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Purport by Srila Prabhupada.

The word jada-dhiyah refers to intelligence like that of an animal. A person with such intelligence cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Without being beaten, an animal cannot understand the purpose of a man. Similarly, those who are dull-minded cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but when punished severely by the modes of material nature, they begin to understand Him.

A Hindi poet has said:
duhkha se saba hari bhaje sukha se bhaje koi sukha se agar hari bhaje duhkha kathan se haya

When one is distressed he goes to the church or temple to worship the Lord, but when opulent he forgets the Lord. Therefore, punishment by the Lord through material nature is necessary in human society, for without it men forget the supremacy of the Lord due to their dull, blunt intelligence.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 9.10.14

yatha yatha bhagavato
bhaktya paramayabhida nrpas caidyadayah satmyam hares tac-cintaya yayuh

yatha yatha-just as; bhagavatah-of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhaktya-by devotional service; paramaya-supreme; abhida-incessantly thinking of such activities; nrpah-kings; caidya-adayah -Sisupala. Dantavakra and others; satmyam-the same form; hareh-of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tat-cintaya- by constantly thinking of Him; yayuh-returned home, back to Godhead.

Translation By His Diving Grace Srila Prabhupada

By devotional service, pure devotees who incessantly think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead receive bodies similar to His. This is known as "sarupya-mukti". Although Sisupala, Dantavakra, and other kings thought of Krsna as an enemy- they also achieved the same result.

Purport By Srila Prabhupada

In Caitanya-caritamrta, in connection with Lord Caitanya's instructions to Sanatana Gosvami, it is explained that a devotee should externally execute his routine devo

Satsvarupa: "Then our next question concerns initiation IN THE FUTURE, particularly at a time when you are NO LONGER WITH US. We want to know how 1ST & 2ND INITIATION would be conducted." Prabhupada: "Yes. I shall recommend some of you...I shall recommend some of you to act as officiating acaryas...

Pancali Devi Dasi ...(continue) Tamal Krishna Gosvami: "Is that called RITVIK-ACARYA?" Prabhupada: "RITVIK, YES."....The term Ritvik acarya means one who is surpose to act as an officiating priest. They perform initiation on behalf of another...Srila Prabhupada...This was Prabhupadas final instruction on initiations.

Pancali Devi Dasi So why the hell do we have so many who are acting as a bona fide acarya accepting their own disciples, with no mention of ritvik initiation at the time when one is initiated. Why are so many outright disregarding Prabhupadas direct order and why the hell are so many allowing them to?

Pancali Devi Dasi Those who accept the bogus guru as bona fide has a dark

HDG A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada :

“Service means you must take order from the master. That is service. Otherwise it is mental concoction. Actually, the servant requests, “How can I serve you?” So when the master orders, “You serve me like this,” then you do that, that is service. And if you manufacture your service, that is not service. That is your sense gratification. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ. You have to see how he is pleased. Now if he wants a glass of water and if you bring a nice glass of milk, you can say milk is better than water, you take it. That is not service. He wants water, you give him water. Don’t manufacture better thing.” (Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 15.15, August 5, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm))

Indira Ekadasi

"ataeva yanra mukhe eka krsna-nama
sei ta' vaisnava, kariha tanhara sammana"
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila (15.111)

One who chants the name of Krsna* even once is vaisnava (possessed of vaisnava qualities). Therefore, you should show all respect to him.

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* In this article the term krsna-nama, or "the holy name of Krsna", refers tosuddha-nama – as distinct from nama-aparadha (offensive chanting of the holy name) and nama-abhasa (a semblance of chanting the holy name). Suddha-nama is directly Krsna Himself in the absolutely pure, transcendental form of His holy name.

One who is vaisnava-tara –

'krsna'-nama nirantara yanhara vadane
sei se vaisnavatara, bhaja tanhara carane
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila (16.72)

One who incessantly chants Krsna's name is vaisnava-tara (possessed of vaisnava qualities to a profound degree) and one should render service to his lotus feet.

One who is vaisnava-tama –

yanhara darsane mukhe aise krsna-nama
tanhare janiha tumi '

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  Worm Instool via Original Books of Srila Prabhupada

  Ajit Krishna Dasa writes: Wonderful points!
  
  Personally I do not think that a posthumously edited version of Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita As It Is can exist without violating the sampradaic rule of arsa-prayoga and thereby without offending Prabhupada.
  
  But since the BBTI publishes one it must certainly be made according to the accepted protocol for posthumously edited works. This will make it very easy to differentiate between the original and edited version, and it will no doubt remove a lot of the fighting created by the BBTI's insistence on changing Prabhupada books.
  
  But even if the BBT International published according to the standard protocol still a very important point need to be made, namely that no one can make spiritual progress if they make offenses to the spiritual master - and they do so by supporting posthumously edited versions of Prabhupada's books.
  
  Your servant, Ajit Krishna Dasa
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SRILA PRABHUPADA'S HEALTH BIOGRAPHY ANALYSIS

CHAPTER 32: GENERAL REVIEW:

There were 21 symptoms listed in Chapter 19 which are unique only to arsenic poisoning and are not found in kidney disease. Out of these 21 "arsenic" symptoms, a few are seen in cases of serious diabetes, which, however, Srila Prabhupada, by symptom analysis, did not have serious enough to display the symptoms thereof. This is reviewed in APPENDIX 7: Diabetes Symptoms, For example, loss of vision or blindness is sometimes seen in diabetes. Srila Prabhupada, however, did not exhibit the signs of an advanced case of diabetes which would produce loss of vision. Further, not one doctor or kaviraja, nor Hari Sauri Prabhu, even mentioned diabetes as a factor in His Divine Grace's health. He also did not require insulin. Diabetes is thus ruled out of the equation, so to speak.

Many of the 21 arsenic poisoning and "not-kidney disease" symptoms listed in Chapter 19 may occur in other medical situations. For example, heari

Pure Bhakti is True Emancipation

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

The common decision of men, whether discriminative or otherwise, is not identical with Truth. The common sense of people to follow blindly, like foolish cattle being driven by a herdsman, is always defective, wrought with error borne of the faculty of mind. In it, there may be some appearance of truth, but that is only relative or temporary; it is not real truth. Because human intellect is driven by the modes of passion (rajas) and ignorance (tamas), it cannot penetrate deliberations of the mode of unalloyed goodness (sattva). So, when someone advises us to supplement pure bhakti, which is free from the three modes of material nature, with worldly disciplines like jñāna, yoga or karma, which are borne of the modes of material nature, in order to make it complete, it is to our benefit to not accept their advice. Such a mixture is detrimental to our true well-being. It is like mixing mortar into a

Translation: A person who knows the principles of religion does not kill an enemy who is careless, intoxicated, insane, asleep, afraid or devoid of his chariot. Nor does he kill a boy, a woman, a foolish creature or a surrendered soul.

Purport: An enemy who does not resist is never killed by a warrior who knows the principles of religion. Formerly battles were fought on the principles of religion and not for the sake of sense gratification. If the enemy happened to be intoxicated, asleep, etc., as above mentioned, he was never to be killed. These are some of the codes of religious war. Formerly war was never declared by the whims of selfish political leaders; it was carried out on religious principles free from all vices. Violence carried out on religious principles is far superior to so-called nonviolence.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.36

Garuda asked, But sometimes ghosts come and pester people. How do they manage to do that? How do they escape from hell?

In the same manner that prisoners escape from prison, answered Vishnu. They come and disturb their friends and relatives.

They return to their old houses and cause all sorts of illnesses, such as fever. They are positively delighted when people get headaches or cholera. The more they loved their dear ones when they were alive, the more harm they cause them as ghosts. It is in kaliyuga that one has all these ghosts. There were no such ghosts is satyayauga, dvaparayuga or tretayuga. These ghosts cause strife among friends and kill animals and children.

How does one know that ghosts are around? asked Garuda.

The signs are fairly obvious, repied Vishnu. Animals die and friends fight. There are sudden catastrophes. Children turn against their parents, brahmanas are criticised and there are bad harvests. Fire break out for no reason at all. Husband and wi