Malibu Radha

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 [...]

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Then everything will be finished?

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 [...]

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The Bizarro World

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 [...]

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When all the colors will bleed into One

This is a reply to a comment from Sita-pati das on the Sripad Narayana Maharaja: Gays are sinners post.
Sita-pati wrote:
Mahaprabhu’s teachings, like those of Jesus, are not directly accessible to us at this distance. The only thing that is directly attributed to him is the Siksastakam, which is hardly the comprehensive [...]

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Sripad Narayana Maharaja: Gays are sinners

Taken from http://www.atmayogi.com/node/1205
My dear Sriman Bhaktivedanta Vaisnava Maharaja,
my heartly blessings are for you. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga, all glories to Sri Sri Radha Vinode Bihariji.
I received your letter and became very happy to hear from you. I was remembering you during my visit to Guangzhou which was extremely successful. So many [...]

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