Srimad Bhagavatam: The Real Solution!

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Srimad Bhagavatam: The Real Solution!

BY: BHAGAVAT DAS (ACBSP)

May 31, USA (SUN) — I just finished reading the article concerning my God Brother Satsvarupa Maharaja's new novel "Sanatorium". I went to his website and read the following recent quote from him in Mexico:

"That's a nice standard. He shot his mistress, in a movie. Is that a waste of time? You could be reading Srimad Bhagavatam."

I may be wrong, but it appears that he is chastising himself for watching a movie instead of reading Srimad Bhagavatam. Or maybe he is chastising the guy in the movie who shot his mistress for not reading Srimad Bhagavatam. Whatever he is doing, he should be reading more Srimad Bhagavatam because serendipitously, when I opened up the Srimad Bhagavatam right after reading this statement the first verse I read was the following:

TRANSLATION

Vidura said: The line of Svayambhuva Manu was most esteemed. O worshipful sage, I beg you-give me an account of this race, whose progeny multiplied through sexual intercourse.

PURPORT

Regulated sex life to generate good population is worth accepting. Actually, Vidura was not interested in hearing the history of persons who merely engaged in sex life, but he was interested in the progeny of Svayambhuva Manu because in that dynasty , good devotee kings appeared who protected their subjects very carefully with spiritual knowledge. By hearing the history of their activities, therefore, one becomes more enlightened. An important word used in this connection is parama-sammatau, which indicates that the progeny created by Svayambhuva Manu and his sons was approved of by great authorities. In other words, sex life for creating exemplary population is acceptable to all sages and authorities of Vedic scripture.

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.21.1

Maybe Satsvarupa Maharaja could write about the activities of these great progenitors in Srimad Bhagavatam instead of writing fiction. Or if he writes so-called fiction, it should be spiritually enlightening like Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur's Jaiva Dharma, which in reality is not fiction, but Srila Thakur Bhaktivinoda's spiritual visions of the associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who remained on this planet just after He left this world at Tota Gopinath. This is the real definition of transcendental writing -- it is the revelation of the transcendental activities of the Lord and His Pure Devotees. Not some fictional characters who are dealing with their mundane sex desires in explicit terms in order to pander to the whims of a captive audience who are looking for a psychological massage for their mental meanderings. The soothing Balm for all such mental problems is reading the Srimad Bhagavatam and associating with Pure Devotees of the Lord, not pretending to be one and commiserating with your so-called disciples about yours and their sexual foibles on the mental platform by writing all this drivel.

Srila Prabhupada points out in the Purport that Vidura would not be interested in hearing about the history of real persons who were engaged in mundane sex life, what to speak of fictional persons. Srila Prabhupada also points out in the Purport that by hearing of the progeny produced by persons like Syambhuva Manu, who produced good devotee kings who protected their subjects very carefully with spiritual knowledge, one becomes more enlightened. Like the good devotee kings, the Guru is supposed to protect his disciples very carefully by giving them spiritual knowledge, not feeding their weaknesses with so-called therapeutic writing which is nothing more then psychobabble for "lets manufacture a so-called bona fide way to read pornography."

Satsvarupa Maharaja has some excellent writing skills, which should be put to good use by writing about the pure transcendental pastimes of the Pure Devotees and the Lord as described in the Srimad Bhagavatam. This is the real medicine that both he and his disciples need.

SB 1.2.18 - "By regular attendance in classes on the Bhagavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact."

THIS IS THE REAL SOLUTION TO ALL OF LIFE'S PROBLEMS!

Your Worthless Servant,

Bhagavat dasa

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BY: JAGABANDHU DASA

I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I'm not even a little bit curious about what goes on in other people's bathrooms or bedrooms. In fiction, or in movies. Unfortunately, I am a conditioned soul with more than enough spiritually unhealthy pre-occupation with my own sensual attachments. Additional external agitations are therefore completely unnecessary, unsolicited and explicitly unwelcome.

When I was first in LA in the early 80's I was offered a job writing pornographic screenplays, which I was unable to consider. And now this, a reputed "renounced monk" writing pornographic "spiritual" novels to allegedly address previously neglected "devotee" intimacy issues. And then have the gall to dedicate such an atrocity to his spiritual master. Wow. Just when you thought you'd seen everything. What next? Tantric yoga classes in the temple room? Now I'm almost afraid to open my eyes.

May we remember how Sri Guru ridiculed the very idea of any form of sex "education." With generous disposition, our disbelief over the publication of such an abomination by one who was well-known to be very dear to Sri Guru, must change to one of dismay and grief over a soul apparently completely losing their mind in a miasma of "spiritual" Alzheimers. Rather than join in with the jeering section, we must express great sadness over the present condition and position of a soul whom I know to have at one point been very sincere and clear in his exclusive dedication to Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Alas!

Our own memory of Sripad Satsvarup Maharaj will always be of a different nature than the very bad news sorrowfully expressed recently in The Sampradaya Sun.

I remember as a new bhakta in the Chicago temple in 1976 that the visiting GBC man, Satsvarup Goswami, was "caught" cleaning the stool room floor in the middle of the night. He explained that if he tried to do it any other time, he would have been prevented. I was greatly impressed with his humility and dedication in serving the devotees. May Sri Guru smile upon this soul, that he might again return to such humble clarity and unencumbered dedication to espousing the Real Krishna Consciousness he learned from his beloved guru, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. With all our hearts we must give this soul all of our best wishes for a speedy and full recovery, so he may not simply become yet another casualty in the totalitarian war against illusion.

Humbly,

the filthy mleccha known as

Jagabandhu Dasa

[Guruvani]

Isn't it amazing that us "filthy mlecchas" still have the audacity to preach Bhagavat Dharma and pontificate to the Vaishnavas and other assorted living entities?

 

I mean, if we really felt like "filthy mlecchas" would we really be pontificating and preaching to the Vaishnava community?

 

Enough of the false humility already!!

 

Me, I am Bhagavat Siddha, so therefore I have some authority to pontificate.

 

( a little humor my friends, just a little humor)

[suchandra]

 

Isn't it amazing that us "filthy mlecchas" still have the audacity to preach Bhagavat Dharma and pontificate to the Vaishnavas and other assorted living entities?

 

I mean, if we really felt like "filthy mlecchas" would we really be pontificating and preaching to the Vaishnava community?

 

Enough of the false humility already!!

 

Me, I am Bhagavat Siddha, so therefore I have some authority to pontificate.

 

( a little humor my friends, just a little humor)

 

 

Srila Prabhupada comments the late widespread fashion to publish new Vaishnava literature:

 

There is one instance in Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s life. One gentleman, Vallabha Ācārya. He was very much devotee of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He wrote one comment on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Subodhinī-tīkā, it is called. That is recognized, nice tīkā, comment.

But he approached Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He was very great devotee of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So he simply said that “Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Caitanya, if You hear my comment on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, You’ll find it is far better than Śrīdhara Svāmī’s.”

Śrīdhara Svāmī is the very old commentator.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately rejected: “Oh, you are claiming that you have written something better than Śrīdhara Svāmī?” He chastised him. Svāmī means another… He sarcastically remarked, the word svāmī, Śrīdhara Swami, svāmī, another svāmī means “husband.” So He said, svāmī jīva nahi mane besa bali guni:

“I think one who does not recognize svāmī, he’s a prostitute.” He immediately said.

“You do not recognize Śrīdhara Svāmī, then you are a prostitute.

How can I hear from a prostitute?” He refused. Only word, that “I have written better than Svāmī.” So this is the process of guru. You cannot disobey the previous ācārya or guru. No. You have to repeat the same thing. Not research. Sometimes rascals come, that “You are speaking the same thing. Why don’t you speak something new by research work?” We say that we have no intelligence, we cannot make any research. We are… Guru more mūrkha dekhi koriyā vicāra.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that “My Guru Mahārāja saw Me a great

fool number one.” So one who remains a great fool number one

before his guru, he is guru. And one who says that “I’m advanced so much that I can speak better than my guru,” then he’s rascal.

This is the process.

 

evam paramparā-prāptam

imam rājarsayo viduh

sa kāleneha mahatā

yogo nastah parantapa

[bg. 4.2]

 

Lecture: What is a Guru?

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

London, August 22, 1973