Not attracted to going outside for so-called spiritual enlivenment

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Journal of a Prabhupada Man, Entry #4

By Sankarshan Das Adhikari

July 27, 2003—Austin, Texas USA

 

"Take the Management"

 

Today, while I was preparing to give the Sunday feast lecture at ISKCON's Austin Hare Krishna center, I was listening to a Srila Prabhupada lecture tape. I was hearing the same lecture that I've been hearing again and again for many weeks, but today I heard something I had never noticed before, and the potency of it has left me amazed for hours.

 

Here is the concluding paragraph of that lecture, which was given by His Divine Grace in Bombay on March 21, 1974.

 

"So let us take advantage of Krishna's coming here, leaving behind Him this Bhagavad-gita, and read it perfectly, and make your life perfect. That is Krishna consciousness movement. It is not a bogus movement. It is a most scientific movement. So outside India, these Europeans, Americans, they are taking advantage of it. Why not these Indian youths? What is the wrong there? This is not good. Let us join together, start this Krishna consciousness movement very seriously, and deliver this suffering humanity. That is our purpose. They are suffering for want of knowledge. Everything is there, complete. Simply by mismanagement... Simply by the... It is being managed by the rogues and thieves. Take. You become perfect in Krishna consciousness and take the management and make your life successful."

 

What jumped out of the cassette player and astounded me was Srila Prabhupada's statement "Take the management." He's speaking here of the entire material society, that it is being mismanaged by rogues and thieves and therefore plunged into a suffering condition. Srila Prabhupada is instructing us to take the management, to become the guiding authorities for the entire world population.

 

What a broad vision Srila Prabhupada has for this Krishna consciousness movement! What a broad vision we must also have as his followers! We are meant to manage the entire human society by the enlightened guidance so systemically, carefully, and lovingly presented in Srila Prabhupada's books.

 

Many of our devotees and members have lost their faith in ISKCON as being an institution that can lead the world out of chaos. They have seen so many chaotic things happening within ISKCON since Srila Prabhupada departed from this planet in November 1977 that they don't consider ISKCON to still be a world-class, world-leading institution.

 

But the fact remains that Srila Prabhupada's potency is just as powerful now as it was when he was physically here with us on this planet. For those who are holding tight to his orders with firm faith and conviction, he is indeed still here. For such devotees, Srila Prabhupada has never left. Such devotees are feeling fully sheltered and protected by the divine presence of Srila Prabhupada and are not attracted to going outside of ISKCON for so-called spiritual enlivenment. Such devotees read Srila Prabhupada's purports and understand fully well what truth is, what untruth is, what Srila Prabhupada wants, and what he does not want. They are not misled by any kind of deviant philosophy that is being currently propagated in the name of Srila Prabhupada.

 

I spoke this evening on the simple comparison given in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 6, between the astanga yoga system and the bhakti yoga system. Even though I have no personal qualifications to represent Srila Prabhupada and his teachings, I am amazed to see how by his divine blessings the parampara presentation of this philosophy can be so perfect, so enlivening, and so potent even from the mouth of someone who was never a great speaker.

 

In this way, I happily pass my days reading, chanting, and preaching with the full conviction that very soon this Krishna consciousness movement will lead the world out chaos. I pray to see it fully manifested within my lifetime.

 

param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam All glories to Sri Krishna sankirtana!

 

Contact info: sda@backtohome.com

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International

Society for

Krsna

CONsciousness

 

if there's krsna consciousness there's IskCon, if not it is only a label or a brand

[Guest guest]

<<Srila Prabhupada is instructing us to take the management, to become the guiding authorities for the entire world population. >>

 

and how to become a guiding authority?

 

of all the people, who needs most guidance?

answer: the victims of the invaded ideology in india.

 

iraqis need guidance in preparing them how to fight dictators and butchers like saddam. they could not fight saddam, and now US fought for them. The when US tries to train them how to become powerful against any dictator/butcher, they are not even fighting the saddamis.

 

to manage is to control.

the asuras in inda need to be controlled and asuric ideology needs to be taken out of india.

 

dhotis, mridangams and cymbals cannot conrol granades and ak-47's of the asuras. brahmans are need to train and produce kshatriyas.

 

drona was a brahmana, but tookup kshatriya work also.

same for chanakya pandit.

 

one can take up any varna's duty as time demands.

it has to be done for krishna.

 

jai sri krishna!

 

[Guest guest]

krsna integralism?

 

no thanks!!!!!!

 

(start to chant hare krsna without offences under the guide of a pure vaishnava guru... varnashrama will follow)

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There has never been a better time than now to go over and join the gaudiya math !!!

[Govindaram]

dhotis, mridangams and cymbals <font color="red"> cannot conrol </font color> granades and ak-47's of the asuras. brahmans are need to train and produce kshatriyas.

 

 

Yeah but Vedic mantra's can. /images/graemlins/smile.gif, plus we are not in Dwapara Yuga where we can go around on a killing spree (however fun that may sound /images/graemlins/crazy.gif), we need to teach people from the very beggining about Krishna, Lord Chaitanya's Mission CANNOT FAIL EVER!!! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

<font color="blue">O </font color> <font color="green"> Mind </font color> <font color="red"> Just </font color> <font color="orange">Worship </font color> <font color="black"> Krsna </font color>

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

<<Yeah but Vedic mantra's can. >>

 

not in this times.

the whole congration was chanting in a temple in gujarat,

and the terrorist struck killing many chanters.

 

have you tried going to pakistan, where they train terrorists, and chant to make them krishna devotees?

 

chanting makes you non aggresive, sure.

it cannot stop you from becoming a victim of aggressors.

a hindu will not attack a chanter, a muslim will.

 

if you have seen evidence contrary to this, please share with specifics. if it works, bush will send chanters in afghanistan and iraq. see, he does not want any one get killed. alternatively, why not make a offer to bush to win a war by chanting?

 

jai sri krishna!

 

[yasodanandana]

Gaudya Madhva Vaishnava Sampradaya is a brahminic school

 

if anyone wants to fight or to learn fighting there are army and police

 

where's the problem?

 

if you have this attitude go and fight legally, why mix brahmana with ksatrya?

[stonehearted]

"Guest" (madhav?): dhotis, mridangams and cymbals cannot conrol granades and ak-47's of the asuras. brahmans are need to train and produce kshatriyas.

 

Look, pal--your posts are off topic and you're deliberately trying to hijack every thread. If you're not careful, I'll ask the administrators to shut you out.

 

My advice: go preach to your fellow Hindutva fanatics and leave us alone.

 

Even better advice:

 

Just chant HKHKKKHH, HRHRRRHH and try to be happy. Get the hell out of this place, Jack. It's not fit for decent folks.

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Deep philisophical truths

 

the conclusions of our guru varga

 

the siddhantas of our sampradhaya steming from Mahaprabhu

 

what we have learned from Sri Bhagavata

 

and applied in our daily life :

 

This should be discussed here in these most sacred

 

cyberspaces entitled SPIRITUAL discussions of Audarya

 

Fellowship.

 

I support your position to keep these posts free of hindu fanatics.