Gadadhara dasa (rus)

So father rejected to give diksha to his son? What kind of mood could make a loving father to reject to give the most important thing to his own son?

Bhagavat shiksha parampara is not found either, anywhere at all until Siddhanta Saraswati. No, it was not manufactured by sahajiya school and never was a cheap imitation. What a nice illustration of the mentality of parampara of spiritual rejecters.

Maybe not. If the mentality is indeed the one of offering in order to cleanse/disinfect the food and not the one of offering love an devotion, I explain this show by necessity to maintain a good number of your following.

This is not a geniune idea of offering foodstuff to God. This sounds like using your ista-devata as some karma-free food production facility. So your comparison may not be justified.

That's not a small thing, this means a lot of dedication to your Guru. Did this make you better? Did it help to grow your Krishna-bhakti?

I like this version by Sonic Yogi and it makes me feel comfortable. However, Sri Suka explicitly called this behavior ignorance or illusion and damned wealth of suras. So it still remains a question for me how a CEO of heavens can be "ignorant". His position is not simply that of enjoying the good karma, but is that of chief sura. In Bhagavad Gita asuric qualities are set off against daiva type qualities, hence daivic = those of suras. Daivic qualities are Fearlessness; purification of one's existence; cultivation of spiritual knowledge; charity; self-control; performance of sacrifice; study of the Vedas; austerity; simplicity; nonviolence; truthfulness; freedom from anger; renunciation; tranquillity; aversion to faultfinding; compassion for all living entities; freedom from covetousness; gentleness; modesty; steady determination; vigor; forgiveness; fortitude; cleanliness; and freedom from envy and from the passion for honor. Freedom from covetousness is exactly what is lacking in the person who "chose to fight with Supreme Lord". Can anyone think of some other explanation?

Sonic Yogi, Please do not disgrace yourself and Gaudiyas on this forum anymore.

Seems like you put word "hindu" and the name of Lord Jagannath together. This is not totally correct to do because He is Jagannath, not Hindunath.

Me too.

Dear Amlesh, do you think this version can be judged authentic? sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/index.htm (add www in the address) I guess you already saw this one. This is the only one that is available for me and I wish I knew if it was worth reading.

Pranam-namaskar, Narasimhan. I guess you can try and search something out there: ibiblio.org/sripedia.