2014 Letters

You Are Always Welcome to Take Prasādam (06/01/14) Dear ______, This is NONSENSE. ____ Maharaja never said such a stupid thing, ever. I just spoke with him and told him to ask _____ what she said and to who. I told him to tell her that she is not authorised to give anyone any instruction about who can take prasādam, etc. You, your family, Read more...

Offences to the Sannyāsa Paramparā (06/21/14) Dear ______ Swami, Thank you for your appreciations. Actually the sannyāsa-mantra [rāga-mantra] is to be chanted after the kāma-gāyatrī, because it is sequential/progressive. Rādhā-dāsyam is attained after progressing beyond the general conception of Kṛṣṇa [after surrender to Kṛṣṇa], when the devotee understands and transitions between devotion to Kṛṣṇa and superior devotion to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. I remember hearing years Read more...

What More Can I do? (06/25/14) Unless there are extreme circumstance i would NOT use herbicides or pesticides. We are an āśrama and as such we should be as ORGANIC as possible. We should be an example to people on how to live, etc and how to be Kṛṣṇa conscious. One struggle i have with the _____ devotees also is that they have little Read more...

What More Can I do? (06/25/14) Unless there are extreme circumstance i would NOT use herbicides or pesticides. We are an āśrama and as such we should be as ORGANIC as possible. We should be an example to people on how to live, etc and how to be Kṛṣṇa conscious. One struggle i have with the _____ devotees also is that they have little Read more...

Living Without Devotees is Hell (06/26/14) Dear _____ Dāsa, Nice to read your email and especially happy to see the photos. But no photo of you? I have been telling you this for quite some time...ASSOCIATION is everything in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Living without devotees is HELL. You have to decide your course in life. If I were you, I would probably move to ____ Read more...

Hearing From this One and That One Means Hearing From No One (06/28/14) Dear _____, Hare Kṛṣṇa. I have received your email and read with interest. You have mentioned your greatest necessity in your email and that is that you must accept the shelter of a bona-fide guru. Whatever mantras one chants should be received from ones dīkṣā-guru. Mantras are not simply to be Read more...

How Many Apa-siddhāntas Does it Take to Make an Apa-Sampradāya? (06/30/14) Dear ______, You have inadvertently stirred the hornet's nest. The contamination I spoke of in Iskcon is both subtle and gross. You have learned many things that are not correct and to enter śuddha-bhakti you will have to be re-trained in many ways. You have been hearing from materialists, charlatans and aparādhīs for Read more...

Part and Parcel (07/01/14) Dear Bernd, The real problem lies within the English language as well as many other western languages which do not have parallel words for many Sanskrit words. Prabhupāda translates aṁśa in Bhagavad-gītā as “part and parcel”, jīva as “soul”, and bhajana as “worship”, etc. but in fact these are not the same thing. Also there is no such word as Read more...

Kṛṣṇa Knows Who Has Caused these Problems (12/24/14) Dear _____ Dāsa, Seems to be a major misunderstanding here. Actually, _____ said very strongly back in August that he did not want ANY member of his family being associated with the āśrama or for the āśrama to make contact with any of his family for any reason. So, it is not because of me or Read more...

I Have Tried for Years to Rectify Him (08/05/14) Last night there was a major blowout concerning _____. I was supposed to meet and discuss with him this morning, but in the night he fled with his family. I do not know if he will return or not. I hope he doesn't. I went over to inspect his house and factory and the state Read more...