Tava Pache Pache

After-words to the Nectar of Instruction

by Hanumatpresaka Swami
(Huber Hutchin Robinson)

ANJANA SUTA ACADEMY

www.JayaRama.US
(rev. 091217)

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PREFACE............................................................................................................................................5
SEMESTER ONE................................................................................................................................6
STEP ONE: NOI PREFACE.............................................................................................................6
STEP TWO: NOI Texts 1-3 - Control Your Senses.........................................................................8
Text 1...........................................................................................................................................8
Text 2.........................................................................................................................................10
Text 3.........................................................................................................................................12
STEP THREE: Isopanisad 1-6 - Simple Living, High Thinking...................................................15
TPP ISOPANISAD INTRODUCTION........................................................................................15
TRANSLITERATION OVERVIEW........................................................................................15
ISO - Translations......................................................................................................................17
ISO - Word-for-Word Translations...........................................................................................19
TRANSLATION OVERVIEW.................................................................................................21
ISOPANISHAD TEXT BY TEXT................................................................................................22
Introduction................................................................................................................................22
Invocation..................................................................................................................................25
Text 1.........................................................................................................................................25
Text 2.........................................................................................................................................25
Text 3.........................................................................................................................................25
Text 4.........................................................................................................................................26
Text 5.........................................................................................................................................26
Text 6.........................................................................................................................................27
STEP FOUR: NOI 4-6 & ISO 7-11 - Associate with Devotees....................................................28
NOI Texts 4-6................................................................................................................................28
Text 4.........................................................................................................................................28
Text 5.........................................................................................................................................29
Text 6.........................................................................................................................................30
ISOPANISHAD Texts 7-11..........................................................................................................31
Text 7.........................................................................................................................................31
Text 8.........................................................................................................................................31
Text 9.........................................................................................................................................31
Text 10.......................................................................................................................................32
Text 11.......................................................................................................................................32
STEP FIVE: NOI 7-8 - Back to the Process & NOI 9-11 - Radharani and Radha-Kunda........34
NOI 7-8 - Back to the Process....................................................................................................34
Text 7.........................................................................................................................................34
Text 8.........................................................................................................................................35
Texts 9-11 - Spiritual Geography..................................................................................................36
Text 9.........................................................................................................................................37
Text 10.......................................................................................................................................37
Text 11.......................................................................................................................................37
STEP SIX: ISO 12-18.......................................................................................................................39
Text 12.......................................................................................................................................39
Text 13.......................................................................................................................................39
Text 14.......................................................................................................................................39
Text 15.......................................................................................................................................40
Text 16.......................................................................................................................................40
Text 17.......................................................................................................................................40
Text 18.......................................................................................................................................41

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STEP SEVEN: LOB Introduction, VAD & Texts 1-6.....................................................................42
Two Steps Backward.....................................................................................................................42
One Step Sideways........................................................................................................................43
LOB – Table of Contents...............................................................................................................44
LOB – Index..................................................................................................................................46
VAD Sample..................................................................................................................................47
Texts 19 & 31............................................................................................................................47
Text 34.......................................................................................................................................47
Texts 17 & 32............................................................................................................................47
Text 9.........................................................................................................................................47
Texts 1-6........................................................................................................................................48
Text One....................................................................................................................................48
Text Two....................................................................................................................................49
Text Three..................................................................................................................................49
Text Four...................................................................................................................................49
Text Five....................................................................................................................................49
Text Six......................................................................................................................................49
STEP EIGHT: LOB 7-21 & BG Overview 1-6..............................................................................50
LOB Text Seven – Twenty-One....................................................................................................50
Text Seven.................................................................................................................................50
Text Eight..................................................................................................................................50
Text Ten.....................................................................................................................................50
Text Eleven................................................................................................................................50
Text Twelve...............................................................................................................................51
Text Thirteen.............................................................................................................................51
Text Fourteen.............................................................................................................................51
Text Sixteen...............................................................................................................................51
Text Seventeen...........................................................................................................................51
Text Eighteen.............................................................................................................................52
Text Twenty...............................................................................................................................52
Text Twenty-One.......................................................................................................................52
BG1-6 Overview............................................................................................................................53
BHAGAVAD GITA 18.66........................................................................................................53
Chapter One - Setting the Scene................................................................................................54
Chapter Two - Contents of the Gita Summarized......................................................................55
Chapter Three - Karma-Yoga....................................................................................................56
Chapter Four - Transcendental Knowledge...............................................................................57
Chapter Five - Karma-Yoga -- Action in Krsna Consciousness................................................59
Chapter Six - Dhyana-yoga (Meditation-yoga).........................................................................59
STEP NINE: LOB 22-36 & BG Overview 7-12.............................................................................62
LOB 22-36.....................................................................................................................................62
TEXT 22....................................................................................................................................62
TEXT 23....................................................................................................................................62
TEXT 24....................................................................................................................................63
TEXT 25....................................................................................................................................63
TEXT 26....................................................................................................................................63
TEXT 27....................................................................................................................................64
TEXT 28....................................................................................................................................64
TEXT 29....................................................................................................................................64
TEXT 30....................................................................................................................................64

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 TEXT 31....................................................................................................................................65
TEXT 32....................................................................................................................................65
TEXT 33....................................................................................................................................65
TEXT 34 & 35...........................................................................................................................65
TEXT 36....................................................................................................................................66
BG 7-12.........................................................................................................................................67
CHAPTER 7..............................................................................................................................67
CHAPTER 8..............................................................................................................................69
CHAPTER 9..............................................................................................................................70
CHAPTER 10............................................................................................................................72
CHAPTER 11............................................................................................................................73
CHAPTER 12............................................................................................................................73
STEP TEN: LOB 37-48 & BG Overview 13-18...........................................................................75
LOB 37-48.....................................................................................................................................75
TEXT 37....................................................................................................................................75
TEXT 38....................................................................................................................................75
TEXT 39....................................................................................................................................76
TEXT 40....................................................................................................................................76
TEXT 41....................................................................................................................................76
TEXT 42....................................................................................................................................76
TEXT 43....................................................................................................................................77
TEXT 44....................................................................................................................................77
TEXT 45....................................................................................................................................77
TEXT 45....................................................................................................................................77
TEXT 46....................................................................................................................................77
TEXT 47....................................................................................................................................78
TEXT 48....................................................................................................................................78
BG Overview 13-18.......................................................................................................................79
CHAPTER 13............................................................................................................................79
CHAPTER 14............................................................................................................................79
Chapter 15..................................................................................................................................80
Chapter 16..................................................................................................................................80
CHAPTER 17............................................................................................................................81
CHAPTER 18............................................................................................................................81
EVALUATION for SEMESTER ONE.............................................................................................84
Basic Goals:...................................................................................................................................84
Summary of the Books:.................................................................................................................84
Memory – Specfic Verses:.............................................................................................................84
Memory – Sanskrit Terms, Facts & Concepts...............................................................................85
SECOND SEMESTER......................................................................................................................89
Semester Two Calendar.................................................................................................................89
Bhagavad Gita Chapters 1-6..........................................................................................................90
Chapter One...............................................................................................................................90
Chapter Two..............................................................................................................................94
Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Three...............................................................................................102
Bhagavad-gita Chapter Four....................................................................................................104
Bhagavad-gita Chapter Five....................................................................................................109
Bagavad-gita Chapter Six........................................................................................................111
Nectar of Devotion 1.1................................................................................................................113
EVALUATIONS FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER.................................................................121

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PREFACE
After looking for a long time, in His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhhupada,
Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), we have
found a professor in whom we can trust absolutely. Placing ourselves as street dogs running in the
dust behind his lotus-feet we write these After Words to his Nectar of Instruction which is an
authorized English presentation of Srila Rupa Goswami's 15th century classic, Upadesamrta. We
will go through the NOI Text by Text adding our humble words. It will be divided into Walks and
the Steps that make up those Walks.

We are putting the NOI at the center of our entire Anjana Suta Academy, American Bhagavata
Curriculum. We want our American Bhagavata Curriculum (ABC) to be acceptable both for
certificates in ISKCON as well as our wider academic organization, NIOS. Our ABC aspires to
progress from Kindergarten, to Doctor of Literature and even beyond. However, let us start this
first Text by Text read-through in terms of the ISKCON Bhakti-sastri certificate. This certificate is
equivalent to a High School or Secondary School Diploma, and is generally required for all
candidates for Second Initiation in ISKCON.

After this we will go through again for the ISKCON Bhakti-vaibhava, Bachelor’s Degree,
certificate. This is generally required for all candidates for Sannyasa initiation. There is so much to
learn.

We expect this ‘Tava Pache Pache’ to go through many subsequent editions as we run behind Srila
Prabhupada becoming wiser and wiser.

This TPP will prepare you to pass the ISKCON Bhakti-sastri examination.

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SEMESTER ONE
STEP ONE: NOI PREFACE.
When we get to Bhakti-vaibhava we will comment upon things that occur even before the Preface,
but now let's jump right into the Preface. Our first Walk will be from Vrndavana to Mathura. This
will be Bhakti Sastri Semester One (of Four).

In the Preface to a book we find:

The purpose of the book,
The circumstances under which it is being produced,
The qualifications of the author and
Those expected of the reader.

The Introduction to a book on the other hand introduces the actual material in the book. The
Preface to the NOI is short so we find both the Preface and the Introduction in the same section.
What does it introduce? ... ... It introduces the content of Text One, we must control our senses.

Practical Note - Our paragraph references are from the 1975 BBT Australia edition.

Of course, at the Bhakti-vaibhava level, these After-words will go deeper into this Preface. At this
Bhakti-sastri level let us just say a few things about what to look for in the Preface. The first thing
we see is our purpose in our Bhakti-sastri study -- to become qualified to help Lord Caitanya in His
mission by eagerly studying the literatures of the six Goswamis. We learn to teach.

But how shall we learn? We can see that Srila Prabhupada mentions a disciplic succession in the
Preface. The elements of knowledge are coming down to us from a person who knows. How many
personalities are mentioned?
Lord Krsna
Srimati Radharani
Lord Caitanya
Rupa Goswami
Six Goswamis
Narottama Das Thakura
Gaudiya-vaisnavas
Us (being Srila Prabhupada and those who want to become Goswamis and then pure devotees of
Lord Krsna).
There is so much more in the Preface. What other things do you find? For sure, at this point we
should add the Sad-goswami-astaka, "Krishnotkirtana-gana-nartana..." to our ABC Song Book for
our Bhakti-sastri Examination.

Practical Note: As of this edition the songs are at:

www.jayarama.us/archives/abc-song-book.doc
The Examination is at the end of each TPP section (semester, daily Parikrama).

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At Bhakti-sastri (BS) we should be able to follow it from memory and by Bhakti-vaibhava (BVB)
we should be able to lead it from memory. Stop and sing it now!

Prabhupada also glorifies the Upadesamrta by putting it on the same level as the Siksastaka of Lord
Caitanya. Such a high praise. Let us memorize Texts One and Three from the Siksastaka for BS
because those are the two Texts that Prabhupada cites in the NOI. The Siksastaka is available at
Caitanya-caritamrta Antya-lila, Chapter-twenty (CC 3.20)

Finally, Prabhupada mentions other works by Rupa Goswami. On this basis we form the spine of
our ABC curriculum: Upadesamrta, Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu and Vidagdha and Lalita-madhava.
We might call it Rupa-siksa, Instructions of Rupa Goswami.

Brain Work (If you have one. (Otherwise learn it by heart.)).

1. Summarize the Preface
2. True or False (T/F) and explain: Love is above the law. Therefore since I chant Hare Krsna on
my harmonium when I am inspired and keep a picture of a great devotee on the wall and am
developing "advanced mellows of spiritual love" I don't have to stop smoking, drinking or
fornication with Susan.
3. What other questions does the Preface inspire?

ASSOCIATION, PROCESS, CONTENT

Practical Note: Srila Prabhupada says here that Krsna Consciousness is a science, and we will see
that it has three aspects: Content, Process and Association. By attending morning and evening
classes in our ISKCON Temples we learn the content of Srimad Bhagavatam and Bhagavad gita.
In other words, Associate with devotees of ISKCON, especially the Founder Acharya, in a regular
daily Process and learn the Content of his books.
As we are writing this Tava Pache Pache (TPP (We love acronyms. (And compound parenthetical
phrases. (Maybe more than Kant.)))) our Association is with NIOS, our Peruvian Bhakti-sastri team
(VEDAS), and five of our own individual Students.

This is the most important thing that you should learn. How to get Associates in your studies. If you
learn that then it is easy to fix processes, calendars and so forth. Then learning content becomes
very easy.

So, we are writing this TPP to the end of our Isopanisad study, and then we will present it to our
five Students at the start of the Semester, 11 March 2009, to see how they think we should schedule
the work.

Basically, our BS curriculum in designed for two years, take you time, digest your food. Maybe
follow your local school schedule, nine months of work then three months of vacation.

That’s four Semesters:

1) Isopanishad and Bhagavad Gita (Overview) / Light of the Bhagavata and Nectar of Instruction
(First Pass);
2) Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 1-6) and Nectar of Devotion (Eastern part, first Wave);
3) Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 7-12) and Nectar of Devotion (Eastern part, second Wave);
4) Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 13-18) and Nectar of Devotion (third and fourth Wave)

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STEP TWO: NOI Texts 1-3 - Control Your Senses

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Text 1
This first Text says that we must control our senses by engaging them in the service of the master
of the senses, Krsna, Hrsikesa. Then Texts Two and Three give six things that will make it hard and
six things that will make it easy. So we can look at Texts One-Three as a unit.

The Purport to Text One is basically divided into two parts as are the other Purports. The first part
is Srila Prabhupada's purport and the second part is his summary of Srila Bhakti-siddhanta
Sarasvati's Anuvrtti. The Anuvrtti is Srila Bhakti-siddhanta Sarasvati's commentary on NOI. We
have a book published by Srila Narayana Maharaja which includes the complete Anuvrtti of Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada.

We count nineteen paragraphs in the Purport.

Paragraphs One -Three paragraphs Srila Prabhupada discuss the general principle of Vegam --
pushes by the senses, and their chief, the mind. In BVB we might see the same thing in the Nectar
of Devotion. Now just read this carefully.

Note that numbering paragraphs and generating a highlighted copy of Srila Prabhupada’s book is
an essential part of our Process. We can use it again and again. We take Vedic education as spiral.
We are going to read all these books again and again, but each time higher, higher. Maybe you
even want to print a full-sized copy of these books in Word for easier reading and Annotating.

(Monkey/Piggy – Hanumatpresaka Swami is a genious!)

In BVB we will also look at the original Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 6, Chapter 1 texts cited here in
NOI 1. There we will find more details of this discussion about Vegam. We have to learn this in

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detail to see how it applies under different circumstances both in our lives and the lives of our
students.

In Paragraph Four, Srila Prabhupada starts to elucidate each Vegam one after another. Is there one
paragraph for each Vegam? Highlight! See bright!

Paragraph Nine comes to the conclusion of the Text, become Guru. Has Srila Prabhupada
elucidated the details of each Vegam sufficiently in the Purport so that we can understand what is
required to be "fully practiced in the methods of Krsna conscious control"? Do we have a detailed
standard here to exam ourselves and others to see if we are ready to accept disciples all over the
world?
In Paragraph Ten Srila Prabhupada starts to summarize the Anuvrtti of Srila Prabhupada
Bhaktisiddhanta. We are so fortunate to come in contact with this Parampara, disciplic succesion.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta divides the six pushes into three groups. What are these? Prabhupada
discusses them in one paragraph after another. For Mano-vegam we find a further division into two
categories. Have you applied this -- You are about to go to the bank to make a deposit for the
Temple and then someone tells you to stop and help unload a shipment of wax that just arrived for
the candle factory. You become angry, virodha-yukta-krodha, but then you remember NOI and
your intelligence tells your mind, "Calm down. Give up your attachment (avirodha-priti) to this
plan. We can go to the bank later", and you are free from the push of anger.
In paragraph three is the Siksastaka phrase we have to memorize, "Trnad api...". We should also
memorize the song by Bhaktivnode Thakura in paragraph eleven, "Sarira avidya jala...". This may
be the only Mantra we remember at the time of death (Haw. Haw. Haw!). In BVB we will
memorize the song by Jagadananda Pandita in paragraph eleven.
Paragraph sixteen is again the conclusion, become Goswami. Men may take the formal title and
ashrama of sannyasa but ladies, children, grhasthas, everyone must become a Goswami in fact.

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Text 2
Now we will see six things that will make it difficult to perform Text One, engage the senses in the
service of the Master of the Senses, Hrsikesa.
(What is the relevance of SB 2.8.21 to this Text?)
Of the six faults, we see that Srila Prabhupada focuses again and again on atyahara, over-collecting
or over eating.
We count twenty-four paragraphs in Text Two. In Paragraph One Srila Prabhupada starts with a
very universal statement of the purpose of human life, high thinking and simple living. He declares
this again later in the Text. We should use this essential slogan again and again, print banners with
it.

Then we see he goes back to Vegam, we are all pushed to work, but how?
There is a detiled scientific answer in Paragraphs One to Four by explaining the bahir-anga-shakti,
external energy:
What is this bahir-anga-shakti.
How it push us through the three sufferings.
The maha-atmas and the dura-atmas as members of the superior or inferior shaktis.
In paragraph five we see the main Klesa, Vegam or push. What is it? Birth, death, disease and old-
age.
Fear of these pushes us to work.
We will find the same things explained in more detail in Nectar of Devotion (NOD). It’s a science.

Paragraph Six passes from Atyahara to Prayasas, over-endeavor. Prayasas is need for Atyahara,
over-collecting. Basically from Paragraph One to Ten Prabhupada is discussing Atyahara and
Prayasas. Paragraph 11 discusses Prajalpa, gossip. Paragraph Twelve discusses Jana-sanga, bad
association, and specifically introduces ISKCON as good association.

The Anuvrtti section begins in Paragraph Fourteen and it also emphasizes Atyahara with the
exception of Paragraph 16 wherein Srila Prabhupada gives detailed description of Niyama-agraha.
What rules and regulations does he emphasize in Paragraph 14? Fasting, even from water, on
Ekadasi is Niyama-agraha?
Paragraph 17 is Jana-sanga, bad association, but this boils down to associating with people who are
greedy, Laulyam, for mundane things, and thus Prayasa, endeavor for, and accumulating, too many
things.

Finally, in the last paragraphs, 23 and 24, Srila Prabhupada again emphasizes ISKCON as:
Good association for scientific training, Varna-ashrama-dharma, with
The goal to obtain Mukti, liberation, as necessary to
Serve Krsna in Vrndavana.

ISKCON Ki Jai!

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On the way to Paragraph 23 we see the analogy of the Cobbler beaten by shoes and the $100 lying
in the street. These are so simple but if you repeat these in your classes, encounters, then you will
see that the words of the Acharya have special effect.

Also, also, also, Srila Prabhupada quotes the first Text of Isopanishad in Paragraph 21. In general,
this NOI Text Two is G-R-E-A-T for teaching in economics classes and so forth. We really have
fundamental content and direction to offer even Nobel Laureates in economics. Furthermore, in
Paragraph 22 we find an allusion to the Invocation mantra of Isopanishad, "by the complete
arrangement of the Lord". Our perspective is that economically this world is complete and
everyone has a quota -- Invocation and Text One of the Isopanishad.

O.K. Tha, tha, thats all folks!

Is O.K. our After Words?
Do you see that numbering the paragraphs and highlighting the text is essential?
Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!
Let us join the dances of Radha-Shyama.

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Text 3
We've had six things that will surely prevent us from engaging the senses in the service of the
Master of the Senses, Hrsikesa. Now we see six things that will make it very easy.

Reading and reading Srila Prabhupada's books, listening to lectures, we come to the conclusion that
this text, Text Three is the Upadesamrta text that Srila Prabhupada most often quotes. We must
memorize it. However, although we see Prabhupada paraphrasing the text in English we don't
always see him quoting the Sanskrit.
As often, in his purport to this third text, Srila Prabhupada starts with a summary of the text. He
quotes Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (BRS) 1.1.11. This is Rupa Goswami Prabhupada's precise, precise,
precise definition of what is Uttama-bhakti, pure devotional service. In our Bhakti-sastri Nectar of
Devotion (NOD) study we can go into this Text in great detail. Prabhupada of course quotes it
again and again. Here it is quite appropriate for him to cite it, no? We are talking about the six
things that will guarantee pure devotional service. The word that Srila Prabhupada takes up from
BRS1.1.11 (with enthusiasm) is the word silanam. This means cultivation. So Bhakti, means
action, cultivation.
The relationship between the NOD and NOI is very intimate.

Paragraphs 1-4 develope this idea of cultivation and then 5-11 explain the six favorable things one
after another. In Paragraph 12 we see Srila Prabhupada summarizing all six and starting the
Anuvrtti commentarys.

O.K. Devotional service is Silanam, activity, but what activities? See paragraph two. And which of
these actvities are first (Paragraph three). Paragraph four gives details of from whom to hear, again
specifically mentioning ISKCON!

There are so many details and leads here which we can begin to follow with great delight in the
BVB

Monkey/Piggy: Lordy, Lordy we will die!

HpS: That's the idea, quite your sty, it's time to fly.

Paragraphs 5-7 define enthusiasm. These are practical guides. If you have lost enthusiasm where
can you find it?
Pf 7 gives excellent summary defintion of enthusiasm. You can always find it in your intelligence.
Pf 8 = patience and confidence, Dhairyat and Niscayad.
Pf 9 = Tat-tat-karma... Srila Prabhupada puts the 4-principles and 16-rounds right on the table. If
we don't follow these our progress will be checked...
Pf 10-11 = Finally, and again, give up bad association, and Sato-vrteh follow the example of the
Acharyas. Do you see that Srila Prabhhupada takes the time to list the names of the Six Goswamis
again like in the Preface. He seems to enjoy this very profoundly.

THE FIFTH REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE?

Here he adds another regulative principle: "We require everyone to rise early...".
Let us take a step back and look at this phrase. For us this is one of the most important phrases in
the NOI. We have heard that Srila Prabhupada commented that the only excuse for not comming to
mangala-arati is an inability to crawl.

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Krsna will always reward us for coming to Mangala-arati. In the Krsna book it explains that Krsna
stopped the Rasa-lila when Mangala-arati time came. Also, He was sleeping peacefully embraced
by Srimati Rukmini Devi, but still He got up for Mangala-arati.
Srila Prabhupada lists Mangala-arati, Kirtana, reading Srimad Bhagavatam and so forth. So we take
this as the basic morning program. Recitation of ten-offences to the Holy Names, Siksastakam,
Tulasi prayers, Guru-puja kirtana we take as very nice but optional depending on your other
service; but up and Mangala-arati, Kirtana, 1-1/2 hours before sunrise, Japa and 1-hour class we
take as really essential if we want to chant our rounds properly, follow the four regulative
principles strictly.

Again we will present more ideas about this at the BVB level, but here we are just trying to say that
the NOI is a guide book, a manual, for practically engaging our senses (and our mind and
intelligence) in the service of Krsikesa.

NOTES: Put your alarm clock across the room by the light switch with a glass of water next to it.
Before you go to sleep instruct your intelligence that when the alarm goes off and you stagger
across the room to turn it off, you can't touch it until the light is on. Then after you turn off the
alarm you must force your self to drink the whole glass of water, wash your hands, face and then sit
and chant Japa, Hare Krsna, until time for bath, etc. This works for us. It is our discipline. Now we
are getting up at 2AM for many years and have most or all of our rounds done before Managala
arati. Then Managala-arati is so, so, so intense. Your whole day becomes Mangala, auspicious.
However, it took us a few years to come to this standard so find out what works for you, but at least
up by 4AM five days a week, at least, and on the other days... ... you will suffer.

We see the Anuvrtti beginning in Paragraph 12 and apparently continuing to the Purport’s end,
Paragraph 18. Here there is mention of Atyahara, but it seems that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta is
emphasizing acquistion of Yoga-siddhis, mystical powers, as a real danger in Atyahara. Nowadays,
people don't have that temptation. Nowadays we are tempted by hamburgers and milkshakes, but at
the time of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati people really performed Hatha-yoga and had mystical
powers. In India, even to this day and rarely other places some people do have to be careful of this
aspect of Atyhara, acquiring too many mystical powers.

Monkey and Piggy - Weird.

HpS - Yes, but real for some people.

Besides Utsahan, which of the six favorable principles is emphasized, confidence? Underline the
word in your book.

Also, Srila Prabhupada mentions two citations from Canto Seven, but no one has been able to find
these. In our Anuvrtti translation Srila Bhaktisiddhanta quotes SB 10.2.32-33. This is almost
certainly what they are. We especially mention this, because at BVB or Bhakti-Vedanta level we
should look up each text and read it in its original context.

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Monkey/Piggy: You read the Purports to the bone. That's what Srila Prabhupada suggested;
but you also seem to engage in some mental speculation!
HpS: Yes, we are not presenting this TPP as the commentary of an Uttama-adhikari. We
have doubts about some of our own ideas. We write for our own purification, yours
stimulatiously, to offer real illumination, glorification of Srila Prabhupada's books, to get
your association and criticism!

So, we've finished the first part of the Upadesamrta, Texts One to Three; engage your senses in the
service of the Master of the senses, avoiding and adopting the things that will help or hinder.

Next we go into Sanga, association, the real essential element in sense control, but before that let’s
take a break, have some variety, contrast, go for an excursion to Isopanishad.

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STEP THREE: Isopanisad 1-6 - Simple Living, High Thinking
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.
Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai!
We are sitting in our room in the Temple in Santiago, Chile. It's 6:45 P.M. and we have just
returned with all the devotees from Hari-nama Sankirtana in the Center of Santiago. It was really
great. People smiled, took cookies, chanted. We bought a saffron colored parasol with oriental art
and were swirling it in the procession.

TPP ISOPANISAD INTRODUCTION

ISOPANISAD BEGINS where the material world stops. People are interested in gratifying their
senses in so many ways, with conveyances, carriages, fine bungalows, fine ladies, surrounded by
aristocratic relatives, forever.
Yet it doesn't last and ultimately it doesn't satisfy the soul. So the Vedic literature, the Acharya,
offers a progressive education. The Upanishads are the beginning of that. The Upanishads are from
the four original Vedas. They are like headlines. Srila Prabhupada explains all this, but how can we
get an overview of the Isopanishad?

Let's start by looking at all 18 Texts, their Sanskrit and Translations.

Are you ready?

It takes work. You have to have energy by honoring Prasadam.

TRANSLITERATION OVERVIEW
Om purnam adah purnam idam... Below follows the Sanskrit extract. Chant it (again and again
(with your friends)). Grab them, give them a copy and make them chant with you. They will derive
eternal benefit.

The meter is the same for Texts 1-3. Let's call it meter "A". Text 4 changes to meter "B", 5-7 back
to A and Text 8 seems to fit with meter B except the part at the end, "ibhyah samabhyah" which
seems to hangs over like the branch on a tree! It’s curious. Maybe someday we'll know why.

Then we're running on ghee with meter A again for Texts 9-15, but Text 16 is not metter A or B.
It’s not even broken into couplets. Maybe it is prose.
Text 17 is meter A and Text 18 is meter B.

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 ye 'vidyam upasate
ISO - Transliterations tato bhuya iva te tamo
Invocation ya u vidyayam ratah
om purnam adah purnam idam
purnat purnam udacyate 10. anyad evahur vidyaya
purnasya purnam adaya anyad ahur avidyaya
purnam evavasisyate iti susruma dhiranam
ye nas tad vicacaksire
1. isavasyam idam sarvam
yat kinca jagatyam jagat 11. vidyam cavidyam ca yas
tena tyaktena bhunjitha tad vedobhayam saha
ma grdhah kasya svid dhanam avidyaya mrtyum tirtva
vidyayamrtam asnute
2. kurvann eveha karmani
jijivisec chatam samah 12. andham tamah pravisanti
evam tvayi nanyatheto 'sti ye 'sambhutim upasate
na karma lipyate nare tato bhuya iva te tamo
yau sambhutyam ratah
3. asurya nama te loka
andhena tamasavrtah 13. anyad evahuh sambhavad
tams te pretyabhigacchanti anyad ahur asambhavat
ye ke catma-hano janah iti susruma dhiranam
ye nas tad vicacaksire
4. anejad ekam manaso javiyo
nainad deva apnuvan purvam arsat 14. sambhutim ca vinasam ca
tad dhavato 'nyan atyeti tisthat yas tad vedobhayam saha
tasminn apo matarisva dadhati vinasena mrtyum tirtva
sambhutyamrtam asnute
5. tad ejati tan naijati
tad dure tad v antike 15. hiranmayena patrena
tad antar asya sarvasya satyasyapihitam mukham
tad u sarvasyasya bahyatah tat tvam pusann apavrnu
satya-dharmaya drstaye
6. yas tu sarvani bhutany
atmany evanupasyati 16. pusann ekarse yama surya prajapatya
sarva-bhutesu catmanam vyuha rasmin samuha tejo
tato na vijugupsate yat te rupam kalyanatamam tat te pasyami
yo 'sav asau purusah so 'ham asmi
7. yasmin sarvani bhutany
atmaivabhud vijanatah 17. vayur anilam amrtam
tatra ko mohah kah soka athedam bhasmantam sariram
ekatvam anupasyatah om krato smara krtam smara
krato smara krtam smara
8. sa paryagac chukram akayam avranam
asnaviram suddham apapa-viddham 18. agne naya supatha raye asman
kavir manisi paribhuh svayambhur visvani deva vayunani vidvan
yathatathyato 'rthan vyadadhac yuyodhy asmaj juhuranam eno
chasvatibhyah samabhyah bhuyistham te nama uktim vidhema

9. andham tamah pravisanti

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ISO - Translations
Invocation. The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely
perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as
complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also complete in itself. Because
He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the
complete balance.
1. Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord.
One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his
quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.
2. One may aspire to live for hundreds of years if he continuously goes on working in that way, for
that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. There is no alternative to this way for man.
3. The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the
faithless, full of darkness and ignorance.
4. Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than the mind and can
overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot approach Him. Although in one place,
He controls those who supply the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence.
5. The Supreme Lord walks and does not walk. He is far away, but He is very near as well. He is
within everything, and yet He is outside of everything.
6. He who sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, who sees all entities as His parts and
parcels and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything, never hates anything nor any being.
7. One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes
a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?
8. Such a person must factually know the greatest of all, who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond
reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been
fulfilling everyone's desire since time immemorial.
9. Those who engage in the culture of nescient activities shall enter into the darkest region of
ignorance. Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.
10. The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture of knowledge and that a
different result is obtained from the culture of nescience.
11. Only one who can learn the process of nescience and that of transcendental knowledge side by
side can transcend the influence of repeated birth and death and enjoy the full blessing of
immortality.
12. Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance,
and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute.
13. It is said that one result is obtained by worshiping the supreme cause of all causes and that
another result is obtained by worshiping that which is not supreme. All this is heard from the
undisturbed authorities who clearly explained it.
14. One should know perfectly the personality of Godhead and His transcendental name, as well as
the temporary material creation with its temporary demigods, men and animals. When one knows
these, he surpasses death and the ephemeral cosmic manifestation with it, and in the eternal
kingdom of God he enjoys his eternal life of bliss and knowledge.
15. O my Lord, sustainer of all that lives, Your real face is covered by Your dazzling effulgence.
Please remove that covering and exhibit Yourself to Your pure devotee.
16. O my Lord, O primeval philosopher, maintainer of the universe, O regulating principle,
destination of the pure devotees, well-wisher of the progenitors of mankind--please remove the
effulgence of Your transcendental rays so that I can see Your form of bliss. You are the eternal
Supreme Personality of Godhead, like unto the sun, as am I.

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17. Let this temporary body be burnt to ashes, and let the air of life be merged with the totality of
air. Now, O my Lord, please remember all my sacrifices, and, because You are the ultimate
beneficiary, please remember all that I have done for You.
18. O my Lord, powerful as fire, omnipotent one, now I offer You all obeisances and fall on the
ground at Your feet. O my Lord, please lead me on the right path to reach You, and, since You
know all that I have done in the past, please free me from the reactions to my past sins so that there
will be no hindrance to my progress.

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ISO - Word-for-Word Translations
Invocation…om--the complete whole; purnam--perfectly complete; adah--that; purnam-- perfectly
complete; idam--this phenomenal world; purnat--from the allperfect; purnam--complete unit;
udacyate--is produced; purnasya--of the complete whole; purnam--completely, all; adaya--having
been taken away; purnam--the complete balance; eva--even; avasisyate--is remaining.
1… isa- by the Lord; avasyam--controlled; idam--this; sarvam--all; yat kinca--whatever; jagatyam--
within the universe; jagat--all that is animate or inanimate; tena--by Him; tyaktena--set apart quota;
bhunjithah--you should accept; ma--do not; grdhah--endeavor to gain; kasya svit--of anyone else;
dhanam--the wealth.2… kurvan--doing continuously; eva--thus; iha--during this span of life;
karmani--work; jijiviset--one should desire to live; satam--one hundred; samah--years; evam--so
living; tvayi--unto you; na--no; anyatha-- alternative; itah--from this path; asti--there is; na--not;
karma--work; lipyate--can be bound; nare--unto a man.3… asuryah--meant for the asuras; nama--
famous by the name; te--those; lokah--planets; andhena--by ignorance; tamasa--by darkness;
avrtah-- covered; tan--those planets; te--they; pretya--after death; abhigacchanti--enter into; ye--
anyone; ke--everyone; ca--and; atmahanah-- the killers of the soul; janah--persons.
4… anejat--fixed; ekam--one; manasah--than the mind; javiyah--more swift; na--not; enat--this
Supreme Lord; devah--the demigods like Indra, etc.; apnuvan--can approach; purvam--in front;
arsat--moving quickly; tat--He; dhavatah--those who are running; anyan--others; atyeti--surpasses;
tisthat--remaining in one place; tasmin--in Him; apah--rain; matarisva-- the gods who control the
wind and rain; dadhati--supply.
5… tat--this Supreme Lord; ejati--walks; tat--He; na--not; ejati--walks; tat--He; dure--far away;
tat--He; u--also; antike--very near; tat--He; antah--within; asya--of this; sarvasya--of all; tat--He;
u--also; sarvasya--of all; asya--of this; bahyatah--external to.
6… yah--he who; tu--but; sarvani--all; bhutani--living entities; atmani--in relation with the
Supreme Lord; eva--only; anupasyati--observes in a systematic way; sarva-bhutesu--in every living
being; ca--and; atmanam-- the Supersoul; tatah--thereafter; na--not; vijugupsate--hates anyone.
7… yasmin--in the situation; sarvani--all; bhutani--living entities; atma-- the spiritual spark; eva--
only; abhut--exist as; vijanatah--of one who knows; tatra--therein; kah--what; mohah--illusion;
kah--what; sokah-- anxiety; ekatvam--oneness in quality; anupasyatah--of one who sees through
authority, or one who sees constantly like that.
8… sah--that person; paryagat--must know in fact; sukram--the omnipotent; akayam--unembodied;
avranam--without reproach; asnaviram--without veins; suddham--antiseptic; apapa-viddham--
prophylactic; kavih--omniscient; manisi--philosopher; paribhuh--the greatest of all; svayambhuh--
selfsufficient; yathatathyatah--just in pursuance of; arthan--desirables; vyadadhat--awards;
sasvatibhyah--immemorial; samabhyah--time.
9… andham--gross ignorance; tamah--darkness; pravisanti--enter into; ye-- those who; avidyam--
nescience; upasate--worship; tatah--than that; bhuyah--still more; iva--like; te--they; tamah--
darkness; ye--those who; u--also; vidyayam--in the culture of knowledge; ratah--engaged.
10… anyat--different; eva--certainly; ahuh--said; vidyaya--by culture of knowledge; anyat--
different; ahuh--said; avidyaya--by culture of nescience; iti--thus; susruma--I heard; dhiranam--
from the sober; ye-- who; nah--to us; tat--that; vicacaksire--explained.
11… vidyam--knowledge in fact; ca--and; avidyam--nescience; ca--and; yah--a person who; tat--
that; veda--knows; ubhayam--both; saha--simultaneously; avidyaya--by culture of nescience;
mrtyum--repeated death; tirtva--transcending; vidyaya--by culture of knowledge; amrtam--
deathlessness; asnute--enjoys.
12… andham--ignorance; tamah--darkness; pravisanti--enter into; ye--those who; asambhutim--
demigods; upasate--worship; tatah--than that; bhuyah-- still more; iva--like that; te--those; tamah--
darkness; ye--who; u-- also; sambhutyam--in the Absolute; ratah--engaged.

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13… anyat--different; eva--certainly; ahuh--it is said; sambhavat--by worshiping the Supreme
Lord, the cause of all causes; anyat--different; ahuh--it is said; asambhavat--by worshiping what is
not the Supreme; iti--thus; susruma--I heard it; dhiranam--from the undisturbed authorities; ye--
who; nah--unto us; tat--about that subject matter; vicacaksire--perfectly explained.
14… sambhutim--the eternal personality of Godhead, His transcendental name, form, pastimes,
qualities and paraphernalia, the variegatedness of His abode, etc.; ca--and; vinasam--the temporary
material manifestation of demigods, men, animals, etc., with their false names, fame, etc.; ca-- also;
yah--one who; tat--that; veda--knows; ubhayam--both; saha--along with; vinasena--with everything
liable to be vanquished; mrtyum--death; tirtva--surpassing; sambhutya--in the eternal kingdom of
God; amrtam-- deathlessness; asnute--enjoys.
15… hiranmayena--by a golden effulgence; patrena--by dazzling covering; satyasya--of the
Supreme Truth; apihitam--covered; mukham--the face; tat--that covering; tvam--Yourself; pusan--
O sustainer; apavrnu--kindly remove; satya--pure; dharmaya--unto the devotee; drstaye--for
exhibiting.
16… pusan--O maintainer; ekarse--the primeval philosopher; yama--the regulating principal;
surya--the destination of the suris (great devotees); prajapatya--the well-wisher of the prajapatis
(progenitors of mankind); vyuha--kindly remove; rasmin--the rays; samuha--kindly withdraw;
tejah--effulgence; yat--so that; te--Your; rupam--form; kalyana-tamam--most auspicious; tat--that;
te--Your; pasyami--I may see; yah--one who is; asau--like the sun; asau--that; purusah--personality
of Godhead; sah--myself; aham--I; asmi--am.
17… vayuh--air of life; anilam--total reservoir of air; amrtam-- indestructible; atha--now; idam--
this; bhasmantam--after being turned to ashes; sariram--body; om--O Lord; krato--the enjoyer of all
sacrifices; smara--please remember; krtam--all that has been done by me; smara-- please remember;
krato--the supreme beneficiary; smara--please remember; krtam--all that I have done for You;
smara--please remember.
18… agne--O my Lord, powerful like the fire; naya--kindly lead; supatha--by the right path; raye--
for reaching You; asman--us; visvani--all; deva--O my Lord; vayunani--actions; vidvan--the
knower; yuyodhi--kindly remove; asmat--from us; juhuranam--all hindrances on the path; enah--all
vices; bhuyistham--most numerous; te--unto You; namah uktim--words of obeisance; vidhema--I
do.

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How much Sanskrit do you know? Do you have a working knowledge? Srila Prabhupada said that
he wrote his books in such a fashion that he thought that anybody who read them carefully would
learn Sanskrit. Of course, we should know more as we continue to Bhakti-vaibhava.

Chant the verses like 16 times over the next few weeks. Pull then out and chant them for special
festival like Ekadasi for the rest of your life.

TRANSLATION OVERVIEW
Now let's look at the the translations. The first thing that we note is that they seem to be Vaisnava
translations. The Upanisads are for people who are just coming out of the intoxication of material
existence. They aren't ready to understand that there is a God, that the Absolute Truth is a naughty
child and there is a spiritual world. Its sounds too much like the material world. They want to leave
that.
So, we find that Srila Prabhupada translates the first word, "OM", as, 'the personality of Godhead'.
Ooo! The Mayavadis and Sanskrit technicians would cough and choke in their graves to hear this,
no? Yet, we would all agree that if someone heard that the President was coming to New York
today it would be an accurate translation to say that Barack Obama is coming to New York today.
We will find the evidence that OM is an impersonal form of address for Sri Krsna.

Read through the translations. Take you time. Enjoy yourself. Take them a little bit to heart. Look
at the word-for-word translations. The name of God appears many times in the translations. Is it
there in the word-for-word? How?

Maybe we can call Radhika and ask him some questions.

Text Groupings
The Invocation and Texts 1-3 seem to fit together as a unit. Text 1 is the one that Srila Prabhupada
actually cites in NOI. We should learn it and the Invocation by memory. He paraphrases the
Invocation the same place in NOI. Do you see a common theme for Invocation and Texts 1-3? Text
three may be another topic or the contrast to the Invocation and Texts 1 and 2.

Then we group 4-8 in one pile. Really 4,5 & 8 describe the same thing. What is it? Six and seven
the same topic.
Nine - fourteen seems to talk about this cosmos. What does it say? How does it contrast with 4 &
5?
Then 15-16 is where the mono-theism really seems to stand out. They call out to the Lord for
something different than in texts 17 & 18.

One amazing symetry is texts 9-11 and 12-14. They are almost idential word-for-word, no? Just
that one set discusses knowing and the other set discussing worshipping.

In general we are obsessed with Srila Prabhupada's contectual translation. We feel that someday we
may have to defend them from the onslaught of atheistic Sanskritists for the benefit of an innocent
audience.

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Especially we are struck by the words "sambhavad, asambhavat and sambhutim" in tests 12, 13 &
14. We would like to call Radhika and ask him for his help.

We can go on with our Sanskrit appreciation more and more, but maybe that's enough for now.
Most likely we will get help from the Purports in terms of understanding the Texts more. So let’s
go ahead Text by Text, but don't forget to chant Hare Krsna and also recite all the Texts from time
to time.

Overview Finished!

Now that wasn't so painful, was it, and we are getting into the most profound literature on the
planet. Everything else will be easy after Isopanishad.

ISOPANISHAD TEXT BY TEXT

Now lettuce look at each Text and contribute our few words of wit and wisdom, or foolishness and
rubbish, as the case may be.

We did a graph of the size of the texts. Our first one using Microsofts. Text numbers along the
bottom and number of pages in our copy on the left.

5
4,5
4
3,5
3
2,5
Este
2
1,5
1
0,5
0
Int 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17

Introduction
The Introduction is an explanation of our epistemology, no? Philosophers divide the field into three
areas: Epistemology, ontology and praxiology - How you know, what is ultimately knoweable and
what you do about it.
In the BVB curriculum we can go into more detail. Maybe look at Jiva-goswam's "Tattva-
sandarbha".
We count 12 paragraphs in the Introduction. Number them!

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In paragraphs 1-4 Srila Prabhupada says that our topic is Veda, and Veda means _______(?). Yet in
conditioned life we have several defects in our ability to acquire knowledge. How many?
Then he explains each one.
From our modern psychology we would suggest that we can look at the four defects as a chain:
1) Imperfect senses. Honey-bees can see infra-red, not us.
2) I see or hear properly, but integration of the sense data by my unconscsious is imperfect. For
example, I am recieving proper sense data but I see a rope as a snake. There are so many visual
illusions. You can look them up on the internet.
3) Experience is within the range of my senses, my sub-conscious integrates the data properly, but I
make a cognitive mistake. I see two boys and three girls - 2+3=5, but I make a cognitive mistake
and 2+3=6 and again I don't have perfect knowledge.
4) Proper perception, proper sensor integration, proper cogniive evaluation, but I don't like it. So I
cheat and say that rope is a snake even though I know better.

So we have to accept some authority.

Yet Srila Prabhupada addresses the obvious complaint, "But your Vedas are also limited knowledge
from one culture, India!".

In paragraphs five and six Srila Prabhupada gives several examples to explain that the Vedas are
coming from and accepted as transcendental knowledge. In paragraphs 7-9 he introduces disciplic
succession, pratyaksa, anumana and sabda. He compares the sampradayas. Anumana, mental
speculation, can be divided into two categories, inductive and deductive, no? Inductive is aroha,
asending. Paragraphs 10 & 11 Prabhupada introduces the importance of personal Guru, because
Krsna is too great to understand without Guru, and finally in paragraph 12, he gives the history of
Veda and how it became divided and finally became most accesible in Srimad Bhagavatam.

Many times Srila Prabhupada seems to go from topic to topic, forward and backward. If we look at
all the points for some time we can put them into a more strict linear order. Of course this appeals
to our mechanical German mentality, but actually Prabhupada's organization of the ideas seems to
be more on the basis of taste and how they support one anothers appreciation. For example, we may
have a feast of several preparations, and someone may think that we should eat one preparation
after another to conclusion before going on to the next, but someone else may like to take a little
subji, vegetable, some bread, puri and then chutney and then back to some more subji.

Maybe we can hear and remember like Prabhupada or maybe we have at some point to go through
and analyze this essay on knowledge, Veda, into our world of German boxes. In any case, now its
enough to see the general ideas: pratyaksa, anumana, sabda, disciplic-succession, Guru,
sampradayas, Sankara-acharya, the defects of modern knowledge, aroha, and the necessity of
descending knowledge and the form of descending knowledge as Veda, four Vedas, Maha-Bharata
etc. Then we can explain it in a practical way to people we meet.

We are writing this while we are sitting on the floor in our camp at the German High school in
Valparaiso, Chile. We had oatmeal for breakfast with 35 other devotees so we are struggling to stay
awake. We keep mentioning these things, because what we are most concerned with is that we are
people. Bhakti-sastri means getting the association and later giving the association of people to
other people. After that is process. First learn the habit of reading in the association of devotees.
Second develope some process for reading and finally learn some sysytematic content.

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Usually in modern education they teach in the reverse order. Often they don't care to teach us how
to learn. They just want that we learn facts and a few logical processes like Calculus, Algebra, C+-
programing language.

We have developed this strict adherence to reading in the morning and evening. The easiest way is
in classes, Srimad Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita class. Today we didn't give SB class and were
so tired that we were falling asleep during the class time so we FORCED ourselves to hear a
recording from "Nectar of Instruction" and now, when other devotees are napping or out on
Sankirtana we are doing this writting. It is not first class. You can do better, but it is of some value
and we expect that it will help you in doing something much more useful than us.

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Chant the Isopanisad mantras.

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Memorize the Invocation and Text 1..

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Now let's take a break and go on with Text One. We will try to be more brief and let you do most of
the analysis yourself, get most of the association with the author yourself!

NOTE:
Here is the Calendar we evolved for this 1st Semester 2009:
Date - Start Study
March
15 - NOI Part One (Text 1-3)
22 - ISO Part One (1-6)
 
April
5 - NOI Part Two (4-6) + ISO Part Two (7-11)
19 - NOI 3 (7 & 8) + NOI 4 (9-11)
May
3 - ISO 3 (12-18)
24 - LOB Overview (Start reading 6 LOB Text/Week!) LoB Texts 19, 31, 34, 32, 9, 17 for sample
of one LoB Topic, Varna-ashrama Dharma; amd Texts 1-6 for second week.
 
June
7 - BG Overview Part One; Chapters 1-6; and LOB 7-21.
21 - BG Overview Part Two; Chapters 7-12; LoB 7-21.
 
July
5 - BG Overview Part Three; Chapter 13-18; LOB 37-48
19 - Review
21 - Testing,

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Invocation
The Introduction was the longest text. The Invocation is the shortest. Again, what's nice about the
Invocation are the examples of case-endings. In English we say, "to Krsna, from Krsna, with Krsna,
by Krsna...", but in Sanskrita this is all accomplished by suffixes, "Krsnena, Krsnasya, Krsnaya,
Krsnat...". So, here, in this text we can see different case endings for the word Purunam. What does
Purnam mean?
In Bhakti-vaibhava we should learn more Sanskrit.

~ Complete means brahman, ______ & bhagavan?

~ Bhagavan has many complete energys.
~ We, the Jiva energy, can realize our relationship with the Complete Whole, Bhagavan, by the
complete arrangement of the material world, external energy.

Text 1
Srila Prabhupada translates, "Isa", as the Lord. I don't how on earth the Mayavadis can translate
"Isa" as something other than, "Lord". It's so simple. The controler must be a person.
~ Apauruseya.
~ The four defects, again epsitemology. Intorduction in few words.
~ Yajur Veda.
~ Krsna is complete Supreme Person, complete owner.
~ "Therefore a human being should not only become a strict vegetarian but should also become a
devtoee of the Lord...".
~ Communists and Capitalists snarl..."

Text 2
This Text has uncanny similarity to NOI Text 2! We must re-read NOI-2 sometime and see the
comparisons and contrasts.
Forced to work by fear of death. Three kinds of work: Vikarma, Karma, Akarma. We should work
for Akarma, liberation. Instead people work as Karmis and Vikarmis for their own sense
gratification or extended sense gratification.
Remember Prabhupada's discussion of "Mahatmas" in NOI-2, extended sense gratification?!
In NOI-2 Prabhupada cites ISO-1 and in NOI-3 he cites BG 2.40. Read and memorize BG 2.40.
Take it to heart. Does is remove fear.
When we are reading it is good to have BG on hand to look up all citations. As long as we are
chanting Hare Krsna we are making progress in spiritual life, attainment of immortality.
There are more details here, but let's save them for BVB. Remember, now we are having the rare
opportunity to see Srila Prabhupada's mind.

Text 3
Here we seem to be continuing with the same theme as in Texts 1 & 2. We should live properly in
this world as humans, not animals and endeavor for self-realization. The Veda, Upanisads are so
nice to give us this opportunity!
We counted and numbered six paragraphs. Last one has a summary of the whole Text.

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Also, again we are really enthused to compare this with NOI Texts 2 & 3. We see the same ideas,
same instructions. We highlighted the following words. What do they mean?
Paragraph One (¶1) - Human life x Animal life, 'suras' x 'asuras' .
¶2 - 'atma-ha'. This is basic word for this Text, no?
¶3 - "Yet modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of a hungry stomach."
Polished animals.
¶4 - "The laws of nature force us to work very hard". This is in NOI 3 also. Why are we forced?
¶5 - 'suci' & 'srimat'. What determines if we take birth as suci or srimat, in family of rich people of
wise people? Seems better the wise folk. When we get to Chapter Six of the BG we will see the
answer.

Monkey/Piggy - Oh! Goody, We can hardly wait!

Text 4
¶4 - "This fourth mantra very clearly suggests... His personal features".
Yet Srila Prabhupada still continues with the themes that we are complete energys emanating from
the great source (like hands of the body).
But now we talk about knowing that complete body, 'isa'.
But we don't talk about how to know Him, rather we talk about how He can't be know...
manasah (mind), javiyo (faster), na (not), enat (this Supreme Lord), devah (the demigods),
apnuvan (can approach)
... "He be faster than the mind, Bobba!" Nobody, even 'di Demogods can approach Him.
So we see Srila Prabhupada discussing that in the Purport. We have to know Him to be energys,
hands, connected with the body. But that is not possible by the mind, only by hearing from the BG.
Srila Prabhupada is constantly quoting the BG. Makes you want to appciate the Isopanisad
properly so that you can advance to the BG!

¶2 - "hundreds and millions of subheadings". Is p-nut butter one of the sub-headings? Under which
of the the three principal categories does it fall?

Text 5
Ten Paragraphs. We continue with the same theme as Text 4. Text 4 tells us who the Lord is, and
Text 5 tells us what He does? Does "tat" mean "that" or "He"? This Upanisad starts with "Isa". The
controler must be a person? The same theme is there in the start of the SB also.
¶1 - Contradictions are given to prove the Lord's potencies are inconceivable. Purport again talks
again about our very first theme, epistemology, Veda, how we can know.
¶2 - "refutes this argument" - Which argument?
¶3-6 - In our present state, limited senses, we cannot see the Lord, but He comes before us swiftly
(Text 4), in a form we can perceive, if we surrender. Correct?
¶ - 'saguna' x 'nirguna' important Vedic terms. Saguna - the Lord adopts a material form when He
incarnates? Nirguna - He has no "material" qualities?
How many bogus arguments does Prabhupada deal with here? Maybe a BVB question.
"Ultimately He is eternal form, the primeval Lord, brahmajyoti is His effulgence". (This Guy is
bright!)
¶8-10 Deals with 'antar', 'bahyatah' qualities mentioned in the Sanskrit.

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¶10 Summarizes exquisitely and the last sentence is a super-humdinger! Isa enjoys all that we try to
enjoy? You mean that the wine, woman and song that I am trying to enjoy are actaully really
enjoyable? Krsna can actually enjoy these things, but in their finest form? Wow! Takes me out of
this world!

Now it is Saturday, 2009 February 21, 12:40 P.M. Arjuna Prabhu is driving. There are 8 of us
scrunched into his van. We are just coming back from Valparaiso, Viña del Mar. It's a tourist and
port town. Hyatt Hotels. We had an ecstatic four days there with 45 devotees, camped in the
German School. Its on vacation and we were sleeping in the classrooms, dining and kirtans in the
cafeteria, bathing in the gymnasium. Fantastic Harinams on the beach. People clapping, smiling.
Two auditorium programs with standing room only. Light of the Bhagavata, Cultivation of the
Human Spirit. Bhakti-sastri is for preaching! Get your hands wet. Krsna will send people.
This morning he sent Prof. Carlos Bustamantes. He is studying Vedic Sanskrit from the Sama and
Yajur Vedas and so forth. I gave him some very nice questions from the Isopanisad. He couldn't
answer them too much, but we were both inspired to ask more. He wants copys of these After
words.
The trip through the mountains back to Santiago is so, so beautiful (for me). It is identical with
California, hot-dry, hills, wind, sun, Hare Krsna!!!

Text 6
O.K. This is the end of Part One, Texts 1-6, 1/3 of 'Isopanisad'. Here we are continuing with the last
idea in Text 5, the Isa is within and without. 'anupasyati', he sees.
¶1 "This is a descrption of the 'Maha'bhagavata'". Then ¶2-3 Srila Prabhupada describes these
different levels of spiritual development. What four categories of people does the Madhyama-
adhikari see?
¶4 warns us not to imitate or artificially see with this Uttama-adhikaris vision.
¶5-6 Are like a summary of the Introduction. Again epiestemology, but each time sweeter, sharper.
Hare Krsna / Hare Rama!
¶7 Continues with ¶4. Who can have the 1st class vision, 'anupasyati'.
We were interested in looking up BG 6.9 that Srila Prabhupada cites in ¶7. We found a Gita this
morning and read it, 6.8 - 10. It was like Srila Prabhupada talking directly to us: "Don't be a bogus
Guru!" We are Madhyama-adhikaris. We have a long way to go before we are "real' Gurus, but this
is the kind of Guru we can be now and we are making pro, pro, pro-gress to the ultimate goal.

Now is a good time to get back to the main body of our book, Tava Pache Pache. We have cross
referenced Isopanishad after we finished Part One of the NIO, "Control Your Senses", and we see
so many parallels. They both tell us how to live peacefully in this world by accepting the authority
of the Supreme Controler. Then ISO Six has led us to understanding the 1st class devotee. Now let's
return to NOI Texts 4-6, Part Two, Associate with Devotees. This is just appropriate because we
just finished talking about the three categories of devotees. What does the Isopanishad have to tell
us in Texts 7-18. Continue with this Seminar and find out.

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STEP FOUR: NOI 4-6 & ISO 7-11 - Associate with Devotees
In TPP Step-Two (NOI Texts 1-3) we discussed Sense Control. In Step Four (Texts 4-6) we will
discuss Association. This is a great science. ISO 6 informed us about the Maha-bhagavata and NOI
will discuss the same thing. Let's see the comparisons and contrasts of Srila Prabhupada's ideas.

NOI Texts 4-6.

Text 4 talks about the general process of associaion, even amongst business men.
Text 5 discusses how to apply the general principles from Text 4 to three different levels of
devotees.
Text 6 discusses in detail association with the Uttama-adhikari, highest devotee.

Text 4
Now it is 6:16 A.M. We are in the Temple in Santiago, Chile. Outside it is still very dark and cold.
Below the devotees are chanting Japa. Because we can live in the Temple like this it is easy to
chant and study in the morning. Our first regulaitive principle is to be always chanting from the
core of our heart. So, we keep association with people like that, who enhance that.

We have numbered the Paragraphs (¶) in Text 4 and highlighted and annotated the Bhaktivedanta
Purports. You also????
1. Get association.
2. Develope your processes.
3. Memorizing content.

How many paragraphs do you count? We count 8.

¶1 - Prabhupada paraphrases the Text and emphasizes 4 of the 6 process: Sharing Prasadam and
Confidential Talks: 'guhyam akhyati prcchati' and 'bunkte bhojayate caiva".
¶2.
Even in ordinary social dealings . . .
ISKCON established to . . .
Understanding of Krsna is innate, so everyone should be given a chance to hear (guhyam akhyati
prcchati).
Both the citations in this paragraph: 'nitya siddha krsna prema...' and 'ceto darpana marjanam..." are
super-important, useful. For BS let’s memorize the second. Its one of the two verses from the
Siksastakam.
¶3 Srila Prabhupada continues with this theme that the essence of ISKCON is to allow people to
associate with us by hearing and become purified; and that distributing the Holy Names is a fine
example of ‘dadati’, giving and receiving gifts.
¶4 Returns to glorifying ISKCON and introduces the negative injuction of not sharing these six
luving exchanges with the demons.
¶5 We see a summary.

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¶6 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada's 'Anuvrtti' which elaborates the idea of not giving milk and
bananas to snakes that was started in ¶4. Bad snake! Bad snake
¶7
"The conclusion is.... Text 3 in association of devotees, ISKCON?
Four classes of people the Madhyama adhikari distinguises when applying Text 4.
Rupa Goswami's 50-25-25% 'dadati prati ghrnati' standard. Do you follow this? In what way?
¶8 - Introduction to Text 5.

We can see that these things are the basis of intimacy in any relations, family, business, institution.
Since the world is filled with impersonalism and voidism, these things are lacking even in ordinary
dealings. Giving Prasadam now means inviting your near and dear ones to have a beer in the bar.

Text 5
For most of ISKCON this seems like the most essential verse. 'Sangat sanjayate kamah'. (One's
desires and ambitions develop from...). Sixteen paragraphs and Srila Prabhupada presents over and
over again a description of the three levels of heirarchy AND the process to pass from one stage to
the next.

In this respect this verse also describes in more detail who should be accepted as Guru.

Again, we will go into more detail at the BVB level.

¶1 Gives the Sanskrita name for each level and recapitulates the definitions and relationships given
in the Translation. There is one thing which confused us for a long time, but now it seems clear. In
the Translation and here in ¶1 Prabhupada is talking about second initiation as spiritual initiation or
actually being initiated. In one room conversation in England with a nice young Sanskrit professor
he says that first initiation is experimental. He also says that the Madhyama-adhikari has been fully
engaged in the service of the Lord, but he translates, "isa", the Lord, as the "Deity". The second
initiated devotee can bathe and touch the Deity, Krsna. Second initiation is spiritual initiation. In
England he also added that Jiva Goswami has commented that in this age first initiation is enough
(if we follow the process).
¶2 & 3 - Talk of the necessity of progressing from Kanistha to Madhyama-adhikari but actually
only give more details of the definition of these two levels.
¶4 & 5 - Continue to define Kanistha and Madhyama-adhikaris respectively.
¶6 & 7 - Introduce the necessity of "diksa" to advance in spiritual life, but the definition does not tie
it to a ritual. In the Caitanya-caritamrta (find the source) Krsna becomes Madana-mohan, diksa-
guru, and attracts Arjuna away from Maya, trying to gratify his wife’s material desires. When
Arjuna surrenders, BG 2.7, Krsna becomes Govinda, siksa-guru. So, we see that Diksa-guru may
refere to one like Krsna who enlivens Arjuna's spiritual consciousness by act and words and not
necessarily related to a ceremony and a name, although they normally should be related, like a boy
and girl’s commitment to each other and the formality of the wedding.
¶8 & 9 - Gives more details of pre-requisites for Diksa. We should be ready to do bodily austerities
and ask serious questions from the Spiritual Master.
¶10 - The process to advance is primarily chanting the Holy Names. Here we see the actual
contract. If we chant our prescribed rounds we are guaranteed to become Uttama-adhikaris.
¶11 - Definition of the Kanishtha-adikari in terms of faith in chanting.
¶12 & 13 - Levels from CC Madhya 22, Instructions to Sanatana Goswami. Also, our level of faith
in the Bhagavad Gita determines our level spiritual development.

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¶14 - Process, faithful chanting.
¶15 - Again definition of Uttama-adhikari but also adding process in the opposite direction, how
one can fall-down. How do we fall down?
¶16 - We should know our level and the level of other devotees. Implies we should also know the
level of our Gurus. This is a much cited paragraph to determine who is Guru. We understand that
Srila Prabhupada is indicating the arrangement that also existed before he left his body. ISKCON
devotees on the 3rd and 2nd levels can and should accept disciples, to train them, but these
disciples will be not advance than their Gurus, because their Guru doesn't know more. So, everyone
should, must, have Prabhupada as a Guru also, so that they can have a proper evaluation of their
Madhyama-adhikari gurus. Prabhupada encouraged people to become disciples of his disciples, to
be Tamal-krsna Maharaja's man, to be Hansadutta's man, but all in terms of these devotee’s relation
and basic surrender to Srila Prabhupada.
As we engage in devotional service all these relations become clear.

Text 6
What an interesting text -- intriguing and exciting -- nine paragraphs. We see it as a continuation of
Text 5. Here is description of Uttama-adhikari. Two things, He might be born in a dirty American
body and family but if he is elevated by Diksa and faithful work then he is internally engaged in
devotional service and that electrifies his external body.
Another thing is the warning to the Kanistha-adhikari not to see the material aspects of the pure
devotee, ISKCON. See how they are ingaged in devotional service and thus their relatively bad
qualities become good qualities.
Prabhupada starts with the same defintion of devotional service that he used in Text 3, that Rupa-
goswami makes a foundation of his Nectar of Devotion, BRS 1.1.11.
¶2 - (anyabilasita sunyam). Jnana karmadi ... should all be one phrase with no parenthesis, no? We
will study this more in the NOD and for the BVB diploma.
In Text 5 we heard that 1) the Uttama-adhikari doesn't criticize others, 2) he follows the rules and
regulations strictly and now we add, he doesn't identify with his material body and he makes it
spiritual.
Notice Prabhupada says that he has made American Goswamis, and from Text 1 we conclude that
Goswamis can accept disciples, but here we see that they can also fall-down if they become
arrogant and envious. NOI is such a complete summary and practical guide to everything!
O.K. NOI, Texts 1-3 = Engage your senses in the service of Krsna. Texts 4-6 = Develop proper
association. Now let's go ahead to the Isopanisad at Text 7 where we left off and see what’s
happening there!

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ISOPANISHAD Texts 7-11
As we write our association is the devotees and guests in the Temple in Santiago, Chile. We lecture
once a day in the evening and there are always about 50-60 devotees. Temple room and patio are
full.
Last night we finished ISO Texts 6 and 7. Many repeat students and also new people, so we had to
make a summary for the new folks and go ahead for the new ones.

In summary:
ISO 1-3 Seem to talk about the same thing as NIO Text 2. God has a plan take your share and
engage in spiritual life.
ISO 4 & 5 talks about God as the Parama-atma, physically related to His creation.
ISO 6 & 7 talks about His relationship to the Jiva souls in His creaton and the results of seeing Him
in this way.
ISO 8 emphasizes we must know this Paramatma feature again.
Then... 9-14 contrast again and again knowledge and worship of the spiritual and material world,
culminating in going to the spiritual world if you really know the Isvara.
We discussed last night how the Upanisads are impersonal form of address Krsna. One can say,
"Mr. President, Mr. Obama, Barrack or Honey or Daddy". This Upanishad starts off by talking
about "Isa". Text 5 of NOI also says that the Madhyama-adhikari is engaged in worshiping, "Isa",
but Srila Prabhupada translates it as, "the Deity".

Text 7
This Text 7 is just like Text 6, no? The first two lines of each Text are almost identical. We have to
see Krsna and all the living beings. Then, Text 6, we won’t hate anybody; Text 7, we won't have
any fear or anxiety.

Pretty nice goal, hey?!

In both texts Prabhupada explains that this vision is only possible for the Uttama and Madhyama-
adhikari. In Text 7 the controling phrase seems to be 'eka-tvam', oneness with "Isa". Prabhupada
gives so many analogies in his purport to say that "ekatvam' means oneness of purpose, not that I
become God: Drop of sea water and the sea, father and his children, sparks and the fire.
¶6 - "The Parambrahman is as much a person as the individual entities." This is so striking. Just
like I know Guru-vrata Das or Jananivasa Das. They are people. So, Krsna is a person with all the
qualities, anxieties, funny surprises that we get, but he is different than we are also, but primarily
He is a person.
Only the Uttama and Madhyama-adhiaris can realize this.

Text 8
Srila Prabhupada discusses the qualities described in the Text: "akayam", "asnaviram", "paribhu",
"suddham"... Also, Krsna can eat with His eyes. His body is not like ours, but we must know Him.

Text 9
Now we start this series contrasting those who know the temporary and those who know the
permanent, Texts 9-14.

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¶1 Is almost worth memorizing in totality. No King is better than a bad King?
Three times Srila Prabhupasa refers to Text One. This Mantra is real knowledge.
3-8¶ - Most people are Karmis, Mudhas, asses, and the Veda-vata-ratas help them. What is the
definition of Veda-vata-rata?
9¶ - Karmis, Veda-vata-ratas and Mayapahrta-jnanas. They are cultivating knowledge of illusion. I
am God and this world is mine.

Text 10
We continue in. 'Vidyaya' and 'Dhira'.
¶1 - 'Vidyaya', how to cultivate knowledge. (When we review BG we have to look at the Purport in
depth!).
¶2-5 - "No one cares for the cultivation of knowledge, yet people are falsely proud of being
advanced in both material and spiritual knowledge." The 'veda-vata-ratas' teach the Karmis how to
smoke cigarettes.
¶6-8 - The 'dhiras'! "The living entity has actual functions in the living spiritual world, but this
material world is dead." The Dhiras have come to know all these facts by hearing from superior
authorities and following the regulative principles mercifully given by them.
¶9 - The Adhiras. Booo!
First text of NOI says that we must hear from Dhiras also, no?
Again and again there is so much more. When we sit together we might discuss in more detail and
become become Masters, Swamis, Bhakti-vaibhavas.

Text 11
Still in our series, ISKCON vs. the modern universities, and here Srila Prabhupada introduces the
Textbooks. This is the 3rd longest purport. Two bigger ones are yet to come!!
A keyword here is "amrta", deathlessness. That's the push by nature to know. It's one of the 18
aspects of knowledge cited from the Gita in Text 10.
¶2-4 - Srila Prabhupada illustrates this with Hiranyakasipu. He had all the women. He had all the
gold, but still he had to die as he grew old!
What's the solution?
¶6-7 - Leave this world. The knowlegde is in the Textbooks. God sends Professors. The material
world is pushing us to learn.
¶8-10 - The contents of the Textbooks summarized. How hot is your head? What temperture is your
fever?? (¶8 Contrast of the fool). Do you know the right temperature? We also don't want too little
heat!
¶11-13 - The Vedas are insufficient textbooks. The prescribe dharma, artha, kama, moksa - go to
work on time, get monkey (money), get beer and when your sick of that try to get out of it all. But
all this is only leading us to brahma bhuta, the neutral stage. Knowledge of brahman. Knowledge of
the SPIRIT, but in this Age we need to know Krsna personally by Srimad Bhagavatam, and in its
extracted essence, Nectar of Devotion.
(Notice Prabhupada mentions Culture of Spiritual Knowledge {Cultivation of the Human Spirit}
twice in ¶9. Light of the Bhagavata, Ki Jai!).

I feel that the Isopanishad is not really for us and that is what Prabhupada is emphasizing again and
again. It is preliminary knowledge of a long gradual process, dharma, arta, kama... go to work on
time, get money, get beer... ... ...
Of course, it’s good to hear of this to shore up our foundations - ESSENTIAL, if, if, if, we also
have some footing in devotional service, Kirtana and Deity worship.

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Only an ecstatic devotee has the taste to necessary to do the work to do this basic stuff the
Upanisads talk about.
Therefore, go to to the Sunday feast. Hare krsna, Hare Rama. Chant and Dance in emotional love
of God and be happy! Hear Srimad Bhagavatam.
The more you go through this the more it goes deeper and deeper and gets really exciting, intense.
You expect that at the Bhakti-sastri level? Maybe a little but that comes steadily at the Bhakti-
vaibhava level. Ruci. Ro o o o chee e e! A taste of it!

Time for a change. Back to the Upadesamrta. Tommorrow, no!? Let's go for a Japa walk now.
The sun is shinning, it's 4:36PM. We have been 75% good boys. We can push forward without
lamentation on the current path and have some hope that we'll be free from ths God damn
attachment to lust before we die!

From here we go back to NOI Texts 7 & 8 in the main body of TPP, NOI. (I just found out what is
the source of all these wailing babies down on the street. The Little Toddler's Happy School is
across the street!).

¶13 Prabhupada says, "To culture vidya {impersonal brahman knowledge that leads to prema} in
this age, one must always hear, chant and worship with concentrated attention aimed at the
personality of Godhead, who is the Lord of the transcendentalists".

Sound familiar? It's like the EXACT content of NOI Texts 7 & 8. See you there!

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STEP FIVE: NOI 7-8 - Back to the Process & NOI 9-11 -
Radharani and Radha-Kunda
NOI 7-8 - Back to the Process
Returning from the the Isopanisad, Text 11. There, Srila Prabhupada was explaining that we can
best cultivate "Vidya", maybe knowledge of Brahman, with the ultimate goal of pure devotional
service in this age, by always hearing, chanting and worshipping with concentrated attention
toward the Supreme Lord. This is a very natural cue to take up Texts 7-8 of NOI.

Have you got them in front of you? They are almost the same, no?
7 - 'syat krsna nama caritadi'
8 - 'tan nama rupa-caritadi'

Text 1 emphasized the process, engage your senses in the service of Krsna. Texts 2 and 3 tell us
how. Keeping good and avoidiing bad association are the easiest way to do that. So Texts 4-6
described association. Here, then, in Texts 7-8 we see ourselves returning to the process. Occupy
your senses, your tongue and mind in the service of Krsna.

Text 7
How many Paragraphs? Have you numbered them? We count 10. Then we read through once and
the second time we highlight the principle words and make notes.
When we come back to these highlighted Texts for our BVB study it will help us a lot, like meeting
an old friend that we have left for some time.

¶1 - A summary of the analogy, right? Tongue, sugar, jaundice, Avidya... The last phrase in the
paragraph seems very subtle but very significant, though, "... by the regular cultivation of Krsna
consciousness". This echos the phrase in the Translation: "... by carefully chanting these sweet
names every day". Chanting the Holy Names is like eating. It will always have an effect, but if we
chant in a systematic, regular, fashion as designed by an Acharya, it will have an even more potent
effect.

¶2 - Comparison of the diseased and normal condition. Srila Prabhupada takes us one sure step at a
time.

¶3 - Introduce ISKCON. Good association. Contrast with blind leaders, bad leaders, bad
association. Passes to the process, chant the Holy Names. Do you see the whole Maha-mantra? Did
you chant it? You can even touch each word with one finger as you chant, offering your obeisances
to the Holy Names.
It's a process. It's a science. The only remedy is the Maha-Mantra. Chanting is the beginning. The
disease is in the heart. Ahankara - Avidya.

¶5 - A very important concept in the first two sentences. Are you like me? It took me years to
realize that I had a heart. When Srila Prabhupada used the word, heart, it just struck me as a kind of
sentimental word. There is sentiment but it is also a science, no?

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A LITTLE DIVERSION TO SANKHYA
In the mode of ignorance our consciousness is absobed in the senses, or even worse, the sense-
objects. In passion in the head. Plans, measurements, desire. In goodness we are centered in our
heart. And above the modes we are situated outside of the body. It's like the sun reflected in a bowl
of water on a shining table in a yellow room.
Do you see?
We think in the head, based upon the attitudes, perspectives, Buddhi, that we keep in our heart. So
if we control our senses and mind by devotional service, "Prabhu, hurry-up, the offering is late!",
then the selfish attitude in the heart can't manifest.

Prabhupada paraphrases the beginning of the first text of the Siksasatakam, 'ceto darpana
marjanam'. The chanting of the Holy Names extinguishes the fire.

¶6 - He continues with the process. It develops in three stages. We must avoid the Ten Offenses for
the chanting to have real effect. Siksastakam. The fire is done! ! ! Ten Offences are listed in SB
2.1.11. Memorize then!

¶7-10 - Jaya! Srila Prabhupada describes the stages of the process paraphrasing the NOD verse,
'adau sraddha, sadhu sanga, bhajana kriya...".
This is a SUPER VERSE. Seems to me (the fool said), that this is one of the most paraphased texts
in Srila Prabhupada's books. Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai! He doesn't cite the actual Sanskrita always,
so it may not show up on a computer search as a prominent text, but we see it again and again. We
will see it in more detail in the BG and the NOD during our BS curriculum. Read it now, relish it.
Do you see the different stages? Highlight them!

1. Adau sraddha - Little faith that ISKCON might be good.

2. Sadhu sanga - Associate with devotees.
3. Bhajana kriya - Take up the process scientifically, matriculate, take formal initiation.
4. Anartha-nivrrti - See it?
5. Nistha - Fixed in your process.
6. Ruci - A taste.
7. Asaktis - Addicted to Krsna.
8. Bhava - See any interesting points about the Bhava stage?
9. Prema - ... I don't see it? Maybe we have to go to the next Text?!

NOTE: The Sanskrita for the this NOD Text is in the BG Purport to 4.10

We should know these stages for our BS Examination.

Text 8
Santiago, Chile
Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, it's 4:19 P.M. in the afternoon.
We are hoping that Krsna sends us some tea and cookies really soon.
Then at 5:00 P.M. we mount the steed,
And drive to where we'll plant some seeds.

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Tonight we have a LOB show at Pablo's Kung-Fu Do-Jo (SCHOOL). And sure it is we will make a
pitch for this NOI from LOB Text 22. There Srila Prabhupada says that after the LOB you can take
to Rupa-siksa, NOI - NOD if you want to understand Krsna and Vrndavana dhama.

Text 8 is the essence of the NOI which in the essence of all wisdom. We continue with the same
process described in Text 7 even after you are liberated onto the Bhava stage. In the Sanskrit, Srila
Rupa Goswami Prabhupada says, "rasanaa-manasi niyojya". Manasa means the mind. Niyoja, yoga
(?), engage the mind.

¶1 - Prabhupada says that ISKCON is especially meant for training the mind. He is the Founder
Acharya, so he should know. (Back in Text 7 Srila Prabhupada also stated a purpose for ISKCON.)
¶2 - Karma, at the time of death. Do you understand? Therefore train the mind. SIMILARLY -
Rasanaa, the tongue. We are developing Text 1. Vaco vegam, manasa, krodha vegam...
¶3 - He advises, live in Vrndavana.
¶4 - He advises take shelter of an advanced devotee there (like Nanda Maharaja or Mother Yasoda).
Then,
Then,
Then,
Srila Prabhupada cites two Texts from the NOD. These are like the exact and only texts from NOD
that deal with Raganuga-bhakti.
¶4-6 - Then we see a summary of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Anuvrtti. We see a summary of
the process with technical Sanskrita names. In BVB we can look at these steps in detail. But do you
see that it is a very technical process? For every process in the Astanga yoga, Hatha yoga, system
there is a corresponding process in the Bhakti yoga system. Most Hatha yoga schools don't even
deal with the mind. But here we are going to go through it with full mystical ecstacy.

Become a Bhakti-yogi!

In the beginning you may not have any attraction for following but you still do it out of fear of
going to hell or because you got a free sample and now you want a full plate. So Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati says take to Vaidhi bhakti following rules and regulations. When you
advance in that then you can take up Raganuga, when you have a taste for the process. You like to
get up for Mangala arati.
¶6 - "Caitanya caritamrta advises...". Where is that? Instructions to Sanatana Goswami? We have a
lot to learn. Let’s get along quickly so that we can come to Bhakti Vaibhava and Bhakti-vedanta, so
that we can love Srila Prabhupada ('s books) intensely and be useful tools for the Gopis, Radharani,
Lalita, Visakha devi...

O.K. We gotta run. (4:42 P.M) Tea has arrived? The car is waiting. Pack up!! Hari Bol!
Thank You! Join us for this Sankirtana!

Texts 9-11 - Spiritual Geography

In Text 8 Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada said, "tisthan vraje", stay in Vraja. But what is Vraja. In
Text 9 we find a geography lesson of Vraja.
In Text 10 he goes back to association, every type you can get, from the lowest to the HIGHEST!
Finally, Text 11, we finish with Srimati Radharani and Radha-kunda, the highest.

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If you want to swim you go to the tank.
If you want to cash Traveler's Checks you go to a Bank.
If you want to find Gopis, and the best of them all,
You go to that pond where it's always the best of Spring, Summer and Fall.

Text 9
It is just two paragraphs. It's like a little Krsna book. Later, later, stay with us, we will take a deeper
look. What are three reasons why Govardhana is great?
¶2 explains the manifestation of Radha-kunda and how it is special to Lord Caitanya's followers.
Also we notice that Lord Caitanya said that "the actual Radha-kunda was there", and "Presently
there is a large lake KNOWN as Radha-kunda there". Seems to me what we now see is like the sign
on the store that says, "Music", but you have to do AUSTERITIES if you want to see more. If you
want to have even a glimpse of the real Radha-kunda.

Text 10
This is a long one! Eight paragraphs. Basically Srila Prabhupada is just going through the levels of
consciousness stated in the Text one-by-one with wonderful detail. Below we have a scrambled list.
Can you put them in the proper order?

1. Sadhana bhaktas
2. Srimati Radha-rani
3. Vraja bhaktas
4. Vimukti-jñanis
5. Radha-kunda
6. Prema bhaktas
7. Jñanis
8. Gopis
9. Karmis
10. Vikarmis

A final feature is that we notice that the Karmis are dear to Krsna. Why is that? Are the Vikarmis
dear to him also?

Text 11
Simple to understand but rarely achieved. A common question:

Monkey/Piggy: We bathed in Radha-kunda, but our full love in the mood of the Gopis didn't
develop?! Please explain this.

HpS: As we understand it's the same point that we made in Text 9. We have to bathe once in the
transcendental Radha-kunda, the sand on the shore of which is made of diamonds, etc.
But still it's so important to go there and even get a chance to see the sign on the music store and if
you are lucky one drop of water from the Gopi's and Krsna's water sports will escape and hit you

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and you will feel emotions so intense for one moment that you will want to feel them again and
again, real love.

THE END
So, this is the end of our first run-through -- 11 Texts. Guess we should take a little break and get
back to the Isopanishad. Then we can have them all finished by Gaura-purnima and offer them to
our Students.

After that, for this first Semester we will be doing a BG Overview and the Light of the Bhagavata.

It may surprise you to know that we are doing a lot of rewriting and editing of this TPP. We find it
hard work to stay focused on Srila Prabhupada’s lotus feet as we run behind him, so our meditation
on NOI is neophyte, but we hope that it is useful to you.

Now we go to Isopanishad Text 12.

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STEP SIX: ISO 12-18
Text 12
¶1 - Srila Prabhupada starts with a definition of 'asambhutim' and 'sambhutim', equalizing them
with the demigods and the orginal God.
¶2 - By mental work one only eliminates the material nature but cannot know the 'sambhuti'.
¶3-4 - Going to the moon will not solve your problems.
¶5-8 - Talks about pseudo-worshippers. We were challenged by these paragraphs. We have this
tendency to become false Gurus, for material comfort, golden handcuffs. Everyone of us has this. I
am Guru, I am a big book distributor. I am Guru, I am your mother. I am Guru, I expose all the
false Gurus and give myself some concocted name and replace them.
I have this fault!
How can I, we, get free from this?
Next Text?

Text 13
¶1 - 'Iti susruma dhiranam', We must hear from the undisturbed authorities. If he is at least grossly
free from the 4-sinful activities, illicit sex... Then he is 'dhira', no? At least grossly. We can hear
from him, at least grossly.
¶2-5 - We must be qualified to hear (be friends of God) from the right person (the Dhira) that Krsna
is the goal, and surrender to Him is the only way to reach him. Otherwise we will go to Calcutta.
Otherwise we will worship Demigods or ourselves...

¶6 - P'pada quotes BG 10.8 and then many citations from the Vedas to support that Krsna is the
Sambhutim. They look just the same as the ones P'pada cites in the Purport to BG 10.8 itself. Let's
see if they are when we get to Chapter 10 in our BG overview this Semester.
¶7 - Buddhas and Mudhas. Whirlpools...
¶8 - ...whirlpool ecape by... hearing Vedas from a Dhira!
¶10 - Contrast again (again (again)). Dhira teaches Krsna's God, Pseudo-Guru teaches that the mass
of people are God. Is this like Marx?
Sambhuyam, we should WORSHIP them...
¶11 - Read the whole thing thrice, no? Water the root. The leaves are watered for years by social
welfare dude but still they are drying up.
¶12 - Surrender and WORSHIP Krsna.
¶13 - How to worship....? ? ? By hearing and chanting about Him. CONTRAST: Bogus Gurus
sing about their Guru and really say, "Worship me".
¶14 - Upanisads give indirect Krsna-katha and BG gives direct Krsna-katha.
¶15-16 - Paraphrases and explains SB 1st Canto Text, "Srnvatam sva katha krsna...". By this
process everyone can become a Brahmana, worship the Sambhutim and go to Sambhutim!

Text 14
These verses emphasize the same things as the earlier triad: False gurus, scientists, yogis; are
averse to hearing the Vedas from right source because of lust. Therefore they are going to Hell with
their followers. They don't know this material world is insurmountable even if you go to the moon;
and they make the mass of people the object of worship, sometimes.

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¶11 - Is SOOO great!
Prabhupada and these verses are going back and forth, back and forth, between 3-5 elements. That
is the way to take it to heart, no? To dance with these elements of knowledge. Again and again.
Next, in Texts 15-18, we see a series of verses going into direct worship of the Lord by praying to
Him!

Text 15
10=¶ We think this verse is so nice to combat the idea that the Upanisads, Vedas, present and
impersonal idea of God. The word Mukham is so clear. The next Text continues with the same
idea. This is Text 15 and if you look at BG 15.15 you see that it also falls into this same idea that
the Vedas talk of Krsna!

¶1 - Brahmajyoti (Hiranmayena)
¶2 - Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan.
¶3 & 5 - Krsna always engaged in Pastimes in Vrndavana (like a Krsna book summary).
¶6 - Then how does He relate to the Material World? By His Paramatma feature.
¶7 - But... the materialists can only understand His 24-material factors and the impersonalists His
Brahmajyoti. We have to penetrate these and realize His Paramatma feature etc.
¶8 - That Param-atma is one of three plenary expansions. Yoga teaches us to meet the Paramatma
after realizing the accomplishments of the materialists (24-elements) and the empiric philosophers
(Brahmajyoti).
¶9 - Finally we have to go beyond the Paramatam and realize Sri Krsna.
¶10 - In the BG there is a comparative study of jïanis, yogis and bhaktas (6.46-47). In summary.....

Text 16
8=¶
Again, please remove. 'Purusa - Supreme Person; 'Aham asmi' - I am.

¶1 - Sun God, Sun Planet, Sun Shine!

¶2 - Brahma-samhita also describes the Brahmajiyoti, Sun Shine, but this Mantra asks to remove
that B'jiyoto so that we can see the blissful smile of Krsna.
¶3 - Auspicious, more auspicious, most auspicious which means He is"Pusan".
¶4 - Nice citation from Jiva Goswami Prabhupada explaining this Goloka Bhavagavan.
¶5 - Two topics. 1) Krsna guides His devotees to Him. 2) His nature.
¶6-7 - The Jivas. His differentiated expansions. Deisre to be lords. He allows them, but ultimately
He, as Paramatma, is the controller.
¶8 - The Jiva-shakti is generated from the Brahman? Interesting statement.
Summary and seems the same as BG 10.11
Text 15 says remove Your covering, but this Text seems to add the request (Pusan?) that Krsna also
lead us to Him!

Text 17
16=¶ Big Purport!

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¶1-4 - Srila Prabhupada discusses this material body that we want to burn to ashes!!! It is produced
because of material desire. Yogis with their airplanes, but we want Goloka. Then in second half of
¶4 P'pada again contrasts the devotees conclusion of this Foreign Dress to the postion of the the
Brahmans who don't realize Santa-rasa, I am part and parcel of Krsna!
¶6 - More criticism of Brahmanas.

¶7-11 - BG 9.30-34. This ‘burn me to ashes’ prayer is made at the time of death with full
consciousness, Bhava, unlike the animals. Human can have Rasa, relationship with Krsna. Very
nice citation of Srila Bhakti-vinode Thakura’s explanation. (The impersonalists don't have this help
from Krsna).
¶12-15 - Even if we don't remember Krsna, He will take us to Him at the time of death if we are
devotees. These paragraphs describe what is devotional service, what makes us a devotee,
(sravanam, kirtanama…). This is all discussed in SB 2.1. Again, Srila Prabhupada goes beyond the
content of the Text and the Isopanishad. These purports and texts seem to be written for Indians
familiar with the Vedas.
¶10 - So nice, so fine! Read it several times, no? Conclusion is that without being a devotee one
cannot chant this prayer, Text 17, properly.

Text 18
This is the end my friend. Prabhupada discusses the different process for getting free from sinful
reactions. As the Mantra suggests best way is to surrender and then Lord burns up our reactions. ¶8
- "Entire process is hinted at in this mantra and SB 1.2.17-20 explains further". Prabhupada cites
this series of verses often. They are in BG 7.1 purport.

Well, we have finished NOI and ISO. Next we shall proceed to LOB and BG overview. At this
point we should just quickly go ahead to the Semester Evaluation and note what we should commit
to memory, no? Also, chant the Mantras! Personally, your Associate, Hanumatpresaka Swami, is
sitting in our room on the second story of the Temple in Santiago. It’s 3:07 P.M. so the “Little
Toddler’s Happy School” across the street is quiet today. Boy were they howling today, and not in
happiness. I remember that. My mother worked also, so I was in day-care-centers from the
beginning. It had a lot to do with the way I think. And you?
We have an enormous head-ache. For two days now we have been editing this TPP on a computer
with odd function while simultaneously doing Temple programs, disciple programs, LOB
programs, sense gratificatory programs. We have done the best we can, and we rely on the fact that
we know our readers to be people of quality, with patience and determination, and so maybe this
will be of use to you.
Now we have to print it, post it, and get it ready to send to our actual five Students, then we can see
if it is useful, useless or manageable with work.
Thank you. Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Tommorrow is Gaura purnima.

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STEP SEVEN: LOB Introduction, VAD & Texts 1-6

Two Steps Backward

We've finished our first reading of NOI and ISO.
Pretty nice.
Next time with more depth.
Now, in the second half of this first semester we are going to see Srila Prabhupada's Light of the
Bhagavata (LOB) and an overview of Bhagavad Gita As It Is (BG).
What does Light of the Bhagavata have to do with our core book, NOI?
Well, to see that we have to take one step backwards, but as we do that let's take even a second step
backwards to our even more fundamental curriculum:

Just chant
Sri Krsna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa-adi-gaura-bhakta
-vrnda
and follow it with
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare
Hare,
and you have achieved the perfection of life.

It's a fact. Our American Bhagavata Curriculum (ABC) can be based upon just these two Mantras.
IS BASED upon these two Mantras. Actually, if the Holy Names don't accept any associates then
all other Mantras just stay in waiting. ABC can be chanting 164 rounds/per day, but we can't do it,
so we do what we can do for Krsna, academic recitation of other Mantras, and chant Maha-mantras
as much as possible.

Let us not study nicely all the Mantras of the 'Isopanisad' and forget to nicely chant the Maha-
mantras. We should only read and recite and recollect Mantras in their relationship to the King of
Mantras, 'Hare Krsna...'.

As we remember, the Greek poet, Pindar, said, "Why rush to worlds we know not of before we
have exhausted the limits of the possible". Just chant these two Mantras all the time until they are
exhausted before we take to others, no? It’s so simple. They will engage us in study. They will
engage us in Sankirtana or they will take us out of this body and back to Krsna in just one day.

You can live:

~Three weeks without food,
~Three days without water,
~Three minutes without air,
~Hardly three seconds without Krsna-katha.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna...

Chant Them systematically.

"Get up early and get your rounds dones". That was our dictum from an earlier page. It is truth. It is
truth. It is again and again truth. We also gave a Tantra of how todo it. We place our clock across
the room with a glass of water...

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Now it is 9:08AM. We are in our room in Pandava-vijaya Prabhu's home in Seattle and we have
19-1/2 rounds done. We’ve also done Mangala-arati, Diary writing, Srimad Bhagavatam class, and
breakfast. Now we can relax. Let us just do whatever happens spontaneously. Let's have fun in
serving Krsna.

We can't get everything done. We may not accomplish those things that will give us reputation and
fame. Let those desires go and try to keep in touch with Krsna in our study, work, Sankirtana and
be convinced that we just have one small tactical part to play in this war on ignorance and that
Krsna is a completly apt general, and as long as we are chanting we are connected to Him and
whatever little or big things we do today will be the perfect partcipation in His big machine.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna...

One Step Sideways

The Maha-mantras, LOB, NOI, NOD, ISO, BG are the basic texts for BS, but if you want
enchanced curriculum, if you want "extra-credit", add the "KRSNA" book, "Your Ever Well
Wisher", all the songs from the morning and evening programs and the Annual Vaisnava Calendar
Curriculum (VCalC). This VCalC is different songs and verses that are appropriate for study and
learning on the different festival days throughout the year. For example, on Radhastami you can
memorize Srila Rupa Goswami’s Radha-stava: radhe, jaya jaya madhava dayite… We will be
noting these as we go through this BS year.
Of course, beyond this there is the bibliography of World Classical Literature (WCL). We are
developing this for NIOS for their Master of Literature degree. We will put the VCalC and WCL
files at:
www.jayarama.us/archives/vcalc.txt
www.jayarama.us/archives/wcl.txt

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna......

LIGHT OF THE BHAGAVATA

O.K. Enough preface, now the Light of the Bhagavata. We can't get enough of this book. Of course,
we printed it in Spanish and English, in full color, in Peru, and have been distributing it.

As part of our Bharatiya Sanskriti festival in Peru a wonderful movie was also produced, extracting
from the book. Do you have copies of these?

For ASA it is our formal out-reach tool. It was designed by Srila Prabhupada for a cultured oriental
audience. Read the Preface. There you can find a wonderful description of the history and focus of
the book.
As far as we are concerned it is designed to engage people in Krsna-katha more than answer all
their questions. After they are attracted to the LOB then we offer Srila Prabhupada's biography,
"Your Ever Well Wisher". Then, if they want more we have the short biography of Lord Caitanya
from the Introduction to Srimad Bhagavatam, and then a summary of our entire culture, the NOI.

Let us insert our exclusive ASA, LOB "Table of Contents" and "Index" here. Just glance at them.

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END OF SUMMER
1 – sky, clouds, lightning = Our basic Ontology: What is Nature, the Soul and the Absolute Truth, ,
Achintya-bheda-abheda-tattwa (ABAT), Vedanta, philosophy is the science of science.
2 – scorching summer > rain = Purport focuses on distribution of rain, mercy and wealth. Taxes are
good. Governement should not allow rainfall on rocks. Gvt = 1) Democrary, 2) Monarchy, 3) Deva
… All three require good citizens and good adm. 1) Deva adm is good but people bad, no yajna
for Visnu, 2) Ksatriya and citizens need education, 3) Adm should use tax to educate the people to
follow the laws of God.. Varna ashrama dharma (VAD).
3 – clouds bring rain = Continues from Text Two. God is merciful but we don’t follow His laws.
Water, mercy, is substance of our life. Can see how kind is God by His system. Therefore, there
must be a God. Why does God wait so long to give relief?

RAINY SEASON
List:
Three classes of examples given:
Bad –Seasonal Grenery, Glow Worms
Good –
Reformable – Frogs

4 – after rain green = What is the purpose of life? (POL) Material temporary prosperity.
Rsabadeva, tapo divyam, austerity.
5 – glow worms = dark evening of rainey season = Kali Yuga, No guide from Moon (SB) or Stars
(BG) or their Rays (Acharyas in Succession). Glow worms (Bogus Acharyas) are envious (“No
God”), Cosmology, yugas x 3-modes. BG 15.15
6 – frogs in caves = Interfaith co-operation, There is a Supreme will w/o no happiness.
7 – flooding rivers = POL (See Also 4). Introspective x Extravagant natures. Yoga Ladder (YOL)
8 – butterflys flowers = more 4 & 7, richman’s bungalow, desert deer.
9 – gloomy capitalist = VAD farmer x capitalist, communism, Marxism, Ecology, Economics,
Nandanandana (Gopal).
10 – fish frogs stout from water = ISKCON b’caris, good use of rainfall. XcontrastX Texts 4,7,8
11 – rivers, ocean agitated = sex agitation for yogis w/ no guru
12 - rain pounds mountains = daya bhak, krsna’s mercy, adversity of educational problems?
13 – rain grass cover roads = VAD brahmanas with no sadhana
14 – lusty lightening flash = VAD. Divorce, the Feminine Element.
15 – rainbow = Avatars no material contact.
16 – moon moves in clouds = Ontology. We aren’t the body. Svamsa & Vibhinamsa.
17 – peacocks dance = VAD grhastha happy receive sannyasi. Their respective dharmas.
18 – fat plants = POL, nirbande krsna sambandhe, suppression can be worse than lust, kama lata
bija, more 4, 7, 8, x10
19 – punctured = VAD definition, details grhastha (politicians)
20 – dykes break = Vedas, vyasadeva, puranas, Vedanta sutra, Epistemology upstarts attack Vedas,
Interfaith.
21 – wind blows cloud = VAD, brahmanas inspire ksatriya & vaisya, Temple fund raising.

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AUTUMN
Krsna Appears in Vrndavana
22 – black-berrys dates = Avatar (SA 15) show heaven, VAD Vanaprastha, Lord Caitanya & 6-gos
literature & lila.
23 – milk bags overflow = (SA 22) & our love will flow.
24 – blossoms weep = Ontology. (SA 22, 23) and flow.
25 – taste fruits = ACBAT Ontology. Jiva & God
26 – boys share food = patram, puspam, phalam…
27 – cows cud = Ecology, value of Cows, Milk > Brains > Brahmanas > Peace.
28 – vrndavana attracts all = Avatar, Vegans, Yukta vairgya, Is this World False? Material world
can be a picture of spiritual world. Best use of a bad bargain.

Symptoms
29 – lakes clear = mukti no clouds
30 – lakes clear & lotuses = yoga ladder
31 – four symptoms of autumn = 4 VAD & w/o daivi all = burden!
32 – white clouds = VAD def sannyasi
33 – waterfalls yes/no = Yoga Ladder, Bogus Acharyas, Inter-faith, 2 types of K katha, Bhagavata
sapta (SA 5 & 20).
34 – lakes dry fish die = VAD grhamedhi (Politicians) x 19
35 – lakes dry = More 34 VAD too many kids, birth-control, abortion
36 – mud drys = Mukti, disp false ego, like dry coconut
37 – sea calm = VAD to vanaprastha (polticians), retirement at 50-years compulsory (SA 7, 9)
38 – dykes = VAD Energy – Krsna ultimate source, ours is gift, conserve energy for yoga (X Text
18, 20), Isopanisad.
39 – contrast day and night = Avatara, Vedas conclusion, material life x spiritual life (gopis)
40 – clear sky bright stars = Vedanta = BG 15.16-18
41 – moon stars x krsna yadus = avatara 4.9, 9.11
42 – mild wind nice and pain = Yoga ladder, sambhoga & viraha bhakti
43 – sex impulse, stags = NOI 3 then right time result WILL come
44 – kumuda x lotus = VAD Ksatriya x rogues democracy
45 – anna-kuta festival = prasadam, god sends food, say thanks, Govardhana puja (SA 2&3).
46 – after rain can go out = VAD, POL, after death get the result.
47 – cosmos = Cosmology, ACBAT moon planet etc.
48 – moon etc = more 47, beyond celestial.

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Abortion, birth Control – 35
Achintya-bheda-abheda-tattwa (ABAT) – Text 1, 25, 47
Avataras – 15, 22-24, 39, 41
Bio-data – Rsabadeva (Text 4). Krsna (9), Lord Caitanya (22), Six Goswamis (22), gopis (39),
yadus (40)
Cosmology – 47-48, Yugas defined (Text 5), Three modes (Text 1, 5), Material World (15), S/A
Ontology.
Cows – 22, 23, 27
Deer in Desert – Text 8.
Ecology - 9
Economics – 2, 9, Marxism (9),
Education - Text 2
God – Proof He exists (Text 3), Mercy – Text 2, 3, 12, 38, 45
Guru – Acharyas – 33)
Inter-faith Contrast and Dialog – Text 6, 20, 33, 44 (Democracy), Science – Philosophy is the
Science of All Sciences (Text 1)
ISKCON – 10, 21 (Temple Fund Raising)
Mukti-Liberation – 29, 36 (dry coconut)
Ontology – What is Nature, Self and Cosmos? Text 1, 16, 24, 25 (We aren’t the body), Svamsa x
Vibhinamsa (16)
Purpose of Life – Text 4, 7, 8, 10, 18, 46
Titles: The Nature of Society, Cosmos, Hankerings of the Soul, Greed and Wisdom, Religion.
Varna-ashrama-dharma (VAD) – 46, Daivi (31), Definition (19, 31), Distribution of Wealth (Text
2,9), Divorce (14), Brahmanas (13, 21, 27 (need milk)), Ksatriya (Text 2, 44)), Vaishya (9),
Vaisyas and Sudras/ Citizens (Text 2,9), Women (14), Grhasthas-Grhamedhi (17, 19, 34,
35),,Vanaprastha (34, 37, 38) Compulsory), Sannyasa (17, 32)
Vedas and Vedanta, Puranas, Gita, Acharya’s Literature – Text 1, 20, 22, 38 (Isopanisad), 39-40,
43 (NOS 3)
Vegan –Text 27.
Yoga Ladder – Text 7, 11, 13, 23-24 (Soul flows to Avataras), 30, 33, 42-43,
Yunta viaragya - 17

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VAD Sample
Now let’s read through the LOB, but rather than do it one Text after another first let’s take a sample
based on a specific topic. You can see from our Index that there are many topics, but let’s just look
at Bhagavata Social Philosophy in the LOB.

LOB is like a series of snapshots taken by tourists. It is not so systematic in the organization of its
themes. Again, it may be that the order is suggested by Rasa, tastefulness, rather than our
Euclidean, Aristotilean, logic.

For our specific topic sample we selected Texts 19, 31, 34, 17, 32 and 9. That’s six texts. Then we
can start reading six texts a week in sequence and finish the entire 48-texts within our first
semester.

If you look at the Index under the heading of Varna-ashrama-dharma (VAD) you can see a word of
content for each of these texts. Then from our Table of Contents (TOC) you can see another few
words for each text.
Texts 19 & 31 give a nice summary explanation of the Ashramas. Nice for our understanding
and nice to reach out to initiate the education of others.
Text 34 (and 19) talk specifically about Grhasta-ashrama and becoming detached from its
problems by advancing to Vanaprastha life. Do you see some of the problems described in your
own community?
Texts 17 & 32 then talk about positive aspects of the Grhastha Ashrama and the ultimate
Ashrama, Sannyasa.
Text 9 finally talks with more detail about problems in the Grhastha ashrama. The Greedy
Merchant. It also introduces the idea of the Varnas -- Varna-ashrama-dharma. The Ashramas are
the stages of life at different ages and the Varnas are the divisions of people by their natural
psycho-social working style:
Sudra – Artesans and Unskilled labour,
Vaisyas – Farmers, Industrialists, Merchants and Shop Keepers who employ others,
Ksatriyas – Nobility, Princes, Admnistrators,
Brahmanas – Religionists and Intellectuals.

Of course, we will study this in great and continuous detail as we go on to other books. Varna-
ashrama-dharma is the Dharma that can lead us to Bhagavata Dharma, cultivation of the soul
proper, and then help us to cultivate the human spirit once we begin that process.
Prabhupada mentions very specific, modern facets of the social system in his purports. Do you have
experience of these things? Do you see adjustments that should be taken in your own institution
based upon the advice of Prabhupada? Will it take courage? Do these Texts give specific ideas how
to proceed?
As I write this I am thinking of disorder in ISKCON that I feel with our management structure,
GBC, Temple Presidents et al. Also, I am thinking of Candra Prabhu again and his challenges in the
prison system where he works as a psychologist.

How did Krsna help Arjuna when he was troubled at the beginning of the BG? Did He give him a
secret Super-Weapon? No, He gave him knowledge, perspective, attitude and that made him strong
enough do defeat the Witch!

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O.K. That’s enough writing (reading) for one day. Let’s take hot milk and go to the Gaura-arati
here in Radhadesa, Belgium. Next week we can go through the LOB texts one after another and put
in our Afterwords.
Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!
Thank you.

Texts 1-6
As you can see from the the Table of Contents (TOC) there are three Texts that describe the
Scorching Summer Season and its end with the coming of the Monsoon rains. As you read each
Text also read our summary in the TOC. Do you agree with the summary there? We are still editing
them, but even in their present stage they are very useful for finding a specific Text for a specific
purpose.

SYSTEMATIC ORDER
For our linear German mind, the Texts in the LOB seem to jump around to different themes without
order! So, in the Index (NDX) we have collected different themes under different topics. This can
be useful because we are trying to learn and teach LOB as a preaching tool.
For example, if we are invited to an Interfaith Dialog, then we can use the "Frogs" text. You can
use it to make a one page hand-out with a beautiful picture, Srila Prabhupada's purport and any
relevant commentary.

What Text is that?

Scan the TOC ... ... ... Text Six! ... Just took me a couple of seconds because I know it’s
roughly in the first part of the book.

We learn to preach!

"Knowledge is of two kinds. Either we know something ourselves or we know where to find
it", Samuel Johnson

Text One
Text One seems like a strange place to start! It is so logical, analytical. It seems that it might be too
technical and might discourage the first-time reader with too many technical terms. However, it is
empowered. It describes our basic Ontology, ultimate reality. It explains, Brahman, the absolute
truth, the relation between the Supreme Brahmana and the Little Brahman (us), Maya, the three
modes of material nature.
Did you realize that there are so many lessons in the flashing lightening?
It also introduces the medium of knowledge, the Vedanta-sutra.
Which class of philosophers claim the Vedanta is "their absolute property"?
We lectured on Text One last night, here in Madrid and took us whole hour to get the ideas across
to neo-phyte audience. Seems strange to begin with such an analytical topic? Yet, again it is
Sukadeva Goswami's choice.

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Text Two
Summer is finished. The clouds came in Text One and in Text Two the rains come. Prabhupada's
purport makes a strict anology with evaporating, sever, sunshine and then the subsequent rains,
distibution of the collected water. Do you see these parallels e.g. evaporation = taxes?
He mentions three systems of government, no?
In the end he seems to accept that democracy is the actual system and then offers a suggestion what
is needed to make it successful. What is that?
Does Sankirtana = Education?
Later today, Sunday, here in Madrid, we are going on the regular weekly Harinama Sankirtana.
You go out too! Devotees come from the farm, all over Madrid, and we go through the Sunday
market and so many places.
Sankirtana.

Text Three
The Rains have come! Text 3 continues Text 2, no? In Text 2, we are disobedient and in Text 3
Srila Prabhupada explains even still Krsna is kind to us. Text 2 talks about Democracy, Monarchy
and the Government of God. Here we have more ideas about the nature of that divine government.

Is God cruel to only give water when we are stressed by thirst?

Text Four
The results of the rain, but here it is compared to the temporary manifestation of material opulence.
It is like Text 2 and Text 10 of NOI, no? We are so attracted by new shoes or a new car, new
luggage or a new house.

Text Five
By which of the modes of nature is Dvapara-yuga dominated?
What does Kali mean?
The rainy season produces gloworms amongst the insects and what kind of person amongst the
religious people?
Real Vedic knowledge comes in disciplic succession and what place does Srimad Bhagavatam hold
in the disciplic succession? It is as brilliant as the ______???

Text Six
This Text is good for preaching to the scientists???
What is it good for?
The frog means?

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STEP EIGHT: LOB 7-21 & BG Overview 1-6
LOB Text Seven – Twenty-One
In our VAD readings we have already read Texts 9, 17 and 19, so the next group of 12-texts are 7-
21. Let's take a look at our Table of Contents. What do you see? Any groups or special topics
amongst texts 7-21?

We notice that Texts 4, 7, 8, 10 & 18 are all put in the same group, to much attachment to the
temporary show of material nature.

Let's go through them one by one.

Text Seven
1. This and the next text tell us to always be conscious of the temporary nature of our activities and
instead use the mind for adquiring permanent vaues.
2. Almost a paraphrase of the Gita verse, "nehabikramo naso sti...". You can find it in the Index to
the NOI. Memorize it!

Text Eight
1. Is the mirage attractive? Do you have a colorful bungalow?
2. Can you use the analogy of the deer?
3. Material nature is a temporary show but another fault of it is that it is but a _____ of reality?
4. What is the origin of the Jiva? Was he with Krsna before he came here? Evidence from his
purport.
5. We've already it but notice tha Text Nine is the guy in his great bungalow. He has become mean
and selfish.

Text Ten
Have a drink of water!
Here is a contrast to 4, 7, 8, 9. Here are beasts and Brahmacaris who use the propitious downfall of
rain to get permanent values.

Text Eleven
Here is the essence of the temporary agitation described in the earlier Texts. Beautiful flowers
offering honey. Here also is the solution how to avoid this agitation from the Rainey season. Stay
fixed at Guru's feet.
Do you do this?
Shoo! Hut! The bona-fide spiritual master can drive away the bad dog of Kali-yuaa. Help!

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Text Twelve
I am really enchanted with this picture: The little fellow and his buffalos, his rustic raincoat. Life
can be so simple in this shadow world.
Not everything in the rainy season is sweets and flowers, but again the devotees use all these things
to aquire permanent values.

Text Thirteen
Not just the merchants, but also the Brahmanas fall into Maya.

Text Fourteen
We can use this for a nice Symposium:

DIVORCE
The Femenine Element.

A beautiful lady is like lightening. Good food, nice smells, nice dresses, nice social prestige.
Merchants, Brahmans, Ladys all become agitated by temporary profit.
Beautiful she can attract different men.
"This man didn't give me a new car this year, nor enough social prestige. Hmmm! That man,
cloud, looks better".
Such powerful ladies must learn to control these agitations.

Text Sixteen
Pure Sankya, ontology, analysis of the cosmic situation, first part of second chapter of BG, of
course wonderful for lectures.

Text Seventeen
Cre e e e e eow! Super VAD text, no?
Guru? Sannyasi Dharma?
Grhasthas?
Many elements of the previous Texts, no?
Frogs in the caves?

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Text Eighteen
Just like Text One of NOI and 1.1.11 of NOD. Here's why the monsoon rains are dangerous. The
seeds are there. We all have them. Ajamila had them. Watch him in NOI and NOD.
Supression can be worse than the lust!

Text Twenty
Interfaith dialog or debate... Got the Frogs for harmony and arrogant, dashing rivers for debate.
Epistemology. How do we know? What are the Vedas?

Text Twenty-One
They just get better and better. Weve used this for a big university program on education: Role of
the Teacher. VAD topic. Brahmana-dharma. Brahmana should not abandon his position to become
a cloud. Also, great for inspiring people to support Temple construction, renovation...

~+~

Unit Summary
We have seen so many great Texts for temple and external preaching.Blow-up an Illustration. Put it
in a promient place like a library check-out area. People will stop to look and then next to it Poster
with some details about the local event with the LOB art and an extract from Prabhupada's purport.

Then, a little hand-bill for them to take with them and give to their friends. Say that next to the
hand-bills, "Take a few for your firends. Spread a good thing around. Engage in insane acts of
random kindness!"

The local events should include ISKCON members and appropriate local people who can talk about
the different LOB topics, divorce, the degrading features of modern life and what is the solution.
They can bring their followers to listen They can sponsor a place to display a blow-up etc.
LOB is for appreciating, for changing our own conduct, but we should also be meditating how it
fits into our circle as a Sankirtana instrument.

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BG1-6 Overview
BACK TO BASICS
How does "Bhagavad-gita" connect to our root text, "Nectar of Instruction"?

"Sraddha, faith in Krsna, is the beginning of Krsna consciousness. Faith means strong faith. The
words of "Bhagavad-gita" are authoritative instructions for faithful men, and whatever Krsna says
in "Bhagavad-gita" is to be accepted as it is, without interpretation ... especially the last instruction:
sarva-dharmaan parityajya maam ekam sharanam vraja. ‘Abandon all varieties of religion and just
surrender unto Me.’ (Bg 18.66)", NOI Text Five, Pf. 12-13.

So, let's start our BG Overview with BG 18.66, with faith. Faith means you act on what you hear.
BG 4.34 purport Srila Prabhupada explains: Blind faith and absurd enquiries are condemned. You
have to get knowledge and you have to read with intention to change.

BHAGAVAD GITA 18.66

Four paragraphs (¶), no? First ¶ summarizes the <whole> content of the BG and then quite
amazingly abandons it, no? Amazing, but instead, direct surrender to Krsna is recommended.
¶-2 Prabhupada explains an obstacle to surrender. What is it? How should we relate to it?
¶-3 So you should still go to work but you don't have to do Yoga. Even your work, you should
only continue if it helps you surrender to Krsna.
¶-4 It seems that to surrender to Krsna we have to be fortunate enough to have some spontaneous
attraction to Him. We may wonder what it means to surrender to Krsna. Yet, the message here
seems to be direct: You <are> attracted to Krsna, you <know> how to surrender. It's your
constitutional position.
18.66 reminds us of 12.8 where Krsna says the same thing. Yet, then He says that if you can't jump
right in then take to the practice of Vaidhi Bhakti-yoga. If you surrender you will automatically
know this: “I can't make full spontaneous surrender so I should take shelter of Srila Prabhupada and
follow the process”.
The essence is surrender. Knowledge comes from surrender, and that knowledge will help us
surrender more, but the essence is to surrender!

So, this is how we will read BG, with an attitude of surrendering to the speaker, Krsna, more and
more.

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Chapter One - Setting the Scene

(What about the Introduction and Preface???)
The Preface is short, only 3-pages. We can read it next Semester. The Introduction is long, 34-
pages. We will look at it for Bhakti-vaibhava, O.K.?

SETTING THE SCENE

It's 22 May 2009, Friday. We are sitting in the Temple in Yaroslav, Russia. It's a rented building
that belongs to the furniture factory around us. They don't use it. There is no electricity, no heat, but
that doesn't matter too much because it is light from 3:00AM in the morning until 11:00PM at
night.
We will probably rewrite these TPP BG notes again in the future because this is our first time doing
this and it's bound to get better with practice.

How about you? Is your life also pioneering for Krsna? Making a path others can follow?

We recorded the First Chapter, Sanskrita and English. It took 21-minutes. You do the same thing!
Chant and record each Chapter, by yourself for your Deities or with your group. In a few weeks
you'll have all 18-Chapters. We need 16,108 recordings of BGAsItIs!
How many verses each chapter?
Keep your notes where you can use them in the future.
There are several Chapter Summarys available. Do you have some? Do you like them? Do you
agree with them? We should know the content of each Chapter pretty well? Our movement is sound
because it is based upon Bhagavad-gita.

What are the rough sections of this first Chapter? To us they are like:
Texts 1-28, setting the scene. Duryodhana's reaction to the scene and Arjuna's reaction.

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Texts 28-43, details of Arjuna's reactions.

Of course, we will read this in detail next Semester.

Now seems we should just read and appreciate all the Translations and Purports to Texts 1 and 32-
35.

Underline phrases. Chew on the content.

Basically we see that here, and continuing into the first part of Chapter Rwo, Arjuna's problem. The
whole rest of the BG is a solution to that problem. What is Arjuna's problem? Do you also face the
same problem? Can you see the scene? Can you see the change in his attitude? It seems to change
drastically, even unreasonable??!? We'll look at it in more detail next Semester. Get a feel for the
situation.

Let’s Mark for memorization the Texts we will memorize in the next Semesters:
1.1 - Setting the scene. Kuruksetra

Read Puports
1, 32-35

Chapter Two - Contents of the Gita Summarized.

This is actually like two chapters. We see three sections here.
1. Arjuna states his thesis in Chapter One and concludes that he thus will not fight. In Chapter Two
(2.1-8) Krsna gives some reasons why Arjuna should fight and Arjuna gives counter arguments, but
finally surrenders to Krsna (2.7).
2. Krsna then instructs Arjuna in Sankhya, analyzing the basic elements of life, the body and the
soul (2.11-39).
3. Finally, He instructs him in Buddhi-yoga, acting from the platform of wisdom (2.39-72).

When you chant the verses you might want to break it into two parts. Notice the word Socayan
appears in the first verse of Krsna's instructions and again when he is advising Arjuna. Also, notice
what reasons Krsna gives to Arjuna for fighting. Does He say, do it for Me?
In the section on Buddhi-yoga notice how many times the word Buddhi appears.
It took us 20-minutes to chant the first half and 15-minutes the second.
This is a very rich Chapter. We will discuss it in the Second Semester in detail and then, for Bhakti-
Vaibhava more discussion. One basic point is that the Bhagavad-gita is the Gita-upanisad. Like the
Isopanisad it is for beginners, very intellectual beginners, but beginners.

Notice how Krsna talks about the soul as Enam. Slowly the idea of God will be introduced and
then, in BG, we may not see it ever passing much beyond the level of Paramatma, the Supreme
controller of the universe.

We should mark for memorization in the next Semester:

2.7 Only last Pada (Last Line), Sisyas te 'ham...
2.11 Why you lament, Pandita!?, Asocyan...
2.13 Changing Bodies, dehino 'smin...
2.40 No loss in surrendering to Yoga, nehabikramo-naso 'sti...
2.41 What does vyavasayatmika buddhi mean, 1st Pada only.

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2.47 Defintion of Buddhi Yoga. karmany evadhikaras te...
2.59 Last Pada, The Higher Taste, param drstva...
2.69 Which of the two kinds are you? Ya nisa sarva bhutanam...

Nice Texts. Like putting posts down in the ground to build a fortress to fight with The Witch!
(Grrrr!).

Now, which Purports to read? I have to ask Visistha! He's giving class now. What do you thnk? I
will look through and pick two.

~+~

Well this is bizarre but I suggest you start by reading the Purports to Texts 1, 2 & 3 in the Third
Chapter. Prabhupada gives great summary of everything, and read the last Paragraph of 2.72.

3.1-3 - Purports.
2.72 - Purport, ¶-3 only.
2.11 - Text and Purport.
2.7 - Text and ¶-1 of the Purport.
2.13- Text and Purport.
2.47 - Text and Purport.

Next Semester we can get even more. We'll be really informed citizens of ISKCON!

Chapter Three - Karma-Yoga.

43 Texts - 20 minutes to read.
We're doing this overview as Six Chapters in two weeks. That's a robust schedule. But I think we
have the pace. We look at it like three days of class a week.
Chapter Two was fat! Now how big is Chapter Three? I think from here on things are a little
leaner!

In Buddhi-yoga you must have noticed the word Buddhi many times in the Sanskrit. Is the word
"Karma" here in the Sanskrita many times?
Right in Text 3 two topics are introduced: Sankhya by Jnana and the Yoga by Karma.
We saw these in the two parts of Chapter One, no? Now more details.
1. Karma-yoga is superior to Sanhkya.
2. Karma-yoga means to satisfy Visnu and His demigods (3.9-16) for material necessities and
liberation.
3. The self-realized are free from Karma dutys but they follow them to set an example (3.17-26).
4. The ignernt think they control, they control, the universe by their work, Karma (3.27-30).
5. Contrast Karmi - Karma-yogi (3.31-35)
6. Arjuna asks: Vaco vegam, manasa-krodha vegam?? Krsna answers (3.36-43)
But He again seems to finish off being equivocal for Buddhi-yoga and Jnana-yoga? Will Arjuna
ask about this in Chapter Four?

Read:
3.43 - Purport.

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We already read 3.1-3

Mark for memorization:

3.21 People need an exemplary leader (Neumonic [A trick for remembering the Text number]:3
leads 2 leads 1), yad yad acarat...
3.27 Under the three Modes! (Neumonic: 3x3=27), prakrteh...

Chapter Four - Transcendental Knowledge.

42 Texts - 17 Minutes
It's Sunday, 2009 May 24, 8:33AM. We are still in Yaroslav, Russia. There is still no electricity,
light, nor heat in the temple, and it will stay that way for nobody knows how long. It has to do with
getting an arrangement with all the other renters and the factory owners. Otherwise, the devotees
have to pay $1,000/month for electricity.
We are shaking little bit from the cold and little arthritis creeping into our bones from the damp.
Yesterday we went on Harinam with about 25-devotees. Was really great. Russians love folk-
dancing. All kinds of people down-town even though there was some rain.
We just finished chanting all the Texts. It was work, but each time it gets nicer. We appreciate the
original Sanskrit even more.
Even in a whole lifetime we will not "completely" understand the BG. Let's just go ahead in bite-
size pieces and purify our hearts more and more!

~+~

We have two sets of chapter-by-chapter summarys and neither of them is very satisfying in giving
us a satisfying overview. Also, as we read through the chapter we see many, many different things,
and they appear at first glance to be in a jumble??!!
Well, let's look through it and see if we can see some order. Maybe it is partly an esoteric order
than comes about from how Arjuna is reacting emotionally to what Krsna says, and thus may not be
apparent too easily.
The Acharyas point out these internal motivations sometimes.

>>>

This is what we see. Agree?

In general Krsna is enlightening Arjuna about who he is, and what life is. In Chapter Four He is
continuing, and becoming more exact.
It's like someone asks you, "Why did my car stop running?" Well, there maybe a lot of things that
he has to know about how cars work. In the beginning you may say, "The car burns gasoline in the
engine and the pressure of the gas from that fire makes the wheels turn."
It's, true, but to really explain things you have to go into more detail, and you have to teach in terms
of how your student is following the classes.
So, in Chapter Four Krsna is just continuing. In the beginning of the Chapter He just gives some
more pedigree [NOTE for Buffalos: Pedigree is the list of the ancestors of a dog that make it a
special dog. So it means the source of the BG that makes it special] for the knowledge He is giving.
It's epistemology, what is the source, value of this knowledge. He says that it came down from the
Sun god.

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This goes on to Texts 9 & 10 for sure and then something very interesting happens. In this Chapter
we get very personal about this knowledge. Now Krsna is revealing that this knowledge of Karma,
Sankhya, Ksatriya-dharma is really knowledge of Him. Real knowledge means to know Him. Real
knowledge of the laws means to know the law maker.
O.K. Then what happens after Text 10?

Up to Text 19 Krsna seems to be repeating Himself from Chapter Three. We need review to learn.
Then He says that this knowledge (of Karma) is difficult (may take more than one Chapter), and
then in Text 19 He seems to put it into simplified terms.
Text 23 - Working (fighting) with full knowledge only serves to increase your knowledge (not
cover it), and elevates you to working in the Kingdom of God. Like prison work going to regular
liberated factory work.
He does his work as Yajna.
Text 24 - Stereo-typed idea of Yajna - just offering Ghee in the fire. (Srila Prabhupada translates
very practically).
Texts 24-33 - Different kinds of Yajna.
TEXT 34 !!! - How to get this knowledge of Yajna! Jaya Gurudeva!
Text 36 - Back to glorifying the knowledge thus described. "You made a really wise choice, Sir, in
buying your auto at May Bell Auto Dealers".
The people who take this knowledge are great. (See this?! Again and again and again... Krsna,
Prabhupada, give the contrasting situation.) Text 40 is the ignert Dudes who don't take to this
knowledge (or like us are still dragging our feet in getting it after 30 years!). Just one contrasting
text this time. All the rest to the end of the Chapter is just glorifying the knowledge and the glorious
results for those who follow it.

O.K?

1. The pedigree of this knowledge being given.

2. This knowledge ultimately is knowledge of Krsna.
3. The Knowledge is ---Text 19--- Kill people but don't be attached to the profit. Kill as Yajna.
4. Different types of Yajna.
5. The glories and destiny of the followers of this knowledge.

This is Bhakti-sastri. First you gotta read it once. Then you gotta teach (and read) it again for
Bhakti-vaibhava, Bhakti-vedanta, and... practically use it to educate others that you meet.

Mark for Memorization:

4.2 Padas 1-2, Parampara...
4.7-9 WHy does Krsna come?
4.11 Pada 1-2, As you surrender to Me...
4.13 Pada 1-2, Krsna creates Varna-ashrama...
4.34!!! Must approach Guru.

Read:
4.42 - Sanatan-yoga.
4.10 - The challenges that face us.

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Chapter Five - Karma-Yoga -- Action in Krsna Consciousness.
29 Texts - 13 Minutes
Only two more Chapters and we can (Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna...) take a break!
Yes, that's a good attitude, but also should pace it so that it's like eating. We study for some time.
Get nutrition and then do other things and then come back for some more nutrition. AND it's a
balanced diet. BG is integrated with a complete program of scholastic investigation: KRSNA book,
NOI, Caitanya-caritamrta...

Chapter Five seems to start with exactly the same question as Chapter Three. Seems that Arjuna is
showing us that an ordinary person would have a hard time understanding these two things,
Sannyasa and Yoga, even after the other Chapters. Five seems just to be repeating, amplifying
previous knowledge. We are going in a Spiral!

TEXTS
1-6 Arjuna's question and Krsna gives nice contrast of the two again. Very nice.
7-29(End of Chapter) Krsna glorifys Yoga. Nice details:
How it relates us to others.
Detached.
Offers results to Krsna... ...BUT fools don't do this and get attached (you can't blame Krsna
[15]).... ...
BUT-> wise are free (16)
AND see cows the same as dogs.
New glorification and description of Yoga.
23 - NOI Text 1!
24 -'brahma nirvana...!'
27-28 - Introduces Yoga Techniques. (More in Chapter Six.)
29 - Ahhhh! ! The Peace Formula. (Chapter Summary).

Mark for Memory:

5.29 - Peace formula: Bhoktaram...
5.18 - Equal rights for Dogs!: Vidya-vinaya...

Read:
5.1 - Summary. We can do it.
5.28 - Be a Yogi.

Chapter Six - Dhyana-yoga (Meditation-yoga)

47 Texts - 21 Minutes
Krsna continues with the same topic, no? The synthesis of Yoga and Sankhya. Note, it’s not a
Contrast, it’s a Synthesis.

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Text two hits it precisely. By yoga one realizes the same knowledge as by Sannyasa or
renunciation, but unless your Yoga includes actual renunciation then it is not really Yoga. Do you
see?

We think we see. By Sannyasa, renouncing involvement in things, one can engage in Sanhkya,
developing analytical knowledge of the cosmos and us. This is Jnana. Seems that Jnana-yoga is
little different than just Jnana, because the Jnana-yogi does his analysis of things to link (with
Krsna), but the Jnana doesn't have such a clear goal for his analysis, or he may even be engaged in
this analysis to become God himself.

Texts
-Text 3 (Text 4) is the "Yoga Ladder". We'll look at it more next Semester.

-THEN ....... in Text 5 we see the Dhyana-yoga start. Dhyana means meditation or
concentration. We see it as a regular word in modern Hindi for concentration. (Right Raktaka?)
5, 6, 7 - The mind can be your friend or enemy.

-If conquered, made a friend, the result is ??? (Texts 7, 8, 9)???

"Further advanced" - We remember that Prahlada Maharaja tells Lord Nrsmhadeva that he has
experienced many kinds of suffering in many different bodys, such as hunger and thirst, heat and
cold, but the greatest suffering he says is separation from those you love.]

-Text 10-14 - The technique for practicing Yoga.

-Text 15 - The goal. Remember the last text of Chapter Two, "brahma-nirvanam-adhigacchati".
Have you seen the term Nirvana in the Sanskrit since then? Yet here Krsna clearly says that
Nirvana is "mat-samstham", His place.
-Text 16-17 - Process
-Text 18-23 - The goal, but not the final goal. Getting into trance. Getting into the laboratory, so
that the experiment can be performed. Getting fixed in Trance.
-Text 23-24 - Repeat: Process, Sannyasan (renunciation), the intermediate goal (Trance), the
ultimate goal Krsna (as the Super Soul?).
-Text 30-32 - Again, even same as Isopanisad, no? Again and again, BG 4.35, what is the truth we
see by hearing from Guru? We see all living beings as brothers.
-Text 33-45 - But what about guys who take to Yoga, they quit the University and join ISKCON,
and then bloop? IMPORTANT QUESTION (Already answered in the very beginning, Chapter
Two, Buddhi-yoga, no loss on this path, "nehabikramo...").

We in a Spiral!
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-Text 46 - Repeat. Yogi is the best. Better than a Karmi, Jnani, Sannyasi.

-TEXT 47 - Jack the Giant Killer! And who is the best Yogi? "Mad-gatenantar...", who always
thinks of Krsna!

~+~+~+~+~

So, same contrast, synthesis: Renounce and know things; or work and know things, Yoga. Then
details of the mind in these process. BG is really simple so far, no? Just one topic really.

(Monkey: Piggy, you keep the pebbles and stones, I'll take the gold!).

Mork for mimorizashun:

6.47 - Super Dude.
(Also, if you can learn the meaning of Yoga aruruksa and Yoga arudha (2.3) and Cancala hi
manasa Krsna (2.34) and Yoga-bhrasto (2.41)

What shall we read? After next semster we should have a better list.
But:
6.20-23 - The Sammadhi verse. Comparison with Patanjali, no?
6.37-45 are very nice.
6.47 - The Giant Killer.
[Krsna finishes this Chapter saying that the best Yoga is to focus on Him. Then in Chapter Seven
we see that He gives specific aspects of Him for that meditation]

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STEP NINE: LOB 22-36 & BG Overview 7-12
Hare Krsna, Dudes!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Please accept our humble obeisances.

How are you? We are back in the Temple/Ashrama in Yaroslava (RUSSIA). We've survived food
poisoning, forest travel, time wharp, two-hours with the dentists.
Now our TPP Afterwords are on "Light of the Bhagavata" (LOB) Texts 22-36. We've already
looked at 31, 32 and 34. Remember that we look at LOB as a way to meet a certain class of people,
introduce them to our culture, and then as they want to know more then (from Text 22) we can give
them Srila Rupa Goswami's "Upadesamrta" to follow.

¡Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

LOB 22-36
Do you have our ABC LOB Table of Contents? From there you can see that Texts 1-21 seem to
describe the end of the hot Summer Season, the torrential Rainey Season, and in Text 22 the
Pleasing Autumn Season begins.
Texts 22-28 especially seem to describe KRSNA is Vrndavana, and then different symptoms of the
Autumn Season seem to be used to illustrate different facets of Varna-ashrama Dharma and so
forth.

TEXT 22
Nice picture, no? In our Spanish-Engish edition the right side of the mural got chopped off, but you
can still see it in the thumb-nail extract in the back. Everyone is bringing something for KRSNA
and Balarama is co-ordinating the offerings.
This is Vrndavana. This Text is about Vrndavna, no? It's perfect to introduce a lecture on
Vrndvana. You can invite people to come and here about the "mystery of Vrindvana-dhama".
It is so similar to the Introduction to NOI: Who is Krsna, who is Lord Caitanya, who are the
Goswamis? Then it takes us to NOI Text 8. What is that, remember?
This text is the natural portal for distributing NOI to someone engaging them in TPP
seminars.
This is like the ultimate purpose and description of Avataras.
Why does KRSNA incarnate? We have seen in Bhagavad-gita Chapter 4 He gives some reasons.
Are they the same as here?

TEXT 23
¶1 Continues the same information as Text 22. So many times Prabhupada paraphrases the Text
from Brahma-samhita, "Venum kvantam aravinda...". Everyday we hear it at 7:00AM Srngara-
arati. Seems we should learn the word by word meaning for Bhakti-vaibhava!

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¶1 Everything in the Spiritual world is full of variety, but of the same quality as KRSNA and for
KRSNA!
¶2 We are lovers of KRSNA. Is very difficult to revive that loving feeling for Him? How is it
revived? By taking LSD?
¶3 Same thing, our constitutional and conditioned position and how to go from one to the other.
Really seems that Texts 22 and 23 are one unit.

TEXT 24
Do you feel something special for this picture? When we see it, we think, <<<How kind is
KRSNA>>>. He has so many big devotees with whom we can never compete for His attention, but
here we see that sometimes, He is just alone with the little peacock, the forest and His flute.

¶1, 2, 3 & 4 The Text indicates that the caves and waterfalls were trying to offer service to Rama
and Krsna. How can inert matter serve Krsna??! So, Srila Prabhupada explains what are the
different energies of Krsna and how they can all become Spiritual. By Krsna's grace the waterfalls
in Vrndvana may become devotees, no? Or maybe they are the energys of a devotee like
Govardhana. Like we use our fingers to type for Krsna, Govardhana uses his waterfalls and cave to
serve Krsna. Or again, maybe they are directly independent devotees.

Human form of life is best place to wake up our Spirit!

TEXT 25
From Text 22 these Texts seem just to be one unit. Everyone wants to serve KRSNA (Text 24), and
KRSNA reciprocates their feelings (Text 25). He takes service from the trees. What kind of
service?
Again, the errors of the Maya-vadis as in Text 22. Again the oneness and variety of Krsna's
energys, devotees, as in Text 24.

Some fruits are sour,

Some fruits are sweet,
Some fruits are for sucking,
Some fruits you eat.

TEXT 26
Hare Krsna. Jaya Srila Prabhupada. It's 6:54AM in the Ashrama in Yaroslava (RUSSIA). Yes,
the sun in going to be out again today, so we don't suffer from cold. We suffer from mosquitos
instead! Let's continue hearing about Goloka. Maybe there's no mosquitos there?

In Text 25 Krsna was picking fruit and sharing it with His friends. In Text 26 it's time for a regular
lunch from "the range of good foodstuffs like rice, dal, wheat...".
~How do you know what Krsna wants to eat?

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Then Prabhupada goes into a very rapid overview of many aspects of our Rasas with Krsna.
Good Text for vegetarian groups.

TEXT 27
Now the Symptoms of the Season are mixed with Krsna's presence to give us some lessons. Purport
is pretty clear.
Of course, this is a Super, Super, Text for stimulating discussion about ecology, vegetarianism,
animal rights, Vegan diet. We used this in Peru and had a Festival of the Cow with a little all milk
preparation cookbook and milk preparations to taste for sale. Hare Krsna.

TEXT 28
The Nectar just keeps on flowing. What does this Text talk about? For what kind of programs is it
good?
Right now I am arguing with an Indian devotee, ISKCON guest. His Guru says that the material
world is nasty, meaningless. Only vain Gurus will tell you to get involved in it by counting how
many Holy Names you chant!

Is true?

This verse is great explanation of Yukta-vairgaya, using everything in Krsna's service. Great verse.
Use it! Print the picture.
Even Krsna can be pleased with "material" offerings.

TEXT 29
Official end of Monsoon Season. What do the clear sky and lakes symbolize?
This goes well with Text One, no???
What is Mukti?
Repeat of many ideas, no?

TEXT 30
Sound identical to Text 29?! What's in the Purport?
Do you see the Siksastakam Text One?
Nice basis for "Yoga Ladder" presentacions, no?
"Which Yoga Is Best?

THE YOGA LADDER

A Discussion and Demonstration of the Different Types of Yoga

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-or- "Which Religion is Best? Or What is the Best of Your Religion?"

Should we climb the ladder quickly?

TEXT 31
We've already discussed this Prabhu,
But now we hear two more that are new.
Prominent features to the autumn season.
What are two old ones that stimulated our reason?

TEXT 32
More VAD from before.

TEXT 33
Very interesting. Water flows from the clouds during the rainy season and from the __________
during the autumn season.

What are the two classes of religious preachers?

Well related to the Yoga ladder, Text 30, no?
This is why we try to ascend too fast, no? We chose a mercenary, ignoramous, for our Guru.
Guru-tattva, Yoga-ladder.
Just pass out Srila Prabhupada's words and watch the magic happen.
What are the two qualifications of an Acharya mentioned?

TEXT 34 & 35
We already discussed Text 34 in our extract of VAD. Text 35 continues the VAD topic.

Getting at the Root

Fits into our series 4, 7, 8, 10, 18. The "Krpana" Series.

Beat on my head! But how can I give it up, SENSE GRATIFICATION, unless I can REALLY
cultivate my human spirit?
In modern society a man with a cultivated spirit would be a rare commodity.
Maybe as ISKCON grows to the tens of thousands in Boise, Idaho, it will be more natural to be a
Yogi and enjoy Bhajan for Krsna.

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TEXT 36
Oh, goody, now we can take a break. Done our quota of 12 Texts for today. (Haw! Haw! Haw!).
But again, in the beginning it's like that. Reading SB is like taking a bitter medicine. But for us now
it's not so bitter. Actually nice as we begin to appreciate this LOB more and more.

Prabhupada Has Left Us Many Tools

Some like the hammer.
Some like the wrench.
Some like the cook-stove,
(But with the right tools)
Sankirtana is a cinch!

Text 36 is like identical with Text 31, no? Two symptoms and four symptoms. Amazing, Just
noticed that. The Purport is about VAD like Text 31 or about the Yoga-ladder? Hmmmmm?
Kind of a mild general Text to be used in conjunction with other more forceful Text, no? Very nice.

UNIT CONCLUSION
Well, that's LOB Unit Three. Lots of echoing. Let the Texts and images bounce around in your
heart. Then, when the opportunity comes, toss them, the ball, into someone elses, court, heart and
then they have to play their part. That's what Sankirtana means, no.? We try to present the truth,
Parampara, but we can’t force anyone to join the orchestra! They have to pick up their instrument
and start to play, also.
In ASA we are experimenting with this LOB as our Sankirtana tool. You won't get that in Guna-
grahi Swami's Sankirtana school (today). Maybe I and ASA aren't the school for you. That's O.K.,
but still you have to learn to play! Everyone should learn the art of playing the big Mrdanga. Every
salesman has his own technique. We can steal tricks and get kicks from watching others sell, but in
the end we have to develope our own techniques and use them well!
Jaya Govinda. Jaya Gopal!

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BG 7-12
Hare Krsna! Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai! How are you all?
Here we are in Yaroslav (RUSSIA) on Nirjala-ekadasi, 2009 June 3. We have nothing else to do
but write our TPP Afterwords to Srila Prabhupada's BGAsItIs for the Bhakti-sastri Diploma. We
hope you like them and will send us your notes!

CHAPTER 7
30 Texts 14½ Minutes
~ Text 1 - Remember what Krsna said at the end of Chapter Six? We guess Krsna didn't have text
numbers or chapter breaks when he spoke BG. So, we see that in Chapter Seven He just continues
with His idea from Chapter Six - engage in Yoga.
He is still continuing with this co-ordination of Yoga and Jnana, which, so far, is the whole theme
of the BG. Arjuna has been wondering, "How can I know you just by doing Yoga?", and here
Krsna says He will explain "how".
~Text 2 - Here Krsna seems to drop the Yoga thing and just tells Arjuna that he doesn't have to do
Yoga. He just has to listen and He will give him like before this Sankhya knowledge, Jnana, of all
the elements of reality and their relationships. Like cosmology again but in more detail... "I shall
now declare unto you..."
~Text 3 - Like before He glorifys the knowledge before He gives it!
~Text 4 - Krsna's Bahir-anga-shakti
~Text 5 - Krsna's Tatastha-shakti
~Text 6-7 - Krsna is the source of these two Shaktis.

MONKEY: What about the Antarang-shakti?

HPS: We'll get to that.

~Text 8-11 - These are like specific energetic manifestations of Krsna, no, Pantheism? Like He is
giving specfic examples of the general statements in Texts 4-7. Pretty striking.
We see that Text 4-11 can be taken for meditation. Thus the Yoga recomended in Chapter 6 can
now have a practical object of meditation.
~Text 12-14 - Krsna's relationship with the three modes of nature. The cosmic manifestation's
relationship with the three modes. They are a dynamic aspect of the analysis, no? They are what
makes the gross elements move.
Actually, we started in Chaper Two with a simple analysis - you aren't the body, and now it's
getting pretty rich -- different elements, higher and lower, how to escape, different categories.

PRAPADYANTE: In Text 14, 15, 16 (Bhajante), 19, 20.

So Textt 14 starts a series on "Prapadyante", surrendering to Krsna, worshipping Krsna, doing

Yoga for Krsna. First 15 and 16 describe those who don't surrender, prapadyante, and those who
do. 17-19 gives details of the Jnanis, one group of those who do surrender. Then 20-23 those who
don't surrender, do Yoga, in the category of demigod worshippers. Not many people in that
category in Boise, Idaho, no?
Text 24-25 - Those who don't surrender in the category of impersonalists. This can be either the
immature Jnanis and the malicious Jnanis, no?
Text 27 - Why don't we have Jnana?

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Text 28 - But.... some are free from this "moha", who? Some can engage in Yoga, worship,
surrender, why? The answer is amazing.
Text 29-30 - Krsna seems to be now summarizing everything, but in such a way that He is
introducing a whole new perspective on the topic. So, in Chapter 8 Arjuna will ask Him for more
details of this new perspective.

CONCLUSION
It's a great Chapter. It's just a continuation of the same theme: Yoga and Jnana. Krsna gives Arjuna
the content of his Yoga meditation, the general material nature, the Jivas and Himself, then specific
manifestions to chew on. This is all stirred up by the three modes, that's the dynamic behind the
action of the elements.

[Meditate on that!]

And, SURRENDER to Him is the element that moves the Jiva from the material world to Krsna.

Remember 18.66, where we started? Just surrender unto to Me?

The BG is like entering into a Jacuzzi or a tumultuous mountain river, no? Each time we enter into
it we are trying to use the pounding water to stimulate and release different tensions, attachments.
So, knowledge, the water current, is helping us to do Yoga, surrender, and surrender, Yoga (with
what knowledge we have) gives us more knowledge about how to surrender. Best thing is to just
move into the Jacuzzi with whatever knowledge you have.

Hari Bol!

Then Krsna just gives sub-categorys of guys who surrender and guys who don't: Jñanis, demigod
woshippers, impersonalists. He finishes by saying that the Jñanis (they who, by Sankhya, see the
problem of this cosmos, birth-death-disease-old age) take shelter of Him "asritya", which is again,
they surrender to Him, and they, "vidhu", know everything.

Yoga, Knowledge, Yoga, Knowledge, Yoga...

~+~

10AM - Should we fast for Nirjala ekadasi? We don't know? (Haw! Haw! Haw! Get it?! Same
problem as Arjuna!). O.K. but we do KNOW that we will die rather than eat grains (1), and that we
should chant Hare Krsna at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet (2) and this will give us knowledge.

We see bad results from Nirjala.

We're <<<just>>> recovering from five days of BAD food poisoning and our stomach is starting to
go into cramps from no water. Hmm!?

Surrender!

Engage in what service, Yoga, you know, and knowledge will automatically come.
~+~
When we do it: (2) Chant Hare Krsna at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, we feel simple clear
conviction that we should tolerate the cramps, headaches, vomit reaction, a little and if it goes

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away, O.K, but if it gets worse, then take a little water before noon, and maybe just all day. Hare
Krsna.

O.K.?!

BG is very practical! It is from a different time though. Maybe we will never have to confront
demigod worshippers or be tempted to do it, but maybe so. Impersonalists are surely here. Science
generally is impersonalistic. Lots of religious guys are really impersonalists -- immature or actually
hate God.

READ
Text One Purport.
Texts 29-30 Purports.

Mark for MEMORIZATION

We are noting BG Texts for memorization. We will test on these for the Final Examination in
December 2010 in Lima, Peru (or at your home), but for this Semester let's just memorize those are
cited in the NOI. They follow. You don't have to have a separate print-out with you for reviewing
them. They are all in the NOI! Just carry it with you and use it as a Verse Book.

BG Verses for Memorization 1st Semester

(From NOI)
2.40, 2.62 (pada 'sangat sanjayate kamah'), 2.69, 4.11 (first 2 padas) 4.34, 7.15, 7.19, 8.6, 9.4, 9.13,
9.21, 9.30, 9.31 (pada 'kaunteya pratijanahi na me bhatah pranasyati'), 10.14 (pada 'sarvam etad
rtam manye yan mam vadasi kesava'), 14.26, 18.66

+++

AND for our Final Examination list:

(From Chapter 7)
Text 4 - SUPER SUMMARY for Sankhya classes: "bhumir apo 'nal vayuh..."
Text 8 - 1st pada for the Pantheists: "raso 'ham..."
Text 14 - 3-modes, escape, surrender: "daivi hi esa..."
Text 15 - 4 independent Dudes.
Text 16 - Learn the English for the four dependent Dudes.
Text 19 - The reward of the best of the four dependent Dudes: "Bahunam janmanam ante..."
Text 28 - Details of more rewards for good Dudes: "Yesam tv anta gatam..."

Next Semester we will have two or three weeks for this chapter, no? Very nice.

CHAPTER 8
28 Texts 13 Minutes

We really like Bhurijana Prabhu's Summary of this Chapter from his book, "Surrender Unto Me".
(We think that's where the foto-copy is from.) Yet, he seems to say that there are five questions!
There are seven, no? And Krsna answers each one briefly and then gives details of the last, how to

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remember Him at the time of death. This depends on your Smaranam, Bhava, meditation. So,
during your life you should also meditate on Krsna as (Text 9) the oldest, the Purusa etc.

Krsna is still instructing us in the meditation-Yoga of Chapter Six, no?! He says meditate on me
and now He explains who He is in a very accessible way.

Text Ten Krsna, like in Chapter Six, gives some technical details of Smaranam, meditation.
THEN, although Arjuna has only asked about how to meditate on Krsna at the time of death, Krsna
gives details of the destination of those successful in remembering Him at death.

Param-gatim. His Supreme abode.

He contrasts it with the material abode.

Text 22 seems like a big jump, kind of. He has been talking about the Param-gatim, but how He
introduces Himself, the Purusa. What do you think of that?

Text 23 is back to technical details of Yoga, but, Krsna finishes by saying that this kind of Jñana,
investigation Yoga, is not as good as fully surrendered Yoga. A Bhakti Yogi attains the goal at the
time of death more directly, and that process is better than being a good Karmi or other kinds of
investigator.

CONCLUSION: Always be trying to please Krsna.

READ
Texts 1 & 2, 5, 7, 10, <<28>>

Mark for MEMORIZATION

Text 6 - "Yam yam vapi smaram...", become a deer!

CHAPTER 9
34 Texts 14 Minutes
Bhurijana Prabhu's summary is really cool. He says that Chapter Eight was kind of a side comment
by Krsna on the knowledge that Krsna was giving in Chapter Seven, and in Chapter Nine He
continues to give this knowledge about Himself. That seems to match Prabhupada's comments that
Arjuna should really have not asked the questions that started Chapter Eight. Of course, his doubts
are for our benefit.

Text 1 Purport is great! Srila Prabhupada goes on with exactly these ideas. Read it! ... .... ...
... ... Are you a sincere devotee? In the Purport Prabhupada makes us ask ourselves. I answer,
"Well, a little. Mostly I'm looking for comfort." So, we <<<try>>> to be honest. Admit our selfish
motives. Then Krsna can maybe help us! Because this hearing BG can be extremely potent, and
thus we can be powerfully empowered to do powerful service.

We need that! Srimati Radharani is captured by evil intelligence in the heart of everyone. If we are
impowered we can deliver the message of NOI to Her. Then we can return with Her petition for a

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full-set of books to the BBT. Maybe we can't change the whole world, Kali-yuga, but we can get
this show on the road and make big changes in the world!

~+~

Before Krsna has explained His energys. This will KNOWLEDGE will inspire us to be Yogis.
Now He will talk more directly about Himself. Even more inspiring.

We have to give up being covetous of Krsna's comfort. (It's subtle.) Then He can impart potent
knowledge to us. (Something even a p-nut brain can catch.)

¶ 2 - Next Semester!

Text 3 - Again contrast. 1-3 are basically epistemology again, no -- how, who, what will we know?

¶ 4-10 = The most confidential knowledge. Of course, SB is more confidential, and CC is even
more. But relative to general religion this is deeeep.
It is acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva, no?
Text 4 & 10 are the same.
You got it? 9.4-10? You make an analogy to describe the situation Krsna is presenting?

(This is an overview).

Text 11-12 = Contrast. Epistemology. The demons can't understand. Big purport, no?

Text 13 = Contrast. The devotees can understand.

Text 13-14 = Qualities of those devotees.

Text 15 = Who are these guys? Demons? Devotees? or another class?

Text 16 = But.... "I'm not impersonal (Demon-thinks). I'm not the the universe (Ecologiy-think). I
am these things (Texts 17-20).

Text 21-34 = The end of the Chapter, we see Krsna really makes this point, that you will get
different kinds of KNOWLEDGE (of Him) depending on what kind of attitude you take toward
Him. This is not some kind of impersonal, mechanical knowledge.
He goes into fantastic details about how the right attitude will compensate for bad birth, caste or
slips and falldowns. He finishes with clear essential statement that we must worship Him.
But!!!! Without Lord Caitanya's mercy, without "Caitanya Caritamrta", there doesn't seem to be
enough specific knowledge in the BG for us to really know Krsna in great detail.

We really need the mercy of the Maha-mantra, Holy Names, as an object of constant meditation, to
be able to know Krsna, constantly and engage in our little part of the Kuruksetra fight for His
cause.

Next Semester will be nice. More time for these Chapters.

But, whole lifetime we need to collect the Gita. Learn it by heart.

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When we come to Bhakti-vaibhava, very soon, then we will continue with Gita, but we will see
how Prabhupada has captured it, his tricks for catching Krsna!

READ
We already read Text One purport. Why not read Texts 11 & 12 as samples of the contrasting
intelligence.

Mark for MEMORIZATION

2, 4, 11, 13, 14, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32

CHAPTER 10
42 Texts 15 Minutes

This chapter we really like. We read it often in classes. Let's see if Bhurijana Prabhu's summary is
as good as ours (Haw! Haw! [Whether it's as "good as ours" or not, it's probably more accurate.]).

...

His Summary is nice. Have you got it? Buy the book, "Surrender Unto Me".

Krsna is just continuing with the previous revelation of the previous Chapters, no? Again, lots of
epistemology. By that we mean that besides giving us knowledge, he also glorifies the knowledge.
He comments about how rare it is, about who can or does not know it. Arjuna does the same.
Arjuna wants to hear more details.
This Chapter is Pantheism, no? Next Chapter will be Mysticism. They come one after another. In
the third Semester, when we get to this Chapter we have to pick out specific energetic incarnations
and meditate on them. For example, if you live in Lima, you can go down to the end of Lardo
Avenue and look out at the ocean from the cliffs and contemplate how it is Krsna, and then make a
report.

Chapter starts with general comments, then 10.8-11 the whole BG in a nutshell, then many Texts
about specific energetic incarnations, and finally setting the scence for the next chapter, Chapter 11,
with a description of an even more intimate form of Krsna than the shark, the Paramatma.
Read
10.1 - Purport.
10.8-11 - Purports: Four nutshell verses of BG.
10.42 - Purport

Mark for Memorization

10.8-11, 10.14 (Padas 1&2) Arjuna's doubts are gone.

O.K? 10:32AM in Yaroslav (RUSSIA). Today it's cloudy and windy. Temple is on the second
story of an abandoned building in a furniture factory complex. Other light industry is around us.
River lake is just down the dirt road.

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Most of the devotees are in the Temple room with Visistha doing Russian study of Bhakti-sastri.
Tonight we go to Ivanov for two days. Then... ... ... ... from 15 June - 7 September we should see
most of you in USA. Then we can do a lot of review together.

Student Raktaka we can see by telephone and then guess we will meet in India, Manipura, first part
of next year!

Everyone is coming to Peru for December 2010 for Final Examinations, right?
(Mangos Prasadam!)

CHAPTER 11
55 Texts 31 Minutes
Arjuna thanks Krsna for Chapter Ten, no? Then he asks to see the Paramatma feature of Krsna that
Krsna mentioned at the end of Chapter Ten. Krsna says, "O.K.", but makes a few comments about
this universal form and then Sanjaya explains to Dhrtarasaya what Arjuna saw. Seeing this Arjuna
offers prayers glorifying this universal form and he asks Krsna's mission (15-31).
Texts 32-35 answers this question and tells Arjuna to fight on the basis of this answer.
Txets 36-46 Arjuna again glorifys the UF and Krsna, and asks to see Krsna's four handed form.
Krsna obliges Arjuna and fininishes the chapter summarizing everything in one verse.

Very musical chapter. Some people chant Arjuna's prayers daily.

Read:
Purports to Texts 11.1, 11.15, 11.32
11.55 (last paragraph), 11.50

No Texts to memorize for our Bhakti sastri study.

CHAPTER 12
20 Texts
Arjuna asks for final clear decision on the same question that has been bouncing around throughout
the BG?
Krsna answers clearly, although He maintains the same profile, that impersonal path might work
for some people. Then in Text 8 He gives a Yoga ladder. He seems to go down and then back up
again. In some aspects these verses seem a little unclear to many commentators, but generally
speaking the heirarchy is clear. What is your level? What is your Bosses level?
Then from Text 13 to the end Krsna describes the qualities of a devotee.

Read: Purports to 12.1, 12.9, 12.20.

No text to memorize for Bhakti sastri.

~+~

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This is the end of this second unit of our BG overview, chapters 7-12. Devotional service is clearly
indicated here.
Now in chapters 13-18 we expect to find how Krsna reverts back to describing the material world
to give a contrast to this devotional service and its pure spiritual nature.

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STEP TEN: LOB 37-48 & BG Overview 13-18
Welcome to Step Ten. We are writing this in our room, in our flat, in our city (Ribinsk), in our
country (Russia), looking out our window at our cold&windy&grey/green Russina summer scene.

Of course, guess we should remember, "isavasyam idam sarvam...". This season, this nation, this
city, this flat, this room, this chair, these finger, this mind... ... ...are all just our quota from
Krsna.

Thank you Krsna.

LOB 37-48
TEXT 37
Texts 22-28 were very much Krsna moving in Vrndavana during the Autumn season, no? All
scenes of Krsna, Balarama, cows, trees, boys playing, trees weeping.
In Text 29 we see the start of a description of different features of the Autumn season as metaphors
for different lessons. This continues in this text, Text 37.

Everything is drying up. And here the sea is also becoming calm. What lesson will we hear here?
Say your guess out loud to your Deitys and let's read.

... ... ...

Strong purport! VAD, no? Strikes us as a very strong text to read in comparison with Text 7.
Prabhupada talks about introspective and external life, as, as, as, a product of the three modes!
Nice picture for promotional purposes.
Compare Text 9, the greedy merchant, large scale industry.
Compare with Text 34, old politicians, grhamedhis, never retire.
In gneral seems like an echo of several previous lessons.
Are you getting ready for Vanaprastha and then Sannyasa?

TEXT 38
All these Purports are so super, but here we see the same things again, echos. We really don't have
to learn many things, no? We just have to learn a few things well, from many angles, and then we
can make the whole world Vrndavana wherever we go.

This is the same as which NOI Text? Which ISO Texts?

Of course, continues the theme from the previus text, Text 37.

Great for public lectures on retirement.

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TEXT 39
Funny Text! Like "ceto darpana marjanam...". First we are suffering, "samsara davanala lidha
loka...", then yoga gives us relief, then even higher, it gives us chance to love Krsna. The stages of
this development are hinted at. Little Yoga ladder here, no?

TEXT 40
This is our last Text for today. If we do four a day then we will finish them all during our 3-day
stay in Ribinsk: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
This is definitely a part of Sadhana-bhakti, Vaikuntha: Planning for serving Krsna.

What's the Topic in this Text? The import of the Vedas?

O.K.
Who can have it? How does he have it?

In what two books is it described?

This series of Gita verses seem to be favorites.

What is the actual import of the Vedas? We all become one?

TEXT 41
Ribinsk, Russia
2009 June 9
tuesday

12:57PM
Last night we had a home program with about 60 people attending! We just talked about the four
previous texts. It was so nice illuminating Prabhupada's ideas.

Today the same.

Looking at the ASA Table of Content notes for these four verses, they seem to touch on very
different topics. Let's see:
In Text 41 Srila Prabhupada seems to be correcting the mistaken vision that some people might
have that Krsna is a wonderful historical person in the Yadu dynasty. He explains the idea of
Avatara very clearly.

Do any other LOB Texts talk about Avatara-tattva?

TEXT 42 seems to continue our contemplation from Text 39, but adding more understanding of
this Gopi-prema, both how it liberates and how it advances to higher and higher stages - Viraha and
Sambhoga worship.

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TEXT 43 is like which NOI Text? Can you see how Prabhupada is paraphrasing the NOI Text?

TEXT 44 is pure Varna-ashrama-dharma, no? Practical ideas for government, monarchy,

democracy. Srila Prabhupada, LOB illuminate things so well. How can we establish Monarchy?

~+~

Four texts, our quota for today. We will talk about them tonight. We become illuminated in our
personal dealings by hearing these LOB Texts, and we also think about how we can use them when
we meet people or organize Symposium on these theme.
Does Prabhupada maintain the focus on his expected audience for the 1961 Congress in Japan?

TEXT 45
It's our last day in Rybinsk. We drive to Moscow today and then fly to Spain tommorrow.
Yesterday we met with a local historian. It was so interesting for us, and him, discussing Russian
cultural heritage. That is LOB preaching, no? We have to understand people's cultural perspective
and then talk to that.

TEXT 45
We discussed this text last night in terms of the ecology movements. First we have the hellish view
that everything is produced from dead chemicals, and science is showing us how to manipulate
matter so well that we can do whatever we want. We will become Masters of the Universe!
Then some realize that this is not working. We have to co-operate with other humans, share food,
and then some realize that we have to co-operate with the other animals, the frogs, the flies. We see
that many of these ecology movements are on the level of brahman or paramatma. They realize
there is something non-material in Nature. They realize a subtle controling Spirit, but it is not clear.
So, in the purport to this text Srila Prabhupada talks about this, showing our thanks to God,
Paramatma, but then by introducing "anna-kuta" Govardhana festival he takes the idea of offering
fresh grains to God to a level higher than Paramatma.
"And some day you will play with Krsna".

TEXT 46
One more summary of Varna-ashrama-dharma. Sannyasis should preach not build temples? How
does it contrast with Text 43?
Prabhupada discusses more the idea that "perfected souls attain the <required> body" as soon as
they leave this one. He points out that there are different kinds of "perfections", or destinatiions -
different planets. This leads us right into the last two Texts, cosmology, what are the diifferent
planets?

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TEXT 47
This is a very COMPLETE summary of our cosmology, no? It's amazing. For someone reading it
for the first time it would seem to be incomprehensible. All he could understand is that the 'Hindu'
cosmology is very rich, and the author seems to have a complete grasp of it, and seems to be fully
convinced of it by personal experience.
For Sankirtana, this text is like the basis of a week long seminar, or just to show the complexity of
the cosmos. The next text...

TEXT 48
This Text just seems to carry on where from the last text. In Text 47 we came from Goloka to
Boise, Idaho, USA but in Text 48 it is describing the higher planets within this universe. Again,
incomprehensible names such as Manasa Lake, Mount Meru. Of course, we were supposed to have
already read Cantos One-Nine before we come to these texts.
All these cosmology maps seem to include two features: 1) Appreciating how there actually exist
superior realms to this earthly sphere and our masters live their, and 2) Appreciating that
Vaikuntha, Goloka, are not just a matter of more subtle material power, but rather a complete sift in
the basic principle of spirit and matter. In Goloka the Lord is the central enjoyer. In the material
world we are trying to be the supreme enjoyer!

~+~

O.K. We hope you got your fingers sticky handling all the different LOB sweets and saltys, and as
you lick off the nectar you will be inspired, and know how, to use this LOB in your potent
Sankirtana.

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BG Overview 13-18
CHAPTER 13
35 Texts

Text 1 - Arjuna just starts asking about cosmology and epistemology with no apparent continuity
with the last Chapter, Bhakti-yoga. These seem like his questions in 8.1-2, but there we see that
Krsna had mentioned these things: Brahman, Yajna, in the previous chapter.
Here there is no apparent cause. Maybe next semester we will find out what is the reason.
Arjuna asks and Krsna answers, but in Texts 8-12 He explains what is Jñanam, knowledge, but it
doesn't seem to us to be knowledge. It seems to be the means of acquiring knowledge.
O.K. More details next Semester!
Text 13 then seems more properly to be knowledge, the knoweable, which in the Supersoul. He is
described from 13 to 18.
You can't know clouds. They are always changing shapes. Ultimately you can't know the bodies of
you near and dear ones. They are also changing. What then is knoweable behind all these changing
forms?
The Super-soul!
Well, in Text 19 are Ksetra and Jñanam finished, and in Text 20 Prakrti and Purusa begun?
This is like a repeat of the first verses? The idea is clear: Matter, us, Krsna.
Text 35 summarizes the Chapter.
How many times does Krsna repeat the same analysis, Sankhya, of the elements of material nature,
the soul and the Supersoul, and, how to get this perception.

Read
Text 1 - Purport. Nice Sankhya and, "In the first six chapters..."
Text 6-7 - This is like 7.4 but much more detail, no? In the Bhagavatam, 2nd and 3rd canto there is
great detail of this Sankhya. Then in Ayurveda, Jyotisha-veda, Gandharva-veda, Danda-veda, we
will see it applied in specfic fields: Medcine, Astronomy, Music and Dance, Political Science.
Well what is your specific branch of Vedic knowledge?
Following Lord Caitanya are we engaged in one of the above?
Text 35 - Purport

No Texts for Memory, but we should know what the terms Ksetra, Ksetrajnayor mean.

CHAPTER 14
27 Texts
Short chapter and very simple.
Text 1-2 - This knowledge is great.
Text 3-4 - The cosmos.
Text 5-18 - The characteristics of the three modes.
Text 19-20 - Transcending the three modes.
Text 21-26 - Character and method of those transcendentalists.
Text 27 - Like the beginning, cosmology from the broad perspective. The three modes are details.

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Read
Text 1 - Purrport!
Text 27 - Purport.

Mark for Memory

Text 4 - Last pada. Pigs, dogs, hogs, camels and asses, we are all brothers.
Text 26 - Liberation by Bhakti.
Text 27 - First Pada. Krsna is the source of the Brahman.

Chapter 15
Only 20 Texts! Just like Chapter 12.
24 June 2009. Murfreesboro, Tennessee. We started reviewing the TPP - BS with Nitai-
gaurasundara and Gaura-gadadhara Prabhus here in Tennessee last night. We remembered that our
first goal is to learn how to get good Association in reading Srila Prabhupada's books, next Systems
and finally Content.
Our Associaton is NGD, GGD (and hopefully Tandavika Prabhu from India). Our System is that
we have a speaker phone discussion at 6:30PM from NGD Prabhu's house each night.

O.K. Chapter 15. What do you think we will find here? ? ?

So far, 13 and 14, really focused on analysis of this world, cosmology, no? I think that's what 13-
18 are supposed to be, return to cosmology after 7-12's Bhakti yoga.

This world is a banyan tree (1-4). How to escape, go to Goloka (4-5). What is Goloka (6). Look
again at those trapped in the Banyan tree (7-9). Contrast those trapped in the tree and those who
want out (10-11). How those who want out should look for Krsna in terms of: a) The material
world, and b) the Purusa-uttama (12-19). Finally, this Chapter is a complete confidential Yoga!

Wow! It's going to be so nice to study these in Semesters 3-4! Now I see that this Chapter is just
like a little stand-alone Bhakti-yoga Upanisad.

For Memory:
Text 7 - mamaivamsa..., Text 15 - sarvasya caham... Super Text! (Text 16 and 17 lets memorize
like in Bhakti-vaibhava).

Read:
Text 1 - Why would someone question, "What about the Vedas?" at this point? I don't know??
Maybe we will find out.
Text 7 - We have to exercise the brain everyday with this contemplation.
Text 20 - Last paragraph.

Chapter 16
24 Texts.

Ahhh! A very fun chapter. Very modern!

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The divine (1-3). The purport is like a week long class by itself!
And in contrast the demon's qualities (4-22).
Following scripture is the real distinction (23-24).

Read:
Text 1 ¶3
Text 7 - Do you agree?
Text 24 - How does this apply in ISKCON?
Memorize:
No texts.

CHAPTER 17
28 Texts 14 Minutes
Will we find more Sankhya, cosmology, Krsna conscious analysis of nature???

Seems pretty straight forward. Arjuna asks a question and Krsna answers it.
Read purport to Text 1 and we see the relevance of this question to the rest of BG.
For the conditioned soul faith comes from our mode. Then Krsna describes from this faith who one
worships, his type of food, sacrifice, austerities and charity (7-22). Then Krsna talks about
transcendental faith and sacrifice, Om tat sat. Read Text 7!

Compare 16.23 and 17.1

Note in Text 20, "dese kale ca patre", place, time and circumstance. Prabhupada is always
mentioning how our Sankirtana yajna must be adjusted in terms of these three things.
We don't see any verses to memorize!
Do you see any symptoms of food, sacrifice etc that specifically relate to your life?

CHAPTER 18
78 Texts 35 Minutes
Wow! This is a humdinger of a Chapter. Again it talks about things under the three modes of
nature, but it also talks about transcending them by becoming a devotee.
I don't have Bhurijana's "Surrender Unto Me" here? Maybe it's in Shyama Prabhu's library. We will
look. The Chapter is really divided into distinct parts that we should appreciate.
Well, it's 11:30AM. We will take a break and get back to this overview in a little bit.

...

Actually it's 10:00AM one day later! We got totally captured by catching up on all the Spanish
language e-mail and then the big evening program at Nitai-gaurasundara Prabhu's home.
Partha-sarthi Prabhu came back with us. Class was over at 9:30PM and we finally got to bed at
11:00PM. Then, up at 2:00AM and full morning program!
I didn't find Bhurijana's Gita commentary but I found Bhanu Swami's, Visvanatha Cakravarti
Thakura's BG Commentary! I didn't know it existed. We will take a copy of it.

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Looking through it we see that Arjuna starts the Chapter by asking what are Sannyasa and Tyaga,
and is there any difference between the two?
Krsna like answers in Texts 2-12. You read them?
Tyaga, as already mentioned in Texts like 12.11 means to do all scriptural sacrifices but without
desire for result, whereas Sannyasa means to give up all the worldly sacrfices and only perform the
ones for eternal benefit (but also without result).

For example, a Tyagi will do his Gayatris and do sacrifice to get a good child, but without desire
for results. Let my sons leave home and join the Temple is they wish. A Sannyasi will only chant
his Gayatris and won't do any sacrfices for sons, wealth, degree from the law school etc. So both
sacrifice the results but a Sannyasi also gives up worldly sacrfices.

Krsna expands on these ideas and in some degree kind of equates the two.
Bhanu Swami's translation is g-r-e-a-t! Never saw it before. Like to read it, but the question arises,
do we really have to understand this fine distinction between Tyaga and Sannyasa? Seems we
really have to be conscious of studying the Gita for our actual use under Srila Prabhupada's
guidance.

...

Texts 12-19 Krsna talks about the five factors that cause things to happen. Only a fool thinks that
he is the independent cause of the results of his action.

We see that in Text 18 Krsna explains that the Karmas (works/sacrifices) of the Sannyasi or Tyagi,
or even of the fools, are all related to Jñana. It is very Upaishadic, no? Very intellectual, but true. If
you have a certain understaning of things then you will work in a certain way, and if you work in a
certain way (Gimme that tool, I'll show you how to do it!) then that will generate a certain kind of
knowledge, perspective.

Jñana → Karma → Jñana → Karma → …

Text 19 - 29 = Three types of knowledge, action and doers of that action.

Text 29 - 35 = Three types of Buddhi and Dhrti, Intelligence and Determination.
Text 36 - 39 = Three kinds of happiness.
Text 40 = Conclusion: Besides just action, knowledge and happiness, everything is either sattvic,
rajarsic or tamasic, in goodness, passion or ignorance. The conclusion is that the Sattvic things
should not be renounced.

Texts 41 - 49 = Do your Karma under the modes of nature which means Brahmana, Ksatriya,
Vaisya etc, but with the proper spirit and you will come to the highest stage of Sannyasa. You will
not be just a little bit or moderately liberated, rather you will become Brahman!

50-54 = Going to pure, pure Brahminical consciousness, you will discover Bhakti!! ! ! !

54-63 = Bhakti will automatically give you all the freedom from Karma and all the Jnana of all the
other processes described before. So take exclusive shelter of Me. Just chant Hare Krsna and be
happy. Really, if you don't you will go to hell. Chapters 13-18, giving us again Sankhya, analytical
understanding of the self, are thus completed.

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64 - 66 = Now Krsna puts it in a Wham! Bang! Super direct concluding form. Maybe these Texts
are the essence of the Gita?
67 - 71 = About teaching this Knowledge.
72 - 73 = Krsna, "You understand?", Arjuna, "Got it!"
74 78 = Sanjaya, "Wonderful! By Vyasa's mercy! Krsna + Arjuna + Gita = All success!"

Memorize
18.54 – “brahma bhuta prasannatma…”
18.61 – “isvarah sarva bhutanam…”
18.65 – man-mana bhava mad-bhato…”
18.66 – “sarva-dharman…”

Read
18.1
18.78

Ooof-a-ling-a-ding-ding! Such a lot of work for our little >>>brain<<<. By reading and
contemplating it we have to take it to heart. We all have big hearts. We can't understand the Gita in
one pass. We have to study it again and again. However, that's what naturally happens as we pass to
Nectar of Devotion, Srimad Bhagavatam, all of Prabhupada's, the Acharyas other books. There we
shall see and be able to appreciate how they use the Gita.
From time to time we must also formally re-read it like this.

O.K. are your illusion's now dispelled! Haw! Haw! Ho! Ho! This is the end of our TPP, Bhakti
Sastri, 1st Semester, Afterwords. On to the First Semester Examination!

Monkey/Piggy: Oh! Goody! A test! I shall be the first to touch Krsna!!!

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EVALUATION for SEMESTER ONE
(rev.2009 July 08)

Did we learn something running behind Srila Prabhupada chanting Krsna Krsna Krsna He? Maybe
we can look at this First Semester as the Parikrama walk from Vrndavana to Mathura. We’ve
reviewed NOI, ISO, LOB and BG, but that’s all on the basis of two Texts:

Sri Krsna Caitanya,

Prabhu Nityananda
Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivas-adi-Gaura-bhakta-vrnda.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna,

Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

[NOTE: Examiner, maybe pick out some of these questions and verses for you exmination. You
don’t have to test for all of them]

Basic Goals:
What percentage of this Semester did you chant 16 good rounds?
Did you follow the four regulative principles strictly?
Did you have daily, enthusiastic, Mangala-arati, Kirtana, Srimad Bhagavatam class and so forth?
Did you develope some process for hearing and chanting the books, songs, texts? What is it?
How much were you engaged in constantly remembering Sri Krsna’s Name, Form, Pastimes etc?
Did you develop some respect, appreciation, for NOI, ISO, LOB & BG?

Summary of the Books:

Take one piece of paper for NOI, ISO & LOB, and three pieces for BG respectively and write down
the glories of these books. Include:
Number of Texts or Chapters in each one, writing the names for as many BG chapters as you can.
Describe the rough content of the books, the texts, and the structure of the books, how the texts and
chapters are related to each other. Any groups into which the texts or chapters fall. Eg. Texts 6-9 of
NOI talk about water Sports in Goloka.

Memory – Specfic Verses:

NOI – Know by memory Texts 1 & 3,
ISO – By memory Invocation & 1,
BG – By memory all the Texts cited in NOI = 2.40, 2.62 (pada 'sangat sanjayate kamah'), 2.69, 4.11
(first 2 padas) 4.34, 7.15, 7.19, 8.6, 9.4, 9.13, 9.21, 9.30, 9.31 (pada 'kaunteya…) pratijanahi na me
bhatah pranasyati'), 10.14 (pada 'sarvam etad rtam manye yan mam vadasi kesava'), 14.26, 18.66
Siksastakam – Know by memory 1 & 3 and be able to follow all from memory.

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Songs:
 Know word for word Srila Prabhupada’s pranam mantras: namo visnu padaya…
 “Sarira avidya jala…”,
 Morning and evening programs songs: By memory Verses 1 & 2 of “Samsara davanala
lidha loka...”, “venum kvanantam… govindam adi purusam… (1st prayer this semester and
‘angani yasya..’ next semester”.
 Should be able to practicing to follow by hearing Sad-goswami-astaka (krsnotkirtana…) ,
 The Ten Offences in chanting the Holy Names (SB 2.1.11)

Memory – Sanskrit Terms, Facts & Concepts.

(Examinator will pick from some of the following for the Semester examination.)

NOI Text 1:
What does Hrsikesa mean?
What is the Anuvrtti?
What does the term vegam mean?
What does controlling the genitals means?

NOI Text 2
What does the term atayhara mean? Give three examples.
Complete: “Simple living and ______________?
What is bahir-anga bhakti?
What is Sanskrit and English for the threefolf material sufferings.
What is the story of the cobbler and then shoes?

NOI Text 3
What does utsahan mean?
Name as many as you can of the 9-processes of devocional service.
If you have lost your enthusiasm, where can you find it?
Fill in the blanks: “In this Kåñëa consciousness movement we require everyone to rise early in the
morning, by ____ A.M., and attend ____________, then read______________, perform
__________, and so forth.”

ISO Intro.
What does Prabhupada declare is the topic of his lecture (Sanskrit-English)?
What does epistemology mean?
What are the four defects that we have in acquiring knowledge?
Define and make a 2-dimensional diagram of the following epistemological terms. Some are on the
same level, some are higher, more powerful, than others:
Shabda
Pratyaksa
Veda
Parampara
Aroha pantha
Guru
Anumana
Srimad Bhagavatam

ISO Invocation

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Fill in the blanks: Complete realization of the Absolute Truth means realization of His three
aspects: Bra______, _____________ and _______________.
(Circle one: True/False) Krsna has unlimited complete potencys. This material world is His
external potency, called jiva-shakti.
Why do we see material nature as incomplete? How can we realize that is complete? Explain by the
example of a prison?

ISO Text 1
Explain how different species have different quotas.
Is it enough to just take our quota and not others for our enjoyment?

ISO Text 2
What are Karmis, Vikarmis and Akarmis (Sanskrit and English)? Which ones should aspire to live
for hundres of years?
This Text and Purport are just like NOI Text ______.

ISO Text 3
Define and explain (~three words): sura, asura, suci, atmaha, srimat.

ISO Text 4 & 5

What does it mean that Isa has no hands, but His hands extend everywhere? Why is this description
presented?

ISO Text 6
We are trying to see Isa’s hands and leg in nature, and in this text we are admonished to see all
living beings as his parts and parcels. Can the karmis and jñanis, ecologists and Buddhists, see this?
Who can see this?
Then we go to NOI texts 4, 5 & 6. Why is this a natural continuation of the theme of Text 6 and the
Bhaktivedanta Purport?

NOI Texts 4-6

Of the six loving exchanges which two does Srila Prabhupada emphasize the most?
The kanistha adhikari only sees God in his own temple, but a Madhyama adhikari can distinguish
four classes of living beings. What are they and how should be relate to them?
What the difference between hari nama and spiritual initiation?
What example does Rupa Goswami show us in how to fulfill the principle of dadati pratigrhnati?
Kanistha and Madhyama adhikaris can accept disciples, but you must accept and uttama adikari as
Guru. Is there a contradiction here? Please explain briefly.
We may see harshness or some mistakes in American born Sanyasis. Should we reject them? What
doe NOI Text 6 say about this?
In ISO 6 and NOI 5 Srila Prabhupada repeatedly admonishes that we should know our own level of
developement and not imitate a devotee on a higher platform. What happens if we imitate? Is it a
way to advance? What level are you on? Give a little objective evidencence?

ISO 7
Text 7 says that we must see all living entities as eka-tvam, one with Isvara. Who can see this,
Socrates, only a devotee, 1st, 2nd & 3rd class devotees?
(T/F) He who sees the Jiva soul as eka-tvam, one with the Lord, sees that the Jiva becomes God
when he is self-realized?
Complete these analogies of the eka-tvam relationshp:

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The sea and the ______ of sea water.
The father and his __________.
The fire and ________ from the fire.

ISO 8
According to this text, how is the Isvara’s body different from our body, even after liberation? Does
He eat? Can He fight with His enemies? Can he taste only with his tongue?

ISO 9-11
What does it mean that the cultivation of so-called knowledge is worse than ignorance? What does
veda-vata-rata mean?
Why must we hear from dhiras? What does dhira mean? In which Text in NOI does Rupa
Goswami use the word dhira?
Are the Vedas sufficient text books to reawaken love of God or do we some other books?

NOI 7
What are the Ten Offences in the chanting of the Holy Names (SB 2.1.11)?
What are the Sanskrit and English for the different stages of reawakening from adau sraddha to
prema? In which Bhagavad-gita purport is the Sanskrit cited?

NOI 8
What is Raganuga-bhakti? What is it’s relationship to Vaidhi-bhakti? Who can do it?

NOI 9
(Fill-in-the-blanks:) _______________ is greater than Vaikuntha, the Kingdom of God, but greater
than ____________ the twelve ___________ of ____________. Still greater is ______________
and above all is __________________!
Have you been to Vrndavana-dhama?

NOI 10
Basically Srila Prabhupada is just going through the levels of consciousness stated in the Text one-
by-one with wonderful detail. Below we have a scrambled list. Can you put them in the proper
order?
a. Sadhana bhaktas
b. Srimati Radha-rani
c. Vraja bhaktas
d. Vimukti-jñanis
e. Radha-kunda
f. Prema bhaktas
g. Jnanis
h. Gopis
i. Karmis
j. Vikarmis

Prabhupada, Rupa Goswami, say that the Karmis are dear to Krsna. Why is that? Are the Vikarmis
dear to him also?

NOI 11
What do you think love for Krsna at Radha kunda is like?

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ISO 12-14
What temptations do false gurus, big money men and ill-motivated scholars of the Vedas offer to
their followers to attract them?
From what kind of Guru should we hear?
Does anyody actually worship demigods in the world now?

ISO 15 & 16
Why are these verses good for fighting Mayavada ideas?
How does ISO 15 relate to BG 15.15?

ISO 17 & 18
There are many means of deliverance from sinful reactions, such as giving charity, but what do
these final Texts demonstrate is the best method?
What will happen if the devotee cannot remember to chant at the time of death?

LOB
How many Texts are there in LOB?
It was written for a Congress in:
USA.
Japan.
India.
What was the name of the Congress?
Chose three to five of the Texts. Describe the picture and content, and how they can be used to
generate public seminars.
Which LOB text recommends that the reader go to the books of Rupa Goswami (such as NOI and
NOD)?
What is the analogy of the deer in the desert thirsty and running after water?

BG
The Summary and Specific verses mentioned seem to be enough evaluation. Select three to
five of the BG verses that we have memorized and explain them for a guest at the Sunday Feast.

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SECOND SEMESTER
Hare Krsna!
Esteemed Friends and Enemys. Let us just begin by thanking His Divine Grace A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami, Prabhupada, who has so kindly brought us these teachings of Srila Rupa
Goswami.

Thank you for your association.

Personally we feel like wounded soldiers, full of bullet holes. Now we are in San Jose, California
and we are confronted by so many problems with body and society, but we know that if we just go
ahead with the Process of Bhakti-sastri in your Association our results will be ever increasing
comprehension and bliss.

For this second Semester we will study Chapters 1-6 of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is (BG) and the
First Wave of the Nectar of Devotion. Here's our Calendar for BG:

++++++++++++++

VEDAS/ASA
Bhakti-sastri Study

Semester Two Calendar

2009
August
13-14/TH-FR = Janmastami, App. Srila Prabhupada.
19/WE = Start: BG Chapter One (Two weeks)

September
2/WE = BG-2 (Four weeks) ... HpS Arrive Peru (8th September)
30/We = BG-3 (2 weeks)

October
14/WE = BG-4 (3 weeks)

November
4/WE = BG-5 (2 weeks) ... HpS leave Peru (3 November)
18/WE = BG-6 (3 weeks)

(274 pages for six chapters / 16 weeks = 17.25 pages/week)

December
9/We = Evaluation.

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++++++++++++++

Nectar of Devotion and Dhanurdhara Swami's commentary, Waves of Devotion, are only 65 pages
total, so we can start those a little later. We have 16-weeks - 15 August to 15 December.

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We tried to get copys of Surrender Unto Me and Bhanu's Swami's BG commentarys, but in the end
here we sit in San Jose with almost nothing except our memories and Srila Prabhupada's BG.
Seems like that is the way we may have to confront most of our preaching progams in life anyway,
no?

Haw. Haw. Haw.

Bhagavad Gita Chapters 1-6

Chapter One
A. Look at our TPP Overview of Chapter One.
Hmmm? It's O.K.

B. Analysis: Breaking the Study down into little, little Parts (but not forgeting they have a place in
the Whole).
We divided the Chapter into Texts 1-27 and 28-46.
In this Bhakti-sastri study, High School, we analyse the Chapters for you, but in Bhakti-vaibhava,
Bachelor's diploma, you will have to do your own analysis.

Texts 1-27
Setting the Scene - BG is a conversation between Dhrtarastra and Sanjaya (Texts 1.1 and 2.1)
Duryodhana sees the situation. It is tough, so he goes to the commander-in-chief, Drona-acharya.
He makes an estimation of the strength of the arimies and engages in all kinds of political
statements. He says, "drupada putrena, tava sisyena dhimata" (1.3) Is this sarcastic? "Teacher, you
are so impractical that you taught military science to the person whom you knew was destined to
kill you, the son of your enemy". Then he glorifies Bhisma but then thinks the others might be put
out of joint because they weren't glorified so he doubles back on his tracks and glorifies everyone
else also (1.11).

BG is a very emotional, very personal, book. You can't understand it unless you worship the Deity.

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Have you got the Scene set?

In the Purports Srila Prabhupada fills in a lot of things about the historical background from the
Mahabharata.

Let's read it, 1-27 taking note of important things. Take it to heart. Think about teaching it.

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Texts
1 - What is the Gita Mahatmya? It is cited at the end of the Introduction, but from where it is?
Padma-purana? If our internet gets working we can look for this info.

What are the three things recommended for studying the BG properly?

What are your motives for studying?

In the Srimad Bhagavatam we will see that Gandhari didn't agree with her husband, Dhrtarastra.
She wanted a compromise, that the kingdom be divided between her sons and the sons of Pandu.
Ultimately Dhrtarastra was too attached to do this.

So many points. Discuss them with your friends and teachers. Prabhupada is mostly focusing on the
words dharma-ksetra.

[We just found Surrender Unto Me. You can read it now for extra comprehension or wait until
Bhakti-vaibhava. Prabhu mostly gives the historical background for the Maha-bharata and various
commentarys of Baladeva Vidyabhusana et al. Is very nice. We will try to include super points
from his book in TPP ]

2. It's clear, no?

3. Clear. This story is full of complexitys. Guess that is the whole message of the Gita: 18.66.
Abandon your separate attempts to solve these complexitys of calendars, political problems and just
chant Hare Krsna and let Me drive the chariot nand tell you where to shoot.

11. Duryodhana knows that Bhisma and Drona had affection for the Pandavas. Why did he think
they would give it up at the battle?

12. Bhurijana comments that the "symbolism of the conchshell" is that it is related to Visnu, and
Visnu, Krsna, was on the side of the Pandavas. So...

14. Laxmi is always with Visnu. The Gopis are always with Krsna, no? So in a proper way
Vrndvana is there at Kuruksetra. When we read the Gita or go to Gita classes in ISKCON Krsna-
Balarama Temple in Vrndavana we get a very special feeling for the Gita.

Seems natural that the Vrajavasis would have a great curiosity about everything Krsna is doing
outside of Vrndavana, but from their intense perspective.

[3:15PM. Internet is still scewey. Have a bad sore throat. Our Great-uncle Huber Ellsworth died of
throat cancer at 23. We were named after him. It's mostly from not eating properly. That occurs
because we are eating the offerings of so many different people. We try to be polite but it may kill
us. Haw! Haw! Haw! Killed by kindness. We have to be more strict about preparing our own
offerings for Hanuman]

15. Pretty depressing, no? (For Dur-yodhana and his cohorts). Guess they just had a death wish.
They should have known better. "Honey, your arm's too short to box with God".

Hrsikesa, Vrkodhara, Partha-sarthi, Yasoda, Devaki, Madhu.... Whole lot of people. Gonna take

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years to get to know all these folk. Maybe read a nice Maha-bharata by Purna-prajna or somebody.
Maybe not, just cut to the core and Hari Hari Bolo!!!

Jaya Sri Hari!

Jaya Sri Hari!!

18. Wow! Even more depressing. And even more of this political double talk. Dur-yodhana,
Dhrta-rastra, Bhisma, Krsna, Sanjayate. EVERYONE is saying things "tactfully" etc. Seems that
Arjuna is the only guy who just states his situation in a straight-forward fashion.

22. Heavy! So the might, power, of Jehovah or Allah is not the real opulence of Jehovah. What is
His very special beauty?

24-27. SUPER IMPORTANT. Here Krsna seems to be doing His job as Madana-mohana, Diksa-
guru.
Out of His mercy He is putting Arjuna in the situation where he can see the problems of material
life.
Arjuna wants to satisfy Draupadi, no? Get just revenge for her for what the Kauravas did to her in
the game of dice. Yet, Krsna, shows him the result of Karma, even when performed according to
the scriptures. If Draupadi is going to tie her hair back up, the queens of the other warriors are
going to have to untie their hair and crrrrrrry.

This is material life.

A Zero-Sum-Game.

If you have 100 points that means that somebody else is in debt 100 points.

It is the world of dualitys. There is nothing really here. Do you understand?

Is Krsna Setting a Scene that is very much like Our Scene? Are you Sanjaya, Dhrta-rastra, Arjuna?
Caught in a fight between relatives?

Next I think we will see Arjuna appreciating how Karma is always bad. That's end of the Chapter.
There is no solution offered. Yet that's a lot, no? If we can really appreciate how bad this world of
Karma is then we will be looking for a solution, the Scene will be Set in our lives to look for a
solution. What is the solution?
Better Super Weapons?
Run away and go hide in the forest?

Enought for one day.

Let's look at more tommorrow.

This Bhakti-Sastri program needs like three days a week of study (and 7-days a week of digestion).

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2009 August 3

Texts (28-46)
28. Wow! Really try to imagine that; Your limbs convulsing and your mouth drying-up! This is a
fundamental point. Arjuna was a good man. Even at the last moment a good man is willing to stop
and consider if his position is correct or not. This is a fundamental aspect of Arjuna's problem.
Also, Prabhupada quotes SB 5.18.12. He also quotes it in NOI. Fundamental verse. Arjuna's good
qualities are from his Bhakti not just from the superfice of Karma.

{When you see Prabhupada quote a verse take the time to read the Sanskrita and note the number}

30. "Arjuna is showing ignorance of his real self interest by the will of __________?"

31. Forget Krsna is the enjoyer and we cannot be happy (even from cakes and cookies) what to
speak of profound happiness. I don't see why, but Prabhupada can see that Arjuna has already
decided to just go hide in the forest.

32. Happiness: For Govinda, for my self, for my relatives. A neophyte devotee is good. He doesn't
want happiness for himself. An advanced devotee is perfect, he doesn't even want sense
gratification for his relatives.

36. Arjuna, Prabhupada, shows the perspective of Varan-ashrama-dharma. It's not enough. It's like
saying a building is made of hammers nails and wood. No, there has to be a client with money.

37. !! Obligation is binding only when the results are good !!

39-44. A little tour of Varna-ashrama-dharma. BG is amazing, no? It is going to reject Varna-

ashrama unless it is connected to Krsna. Heavy purport about women. Personally, if I was a women
I would surrender to Prabhupada's perspective and then use my intelligence how to apply that
knowledge correctly, and then get on with the real business at hand, chanting Hare Krsna all the
time.

46. Arjuna just gives up, but Krsna is always ready to help us, and the kind of renunciation that
Arjuna makes puts him right in line for Krsna's mercy.

O.K. Is the scene set? I think not, little more in the Second Chapter. However, we see a lot of
subtle factors here. A lot of classics just talk about be good. Yet, here it is mixed with Bhakti. This
is a scipture for an elevated class of people!

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2:54PM
Maybe rest for a little bit from lunch and this fever!
See you next week. Take your time read it slowly. Srila Prabhupada is writing just for you?

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Chapter Two
We are just like you, and we are all just like Arjuna. We become perplexed about our duty and
stand not doing anything. So many things are happening now. We are in Boise with Radhika,
Srinivasa. We just got back from Candra's house where we spent the night. During the day we went
to his program at the Snake River prison.

Who am I?
What am I supposed to do?
What is my duty?

Even if I do it, will I be free from reactions to neglecting other things, and is Krsna really the
proper person to serve?So, we chant Japa early. Do Mangala-arati/Kirtana well. Read SB, and then
we can write down our priorities. We have a list for this fortnight of daily priorities.

1. 20 of 25 rounds done. Missed morning Gayatri! Prasadam O.K.

2. Reading writing under control, Dharma-sastras, St. Bernard... Now is time to focus on TPP, this
BG chapter two. But...
3. ...some Mails/Calls. Because it's Saturday phone is free. First priority are our 5-TPP Students.
Their mostly O.K. Gotta call Tandavika Prabhu, however!. . .Then get back to Chapter Two.. .

11:35AM - Just finished talking with Student Tandavika. Things are O.K. Our real concern is that
they integrate their regular Friday night BG meeting with this TPP/Bhakti Sastri study. Sangat
sanjayate kamah. What does that mean? We read it last Semester. Is so, so, so important. That's like
90% of the essence of all of our study, success.
Now, we are reading some <horrible> foto-copy of Bhurjana Prabhu's notes on Chapter Two. We
don't have to read all 70+ verses at one time. Texts 1-10 are more Setting the Scene, the background
to Krsna's instructions. (It's a song? Gita? Hmmmm? Seems like an opera with Arjuna counter-
pointing Krsna).
We, the Teachers, read "Surrender Unto Me". You, the Students, can read it (now for extra credit or
normally) during Bhakti-vaibhava study.

We've read it now we'll read Prabhupada's 1-10.

(Complete the following verse (BG1.1), 'dharma ksetra kuru ksetra..., and say the translation)

TEXTS 1-10
More Setting the Scence. Yet, now we progress from just moral considerations to personal, spiritual
considerations, which begin with finding a personal teacher.

Text 1 - Chapter breaks. Arjuna finishes his round of arguments. Krsna answers.
a) 90% what is Compassion?
b) Next to last sentence = Content of this chapter and;
c) How to realize it. Chew on this sentence. Later you'll get it in more depth. We translate it as,
"Karma-yoga based upon Sankhya". This is the central theme of the next 16 chapters.

Text 2 - a) University Professor, Sunday Feast: What's Swami Prabhupada's explanation of the
word "Bhagavan".
Can you paraphrase this Purport as an answer? Guide him through it?
b) 'kutas'

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5. On what basis can you reject your Teacher?

6. Arjuna <has> the material qualifications necessary to appreciate transcendental knowledge,

Guru's words. What are they?

7. & 8.
a) Complete the 'Pada' (BG 2.7), 'sisyas te ham...' and translate it.
b) Look in the dictionary for the definition of 'perplexed". {MONKEY: Like "complexed"?}
c) Another Professor, Sunday Feast: What are Swami Prabhupada's preliminary ideas about Guru?
Lead her through these two Purports point by point.

1:11PM - Outside the preparations for Nick and Kamagayatri d d's wedding are going on. Enough
Gita study for today. We'll chant a little more and maybe phone a little more later.

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2009 Aug 24
12:12PM
We have 45 minutes before Upendra Prabhu comes to take us to the Sankirtana Program at his
house.
Let's read the Texts and Outine the next section of this Chapter.

TEXTS 10 - 38
Have you read it. Nice, no?
What is Krsna discussing?
(First we hear then we explain. That's the basis of our Yoga. Not touching your nose to your knees.)

I'm not so good at it but I'll try to explain. Your turn next!

a) In Texts 10-38 there is Sankhya, analyzing the situation. There is the immortal soul and the body
made of material elements. The soul is seated on the body and the body is forced to change by the
dynamic elements of material nature. The qualities of the material nature and the soul are
explained. The MN is temporary and bound to dissipate. Each soul is eternal and distinct from other
souls. There it stops. Doesn't talk about how the soul can know or love or laugh. Just that it is
eternal, individual and is involved in the Karma of the body. At the end Krsna says to fight so you
won't lose your material prestige and you can go to heaven. Also, fight so you don't incur sin.
Guess that means stay in the material but acting so that you are not identifying with it.
Sounds a lot like the Isopanisad. Well, the BG is the Gitopanisad.
Seems to be very basic knowledge.
Later Krsna will begin by giving confidential ethical, philosophical, religious advice, and then the
most confidential knowledge.

O.K?

Details of Texts
10, 11 - Krsna becomes Guru. "pandita",
12 - God, me and you. 95% of Prabhupada's mission is in this Text and Purport?
Later we will memorize, contemplate, "Katha 2.2.13".

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13 - CHANGING BODYS' a universal meditation even with Solomon and Shakespeare. Use it for
your teaching.
First P'pada talks about this, Changing Body. Yet, second paragraph he goes into Sankhya again.
What has Krsna explained so far? You, Me and Nature, but P'pada adds the Super-soul - God and
three other elements, and their relationship.
HpS - O.K?
Monkey - And nature has two aspects, Material and Spiritual.
HpS - Toss this man a banana!

HpS - Also, we always say that it is in the Fourth Chapter that Krsna really begins to reveal who
He is, and here we see Prabhupada confirming our analysis.

Jaya!

O.K. We'll read Bhurijana Prabhu's notes so that we can sprinkle them in.

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Some interesting points from Bhurijana Prabhu's book, but most of them are for our Bhakti-
viabhava study. Our photo copy from Tandavika's machine is <horrible>, but we have a soft copy
that Patraka Das sent (all) of us. I think it's complete.

12:55P
5 minutes to scheduled departure. I think most of these Texts are self evident given our summary
above. The main thing is that Krsna is not giving any very advanced knowledge here. There is an
internal thread of how they deal with Arjuna's arguments. If we just contemplate these Texts (over
the years {over many lifetimes}) we will naturally see that.
Bhurijana Swami labels Texts 32-39 Krsna's "Karma-kanda" section. Seems right on.

Everything is in the Gita.

14 - Karma goes to Jnana, and Karma-kanda motivation.

15 - More "Karma goes to Jnana". (Upendra is here). This Purport hits us. We gave up our wife
and son, but we still have thoughts about them. Relive old arguments and pleasures. We have to
give this up. Gross and subtle Sannyasa. Give them to Krsna where they belong.

(Leave for Sankirtana)...

... Next day, Tuesday, Lalita's appearance day. In the airplane to Nashville. We just finished lunch,
remenants of Hanuman's lunch: Four nice Samosas, two packs of p-nuts, two cans of tomato juice
and two <dry> p-nut butter laddus. That'll keep you alive. Thank you Krsna!!!

"After lunch, do light work", Bhaktivinode Thakura.

What you up to?
Reading this in the bus on the way to work?

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Text 16 - Excellent "bhajan". So many things we have heard before and before, but here again. Go
on hearing until we <see> Krsna.

Text 17 - This looks like a job for Science Man! Ooof. This purport would set a scientist, biologist,
physicist hopping. O.K. Bhakti-vaibhava - let's take a week and discuss all the scientific points that
Prabhupada makes here. Also, what is the Text number of the SB text that Prabhupada cites?

Text 18 - (This is fun!) Same as previous, no? The idea of Karma x Dharma added as spice.

Text 19 - True or False? <'mahimsyat sarva-bhutanam> means kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.

Text 20 - Sankhya again??? What's the use?

Text 21- Karma-yoga. Actually Krsna seem to be hinting at the opposite answer from what Srila
Prabhupada gives in his Purport. See what we mean? Why is that? (Tough question)

Text 22 - Pretty clear. Many advanced ideas in the Purport. See how Prabhupada keeps talking on
science again and again.... 23, 24-Many points.... 25-Why so much repitition? 26-The scientists. Of
special interest to us is that this philosophy is so low that Arjuna didn't even consider it. So most of
the Gita is above our cultural climate. In our culture everyone believes that we are just a bag of
chemicals.

... 27 - Repeat.... 28 - Also. Very important. Hear with attention and just by that simple austerity
one can evolve to the spiritual platform. 29 - Amazing. 30 - End Sankhya, summary. Begin Karma-
kanda: Do your duty for material elevation.
31 - What do "ksat" and 'trayate" mean? What are the two kinds of "svadharma"?
32 - Details of VAD & & & & 'Parasara-smrt'. Right now we are researching it. Is it bona-fide?
Here P'pada cites it. Krsna specifically counteracts which argument by Arjuna?
33 - What did Drona give Arjuna? Why would he go to hell?
{You don't have to write the answers. Just look for them.}
34 - Great psychological fact ie. dishonor and death. Do you see it manifest in your life?
35, 36, 37 - Clear, yes?
38 - "Krsna desires the battle". This is not in the text of BG. ""That is the indirect hint . . . explained
in the following verses". Is it or does it occur for the first time in 3.30. We will have to watch.
P'pada says that Guru and Disciple must exam one another carefully for at least one year before
accepting each other.
Guru quotes from the scripture.
So we must exam Guru to see that he is bona fide or not. Not looking for fault to escape surrender,
rather to be able to fully and properly surrender.

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3:57PM - In the airplane to Tennessee. Lots of green farm land below us. Is this Kentucky? We are
supposed to land in like 1.25 hours. O.K. Enough work for one day. Seems these purports are
written as a unit in many ways. We have to read them fast enough to see the whole flow, take the
argument to heart. We <will> meet Arjuna and <will> have to play the part of Krsna.
Arjuna's made a lot of arguments with a lot of inaccuracies and Krsna has counteracted many of
them.

KRSNA: Arjuna, you are not the body!

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TEXTS 39-72
We've read Surrender Unto Me and we will try to include those ideas herein.
We've all heard of Buddha. He was intelligent. Buddhi means intelligence. Manas means the mind
and Indriya means the senses, so powerful.
Lord Buddha was saying, “Don't be a gross fool, acting on the platform of your senses or mind with
no concern for the broader perspective. Be a Buddha. Contemplate on what you feel and think”.

As we read this section many questions come up. Clearly we've had Sankhya, an analysis of matter,
material bodys, and individual souls. Now Krsna will add Karma, no?

Texts 39-46 we see Krsna explaining the glories of this Buddhi-yoga, what it is and the
characteristics of those who do and do not follow it.

Text 47 we see a definition of what this Yoga actually is. This is a very popular verse from the
Gita. One lady told us that when she was a school teacher in India, the school owners gave a bag to
each teacher with this verse painted on it. Some people think that this is the highest content of the
Gita, do your duty without attachment to the fruits. Be a good Mom or Dad or Soldier but don't
claim the results. I'm your Mother, I raised you, I'm old, you must take care of me.

But is this Yoga?

There is no connection, Yoga, with anything or anyone. Bhurijana Prabhu calls it Karma based
upon knowledge. Seems that 3.30 is the first time Krsna gives real Yoga. What does that text say?

Mayi, do it for Me, but who is Krsna? For whom we are sacrificing? Chapter Four answers.

That's an overview.

Text 48 - This Niskama-karma , no desire action, is called Yoga. Up to 53 Krsna seems to be doing
just the same thing he did before Text 47, talking about the characteristics of those who do and
don't follow Text 47 and their destinations.

See the words Yoga and Buddhi again and again in the Sanskrita. More in Bhakti'vaibhava. Very
nice. Roll in the sands of Vrndavana. Roll in these texts of BG. Take the feeling to heart. Learn to
see these kinds of people and the highest goal.

Texts 54-72-We saw Bhurijana Prabhu giving a special name, probably following the Acharyas, to
the texts. Being too gross we see it just as details of the person in divine consciousness that Krsna
has been describing earlier. How does he walk, how does talk.

And finally, Text 72, what is the destination of this guy once again?
He will attain Brahma-nirvana. Sounds just like Buddhism, no?
And how does Prabhupda translate Brahma'nirvana?
The Circle whose Center is everywhere and which has no Circumference?

No, the Kingdon of God.

Aiiiiiiiyeeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaa!

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The Buddha must be turning over in his grave.

Aiiiiiiiyeeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaa!

But that's the conclusion of BG, no? Go to Goloka. Prabhupada has written his books so that even
a first class fool can understand them. Any candidates in the audience?

Bhakti-sastri may not make you popular with professional scholars, but it will give you Nirvana.

Let’s read text by text. There's too much in these purports to get in one lifetime! Text 39 and
Purport -note stuff you will use to save yourself and others from THE WITCH.
¶1-Summary of previous section adding more Sankhya from the Bhagavatam, Devahuti's son.
¶2-BG 10.10, a nutshell verse with 10.8, 9 and 11. Neumonic-10.8 ¿ 108+ See all the stuff we
discussed above in this Paragraph! ¶3 Back to beating on Anisvara Kapila. Look him up in the
Encyclopedia Britanica. When did he live?_
Buddhi-yoga, Karma-yoga, Bhakti-yoga.
Prabhupada seems about to jump out of these pages of the book in ¶3 and start punching and
kicking the Anisvara Kaplites. Jaya! Gurudeva!!!!!

Ooof! WOnderful purport. We die today!

Last ¶ “...however difficult such work may be.” Have you experienced these difficulties?
Stomach cramps? Can't breathe? Going ahead calmly with your body in flames?

Text 40 - This is a NOI cited verse. We have to chant these from the NOI regularly. Can someone
make up a Recitation Sheet of all the BG Padas and Texts that we noted for memory in our
Overview last semester? It's great chanting them during weddings and while you are sitting on the
airplane or the security guards are patting you down for guns or daggers.

For Text 40 we have two comments and one question, but we'll save them for Bhakti-vaibava.

Text 41-Ayee Chihuahua. Bhakti-vaibhava, Bhakti-vedanta. This Purport needs half an hour to
explain. But see the elements? Focus on watering the root and your watering work is not many
branched, and focus means, and is possible when, we stick to the feet of Srila Prabhupada-like dust.
Three Sanskrit citations. Two of them in NOI and the third is from the Gurv'astakam. More in
BVB.

Text 42-43-Do you agree with what Srila Prabhupada says_ Do you agree that people in general are
less intelligent and therefore they are attracted to the Karma-kanda section of the Vedas? Doesn't
seem to be what's happening in Franklin, Tennessee tonight. Nothing but Colonel Sanders and
Ronald McDonald. Yet if we “look at people in general”' as all four ages then it's probably true,
no? Guess we have to take lessons for our next births also, as human beings, not as dog eaters.

Texts 44, 45, 46-The mind and nature will offer you the opportunitys for powerful, ego flattering,
sex but just for a moment. Then it's gone. Then you must be ready to be stabbed in the stomach by
the enemies bayonet. Only if Krsna will play with us can we give up our absorption in hot sexual
pleasure and sharp bayonets.
Srila Prabhupada doesn't wait for BG or SB to finish. He gives us Caitanya-caritamrta right away.
Hare Krsna - Hare Rama.

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... It's 6PM, time for a break, no? Seems like enough for one day. Three days a week is enough to
write and read this TPP Bhakti sastri. Time for Piggy to take the key board and write his
ASANISANÑ Anjana Suta Academy NIghtly SAnkirtan News.

It goes in his Diary....

...

Cochabamba, Bolivia.
13 September, Sunday.
More than a month has passed since we first wrote the above After Words, but we have worked on
editing Chapter Two part one and the above part two. It's the same for you, I know. You don't have
a tight group with a regular schedule. In some ways it's good. We can keep coming back and find
the same nectar always available. Always getting new strength from reading to write!

O.K. We finished with Texts 44, 45, 46. On to…

Text 47-The DEFINTION of Buddhi-yoga. Seems to us now that most of the other texts just glorify
Buddhi yoga but here we actually see the definition. Just read Prabhupada's purport and put it into
your Buddhi, intelligence. More to understand later.

Text 48-Text repeats Text 47 and Purport puts it in a broader perspective.

Text 49, 50, 53-We see repetition of, “do your varna'ashrama duty without attachment and you
will get liberation”, and then you will get samadhi, So...

Text 54-Arjuna asks an obvious question. Which is most prominent symptom?

Text 55-sthita-prajnas, Bhagavatam perspective.

Text 56-sthita-dhir muni. Contrasts with ordinary Muni and Sthita dhir muni, and Bhagavatam
definition of sthita dhir muni. Text 57, 58, 59, 60. More of the same. Prajña, Prajña, Prajña. The
turtle withdraws, but that is not possible without a higher taste, he has a micro-wave, refrigerator
and DVD player within.

Text 61-Big, big verse. We are learning something that we suspected but now we clearly see it. We
always say that BG 3.30 was first time Krsna gave the full yoga package. Before He says to do our
duty without result and in the purports Prabhupada is beating on the Bhagavatam information,
Krsna consciousness, nice processes like Ambarisa Maharaja, more advanced knowledge as
essential. Here, Text 60 Krsna also give the Bhagavatam knowledge, Mat parah, in relationship
with ME, . Note - “Yoga sutra also prescribes meditation on Visnu”.

Text 62 / 63-Read and realize. The Dude who is not KC, whose mind is like the boat on the water.
Note - sangat sanjayate kamah! We see this in NOI, no? How does Srila Prabhupada translate it
there?

64-68-Repetition for emphasis.

69-Night and day. Cited in the NOI.

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70-Repetition

71-72- nirmamo, nirahankara, brahma'nirvana. These are contents of Buddhist and later Sankara's
covered Buddhist philosophys. Last ¶ is great summary- a glimpse of Bhakti yoga has been given.
Srila Prabhupada's purports take us way beyond the Upanishadic front of the actual Texts. The
senses and imagination need practical engagement.
I will send these Afterwords ASAP. Basically just keep reading with attention and don't try to
consciously analyze things too much. Prabhupada's purports educate us a heart, not just head
knowledge.

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Bhagavad Gita - Chapter Three
"The words of 'Bhagavad-gita' are authoritative instructions for faithful men, and whatever Krsna
says in 'Bhagavad-gita' is to be accepted as it is, without interpretation." NOI 5 purport.

Now we start Chapter Three.

We are in Chosika, Peru. It is not far from Lima, up the Central Highway into the Andes
mountains. Now it's Monday 28 September and we have been super busy with visit of Hrdayananda
Goswami, three university programs, Rama-vaijaya festival and regular dutys!
Actually we didn't put our TPP schedule on our ASA Calendar, so we are a little behind. We have
to run to keep up with Srila Prabhupada's feet!

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We will read our 1st Semester overview on this chapter and then lecture on that tonight in the
Temple!

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Tuesday - Our notes were very nice and informative to read. We lectured on Text 3.21 and the
overview of the chapter.
Now it's 1:25P. We will jump into the nectar of verse by verse reading with our Afterwords. Then
we have to go for 2-hours of internet and 1/2-hour of phone calls. After that Temple program with
BG 3.27.

Text by Text
1. Is Arjuna sincere? Can you see his state of mind? Where you like this at one time? Now?
2. I thought so! Chapter Two is not clear for dullards like us. Needed details in Chapter Three.
3. Wonderful distillate of Chapter Two and summary of the content of the Gita.
5. P'pada goes far beyond the statement of the Text with first line of the Purport.
10. Lord Chaitanya and Sankirtana-yajna introduced. Jaya!
15. So much talk of demigods, but in our life there are no demi-gods?? But we understand the basic
principle and can apply it. There is no need to satisfy your boss at work differently than trying to do
your work for Krsna.
Also, just by eating Prasadam only we get free from all the results of past Karma. Yet, we probably
won't stick to that principle unless we chant Hare Krsna also.
18. Is the this the stage of 'anartha nivrtti'? NOI text 7 paragraph 8 talks about these K.C. levels.
Same is in BG 4.10. Also, Preface to NOI say the same thing. When we are fixed in goodness our
duty is self illumined. Discuss this with a Goswami.
20. Here it is! We are always citing this: Violence is never good but it is sometimes necessary to
defend the weak against the strong when good arguments fail. Well here is at least part of it. A lot
of it.
We've even cited this for the Secret Service of Peru.
21. Do you know the story of the young widow and here son who was eating too many sweets?
Very good example of this.
22. P'pada proves Krsna is 'na kartavyam' in a spectacular way.
25. Doctor describes therapy to the medical students.
27. Tonight's verse.
28. Great. Origen of the Jiva?

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29. Super Purport. P'pada talks we aren't the body. Like the LOB text of the moon seeming to move
in the clouds. He also talks about being silent and talking. Like 25 again, no?
30. "This verse clearly describes the purpose of the BG". Ts text is a mind fixer. Read it when
weakness arises.
34. Ooops! Yes, we get attached to our simple daily diet: 2-bananas, handful of raisins, 1-cup
each or yogurt and granola, and tea at 5PM. Prasdam, Krsna!!!
36. Vaco vegam, manasa krodha vegam... Hanuman in NOI 1 and BG 3.36.
39. What is the greatest enemy of the sense enjoyer? We have to go beyond this to Krsna's sense of
enjoyment!
41. Jayananda had this text that even a late beginner can make rapid progress, underlined in his
Gita.
42. In like 3rd canto it says something like the mind is superior to the intelligence, but here the
more natural heirarchy is given. 3rd Canto has be suggested as refering to sensuous intelligence.
End. Nice contemplation, this Chapter. Although my mind may not always we grasping each
detailed item one after another, the intelligence is subconciously catching the general form and thus
with recitation it makes a deeper more detailed path each time we recite such things.
Nice contemplation. Many things.
Stay at the feet of Guru and chant Hare Krsna, Rama.
2:51PM. Tranfer this to the thumb drive, go to internet stall, e-mail, letters, projects, telephone, BG,
class, KRSNA book, last Japa.

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Monday (sep-5)
B´cari ashrama, Choseka, Peru.
6:45 AM - Hare Krsna. AGTSP! paoho. So nice to be with your again.
The TPP Semester Two Calendar is on our ASA Calendar now, so we are starting this Chapter Four
review with plenty of time.

Reading the Semester One, Overview Notes they are pretty clear. So, inour next session let´s read
Texts 1-10. There HpS says that we will find pedigree for the knowledge.

(We are also reading Caitanya-caritamrta. We finished Madhya-lila so we get to start on Anyta
One. The books here are from the library here in Peru. Since they are English there is no proper
care for them. They have all be pretty seriously eaten by worms.)

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Tuesday (oct-6)
8:12AM - 16 Rounds finished. To me it seems essential, this attitude, that today is a good day to
die. Maya says, “If you surrender to Krsna, follow the full morning program, fast until breakfast,
you are going to die!”
But we respond, “Today is a good day to die! Better to die following the rules and regulations of
Sadhana-bhakti.”

TEXTS 1-10
1. The King must protect the citizens from material bondage to lust! Better a slave of the King than
a slave of the bottle.
Human life is meant for ?????????_
Vivasvan.
Santi-parva.
In the fourth paragraph there should be a paragraph break at, “It was spoken to the sun-god
because...”, no? Srila Prabhupada is talking about the history of the Gita and then he changes to
talk about it´s purpose.
Many Bhakti-vaibhava points. From the chonology we get the impression that the Gita is really,
really cosmic. It is not just for Bohunks from California.
Ksatriya parampara.

2. Heavy purport. Why did Prabhupada write his Gita? Same thing in the preface, no? Because the
knowledge was lost? No. Because the pur__ was lost!

3. Friend and devotee. Otherwise it is magically covered.

It´s like the Gita starts here. It´s like Krsna has not really taught anything before this point?

4. Guess we are demons. This question would also arise in our mind if we were there. Not
challengingly, but to know.

5. Seems we were partly wrong. 1-4 is the pedigree but here in 5 Krsna starts to talk about Himself
like never before. Of course it is related to the pedigree of the Gita.

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6. Clear, no?

7. End of purport 6 starts this one, no?

Clear. Many points can be discussed. Do you note points in your mind as you read? Do you think,
“Do I already know this? Is this just a good opportunity to hear it again to reinforce my
consciousness?”
“The higher principles of religion begin with _____”.

8. Lord Caitanya appears in the Gita As It Is! Krsna comes to show His Vrndavana pastimes. So
sweet. So simple.

9. Is blind faith required?

10. mad-bhavam... fully absobed in Me.

Are we inflicted by these three contamination?
¨We cannot have fallen from the spiritual sky. Once we return we are FORCED to stay there by
pleasure¨.
This is a common argument, but it seems to arise from this fear of our personal identity. I will have
free will when I go to Goloka and if I want I can fall down again, jump down, slide down. So I
think of spiritual life as a kind of heavenly planet where I am forced to stay.

Here in the second parto of the Purport is the answer to our Text 9 question, no? We ARE
materially absorbed and in this lifetime and maybe previous we got the help from Guru. We had a
little preliminary knowledge, maybe from just living in the material world, and we used that and
got association of devotees, Acharya.
So, is not blind faith.
Faith means that we apply what we know. We don´t try to pretend we don´t know.

Adau sraddha... don´t forget where this verse is in the Gita. It is paraphrased in the NOI also.
Such a common verse from Prabhupada.
Text number is 4.10. If you are a radio guy you will recognize that it is the opposite of ¨10.4¨,
which means “Over and out” in radio language. Build neumonics to memorize verse numbers. Will
we see them again in scripture.

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b´cari ashrama, choseka, peru (oct-7)
7:00AM - Seminar on marriage was nice last night. About 65 devotees. Was able to read and
repeat various citations from P´pada´s books, and even generally address the problems with
adultery and fornication present here at the moment.
When we have some knowledge of where to find things in our Acharya´s literature, life is very,
very easy.

...

We´ve reviewed Texts 1-10, so now, from our Semester One overview we see that we have marked
Texts 11-19 as another unit. We describe them as a repeat of Chapter Three, Karma Yoga.

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TEXTS 11-19
11. Seems clear. Karma, Brahman, Paramatma, Mystic Powers, Vaikuntha, Goloka. What do you
want? But, is not Krsna aggresive? Does He just passively react, or does He also try to cultivate a
certain relationship with the Jive according to His desire?

12. Nice, Prabhupada extends Demigod to mean “Big Guns”

in this world also.

13. Usually we use this text to establish that caste is not by birth but by qualities and work, but it
especially explains how Krsna is transcendental to caste. Does that mean that devotees are
“Outcasts”? (Joke)

14. 3.22 and 4.9 again, no? Such a nice purport. Krsna is responsible for us in a very broad sense,
but not in a detailed sense, so He takes it as His responsibility to deliver us from Maya in a broad
sense.
God is ultimately responsible, we are efficiently responsible and matter is materially responsible.
These are Aristotle´s categories. Srila Prabhupada uses them.

7:30AM - Enough hard brain work for one day. Now let´s read Cc. 3.1.73 and enjoy life!

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thursday (oct-8)
15. Use your puppet to lecture to other puppets so their puppeteers can benefit.

16. Prabhupada sees and explains the parampara very nicely here. Are there 12-Mahajanas? At least
here is a list of eleven. Can you find this text again if someone asks you the names of the
Mahajanas?

17. This is Sambandha, no? Is first initiation awarded to those who have learned this or is second
initiation awarded to them?
Is this a Bhakti-vaibhava question?

18. So stimulating. If we are following 4-regulative principles are we free from desire for sense
gratification? Maybe only grossly free. In NOI 1 Prabhupada says that even if we like spinach and
curd for sense gratification we are still entangled in Karma.
Do you take Prasadam partly for sense gratification, lust, get some material reaction under Krsna´s
supervision, to show you the bad result, and then He pulls you out of Maya and puts you on the
pure path again because you are following the basic vows of austerity that you took at initiation?

8:30AM - O.K. Gotta quit. Have to pack for the trip to Arrequipa - and - that´s enough for one day
anyway. Don´t read more than you can digest.

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arrequipa, peru.
Ding a Ling! We´re behind on our TPP work. Really involved in this Arreqiupa visit. Giving like
6 hours of Bh. Sastri seminars. Very, very intense. Also, 8,000 feet high. Hard on the heart, head
and stomack. (Hey, Mack!)

O.K.

19. Yet, sense gratification is an eternal aspect of the soul, Krsna´s sense gratification. Feed the
body, senses, so they can serve Krsna´s direct bodily sense gratification.

20. Told ya so!

21. So nice. Same thing. Describe the perfect Yogi. Many details can be discussed.

24. Yajna is formally performed with ghee and fire. This starts a section on Yajna, sacrifice, with a
broader perspective.

25. What are the two cat´gorys_

26. VAD Yajna.

27. Pat´jali Yajna.

6:45AM Now have to go for our last Arrequipa Bh. Sastri seminar. Will wrap this and mail it off
for our Students and the V.E.D.A.S. for Spanish translation. On schedule. Chapter Four is for three
weeks so will have the last 1-3 of our TPP Afterwords done in the next week.

30. Cat´gorys and the . . . re-sult. Jaya. Get the goods here and in heaven both.

(31. Ignernce is the rut coz of sin-full life. Note this. We´ll see it in a little bit in the NOD.)

34. Continues with summary and ordering of the different types of sacrifice, their purpose and in
Text 34 how to get them. Of course, a super essential text.
Text 35 will give a very nice description of the result.

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May we run behind Srila Prabhupada, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, in the dust of
his footsteps glorifying his books with these Afterwords.
We sit on the floor in Miraflores, Lima, Peru, South America. Last we wrote we had finished our
TPP Afterwords up to Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 4 at least Text 34. Just like you and Arjuna we are
reading these Vedas on the battle field. So much victory and defeat around us, confusion, clips of
clarity.
Oh, well, just dive into the Vedas of our Guru’s words and let everything become adjusted.

“Sraddha” sabde - visvasa kahe, sudrdha niscaya,

krsna bhati kaile, sarva karma krta haya.

Is that correct?
We are citing it from memory.

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It’s from Cc, cited in the NOI.

It means that just by engaging in devotional service, systematically reading Prabhupada’s books
and so forth, everything will automatically become adjusted.

Texts
35. … na punar mohan… Never again fall into illusion. Way back in 3.40 Krsna mentions Mohan,
illusion. After that has all of Chapter Four been a sequel to this problem, how to avoid illusion?
Maybe. Maybe we can get a grasp of Krsna and Arjuna’s intelligence as we also read BG and
later commentarys by Acharyas, but basically this Text explains what is that knowledge that one
gets from Text 34. Very important text.
This knowledge is like Isopanishad about Text Six, no?
Purport - It is clear, no? A reminder of what we already know. Something new? Yes,
ma=____, ya=_____?
Knowledge has to come from Guru. Prabhupada Guru. You also become Guru!

36. Nice.

37. Same as the Bible.

38. 36-38 are a nice set. We find the same analysis in the begining of the NOD, NOI. Fundamental
principle of devotional service.

39. A Bhakti-vaibhava point, and a confusing point: One should engage in devotional service and
chant Hare Krsna, and control the senses. I found this strange from 1973 because I thought that
sense control was included in devotional service. I guess what Srila Prabhupdda is saying is, to the
extent that you cannot stay completely engaged and chanting then you should struggle to stay in
the mode of goodness, the mode of controled senses.

40. We’ve heard the positive, now, as continuously, we will the negative. Remember Sri
Isopanishad said that we have to cultivate knowledge of spiritual and material life simultaneously.

40. “Men without faith in God and His revealed word find no good in this world orthe next”.
Would a Christian agree to this?
Some have faith in Bhagavad-gita but do not worship Krsna. How is this possible? Maybe they
only see the impersonal metaphysical aspects of the BG?

41. Contrast.

In 40, 41, 42 we find the word samsayah, doubt. Does Krsna want blind faith? No, 4.34 Purport
that was condemned. 18.66, the super-celebrated text, also says ma sucah”, do not fear. Means do
not doubt.
Fundamentally doubt seems to be a voluntary choice by the living entity. Don’t do it. Get
knowledge to eliminate your honest doubts, bewilderment.

42. End. Srila Prabhupada summarizes the chapter. What is the Sanskrit name for this chapter?
What are the two divisions of Sanatana-yoga? What are the different types of sacrifice?

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Bhagavad-gita Chapter Five
2009 November 3
ISKCON, Buenos Aires
We flew from Peru today. Such constant travel. Yet, we have our little vinyl BGAsItIs with us.

TPP BG Chapter Five.

The Big Picture. Do you know the position of Chapter Five in reference to the rest of the Gita? In
reference to Srila Prabhupada’s Sankirtana?

I think it is a repeat of Chapter Three????

Let’s check that thesis when we read.
Again, some Gita questions are for Bhakti-vaibhava, Bhakti-vedanta, next lifetime. Keep moving
ahead.

TEXTS
1. Arjuna’s question, P’pada’s Purport, set the scene.

2. These Srimad Bhagavatam Texts are cited completely and in part in NOI. Where? What NOI
purport? Same points in the NOI and here? Does Srila Prabhupad favor these three Texts from SB,
or is he following comentary of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, or are they all following Srila
Visvanatha Cakravarti?

3. sannyasi=renouncer. Does P’pada reject Krsna’s statment that an advanced soul is nirdvandvah?

4-7. Continue with Sannyasa?Sankhya x Yoga contrast. This is fundamental theme in the whole
Gita. Is also fundamental theme in Hamlet, “To Be or not To Be, that is the Question”.
Do you want liberation?
Do you want “Peace”?

What is the name of Shankara-acharya’s Vedanta-sutra commentary?

Pancaratriki text is for Deity worship as we understand. ISKCON Sannyasis are engaged in sensual
activites in that way.

9:54PM Little headache. Time to put Hanuman to rest. After the master rests, the servant rests.

Tommorrow more Tpp-Bg5. Also, have to read Preface and Intro to SB, Canto One, early
tommorrow and go ahead to Chapter One for our Bhakti-vaibhava review.

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5 November
Thursday

11:17PM We gave class last night on BG 5.2. Maybe 100 enthusiastic devotees. Our conclusion
was that BG is aimed at those people who are advancing from sannyasa?sankhya to yoga. It is
especially for those who are going from renouncing the material world to utilizing the material
world for Visnu, the Parama-atma.

TEXTS

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8-9. The five causes seem to be the same as 18.14. Krsna says, “Declared in Sankhya”. Where are
they declared?
10. The Gita-upanisad, Bhagavad-gita, says “brahmani”, but Srila Prabhupada explains that this
means Krsna consciousness.
P’pada also cites 3.30. After 2.61, “mat parah”, it has seemed to us to be the first place that Krsna
says, “Do your Dharma, Karma, for me”. This is the essence of the Gita, no?

Karma and Karma-yoga are completely different.

12. Prabhupada seems to be absorbed in a related Bhagavatam verse that he doesn’t name, that
leads us into an underlying topic of duality, the Absolute Truth.

13. Nine gates.

14. Tumultuous ocean.

15. Is it by his free choice that the living entity starts this chain of reactions?

16. Guru is the ray of Visnu?

20. Qualities of the yogi. Apply this Purport to yourself. You must realize this.

21. Brahma-yoga, sex pleasure.

22. Krsna consciousness means death. Abandon the body, senses, and just move forward into
Krsna’s body.

23. Is NOI 1, no? Some confidential relationship between the two texts?

24 - 25. Buddhism? Brahma-nirvana (2.72)? Welfare.

26. Turtles, brahma-nirvana

27-28. Well, Astanga-yoga. The eyes point between the eye-brows, but the concentration is toward
the bottom of the field of vision, the tip of the nose? What are the 8ight limbs of astanga yoga? Did
you do this in your last life?
Details in the next chapter.
Krsna has to discuss this to counter-act it? We know Raja-yoga, but KC is better.
Be the servant of everyone’s service.

29. Brahma-nirvana. 10,000 different cross-references are included in P’pada’s purports which will
only become clear when we read Nectar of Devotion. Yet they all touch our heart and leave their
impression.
“Everything depends on one’s practical performance ... control the senses ... desire and anger.” BG
5.23.
What is echoing is P’pada’s brain. You will obtain love for him only when you go insane. Love for
him and Krsna are one. He gets love for the Father who has gotten love for the son.
Reading the Gita in it’s Sanskrita tone.
Is to return to the world of Arjuna’s home.

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Bagavad-gita Chapter Six
Nectar as long as desire we not fruitive results. Reading and writing as a serive to God. Try your best though
your students they nod.

Forty-seven Texts, read the summary in TPP Semester One. Enlighting words for you and for me.
Then let’s plough ahead, for Lord Gauranga;s Sankirtana, what do you see?

TEXT
1. Prabhupada gives a summary of the Git;s progressive study. Chapter Five introduced Astanga yoga. This
verse puts Sannyasa and Yogi together as a complete package. Before we were contrasting them. This Text -
Do both. Then Prabhupada seems to be saying that Krsna will show us that there are two types of Yoga -
Astanga-yoga and Karma-yoga. K-y is Krsna consciousness, do it for Me.

2-24. We read all this in one sitting. So many things especially touched us as we were reading. We saw
specific techniques that we have to adopt, specific standards that we have to achieve such as not sleeping
more than six ours a day. We saw the general standard of being so much in love with Krsna and by His
mercy seeing His smiles of satisfaction that we are no longer looking for pleasure from the senses. We see
yoga discussed and especially we see this wierd symmetry with 6.24.
5.23 was the NOI verse in Chapter Five, 5=2+3. Now 6.24 is like the NOI verse in Chapter Six and 6=2+4
(spooky) and 24 is one more than 23. What is the NOI word in 6.24?
Prabhupada says that Bhakti-yoga will be explicitly explained in Chapter Seven.

O.K. Take a break. We just arrived in Mar de Plata. Kind of like Modesto, California if you know it. Semi-
arrid svannah. Farming area but also some dry stretches. Looks like zip culture. No great orchestras, but
also looks like 10,000 times less air pollution than BsAs.
What has this got to do with Chapter Six??? Seems we are here looking for a certain class of people, or a
certain kind of consciousness buried in the heart of many people.
Look for Yoga in Plata.

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m o n d a y (nov?16)
9 :51:51AM - In the Toni Turs luxury bus to Buenos Aires. Anantarupa Das and Paudram are with us.
Weekend in Plata was p-a-c-k-e-d. We and Ananta-rupa gave 9-classes?power point shows. Was amazing,
and yes there was a class of people there who could understand BG philosophy pretty much. Each time you
go through it, it becomes clearer.

Directly we did one lecture on “Perfect Personal Relationships”, so we did BG 4.35 - our relationships will
be nice when we see how they are all related to Krsna.

We don;t need to cite to many verses. People actually complain when there is too much Sanskrita. Some of
them think we are :putting on airs:. Explain the philosophy, cite from Western authorities, show logical
proofs.

Our study seems to be for taking Prabhupada’s words to heart.

We are doing the TPP SB-1 Afterwords at the same time as these BG-6 Afterwords.

TEXTS
25. “this state is easily attained by practicing Krsna consciousness” - Prabhupada is repeatedly deprecating
Dhyana-yoga, Patanjali-yoga as impossible and advancing ISKCON.

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26-33. They all seem clear. 33 especially Prabhupada states the impracticality of Hatha-yoga, for reducing
fat or maintaining health in city life it may be useful. It may be possible for a few people born in the
Himalayan yogi families.

35. ¡¡¡ Read the KRSNA book and honor Prasadam¡¡¡

36. So, to chant Hare Krsna with the mouth but without the mind fixed in an intention of praying for
service, specific service is a waste of time?

42. Jaya¡

47. The conclusion. Text to memornize for arguing our thesis that Bhakti yoga is the highest Yoga. In the
purport Srila Prabhupada gives an excellent meditation, no? Is Srila Prabhupada describing his “istadevata”,
his worshipful deity?

This is the end of our Semester Two BG study. We also get to read the first section of the Nectar of
Devotion.

Now we will write and Evaluation. Did you and Krsna have fun? Did you develop your Srila Prabhupada
“book club”, Sangat sanjayate kamah? Your life long techniques of associating with Srila Prabhupada’s
golden Vedic literatures?

Love.
Association.
Work.

We need to print our BG Text sheet and chant the texts regularly.

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Nectar of Devotion 1.1
Western Sea, First Wave.

2009 Dec 1
Buenos Aires, ISKCON, Argentina
We are reading and writing this on our little NEO machine. There is no NOD available in
Argentina. These are our Tava Pache Pache, Nectar of Devotion, Eastern Ocean, First Wave,
Afterwords. It is written as part of the VEDAS, Bhakti-sastri study. We thank Guru and Krsna for
the association of innocent readers and rely upon their patience to surpass our faults in presentation.

NOD
PREFACE
See how the Preface of NOD starts, just like the Preface of the NOI! Yet, then we get more details
of Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada's life. NOI/NOD = Summary/Complete Science.

"The principle of Lord Caitanya's movement in educating and elevating everyone to the exalted
post of a gosvami...". - Seems so clear that Srila Prabhupada wanted his students to accept
disciples. Seems that Uttama-adhikari status is quite possible to achieve. As we advance we seem
to realize that it is a kind of degredation to limit Srila Prabhupada's greatness to Diksa guru or
Uttama adhikari only.

Half of the gold is for Krsna.

(T/F) Sakhira Mallika became Rupa Goswami. Pneumonic device?

"Bhakti means 'devotional service'…”. - Before this there was a biography of the author, no? Now
what will Srila Prabhupada start to discuss?

"...does not long endure..."

"...This eternal engagement in bhakti-rasa..." - Srila Prabhupada contrasts the nature of mundane
rasa and bhakti rasa. One feature is "amrta".

"...In the beginning one is trained according to the...". - Then Srila Prabhupada gives a summary of
the different results of progressive development of Bhakti-rasa: Freedom from Anxiety, Auspicious
life, More than liberation, Attracts Krsna. After the summary, details of the steps starting with
Vaidhi bhakti.

NOD is very scientific, analytical. Dhanurdhara Maharaja's book, Waves of Devotion gives very
nice elucidation. We will read it for Bhakti-vaibhava.

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"...The basic principle of the living condition is ...". - After giving a summary of the steps of
developing the Bhakti-rasa, Prabhupada starts talking again about the definition, goal, of Bhakti
rasa. We seek Rasa, but mundane Rasa means to love the body. Bhakti rasa means to ....?

"...As far as material necessities are concerned...". The mundane rasa is flickering and the Bhakti-
rasa is eternal. The mundane rasa is not satisfying our deep desire. The Bhakti rasa satisfies our
deep desire. Which is...?

This first Semester we will just read the First Wave of the Eastern portion of the NOD.

In the back of the NOD there is Rupa Goswami's original Table of Contents for the NOD.

Found it?

Ocean, Sindhu, has four parts. Prabhupada will describe them. Each part has waves and we will
discuss the first wave of the Eastern part in this first semester.

"...The Nectar of Devotion is specifically presented for...". For whom is it presented? For us?

Srila Prabhupada gives thanks to Jayananda Prabhu and ends the Preface. Jayananda got married
and received a donation on his wedding. He gave that to Prabhupada to publish NOD.

What are some of the things discussed in the Preface? Do you get a little feeling for what the book
is all about? It’s origin, goal, content?

What will we find in the INTRODUCTION"

We can read that tommorrow!

2009 Dec 5
Nandulal's Cave, Houston, Texas.
Hare Krsna! AGTSP paoho. Oooof! After l-o-n-g hard struggle we have finally arrived at
Radha Nila-madhava's Dhama. Canceled flights, snow storms, university and temple programs,
divorce, adultery and fornication, fresh fruit.
Through it all we have been holding on pretty damn well to 16 good rounds, 4 principles, morning
and evening program and where-ever you go, whom ever you meet, tell them about Krsna.

That's Bhakti-sastri.

Finally, here in USA, Nanduala's cave, we have a BBT NOD hard copy.

Oooo! So nice. So wonderful. Srila Prabhupada's book in our hands.

We glanced at the Preface, It's about: What is Bhakti-rasa, no? It's an explanation of the title of
NOD, Bhakti-rasa-amrta sindhu.

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Bhakti - Devotional service.
Rasa - Nectar, juice, flavor, taste, mellow, humor.
Amrta - Eternal.
Sindhu - Ocean.

INTRODUCTION
In the INTRODUCTION to NOD we see Srila Prabhupada beginning his summary translation of
the BRS. There are the Invocation, Obeisances to Guru and.. and.. and what has been described by
some as the pari bhasa sutra of BRS, the seed text, BRS 1.1.11
Srila Prabhupada cites this in NOI, Text Three. Memorize it certainly. Do you see how easy it is to
remember the Text number? 1-1-1-1.
1 = Eastern Part of the Ocean.
1 = First Wave in that Part.
11 = Text Number Eleven.

1.1.11

Without Danurdhara Swami's Waves of Devotion, I could not see the systematic development of
NOD. In our rhythm we plan to read WOD during our Bhakti Vaibhava study.
There has been controversy about Maharaja's dealings during the early days of the Gurukula in
Vrndavana as a physically abusive disciplinarian . We don't know the details from any perfect
source, so we pay our obeisances to him, try to understand him from his book, and try to investigate
the rest by talking with him etc as the chance is provided by Krsna. Knowedge is never impersonal.
It depends on the source.

Now that we have NOD in our hands we see that this Semester we are studying up through Chapter
Five. In Chapter Six the second wave starts, Sadhana-bhakti. We'll read that next Semester.
Preface - Biography of Rupa Goswami, Definition of the Title of the Book and what are Spiritual
and Material Rasas.
Introduction - Invocation and Explanation of the Core Text, BRS 1.1.11. -AND- BRS 1.1.12, the
following text. Prabhupada discusses that at the end of the Introduction. Sarva upadi
nimirmuktam... hrisikesa, hrisikesa sevanam. From where does Rupa Goswami cite this text?
(Next to the last paragraph.)

NOI, Text Three, Purport, Srila Prabhupada explains the essence of BRS 1.1.11, Cultivation. This
is 'silanam'. 'anu-silanam' means, 'anu', following, after, the previous Acharyas.
So, 'bhakti-uttama', the highest Bhakti, primarily, is service to Krsna empowered by the Parampara,
krsna anu-silanam.
Yet, that MUST be done with a conscious intention to please Krsna, 'anukulyena'. Duryodhana was
'pratikulyena', acting for Krsna, empowered. He got all the soldiers together at one time and in one
place, Kuruksetra, so Krsna could accomplish His mission of incarnation and send then all to
another world.
So Duryodhana was doing empowered service, no? Krsna-anusilanma, but it was NOT with a
conscious intention to please Krsna, Anukulyena.
When we are chanting our rounds, are we doing it at every step with a conscious intention to please
Krsna?
Seems not all the time.
So we have to develop that attitude.

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...

Then, secondarily, Anyabhilasita sunyam, the first Pada of BRS 1.1.11 has several subtle nuances
which Srila Prabhupada mentions, but basically, it is sharpening our Anukulyena, no? Specficially,
we don't worship Krsna to get gold, mystic powers, a separate peace.
Got a sense of what is Uttama-bhakti?
So much more in WOD and Professor David Haberman and H. H. Bhanu Swami’s translations,
commentarys.

CHAPTER ONE
Fourteen pages. Is that enough for one day? Seems so!
Chapter basically talks about the six characteristics of devotional service. Vaisesika Prabhu made a
memory device for these: DAPRLA. In the USA in the 1940's a snazzy hair-do was known as a
Dapper Do, so he tells us, Daprla.
D - Distress
A - Auspicioso
P - Pleasure
R - Rare
L - Liberation
A - Attracts

The first two characteristics appear with Sadhana-bhakti, Bhakti in practice. The second two appear
with Bhava-bhakti, when our eternal spiritual nature is budding, that is to say Prema bhakti in
cultivation, and the last two appear when we are in our normal condition of fully loving Krsna,
Prema-bhakti.

Relief from Material Distress

Four and one-half pages, plus all the pictures in our book. Nice to clip the book open and chant
your rounds in front of the pictures! We are in Nandalal's cave in Houston, Texas ... ISKCON
Radha Nila-madhava Dhama. It is 2:38AM. We've chanted four rounds.

About eleven paragraphs.

I think we'll find in these a detailed analysis of the process of Karma, sinful reaction, material
distress. This is an expansion of the beginning of NOI 1 -- an essential principle. How does nature
work?

The Laws of Gravity are real, but even more so are the Laws of Karma. Understand them!

Pf 1. - BG 18.66 - Cited in NOI Text Five as the essence of the Gita. Ignorance>Sinful
activities>Suffering>Sinful Activities. Get it? There are <two> reactions to sinful activities
(ultimately caused by stoopiditee, ignorance): 1) Suffering and 2) MORE sinful activities.
At some point in the cycle we have free-will to increase of decrease how much sinful life we
choose.

Immature - Mature.

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…

(Take a bread and chant four rounds [In front of the NOD pictures {Windows-on-the-Spiritual-
World}]).
…

Pf. 2 - Suffering: Chronic Disease, Lawyers, Low birth, Stupid, Ugly.

Pf. 3 - SB 11.14.19 (look it up?) . Pf. 4 - SB 3.33.6 (what about Gita verses??) . Pf. 5 ("A
person born in a family of...") . Pf. 6 - A detailed list of the stages of development of sinful
reactions. In Bhakti-vaibhava, Waves of Devotion, we will see the Sanskrit names. That will help.
Don't appear to be in sequential order here? . Pf. 7 ("Those effects...") . Pf. 8 ("In this
connection...") - Ajamila: Ah! Ha! Same as NOI Text One, no? NOI is intro, summary, of NOD .
Pf. 8, Pf. 9 - Elefant same as NOI 1. Notice there are two processes rejected in NOI, NOD and SB
6.2. One is Karma, doing austerities to counter-act sin, and the other is Jnana, doing Hatha-yoga,
logic, to understand we are not the body. Both will fail. Chanting Hare Krsna (16-good rounds
daily minimun) will prevail . Pf. 10 ("There is another evidence...") - SB 4.22.39 (What about a
Gita verse?) . Pf. 11 (Last pf.) Snake killing Japa!

This is details of NOI Text One.

3:30AM - Eight rounds chanted so far. Time for our bath, Hanuman-puja, Japa. Go to the Temple.

We can take our NOD and type-writer with us.

Krsna Consciousness Is All-auspicious

I was thinking Auspicioius meant something FOR me, that my boss would be pleased with me and
a better job would be forth coming because of my efforts, or even undeserved advancement.

However, Rupa Goswami says that Sadhana-bhakti makes you so cool, auspicious, that even the
gods in heaven want to associate with you. Laksmi devi, Vayu, Surya and all the plants and animals
get benefit FROM you. Especially manifest as the four principles.
Notice SB 5.18.12 is cited as in NOI Text Three.

Happiness in Krsna Consciousness

Prabhupada's explanation is very clear. As we understand this level of happiness, no desire for
pizza or peace or magical powers, only happens fully at Bhava-bhakti.

The Rareness of Pure Devotional Service

I was thinking that it was rare to find people who obtained Pure Devotional Service by sticking to
the austerities. We can obtain it by sticking to the austerities given by the pure devotee of Krsna,

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no? But even that must be done with a serious attempt to do them with love. It is not something
impersonal. It comes from a person and you must make a personal effort.

The first citatation, Madhya 19, is from Rupa Siksa, Instructions to Rupa Goswami. Did you
recognize it? We can read that Chapter as a seminar all by itself. The citation is in NOI,
"brahmanda bhramite kona...". The Prahlada Maharaja citation sounds like "matir na krsne..." cited
at the end of Text One NOI, and the citation about the Pandavas SB 5.6.18 is a very, very repeated
citation, but I think it is maybe in the Seventh canto, not the Fifth. SB 1.16.16 says the same thing,
no? As I remember, some times the SB citations in NOD are incorrect.

The Happiness of Becoming One with the Supreme

Wasn't this already discussed under the third symptom?
This occurs at the level of Prema. Will be very nice to read Bhanu Swami's and Dhanurdhara
Swami's commentarys on BRS/NOD.

What is the name of Sridhara Swami's commentary on SB? We will see him mentioned repeatedly.
He is first commentator on SB, recognized by Lord Caitanya, but sometimes we see that Srila Jiva
Goswami has differences of opinions with him about certain things.

Attracting Krsna
Hare! Radhe! So, this means that chanting Hare in the Maha-mantra attracts Krsna and Rama to
become manifest in our Maha-mantra Japa? Hare! Krsna! / Hare! Rama!

BG citation is cited twice in NOI. What is the Sanskirta? What is the verse number? What is the
BG context? I think it's Chapter Seven???

Here is the SB Seventh Canto Pandava verses. Must look up this and SB 5.6.18 and 1.16.16.

We are reading "Brhad Bhagavatamrta" and it is the section where Narada muni visits the Pandavas
and these comparisons with Prahlada Maharaja are made.
So much knowledge with which to fill our heart. No time for anything but Sankirtan.

Chapter Two
The First Stages of Devotional Service
12:36PM - AGTSP paoho. We just finished our Gayatri and honored a little Papaya-prasadam,
then looked at www.vedabase.net and yes, SB 5.6.18 does talk about the glories of the Pandavas!
Also 1.16.16.

The First Stages of Devotional Service

1. The aforementioned six characteristics appear two at a time as we progress from Sadhana-bhakti
to Bhava-bhakti to Prema-bhakti.
2. A definition of Sadhana-bhakti. What is it?
How does this NOI cited verse, "Nitya siddha krsna prema, sadhya kabu naya..." apply here? (NOI
4, pf2)
3. What are the two divisions of Sadhana-bhakti?
4. What is the fundamental rule of Sadhana-bhakti (SB 7.1.32 cited)? (Notice also that offering
Mangala-arati is the first practice mentioned).

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5. Then a discussion of Varna-ashrama-dharma. It is a natural way to remember Krsna by offering
the results of our work to Him.
6. But any work can be offered to Krsna under the guidance of the Spiritual Master and Devotees
and then we can remember Krsna.

ESSENCE: Definition of Sadhana-bhakti.

Chapter Three
ELIGIBILITY OF THE CANDIDATE FOR ACCEPTING DEVOTIONAL SERVICE.
Wopper of a Chapter, no?. Gives a heirarchy of people.

Uttama-adhikari
Madhyama-adhikari
Kanistha-adhikari
Jñani
Curious
Want Monkey
Want Life

And then it seems that the Jñanis can be divided into those tainted with desire for impersonal
liberation and those not.

Then a lot of discussion of this impersonal tendency. This occurs a lot. We are such Karmis now,
give us P-nut butter and strawberry jam Prasadam, that we are not bothered by the witch of Mukti.
Yet it seems that later we are going to really be agitated by desire for Mukti, peace, become God.

This Chapter is a refresher course for NOI Text Five, no?

Again this verse "yesam tvanta gatam... (BG7.28)"

ESSENCE: If you got a little attraction some how or other then do Bhakti.

Chapter Four
DEVOTIONAL SERVICE SURPASSES ALL LIBERATION
Details of Chapter Three.
Notice that all the SB citations are in order by Canto! Like Srila Rupa Goswami was just scanning
through the SB look for citations. There must be many, many more.
Then Padma purana, Hayasira-pancharatra. When Prabhupada was telling the story of Manigriva
and Nalakuvera my mind started going full tilt into being those lusty dudes and imagining
"enjoying" with the damsels of heaven.
Ooof!
Fortunate to be in an ISKCON temple where my senses save my mind.

Back to SB 6.14.5. Narayana parah. Verse cited many, many times. Essence of the whole thing:
Even if you are a BIG demon, if you are a devotee, that is better than being completely liberated

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from Maya with no devotional service. Don't focus on the devotee’s bad qualities. Focus on their
service attraction. It is very, very rare.

SB 1,7,10 - Atma Rama Verse. Explained to Sanatana Goswami, Sarva-bhauma Bhattacharya and
(?) Prakasananda Sarasvati?

(Serving Krsna especially means to HEAR about Him)

Last Paragraphs - "From the above statement it is found...". Here is very interesting information
that liberated in Vaikuntha, in the four kinds of liberation, one still can make progress to service in
Goloka.

All these chapters are preliminary to engaging in Sadhana bhakti. Maybe devotees are attached to
prestige and prominence. Maybe they become Temple Presidents and GBC with some of this
motive. Maybe they become Sannyasis because they want Brahmananda or Sahajiya relishing of
the pastimes of Krsna, but they are eligible to take up Sadhana-bhakti and so are very advanced
souls. We should see that and see how we can help them get free from the two witches.

Next Semester we study Sadhana bhakti in practice. Here we have seen a definition of Bhakti, who
can start with Sadhana bhakti.

Thank you.

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EVALUATIONS FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER.
Buckbee Bullwart was a rum roughy at Central Highschool in Petryns Perch (Pennsylvania). He
didn't know much but he was well respected by his classmates.
One day he got a "Bhagavad-gita As It Is" and an invitacion to a "Hare Krsna Initiation Ceremony"
at Twitchy's Cafe, down by the rail-yard.
He didn't go, but his friend Plaster went.

"Hey, how was the Initiation?", asked Bluckbee.

"Pretty damn good", said Michael (Plaster). "The music was out-of-this-world. Most Hare Krsna
are Mukti-vadis, but there was this one guy, Swami All-good, who seemed to be intent on
manifesting the esoteric Divinitys, Radha-Raman, within this Material Sky.
His music stuck. It really stuck!"

Bruckbee: "Music should burn, but what about this book", he said, as he wildly waved the BG in
his hand?

Plaster: Done dirt. Indian's tell storys of the land, sky and heaven, and even beyond the highest of
the high-seven.

Buckbee (B)): Beyond Brahma-loka?

P, nodding his head, "The immortal world, BG 8.21"
B: Wow! ! (WOW {wow}})!

...

1. How many chapters in the BG?

2. Why are they divided in to Chapters 1-6, 7-12, 13-18?
3. What is discussed in Chapter One. Give as much detail as you can, and explain why this Chapter
is very important.
4. Write the Sanskrit and Engish for BG 1.1
5. Complete the Sanskrit and give the English for:
"dehino 'smin..."
"matra sparsas..."
6. After Chapter One, King Dhrtarastra is happy to hear that Arjuna is not going to fight, but then
Arjuna establishes a new relationship with Krsna that guarantees that his sons have lost the battle.
What is that relationship? What is the Sanskrit and English for Arjuna's declaration and petion for
this relationship?
7. What are the two divisions of Chapter Two? How many texts in each one? What is their content?
Support your claim with Verse numbers (even approximate) and Sanskrit and English (Skt/Eng)?
If I fail to complete Yoga am I a looser, Skt/Eng?

...

B: Good, God, you-all! That's a whole sludge bucket of knowledge. Who could possible learn all
that?
P: A young doctor.
B: Aim to save lives, but take a break. Music, music for the God Lord's sake. Golden Lord, sin-
seeds break.

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...
NOD
1. Explain what the title Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu means? How is the Bhakti rasa different than the
Material Rasa?
2. Sanskrit and English for BRS 1.1.11 Explain the verse.
3. Why are the devotees like sharks? What are the Mayavadis like?
4.What are the three levels of Bhakti? What are the two divisions of the first level?
6. What are the six symptoms of Bhakti? In which of the three levels in Question 4 do they each
appear? What is your level?
7. Why is Bhakti superior to liberation?
8. What is the cause of suffering? What are it's stages of development?
9. Who is eligible to take up Bhakti? (Explain the two Witches, Mukti and Bukti)

Bullwart: What about Chapters Three, Four, Five and Six? Why is the BG divided in three sections
like that, 6-6-6?
Lay-on McDuff and Damned be him who first calls hold, enough!
Plaster: (ASA Tea-time soon. 4:54PM. Mexico City. Nimai-sundara's Apartment, 8-minutes from
the Temple, the Gnomes are cooking Ekadasi-biscuits)
BG As It Is (BGA), 12.20 Purport mentions middle six chapters, but don't know other citation.
Bright Students will tell us.

CHAPTER THREE

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1. Chapter Three starts with a complaint from Arjuna. What is it? What is Krsna immediate
answer?
2. Then Krsna gives a practical way to engage in Karma-yoga including some discussion of rain
and sin in the form of food. Give a summary of this path.
3. 3.17 - 24. Then he discusses people who don't have to follow these sacrfices to the demigods.
Why don't they have to follow? Why do Krsna and Kings like Janaka even still follow the sacrfices
to the demigods?
4. Give full Sanskrit and English for Text 21 which begins:
yad yad acarati sresthas...
5. 3.25 Then he goes to the ignerant dudes who have to follow the Vedic sacrifices. Give the full
Sanskrit and English for Text 27 which begins with...
prakrteh kriyamanani...
6. What is the meaning and significance of 3.30, "mayi sarvani karmani".
7. 3.36. By what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force? What is
the solution?

CHAPTER FOUR
1. What are the titles of the first six chapters of the BG?
2. Doubting Thomas: Were in the BG does Krsna say that this knowledge must be received by
Parampara. (Sanskrit-English and exact, or approximate, Chapter-Text number)
3. Why does Krsna make Arjuna the new recipient of this knowledge? What two qualifications
does Arjuna have?
4. Do you think this is a good Evaluation?
5. How does Krsna answer Arjuna's complaint about Krsna's age being inferior to the Sungod's?
6. 4.6 "Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates and although I am the
Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form":
We think this is a Super Important Text. Is Krsna telling us something here that He has never
explained in the BG before?
7. 3.7 "yada yada hi dharmasya...", Sanskrit-English (S-E).
8. 3.9 "janma karma ca me divyam..." S-E
9. 3.10: In the Purport Srila Prabhupada cites one of our most important texts, "adau sraddha tatah
sadhu-sangho tata bhajana-kriya...". These are the different stages in the development of Pure
Bhakti. What are the different stages from Sraddha to Prema (S-E).
10. 3.11: 'ye yatha mam pradayante / tams tathaiva bhajamy aham" - English.
11. Do you keep the NoI with you all the time? Do you recite the Sanskrit and Bengali texts in the
work and in the puports regularly? Are you a Brahmana (Ksaatriya (Vaishya...)?
12. 3.13: The four Varnas, divisions of society, Brahmana etc, are created by Krsna. S/E first two
lines.
13. English:
karma-
vikarma-
akarma-
14. This whole chapter is talking again again about the word Karma. In text 4.23 Krsna starts to
talk about Yajna, offering butter in the fire. Then He starts to talk about so many other kinds of
Yajna, sacrifice. Name as many different kinds of Yajna, sacrifice that you can that He mentions
eg. the scrifice of the incoming breathe into the outgoing breath.
15. 4.34 - S/E "tad viddhi pranipatena..."
16. 4.35 - What is the <Truth> that we get by following Text 4.34? How does this relate to the
instructions of Sri Isopanisad.

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CHAPTER 5
Buckbee: This Evaluation is gross long!
Plaster: Heah, but fun if you're a Brahmana.
B: But, what, if you are a Ksatriya, a Sudra?
P: Ksatriya, Vaisya should answer as many questions as he can out of duty and a Sudra shouldn't
take the test anyway. He should read the Krsna book at best!

1. This Chapter is a repeat of Chapter Three, no? Arjuna is confused about Sannyasa and Yoga,
Renunciation and Working for Krsna. What is the relationship of these things?
They may not be important to you, but this is the area of knowledge where the Gita specificially
focuses.
2. 3.18: S/E - "The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge , see with equal vision a ____ and
a_____, a_____, a______ ...."
3. 5.27-28: "Yoga posture, breath control..." Why does this introduce the next chapter?

CHAPTER SIX
1. Buckwart: Thank God! ! ! ! The end of this Evaluation.
Plaster: I like it! It's nice to get more and more of a feel of the BG! If you want to become a
Sannyasi, study Bhakti-bhaibhava with Swami what's-his-name, next you have to teach Bhakti-
sastri and write your own Evaluations.
Buckbee: Oh, God! Please save me from this! I just like working like an ass for Krsna and
eating nice Prasadam.
Plaster: That is also acceptable.
But why do you work that way? Why not work for Hans Piggy and the Gun-gruff Steam-ship
Line?
Buckbee: (Help Buckbee. Write a good answer for this question. Karma, Karma, Karma)

2. 6.3
What are the different rungs on the Yoga-ladder? What is at the top of the Ladder, p-nuts and
bananas?

3. 6.6-7 Is your mind your friend or your enemy?

4. 6.10-15 Again yoga postures etc. Is this practical for perople in this age? What are some of the
difficult things that we must do for this mystical, Astanga, Hatha-yoga?

5. Why does Krsna introduce Hatha-yoga at the end of Chapter Five and here in Chapter Six? We
don't know. Do you?

6. 6.16 Purport: One who sleeps more than ___ hours a day is certainly influenced by the mode of
ignerence.

7. 6.24 "sa niscayena yoktavya...". One should engage in yoga with undeviating determination.
Which NoI text talks about this?
In this regard tell us the story of the sparrow who laid her eggs by the ocean.
8. 6.33. After Krsna describes the Hatha-yoga system what does Arjuna say: Cool, Krsna, let's take
it up right away?
9. Arjuna asks about those who fall down from Yoga practice. What does Krsna say: Yeah, tough
luck, Dude, you failed, start over from zero?

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10. 6.47, last Text in the Chapter: What does Krsna say (S/E). (27 Monkey Biscuits for a really
great answer. 14 for an O.K answer)

If you have finished this Evaluation, and are still alive, you are probably a Vaisnava, and you are
on the Intermediate level. You are qualified to dictate to high class Brahmanas.

-=-=-

Buckwart: But what did others say after Swami Beyond Ananda presented this Second Semester
Evaluation?
Plaster:

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