental activity one experiences that Krishna is the supreme controller and that one is his loving servant, in Guatemala twice Lord Nrisimhadeva saved my life, Srila Prabhupada always said that we must pray to Lord Nrisimhadeva for protection and blessings in order to preach. Wherever you go you will see selfishness, hypocrisy and fighting, but as Srila Prabhupada says in this paragraph that all people will become peaceful if they understand this truth so beautiful, that God is everyone's friend and that He is the supreme owner. Lord Chaitanya also explains this.
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jueves, 12 de septiembre de 2019

Tolerance, mercy and friendship

Tolerance, mercy and friendship
Hare Krishna, with love and trust I share this beautiful verse of the Bhagavatam, 6, 5, 39, here Srila Prabhupada instructs us to be tolerant, merciful and friendly, if with love and trust the Prabhupadanugas share with each other the instructions and teachings of Srila Prabhupada, surely Srila Prabhupada would be very happy if we do this, the Prabhupadanugas want to nectar, I hope that upon receiving this message you will find yourself happy in Krishna consciousness, waiting for your reply, in the service of Srila Prabhupada and his devotees, Haripada dasa.
TEXT 39
nanu bhāgavatā nityaṁ
bhūtānugraha-kātarāḥ
ṛte tvāṁ sauhṛda-ghnaṁ vai
vairaṅ-karam avairiṇām
SYNONYMS
nanu—now; bhāgavatāḥ—devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nityam—eternally; bhūta-anugraha-kātarāḥ—very much anxious to bestow benedictions upon the fallen conditioned souls; ṛte—except; tvām—yourself; sauhṛda-ghnam—a breaker of friendship (therefore not countable among the bhāgavatas, or devotees of the Lord); vai—indeed; vairam-karam—you create enmity; avairiṇām—toward persons who are not enemies.
TRANSLATION
All the devotees of the Lord but you are very kind to the conditioned souls and are eager to benefit others. Although you wear the dress of a devotee, you create enmity with people who are not your enemies, or you break friendship and create enmity between friends. Are you not ashamed of posing as a devotee while performing these abominable actions?
PURPORT
Such are the criticisms that must be borne by the servants of Nārada Muni in the disciplic succession. Through the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are trying to train young people to become devotees and return home, back to Godhead, by following rigid regulative principles, but our service is appreciated neither in India nor abroad in the Western countries where we are endeavoring to spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. In India the caste brāhmaṇas have become enemies of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because we elevate foreigners, who are supposed to be mlecchas and yavanas, to the position of brāhmaṇas. We train them in austerities and penances and recognize them as brāhmaṇas by awarding them sacred threads. Thus the caste brāhmaṇas of India are very displeased by our activities in the Western world. In the West also, the parents of the young people who join this movement have also become enemies. We have no business creating enemies, but the process is such that nondevotees will always be inimical toward us. Nevertheless, as stated in the śāstras, a devotee should be both tolerant and merciful. Devotees engaged in preaching should be prepared to be accused by ignorant persons, and yet they must be very merciful to the fallen conditioned souls. If one can execute his duty in the disciplic succession of Nārada Muni, his service will surely be recognized. As the Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (18.68–69):
ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ
mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati
bhaktiṁ mayi parāṁ kṛtvā
mām evaiṣyaty asaṁśayaḥ
na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu
kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ
bhavitā na ca me tasmād
anyaḥ priyataro bhuvi
“For one who explains the supreme secret to the devotees, devotional service is guaranteed, and at the end he will come back to Me. There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear.” Let us continue preaching the message of Lord Kṛṣṇa and not be afraid of enemies. Our only duty is to satisfy the Lord by this preaching, which will be accepted as service by Lord Caitanya and Lord Kṛṣṇa. We must sincerely serve the Lord and not be deterred by so-called enemies.
In this verse the word sauhṛda-ghnam (“a breaker of friendship”) is used. Because Nārada Muni and the members of his disciplic succession disrupt friendships and family life, they are sometimes accused of being sauhṛda-ghnam, creators of enmity between relatives. Actually such devotees are friends of every living entity (suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām), but they are misunderstood to be enemies. Preaching can be a difficult, thankless task, but a preacher must follow the orders of the Supreme Lord and be unafraid of materialistic persons.
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lunes, 9 de septiembre de 2019

A very interesting meaning

A very interesting meaning
Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share this verse from CC Madhya 15,111:
TEXT 111
"ataeva yāṅra mukhe eka kṛṣṇa-nāma
sei ta' vaiṣṇava, kariha tāṅhāra sammāna"
SYNONYMS
ataeva—therefore; yāṅra mukhe—in whose mouth; eka—one; kṛṣṇa-nāma—the holy name of Kṛṣṇa; sei ta' vaiṣṇava—he is a Vaiṣṇava; kariha—offer; tāṅhāra—to him; sammāna—respect.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then finally advised, "One who is chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is understood to be a Vaiṣṇava; therefore you should offer all respects to him."
PURPORT
In his Upadeśāmṛta, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī states: kṛṣṇeti yasya giri taṁ manasādriyeta dīkṣāsti cet. An advanced devotee should respect a person who has been initiated by a bona fide spiritual master and who is situated on the transcendental platform, chanting the holy name with faith and obeisances and following the instructions of the spiritual master. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura comments that serving Vaiṣṇavas is most important for householders. Whether a Vaiṣṇava is properly initiated or not is not a subject for consideration. One may be initiated and yet contaminated by the Māyāvāda philosophy, but a person who chants the holy name of the Lord offenselessly will not be so contaminated. A properly initiated Vaiṣṇava may be imperfect, but one who chants the holy name of the Lord offenselessly is all-perfect. Although he may apparently be a neophyte, he still has to be considered a pure unalloyed Vaiṣṇava. It is the duty of the householder to offer respects to such an unalloyed Vaiṣṇava. This is Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/cc/madhya/15/111
Here Srila Prabhupada says twice that the most important thing is to sing without offenses, as I understand it, a person who was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in his physical or vapu form, and another person who was initiated by a disciple of Srila Prabhupada in the name of Srila Prabhupada, the two are disciples of Srila Prabhupada, we should all encourage all the disciples of Srila Prabhupada to have a good spiritual standard, that is, to sing their 16 rounds of the Maha-mantra Hare Krishna without offenses, to sing the 3 Gayatris and that they strictly follow the 4 regulatory principles, which begin in the name of Srila Prabhupada, and we should all encourage people who have had the bad fortune to have been initiated by false gurus who begin with disciples of Srila Prabhupada in the name of Srila Prabhupada, in Krishna Bhajanamrita it is said that if one has the bad fortune of being initiated by a false guru, one must reject that guru and begin with a guru genuine, by doing this one will be purified of the great pollution left by the false guru, in the next 10,000 years of Krishna consciousness expansion, this line will be the only one that connects people to the guru-parampara, all other lines will be of deceivers and deceived, at a conference on SB 1.5.36 in Vrndavana, August 17, 1974 Srila Prabhupada said that the initiation means that the disciples accept the instruction of the spiritual master and Kṛiṣhṇa accepts the disciple immediately to give him A spiritual body This is the process. Otherwise, there is no need for initiation. In the introduction of the Nectar of Devotion, Srila Prabhupada says that without being initiated by a genuine spiritual master, the true link with Krishna's plane of consciousness never occurs.
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viernes, 6 de septiembre de 2019

Love and trust

HAPPY RADHASTAMI FESTIVAL 2019 TO ALL!
Love and trust, by Haripada dasa
Srila Prabhupada wanted the devotees to relate to love and trust, and by establishing these relationships wonderful things will be done to serve and please God or Krishna and His devotees. In spiritual relationships based on love and trust there is harmony and happiness, there is no selfishness or envy, and in material relationships there is only selfishness, envy and much suffering, love and trust means there will be no betrayal, love and trust is only possible between pure devotees of God or Krishna, because only the devotees of God or Krishna have good qualities, materialistic and atheistic people do not have good qualities, we see in practice that for nothing they fight with each other. Relations between materialists and atheists are based on deceiving each other, everyone understands and accepts that materialists and atheists are scammers. On the other hand Nalini Kantha prabhu advised me not to expect much from others, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada always said that others do what they want, I already have enough work in singing Hare Krishna to purify my damned mind, and also always said that nobody can hurt you, you can hurt yourself, and also said that when you share spiritual messages with others, only a few people are going to be receptive, this is a fact, I send many people my messages, and only a few are receptive, the others do not answer anything, only God or Krishna knows that there will be in the minds of those people and when I have sent them my devotional life to know me I say there that if you want you can send me the Yours, only two people made themselves known.
If we see the behavior of God or Krishna and His devotees is that they are always very grateful, Srila Prabhupada always said that without the help of his disciples, he could not have done anything, God or Krishna when someone offers him something he only looks at it is love in the offering, Duryodhana invited Krishna to eat, and to impress him he made some wonderful arrangements, but when Krishna arrived he felt that there is no devotion here and left, and then he went to Vidura's house, and his wife Vidu was so happy to have Krishna there who offered him the banana peels and threw the banana, and Krishna ate the peels with much pleasure because there was devotion and love there, another thing is that only Krishna and His devotees reciprocate and give protection, this it is a fact, one feels the protection of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nrisimhadeva and Krishna and His devotees, and thanks to this protection one feels is that one can live full of spiritual happiness and freedom.
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jueves, 5 de septiembre de 2019

Wood and Water

Wood and Water
Hare Krishna, with love and confidence I share these two very interesting verses of the CC, Madhya, 15, 134 and 135:
TEXT 134
'dāru'-jala'-rūpe kṛṣṇa prakaṭa samprati
'daraśana'-'snāne' kare jīvera mukati
SYNONYMS
dāru—wood; jala—water; rūpe—in the forms of; kṛṣṇa—Lord Kṛṣṇa; prakaṭa—manifested; samprati—at the present moment; daraśana—by seeing; snāne—by bathing; kare—does; jīvera mukati—the deliverance of the conditioned souls.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "In this Age of Kali, Kṛṣṇa is manifest in two forms-wood and water. Thus He helps conditioned souls to become liberated by seeing the wood and bathing in the water.
TEXT 135
'dāru-brahma'-rūpe--sākṣāt śrī-puruṣottama
bhāgīrathī hana sākṣāt 'jala-brahma'-sama
SYNONYMS
dāru-brahma-rūpe—in the form of Brahman as wood; sākṣāt—directly; śrī-puruṣottama—Lord Jagannātha; bhāgīrathī—the River Ganges; hana—is; sākṣāt—directly; jala-brahma-sama—the Supreme in the form of water.
TRANSLATION
"Lord Jagannātha is the Supreme Lord Himself in the form of wood, and the River Ganges is the Supreme Lord Himself in the form of water.
PURPORT
The Vedas enjoin, sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma: everything is the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Brahman or Paraṁ Brahman. Parasyabrahmaṇaḥ śaktis tathedam akhilaṁ jagat: everything is a manifestation of the energy of the Supreme Brahman. Since the energy and energetic are identical, actually everything is Kṛṣṇa, Paraṁ Brahman. Bhagavad-gītā (9.4) confirms this:
mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ
jagad avyakta-mūrtinā
mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni
na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ
"By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them."
Kṛṣṇa is spread throughout the whole universe in His impersonal form. Since everything is a manifestation of the Lord's energy, the Lord can manifest Himself through any energy. In this age, the Lord is manifest through wood as Lord Jagannātha, and He is manifest through water as the River Ganges. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered the two brothers-Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and Vidyā-vācaspati-to worship Lord Jagannātha and the River Ganges.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/cc/madhya/15/135
Now I have introduced in my routine to watch a DVD every day that I have of the Puri, Chandan yatra, Snana yatra, Ratha yatra and Hera Pañchami festivals, and I also watch the video of Artika to Ganga Mata in Varanasi and I read the prayers every day Mother Ganga, here I share them:
Sri Ganga Stotram: Prayer to Mother Ganga, By Adi Sankaracharya
1) Oh, goddess Ganga! You are the divine river of heaven. You are the one who saves us from the three worlds. You are pure and restless. You adorn the head of Lord Shiva. Oh mother! May my mind always rest on your lotus feet.
2) Mother Bhagirathi! You give happiness to everyone. The meaning of your sacred waters is praised in the Vedas. I am ignorant and I am not able to understand its importance. Oh, Devi! You are full of mercy. Please protect me.
3) Oh, Devi! Your waters are as sacred as the charanamrite of Sri Hari. Your waves are white like snow, the moon and pearls. Please wash all my sins and help me cross the ocean of samsara.
4) Oh, Mother! Those who participate in your pure waters, reach without a doubt the highest state. Oh, Mother Ganga! Yama, the Lord of death cannot harm your devotees.
5) Oh, Jahnavi! Your waters flowing through the Himalayas make them even more beautiful. You are the mother of Bhishma and the daughter of sage Jahnu. You are the savior of the one who falls from his path, and that is why you are venerated in the three worlds.
6) Oh, Mother! You fulfill all the wishes of your devotees. Those who bow before you do not have to suffer. Oh, bargain! You are restless to merge with the ocean, just like a young man eager to meet his beloved.
7) Oh, Mother! Those who bathe in your waters do not have to be born again. Oh Jahnavi! You are in the highest esteem. You destroy the sins of your devotees and save them from hell.
8) Oh, Jahnavi! You are full of compassion. You purify your devotees with your holy waters. Your feet are adorned with the jewels of Indra's crown. Those who seek refuge in you get the blessing of happiness.
9) Or Bhagavati! Take away my illnesses, sorrows, difficulties, sins and bad attitudes. You are the essence of the three worlds and you are like a necklace around the Earth. Or Devi! You are the only refuge of mine in Samsara.
10) Oh, Ganga! Those who seek happiness love you. You are the source of happiness for Alakapuri and the source of eternal bliss. Those who reside on its banks are as privileged as those who live in Vaikuntha.
11) Oh, Devi! It is better to live in your waters, like turtles or fish, or on your banks like a poor chandala, than to live far from you like a rich king.
12) Oh, Goddess of the Universe! Purify us! Oh, daughter of Jahnu muni! Who recites this Ganga Stotram every day, certainly achieves success.
13) People who have devotion to Mother Ganga, always achieve happiness and achieve liberation. This beautiful and lyrical Gangastuti is a source of supreme happiness.
14) This prayer, Sri Ganga Stotram, written by Sri Adi Shankaracharya, devotee of Lord Siva, purifies us and fulfills all our desires.
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martes, 3 de septiembre de 2019

Some reflections

Some reflections, by Haripada dasa
Hare Krishna, I share some thoughts here, and I would like to know your opinion, when Srila Prabhupada was in his vapu or physical form, he installed the Deities, initiated the devotees and all the bhoga or food was offered to Srila Prabhupada, when Srila Prabhupada entered In their lilac or disembodied samadhi, the Iskcon authorities stole his movement and did not want to obey his order to start on his behalf, these people became guru druha or people who received much mercy from the guru, and instead of thanking him they betray him and do not obey his orders, these people installed Deities, they initiated and all the bhoga or food was offered to them, I do not believe that Krishna is in the Deities that install those guru druha, I do not believe that the people they initiate connect to the guru parampara and I believe that the food offered to them is prasada or the mercy of Krishna, I believe that Krishna will never accept the people who are betraying or and offending our dearest devotee our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada.
I do not expose things on a theoretical level but on the level of my personal experience, when I realized that I was deceived by the guru druha of Iskcon, not to be complicit in the offenses that are being done to Srila Prabhupada I left Iskcon, I prayed to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna to send me a serious and sincere disciple of Srila Prabhupada to initiate me in the name of Srila Prabhupada, Krishna made the arrangements and in 2008 Nalini Kantha prabhu initiated me, here the point it is to follow the sastra or Scripture, in Krishna Bhajanamrita it is said that if one has the bad fortune of being initiated by a false guru, one must reject that guru and begin with a genuine guru, by doing this one will be purified of the great contamination that the false guru has left us, the false gurus injected us with the heaviest contamination, that of the deceit at the higher level, as I understand all the people who were initiated by false gurus have never e I am connected to the guru parampara, so I suggest you do the same as I did, pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna to send you a serious and sincere disciple of Srila Prabhupada and initiate you in the name of Srila Prabhupada, there you You will feel the presence of Srila Prabhupada in your life and you will acquire its qualities.
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lunes, 2 de septiembre de 2019

Selfishness, hypocrisy and fighting


Selfishness, hypocrisy and fighting, by Haripada dasa
Hare Krishna, I share that yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with my brother Jaime, he is an innocent and pious person with a lot of experience in life, he is retired, he worked more than 40 years and his hobby is walking, he walks every day from 15 to 20 kilometers, the conclusion of the conversation is that wherever you go you will see selfishness, hypocrisy and fights, I told him that in Srila Prabhupada's movement when he was in his physical form all the devotees worked without charging anything, the The movement supplied them with everything, food, clothing, rooms, etc., when they worked without charging anything, everyone was purified and freed from selfishness, my brother told me that these people were very special, but when Srila Prabhupada entered his samadhi lila or discarnated they changed everything, they put salaries, there was a guru or kangaroo named Harikesa who robbed the BBT of 1 million dollars, he charged very well the services provided, my brother Anus told me that several people have betrayed him, they present themselves as friends and from behind they speak badly and criticize him, he told me that when he sees these people in the street he goes somewhere else to not see them, and about the fights, nothing two people, two families, two nations fight.
When I told my brother about the sublime glories and the qualities of the people that I related to on the internet, he was very surprised, especially when I told him about Jayananda Prabhu, I told him that this great devotee is the example of Srila's perfect disciple Prabhupada, this great devotee will be a great inspiration for future generations of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna devotees, as I understand it, the essence of this great soul is that all he did was to make Srila Prabhupada happy, and never did nothing to dislike Srila Prabhupada, he was not a politician, I like him, he is my friend, he likes me, he is my enemy, he was humble, tolerant and the friend of the whole world, and he never criticized anyone, Srila Prabhupada He said that I am very proud to have had a disciple as good as Jayananda Prabhu, everyone should follow his example. As I understand it, only people who have sacrificed their lives to make Srila Prabhupada happy can receive Krishna's mercy, my brother told me that you are very fortunate to relate to people who are free from selfishness, hypocrisy and the fights.
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