Re: Before samsara
Sri Matre Namaha,
I've been on these forums for over a year and had always deliberately stayed away from commenting on anything related to ISKCON as I do not wish to question someone else's beliefs. But, today I've decided to talk as their bragging has been too much to bare with.
Can ISKCON quote a Single Vedic text which uses the word 'Krishna' as a Synonym to 'PURUSHA' or 'Brahman'
Can ISKCON give me a Single Vedic text which talks about 'Go Loka'
Can ISKCON show me a single Vedic text which does not say that Siva is 'Brahman' or to that matter Krishna alone is Brahman and not anyone else.
Why did Krishna sing the Siva Sahasranama Stotra in the Anusasanika parva of Mahabharata lauding it as the essence of all the scriptures.
I have a dozen more questions to counter their baseless arguments. They could do nothing in this country to prove their point and could do nothing to make their presence felt in West Bengal which is the birth place of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu but went to the West and started propagating their cult with all it's Superstitions.
I shall tell you how they propagate their belief. I used to frequent the temple of Sai baba of Shirdi located in Cambridge layout in Bangalore. Every Thursday, agents of ISKCON used to camp there selling their books and CDs. As usual, I went there on a Thursday and found them selling their books and other religious stuff. I liked their calenders with lord Venkateshwara and lord Narasimha Deva as portrayed in their Bangalore ISKCON temple. I went to their stall and was looking at the Calenders and other books. That agent spoke to me very nicely and showed me various books and asked me to buy some.I told him that I only want to buy those Calenders as I liked them, assuming them to be put on for sale. But that agent told me that those are not for sale and are freebies along with their 'Bhagavat Geeetha as it is' and 'sri Krishna' ( or something related to their publication on Krishna ). I really liked those pictures and only for the sake of the pictures, I paid him and bought those 2 books along with the pictures. Back home, I kept the books in my cupboard and placed the 2 calenders on the wall in my living room and day in and day out I adore the lord in the 2 pictures. after about a month, along with a friend of mine, just for sight seeing, I went to the Bangalore ISKCON temple. There I was looking at the many stalls selling Tulsi Malas, Sweets and Savories, Clothes, idols and the pictures of Krishna and noticed the calenders that were given to me as freebies were actually being sold at Rs 25 each and there is no need to buy the books in order to get those calenders. I inquired with the temple shopkeepers and realized that I was taken for a ride by the agent of ISKCON only to sell his books. This is how cheap they can get to propagate their beliefs and this is what they mean by Krishna Consciousness. Even some of my friends had similar experiences with them and found them to be extremely brain washing to subscribe into their beliefs and doctrine of ISKCON. They are nothing different from any other Christian Missionaries and truly speaking, I find them demeaning and belittling Bhagavan Sri Krishna portraying Him as a mere Sectarian.
However, I would like to make myself clear that I accept and adore Sri Krishna and the saying Krishnastu Bhagavan Swayam. and that I only differ with ISKCON and would always love Sri Krishna for He is the Purna Brahma.
Regards,
Rameeshh
Sivoham
That, which is the cause for the entire Cosmos to be as it is, is Mahamaya the divine player.
Rameeshh
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