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Kazakhstani online petition

Kazakhstani online petition

By Radha Mohan Dasa

Please visit http://www.krishnatemple.com NOW and click the link to the new petition, or go straight to the petition webpage:

http://harekrishna.epetitions.net

Please sign it soon as you can, and please tell as many people as you can about it.

Background: Workers and police arrived on 15th June at the village near Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the embattled Hare Krishna commune is based to demolish twelve more Hare Krishna-owned homes. “The houses were literally crushed into dust. By ten o’clock it was all over,” said ISKCON spokesperson Maksim Varfolomeyev.

The temple, which the devotees have been ordered to destroy, has not been touched but the devotees fear it could be the next target. Human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is outraged at the continuing destruction. “The authorities are showing that they will do what they want, despite the international outrage at the earlier demolitions of Hare Krishna-owned homes.” He believes the local administration chief “doesn’t care about the political damage to Kazakhstan’s reputation – or to its desire to chair the OSCE.”

ys Radha Mohan das

http://www.jswami.info/washington_post_destruction_hare_krishna_homes_grows_international_issue_kazakhstan

Submitted by jswami on July 29, 2007 - 1:58pm.

A July 25 article in the Washington Post gives a good update on the campaign by officials in Kazakhstan to demolish the homes and temple and seize the land of the local Hare Krishna community outside the city of Almaty. The article doesn’t tell the worst of it, but does quite a fair job.

The article is called “Local Property Dispute Grows Into International Issue for Kazakhstan.”
 

Local Property Dispute Grows Into International Issue for Kazakhstan

By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 25, 2007; Page A09

SELEKSIA, Kazakhstan -- The house where Maya Salakhutdinova lived is now a shell of ruined walls with broken cinder blocks and splintered wood spilling in a heap onto a narrow lane. Last month, her house and 11 others in this village, a secluded enclave about an hour from Almaty, Kazakhstan's commercial capital, were bulldozed by court order.

All the destroyed homes belonged to members of a Hare Krishna community, which has a temple in a converted farmhouse here, as well as 116 acres of farmland. A bulldozing in November leveled 14 Hare Krishna homes.

Maya Salakhutdinova stands by a wall of her house, one of 12 Hare Krishna homes razed last month by the government in Seleksia. The issue threatens Kazakh ambitions at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. (By Peter Finn -- The Washington Post)

"I was shocked," said Salakhutdinova, 43, a Kazakh who joined the Hare Krishna movement 12 years ago. "The day before, I got a notice that I had to leave, but with no date or time. I wasn't prepared."

What began as a property dispute between the Hare Krishna community and the local authorities has ballooned into an international controversy that threatens Kazakhstan's ambition to chair the 56-country Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2009.

One of the fundamental principles of the organization, founded during the Cold War to foster East-West dialogue, is religious freedom. The standoff with the Hare Krishna movement threatens the image of a harmonious, multidenominational country that this Central Asian nation has been cultivating to press its goal at the organization's headquarters in Vienna.
 

A week before last month's action, the head of the Religious Affairs Committee at the Kazakh Justice Ministry told an OSCE gathering in Romania that his country had the "most liberal" religious laws in the "entire post-Soviet area."

But a statement by the OSCE's Advisory Council on Freedom of Religion or Belief after the first houses were demolished said, "It appears that state-sponsored action has been focused upon members of the Hare Krishna community in a manner that suggests they have been targeted on the basis of their religious affiliation."

Privately, some Western diplomats say they are mystified why Kazakhstan would tarnish its reputation just as it is seeking support from OSCE member states for the prestige of chairing the organization. The energy-rich country, which is dominated by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, was already having difficulty convincing some OSCE members of its democratic credentials. In May, in a further blow to the country's standing, Kazakhstan issued an arrest warrant for its ambassador to the OSCE and Austria, Nazarbayev's former son-in-law, who was accused of kidnapping and assault.

Officials in the capital, Astana, say this is a legal matter that has nothing to do with religious persecution. By their account, the Hare Krishna devotees acquired the property illegally. The land, they say, was not legally registered and the homes were purchased from people who did not hold proper title. The Kazakh courts have ruled that the property belongs to the local administration.

"We understand that this is a small but very important issue, and if we had not understood that, we wouldn't have been running around trying to solve this," said Yeraly Tugzhanov, head of the Religious Affairs Committee.
 

"The most dangerous thing here -- and we should not let it happen -- is an attempt to turn this issue into a political one. If now every believer in Kazakhstan tries to solve his or her personal problems or property problems through religious organizations, by attaching a religious meaning to it, this will be ridiculous, it will be absurd."

Human rights advocates say the demolitions may be motivated both by religious bias and by hidden economic interests. Property values in the region have soared since the 1990s, and the area has become a choice location for Almaty residents seeking to buy country homes. The U.S. State Department noted in a report this year that a special commission convened to resolve the situation was still deliberating when the homes were destroyed in November.

"Many people in that village could be in the same situation as the Hare Krishna because their property deeds are not perfect, but they are not targeted. The target is the Hare Krishna," said Ninel Fokina, head of the Almaty Helsinki Committee, a human rights group. "Someone gave an order to get that community out."

Kazakhstan's ombudsman, Bolat Baikadamov, said the destruction of homes is commonplace across the Almaty region because of the illegal privatization of land and houses. "Hundreds or maybe even thousands of houses were demolished," he said.

Local officials, who Baikadamov said could provide lists of homes destroyed within the locality, declined to comment. In Seleksia, there appeared to be only one demolished house that was not currently owned by a Hare Krishna, and that house had recently been sold by a member of the religious community.

Fokina and the Hare Krishna community dispute that there has been any major leveling of homes outside Seleksia. "There is an unofficial policy to push out a non-mainstream, religious group," said Maxim Varfolomeev, a spokesman for the Hare Krishna community in Seleksia.

The group numbers about 30 in the village, down from about 100 because people who lost homes were forced to leave. "This is religious discrimination," Varfolomeev said.

On a recent morning, more than a dozen devotees chanted mantras in what had been the living room of the farmhouse. Kazakh officials said the early morning prayers disturb non-Krishna neighbors, but the service was not audible outside the farmhouse. Officials also said the Krishna devotees wash their cows in a nearby pond where local children swim, an accusation denied by members of the Krishna community.

"We have very good relations with our neighbors," Varfolomeev said.

In interviews in the village, no one expressed any objections to the presence of the Krishna community. "They're very quiet people," Chakin Tolubev said. "To be honest, the problem is that [the authorities] just want to get rid of them."

Tugzhanov, the Religious Affairs head, objects to such accusations. He said the central government has offered the Krishna community several sites where they could relocate. "All religious groups and organizations in Kazakhstan are equal before the law and that is why we continue to work with them," he said. "We have offered a number of alternatives, but they keep saying no."

He also said 16 Krishna homes in Seleksia have been legalized and will not be touched. "If it had not been for this, you could say that we are persecuting them for their religion," he said. "But this is a question of the law and everyone being equal before the law."

Varfolomeev, the Hare Krishna spokesman, said none of the proposed relocation sites compares to the pastoral setting where the community is currently located, and so people insist on staying.

The community, he said, now fears that the authorities will destroy the temple. That is a step that the government appears reluctant to take. It would likely sink whatever remaining chance Kazakhstan has of chairing the OSCE.

Click on the thumbs below to see the high resolution pictures.

At about 11:00 pm on Friday a bank broke and water started to rush towards us, in the morning of 4-th Ganga was flowing over the road and through the Samadhi gate and into parts of the grahasta area, the Jalangi is rising fast and devotees are trying to hold her back.

Any one who is living on the ground floor has moved up into different Bld. The program at the moment is moving and getting supplies. power is on and pumps are working.

Right now water is kept under control, but anytime we can expect more.

Fotos by your servant, Vrindavan Lila Dasi
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http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=48789

PURI, ORISSA, INDIA, July 25, 2007: At least 800,000 devotees Tuesday witnessed the return of three Hindu deities to the 12th century Jagannath temple in three splendidly decorated chariots here after their nine-day sojourn in another shrine. The original chariot procession had taken the Deities, Lord Jagannath, brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, to the Gundicha temple, which is about five km from the main temple. Their journey was part of the annual Ratha Yatra or Chariot Festival that is held on the second day of the waxing moon during the month of Ashadha (June-July) in the Indian calendar. The Deities returned home Tuesday in the same chariots in the festival celebrated as Bahuda Yatra or chariots' return journey.

While the chariot carrying the Deity of Baladhadra rolled from the Gundicha temple at 4.15 p.m., the chariot of Devi Subhadra rolled at 4.48 p.m. , he said. The chariot of Lord Jagannath rolled at about 5.05 p.m. The chariot carrying lord Jagganath is called the Nandighosh, which is 45-foot high with 16 wheels, Balabhadra's Taladhwaja is a foot less in height with 14 wheels, while Subhadra travels on the Padmadhwaja that stands 43 feet tall and has a dozen wheels. The chariots, made anew each year of 1,130 big wooden logs, traverse Puri's main street, called Great Grant Road. Devotees pull the chariots with ropes. While non-Hindus are forbidden from entering the Jagannath temple, people of all religions are allowed to have a view of the Deities and pull the ropes of the chariots during the annual festival.

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

http://www.gopala.org/node/72

Wed, 01/08/2007

by Ravindra Swarupa Dasa  http://www.rsdasa.com/

No one likes to be the bearer of bad news. Not only is it unpleasant; it can be dangerous. Kings routinely used to kill on the spot hapless messengers bringing word of defeat.

Even so, most people still acknowledge that truth, however unpalatable, is preferable to illusion, however cheering. This is, after all, only practical, for the facts as they affect us have a certain implacable stubbornness to which even the most compelling illusions must eventually yield. Facts always win- simply because they are facts.

You have probably gathered that I have some fairly unpleasant things to say.

Indeed, the illusion I want to destroy is perhaps the most deeply rooted and pervasive of all human convictions. It is the idea that we can achieve happiness through the enjoyment of our senses, especially through that prototype of all pleasure, sex and sexual love. Certainly no effort has been pursued as doggedly, and yet produced a record of such consistent failure, as this one. The wonder is that this history of universal defeat has in no way dampened the hope of imminent victory.

Certainly, with the disintegration of traditional religions and the official establishment of secular philosophies, this illusion has gained the force of an obsession. If we are no more than sophisticated animals, if our existence as individual conscious subjects is something haphazardly thrown up between two infinities of nothingness, then we would be foolish not to mine our allotment of durance for as much sensual bliss as possible. Since this is all we have, we had better give it our best effort.

Sexual Fantasy

Such sentiments have greatly contributed to the presently widespread movement toward a full sensual awakening through the liberation of sexuality. Given that the body provides our only access to happiness, we must extirpate those constraints upon our fulfillment, those internal impediments inculcated by discarded, life-denying religions and moralities­the repression of desires, the consciousness of guilt, the fear and hatred of the body. Now one cultivates a liberated and expansive life, free from all repressions; one aspires to drink deeply at the wells of pure pleasure, unpolluted by guilt or shame, healed and whole inspirit through a joyous acceptance and celebration of the body.

It shouldn’t take much experience of the actual conduct of sexual relations for an alert person to recognize that this vision of unrestrained, joyous sex is an unrealizable fantasy. Nevertheless, the fantasy still seems to exercise an irresistible fascination. I suppose’ that people must blame its disappointments on repressions still unpurged, residual guilt and shame, and a lack of trust in and surrender to the body itself.

But in fact none of us can wholeheartedly trust in and surrender to the body, because we know, beneath the bluff and the bravado, that our bodies are frail and weak and dying and that the greatest pleasure it gives us it heartbreakingly brief. We find ourselves bound within a complexity of muscle and vein that nature can dismantle at any moment, in any of thousands of horrible ways. Our strength and beauty leak away in daily increments. Our body disintegrates before our eyes and becomes itself a major source of our suffering, and then we die.

Therefore, no one can help but be horrified by his body (even though the mind must repress those feelings in self- defense). This horror is not an artificial hate or fear imposed by some life-denying religion. It is only a sensible reaction to a correct perception.

Our position is intrinsically divided. We are not whole. We are endowed with a developed consciousness that makes our incarceration in bodies like those of animals agonizing for us. We can imagine, abstract, generalize, range far beyond the narrow limits of local place and time. Our minds continually search for the first principles behind all things, for the one that underlies the many, for the permanent that persists through all change, for the eternal beyond the temporal. Meanwhile we struggle fitfully in a dying body. Our spirits reach for the infinite; our molars rot.

The consciousness that gives us such strong intimations of immortality also forces us to be acutely aware of our helplessness before nature, our fragility before the huge weight of the universe, and the constant threat of death under which we live. Even a small child draws the connection between the bleeding cut on his finger and the animals he sees exploded in gore upon the roadside.

All the same, we are possessed by an unremitting desire for pleasure, by the conviction that happiness is our right. This conflicts with the reality of our condition. Therefore, the mind represses with great power our perception of reality and our horror at our situation. Any person will verbally admit to you that he knows he is going to die, but the admission rings curiously hollow. It is as if he were talking about someone else. At heart, he refuses to believe it. This is how he lives a “happy” life-at least for a time.

We should recognize that most of human culture is a complicity to sustain our vital delusion, a skillful artifice to keep ourselves unconscious. We erect and vie for artificial or symbolic goals so that we can prove to ourselves our strength and power, our endurance and invulnerability; we have thousands of ways of patting ourselves and each other on the back. But of course, nature grinds relentlessly on and pays no heed to our fine and tender feelings, our banners and our flags, our list of conquests and victories. While we keep ourselves resolutely preoccupied and distracted, absorbed in our illusory enterprises, death comes, to our great surprise.

We dismiss death from our minds to be happy, but it doesn’t really work. On the contrary, since in this world life and death are bound tightly together, to retreat from death is to retreat from life. One cannot become selectively unconscious.

This explains the loss of that pristine and glorious vision of the world we knew as a child, a loss poets ceaselessly lament. Somehow we fall from grace, and thereafter we experience life with a deadened spirit and narrowed consciousness, a diminished capacity for feeling. Adulthood fully initiates us into the established system of illusions, into a life of intense effort toward makeshift goals whose real purpose is to keep us from thought. Such a life is necessarily thin, grey, tasteless, and it has an undercurrent of constant, nagging despair, for which most societies provide some sort of anesthetic­intoxicants, television, or the like. All the while, the wonder and splendor of the edenic world of our childhood lies shining all about us, but we have turned away from it in fear, for we have learned that it is a place of death.

This discovery begins early enough, but our retreat into organized unreality takes time. Yet there is one thing more than anything else that seals it. This is sex.

The Ultimate Failure

My assertion, of course, goes quite counter to the tenet of the sexual liberation movement that through surrender to sex we can gain a new innocence and thus enter a world radiant with intense and joyous experience. But such a liberated posture ignores that the body which is the vehicle of sexual pleasure is also the vehicle of pain and disease and senescense and death.

The initiation into sex, that experience of overwhelming subjugation to the body for pleasure, is precisely that experience which contributes most to the diminished capacity for living. This is not so hard to see. Our first sexual act precipitates a tenacious identification with the body, forges a fast bond to it. Thereafter, we are committed to the project of seeking happiness through the senses. At the same time, we awaken to a deep and abiding dread:

We have sealed our pact with mortality. As sex deadens the spirit, it quickens all the senses. It becomes the center of all material enjoyment. Yet sensual pleasures depend entirely upon the favorable arrangement of circumstances, and so the more a person is committed to pursuing these pleasures, the greater his anxiety. Most of all he needs money. Sex indentures him to ceaseless labor. Securing attractive sexual partners is at best an elaborate and troublesome pursuit, fraught with dangers to one’s self-esteem. As a person becomes older, the pursuit becomes harder and depends almost entirely upon his ability to maintain his social prestige and display his opulence and generosity. There is no end to worry and to fear.

On the other hand, we may try to withdraw from the anxieties of the sexual marketplace and take the advice of count-less popular songs by seeking the one we “love” and who “loves” us in return. Such a discovery is rare enough, but it hardly ends our sufferings. On the contrary, nothing can compare to our anguish when we lose the object of our love­or that one’s love for us. Love is no shelter. And we have discovered that as people increasingly demand sexual fulfillment from marriage, the less durable such relationships are becoming.

Our inability to sustain relationships is at the heart of our predicament. All our happiness and our achievement depend upon our successfully perpetuating relationships, and our ultimate failure to do so is called death. Small losses prefigure the larger one. We want to live, to expand our organism, to increase the power of our being­in short, to overcome death. As sex is the act of creation of life, we turn to it to commune with the energy of life itself and to prove our vital power. This power becomes embodied in offspring. Our family becomes the nucleus of a fortification composed of real estate, money, social connections, privilege, and power. We feed our vital force by competing with enemies and destroying them. In this way we prosper and gloriously expand. Yet all these activities have a desperate and driven character. We are trying to fool ourselves. For at heart we know very well that nothing can protect us, that all our powerful friends, aristocratic relatives, and sweet-faced children are fallible soldiers in the war, and that all of us are doomed.

Revolt Against Death

I think I have drawn an honest picture of our human predicament, and I am afraid that by now you must be thinking I am willfully obtuse. You may indeed be willing to admit that all of us have to settle for less happiness in life than we want (as Freud put it, the “reality principle” replaces the “pleasure principle”), and you might admit that sex never really does live up to its promise. All the same, it still gives us some pleasure, and with the pain and suffering we have to face, why shouldn’t we at least accept this pleasure?

Sex is a biological drive; it is fundamental to life itself. We cannot be free of it, and so even though it is not without difficulties, even worse are the difficulties of suppression and frustration. So what can we do? It is simply perverse to keep harping on the dark side of things, and all this bad news is pointless.

But there is, I assure you, a point. I would like you to consider the possibility that our revolt against the sentence of death imposed by the body, our intuitive consciousness that we are meant for more than casual destruction, may have a justification in dimly apprehended, obscured fact. Our developed human consciousness, which keeps us from being comfortable in an animal body, may indicate or symptomize a fundamental feature of existence.

To put it another way, consider the possibility that our involvement in sex, and in the whole frantic enterprise of sensual life that expands from it, constitutes a kind of intoxication or stupefaction of awareness that occludes our normal consciousness of our real nature­a nature that is in fact not subject at all to death. If this is so, there is a prospect for realizing, through the excavation of that eternal self, an inherent and inalienable happiness absolutely independent of the states of the body. One can achieve this, however, only if one can remove the stupefaction of consciousness by directing his energies away from the project of material satisfaction that centers on sex.

The project of uncovering the eternal self that I am proposing should not be confused with the repressive programs that have been propagated in the name of religion. The project of self-realization does not call for enduring a bleak life of frustration and deprivation to attain a future heavenly enjoyment. Nor does it propose that we seek happiness as a neutral “peace,” the mere absence of pain, through atrophy of the affections. On the contrary, I propose that our desire to possess an unending existence of uninterrupted, every-intensifying bliss is legitimate, and that there is a practical way we can fulfill it immediately, a way so natural, powerful, and attractive that all other engagements lose their allure.

Fundamental Ignorance

You may be thinking, however, that if there were anything to this, it would have already been accepted by our intellectual and political leaders and embedded in educational policy. The problem is that a person’s knowledge is relative to his situation. When a person is habituated to sensual enjoyment and to sex, his instruments of perception malfunction, and so he is unable to comprehend or experience his own eternal nature, no matter how outstanding he may otherwise be. Such people are sunk in an ignorance so profound, so fundamental, that even their greatest knowledge is really a kind of advancement in ignorance. In spite of repeated failures, they perpetually put forward hopeless and quixotic schemes to bring happiness, and they seem to have an animallike obliviousness to the essential character of the world. Even though they mislead others, however, they are ultimately not worthy of anger or scorn: they suffer like everyone else.

Knowledge concerning the eternal self and the method of freeing it can come only from one who is himself free. This implies that if there is such a person there must have been a historical succession of them passing down the teaching. In fact, such traditions have appeared in many countries, and often enough­although the usual course is that it will flourish for a while, become compromised by the spirit of material enjoyment, and then look absurd and be rejected.

I was taught the science of sell-realization by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who follows from a historical tradition going back thousands of years in India. The teachings of that tradition, recorded in ancient Sanskrit texts like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad- Bhagavatam, recognize a variety of methods for self- realization, but recommend strongly, above all others, the method called bhakti-yoga.

To help explain this method of freeing the self, let me first set out a more detailed account of the self and its relation to matter and to other selves.

There are two categories of selves. All selves are eternal and of the nature of pure cognition and bliss, but one category contains numberless selves, and the other category contains one self alone. The one self is called the supreme self because it completely sustains the many. The one is infinite and self-sufficient; the many are infinitesimal and dependent. (You may call the many infinitesimal selves “souls” and the one infinite self “God,” but I have avoided these terms because speculative philosophy and theology have burdened them with such misinformation, controversy, and a general bad name that I would rather start here with a verbal clean slate.) You may compare the supreme self to the sun and the subordinate selves to the atomic particles of sunshine; so we can speak of the one supreme self as the energetic and of the multitudinous subordinate selves as the energy. Just as the atoms of sunshine are a part of the sun, though removed from it, so the individual selves are separated particles of the supreme self, and accordingly they are qualitatively identical with the supreme, even though they are quantitatively minute. Each fragmental self possesses a tiny allotment of all the qualities of the complete self.

The milieu in which the supreme self eternally dwells with the subordinate selves is called the spiritual, or internal, energy. In that atmosphere, the supreme self is the unwavering object of love for the subordinate selves because He is supremely attractive­for this reason, He is called “Krishna” (“the all-attractive one”). Each act of the subordinate selves expresses their uninterrupted, ever-increasing love for Krishna, who returns His own feelings in the same way. Thus each self is fully satisfied because he is fully absorbed in an eternal loving relationship with the supremely lovable person, the source of all beauty. Krishna returns the love of the subordinate selves without reservation, in a relationship that time cannot sunder. This is the natural condition of the selves.

As the origin of everything, the supreme self is the supreme enjoyer, and the subordinate selves derive their own sustenance and bliss by participating in His enjoyment. They cannot enjoy independently. Yet it happens that some selves want this one thing. Having everything, an eternal life of bliss and knowledge, they nevertheless want to controvert their own essential nature as subordinate, dependent beings. They want to become the supreme self. Instead of serving, they would like to be served. Thus they want to abrogate their relationship with Krishna; since they have a minute amount of the independence the supreme possesses in full, they can do it.

Krishna does not transgress the small independence of His fragmental parts, and He accedes to their desire. For them­that is to say, for us­He creates another milieu, called the material, or external, energy. Of course, it is logically impossible for the supreme self to grant subordinate selves their desire to be the supreme, for by definition there can be only one supreme. It is the essential nature of the subordinate selves to serve, to be controlled by, the supreme. That nature cannot be changed, but in the material energy the tiny selves can have the illusion that they are independent, that they are the supreme, that they are the enjoyers and the controllers. All the same, they remain inescapably under the control of Krishna’s material energy, which they cannot overcome.

Returning to A Pure Existence

Selves are beings that experience, centers of consciousness, subjects. Matter does not experience; it is without subjectivity; it is completely an object. Selves live; matter is lifeless. When the selves enter the alien, material energy, they acquire and animate bodies made out of lifeless matter. Driven by a desire to forget Krishna and their relation to Him, they identify themselves with bodies of matter. In this way the self becomes a divided being. Now the self thinks of itself as a product of nature, as an object created and destroyed in time. As the body is damaged by disease and injury, as it disintegrates with age, and as it dies, the self thinks, “This is happening to me.” Thus the self enters the interminable horror of material existence, a nightmare of carnage from which it cannot awake. As one body is destroyed, nature transfers him to another, to undergo a similar destruction.

The self moves blindly through these bodies, driven by an overwhelming appetite for enjoyment. In its original condition, the self is filled with a ceaseless love for the supreme, all-attractive self. This love is constitutional; it cannot be removed; it is the self’s very life. Therefore, when the self turns aside from the proper object of his love, that love is not annihilated but becomes transmuted or redirected. When the self contacts the material energy, his love for Krishna is transformed into lust, just as milk in contact with acid turns into curd.

So the erotic drive is indeed part of our essential makeup. But it is a transformation of what is in fact our love for Krishna. Desire, therefore, cannot possibly be annihilated, nor can it be successfully repressed or suppressed. However, it can be reverted to its original state.

Yet as long as we are impelled by the erotic drive, we take on a succession of bodies of matter. We move up the hierarchy of beings; in the lower stages of our evolution, in plant and then animal bodies, our consciousness is heavily covered. We are only dimly and fitfully sentient. When at last we acquire human bodies, our consciousness, that effulgence of the eternal self, becomes uniquely uncovered. This fuller manifestation of the eternal self in beings that still inhabit material bodies creates a problematical situation, full of the tensions of a divided nature, and provides a kind of suffering that ignorant animals do not experience. The gift of uncovered consciousness causes us to wonder: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why must I die? Such questions lead us toward self-realization. If we do not at least begin upon this course, then we must take another. The revelation of our spiritually conscious nature shows us the incongruities of our position in matter, and the proper response is to seek freedom from material entanglement and thus resolve the sufferings that arise from duality. Unfortunately, too many people respond to the illuminations of a higher consciousness by frantically trying to snuff it out by pursuing intense animal satisfactions that produce a narrow, excited awareness, and by seeking the oblivion of drugs. This course drops the self again into animal bodies, in which it will devour and be devoured, until it at last returns to human form and once more confronts its eternal nature.

If we seize the chance of human consciousness, we can solve the problem of existence by cultivating knowledge of the self, become freed from encagement in matter, and return to our pure existence in intimate, eternal love with Krishna.

Our return to our normal condition is engineered by Krishna. While we have forgotten Him, He has not forgotten us; He has remained close by our side through all our wanderings in darkness and in pain, waiting for us to show the first flicker of a desire to abandon our illusory project of becoming the supreme. When, in the hidden depths of our being, we start to yearn for Krishna and to regret our folly in turning away, Krishna immediately arranges for us to meet one of His self-realized representatives. This person tells us explicitly about the conditions of material existence, about our eternal nature, and about our relation with Krishna, thus reviving our latent knowledge. He also initiates us onto the path of spiritual restoration with direct practical instructions. We would probably think that freedom from material conditions was some unrealizable idea, if we did not have Krishna’s representative before us as a living testament to its factuality.

The Flavor of Natural Love

The essence of the program to return the self to its pure state consists of bringing that self into direct contact with Krishna. The simplest and most effective way of doing this is through sound. The sounds that name or describe Krishna are of a totally different nature from sounds that name or describe material things. This is because Krishna is absolute, or nondual. The duality of the material world entails that a substance and its name have nothing intrinsic in common. If, for example, I say “water, water, water,” my thirst is not slaked. On the other hand, if I say “Krishna, Krishna, Krishna,” or any other personal name of the supreme self, I come directly into contact with Him. By thus using our tongue to utter and ear to hear the names and glorification of the supreme, we are united with Him. That contact is potent. Krishna is the supreme pure, and His association is purifying. We are qualitatively one with Krishna, and His association revives that original character, reawakens our native consciousness. Quickly, then, we begin to experience our eternal nature and to taste the remarkable flavor of our natural love, and as we do so we lose interest in the material substitutes that used to attract us. Our lust begins to be transformed back into love again. Thus, the revival of pure consciousness is based not on the repression or suppression of desire, but on its respiritualization.

This is different from sublimation. Sublimation is an artificial replacement of a gross physical urge with a more refined substitute, and the satisfaction it affords is never as intense and absorbing as the satisfaction of the original urge. But when, by contrast, our love is returned to Krishna, it gains immeasurably in intensity and in power, for it has found its proper object, and it is now free from the fear of change and death that block its investment in material things. Our love for Krishna begins to flow effortlessly, unchecked and unimpeded. It exfoliates without limit. Since Krishna includes all other selves, our love expands to encompass them also. As one begins to live and breathe the atmosphere of unconditioned and uninterrupted love for Krishna, he sees the whole world in a new light, and his former attempts to exploit it for his own pleasure seem perverse.

From the very beginning of Krishna consciousness one gains the positive taste for spiritual existence, and so the addictions of the senses become relatively easy to give up. The four greatest impediments to spiritual life­illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating, and gambling­can be abandoned with surprising ease. When one has the real thing, a real life of unceasing bliss and knowledge, there is no difficulty in putting aside the counterfeits.

Unconditional love for Krishna is manifest in unconditional engagement in the service of Krishna, in service that has no desire for reward and no interruption. This is the characteristic that distinguishes love from its perverted material transformation, lust, in which personal gain is the motive. Even the sexual union of a man and a woman can be used in the service of Krishna. It is extremely good fortune for a child to be born from parents engaged in self-realization, for from his earliest moments he lives in an atmosphere uncontaminated by lust and greed and he takes in the principles of spiritual life with his mother’s milk. Such children can be conceived only when the parents unite specifically for that purpose and insure the good qualities of their offspring through their own purification of consciousness. The first duty of parents is to be able to deliver their children from death, and family life dedicated to that purpose is conducive to self-realization and as such need not be artificially renounced.

But sex for any other purpose­sex to exploit the body for enjoyment, to fuel the delusions of the ego­is the cause of death. Sex more than anything else fixes our false identification of our selves with the body, rivets us into the flesh, and addicts us to material aggrandizement. Sexual desire can never be satisfied, for it grows by what it feeds on. This permanently frustrated desire causes a deep and abiding rage, which deepens our illusion. The twin delusions of desire and hate drive us on through interminable bodily incarcerations, hurtling us over and over into forms that fill us with fear, suffer the ceaseless onslaught of injury and disease, disintegrate while we still occupy them, and are destroyed. In reality none of this happens to us, but we have erroneously identified ourselves with the body and have thereby taken these torments upon us. Death is an illusion we have imposed upon ourselves by our desire to enjoy this world. Sex is the essence of that desire.

Sex, therefore, is death.

It is only right that we struggle against the sentence of death. It is only proper that we seek a life of uninterrupted and unending pleasure uncompromised by shame or fear. It is only natural that we want to be whole and at one with ourselves, uncompromised by duality. The most deadly delusion is that sex is a way to these goals, for in fact it is the greatest single impediment. It is the cause of our disease, which we embrace as the cure.

The restrictions upon sexual activity enjoined by religions were originally meant to assist in overcoming this greatest block to human happiness. Unfortunately, now only the restrictions and negations survive, while the real reason for them has been forgotten.

But the viable path of self-realization is once again open. It may seem to you that, whatever good intentions you may have, the sexual drive is too powerful for you to overcome. It is true that it is too strong for artificial suppression. But I know from experience that if you simply begin by taking up the positive practices of bhakti-yoga, especially the reciting of the name of Krishna in the form of the Hare Krishna mantra, you will find that what seemed so formidable a barrier becomes easy to cross and that your authentic life, beyond the world of birth and death, is at hand.

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Posted On: Tue, 2007-07-31 17:48 by josh sitapati

In relation to webasura's comment:
Speaking of those individuals for whom homosexual tendencies are a result of inborn guNa, philosophically, wouldn't they form a separate class? In which case, there ought to be "segregation" from the general body of other male (or female) devotees, in the sense that their interactions within the body politic are regulated according to that guNa's relationship with other guNas.

In a previous conversation, one disciple of Srila Prabhupada shared with me this (paraphrased from memory):
These people need to have their own "scene", their own temples, and amongst them their own leaders, pure devotees who can preach to them and set an ideal example.

My personal experience is that some persons whose gender does not fall into your classic stereotypes (they may be gay or bi-sexual) can live more peacefully in a family setting. They become unbalanced and disturbed when they are in a single sex environment, but in a family setting they do well. So they can live with grhastas in an extended family situation.

Recently I met one man who was clearly effeminate. His mind was very female and his mannerisms might be referring to as "mincing" (as in "Affectedly refined or dainty"). In the course of conversation it turned out he is married (to a woman). I think that what most people need is understanding and emotional support.

Illicit sex life, of whatever combination, represents a karma and both arises from and creates psychological distortion. Psychologically, emotionally, relationally, and socially illicit sex life complicates the situation.

In helping people to "come in for a landing" in Krishna Consciousness we spend a lot of time helping to deprogram and decontaminate people from the psychological distortions that arise from illicit sex. I think that a lot of people who have different gender identities complicate their situation by trying to meet their emotional and psychological needs through sex life.

As one Shelter song put it: "She uses sex for love, he uses love for sex". So while people are seeking companionship and support, sometimes they confuse this with sex. Sometimes other persons with lusty desires take advantage of this. I've met a number of people, of all gender and sexual orientations, who have been taken advantage of in this way, or mutually exploited a partner in this way, and have been devastated as a result.

What's my point? Sex is actually meant for procreation. When you confuse it with companionship and emotional support it can cause a lot of complication, whatever your gender or orientation. It's not a substitute, and when it becomes one it is psychologically and relationally damaging.

NOTE =>:-): a cautionary note to readers; some of the ideals and values regarding modern acceptance of Gay culture tolerence are not mainstream Krishna consciousness. Bottom line is, sex is for procreation, the inclinations of the mind and senses be they any orientation toward sexuality outside that will create adverse karmic complications.

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Interesting article posted on the BBC web pages on the link between bowl cancer and alcohol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6921998.stm

And some research on cannabis smoking and it’s effects

Just another reason to lead a life which avoids intoxication.

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Guruvayur Temple Changes Dress Code to Allow Women in Churidar's

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GURUVAYUR, KERALA, July 27, 2007: Kerala's famed Guruvayur temple declared a change in the dress code - now women can enter the shrine wearing the churidar instead of the traditional sari. In Kerala, churidar is a synonym for salwar-kameez (Punjabi suit), and in the past women were allowed to go inside the Sri Krishna Temple here only in saris. But Vijayan Nambiar, manager of the temple, said the Guruvayur Devasthanam Board had taken a decision on churidars at its meeting Thursday. "This was a long-pending demand from several women, especially those who arrive in large numbers from north India where saris are not that common. Moreover in Kerala too, the churidar has become common," said Nambiar. He added the change was taking place after discussions between the Board and several Hindu organizations.

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

Report dated July 22, 2007

Teachers and politicians demonstrated at the District Inspector of Schools' offices in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, and set on fire study materials on sex education.

A procession led by local political party leaders demanded a ban on sex education and asked that teachers and principals serving on an ad hoc basis be terminated.

They demanded that teaching and non teaching staff in unaided schools that conform to their standards be given grants and service facilities, and opposed the commercialisation of school and college land anywhere in the vicinity.

Report dated July 21, 2007

A man suspected of being a petty thief slipped into a wedding reception to steal food and pick pockets. He was spotted and an alarm was raised.

The thief was beaten mercilessly by a number of the guests and died. The bride's father called police and made up the story that they had discovered a corpse in the reception hall.

Police however traced the truth and arrested the bride's advocate father, his new son-in-law and two servants.

Similar incidents of people taking the law into their own hands and killing suspects are rife in West Bengal. In another case four thieves were battered to death by a mob. In various incidents some 100 felons were lynched by mobs in 2006.

Police stations in the rural areas are understaffed and corrupt cops are often in league with criminals. Villagers say it is the reason they often take the law into their own hands.

By staff writers

July 26, 2007 01:25pm

Cat at nursing home has talent for predicting death
Curls up to patients who only have a few hours left

DEATH could come in a furrier form than most people imagine.

A hospice cat at a nursing and rehabilitation centre in the US has a talent for sensing when patients are going to die – and curls up beside them for their final few hours.

Oscar the cat's inside knowledge is so reliable, workers have begun alerting patients' families when he chooses to settle on their bed, the Associated Press reported today.

"Many family members take some solace in it," Dr David Dosa of Brown University told the news agency.

"They seem to appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one."

Dr Dosa wrote an essay on Oscar's macabre talents – observed in up to 25 cases at a Rhode Island nursing home – in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The 2-year-old feline, who was adopted as a kitten, has even received a wall plaque commending his "compassionate hospice care", AP reported.

When Oscar chooses a patient, it usually means they have only a few hours to live.

A similar article here sent in by Hari Sauri prabhu ACBSP http://www.sivaramaswami.com/?p=1513

More details http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2809174.ece

More of the same, with a few pics of the cat http://digg-this--swicki.eurekster.com/nursing+home+cat/

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July 29th, 2007 Editor

Generation X www.com is amongst us…

Many of them arrived after the Net. But they are today a curiously powerful presence on the Web.

Children under the age of twelve are creating an elaborate world of their own in chat rooms, Google, and gaming sites. And the enchanting pangs of growing up are today throbbing primarily inside this magical medium.

Parents often have no clue about this parallel world of their kids. Though, of course, they think they do.

The insidious influence of the Internet, as expected, is creating unprecedented upheavals in the minds of children. Till recently, in an affluent school in Mumbai, a group of sixth standard students used to decide on Mondays what each of them would download. Then, they would exchange the material through CDs over the weekend. When this subculture was finally exposed, it was discovered that their CDs contained, apart from games, some amount of pornography.

All over the world, this population that goes by the name Tweenagers, is fast becoming natural inhabitants of the net. According to a 2005 Nielsen/NetRatings survey, many of these tweenagers visit the same sites that adults do.

Prerna Mehta started using the Internet at the age of six. Now, at 12, she has a virtual ‘family’ spread across the world. She has not personally met them though. “I have brothers in Hong Kong and Delhi, a mother in Australia and a father in Oregon (US),” she says. These are family members she has created through chat sites and they all play the allotted roles.

Most kids quickly realise that the anonymity of the Net makes them more glamorous and wanted than in real life. Julie Raheja, who is 12, has a boyfriend each in Yahoo, MSN and AOL messenger lists. If one boyfriend is not online, someone else will be, she says happily.

The mushrooming of social networking sites has led to young minds forming their own profiles. These profiles are usually exaggerated. Eleven-year-old Ankit’s profile on a networking group says, “Hi, I am a handsome 16-year-old guy from Mumbai. I love talking and am a great friend so if you want to join my network and get free lifetime stay in my heart (sic). Hurry, offer may expire soon.” He shows off the 126 ‘fans’ he has apart from the 500-odd friends in the list. He claims that almost 65% of his friends are girls. “They really think my age is 16. I counsel the girls about their love lives. Most of them call me ‘Alex Hitch’ (in tribute to the character played by Will Smith in Hitch).”

With children discovering the near total freedom of the net, parents might soon realise that a crucial part of parenting does not involve them at all. They are being bypassed, at this very moment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6922896.stm

UTTAR PRADESH, August 2, 2007: The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has attempted to set a world record by planting 10 million trees in a single day on Tuesday. Officials say the plantings, aiming to raise awareness of the need to protect the environment, were a success. In all, 10,266,736 saplings were planted at 9,320 sites across Uttar Pradesh's 70 districts. The authorities say they have notified Guinness World Records of their attempt and are awaiting confirmation. The record stands at 852,587 trees, planted in 6,284 locations in Tamil Nadu state in 2006. The location of the sites were recorded using GPS technology so the record could be independently verified, forestry officials told the BBC. India's forest policy is committed to having at least one third of the land mass covered with trees and forest for ecological balance, although the actual covered area is only 24%, our correspondent adds. Although Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state, its tree-covered area is only 9%. Officials say they are also planning to amend forestry laws to encourage people to plant trees on their private land.

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In reading the Torah we can infer that Eden was still a great place to live, even after Adam and Eve were thrown out of Eden, Probably in Adam's time, mankind had degenerated to the lower limits of his blessed human condition: the wise man.

Foreseeing that humans were gradually degenerating into little more than animals, the Divine Forces sent some divinities to the earth to give their help:

'When men began to increase on earth and daughters were born to them, the divine beings saw how beautiful the daughters of men were and took wives from among those that pleased them. The Lord said, My breath shall not abide in man forever, since he too is flesh; let the days allotted him be one hundred and twenty years. It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth--when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.' (Genesis, 6:1--4.)

Above: Did a spaceship such as the above bring the Nephilim to this world?

Most people can't understand why this passage was placed in Genesis and who the Nephilim were. The Nephilim descended to earth to plant the seeds of God--Men who would, from time to time, reincarnate to lead mankind on the right path. Nephilim has its equivalent both in Sanskrit and Greek. In Sanskrit, 'Nau/Nu/Na=' ship; boat; knowledge; certainty; the descendancy from Noah or Lord Krishna; God Shiva; Buddha; Noah.' Navalin = Star Ship; Constellation Ship. In Greek, Nephilim= Nuphylum, meaning The Five Races (Phylum) of Noah (Nu). Of the five races, Yadu, Turvasa, Druhyus, Anu, and Puru, the only one I€ ¦Õll deal with are the Yadu and their companions, the Yadavas. Yadava is a contraction of Yadu plus Deva, meaning 'The Yadu Demi--Gods or People of Yah.' It was through them that Lord Krishna, God Shiva, and Buddha came to earth to save mankind from time to time, as follows:

Nephilim/Navalin > Noah (Manu) >Jyapeti (Japhet or Yayati) > Yadu > Yadava > Jews/Yahuda.

Yayati/Jyapeti/Japhet was at one and the same time Dyauspitar (Jupiter), Dyus (Zeus), Vishnu or Lord Krishna, Shiva, and Buddha.

Notice that the Nephilim/Navalin did not detach themselves from their bodies and move into those of the Yadus and Yadavas. They could enter this world only via the bloodstreams of the Yadu and Yadava (Yahudas or Jews). For that, they had to breed with the daughters of men, leaving their seed in the wombs of these daughters. The closer people were tied genetically to the Yadu and Yadava, the easier it was to get a correct genetic match for producing a fetus capable of hosting a true Son of the Unbegotten. Any of the other races could produce saints but not saviors like Jesus and Krishna. For this reason, Lord Krishna and Jesus were related by blood ties. Krishna was a Yadu Kuru. Jesus was a Yehudi Koresh.

Could it be that the Hebrew and Hindu Gods, entering mankind's bloodstream through Japhet, the son of Noah, were really Gods? It seems that they were. We, whose religions descend from Noah's times, worshiping the same deities, accuse one another of being wrong and that we are right. We are all brothers. Let€ ¦Õ's face it. What amazes me is that the Krishtayani, who were the people of Noah, and now the Christians, have never left the world scene.

Before researching this information, I wondered why the Jews have always said they are 'The Chosen People.' That is because they, the Yadavas, and the Yadus were the only ones chosen by God to bring redemption to the world. Over the centuries, the Jews came to forget that they also shared that honor with the Indian Jyapeti, Yadus and Yadavas.

In ancient times, these tribes were said to possess great mystical knowledge--more than any other peoples on earth. It may be true that those who were chosen for the priesthood had to perform some kind of test to prove they descended from the Divine Beings called Nephilim/Navalin. In Hebrews 7:3, we read a description of the mysterious figure Melchizedec whom I claim was Malika Sadhaka (Lord Krishna), the Incarnation of Vishnu:

Above: Picture of Jerusalem's Melchisedec (God Krishna)?

'Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.'

The Bible said clearly that the Nephilim/Navalin were 'divine.'

I know that some people might regard such speculations of mine as fantasy. But I'm taking the Jewish and Hindu scriptures seriously.

After the Nephilim/Navalin had been on earth for sufficient time to seed the Yadus' and Yadavas' bloodstreams with the spirits of future divinities, the Torah states:

'The Lord saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised in his mind was nothing but evil all the time. And the Lord regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened. The Lord said, 'I will blot out from the earth the men whom I created--men together with beasts, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them. But Noah found favor with the Lord.' (Genesis 5--8.)

After that, God gave Noah time enough to build the Ark, and then, the floods came.

Some people may reject the idea that the Nephilim/Navalin impregnated Noah's progeny with the germs of potential God--Men who would later become Melchisedec, Jesus Christ, Krishna, Indra, Agni, Quetzalcoatl and others; men who would supply redemption to humankind in such severe crises as the Siberian Altai flood. If that is not so, for what other reason did God plant the Nephilim/Navalin in the blood of mankind before destroying all but a few?

It is possible that the ancient Jewish wise men did not want us to know the Nephilim came here to reseed the earth with people having an improved genetic structure, who would begin human life anew All we read in the Bible is a short description of the Nephilim/Navalin--and then the part about the flood. It probably took several hundred years for the Nephilim/Navalin to improve and regenerate the human genetic structure sufficiently in Noah and his descendants.

Just to give you an idea of how low mankind had fallen after the Great Flood in Altai, Siberia, read the Hindu account of Noah, taken from the Matsya Purana:

'To Satyavarman, that sovereign of the whole earth, were born three sons: the eldest Shem; then Sham; and thirdly, Jyapeti by name.

'They were all men of good morals, excellent in virtue and virtuous deeds, skilled in the use of weapons to strike with, or to be thrown; brave men, eager for victory in battle.

'But Satyavarman, being continually delighted with devout meditation, and seeing his sons fit for dominion, laid upon them the burdens of government.

'Whilst he remained honouring and satisfying the gods, and priests, and kine, one day, by the act of destiny, having drunk mead,

'Became senseless and lay asleep naked. Then, he was seen by Sham, and by him were his two brothers called:

'To whom he said, 'What now has befallen? In what state is this our sire?' By these two he was hidden with clothes, and called to his senses again and again.

'Having recovered his intellect, and perfectly knowing what had passed, he cursed Sham, saying, 'Thou shalt be the servant of servants.'

'And since thou wast a laugher in their presence, from laughter thou shalt acquire a name. Then he gave Sham the wide domain on the south of the snowy mountains.

'And to Jyapeti he gave all the north of the snowy mountains; but he, by the power of religious contemplation, attained supreme bliss.'

Can you imagine what men were like after the Great Flood if Ham attempted sodomy on his own father, an old wino? Ham was one of the 'good guys,' a man of 'good morals, excellent in virtue and virtuous deeds'?

Above: Remains of an ancient ark at Drupinar, Turkey, Visitor Center, believed to be either the Jewish Noah's Ark or the one mentioned in the Koran

Noah was a great yogi who spent his time in meditation and contemplating the Gods--while drunk as a skunk on mead.

What were the 'bad guys' like in those days? It goes without saying that the future Jesuses, Krishnas, Indras, Vishnus, Agnis and other God--men would have to endure many reincarnations and crucifixions before mankind could be regenerated sufficiently to return to the right path. Even now, in this bleeding world, we are noticing that many Navalins are forgetting the Divine Purpose for which they came when they left that faraway planet in Outer Space!

The War of Armageddon Already Happened in India, Nearly Five Thousand Years Ago!

When Lord Krishna (Melchisedec or Malika Sadhaka), his son Abraham, and Sarah fled to the Middle East, they took along many of Hinduism's favorite myths with them. That's why the Jews and the Hindus have similar deified heroes and legends. One memory that accompanied them, eventually weaving itself into Jewish--Christian--Islamic mythology, was the so-called 'prophecy' of The War of Armageddon which we mistakenly think will happen on the Plain of Meggido, in Israel--but only if we make it happen.

Supposedly, of the 200 million soldiers on both sides, who will be involved in that war, only 144,000 people will survive. For the Christians, the losers will be the Jews and the Moslems. For the Moslems, the Christians and the Jews will be the losers. Christ will be the champion of the winners, regardless of which side wins. Without a doubt, the Jewish Zionists have a less than favorable fate planned for us Christians and Moslems.

According to the Mahabharata, the ancient Indians fought a long war to rid themselves of the mercantile class of Indians called Asuras (Assyrians). In reality, it was mainly a war involving wandering landless nomadic goat and sheepherders and subsistence farmers against the shippers, merchants and traders, lumber men, miners, farmers, and cattle and horse ranchers who were exploiting ancient Western India to the limit. The nomads wanted to settle down but because of their poverty, they had to end up as servants of those who owned all the land, forests, and cities. The Bible refers to this war as the contention between Cain and Abel. It was similar to our own Wild West range wars. It took about a thousand years for the Asuras (People of Yah) to be defeated and driven out of India, among whom were Krishna, Abraham, Sarah, and all those tribes destined to become Yahudas or Jews.

'The Jews alias Judaists alias Zionists are the Vedic people of the clan of Lord Krishna who had to migrate from the Dwarka kingdom after the Mahabharata war.' (World Vedic Heritage, by P. N. Oak, p. 187.)

Historian Oak's statement confirms my thesis that the War of Armageddon (Ar-Maghada) was long ago past tense when the forefathers of the Jews arrived in the land over which the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs are now fighting.

Above: Israel's Plain of Meggido, named in remembrance of the Battle of Ar'maghada back in India.

Besides naming a plain in Israel, Meggido (Maghada), the forefathers of the Jews named two small mountains Zion and Moriah in remembrance of the Mt. Meru they left behind in India, for another name of Mt. Meru was Siyoni (From the Vagina [Source]). Even in such places as Egypt, pyramids are called M'ru, for every people on earth originated in the ancient Turkic countries and India.

Above: Archeological dig at Mt. Zion, named after Siyoni or Seuna, another name of Mt. Meru.

Above: Jerusalem Temple Mount or Mt. Moriah, also named after India€ ¦Õs Mt. Meru

Nothing that I have said thus far is original with me. Everything is derived from other sources. Even the early Portuguese Jesuit priests in India noticed that the Yadus and Yadavas called their ancient homeland in Maharasthra, Gujarat, and other places in the upper part of India, Seuna--Desa (Land of Zion.)

'€ ¦Éas the records of the [Seunadesa] dynasty traced its history from the Puranic hero Yadu, its rulers were better known as Yadavas although the word Seuna was not totally forgotten.' (The Yadavas and Their Times, By Onkar Prasad Verma, pp.2--3.)

Godfrey Higgins, in his monstrous two volume work, Anacalypsis, gave a detailed account of the Northern India origin of the Jews. When I was compiling my book, Jesus and Moses Are Buried in India, Birthplace of Abraham and The Hebrews, I bought a translation of an ancient book entitled History of the Afghans, by Khwaja Neamat Ullah, who lived about 300 or 400 years after the time of Mohammed. What I read in that book astounded me. To make sure I had understood the book accurately, I lent it to an educated friend of mine, a retired mathematician, asking him to read it and tell me his conclusions. After reading it, he said to me, 'This is a history of the Jews.' For the reasons I have described, it is absolutely certain that Israel is in no way the original holy land of the Jews, Muslims, and Christians. They are fighting one another over the wrong piece of real estate!
 

Above: Israelis capturing Palestinians on Temple Mount.

Over the millenniums, the people of India have forgotten where their original Mt. Meru was. Some think it could have been Mt. Ararat in Armenia. Some say it was Bulgaria's most sacred mountain, Sinanica. Others claim it is a mountain in Altai, Siberia, called Shambala. In his book, Ancient Geography of Ayodhya, Hindu geographer, Dr. Dr. Sham Narain Pande, says it was located in what is now Herat, Afghanistan. The Hindus have settled on the West Tibetan Kailasa as the original Mt. Meru. I feel that the real Mt. Meru may be found in today's Madhya Pradesh state. For the Christians and Jews, our 'Mt. Meru' was the Tower of Babel in Babylon. However, Edward Pococke, in India in Greece, stated that when the people of Northern India fled northward as a result of the War of the Mahabharata, they named Babel after Bopal which is a place in Madhya Pradesh.

At the tail end of the War of the Mahabharata, the forefathers of the Jews were composed of many tiny republican principalities because each tribe and clan was fiercely independent. They were always fighting among themselves, even for trivial reasons. However, one nation among all of them was unusually powerful and stable: Magadha. Because of his divine stature, the Yadus and Yadavas counted on Lord Krishna to be their divine savior and unite them as a single nation under Maghada, but things did not work out that way. One day, some drunken teenagers from various tribes and clans started fighting over the results of a dice game.

Above: Young Yadava men who got involved in the dice game.

Almost immediately, all the Yadus and Yadavas became embroiled in what was perhaps the bloodiest war in human history: The Eighteen Day War. The combatants faced off against each other in two different groups: the Kaurava (Kuru) army, headed by Krishna and his friend Arjuna, consisting of 11,000 chariots, 10,900 elephants, 200,000 horses, and three million foot soldiers versus the Pandavas, composed of 6,000 chariots, 6,000 elephants, 10,000 horses, and 1 million foot soldiers.
 

At the end of those 18 days, all the animals of both sides were killed. Only 18,000 warriors survived among an estimated 5 million warriors! Counting the wives and children of the surviving warriors, only about 144,000 Yadus and Yadavas survived just as we have been taught. Besides being called The Eighteen Day War, it was also called the War of Ar-Maghada, meaning 'The Maghada Massacre,' for the Sanskrit AR means 'misfortune, injury, and inflicted pain.'

Because he failed to unite the Yadus and Yadavas in a single monarchy, Krishna was impaled on a tree to atone for the sins of his people. A few days later, he arose from the dead. When Dwarka--Haran sank under the sea, Krishna led his people to what is now Jerusalem, becoming its King Melchisedec as St.Paul himself intimated in The Book of Proverbs.
 

Above: Lord Krishna involved in the falsely prophesied and plagiarized 18 Day War or the War of Ar'Maghada. According to Hindu historian P.N. Oak, when they went to the Middle East, they agreed to forget their tribal differences think of themselves as just Maghadans and just worship 'Yah.' In this way, they could preserve their tribal unity.
 

Above: Map of Kuruksetra. The site of the Battle of Ar'Maghada, which happened more than 4,000 years ago, but which ignorant Christian, Jewish, and Muslim clerics say hasn't happened yet, is colored a dark orange.

It may come as a surprise to most readers to learn that Sarah and Abraham were Yadavas. The Sarasvat Brahmin Yadavas are even today prominent world traders, especially the Gauda (God) Sarasvatis. In Sanskrit, Goda means 'Brain or Vulva,' the Source or Creative Principle. For that reason, Sarasvati is the Hindu Goddess of Knowledge. After four thousand years, Abraham and Sarah are still with us. However, in general, the Hindu Yadavas are lower caste, many of whom suffer unbearable misery. As the old saying goes, 'The more things change, the more they stay the same.'

After fleeing to the Middle East, the Yahudas (People of Yah) named a certain plain there, 'Meggido,' in remembrance of the so--called Eighteen Day Yadavi War back in Brahmavarta, India, in what is now the state of Haryana. Who would have known that the Bhagavadgita story of Krishna and the War of Ar-Maghada would end up being the sweetheart of ignorant Christian Evangelical preachers, Moslem extremists, and Zionist dreamers? And isn't it strange that hundreds of millions of thoroughly brainwashed people on earth are willing to lose their lives and even blow up this world to please their ignorant religious leaders and selfish interests who have stupidly and ignorantly led them astray?
 

Above: Most of the Yadavas (Hindu Jews or People of Yah) who didn€ ¦Õt escape to Jerusalem with Krishna Malika Sadhaka, Abraham, and Sarah are now low caste. Many of these low-caste Yadavas suffer almost unbearable pain in their lives. The Yadava man and woman (Dalits) in this picture were killed by some upper caste thugs who were angry because the victims were trying to improve their lives. Will the erroneous Armageddon prophecy in Israel spawn more horrors such as this one?
 

Throughout the millenniums, not only in India, but wherever they wandered in the world, the Yadavas, also known as People of Yah, and Jats, have affected human civilization as no other peoples on earth. Anyone wanting to find out more about these amazing people should read the following books: Yadavas Throughout the Ages, consisting of two volumes, by Yadav Singh; The Yadavas And their Times, by Onkar Prasad Verma; History of Jats, by Ram Sarup Joon; World Vedic Heritage, by P. N. Oak; Anacalypsis, a large two volume masterpiece by Godfrey Higgins.

In Yadavas Throughout the Ages, Yadav Singh discussed the astonishing cultural similarities between his distant relatives, the Israelis, and their modern brothers back in India:..their struggle for freedom, love for their motherland, attachment for land, stubborn attitude, their way of struggle, greediness for money, fighting qualities, fit to survive in adverse circumstances, make the best use of the worst type of land for agricultural production€ ¦É (Volume 1).

In volume II, he said that they civilized all the peoples they conquered, giving them 'new philosophy, religion, calendars, medical science, art of warfare, sculpture and what not ... Instead of Vedic religion, they had Bhagavata or Sarvata Dharma (Science of Living) as their way of life, which came to be known in later times a Vaisnavadharma (Bakhti Yoga, Science of Divine Love)...The Yadavas were progressive, dynamic, and energetic people. They opened new vistas in every walk of life-music, dance, fine arts, archery, government, wrestling, breeding, scaling high peaks, inventing new device, discovering new ideologies, philosophies, etc. The contribution of these people to India in particular, and the world in general, immense...' (Vol. II, pp. 7--8.)

Even today, In India, the Yadavas continue being the greatest social reformers. In my research, I noticed that many non--Yadava Hindus wish they were not such aggressive missionaries for social reform and human betterment. Historian Singh said that in the past many foreign and native--Indian non--Yadavas thought that they had been cursed by Yayati, and that non--Yadavas could never have their own gods and monarchs. Could the Nephilim/Navalin be the reason why?
 

Above: Portrait of one of India's most distinguished leaders of the 19th century, Swami Davanand Saraswati. He was the founder of India's Arya Samaj or The Society of Nobles Hindu Reform Movement. The society condemns and fights against ancestor worship, animal sacrifice, the caste system, child marriage, discrimination against women, idol worship, religious pilgrimages, and untouchability. It also champions reincarnation and celibacy.

The society is finally beginning to transform India and bring it to the forefront in this world of nations. Hopefully, in the near future, we will never again have to observe such heart--rending tragedies such as that mutilated couple whose only crime was in wanting to better themselves educationally and morally.

Note: This article is based on a chapter of Gene Matlock's book, Reaching For God--Now a Valid Science! On sale in August, 2007.

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In the Odyssey (book XII), Odysseus and his surviving crew landed on an island, Thrinacia, sacred to the sun god, whom Circe names Hyperion rather than Helios:

"You will now come to the Thrinacian island, and here you will see many herds of cattle and flocks of sheep belonging to the sun-god-seven herds of cattle and seven flocks of sheep, with fifty head in each flock. They do not breed, nor do they become fewer in number, and they are tended by the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetia, who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera. Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian  island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father's flocks and herds."

There were kept the sacred red Cattle of the Sun. Though Odysseus warned his men not to, they impiously killed and ate some of the cattle. The guardians of the island, Helios' daughters, told their father. Helios destroyed the ship and all the men save Odysseus.
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August 1st, 2007 Editor

NEW ZEALAND: Vegans have long turned their noses up at meat, but in New Zealand they’re now giving the thumbs down to meat eaters, the Press newspaper said on Wednesday.
The paper’s online edition said that a new trend of “vegansexuals” (as opposed to heterosexuals) had emerged in the country, where vegans ­ who eschew meat or other animal products ­ would not even get intimate with anyone who was a meat eater.

“It’s a whole new thing ­ I have not come across it before,” said Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University. She coined the term after doing research on the lives of “cruelty-free consumers.”

Potts said that while many female respondents to a survey described being attracted to people who ate meat, they did not want to enter into a relationship with them because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said,”I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance.”

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a story of two sadhus who were walking on a road.  They came to a chest deep river which had no bridge.  As they were about to wade through, a pregnant woman came up and asked, "Sadhuji, please carry me across to the other side." So the sadhu looked at the other sadhu who said, "Oh! Don't do it. We are sadhus, what do we have to do with women?" The sadhu said, "That's right, but this poor lady is pregnant." "Pregnant or not, it is no business of ours. So then the other sadhu said, "Anyway, I will help her." "Well if you want to fall into maya then don't let me stop you."

So the sadhu carried her across the river on his shoulders. They crossed the river, and when they were over he put her down and they went their separate ways. For about 2 miles they walked without talking. Then the other sadhu said, "It was very bad that you carried that lady across the Ganges on your shoulder. Very bad." The sadhu said, "I only carried her across the river, but you are still carrying her. Why don't you drop her? It is 2 miles already. I forgot her when I put her down, but all this time in your mind it's just been, "Lady, lady, lady."

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The phaomnneil pweor of the hmuan mnid: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig!
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Written by HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami

Dear Maharaj/ Prabujis/ Matajis,

It is my great pleasure to inform all the devotees of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that a great service opportunity has been offered by the temple authorities of Gambhira, in Puri dham, where Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu spent the final years of His manifested pastimes on this earthly planet. Kasi Mishra's house, also known as Gambhira, and the Radha Kanta math, were both under the care of the Orissa government due to 20 years of litigation. Finally, this litigation problem has been resolved and the management of the institution has been returned to the temple mahanta.

The temple has sustained much damage over the years due to lack of proper maintenance. The whole place is very dirty and the roofs and walls are falling down. The temple roof is also cracking. Additionally, the temple has a lack of proper income for the maintenance of the devotees and for deity puja—and, of course, the more the Gambhira is allowed to deteriorate, the fewer visitors it will have.

At this crucial point, the mahanta of Gambhira has requested ISKCON to extend kind assistence to him in order to protect and maintain this most holy place. Devotees from all over the world come to offer their prayers and obeisances at Gambhira. This is one of the most important places for the followers of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and must be maintained nicely.

Thus, this is a golden opportunity for devotees to render service to this most sacred cause. I request all devotees to kindly donate towards this purpose. There are many things to be fixed at the place. For the time being we have prepared a rough budget, for whatever the most urgent needs are, just to bring the situation up to  survival position. Later on, we will let you know about further opportunities for service in the development of the Gambhira.

For further information contact

Bhakti Purusottama Swami

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