Hare Krishna!
Obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I have land 50 acres.
Devotees welcome. No cost for land. Will help to build dwellings.
Applicants must:
attend morning and evening programs
shave head and face, wear tilok.
strictly keep 4 regulative principles
be willing to strive together for self-sufficiency
be comfortable with minimal machines and digital technology
comply to dormitory for single men; same for women
be convinced that Srila Prabhupada is the only diksha guru
have no sense of affiliation with Iskcon
be comfortable to accept chain of command
be willing to learn how to open the heart to a living sense of loving reciprocation with Srila Prabhupada
Thank you.
Your servant,
Ishan das
Contact: peterishandas@gmail.com Phone 575-313-3037 (in US)
What is this “chain of command” bullshit? Self sufficiency is making you own decisions!
Hare Krishna! Seems I have pushed your buttons. We use the phrase “self-sufficiency” in the context of being independent of the contemporary ways of the world, with it’s bureaucracy, technology, economics, etc. But we are never independent. Srila Prabhupada’s slogan was “land, labor, capital and organization”. “Organization” means a structured social arrangement. Srila Prabhupada called it varnashram dharma. For example, if you have the natural disposition and responsibility of a Kshatriya, it will be your business to tell others where the line is drawn.
So we are putting out an invitation for devotees to live together with the goal of implementing a self-sufficient Krishna conscious community. Whether we are talking of the army, the navy, politics, economics or Star Trek, there’s always a chain of command. Not to exploit each other, or overlord each other, but to serve the goals of the organization – in this case to facilitate our journey “back to Godhead”.
Can you actually envision a spiritual community wherein everyone makes their own decisions on how everything gets done? Of course, everyone’s well-intended, creative input is wanted. And it would only be intelligent to want that. But if you are looking for a rural situation wherein everyone has his house, and yard, and everyone does his own thing – this wouldn’t be the place for you. Srila Prabhupada says that being Krishna conscious is a declaration of war on maya. In that respect we are like an army. He also teaches us that our social organization is based on love and trust. If you don’t like the phrase “chain of command”, we can use other words with a softer connotation, but without social organization a project like this won’t work. It has to be a team effort, and every team requires a pitcher, a catcher, a coach, a stadium, a maintenance crew, security, and a CEO who sees that everyone’s needs are met and protected. And everyone has to understand his or her place in the structure. But this is not a “draft” situation. It’s an invitation to co-create. There could even be a place for a person of your caliber in a project like this. Let’s just say that organization is a necessary evil – until we all become pure devotees.
Incidentally, bullshit is a necessary component in a project of this nature. It makes excellent compost, medicinal ingredients, brickets for the fireplace, and can be mixed with earth to make great building materials. If you are looking for something along these lines, feel free to give me a call at 575-313-3037 and we can look for a meeting point. Hare Krishna!
As far as I know ‘cowshit is suci, but ‘bullshit’ is asuci, this is not to say that it cannot be used! but that is another thing.
The agricultural endeavor will fail unless one has an understanding that ‘The Roundtable’ Freemason Zionist, Illuminati (UN, Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations (USA). CFR, The Trilateral Commission, Royal Institute for International Affairs (UK) and The Club of Rome are using ‘geoengineering warfare’ to manipulate the weather, create droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, storms and hurricanes. It is not as simple as growing your produce in the open field as these can easily be wiped out by geoengineering (weather manipulation, chemtrails (aluminium, strontium, barium etc etc), fires and other means I have mentioned. This is only the chemtrails (“chemical warfare”) and DEW (Direct Energy Weapons) incuding HAARP, laser and microwaves that we are being subjected to in Australia coming from, I might add over 50 US controlled covert, secret military Installations situated mainly around the coast. They also have biological weapons which they can use to infect crops in the open fields.
The CO2 “global Warming Myth” is a creation of The Club of Rome! The “technological and educational” concocted, false, pseudo-science is a creation of The Trilateral Commission which is pounded into the dumb populace, through the Illuminati controlled media (Rothschilds, Packer, Murdoch etc) on a daily basis and also with the help of Illuminati Sellout…thespians, minstrels and clowns (and tennis players etc) to brainwash the masses.
The “good cop/bad cop” muppet show that we see from the Australian political “leaders” is just theater! Most of them don’t know what is going on themselves as they are vassals of the UK and US Deep State of Zionist Freemasonry. This MASS DESTRUCTION of the Australian landscape (they are targeting mainly National Parks, wilderness and food growing areas) is A FREEMASON OPERATION!
The fires are started by a SELECT FEW COVERT OPERATIVES (doesn’t need many!) and the “response” Army, Navy, Airforce, *Fire Dept, *Police, *CFS, *Police Rescue, Salvation Army, Red Cross, St John (medical) is ALL FOUNDERED, MAINTAINED AND OPERATED BY FREEMASONS (* all with Freemason ‘Checkered Logo).
NEW WORLD ORDER means they are “aclimatising” us to obey the military, long ques for food and water, putting people into stadiums and sports-fields, not dealing with groups but forcing people to wait in line to air ones grievances buy an “Appointed Official” behind a desk (this is called the Delphi Technique!). They also recruit many thespians, minstrels and clowns to “appeal” to the public for donations YES! THEY WANT TO EXTERMINATE US ON MASS “AND THEY WANT US TO PAY FOR IT AS WELL!”
Well my idea of “growing food ” would be large glasshouse structures computer controlled but with manual back-up! organic Hydro, SURROUNDED BY A 4 METER HIGH RAZOR WIRE FENCE, SECURE ACCESS AND 24/7 SURVEILANCE! (but that’s just me!).
The level of IGNORANCE in the world means that a few billion people are going to die before they even work out what’s going on! Recent tension in Iran is also choreographed, timed and coordinated with these Geo-engineered Fires in Australia! The Iranian Government are mainly Crypto Jew Freemasons and their Parliament Building is a Pyramid with 33 windows (33 degree Freemasons!).
Yes! just to let all those dumb goyim (who’s houses have burnt to the ground) know “who are the good guys and who are the bad guys!”
Daso Smi Sudarsana
Prabhu, I can understand and appreciate what you are saying, but just to give one example of your photo of a barrow of pumpkins, now I live in a market garden area so around 70% of what’s in your barrow would is commercially worthless and would be plowed back into the ground. Before I was a devotee I traveled to Queensland with some friends and we went to farm which was growing pumpkin, not to buy them but to buy some mangoes. We asked the guy if we could buy a couple of pumpkins and he said (and pointed) “see that paddock over there? If you want to pick them you can have the bloody lot for free! there is about 80 ton but the price is so low they are not worth picking!”
So this is the situation as this demonic society just runs on ‘greed and waste’. Much food is already wasted constantly by existing market gardeners which could be purchased for a pittance. So this is something which is under-utilized rather than weeding, hoeing and scarifying week after week!
It doesn’t make any sense to me! So that is just one example.
Hare Krishna Sudarsana Prabhu!
Re your comments of January 8 and 10, I am quite amazed/ impressed with your comprehension of the demonic network of control that choreographs the planetary landscape politically, economically, socially, militarily, etc. And all of it is pretty much hidden from the public as the news agencies are harnessed as for thier propaganda purposes.
So what can be done? I was just thinking a some of us can live together in a simple way and chant Hare Krishna. We both know that nothing here endures, beginning with this body, and what can we do to maximize our cultivation of Krishna consciousness in a nice way while we are here. I have been out here in the forest for 18 years now. I like it. The only thing I miss is a good kirtan with other devotees, and a joint sadhana program. So I thought I’d open the door. If you have any suggestions about how to make a thing like this work, I’m open.
Dear Ishan Prabhu, thank you for those kind words!
I guess there are many similarities with our situation. I sense that there is need for some ‘association’ where you are living as it is somewhat remote, but I also am rather isolated living in the ‘burbs’. I have lived here (Australia) for at least 40 years (and New Zealand about16), visited USA (and Canada) twice in the Merchant Navy. I guess we just want to be in a place where we can chant Hare Krishna, so don’t feel the need to go anywhere else.
What you are doing is great, so what advise could I possibly give? I like living by myself really, if this was in decades past I would be the guy who’s living in a cave, in the mountains with a pet parrot or something like that…. ha! ha! Self Realization is ‘not a collective process’ by definition although as you say it would be nice to have a few bods round for a kirtana or bhajans etc, but in the end it is all Sri Krishna’s arrangement so this ‘separation anxiety’ is a strong spiritual mood and sentiment, such is our attraction to the cult of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and our desire to return home.
Nice to hear your thoughts Prabhu!
Daso Smi
Sudarsana
Ishan dasa self sufficient farm project for Prabhupadanugas and new bhaktas is awesome!
Contact him before WW3 arrives and/or help spread his offer to live off the land and start a community.
WW3 will happen as Srila Prabhupada predicted, we now are seeing how
The Cabal secret societies in control are sending more troops to the middle east,
starting the false flags to bring on the war
& reinstating the draft.
Life as you know it will change, time to get serious connecting to Srila Prabhupada’s eternal Vani, chanting and hearing like you never did before, get ready for the magical mystical ride.
To learn about Ishan dasa, one of Srila Prabhupada’s early disciples,
read this interesting article he wrote;
“History of the Fibreglass [Balaram / Tilak] Mridanga”
My name is Ishan das. I created the Balaram mridanga in L.A. It is really quite a story. But I’ll give you the brief version.:.
https://krishna.org/history-of-the-fibreglass-balaram-tilak-mridanga/
To learn about Ishan dasa, one of Srila Prabhupada’s early disciples,
read this interesting article he wrote;
“History of the Fibreglass [Balaram / Tilak] Mridanga”
My name is Ishan das. I created the Balaram mridanga in L.A. It is really quite a story. But I’ll give you the brief version.:.
https://krishna.org/history-of-the-fibreglass-balaram-tilak-mridanga/
https://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=50877
Comments like Sudarsana Prabhu’s are more than welcome. It sets a ground for airing our concerns and getting some feedback in both directions. That will give everyone (myself included) a more realistic understanding of what’s available and what’s possible. Ultimately we just want to do something that will be pleasing to Srila Prabhupada. Anyone is free to write me at or call me 575-313-3037.
Actually that drum was Srila Prabhupada’s idea, not mine. But he told me to do it. It seems that the power to get it done came with trying to follow his instructions.
Thank you, Ishan Prabhu for that understanding comment and I am sure that any sincere attempt to please Srila Prabhupada will certainly be a most worthwhile endeavor, whatever the situation or outcome.
My apologies for being blunt, but to be quite honest the ‘Jack o lantern’ image kind of freaked me out, as it has been long associated with Satanism and human sacrifice (and child torture/sacrifice in particular).
The demons try to engage the dumb populace by presenting Halloween and other events as ‘fun’ but the fact is that these evil psychopaths ramp up their murder rate on such events, and dupe the general populace in it’s celebration!
Great drums by the way! Got one about two years ago.
Nice to hear from you Prabhu. After you came on like a Sudarsan Chakra, I was a bit apprehensive.
I can understand about the “Jack O Lantern”. I know that you are right. There are actually societies of people who get revved up on Halloween, to do their black arts, etc. Actually, my better half has childhood memories that makes her think these things are cheerful, so I play the game. Otherwise, I am not a Jack O Lantern kind of guy. I take a very dim view of these senseless social customs. Same for Christmas. Nothing against Jesus. But ……… So I’m with you on that score.
Really nice to hear when someone enjoys the drum. It was Srila Prabhuada’s concept, not mine. i went to India to learn how to make the original drums. And when I brought one of my drums to Srila Prabhupada, he said, “It takes so much work to make these drums and our men throw them down like pots (clay pot in the market place, thown in the gutter). So go to the west, use your technology, and make a drum they can’t break.” I was all set to spend the rest of my life in India making drums. Srila Prabhupada had a different idea. I think it was his desire that empowered me to get the job done. I know the drum can be improved a lot and done and sold a lot cheaper. I have some good ideas. It souldn’t be a money making affair. But I walked away from it all when the guru thing happened. Iskcon was footing the bill for the shop etc. Actually if a person has a feel for tuning it right, the sound can be pretty good. Not all the shells are the same, thickness, etc. and that can affect the sound quality.
Nice to connect in a good way. Thanks for that. I don;t know what will come of this project. But my thought is to go down swinging. Obeisances.
I can appreciate your input with regards to Srila Prabhupada desire for a nice designed drum. I used to be in a 9 piece band with my brother and play a variety of drums, traps, triple congas, djembe, doumbek and drum synthesizer also shakers, scratchers etc. The Sri Mridanga is the pinnacle however as it is a spiritual personality and great care and respect should be taken so that it reciprocates pleasingly.
The price of the fibreglass mridanga is quite reasonable really as it is very strong, but I can well understand the problems involved in construction as ‘uneven’ thickness can dampen the drums’ resonance and alter its ‘tension’. Remo make synthetic heads, for congas and they have a very similar texture to leather (very fiberous) non animal with the advantage of being stable as the humidity changes but they would be more expensive if made for a mridanga.
I bought my drum kit from a guy who only had it 2 months from new for a third of what he paid for it! I really like the ‘high end stuff’. The best drum makers always make the point that the shell is constructed with a very even thickness. My kit is oak (Yamaha custom) with hand-hammered Sabian cymbals. Oak is quite ‘loud’ so I built a “room within a room” with a submarine door on it (keeps the street happy!).
Have you thought of plexi-glass for mridanga or even aluminium (welded)?
Thought of getting some land myself a while back, but the land I was looking at (NSW) has been inundated with fires in recent weeks. Got bucket loads of peaches of my tree last year, but put a wooden box up in the gum tree a few months back (the possum motel) I think the possum is a ‘permanent resident’ now! As I walk around the peach tree (fruit hasn’t ripened yet) seeds everywhere! so I think he’s going to get the lot! I don’t think I would make much of a farmer!
So please accept my dandavat pranams! Great to hear your thoughts!
Any endeavor with Lord Krishna at the centre is always worthwhile! All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Sudarsana
Hare Sudarsana Prabhu!
Interesting that you are mentioning the instruments, how they are made, etc.
I think you would be interested to know that as far as I am concerned, the fiberglass mridangas that are out there today, are half as good as they can be and twice as expensive as they should be.
You see, I am not very business-oriented. I work with my hands. My research and development work on the drum in LA, 1975, was funded and overseen by various Iskcon departments. When I had gotten the prototype to it’s present level, they decided that “enough is enough” and that it was time to get the drum out there. I have a number of ideas that can make the drum better quality, more consistent in quality (from one drum to the next) and significantly cheaper. I agree that fiberglass is not a good choice for the shell. Inconsistent inner shape (especially in the area of the heads) and inconsistent density, etc. I have looked up “rotational molding” as a do-it-yourself possibility. Also the heads should be standardized, once a nice quality is accomplished. 3-D printing could be a good way to go. By assigning the R & D to an outside technological expert, all of these issues could be accomplished and production begun. But as I say, I am not a business man.
I even envision the mridanga with a digital dashboard so that the sound can be transmitted wifi to an external speaker, at any volume desired. Also for doing bhajans at home, a kartal track in computerized dashboard can be set at volume and tempo. Even a wireless mic can be worn by the drummer, also being forwarded to the external speaker. These kinds of features shouldn’t be at all difficult to implement. in this day and age. But it would take a certain type of person to deal with the financing, contractual arrangements, perhaps patents, etc. Then there is advertising, sales, distribution, shipping, receiving, accounting, payroll, etc. Not my cup of tea (decaffeinated of course).
But what I have shown is that clay and leather can be left behind, with all of the problems concerning tuning, breakage, etc. Even the two heads should ideally be tuned to each other or against each other in a nice way, and tuned to the voice range of the drummer. I usually “hear” a scale in my mind, influenced by the tuning of the drum, when I begin to play. These features also could be a digital component of design. I am sure these things will come to pass, now that the basic thing has been set on the table. I could and would be happy to be part of that kind of exploration, but not as a business man. The goal should be to make these things available to the public at cost. Otherwise we are professional priests, supposedly serving Lord Caitanya’s mission.
I like the idea that you are housing that possum up in the peach tree.
I used to play trumpet. I was first trumpet in the local university jazz band for a few years (I confess they didn’t play bhajans). Now that I’m approaching 76, my jaw has tremors and I am gradually understanding that my trumpet days are coming to an end. Have been considering the bass or tenor flutes, but am thinking perhaps I should settle down to being satisfied with my sadhana. One thing I am certain. I can see the digital harmonium in my mind, light as a feather, nice carrying case, wifi, digital programs for kartal, mridanga , tambora accompaniment. Would be a big seller, and easy to accomplish in this day and age.
Nice talking with someone who can understand where I am coming from. My wife usually, says something like, “”That’s very nice dear.”, before returning to her computer.
Hare Krsna Ishan prabhu,
Just noting your mention of ‘decaff’ tea. From a health point of view, there is really only one way to safely decaffinate tea in a non-chemical way, and that is by the ‘Carbon Dioxide’ CO2 method described below. You know, that wonderful non-toxic element that all vegetation needs and the socialist ‘green’ Left cult says is destroying mother Earth by the scam global warming/climate change myth.
There are 3 methods of tea decaffeination: methylene chloride, ethyl acetate and carbon dioxide. Here is how each of them works and what the effect of the process is on the tea and tea flavour.
• Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Tea Decaffeination: This is the method that Harney & Sons use to decaffeinate their teas. It is also known as a natural method of decaffeination and it is the safest form of decaffeination that still retains the tea flavours and health benefits. How tea leaves are normally treated with this method is basically “pressure cooking” them with this naturally occurring gas. At high pressure and high temperature, carbon dioxide reaches the so called super-critical state where CO2 becomes a solvent and with its small, non-polar molecules it attracts the small caffeine molecules and removes them from the tea leaves. Since flavor molecules are larger, they remain intact, which is why this process best retains the flavor of the tea.
• Methylene Chloride: Using this method, caffeine is removed by soaking tea leaves in methylene chloride directly or indirectly, by soaking the water (used to remove the caffeine) in methylene chloride and then returning the water to the tea for re-absorption of flavors and oils. It is a decaffeination process by which the molecules of caffeine bond to molecules of methylene chloride. It is believed that methylene chloride is not the best possible and healthiest method of decaffeinating, although this process is noted for maintaining more of the original flavor of the tea than other methods. It is forbidden to import teas treated this way in some countries.
• Ethyl Acetate: Tea processed using ethyl acetate is often referred to as “naturally decaffeinated” because ethyl acetate is a chemical found naturally in tea. The solution also used as a solvent where caffeine is extracted in the same way as with methylene chloride processing. The problem with this method of decaffeination is the fact that ethyl acetate is very difficult to remove after the decaffeination process, and people sometimes describe tea treated this way to have a chemical taste.
Of course no such ‘problems’ with the caffeine-free herbal teas.. haha.
Yfs,
Balaram das.
Ishan Prabhu, I have had several businesses, but like yourself am not business minded also nor have the inclination for contractual arrangements and such things, but engaged myself thus, to avoid ”working for the man!”
Age-wise, I’m ”just a young pup of 67 years ha! ha!” so I am even less interested as the years go on, in business than I was a few years ago. I have interests and abilities more directed towards art, design, music and things of that nature, but also ”the material dynamic” and how the world is governed by the covert powers of mysticism which is the process used within Freemasonry and secret societies, which in turn control the political dynamic (which is a “Punch and Judy” puppet show!).
In regards to the Sri Mridanga. I have an electronic Korg Wavedrum (Global Edition) which is circular in shape, and has over 200 preset drum sounds one of which is a ‘Tabla’ mode.
Both the Bayan and Dayan sound (Big and Small drum) are there on the one 9 1/2 ” Fibre-Skin electronic head also in the ‘same mode’ there is a ‘sitar or tamboora sound’ and also a ‘ankle-bell, tamborine sound’ made by hitting the head ‘rim’ which also has a series of
‘raised bumps’ (Small on the LEFT rim and Large on the Right rim) which give an electronic “guiro” effect to the ”tamboora and bell sounds”. So the technology is already there as Tabla sounds very similar to Sri Mridanga. With electronic Sri Mridanga one could easily incorporate karatels, tamboora, bells, wompers, gong etc with a selector to choose different combinations.
Keyboard wise I have a small Korg Micro-Korg XL (with black and red keys!) it only weighs 2Kg (under 5 pounds) and this is when it is in it’s vinyl case with DC power adapter.
This has hundreds of preset sounds, but not sure about a harmonium sound. I have never played harmonium so I can’t say much else about it, but I think one could maybe get pretty close to this sound or customize it.
It would be a very small niche market for a Electronic Mridanga (a bit like the Sitar Guitar that came out in the 60s or 70s) occasionally you see them (the red ones) on e bay! Never seen anyone play them though!
Ishan prabhu!
I remember you well from the early days in Toronto on Gerarde Street back in 1973 to ’75. I was Bhakta Chuck until my initiation in Chicago in July of 1975. I donated some funds to you and your good wife at the time to help in your service. You were always kind and generous with your teaching and your thoughts. Near the end of your stay in 1975 one so called senior upstart devotee used a Gita class to berate you in front of the whole temple in a direct but indirect barrage of insults using sastra of all things!. You remained calm and humble as did your wife. Needless to say that devotee lost a lot of respect from our community.
I remember well when you suggested making your own drums and your efforts at the time to do so. I was not at all surprised to see and hear the results of new fiber glass mrdungas being made in the US under your direction at the time.
I am delighted to see your new project and would certainly join if my wife and I could. I turn 70 years old this year. I am going to try and follow your efforts as an inspiration to my wife and I.
Before I go. I always enjoyed your Mongala arotika’s the best back in the day and still do.
Take care
Ys Hasti Gopala dasa
Hare Krishna Hasti Gopal Prabhu! Obeisances.
I too remember those days. Even then they were preaching that surrender to the temple president was surrrender to Krishna. Cooperation and surrender are two different things. A temple president can’t take anyone to Krishna Loka; he’s not there yet himself. But these things do go on.
Look Prabhu. I’m 76. You may not be able to dig ditches any more, but we can do kirtan together, discuss the philosophy. And you can be reasonably comfortable here. I’d make that my business. And we’d send you back to Godhead with a nice kirtan when your time comes.
About Mongala arotika: I had the same experience when living in Mayapur 1973-75. Srila Prabhupada was hearing our men copying the locals in kirtan, and was really upset about it. Then one night I led kirtan and he posted me as the kirtan leader for temple functions. He really had very little taste for this “Nitai-Gaur Haribol!” stuff, and sometimes made comments about it. He showed by example how kirtan should be led, but some people are more attracted to the singing of local nonsense. Actually anuga means learning to chant by following the mood of the pure devotee. We have one bhajan: “Krishna is yours. You have the power to give him to me. I’m just running behind you shouting, ‘Krishna, Krishna'”. This is not a sentiment. It’s a scientific instruction. Another of our bhajans says: “I offer you all respect so that I can have the power to know you correctly. Then by chanting the holy name in great ecstasy, all of my offenses will cease.” So when we can understand the heartfelt mood of the acarya, we can begin to chant nicely, cultivating his mood through our chanting. There’s no other way to realize the holy name. This is the essence of the word Prabhupada-anuga. Those who have ears……….
So thank you. Please feel free to connect with me by email, or phone, and lets talk. Nice to associate. Hare Krishna!
Ishan das Ki Jai!
Hasti Goplala das Ki Jai!
Bhakta Chuck and Rathayatra dasa in Chicago ’75, way cool.
Many Canadian devotees came when Srila Prabhupada was there in Chicago, Jitarati dasa from Canada told me he remembers painting the temple hallway with me before Srila Prabhupada arrived.
Amazing memory you have of those pastimes with Ishan dasa & Chicago prabhu, very good to read.
Regarding your inquiry about Vrindavan Iskcon temple president Panca Gauda das,
he is a Srila Prabhupada’s disciple and puppet of GBC zonal acharya Gopal Krishna who controls Vrindavan Iskcon & Delhi temples.
Petition needed for re-instating Srila Prabhupada’s original “Bhagavad Gitas As It Is” books back into Srila Prabhupada room where daily classes are recorded for Vrindavan devotees attending and online viewers on Vrindavan TV.
I’m not on Social media, we need a devotee on Facebook to volunteer with experience doing online petitions to gather thousands of signatures to post online and demand to put back Srila Prabhupada’s original Bhagavad gitas in his house!
Than we need to send it their Facebook pages, GBC in charge and his puppet T.P. in Vrindavan ISKCON.
Srila Prabhupada’s house in Vrindavan ISKCON should have only his original books for devotees/guests to read and for evening classes!
Someone complained and replaced our 20 new BBT ’72 McMillan editions hardback
“Bhagavad Gitas As It Is” which a donor contributed after we receive permission from Panch Gauda das assistants in charge of classes, Dharmatma prabhu and Lavangalata devi dasi on the last day of Kartik 2019.
Hopefully we can find someone to print and post our petition for signatures waking up the awareness of devotees world wide who support NO CHANGES to Srila Prabhupada books on Facebook and to take out the changed books in his house where he eternally resides.s
rathayatradasa Prabhu,
I love the idea and am for it completely to print and post the PETITION for signatures.
Kindly let us know as soon as you find someone expert in the IT who can help us not only with regard to this project but others worthwhile project also such as creating CGI Cosmic model as per S.B. Fifth Canto. All the descriptions for the Cosmic Model are there in the Srila Prabhupada’s VANI.
Anyone expert in the CGI / IT knowledge, please come forward and help us for these projects in the service of our Guru Maharaja HDG. Srila Prabhupada’s mission.
Whatever the speciality equipments of IT are needed, we shall raise money to provide for the task.
Awaiting to hear further in this regard from all the learned Readers.
OM TAT SAT.
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Thank you Rathayatra prabhu.
Those early days are still sweet for us. I helped put Srila Prabhupada’s slippers on while in Chicago and once more when he came to Toronto in ’76. Got the mercy.
Ishan prabhu. I will contact you in the near future for a phone call for sure and we can tell some tall tales.
Let us remind ourselves as well as Panca Gauda das that being a disciple of Srila Prabhupada means to be a bona fide representative in everything we do. Representing or being in the employ of those who are not representing Srila Prabhupada covers our credentials as a worthy representative and teacher for Srila Prabhupada. We become a disciple by name tag only. As a result those who could be helped by us are left isolated and in the hands of imposters. Some of their suffering may well be on our shoulders.
Better to act honestly and leave the employ of mayas paymasters. There is a world of service outside of India. Serving with sincerity is the key.
Rathayatra prabhu. I will not go back on social media. I got off basically because it took far too much of my time. I am ready to sign and help the petition to go forward, Please keep us posted.
Reading over the comments, I can see that devotees, although scattered around the world, really like to connect. That’s why I posted this invitation that we think about living together. Even when I lived with devotees before Iskcon went upside down, I always kept to myself a lot. But over time my heart is softening, and I’m more open to interacting, working together. And of course we all know that Srila Prabhupada wanted very much that we develop these rural self-sufficient communities, for our own spiritual growth, and as a preaching machine that could capture those who are looking for an alternatuve to urban madness. I know that we are older and change is not as attractive to us as when we were kids. But the invitation still stands. And if anyone is interested, I’ll do all I can to facilitate the change. As they say, “Your servant”, Ishan das