From the book “THE BHAGAVATA ITS PHILOSOPHY, ITS ETHICS, AND ITS THEOLOGY” By Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura
In the common-place books of the Hindu religion in which the rajo and tamo-guna have been described as the ways of religion, we have descriptions of a local heaven and a local hell; the Heaven as beautiful as anything on earth and the Hell as ghastly as any picture of evil. Besides this Heaven we have many more places, where good souls are sent up in the way of promotion! There are 84 divisions of the hell itself, some more dreadful than the one which Milton has described in his “Paradise Lost”. These are certainly poetical and were originally created by the rulers of the country in order to check evil deeds of the ignorant people, who are not able to understand the conclusions of philosophy. The religion of the Bhagavata is free from such a poetry. Indeed, in some of the chapters we meet with descriptions of these hells and heavens, and accounts of curious tales, but we have been warned somewhere in the book, not to accept them as real facts, but as inventions to overawe the wicked and to improve the simple and the ignorant…
Question for Maharaja : So, does it mean…these descriptions of hell in the Bhagavatam are allegorical too?
Thank youJaya Gaur.ysSd
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear Prabhuji,
Dandavat pranams to you all.
Srimad Bhagavad ji Mahapuran is Sri Krsna Himself, no other than Sri Krsna. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami pad speaking this Siddhanta. Srimad Bhagavatam is the sound incarnation of Sri Krsna Himself. Sabdha Brahma is just equal to Supreme Lord Himself, that is why Sri Krsna is just equal to Sri Krsna Nama (but surely this means transcendental sound, not material sound ). In some or certain cases, some allegorical references are purposely given inside Srimad Bhagavatam to clarify those intricate philosophical points—like the description of Purunjan anecdotes spoken by Srila Naradji Maharaja in front of Prachin barhi. Some points can be there represented allegorically in some places inside Bhagavatam but with full planning, this was done to ensure our absolute mangal, that doesn’t mean that Srimad Bhagavatam is totally devoid of reality. Supreme Lord is absolute truth, so Srimad Bhagavatam is also absolute truth, no doubt in it. Any part of the Absolute is also Absolute.
All the descriptions about different kinds of heavens and hells are there inside Srimad Bhagavatam at 5th canto or at 4th canto. All those are real, not at all fictitious, even the distance of the place of Yamalaya is given inside Srimad Bhagavatam ( 99 thousand yojans of south-west corner horizontal direction ). Jivas are supposed to get punishment thereafter leaving material body with their respective material jatona moya body ( temporarily punishable body usually given to Jivattma after death) for their sinful activities, but also some practical conceptions of heaven and hell can be there here on this earth where those Jivas can get the result of their activities in gross form right now with their respective present gross body. Examples are given below—Badrinath Dham situated in Himalayan Hills on this Earth is known as Bhouma Vaikuntha. Sri Braja Dham here on this earth—Sri Vrindavan is known as Bhouma Vrindavan. Also Kulu-Manali or Pavali or Kashmir etc. can be known as Bhouma Svarga (heaven). Then why not we can understand that those Pros –Quarters or those wine clubs ( or hotels), or all those places where gamble games ( illegal games) are going on here on this Earth as Bhouma hells.
Why the shadow of Tulsi Devi or the shadow of Guru- Vaishnava is so important and respectable? if we can understand from heart that why even a shadow of a transcendental real object is as respectable as the original object—then in that case there can not be any doubt or suspicion about those anecdotes given inside the Bhagavatam because those are as good and real as the Bhagavatam itself, same way respectable for us all. We can remember that Durga Devi who is the in charge of this negative world is the shadow of that original potency of the supreme Lord Yogamaya.
What Milton has written in his book ‘ Paradise lost’ is totally a separate issue. Whereas we already know that Sriman Mahaprabhu has already declared Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuran as the topmost scriptural evidence ( Pramanam ammalam). So in that case we should not have any doubt about Srimad Bhagavatam. No doubt or suspicion can stand in the way of that Absolute truth ( or shrouta pantha ).
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of
Guru- Gauranga and Gomata your servant – Sri Baba Shyam das.
Note : For more detail Information you can consult Krsna Samhita written by Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur.
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Dear Babaji Maharaja, dandavat pranams
I have 2 questions l would like to ask you but they are coming from other kathas you gave previously, they are not part of the Katha you are giving on these days so l hope it is ok for me to ask them.
In one of you Katha you spoke of your experience in serving one Vaisnava who had injured his head due to a fall. If l well remember, inspite of you serving him, this Vaisnava was abusing you. Then your Guru Maharaja heard about it and he told you that he will pay for his offenses, even if he was not in his right mind. For many days l have thought about it, because it really strucked me this point.We are westerners, and our mental parabdha is very heavy due to our sinful activities. Many devotees have also serious psychological issues that, inspite of them knowing it is wrong, still it is compelling them to act in a way that may give pain to other Vaisnavas. So how one who is mentally sick can get the full result of his own aparadhas? Will you please elaborate on that? I think in our stage it is very important to know this.
My other question is: one of you Katha you said something that really strucked me: that we can approach Vrindavana only after having approached the Gambhira. I find this point so beautiful, could you please elaborate on that?
Thank you very much for your time and for the enliving kathas your are giving to us.
Your servant Shyama Dasi
All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear Mama
Now my unalloyed love and affection.
Your Question can give me inspiration to give answer in such a way so that this can become a solution for those who all are having that kind and doubt and suspicion- not only for you. What is papa (sinful act) and what is aparadha (offence) ? What is the basic difference between papa and aparadha? That is the main Question. Actually, papa is related to our material body, mind and intellect, I mean related to our gross body and fine body but aparadha has its great impact on the jivattma itself. Sinful activities are done by the help of body, mind and speech, that is why at the time of death tree Yamadutas are usually coming to catch any sinful jivattma to give punishment at Yamalaya. After getting proper punishment by Yamaraja they can get free from sinful activities done by them before. But through this procedure, they cannot erase or eradicate their tendency of papa already their inside their heart. Only and only by Harinama and Haribhajan they can purify themselves no other alternative way. Even only Namabhasa can make them free from all countless sins done in their whole life before, not only that but also they can get mukti (salvation) but not bhakti (genuine nectar) .
But knowingly or unknowingly if some aparadha done—then this can have a great impact on the jivatma itself directly. No way out. Any dirty or wrong action if done against Guru- Vaishnava- Bhagavan- Harinam- Dhama- Mahaprasadam or anything related to Hari Bhajan field can cut and through our consciousness level to put us down and down, even up to the low level of a wild beast.
In Kalikal sinful activities are increasing on an alarming rate. But Namabhasa cannot make us free from such aparadha. We should find out the original cause of our aparadha to beg for pardon positively, otherwise not. Perhaps you have heard that some time Guru- Vaishnava begging for pardon (out of their humble mood they speak that way)– in the following way – “Knowingly or unknowingly if at all any aparadha done please excuse. “
Srila Krsna das Kaviraj Gosvami pad going to beg for pardon in each and every step unto the Lotus feet of Srila Vrindavan das Mahashaya for any aparadha at all done knowingly and unknowingly.
The effect of any great aparadha can go even up to the next birth to give heavy punishment. You can remember the case of Capal Gopal, or the case of Devananda Pandit, or the case of Gopal Chakravarti who insulted Srila Namachary Haridas Thakur at Saptagram or the case of Prajapati Daksa who insulted Sri Siva Shyambu. This way we can get countless such documents which can put warning before us. Srila Vrindavan das Thakur Mahasahaya has written in his Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata that – even if Sulapani ( Trident holder) Shankar going to make aparadha still he will have to get the result (punishment) of aparadha done by him. So even if any mentally disbalanced man going to commit any aparadha still he will have to suffer for that, no other way.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru- Gauranga – and Go Mata
Baba Shyam das
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Question : I have heard the popular story of Srila Rupa Gosvami and Krsna das. According to the tradition in Vrindavan Krsna das was a lame man and unable to walk, and when Srila Rupa Gosvami laugh, then Krsna das thought that he is laughing at his disability. Please Babaji Maharaj kindly tell me whether it is true or not.
Answer by Shri Shyam das Baba
All Glories to Sri Sri and Gauranga
Dear Prabhuji,
Dandavat pranams to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection.
Your Question can give me a nice chance to break such wrong Siddhanta vicar. Just previous night one such Question came about Srila Nama Acharya Srila Haridas Thakur. He was originally Brahmin or took birth at Yavan-kula? Some such different stories are going on in this material world about Srila Haridas Thakur, Srila Rupa Gosvami pad, Jiva pad, ect. But our previous Gaudiya Guruvarga never approved or accepted those wrong Siddhanta Vicar. Actually they are simply committing a great offense, because of their doubt and suspicion.
Is there any doubt in it that Srila Jiva pad was hundred percent in the line of Srila Rupa and Sanatan?. Some people speaking just opposite ( they want to say that Srila Jiva pad was not at all in favour of parakiya bhava, he wanted to establish svakiya bhava, whereas Srila Rupa Sanatan where in favour of parakiya bhava vicar), whereas he himself has confirmed repeatedly about his hundred per cent submission unto the Lotus feet of Sri Sri Rupa-Santan.
We cannot confine a Vaishnava within our material frame of caste and birth. At all if I have any doubt about the holiness of Srila Namacharya Haridas Thakur then and only then this type of Question can come into our material mind, otherwise not. Topmost honorable position (designation or title) was given by Sriman Mahaprabhu to Haridas Thakur—As “Nama Accharya”, what more we can expect than that ! Because Sri Harinam Prabhu is above all. Srila Sanatan Gosvami pad also was bound to confirm this point in front of Srila Haridas Thakur while staying with him at Nilachal Dham. Our previous Gaudiya Guru-varga never approved that kind of doubt and suspicion. From Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita or from Sri Chaitanya Bhagavat we know that Srila Haridas Thakur was from Yavan-kula. So what? Again –How we can expect that a mistake could be done by the great Vaishnava Acharya like Srila Rupa Gosvami pad? How we can expect that a mistake could be done by the great Vaishnava tattva Accharya like Srila Jiva Gosvami pad ? That is the main Question. If we can identify any fault with them then surely they are not Accharya. Any Vaishnava Accharya (pure– specially those who are the eternal parshad of Sri Sri Krsna Chaitanya Deva) is always flawless. We can never expect any wrong Siddhanta or wrong etiquette from them at all.
This kind of story as you are speaking as you have heard from some source about Srila Rupa Gosvami pad is never applicable for him.
Long ago I also heard, but not directly, so I couldn’t get any scope to crush that kind of wrong Siddhanta vicar. Many such stories going on in this material world to put us in great confusion. So please try to depend upon the right source of Harikatha . Our previous Gaudiya Guru Varga like Srila Vishvanath Chakravarti pad or Baladev Vidyabhushan or Srila Satchidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur or Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada or Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Gosvami Maharaj or Srila Bhakti Rakshak Srila Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja or Srila Bhakti Progyan Keshava Gosvami Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Saranga Gosvami Maharaj –non of them never approved that type of fictitious story which has no Background.
Also in Vrindavan some such so-called famous Sadhus ( ? ) they are always busy to prove that Srila Suta Deva Gosvami was originally Brahmin, whereas we can find direct evidence from Srimad Bhagavatam – his own comment that—“we are vilomo yata”. Then what solution ( Siddhanta) you can expect form them ?
In near future I keep hope to write and speak more about this point. Excuse me.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru- Gauranga – and Go Mata
Baba Shyam das
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All Glories To Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Dear, Respected Prabhuji
Dandvat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection together with respect to reach a balanced position. Total satisfaction of mind and heart is only possible through actual Hari bhajan. You have done a lot for others but nothing for yourself- Your this kind of heart rendering crying can surely give you a scope to realize the mystery of bhajan. I am your useless Godbrother if at all can come in your use in Hari bhajan then il would deem myself very lucky, specially because you are my Senior Godbrother. You must bless me to engage me in perfect Vani Seva. I know your health cannot permit you to come here in India to bless me physically in this old age, but still your strong will power can take me in front of you in fine form- Without any Plane fare and Visa. Rest of your life can come out successful through hearing Hari Katha and doing Hari nama Sankirtan. Khatanga Raja was successful to utilize a very small amount of time which was left in his life. Never mind I am with you together with all my Guru Varga.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Useless Godbrother
Sri Shyam Baba
Always expecting your kripa.
Dear Babaji Maharaja,
My heart-felt dandavat pranams to you. I am very grateful that you took the time and care to write to me. I am strengthened by your words and am encouraged to continue my bhajan (what there is of it) in the hope of pleasing Sri Guru and Sri Vaishnavas. I know that somehow pleasing them is the only pathway forward for me.
As soon as I wrote you, I felt some connection to you and some relief — even before I received your reply. I understand a little something of how a fallen jiva like me can link with Gurutattva through sincere prayer and sadhu sanga. I can’t describe how important your message was to me. I especially take heart from your assurance that my “heart-rending call”, weak as it is, will “lead me to the mystery of bhajan”. I am very grateful for your kindness and feel happiness reading your message. I feel fortunate to receive your soft and humble words, which I know is the sure sign of a true Vaishnava.
I especially take heart from your suggestion that through the “force of my will” (through sincere and humble prayer) I “can have your darshan” in my heart. I understand this to be the true reality, the plane of true existence and I hope that with your blessing I can reside there in seva to the Vaishnavas.
When I wrote you, I was also thinking of Katvanga Maharaja, and taking some hope from his story. Your mention of him in your message confirmed your compassionate link to me and I felt your affection and love. This is helping me work toward achieving the balanced position you recommended.
As for being your “senior Godbrother,” I am graced by your generous and humble statement but know the truth of the matter of our respective positions when I hear your Hari Katha which is a powerful force that dispels all my misconceptions. So much of what you say, is beyond my capacity to live up to, it is so high. But that doesn’t matter to me, because I know you speak the truth and that is the goal. That is my hope, to one day fully embody our guruvarga’s teachings, and prove myself truly useful to their service.
My heart is more at peace, having received your blessing. I am more restful in spirit knowing that “you are with me together with all your Guru Varga”. Please let me know if I can render some menial seva to you and your missionary endeavours.
Begging to remain the recipient of your grace.
Your aspiring servant,
Bhūdhara das
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Hare Krishna Maharaj, please accept my dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.
First, I want to tank Purushottama Dasa and Krishna Dasa prabhus for making this connection with you possible.
My name is Vallabha Dasa, I’m a disciple of Nitya lila 108 Sri Srimad Bhakti Vijñana Bharati Goswami Maharaj and live in Brazil.
I have a very strong doubt that arose some years back but I kept it for myself since there is the danger of aparadh around this subject and I was waiting to get in touch with a Vaishnava like you, so that I know I will get the proper answer about this delicate subject.
I’ve been in touch with Nityananda parivar and other Vaishnava groups which argue some things about Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada:
– They say that he did not receive sannyasi-vesha from his gurudev, and therefore it’s wrong, and also that his guru did not establish the wearing of saffron cloth, and that the vesha was only white
– They say that the diksha mantras that we recite are not the same mantras that Srila Jagannatha Dasa Babaji Maharaj gave to his other shishyas
So these points are very delicate and they kind of disturb my mind.
Besides it, I’ve recently read the Gaura Govindarchana Smarana Paddhati of Sripada Dhyanachandra Goswami and there are gayatri mantras of the pancha tattva and also other mantras… Is there any specific reason for why the diksha in our parampara does not include the gayatri mantras of Nityananda, Adwaita, Srivasa and Gadadhara in the diksha?
Thank you so much for everything you give to us, please accept my humble dandavat pranam at your lotus feet. Jay Nitai!
Dear/Prabhuji,
Dandvat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Look prabhuji even your first point is also contradictory, because Sriman Nityananda Prabhu is not a material personality so that He can keep a flow of his hereditical flow of blood and flesh, so you have no scope to write that way which you have written to me- “I have been in touch with Nityananda Parivara”. Those who are going to demand such blood and flesh link with Nityananda Prabhu- They are all 100% Sahajiya and fraud, so they have no right to pass any such remark about Aprakrit Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada. Out of 8 approved Archas(Worshipable object of prabhu and his Parshad), photo is also one of them. So as a photo of Sri Gurudeva(Sad Guru) is just equal to himself. That is why Srila Ramanujacharya took sannyasa from Srila Yamunacharya’s photo at the bank of Ananta Sarovar. Similarly, any great Nitya Parshad of Bhagvan can take Sannyasa from the photo( Alok Chitrapath) of his Gurudeva which cannot be a topic of contaversy. Anyway they are all Nitya Sannyasi, so what to speak about there Lokatita activities? Saffron cloth and Tridandi Sannyasa is already approved in Sastras(Srimad Bhagvatam and other Puranas), externally you owl cannot see the approval of Saffron cloth and Tridandi Sannyasa in the life of Srila Prabhupada by his Gurudeva ( Srila Gaur Kishore Das Baba) but know it for sure that all Gaur Parshad including Sriman Mahaprabhu they already approved him this Saffron Cloth and Tridandi Sannyasa Vesh threw there order to him to go for Massive Preaching. I have already given so many answers to those foolish Sahajiyas to stop there barking. Many Hari-Katha on these topics you can find in Internet- But you will have to search. If you can realize the Sweet Balancing Track of Mantra Parampara and Bhagvata Parampara as shown by Srila Prabhupada then this kind of barking Argument can automatically come to an end. Srila Jagannath Das Baba is our Bhagvata Parampara, not Mantra Parampara, so there can be some external disperaty but the main theme of Bhagvata Parampara power is already Inherited there. Please don’t go for fanciful bad association (evil association) to spoil your own brain. Perfect Guru Anugatya together with that Strong faith in Guru-Vaishnava Parampara can give you success in your Bhajan. According to your own standard you can read some Sastras like Sri Caitanya Bhagvata, Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Updeshamrita, Man Siksha, Sikshastakam, Jaiva Dharma etc, not DhyanChandra Padati right now. Let those Sahajiyas jump into fire to die, What it concern to you? Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada- The Great have given us the scope to recite Sri Caitanya Gayatri from Sri Caitanya Upanishad- Which is itself complete because Panch-Tattva is nothing but the expression of Sriman Mahaprabhu in five different forms, nothing else. Sriman Mahaprabhu is just equal to Panch Tattva, So Sri Caitanya Gayatri can give all the complete result. So, Seprate Gayatri of Nityananda or Advaita Goswami is not so urgent as such.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Insignificant Shyam Baba
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Maharaj! Dandavat pranams! Hare Krishna.
Please get well soon so that we can hear Hari katha from you!
Please excuse me my stupidity and ignorance. This is my condition. Should I be helpless?
I want to believe that vaishnavas will never leave me even if I’m offensive.. the other day you told “you need not come to me. Go away!”. You also said that the worse thing that can happen is to be cut from vaishnavas. Why vaishnavas would cut someone from them? People due to their ignorance and offenses can go away. But why are they let go? Will Gurudev save those who left Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad and fell down? What is their destiny? Why Nityananda prabhu wanted to save Jagay and Maday at any cost? They also were offensive towards vaishnava.
Please don’t be upset with me. I was listening to your Hari katha and every time you were saying “one stupid devotee” I was thinking you would mean me..
Please get well soon and don’t leave us without Hari Katha🙏🏼
Dandavat
Madhavi devi dasi
Also the following Question was in my mind, can you please elaborate on it little bit.
If I am married to Krishna how can I serve Radha? I don’t know about this high topics but I just understood that I should meditate on how to serve Radha always and help her to meet with Krishna. I am an ignorant and I can’t reconcile the madhurya rasa with Radha dasiam. I was told that this is the highest achievement for a jiva. They told by listening to Hari Katha I will understand slowly slowly. But I am a hypocrite. I’m just speaking. I don’t have a serving mood. I have only Kama. By the mercy of vaishnavas one day I will be able to say it from heart: “I want to be an intimate Dasi of Radha”
I hear so much about seva but I still don’t understand how can I serve Vaishnavas and Radha&Krishna.
I’m full of faults and I don’t have faith in vaishnavas. I have just a little faith in chanting but that also sometimes goes.. and that little faith doesn’t allow me to chant properly anyway.. it just keeps me chanting namabas or namaparadh. Please don’t be angry I’m not trying to know the passtimes of Radha and Krishna. I know that this won’t help just to know. I’m completely identified with my female body so by now I would like to realize that I’m not this body
Hare Krishna
Madhavi Devi Dasi
Dear/Mamoni,
Dandvat Pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Actually any how they can never throw us out, so surely some day they can rescue us, no doubt in it. But due to accumulated anartha and apradha it will take long period of time for their deliverance. When mother speaking Go Away, Get Lost- I don’t like to see your face, then be sure that she like to see my face very much, you cannot understand this sensitive point, so I say you are foolish. Guru-Vaishnava can be compared with Fathomless Ocean of Karuna- So how they can stop flowing Kripa up to you? Those who all left Prabhupada mercilessly- they can again come to Srila Prabhupada some life to get delivery of their Self, but all their previous aparadha should be eliminated.
We all Jiva Atma’s are Shakti Amsa Tattva of Sri Krishna, So naturally Sri Krishna is our Husband. Only you will have to realize this point from your heart. Also we Gaudiyas always pray the Hyms of Srimad Bhagvatam 10th Canto-
“Katyayani Maha-Maye Mahayogineya Dhisvari
nanda Gopa sutam devi Patim me kuru teh Namah”.
Oh! Katyayani ,Oh! Maha-Maye, Oh! Maha yogini! Oh Devi we want Krishna, who is son of Nanda Maharaj to be our Husband.
Sri Krishna can have Infinity wives but no problem for Him- The Supreme Lord. But we all wives should always honor and obey Srimati Radharani. Sri Sri Radha Govinda The Divine Couple is our Worshipable Objective. Infinity wives they all have their unique and common objective to seek the complete satisfaction of that Divine Couple- Without any smell of Self- Interest (Dirty Kama Bhava inside our heart should not be there). No doubt about adjustment factor among themselves because all their center point is one and the single. Try to prepare yourself accordingly. Even my joking has some inner meaning- You should realize this. In this way automatically Madhurya Rasa and Radha Dasya can get all Proper balance.
Thanks a Lot
Truly Yours in the Service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Insignificant Shyam Baba
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Answer to a Question about Prasadam and Harinam Sankirtan
To, Spanish Devotee 11.05.2020
Dear/Prabhuji,
Dandvat Pranam to you all. All your Vichar written in your letter regarding Prasadam, Hari Katha or Sat Sanga following the exact track shown by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada. In our Pure Parampara line, Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Goswami Maharaj or Srila Bhakti Prajnana Keshav Goswami Maharaj or I Myself always speaking the same. Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada used to speak that” To preach Hari Katha (Vaikuntha Vani) is the absolute Idealism of ‘Jive Doya'( showing mercy to Jiva)”. To speak about the absolute – absolute way standing on absolute platform is actual Jive Doya. If this be the Siddhanta Vani then why do you hesitate to announce this Siddhanta in front of so called devotees. Maybe you cannot get popularity due to your truthfulness, but Supreme Lord will surely be happy. This is called Pure Bhakti. To keep people in darkness is not the vichar of Srila Sacchidanand Bhaktivinod Thakur of the following Sloka from Srimad Bhagvat Gita-
śreyān dravya-mayād yajñāj
jñāna-yajñaḥ paran-tapa
sarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ pārtha
jñāne parisamāpyate (Bg. 4.33)
O chastiser of the enemy, the sacrifice performed in knowledge is better than the mere sacrifice of material possessions. After all, O son of Pṛthā, all sacrifices of work culminate in transcendental knowledge.
According to Siddhanta vichar of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, We can see that he wanted to give the following theme- Any spiritual activities can get honorable results according to the manifestations of cid bhava (chinmayi bhava). If chinmayi bhava is absent then this become a material activity without any meaning. All our body, mind or anything involved in any kind of yajya- all material things- nothing else, but according to our Bhakti marg- those things become chinmayi through our devotion. How rice-dal-subji become pure-prasadam in Jagannath temple? This is the main question. Sri Krishna speaking to Arjun that jnana yajya is far superior to any yajya which is related to material things, because ultimately this going to express cid bhava in fine form. But be careful that jnana yajya ultimately in excellent stage become bhakti yajya which is the ultimate goal for all jiva to show, because bhakti is the natural function of our soul. To help any jiva to develop sufficient consciousness to realize his own constitutional position as nitya sevak of Supreme Lord is called actual jive doya. So always we must discuss or preach about- actual Guru tattva, actual diksha tattva, Actual Sat Sanga tattva, Actual Harinama tattva, actual Hari Katha tattva, actual prasadam tattva etc. to stop people going to join a cheating Organization. Srila Prabhupada use to say that-” To arrest the current perverted tide of this Fanatic Society is the seemingly unpleasant duty of Gaudiya Math- perfect Gaudiya Devotee”. Also very often he used to say that- ” In the name of Harikatha and Harikirtan those who are going to cheat common people- we common people are so foolish that we always want to be cheated by them, so that’s why we are cheated”. Lack of their sincerity cannot help us to get divine help.
Thanks a Lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata
Insignificant,
Shyam Baba.
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga.
Dear devotees,
Dandavat pranam to you all.
Most of the devotees – They are expressing doubt about the Sudden Sickness of Srila Maharaj in between HariKatha period. They cannot even believe that Srila Maharaj can stop HariKatha in between. How is that possible that Srila Maharaj cannot complete his speech? Really so – As per the horoscope of Srila Maharaj there is no such indication of his health breakdown. But of course one very vital point is there in his horoscope that enemies will always try to put him in trouble. They can always maintain secret hostility with him unnecessarly, but Srila Maharaj never look them as enemy. This is quite natural for them to have tremendous jealousy against Srila Maharaj, because such a Massive Preaching going on by the mercy of Supreme Lord without any major effort like foreign trip or without any major expenses. So they are always seeking for opportunity to put him in trouble to stop his speech. By any procedure-White or Black- Somehow they always trying their best to stop his speech. Even if they like to kill him, still Srila Maharaj cannot take this point negatively because directly or indirectly everything is done by Supreme Lord that he believe 100%. Bishkishan-The demonic Yogi, always wanted to put Srila Sacchidanand Bhaktivinod Thakur in trouble by the mystic power of his black magic. Srila Thakur had to suffer a lot (externally) but ultimately Srila Thakur was successful to dismantle his naked picture in front of all. Srila Maharaj was feeling huge disturbance that day to speak HariKatha, as if he was not in himself. What can be the reason, we like to know from him, because this was the most surprising incident- Which we can never expect at all.
Thanks a Lot
Truly Yours in the Service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Sri Purushottam Das
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To My Mama Kalindi,
Dear/Mama,
Dandvat Pranam to you all. Know my Unalloyed Love and Affection. Really I was little bit angry to see you sending such a costly thing for me, but as an when I look at the letter I was cool down, No doubt you are my genuine mother but don’t forget that at present your son is a Sannyasi, So how you can allow me to use such a costly thing? Specially at present you have no Income Source, So wastage of money is not at all good. I have nothing to pay you back, also it is true that if I become Inundated to you then the eternal relationship can move toward Infinity which is good for both of us. Actually I have no time to use all those thing, that is the main problem. I pray for you onto the Lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada to accept your Seva.
Thanks a Lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Useless Son,
Baba.
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All Glories To Sri Sri Guru And Gauranga।
To Radhika and Vrinda
Dear/ Mama,
Dandvat Pranam to you all। Know my Unalloyed Love and Affection। As per your declaration you 2 are going to follow Bramcharya Vrata. Until and Unless you are successful to engage all your sense organs and mind in Guru- Vaishnava- Bhagvan Seva you can never come out successful in devotional life. Who’s speaking what I am less intersted about that but what Srila Prabhupada told that I wanted to Project. Now you will have to search your heart to find answer to my question of Guru Seva. If you cannot find any application (In Guru Seva) of what you were learning then what use? Sanskrit and Bengali can give you some backing in your Bhajan if at all can be applied properly, otherwise all material education useless in Hari- Bhajan. Keeping in mind the gravity of Vani Seva you must get Prepration very quickly to serve Srila Prabhupada. Through Computer you will have to do Vani Seva in all different ways. Internet course you can complete of you think it fit. Life is so short that we should not waste our time. Homely Seva a burden for you? Excuse me, never try to misunderstand me, I am always with you.
Thanks a Lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Beloved,
Sri Shyam Baba.
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Hare Krsna. Dandavat Pranams Maharaji. My name is Viviane, I am from Brazil and I watch your classes on the Youtube channel with Portuguese translation. I am so grateful for the opportunity to hear from you, I am very impressed with the Vedic knowledge, especially when I hear the Lord speak.
Watching your recent classes when you talk about Jesus I had a lot of doubts, please send me your answers. Swami Maharaj used to talk a lot a bout him too! But Srila Bharati Maharaj doesn’t mention him in his books.
In the bible it is written that Jesus is going to return to save humanity and I heard from many devotees here in Brazil, including an American devotee who attends your classes that the coming of Mahaprabhu would have already been Jesus return. Is it true? So, is it okay to put Jesus on the Altar? And worship him as if he were Krsna? Can I surrender to Jesus and sing Christian prayers? Is that Bhakti too? Jesus turned water into wine at the request of his mother Mary, but wouldn’t that be intoxication or could we drink wine now and then like Catholics do during their celebrations? Is it true that Jesus will return soon, and that the demigods will come down here on Earth and solve all our problems in Kali Yuga? Many people have claimed that this is the meaning of Danya Kali.
Are Jesus and Krsna the same person? Does Mahaprabhu confirm that Jesus is Krshina’s son? Many practitioners say that if we pronounce the name of Jesus is equivalent to chanting the Mahamantra, is this true? In Vedic culture is the cross a sacred symbol? Can I put a cross on the kantimala? In the gospel of Jesus it is written that we are also God, is he mayavadi? Should I read the gospel or focus on the Bhagavad Gita?
Forgive me if my questions are too ignorant, but in my country Jesus is very strong and when you speak of him I need your help to understand. Thank you. Hare Krsna. Dandavat Pranams.
Answere :
All glories to Guru and Gauranga
To my Dear Vimala Devi ( Viviane ) ,
Accept my unalloyed love and affection. Dandavat pranam to you all those who are going to develop their consciousness up to the level of the standard set by Sri Krsna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu—The Supreme Lord.
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada told that—“ Bhakti is the natural function of our soul, which is at present not visible due to the strong covering of Maya ( Illusion ) “
Your finite conception can not allow you to follow me fully right now. All your prejudicial conception or faith or logical interpretation should be thrown away totally—if you are at all interested to catch that absolute truth– absolute way by the causeless mercy of Guru –Vaishnava. Logical interpretation can not stand in the way of that absolute truth. Half-truth is more dangerous than lie. Be careful about that. Sri Krsna ( or Sri Krsna Chaitanya Deva) is the absolute Godhead – all-powerful—all-pervading, so none can be compared with Him –anyway. Also Sri Gita alone can give you the complete spiritual knowledge under the guidance of pure Guru- Vaishnava. There is every possibility that due to an unstable mind you can lose everything. So be careful about any type of asat-sanga ( evil association). Only your strong faith in Guru- Vaishnava can save you from Maya ( Illusione ) which is likely to come in front of you in the form of misconception of tattva or in the form of Christian association or even in the form of wine and woman etc. As per all those authentic scriptural evidence Sri Krsna is the original source of everything ( The original cause of all causes), so naturally you or me or everybody or even Jesus Christ himself can be treated as the son of the Supreme Lord ( or messenger) but any other wrong conception can not be allowed – anyway.
Only and only one-pointed devotional practice under the guidance of pure Guru-Vaishnava can expel all your misconceptions and impurity ( dirty garbage) from your heart. Try to live exclusive way with the help of continuous Harikatha –Kirtan to avoid all types of contamination to save you from imminent danger.
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of Guru , Gauranga and Gomata — Baba Shyam das
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Hare Krishna, dandavat pranam Maharaj.
My name is Daniel and I am writing from Brazil. I was born in one of the most atheistic
regions of Europe and I was taught that there were no perfect answers for my spiritual
questions. Years later, I read the Bhagavad Gita and It blew my mind.
After that I began to look for real devotees (in Iskcon and other sangas) but after some time
I became disappointed: I couldn’t find the kind of Vaishnavas described in the shastra.
Meanwhile Maya was playing hard over me, but in 2018 I listened some lecture on internet
where the Vedas where discussed in a very scientific way, with archeological data,
impressive images and poetical view. By “chance” those lectures were being held 3 minutes
away from my house, by Krishna Das prabhu. I never heard about Bhakti Vijnana Bharati
Maharaj before, but what Krishna Das said about him, and the way he did, make me realize
that I found the path I was looking for.
Rapidly I entered the study group and participated at all lectures. After one year I was very
lucky as the group activities began to be held at my own house. As soon as I started to
study more, Prabhu introduced me to your classes (about one year ago) and helped me to
begin to understand your topmost vani. Since then I don’t look anymore in other places for
knowledge and guidance.
I’m writing all this because, now the study group needs you to direct our activities.
Krishna das has a very academic way of explaining vedic culture and hundreds of people
approach our channel on internet every day.
But now, Krishna das is not giving classes anymore and all the new students are going to
Iskcon, Vrinda or Srila Narayan Maharaja’s sanga.
Those who are more serious are already listing to your impressive katha, but the new
people cannot follow such elevated siddhanta. As I became part of the committee group I
feel the urge to ask you to guide our actions and activities.
We need to decide if public classes are going to stop or if Krishna Das should keep on
going, leading people to your lotus feet. As he usually spoke in a more scientific way our
students get easily attracted by Iskcon’s more devotional kind of preaching and I don’t think
that would do any good for these souls.
I saw the class in which you say that prabhu can teach but he is refusing to do so. I think he
wants to prove his surrendering to you, he says that he is shy after a closer contact with
your acharan. I can guaranty that he always presented himself as a student and servant of
the Vaishnavas, and never posed as a guru or devotee in front me nor anyone else.
People are getting lost, so please tell us what to do.
We also have some parallel activities that need guidance. Can I write to you about those
things?
I have no words to thank you for introducing all of us into Srila Prabhupada
Bhaktisiddhanta’s actual vani! And for always being so frank and straightforward in your
words.
Your aspiring servant, Daniel
Answer :
All glories to Guru and Gauranga
To my Dear son Dina Bandhu ( Daniel ),
Accept my unalloyed love and affection. Dandavat pranam to you all those who are going to develop their consciousness up to the level of the standard set by Sri Krsna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu—The Supreme Lord. A man without proper consciousness is just equal to a beast. At present due to my heavy engagement I can not do any special seva for your group, but I keep hope to do something concrete in near future. At present I can request my Krsna das Prabhu to carry on the duty on my behalf. Without taking full information about your group I would not prefer to pass any special remark or advice just now. If my Harikatha is not up to their ( members of your group ) level then Krsna das Prabhu can try to help you all to understand in your mother language.
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of Guru , Gauranga and Gomata — Baba Shyam das
Special Note : Those very sweet Sanskrit Kirtans can help you all big way to develop your consciousness level even without understanding the meaning. Try to believe me hundred percent and do accordingly to get kripa.
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Nickname given to you by Srila Maharaj.
Dear devotees,
Dandavat Pranam to you all.
Know my unalloyed love & affection. Please don’t try to take it otherwise. By the desire of Krishnadas Prabhu I have done it. I never want to become Guru, simply out of my tremendous love & affection I have given some specially selected spiritual names to some of you. You can not understand my heart, so there can be some problem. So I like to stop here.
Excuse me.
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Gomata,
Sri Baba Shyam das.
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Question : How to take care & worship Srimati Tulasi Devi ?
Answer : Srimati Tulasi Devi is Bhakti Devi, so we must be very careful to worship Tulasi Devi.Darshan (to see), Sparshan (to touch), Dhyan (to meditate), Rupon (to plant seed), Sechan (to give water), Pujan (to worship), Parikrama (to move around Tulasi Devi) etc. seva of Tulasi Devi can give you Bhakti – if done with full care & respect. The great Namacharya Srila Haridas Thakur used to do Tulasi puja & Harinam. If you can maintain both eternal & external purity then you can get great result shortly. Try to offer water, flowers, garlend, dhupa, dipa etc. to Tulasi Devi both in the morning & evening time. At veranda or at rooftop or at any open place where sufficient air, water & sunlight facility available, there you can keep Tulasi Devi. Or you can make an altar for Tulasi Devi. Time to time cutting of Tulasi Manjari can help the growth of the tree. But always try to ptotect Tulasi Devi from too hot or too cold weather. Don’t try to touch Tulasi Devi in impure condition. Only after taking bath & changing cloth you can worship Tulasi Devi. Tulasi leaf can be offered unto the Lotus Feet of Bhagavan with great care. While taking leaf from Tulasi tree you must beg for pardon. I can say this much at present.
Gaura Hari Haribol
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To the Acharya of Sri Chaitanya Mission
Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhakti Vicar Vishnu Maharaja,
Dear honorable Maharaji,
Please accept my humble obeisances and dandavat pranam.
One of your poor and useless Godbrother Shyam Baba trying his best to serve the Lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya Guruvarga by the help of Gaura-Vani. To project the unique Acharyaship of Srila Prabhupada and his absolute Idealism sometime my speech become very heavy, but be sure that without “trinad api bhava” I cannot get power to speak like that. I expect no honor, no position, no money, nothing in return. I think as a senior Godbrother you have full sympathy and blessing for me, specially you are the disciple of such an exalted Sad Gurudeva whom I respect much, because he never took shelter of falsity at any circumstances. He was totally fearless. He used to speak that if we are really going to do Bhajan of that Absolute truth, then how we can make any compromise with falsity. Truthfulness is the foundation of our Bhajan without which all zero.
When I wanted to project the absolute glory of your Gurudeva as an absolute speaker then I was bound to speak that way, but that doesn’t mean that I have any insulting mood. I have enough honor and respect for a perfect Acharya, you know it very well. When my Gurudeva told me that—“You are useless, what seva you have done so that you can speak something”. Believe me or not then I was very very happy to receive niskapat kripa from my Divine Gurupada padma. I could realize that surely Sri Gurudeva can give Quality in me someday, with this positive hope I am waiting very patiently. I need all your blessings from heart to come out successful in my Vani-seva. Many time before I got inspiration from you all for my writing and speech. My Vani-Seva can prove my honest effort as the servitorship of my Gaudiya Guruvarga (specially Srila Prabhupada). I beg for pardon If any mistake done knowingly or unknowingly. I like to see your Lotus-feet, but really I am unlucky because I cannot make up any time, but I keep hope.
Thanks a lot truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and GoMata your usless Godbrother ( a fallen soul)
Baba Shyam Das, waiting for your causeless mercy
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How to offer prasadam exact way ? ( for new devotees and initiated devotees )
Regarding offering of prasadam (for Beginners)
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada used to say that—“ Bhakti is the natural function of our soul.”
On the basis of this Siddhanta we can easily realize that due to the influence of Maya we cannot realize how purely we should serve Supreme Lord. To serve Supreme Lord we must go up to the level of transcendental purity, but actually for new devotees ( specially those who are not initiated) as such there is no heavy restrictions, but still just like a small child they can go on following some idealism set by previous Gaudiya Acharyas. This is not sadhana bhakti for them at present , because they are not initiated as yet, but still they can try practice. If at present they cannot follow those rules and regulations strictly, but still their soft emotion and faith can get the chance to climb a solid ground of devotional field in near future. At least they can go on hearing real Harikatha continuously to develop at least minimum purity to satisfy Bhagavan in near future after getting initiated by a bonafied spiritual master.
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Regarding offering of prasadam (for Devotees those who are already initiated)
Devotees those who are already initiated by a bonafied spiritual master they must follow the strict rules and regulations set by Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada to develop flawless devotional mood ( niskapat bhava) to maintain both internal and external purity. They are requested to follow the arcan paddati published from Gaudiya Matha to get detailed information about it. If they are already having basic knowledge for them the procedure of offering given below within a few lines—
1., Buttha suddhi , then Guru –Puja, then Guru- Parampara – Puja, after that Gauranga Puja, after that Radha Krsna Vigraha can be worshiped.
2., Bhoga can be offered all in separate plates, for Guruvarga , Gauranga , and RadhaKrsna. With Tulasi Manjari for each plate. For each prasadam plate separate water glass should be there. Then offering mantra should be uttered for each plate for respective deities or photos. Or if you like to offer only one plate of Bhoga together with one water glass then first you will have to offer to Sri Sri Radha Krsna Vigraha, then secondly you will have to offer to Sriman Mahaprabhu, then in third stage you can offer that prasadam to all Guruvarga. But don’t forget to maintain all purity regarding your body ,mind , etc. Item collected for Bhoga should be pure (not collected from a dirty materialistic personality). Also the cook-man should cook with full devotion. The man going to offer to Krsna should have flawless devotional mood ( without any duplicity ).
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Letter for Spain :
Dear Maharaja : Dandavats. Pranams. All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.
The reason for this letter is to bring to you a very humble request….We (my wife and myself) have noticed last Sunday during the video of your live lecture that you seemed to be externally a bit exhausted…So, PLEASE Maharaja , with a straw in our mouth…we are begging you to take care of your health….We need you with us for many more decades…Although I’m a fool and rascal and I have no idea of what is right or wrong…still, with my conditioned understanding I can see that there is not anyone to be relied upon like you in the whole Sampradaya…So,we need for sure your katha to reveal to us the truth behind the apparent…but we need yourself too …As you said in one katha, some sadhus don’t even need to speak…just by their presence they could enliven everyone…So, please consider giving yourself a little break for some time, so that you can improve your health…and relax our anxiety too…
Sorry to take your time.
Hare Krishna.
Jaya Gaur
Ys……..
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Danadavat pranam to you all
I am just surprised to see all your love and affection for me just like parent, so I think myself lucky.
Truly yours in the service of Guru–Gauranga and Go-mata — Baba Shyam das
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All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga Date: 23.01.2021
Dear blessed devotees,
Dandavat pranam to you all. This is for your kind information that the last phase of our divine construction seva of that Aprakrita Sarasvat Nama Sankirtan Bhavan going on, which is likely to be completed within one month, so if anyone of you likes to send your contribution for this divine seva can do now. Any contribution by anybody will be accepted with full honor and respect—no doubt in it. Inauguration ceremony likely to be held on the holy Nityananda Trayodasi day, we hope so. We can try our best to arrange the function on time, but still further announcement can be done on time. You all are cordially invited to join the function to give us full inspiration for the Vani-Seva program.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Bhakisiddhanta Vani Seva-Trust members
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear Vashudha Mama,
Dandavat pranams to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very anxious about you, about your present situation in which you are put into. So I would request you to come here at Mayapur to stay with my Kalindi Mama very safely to develop your Bhajan power. Sriman Nityananda Prabhu can arrange everything for you. I know that your financial position is not at all good at present and also you are not getting any support from anybody, then why you are going to send such a big amount for the construction of that Aprakrita Sarasvat Nama Sankirtan Bhavan—that I don’t know. Anyway Sriman Nityananda Prabhu can surely bless you for this kind of Niskapat Seva mood expressed by you.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your Baba
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All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Mama,
Dandavat pranams to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection (try to accept properly). Due to dangerous Corona-period I already have requested Devotees not to come directly on Gaura Purnima Festival. So a very few local devotees, those who are staying in Mayapur can come and join the Harikatha-Kirtan. With my small brother how you dare to come to Mayapur to join the festival? You know it very well, that I have given the vital responsibility to you for the settlement of the Aprakrita Sarasvat Nama Sankirtan Bhavan, so before and after of Gaura Purnima Festival you will have to come here to help us- as and when required. So please try to cancel your fanciful Program. In near future I can give you that kind of chance, but not now. So many adversities are there which you cannot see at present. Both of you are requested to send all your Adhar-card, Pan-card, Voter-card etc. so that first of all we can send the total list of our committee members to Sri Raghu Shivam Sharma Prabhu ( Sri Vrindavan Radha Kunda –Bhajan kutir) who is the first (original) member of our Trust (made by him) for verification, so that he can write one declaration letter (in letter pad) officially so that we can move further. Cancelation of previous members and to introduce new members this job can only be done by him. (Because all the original office papers of the trust is there with him). All done, but only we are waiting for your electronic papers. Please treat it as very urgent.
Thanks a lot ,
Truly your s in the seva of Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your Baba
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All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
DearAlex Prabhu,
Dandavat pranams to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. I have got the news that you have become a father. That’s a great responsibility for you and your wife. Really I like to see you became a very nice Krsna Conscious family. Tha is my blessing on you. The only thing what is lacking in this world is Krsna consciousness, so with full enthusiasm and eagerness we have to connect ourselves always with pure devotees and try to follow their way of living. It is important that we keep always their association and try to follow their teachings. This daily practice can make us strong for the day to day life. Our most worshipful Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur was also a householder, and we can learn from him how he used his time. He was waking up at two o clock in night, then started to translate and write so many books, he also completed almost his daily quota of chanting Harinam early in the morning. And then at 8 or 9 o clock he went to the office, doing his job there. At lunch time he would also write so many Songs and essays. Than again he started to work , and after in the evening, taking little milk and one or two chapattis, chanting Harinam again and doing some other editorial seva, then he went to sleep, and again the next morning again he started the same way. So I know that you have so many responsibilities now , but please try to contribute also for our Vani seva. Tarun Krsna Prabhu he show me your banners and I am very happy with that seva what you are doing. Try to use always some time for Vani seva that will help you very much to progress in your spiritual life. All my blessings are with you , and looking forward to see you here in Mayapur
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your Baba
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear ……….. Mama,
Dandavat pranams to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very anxious about you, about your present situation in which you are put into. So I would request you to come here at Mayapur to stay with my Kalindi Mama very safely to develop your Bhajan power. Sriman Nityananda Prabhu can arrange everything for you. I know that your financial position is not at all good at present and also you are not getting any support from anybody, then why you are going to send such a big amount for the construction of that Aprakrita Sarasvat Nama Sankirtan Bhavan—that I don’t know. Anyway Sriman Nityananda Prabhu can surely bless you for this kind of Niskapat Seva mood expressed by you.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your Baba
Answere
All glory to Sri Guru and Gouranga!
Dear Srila Shyam das Babaji Maharaj,
Dandavat pranams.
Please excuse me for late reply. It is late, because i didn’t know what to reply to You. Even now I do not know, but i do not want to keep You waiting, so i will try to write something.
My heart melted when I received your affectionate short letter where you expressed your worries about me. You are right to worry, because my position is spiritually not good since our Gurudeb stopped speaking and i stopped going to india, then I felt all my spiritual power (citbal) has left me.
Gurudeb said, in His last letter written to me, that before, when Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur was present, all His disciples were going here and there fearless, but when He disappeared they felt powerless. And Gurudeb concluded that those who want to get actual benefit, they will try to do bhajan inspite of that. And for many years I want to do again as before, but power is just not there. Its like you want to walk, but body is so weak it just cannot move.
Gurudeb also always said to come to India once per year to get »spiritual injection«, so then we have energy to do sahdana at home. But since He is not there in india anymore I have no desire to go, because i haven’t developed close relation with anybody else (only with Srila Bhakti Vignjan Bharati Maharaj, but He is gone also). Also due to some happenings my sraddha in devotees was really damaged. When i first came to Math in india, I thought simple heartedly, that all are good and sincere. But now I have full trust only in God and Gurudeb. Baddha jib due to seperate interest cannot be trusted, even if he is practising devotee, this i have experienced, and due to this I have withdrawn from associating with devotees more and more, to avoid being exploited and hurt.Because being exploited by conditioned soul or devotee is different, the last one having so much more damaging effect on sraddha.
Now at present You and Your Harikatha is my only sadhusanga, because I trust you, so i can hear. I cannot hear form a person I don’t have full faith in, because my heart remains closed, there is no surrender, and no shakti can enter. And I am really fully and eternally indebted to you that I am still spiritually alive, athough in coma, but at least not fuly dead.
I like your Harikatha because i feel it is like »old school«, meaning it is similar to the one i read from disciples of Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur on their apperance or disapperance days. For me, They are »old school«, because their spiritual shakti is immense and nowadays I do not feel this very frequently in preacher’s Harihatha. That’s why I really like your Harikatha, because i feel it has power and i feel positive effect on me. But unfortunatelly my consciousness is so hard and inert , no long lasting effect is there, so that i would be able to upgrade my sahdana on the long run.
Regarding your request to come to India: i have planned to come at least for few weeks, as much as i can take free from my work, but now everything is closed here and i do not want to travel in this circumstances.
To come to stay permanently in india, i will be fully honest with You: It is like asking inhabitant of moon planet to come to live to sun planet-body is just not suitable. India is so different from where i live that every time i went there it was pure suffering for my body (and also mind), i was starving most of the time (cannot ear chilli), got hepatitis due to water pollution, ruined my digestion sistem,…I was coming to india for 10 years every year, sometimes i stayed 3 months, two times i stayed 6 monts (during winter, because after end of march i cannot survive there due to hot weather) and after that period i always was eager to go »home/west« not because i love west so much, but because living in india was so unnatural for my body( water, food, climate, everything …). But i tolerated all this because Gurudeb was happy to see me and i wanted to be with Him. Only His association was big enough reason for me to tolerate all this hardship. But my atma (me) was happy living in Math with devotees, because it felt like for atma this is very natural life and i also liked it so much that for first 5 years i cried 3 whole days before leaving india. But Gurudeb was always very clear and determined, that for me, permanent stay in india is not recommended due to climate, food,…He always said: »come and go«, and while staying in india my experience was that He was the only one who understood how difficult is for (some) western devotees like me, to stay in india, where everything is different. Others just didn’t understand, because they have never been in the west.
I do not like mood of people here in west, but body has a habit of certain things, unfortunatelly. I am fully aware that this is my misfortune (…nija karma doshe, e deho hoilo, bhajanera pratibandha…) but what to do? The first time i came to india i ate everything (with chilli) with conception that it is prasad. My mouth burned, my stomach burned,my intestine burned, but i had faith that it is prasad and everything will be ok. But it wasn’t. After i returned home my whole digestive system was spoiled.
So, i am thinking (with my material mind, so it is probably not of much value) that i must apply principle of yukta vairagya in this question. I have also now remembered one verse Gurudeb wrote in biography of Srila Ragunath das Goswami,from Bhakti rasamrita sindhu (1.2.108): »one who knows his purpose, should accept only as much as he needs to maintain his existance. If he accepts more OR LESS than that, he will fall from the supreme objective.« Gurudeb continues: » Srila Jiva goswami glosses the word sva-nirvahah in his Durgama-sangamani commentary with the words sva-sva -bhakti nirvahah:a devotee sholud accept only those material things , that will help him render service to the Lord, ACCORDING TO HIS OWN INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.« For me living in india would be like somebody is asking me to take sannyas and suddenly become paramahamsa, to give up all my bodily conception and become established in atma. But i cannot jump from my position to position beyond bodily conception, even if i want. I tried before to ignore my body in so many ways, but it always ended with more problem and disease.
My request to You is to take care for me from a distance like mother turtle is hatching her eggs from a distance 😊 .
I feel that in spiritual matters physical presence is not of utmost importance, also Gurudeb emphasised this many times. He said: »sadhu sanga mane sadhur CITTAVRITTI anugaman«, to follow the heart of a sadhu, what sadhu is thinking about. Gurudeb many times mentioned that bugs are very close to sadhu but are sucking his blood, so physical presence is not »per se« the goal. But for us beginners it is very wonderful and beneficial to see the living example of pure devotion. It is easier that way. But sometimes it is not practical or possible.
Gurudeb said that we can associate with Him even from far away, if we are one in purpose with Him: to love and serve Sri Radha and Shyamasundar.
So, my request is to think some other solution to deliver me from maya. And since Krishna’s devotees are very inteligent, i am sure, there will be found a solution also for me, while living here in west.
I must add also, that my most close encounter i have ever had with Harinam, happened here, not in india. I had many nice experiences here, because while Gurudeb was speaking, i felt like i am living in a bubble , i didn’t feel so much difference where i am physically situated, because His shakti was protecting and nurishing me, like a big fire is nurishing a little spark. And I want this feeling back, i want this connection back. I need this as much as i need air. Then i feel everything will be ok.
And I kindly request You to help me with this, to be always enveloped, supported and nurtured with svarup shakti to give me citbal for seva of Guru Vaishnab and Bhagavan.
Please always keep your affection and blessings on my head.
Yours in the service of Guru Vaishnab Bhagavan,
…………. dasi
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My dear/ Mama,
Dandavat pranam to all.
Know my unalloyed love and affection. Hope you all ok with your body and mind to perform your daily Bhajan. How your Bhajan spirit at present? Ok or not? Actually I am living for you all for the cause of aprakrita Gaura Vani seva of Sri Gauranga Deva, otherwise I have no smell of personal desire or interest. How long I can go forward with my duty that depend upon all your genuine demand. First milk utsava of Go- Mata for you all at Goshala Bhavan can be held on 11th February 3pm. So you are invited cordially. We like to conquer the whole world, but still we cannot get victory over our bonded mind– the greatest enemy of our life, that is the main tragedy. Your loveful affection and blessing can surely increase my life span.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours, in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your heartless son Parashuram (an orphan)
From the International orphanage institution of Sadhu-Guru-Vaishnava
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Prabhuji,
Dandavat pranam to all.
This is for your kind information that, by the desire of Srila Baba Maharaja we are going to make one small but very nice temple (made of stone) cum altar for our Sada Shiva Linga. As per the estimation of the contactor it would coast around Rs.40,000. We think you can surely effort that amount, but still it is our duty to seek your consent before starting the job. Let us know your opinion. And the picture of the deity altar ( wooden) what was already sent to you—it would coast around Rs. 38,000.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours, in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Tarun Krsna das (your servant)
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Prabhuji,
Dandavat pranam to all.
This is for your kind information that by the desire of Srila Baba Maharaja we are in search of an unique Sada Shiva Linga (Vishnu-Tattva) decorated with all shubha symptoms from Narmada source area or place. But anyway we will have to depend upon a reputed company to avoid false Shila Linga. We are sending one of our devotee from our Sri Vrindavan Radha Kunja Bahjan Kutir to go to the address of that company via Indore ( M.P.) on 22nd February. Srila Baba Maharaj want to get the best Quality together with the complete set—like Gauri Patra + Nandia + Ananta Nagha etc. So whatever related expanses can be there, we are ready to arrange that now at present. We think you can surely effort that amount including the general expenses of prathista ceremony of the Sada Shiva Linga. Let us know your opinion.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours, in the service of Guru- Gauranga and Go-Mata
Tarun Krsna das (your servant)
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Subject: A Divine Declaration by the followers of Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To
All those blessed souls
Dear / Beloved Devotees
Dandavat pranam to you all from the bottom of the heart. With folded hand, it is our earnest request to everybody, that before passing any remark, about Srila Shyam Das Baba Maharaj, we must think twice about him and about his solid background. Because we know, how his whole life is dedicated for Sampradaik Vani Vaibhava seva. He is the only personality who after Srila Prabhupada and Guruvarga always and every time trying his best to give full protection to Sampradaik Vani Vaibhava. Who is offender, and who is not, the future can speak, we have no right to pass any remark about him, about his strictness and about his strong firing Harikatha. He has given us a lot for our Sarasvat Gaudiya Sampradaya. We have nothing to pay him. The symptom of a Maha-Bhagavat is his “dhruba-anu-smriti” (constant remembrance of Bhagavat-tattva-vigyana), which we can find in Srila Shyam Das Baba Maharaj all the time, otherwise it would not have been possible for Srila Baba Maharaja to speak Hari-Katha like the flow of Ganga water continuously on different vital topics. We should not forget him so quickly like a traitor about his endless love and mercy. Out of envious attitude if somebody speaking all rubbish against him, still then Srila Baba Maharaj speaking that—“I am getting only my payment what was due with you all”. He is going to take this kind of serious incident as the full blessing of Sriman Nityananda Prabhu, by the order of whom his massive preaching going on, inspite of countless obstacles and opposition. He never wanted to go anywhere, we all came to him purposely to get his excellent association of Hari-Katha, which is really rare at present. He is the Kripa-Patra of all of our Gaudiya Guru-Varga, everybody know it, and they also speaking that way. Truly speaking they all have an exclusive respect and honor for Srila Baba Maharaja, no doubt in it. Only this is one kind of preaching strategy for which they all are apparently against Srila Baba Maharaj without any specific background.
If somebody out of false ego and jealousy want to pass such a false remark about Srila Baba Maharaja (that his behavior is not good), then surely Srila Baba Maharaja can never be caught in such a network of false allegation made by Mayadevi. Without even any smell of self-interest who is going to take such a great responsibility of Sampradayik Vani Vaibhava protection, how he can be compared with a false leader of a broken society with broken heart. Those who under the shelter of false ego shouting like spiritual Mafio, they have no right to speak anything against Srila Baba Maharaja, because the platform on which he is situated is totally separate from the platform of Maya. Except playing dirty politics there was no alternative way open to stop the honest effort of Srila Baba Maharaja and– his exclusive Vani-seva. One unknown black force always working to stop his massive preaching process, this is the arrangement of Kali, but be sure that all the blessings of our Gaudiya Guruvarga are there on him which can never prove to be failure, specially he is the messenger of Sriman Nityananda Prabhu. All his writings and speeches are the direct evidence of that Absolute truth. Who can stop whom?
If we cannot bear his unique and unparalleled way of representation of the Absolute truth, then we can avoid hearing him, that much we can do, but for that we have no right to misguide the whole world, which is a great offence. On the basis of falsity we can run up to certain point, but ultimately we know it very well that—“ Satyam eva jayatee (the victory of the absolute truth is a must). His life long Vani-seva effort is such a remarkable idealism that nobody can pass such a false allegation against him at all. Externally we can only watch his harshness, but we cannot see his unending love and affection for us all. In the name of Hari Bhajan he never wanted to cheat us. We should have hundred percent faith in him. Who can pass such a false remark about him except a demon? Nothing will go or come if we avoid him. It is our full responsibility to give full protection to our Sampradaik Vani Vaibhava jointly under the guidance of Srila Baba Maharaja. We have done nothing for the protection of sampradaik Vani Vaibhava, so we have no right to go against him. Those who are actually Mayavadi in the guise of Vaishnavas, they always like to establish the falsity of Guru-Vaishnava and Bhagavan, that is their dirty nature. What a massive energy already spent by Srila Baba Maharaja in his whole Bhajan life for the emancipation of those bonded souls like us, even this is beyond our imagination. Who is there to save us from Maya at present?. No amount of obstacle can stand in the way of his absolute Vani seva. Those blind peoples are always going to be guided by other blind people to go to hell. What to do? Look the pathetic case of jealousy mood shown against Srila Ramanuja Acharya the Great or against Srila Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakur. Srila Baba Maharaja going to ignore (avoid) us–our false society activities and functions for long time. Srila Prabhupada also used to avoid those Sahajiyas. Similarely Srila Prabhupada also never received any invitation from any Sahajiya group, which is quite natural. He is the genuine father of the whole Gaudiya Sampradaya in true sense, so this mother and baby story not applicable for him, but applicable for all those false spiritual leaders, those who all are acting as step-mother with us mercilessly to destroy our spiritual society like demon. Because they want to project their weakness as their highness. They all are always habituated to accept false honor and prathista. That is the chronic disease with them.
Any Maharaja can speak apparently something negative, that’s not a big issue. Only and only a Siddha Mahatma, like Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Gosvami Maharaja, or Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja, or Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Gosvami Maharaja they all can understand the heart of Srila Baba Maharaj perfectly, not everybody. Srila Prabhupada was also isolated by those Sahajiya groups. So what?
Honesty is the best policy, and politics is the dirty policy. If the whole world going against Srila Baba Maharaja, still he is not going to make any compromise with those sahajiya groups, just like Srila Prabhupad. Srila Baba Maharaja speaking that—“ All the garbage gone from my life, what loss in it!”. For your kind information we are bound to publish this divine declaration. He is always interested to keep genuine association, all those duplicitous people they never feel comfortable with Srila Baba Maharaja. That is the main problem, nothing else. Jaya Jaya Sri Nrishinga Deva ki jay ho, Jaya Jaya Srila Prabhupada ki jay ho, Jaya Jaya Srila Gurudeva ki jay ho.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
All the followers of Srila Baba Maharaja on behalf of all the society members
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All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Dear Devotees,
Dandvat Pranam to you all.
Know my unalloyed Love and affection.
I beg for pardon to you all for discontinuing Hari- Katha flow. I’m really surprised to see all of your positive response in favour of positive Hari- Katha from me. Due to some dirty situation created I was bound to stop my Hari-katha. Hari-katha is my life and soul- So how I can stop Hari-Katha! Time and tide wait for none. When I can go away from this material world- Who knows. Black forces always been there in the life of Sri Ramanujacharya or in the life of Sri Madhavacharya or in the life of Srila Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakur or even in the life of Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to stop there honest effort. So what to speak about me. We must go ahead with our Chaitanya Vani Mission with full enthusiasm. Who can stop us?
Thanks a Lot
Truly Yours in the Service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Penniless Baba,
Shyam Das.
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All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
To all Those blessed souls.
Dear Devotees,
Dandvat Pranam to you all.
I beg for pardon to you all to speak out some secret of my bhajan life. Gaudiya Gosthipati Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada Jagad Guru wanted to sing the glories of Guru- Gauranga- Gandarvika- Giridhari Lal upto to the last breath of his life, same way I too want to leave my body.
Hari katha is my life and soul. By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya Guruvarga, I always feel inspiration to speak Hari- Katha tirelessly. If ” Trinadapi Sunich” bhava is not there in me- then it is quite impossible for me to do Hari- Kirtan. “Trinadapi Sunich”- does not mean false humbleness ( or Kapat bhava). My ‘Hari-Katha’ is not an instrument to collect Labha- Puja- Prathistha. Even if any smell of Labha-Puja-Prathistha is there in me, then Aprakrita Hari- Katha is not at all possible for me. Now you understand the actual meaning of ” Trinadapi Sunich” bhava as was shown by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. I cannot have any enemity with anybody because I’m a penniless baba, so naturally I’m always full of joy and happiness, also full of vigrous energy.
By my tireless effort and also by all of your blessings I’m always successful in my mission. But still somebody can go against me it is quite natural, because everybody cannot digest absolute truth. Wise and honest people can never go against me. Good behaviour or bad behaviour has nothing to do with “Trinadapi Sunich” bhava- If not related to “Akinchana Suddha Bhakti”, also my apparent strict behaviour can give excellent success (result), if related to “Akinchana Suddha Bhakti”. Foolish people cannot understand these vital points.
I like positive critisism, because this can give me the scope to rectify myself, also can give me rigidity. But negative critisism coming out of envious attitude, which can only destroy our Samprodayik Vaibhav. If I am unable to do anything good to others, then atleast I should not do any harm. This teaching I received from my parents in my Childhood. If I’m trying my best to do something concrete for the whole sampradaya as a whole, without any self interest, then who can go against me except a demon! That is a main question. If at all somebody can point out that I’m going against Srila Prabhupada or Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, then and only then somebody can have the right to go against me, otherwise not. Your wrong judgement can try to prove that Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur Mahasaya is devoid of “Trinadapi Sunich” bhava because of his apparent strictness, but actually not that, just the opposite Srila Prabhupada told. He’s full of overflowing mercy and Trinadapi Sunich bhava. If common people grow wrong conception about Sri Chaitanya Lila Vyasadeva(Sri Vrindavan Das Thakur) then what we can do? Srila Gurudeva told me that- ” I like to give you such secret property, which can never be stolen by any thief, or can never be taken away by any robber. Let them run behind Labha-Puja-Prathistha, but you must avoid those apparent opulences of maya- which can ultimately put you into the ocean of illusion and misery”.
Srila Prabhupada use to say that- ” Excessive Collection of money power is not at all our target, because then we can grow enough false ego to ignore and insult Guru- Vaishnava”. Opulence can make us Ravan( or Owl).
If you have no objection against my strict Siddhanta Vichar, then and only then I can again start speaking pure Hari- Katha, otherwise not. I can learn all Superfine Siddhanta Vichar from Srila Sacchidanand Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur. I can learn full and final detachment from Srila Paramhamsa Acharya Varya Gaurakishor Das Babaji Maharaj. I can learn fearlessness from Srila Acharya Kesari Keshav Goswami Maharaj. I can learn special purity from Srila Paramhamsa Gurudeva Bhakti Pramod Puri Goswami Maharaj. I can learn extreme patiency and tolerance from Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhava Goswami Maharaj. I can learn Guru nistha from Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaj- from whom I learn that to fire at a robber who is going to abduct Sri Sri Radha Madhav Jiu or going to abduct Gaudiya Siddhanta Vani Vaibhava is called Bhakti. I can learn Naam nistha from Srila Niskinchan Krishna Das Babaji Maharaj, then how it is possible for me to learn falsity or duplicity from those traitors who are always habituated to enjoy false honour and Prathistha? Even they can sell Aprakrita Gaudiya Vani Vaibhava in lue(in exchange) of personal Labha-Puja-Prathistha. Degradation of humanity is highly regretted. All countless dirty things are happening all around our Bhajan field, but nobody can see, because they are blind like Owl, but their full attention is there on me just like a vulture. They are always trying to find fault with me to attack me. Srila Prabhupada and Guru Varga always giving me full protection.
My whole devotinal life is dedicated to Gaur Vani Seva, no doubt in it. Those who are against my Pure Vani Seva effort, I’m sure that they will get severe punishment by Sri Baladeva Nityananda “Pasanda Dalan Avatar”, but I pray that they can be excused. To look negative thing positive way is called Vaikuntha Darshan.
” ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’ “- This is the slogan of their life with which they like to climb the heaven of foolish. A blind can never be guided by another blind. Impossible. “Trinadapi Bhava” is not a matter of exhibition. When you allow me to sit in Vyasa Asana to do the duty of a Sad- Guru to speak Hari-Katha and at the same time if you order me to speak some tasteful katha for your sense gratification, then I cannot tolerate anymore. If you dislike your Gurudeva then immediately you can reject( dismiss) Gurudeva. This is your very cheap Guru Darshan with which you like to do Hari- Bhajan. What can I do for you? Srila Prabhupada use to say that-” Even if the whole world going against me still I’m not going to stop speaking about that absolute truth”.
Thanks a Lot
Truly yours in the Service of Guru- Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Penniless Baba,
Shyam Das.
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All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
To all the blessed souls.
Dear Devotees,
Dandvat Pranam to you all.
Gaudiya Gosthipati Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada use to say that-” Kaya- Mana- Vakya kare Udvega nah dibe”- “By Body- Mind or Speech one should not give anxiety to others (Pain) to others”- This is the advice of Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita. But one should not take undue advantage of this masterpiece Sloka of Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita to stop speaking about that Aprakrita Satya (Absolute Truth). “Sai se Vaishnava dharma- Sabare namaskar”- ” This is Vaishnava Dharma to pay pranama to all. This is surely not the advice of this sloka of Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita to ignore and avoid all Sastra Siddhanta Vichar’s or Varna- ashram dharma etc. to make same flat cheap rule for each and everybody. The overall controlling of this vast world must be in the hand of pure devotees, otherwise the whole system of human civilization can break down. We know it from Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita that- ” nirpeksha nah haila dharma nah jaye rakshane”- ” Without reaching the stage of neutral platform one cannot protect the dignity of Dharma.” At present who can stand on neutral platform to speak about that absolute truth? That is the main question, which is surely not a matter of joke. All Paramhamsa Guru-Vaishnava’s they are all above material fault finding mission job, their Darshan is Vaikuntha Darshan. But that doesn’t mean that they can allow the whole sampradaya to reach Crematorian Ground without any check up and restriction.
From Srimad Bhagavad ji Mahapurana we know that-
Srila Sukhadev Goswami Paramhamsa speaking all heavy against those materialistic people–
śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ
saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ
na yat-karṇa-pathopeto
jātu nāma gadāgrajaḥ (ŚB 2.3.19)
Translation
Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the deliverer from evils.
Srila Gaurakishor Das Babaji Maharaj used to speak slag language to those Kapat People for their Kapat behavior. Everybody who not, even Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Thakur or Keshari Keshava Goswami Maharaj etc, they all use to speak heavily against us, out of there Overflowing Causeless Mercy. We should not misunderstand them.
Thanks a Lot.
Truly yours in the Service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Penniless Baba,
Shyam Das.
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All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Dear Deenbandhu Prabhu,
Dandvat Pranam to you all.
Know my unalloyed love and affection.
Your Letter touching my heart to see your love and faith in me. The root cause of all countless problems is the lack of love and faith. Self- Interest can compell us to enter into dirty politics, otherwise there should not have any complicacy in our Hari-Bhajan life. Hari-katha is my life and soul. Upto the last moment of my life I like to speak Hari-Katha. Due to some dirty situation I’m bound to stop Hari-Katha at present, but surely, shortly I can start speaking Hari-Katha with double energy.
Let them burn out of Jealousy, what it concern to me. I’m waiting to see the face of your baby. After birth immediately you can send me video, picture. Go ahead with your Hari- Bhajan without any hesitation. I’m always there with you.
Thanks a Lot.
Truly yours in the Service of Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata.
Your Penniless Baba,
Shyam Das.
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Hare Krishna Baba!
Please accept my dandavat pranams! All glories to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!
This last week, before you came back to Mayapur, was a little bit hard for me. I got several drops of poison, I think, trying to get harmony. Even though I increased my sadhana and in a sense improved it (by the blessings of Bhaktisidhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad), I felt like a robot – I could not feel anything. Maybe it’s just because Nilachale Mahaprabhu topic was over. I don’t know. But after today’s Hari Katha I feel better. I want to offer whatever energy I have (and capable to give away) to Vani Seva or other seva. On one hand I felt very inspired today but on the other I know that I don’t have much to offer. My mind is very chanchal. And I don’t have a deep knowledge of any language. I wanted to ask you something:
1) I want to come to Mayapur. During my previous staying in the dham I enjoyed materially. I liked to be with the devotees, to have simple and easy life without material problems and pressures. But I also got the chance to have your darshan. As I told you I planned to get the appartment here in Italy and rent it. But now I think that I don’t want to work several years to pay it out. Since several weeks I want to quit my job and go to Mayapur. But there are no flights. And e-visas are being blocked. Then, I read the article spoken by Sadananda Das “change of environment” where he said that to live in a holy place is not actually bhakti. I understood like this. To me you said at the beginning, when I asked if I could do something for you, that you would give me some Vani seva when I come to Mayapur so I thought that it is better for me to come to Mayapur, that was the moment when I started to desire to leave everything. And in Rama Katha you said that if in the name of dham seva one stays in the dham willing to gratify their senses – this is not dham seva. I am confused. What should I do? How can I better satisfy guru vaishnav? And also, my work is stressful for me and it is really difficult to do what I am supposed to. Aside the fact that the place is very contaminated and I am around materialistic people and atheists. I am also material but I want to have a better association.
2) When a disciple speaks with the guru in their mind, does the guru hear them? Guru knows everything. What exactly does it mean? Gurutattva, Nityananda or that particular personality? Should I ask all questions or should I just speak them in my mind and consider that the questions are asked?
3) Recently I don’t have much time but still I got very inspired to learn bengali. You always repeat it. Maybe in future I will be useful in the translation seva. Maybe you or devotees know some female teacher that could teach me online? I would pay for that appropriate price. Should I possibly do it?
Dandavat pranam! Hare Krishna
Answer of Srila Maharaja:
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Mama,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very very anxious to know that you have taken some drops of poison for testing. Why? Why? Harikatha is the pure amrita. Day by Day you are drinking more and more amrita. Also you have started doing Vani-seva big way from heart, then why further complicacy arising inside your mind? Your perfect submission can prove that your mind is now my mind, so I like to engage your total mind into Vani-seva to save you from danger. Dhama-vasa (Dhama-seva) is surely an approved Bhakti mode. Maybe Srila Sadananda Prabhu was bound to speak negative way for those kapat people. Under the category of five folds of sadhan Bhakti-Dhama seva (Dhama-vasa) is one. Sriman Mahaprabhu Sri Krsna Chaitanya Deva already told about this fact with strong confirmation. Try to get stability of your mind through Guru-seva. Never mind I am always there with you in the form of aprakrita Harikatha.
Thanks a lot,
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your unworthy son, Your Baba Maharaj
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My dear father,
Dandavat pranam to you all. I am very very lucky that you are going to teach me Saranagati. Please bless me from heart so that i can develop Saranagati very shortly. I have one request to you to think over and again about what all siddhantas i already told under the guidence of Srila Prabhupada. I think all the sidddhanta vichars shown by Srila Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja, and other Sarasvat Gaudiya Guruvarga can never cross or violate the siddhanta vichar of Srila Prabhupada, maybe their representation can be a little bit diffrent. All the documents are given below for your kind consideration. Excuse me due to extrem shortage of time i cannot wast my time any more and also as per the advice of Srila Prabhupada and our Guruvarga i know it very well that—“Logical interpretation can not stand in the way of that Absolute Truth”, so i think argument is not a solution, try to dedicate yourself in the service of Guru-Vaishnava from heart by applying your body, speech and mind together with all the belongings that you have in your life, then you can realize yourself very easily .
tarko ‘pratiṣṭhaḥ śrutayo vibhinnā
nāsāv ṛṣir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam
dharmasya tattvaṁ nihitaṁ guhāyāṁ
mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ (Mahābhārata, Vana-parva (313.117).
” ‘Dry arguments are inconclusive. A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage. Simply by studying the Vedas, which are variegated, one cannot come to the right path by which religious principles are understood. The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated self-realized person. Consequently, as the śāstras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahājanas advocate.’
ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi
na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ
sevonmukhe hi jihvādau
svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ (CC Madhya 17.136)
“‘Therefore material senses cannot appreciate Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, form, qualities and pastimes. When a conditioned soul is awakened to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and renders service by using his tongue to chant the Lord’s holy name and taste the remnants of the Lord’s food, the tongue is purified, and one gradually comes to understand who Kṛṣṇa really is.’
We know from Srimad Bhagavat Gita that Bhgavan Sri Krsna giving instruction to Arjuna—
ajñaś cāśraddadhānaś ca
saṁśayātmā vinaśyati
nāyaṁ loko ’sti na paro
na sukhaṁ saṁśayātmanaḥ (Bg. 4.40)
He who lacks discrimination is devoid of faith, full of doubts and suspicion, so can get lost in the way of spiritual path. For the doubting soul there is neither this world nor the world beyond, nor even happiness.
Again and again i beg for pardon for giving you trouble.
Thanks a lot
Truely yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your usless son
Baba Shyam Das
P.s You are requested to keep your conclusion with you, it is my request to you.
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Dandavat Pranam, Maharaj Ji.
Hope you are fine and healthy as always.
I’m sorry to still time from you but I need to tell u that the classes I’ve been giving to serve u are becoming more and more difficult. People are behaving in a scarry unethical way. I don’t know if it’s Bihaspati Planet in a bad position or what it is, but I’ve been attacked so strongly by all sides. Betrayal, offenses, lack of popper behavior… All these things put together are really tearing me down. Nobody seems to want to follow instructions.
Recently my god brother who is doing astrology readings told me he wants to open an astrology page to do readding for becoming richer and that he wants to give demigods mantras to people. Even if he knows that you and guruvarga are against it. What should I do? I keep telling him that he should not give other mantras but he says there are Vishnu or Nrishmha, or Lakshmi mantras and that they are expansions of Sri Sri Radha Krishna. Can u write me a clear answer about this?
Maharaj I’m also concerned about my future. I don’t know until when my father will support me coming to India. I’m thinking of doing some rentable activity like teaching (culture stuff) or writing when I come back. I’d like to know what do u think about that.
Treatment here is still going on, I’m more purified but pain is still there and treatment is kind of very “tapasvi”. Let s see how it goes on the next weeks. I’m sure I will be better at the end. Doctor wants to keep going on and I pls beg for your blessings about that. I really need better health.
I know that u might not be satisfied with me because I’ve been translating very little but my mind is disturbed by all these crazy things that are happening everywhere. I feel discouraged by people behavior and sad. But I want u to know that even if I’m lazy (please forgive me!) I will not misbehave and I’ve been repeating what you teach in the best way I can and leading all sincere students onto your lotus feet.
I beg you to pray for me and bless me with your radiant smile,
Your son
Answer of Srila Maharaja:
All glories to Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga.
Dear Prabhuji, dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection which can give you complete success in your Bhajan life, of course if you can realise from heart, then it is possible.
Jivas are enjoying free will, so I can’t force anybody to follow the idealism of Sila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad.
Those who are extremely lucky, only they can realise my Harikatha. What to do!
This is kali kal. Even Srila Saccitananda Bhaktivinod Thakur was given the same advice by Srila Gauranga deva – when he was lamenting heavily watching whole world averse.
This material world is the place of painful testing for us. If we fail then hopeless condition can put us down and down.
Be careful about this.
If you lose your acharon then you can grow unstable condition of your mind.
At least try to continue Pancha tattva and Harinam together with Hari Katha Sravan Kirtan sincerely.
Try to come back quickly to restore your spiritual health.
Be careful, I’m not ready to waste my time and energy.
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga and Gomata
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All glories to Sri Sir Guru and Gauranga
Dear Mataji,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very happy to see your divine Vani seva mood. Your highness has taken the divine responsibility to help us to do flawless Vani-seva regarding English publication. Only I have the vigorous energy to continue Bhakti Siddhanta Vani seva by the blessing of Gaudiya Guruvarga, but the lack of my eligibility make me feel shy in front of you all, because I was a pure science student, please excuse me for that. Anyway I am getting divine help from Sriman Nityananda Prabhu through you all. My unending energy giving me inspiration to go ahead with more and more Vani- seva, but I am afraid because life is very short. How far how much I can come out successful that I don’t know.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your´s a fallen son Sri Baba Shyam Das
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Dandavat pranam my most beloved Baba Ji.
My name is Mônica, Dina Badhu Das Prabhu’s wife, from Brazil.
We couldn’t be more grateful for your blessings to our new-born child,
Arjuna. He is already 5 months old and full of health and bliss by your
mercy.
So as Arjuna’s Annaprashan yajna day is getting closer, we humbly
wonder if you could instruct us to what to do and how to proceed with
the grain initiation in our current location, as here in Brazil we don’t
know how to reach anyone qualified for this matter. Should we do it
on our own? How could we receive your blessings to our son on such
moment? Could our son have your darshan on quick video call one
day?
Even as I’m a person full of defects, a fallen soul, today my heart is
full of joy for finding the courage to write for the first time to a true
devotee of the lord. Please forgive me to waste your precious time.
Goura Nitai!
Your aspiring servant
Answer:
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Mama,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. I am extremely busy but still I cannot ignore you. Now at present very often you just go on playing the video of my Vandana & Mahamantra in front of the baby, so that he can look and hear. On the day of first grain festival try to arrange only Jagannath´s dry rice prasadam and on time I can recite mangal-acharan over direct video call for the baby, then you can give the first grain into the mouth of the baby with a feeling that as if I am giving the first grain into the mouth of the baby. Also sweet rice can be offered to Srila Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakur. 13th Dec. 2021 , at 11.30am as per Indian Standard time.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your elder son
Baba Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga
Dera/ Mama,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Jagad Guru Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada used to say that—“This material world is a place of painful testing for us all.” If we can bear than we can survive, if we can have extreme enduring power (tolerance) then we can survive. Committing suicide is not a solution; it is a great sinful act. In course of traveling through fourteen worlds (this cosmic world) by chance I can meet with a pure Sadhu-Guru-Vaishnava who can save me out of his causeless mercy. Anyway your painful life going to help you to realize the real meaning of life. So don’t worry I am always with you all to give full protection. But without hundred percent submission (surrender) unto the Lotus Feet of Sad-Guru, one can not feel hundred percent security.
You can go through the kirtan by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur—“atma nivedana tuwa pade kori hoinu parama sukhi………”
As per your own realization you should avoid all and every kind of evil association to ensure hundred percent perfect sadhu sanga in your life (If not physically possible then through hearing Harikatha& Kirtan continuously).
If your husband is a burden or barrier for you in the way of your Haribhajan then can cut relation at once. Try to find out a very simple and fair way to earn some white money to lead your life honestly with all your children and go on hearing Hariktha & Kirtan continually to grow your consciousness gradually, then onward you can feel more and more comfortable and can feel free of any tension. You can go on chanting “Pancha –tattva” and “Maha-Mantra”. From my any pre-starting Harikatha vandana you can hear and learn both the vital life saving Mantras. Do not belief anybody hundred percent to put yourself in trap again. Only and only you can believe a pure Sadhu-Guru-Vaishnava hundred percent. Wait and watch with full patience the coming changes in your life. Try to build up your nectarine devotional life to get entry into the eternal world. Try to forget the past. Life is very short, that we know very well, but still proper utilization of time in Haribhajan can give you hundred percent success—no doubt in it.
Haribol
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga & Go-Mata
Your unworthy son
Sri Baba Shyam Das
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Question: I need to understand whom I can consider as a candidate in my life partner. I’m Russian. Should it be a Russian person in order to not make hybrids? Or just white? Should it be the person who speaks the same language?
Answer: It is more practical to choice your partner from same country & same culture (on spiritual basis) and matching your mood. His age should be elder than yours.
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Hare Krishna,
Dandavat Pranam Maharaj, my name is……………. and I am 21 years old. First I would like to thank you for your amazing classes and also for having blessed the Tulasi Kanti that I am using, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have been facing difficulties for a long time therefore I am sending this message so that through your guidance I can advance in Bhakti. I have artistic skills that have been used for Seva in the Eternal Vedic Science study group for over 3 years, I’m very happy to do that, but I can’t make money doing arts for merchants or people in general, and it has me worried. On the other hand, my birth chart shows me that I have strong planetary influences to become a businessman, and I like these subjects, the problem is that it makes me anxious to earn money, and recently I started chanting mantras for Sri Ganesha, Sri Maha Lakshmi and Sri Kubera, I have been guided by Krishna Das Prabhu that this takes me away from Bhakti, and I need your guidance on how I can fulfill my Material Dharma of being a businessman and at the same time being able to advance in the spiritual process. Please Maharaj help me, I have fallen many times from the spiritual process, I fall into all the traps of Maya and more and more I feel that it is impossible to reach the lotus feet of Sri Krishna Govinda, and that has nothing to do with the humility of the great saints, I really feel that maybe the Bhakti process is not for me, month after month my faith is waning, about 2 years ago it was much stronger and now I don’t eat Prasada anymore, I don’t fast on the appearance days of the Vaishnavas, I can’t read or listen to Harikatha often and the japa turns that have already reached 18 have dropped to 6 round as I don’t have the strength to do more than that at the moment. Please Maharaj instruct me so that I can save my wretched soul.
Answer by Srila Babji Maharaj
Al glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Prabhuji,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection to get protection of your life. Our life can only and only be protected by pure Guru-Vaishnava kripa, of course if we have strong faith in them. Day by day if you lose faith in them, then you can discover yourself in the ocean of misery. If you lose your faith in Harikatha from the Lotus mouth of pure Guru-Vaishnava, then there is no other way to protect you. You can feel strong attraction of Maya, but still Vaishnavas can give you full protection. Also your age factor is a big issue—that I know very well, but still you can save yourself by the help of Guru-Vaishnava kripa. A dog can also earn money that is not a big issue, but cannot develop enough consciousness like a man who can prove rationality of judgment. You can earn money in a very sweet- ably fair way to give full protection to your bhajan life, otherwise what use of money? Life is going but we are playing with maya. Remember that life is not meant for material enjoyment. Life is very unstable but still can give the secret amrita tattva –bhakti, no doubt in it. But your sincerity and loyalty can give you success. Try to renew your lost habit of following Ekadasi etc. Vrata and also Pancha tattva and Harinam Mahamantra Japa etc. This way you can revive your lost spiritual health. Try to come to me some day in near future. Try to read Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata and Jaiva Dharma. And also try to hear all kirtans by Paramahamsa Acharya Sri Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Gosvami Maharaj and Srila Sridhar Gosvami Maharaj, and also if you prefer so you can also go through all my kirtans (already given in website –https://shyamdasbaba.com/) on regular basis. Remember if you miss this kind of rare opportunity, then there is no guaranty that next life you can get such a scope. Never mind. Excuse me.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Hare Krishna,
Dandavat pranam Maharaj Please accept my service even if my heart is still impure. I beg you to bestow your mercy upon me, and allow me to visit India in the next kartik. I really desire to have your darshan, I d like to knee before your lotus feet in holly dhama. Please bless me so that I can purify all my anarthas and reach Sri Mayapur. My goal in life is to clean my heart so that your siksha could live there for ever. Praying that all goes well in your Goshala as soon as possible.
Your aspiring servant from Brazil ……………..
Answer by Srila Babji Maharaj
Dear/ Mama Date: 14.04.2022
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Your craving request to get my kripa can prove your genuinity and sincerity. Also I am surprised to see your deep concern about me and my Goshala—which can surely prove your eternal relationship with me. Anyway your coming to Mayapur to bless me can give me full satisfaction, what else I can expect more than that. Cleanliness of heart is only possible by hearing Vaikuntha Vani (Harikatha) from authentic source. But this should not be our ultimate goal. We are doing sravan-kirtan of Harikatha to attain the most precious and auspicious jewel Krsna prema—I mean the loveful eternal seva of Sri Krsna at Goloka Vrindavan. At present to cut Maya is a big issue in our life but everything is possible by Sat Guru kripa. What not possible by Guru Kripa?—That is the main question. Be careful that only after cutting maya Hari bhajan can start, not before that but our devotional practice can go on regular basis continuously to led us up to the final goal of our life Sri Krsna prema. Excuse me I cannot cheat you all.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!
Hare Krishna Baba.
Please accept my dandavat pranam.
You are very kind to me and gentle. I’m very grateful for that.
I think I will fail all your tests. I’m not humble so I don’t have the symptoms of humbleness. I think I can follow your direct instructions in order to learn etiquette and at the same time not to be falsely humble. I promise I will try to do my best to do only what pleases you.
Happy birthday!
Madhavi Devi Dasi
Dandavat
Answer by Srila Babji Maharaj
All glories to Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga
To my dear foolish sweet Mama Date: 14.04.2022
Dear/ Mama
Dandavat pranam to you all. I highly appreciate your deep concern about me and my bhajan—which is quite natural in the way of genuine eternal relationship. But who that crazy idiot told you that my avirbhava titthi is on Ashoka Astami (Vasanta Astami) Madhu masa– just the previous day of Rama Navami tithi?
Actually I have no avirbhava tithi, because I am eternal present. If you try to share this dirty news with anybody then I can beat you like Parashuram, no excuse. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection and please wait and watch for the vastav (real) kripa in your life. I am always with you.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Hare Krsna
Dear Shyam Das Babaji Maharaj Dandavat Pranam How is your health? Are you ok?
I wanted to tell you that I feel blessed to have you as my Siksha Guru. Listening to your Harikathas is really a great fortune because in addition to the profound and precious teachings, they make us feel safe and supported in this world of tears. I also want you to know how pleased I am to have my son Krsna Das sheltered at your lotus feet. It is through him that most of us listen to your classes because many do not speak English. In addition to this wonderful Seva, the fact that he is in your company during this period only increases his knowledge and his Bhakti. This fills me with happiness despite missing him. For all these mercies I want to tell you once again that I have you within my heart, right next to Srila Bharati Maharaj, my beloved Gurudeva. Your classes are so beautiful and intense that I don’t have questions, all I have to do is pay attention to them very carefully because all the answers are there.
With great affection I ask for your Blessing and I hope to see you again, in this life, at least once more. your servant …………..
Answer by Srila Babji Maharaj
To my beloved mother
Dear/ Mama
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. I am just surprised to see you your letter. This is actually the key to success in the way of your bhajan. Strong believe in Guru-Vaishnava is the most vital point. I am very happy to know that you like to come to Navadvip Dham to bless me from the core of your heart. What can be more joyful than that! But why you say that at least for one time? It is your highness to think about me that way. Actually I am very happy to get a son like Krsna Das. Day by day he is growing seva mood and be sure that his poor health is also one kind of blessing. Don’t worry, he can safely go back to you on time to bring you at the Lotus Feet of Sriman Nityananda Prabhu at Sri Navadvip Dham. I am looking forward with full patience. May you long live. This is my desire. Try to hear Harikatha daily and try to do pancha tattva with strong believe.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Hare Krsna! Dandavat Pranam Maharaj ji
Mataji …………….. and I are planning to go to India to have your darshan and serve you and your sevakas during kartika month. May I ask what are Bhakti Siddhanta Vani Seva group plans for this special month? When does kartika begins for you and when does it end? Sorry to bother you, maharaj, but since we don’t trust the calendar of other institutions we decided to ask you directly. Please accept my obeisances onto your lotus feet, your aspiring servant, ……..
PS – this name is a drop of mercy I recieved from you that changed my entire life but I don’t tell anyone about it just as you instructed me.
Answere
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/…………,
Dandavat pranams to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very happy to know your plan to come at Sri Navadvip Dham to pay a mercy glance on me. Actually Sri Navadvip Dham is our eternal place and at present we are foreigner. So you should not come here with return ticket.
On 6th October 2022 Passankusha Ekadasi Vrata is the starting of our Kartik Vrata, and next 4th Nov (Uttan Ekadasi) is the end of the Vrata, but if the situation demand so then we can continue our Harikatha up to Rasapurnima day 8th Nov.
Detailed announcement of our program will be announced on time. You are always welcome.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Guru –Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam Das
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Mama
Dandavat pranbam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Really I am very very happy to see the picture of my little brother. When and how I can get his (Raman) association, that is the main question. Vaishanav Baby is really very rare. I like to hand over all the responsibility of seva to him to him. Please take care of my brother properly, it is my request to you. Time to time you can send the picture of my brother so that I can feel happy. How your health, let me know.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear ……… Prabhu my son,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Please try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I wonder how it is possible for you to jump into Maya again, even after getting the golden opportunity to hear Goloka Vani of Srila Prabhupada through me for long time. I am sure that you are not doing absolute Sat-sanga through my Harikatha. I think I am surely not your Idealism in your life, otherwise it would not have been possible for you to run here and there fancifully like a crazy to lose your bhajan. I am sure as per your cheap sentiment you are following some big Acharya to get lost in this material world. Ok, I think I have no right to check your running opposite way. “Enjoy yourself”– is the basic formula of this material world, except those pure devotees, because their life is totally dedicated unto the Lotus Feet of Sriman Mahaprabhu, so they never run for sense gratification, not even in dream. Try to forget me to get more and more material facilities. This is the trap of Maya Devi to differ your attention. Over.
Excuse me for my concern for you all, because I love you all from heart.
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless servant
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Hare krishna Maharaj , dandavat pranam unto your lotus feet I would like to introduce myself to you.
My name is ………, I live in Barrackpore, Kolkata .actually my origin is south India ,Andhra Pradesh ,but my father was born and brought up so I also was born and brought up here in West Bengal. I am 15 years old, I study in Bhaktivedanta Gurukul Vrindavana which was established by Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj, the school is a residential school in Vrindavan so most of the days I live in Vrindavan only. I study in class 10 ,I came in contact with Sri Gaudiya Math 3 years ago, earlier I was associating with the jata goswami’s of Nityananda parivar in Khardah then when I heard Srila Narayan Goswami Maharaj’s harikatha then my mind came to a right track and I came know about Srila Prabhupad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur. Two years back I started hearing your harikatha regularly including all your old Bengali harikathas. In my family I am the only devotee, earlier I used to eat meat but then I left an with great effort I convinced my family members not to eat meat, now I am taking pure vegetarian food, before eating I offer it to Lord , by your mercy I am chanting 16 rounds daily. So this was a brief introduction of mine.
Rest of the things, in detail I will offer unto your lotus feet when you give darshan to me. Please bestow your unlimited mercy upon this fallen soul.
Dandavat Pranams.
Answer
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My Dear sweet little father …………,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Please try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Your letter going to touch my heart. Your strong faith unto the Lotus Feet of Guru-Vaishnava-Bhagavan can give you success in your life, but there should be Non-stop (continuous or uninterrupted) pure satsanga in your life, otherwise there is every possibility of fall down, because Maya is too strong. What is your future plan and program that is the most vital point, otherwise your complete submission unto the Lotus Feet of a Sad-Guru can make you a great Sadhu-Vaishnava. Actually our personal desire or our like and dislike cannot allow us to do perfect Haribhajan, that is the main problem. Haribhajan is such an exclusive thing that it is almost impossible to realize from heart in this present bonded condition. Then wherefrom the question of actual Haribhajan can arise? I suggest you to dedicate your life and soul unto the Lotus Feet of Sad Guru to realize the absolute truth, because this is the right time in your life. I like to meet you, but when, how , and where? I can suggest you to meet me on Monday 27th the next, outside the bhajan kutir of Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur (Gadrumdvip, Svarup Ganj, Fakirtala) at 9 am. Or at Sri Mayapur Hulorgaht Shiva Mandir at 9.30am, because I am always busy. I can promise you that only this kind of Harikatha can save your live, no alternative way open.Over.
Thanks a lot.
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam Das
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My dear father,
Dandavat pranam to you all. I discover your mind is a little bit diverted, please pay attention to your seva, otherwise you can lose everything.
Thanks a lot.
With great concern your son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Dandavat Pranams. Please tell Babaji Maharaj that I’m one instance of sad Guru reaching out to collect a fallen soul on the other end of the world. Causeless mercy but evidence that what Babaji Maharaj said about Guru not needing to travel to collect fallen souls …
Thank you
………………… Dd
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Respectable ……………. Mataji
Dandavat pranam to you all. Please try to know my unalloyed efforts to establish all the most exclusive Gaudiya Siddhanta vichars of Srila Prabhupada. Sometime it seems that fire coming out of my mouth, but believe me or not that it is not at all my angry mood, rather this can confirm my deep relationship with Srila Prabhupada and you all. Excuse me your letter was not clear. You must excuse me as your poor brother, who is unable to reach your lotus feet to beg for pardon. I promise that I can never forget you all, so where from the question of breaking our loveful relationship can at all arise, whereas I always deserve all your unalloyed love and affection- without which I can die. Please always try to feel free to write me to guide me, otherwise I have the scope to think that you are feeling annoyed with me. You are cordially invited to come to Navadvip to bless me. Be sure that I never wanted to mean that a Paramahamsa need not go for preaching to collect fallen souls, I wanted to say that their pure acharan is more than enough to influence us. Srila Krsna das Kaviraj Gosvami told in Sri Caitanya Caritamrita that—“It is not possible for me to satisfy everybody by serving them with pure siddhanta vichar.” So it is quite natural that somebody can accept me or somebody cannot accept me, but anyway I must be on a neutral platform to distribute the causeless mercy of Srila Prabhupada to everybody irrespective of their cast and creed or country and color.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the seva of Guru-Gauranga & Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam Das, your poor fallen brother
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Srila Maharaj is very happy to realize your thoughtful appearance. Anyway a Vaishnava is always Vaishnava, tilak-mala or sari not going to contribute bhakti without strong faith in Guru-Vaishnava. Maharaj also wanted to meet with the other two Matajis who wrote question about—sin-crime & aparadha, if not possible physically, at least like you.
Srila Maharaj said that—“Actually this is not story at all, rather I would say it is such a fact which can give you backing in the way of your bhajan by Srila Paramahamsa Gurupadapadma. Please don’t try to forget that incident. All your questions always giving me a golden opportunity to serve shabdha brahma, that is why I am always happy with you all, really I mean it. Please bless me from the core of your heart so that I can do Vani seva very sincerely, please accept my dandavat pranam from heart. ”
Gaura Hari Hari Bol
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Dandavat Pranama!
Eben lasen wir den folgenden Brief unten von Sadananda an Mario, wo er davon spricht, was Shrila Bhaktisidddhanta Prabhupada zu Illustrationen in Büchern sagt.
Gibt es da vielleicht noch mehr Aussagen von ihm, von denen Du gehört hast? Was denkt Shrila Shyamdas Babaji darüber?
Hier der Auszug aus dem Brief:
Brief von Svami an Mario 13.09.74:
- Bhagavan kann man nur mit den Ohren sehen, d.h. man soll hören, wer Bhagavan ist – und Seine Eigenschaften etc., also, was es bedeutet: shyama (Limonaden-Blau?), Sein Gesicht so wie auf den Kitsch-Bildern? Der 4-armige Vishnu, so einmalig unmögliche Gestalt wie auf den Bildern?
- Prabhupad Bh. Siddhanta’s Bilder? Es war ein sonst unbrauchbarer Schüler meines Lehrers, der nicht ganz richtig war im Kopf; man erlaubte nach Fotografien Bilder zu malen – schreckliche! Prabhupad mochte sie nicht.
- Er duldete auch keine Illustrationen der modernen Maler in den Ausgaben der Shastra-s, auch keine kitschigen Krishna-Bilder (von Kalendern) in den Blechkoffern, die die Neulinge in die Deckel hineingeklebt hatten.
Herzliche Grüße
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Radhe! Radhe!
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ (Mataji)
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Always try to pray unto the Lotus Feet of Srila Sadananda Svamiji to arrange some causeless mercy for me, so that i can survive in the way of Visudha Caitanya Vani Seva up to the last moment of my life. All your writing and siddhanta vichar giving me immense pleasure, nobody can break your apprakrita siddhanta vichar, because all those are supported by the darshanik vichar of Srila Sadananda Svamipad (or Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Prabhupada). But bonded souls they are so blind that they cannot find any meaning of that apprakrita jagat, so all our previous Guruvarga like Srila Vyasdev Gosvami, Sukadev Gosvami, Sutadev Gosvami, Srila Narada Gosvami or Srila Shankar Bhagavan they all purposely only wanted to indicate the absolute truth by direction, because all transcendental things are beyond human comprehension, so that is why our Guruvarga always wanted to take some material example (or picture) to indicate the fact (the Absolute truth) near approximation. Though it is strictly prohibited still there is no alternative.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga & Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam Das an aspirant of the dust particle of the lotus feet of Srila Sadananda Svamipad
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A special note of declaration to draw your kind attention to the most sensitive and important Gaudiya siddhanta vichar regarding the protection and preservation of Sampradaik Vanivaibhava, and to specifically understand the divine relationship between Sad Guru and Sad shisya and their respective divine qualities to keep the flow of visuddha Bhaktivinod dhara intact way. All our previous Guruvarga incl. Bhagavan Sri Krsna Himself or Sri Ramchandra Bhagavan or Bhagavan Sri Krsna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, everybody , who not, they all tried their best to maintain the flow of Bhagavat-parampara intact way, without any contamination. To distribute divine knowledge without any consideration of qualification is not at all causeless mercy, rather this kind of random procedure can bring a total distruction of the system of Vishuda Guruparampara. It is a great offence, which can never be excused
According to the following sloka of Srimad Bhagavat Gita 18 Chapter 67 Supreme Lord Bhagavan Sri Krsna wanted to put some strict rules and regulations for the protection and preservation of the purity of Sampradik flow of divya tattva vijnana of Gita Upanishad. So to clarify this most vital sensitive point on the basis of Gaudiya Darshan a series of continues flow of Visudha Siddhanta vichar have been going on for the past six weeks, right from the beginning of 25th June up to 31st July every Saturday & Sunday Sri Gita Rahasya dhyan pravachan, so we took decision to project this vital issue most exclusively in front of each and everybody to draw their kind attention on this subject matter to avoid misunderstanding and misconception.
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Dear Babaji,
Dandavat pranam—just updating you as that was something you had mentioned, though anything goingon in my world seems rather trivial and insignificant. Everything is a disaster here and I am basically miserable. It is extra difficult to maintain purity in this environment; I am just depressed and waiting for it to be over. I have very little control over the surrounding situation or the sound vibration around me and don’t have the nistha to be impenetrable, so I’m frequently disturbed, agitated. Anyway, I am hanging on to some basic sadhana though I have no scope for seva while settling all of these affairs and am working
hard the whole day to complete these tasks. In theory, this work now should greatly minimize my material endeavors in the future + many headaches and trouble with my taxes, ongoing, whereas to pretend these issues don’t exist would surely cause me problems and interrupt my being in Mayapur in the future. Anyway, I am happy in a way to be miserable because it means that some of my attachments are becoming less prominent, so while I certainly can’t say I really feel like Kunti devi, and I have plenty of other attachments and
anarthas I’m bringing with me to India, I’m happy. I’m happy that some of those external motivations for being over here are no longer strong enough to compel me to endeavor to maintain them—like buying certain healthy foods at the store or going to the beach, or having my own residence here, etc. I want nothing to do with this place or this lifestyle, and anything outside of Mayapur-dham and your hari-katha in person is basically just an austerity that I must endure. I’m digging myself out of deep, dark hole, by the grace of
Sad-Guru-Vaisnava… I can’t imagine how I would be able to make progress on this path had I not finally chosen to leave it all and come to India (which was only possible by krpa). I feel really and truly blessed for that opportunity, and hope not to squander it. I’m very much looking forward to returning on September 1st to resume the most important and intensive operation on my very dirty heart; somehow, you have some transcendental tolerance and patience for me! Praying that nothing crazy occurs in this world that would cause an obstacle to my airplane travel back to Mayapur!
Aspiring for the service of Hari-Guru-Vaisnavas,
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To my Dear Mama
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Pure love or affection has such an unique and amusing power, which can break any kind of obstacle or barrier in the way of attaining the object of divine love, no matter in which situation you are put into at present. What not possible by the causeless mercy of pure Guru and Vaishnava? So please don’t worry, try to run out of the hellish situation sincerely to reach Sri Dham Navadvip (Mayapur) as soon as possible. Remember that still today I am alive. To solve infinite problem it takes a fraction of second, only you will have to realize your original svarup (not Maya svarup). Over.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Guru-Gauranga & Go-Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Please know my unalloyed love and affection. In the name of my shiksa Gurudeva Sri Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Gosvami Maharaj- my heart always dancing. Also in the name of some disciple who has a genuine link with him like Sripad Niskincan Maharaj, Sripad Paryataka Maharaj or Sripad Brajendra Prabhu, etc. I became very very happy. It is so nice of you that you always try to keep a link with me through Harikatha, which can surely prove your authenticity, so I have no doubt in it that you are enjoying Guru-kripa. Guru-kripa is the most fundamental objective in the way of Hari-bhajan. Guru-tattva is the unique and akanda-tattva, so your positive feeling of Guru-seva can surely help you to do voice translation of Gita Rahasya dhyana which I think can bring an evolution in our Vaishnava society, because this is the most fundamental teachings (I mean the foundation of spiritual life) in the way of Gaudiya bhajan, still which has been neglected all the way by those sahajiyas to go to hell. So I think your such seva can bring a flood of kripa in your bhajan life. Please don’t fear, try to keep self confidence and if possible you can send me a sample of your first trial run seva. If I find it all ok, then what problem in it to keep it open for the whole world for their benefit! Also you can get this whole pravachan in written note form, so that we can publish in book form. Anyway somebody ready to pay for that. Why not you come here and stay (at Sridam Mayapur), with us so that we can take care of you?
Wish you good luck
Thanks a lot in the seva of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go Mata
Your useless son– Baba Sri Shyam Das
Special Note: At present if you prefer to start your seva of Voice translation of Upadesamrita (by Srila Rupa Gosvamipad) still it is ok, but the first one (Bhagavat Gita) is more important, because we are waiting for long time to get it translated by a competent personality (devotee) who can catch the central theme of each and every Gita pravachan. You have the chance to go through each and every Gita pravachan again and again to understand properly to translate accurately.
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ ………… Mataji,
Dandavat pranam o you all. Try to know my endless love & good wises. I always like to seek your blessing but when I am just informed about your extreme sickness, then immediately I started praying unto the Lotus feet of Sri Gurudeva & unto the Lotus feet of Sri Nrishinga Deva for your quick recovery. Don’t be merciless to leave me in this helpless condition in which I am put into.
Thanks a lot truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga & Go Mata
Your useless little brother
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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To Dina Bandhu– my beloved father
Dear …………., dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love & affection. How is my little brother? It is really very very auspicious signal that your father left body after hearing Hariktaha – Kirtan on Radhastami day. All unstable in this material world, so Haribhajan is the only solution, I think you can realize this point from heart. On 25th Sep. (Sunday) the dark moon period of Pithri paksha is the best tithi for such ritualistic activities like shraddha- tarpan etc., but try to send the picture of your father and his name on time. Actually I am going to perform the same ritualistic activities like shraddha tarpan for the grandmother of ……………… So don’t worry, surely I can try to make up my time to do something for your father.
Thanks a lot truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga & Go Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Hare Krishna Baba. Dandavat pranam.
It was because the stick was too small you could not understand that it was my false ego, or maybe the shape was wrong. I have it from Guru Purnima. I wanted to give it to you, but I left it in the bag and forgot about it. Then there was no chance and recently you spoke again about how shishya should surrender everything in the yagya of Gurudev. Anyway I thought it was real, but then I realized it was a duplicate one… I still have my false ego with me. I thought I gave you all what is inauspicious for bhakti… but everything is still with me.
Do you have faith in me?
Your useless daughter.
My dear clever Mama
Dandavat pranam to you all. To make you all free of my strong judgments, I took decision to enter into solitary bhajan shortly, but I am caught into your network, you are so clever. I know it very well that you have no faith in me but it is strange that I have full faith in you, and I know it for sure that you can never leave me alone. It is your nature to support me and my seva the reason for why you are giving so much energy. Recently I have submitted a strong application unto the Lotus Feet of Krsna to arrange your marriage festival. Let me see what going to happen.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your foolish Baba
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Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam Srila Maharaja.
My name is…………, I sent a letter to you a while ago when I was experiencing difficulties in Bhakti, thanks to your guidance I was able to get back on track, thank you very much, I hope that one day I can repay you by performing some seva unto your lotus feet.
Today I’m sending this message to ask for advice, I’m a photographic model and I received a proposal to spend 6 months in India, in New Delhi or Bangalore. I’ve already had meetings with the person in charge and I checked the integrity of the modeling agency, everything seems right and safe. My family approves the trip.
The main issue in all this is that this trip would only be beneficial to me if I could go visit you and provide services unto your lotus feet, the agency said that after a few months of work I will be able to take time to go see you, that made me very happy and hopeful, but in this Kali Yuga India can be much more dangerous than I imagine, as Prabhu ………… warned me.
So I’m writing this letter to ask for approval to go on this trip, I can’t go without your approval, and if you do aprove, I would like to ask for some advice on this matter.
I humbly thank you in advance for your attention, Hare Krishna pranam.
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My Dear father
Dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Actually Sri Guru kripa is the most vital factor. On the strength of Guru kripa I can get the ability to overcome any kind of eventuality. This way you can grow self confidence to protect yourself, because our self confidence means strong faith in Sri Guru-Vaishnava. Though I know that film industries and modeling agencies are almost same—I mean full of contamination, still when I am with you, then you may come, but it is my advice to you to be very careful about bad association. And you must try to relate each and everything with Bhagavat seva to maintain purity of your body and mind, otherwise problem can arise. Try to maintain both internal and external purity.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Syam Das
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Dandavat Pranams. This is ………. d . …………… has asked me to tell Srila Babaji Maharaj that she has been admitted to hospital with renal failure. She was on the dialysis machine for 6 hours yesterday and 4 hours today. She is asking for blessings from the Vaishnavas. I think her recovery will take a few weeks. She is able to read her messages and will keep her cell with her in the hospital. You’re in service
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To …………Mataji through………..Mataji
Dear/ ………….Mataji,
Dandavat pranam o you all. Try to know my endless love & good wishes. I always like to seek your blessing but when I am just informed about your extreme sickness, then immediately I started praying unto the Lotus feet of Sri Gurudeva & unto the Lotus feet of Sri Nrishinga Deva for your quick recovery. Don’t be merciless to leave me in this helpless condition in which I am put into.
Thanks a lot truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga & Go Mata
Your useless little brother
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Dandavat pranam. ………….. was so happy when I read her Babaji Maharaj ‘s message. It was the only time she was smiling and she said I am in such a good mood now. Please tell this to Babaji Maharaj. She is still very sick and is still in ICU. It’s very difficult for me to surrender and be satisfied with Guru Maharaj’s plan. She is brought me to this sanatana dharma when were at university and taught many of us Gita after evening artik. She would give us exams on Saturdays. None of us took initiation from ISKCON Guru but she brought 4 of us to Guru Maharaj decades later. I am praying that the envious trouble with the Go Shaka is in the past. Thank you for all your time
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Hare Krishna Baba! Dandavat pranam! All glories to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga.
I heard in one of your lesson that aprakrita selfishness means that we are thinking about the actual demand of our soul. You spoke about sva-artha (the Absolute benefit for atma). You spoke, in another Harikatha, that kama is the desire to satisfy our material senses. Do we have aprakrita senses? If we want to satisfy them, what is it called?
I was meditating on the fact that the Gopis were not happy with Brahma because he is not an expert in creation and created eyelids while they always want to see Krishna. Is this a sweet expression of their love? How is their aprakrita complain connected to Krishna seva? Also, in Vastraharan lila why those Vraja kumarikaha wanted to have Krishna as husband? Why didn’t they ask for Krishna seva only? Devotees always want to see Krishna, to hear about Krishna, to play with him. To serve Him. But don’t they want also to get ananda for themselves?
Krishna is all attractive. It’s quite normal if someone feels attraction. When someone feels that kind of attraction, then they want to stay together with the objects of their love (like Gadadhar Pandit when he left his Ksetrasanyas), to see Him, to hear about Him. I know that the relationships between Krishna and Vrajavasis are the most pure, but I would like to understand the nature of Krishna Prema, the fine difference between Prema and kama.
Thanks a lot
Your useless foolish daughter devoid of mercy
Sri ...................Dasi𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐣𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To my dear foolish sweet Mama.
Dear blessed Mama,
Dandavat pranam to you all. With a strong desire to achieve your full faith and love, your useless boy can try his best to give appropriate answer to your question.
No. 1., Actually at present in this material condition we have no apprakrita sense organs, but in course of our sincere loveful bhajan apprakrita sense organs can appear inside us to serve Bhagavan– who is also sat-cit-ananda moye, but for that the prior need is to become Namanandi sadhu, and when we can feel tremendous attraction for Bhagavat seva (grantha bhagavat & bhakta bhagavat), then automatically Harinam Prabhu can dance on our tongue to give us the scope to become Namanandi sadhu. Sense gratification is called kama.
No 2., Apprakrita selfishness to protect the absolute interest of our soul (Hari-bhajan) is really very good—just like Yadu the son of Yayati who ignored the selfish interest of his father to serve Sri Hari, i mean to do Haribhajan.
No.3., Apprakrita jealousy can be seen among Braja Gopikas to serve Sri Krsna up to the full satisfaction which is really unique and appreciable. Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur Jagat Guru used to say that—“Love and rapture if going to happen for the same unique and absolute seva of Sri Krsna is really excellent and appreciable.” This kind of situation always we can find in between the two groups (Srimati Radharani´s group & Srimati Chandravalli´s group) inside Braja Dham.
No. 4., Absolute loveful protest has some speciality- which can only be realized by a premik bhakta. The complain against Brahma by those Braja Gopikas can confirm the deep rooted absolute love for Sri Krsna, nothing else. Yes, this is the sweet expression of their absolute love for Sri Krsna. Their dissatisfaction can prove their unending seva mood for Sri Krsna without any smell of self interest. For those Brajavasis their seva is identical with them, i mean their seva svarup is the expression of svarup shakti.
No.5., Those Braja Kumarikas they wanted to get Sri Krsna as their husband to confirm their achievement to avoid any uncertainty or any illegal criticism supposed to come from the society where the live. Actually they are all svarup shakti of Bhagavan, i mean they are eternal wife of Sri Krsna anyway. Actually Sri Krsna is the legal husband of us all. Also marriage is nothing but unification of two different souls having opposite ”X” to each other to balance their respective emotion.
No 6., For bonded souls it is one kind of audacity to express desire to meet with Krsna, rather they should pay full attention to serve Him sincerely under the guidance of bonafide Sad Guru, so that they can became an object of darshan of Krsna. Bonded soul can never see any apprakrita vastu. From shastra we know—
aprākṛta vastu nahe prākṛta-gocara
veda-purāṇete ei kahe nirantara (CC Madhya 9.194)
“Spiritual substance is never within the jurisdiction of the material conception. This is always the verdict of the Vedas and Purāṇas.”
So what to speak about their Krsna darshan. But those who are premik bhakta- their spontaneous tremendous feeling of separation can put them in a very sensitive situation to leave their body, so they cry to meet with Krsna to quench their burning heart- which is quite natural for them. From Sri Gita we can see the following sloka–
yadā yadā hi dharmasya
glānir bhavati bhārata
abhyutthānam adharmasya
tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham (Bg. 4.7)
Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion – at that time I descend Myself.
paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ
vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya
sambhavāmi yuge yuge (Bg. 4.8)
To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.
In the commentary of this sloka by Srila Visvanath Chakravartipad- we can see the same siddhanta vichar that pure premik bhaktas they want to be rescued from the unending ocean of painful separation, nothing else, because they never like to engage Bhagavan in their own seva. Spontaneous seva mood is always there with them, which is surely devoid of any smell of self interest.
No. 7., Sense gratification mood is called kama which is really dirty. Self enjoying mood is not at all their in those Brajavasis in general- which is called prema- just the opposite of which is called kama, then what to speak about the absolute love affair of those Braja Gopikas ! Here is the most fine demarcation line in between both the field of prema and kama. From Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita we can see the following remarkable sloka—
atmendriya-prīti-vāñchā — tāre bali ‘kāma’
kṛṣṇendriya-prīti-icchā dhare ‘prema’ nāma (CC Ādi 4.165)
The desire to gratify one’s own senses is kāma [lust], but the desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema [love].
No.8., To seek the absolute enjoyment of Sri Krsna is the only target of those Braja Gopikas (those Brajavasis in general). 𝐓𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐫𝐢 𝐊𝐫𝐬𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 is the most secret point in the life of those Brajavasis in general, then what to speak about those Braja Gopikas—those who are always ready to sacrifice their life, soul, prestige, etc. everything for the absolute service of Sri Krsna—which is really beyond human comprehension. 𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐲 𝐊𝐫𝐬𝐧𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. So please don’t try to play your head on this most sensitive and secret bhajan rahassya at present.
Truly yours in the seva of Sri Sri Guru& Gauranga and Go-Mata
Thanks a lot
Your useless son– Baba Sri Shyam Das
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I offer my respects unto you
I offer my respects unto all the Vaishnavas devotees of the Lord
Please excuse me if I make any offenses unto your Lotus Feet writing this letter to you.
I am a fallen soul in a very sad condition and I have a humble request unto you, please accept me at your Lotus Feet, without your mercy I have no hope.
For the mercy of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada I met my Guru which was his disciple but who later had a very sad and bad fall and got involved in many sexual scandals around the world (I don’t want to say his name because I think it is not necessary).
Anyway I am grateful to him because he connected me with the Gaudiya siddhanta.
For some time I was living as a Bramachari in the jungle of Ecuador, this body was born in Colombia.
I had the mercy of getting introduce in the Harinama Sarkintan of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, but I need to confess you that I’ve not able to be successful in my spiritual life till now.
In this life I had very low birth in a very ignorant meet eaters family in Colombia, and I had a childhood marked by sexual abuses at an early age (I accept my bad karma and whatever I have to pay in this life) but I want to get out of that Samsara serving the feet of the devotees.
My live had been busy in serving my senses and been control by my sexual impulse, never peace in my mind.
Actually I am living in Halifax Canada with my wife and 2 kids.
You inspired me and gave me hope, I found your videos in YouTube, so I’ve been listening Krishna Khata from you and it make me believe in the real Shiddanta, it make me believe that there is hope for souls like me in such a sad condition in this world.
Please give me your mercy, I surrender unto you and accept you as my guide and inspiration to get closer to Bhagavan’s Feet.
Thank you for Krishna Khata —- Please give me Seva please please please I beg you
Att: ………………
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To ………….. Prabhu
My dear father/
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. My heart became very heavy by hearing your painful situation. People they like to find solution of each and every problem but without the mercy (kripa) of Guru-Vaishnava –Bhagavan nobody can go out of tension (problem). Sometime they are jumping into fire from frying pan—this is their solution, nothing else. If we can jump into Krsna bhajan (seva) then this kind of burning experience can act as catalyst in our life. So don’t worry, i think now after a long term horrible experience Sriman Nityananda Baladeva going to show some favourable mood to you, otherwise really it is quite impossible for you to open your heart in front of me without any hesitation. I think surely you can get kripa of Sriman Nityanada Balaram very shortly through Sri Guru-Vaishnava. Be careful because Sri Mayadevi always waiting to put is in trouble.
We never want to be controlled by Mahamaya, because then we cannot do Hari-bhajan. We always want to be controlled by Hari-Guru-Vaishnava to get the final settlement of our infinity journey. To discover the eternal svarupa of a jiva as the eternal servant of Sri Krsna is the final solution. You need not to keep any link with anybody not even with your fallen Guru, only and only you will have to depend upon those firing Harikatha-Kirtan to save your live. Try to forget your painful experience to dive into the ocean of nectar.
Truly yours in the seva of Sri Sri Guru& Gauranga and Go-Mata
Thanks a lot
Your useless son– Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Dandavat Pranam Maharaj Ji,
Please forgive my delay on replying your loving letter, I know I have no excuse.
Now that I came back here sometimes I think of all the beautiful things that you made me understand (specially guru tattva) and I have the impression that I went up on the top of the Himalayas with you. And It looks like a dream now that I am far away…
I miss you more then I could imagine and it makes me want to cry but I will try to focus on my seva prepare more sincere aspiring devotees to bring them to your lotus feet.
We just finished the diacritics and sanskrit corrections on the pdf of your book, so we are going to start to do the layout now. I pray that it will be published soon.
Kali Yuga has increased a lot since I last came back to this country so please, if you have time between your vital seva, think of me here, lost, and far away from your loving sight.
Your aspiring son, ………….
Answer by Srila Baba Maharaj
All glories to Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga
To ……………my dear father,
Dandavat pranam to you all, including your mother- whom I think my own mother. Really a deep feeling of separation going to overpower all my heart and mind, still I will have to bear it, because no other way. At least I can have the scope to feel that everything in this material world is unstable. To drive out Maya this is the perfect medicine for us all. Full concentration in Guru seva which is just devoid of Maya can surely give us seva siddhi. In the Ekadasi kirtan (written by Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur) we can see the following siddhanta vichar—
bhakata-sevā, parama-siddhi, prema-latikāra mūla
Service to the pure devotees of the highest order are the roots of the creeper of devotion.
When we can feel that Nama Prabhu and Nami Prabhu non different from each other then and only then we can chant pure Harinama, and this way finally we can get the scope to meet with Bhagavan Hari. If at all your mind laying with me at Sri Dham Mayapur then be sure that is your success. Maya can always create aversive situation but your Guru Bhakti (nistha) can always give you full protection, so don’t worry. Your effort to represent me perfectly in front of bonded soul if backed by your perfect acharan then in that case you can get pamper success. On the strength of your perfect acharan you can go ahead day by day, I hope so.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Sometimes some foolish people can put some question like- “How is it possible to attain success in bhajan in one life?”
Actually this kind of foolish question is absurd, because for infinite period jivattma travelling around these fourteen planetary systems. In course of travelling through 84 lakhs of yonis (species), I mean in course of travelling these fourteen planetary systems by chance luckily this life we have the chance to meet with Guru-Vaiṣṇava to find out the final solution of our unending painful journey. So, we can find in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta –
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja (C.c. Madhya 19.151)
“According to karma, all living entities are wandering around this fourteen planetary system of this Universe throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down into the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.”
So why should we run a risk for another life? Without strong resolution we can never come out successful in our bhajan life.
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Hare Krsna,
dandavat pranam, dear Srila Maharaj.
We received three different questions from three different students:
Firstly a question from Mataji Lavanya Mayi: “how should I treat Krsna Das prabhu? He brought Krsna, Gurudev and you into my life, he is my teacher but at the same time, he is also my son. Should I treat him naturally like a son or is there a vaishnava etiquette?”
Answer: You should think Krsna das Prabhu– your son as “Krsna das”, which is more practical for you.
The second question is from another student and is about the japamala. “Can we do other things while holding the japamala? Can we use the index finger that stays out of the bag to hold things for example a plastic bag from the supermarket?”
Answer: It is strictly prohibited to concentrate in other fields while doing Japa.
And the third question is about paying pranam to ……….. Should we pay pranam while standing, on our knees or full dandavat pranam laying down? Does it depend on the situation? Should we do it everytime we see him, or only on the harikathas?
Answer: According to your faith and respect unto the Lotus feet of …………. as your siksha Guru you can pay dandavat pranam at the time of Harikatha and also as and when the situation can permit so, otherwise in running condition somehow you must pay the verbal dandavat pranam. Be sure that ………….. not going to accept your dandavat pranam from heart because as Guru Das he is going to pass on this dandavat pranam unto the Lotus feet of his Gurudeva.
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All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear Devotees, dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very happy to receive your inquiry letter. Actually I always like to project myself as a dog of my Guruvarga; I am always interested to protect their apprakrita interest. So where from the question of my getting honor or dishonor at all coming, that is the main question. My expectation of honor and position from others- specially from Guru-Vaishnava can take me up to hell, because we know the following sloka of Siksastakam (by Sriman Mahaprabhu)—
tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
“One can chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking himself lower than the straw in the street. One should be more tolerant than the tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to offer all respects to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.” (Śikṣāṣṭaka 3)
So please don’t try to play your head so much about ………….. my dear son—to make him fall down. As per the usual standing etiquette in our Vaishnava society–the normal way of showing respect to each other is good at present. Do not try to ignore him by knowing him my representative. At least do not sit on his chair or bed or do not pass any order to him (or any bad remarks). Help him to reach the final goal of Haribhajan.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga & Go-Mata
Your beloved Baba Sri Shyam Das waiting to get all your kripa with full patience
Dandavta pranam Baba! All glories to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!
Bhaktivinod Thakur in Jaiva Dharma said that there are two types of sadhana: vaidi and rananuga. Also, Prabhupada spoke about sadhana kriya, sadhana Bhakti, bhava Bhakti and prema Bhakti.
I think that the meaning of the word “sadhana” is more than just practice/exercising. Otherwise how one can practice something that already is coming spontaneously? Could you please explain better the meaning of sadhana? And what is it exactly raganuga sadhana? The definition of sadhana: “The method one adopts in order to obtain one’s specific goal (sadhya)”. If raganuga sadhana Bhakti is impelled by spontaneous love, can I say that on the stage of sadhana Bhakti one already achieves sadhya (love for Bhagavan) and continues his sadhana (execution of devotional activities) to increase that love? You told that we continue all our devotional activities forever, so can I think that at certain point they will just become real, while until then they were only kind of exercise? So sadhana is not only exercise, right?
Thanks a lot.
Your foolish usless daughter,
Sri………..
Answer
All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga
To …………
Dear / Mama
Dandavt pranam to you all. Right you are. Sadhana bhakti has some exclusive inner meaning. After taking diksha usually at the preliminary stage only sadhana kriya can start, but in course of sincere Guru-Vaishnava seva when all anarthas can go away then the actual bhakti which is called sadhana bhakti can appear automatically inside heart by the kripa of svarupa shakti. Svarup shakti is not at all bound to obey any particular (or fixed) rules and regulations, she is Param svatantra. Srila Prabupada used to say that—“Bhakti is the natural function of our soul.” Now point is that if this is quite natural then why not visible in us?
Due to Maya sanga for anadi kal this seems to be like missing. Like fire is already there in a wooden log but still somehow this wooden log should come in contact with direct fire. Similarly in contact with pure Sadhu-Guru-Vaishnava those who are having shuddha bhakti bhava, bonded soul can get the fire spark of bhakti to get enlightened. Of course each and everybody cannot get such luck, some can get such opportunity if they are lucky enough to satisfy them directly or indirectly.
Vidhi Bhakti is driven by strict rules and regulations of shastra, not spontaneously, but when this viddhi bhakti become quite natural-then ultimately can cross the limit of scriptural injunction due to tremendous lobha (greed) developed inside the heart to follow a particular Brajavasi—his seva mood. First of all you will have to realize from heart that you are totally separate from your material body and mind, without which all your efforts (practice) can come to a flop end.
“vidhi marga rata jane, svadhinata-ratna-dane, raga-marge korano pravesa ….”
“By granting the jewel of independence to those following vidhi-marga, the path of regulative principles, He allows them to enter raga-marga”
( Song by Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur , “ Suno, He Rasika Jana”)
Raga bhajan is not a matter of joke. Ragatmika bhakti is only available among Brajavasis. By following them in toto from heart, people can get Raganuga bhakti. In that case spontaneous love for Krsna under the guidance of love any particular Brajavasi whom you like to follow can become a natural function in your life.
All glories to Sri Guru-Gauranga & Go Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To ……………Prabhu
My Dear son, dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Now at present we are passing through a very hard and critical time of Kali, so at all the question of survival is the most vital question in front of us in our bhajan life. So I never like to start any competition or argument with any one or any society or with any group because this can just spoil my time of bhajan. The sole responsibility of Sri Gaura Vani prachar is eternally resting in the hand of Sriman Nityananda Prabhu, so who am I to venture to take a new step without His approval. Up to now whatever preaching done by the inspiration and approval of Sriman Nityananda Prabhu though not enough but still not so bad, because whole world running towards wrong direction, who can pay attention to my absolute call that is the most vital question at present. By looking the present dirty condition of so called devotional field I purposely have taken decision to save you all without any further extension of our plan and program. If you yourself can catch the actual fire glowing inside my heart by just staying beside me then automatically our preaching seva can go further without wasting money and energy at present. I think your previous plan to stay near me at Sri Dham Mayapur with your translation seva etc. is more practical than running behind a mirage, also your broken health and mental weakness cannot allow you to take a big responsibility of preaching. Sri Guru Vaishnava can see past present and future clearly. Only money power is not solution, we need all absolutely dedicated souls but where and how we can get such genuine sevaka? Your previous plan to get together (we all) in a certain garden to celebrate any uthsava is not bad. So towards this end we can jointly try our best after this current construction seva of the new place of Bengali Harikatha is over at Godrumdvip. So long as I am living on this earth this is the best policy for us to stay together at Sri Dham Mayapur with honest seva mood. Our visuddha-acchar-acharan and our absolute effort to preach visuddha Gaura Vani will surely propagate all around the world today or tomorrow. Visuddha Bhakti prachar as spoken by Sriman Mahaprabhu is not so easy, it is time taking, and at the same time the procedure is very slow. So please try to think over and again before taking any new step. We like to follow our Guruvarga in toto. Please never mind. Waiting for your quick replay.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru –Gauranga & Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
Special Note:
My dear father—never mind, I think it is more practical to follow the strict rules and regulations established by Srila Prabhupada. At the time of Srila Prabhupada anybody was at least allowed to have his direct darshan to get purified, but the question of Harinam or diksha or Sannyas was not so easy, still according to inner (antar darshan) darshan Srila Prabhupada sometime used to break general rules to give Harinam and diksha or Sannyas to somebody very quickly. So according to Srila Prabhupada Vaishnava darshan or seva mood should not be under any restriction. Srila Prabhupada used to say that life is going, we have no time, so as soon as possible we should start Haribhajan.
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja (CC Madhya 19.151)
“According to their karma, all living entities are wandering throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going down into the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.
Who can say when-how-or why a jivattma can take a positive term for Guru-Vaishnava? You can consider the case of Jagai & Madhai. Any jiva is not bound to show respect to me, it is an automatic factor. My pure achar-acharan-adarsha (idealism) or my absolute siddhanta vichars can automatically catch the attention of public, of course at all they are searching for the absolute good in their life. So external pressure is useless. Also external examination or testing as was arranged by Srila Prabhupada for the inspiration of devotees is not bad, but one examination or testing is not sufficient to realize the position of a jivattma (or devotee). Many such degree holders gone to hell or supposed to go to hell. Because kripa is the most vital thing.
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To ………….. Mataji
Dear mama, dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. Your life is full of some mysterious events. Really I feel for you. Life is very unstable and at the same time duration of life is so short that even to solve one problem life can go away. Also it is true that without problem life is not possible. Any situation or problem should be realized analytically on the background of that Absolute Reality, otherwise our false emotion can continue to run towards infinity. My Paramahamsa Gurupadapdam Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Gosvami Maharaj told — “Emotion leads to demotion and devotion leads to promotion”. For Krsna bhajan we must be ready to cut all our material relations, no doubt in it. Your present situation can allow you to do Haribhajan safely together with your two sons, of course if you want so. You have your right to reach me with your sons to quench your burning heart, who can stop you to do so. Do not give priority to those cheap sentimental issues in your life. Who is father? Who is mother? Who is husband? All body relation only. Our eternal relationship with Guru-Vaishnava-Bhagavan should be realized to solve all problems. Go on hearing those absolute Harikatha Kirtan with full attention to get respite of this material trap of Mayadevi. Though you are not initiated as yet, still you can go on reciting Pancha tattva and Harinama on regular basis, you together with your sons. I can talk with you in details when you are coming here.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga & Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To ………. Prabhu
My dear son, dandavat pranam to you all. Know my unalloyed love and affection. All your questions are very sensitive and connected with so many conflicting issues. One by one I like to discuss. First point about your carrier you like to take completely a new decision. Before taking any such new decision you must think about your ability and stamina. To run such a heavy risk for some uncertain goal is not good. So until and unless you are over confident about your future carrier how you can take such a new decision, that is the question. Whereas you personally told me that you are the only earning member in your family. The proposal of enrolment of your name with one institution in India as a student of astrology to get student visa is good, but before that be sure that this cannot hamper your financial condition to support your family members, no doubt that your staying in India is good for your spiritual life . Ok over.
Your second question regarding sadhu sanga, this can never be under the control of any body, it is an automatic factor. In course of traveling fourteen worlds by chance a jivattma can get a chance to meet with a genuine sadhu to get kripa from him. Actually all can be arranged by Sriman Nityananda Prabhu, of course to understand real sadhu we need prematurity of bhajan, but anyway sadhu sanga can never go in vain, if no offence (apparadha) there. To become a true representative of sadhu-guru-vaishnava is not a matter of joke. Only and only when the heart of the disciple become totally harmonized with Sad Guru then and only then it is possible for that disciple to represent his Gurudeva, not before that. Usually such possibility is almost rare at present. A disciple who always like to get unusual controlling over others to get labha-puja-prathista in the name of sadhu-guru-vaishnava as their representative can destroy the whole system of anugatya or shrouta pantha. Now at present the whole system of bhajan is in dilemma. People are in confusion whom to follow how to follow. Whom to blame for that? Seniority or juniority only depend upon bhajan power, not on age factor. If you already have the direct association of a great sadhu in true sense then automatically you can realize the difference. Distortion of the fact can never be accepted by any wise man. Any new method of preaching by anybody by violating the sroutha pantha is strictly prohibited and at the same time also very offensive, so always be careful about this. Your honest sincerity can help you to develop the level of your consciousness to realize everything good or bad, or true and false, please keep silence, never try to find any faults with others, because argument simply can increase your dissatisfaction which is very dangerous for your future bhajan life. I can talk with you in details when you are coming here.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga & Go-Mata
Your useless son Baba Sri Shyam Das
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In chapter 7 in verses 8,9 Krishna describes His impersonal aspect. Where it talks about the taste of water, the light of the sun, the heat of fire, etc. And in chapter 10, verse 36, it seems to be saying the same thing that was said in chapter 7, it would be logical to put it in line with these verses of chapter 7, but the distance between them is as much as 3 chapters…It would seem that Krishna has finished one topic, started another, and then comes back to the previous one… What is the point here…?
Question
Answer–
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Prabhuji
Dandavat pranam to you all. Please accept my unalloyed love and affection. Actually Chapter 7 and Chapter 10 of Gita not same, because chapter 7 speaking about “jnana-vijnana”. Whereas chapter 10 speaking about vibhuti yoga. At the beginning of seventh chapter Sri Krsna Bhagavan speaking to Arjuna that–
jñānaṁ te ’haṁ sa-vijñānam
idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ
yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo ’nyaj
jñātavyam avaśiṣyate (Bg. 7.2)
I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you to know.
But at the beginning at the 10th chapter Sri Krsna speaking to Arjuna that–
etāṁ vibhūtiṁ yogaṁ ca
mama yo vetti tattvataḥ
so ’vikalpena yogena
yujyate nātra saṁśayaḥ (Bg. 10.7)
One who is factually convinced of this opulence and mystic power of Mine engages in unalloyed devotional service; of this there is no doubt.
From Gita seventh chapter both the verses 8 and 9 Krsna describes His jnana together with vijnana to prove that “He” is omnipresent, which should not be realized as impersonal aspect, rather we can realize this as advaya jnana tattva – together with the feeling of acintya bhedda beddha tattva, where it talks about the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the heat of fire etc. And in chapter seven Vers 36 (also onward other slokas) describing about His vibhutis, so surely this is not the same topic as was described previously in the chapter seven.
raso ’ham apsu kaunteya
prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ
praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu
śabdaḥ khe pauruṣaṁ nṛṣu (Bg. 7.8)
O son of Kuntī, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable oṁ in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.
puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca
tejaś cāsmi vibhāvasau
jīvanaṁ sarva-bhūteṣu
tapaś cāsmi tapasviṣu (Bg. 7.9)
I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics.
dyūtaṁ chalayatām asmi
tejas tejasvinām aham
jayo ’smi vyavasāyo ’smi
sattvaṁ sattvavatām aham (Bg. 10.36)
I am also the gambling of cheats, and of the splendid I am the splendor. I am victory, I am adventure, and I am the strength of the strong.
So it is my advice to you to consider those slokas both from chapter 7 and chapter 10 very carefully to realize the theme there in.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru & Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam Das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear Mataji, dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Hope you all ok with your positive mood to start Hari bhajan, which is the only way to get rid of Maya to swim into the ocean of blissful nectar. I am always great full to you all, because you all are trying to assist me in my Haribhajan. My life style is so simple so simple that I cannot find any application of your sophisticated cooking system sent by you. Sorry ! Please do not waste money. Waiting to meet you.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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Dandavat pranam to you all. Hope you all ok with your bhajan.
Srila Prabhupada used to say that time is paramartha (bhajan), though we know the foolish conception of those material people that time is money, because they are all in the ocean of Maya. If we have no divine goal in our life then we can become hopeless. Our strong faith in Guru-Vaishnava &shatsra can give us sufficient backing to get the Lotus feet of the Supreme Lord – the nectar. How and when you have developed such a question– I don’t know, but really this is painful to believe that no bonded soul can get free from Maya in Kalikal, if so then who can do bhajan with what believe. No faith in shastra vacan means all zero. This is the conclusion of all authentic shastras that our bonded condition can be removed by the association of pure tattva vit sadhu. Of course until and unless one can prove 100% submission unto the lotusfeet of tattva-vit Sat guru till then no question of bhajan siddhi can arise, then what to speak about bhagavat prapti ( to achieve) ! Nonstop Harikatha hearing can help you big way to tide over the situation.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear/ Silmara Mataji
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very happy to know your desire to meet me shortly to bless me. All your enthusiastic mood to serve Guru-Vaishnava-Bhagavan can help you big way to make progress in your spiritual life. Apprakrita Vani seva can give you pamper success, no doubt in it. Don’t worry I am always with you all.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Dandavat Pranam Srila Shyam Das Babaji,
I hope everything is going well with you. I am so very grateful to contact you again. Daily, I miss so much not being able to be there to serve your blissful lotus feet. May one day Krsna, Gouranga Mahaprabhu, Nityananda Prabhu, all Guruvarga and you forgive me for my offenses and for being a so fallen and contaminated Jiva.
In my last letter, I mentioned about my kids and my desire to bring them with me to serve your blissful lotus feet. I really appreciate your kind and supportive answer regarding that. Prabhu Krsna Das has kindly and closely advised me about my kids’ processes on Bhakti, and was concerned if they were really ready to go with me to India. Mamata has also advised me on that. During this period, I have observed them and tried to improve their dedication in the process of Bhakti. However, they still are not following the four principles perfectly, and my older son is still eating white meat and saying bad words, even though I have tried to orient him. He had some health issues and did not want to do the Ekadasis. They are not chanting the Mahamantra with japamala. My younger son started the Ekadasis, and is doing well. However, he also is not chanting the Mahamantra with a japamala. I am afraid they are not well prepared to serve your lotus feet with sincerity and purity as needed, and commit offenses that can compromise their religious path in the future.
Also, their schools do not allow them to miss 30 days of school.
Do you believe they would be able to go with me to India to serve your lotus feet? I humbly would appreciate your advises and guidance on this, if possible.
Please forgive me again for my faults and contamination. May one day Rhada & Krsna, Nityananada Prabhu, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and all Guruvarga lineage forgive me and give me their eternal mercy to serve you and all Guruvarg with all sincerity and purest heart, Maharaj-Ji. Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Matta.
Respectfully yours with sincere gratitude,
Answer :
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear /Mama
Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Look ! I am not such an important personality so that you can engage yourself together with all your children in my seva, rather you can think about Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Thakur to serve him through me. Also it is my suggestion that allow all your children to grow up with nature, and be sure they cannot get any scope to do evil association (asat-sanga). Then gradually allow them to hear all sweet kirtans by me ( Bengali, Hindi and Sanskrit) and after that you can allow them to hear some soft Harikathas sweet able for them. Without applying any pressure on anybody natural response is more practical, because all those jivattmas coming to you as your children in this life can have their respective dirty samskaras to prevent them accepting sanatan dharma (immediately), so it is more practical to wait more and more for their natural change to come—before coming to India to meet with me to get my direct love and affection. Though you all are externally away from me, still I am always with you all through my Gaura Vani seva –be sure about it.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My dear son,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love & affection. Life is full of countless problems, still you are trying your best to satisfy Sankirtan pitha Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu through Gaura Vani seva in the form of translation into Spanish language. Though Harikatha never depend upon any language, because it is the language of loveful heart, still I am bound to confess that I have no idea about Spanish language, so it is my humble request to you to go through your translation seva again and again before publishing. I am very happy to discover such an active sevak who is ready to give his heart and soul unto the Lotus feet of Sriman Niyananda the original Seva Vigraha Guru.
Thank you a lot
Truly yours in the seva of Sri Sri Guru–Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your Baba Sri Shyam das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To whom it may concern.
This is a declaration on my behalf to the best of my knowledge that the following two devotees ( ? fill up the blank Name Passport , country etc. ), are known to me for long time, they have no court case nothing. They have accepted me as their shiksa Guru, always hearing Harikatha, kirtan etc. for long time, doing Harinama, following Ekadasi etc. Vrata. They like to marry each other. I have no objection if they like to marry each other.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear /………… das Prabhu,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Excuse me for my delay to. Actually we are always overloaded with seva and Srila Baba Maharaj is so busy that he cannot give enough time to search out internet to understand your question, so it is more practical for you to write your question to the point. We wonder how it is possible for your Gurudeva who is vers in Rasa-tattva cannot give answer to you properly.
Thank you a lot
Truly yours in the seva of Sri Sri Guru–Gauranga and Go-Mata
………………………………………………………
Question:
Prabhuji I have one friend who is having suicidal thoughts – what the sastras said about it ?
Is it possible to approach Lord Dattatreya in a Vaishnava platform ? My friend who is having suicidal thoughts is practicing ascetic Yoga from Dattatreya with the focus of vaishnavism.
Answer:
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear /Prabhuji
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. It is more practical to bring him in front of me at Sri Mayapur (Sri Navadvip Dham), or if it is not possible at present then surely you are going to run a risk, because such a mental patient need immediate treatment by a pure Vaishnava. Any way at present he can go on hearing Pancha-tattva, Mahamantra, Narashima Mantra and all different Gaudiya kirtans (Sanskrit, Hindi or Bengali) already there in Internet published by our society (https://shyamdasbaba.com/gaudiya-bhajans/). The Yoga procedure prescribed by Dattatreya is not at all practical for Vaishnavas. It is far better for him at present to do some light pranayams prescribed by Bhagavan Sri Krsna to Uddhava Ji Maharaj, but surely together with Apprakrita Harikatha sravan-kirtan. Actaully this kind of tendency can be seen in such a person who is suffering from mental depression, so only pure sat-sanga can make him free of this trouble, no other way open. If this kind of apprakrita Harikatha-kirtan at all going to touch his heart then I am 100% sure that he cannot commit suicide. I can pray unto the Lotusfeet of Sri Narashima Deva for him under the guidance of Srila Gurudeva and Prabhupada. But you will have to send his picture and name immediately.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear /Mama
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. All different kinds of problems we are facing in our life, all those should be treated as the kripa of Bhagavan Sri Krsna. Kripa can come in our life both way, one is apparently negative way like different kinds of suffering or problems, and the other is positive way in the form of riches or enjoyment etc. So I am sure that day by day you can develop detachment inside your heart by watching the miserable situation of this family life. The more you can develop detachment from material things, the more you can develop attraction for eternal world (jagat), so never try to feel any reaction inside your heart due to the dirty situation in which you are put into. Try to come here at Sri Navadvip Dham to get the causeless mercy of Sri Gauranga Deva, which I think is more practical then to express strong grief.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear /……… das Prabhu
Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very afraid of the warning given by Srila Prabhupada that—“Slightest deviation from the track of Gurupadapadma can make you fall down.” So when I am speaking Harikatha or writing something or doing any seva, always I am very careful about how to satisfy Srila Prabhupad and Guruvarga 100%. No smell of self-interest should be there in my heart. As per shastra siddhanta, if I am 100% harmonized with the heart of Srila Prabhupada, then and only then it is possible for me to represent Srila Prabhupada, otherwise I will have to get severe punishment for my fanciful attitude. Any Mahajana vakya (speech) or kirtan should be quoted intact way without changing even dot, comma, full stop etc. this is the perfect siddhanta vichar, because their heart is so sophisticated and full of gravity that it is really impossible for me to understand. Srila Prabhupada said that—“If we are going to speak something of our own by avoiding all the quotations of our Guruvarga (who all are in our Gaudiya Parampara line), then we will have to take the responsibility for that.” Pure Guru-Vaishnavas they are less interested to gather labha-puja-prathista, so they always try to follow the teachings received from shrouta Vani (Guruparampara). Shudha Guru-Vaishnavas they are self-effulgent objects like the sun god, so their divine speech or writing or their divine personality itself can represent themselves in front of public if they are lucky enough to accept those in their own life. As per Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur all our strong personal efforts of preaching can come to a flop end if those people are not at all ready to cut their material bondage in front of whom I am going to preach. So anyway we are less interested about how many people going to vote us, rather we are interested about the quality shown by Srila Prabhupada. So it is my strong request to you to put all your energy in direct Vani-seva like translation of Harikatha, or translation of countless articles published on our Website which is more practical, otherwise there is every possibility to get deviated from Srila Prabhupada (or shrouta pantha). If you can realise my heart 100% then surely you can try to do seva accordingly. You are my child, so never try to misunderstand me. Regarding Guru-Vaishnava kripa prapti (I mean to get kripa of Guru-Vaishnava) Srila Prabhupada never wanted to put any restriction, because according to the sukriti of jiva they can get it in course of time, of course I am not going to speak about high level intimate association of Guru-Vaishnava right now, which can bring problem for those newcomers. Please you go through my previous letter to understand and realise my heart. ‘Slow but steady win the race’ this is the formula shown by Srila Prabhupada. I am in great pressure with all the proper management of the construction job of the new place of Harikatha or with Goshala seva together with continuous Vani seva etc., but still by the endless mercy of Guruvarga I am fine, because only I like to become a faithful dog of my Guruvarga to protect their absolute interest. If your total responsibility (good or bad) lying with me then be sure I can protect you 100 %, otherwise not. Those who got the scope to stay with Srila Prabhupada for long time (like 30 or 40 years) – they could not understand him, so how you can expect that common people can know me so easily. Srila Prabhupada said that–“If one can get established in the achar-adarsha (idealism) and the teachings of Sri Krsna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu then this is itself a great preaching.” Then why you are worry with those foolish people? Countless writings and Harikatha waiting for your translation, then why your Website/Facebook is so poor and blank, I don’t know. Why you are only busy with this small book. Anyway I have no objection if you publish this book, but you should write the following note in the book.
All the footnotes given in the book represented by ……….. das Prabhu (the Brazilian devotee) the disciple of Srila Bhakti Vigyana Bharati Gosvami Maharaj are according to his own understanding.
Otherwise I need to go through those footnotes.
One example given below—
The bhajana-kutir is a simple room, a small hut dedicated exclusively to bhajana, the worship of Krishna and the chanting of the Holy Names. It is usually a very small house, devoid of furniture and comforts, such as a room for meditation where there are no other stimuli and where very advanced devotees spend their days reciting the greatest of all mantras.
Srila Baba Maharajs Version below:
The word “bhajana-kutir” means a small hut (made of clay and straw etc.), or a small room where a pure Vaishnava doing Nama bhajan with full loveful devotional mood, where Kali cannot get entry.
Never mind. Excuse me if you can.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
My Dear father …….. das,
Dandavat pranm to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Please don’t try to misunderstand me. It is not my desire that you publish the book without any footnotes, but due to my tremendous affection I wanted to convey you my heart, that if there is some necessary changes then nobody can misunderstand you, that is why I wanted to give the appropriate meanings of those words, or you can publish those footnotes according to your understanding in your name, I have no objection in it, but you will have to go through those footnotes again to clarify those points scientifically. If there is at all any special question then surely I can cooperate with you. Don’t forget that we all together trying to satisfy Prabhupada to serve his mission flawlessly.
Thanks a lot
Truely yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your son– Baba Sri Shyam Das
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Hare Krishna, dandavat pranam dear Maharaj.
All glories to Sri Guru and Gouranga.
I am……… Devi dasi from Brazil and I am writing to ask for help because I have a serious issue to resolve. Some time ago I was accompanying a sannyasi and heard about Radha-dasya and the tenth canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. By Gurudeva’s mercy, ….. Prabhu explained to me that these topics were very high and guided me to follow the instructions of Srila Gurudeva Bharati Maharaj that first we need to purify ourselves, control our senses and observe our attitudes to remove the anarthas from the heart. After hearing this instructions I stopped following that sannyasi.
Here in the West, we have many difficulties in assimilating the correct teachings. We are very fallen and impure.
I ask for your mercy on this issue, Maharaj. I feel bad when writing about this, but I need your correction. Unfortunately, I fell in love for …………..eight years ago and I realize this is getting in the way of my proces
spiritual and that perhaps this has to do with the high spiritual topics that
heard without being ready and with the heavy criticism that this
sannyasi made against ……. Prabhu. Maybe that feeling is even
offensive. Prabhu told me that this is Maya, but how can I understand
better? Can you help me clarify this question and guide me
about what to do and how to act Maharaj? Please, I’m very worried about this feelings. I’m planning to go to Kartik on the next October, how should I behave?
Please accept my obeisances again.
Your very fallen aspiring disciple
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear / Vishvambar Prabhu,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I was supposed to write one letter to you much before, but due to extreme busyness I couldn’t convey you my heartfelt warm acclimation to you for your Vani seva. I regret for that. Anyway I am waiting for the last book (written by Bhaktivinod Thakur) lying with you.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
This is a letter written by Srila Babaji Maharaj in response to some recently published comments on the article we are published named –
“Those mātājis they cannot act as ācārya to give dikṣā or sannyāsa but can give śikṣā if at all they are tattva –vettvi-viduṣi realized souls”
Below you can find some of the comments, and after the answer given by Srila Babaji Maharaj
Comment No. 1
There are many scriptures, but we don’t follow everything. We follow Vaishnava scripture, and in sat kriya sara dipika it is stated that Matajis can be given the renounce order.
Comment No. 2
If we accept Bhāradvāja Saṁhitā as our pramāṇa, then we would have also to accept that it allows only a brāhmaṇa to be a guru. It says:
prapitsur mantra-nirataṁ prājñaṁ hitaparaṁ śucim |
praśāntaṁ niyataṁ vṛttau bhajed dvija-varaṁ gurum ||38||
“Thus, one who is desirous of surrendering with faith, should take shelter of a guru who is always engaged in chanting the mantra and is a knower of bhakti-siddhānta (prājñam), is always engaged, without any desire for personal benefit, in showering mercy on fallen souls (hita-param), who is always pure in heart or free of sins, peaceful, and always committed to his prescribed duties (ordained by his guru or by varṇāśrama). Such a guru should be the best of the twice-born (dvija-varam meaning brāhmaṇa).”
According to this definition of a brāhmaṇa, the majority of male gurus of the Gauḍīya sampradaya would not meet the qualifications. The verse requires a guru to have undergone the various saṁskāras, beginning from one’s birth. These saṁskāras are described in smṛti-śāstras. They also require birth in a brāhmaṇa family. According to the smṛtis, these saṁskāras cannot be performed for one who is not born to brāhmaṇa parents. The above verse from Bhāradvāja Saṁhitā also talks about the six activities of a brāhmaṇa: studying śāstra, teaching śāstra, performing yajña for oneself, performing yajña for others as a priest, giving charity, and accepting charity. If we apply this definition of a brāhmaṇa, then most gurus of the Gauḍīya sampradāya would not qualify. If, however, we do not accept this definition, then we apply śāstra selectively. That is considered a defect—ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya. This means we accept what is convenient and reject what is troublesome.
Comment No.3
Seems to me like very out of line smarta Brahmin nonsense talk.
Answer given by Srila Shyam das Babaji Maharaj–
All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gauranga
To whom it may concern.
Dear / Devotees,
Daṇḍavat praṇāma to you all. I beg for all your blessing to survive in gauḍīya bhajan. Try to know my unalloyed sincerity unto the Lotus feet of our guru-varga to protect the absolute dignity of our sampradāik vani vaibhava. Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Guru said that— “You have already left the way of praṇipāt –paripraśna to avoid connection with the absolute truth and you have accepted the way of tarka path (logic) to get lost forever in the ocean of Maya. What we can do for you!”
Actually, our challenging mood or audacity can through us away into the ocean of Maya forever. Only this kind of benefit we can get, nothing else. Serving temperament and humble mood lost, means everything lost. Actually, pure attma is never confined within body limit, they are beyond the limit of varṇāśrama- dharma, because this is only applicable for bonded jivas at least having some faith in Vedic injunctions. Also, man-women conception is very sensitive issue for those bonded jivas, which is the only reason for why Śrīman Mahāprabhu was very very strict about this point. Of course, surely that doesn’t mean that mātājis are all useless. They have the very vital part to play in our Vedic society as ideal mothers. By the causeless mercy of Śrīla Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura we know the essence of all Vedic śāstra. He has pointed out that “vritta brahmanism” is far more practical and important than “soukra brahmanism”, but still we should not break the social system based on varṇāśrama- dharma. As per the following śloka quoted from Śrī Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta we know the absolute siddhānta vichar of Śrīman Mahāprabhu –
kibā vipra, kibā nyāsī, śūdra kene naya
yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei ‘guru’ haya (CC Madhya 8.128)
“Whether one is a brāhmaṇa, a sannyāsī or a śūdra — regardless of what he is — he can become a spiritual master if he is kṛṣṇa tattva vit.”
We know the following śloka from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7th canto that—
viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha-
pādāravinda-vimukhāt śvapacaṁ variṣṭham
manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha-
prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ (ŚB 7.9.10)
If a brāhmaṇa has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications [as they are stated in the book called Sanat-sujāta] but is not a devotee and is averse to the lotus feet of the Lord, he is certainly lower than a devotee who is a dog-eater but who has dedicated everything — mind, words, activities, wealth, and life — to the Supreme Lord. Such a devotee is better than such a brāhmaṇa because the devotee can purify his whole family, whereas the so-called brāhmaṇa in a position of false prestige cannot purify even himself.
He who is kṛṣṇa tattva vit he is surely guru, but due to some specific reasons usually mātājis cannot act as an acārya (but can act as śikṣā guru) or even they should not step into renounced order. Manu saṃhitā never approved the free (or fanciful) lifestyle of mātājis, so they should be under the sweet control of father, mother, brother or husband etc. Due to shortage of time and space only we like to quote some selected evidence in favour of the above siddhānta vichar.
As per ‘Samskar Dipika’ compiled by Śrīla Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī we can find the following śloka, first chapter 2nd śloka.
brahman-kṣatriyaḥ-visaham āśramo vidhi bodhitah
strī – śūdrā – dwija bandhu namāśramaah prati sheditaha
Aśrama adhikāra (right) is approved for those brahmanas – kṣatriyaḥ and vaiśyāḥs in śāstra. strī – śūdrā – and dwija bandhu, I mean fallen Brahmins – they have no right to step into any āśrama because this is strictly prohibited in śāstra.
Also Śrīla Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura has confirmed this point in Śrī Śrī Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta 2nd chapter or 2nd rainfall 4th chapter on the topic of the utility of those women in gṛhastha life – “For those women gṛhastha āśrama is suitable for them or in some special cases vānaprastha can be possible, except that any other āśrama (or renounced order) not to be accepted by them. Any special powerful women by achieving the right of entering into brahmacārya or sannyāsa āśrama on the strength of para-vidyā – dharma – if at all came out successful or can come out successful, surely that should not be accepted as evidence for those women having soft shradhya (like you), soft body and soft intellect (or mind).”
Ok still if you like to kick out Bharadvaja saṃhitā even after watching the kṛpā of Śrīman Mahāprabhu on Bharadvaja Ṛṣi at Śrī Dham Mayapur (all Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas honour that special place as Bharadvaja Tila as per Śrī Navadvip dham parikramā khaṇḍa), but how it is possible for you to avoid Śrīman Mahāprabhu and His instructions based on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam? Not even single evidence you can quote in favour of your opinion to establish your false ego. Repeated use of this word –male guru- male guru- male guru by you can confirm your strong desire to become a female guru by violating the instructions by Gauḍīya guru varga. Your Gurudeva (?) could give you fitting answer to your challenging mood, but alas he is no more here on this earth with us. By watching the apparent angry mood of Shankar Bhagavan against the Prajāpati Dakṣa to give him heavy punishment, if you are not ready to accept him as Vaiṣṇava Raja then what it concerns to us, because we can realise very easily that you are blind. Actually kapat jivattama can never attain maṅgala but niskapat – yayati or Ajāmila or Saubhari Ṛṣi they could attain maṅgala because at least there was no duplicity inside their heart.
I am less interested to pass any remark about the present toxic or dirty situation created by some demons in the holy place of Nama-Hatta established by Śrīmān Nityānanda Prabhu (though Nama-Hatta is eternally present still was brought down by Him) by the help of which whole world can get perfect guidance. When we can see the following evidence from Śrīmad Bhagavatam 7.9.10 Sloka that–
viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha-
pādāravinda-vimukhāt śvapacaṁ variṣṭham
manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha-
prāṇaṁ punāti sa kulaṁ na tu bhūrimānaḥ (ŚB 7.9.10)
If a brāhmaṇa has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications [as they are stated in the book called Sanat-Sujāta] but is not a devotee and is averse to the lotus feet of the Lord, he is certainly lower than a devotee who is a dog-eater but who has dedicated everything — mind, words, activities, wealth, and life — to the Supreme Lord. Such a devotee is better than such a brāhmaṇa because the devotee can purify his whole family, whereas the so-called brāhmaṇa in a position of false prestige cannot purify even himself.
Then where from the question of disqualification of most of our Gauḍīya ācāryas (Gauḍīya guru-varga but not those present ācāryas) coming? Surely all scriptural evidence cannot be accepted by us, but those sattvik Purāṇas and Saṁhitā can be accepted those which are in favour of Śrīmad Bhagavatam. Śrīmān Mahāprabhu also wanted to advocate this siddhānta vichar. He told that Pancharātra and Śrīmad Bhagavatam expressing same siddhānta vichar. From Hayaśīrṣa Pancharātra you can get the clue from C.c. Madhya 20/237 or from Narad Pancharātra or from many other sources Śrīmān Mahāprabhu quoted many evidences (you can go through sanātana-śikṣā or rūpa-śikṣā etc.).
In Hari bhakti vilas all different countless evidences can be found quoted from different śāstras by Śrīla Sanātan Gosvāmīpad as per the direct instruction of Śrīmān Mahāprabhu but surely you will be in big confusion regarding the authenticity of those evidences if you are not enjoying full kṛpā of our Gauḍīya guru-varga. As for example the topic of initiation or the topic of guru– śiṣya testing process or their symptoms etc. You can try to understand those topics analytically (without guru–ānugatya) but externally you can find just the opposite of what our guru-varga done. If at all I have taken shelter unto the lotus feet of any sad guru (Sarasvat Gauḍīya guru-varga) from our own sampradāya then how it is possible for me to ignore or insult Gauḍīya guru-varga like Sad-Gosvāmīs or Śrīla Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura or Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda or Śrīmān Mahāprabhu who is our saṅkīrtan piṭhā. Surely my rude behaviour and fanciful crazy mind can take me away from Gauḍīya guru-varga forever. Even I cannot have my right to identify myself as a Gauḍīya devotee, rather those Gauḍīya guru-varga can identify me as a traitor or as a spy of Kali.
Gaura Hari Hari Bol
Hare Krishna
Respected Babaji Maharaj,
Please accept my pranama to your lotus feet
I have repeatedly seen your strong preaching about female gurus giving diksha. But because knowing only a little bit of the history of our Guru parampara, I know that there have been female diksha gurus in our own sampradaya. I read in your article about Jahnava Mata being an exception because she is svarup sakti. But then what about the other female diksha gurus? There was also Hemalata Gosvamini and others later on, before Bhaktivinoda Thakura, although, as I understand, that was an exception, when no qualified male guru was available. With my conditioned mind I can only think that you stress this point about the female diksha gurus so much , because nowadays it’s becoming a fashion to become a Guru, and you can’t tolerate to see unqualified persons taking such a position, and that applies to both, unqualified male and female gurus. Especially woman when they are still on the material platform are not at all suitable for such a position, I strongly agree on that point. And I thought, that actually every real Vaishnava Guru has to be empowered by svarup sakti, regardless of male or female.
So because of this, I could not understand your point why you stress so much that female gurus should not give diksha, and also I could not find the reply in your recently published article. Should I think that the female diksha gurus in our sampradaya were all useless, or their mantra was useless? So this doubt has been created in my mind, and I am fearing to commit aparadha to them. Then if I ask questions, that doesn’t mean that I disrespect, offend or challenge anyone. If I’m treated as an offender just because I ask questions, and if I might go to hell just because I ask questions, then maybe it’s better to stop to read harikatha and trying to understand anything. I’ll only pluck flowers and chant harinama, etc. I want to offer my respects to all Vaishnavas. I don’t want take any sides in arguments and discussions. Please excuse me that I tried to enter a domain that is not for me.
In my personal case, I know very well that I have a weak mind, and I never aspire to take sannyas or to become a diksha guru.
Please excuse me, dear Babaji Maharaj, for me having the audacity to ask questions. I’ll not again comment anything on your harikatha.
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To
Honorable Mataji—……………….
Dear Mataji,
Dandavat unto your lotus feet. I seek for your unalloyed kripa to give fitting answere to those antagonist. Really always i feel very very happy to see all your questions, you know it very well. I never feel tierd to give absolute answers to those questions, but this time your question could not draw my affection due to your challeging mood against our shrouta pantha. You know it very well that i have no personal opinion, only i can show you all scriptural evidences projected by our Gaudiya Guruvarga, then why you become upset after getting appropriate answere. I never feel disturbed or i never fear to face any authentic question from you all, but surely i cannot bear the breakage of the divine dignity of our Gaudiya Guruparampara. Your comment – “I have repeatedly seen your strong preaching against female Gurus given diksha (or sannyas)” – is totaly baseless, because i think you are blind and unable to see my heart always busy to protect and preserve the divine dignity of our sampradaik vani vaibhava. Never try to misunderstand me because you all my children can kick on my chest but it is my duty to forgo all these nonsense. Previously you got all sientific answeres to your questions. I think your unknown asat-sanga going to misguide you. I have no objection if you like to reject me, because i am a neutral personality or beyond any labha-puja prathista. I never expect anything from anybody. I never invited you or anybody in my life but all came in my life automaticaly, some of them gone leaving me but i dont care, i have nothing to do for that. Even after giving so many scriptural evidences still today you are not ready at all to stop argument, i regret for that. I am never influenced by anybody.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das, one of your aspiring servant
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To
My dear Mamoni
Dandavat pranam to you all. Never try to forget my unalloyed love and affection. I know all your painful situation in which you are put into, but it is my suggestion to you to accept each and everything positive way. Material attachment or detachment both Maya. For Sri Krsna seva I like to renounce even my renouncement—which is called actual yukta vairagya. But “never it is too late” – with this strong faith you can go ahead, I am always with you. Try to satisfy Bhagavan Sri Gauranga Deva by serving pure Guru-Vaisnava (Gaudiya Guruvarga.). Appropriate seva of Guru-Vaishnava-Bhagavan means sincere seva in favour of their desire. Try to come back to me as soon as possible. You and Murari both can dedicate body, speech and mind (everything) for the absolute seva of Guru-Vaishnava-Bhagavan.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Your useless son
Baba Sri Shyam das
Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam dear Mararaj.
All glories to Sri Guru and Gouranga.
My name is Marlene, I’m 76 years old. I went through many religious philosophies, but my biggest commitment was always with God, with the truth. So I spent my life looking for something that would truly honor God.
When I had access to the Bhagavad Gita 2 years ago, I found God and that’s how I approached Krsna Das’s study group, Who led me to Srila Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvami Maharaj, who we respectfully call Srila Gurudeva and to you, Maharaj ji.
I write to you because at this moment I am almost blind due to glaucoma. I can’t read the sacred books (another student reads them for me), I can’t see the people, the images on the altar and it’s hard for me to do some seva. The doctor proposed me a cornea transplant surgery that will come from another person and I have doubts if this will generate any problems with my karma.
If I manage to read the scriptures and the fact that I can look at you during your merciful harikathas, would that not be enough blessings to justify this decision? I ask for your instructions please.
My soul is at your lotus feet daily listening to your magnificent wich are the mainstay on which I hold myself admist the constant windstorm of these Kali Yuga times.
I warmly thank you for your sacred attention and await your wise guidance.
Please accept my obeisances again.
Your aspiring disciple, Marlene Barros de Carvalho.
Hare Krsna.
Rio de Janeiro, 07/04/2023.
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Dear /Mama
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am feeling very heavy by hearing all your situation, but according to apprakrita darshan everthing arranged for good by the Supreme Lord (directly or indirectly). So don’t worry I am always with you all. By hearing Harikatha continuously you can develop third eye which is called jnana chaksu or more accurately bhakti chaksu, which is more practical I think. Regarding your Retina replacement of your eyes you can try to do so, if the situation permits so. No harm in it. I am waiting to meet you shortly with full patience.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To
My dear Navin Prabhu
Dear/ Prabhuji,
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. Your painful situation always touching my heart, but according to your karma phal you are put into such a trap that at present it is quite impossible for you to come to me. So it is my suggestion to you that, try to do Pancha –tattva and Harinam with a great appealing mood and at the same time go on hearing apprakrita Harikatha continuously with a strong prayer unto the Lotus Feet of Sriman Nityananda Parbhu to come out of Maya to serve pure Guru-Vaishnava from heart in near future.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
Dandavat pranam, dear Babaji Maharaj,
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gouranga.
Your harikathas during Purushottam month are being the lighting part of my days. I cannot express properly how much they are impacting my life.
I feel tired of being a characterless demon. I feel tired of dealing daily with my dirty brain and emotions. I know I don’t have enough sincerity, faith or realization, but at the same time somehow I also know you are my only hope to advance spiritually and to be able to do bhajan one day.
I don’t know exactly how it should be done or if there is any specific procedure to ask for that, and I apologize for my ignorance, but I kindly ask you to accept me somehow. I want to take diksa from you and I want to receive faith and spiritual strength from you, so that I can develop the mood to serve you sincerely. Please save me, please help me.
Anyway, I am at your disposal to follow whatever instructions you give me.
From your aspiring servant,
…………………das
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
To
………………..Prabhu
Dear/Father
Dandavat pranam to you all. Try to know my unalloyed love and affection. I am very very happy to see your serving mood, but the stability of mind is the prior need to get established in Gaura Bhajana (in Hari bhajan). Please don’t be busy with the external process of bhajan right now, I am always there with you, I think you can feel that.
Thanks a lot
Truly yours in the service of Sri Sri Guru-Gauranga and Go-Mata
Baba Sri Shyam das
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