Please chant the Maha-Mantra HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, dance, honor prasadam and your life will be sublime in all respects and at the end we go Back Home Back to Godhead! This is called BHAKTI YOGA, the topmost yoga system!
To summarise the conclusions of Bhagavad-gita it may be said that,
1) God is one and everything is in Him and He is in everything.
2) To render transcendental service unto God is to serve everything that be, just like to water the root of the tree is to water the different branches and numerous leaves of the tree or to supply food to the stomach is to vitalize all the senses and the sense organs of the body.
3) The parts are automatically served when the Whole is served but when the parts are served the whole may not be served or not served at all.
4) The parts and the Whole being eternally related, it is the eternal duty of the parts to render service unto the Whole.
5) A recipient of the services of the parts, God’s sat-cit-ananda vigraha i.e. the all-attractive Cognizant and all-blissful Personality eternal. He can reveal Himself by His own potency without any help of the external potency called maya in order to be cognizable by the limited potency of the parts and as such He is not only the greatest of all but he is the smallest of all. That is His prerogative.
6) He is better realized when He by His causeless mercy agrees to descend in this mortal world but he He is never realized by the partial speculations of the empiric philosophers however systematic and long-termed it may be.
7) Sri Krishna is the Personality of Godhead and is the Summum Bonum Cause of all Causes proved by fact and figures in the statement of Bhagavad-gita, but He reserves the right of not being exposed to the sensual speculations of the empiric philosophers.
8) One should therefore surrender unto Him if one wants to know Him as He is and that is the real process to approach the Infinite by the infinitesimals.
9) Sri Krishna is easily available by the religion of love i.e. by love and service as conceived by the damsels of Vraja who had practically no education whatsoever and much less any claim for high class birth right.
10) The highest service that can be rendered to the mankind is, therefore, to preach the philosophy and religion of Bhagavad-gita for all the times, all the places and all the people. I hope you may agree with me and thus make a combined effort in this direction for the benefit of the mankind.
“One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the two eyebrows and in full devotion engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord, will certainly achieve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
Hayagriva:
One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and in full devotion engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord, will certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Puppy Jayadvaita:
One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and, by the strength of yoga, with an undeviating mind, engages himself in remembering the Supreme Lord in full devotion, will certainly attain to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Hayagriva deferentially respects Srila Prabhupada’s rendition, whereas puppy Jayadavaita impudently feels a need to correct Srila Prabhupada and add “by the strength of yoga, with an undeviating mind” But Srila Prabhupada is perfectly aware of “yoga-balena”, as he develops it extensively in the purport. He just decided not to mentioned it in the verse and thats the way it should stay.
“What is that English proverb? “Fools rush in where angels dare not.”
Ref. VedaBase => Conversation on Train to Allahabad – January 11, 1977, India
Hayagriva however, completely ignores the subject matter of sat-chakra-yoga which Srila Prabhupada mentions in the purports 8.10 and 8.11. To his credit, Jayadvaita restores it in both cases. .
TRANSLATION. O Janardhana, although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing the family, quarrelling with friends and similar (other?) acts, why should we engage ourselves in these acts of sin, despite of our knowledge of the crime which lies in destroying the family.
PURPORT. A ksatriya is not supposed to deny a battle or gamble when he is so invited by a rival party. Under such obligation, Arjuna could not deny to fight because he was so invited by the party of Duryodhana. In response, Arjuna considered that the other party may be blind to the effects of such a fratricidal fight, whereas he could see the future ending of such a fight and how then could he accept such a false challenge? Obligation is actually binding when the effect is good. But when the effect is otherwise, nobody can be bound by such false obligation. Considering all these pros and cons of the challenge Arjuna decided not to fight with them.”
Hayagriva makes it:
TRANSLATION. O Janardana, although these men, overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one’s family or quarreling with friends, why should we, with knowledge of the sin, engage in these acts?
Hayagriva’s PURPORT is but for one or two words identical to Jayadvaita’s found below.
Jayadvaita makes it:
TRANSLATION. O Janardana, although these men, their hearts overtaken by greed, see no fault in killing one’s family or quarreling with friends, why should we, who can see the crime in destroying a family, engage in these acts of sin?
PURPORT. A ksatriya is not supposed to refuse to battle or gamble when he is so invited by some rival party. Under such an obligation, Arjuna could not refuse to fight, because he had been challenged by the party of Duryodhana. In this connection, Arjuna considered that the other party might be blind to the effects of such a challenge. Arjuna, however, could see the evil consequences and could not accept the challenge. Obligation is actually binding when the effect is good, but when the effect is otherwise, then no one can be bound. Considering all these pros and cons, Arjuna decided not to fight.
ANALYSIS of the verse.
Jayadvaita substantially improves the poor rendition of the verse by Hayagriva but still does not get close enough. He reintroduces the concept of “the crime in destroying the family” which Hayagriva neglected completely and is to be found in Srila Prabhupada’s original rendition.
He also reintroduces the concept “heart over taken by greed” present in Srila Prabhupada’s original presentation of the verse.
But he still ignores Srila Prabhupada’s “and similar (other?) acts” and unnecessarily changes Srila Prabhupada’s better formulation “knowledge of the crime” to “see the crime”.
ANALYSIS of the purport.
Jayadvaita’s and Hayagriva’s purports are basically identical but differ substantially from Srila Prabhupada’s purport.
“Challenge” replaces the original “fratricidal fight”
The word “false”, which is taboo to these false and traitor editors, is dropped twice. This is how these FALSE and TRAITOR EDITORS drop BGAII standards from Srila Prabhupada’s coherent and truth telling philosophical treatise to becomes a Vaishya manual where there exists no falsity in making money and where all moves are allowed.
For good facade only, the editors introduce a hypocritical moral notion of ” evil consequences ” but factually drop Srila Prabhupada’s expressions “false challenge” and “false obligation”. To these Vaishya editors, supporters and followers there cannot be any falsity as the sole and overriding reality is moneymaking and not truthfulness as is originally intended by Srila Prabhupada and Shri Krishna.
Let the Vaishyas (mercantile class) mind their own business of “agriculture, trade, cow protection and banking” and not meddle in the Ksatriya’s and Brahmin’s business.
Full Prabhupada quote:”This means as stated in the Bhagavad-gita there are different symptoms of different classes of men — just like a Brahmana is truthful, clean, self-controlled, equipoised, tolerant, simple, full of knowledge, theist, and so on. Similarly a Ksatriya has symptoms — a tendency for ruling over others, martial spirited, charitable, does not flee away from the battlefield and so on. Similarly, the symptoms of a Vaisya is his tendency to agriculture, trade, cow protection and banking. And the Sudra’s tendency is to some way or other work anywhere and get some wages. Letter to: Janardana — Los Angeles 16 January, 1970
The Challenge BGAII 3.35 advises: “It is far better to discharge one’s own prescribed duties even though they are faulty, than another’s prescribed duties. If one is destroyed in the course of discharging one’s duty, that is also better than being engaged in other duties.”
Additionally in BGAII 1.15, purport, we find THE APOGEE OF SEXISM. Srila Prabhupada wisely types Goddess of Fortune with capital letters but the boor editors know better and will not allow it, thus disrespecting the Goddess of Fortune, the apogee of foolishness! These things will not go unnoticed. Repeated again in BGAII 1.20, purport, and in BGAII 1.36, both verse and twice in the purport. Due to dogmatism, these boors are slighting the Goddess of Fortune and the Goddess of Fortune will surely pay them back in due course!
This reminds us of Apple Corporation. If you spend AU$ 1500 or so you will get a miserly and sometimes dangerous for the equilibrium of your phone, 96 cm cord and if you spend AU$ 4000 you will get a generous 197 cm cord for your device.
In some cases Hayagriva just added a paragraph of his own fabrication and Jayadvaita rubber-stamps. as in BGAII purport 7.23:
The following is not Srila Prabhupada:
“However, worshipers of the demigods are less intelligent because they don’t know to what part of the body food must be supplied. Some of them are so foolish that they claim that there are many parts and many ways to supply food. This isn’t very sanguine. Can anyone supply food to the body through the ears or eyes?”
Ultimately it is Srila Prabhupada but out of proper context. Srila Prabhupada does not use. the word “sanguine” though.
First of all, the constant rain stopped and the 26 of April 2025, day after ANZAC, was a beautiful, warm, sunny day. Their Lordships Shri Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra paraded the main business district of Brisbane and bestowed Their blessings for one full hour and the melodious kirtan by HG Kalasamvara Prabhu of New Zealand and His Holiness Devamrita Swami, co-GBC for ISKCON Australia, reverberated among the tall buildings. A team of Channel 9 was present to record and report the Ratha Yatra news. Our request for mounted police was unsuccessful. Participation was good, up from previous years and the mood was friendly as HG Madhukanta Prabhu remarked. That means devotees are maturing. As His Holiness Vishvananda Swami of the Bhakti Marg Movement states: “If you dont know what is love your live is useless!”
Many dignitaries from public and private sector kindly attended and spoke well wishing words. Honourable Jess Pugh, state member for Mt Omaney, went as far as wearing a sari on the occasion in which she looked both comfortable and wonderful. Thank you Jess for the extra mile!
2025 was the tenth edition of ISKCON Brisbane, Australia, Ratha Yatra.
His Grace Dvijavara Prabhu of Poland and his good wife are the main architect behind this feat, and can be seen on the picture below along with the ten various Ratha Yatra posters on the wall for the last ten years.
Melodious kirtan such as this by Her Grace Premanjali DD is a sure recipe for instant and enlivening happiness. Just see how happy she seems to be with a wonderful smile. Besides that, because of its spiritual nature, one never grows tired of it, as happens with material happiness neither does it sap one’s vital energy. Who would not accept to participate in such joyous occasions unless that person “is to be understood very much bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord.”
Full quote:
“In this Age of Kali, if a person does not take advantage of chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, which is offered as a great concession to the fallen human beings of this age, it is to be understood that he is very much bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord.” SB 4.24.14, purport, last sentence.
ISKCON Perth || Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare || || Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare ||
Hare Krishna Dear devotees & well-wishersThe much-awaited Krishna Cultural Festival 2025 to celebrate Janmastami is fast approaching. Featuring an amazing line up of spiritual dramas, dance & musical performances , showcasing Krishna’s pastimes ranging from when Krishna was born, to Krishna’s avatars, His love for His devotees and much more!We are pleased to announce that we are celebrating Krishna Cultural Festival 2025 on:Sunday, 27th July 2025@ Indian Community Centre (ICC), Willetton from 3 PM onwards…..If you are interested in participating, please fill the below EOI https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGu-6fh-X2fN3Jh-RhgCMr-OXs1308ACkVZLhyP8pz3aN_iA/viewform?usp=header (Last date to fill EOI – 30th May 2025)Here’s a quick video on how wonderfully we celebrated last year- https://youtu.be/knqcSVeBIgo?feature=sharedCome forward and join us in offering our best to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Shri Krishna For other enquiries, please contact: Rashi Mataji – 0406 724 285Your humble servants, Krishna Cultural Festival 2025 Organising Team ISKCON PERTH
Our mailing address is: ISKCON PERTH155/159 Canning RdKalamunda, WA 6076Australia
We started our Australian Krishna conscious journey in the very special and unique Perth WA, where we stayed and served for 15 years from 1982 to 1997. The temple location successively changed from East Fremantle, under the leadership of HG Ganesh Prabhu (acbsp1), his wife HG Subhalaskmi DD (acbsp1) and their daughter HG Narottami DD to West Perth, Havelock st, and then to Bayswater, Railway Parade, before moving to the current Kalamunda location. I look forward to visit Perth and ISKCON Perth again indeed. YD.
480 suicide in four years, that’s 120 suicide a year too many!
Otherwise on the picture, we may comment:
A typical Kali Yuga family: a man, a woman and a D O G . No children and above all no G O D.
Actually God is in the background and ugly DOG is the centre of attention and affection, instead of the reverse.
There is danger and prospect of becoming a D O G in the next life!!!
“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kunti, that state he will attain without fail.” Bhagavad Gita As It Is, 8.6, version 2.
“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” Bhagavad Gita 8.6, version 1.
OT BGAII 8.6 unavailable. consequently no version 3 in existence.
|| Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare ||
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