Lance Armstrong: Among The cheaters & cheated

Back in 2005 news outlet L'Équipe reported that Lance Armstong used performance enhancing drugs to win previous Tour De France bicycle races. And now the latest is that he may have not only used these drugs but he may have also been pushing them to others as well.

Every conditioned living entity in this material world has four defects. They are sure to: 1) commit mistakes, 2) become illusioned, 3) have imperfect senses, and 4) to cheat others. Out of these four, the cheating propensity is the most prominent. This is because the conditioned soul's are trying to become "the Lord of all that I survey". In this way there is war and fierce competition to become "Number One". In this day and age practically everyone is cheating and being cheated. The famous politician from 200 BC India, Chanakya Pandit, once said that in order to head off being cheated, one must also inevitably cheat the cheater. And so goes the dog eat dog world known as the "Rat Race".

Our government's educational institutions are cheating its citizens into thinking that they can climb the latter of material life and rise "to the top", but those same leaders who are "at the top" are also victims of conditional life. The leaders as well as the everyday man, are all conditioned by nature's laws; repeated birth, death, desease, and old age.

Why is one man born rich, while another man is born poor? Why are there babies born with birth defects? It is because they are conditioned to nature's law of Karma, the law of "activities" or "action and reaction". It is stated in the Eighth chapter of the Bagavad-Gita As It Is "yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram", "Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail" and henceforth there is birth, death, disease, and old age and than again it is repeated. It is stated in the Vedic literature that there are 8,400,000 different types of bodies that the soul can take. Each one is trying to lord it over the other, trying to become dominant, trying to cheat the other. And so much energy is being waisted in cheating and being cheated. 

The Vedic literature recommends that one break free from this conditioned life by finding a person who is not conditioned. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam (11th canto, 3rd chapter, verse 21) it is stated, "tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam", “One who is inquisitive to understand the highest goal and benefit of life must approach a bona fide spiritual master and surrender unto him.” It is also stated in the Bhagavad-Gita in the 4th Chapter, verse 34, "tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā..." "Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth." 

It is understood that because the spiritual master is liberated from this repeated cycle of nature's laws (Samsara), that he can impart perfect knowledge unto the conditioned souls. And this is done because the bona fide Spiritual Master is following the "perfect person" or the Maha Purusha. 

Who is that perfect person? The Vedas state that the perfect person has six opulences; 1) He is the richest, 2) He is the most powerful, 3) He is the most famous, 4) He is the most beautiful, 5) He is the greatest in knowledge, and 6) He is the greatest renouncer. It is stated that one who has these 6 opulences in full, he is God, or Krishna. 

The Vedic knowledge comes directly from the Maha Purusha, Krishna, by way of succeeding disciples who are fully considered liberated persons. Krishna Himself says in the 4th chapter of the Bhagavad-Gita, "imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam" , "I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku." This disciplic succession today is being carried on by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his disciples. 

The Paleo Diet & Darwin's Stolen Theory of Evolution

Gadadhara Das: It is baffling to see how thin the research of Walter L. Voegtlin was, the man who started the idea of eating "meat" to get healthy ("The Paleo Diet"). The idea behind the diet is that man at one time was a "caveman" and hunted according to where he lived and therefore some how he was more healthy. And some how that "cave man" evolved into an intelligent human being because of his "so called" healthy eating habits. There are so many holes in his research, but the most striking is his assumption that we humans were even cave men at all. Not to say that there were not cave men, even in todays world you can find them, the play foot ball for a living! But seriously, there is so much evidence that man is much much older than 10,000 years. The Vedas (Ancient texts) of India tell of ancient civilizations that were far more advanced in technology then is available in our world today.  Check out Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race  .  Of coarse the whole basis of The Paleo Diet comes out of the "theory" that we evolved from apes. There is no bases for this idea. It has actually never been proven even by so called modern science.

Modern archeologist would be much benefited to know a simple concept that their "imperfect senses" are not able to create "perfect instruments" to test these time tables and recreate even facial and bone structures for man to look like the so called ape-cave-people. There is far more factual evidence that point to highly intelligent human beings from over hundreds of thousands of years ago who ate a diet of vegetables, grains, seeds, and milk products: these are the type of people who created advanced technology like the atom bomb or air planes (thousands of years before the modern scientist even thought of it).

Check out the book Forbidden Archology, he shows much evidence for humans existing for billions of years. There is much more evidence that suggests that instead of man evolving from apes, man is devolving into animal life. Just a practical example is modern language; ebonics, the loss of important and meaningful words, intellectual power. The movie "idiocracy" (2006) is a sad but true account of the way civilization is headed.

Edson Bobadilla: Gadadhara Das haha, seriously? I am pretty sure the theory of evolution is as solid as understanding how to dial 911. I am not so sure you fully understand its relevance to human evolution as primate. You did not evolve yesterday. It's a process that takes millions of years. Also, language and the fact that we are slaves to a social system doesn't coincide with intellect.

Gadadhara Das: ‎@Edson Bobadilla: Thanks for reading my comment. :)  Understanding how to dial 911 is a "factual" understanding, not a "theoretical" understanding. A theory is not a fact. A Theory is only "an analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another." Those facts when put together may not always constitute a whole fact. Theories that have been proven wrong include : Spontaneous Generation Theory, Laplacian Evolution, The Age of The Earth, and Aristotle's Theory of Dynamic Motion.

When you realize that the soul and the body are not the same, then Darwin's theory of Evolution is shot to the ground. The body DOES change, or "evolve" (if you will) in a life time. It is a completely different body. For instance, you do not have the same body that you had when you were a small child, but you are the same person. Darwin's theory of evolving from Apes doesn't hold up because there is no consideration of tracing out the soul's role in the evolution. But a human evolving from a Child to a Man does hold up. It holds up as "fact". It is a very easy concept and can be easily understood by looking at some photos of yourself when you were a child.

The whole social system is based on this theory that "you" are "the body" and its no coincidence that Darwin's theory is the apex of modern thinking. But where do we find that the body and the soul are the same? What makes a dead body a "dead body"? The logical explanation of a Dead Body is that there is no "soul" in it to make it "alive". Life comes from "life". Life doesn't come from "dead matter" as Darwin's "theory" suggests. The body is only made of organic matter; certain compounds put in a complex manner together. So why cant the modern scientist create a "living" body out of "dead matter"? They have all the compounds and matter. They have all the elements. Everything is available to them. But they can not create "life" or anything that can "grow". Anything that they can manipulate has already been living at one time. Darwin's "theory" says that man evolved from Apes, but if this is so, where did the Apes come from? And another question is "Why are there still Apes?" if we evolved from them? Even the "theory" of "natural selection" with in the "evolution" theory is very thin on information. How does the nature "work" on selecting the "fit" to "survive" and then "evolve"? Where do the superior "skills" of the evolving animal come from? Where does the superior "intelligence" come from? These things are not explained by Darwin and his theory.

Darwin actually got a vuage idea for his "theory" of evolution from the Vedic idea of evolution. But only part of the whole information. The Vedas state that there is an evolution of the soul from one body to another, just like I mentioned that a Child evolves into an Old Man in a life time. In the second chapter of the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Macmillan ed. 1972, it is stated: "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death". And in the 15th Chapter "The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas." I recommend reading "Life Comes From Life" available here:http://tinyurl.com/8xup5nl . Also check out Forbidden Archology if you are interested in archeological history.

The Pin Prick And Social Unrest

The growing social unrest of the 99% (in America) and 147% (Russia) and protests in other parts of the world is a symptom of a failed social structure. No modern ideal concerning the social body of the world will save the unrest; not improved capitalism, not communism, not socialism, or democracy or even monarchy can ease the unrest of the social body. The "pin prick" in the structure at large is precisely the walls and barriers separating all masses of people.

The idea of a "one nation" with a common cause will heal this "pin prick". This common cause is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam in the first verse and aphorism of the Vedanta philosophy, janmady asya yatah (Srimad-bhagavatam 1.1.1) and establishes the ideal of the common cause.

The disparity of the current human social structures is that they have become Godless and lack any principles to fill their needs. Every single human being in the social structures at large have been trained and encouraged by the past failed social structures of Monarchy, Capitalism, Democracy, Communism and even the social influences of religions like Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Bhuddism.

The world society has been encouraged to compete with each other to become "the Lord of all I survey"; to dominate and manipulate the weaker citizens, and to create their personal and unique identity in geographical limits. This is actually the natural inclination of the human living being, but if the "why" is not understood and the principles to harness this tendency are not in place, then chaos and social unrest will rain, as we see is the situation in the world today.

Every living entity in all of civilization (and even the animal kingdom) is made of energy and is encased in a particular body according to their particular flavor of inclination to dominate. That certain spirit energy is identified in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as Bhraman (or the soul) and the body is only a material manifestation. The body does not work unless the spirit soul is present. A "body" does not work with out the spirit soul because the body is only made of matter (blood, bone, flesh, and bile) and the spirit is the actual source of function in the body. It is with this knowledge that one can begin to understand how to amend the social unrest of the world and create a peaceful structure and environment for the social body.

The citizens in this material world misidentify themselves in that they think that they ARE their bodies. But just like an airplane does not run by itself, there is a pilot who operates it, similarly the spirit soul operates the body. The citizen thinks "I am American", or "I am Chinese", or "I am a Black man", "a White man", "I am Bhuddist", "I am Christian". But these are false identities and false designations that create the very walls and barriers that separate the masses of people from their natural, boarder-less, peaceful, united, common cause. The words used in the Srimad-Bhagavatam are "AHM BRAMASMI", or "I AM PURE SPIRIT SOUL".

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The Lord Chaitanya Spring Festival

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT/PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – FEB. 20TH, 2011
WHAT: “The Lord Chaitanya Spring Festival & Parade”
WHERE: Telegraph Ave/People's Park
WHEN: SUNDAY March 20th 2011 at 11AM

CONTACT:
Gadadhara das
ISKCON B.A. INC.
2334 Stuart St
Berkeley, CA 94705
Phone: 510-863-4711

ISKCON of the Bay Area Inc, a non-profit organization, presents the “Lord Chaitanya Spring Festival & Parade” on Sunday at 11:00a.m. in Berkeley, CA.

FREE ADMISSION!

Berkeley, CA- FEB. 25TH 2011

The Lord Chaitanya Spring Festival and Parade will start at Stuart Street and Telegraph Ave in Berkeley, CA and proceed toPeople's Park for MUSIC, FOOD, EXHIBITS, GIFTS, AND A FREE VEGETARIAN CUISINE and much more! The parade will feature large floats, dancing, and music. Bring your funky hats and colorful attire !

We invite everyone to bring their family and friends to experience this extraordinary event, enjoy the sumptuous Vegetarian feast, and have fun in the parade. This festival is wheel chair accessible and family friendly. No drugs or alcohol will be permitted.

Information: http://www.lordchaitanyafestival.org
CONTACT: Gadadhara das
Phone: 510-863-4711
email: lordchaitanyafestival@gmail.com

The Secret Love Of Godhead

According to the authorized Vedas, the top most "knowledge" available is considered to be "confidential" and the "secret of all secrets".  It says in the ninth chapter second verse of Bhagavad-gita, rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ pavitram idam uttamam, "this knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed."(Bhagavad-gita 9.2) But, is it not a contradiction that it is considered confidential, secret, and exclusive; yet this knowledge is publicly available in practically any part of the world just by reading the Bhagavad-gita?

Krishna says in chapter 13 of the Gita, iti kṣetraṁ tathā jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ coktaṁ samāsataḥ mad-bhakta etad vijñāya mad-bhāvāyopapadyate "Thus the field of activities [the body], knowledge, and the knowable have been summarily described by Me. Only My devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain to My nature." This is a principle of confidentiality and this same principle is seen in all walks of life and in any social structure; business, pleasure, family, politics etc. Supposing you run into the bureaucratic red tape of State Government and cant get what you need done. But if you befriended the head man, "The Governor", and you gained his "confidence" he can help you. He can make a few calls, he give you "the keys" to the State. By any loving, reciprocal, confidential relationship all is possible. This principle is the basis of even the Mafia. The Mafia works on love and trust. As soon as the trust is broken, then you are out. You are dead. When all "confidence" is reached then all secrets are revealed. But when all confidence is broken then nothing will work, chaos begins.

Confidence is gained only by service to another. A boy meets a girl and he offers her a flower. She is impressed by his devotion. A politician serves the country. The country reciprocates by election. Service to another is unavoidable. It is a universal law. Man serves his wife, wife her husband. A man serves dog, dog serves man. Worker serves the employer, the employer serves his girlfriend. The School Master serves the teachers and the students serve the teacher and the teacher serves the students and the teacher also serves the School Master so on.

The Bhagavad-gita says bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ tato māṁ tattvato jñātvā viśate tad-anantaram

"One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God."(BG18.55)

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is never understood by mental speculation, erudite scholarship, or even practicing spiritual Godly rituals. In other words one can read this knowledge and still not understand its meaning even if he has material intelligence. The secrets will not be revealed. That is why it is confidential. The Supreme Lord  is only understood by devotional service. Those who are envious can not understand this confidential knowledge. Lord Kapiladeva says in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, naitat khalāyopadiśen nāvinītāya karhicit na stabdhāya "This instruction is not meant for the envious, for the agnostics or for persons who are unclean in their behavior. Nor is it for hypocrites or for persons who are proud of material possessions." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.32.39) 

Enviousness is the bases of all fighting; the Hindus are fighting the Muslims, North Koreans against the South, Democracy against Communism; they are all fighting because everyone is trying to Lord it over the material nature, they are trying to lord it over others, and they are envious of the Supreme Lord who is the actual controller of all material nature and who directs the wanderings of all living beings. 

Therefore it is recommended to give up envy and become humble and in this way one can begin devotional service. Lord Caitanya Maha Prabhu, says  tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā [Cc. adi 17.31]. “One should think of oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and should be ready to offer all respect to others, in such a state of mind one can chant the Holy Names constantly." By chanting the Maha Mantra "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare" one is chanting "Oh Lord please engage me in your devotional service". 

When this mantra is chanted an immediate transmission takes place. It is like the radio waves when the radio is turned on, the signal is transmitting from the tower. Chanting is like turning on the two way radio of transcendental communication with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna. And the more one chants, the stronger the connection gets and the more this confidential knowledge becomes revealed.

Dear Tom Shadyac Dont Waist Money

Dear Tom Shadyac,
I read on Perez Hilton's blog that you have decided to renounce material life, sold your mansion, luxurious possessions, and moved into a trailer park. It is very rare thing that a celebrity like yourself is able to come to this conclusion. Material life is in deed a miserable condition of life. It is miserable for us because we are made of eternal spirit and when mater and spirit come together, an incompatible situation arrises .


Everyone of us is trying to Lord it over the material nature; but the harder one tries, the more and more entangled they become. Every entity is suffering in this material world in whatever condition they are in. Wether a king or ruler of a country, or a dog on the street, every entity must be subject to these four undeniable miseries; birth, disease, old age, and death.


Material life is like being thrown into the ocean; one maybe a very expert at swimming, but it is not a natural condition, eventually the expert swimmer will become tired and if he doesnt keep swimming he will drowned. This is our condition, we are drowning in the ocean of material existance. Therefore intelligent persons who are fed up with material life, they will ask "from where did I come? Why am I put into this miserable condition, and where will I go at death?" I do not want to get diseased but disease comes to me anyways. I do not want to die but death comes. I will get old, why is old age coming? Why are these things being forced on me?


Krishna says in Chapter Two of the Bhgavad-gita, "Na tv evaham jatu nasam, na tvam janadhipah..." , "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings, nor in the future shall there be a time when we cease to be." We are eternal spirit souls. Once we were in the body of young children, then young adults, then old persons. The material body keeps changing; boyhood, youth, old age, but the soul remains the same. Once we were had the body of a 1 year old child, 1 foot tall; then 20 years later we find ourselves in a different larger taller body. Krishna again says in the Bhagavad-gita , "yam yam vapi smaran bhavan" "whatever state of being one remembers at the time of death, that state of being he will attain without fail." And in another verse in the Bhagavad-gita, "As the embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death, the self realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." So how to get out of this entanglement of material existence? The soul is covered by two immediate coverings; the mind and the false ego. Because of these coverings we have become conditioned. Our business should be to become free from these coverings.
Everyone is thinking that they belong to a particular nation or country or body; I am American, I am English, I am French, Italian, German, Black, White, Chinese, Swedish and so on. But we have nothing to do with these designations, these are falsehoods. We are not these bodies. We are simply the spirit soul runs the body. Just like a man who drives a car, the car is useless with out the man to drive it. Similarly the body is useless with out the soul. With out the soul, the body is a dead body.


Our mind is wandering here and there aimlessly serving the needs of our senses. Our false ego shapes our actions according to the bodily identification. To break free from this, it is recommended by all spiritual Vedic authorities that the chanting of the Maha Mantra will free the mind from material discomfort. Maha means "great", mana means "mind", and tra means "to deliver". So the Maha Mantra means "the great chanting for deliverance of the mind." The Maha Mantra is: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Our mind is like a kite. A kite flier out on the field gets mesmerized by the focal point of the kite flying in the sky and forgets about the landscape in front of him. If he is too concentrated and mesmerized by the kite, he may run or walk into a ditch or get entangled in a bush or tree. Because we are not the mind, relief from its wanderings is necessary to keep one in a sane condition. If a man can not at all control his mind, then he is considered a madman, or crazy person.


This Maha Mantra is not an artificial yoga technique. It springs from the spiritual realm and pierces through the intelligence, mind, and false ego and enters straight into the heart for relief of our material conditioning. Hearing this mantra from the lips of a pure devotee of the Lord is recommended so that the immediate effect can be taken. Please try chanting this mantra. You will find that it is refreshing and that the more you chant, the more peaceful you will feel. When calling out the word "Hare", one is addressing God's energy. Krishna is another name for God, it translates as "the all attractive one", and "Rama" means the Supreme Pleasure. When combined in this special 16 verse mantra, the connection between Krishna and the reciter is immediately conducted. Just as if a cell phone connects to a tower or a computer to a wifi signal. The more you chant this mantra, the more enthusiastic you will become, the more peaceful you will be, and the more pleasure you will feel.


Getting relief from this material existence, doesn't require to throw anything away or give anything away. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita 5.29, Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam, sarva loka mahesvaram, "The sages, knowing Me as the ultamate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries." In other words Krishna is the owner of everything, therefore one should use all material possessions in the service of the Lord. If we use everything for Krishna, then all these material objects will become spiritualized and our life will become become peaceful, fulfilling, satisfied and successful or Krishna'ized. They are not "our" objects or possessions, they are Krishna's. It is not our money, it is Krishna's money. We are not the owner of anything. So please try this Maha Mantra and use everything that Krishna has given you in His service and you uncover your lost relationship with Him.


Sincerely,
Gadadhara das

The Decline of Money For Capitalism Means Failure

Journalist: Do you think modern man must mend his ways or he will… he must get better and know God or he will destroy himself?

Prabhupada: Yes, he is destroying already. The society is not in stable stage. Just like in America, they are also in trouble now. They are asking money from the federal government. They cannot make solution. So as soon as the monetary source will decline, this civilization will be finished.

Journalist: As soon as the money declines.

Prabhupada: Yes. Because there is no culture. They are not standing on culture. They are standing on money.

Journalist: You think we pay too much importance to money?

Prabhupada: Yes, everybody, yes. They do not know what is culture of life. They simply want money, that’s all.

Journalist: Do you think we have too much for our needs?

Prabhupada: You are creating your needs. You are not too much in need, but you have created so many artificial needs.

Journalist: Such as what?

Prabhupada: Everything. Suppose this boy is sitting down. Now I am sitting in a very nice couch. So it is not absolutely necessary that couch is required. But for getting this couch, we had to spend so much energy. So similarly, unnecessarily we have created so many things and going on.

That I was going to say, that we come to the human form of life by nature’s way. Now what is our duty? Our duty is to make further progress. But instead of going further progressively we are again going to become monkeys and dogs. This is our position.

Journalist: What about other artifacts of civilization like television and motorcars…

Prabhupada: Yes, it is very good, just like we also use motorcar, but not for fashion. Suppose if we go for preaching. If we can go by car quickly, we take advantage of the car. We have got many cars for preaching work. So everything is good, provided it is used for progressive goodness. (coughs) That our mistake is that when… Now listen, there is the mistake in Darwin’s theory also.

He has no information that the evolution is taking place, of the body, by the desire of the soul. That he does not know. Just like sometimes people were happy and living in a small cottage. Now they are making big, big skyscraper building. So what is the difference? The cottage and this… The cottage is not becoming the skyscraper building but the man who was living in the cottage, by his desire the skyscraper building is coming. Similarly the evolution means the soul within the body desires a certain type of body and he gets it. Not that the monkey body has developed into human body.

But the soul within the monkey’s body desired a human body, and he has got it. This is the process of evolution. The Darwin’s theory, this knowledge is lacking. If he is thinking that the cottage has become big skyscraper building, that is not the fact. The owner of the cottage desired to have a skyscraper building, therefore he, from the cottage he transferred to the skyscraper building. It is due to the owners.

Journalist: In that case, if we go on developing, we stay in the skyscraper, or the skyscraper gets bigger.

Prabhupada: Yes. The skyscraper is not impediment, it is not impediment. If you remain in the skyscraper and develop your spiritual consciousness, you can do that. But the unfortunate thing is that we are too much absorbed in constructing the skyscraper building, forgetting our real business. That is the defect.

Journalist: What about sex and drugs, sex and alcohol.

Prabhupada: Sex, yes, alcohol, we condemn any kind of intoxication, all our students are forbidden illicit sex. We don’t say, “No sex,” but “illicit sex,” we forbid. Similarly we forbid meat-eating. We don’t say that “Don’t eat,” we simply say that “don’t eat meat.” You can eat other things, just like we are eating so many nice things.

Journalist: Why not meat?

Prabhupada: Because it is sinful, you are killing all animals. Your Christian religion says, “Thou shalt not kill.” Why you are killing?

Journalist: Yes. How many followers do you have throughout the world now?

Prabhupada: No, throughout the world, in India everyone is Krsna conscious. In the outside India we have got about ten to twelve thousand dedicated followers.

Journalist: Do you mean every, the whole of India is Krsna conscious?

Prabhupada: Yes. Krsna consciousness, they know what is Krsna.

Journalist: But how many of them practice it?

Prabhupada: How many millions? Still, if you hold any Krsna conscious meeting, they will come by thousands, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, like that. Even village to village, if there is any chance of Krsna conscious meeting, all the villagers will come, still.

Journalist: How many years has Krsna consciousness…

Prabhupada: That I told you, according to the modern history, Krsna consciousness movement is there since five thousand years.

Journalist: Nine thousand years.

Prabhupada: Five thousand.

Journalist: Five thousand years.

Prabhupada: Mm. And before that there was Krsna consciousness movement also and that date is… (end)

[Conversation with Srila Prabhupada: May 19, 1975, Melbourne]

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And Ten Years After, Another Rascal Will Come

BY: APRAKRITA DASA

Oct 14, 2010 — MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA (SUN) — Below is the last part of one Srimad Bhagavatam lecture given by Srila Prabhupada on how Vedic knowledge is received. It is NEVER changed down through time, otherwise it loses its inherent authority. Some present day so-called followers of Srila Prabhupada think otherwise, and therefore what they produce is flawed from the inception of their endeavors. Hare Krishna
Srila Prabhupada’s Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam
Los Angeles, September 20, 1972
Now we have to accept knowledge from Vedas, Vedic knowledge, not this rascal’s knowledge. Rascal knowledge is that “Yes,” as soon as he comes to the imperfect point, “yes, we are trying.” You are trying. What is this trying? Trying means that your knowledge is imperfect. And another rascal will come, he will say, “Now here is the perfect.”

And ten years after, another rascal will come,” No, this is not perfect. This is perfect.” This is going on. This is called scientific advancement. This is… Advancement means… But we don’t change our Vedic knowledge. We do not say, “Now, Krishna, five thousand years ago, said like this. Now we are advanced. We change this line.” Of course, others are doing. In the scriptures… Just like the Christians, they are changing the words.
But you cannot do that. Then where is the authority? If you change the word of the scripture, then where is the authority of the scripture? Just like in lawbooks, there is some law made already. Whimsically you cannot, I mean to say, erase the words and put something that “It should be changed like this.” That will not be accepted. Law, if there is change… Actually, there is no change.
There cannot be change. Real law means there is no change. Just like day and night, it is coming. The fortnight, the dark period and the light period, it is coming for millions and millions and time immemorial. The same law is going, going on. You cannot change. So as soon as you change, that means it is imperfect.
You change. So Vedic laws are not like that. You cannot change. Five thousand years ago Krishna said, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: “You give up all other religious principles. Simply surrender unto Me.” We are preaching the same thing. No change. No change. There is no possibility of change.
Then how Krishna is authority? So change means imperfect knowledge. This very change. And perfect knowledge… You will find that one who is very experienced medical practitioner, he gives you a prescription, and you visit him again and again, he gives you the same prescription unless you are cured. His prescription is so nice that he doesn’t change.
But a non-experienced physician, every time you go, he will change the prescription. But actually, those who are experienced, he knows “This is the disease, and ultimately this medicine will cure. So let him repeat that medicine.” So our is that platform. Harer nama harer nama harer namaiva kevalam. We repeat only.
We don’t change: “Now harinama is not curing so let me add, instead of Hare Krishna, ‘John Krishna,’ if I may.” No. No “John Krishna.” (laughter) That same Hare Krishna must be repeated. And you will be cured. So change means imperfect knowledge. No change means that is perfect knowledge. So we follow that no change policy. No, not that because I think I have become now advanced, I change this to that. That mean I am not advanced. My knowledge is imperfect. Therefore I am changing.

Singularity controlled by laws of nature

FROM Hansadutta.com: Singularity controlled by laws of nature

Nature's laws undefeated

excerpt from Renunciation Through Wisdom

Millennia ago the Bhagavad-gita comprehensively discussed the same topic the editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika writes about in a despondent mood: "If one kind of trouble goes, another quickly follows." In the Gita (7.14) Lord Krishna says, "This divine energy of mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome." The Sanskrit words daivi maya used here can be translated into modern terms as "nature's law." This natural law is so stringent that it is impossible to overcome it, in spite of our prolific articles in the newspapers or our big conferences tabling motions that run into volumes. Our advanced technological and scientific efforts aimed at protecting us from the clutches of nature's law are futile because they are all controlled by the very same nature's law, or daivi maya. Therefore trying to utilize mundane science to overpower nature's law is like creating a Frankenstein. Efforts to extirpate human suffering through advanced technology and bring about lasting happiness have brought us to the Atomic Age. Western thinkers have become gravely concerned about the extent of destruction an atomic explosion can cause. Some leaders are trying to calm the alarm with platitudes about how atomic energy is to be used solely for peaceful purposes, but this is another form of deception caused by daivi maya, or nature's law.

The Invention of Religion

By Gadadhara das
There are so many religions! Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and on and on and on.

Dictionary.com gives these two definitions:

re·li·gion
–noun
1.a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

2.a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.


Religion is based on some interpretation of laws that man should follow. These laws "govern human affairs". But religion doesn't necessarily have anything to do with God in a practical sense. Lets take an example of the government. The government creates laws for its citizens to follow. Following these laws are the "religion" of the government's citizens. But the government doesn't always know what is good for the people. So the laws are always changing. One day its illegal to smoke pot, the next day its legal. There is always some unrest and fighting over what should be the law.

Nonetheless, if you break these laws while they are set, everyone agrees that you have to pay a price. You will get a fine or go to jail. In this case how could there be different "religions" for the government's citizens? There can not! There would be a huge conflict. If everyone had a different religion in following their government there would be simply complete chaos and fighting! There simply can not be different conflicting laws for a government's citizens at one time.

And for this reason Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, 18.66 that one should give up these different religions. They are useless. There is no need for a man made religion. The idea of religion comes from the word dharma. But it has a different meaning. Dharma is not religion. Dharma is the natural tendency to serve and become happy with that service. Dharma is a characteristic, like sugar. The characteristic of sugar is "sweet". The characteristic of Salt is "salty". The only way for one to stop hunger is if the hand to puts food into the mouth. The hand can not feed itself and expect the stomach to be happy. The hand must put the food into the mouth and then it goes to the stomach. This is a law for the body. It is the dharma or characteristic of all of the parts of the body to obey the orders of the brain. The brain gets a hunger signal then immediately the rest of the body facilitates the needs of the stomach. This is how the entire body works. This is the characteristic of the body

This idea of happiness in service is illustrated everywhere. Man knows that he will have to perform some kind of service in order to get what he wants and he is always engaged in some service. What the man "wants" will not necessarily bring him happiness, but the idea of serving to get something is a fundamental law. The masses of people in all walks of life are serving some person. The worker services his boss, the husband serves his wife, the wife serves her husband, the parent serves the child, the child serves his parents, the tenant serves his land lord, the land lord serves his government by paying taxes, the government serves the people and so on. The people receiving the service, they are like Gods. The the Boss is God to the worker, until of coarse the worker is off work then the God changes to someone else; the girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife or the child or someone. But this principle is always there. Someone is serving some God to get something in return.

The intelligent man will search for the richest man to work for because he knows that this rich man will have the money to pay him. And if the intelligent man befriends the rich man, there are so many benefits. It is stated in the Vedas that one should seek out richest, the most powerful, the most famous,  the most beautiful, the greatest in knowledge, and the greatest renouncer. One should seek out this person and serve him and by doing so he will receive confidential knowledge. Just like if one knows the Mayor of the city, there are may perks. He tell you what not to do and what to do to get what you need in the city. He will tell you because you know him and hes your friend. This type of knowledge is confidential. It is stated in the Srimad-bhagavatam, "jñānaṁ parama-guhyaṁ me..." "The knowledge of the self and the Supreme Self is very confidential and mysterious, being veiled by māyā (illusion), but such knowledge and specific realization can be understood if it is explained by the Lord Himself."

A Tip For Ahmadinejad, Who Slams The Jewish State

By Gadadhara das. Berkeley, CA

A Tip For Ahmadinejad, Who Slams The Jewish State

All the problems of the world come down to one factor. Its the "IAM FACTOR" the idea that I AM Muslim, I AM Christian, I am American, I am a man, I am a woman, I am a business man, I am a politician, I am poor, I am rich, I am gay, I am straight, i am Hindu, I am a Jew. The I AM factor is insanity.

The IAM factor is only applicable to this sentence "I AM NOT THIS BODY, I AM THE SOUL THAT RUNS THIS BODY". As long as the people think that they are their body and they identify with these IAM bodily designations, there can never be harmony in the world.

John Lennon wrote, Imagine "no religion too", and who can blame him. Religions invoke Godless people who divide instead of unify. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, "Sarva Dharman Parityajya Mam Ekam Shranam Vraja” He says, Abandon all varieties of these religions and surrender on to Me. I will help you do not fear. Krishna says just give up these different religions or dharmas and just surrender on to Him and he will give you everything you need. And this is not a Hindu idea. This is a fact, the animals do not go to school, they dont go to church, they don't need money. Krishna takes care of EVERYTHING for them and Krishna takes care of everything for the human being as well.

The ruler of a Country has a great responsibly to see that the country's citizens are taken care of; that they are advancing away from an animal existence and that Absolute knowledge is available to them. The Vedas enjoin that there are four classes of men or Varnas and ALL men fall into one of these categories: the Bhramana or priestly people, the Kasatrya or warriors, the Vaisha or Business Administration class, and the Sudra or worker class of men. These four classes of men working together constitute the entire harmonic function of the society. The Bhramanas are the head, the Kasatrya's are the arms, the Vaishas are the thighs, and the Sudras are the whole legs. In this way the entire body of Varnas work together to create peace in the world. And what is that peace? It is state "Krishnas Tu Bhavan Svaiam" Krishna is the cause of all causes and He is the proprietor of everything, therefore if there is any chance of peace the entire Varna system must work together to satisfy the Supreme Person. Just as when one must satisfy his hunger, his arms and hands take up food and put it into the mouth which leads it to the stomach. In this way the whole body is satisfied. But the hand can not feed itself, it must put the food into the mouth. The thighs and the legs must carry the whole body and the head must be able to distinguish whether or not the food is suitable to eat. If there is any chance at peace in the world, this Varnashram Dharma system must be established. Ahmadinejad must develop this system or he is a failed leader.

Pull The Pulg! Filling Dead Heads With Garbage

By Gadadhara das


From the New York Times comes:
"Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself"


"The computer was primed by the researchers with some basic knowledge in various categories and set loose on the Web with a mission to teach itself."


Claire L. Evans posts at Scienceblogs.com that the idea is "wonderful-terrifying"


What has modern science done for us in the past 2000 years? What will a learning computer NELL accomplish? With porn on the increase  at 755,000,000 websites, airheads like Sarah Palin writing , ball bouncers writing about sex , how to eat a cup cake? , how to sleep  , how to fight , is there anything to learn that we dont already know? In just 10 years time this NELL computer will be just a computer filled with useless garbage. It will be filled with things that the animals do naturally. The raccoon for instance. The raccoon lives outside and gets along nicely with no internet and no school. He already knows how to have sex, how to eat a cup cake, how to sleep well, and how to put up a good fight; no school, no internet, no politicians, no religion.


What we need is a computer that can figure out how to stop birth, death, disease and old age. But a computer will never figure this out unless some "person" relates this information to it. So what is the use of NELL? No use! It is simply a garbage machine that recycles useless garbage information. They are training it to learn from people who are only concerned with eating, sleeping, sex, and fighting. So NELL will only learn all language and emotions concerned with these four things and those who want to gain information from it later will only retrieve the same information. What a waste of money. What a waste of time! Pull the pug!


Since modern scientist began speculating, nothing has been accomplished in terms of man's real problem. Science only advances our in better eating, sleeping, mating, and fighting. But the animals are the best teachers of this. They out do humans 100 to zero at eating, sleeping, sex, and fighting. Man's real problem is that he gets born, that he gets diseased, grows old, and then he must die.


The first mistake that the modern scientist has made is that they have concluded that life comes from a combination of chemicals. They continue to try to create life. They fail every time. Why? This is a false premise. Can the scientist create even a basic non living product like milk? The cow makes milk just by eating grass; it never went to school; never had lessons on sex, never learned how to eat a cup cake, cant fight like Bruce Lee, and never watched any videos on sleeping or ever turned on a computer. Why is it that the cow can turn their red blood stream into white milk instantly, but the modern scientist can not? There are so many instances like this in nature that the scientist can not replicate, and the ones that they are able to replicate cost millions of dollars and years to formulate.


Life has always come from life, it has never come from mater. The scientist will go on perpetually fooling the masses and taking their money will false promises of advancement. But the intelligent man will ask, "who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going?" Science has no answers because they are blind. Their knowledge is not absolute or conclusive. One scientist will come up with one theory and it will be accepted, but 20 years later another scientist will come up with another theory and prove him wrong. The modern scientist is just a bluffer who actually doesn't know anything, simply speculation and more speculation!


Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, "sattvāt sañjāyate jñānaṁ rajaso lobha eva ca" "From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; from the mode of passion, grief develops; and from the mode of ignorance, foolishness, madness and illusion develop." Every man is born ignorant and must be taught by some person how to do the basics like communicating, walking, reading, writing. So the modern scientist learns the basics just like the animals. But because the scientist remains in the mode of ignorance of the real problems of life, only "foolishness, madness and illusion" take place in the world. The only Real knowledge is knowledge that will free man from being born, getting diseased, becoming old, and dieing. The sincere scientist who maybe concerned with stopping these four things will look into the Vedic understanding. There is a remedy for stopping these four things. The Vedas explain how to get out of this perpetual cycle. The life of a scientist remains useless unless he address these four things. What is the use of your life if you just die in 70 years? Will you remember your theories? Can you bring them with you at death? You may formulate some theories, but they are just garbage in some computer like NELL when you are dead.

The Provider of Communication? United States Army Aims, Shoots, & Misses!

By Gadadhara das
We all know the United States Army is probably one of, if not the, most powerful military defenses in the world and we know they are well capable of hitting a target RIGHT ON; but when it comes to missing the point Army Live blog writer ashmccall has shot and missed. September 29th's entry is called The "Provider" of Communication is a quick little entry sketch of a group of soldiers at CAMP MARMAL in Afghanistan that manages the communication with the rest of the Army in that area. But refering to them as "The Provider"? Hardly!



As with any product that a company manufactures, credit is always given to the Chief Executive Officer. Take for instance, the ipod. Everyone knows, the ipod is the product by which all credit goes to Steve Jobs. All the activities of the Apple Corporation; the credit is given to the Supreme Apple Controller Steve Jobs. He makes things happen. He started it, it was his idea, and he sells it to the public. The public thinks "Steve Jobs! Yes it must be good!" Apple would be nothing with out Steve Jobs. What happened when Jobs got sick back in 2008/09? Yep, thats right! Apple stock fell 5%!  

The US Army is organized, put together, and produced by none other than The Commander In Chief himself; President Barak Obama. All operations can be thought of in this way. You name it, it happens because of some person. So naturally President Obama takes credit for Providing the communication at Camp Marmal. Every product, whether it be an Army, an iphone, or even a country. For the United States of America, the Supreme American at this moment in history is Obama.

The founding fathers of the United States knew this point, that every one in the United States must have a leader to look to, a president. The President of the United States. Even in other types of government, even in Communism. The Communists have a Steve Jobs too. For the Communists it is Marx!



Krishna says when He is right on the battlefield reciting the Bhagavad-gita 10.8 that, "ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo, mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate"; " Iam the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts." And again in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB1.1.1) it is stated, "janmādy asya yataḥ"happening is happening by His direction. Just like everything in the Army is going on by Obama's direction, everything at Apple is going on by Steve Jobs direction, and so everything in the entire Universe is going on by a Supreme Person's direction. There is a famous philosopher's saying that "not a blade of grass moves with out the sanction of God". With this being said, who is the real Provider of Communication at Camp Marmal? Who is the real provider for the communication at Apple? Who is the real provider for the communication in the whole Army? "Isvara Parama Krishna" which means in English The Supreme Provider is Krishna or the Supreme Personality and that everything is emanating from this Supreme Person. Its logical, its authoritative, it can not be refuted!

The Ultimate Weapon

The Ultimate Weapon

A number of the followers of Shree Gaursundar were celebates and sannyasins, while many others were married persons with children and occupations. They form a congregation of worshippers and meet together for chanting the sankirtan of Krishna and discoursing to one another regarding Krishna. Their conduct is, however, by no means popular, although the personal influence of Shree Gaursundar and His associates is nevertheless marvelous. But the Pastimes remain practically confined to those persons who are subsequently identified with the corresponding . . .(more)

Hansadutta at SRJC (part 5): Soul Living, Body Dead!