How I was Initiated Into The Mahamantra By His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

How I revived my Krishna consciousness & was initiated into the Hare Krishna Mahamantra.

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Dated:25-Sep-2009

By Swami Aniruddha !

The following events happened with me since the month of October 2006.

1] A book named “Some guidelines towards the goal supreme/inner life” written by Swami Gokulananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Mission order landed in my house from some junk heap of a neighbour. In this book, the significance of Mantra diksha[initiation] by a bonafide Guru and Japa Sadhana was given so much importance that I visited the Ramakrishna Mission order. Co-incidentally, the author Swami Gokulananda was the secretary at the place I visited. He clarified, that, he was not in a position, to give mantra diksha and diksha could be given only by the president & vice president of the math who visited the local branch once in a year and one had to read the philosophy and pass the examination of the order before one was initiated. Hence I registered my name and purchased the necessary books of the order and came home.

2] For the last 20 years I was in possession of a book named Japa Yoga, written by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh whose reference H H Bhakti Vikas Swami [ISKCON Guru] has given in his book “Brahmacharya in Krishna Consciousness” in which the entire process of Japa Yoga the various mantras etc has been given according to one’s Ishta Devata[Chosen Deity]. For many years, I tried to chant certain mantras like Om Namo Narayana, Om Sri Krishnaya namah, Even Hare Krishna Mahamantra etc but found that after a while, I could not concentrate on the mantra, nor keep up the chanting. After this I ran a search on the internet, because the name of the press that had printed Swami Sivananda’s book intrigued me which is: 

The "Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy" Press, Shivananda Nagar, Rishikesh" !

This search http://www.sivanandaonline.org & http://dlshq.org resulted in free PDF book downloads of Swami Sivananda’s works on various branches of Yoga like Karma, Kriya, Raja Yoga, Jnana & Bhakti Yoga Etc. Till date Swami Sivananda has written over 635 books from 1936-1964. His life history is a treat to be read & cherished like Srila Prabhupada’s. The search also yielded, information about, a 2 months residential, Basic Yoga Vedanta course conducted at the above academy at Sivananda Ashram Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India for which I instantly downloaded the application form and prospectus and applied immediately for this course. 

In the application form submitted, a 500 worded letter, had to be enclosed to the registrar of the academy stating my spiritual back grounds, future actions and purpose of doing the course, for which I quoted that I had read over 100 times Bhagavad Gita “As It Is” written by His Divine Grace Srila A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada from 1995 and had completely obtained disillusionment from materialistic Life, being Liberated in the impersonal conception of the truth very well knowing that one’s own body is not one’s and that I planned on continuing my work further and be an asset to the poor the needy & suffering. My admission to the course was confirmed by the academy & I was very jubilant as the course involved study of Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Upanishads, Yoga Asanas, Karma Yoga etc and moreover it was free for 2 Months[Three Meals a Day & boarding Lodging] at a splendid place like Rishikesh.

In between, I was listening, to certain audio discourses of spiritual guru’s on world space satellite radio, where one Guru named "Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev", Founder of Isha Foundation Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu State, India was talking about spirituality as a science & by taking to Kriya yoga how he had attained Enlightenment and his talks were very logical akin to Buddhists. He was giving accurate descriptions of how one can find one’s guru, the symptoms, etc which were all very logical & seemed genuine and moreover he had a mesmerizing voice. He was saying that whatever he had attained had come to him by meditation & sadhana and not by any scriptural reading, He has till date not read the Bhagavad Gita nor does he accept Lord Sri Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Sadhguru's devastating logic was impeccable: "When Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna over 5000 years ago, Arjuna did not have a I-pod to record the whole conversation and are we hearing it now from Krishna's mouth. In 5000 years Krishna's message could have been distorted, as before elections, school texts books are changed".

Why do people want Rama Rajya for India. Don't they see how much suffering and pain Rama underwent in his own life. Does any women at present would like to have a man like Rama as their husband so that she is kidnapped by Ravana and has to give proof of her chastity by passing through fire.

Sadhguru is a follower of Saivism+Sakthism+Shunyavada & has erected a 13.5’ Dhyanalinga, the only Siva Linga for meditative purposes in the whole world which has all the seven chakras activated akin to human body and locked to prevent energy dissipation for the next 5000 years. 

I decided to give this Sadhguru a shot as he was offering something more than what Bhagavad Gita offered, even though my faith in Bhagavad Gita was intact then & further enhanced now, I enrolled for his basic program [ donation Rs 1500/- with sunday lunch after initiation] called the 7 day Inner Engineering program as he was laying too much emphasis on experiencing the truth 1^st hand than reading it from scripture. This 7 day program is held in almost all major parts of the India & also in the USA. 

The program went off good with sadhguru’s trained teachers imparting an ancient kriya yoga process called shambhavi mahamudra & sadhguru himself initiating us into the shambhavi via video CD. This is a 21 minute a day practice which is aimed at reducing stress strain and reduce sleep quota to just 4 hours a day and has to be done twice for the 1^st forty days and there after once everyday.

This I completed successfully, as it involves simple yoga asana’s and breathing techniques. Before the program concluded, I was introduced to the other higher programs, of Isha Foundation named Bhava Spandana where one is transported to explosive states of meditativeness, and those who had done this program were very much vouching for it. This BSP was scheduled 2 months later at the Isha Yoga Centre, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. However as I was already admitted to Sivananda Ashram Course I could not go.

I did the above only as a preliminary before leaving for Sivananda Ashram. The Basic Yoga Vedanta course went of splendidly at the Sivananda Ashram as it is a true Forest Academy on top of a Hill, with splendid view of the ganges flowing down. Even during the course, in a Indian philosophy class conducted by a professor Dr Kanchana Natarajan, I asked her why was it necessary to read three books like Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, Vedanta Sutra when Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita "As It Is" was sufficient, to which she replied! As to what was the need to even study 18 chapters of Gita, when simply surrendering to Krishna would solve all our problems. She challenged me would I be willing to surrender to Krishna! I simply took this one word from her mouth & returned home successfully having shed 10 kgs weight, due to the heat of summer and the stress of the course.

Every day I was telling my mother that I would simply surrender to Krishna. After this I decided to do the Bhava Spandana Program, of Isha, with just a curiosity as to what it involved as the Isha Foundation Volunteers were praising it too much !

I reached the ashram at Coimbatore & 1^st Hand darshan of Lord Siva’s Dhyanalinga. However I felt a kind of fear/creeps, that I have never felt, in my whole life after reaching this Ashram considering the way it is located so away from the main city. My 3^rd eye told me, that something was definitely wrong at that place and with people. I wanted to leave this place as early as possible. I felt that this Ashram was definitely for those in the mode of darkness/ignorance. It was so different and completely opposite to the Sivananda Ashram.

I felt tremendous energy coming from the Dhyanalinga. Sadhguru says that those who come in the sphere of the DL cannot escape the sowing of the spiritual seed of liberation and this could be true. This place has a 30 feet underground teertha kunda which has a copper tank with 660 kgs floating mercury linga. One can take bath before actually having a darshan of the Dhyanalinga. I having read Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is nearly 100 times and myself being Krishna Bhakta was a little afraid!

The Bhava Spandana Program started and I would not have experienced such a nonsensical program, a pure agony for 3 days, a pure death experience, doing Siva Tandavam, awakening Kundalini Shakti & allied nonsense. Even while talking to the other participants I discussed with them about ISKCON being the best in terms of Bhakti Yoga, and as to how they have over 700 temples world wide. Even in a NDTV Program "We the People in 2005, about spirituality and guru's, one participant had expressed his view via SMS that all the present Guru's were all bogus who were charging money from people for their programs having the best of Life's comforts and talking spirituality to others. He had said that the best form of spirituality was to simply read Bhagavad Gita "As It Is" written by Swami Prabhupada. I had even admired this man and congratulated him for his views which I also felt was the best.

During the nonsense that was happening in the Bhava Spandana Program I even re-collected the above point and immediately thought of Bhakti Vinoda Thakur's face as published in the Bhagavad Gita "As It Is".

On the last day before the program was to end, I had the experience of my life[only intellectually, as I lost interest in the program in between, considering the agony & pain, wishing it to simply end ] Others had it really experientially, as each one was able to experience every other participant in the program as themselves and before closing we all danced happily to the tune of sweet Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. One totally bewildered participant akin to myself asked the brahmachari who had conducted the program as what was the lesson or teaching one had to learn from bhava spandana program, and asked as to which Bhagavad Gita Edition one should read, to which the brahmachari could not answer as he himself did not know anything about Vedanta akin to Sadhguru.

In the common area after the program was over, I answered this participant's question, and asked him to read only Bhagavad Gita "As It Is" written by His Divine Grace Srila A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and to donate all other editions of Bhagavad Gita which he had to some temple or Library.Kindly see, even till this point I had not realized the fact that Srila A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was indeed my guru.

However, the intense physical activity, took its toll and I fell sick and returned home in an absolutely horrible state. I was in hospital for the next 15 days. I was repeatedly thinking, as to how I could go & attend such a nonsensical program and how a person like Sadhguru who himself had not read the Gita, could have created something so stupid and painful. As I was contemplating on this over lunch in a hotel, a poor boy came and asked me to buy him food, I could have said no but something told me otherwise and I asked him to have whatever he wanted. He only had one Dosa and I paid the bill and before I could speak to the boy, the boy had vanished! It seems Krishna was testing me.

I came home & was surfing Madhuvisa site  when suddenly the realization dawned on me that my spiritual process had indeed started in 1995 from Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita “As It Is” & that I was in vain running after everyone else other than Srila Prabhupada. I had just travelled 5400 kms to hear Hare Krishna Maha Mantra which I could have done so at any ISKCON Temple. I now recollected how in 1995, I was a disgruntled man at a very low point in my career and contemplating on suicide & it was Srila Prabhupada’s Book that had saved the day for me then and in all these 12 years I had forgotten everything being so much engrossed in my work, motorcycle, computer etc.

I immediately decided to visit the local ISKCON Temple. I first saw the Vedic Expo and then when I went inside the temple hall and saw the beautiful deities of Sri Sri Radhaparthasarathi, I was stunned by the beauty and my whole body shivered. This was indeed the real Brahman of the Upanishads. In all these years, Lord Krishna had acted as my "Caitya Guru", without the external spiritual master and had so mercifully withdrawn his Illusionary energy[Maya] over me. I immediately surrendered to their Lord Ships in full intelligence and for the 1^st time attended the evening tulasi & gaura aarti. Also attended Bhagavad Gita class and took Life Membership of ISKCON then and their and for the 1^st time bought tulasi mala & japa bag and started doing japa and started devotional service at home.

In the history of the temple, I have visited it only twice but never have visited their Lord Ships Altars, being just content on purchasing, Bhagavad Gita from the book shop and returning even though I visit the temple locality almost twice a week. Now the question always arises, as to why I had attended the Bhava Spandana Program of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev?

I was so hooked to the temple that I forgot all about Isha etc. When I read the book "The Spiritual Master & The Disciple" obtained with the life membership, 7 months later, I was stunned to realize that the purpose of Bhava Spandana Program was to awaken my Krishna Consciousness, to the transcendental sound vibration & I already had been initiated into the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra on the 4^th Sept 2007, which was Sri Krishna Janmashtami day and had started doing Japa of 16 rounds. I had already been following the 4 regulative principles by themselves even without my knowing.

The above process proves that whatever has been stated in the Sampradaya Sun  in the past, that no formal initiation diksha ceremony is required and that one only needs to be awakened to the transcendental sound vibration in order to get the seed of devotion planted in his heart by the mercy of the spiritual master is correct & true 100%. Diksha given to a Madhyama Adhikari is not a Formality!

Lord Krishna and Srila Prabhupada were both testing me if I would reject them & accept Sadhguru as God. In the whole of his ashram no other photo not even of Lord Siva except that of himself [100% Mayavadi] .They also knew that I would not be willing to go and accept, any guru other than Sadhguru due to intellects. As I have studied sanskrit, self study and understanding Gita, Bhagavatam have never been difficult for me.

Both Lord Krishna and Srila Prabhupada initiated me at such a place which is completely opposite of Vaishnavism i.e Shaivism & Shaktism which only would revive and make my own faith in Vaishnavism more concretized.

In Sadhguru's words; "The Fight is between one man's belief  Vs other man's belief". "A good hindu fights a good muslim, A good jew fights a good nazi, A good indian fights A good Pakistani".

From the movie "Death Train" quote by actor Ted Levine;

"This is not about money. It's about patriotism! I am an American, I love my country, America's lost right now, So we define ourselves by who we hate right! This new world order thing, they can't use that! Once you know who you hate then everything works.

"Similarly a good "vaishnava" fights a good "shaiva" and a very good saktha” ! 

At the same time, Lord Sri Krishna knew, that I would have never taken and undergone any formal initiation ceremony from any Live Guru in my whole life considering all of them to be Bogus. I had to be initiated 1^st without my knowing the same and then given knowledge later and A Guru like Sadhguru who makes fun of Krishna[ Words of Sadhguru in his book “Encounter the Enlightened"] “If a man like Krishna were to appear, and walk amongst us now, he would make all our lives very un-comfortable. Your mother would want to dance with him, your sister would want to chase & play with him. So such a man would be stoned and persecuted and not worshipped now. It was because all this happened over 5000 years ago, you can now worship him as God. If he appeared now you wouldn’t. So your worship is False!

And then asks people to dance to Hare Krishna Maha Mantra would only invoke Bhakti within me and therefore he sent me. The price I paid for initiation in terms of the agony and pain suffered for the 3 days now seem worth it. Had I simply followed Srila Prabhupada's instructions in 1995 when I 1^st read his Bhagavad Gita "As It Is" and started chanting all would have been much easier !

Please note the timing of my initiation also! After I finished the course at Sivananda Ashram! In all these years, I never knew who Mayavadi’s were nor their philosophy even though I had read about it so many times in the Bhagavad Gita “As It Is”. But now I know and hence avoid them. Isha Foundation and Sadhguru are the truest living examples of Mayavada Philosophy!

Even though Sivananda Ashram is based on Sankaracharya tradition it is not a 100% Mayavadi as the founder emphasized Bhakti[He was called sankirtan samrat in early 1930’s] more than Jnana & stressed on Yoga of synthesis. Even now morning aarti for Lord Krishna in vishwanath temple is held at 0600 hrs daily at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India & mahamantra chanting happens 24 hrs a day. The year 2009 would be the 68^thAnniversary of start of 24 Hrs akhanda Maha Mantra Japa in Sivananda Ashram Bhajan Kutir. This is about 2 Kms from Madhuban Rishikesh run by Ex-ISKCON Zonal Acharya, Kirtananda Swami's Disciple Bhakti Pada Maharaj.

So Srila Prabhupada is my vartma pradarsaksha/1^st [knowledge giving] and only diksha Guru[initiating Guru], Swami Sivananda the second shiksha[elevating] Guru, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev the sole & only patha pradarsaksha [One who puts the seeker on the correct track/ school of spirituality] & Ritvik Representative of the Diksha Guru. I first do Guru Pooja of Sadhguru, then Srila Prabhupada & then Swami Sivananda. So no contradiction! Ultimately as Srila Prabhupada has written in his book "The Spiritual Master & the Disciple" that the Siksha Guru who constantly instructs the disciple later on becomes the Diksha Guru of the disciple is 100% correct.

Please note the Achintya Bheda Abheda Philosophy in my Guru’s also. Since Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, acted as a Ritvik-Representative of His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada & Revived my Forgotten Krishna Consciousness & showed me who my actual Guru was and endorsed the spiritual process that was working for me already [ISKCON] he is in one sense my Guru. But in other sense he is not my guru as he simply linked me to the ISKCON Guru Parampara & took me to Srila Prabhupada. Now Srila Prabhupada takes me back to Lord Krishna.

The words of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, "Guru is not somebody whom you meet and shake hands with, It is a certain space, A certain energy field". “You cannot choose your guru, you just deepen the longing to know, the Guru will choose you”. This is completely true in my own case both siksha as well as diksha Guru.

Since, I am celibate till date, and there is no question of marriage for me & as I have very deep appreciation for Lord Chaitanya’s sublime philosophy that he has given us; that even now I sometimes contemplate on taking bhajanandi "Babaji" initiation from his sampradaya. But Srila Prabhupada & Lord Chaitanya themselves have rejected this and said that it is better to be in one’s own position than become a "Babaji" or "Sanyasi" in Kali Yuga.I am regularly praying to Lord Sri Krishna and Srila Prabhupada to send some bonafide Gaudiya Vaishnava Guru and Initiate me as a "Babaji".

Regrettably, I came to know about the sad state of Prabhupada’s ISKCON & its past in July 2009 before Sri Krishna Janmashtami, after seeing ISKCON IRM and further links. Here also I was saved by Lord Krishna & Srila Prabhupada since I learnt this, just before, I had decided to join, the local temple full time, after purchasing my new laptop in which, I am typing this.

Since my 1^st Visit to the Local ISKCON Temple, I myself could see that no inmate of the temple was truly following the 4 regulative principles sincerely[I am not boasting about my being a Uttama Adhikari, I am not!] and all were just passing time in the temple. Till date it seems that the Zonal Acharya regime is continuing in the temple!

I have not associated myself with anybody in the temple and neither will in the future even though I purchase Srila Prabhupada’s Books Pre-1977, in advance and distribute them. It was Krishna’s Plan to keep me engrossed in Maya [Motorcycle, Internet, Work, Computer] deliberately to avoid the ISKCON Local Temple in all these years from 1998- 2006, as other wise I also would have wasted my youth in the service of bogus guru’s. Much damage has happened during this time in ISKCON. It is not that I was unaware of the problems in ISKCON, as previous newspaper articles had shown tremendous sense gratification, criminal activities by ISKCON Guru's and so it was good that I used my Intelligence and avoided the organisation in all these years.

The way my initiation and revival of Krishna consciousness happened, it is completely in tune with the Final Order  of ISKCON IRM 

I am in full agreement with Sri Krishna Kant Desai and Sri Mahesh Raja that Srila Prabhupada is the sole and only Siksha & Diksha Guru for ISKCON for the next 9500 years the time period for which ISKCON is supposed to last on this planet as predicted by Srila Prabhupada himself and Srila Prabhupada is fully available to his genuine and sincere followers via his books and can arrange for their Initiation at the proper time, place, circumstances after testing them.

All the above[Isha Yoga, Sivananda Ashram] was pre-arranged and set for me by both Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krishna in order to test my loyalty towards them! Lord Krishna & Srila Prabhupada tested me and initiated me in such a way, that I need not have any institutional loyalties, to anyone, No annual guru dakshina to any guru, No vyasa pooja and milk feet wash for any Guru. No bogus Re-Initiation, in case of Guru Fall Down! Simply pure Krishna Consciousness with no strings attached.

I wish to thank & bow down at the feet of Sri Puranjana Dasa of http://harekrsna.org & http://krishna1008.blogspot.com in exposing ISKCON's evils and the Bogus Guru's Program, but it seems there is not going to be any respite for any one. I would advise everyone to simply follow Krishna consciousness at home and blend all the 4 Yoga’s for their own growth as per sadhana schedule given by Swami Sivananda in his book "Essence of Yoga"[Downloadable free from [http://dlshq.org] like I am doing even though I fully agree that Sankirtan and Bhakti is the easiest and the most effective.

Anybody wanting to communicate with me can send me an e-mail & I shall respond within 24 hrs.

Hare Krishna!

Swami Aniruddha !

Updated/Added On:11-March-2014.

In 2010, I had sent the above experience of mine to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, requesting himto select a spiritual name and send it by post e-mail or SMS. He has read my letter & request but ignored it till 07-03-2014.

Since January 2014, I was reading the teachings of Bhagawan/Acharya Shree Rajneesh/Osho, and I was amazed, at his philosophical wisdom, and depth on Human Life and his modernviews on Sanyaasa.

On the 8^th March 2014, Lord Krishna and His Divine Grace ACBSP satisfied my long standing quest to take Sanyaasa. I learnt that Bhagawan Rajneesh had instituted this type of Neo-Sanyasa and immediately, I checked a particular name/quality, on the Sanyasa names, givenby Bhagawan and the first name, I chose myself, depicted my Quality of Unobstructed, Unbound, Self Willing. 

My Sanyasa name is now: "Swami Aniruddha" ! It was a coincidence that my Legal name was/is also Anirudh !

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Most of the content has been taken From H H Swami Sivananda’s book “All about Hinduism” Srila Prabhupada’s Books and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Book “Encounter the Enlightened” & “Mystic Musings”

1-His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya’s Achintya Bheda Abheda Philosophy is the Highest and Most Sublime, The Easiest to Understand and Experience and Intellectually It scored 100%. However Srila Prabhupada’s Teachings Had One Flaw!

Swami Prabhupada Words “He Stresses[Canto 5 of Srimad Bhagavatam] So Much On the Concept of Child Suffering in the Mother’s Womb, Hanging Upside Down, Bearing All Types of Filth, Shit, Urine ,Gasping For Breath For 9 Months and When He Comes out he is bitten by mosquitoes and cries when other’s cannot understand what he wants. He is then forced to go to school when he would rather play, and his teachers force him to study subjects which he cannot comprehend. Because one has forgotten how much one has suffered in his/her mother’s womb we never try to find a solution to the problem of birth and death. Generation after generation continues the Same Stereotyped way of Family Existence, Experiencing So Much Difficulty In Exchange of Sex and Money but Still None Aspires for Mukti. The Same Whirlpool Continues!

After saying the above Srila Prabhupada is Saying “That One can indulge in sex only once in a month because Krishna says and for only producing nice children”. Does this make any Sense! Here Mayavadi’s have to be admired and honored as they Say No-Sex! Srila Prabhupada Himself was not a Celibate and fathered 5 Children. So Instead of Blaming Lord Krishna He and His Banana [Male Reproductive Organ] Are Directly Responsible for the sufferings of His 5 Children.

On one point Srila Prabhupada was not correct that he did not leave a dime for his own children from ISKCON Money in his will and His Followers Looted ISKCON Wealth to Live In Comfort and engage in sense gratification for ages and still doing the same. As A Parent Who Produced 5 Children he should have left enough for them also to live in Comfort. My own grand father had 10 daughters, for the Sake of one son all of whom underwent immense suffering in their childhood. 10 kms walk each side to school! For earning Rs 5/- my mother and aunts were demonstrators in exhibitions at the age of 12 and even faced sexual advances by visitors. My Uncle used to go 10 Kms by walk and take the Coat which my grandfather had worn after returning from his office, for my mother and aunt to wear while returning in Winter Nights. See the poverty!

To earn Rs 500/-per month my father worked night shifts under humiliating conditions in a Cement Factory. So can you blame Lord Krishna for these 10 people’s sufferings. In the last days all my un-married aunts-5 , Over 60 years now, All well placed in top jobs and my uncle crucified my Grand Father Giving Him the Title of “Beast In Human Form” for His Heinous acts verbally as well as physically.

I am the only person in the whole world who knows what human suffering is experientially and Intellectually after reading Srila Prabhupada’s Books even though I myself have lead a carefree life till date. After I asked my parents the same Question as To Why They Committed the same blunder by bringing me here, that their own parents had made and what they had learnt from their own suffering, they had no answer and agreed that they had made a mistake. Kindly Refer to the chapter "Ecclesiastes" In the Old Testament of "The Holy Bible".

I can talk all these things as I am a Celibate Till Date. A Married Man With Children Cannot.

On this Point Swami Sivananda Says: “Any One who knows the Magnitude of Human Suffering, Would Never Indulge In Banana Work [Sex] and Dare Forth Bring a Child Into this Miserable World. “More Beggars, More Dacoits & More Robbers are Brought As A Result of Free Banana Work and Lust.”[HHSS Book “How To Get Vairagya”]

Words of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev: “The Biggest Problem in the World at present is excess human population, which nobody wants to address! “When most people cannot be in total control of their own bodies and minds, why they are producing babies and creating more problems in this world”.

“At Least in India it is now a crime to produce a child. People have simply done this because they have nothing else to do. One should think before, If one is capable of giving birth to another being as bringing another being is a tremendous responsibility and should not be done out of compulsiveness or in competitiveness or just for seeking fulfillment and proving their man hood or women hood”

In 1950 the World Population was 1.50 Billion. Now we are at 7 Billion. By 2050 we are going to touch 12 Billion. He Further States “That By The Help of Medical Advancement, We Have Taken Our Own Death In Our Hands, It is High Time That We Take Birth Also In Our Own Hands” “This Increase in Population is Not Divine Plan this is Just Irresponsible Reproduction”. Here I fully agree with Sadhguru and that is why only on this point I sought his Initiation.

Logically It makes no sense to me “That every time a couple, indulge in Banana Work, and the women becomes pregnant, there are souls falling from Brahman or Sri Krishna’s Nitya Leela, seeking to take shelter in a man’s Semen and entering the Womb of The Women and Babies are manufactured. How does this explain Test tube Babies and Synthetic Life? How Does this Explain that When Couples, Both Man and Women Sterilize Themselves, Then They Never Have Children? Prabhupada was asked this Question, As to what will happen, if everybody avoided sex completely. For Which he Replied then the Creation Would End and Everybody would be liberated. This Means Creation is Coming Out of Banana Work or Life is being manufactured out of Chemical Process which defeats his own book “Life Comes From Life”.

Here Buddhism has to be accepted which only believes in Consciousness and Doctrine of Nothingness, Karma and No Soul, No God, No Paap Punya, No Heaven No Hell and only Cause and Effect.[Sadhguru’s]

2- As Said by Western Philosophy Professor, J N Asopaji, A Lecturer at The Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy, Take the Positive and Good aspects of Every Philosophy namely Advaita, Bheda Abheda, Shoonya Vada, Suddadvaita, Achintya Bheda Abheda. In this one has to accept Sri Vallabha’s argument of accepting The Authority of The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, Brahma Sutras, and Bhagvatam. However there is no doubt that if meditation was done then experientially Sankara’s Advaita was the ultimate experience which Swami Sivananda achieved by intense Sadhana, 16 Hrs Meditation a Day for 7 Years.

In My Case I Completely Experienced Lord Chaitanya’s Achintya Bheda Abheda as Every Time, In Sankirtan The Materialist Dust Cleared In My Heart and In the 1^st Reading of Bhagavad Gita “As It Is” in 1995 The Knots In My Heart were slashed with the Weapon of Knowledge and Devotion. I developed complete disgust towards Banana Work.

Whether Sivananda Saw Lord Krishna As the Supreme Person or He Saw Only Bright Light In All is Questionable! Sankaracharya’s philosophy only said that one atman dwells in all and this atman is identical to the supreme atman which is Brahman. He never claimed that I and the Creator are one as other wise why would he have drafted Bhaja Govindam.His followers later misinterpreted this and stated that they and the Creator are one!

As Swami Sivananda Said: “After intense meditation there was a state of Nothingness and then Bright Illumination which is Brahmajyoti. This Confirms Sadhguru’s saying that the entire universe has come out of nothing but this goes against the concept of Vedanta which states that everything has indeed come out from Brahman.

It Seems That Sadhguru’s Experience is In-Complete!

3-Apart From Sankara’s Kevala Advaita philosophy rest of the Philosophy’s were more at giving Solace and Peace in Heart for Comfortable survival here and for running the business of temple builders and not for actual mukti[ Example ISKCON and Their Un-Authorised Guru’s]. Mukti was the Highest in all schools of Vedanta except Sri Krishna Chaitanaya’s Achintya Abheda Bheda where service of God here and after shedding one’s body and going to Goloka Vrindavan was the Highest. Merging one Self in Brahman was considered totally suicidal in this so this philosophy was totally opposed to that of Sankara’s Kevala advaita.

4-Sankara’s Kevala Advaita believed in Jivanmukti[Which is also included in Sri Chaitanya’s Philosophy] while as Chaitanya & Other Vaishnava Philosophies did not. Sankara’s Philosophy that The world is relatively real and not absolutely real is correct. The world is not False! However Sankara’s Philosophy Says that Brahman needs the help of Maya to Create & project the world is not acceptable as Brahman being all powerful can do anything by itself and without any external help or support and it does not need raw materials. By His mere will the world comes into existence this is according to Nimbarka and Vallabaha.

5-Brahman After reading the various philosophies was Indeed Radha & Krishna as Said by Nimbarka Acharya and not impersonal or Nirvishesha Like Sankaracharya’s. This was also confirmed by feeling the presence in ISKCON temples. This was because that Krishna appeared and had Celestial pastimes with Srimati Radharani and without doubt established that he indeed was the Supreme Personality of God Head and the 1^st Person who stood before the creation of the universe. This has also been said By Lord Krishna himself in the 12^th Chapter that he is the basis of the impersonal Brahman and those who worship him in his personal form are considered by him as the most perfect than those who worship the impersonal Brahman.

6-Bhakti according to the school of Nimbarka and Vallabha is the best which combine both Knowledge and Devotion lead To Release. Prapatti or complete self surrender to Lord Krishna is the way to release. Brahman showers his grace on his devotees who make complete self surrender. It is Brahman’s grace that generates devotion in them which results in God Realization.

7-Bhakti Involves knowledge of Brahman, nature of the Jiva and the Brahman’s illusionary power of Maya. Salvation is attained by real knowledge and true devotion Bhakti. Real knowledge and true devotion leads to total self surrender to the Lord. The Individual self retains it’s individuality with reference to divine enjoyment but it’s will is subservient to that of Brahman. The individuality of the soul is not dissolved even in the state of Moksha or the final emanicipation, This is According to Sri Nimbarka which Works For Me.

8-Salvation- A state of Full Awareness of Identity with the Lord,according to Nimbarka. Brahman is revealed to the liberated soul in its pristine glory but not in the form of Deity. The soul realizes itself now as an inseparable part of Brahman. It no longer feels that it is separate or distinct individual as it felt in bondage. It abides in the glory of it’s own true self which is Brahman Itself. It is in full awareness or consciousness of being one with the Lord. It will not return to the world. It is freed from the rounds of birth and deaths. As it is in union with Brahman it attains the same status as that of Brahman but it has no power over creation preservation and dissolution of the world.

9- The four kinds of Bhakti according To Sri Vallabha.

This Pushti-Bhakti is of four kinds: (i) Pravaha Pushti-Bhakti, (ii) Maryada Pushti-Bhakti, (iii) Pushti Pushti-Bhakti and (iv) Suddha Pushti-Bhakti.

Pravaha Bhakti is the path of those who while leading the worldly life, perform works which will lead to the attainment of God-realisation.Worldly life is compared to the flow of a river (Pravaha). Maryada Bhakti is the path of those who are rendered fit to attain knowledge which is useful for worship, through the grace of the Lord. They know all about the ways of God. They depend upon their own efforts to obtain knowledge. In Pushti Bhakti, the devotees lead a life of self-restraint. They hear discourses about the Lord. They do Kirtana and sing His Name. They do Japa of Mantra.

Suddha Pushti-Bhakti or the Purest Type of Devotion

In Suddha Pushti-Bhakti, the devotees do Kirtana and sing the Lord’s Name. They praise God. They develop a strong passion for doing these. This kind of devotion is generated by the Lord Himself. The Lord’s grace descends on the devotees. Then they develop a liking for God. This liking grows into Prema Bhakti (taste for God). The devotees acquire knowledge about God. Then they get attachment to God (Asakti). Then they develop a strong passion for attaining God. This is the ripe condition of love and Asakti. It is called Vyasana. This strong passion, or Vyasana, leads to the attainment of the highest bliss, the summum bonum or the end. When love for Sri Krishna becomes intense, the devotee sees Lord Krishna everywhere. Hence everything becomes an object of love for him. He identifies himself with everything. The Gopis had this experience. They saw Krishna everywhere. They saw themselves also as Krishna.

This is Para Bhakti or supreme devotion which becomes akin to the knowledge or Brahman-Jnana of the Vedantins or Jnanis. The inner and outer world is full of Krishna or Purushottama for such devotees. The fruit of this devotion is admission to the eternal sports or Lilas of Sri Krishna. The supreme goal is not Mukti or emancipation. The highest goal is eternal service of Lord Krishna and participation in His sports in the celestial Vrindavana. Those who have developed Vyasana, or strong passion for God, reject with scorn the four kinds of Mukti. The Maryada-Bhaktas attain Sayujya Mukti, i.e., they become one with Sri Krishna. The Pushti-Bhaktas reject Mukti and take part in the sports or Lilas of Sri Krishna. They choose with intense delight the eternal service of Sri Krishna. The Bhaktas assume the forms of cows, birds, trees and rivers and enjoy the company of Sri Krishna, which bestows infinite joy. These sports are similar to those which Sri Krishna did in Vraja and Vrindavana. Some of the devotees become Gopas and Gopis and join the sports in the celestial Vrindavana.

Different Kinds of Liberated Souls:

The liberated souls are of different kinds. Some have freed themselves like Sanaka. Some dwell in the city of God and attain salvation through the grace of the Lord. Some others develop perfect love and become the associates of God.

10- According to Lord Gauranga sankirtan of the holy name is the supreme healer to overcome the forces of Materialism, Sex, and other evils in kali-yuga. This is 100% experiential and true. A true devotee of Lord Krishna always communes with Lord Krishna, No mundane Sorrow or affliction can perturb his mind. He has no attraction for earthly objects. He has no fear. He never cares for material success. He intensely longs for union with lord Krishna. Love of Krishna is the highest thing worth attaining. Bhakti is the means of attachment. Krishna-prema is, indeed, the highest achievement of life. This Prema makes the devotees serve Krishna in a selfless spirit and enjoy the Rasa or sweetness of the Lord. Bhakti is the only means of attaining Krishna and is, therefore, spoken of as Avidhaya or means. Just as wealth gives comforts, and with the enjoyment of comforts all worldly miseries disappear of their own accord, so also, Bhakti generates Krishna-prema, and with the enjoyment of Prema, the cycle of births and deaths comes to an end. Escape from the effects of privations and the stoppage of rebirths are not, however, the fruits of Prema. Beatitude or Moksha is Prema’s handmaid.Therefore, this Krishna-prema is regarded as the supreme attainment.

OTHER TEACHINGS OF SRI CHAITANYA

Veneration for the preceptor is a fundamental feature of Sri Chaitanya’s teachings. Study of the Vedas, the Bhagavata Purana, etc., is inculcated. Practice of ethics and development of ethical virtues such as mercy towards all creatures, humility, purity of heart, freedom from mundane desires, serenity and truthfulness are essential. The distinctions of caste have to be ignored. Anyone can obtain the grace of the Lord.

The following qualities makes a Vaishnava. He is compassionate, truthful, saintly, innocent, charitable, gentle, pure, spiteless, humble, serene, tender, friendly and silent. He is a universal benefactor. He solely depends upon Lord Krishna. He is desireless. He is abstemious in diet and self-controlled. He has mastery over the six enemies. He honours others and does not care for honour from others.

Sankirtana—The Supreme Healer

The supreme healer in this iron age is Sankirtana of the Name. It is equivalent to the Vedic sacrifice. The true sacrifice is rewarded with Krishna’s feet. Sankirtana enables you to conquer sin and the world. It creates purity of soul and all kinds of Bhakti. It is not restricted to a particular place or time. It works everywhere. It bears the name of Sarva-sakti (omnipotence).

Hari’s Name should always be chanted by him who must be humbler than a blade of grass (which is trodden upon); who is more patient, forbearing and charitable than a tree (which does not cry out even when it is cut down and which does not beg for water even when scorched to death, but on the contrary, offers its treasure to whosoever seeks it, bears the sun and rain itself, but protects those who take shelter under it from rain and sunshine); who, however worthy of esteem should, instead of claiming respect for himself, give respect to all (from a sense of God’s immanency in all beings). He who thus takes Krishna’s Name gets Divine Love (Prema).

Sadhguru’s Sakti Yoga[Saivism+Shaktism] philosophy was Just another form of Advaita Vedanta and was a very circuitous process in terms of realisation of the nature of the ultimate truth by doing Sadhana using the process of Shambhavi Maha Mudra and Shakti chalana kriya. His yoga at the most could give good disease free health, and efficiency but could not solve the basic problems of birth, disease, hard labour, effects of materialism, death, rebirth and the same nonsense of notebook, copy, kitab, flute, table, tuition, job, income tax, house, Bills etc. All these could only be tackled through Krishna consciousness and Swami Sivananda’s Vedanta by cultivating one's intelligence in a different way!

As Far as Charity was Concerned It should be done keeping in mind the place and circumstances of the situation and whether if the charity was given for a worthy cause or not. In My view the only people deserving Charity was Sivananda Ashram and The Divine Life Society as they were not at all Money Minded. Which Organisation At Present Would conduct a Two Months Free course with boarding and lodging as they were really doing Human welfare and relief Work as well as Worshipping Lord Vishwanath.

ISKCON never believed in any Human Welfare and Charitable work and only accepted book distribution and Temple Building as the Pillars by giving knowledge to people through Bhakti Vedanta. Even in the case of their own devotees they were totally unhelpful and despite so many devotees doing so much for ISKCON in terms of Book Distribution, If for one day a devotee fell ill or could not come they did not even have the courtesy of asking him why he did not come and what went wrong. Their Moto was just serve us blindly and do not ask anything in return.

Sadhguru has judged these people very correctly stating that so much Vedic Chanting and Bhagavad Gita chanting had made people in the name of Divinity forget even their basic humanity and In terms of Inner Transformation there was none.

After Caitanya Dasa’s bitter Experience with ISKCON People it was the best to avoid ISKCON In Future as they like Sadhguru were adept at washing People’s Brains. Also the Guru Maharaj’s were all Rascals & Criminals in Uniform Travelling in the Garb of Sages.

The best was not to Give any charity to any organization as such and help the poorest of people [who do not even have toilets to shit] by providing them with things which they did not have and were in need of making sure that the money was indeed properly utilized. The Main Point To Note was That All those who were preaching Vedanta were themselves living a Supremely Luxurious life[ISKCON Guru’s] for themselves and were not denying themselves any modern comfort like Mobile Phone, AC, Cars, Laptops, Rolex watches etc, Like ISKCON Guru’s & Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev using a Huge Big SUV for his transportation{I am myself till date using a Bi-cycle following Prabhupada Simple Living & High Thinking] and saying that he needed this as he had to travel the interior of the villages and he himself dressing In Modern Jeans and Pants and Denim shirt. Hence charity to these organizations [Isha+ISKCON] was also a hoax. These people had not renounced anything!

The above has been written so that each individual uses and Cultivates His/Her Intelligence Properly and Acts Sensibly In Life, Before hand thinking about the consequences of their actions in terms of additional work involved, Time Expense, Money Expense, Hassles, and their own capabilities without any competition with any one. Do not become a Fanatic and Violent and a blind follower of any one school of thought. I.E “If Somebody Blasphemes Lord Krishna and The Vaishnavas One Should Kill The Blasphemers On the Spot & Then Land Themselves In Jail For Their Whole Life. This Mentality Ruined ISKCON that everything is Krishna’s Plan. We can kill for Krishna, Rob For Krishna, Cheat For Krishna, Molest Innocent Children For Krishna.

My Biggest Test In Spirituality was Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and His Mesmerizing False Logical Talk and Bhava Spandana, But Still I Retained My Own Thinking and 100% Faith in Srila Prabhupada's Teachings. At The Same Time I did not Fall Prey to the Bogus Guru Program in ISKCON. Do not base and run your life on what some Scripture or God Said 5236 years back as if the Same thing has come to us 100% Pure now.

Test Everything and See If It Works For You. If It Works then Give to Everybody. On No Account Give up your Individuality and Fall Prey and Hand over Your Hard Earned Cash or Time and Energy to any live person claiming to be God or his representative no matter how genuine he might seem in the name of Service To Krishna, As All are Exploiters.

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