Bombay BBT to destroy Srila Prabhupada’s Books!
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“The presence of the Bhagavatam in any house makes the house sanctified and free of all inauspiciousness. Worshiping the Bhagavatam is equivalent to worshiping Lord Krsna. Hearing and reading the Bhagavatam is unalloyed devotional service. There are two meanings of the word “Bhagavat” – one is the book Srimad-Bhagavatam and the other is the person Bhagavat who is the personification of Lord Krsna’s mercy. By daily worshiping, studying and hearing the Srimad-Bhagavatam, one is actually elevated to become a person Bhagavat.” (Antya Lila Chapter 3)
Bombay India – Attention: To All Devotees Worldwide!
By: News Correspondent Bombay
Please note that BBT India is trying very hard (at the present moment) to completely destroy Srila Prabhupada’s original Books.
Bombay BBT filed a new copyright infringement lawsuit in India and had KBI’s associate Jitarati Prabhu’s beautiful Srimad Bhagwatam 5,000 boxed sets blocked from delivery to him at the printer’s warehouse. All the BBT trustees are involved in the law suit, untruthfully claiming that there is no legality to the printing. They are holding the already printed books hostage. Who knows for how long? BBT India has further applied to the court that the printed books should be destroyed.
BBT India is planning to have Srila Prabhupada’s original books completely banned from printing (in India and USA) by trying to revoke the licence given to KBI, claiming that the KBI given license has expired. BBT India wants to end the printing & distribution of unchanged, original books.
KBI – Krishna Books Inc is licensed by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust to print and publish the pre-1978 literary works of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda.
BBT Licensed KBI to Print Original Books
http://harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/12-09/editorials5481.htm
NOWHERE is it stated that the license will expire
Jayadvaita, Bhima (BBT), Nareshvara, Gopal Krishna, as well as the complete BBT India, have started a grand conspiracy (with lies, deceit and falsehood) against KBI for printing original books. Their aim is to destroy KBI (Krishna Books Inc) who had originally been given a license to print Srila Prabhupada’s pre 1978 original books.
These Iskcon troublemakers are demoniac to the core – changing and falsifying all of Srila Prabhupada’s books, while holding the original, unchanged books hostage by a court order, just to be destroyed. And now they are planning to have the license revoked that was legally given to KBI (Printing the original pre-1978 books). This could be the END of Srila Prabhupadas legacy, if they win the court case.
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From: Bhima Das (ISKCON BBT Bombay)
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 12:09 PM
To: Basu Ghosh Das, Cc: Jitarati Das
Subject: Re: Your dispute with BBT India – the way forward
Dear Basu Ghosh Prabhu, Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prahupada.
I think we need to make one thing clear here, that is Srila Prabhupada formed a trust called The Bhaktivedant Book Trust. Srila Prabhupada assigned the rights to his writings in the same trust. So, it should be clear that our Spiritual Master wanted his books printed by the trust he started.
Srila Prabhupada didn’t want even his own temples printing his books what to speak of individuals. So, the trustees of the BBT have a duty to print the books and see that the rights are not infringed upon.
Call whatever name but we still have to perform as trustees because as trustees we are duty bound to Srila Prabhupada to print.
Ys, Bhima das
(ISKCON BBT Bombay)
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From: Jitarati Das
Update: Sun, 14 May 2017 05:45
Subject: excerpts from a letter
There was no unilateral action on my side. The books I printed are BBT books, printed under a license given by BBT to KBI. I have been a KBI associate for years now, helping KBI print and distribute more of Srila Prabhupada’s original books. I have also offered my services to BBT India and invited them numerous times to participate in my work to Increase the distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s books. Because they rejected my offers to help doesn’t mean the original agreement of 1998 also disappears. Some common sense has to prevail here if there is any hope for the future.
The famous letter from Srila Prabhupada that Bhima likes to quote to try and prove that I am acting unilaterally is a clear example of a misuse of common sense. The letter instructs temples to not print independently of BBT, so Bhima Prabhu says what to speak of individuals like me printing independently.
Well, first of all it is a bold faced lie that I am printing independently, as explained above. Secondly, Prabhupada was trying to keep BBT strong and fulfil its purpose to support the beneficiary of BBT, namely ISKCON.
In 1990, ISKCON LA and BBTI started to try and extinguish both BBT of California and BBT India. That document is in the court documents from the 1998 case and so the situation of wiping out the two Prabhupada created BBTs was thwarted and the mood of cooperation was reborn. (http://harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/12-09/editorials5481.htm) Why are they trying to wipe that out again, you should be asking?
Thirdly, I am supporting the Bhaktivedanta Archives with monthly donations and I am committed to increasing that amount to build a proper Prabhupada museum and Archives so strongly desired by Ekanatha Prabhu and needed for all future generations of devotees and the public. The funds were to come from profits from the sales of these Bhagavatam sets but that has been held up by Bhima Prabhu.
Below is a letter from a temple president of an ISKCON temple in USA, just after being informed about this case. His name is withheld by me due to repressive atmosphere in present day ISKCON.
“Dear Rathayatra prabhu, I read your complete mail… this is so much the nature of this world. Now the very persons who were saved by these original books, are the ones with money and lawyers fighting to keep others from these books…this is astonishing.. I wish I had a load of money to help, but we are in a similar battle of truth vs. changed truth… the simplicity of what is Krishna consciousness, vs. the newly formed issue of today.. what a mess.
My heart is out to you… from the valley of loving kirtan we can and will dedicate our evening kirtans for you … that’s 2 hrs per night…on and on till this breaks”
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From: Jitarati Das
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 9:45:49 AM
To: Basu Ghosh Das
Subject: Re: Your dispute with BBT India
Dear Basu Ghosh Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Thank you Prabhu for getting involved. I really appreciate it and recognise your sincerity.
I have always been open to real negotiation to alleviate the fear of BBT India that KBI books are ending up in their market.
I tried my best to do that but was last told that I should just stop printing and let them do everything. That is not negotiation, but dictating, and worse, trying to take my life and soul service away from me. Devotees don’t do that. Certainly Prabhupada never taught that way of dealing.
Worse than that is holding a court order over me and saying they want to negotiate. Worse than that they are holding Prabhupada and Krishna prisoners in Their own books. Holding them hostage for ransom and dictated terms of a so called negotiated settlement.
It’s ironic that this set of Bhagavatams was meant to specifically develop a completely different marketing strategy where I would not need any devotees or temples to get them distributed. It is a well thought out plan to distribute millions of Bhagavatams. I offered to do it as BBT books and we could increase the numbers even more if they sold to ISKCON. They were not interested. Why? My set is “The complete Works of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada On The Srimad Bhagavatam”.
Their set includes the translations of unauthorised and unqualified conditioned souls. What else but pure unadulterated envy of Srila Prabhupada would make them attack these living books and myself and 25 other devotees who laboured hard for 5 years to produce these books as an offering of love and devotion to Srila Prabhupada. How will I be able to negotiate with such hard hearted people.
They knew very well that it was a work in progress for years now and that I had all legal rights to print with KBI under their license. They had to lie and cheat their way into the court and they will continue to lie and cheat and manipulate the court system without a shred of truth or decency in their actions.
I am very well aware of what I am up against but I am also praying to Krishna daily that these people will come to their senses and stop this dastardly act.
In the meantime I am using every bit of intelligence and resources that Krishna kindly provides, and will not stop until the whole world knows of their despicable motives and offensive actions.
Even though I had sent them all the information on how the 1998 court case in California ended in a peaceful resolution and mood of cooperation to work together to distribute Prabhupada’s mercy in the form of his books, and actually saved both the BBT USA and the Indian BBT. http://harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/12-09/editorials5481.htm
The copyrights of the books were saved to the BBT USA by mutual agreement amongst the devotees and signed off on by a probate court judge. What they fail to understand is that if they break the agreement and mood of cooperation, they are signing their own demise.
Ys, Jitarati das
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From: Jitarati das
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 8:14 PM
To: Basu Ghosh Das
Subject: Your dispute with BBT India – the way forward
Dear Basu Ghosh Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I really appreciate your heartfelt letter and if we could come to the platform you are talking about, we could easily solve this.
Unfortunately, Bhima’s letter is not in the same category and leaves no room for negotiation.
He believes he is doing his duty and I appreciate that. However believing and actually doing ones duty are two different things.
If you actually represent Srila Prabhupada’s BBT you will follow what is said in the trust document, and the purpose of Prabhupada establishing the trust in the first place, which is to print Srila Prabhupada’s books, not others. It is clear that they have contaminated the pure Bhagavatam of Srila Prabhupada by adding the translations of conditioned souls. They are fighting for this concoction, not for Srila Prabhupada. They even lie in their 39 year late copyright registration in India that the later chapters of the 10th canto and all the 11th and 12th cantos are authored by Srila Prbhupada. So I appreciate that they wish it were true. But it is not. So who represents Srila Prabhupada and his pure BBT. At least I have tried, with only the complete works of His Divine Grace on the Bhagavatam.
In Bhima Prabhu’s letter here he claims I am an individual, insinuating that I have no authority. Again it is a lie and he knows it. He just hates KBI because they represent only Prabhupada’s original books, but he just wants to do any damn thing with Prabhupada’s BBT and we have no rights to say or do anything about it. How do you negotiate from there?
My humble suggestion is to not repeat the mistakes of history and go back to the agreement of 1998 below: http://harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/12-09/editorials5481.htm
If they don’t want to make that the basis for negotiation and withdraw their court action, then I am duty bound to protect Srila Prabhupada’s legacy, no matter what the cost.
ys, Jitarati das
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Jitarati Das (John Hanton)
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http://www.iskcon-truth.com/bhagavatam-set/bbt-bombay.html
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Note: DRIVEN BY VARIOUS KINDS OF MENTAL CONCOCTIONS, THE DEMONS DIMINISH ALL KINDS OF WELFARE
KB 4 Kamsa Begins His Persecutions
Thus being advised by the demoniac ministers, Kamsa, who was from the very beginning the greatest rascal, decided to persecute the brahmanas and Vaisnavas, being entrapped by the shackles of all-devouring, eternal time. He ordered the demons to harass all kinds of saintly persons, and then he entered his house. The adherents of Kamsa were all influenced by the modes of passion as well as illusioned by the modes of ignorance, and their only business was to create enmity with saintly persons. Such activities can only reduce the duration of life. The demons accelerated the process and invited their deaths as soon as possible. The result of persecuting saintly persons is not only untimely death. The act is so offensive that the actor also gradually loses his beauty, his fame and his religious principles, and his promotion to higher planets is also checked. DRIVEN BY VARIOUS KINDS OF MENTAL CONCOCTIONS, THE DEMONS DIMINISH ALL KINDS OF WELFARE. AN OFFENSE AT THE LOTUS FEET OF THE DEVOTEES AND BRAHMANAS IS A GREATER OFFENSE THAN THAT COMMITTED AT THE LOTUS FEET OF THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD. THUS A GODLESS CIVILIZATION BECOMES THE SOURCE OF ALL CALAMITIES.
Isopanisad 12
THE PSEUDO RELIGIONISTS HAVE NEITHER KNOWLEDGE NOR DETACHMENT FROM MATERIAL AFFAIRS, FOR MOST OF THEM WANT TO LIVE IN THE GOLDEN SHACKLES OF MATERIAL BONDAGE UNDER THE SHADOW OF PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES DISGUISED AS RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES. BY A FALSE DISPLAY OF RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS, THEY PRESENT A SHOW OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE WHILE INDULGING IN ALL SORTS OF IMMORAL ACTIVITIES. IN THIS WAY THEY PASS AS SPIRITUAL MASTERS AND DEVOTEES OF GOD. Such violators of religious principles have NO RESPECT for the authoritative acaryas, the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession.
Note: These book changer DEMON THUGS have not even the BASIC qualities of ordinary karmis. Ordinary karmis you can deal with them and they can be respectful. Just see! These DEMONS in the DRESS OF DEVOTEES they want to DESTROY Srila Prabhupada’s ORIGINAL books. ALL A BUNCH OF MAD MEN. These DEMONS are getting EXPOSED what they REALLY stand for : their GREED.
Watch them VERY carefully! Eventually – their BAD KARMA will get them:
SB 7.4.43 P Hiranyakasipu Terrorizes the Universe
When a demon like Hiranyakasipu, despite his elevated position due to severe austerities, begins to tease a devotee, he begins falling down, and the results of his austerities dwindle. ONE WHO OPPRESSES A PURE DEVOTEE LOSES ALL THE RESULTS OF HIS AUSTERITIES, PENANCES AND PIOUS ACTIVITIES. Since Hiranyakasipu was now inclined to chastise his most exalted devotee son, Prahlada Maharaja, HIS OPULENCES BEGAN DWINDLING.
Madhya 15.270 The Lord Accepts Prasada at the House of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya
Being envious of the Lord and His devotees is not at all auspicious for a demon. BY SUCH ENVY, A DEMON LOSES EVERYTHING CONSIDERED BENEFICIAL.
KB 4 Kamsa Begins His Persecutions
Thus being advised by the demoniac ministers, Kamsa, who was from the very beginning the greatest rascal, decided to persecute the brahmanas and Vaisnavas, being entrapped by the shackles of all-devouring, eternal time. He ordered the demons to harass all kinds of saintly persons, and then he entered his house. The adherents of Kamsa were all influenced by the modes of passion as well as illusioned by the modes of ignorance, and their only business was to create enmity with saintly persons. Such activities can only reduce the duration of life. The demons accelerated the process and invited their deaths as soon as possible. THE RESULT OF PERSECUTING SAINTLY PERSONS IS NOT ONLY UNTIMELY DEATH. THE ACT IS SO OFFENSIVE THAT THE ACTOR ALSO GRADUALLY LOSES HIS BEAUTY, HIS FAME AND HIS RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES, AND HIS PROMOTION TO HIGHER PLANETS IS ALSO CHECKED.
WOW – what demons. The very persons, who were saved by these original books, are now the ones with money and lawyers fighting to keep others from these books… unbelievable.
I am shocked that the BBT has now become so demoniac as to completely stop the printing of original books by trying to revoke the KBI license.
Actually they already started long time ago, when Srila Prabhupada was still with us.
Srila Prabhupada said: The rascal editors (Jayadvaita), they are doing havoc.
Yasoda-nandana: Sometimes they appeal that “We can make better English,” so they change like that, just like in the case of Isopanisad. There are over a hundred changes. So where is the need? Your words are sufficient. The potency is there. When they change, it is something else.
Srila Prabhupada: So you… What you are going… It is very serious situation. You write one letter that “Why you have made so many changes?” And whom to write? Who will care? All rascals are there. Write to Satsvarupa that “This is the position. They are doing anything and everything at their whim.” The next printing should be again to the original way.
Srila Prabhupada: So write them immediately that “The rascal editors, they are doing havoc, and they are being maintained by Ramesvara and party.” (S.P.Conversation, “Rascal Editors,”June 22, 1977, Vrndavana)
Srila Prabhupada, June 22, 1977, Vrndavana: “So everything is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam. And then these unfortunate rascals, they are distorting. What can I do? How to stop it?”
The sad truth is that of all those iskcon demons, dressed in the garb of devotees, Jayadvaita is the worst. He actually should hang himself, to avoid punishment and suffering in hell.
Srila Prabhupada in his last days has complained that poison has been given to him by his (senior) disciples.
http://www.iskcon-truth.com/poison/prabhupada-poisoned-overview.html
The poisoners of Srila Prabhupada only killed his physical body, but Jayadvaita has killed Srila Prabhupada’s whole movement, by changing his books, without any authority.
Srila Prabhupada has said that the books are his life and soul. He only lived for His books. By changing them Jayadvaita has killed Srila Prabhupadas whole movement, because Srila Prabhupadas (original) books are the basis.
So, Jayadvaita is the worst demon on earth, even worst than the poisoners of Srila Prabhupadas physical body.
Urdhvaga das
http://www.harekrsna.org/gbc/black/jadvaita.htm
Urdhvaga das: So, Jayadvaita is the worst demon on earth, even worst than the poisoners of Srila Prabhupadas physical body.
Mahesh: small correction – my own understanding is: Jayadvaita is ALSO among the MAIN suspects who ACTED TOGETHER to give poison to Srila Prabhupada:
Srila Prabhupada poisoned:
The following sites has whispers of the poison givers:
To hear the whole CD of the Nov 10 1977 Conversations from beginning to end, please click
http://www.mediafire.com/?ppvh77orok1r7vh
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Srila Prabhupada Given Poison:
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=42549#comment-29598
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=43821
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=42564#more-42564
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=46843#more-46843
http://www.iskcon-truth.com/poison/poison-whispers.html
Hare Krsna Everyone,
Lord Sri Krsna already knows of those who are truly aspiring devotees/devotees, and that we do not care to live without our bond with Srila Prabhupada, for He is the sole and only reason we know anything about The Supreme Truth Absolute Personality of Godhead period. These demons and their continual heinous activities since His “appearance” and “disappearance” are occurring so we who are awake can become more dedicated to and dependent on Him; surrendering more and more and more to our eternal Spiritual Master, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, which is unlimitedly pleasing to Lord Sri Krsna..
The more the demons try to take, distort, hide, separate us and everyone else from His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krsna, the more that connection to Them intensifies. The open secret is the kali-chelas think they are slickly outmaneuvering Lord Krsna, but they are unknowingly His pawns, and He is using them to pour a highly combustible additive on a anti material and already uncontrollable, raging devotional fire to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga, thereby exponentially increasing our never time ending affection for Them . Yes,the kali-chelas, as always, know not what they do.
Long Live Lord Caitanya ! Long Live Lord Nityananda ! Long Live Srila Prabhupada !
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Infinite Glory, Victory and Allegiance to Srila Prabhupada !!!
Info from Veda Guhya prabhu>>>
Hare Krishna Prabhus! Dandavats! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
If you have not heard about this case filed by BBT/Mumbai against Thompson Press (our, Krishna Books Inc, printer in Faridabad, India) and Jitarati dasa (John Hanton, Pristine International), then here is a correspondence which will bring you up to date.
The Judge who even allowed the case to be filed in the first place (completely absurd) and who was blatantly showing an interaction with Gopal Krishna Swami (in the April 24th court appearance) has been removed. Evidently in India the courts regularly look over proceedings and when impropriety is suspected they replace the Judge. The new Judge is known for his fairness and hopefully we will get a favorable decision at the next hearing which is scheduled for June 22nd. Please pray fervently (as i am) that Krishna Books Inc indirectly (as we are not a defendant in the case) and our printer and Jitarati dasa will be completely exonerated and these attempts by BBT/Iskcon to interfere with the publication and distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s original (published in his physical presence) books will be stopped.
Yours in Srila Prabhupada’s eternal service,
Veda Guhya das / Krishna Books Inc
pamho
agtACBSP,
we don’t need any proof anymore regarding the safe spiritual journey of a acharya and the dangerous spiritual journey of all these demons who used to be with SRILA PRABHUPADA in vapu seva and now are against HIM by making the only thing which is not polluted by the three gunas to be polluted by their nasty mental concoction on the safest sastra as the divine SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM ,
of course it’s very sad to see all these senior disciples of SRILA PRABHUPADA to behave worse then a animal se pasu boro duracar,all these shameless donkey who are proud of their dangerous positions as clever mental speculators are doing the worse service to this already corrupted biped society and that’s the opposite result of SRILA PRABHUPADA who did the greatest service to this so called human society and this transcendental service on the vani seva of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA will keep going for another 9.500 years through that great service that SRILA PRABHUPADA is still keeping doing through the original SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM coming from the pure vani seva of SRILA PRABHUPADA as a MAHA BHAGAVATA devotee,
the proof that by keeping the SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM in door make the demigods to go in that house to pay obeisances is there too i mean i had the full set of the original SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM of SP in my family house when i was still a teenager waiting to become devotee full time and one night while i was sleeping in my room i felt the presence of someone on my back i turn the face to look at that and i saw a demigod with the plate of artik while doing a puja to our house because of the original SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM by SRILA PRABHUPADA ,
of course is not the same by keeping the demoniac version of the SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM by that asura of jas they are just creating more disorders through their intellectual false ego while a acharya is free from false ego therefore illegible to spread the glories of the divine SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM by being divinely connected to that SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM as a MAHA BHAGAVATA DEVOTEE
agtSP
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