Planet ISKCON

Hi, and welcome! I'm Sita-pati das, maintainer of Planet ISKCON.

Planet ISKCON is the uncensored voice of the ISKCON community online.

It's an hourly-updated snapshot of the RSS feeds of ISKCON members worldwide.

The mission is to increase momentum in fulfilling the purposes of ISKCON through information sharing.

In order to be included a blog should talk about what the author is doing as well as what they are thinking.

The idea is to provide the readers with information on who they are hearing from, so that they have some context within which to understand what they say.

Appropriate Blogs for inclusion

If you are an active member of ISKCON and have a blog, then feel free to submit your blog feed for inclusion. I'll watch it for some time, and then add it if it's appropriate.

Comments Policy

You must allow comments on your blog to be included in the conversation. After a few experiences with different people and some discussion in the community the current guideline is the following:

At the minimum you should allow comments by registered users, and moderate those by anonymous users. You may choose to allow comments by anonymous users as well, but the main principle is that to participate in the Planet ISKCON conversation you should be prepared to listen as well as be heard.

If you don't want to give people a voice on your blog you are under no obligation to do so, but that cuts both ways. Participation in the conversation is completely voluntary.

Censorship on Planet ISKCON

Once a feed is added, there is no further filtering or editing. It's your voice - you are part of the community, and you're accountable to the community for what you say.

With freedom comes responsibility.

Getting dropped fro the Planet

Your feed will be dropped if you go too far off topic and don't talk about things related to what you do, what you think, and the mission objectives of ISKCON.

Your feed may also be dropped if you become disruptive or abusive, either of others, or of the Planet ISKCON system.

Submitting your feed / feedback

Email me to submit a blog feed, report an issue, or give some feedback:

sitapati (at) worldsankirtan.net

Param Vijayate Sri Krishna Sankirtanam!
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your servant,
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Your humble servant,
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Transcription of HG Aindra Prabhu's last Vyasa Puja Offering

Everything HG Aindra prabhu wanted to say is in his last Vyasa Puja offering
to Srila Prabhupada. His book will probably reveal the same but more in detail. Read the transcription:

http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/07-10/editorials6355.htm

Pertinent points he made:
1. On Raga Bhakti: He talks abt the need for use to enter into raga bhakti to realize our siddha deha, out spiritual form.

"Thus some devotees attain knowledge about the moods of Krishna and His Vraja associates from the mouth of the Rasik Vaishnava guru, some from the mouth of the learned Raganuga devotee, and some whose heart has been purified by practicing devotional service will have this knowledge directly revealed to them from within their hearts." - HG Aindra Das

2. On Sastra's essential message: He wants us to read the the higher rasas experienced by Radha and Krishna with the gopis via the books left to us by the sampradaya acrayas. He stresses on the urgency of taking this up.

"How can we deem our transcendental book distribution a complete success? Unless that someone becomes fully absorbed in relishing the braja bhavas as a result of having gained the attraction and greed for them by deeply imbibing the sastras essential message.

Work now samadhi later, that's alright, but what work? and how much later? How later does later have to be, before later to be considered later enough? Later after some future God knows how many births? " --HG Aindra Das

3. On Guru: But he says that attaining the highest moods of the gopis can only be obtained via the self realized guru or Caitya Guru.

"It's nice that we in our spiritual infantility, intelligently rely on the power of our guru's fully self realized purports in the matter of assisting his preaching mission through the solid medium of book distribution. That is no doubt a tremendous credit. In the end however, it will surely be preposterous to expect the books to be fully Krishna Consciousness for us, wouldn't it? " - HG Aindra Das

4. On Who can be Guru?: He stresses that only a liberated and self-realized soul can save the conditioned souls.

"It's only the emancipated jiva therefore who truly realizes what bliss is in store for the conditioned souls upon achieving the highest perfection. And as such, the emancipated is the fittest to instrumentally deliver the fallen souls to their highest end. Having the fully actuated in sac-cid ananda deha the emancipated jiva remain ever beyond the
degrading modes of the ever degrading material nature. He or she may remain therefore, perpetually within the material world for assisting in the Lord's preaching mission. Apparently, descending into the 2nd class or madhyama adhikari devotional status without running the risk of falling down to the material platform. " -- HG Aindra Das

5. On Guru Selection and Yuga Dharma of this age: He daringly criticizes the current guru selection process. He says only a self realized guru who is a rasika Vaishnava guru or Raga bhakta can be our guru. He has warned those not qualified not to initiate disciples. He emphasised on the importance of our yuga dharma that is performing nama sankirtana to achieve the ultimate perfection of reaching raganuga bhakti.

"No where is it mentioned in any sastras that neophytes and intermediate devotees achieve prema by initiating hundreds and thousands of disciples. It is really best not to accept any disciple at all. I repeat, this is Srila Prabhupada's instruction from the purport in Caitanya Caritamrta it is really best not to accept any disciples at all. Better by far we humbly endeavor to chant suddha naam via the intent prosecution of yuga dharma nama sankirtan with a view to achieve ultimate ragamaya perfection at the feet of Sri Guru. Then we may hope to become truly empowered instruments in the hands of the predecessor acaryas. " - HG Aindra Das

"We must always remember it is not that the authority constitutes truth. Truth constitutes authority. That is guru parampara. Diplomatic affairs tend to dismantle brahminical culture. " - HG Aindra Das

6. On internal form of Srila Prabhupada: He is most likely sees Srila Prabhupada as a manjari.

"Whatever we understand about Srila Prabhupada according to our individual maturity, level of purity, capacity and angle of vision we should know beyond a shred of doubt that our Srila Prabhupada is the top most braja basi, very very dear to Srimati Radharani. And by his mercy, we can also become similarly dear to her if we deeply understand his mission, sincerely take shelter of the yuga dharma nama sankirtan and try our best to follow in his footsteps without material contrivance and mental concoction. " -- HG Aindra Das

7. On his own self realization: He has probably realized his siddha form via
his Caitya guru within. And in his compassion and prema that he has obtained, he wants us to realize that as well either via our own Caitya guru or a Raganuga bhakta, self realized guru.

"Please don't be distracted by the superfluous pursuits. Our human lives
are very very short. Moreover the current of world affairs are extremely precarious. The urgency is paramount. If we actually want to become an empowered representatives of His Divine grace, then let us please boil down the milk making it thick and sweet by seriously concentrating our endeavors, focusing our attention as much as possible on the essence that of what our Srila Prabhupada is ultimately all about. (Bells ring) Confirmed." -- HG Aindra Das

Update for Gita Nagari Ratha Yatra on July 31st

Hare Krishna!
We have just recently found out that we will host the following guests are this year's Ratha Yatra at Gita Nagari Farm. They are listed here in no particular order. Her Grace Malati prabhu, HH Bhakti Vasudeva Swami, HH Chandramauli Swami, HH Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, and last but certainly not least, His Grace Ravindra Svarup. All of us at the farm are ecstaticcally looking forward to entertaining these wonderful guests.

An addition to this year's festivities will be a small Rath cart, fabricated especially for the children so that they will be able to participate in the parade on their level. This is a first for Gita Nagari and we are looking forward to that particular aspect of the festivities. Of course, we do need the children to help decorate the cart and look forward to greeting many of them on Saturday.

The festival starts at 10 am and ends at 6 pm wtith a final kirtan. Check our website www.gitanagari.org for more detailed information and directions.
See you on July 31st at Gita Nagari!
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Hare Krsna Prabhu,

Dandavat Pranam.
Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

My name is Madan Gopal Das and I am a brahmacari in ISKCON CHOWPATTY. Over the years I have been working on simple living and cow protection and decided to start a blog recently about vedic cows and their glories and protection. My blog also entails ayurvedic diet and lifestyle understanding.

You can check the blog at http://www.mgdas.com

If you think it will benefit any of your readers, please feel free to add it to your list.

Thank you very much.

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Please accpet my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

My name is Nanda Kishor das and I am an initiated disciple of Srila Giriraj Swami living in Johannesburg, South Africa.

We have recently started a blog www.namahatta.co.za to serve as community portal for the devotees in our region. Namahatta preaching has been growing very nicely and the congregational development ministry awarded a preaching award to the program this year during the Gaura Purnima festival in Mayapur.

We have just started our blog in but would appreciate inclusion on Planet ISKCON

Your aspiring servant
Nanda Kishor das

Nanda Kishor: The blog says

Nanda Kishor: The blog says it is marked private.

new blog - 100% Iskcon

Hare Krishna Sita Pati Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for the most lively devotee blog.

I am submitting our new blog for Bhaktivedanta College of Education and Culture [BCEC] Should you want to verify our authenticity please feel free to contact HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami, Your Guru Maharaj - HH devamrta Swami or HH Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami or HH Giriraj Swami.

This blog has ben started today and has the postings of our annual journal which may serve to be of interest to fellow devotee preachers. We operate internationally and have been since 1991. detail are in the journal. This is an annual publication. Following posts will be regular educational material for the pleasure of the devotee community at large.

Comments to the blog are moderated before publication.

May this find you and the family well. [What happened to all your personal yoga posts?]

Your servant,
Madri dasi

Madri: I need the URL for the

Madri: I need the URL for the website - where is it?

VIHE audio ministry

Dear devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Audio Ministry of the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education is
hosting on our web site, www.vihe.org, a variety of audio seminars recorded
during the last 20 years.

This unique collection of well-researched and inspiring lectures, given by
senior Vaisnavas, serves to infuse us with faith, conviction and shastric
knowledge of devotional service, Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy, Krishna's holy
name, His pastimes, His dhama and so on. Among them are the Bhaktivaibhava
and Bhaktivedanta Courses, which have been hosted by the VIHE for the past
ten years. They are a verse by verse study of Srila Prabhupada's Srimad
Bhagavatam taught by Bhurijan Prabhu Narayani Mataji. The presentations also
includes the commentaries of our previous acaryas.

Over the years our staff has worked hard to organize and record these
classes. We would
like to offer you this wonderful chance to enliven your devotional life by
listening to these recordings and sharing your inspiration with others.

Your servants in VIHE

New Blog

Can you post this new blog http://www.PrahladanandaSwami.com

PAS blog

I posted something yesterday to PrahladanandaSwami.com but I did seem to appear on PlanetISKCON. Here is the feed link, http://www.prahladanandaswami.com/index.php/feed/ could you see if it is working properly? Thank you
Your humble servant,
Nityananda Chandra Das

Radha Madan Mohan my Lords

Please add my blog if you think its ok. I dont write a whole lot usually but I post pictures of my home deities, Radha Madan Mohan. Thanks for all you do. Hare Krsna.

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On Planet ISKCON, please stop the automatic audio streaming that occurs when your site is opened. It's more than annoying, especially when visitors are listening to something else on their computers when they arrive, or when opening video links on your site, which your audio plays over the top of.

You've got a great website. Please fix it.

Thanks!

Your servant,

Pancha Tattva dasa

If you can fix it we'll both

If you can fix it we'll both be happy.

Changed blog name

From Kalachandji's Community blog to Nityananda Chandra Das' blog, ISKCON Dallas

I am pretty much the only one who writes for it.

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can you please therefore change the title in the index from ISKCON Dallas to Nityananda Chandra Das, Dallas TX

Thank you.
Your humble servant,
Nityananda Chandra Das

ISKCON Boston

Hare Krishna Sitapati Prabhu,

Hope you and all the devotees from ISKCON Brisbane community doing well.

Can you add ISKCON Boston webpage to Planet ISKCON?. There are so many activities going around here in Boston, would be useful for all the devotees in general.

http://iskconboston.org/

In service,
Sathiya

Sathiya: your website needs

Sathiya: your website needs to expose an rss feed to get on Planet ISKCON. Do you have one?

Ask your web guy or read up on google if you're not sure what an "rss feed" is.

Gauridasa Pandita dasa given a forum on Planet ISKCON

Dear Sita-pati Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Dear Prabhu, you may have already noticed that a video clip and links to an 8-part video series in which Gauridasa Pandit dasa argues for the ritvik doctrine have been posted on your Planet ISKCON website.

I appreciate your mood of non-censorship, but I respectfully submit that, since you are using the ISKCON name as part of your site's title, the content should in one way or other uphold the values of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness. The ritvik doctrine is a gross deviation from those values, because it opines that the disciplic succession stopped with our founder-acharya, Srila Prabhupada. Such a conclusion is not supported by shastra and, however much the ritviks try to juggle the words of Srila Prabhupada, is not supported by his instructions or writings.

If you allow such propoganda under the banner of "ISKCON", you run the risk of misleading people into acceptance of the ritvik doctrine.

Therefore, I request that you consider removing his video and link from your website. If you cannot do this, then at least post a notice that the opinions of Gauridasa Pandit do not reflect the conclusions of the leaders of ISKCON and the vast majority of its members.

Your servant,

Pancha Tattva dasa
ISKCON Saint Louis

repeating Srila Prabhupada's words

I posted that. If Gauridasa Pandit Prabhu says he personally heard Srila Prabhupada say the rtvik method that he had instituted was meant to continue after his disappearance, how can you object? You say that it is against sastra, but I have never heard of Srila Prabhupada saying such a thing. (You are welcome to comment on my blog with proof if you have it.) Neither does the July 9 letter say it was meant to terminate. On May 28, 1977, when Srila Prabhupada was asked about initiations after his disappearance, he immediately said officiating acarya a.k.a. rtvik acarya. So it would seem that you and the GBC have one idea and Srila Prabhupada had another.

So Gauridas Pandit was just talking about what he directly heard from Srila Prabhupada. Is that somehow not a part of ISKCON tradition, repeating what one has heard from the acarya? How dare you try to censor a devotee speaking about what he personally heard from Srila Prabhupada?!

Maybe the outrage at the end

Maybe the outrage at the end is a little over the top....

Or maybe not enough - how about some good old fashion "cut the tongues of the blasphemers" talk? Anyone up for that? ;-)

The irony is a little over

The irony is a little over the top.

Just last week a local devotee ratted on me for my writing on the Internet, prompting the TP to call a meeting with me to make it clear that I'm not "allowed" to talk with the local devotees about what I believe was Srila Prabhupada's order on this matter.

The GBC has banned one side of the debate.

They've been trying to keep Gauridas quiet for decades.

Sulocana got a bullet in his head to shut him up.

Who are you saying wants to do the cutting out of tongues?

Sulochan belongs to another

Sulochan belongs to another era. We are currently in 1998+ (post-Harikesa). Previous eras are pre-samadhi (66-77), zonal acarya (77-87) and Guru Reform (87-97).

Examples should come from post-2000 to be considered relevant to present-day ISKCON.

Today you might get told to shut up, or someone might try to shout you down, but no-one is going to put a bullet in your head these days.

Also, my jibe is directed as much to the other devotee as to you. Both of those ideas are overreactions. Ban it from Planet ISKCON? Please. Outrage over someone daring to do something? More of the same from the other side...

I don't mind the jibe - but address my point, please

The point is, you're calling your site "Planet ISKCON". The ritvik doctrine was discredited and rejected long ago in ISKCON. To make a little jibe of my own (meant in good humor), Sita-pati prabhu, which planet are you from?

Your servant,

Pancha Tattva dasa

Was just a storm in a teacup

Was just a storm in a teacup wasn't it? The actual post is long gone and forgotten, but this remains as an "eternal testament". The reaction is the cause of continued bondage. Not aversion, but indifference leads to liberation.

Submitting my blog

Dandavat. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya.

Kindly add my blog, The Eastern Side, to the Planet ISKCON feed. I don't imagine you'd have time to read it, with everything else you have going on, but if you get a chance, I'd appreciate your comments!

Hope this finds you and yours well and serving blissfully.

ys, tpd

Tulasi-priya, sorry for the

Tulasi-priya, sorry for the delay: I've added it. Any plans to post?

Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaj

I was wondering if you were aware that HH Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaj is not an ISKCON Sannyasi.

Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaj

Is it of any significance that he is not an ISKCON sannyasi ?

So it seems...

So it seems...

blog submission for

blog submission for planetiskcon http://madridevidasi.blogspot.com/

Krishna Consciousness at Home

I write about what inspires me in Krishna Consciousness. It may inspire others also.

Planet Iskcon feedback

Haribol Prabhu, I didn't really want to make this comment public, incase I cause offence. But I don't see another way to contact you. Please would you consider whether Satsvarup Das' blog is suitable for Planet Iskcon. It seems very much on the mental platform and I do not see how an hour by hour account of the mind of someone who is physically and mentally ill can benefit this audience. The poems are not Krishna Conscious and (for me anyway) do not inspire me in KC. His thoughts regarding listening to the voice of a women and being disturbed is something that he should seek private help for, not in a public forum. Quite honestly this whole blog feed is disturbing.

Maybe I am wrong, so please forgive me if I am making an offense.

Your servant,
Tracey

Hare Krishna

Someone had emailed me as the webservant of another blog that is fed to Krishna.com regarding inappropriate content.

I quote from Maharaja's blog. "Ugh. Ugly vision of Sharon Olds, cocks and vaginas, penises and tortures, it’s the world of course, and Ms. Olds is just seeing it eye-on, poets’ mold, compassion (big word, three syllables) for her poems. “Pope’s penis” and the rest." of a recent post found here. http://yellowsub.sdgonline.org/satsvarupa_goswami/211

Haribol! Ah, how about the

Haribol!

Ah, how about the email address in the post above? ;-) sitapati(at)worldsankirtan.net.

A number of devotees requested me to put it into the feed, and it doesn't contradict the editorial policy.

There are a number of feeds that I read infrequently. I usually just skip over them when I read the page. I'd suggest doing that if you are not inspired to give your time to reading a particular post.

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