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Pankaja dasa · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 60

Do you have a Guru ?

varadaraja sharma · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 53

Pankaja dasa · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 60

What is the name.?

varadaraja sharma · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 53

Radhe Krishna,

I am sorry for my one word answer.

I felt sort of impoliteness in the question whether u have a guru?

Again i repeat that is what i perceived. That may not be intended from ur side. What u intended u better know.

from my part i was impolite in giving a one word answer. Sorry for that.

I am from south india.

I am quoting below not out of pride but as a matter of fact the following shloka from padma purana :

"Utpanne dravide saham vriddhim karnatake
Kwachith kwachin maharashtre gurjare jeernatham gathihi"

Bhakthi devi who was wery weak tells to Narada, I was born in Dravida and grown in Karnataka - thereafter living for sometime in maharashtra i almost lost my strength after reaching Gujarath in this kaliyuga.

I belong to Tamil Nadu from where great saints and great poets both in samskrutha basha and tamil basha hailed

yes I have a guru.

I do not know much about Kripaluji or ISKCON. Neither am i interested know anything about the history of the organisations.

Yes I am very much interested to share how in the land krishna born people worship him. I have shared this thing with vey much souls. neverthless I always search for learning the bhakthi experience of krishna bhakthas.

From the life and times of shrivaishnavas I learn their single minded devotion to their gurus.
From my friends who are doing somachara shaktha upasana I learn their single minded devotion of their Japa sadana
From whichever ISKCON temple I went i always enjoyed their Nama Sankeerthana
From my friends who are in Bhajana sampradaya in south India, I enjoyed cutting across languages how great sants of India has sung in different languages the praise of god - in tamil, telugu, kannada, samskrutha, marathi and hindi

I am deeply embedded in my sampradaya (Smartha sampradaya) - which is categorised as apasampradaya in ISKCON sites. I am a smartha vaishnava. There are also smartha shaivas, smartha shakthas and smartha skantdas. Neverthless I have no grudges. I have confidence in me which is strengtheed by anushtanas I observe and I always try to practice sadhu lakshana @ vaishnava lakshana the practice of whch is motivated by my guru on observation. With whom ever I spend time, try to seek whether that would improve my krishna bhakthi. Whereas my guru himself has composed in samskrutha basha more than a lakh shlokas in almost every other form of samskrutha literature, he encourages us to know about krishna bhakthi as practiced by other krishna bhakthas. There are many sahrudaya bhakthas I have met. I have met many krishna bhakthas who are not sahrudaya. But still I found almost in every bhaktha there is something to learn.

Wherever I find a krishna bhaktha, I enjoy talking about krishna leelas and about bhakthas.

Thats me. I should thank u for giving me an opportunity to trace an avaguna - named irritation embedded in my mind - sure it is an obstacle in reaching my lord and reaching out his devotees. Once again thanks a lot for giving an opportunity to even know my avaguna.

Radhe Krishna

Pankaja dasa · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 60

I don't really know much about what Smarti is so much. Sorry to say.

If you want some Krishna Katha go here:

www.purebhakti.com

:)

varadaraja sharma · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 53

Radhe Krishna,

Panakaja dasji, Radhe Krishna,

One small correction. It is not smarti. It is smartha - that is who lead their lives as per smrthis. And one thing whenever u learn about another learn things objectively. Learning is a process by which human beings get to know of the beauty of other species. It is not a process by which one loads -the already overloaded mind- with Kaama, krodha, moha, loba, madha and maathsarya.

I am thankful to u for giving the name of a site from where I can get to know of bhakthi.

Dont u think here also u can share something about bhakthi - krishna bhakthi - the bhakthi of my and your lord.

I was very happy to see what u have written about shlokas in gita. But one suggestion. rather than reproducing what u have read in books verbatim - narrate things in ur own words - that enhances ur knowledge - that helps u store in ur mind what u have read - what is called Dharana shakthi.

Radhe krishna

mathuranathadas · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: Kripalu-guru

Dandavat Pranams I have seen Kripalu Mahraja acouple of times over the years and was not overly attracted.According to our sukriti that type of Guru we will get.Krishna is in our heart and the environment is allways favourable.Krishna knows what we want and deserve and will send us the appropriate level of vaisnava Guru.And even if our Guru is not sufficient to awaken our svarup and give us our residence and seva etc in the kunja etc when the time is right and our sukrit and sradha increase then RAdha and Krishna will send us one of their own palia dasis to take us home.

varadaraja sharma · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 53

Radhe Krishna,

Today is ekadashi. May I pray the yugalam that they fill the hearts of bhakthas with love who are engaged in krishna bhakthi.

Mathuranatha dasji, Radhe krishna

Yes, Radha krishna yugalam is in the heart of each and every bhaktha who is engaged in krishna bhakthi. Even I do not get attracted from many of the sayings of shri kripaluji. That is because of the difference in the bhava.

But this can not become a ground for me to degrade or demean shri kripaluji, it would be as ridiculous like a high scholl student laughing at newton's theory.

In brahma sthuthi, in shrimad Bhagavatham, Brahma says : "Sthane sthitaha". "Be where u are and as u are" rest would be taken care of by god.

Para nindha is not sadhu lakshana.

para vaishnava nindha is vaishnava aparadha which lord krishna never tolerates. to confirm one can read "Ambarisha Chairta" in Shrimad Bhagavatham.

Radhe krishna

Sriganesh · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

Hare Krishna to all Prabhujis and Matajis. All the Glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I am Sriganesh and I am following ISKCON from past 5 years and I am very much inspired with the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. A few days before in Sanskar TV channel I saw the lecture of Sri Kripaluji Maharaj, it was about Love of Radha-Krishna and I was inspired a lot . But after that somebody told me that Kripaluji does not have any Guru like that. This confused me a lot because all the great Acharys Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva and very recent Srila Prabhupada also accepted Gurus. Finally I got confused, Kripaluji has got wondeful philosophical Knowledge the why he is not having any Guru? this is my question and also I would like to know more about Sri Kripaluji Maharaj. If any one who knows kindly reply to my request. Hare Krishna.

dr.jaya · Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA

This unfortunate public news has been around for the devotees to face the truth.

Disciple accuses Kripalu Ji Maharaj of rape

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=372990&sid=NAT

This is Kripalu isn't it?

http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/showthread.php?t=443345&referrerid=0

Swami rape charge big news in India
Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161150939

'Eternal saint' awaits day in court
Swami on rape charge has worldwide following
Richard Charan South Bureau

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161152049

dr.jaya · Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 4 Location: USA

'Hundreds waiting'
Swami begs court to leave T&T, continue world tour
Richard Charan South Bureau

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161154468

HariHarDas · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 3 Location: USA, India

Hare Krishna,

This is a rule. All Krishna bhaktas has to face a lot of problems through out their lives.

Hare Krishna.

rakeshsingh2 · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 7

Kripalu jee maharaj is one of the best guru at present he has very deep knowledge of Veda, Bhagvatam, Puran, Ramayan upnisad ... It is very unfortunate that some of the so called devotee (like the so called Secular political parties (Congress, Left etc..) in India) has disrespect to him. The person think that Kripalu jee is a real threat to their ideology, but actually if you listen maharaj jee carefully he do not criticize any other organization. he simply talks about the Krishna bhakti.

rakeshsingh2 · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 7

dr.jaya wrote: 'Hundreds waiting'
Swami begs court to leave T&T, continue world tour
Richard Charan South Bureau

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161154468

Problem with some of the ISKCON devotee is that they think ONLY ISKCON IS THE PATH TO SRI KRISHNA. They in-fact say that Srila Prabhupad is the only Guru for next 1000 years, which is wrong. Sanatan Dharma had many true guru in part and will have many in future also. ISKCON is not only the true organization for Krisjna Bhakti. Sometime I see the ISKCON devotee has so much of disrespect about the other Lords (like Lord Ganesh, Durga Maa, Hanuman jee ...).

Pure Bhakti never teach disrespect to any other Guru and Lord Ganesh, Durga Maa, Hanuman jee ... SEEMS THAT ISKCON IS NO MORE ON THE PATH OF TRU BHAKTI ESPECIALLY AFTER SRILA PRABHUPAD (A TRUE GURU) LEFT.

HARE KRISHAN.

ilovekrishna · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 3

I truly agree with you.

I have heard Kripalu Ji saying never to insult anyone and have respect for each and everyone. He even said that one should not insult even a "Rakshash".

He teaches you to love krishna and hence love everyone.. as he is everywhere.