By Damodarashtak das
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
We are heartily inviting all the serious students to the transformational VIHE Bhakti-sastri course. The Bhakti-sastri course is a systematic study of Srila Prabhupada’s books. Srila Prabhupada wanted all of us to deeply study his books, so that we could be better preachers, teachers and, very importantly, achieve a clear understanding and application of the beautiful science of devotional service. Sri Vrindavan Dham mercifully provides a unique environment to enhance one’s taste and appreciation of the treasures of direct bhakti.
This year the English Bhakti-sastri course in Vrindavan is scheduled to take place from June 27, 2014 – Oct 22, 2014.
Requirements for the course: Good sadhana, brahminical tendencies, voluntary service, proficiency in English and a recommendation/character sketch from a senior devotee who knows you well. Assessment criteria include attendance and personal conduct.
Assessment : Essays and closed book exams accompanied by exemplary conduct and sadhana.
Admissions close on : June 1, 2014.
Teachers:
Sarvabhauma Das
Kamal Lochan Das
Mukunda Datta Das
Vrindavana Chandra Das
Praneshvara Das
Adi-Purush Das
For more detailed information please contact:
E-mail: vihe@pamho.net; Web site: http://vihe.org
Phone: +917895101709 (Damodarashtak das)
Please kindly post this information on your temple board and tell your friends. Thank you!
Your servants at the VIHE
[S.P. Room Conversation, February 25, 1977, Mayapura]
Prabhupada: Everywhere. This male and female, nature’s gift that is. Therefore tasyaiva hetoh. These things you’ll get.
Tamala Krsna: Yes. So why use the…?
Prabhupada: Why you are after these things?
Tamala Krsna: Hm. Wasting human life.
Prabhupada: You’ll get woman. So be satisfied, the nature’s gift of woman, nature’s gift of your position, and utilize your life for Krsna consciousness. Why more and more, more, and naked and this way and that way? The other day what did I say? Vagina-licking civilization.
Bali-mardana: Hm?
Tamala Krsna: Vagina-licking civilization.
Prabhupada: They’re spending so much money for vagina-looking.
Tamala Krsna: Oh, that’s their whole consciousness.
Prabhupada: Yes. The money is earned with so hard labor and it is spent for vagina-looking.
Tamala Krsna: Polished dog society.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes, dog also smells the vagina, and they also do the same thing. Therefore nature has arranged that dog are smelling vagina on the street. One vagina and three dozen dogs surrounded.
Tamala Krsna: Yes. Vrndavana you see that.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Tamala Krsna: Now that’s going on in America. They are spending money just for that.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Tamala Krsna: Three dozen men look at one woman, same business.
Bali-mardana: And they make big literatures, magazines, everywhere, all over the streets. They put them in the street…
Tamala Krsna: The big thing now in America, the most popular shop, is called “Adult Books.” “Adult Bookshop.”
Hari-sauri: “Adult cinema,” “adult this,” “adult that.”
Prabhupada: Topless, bottomless. Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham kanduyanena karayor iva duhkha-duhkham, trpyanti neha krpana bahu-duhkha-bhajah. Bahu-duhkha-bhajah. Krpana. The rascals. Krpana means non-brahmana, without any spiritual knowledge. They are never satisfied, the vagina business. Trpyanti neha krp– although it is followed by so much miserable condition–bahu-duhkha-bhajah kandutivan manasijam visaheta dhirah. One who is dhira, sober, he tolerates little itching sensation: “What this nonsense?” And if you practice toleration, there will be no more. Finished. You become liberated. Therefore, from the very beginning of life, childhood, this teach him, that “Don’t be a vagina-smelling animal.” Brahmacari. Brahmacari guru-grhe vasan dantah. To learn how to control the senses, that is brahmacari.
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A far out quote:-) (Some people seem to have a special liking for it:-)
Ultimately, this is the choice, indeed, – spiritual life or material indriya-seva…
Yes, a very strong quote about the degradation of illicit sex life, but one that might seem crude and ill-mannered in certain situations. It looks like this was a room conversation with Srila Prabhupada and some male disciples. I do not believe Srila Prabhupada would have spoken the same way at a Sunday Feast lecture with women and children in the audience, or at an official meeting with a head of state. it might be taken the wrong way.
I am wondering what prompted Puskaraksa Prabhu to post it as a coment here, to an article announcing the June – October, 2014 VIHE Bhakti-sastri class. I do not really see any obvious connection between the article announcing the Bhakti-sastri course and the quotation.
Puskaraksa Prabhu? Can you explain some of your thought process about why you decided to comment n this article with that quote? It seems to me like kind of a non-sequitur.