On Publishing Exclusively with BBT
BY: H.H. BHAKTI VIKASA SWAMI
Dec 09, 2011 — INDIA (SUN) — I cannot argue with the principle of printing with BBT, as the direction comes from Srila Prabhupada himself. [1] However, the way the BBT is now (bureaucracy, slow-moving, etc.) it means that (from what I can see) I can better serve the mission by printing independently. I’m open to be investigated if anyone claims that I am misspending funds for personal sense gratification.
A major reorientation in the BBT’s manner of thinking and operating would be required for the BBT to print all the works of contemporary ISKCON authors. The first step would be to ask the BBT trustees what they think of the idea of proposing to the ISKCON world that it monopolize all book publishing. Right now the BBT is far short of having the required infrastructure to do so; it especially lacks sufficient competent editors and reviewers.
However, apart from the longstanding factors of bureaucracy etc., a more recent one has convinced me not to print with the BBT. The GBC Resolution calling for footnoting Srila Prabhupada’s books was withdrawn, but there is no telling what will happen in future. I will continue to publish via a trust whose deed specifies that my books may not be altered after my passing. The BBT affords no such security.
These are the main reasons why I do not print with the BBT; there are others also. As I see it, overall the BBT devotees are doing tremendous service, and this note should not be construed as an attack on them.
References:
[1] Srila Prabhupada Letter to Revatinandana, Los Angeles, 9 January, 1974
To me this sounds like a politician talking. To paraphrase what’s being said. BBT people are too slow, bureaucratic, inept, unreliable and unfaithful to Srila Prabhupada and his legacy (they are changing his books) but they are doing a great job at the same time. Such a great job they are doing that even the “swami” (who likes to have his feet washed by women) is not confident to have his books printed with them (BBT) because they will most likely be changed after he dies.
“Swamiji” also invites us to investigate him to determine if he is misspending money for his personal sense gratification.
Considering the recent published photos of him having his feet washed by numerous ladies it would be safe to say that he does spend at least some of the Krsna’s money (or causes others to spend it) and time enjoying having his feed washed by women.
So, yes “swamiji” you are a bhogi and of that I have no doubt. I also think that you are also sly politician too.
You praise Radhanath “swami” for “inspiring large congregation” -of idiots- when we all know that to attract the hordes of dufuses is not the object or mission of this movement.
You spend lacks of rupees to bail out your pedophile fiend from Thai prison so that more of our children can get raped.
I could go on but you get my point.
What can I say, you totally won me over by your fidelity to your Spiritual master’s cause and your cunning word jugglery. Where do I sign up to be initiated into your rubber-stamped bhogi parampara?
The comment I have is I soley agree with prabhu ajanoivc, bhakti Avikash Aswami, he is closely associating with godless bunch of crooks, and like a cobra with jewel on his head cannot be trusted. I would not trust him, he will steal funds comming in.
pamho prabhus agtACBSP
That could make me laugh, I feel like I’m crying but ain’t no tears shed to see these people still trapped in aham mameti, my books, my this and that, etc..
SRILA PRABHUPADA used to say, do you think these are my books? Prabhupada: “I didn’t write these books; they were dictated to me by Krishna.”
So this idea that the BBT is not safe for him means it is ok for him that Prabhupada’s books are adulterated. Main thing for BVS: My books are safe!
I remember here in London one day i was in the BBT to buy some books and i met Kripamoya prabhu (who was in charge of the BBT at that time) to argue with BVS about the business of his books. He already had trouble with the BBT, therefore i’m not surprised to hear that he is blaming the BBT.
But not enough intellingence to understand why things don’t go as he wants because of his false ego.
Devotional service must be selfless, devoid of false ego and consistent with Prabhupada’s instructions. Unless you become pure you can’t live eternally in your books, but SRILA PRABHUPADA does because there is no difference between SRILA PRABHUPADA’s books and Krishna’s instructions.
I have been working with disciples of SRILA PRABHUPADA from Gujarat many times ( Basu Bhosh prabhu, BVS etc..) since the Maha Kumbha Mela year 1989 in Prayaga. They wanted me to live there to help them but i preferred to live with SRILA PRABHUPADA’s original books and divine teachings forever.
ys seva das
haribol
Maharaj you are scared to print ur books with the BBT because they may change ur books after you pass away. Why dont you take a hard strong stand against this BBT policy of changing Srila Prabhupada’s books?
Because BV is a dishonest politician like the so many of them, plus his own books are much more important to him than are Srila Prabhupada’s books. (Obviously, because if he had concern about Srila Prabhupada’s books, he would be speaking up in regards to his friend Jayadvaita’s changing them, though it would bother him if Jayadvaita started changing his, BV’s books.)
One gets fed up with the pretentiousness, politics, hypocrisy, etc. of these people – and worse, the fact that there are SO!!! MANY!!! of them.
Gauranga Sundar prabhu, I hope you don’t mind me answering that one for “maharaj”. If he speaks up strongly against the book changers he will loose his chance harvest his disciples from Fiskcon. Who will then sell millions of his worthless books? Which woman or man will then want to wash his feet and worship him as though he is as good as God?
Clearly this man is a coward and as fake as they come.You just need to examine the words coming from his rotten mouth to determine that the BBT is not good enough for him but they are doing tremendous job destroying Srila Prabhupada’s books. What a bunch of nonsense that is. Selfish back-stabbing quisling SOB, that’s what he is!
That is why he praises Shylock Slavin and affectionately hugs Jayapotato.You gotta kiss some behinds to keep the cash flowing these days…that is….if you have no faith in Krsna and Srila Prabhupada.
They (GBC and fake guru criminals) want us to think that both “conservatives” such as “maharaja” in question and sleazy all-permisive “liberals” can peacefully coexist in Fiskcon despite all the “differences” .
In that way they can preserve some faint semblance of order in their rat infested Fiskcon.They give us the spectacles thru which we see what they want us to see.Unfortunately most choose to look thru their dirty spectacles because they are too lazy and stupid to examine Srila Prabhupada’s books and find the truth that’s in them.
But if you do choose to see the world thru Srila Prabhupada’s unchanged books(clear spectacles) you will see that they are all the same sinful scum, both “liberals” and “traditionalists”. They are all blood sucking power hungry putana-gurus taking us for the ride on their way to hell.
If you choose to side with these people you may as well be selling your soul to the devil,at least the devil may give you something for it.These putanas will just suck your blood and leave you on the side of the road when they are done with you. Stay away from them for your own sake!
Read Srila Prabhupada’s ORIGINAL books! That’s how you can APPROACH and ASSOCIATE with the genuine spiritual master(Srila Prabhupada) as much as you desire.Reading from Srila Prabhuada’s books (and following his instructions) is how you get initiated.Don’t let these greedy impotent putanas lure you to hell along with them.
This sleazy self-interested putana-guru No-Bhakti V-cash(victory for cash) “maharaja” is the best proof that these demons don’t care about Srila Prabhupada’s books nor about what’s in them.He knows that his cash will not flow as fast if he gives his books to the untrustworthy and slow BBT to print. He knows that his books will get massacred by these book-changing butchers after he goes to hell but yet somehow he wants us all to believe that the BBT butchers are to be commended for changing Srila Prabhupada’s books,for their disservice to the mankind, for betrayal of Srila Prabhupada and for generally being slow, stupid, irreverent and unreliable.
If you are one of those who needs to see something in order to believe in it, take this article as a proof. Don’t misconstrue it to mean anything else than what it is-cowardly betrayal of Srila Prabhupada by one of his Godless so-called disciples.
“You gotta kiss some behinds to keep the cash flowing these days…that is….if you have no faith in Krsna and Srila Prabhupada.”
Maybe we have to give BV some credit that he’s at least not kissing frontsides as some of them are.
(At least we hope he’s not.)
Incredible gall ! Phony rubber-stamped kali-chela poisoners producing books about the divine and purest life of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada? I wouldn’t read your aparadha-filled insult for a billion rupees.
First get your arsenic-stained cultist hands off the throats of the younger members of this movement and the world, you pitiful NWO- lackey demons, stop pretending to be God. Get off your bad-smelling stolen thrones, and go take care of the poor and the suffering, you are far too degraded to even be wearing a Vaisnava’s neck beads. You do not understand simple compassion and kindness to others, what to speak of transcendental things. Instead of serving Srila Prabhupada, you serve your psycopathic egos. What to speak of realy helping others under your umbrella of responsibility and protection, for you it is just an opportunity for exploitation and stealing service from others.
What have you done for the simple devotees? Have you gone to the bedside of a sick brahmacary, for example, and wiped his forehead and sat and prayed with him? Have you spared even a paisa of your book blood money to serve the needy brahmanas?
Frankly, everyone is bewildered by Laxmi; if you have it, if you have a big big building, this is your qualification to be God in kaliyuga. Instead of strengthening the devotees, like the globalists, demon-devotee gooroos like the followers dumbed down and slaving for their corporate dark ambitions.
Srila Prabhupada’s books; ten thousand years, but you pieces of new-age demon-filth are trying to to stop that within fifty years. Nothing but Shame from you slimebags ! YOU and your co-conspirators and criminal network have almost made it shameful to be a Hare Krishna devotee.
Some crazed sociopathic so-called ritviks do the same dirty work from the other end; spreading so many lies and false accusations on everything that wears tilak that truth has been buried under the sheer volume of lies and abuses of Vaisnavas. Now many innocents are dragged to hell along with you in your mad cauldrons of lies. Simple persons must rightly reject them also, as their duplicity also knows no boundaries; PADA, b.i.f., etc. Even some of Bangalore’s naive devotees insult sannyasis such as B. Radha Govinda Swami, having learned Mafia goonda tactics from their vaguely poison-tainted succession via Jayapatakasura and Gang. Puffed-up Indian brahmanas pushing Krsna consciousness in the west and at the same time attacking simple pure devotees and Srila Prabhupada’s original and true brahamans, are already seen to be a formula for degradation.
Just witness the cult-like brainwashing! A cult is something that tolerates no differences of vision or angle of undertstanding allowed ; you are labelled a heretic and told you are not a devotee if you do not tow their line of baloney. Intolerance and abuse is a major sign of a dangerous brainwashed cult. Cultists cannot think; they are told what to think.
On the other hand, real and brave heroes do Lord Caitanya’s work, such as Mother Suvarna Manjari and her good husband Buddhimanta Prabhu, in New Zealand. Save your laxmi from serving the Goonda Boy’s Club demons; instead positively send your book money to Mother Suvarna Manjari DD and others like her actually serving others and preaching Srila Prabhupada’s loving mercy.
There is B. Radha Govinda, SPI site members, Basu Gopal, Parvati devi, Rasa Manajari, so many sincere servants and simple brahmanas, forgive if I do not know you all so well. Book enthusiasts, stop wasting your money on gold bathroom fixtures, BS Swami’s Bogus Books, and instead support those distributing Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and prasadam, for Krsna’s sake !!
The devotees and the people have had it up to here with self-serving demigods and beurocrats and liars. We will chant Hare Krsna, associate with simple like-minded servitors of the servitors of Srila Prabhupada, while you corporatists and hard-ritivik crazies rot in the MK-Ultra Adi Kesava arsenic of your own stewing.
i would like to know what child molester did he bail out of jail in thailand? appears this is a devotee phenomenon, bailing your buddy the child molester out of jail and then using your dangerous cult mentality to cover it up and justify it, and threaten those that object to it.
http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/02-10/editorials5715.htm
Sorry,it wasn’t Thai prison.It was Cambodian prison.
Here is the story that nicely illustrates the mentality of people such as Bhakti V’cash “swami”.
Vyasadeva sent Sukadeva to learn from Janaka. Janaka said to Sukadeva, “Give me my dakshina before I teach you anything, because after you learn this teaching, you will reject everything, including me (the Guru).”
As we all know Srila Prabhupada told us that he will live in his books forever and we shall utilize them.As such,Srila Prabhupada’s books should be kept safe as Srila Prabhupada himself.They should be kept safe and away from the sinister people(BBT,Dryadvaita &co) who want to delete significant parts of it and change the rest to suit their agenda.
Bhakti V’cash knows that his books will not be safe in the hands of those who delete and change parts of them but readily praises those criminals for their “tremendous service”.
Isn’t deleting and changing Srila Prabhupada’s perfect transcendental books same as rejecting or even killing Srila Prabhupada(who lives in them)?
Only impersonal mayavadis(like Dryadvaita &co) can do such a thing,reject their own Spiritual master after they have used him to achieve their ends.
Only cruel impersonal pseudo-disciples like Bhakti V’cash can praise those who do such killing/deleting/changing.
He wants us to think how he is very concerned about the wellbeing of Srila Prabhupada’s books and that the Resolution calling for footnoting Srila Prabhupada’s books was withdrawn.He knows that Srila Prabhupada’s books are not safe but his real concern is only about safety of his own books.Otherwise he would not praise those who pose danger to Srila Prabhupada’s books.His words reveal his true mentality.His only interest is to keep himself safe(by sounding politically correct and saving his ass and his cash) while his Spiritual master is being massacred by the traitors.
Besides,who needs footnoting (another deviation from clear instructions given by Srila Prabhupada).The only people who need a foot (up their arse) are Bhakti V’cash and his dry mayavadi company (Dryadvaita and BBT butchers).
So Bhakti V Swami helped get Tattva out of prison? Very interesting. So it is the old “ISKCON covering up for child Molesters” again? Does this mean that the GBC and some Rtviks defend the same child molester?
“What do you think about the changes made in Srila Prabhupada’s books? Some disciples of Prabhupada, even when he was still alive, changed some translation of his books and Prabhupada became very angry!!” (ASK BVKS | May 2, 2012)
BVKS points out, “That is true. But he also appointed Jayadvaita Swami particularly to edit his books, which means to make grammatical, syntactical changes. Srila Prabhupada entrusted him to do that. There is a controversy that people are saying that the movement will be destroyed by moving a comma. Well, there are more things, there are purports changed, purports moved because they were moved in the wrong place, in the first place.”
“I am not a subscriber to the theory that we should continue distributing Prabhupada’s books with gross errors made by the original editors preserved. Rather we should change them to reflect what Prabhupada actually said.”
“Someone has to do it. Someone has to make subjective changes. Not everyone will agree on everything. It is impossible to get a version everyone will agree on.”
“The Bhagavad-gita As It Is with the dozens, maybe hundreds of errors made by editors, only a fanatic would say that it should be preserved as it is, so some need of change is there, which shouldn’t be perpetuated.”
“Who will decide what has to be changed. It is impossible to get everyone agree on everything. Therefore the best thing to do under the circumstances, as I can see, is that someone should have the power of attorney to do so, and that was given to Jayadvaita swami, as Srila Prabhupada had appointed him as his editor. Jayadvaita swami, before incorporating all the changes, had sent them, the complete changes, as he wanted to make, to the GBC body and they were approved. That’s the best way. I don’t think we can do better than that.”
“I recently pointed out some sentence which, in the present edition of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, just by changing the syntax, that means the order of the words in the sentence, would read much better, actually. But it won’t get changed because due to this fanatical outcry. Jayadvaita swami doesn’t want to change anything unless it is really necessary.”
“What do I think? I generally approve of them [Srila Prabhupada’s books changes]”
So yes, BVKS openly admits here, he approves the book changes of his spiritual master, but not of his own books.
He can see hundreds, if not thousands of errors in the books of his guru, but he can not see even one error in his own books. He thinks his books are more perfect than the books of Srila Prabhupada, so why should there be any need for his books to be changed. BVKS openly admits that the books of a liberated soul are imperfect, and they should be changed, but the books of a conditioned soul like himself are 100% perfect, and they should never be changed, or given to Jayadvaita Swami for him to find errors in them.
BVKS so much advertises the loyalty to Srila Prabhupada. He advertises his open criticism to deviations of GBC and ISKCON. Or whether to stay or leave this movement (FISKCON). Then he decides to stay in, and to criticize, not deviant so-called swamis, sannyasis or gurus, but his own spiritual master, a pure devotee of the Lord.
na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana
asuram bhavam asritah
“Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me.”
BVKS should look in the mirror and see that, “The next class of duskrtina is called mayayapahrta-jnana, or those persons whose erudite knowledge has been nullified by the influence of illusory material energy. They are mostly very learned fellows—great philosophers, poets, literati, scientists, etc.—but the illusory energy misguides them, and therefore they disobey the Supreme Lord.”
Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.