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Although we still wait for proof when Prabhupada did authorize his leading disciples to become full-fledged initiating gurus who require "no specific qualification" to initiate their own disciples, we find lots of evidence how Prabhupada defined the qualification of a diksa-guru.

"Neither kuṭīcaka, nor bahūdaka, nor parivrājakācārya. Paramahamsa."

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.10-13

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Vṛndāvana, November 1, 1976

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"..The first thing is hamse gurau mayi bhaktyānuvṛtyā. This is religion. Ādau gurvāśrayam.

If you do not get a qualified guru, then everything is bogus. If you, by good fortune, if you get the association of a guru, qualified hamsa, paramahamsa.

Paramahamsa guru means sannyāsī’s last stage is paramahamsa. Kuṭīcaka, bahūdaka, parivrājakācārya, and paramahamsa, these are the different stages. When one takes sannyāsa, he lives outside the village in a kuṭī, in a cottage, and the family members goes and delivers him the food, because he is not practiced. So in the beginning, he keeps up this association of neighborhood or family, but he is not practiced. He therefore lives outside the village, and if somebody gives some food, he eats. Then when he becomes experienced, then he does not accept food from one, either his own home or one home. He takes foodstuff from many homes: “Give me a little piece of cāpāṭi.” So somebody gives half, because they are also not overburdened. If they have to deliver, so many sannyāsīs come, and sumptuous food, then how the gṛhastha will provide? Therefore though… They do not overburden.

There may be other sannyāsīs, therefore little only. Madhupuri. The Gosvāmīs practiced this madhupuri in Vṛndāvana. They lived, but they would take little only from the house. This is called bahūdaka.

Then when he has practiced more, he travels all over the world, parivrājakācārya. And when he is fully experienced, then, in spiritual life and everything, then he is paramahamsa. So one must find out a guru who is paramahamsa. Neither kuṭīcaka, nor bahūdaka, nor parivrājakācārya. Paramahamsa.

So in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta also, Lord Caitanya says, guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja [Cc. Madhya 19.151] This bhakti-latā-bīja can be obtained through the mercy of guru and Kṛṣṇa. Here Ṛṣabhadeva, who is incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, therefore He says mayi, hamse gurau mayi. You cannot jump over Kṛṣṇa. “Well, I know Kṛṣṇa.

I shall go to Kṛṣṇa directly, without guru.”

There are many rascals, they say like that. No, that is not possible. First of all guru, then Kṛṣṇa. Hamse gurau mayi, bhaktyānuvṛtyā.

So these are description, this is the beginning. If we actually practice the description of the prescription given in the śāstra, then it will be possible that, as it is said, karmānubaddho dṛḍha āślatheta. Then our strong desire to enjoy this material world in different way, that will be slackened. That is wanted.

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya! (end)

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Dear Sucandra, dandavats

 

I reject the practicing and proliferation of dvd not because is an invention of “Prabhupada” going back to some ideas of the Gaudiya Mat founder , but because this is against bhakti, as taught in the original Gaudiya Vaishnavism<?xml:namespace prefix = o />

 

 

 

Anadi, dandavats, thing is that lets say you become a grhastha Vaishnava and your children also eventually want to get married. Is it ok for you that all those grhastha Vaishnavas go for work to the karmis in order to pay the bills and maintain their families? But this is what you're teaching. This is of course demoniac to tell young devotees listen in our movement you can be only monks and if you want to have family this is not possible because family require money and where should this come?

Dear Murali d. dandavat,

You quoted SB1.2.13 as an evidence that one should follow varna-ashram dharma:

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Sūta Gosvāmī uvaca:

ataḥ pumbhir dvija-śreṣṭhā varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ

sv-anuṣṭhitasya dharmasya saḿsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam

O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one's own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead.

 

 

 

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But Sri Caitanya, the same Sri Krishna, rejected entirely this idea as being external to bhakti.

You continued:

Activities that bring pleasure to Sri Hari must not be abandoned; engaging in false [monkey-like] renunciation, abandoning the responsible role we have within society, is condemned by Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.

Reply:

1. Bhakti activities are much more pleasureble for Krishna that discharging one’s duties in varnashram, which not even is related to yoga, and amongst those who are engaged in yoga, the most dear to Sri Krishna is the one do hari bhajan – bhakti activity.

2. Not perfoming one’s duties in varnashram dharma is not false renunciation, maybe your guru says so, but Sri Krishna doesn’t, please see below:

As you brought this evidence

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1. this quotation does not uphold your statements.

2. Bhakti is outside varnashram dharma and in this connection Sri Krishna says that if you want to come to bhakti, you should not fear about sinful reactions, that might come because renouncing varnashram dharma, as He says later:

sarva-dharmān parityajya / mām ekaḿ śaraṇaḿ vraja

ahaḿ tvāḿ sarva-pāpebhyo / mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ (Bhagavad-gita 18.66)

Renounce any kind of duties pertaining this world - sarva-dharmān parityajya,

Take Me alone as your shelter - mām ekaḿ śaraṇaḿ vraja

Don’t worry - mā śucaḥ

I will deliver you - ahaḿ tvāḿ mokṣayiṣyāmi

from all sinful reactions (to your deeds) - sarva-pāpebhyo

Than you gave this very inaccurate translation to Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.20.9

tāvat karmāṇi kurvīta na nirvidyeta yāvatā

mat-kathā-śravaṇādau vā śraddhā yāvan na jāyate

One should continue performing daily and periodic varnasrama activities until one actually becomes detached from material sense gratification and develope faith for hearing and chanting about Krishna.

This is not said in the verse, but:

"As long as yāvat faith śraddhā is not awaken najāyateorvā as long as yāvatāone is not engaged nanirvidyeta in hearing in the beginning śravaṇādau about my pastimes mat-kathā one should execute kurvita activities according varna-ashram dharma karmāṇi."

The verse doesn’t say that until one actually becomes detached from material sense gratification one should perform daily and periodic varnasrama activities, but until one is engaged in preliminary activities of bhakti like in the beginning the hearing about the pastimes of the Lord is most important, or one had not attain the faith (of association with the carriers of bhakti) one should do karma (activities according varnaashram dharma)

Bhagavan, Sri Krishna explains the meaning of karma :

karmaṇo hy api boddhavyaḿ / boddhavyaḿ ca vikarmaṇaḥ

akarmaṇaś ca boddhavyaḿ / gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ (Bhagavat-gita 4.17)

 

Karma, vikarma and akarma should be distinctively understood, because the karmic principle is profound.

 

1.Vikarma - acting against the prescribed duty , leads to a miserable destiny and destin-ation.

2. Akarma, not acting according the prescribed duty in varna-ashrama, can be

- akarma – rejecting varna-ashrama dharma due to ignorance, which is vikarma.

- akarma - rejecting varna-ashrama dharma and engaging in activities for the attainment of mukti (salvation - liberation from the bondage of this illusory material energy - maya)

- akarma rejecting varna-ashrama dharma and engaging in devotional activities (bhakti) - for the attainment of divine love prema

3. Karma, is the action prescribed according varNa – social class and asram – religious order, which leads to the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord Hari.

karmaṇy akarma yaḥ paśyed / akarmaṇi ca karma yaḥ

sa buddhimān manuṣyeṣu / sa yuktaḥ kṛtsna-karma-kṛt (Bhagavat-gita 4.18 )

 

"That person endowed with discrimination power (intelligence) buddhimAn, sees inaction in karma and action in akarma.

That person is linked (with the Lord/ spiritual world), although she acts (in this world)."

 

The meaning is that for a transcendentaly situated person, situated beyond the modes of material nature, karma (action prescribed according varNa – social class and asram – religious order) is not (the real) action, in the sense that karma is not related to the eternal nature of the soul: shuddha bhakti – loving service to The All Attractive,

and such a person sees akarma – not following the prescribed duties of varNa-asharam system, which are due to the false indentification of the soul with temporary denominations of the material body, as real activity, when it is related to the real identity of the soul – a loving servant, friend, parent, or erotic lover of the Lord- which encompasses the nitya dharma – the real nature

Anadi, since you clearly reject Srila Prabhupada's teachings on DVD what we have today to consider as legitimate and normal practice of many pre-77 Prabhupada disciples it would be necessary to start your own movement and also make it public that it is a new movement.

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Project by the NA GBC, "shifting from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. What would that mean for a temple administrator? How would such a refreshed mentality show itself in the daily functioning of an ISKCON temple? What benefits would improved finances bring to full-time devotees?"

Financial solvency - achieving a strong fiscal position

Descriptive

"Solvency fulfills two criteria: income greater than expenses, and assets greater than liabilities. The team might recommend creating a model template for achieving financial solvency through pledges, foundation grants, government allocations, capital campaigns, fundraising dinners and other special events. This model could then serve as a reference for all temples. After solvency, the next step is to generate additional revenues for preaching programs. If a temple is small, or has limited staff, how could such a campaign be started? What hidden resources might be unearthed from local businesses and friends? (Establishing solvency also means achieving positive cash flow on a monthly basis and covering costs of ongoing temple maintenance.)

Additional considerations

Business consultants and personal counselors alike speak of shifting from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance. What would that mean for a temple administrator? How would such a refreshed mentality show itself in the daily functioning of an ISKCON temple? What benefits would improved finances bring to full-time devotees?"

Web site: http://financialsolvency.com/

Financial Solvency

"Financial Solvency Team was born from the need to strengthen the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) with regard to its operations designed to fulfill its aim of re-spiritualizing the entire planet. The Financial Solvency initiative is one of a number of initiatives undergoing careful development under the umbrella of the Spiritual Strategic Planning Team (SSPT)

The SSPT is the ISKCON sub-organization responsible for making available, resources that could be utilized for the daily operations and long term projects of ISKCON branches throughout North America.

The Financial Solvency team is made up of, but not limited to, ISKCON members whose expertise cover a number of areas of material knowledge including accounting, management, web site development and law, to name a few. Its aim is to make available, detailed ways in which funds could be raised by the management of various ISKCON temples, and ways in which expenditure could be monitored in a fiscally responsible fashion. The FS team plans to fulfill its aim by utilizing various multi-media methods including CD, DVD and the Internet.

The door to membership of the FS team is open to everyone who is favorable to ISKCON and who feels inclined to help move its aims forward. We hope to stay the course with regard to our contribution to SSPT in particular and ISKCON in general. Most importantly, we seek to please our light bearer and spiritual eye-opening guru, the founder-Acarya of ISKCON, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, whose tireless efforts aimed at taking His spiritual master’s instruction as His life’s only purpose, has resulted in raising the spiritual consciousness of people the world over. Hare Krsna."

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ISKCON honors three city leaders

Sunday, 03.25.2007, 11:12pm (GMT-7)

http://indiapost.com/article/communitypost/163/

CHICAGO: A group of Indian Americans and ISKCON Congregational community in Chicago joined hands to hold a reception for City Clerk Miguel Del Valle, City Treasurer Stephanie Neely and 49th ward Aldermanic candidate Joe Moore.

The event held prior to the recent local elections was well attended. Sunil Madhava Das, ISKCON president welcomed the guests while Nand Kapoor, former president of Association of Indian Americans introduced Joe Moore. While Miguel Del Valle and Stephanie Neely got elected, Joe Moore is in a run-off election next month for his Aldermanic seat in the City Council. Prior to the presentation of the honorable guests to the congregation, blessed garlands from Lord Krishna and the Temple deities were given to each candidate.

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Below Srila Prabhupada clearly says, for a devotee who has surrendered to Krishna there's no problem - if there's a problem it is Krishna's problem and Krishna also knows how to solve such a problem. In other words, Gaudiya-Vaishnava are those who do nothing but to work together to spread the Holy Name and not worry about problems - Krishna takes care, it is His business. This is the meaning of Vaishnava.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture 1.5.8-9

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

New Vrindaban, May 24, 1969

690524SB.NV

http://causelessmercy.com/t/t/690524SB.NV.htm?i=1969

...And the whole world is problem for ordinary persons, but to us it is

not problem. Because we see everything Kṛṣṇa's. If there is problem,

it is Kṛṣṇa's problem. Why my problem? Kṛṣṇa can know how to

solve problem. So we have no problem practically. Kṛṣṇa's problem.

Kṛṣṇa will see to it. Just like Arjuna was encouraged that nimitta-

mātram bhava savyasācin. "You don't worry about your victory. I

have already arranged." So we should have such faith and conviction

and let us try. Let us do very sincerely and seriously. Then

everything Kṛṣṇa will do. I haven't got to do anything....

Wonder how they prove this to be really true:

Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human

By CLAUDIA JOSEPH - More by this author » Last updated at 21:26pm on 24th March 2007

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Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.

The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.

Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and £5million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep's foetus.

Chimera: sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells

He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.

The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep's foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.

"We would take a couple of ounces of bone marrow cells from the patient,' said Prof Zanjani, whose work is highlighted in a Channel 4 programme tomorrow.

"We would isolate the stem cells from them, inject them into the peritoneum of these animals and then these cells would get distributed throughout the metabolic system into the circulatory system of all the organs in the body. The two ounces of stem cell or bone marrow cell we get would provide enough stem cells to do about ten foetuses. So you don't just have one organ for transplant purposes, you have many available in case the first one fails."

At present 7,168 patients are waiting for an organ transplant in Britain alone, and two thirds of them are expected to die before an organ becomes available.

Scientists at King's College, London, and the North East Stem Cell Institute in Newcastle have now applied to the HFEA, the Government's fertility watchdog, for permission to start work on the chimeras.

But the development is likely to revive criticisms about scientists playing God, with the possibility of silent viruses, which are harmless in animals, being introduced into the human race.

Dr Patrick Dixon, an international lecturer on biological trends, warned: "Many silent viruses could create a biological nightmare in humans. Mutant animal viruses are a real threat, as we have seen with HIV."

Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: "Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all." lAnimal Farm is on Channel 4 at 9pm tomorrow

A Visit to the Holy Beacon - ISKCON, Bangalore

March 25, 2007

http://desicritics.org/2007/03/25/015243.php

Tanay Behera

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The introduction of intra-city air-conditioned Volvo buses plying various routes in Bangalore, covering all vantage points is one the first efforts of its kind in the country. This service has been running for close to one year or so in the city but I never got an opportunity to use this facility. However, the bus' coverage of the route to the ISKCON temple, which is located in Rajajinagar, a locality pretty far off from my residential complex offered me this chance few days back.

I was impressed by the bus facility and these are exactly similar to the ones that I have used in Europe. Even the conductor uses an electronic ticketing gadget, a welcome change from the regular hand signed tickets placed in the pockets of a tattered leather bag.

The only disappointing and unsatisfying feature to my notice was the cost of the ticket, which is pretty high for the regular commuters i.e. vendors, construction site workers, maids, even humble students as the monthly/daily passes are not valid in these buses.

The bus was effectively vacant for the most part and by the time we reached the destination it was just my friend and myself. Does this really serve the purpose as public transport, be it simple regular buses or the A/C buses, should logically cater to regular commuters? These A/C buses just cater to a certain segment of the society: those who can afford it. This can serve as an example of the tunnel effect, which was discussed elaborately by Amartya Sen, in the recently concluded NASSCOM meet at Mumbai.

Getting back to the topic then, let me continue with my ISKCON impressions. It was a unique experience for me. A noteworthy place to visit in Bangalore. The ISKCON [international Society for Krishna Consciousness] temple dedicated to Lord Krishna is situated on the top of a small hillock. We had to climb several steps to reach the sanctorum but that was not very difficult.

First of all, we went up few steps to reach a place where we deposited our footwear and camera [no photography is allowed inside the temple] in the safe custody of the temple authorities. As per Hindu traditions and customs, any form of footwear has to be strictly removed before one enters the temple premises.

The temple is like an small amusement park in terms of the maintenance and the peripheral physical infrastructure, and I sincerely apologize if that sounds sacrilegious. Before climbing the marble stairs to the entrance, the visitors and devotees are asked to wash their feet at a washing station. After that a human chain starts meandering through metal railings, similar to those that one would find at an amusement park or while entering through the gates of any open-air concert with a metal detector gate for security check and inspection.

Even if it was a normal day sans any festivities, there was still a pretty big crowd. Another interesting thing to notice, are the numerous placards warning of pickpockets. The massive crowd of visitors had no problem pushing up close against us, whether it was intentional or un-intentional, I am not aware of that. But it was not the body-to-body kind of close that you find in a typical crowded bus in India. All the while, a bell tolled somewhere ahead in the line and a recording droned on: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama...

There were people of all shades, all age groups, in different moods and there were a few foreigners in the crowd too as we climbed through 108 marble steps. So the queue wasn't really for anything in particular and it wound its way through a series of shrines. If I remember it correctly, first there was Lord Narasimha's temple and then Lord Venkateswara's temple, which finally ended in an open courtyard from where the entire city's skyline looked splendiferous.

The main temple is large and impressive and a few pillars/structures are bedecked with gold. This is the Krishna temple and has a huge hall where devotees and visitors, sit in peace after offering their prayers.

While Ju was sitting here, I walked to an information counter and started gathering facts on the Akshaya Patra Project about which I had heard and read lots in newspapers and magazines. The Akshaya Patra Project is the mid-day meal scheme, wherein school children in government-run schools are given free lunches in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Orissa. The reason and rationale behind this program is that food could lure children to attend school. Only when a child's stomach is satisfied, s/he would show some positive inclination for studies in schools in rural or semi-urban areas.

"Akshaya Patra" means the container that never gets empty. It is the container Lord Krishna gave to Draupadi, before the Pandavas started their journey into the forest. The Lord wanted his cousins to eat well and never struggle for food, which finds a parallel in ISKCON's scheme. The entire program is managed by some really smart, experienced and educated people who hail from some of the top engineering schools in India like IIT Chennai, REC Warangal, REC Nagpur, IISc Bangalore, etc. A few among them have even worked in business houses both in India and the US, before dedicating themselves to this altruistic activity.

I did a simple calculation and realized that an amount close to 30-32 Lakhs Rupees is spent each day for this Akshaya Patra Project across the various centers in India. Assume that each meal costs around Rs. 6 and there are close to 5,00,000+ children fed daily by this selfless initiative and so this amounts to figure stated above. On enquiry, I learnt that the funding for this comes from software/tech companies, philanthropists, business houses, voluntary donations, and also from the various centers of ISKCON spread across the globe.

This main temple winds its way through a bookstore before culminating in a food stall. There are a number of counters where you can buy books, trinkets, religious icons, posters, postcards, sweets, fruits, savory food, jewelry, incense sticks, dresses, saris, t-shirts, etc. There is also an amphitheatre, equipped with the latest state of the art by BOSE and DOLBY Digital, but unfortunately there were no shows on that day because of some repair and maintainance work.

The food stall is a center of attraction and offers a wide variety of mouth watering eatables such as jalebis, samosas, dhokla, chaat, dahi vaada, etc. At a few vantage points there are donation counters where one can donate money (credit and debit cards are accepted, although this sign was posted above a drop-box).

The food court goes over a pedestrian footbridge back to the parking lot where a man with a stack of dried banyan leaves shaped like bowls hands each one a leaf, and another man serves spoonful of hot yellow sticky rice pudding called prasadam into it. It's an offering and one should eat it with good spirit and appreciation sitting on the limestone benches that borders a pool of placid water there. Birds chirping chee chee and a cacophony of sounds provide the natural music at this sunset hour.

Was it fear of God, spirituality, or just an invitation to see a new place that drew me to this place, ISKCON? Whatever may be the reason, it gave me an inexplicable confidence that one can pass thorough the vicissitudes of human life in this world without any fear and falterings.

I recked little of time during this gratifying experience. I don't know how I can satisfactorily explain the mystery of serenity and divine within-ness of this place, with its independence of any temporal sense. By this time it was twilight, and somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I was aware that in the world below, nights come with the surprising quickness of traffic jams, yet I felt no concern about that matter.

I stood there and took some pictures from outside the temple premises. Then within a few minutes Ju and I returned to the humdrum of daily life.

We got stuck in a traffic imbroglio and it was life back on normal turf again.

Tanay, a simple person. Has four simple needs in life: to read lots ,to meet lots of people,talk and interact,to have his laptop connection in place always,to travel anywhere and everywhere.Wants to work for United Nations soon. You can read my blogs here . An engineer by chance and works for a Product Company in Bangalore for his basic needs(Food,Clothes and Shelter)

And foget all this who does this who does that (meat eating deer hunting debaucherizing) pointing the finger business. Let's fix ourselves up...by taking full shelter of Lords Nityananda and Gauranga. And work together for the benefit of fallen souls instead of infighting.

 

There may be subtle differences in the instructions of each of our personal Guru's, and the implementation of those instructions. But let us work together...for the main objective...extending mercy by whatever means possible.

"...SB 7.15.45: Significant in this verse are the words jñānāsim acyuta-balaḥ. Jñānāsim, the sword of knowledge, is given by Kṛṣṇa, and when one serves the guru and Kṛṣṇa in order to hold the sword of Kṛṣṇa's instructions, Balarāma gives one strength. Balarāma is Nityānanda. Vrajendra-nandanayei, śacī-sutahailasei, balarāmaha-ilanitāi. This bala — Balarāma — comes with ŚrīCaitanyaMahāprabhu, and both of Them are so merciful that in this age of Kali one may very easily take shelter of Their lotus feet. They come especially to deliver the fallen souls of this age. pāpītāpīyatachila, hari-nāme uddhārila. Their weapon is sańkīrtana, hari-nāma. Thus one should accept the sword of knowledge from Kṛṣṇa and be strong with the mercy of Balarāma. We are therefore worshiping Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma in Vṛndāvana...."

It is surely true to not waste time and work together to save the fallen condition of so many souls who obtained this valuable human form of live but somehow dont know what is the goal of life.

What you devotees think about this site? Please read on.

 

By the potency of Srila Prabhupada’s books the number of practicing devotees is increasing steadily. Most of them do desire to get married, and it is imperative that they be married to practicing devotees. However, devotees often end up marrying karmis, forgetting Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s instruction: asat-sanga-tyaga, ei vaishnava-acara. A Vaishnava should always avoid non-devotee association. Such an association does not facilitate advancement in Krishna consciousness.

 

grihasta is a humble attempt to provide a medium to find a compatable devotee life partner.

Somehow this looks like that devotees within ISKCON are in the situation to arrange for their marriage on their own - the internet access in the brahmacari ashram being used to post marriage ads? Since the rate of divorces within ISKCON is even higher than in the materialist society may be something should be added to get a better quality of relationship among Vaishnava couples.

Arun Shrivastava MBA, CMC, is a certified management consultant living in Delhi.

No bombs have been dropped in this war. Instead, the aggressors have chosen two weapons that kill silently, slowly. Those weapons are deliberate contamination of India’s seeds with genetically engineered organisms and radioactive contamination of around 400 million people in India. The aggressors are: the United States Government and the multinational seeds companies [chiefly Monsanto and its Indian partners]. Other Ag-biotech firms are not far behind.

The United States Government, Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Dow, Bayer and a few others comprise a group that should rightly be called the mega criminal corporation; this one single group has the wherewithal to decimate world civilization as we have known and the process of decimation is on. That group includes Indian officials: without their support this war on Indians could not have taken place. Perhaps the same story of government officials colluding with these criminals has been repeated in nearly every country on planet earth.

People can live without a house, car, or medicines; none can survive without food and water. But if seeds are contaminated, we perish as a nation, as a civilization. Therefore, genetically engineered seeds should be treated as weapons of mass destruction exactly as depleted uranium contamination which destroys humans at genetic level: both are weapons of mass, indiscriminate, destruction. And the aggressors should be treated as war criminals.

In this paper I shall describe the true nature of the crime and why the rest of the world, including the people of the United States of America, must charge this group with use of weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and crimes against humanity. Each nation must do the same: charge the criminals, bring them to trial in their respective countries, and hang them. Until we do this, the mega criminal corporation is unlikely to stop its nefarious deed of destroying the world.

In my last article titled “GM buccaneers destroy India’s seeds”, I had said that certain GM crops- including Bt rice, Bt Brinjal, Bt Okra, Bt Tomato, and Bt Potato- are undergoing open field trials at some locations. Evidences submitted in the Supreme Court of India in support of the Writ Petition 206 of 2005, to stop open field trials of genetically engineered seeds, subsequently show that 151 different crops are undergoing trials at over 1500 locations all over India. Evidences have further been submitted that Delhi University is conducting open field trials with terminator seeds of mustard crop, which is illegal in India. The mustard plants have already flowered and contamination of non-GM mustard can’t be stopped. The Genetic Engineering Approvals Committee [GEAC], an inter-ministerial body that oversees issues of biosafety in India, has failed to safeguard our health and stands heavily indicted.

GM seeds, pollens and plants, blown over by wind have contaminated neighboring lands as happened in the fields of Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer. Percy was in Delhi on 6th February to talk on his experience with Monsanto’s blackmail of North American farmers. His seed stocks are decimated.

Seeds are nature’s creation, God’s gift to mankind. Farmers all over the world develop and save seeds for themselves and neighbours so that they could feed the world healthy food. The truth is that the best seeds have been developed by farmers themselves; the lie is that seeds are developed by multinational companies and agriculture scientists.

Genetic engineering [GE] is a technology that allows patenting of seeds; it has no other purpose. The truth is that neither these seeds increase yield nor do they enhance nutritive content of foods. The lie is that they increase yield by reducing crop losses due to pest attacks or help plants withstand vagaries of weather: both claims are spurious and based on fudged facts. But these patented seeds ensure huge profits for the multinational corporations.

Multinational companies do not own something that nature has given us, yet they are doing exactly this with full support of the US and many European Governments. Every Government is being systematically forced to approve GE seeds and GM foods in utter disregard for biosafety. Whilst it is possible to reverse chemical pollution, biological pollution replicates itself in the environment. There is no known method to reverse the process. And these seeds and foods can alter genetic purity of species and transmutate in ways that are unknown.

Genetic engineering is an imperfect technology. It is a cell invasion technology through which inter-specie barrier is transcended. For instance, nature has devised mechanisms that make a fish work as fish and a tomato work as tomato. What GE technology does is transfer the selected traits of one specie [for example ability to withstand low temperature in a fish] to another [say for example tomato] so that the engineered specie [tomato] withstands cold temperature. However, in the complex world of nature, this type of invasion of cell and gene manipulation can wreak havoc. For example Bt cotton seed contains the genes of bacillus thuringiensis [bt] that makes a cotton plant behave like pesticide because it kills certain pests that attack cotton plants. Exactly the same transformation takes place when a farmer uses Bt rice or Bt Okra, or any seeds containing Bacillus thuringiensis. Effectively, the plant itself behaves like a pesticide whether cotton [cash crop] or any food crop.

And this is the crux: the corporations and colluding government officials want us to eat food that actually works in nature as pesticide. In order to obtain approvals for human consumption, these criminals claim that GE foods are “substantially equivalent” yet in order to ensure profits for themselves the same criminals want the world to believe that their products are “quite different” worthy of a patent protection! Did these criminals invent the seeds in the first place? Monsanto already believes it “invented the pig”. Not only the pigs, soon Monsanto will stake a claim that it invented us humans and owns us because their proprietary genes somehow got into our genetic structure. According to the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court, in Percy Schmeiser’s case, “it does not matter how it got there…..!” And it does not matter whether I want it in my body or not? Percy did not want GMOs in his field, but when the fields got contaminated against his wishes, the Court ordered him to settle! Even Canadian Courts are working for Monsanto, neck deep in Monsanto engineered muck!

Natural Seeds will be virtually extinct. Genetically Engineered seeds contaminate our food chain through cross pollination. Once natural plants and seeds are contaminated, they just can’t be decontaminated. Trans-specie contamination is also an established fact: for example a genetically modified rice plant can contaminate other plants and trees and soil as much as other rice plants. It gives rise to super weeds. Even natural water bodies have been contaminated. It means “containment” is impossible. Our natural environment and foods will be contaminated in PERPETUITY.

This technology will utterly destroy India’s agriculture and rural economy and decimate India’s mega-biodiversity and seeds heritage gained for us by our farmers over 10,000 years of agriculture. Monsanto is not even 10 decades old and the US Government about 22.

What Genetically Engineered foods can do to us?

Ultimately, untimely death, which means the corporations are creating conditions to kill us. Foods made from GE food crops are a threat to health and life. Animal studies show severe damage to vital organs [liver, kidney, alimentary canal], growth of cancerous cells, and damaged sperm, among other debilitating health impacts. The technology was introduced without long term impact assessment on human and animal health in the US in early 1990s and is responsible for a major health catastrophe. In India it will destroy human and animal population. Cattle grazing on Bt cotton fields developed unknown symptoms and died. How humans will die is not even known because there is no protocol for testing for, say Bt toxins. The companies and the Governments [state as well as central] have completely ignored issues of health and biosafety. For this reason, the decision of the Indian Government to allow open field trials remains intriguing, highly irresponsible and a crime against humanity.

India is world's largest producer of fruits, second largest producer of vegetables and milk and is predicted to become the world's largest exporter of non-GM agricultural products within a decade unless genetic contamination destroys the bio-diversity and sustainability of India’s food & feed crops. This potential market power is the greatest threat to US and European food multinationals and attempts to contaminate non-GM food and feed crops is part of that strategy to destroy India and South Asia’s emerging dominance as non-GM food supplier.

India comprises a large market for biotech based products but most of these products are imported from US and European firms. The Indian biotech industry was worth US$2.44 billion sales in 2001. Of this $1.5 billion (about 60%) was accounted for by health biotech, with agricultural & veterinary accounting for 20% each. Sales are expected to reach about US$ 9.7 billion, roughly four times its current size, by 2020.

70% of India’s seeds’ sales come from farmer bred seeds, 26% from those bred in publicly financed institutions, and only 4% from researched hybrids. At present, out of an estimated 400-odd seed companies in the country, only 18 belong to the public sector and 10 to the cooperative sector. The remaining units are established in the private sector, of which, about 25 to 30 are in the large private sector, while over 300 are medium and small units. The dominant player is Mahyco, a Monsanto joint venture, but it sells Monsanto’s seeds of deception.

A large number of unorganized family owned units remain a typical feature of the Indian seed industry. About 400 organizations are doing commercial research on agriculture: 200 research labs, 150 companies and 50 service firms. Medical foods and nutraceuticals are also under development. Given their expertise, market standing, and the world-wide rapid increase in demand for organic/natural foods, Indian seed companies have the potential to grow into trans-national corporations, with direct investments, joint ventures, and licensing arrangements to produce Indian-bred cultivars in other countries. This scenario threatens the market power of the criminals.

In the 6th February meeting of farmers from all over India organized by Navdanya [a Delhi based NGO], farmers came out with observations on probable impact of Bt cotton seeds that [a] traditional broad-leaf [Peepal (Ficus religiosa) and Bargad (Ficus bengalensis)] and medicinal trees [like Neem, Azadiracta indica] are dying, women are reaching menopause at as young an age as 30 in Punjab, and [c] goats and sheep grazing on farms growing GE crops have died. Now, some of these observations need to be scientifically validated, but which scientist would do it when nearly all Government scientists have sold their souls to the gang of mega criminals? Has the ICMR woken up to the frenzied killing of corporate piranha?

The plan is to store 10,000 years of mankind’s most precious heritage in a vault in Svalbard, Norway.

It is very puzzling why the Government of India, through its Ministry of Agriculture, is supporting a “natural seeds bank” to be contained in this VAULT in Norway, which is also supported by multinational chemicals & biotech seeds companies such as DuPont and Syngenta. Can’t the Government of India simply stop contamination of seeds and financially support our farmers to protect their seeds? Or is there something more sinister that we don’t know?

[The website requires one to be a r for accessing the e-newspaper. For readers’ convenience, I have pasted the graphics above.]

The Doomsday Seed Vault has nothing to do with an asteroid hitting the earth or even a nuclear war, as claimed by head of the project. If an asteroid large enough to destroy the normal ecological balance hit the earth, we are finished anyway, and that asteroid can also hit Svalbard. A nuclear war on Iran is already under advanced stage of planning by none other than the US administration. Millions of seeds that rightly belong to farming communities should ideally be saved by the communities themselves, as has been the tradition worldwide, and protected by their respective governments.

Svalbard is the safest option because of it’s remoteness from the main battleground for resource wars now raging all over the world, including India. Seeds need to be stored at low temperature to prevent germination and Svalbard is in the Arctic Circle. As Rick Weiss says, “The design bespeaks an Armageddon mentality.” See Rick Weiss report here.

Therefore, the ostensible reason for selecting Svalbard for storing seeds has two secret purposes: [a] majority of agrarian nations are either already contaminated or are in the process of being deliberately contaminated as part of the global domination strategy of the criminals, once the population is culled to the targeted level, these seeds would be released to surviving farmers under total control and direction of the criminals.

Clive James claims that over 100 million acres are under GM cultivation of food and feed crops. The world map of GM crops is available at ISAA web site. While Clive’s figures are disputed by ISIS-UK, the determination of big biotech firms to contaminate world’s seeds would ensure utter decimation of our farms and forests and birds, the bees and the huge microcosm within the living soil.

The National Security memo 200 [NSSM#200] piloted by Henry Kissinger in 1974, identified growing population in the Asia, Africa and Latin America as threat to US security. The genesis of Kissinger’s thesis lies in King George VI’s advisory to control population in British colonies and it is not surprising that India started its family limiting programme way back in 1952, within five years of gaining independence. Let me quote from McCauley why it has always been the core strategic issue of western elite to destroy resource rich South Asia:

"I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar or who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values & people of such calibre, that do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage." [Lord McCauley in his speech of Feb 2, 1835, British Parliament]

People are the most important resource. It was McCauley who started the process of culturally enslaving India. Economic enslavement followed. The high quality of India’s population was reduced to emaciated, undernourished, pauperized millions over the next 12 decades, say six generations. During this period, the population of the sub-continent was split along caste and religious lines with competing political ambitions encouraged by the rulers, eventually leading to trifurcation of the subcontinent into India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Kashmir will follow unless we stop it. This population did not mean anything to the British: we were cheap, disposable labour, exactly in the same manner that the British and American ruling classes use their soldiers as disposable dregs today in their illegal wars [“Dumb, stupid soldiers” in Kissinger’s language]. The economic and cultural enslavement was further strengthened after India became independent precisely because the moral responsibility now lay with the “independent Indian Government” no more a ‘white man’s burden! The enslavement continues without being “white man’s burden;” it is now brown man’s burden, the likes of Chidambaram, Manmohan, Montek, Karat and Sita, and the Madam, the only white man carrying the flag of the former rulers.

It is well known fact that birth control and sterilization programs are not working well in India. Few policy planners have the political acumen or will, or marketing talent, to convince rural people that small family can [and do] improve quality of life substantially. However, they have never factored in the ground reality in India’s 600,000 villages. These villages are stratified vertically into caste groups and horizontally along religious lines. These social sub-groups live in homogenous clusters but all are part of the lowest tier of constitutional body called Village Council [Gram Panchayat]. The caste and religious groups compete for political control over the Village Council because these councils receive substantial development fund every year. The competing groups or coalitions all seek to control that resource for the benefit of their respective communities. In a village comprising 300 to 2000 households, there is real danger for any group of getting swamped by a coalition of the competing power groups. There is powerful political incentive to expand household and community size and all social and political tensions start here and are reflected at national level. This fact is little discussed in the mainstream media because the issue is politically loaded, hence incorrect, given the dominant pseudo-secular milieu.

However, instead of working on alternatives, like the ones enunciated in the International Conference on Population and Development [iCPD, Cairo, 1994], for example, access to quality education, sustainable habitat, access to quality healthcare, clean water, sanitation and a holistic safety net, from birth to death, under community managed systems, a general apathy within the bureaucracy and political class was established decades ago. Incentives offered by the US government to the Indian ruling elite by way of bribes, admission to children in prestigious colleges, positions that are supported by US Government or MNCs’ funds have also played a role in the widespread indifference towards people’s problem. ‘Keep the people under servile subjugation, in perpetuity!

Realizing that population control programs are failing in the newly industrializing countries [NICs], U.S. Foreign Policy progressively became more covert, vicious and deadly. The Indian ruling elite has been quietly supporting this US agenda of depriving Indians of their assets [the loot of land through SEZs is a classic example] and mass culling, a far less tedious option. Effectively, the Government of India has been bribed into murdering its own citizens.

Through the duplicity of the US and Indian Governments, the Indian population has become the target of a deadly and demonic form of US depopulation policy – involving both bio-weapons and radiation. These weapons are: [a] Genetically engineered seeds and deliberate contamination of India’s foods, and Depleted Uranium [DU] contamination of entire western India. [i shall deal with HIV-AIDS separately because that is another instrument of US depopulation policy being used at cellular level]

Depleted Uranium blowing off the Himalayas, over Pakistan and the oil rich sands of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarat, is contaminating the northern half of India and the Himalayan headwaters of nine major rivers of southeast Asia. Heavy grid and carpet bombing with depleted uranium by the U.S. military, on the eastern side of Afghanistan beginning in 2001, guaranteed heavy contamination in areas where deep snows in the mountainous regions provide water for Pakistan and parts of western [central and eastern] India. By contaminating vital water supplies in vast regions with radioactive contaminants, a secret and invisible low level nuclear war is being carried out against South Asians. This low level radiation undetectable with conventional means will mutilate the DNA of all exposed living things. This is not just a war against people, it is a war against the environment. Few living things will escape the slow radioactive poisoning which mutilates DNA, and is passed on to all future generations.” [Leuren Moret, From Hiroshima to Iraq – 61 Years of Uranium Wars:A Suicidal, Genocidal, and Omnicidal Course]

I have estimated that 21 national capitals and about 957 million people living in these 21 countries are contaminated with depleted uranium. It is blowing in the wind; we are breathing it right now, this moment. How it will kill us, or maim us, will be apparent soon when the over 90 different types of illnesses destroy us, including multiple cancers within the same person, a gift of the US Government to the people of South and West Asia.

The US Government is not only destroying India’s population, but of entire South and West Asia. Indian Government’s silence on unilateral US action in Iraq and the impending US nuclear attack on Iran [which will kill over 35 million Iranians, Afghanistanies, Pakistanies and Indians within a few weeks] strongly indicates complicity in this planned genocide.

INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA IS SET UP FOR DEPOPULATION. The Indian Government does not want that we live a healthy life. Therefore, we need facilities for detecting GM-toxins and DU induced illnesses, which we do not have.

We have no option but to declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY, “people’s emergency”, in our respective countries, and in India. We have natural right to demand complete ban over GMOs and penal action against those who deliberately contaminate our farms and forests. We have a right to ask questions why biological and radiological contaminations were allowed. The Indian officials are complicit and, rightly, they should be charged with treason and tried for that ultimate crime called genocide. So should US officials. And so should the officers of Monsanto and others, exactly as the goons were tried at Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

March 22, 2007 Arun Shrivastava MBA, CMC, is a certified management consultant living in Delhi. He can be contacted at: arun1951@

I am looking for a picture, possibly in HQ. It depicts two smiling manjaris standing in front of a kunja with some puja items in their hands. I guess it was painted by Syamarani dasi, the disciple of BV Narayan Maharaj. Anyone has this picture, please? I would like to put in on my screen as a background pic. Thanks.

Syamarani dd's e-mail is syamarani(at)gaudiya.net, what I heard is that she considers herself a disciple of Srila Prabhupada - but may be I am wrong.

 

 

http://www.indiaenews.com/art-culture/20070320/43857.htm

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 12:36 AM IST March 20, 2007

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In his decree order, Justice A.K. Sikri held the ISKCON guilty of violating the Copyright Act and asked it to pay Rs.50,000 as compensation within four weeks after it staged Ram Leela based on the script of the capital-based Sriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra.

In April 2006, the Kala Kendra had filed a petition before the high court seeking compensation of Rs.200,000 from the ISKCON for staging the play on the same script at its temple premises here during a festival.

The ISKCON had hired some artistes, who had been sacked by the Kala Kendra, to stage the play, said the petition.

The script of the play was specially written for the shows at the Kala Kendra and was a unique artistic creation, it had contended. Staging of such a play violated various sections of the Copyright Act, it had said.

However, after fighting a legal battle before the bench for a year, both the ISKCON and the Kala Kendra had prayed for an out-of-court settlement.

The court directed the Kala Kendra to donate the amount of the fine in two weeks to the Delhi government, as prayed by both parties, towards mid-day meal expenditure in schools.

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I am curious if anyone knows what the bell metal is made of that is use to make Kartals? Well let me be clear; I somehow came across information that bell metal made in India has a certain amount of mercury in it. I was suprised. This obviously concerned me as mercury is extremely toxic. However I do know that mercury evaporates at room temperature, so theoreticaly if any residue was on the surface it would evaporate off. I don't mean to be overly concerned about mundane topics, but since kartals are material objects created by man, and we must know that we can not be certain without a doubt that man, in this day and age, will produce and sell products with the health and safety of it's consumers at a top priority. It is a top priority because the healthier we are, the better able we are to serve God.

I know that mercury can be added to certain metals to obtain a gold colored metal (most kartals are golden in color), but i am also aware of silver colored kartals; these are obviously not the same exact alloy of metal, but what of the mercury content of these? Once again, excuse me for wanting to discuss such mundane things, but I know someone out there knows the answer! Out of compassion for my fellow men and women, that our bodies may remain healthy to serve the Lord, Krishna has implored me to ask (Krishna is so merciful that he accepts my inquistive nature, even when I have are hard time doing so)!

 

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So far I noticed that there're different types of bell metals the karatals are made of. Some are harder and some are softer. In order to really find out something like an official expertise would be required.

Many things may sound good on the mental plane but we must see if it is practically accept by at least a few people in society. Let's see some non-initiated people step up and actually work within the varna-ashrama system. If it can't past the test of practicality then it is a waste of time.

 

One thing is for sure Iskcon is not together enough to set up and run a varnashram college. Certainly not in the west.

These are good points, how to make people understand that actual wealth comes by protecting the cow?

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