Nov 07, 2011, New Zealand — I just read the article Iskcon’s Sultan of Swing on Sampradaya Sun and went to Ekalavya Prabhus website to see what it actually said there…what a shock! I actually burst out laughing at the absurdity of it all. But it was indeed sad to read.
Perhaps this Prabhu, who is meant to be a renounced brahmacari needs to obtain a beautiful Krsna Conscious wife to remind him to take his medication, to squeeze lemon into his warm water before he takes his bath, to give him a comfortable chair with a nice desk facing east and to attend to his long list of demands that he has publicly declared on his website for all prospective hosts to faithfully read and excecute.
Why does’nt anyone tell this fellow that this is not the behaviour befitting a brahmacari and save him from further embarressment?
His website, at least to me is a real joke. Some kind of dark humor actually. It is terribly sad and a total embarresment to the brahmacari ashram. What will his demands be if he ever takes sanyasa?
This is a total mockery of the simple brahmacari ashram.
I don’t think this will be pleasing to Srila Prabhupada.
I am deeply saddened to have read this. God help us all.
Suvarna Manjari dasi
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement September 20, 1972 Los Angeles
Srila Prabhupada Lecture
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.15
“Advancement means… But we don’t change our Vedic knowledge. We do not say, “Now, Kṛṣṇa, 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 Kṛṣṇa said, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja: [Bg. 18.66] “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 Kṛṣṇa is authority? So change means imperfect knowledge.”
Tdasa; Lately, under the umbrella of I$con co., we see so many changes …
pamho agtACBSP
they blow their own trumpet by making a show of their impure ego.
Unless we are pure by sincere service to SRILA PRABHUPADA it is better don’t blow the own trumpet it can be dangerous.
To free ourselves first then we can save others by following the perfect teachings of ours previous acharyas without getting entangled.
ys seva das haribol
He just needs to take sannyas to “officialize” and “legitimitize” his demands. After all, then it will be “legitimate”, since this is what the SINyasis in ISKCON do; expect and demand this and that.
Now these people are doing this crap as brahmacaris. Go put on a crown (as they think they are kings, and want to be treated as such) and be the naked emperor.
Your servant,
B. Radha-Govinda
Hare Krsna
I lived in an ashrama with Ekalavya prabhu for several months in 2008. I found it impossible not to smile whenever I saw him. He was very affectionate towards me and always inspired in KC. What amazes me is that he is as old as his website suggests! I would’ve guessed him to be early 30’s or so.
In any case, he inspired me very much. As did you once upon a time Suvarna mataji.