Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Krsna Balaram Swami
ISKCON EXPOSED
by Krsna Balaram Swami
29 April 2016, Sri Vrindavan Dham, India –
It has been interesting, to say the least, learning of various passages, their details, and outrageous events that have taken place over the years performed against Sri Krsna Balaram Swamiji by ISKCON leaders, that went beyond just character assassination but also included direct physical attacks.
After reading some recent Facebook comments and adding all the history and details that I have come to know so far, it made me quite curious to know more about the actual reasons for ISKCON leaders and their affiliates to be so viciously against Krsna Balaram Swamiji, and for so long. So I thought to myself that obviously there must be some hidden reasons behind all of this.
Apparently these rascals, cheaters, and criminals acting as devotees in ISKCON do not care what will happen to them after their death by engaging in such obnoxious criticism and non-Vaishnava acts against a natural devotee, Krishna Balaram Swamiji. Therefore in trying to better understand the hidden reasons for all of this, I humbly approached Swamiji and inquired directly from him about why he has been criticized by and treated by ISKCON people so badly. He told me the following in his own words, transcribed here as follows:
KRSNA BALARAM SWAMI SPEAKS OUT
Practically speaking, none of the ISKCON leaders of today or their followers can be said to be real Vaishnavas. If they were, they would actually take advantage of the association of a Vaishnava who is very rare. But these leaders have instead become so envious since the very first week when I joined Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan. When I would ask Srila Prabhupada for initiation, each time he would tell me that I was already a Guru and I do not need initiation (because I am a Vrajavasi), and those who know of these words coming from Srila Prabhupada himself became very envious of me ever since.
I joined Srila Prabhupada, already having a Vaishnava education from birth, also having 30,000 Sanskrit verses memorized, and an exceptional knowledge of the Vedic scriptures and culture. When I would recite from these verses every morning after bathing to keep them in memory and they would hear it, they became instantly envious just by seeing that and called me a Mayavadi just by seeing that, especially because in those days they did not know even one Sanskrit text, what to speak of thousands. This made them very envious.
I am born in the holiest land on the planet, Sri Vrindavan Dham (Braja Land) in a Shrotriya Brahmana family and I am the only Vrajavasi disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Upon learning this they acted enviously.
Because I never ate not even touched onion or garlic, nor tea or coffee, needless to say any meat, fish or eggs, or any alcoholic drink in my entire life, while they all took all of those things and worse, including eating the holiest animal, the cow, who Krishna loves; this has made them very envious of me.
In the last 5,000 years of the history of Vrindavan (Braja Land), I am also the only Vrajavasi Bbrahmana who wore saffron clothes and took initiation in the Unbroken Chain of Disciplic Succession (Parampara). Knowing this, all of the ISKCON leaders have always acted very strangely towards me.
When it comes to knowledge, it is a fact that even after including all of the ISKCON leaders and all of their ‘yes men’ devotees combined, they do not have as much spiritual knowledge as I carry. Every activity of Vaisnavism I am expert in I am expert in every activity of Vaisnavism required for liberation, and that is yet another reason why they are so envious.
On the day of my initiation Srila Prabhupada took my own used beads and chanted three rounds on them and initiated me in his room alone and gave me back the same beads, whereas Srila Prabhupada would chant only on three beads of a new set of beads and would give them to all other new initiates. I am the only disciple of Srila Prabhupada on this planet whose used beads Srila Prabhupada chanted three rounds on or who Srila Prabhupada initiated privately. Srila Prabhupada himself said to his western devotees that he had chanted three rounds on this mala, and this made them become very envious of me.
In my lectures, all the devotees would become mesmerized and wanted to hear more, while in their lectures everybody was skeptical. Seeing this happening, ISKCON leaders all became very envious of me. When they gave lectures, if I happened to be sitting in their lectures, they would feel intimidated by my presence. This made them very envious.
Srila Prabhupada asked me to collect money to help build the Krsna Balaram temple in Vrindavan. I was the biggest collector of money in India among all the Indian and non-Indian devotees at the time, and that made them so envious.
I am the only disciple of Srla Prabhupada who came out of a true age-old and real Gurukula school, and knowing this they became envious.
Because they realized their impossibility of going back to Godhead and they know that my seat in the spiritual world is actually reserved, this made them become very envious.
When our Ekadasi book was printed and distributed, all the whole of ISKCON everywhere was following Ekadasi and even remaining awake at night even. Seeing that this Krsna Balaram Swami was being followed so much, even though he was not one of their top leaders, they became so envious.
Because I was not stealing money, nor taking any commission from my collection, nor misusing even a penny, nor was I paid any type of bribe, nor did I demand to get first class tickets, nor was I interested in luxurious living, while they were and are all doing and interested in those things, this made them feel very uncomfortable and they remained envious.
I was and still am the most simple devotee who was not (and is not) interested in any position whatsoever, but they have always acted against this rule written by Srila Rupa Goswami in the Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu (Nectar of Devotion).
When I started writing books such as the Vaishnava Kantha-Hara (1987-1988), they asked me to pay them $10 an hour for doing editing by putting the text into proper English standards. They practically destroyed the Vaishnava Kantha-Hara, even though it took hundreds of billable hours, and that was all because this book carries too many Vaishnava rules unknown to them, and due to their envy they did not want me to become famous because of it, so they did the best they could to destroy the correct message of the book. Because of this, we do not make this book (over 400 pages) available on the website to the public, even though we have it in stock in abundance.
Once His Holiness Jayadvaita Swami brought the manuscripts of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is to me in my room to get my opinion, showing me that he was now editing the Bhagavad Gita As It Is because the previous editor did not know what they were doing. When I looked at the manuscript he gave me, I observed that it was partially typed and also partially handwritten, so I asked Jayadvaita Swami whether the manuscripts had been typed by Srila Prabhupada himself. Srila Prabhupada was an Indian, and English was not his native language, so for any manuscript coming from him he would have wanted some editing done so it could be accepted internationally. But Jayadwaita Swami replied that no, the manuscript was not typed by Srila Prabhupada, it had been typed by somebody else, Hayagriva. Therefore it was concluded that Srila Prabhupada’s He said that Srila Prabhupada’s own typed material is not available anywhere, and what we have today is all completely edited material. I told him he should not do that the editing, and that by all means it is very offensive to work on a book which was already published while the author was living and proceed to make changes to it when the author is already gone. Hearing that, Jayadvaita Swami became very disturbed and angry, and told Hridayananda, Tamal Krishna, Ravindra Svarup, Gopiparanadhana, Dravida, and other like-minded people about this, and ever since then they together decided to work together against me. Isn’t this enough to show their non-Vaishnava character and their uncontrollable envy?
From then on they were looking for any way they could find to destroy my good name and character before the public, but they could not find anything because I was seen as the most honest, simple, and straightforward devotee in ISKCON at that time. So they plotted with one of their girlfriends to turn her against me, and built up a whole bunch of lies that they could try to sell to the community of devotees in order to accomplish their nefarious objectives, namely tarnishing my name and character. They also did not let her come before me to be confronted regarding her accusations that I was having sex with her, and their excuse was that if they brought her in front of me I would turn her into a frog. How ridiculous of an excuse. I was not even afforded the opportunity to defend myself appropriately by confronting the accuser in front of them all. Those untruthful allegations further proves their uncontrollable envious nature and enmity towards me. The Niti Sastra states,
DURJANENA SAMAM SAKYAM DVESAM NAPI CA KARAYET
USHNO DAHATI CANGARA SITAH KRSNAYATE KARAM
“One should neither make friendship nor quarrel with a wicked minded person, because the wicked will always be dangerous regardless, just like if hot charcoal is touched it will burn, and if it is cool it will leave black marks on the body.”
Once in the morning in Vrindavan, I returned from circumambulating Vrindavan and entered in the ISKCON guesthouse where I saw my white American-born godbrother Riktananda Prabhu, and I was happily welcoming his arrival in Vrindavan. Even though I was so happy and jolly seeing him, he was burnt with envy and said to me, “We once made a mistake by letting the blacks go free. We cannot make the same mistake again by letting you go free.” It took me a few minutes to understand this statement because I am an Indian. I was in ISKCON and there was no open turmoil against me at that time. Until this day I did not know that Indians from India are thought to be equal to Africans from Africa in ISKCON. Till this day, I did not know I was black. I thought I was brown. Also on this day, I found out that they were working against me, unbeknownst to me. What could be worse envy than this?
After all this trouble, I left ISKCON, although not yet officially resigned, and went to live in West Virginia (USA) in a small cabin, together with my godbrother and secretary at the time, a white American, Dharma Prabhu. Still not satisfied with the lies and made-up accusations they brought up against me, the then-chairman of the ISKCON GBC at the time, Rupanuga Prabhu, made sure that certain individuals came in the evening near my cabin and started shooting with guns towards the cabin. Doesn’t shooting at an innocent Indian in America show their envy? Being a foreigner from Vrindavan living in America, and knowing that one day I would have to die anyway, I did not care much when this happened, but the American born Dharma (my godbrother) was shaking like a leaf of on a tree on a windy day. What does this tell anyone about their character and uncontrollable envy? When this happened, the sheriff (police chief) was called there and he suggested that I should not stay there if I wanted to live, and after this I vacated the place. Rupanuga’s name was cited by the shooters themselves as being involved with this, so some time later I met Rupanuga Prabhu, the chairman of the GBC at that time, and approached him in the ISKCON temple near Washington, DC, directly asking him for the reason for all of this that. Rupanuga did not say much in response, and then I told him that “we never sat together and I never did anything against you him, so this enmity should somehow be from a past life, because a Vaishnava does not act like this.” Hearing this, he put his head down in shame.
One day Satsvarupa’s secretary Baladev Das, a white American, approched me in the house of an Indian where I was living staying, just before I officially resigned from the present-day ISKCON, and told me that, “the whole body of the GBC is gearing up to chew you up and spit you out”, in those exact words. Doesn’t this statement alone show the enviousness of these ISKCON leaders? Why would they have to chew me up and spit me out (is this a Vaishnava etiquette?), if also in their own words I was a ‘“stinking little Indian?”’ who I was not interested in any kind of position, name, fame, distinction, or adoration; yet they wanted to chew me up and destroy me?
Around that time before I officially resigned from ISKCON, a day before Janmastami, I got a call from Rupanuga saying that I should not come to the the Potamoc (USA) temple for Janmastami. I asked him the reason for that, and he was unable to give any reason except saying that I should not come, and that that was an order. I said, “we invite non-devotees from the street to come to the temple, we invite to the Sunday feast meat-eaters and drug addicts to the Sunday feast., I am a disciple of Srila Prabhupada living in the USA, a foreign land, why I cannot can’t I come and attend the event and have darshan of Lord Krsna? Since birth, Krsna is the only one I know since birth.” When After hearing this, he simply told me that if I came I would be handed over to the police. These were exactly his exact words. How can a devotee from birth, a disciple of their Guru, and a godbrother who is innocent, totally harmless, be handed over to the police just because I was coming to have darshan of Krishna on the birthday of Lord Krishna? Krishna is not my adopted God, Krishna consciousness is not my adopted religion, it is my tradition, but till today he never gave me any reason why he would want to hand me over to the police. What would he say to the police in the first place? He would have to make something up against me. What would he say to the police in the first place? He would have to make something up against me. What would he say? That I was shooting (I never touched any weapon in my life), that I was stealing, breaking in, quarreling, fighting, punching or running away with their woman; what would he say to the police to have me arrested? I never did any of these things in my life. He had nothing. He must give some reason but he was never able to produce one. Doesn’t this show envy beyond limits?
I once received a hand-written and hand-delivered letter written by Gopal Krsna Goswami saying that I was not to be sold any books, magazines, or pamphlets from the BBT for any price. What kind of decision is that? Books are passed out free on many occasions to non-believers who even throw them in the trash cans, but I was not to be sold any books for any reason or any price whatsoever? Doesn’t this prove their incessant enviousness making them blind even to basic reasoning?
Later when I wrote my commentary on the Bhagavad Gita in English, I looked for an editor and I had found one, but unbeknownst to me, in their typical cunning maneuvers, my editor had been bribed to make a mess out of my Bhagavad Gita, but because, due to living with me often, somehow he understood me and sympathized with me a bit, that is why he did not completely destroy it, but nevertheless he changed a lot of things in it and omitted a lot. Doesn’t this also show their envy? (After this, I officially resigned from ISKCON.)
As long as the Red Stone Temple stands in Vrindavan, and as long as our books are available on this planet earth, I will live that long, even if they manage to get me killed, still I will certainly live forever because of my books. They are so envious knowing that I will live forever, but they will die one day and no one will remember them.
It can only be due to their uncontrollable envy that not long ago some years ago they sent a lady from Poland to our Red Stone Temple, a disciple of Trivrikram Swami (a white American born guru). At first she sat about 12 feet away from my simhasana Vyasasana seat, upon which I was sitting while she asked questions, and then suddenly and out of nowhere she came running towards me and climbed upon the simhasana Vyasasana seat and put her right foot on my head, pressing it down. Is this Vaishnava etiquette? I don’t believe that kind of thing even exists even in the mundane karmi world, but it actually happened like that. Doesn’t this show their envy?
DURJANO NARJAVAM YATI SEVYAMANO’PI NITYASAHA, “A wicked person will never change their mood and behavior even if he is served regularly for a long time.”
How ironic it is that some of these ISKCON leaders would come to me individually asking me for the answers to certain difficult spiritual questions which nobody could answer,; and I would still give them correct answers, because that is the Vaishnava rule,—to always behave correctly even with an enemy who comes asking spiritual questions. So I would always answer all of their questions, and they only stopped coming when I decided to go public about some of these un-Vaishnava acts being spoken of here.
These ISKCON leaders know in their heart they are not serious devotees, that they are just there for receiving public donations so they can enjoy, live lavishly, and receive respect and adoration from others, but as per Vedic scriptures that is leading them to hell, because that is cheating and in no way that is that authentic spiritual life.
Srila Prabhupada worked hard establishing centers around the world and they are not even able to maintain them right properly, and many of them are being sold and the profits are pocketed or lost, and others are in the market to be sold (the New York temple, for example, is in the market at present). Contrary to their management philosophy, we are working hard to build centers and temples, and by seeing us do this it makes them even more envious. They are also seeing us writing books and printing them in sets. They have become so envious because they see how their translation of the 10th and 11th Cantos of the Srimad Bhagavatam was inappropriately done, while ours was done so wonderfully and correctly. This makes them furious.
Practically no one likes ISKCON in the west today, especially in the USA. ISKCON temples are practically all maintained by Indians and mostly Indians attend the temple programs. Hardly any American is becoming a new devotee. Everyone in ISKCON, including gurus, mostly wears pants and shirts outside of India, and hardly anyone wears devotional clothes even in the temples. Srila Prabhupada’s hard work preaching Krishna consciousness has come to this precarious point all due to these leaders’ misbehavior, while they see us improving day after day having success, this makes them very envious.
The ISKCON Vrindavan temple has been established for about 41 years now, and the locals from Vrindavan do not come there to have darshan, except the outside pilgrams. Those who visit ISKCON in Vrindavan are all outside pilgrims. But at our place, in a very short time of 12 years almost everybody from Vrindavan has come here, and we take out a procession singing and dancing with thousands of local devotees for about eight kilometers (about five miles) every year in the streets of Vrindavan. Ours is the longest procession in Vrindavan, and seeing this they have become even more envious.
All the Mahants and great Sadhus of the four Vaishnava Sampradayas come to our temple, but they do not go to theirs the ISKCON temple. All the Goswamis and great Brahmins, pure people, have come eat with us, but never go eat with them. That is yet another reason why they are so envious.
Out of all of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples, I am the only one chosen by all the Mahants to be a Mahant in Vrindavan, while none of them have been chosen. Srila Prabhupada himself tried to be a Mahant, but because of these strange western followers and disciples, Srila Prabhupada was not selected to be a Mahant in Vrindavan. Knowing this, Srila Prabhupada rolled down tears from his eyes because all of the food that had been prepared for all the Mahants that were invited to come, was ruined. They never came to put Srila Prabhupada on the Mahant’s seat, and all the food had to be destroyed when this happened. This made Srila Prabhupada very unhappy. So when I was selected to be a Mahant due to Srila Prabhupada’s will, to represent Srila Prabhupada among the Mahants, these ISKCON leaders became furiously angry, disturbed, and even more envious.
Some time later I was also selected to receive the title of Mahamandaleshwar, and the envious ISKCON leaders could not believe their ears when this happened. Today we have our Sri Radha Govinda Khaalasaa at every Kumbha Mela, which is officially recognized by all of the Vaishnava societies from the whole of India, and respected even by Mayavadis of India. This is beyond the ISKCON leaders’ comprehension and this alone they cannot digest. ISKCON also opens up their own place in each Kumbha Mela, but it is all rented private land and they have to pay for everything, whereas our land is provided for by the Kumbha Mela authorities.
Srila Prabhupada writes in the last sentence of the preface of his Bhagavad-Gita As It Is that “if even one man becomes a pure devotee of the Lord we shall consider our attempt a success.” When they saw that I would qualify for that sentence, they felt even more envious. This indicates that they want Srila Prabhupada’s mission to fail, that he could not produce even one pure devotee who would be qualified by all the ancient scriptures of India to carry his spiritual legacy forward.
When they saw that we had inaugurated our temple in Vrindavan and that thousands came in attendence, the first time in the history of Vrindavan when flowers were showered over by a helicopter, they became so envious that they bought a piece of land about 20 yards meters away from our temple and constructed a double storied concrete building and opened their Sandipani Muni school there, so they would have a better opportunity to criticize us by speaking to those who would come to our place, and bribe them as well, trying to send them away from our place. When they saw that they could not be successful even by bribing our workers and removing them from their jobs (even throwing eggs at our main gate) they dismantled their double storied concrete building (which cost millions and millions just to break it) and sold the land to someone and went away. Because on our side Krsna is present, that is why the envy of ISKCON leaders is not succeeding. All of this makes them even more mad.
You may be wondering why they named their school Sandipani Muni. That is because a disciple of Gopal Krsna Goswami was named Sandipani Muni das. The construction of the Srila Prabhupada Samadhi was done by one Jewish godbrother and he somehow brainwashed Sandipani Muni das to shoot to kill a Vrijavasi named Khillan in the ISKCON guest house while he was asleep, while the sound of Mangala Arati was going on in the temple. This innocent young disciple of Gopal Krsna Goswami did not know how to handle a gun or how to shoot anyone, and he was taught how to hold a gun and how to shoot. This man shot and blew the stomach of that Vrijavasi brahmana while he was sleeping in the guesthouse during the sound of Mangala Arati, and then ran away. They had already made arrangement for him to live comfortably, and then later when he was dead the Sandipani Muni school was established in his memory. One should ask himself, is this by any means a Vaishnava way to manage or handle anything? Do you think a Vaishnava should act like this for any reason? Because I disagree with all of this type of behavior coming from these so-called devotees, these people cannot tolerate it and subsequently wish to destroy me.
Later I saw my godbrother who gave the gun to Sandipani Muni das during a program of Mr. Patel and Sivaradhya das in New York. When this Jewish-born white devotee saw me, he somehow thought that I knew the whole story, so he panicked and started speaking obnoxiously strangely in the presence of about 25 people that were attending the private program. It is amazing for me to think and see such a kind of ‘“Vaishnava,”’ which has never existed in the whole Vedic civilization.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. I could carry on talking for days and days about many things, but it is not necessary to continue telling about their non-Vaishnava dealings. Even if ISKCON leaders actually believe whatever they think I did, I cannot be criticized so badly like they always do at any opportunity when my name comes up. One Italian devotee couple came to Vrindavan and told me, “after hearing of their obnoxious criticisms of you, how could I hear any of it when their own background is so unbelievably bad; while they are criticizing you, such an elevated category of Vaishnava, having been trained so perfectly from birth? It can only be due to envy and nothing else.”
There are four pillars of sin and they are divided into two categories. Illicit sex and gambling is one, and meat-eating and intoxication is the other. Among these two categories the first is forgivable if atoned, but the latter is unforgivable, but because ISKCON leaders have no higher knowledge except to act as robots that are only programmed to act in a certain way, somehow or other they become engaged in trying to tarnish my name around the world. But social law says that you can fool some people for some time, but you cannot fool all people for all of the time. There might be some intelligent people out there who don’t want to be fooled forever and cheated by these people all the time, or ever at all. And there also might be some innocent individuals out there who had been fooled before and were getting their faith chopped like cows in the slaughterhouse, who may want to come out and follow the truth and the honest path. Social truth alone, however (like saying that the sun rises in the eEast), is not the truth that will take one to the spiritual world; it is the spiritual truth (like saying and understanding that the sun is an eye of God) that will make that happen, and ISKCON leaders are not actually concerned with this.
These are some of the reasons why present day ISKCON hates me and wishes so much to tarnish my name, so that everybody they know will hate me as well, and in their hopes it could become possible that one day, either one of their followers or a person rented by them, could possibly try to assassinate me. This is the way they rationalize. This is their reasoning. It may sound far-fetched to someone new, but the history of their actions speaks for itself. These are the same type of people who used Indians to kill Indians, because Indians wanted independence. These are the same types of people who used Indians to fill baskets of real stool and poured it on the head of Gandhiji Mahatma Gandhi. So please protect your consciousness from being chopped off like animals. They are using your money, your respect, and sending you to hell for sure.
Lord Krishna loves everyone, including those who are mistaken but who want to become reformed. It does not matter how we have dealt, behaved, or acted in the past, if we somehow reconcile our situation at present, then we will surely win the love of Lord Krishna. Let us go forward, marching towards the spiritual world, and stop not until we reach the Supreme Destination.
Thank you. Jai Sri Radhe.
Krsna Balaram Swami
29 April 2016
Sri Vrindavan Dham, India
Pamho
agtacbsp,
thank you for posting this vaisnava article,I was in fiskcon when hh krsna balarama swami were a member of iskcon, we know each other since young age I personally associate with him in rome and in sri vrindavan dham, a italian devotee called ananta sesa gave troubles to kbs by reporting something not good to the gbc who told to kbs to change clothes from brahmacari to grhastha of course kbs refused by calling all the gbc followers of kamsa this stupid ananta sesa was better he was not say nothing especially with someone who is superior to him by birth because he used to live in sri vrindavan dham in the last few years by smoking caras and now is death he crashed his scooter against a long vehicle in manali he been killed to pay the karma of the offences he done to kbs,
sandipani muni were my sankirtan leader when I was doing books marathon in india before to kill killan the brother of mukkesh in svd, I left fiskcon by reading the truth by the prabhupadanugas through the book the final lesson it was about 30 years ago, hh kbs is a wonderful personality with plenty of good qualities especially now in wise age he is a good kirtaniya also a super lucky brahmana by birth
agtacbsp
ys haribol
Abhaya carana seva das : hh kbs is a wonderful personality with plenty of good qualities especially now in wise age he is a good kirtaniya also a super lucky brahmana by birth.
Mahesh: ANYONE who is against Srila Prabhupada’s Ritvik System as he ORDERED per July 9th 1977 is BOGUS:
It does not matter what the color of his skin is. It does not matter where he was born. It does not matter what his previous religion was.
We accept Srila Prabhupada as the ONLY Diksa guru for as long as his books are on this planet with acceptance of his July 9th 1977 Ritvik Order. There is NO COMPROMISE on this:
Srila Prabhupada IS Diksa Guru
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=43094#more-43094
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Only Maha-Bhagavata is Diksa Guru
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=41422#more-41422
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nama om visnu padaya krsna presthaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta swamin iti namine
namaste sarasvate deve gauravani pracarine
nirvisesa sunyavadi pascatya desa tarine
I offer my respectful obeisances unto
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
who is very dear to Lord Krsna,
having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master,
servant of Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message
of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries,
which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.
If you go to the following page and watch the short video at the bottom of the page, you’ll see that Krishna Balarama Swami is claiming that he’s No. 33 in the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya.
http://www.krsnabalaramswami.com/sri-krsna-balaram-swamiji/
That means that Krishna Balarama Swami thinks that he’s on the same level as Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, etc.
Sorry, but no one can self-appoint themselves to that lofty status. He’s gone too far. It’s always better – and safer – to take the humble position.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Krishna Balarama Swami: Later when I wrote my commentary on the Bhagavad Gita in English, …..
Mahesh: Bogus commentary.
WE DON’T ALLOW ANY LITERATURE WHICH IS NOT GIVEN BY LIBERATED SOUL:
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=41793#more-41793
“As Caitanya…, as Caitanya-caritāmṛta author, Kavirāja Gosvāmī, says, purīṣera kīṭa haite muñi se lagiṣṭha (Cc. Ādi 5.205), ‘I am lower than the insect within the stool.’ Jagāi-mādhāi haite se muñi pāpiṣṭha, ‘I am greater sinner than Jagāi and Mādhāi.’ Mora nāma yei laya tāra puṇya kṣaya (Cc. Ādi 5.206), ‘Anyone who takes my name, immediately, all the result of his pious activities becomes vanquished.’ He’s placing like that.
Because it is not imitation or any bluff. He’s… Any devotee who’s actually advanced, he feels like that. Just like great scientist Sir Isaac Newton, he used to say that ‘I have simply collected a few grains of sand in the ocean of knowledge.’ Yes. He used to say. And actually, that is the fact. Everything is unlimited. So nobody should be proud falsely that he has become a great devotee. Everyone should be very humble.
tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
(Cc. Ādi 17.31)
If one thinks that he has become very advanced in devotion, then that is very dangerous. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, guru more mūrkha dekhi’ karila śāsana (Cc. Ādi 7.71), ‘My spiritual master saw Me a great fool. Therefore he has chastised Me, that “Don’t try to read the Vedānta. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.”‘ He presented Himself like that. Is Caitanya Mahāprabhu mūrkha? But that is the conception, advanced devotee. They never think that they are very highly advanced devotee. What is advanced devotee? What devotion we can offer to Kṛṣṇa? He’s unlimited. He’s kindly accepting our little service. That’s all. Don’t be proud of becoming a great devotee. That is the cause of falldown.”
(SPL Vrindavana, November 11, 1972)
Krishna Balarama Swami : As long as the Red Stone Temple stands in Vrindavan, and as long as our books are available on this planet earth, I will live that long, even if they manage to get me killed, still I will certainly live forever because of my books.
Mahesh: He is putting himself on the level of Srila Prabhupada. Just see! He wants to be glorified for his OWN books. Mad-man or what?
Pamho
agtacbsp,
well everyone got different karma in this small prison house of material world but to take birth in sri vrindavan dham in a vaisvava family is not a very easy karma to get to know srimad bhagavad gita fully memorise and other sruti and smrti scriptures is not the karma of everyone kbs is not a ordinary person this life is the last one thats why he born in sri vrindavan dham,
of course hdg acbsp is our eternal guru tattva and best well wisher then is not our business to find faults in someone who is superior to us by birth pious activities etc…we just keep to go in our rotten journey we not born vegetarian and without garbodhana samskara born without blessing without guru sri krsna bhagavat is the guru of vrja basi say srila prabhupada they born with blessing and not alone in this battle at own risk in the material world of course many vrja basis nowadays are too proud of being vrja basi and they not follow all the yama and niyama of a pukka sadhaka as hh kbs agtacbsp
ys
haribol
Hare Krishna Abhaya carana seva das Prabhu,
Krishna Balarama Swami is a sweet devotee of Krishna. But it’s not faultfinding to defend the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya from those who unauthorizedly place themselves in a position which is beyond their station in life regardless of their high birth, Vedic knowledge, etc.
The members of our Sampradaya listed in Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is are all eternally liberated souls who have descended to this world for the sole purpose of executing the desire of the Lord to deliver the fallen conditioned souls. We’ve already seen enough imitators and the disastrous consequences to themselves and many others.
For Krishna Balarama Swami’s own sake, he should come down a few notches and set the example of a being a humble sannyasi. He is not “His Divine Grace.” That title is reserved for those on the highest level of eternal perfection. “His Holiness” is enough.
Please read his article again. It is filled with “I” this and “I” that. This is not the way Srila Prabhupada presented himself. Prabhupada mostly used the word “we,” and he always gave credit to his Guru Maharaj, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
If you like Krishna Balarama Swami and know him personally then perhaps you might consider helping him to correct these mistakes for his own good. That’s up to you, of course, but the Swami is walking on thin ice by imitating our great acaryas in disciplic succession. What do you think Srila Prabhupada would say about that?
Abhaya carana seva das: of course hdg acbsp is our eternal guru tattva and best well wisher then is not our business to find faults in someone who is superior to us by birth pious activities etc
Mahesh:
IF A MAN IS A THIEF AND IF PEOPLE ARE WARNED THAT HE IS A THIEF, THAT IS TRUTH.
Bg 10.4-5 P The Opulence of the Absolute
Satyam, truthfulness, means that facts should be presented as they are for the benefit of others. FACTS SHOULD NOT BE MISREPRESENTED. According to social conventions, it is said that one can speak the truth only when it is palatable to others. But that is not truthfulness. THE TRUTH SHOULD BE SPOKEN IN A STRAIGHT AND FORWARD WAY, SO THAT OTHERS WILL UNDERSTAND ACTUALLY WHAT THE FACTS ARE. IF A MAN IS A THIEF AND IF PEOPLE ARE WARNED THAT HE IS A THIEF, THAT IS TRUTH. ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS UNPALATABLE, ONE SHOULD NOT REFRAIN FROM SPEAKING IT. TRUTHFULNESS DEMANDS THAT THE FACTS BE PRESENTED AS THEY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS. THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF TRUTH.
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Prabhupada: No, it is Sanskrit. And in Bengal it is called vane asiya raja.(?) “In the forest a jackal has become king.” They are like that. Nila-varna-srigalavat.(?) When… There is big story about this jackal. I will tell you some. A jackal came in the village and he fell in the tub where, what is called, the water? No, no. The water man keeps the water for dipping, making
little bluish. For coloring. That blue, blue. So the washerman kept the dye water in a big tub, and the jackal fell in it. So jackal fell in it; he became blue, all blue. So he fled away, and all the animals said, “What is this animal? What is the animal? What is that animal? Oh?” All, even lion became surprised. “We have not seen this.” “So who are you, sir?” “I am sent by God to rule over you.” “Oh?” So they began to worship him as God, as leader. Then one day other jackals, they were crying, “Wa, wa,” but the jackals cannot stop. If others jackals cry, the jackal cannot stop. So he also began to “Wa, wa.” Oh, then, they, oh, this rascal is a jackal. Yavat kincin na bhasate. That these rascals are jackals. Now they are talking nonsense. We can detect that “Here is a jackal.” SO WE HAVE TO EXPOSE THEM. THEY ARE NOT LEADER; THEY ARE JACKALS. SO JACKALS CANNOT ANYMORE RULE OVER. THAT SHOULD BE OUR PROPAGANDA. NOT ONLY SCIENTIFIC, ALL POLITICAL THINGS, SOCIAL THINGS, EVERYTHING. They should be all kicked out. They should be replaced by Krsna consciousness. Then people will be happy. This should be our program. Our, this propaganda means to make people happy. It is not a business, to make business and take some money. And so many jackals have been arrested and resigned in your… You know that? Many jackals have been obliged to resign their post in the government.
Hare Krsna
…The eternal vraja-vāsīs like Svarūpa Dāmodara did not even come to Vṛndāvana-dhāma. Śrī Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi, Śrī Haridāsa Ṭhākura, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, Śivānanda Sena, Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya, Śrī Śikhi Māhiti, Śrī Mādhavīdevī and Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita Gosvāmī never visited Vṛndāvana-dhāma. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura points out that we have no authorized documents stating that these exalted personalities visited Vṛndāvana. …
…Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrīnivāsa Ācārya, Śrī Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja, Śrī Bhagavān dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja, Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja and later Śrī Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura of Calcutta always engaged in nāma-bhajana and certainly did not live anywhere but Vṛndāvana. Presently, the members of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement throughout the world live in materially opulent cities, such as London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Moscow, Zurich and Stockholm. However, we are satisfied with following in the footsteps of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and other ācāryas. Because we live in the temples of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa and continuously hold hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana-the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa-we consequently live in Vṛndāvana and nowhere else. We are also following in the footsteps of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by attempting to construct a temple in Vṛndāvana for our disciples throughout the world to visit.
(CC.Madhya, 16.281. Purport)
Hare Krsna
Abhaya carana seva das says:
” well everyone got different karma in this small prison house of material world but to take birth in sri vrindavan dham in a vaisvava family is not a very easy karma to get to know srimad bhagavad gita fully memorise and other sruti and smrti scriptures is not the karma of everyone kbs is not a ordinary person this life is the last one thats why he born in sri vrindavan sham, ”
Memorizing Srimad Bhagavad Gita and other Sruti and Smrti Scriptures being born in the Vaisnava family in Sri Vrindavan Dham does not certify some one like KBS is as good as Srila Prabhupada as KBS writes ;
“Krishna Balarama Swami : As long as the Red Stone Temple stands in Vrindavan, and as long as our books are available on this planet earth, I will live that long, even if they manage to get me killed, still I will certainly live forever because of my books.”
which is exactly in the same tone and tenor of our Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada.
Is it NOT ?
What does KBS tone and tenor in his said writings indicate ?
It appears indeed that he is desirous for name, fame and status.
Is my inference correct ?
I wonder how does it make KBS superior if he is not FREE FROM ALL MATERIAL DESIRE despite the fact that KBS was born the blessing of garbodhana smskara and so on as Abaya carana seva das describes him in his comments ?
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
KBS writes as noted from his article under reference which reads ;
” ……………who I was not interested in any kind of position, name, fame, distinction, or adoration; yet they wanted to chew me up and destroy me?
Then also else where it is written as quoted by Mahesh Raja in his comments which reads ;
” Krishna Balarama Swami : As long as the Red Stone Temple stands in Vrindavan, and as long as our books are available on this planet earth, I will live that long, even if they manage to get me killed, still I will certainly live forever because of my books.”
How the Readers are to accept and conclude whether KBS is FREE FROM all material distinction or
NOT ?
Only KBS can answer it, I guess.
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I would like to remind the readers and commentators on this website, that this specific article above IS NOT about the shortcomings of Krishna Balarama Swami BUT THIS ARTICLE is all about ISKCON – as the title says: “ISKCON Exposed”
This article is about HOW ISKCON is trying to destroy the lives of the devotees, not only Krishna Balarama Swamis, but so many thousands of other devotees also. They do not care WHO the devotees are.
ISKCON has been exposed once again, killing and destroying devotees. So many good Prabhupada devotees have been disenfranchised, kicked out of ISKCON and been killed, including Srila Prabhupada who has been poisoned to death. This is the point.
Dear Pariksit das Prabhu,
Everyone here already knows about ISKCON. The question is, how can we trust someone’s version of events if they themselves are not being honest about their actual position?
Krishna Balarama Swami is undoubtedly a great soul, but he is independently taking a huge risk by claiming to be “No. 33” in the disciplic succession from Lord Sri Krsna Himself. This is ridiculous, outrageous and offensive to Srila Prabhupada and the eternal parampara. Who’s going to listen to him except for spiritually immature persons who are fooled by a big show?
If Krishna Balarama Swami would have remained the sweet and humble Vaisnava sannyasi that he once was, then he would be loved and adored by true followers of Srila Prabhupada everywhere. Instead he has marginalized himself and will never be accepted as the “Jagat Guru” which he is claiming himself to be. If he doesn’t change, then Krishna Balarama Swami will go down in history as just another imposter. Perhaps he’ll be honored in India as a saint, but in India even Sai Baba is considered a saint. Popularity proves nothing. He must meet the standard set by Srila Prabhupada if he wants to be honored — and he’s not.
Krishna Balarama Swami is mixing his own brand of spirituality into the mix and it doesn’t fly with those who have spiritual discernment. And because of this subtle contamination, he’ll never be able to clear the doubts about his past with women. We’ll never know the truth, but what a shame that he refuses to become a transparent medium for Srila Prabhupada instead of pretending to be the next Prabhupada.
I sincerely hope that Krishna Balarama Swami can be saved from this illusion.
HOW Krishna Balarama Swami is undoubtedly a great soul, as LW says ?
LW further says also ;
” If Krishna Balarama Swami would have remained the sweet and humble Vaisnava sannyasi that he once was, then he would be loved and adored by true followers of Srila Prabhupada everywhere. Instead he has marginalized himself and will never be accepted as the “Jagat Guru” which he is claiming himself to be. ”
THAT IS THE REAL CONTAMINATION KBS HAS CONTACTED CLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE THE JAGAT GURU. THUS, KBS IS NOT A GREAT SOUL,
ONCE he was undoubtedly a great soul when he was the sweet and humble Vaisnava Sannyasi. That is a FACT. But not any more as LW also describes in his comment ;
” ……….but he is independently taking a huge risk by claiming to be “No. 33” in the disciplic succession from Lord Sri Krsna Himself. This is ridiculous, outrageous and offensive to Srila Prabhupada and the eternal parampara. Who’s going to listen to him except for spiritually immature persons who are fooled by a big show? ”
Indeed, this remains the QUESTION, as LW put forth in his comments ;
” how can we trust someone’s version of events if they themselves are not being honest about their actual position? ”
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Pamho
agtacbsp,
well there are also different levels of illusion and one must be accepted as the jagat guru only when one get the fourth dimension beyond the three guna of material nature almost everyone born rascal and full of misconceptions but we can go back home pure through the suddha nam vidhana process connected to someone who is already situated on the fourth domension as hdg acbsp, thats the difference between a ordinary person and a uttama adhikari we can see that through srila prabhupada perfection who is really beyond the three guna maiya,
thats the vaikunta man as sbsst as acbsp etc… its sudurlabha very rare kbs is getting closer to that rare position because of his vaisnava background history but he did a big mistake by claiming and promoting himself to the exalted position of srila prabhupada, it must be krsna to give that position naturally without claiming it before to be called by ssgg, amanitvam spiritual life start with humility a real paramahamsa is happy just to be loyal to sri krsna he dont want and dont take any position he is blissful only by the divine grace of ssgg
agtacbsp,
ys haribol
Note: There is a precondition. IF THEY DO NOT COMMIT ANY SINFUL. WITHOUT COMMITTING ANY SINFUL ACTIVITIES
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Lokanatha: Srila Prabhupada, what is the position of vrajavasis, those who are living in Vrndavana now? What happens to them next life?
Prabhupada: Yes. Simply by living, IF THEY DO NOT COMMIT ANY SINFUL, they’ll go back to home. Simply by living. WITHOUT COMMITTING ANY SINFUL ACTIVITIES. Always remember Krsna, this is Krsna’s land, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto. That will deliver them.
“its sudurlabha very rare kbs is getting closer to that rare position because of his vaisnava background history”
Dear Abhaya carana seva prabhu, ‘vaisnava background history’ does not necessarily mean that one is advancing to that rare position.
You may be aware of the case of one vaisnava, Rupa Kaviraj about the time of Srila Visvanath Cakravati Thakur. Rupa Kaviraj was born into a very elevated brahmin family and was accustomed to saintly behavior. His spiritual master was Sri Krsna Caran Cakravati, who instructed him to live at Sri Radha-kunda, under the direction of Sri Mukunda dasa.
After Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami left this world, the Govardhana Sila given him by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was worshiped by Krsna dasa Kaviraj and then after by Sri Mukunda dasa.
Sri Mukunda dasa had observed the wonderful vaisnava behavior of the Vaisnavi named Krsna Priya dasi, and all the Vrajavasis fondly referred to her as Radha-kunda-vasi Thakurani. Prior to passing on, Sri Mukunda dasa saw her devotion was fit to worship this Govardhana Sila, and thus gave her the sacred Sila of Dasa Gosvami to continue the worship. A few days later, Sri Mukunda dasa left this world.
Rupa Kaviraj studied all the writings of Srila Rupa & Srila Raghunatha das Gosvamis and all the Sri Kund-vasis saw him to be making much spiritual advancement.
One day, Rupa Kaviraj was preparing himself to recite Srimad Bhagavatam and many devotees living at Radha Kunda assembled to hear the transcendental narration. Krsna Priya Thakurani also arrived there, eager to hear him. The devotees welcomed her very graciously with great honor, however Rupa Kaviraj did not show her any respect at all. As a great devotee, she didn’t mind and simply sat down to hear Hari Katha, chanting softly as she was free from profit, adoration & distinction.
Rupa Kaviraj began his recitation, but after some minutes, stopped and chastised her, claiming she was disturbing and not listening to his recitation. She was unoffended and innocently replied “It is simply the habit of my tongue to always chant Hare Krsna. But I can assure you Prabhu that it does not impede my hearing in the least, I am listening to every word… you are expert in reciting Krsna’s pastimes.”
Envy swelled in Rupa Kaviraja’s heart and he became overwhelmed with anger.. his spiritual life was ruined.
He developed a contemptible attitude toward his spiritual master, the deity of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the vaisnavas and gradually committed more offenses. He began preaching a concocted sahajya philosophy. Due to his great offenses, the luster of his body ceased to exist and he became afflicted with leprosy. He fled back to his guru maharaja’s asram in Gauda desa and pretended he was the same devoted one they new before. However news of his offensive behavior preceded him and he then went to Orissa, where he finally died after terrible suffering.
Upon leaving his body, he received a ghostly body, with which he would haunt persons who had offended vaisnavas. These persons would immediately understand they had committed an offense, so it seems that being haunted by Rupa Kaviraj was actually a benediction, as it checked one from committing further vaisnava aparadha. So even by committing even an insignificant offense to a pure devotee, even a topmost devotee can fall down.
Krsna Priya Thakurani was unlimitedly attached to the Govardhan Sila of Raghunatha dasa and she eventually gave this Sila to Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur and personally showed him how to worship Him. To this day this Sila is worshiped next to Sri Gokulananda, Srila Visvanatha’s deity in Vrndavana.
Again… Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Yhs,
Balaram das.
Pamho
agtacbsp,
thank you to hg balarama das to make iskcon exposed more clear through the sastra caksusa this is why the sadhu sanga is very important to remind all of us that there are thousand and millions of lucky brahmana by birth as kbs but no one of them claim to be the mahanta the boss, its a subtly conditionament to proclaim prematurely to be a acharya as all the others blooped so called acharya proclaimed even before kbs,
its a mayavada contamination to get perfection through mental concoction and speculation, a real devotee is niskama without desire and he get all the desire fulfilled while a sakama bhakta devotee full of desire dont get any desire fulfilled because the way is on the opposite side, many nitya siddhi sadhana siddhi and krpa siddhi got delivered by sri caitanya mahaprabhu only because they were niskama free from desire with the senses and mind purify so I agreed iskcon is been exposed
agtacbsp
ys haribol
Many excellent points made on this post! Guru, Sadhu and Sastra is our guiding principal as only Srila Prabhupada is sole Diksa Guru and present Acharya of ISKCON and our eternal Spiritual Master.
For all followers and disciples of Srila Prabhupada, the process requires constant rectification with Guru, Sadhu and Sastra guiding us, as there is always the tendency to become careless or complacent, which spoils our progress in spiritual life. KBS is illustrating that giving advise (such as that he gave to Jayadvaita) which in that instance is correct, resulted in Jayadvaita becoming venomous and angry which clearly indicates the demonic nature of Jayadvaita and the futility of attempting to give good advice to a demon!
KBS should therefore ‘take on-board’ the points of the many sadhu’s who have made many valid comments, based on Guru and Sastra for his own spiritual rectification for the sake of his own spiritual purification without pontificating about his ‘high birth and good qualities’, as it is not a very vaisnava thing to ‘blow your own trumpet!’
In the subheading “Krishna Balarama Swami speaks out” (after the first three paragraphs) the next 12 paragraphs all end with the statement that “that they are all envious of him” (or words to that effect) but why does he think they are just envious of him? DEMONS ARE ‘ENVY PERSONIFIED’. THEY ARE ENVIOUS OF EVERYONE (EVEN EACH OTHER!). Why does he want to be invited into their association? Why does he want to be accepted and honored by them? Why does he want to partake in festivals with them and partake of their food? Didn’t he claim that they tried to poison him? I don’t doubt the demonic nature of the GBC, but KBS is trying to use these attacks on him as to gain sympathy, as ‘oxygen’ to fuel his own bogus philosophy and following.
Guru, Sadhu and Sastra are like a bullet train heading for the Spiritual World and it only takes a small deviation for it all to end in a train wreck! Just as Mahesh Raja Prabhu mentions in a previous comment this is “wet stool, and dry stool!”, just as in the political sphere The Hegelian Dialectic The ‘hidden hand’ of illusion is in control of the Punch and Judy Show! Everyone is just mesmerized as Punch hits Judy with a swazzle stick, the Judy hits Punch with a club! (just like Trump and Clinton) is there any difference?. Both are controlled by the same ‘hidden hand’ of illusion. This is why we must always adhere to the instructions of Srila Prabhupada and not get distracted by the ‘Punch and Judy Show!”
Yhs
Sudarsana
Pamho
agtacbsp,
yeah I agreed with all the gaura bhakta vrinda through the comments of this bonafide website, material world means a huge toilet full of dry and not dry shit, it doesnt matter how attractive can be a material body the ingredients are the same contaminate sbstances coming out from the nine doors of the material body stupid people called the opposite sex love but its just and stinky lust desire therefore what they really love is stools, all the problems come when one want to become the master of stools, of course the condizioned soul is in illusion therefore cant see what he is trying to be by dealing with stools and almost everyone is coming in this stink and disgusted material world to add more shit to this smelly and huge toilet of unwanted material world,
sbsst used to say that almost everyone come here to eat and pass stools just few are interested to get out from this bad dream full of flickring suffering, even people born in sri vrindavan dham in very famous dynasty spoil their bonus of life by imitating the western country lifestyle therefore we say srila prabhupada only and not pretenders who are proud of their good births without catching the real goal of live as our guru maharaj did by saying very often be practical
agtacbs
ys haribol
Sudarsana Das: I don’t doubt the demonic nature of the GBC, but KBS is trying to use these attacks on him as to gain sympathy, as ‘oxygen’ to fuel his own bogus philosophy and following.
Mahesh: Bhagavad Gita mentions how LUST overpowers a living entities intelligence. So this KBS is a victim of LUST for power, money, disciples(FREE slaves), property. Although born in Vrindavan he has become a DEVIANT. What an incredible waste of human life form !!!!
Bg 3.40 T Karma-yoga
indriyani mano buddhir
asyadhisthanam ucyate
etair vimohayaty esa
jnanam avrtya dehinam
SYNONYMS
indriyani–the senses; manah–the mind; buddhih–the intelligence; asya–of the lust; adhisthanam–sitting place; ucyate–called; etaih–by all these; vimohayati–bewilders; esah–of this; jnanam–knowledge; avrtya–covering; dehinam–the embodied.
TRANSLATION
The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.
PURPORT
The enemy has captured different strategic positions in the body of the conditioned soul, and therefore Lord Krsna is giving hints of those places, so that one who wants to conquer the enemy may know where he can be found. Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus the mind is the reservoir of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the senses become the repositories of lust. Next, the intelligence department becomes the capital of such lustful propensities. Intelligence is the immediate next-door neighbor of the spirit soul. Lusty intelligence influences the spirit soul to acquire the false ego and identify itself with matter, and thus with the mind and senses. The spirit soul becomes addicted to enjoying the material senses and mistakes this as true happiness. This false identification of the spirit soul is very nicely explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.84.13):
yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke
sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih
yat-tirtha-buddhih salile na karhicij
janesv abhijnesu sa eva go-kharah
“A human being who identifies this body made of three elements with his self, who considers the by-products of the body to be his kinsmen, who considers the land of birth as worshipable, and who goes to the place of pilgrimage simply to take a bath rather than meet men of transcendental knowledge there, is to be considered as an ass or a cow.”
Bg 3.38 T Karma-yoga
dhumenavriyate vahnir
yathadarso malena ca
yatholbenavrto garbhas
tatha tenedam avrtam
SYNONYMS
dhumena–by smoke; avriyate–covered; vahnih–fire; yatha–just as; adarsah–mirror; malena–by dust; ca–also; yatha–just as; ulbena–by the womb; avrtah–is covered; garbhah–embryo; tatha–so; tena–by that lust; idam–this; avrtam–is covered.
TRANSLATION
As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is covered by different degrees of this lust.
PURPORT
There are three degrees of covering of the living entity by which his pure consciousness is obscured. This covering is but lust under different manifestations like smoke in the fire, dust on the mirror, and the womb about the embryo. When lust is compared to smoke, it is understood that the fire of the living spark can be a little perceived. In other words, when the living entity exhibits his Krsna consciousness slightly, he may be likened to the fire covered by smoke. Although fire is necessary where there is smoke, there is no overt manifestation of fire in the early stage. This stage is like the beginning of Krsna consciousness. The dust on the mirror refers to a cleansing process of the mirror of the mind by so many spiritual methods. The best process is to chant the holy names of the Lord. The embryo covered by the womb is an analogy illustrating a helpless position, for the child in the womb is so helpless that he cannot even move. This stage of living condition can be compared to that of the trees. The trees are also living entities, but they have been put in such a condition of life by such a great exhibition of lust that they are almost void of all consciousness. The covered mirror is compared to the birds and beasts, and the smoke covered fire is compared to the human being. In the form of a human being, the living entity may revive a little Krsna consciousness, and, if he makes further development, the fire of spiritual life can be kindled in the human form of life. By careful handling of the smoke in the fire, the fire can be made to blaze. Therefore the human form of life is a chance for the living entity to escape the entanglement of material existence. In the human form of life, one can conquer the enemy, lust, by cultivation of Krsna consciousness under able guidance.