In the comments to the previous post kalki das brought up the topic of archana, deity worship, and how it is taught by Prabhupada. He mentioned this verse from Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita: http://vedabase.net/cc/madhya/19/152/
Kalki pointed out how that verse is about the importance of sravanam kirtanam — hearing and chanting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hare krishna’
Malibu Radha
Posted in eternal truths, tagged arcana, deity worship, hare krishna, iskcon, prabhupada, raganuga on October 22, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It’s hard to run with the weight of gold
Posted in blind faith, tagged bhava, hare krishna, iskcon, narayana maharaja, prabhupada, rasa, sridhar maharaj, tripurari on June 8, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Recently there has been a ridiculously long online debate between the Tripurari Swami sangha versus various other people (in and out of ISKCON) on the question of Prabhupada’s eternal sthayi-bhava (type of relationship, e.g. boyfriend, girlfriend, parent) in Krishna lila. I might as well toss a bit of sanity into the [...]
Then everything will be finished?
Posted in blind faith, tagged gopi bhava club, hare krishna, iskcon, prabhupada, raganuga on May 9, 2009 | 16 Comments »
On the post When all the colors will bleed into One Sita-pati das wrote some comments complaining to me that I was making speculations and then being dogmatic in defense of those speculations when it came to my views on what motivated Prabhupada to misinform about and mis-translate the traditional teachings on raganuga-bhakti. For example [...]
The Golden Age?
Posted in eternal truths, tagged caitanya, hare krishna, iskcon, krishna, prabhupada, varnashrama, varnasrama on April 29, 2009 | 16 Comments »
This is a reply to a comment from Caitanya das to The Bizarro World post.
I like your “Is ISKCON a cult?” post. I also wrote a post with the same title http://harekrishnawomen.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/is-iskcon-a-cult/
My post differs from yours in it’s focus, yours shows the views of a young man’s recent experience of ISKCON, and how, contrary to [...]
The Bizarro World
Posted in blind faith, tagged prabhupada, hare krishna, sampradaya sun, raganuga, bhakti, caitanya on April 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Yesterday on the Sampradaya Sun they published a (maybe plagiarized) diatribe which came out in it’s original form back in 1996 by Jasomatinandana das, and came out in it’s current form a little while later attributed to Purushottama Das and Swami Gaurangapada. It’s titled No One Can Teach Raganuga BY: GAURAV [...]