Born as the U.S.A.

Last of a Three-Part Series

By Kailasa Candra dasa

“I have got a fancy for your country, and, being inspired by that, I first went to your country. And still I feel that way.”

Letter to Hayagriva, Aug. 29, 1967

“Mr. Lennon wants to stop war, but the war is the creation of different politicians. So, unless on the summit of administration there are actually Krishna conscious men, we cannot stop war. Therefore, people in general must understand the importance of Krishna consciousness, and they must in this democratic day to send their real representatives who can make right decisions whether there should be war or no war.”

Letter to Vibhavati, June 12.1969 (emphases added)

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech . . .”

Amendment I to the United States Constitution, ratified 1791

As we discovered in the first two parts of this series, the astrological founding of America was at a time that produced a powerful binary, viz., four of the major planets in the chart work in a certain way, but two, Saturn and the upagraha Rahu, work contrary to that quartet. One of the planets, the Sun, is neutralized, although he would have otherwise worked for the astro-majority rule. Although he helps the astro-majority to some extent, basically Mercury is more or less neutral. [Read more →]

Born as the U.S.A.

Second of a Three-Part Series

By Kailasa Candra dasa

“I do not know why I am attached to your country, but I strongly believe that if the American boys and girls would accept this philosophy, it would render the greatest service to the rest of the world.”
–Letter to Dayananda, May 1, 1969

“God has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible to man.”
–U. S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge, 1900

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My dearest friend Kailasa Candra

“Action trumps destiny” — in effect from Bishma Deva. If we examine the actions of the Supremely Wise, All Good and Graceful Sri Varshabanavidevidayitaya das Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, he appears deficient, in that he knew that Kunja Babu and Bon and Madhava, were playing as the Hindoo. I asked a small town Burgomeister in Germany what was the deal with Nixon from the German perspective, indeed from perspective of European mayors from Ireland to Greece, from Norway to Italy. “Nixon is a great man like Bismarck, you Puritans are lunatics.” Hindoo or European, there is not much difference: they tolerate the highest level-talented miscreants. Give the masses bread and circuses. Collect treasure. MAKE SLAVES, DESTROY FREEDOM.

A dialectic exists. Pole A: talented miscreants, Kunja Babu aka Tirthaji, Nixon, Tamal Krishna. Pole B: Freedom.

The dharmaksetre which the Vaishnava Foundation exists within, implicitly understands that action is possible despite Tirthaji, or TK. We can have freedom, which was given us by Srila Prabhupada Abhaya Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta, our Guru.

Kuruksetre denizens are the advocates of Tirthaji, TK, “ISKCON”. “THEY MUST ALL GO DOWN ” (spoken by BV Puri Swami) to inaction, to being wives and marionettes — slaves. Slaves before destiny. NO FREEDOM.

Dharmaksetre denizens include the Viashnava Foundation headed by Sriman Kailasa Candra das, followed by Sarva Sankalpa , the right honorable Bhaktas, Joseph, Earnest, Eric, Irena and some slow convoys.

Dharma ksetre, Kuruksetre, samaveta yuyutsavah

The dialectic is in battle!

mamakah (aka Tirthaji, TK) pandavas (aka the Vaishnava Foundation ) caiva kim a KURU vata sanjaya (what ACTION—see here KURU—was FREELY TAKEN or transpired, O, seer, for i am blinded, i must go down into slavery).

Thanks for freely acting as well as possible without officers, Kailasa Candra das. Action trumps destiny and Krishna, Radharani, Sampradaya, the Bhakti Lata Bija destine you and the followers like Sarva Sankalpa, and Eric, Earnest, Joseph, Irena, for THEIR BHAKTI LATA BIJA COMPANY, named FREEDOM. In their company there is Yogamaya. First action, then the favor of Yogamaya.

The VF members, are awakening from maya into FREEDOM. It is traumatic, different, threatening.

Again, thanks, Kailasa Candra, leader into FREEDOM.

Sarva Sankalpa

Born as the U.S.A.

First of a Three-Part Series

By Kailasa Candra dasa

“Your appreciation of our Krishna Consciousness Movement is very nice, and, if you will carry this practical philosophy to the people of your great nation, you will know the result for sure that this movement is the solution to all the problems of life.”
Letter to Mahananda, April 27, 1970 (emphasis added)

His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada started his international Krishna consciousness movement in America. He made an incipient attempt to do this in Jhansi, India in the early Fifties (The League of Devotees). He initiated his first disciple, Acharya Prabhakar, at that time. However, the League did not take root, in no small part due to political intrigues that surrounded it, combined with non-cooperation from his godbrothers. However, Prabhupada, as the pure and perfect (prema-siddha) representative of the guru-parampara, was successful in America.

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As It Is and As You Like Him

Accept the Direct Meaning!

Third of a Three-Part Series

By Kailasa Candra dasa

“Modern scientific calculations are subject to one change after another, and therefore they are uncertain. We have to accept the calculations of the Vedic literature. These Vedic calculations are steady; the astronomical calculations made long ago and recorded in the Vedic literature are correct even now. Whether the Vedic calculations or modern ones are better may remain a mystery for others, but, as far as we are concerned, we accept the Vedic calculations to be correct.”            Srimad Bhagavatam, 5.22.8, purport

“Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments that mukhya-vritti (“the direct meaning”) is abhidha-vritti, or the meaning that one can understand immediately from the statements of dictionaries, whereas gauna-vritti (“the indirect meaning”) is a meaning that one imagines without consulting the dictionary. . . Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommends that one understand the Vedic literature in terms of abhidha-vritti, and the gauna-vritti He rejects. Sometimes, however, as a matter of necessity, the Vedic literature is described in terms of the lakshana-vritti or gauna-vritti, but one should not accept such explanations as permanent truths.”    Cc., Adi, 7.110, purport

All emphases added for your edification and realization

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As It Is and As You Like Him

Further Considerations on Prabhupada’s Birthchart

By Kailasa Candra dasa

“ . . . any gentleman, dhira, must be interested in jyotisa, astrology.”

This quotation is from Srimad Bhagavatam, 10.8.5. In October of 1978, I and a fellow devotional traveler landed in Bombay, having been sponsored by a married Hindu gentleman my friend knew in Berkeley.  It was my second trip to Bharatavarsha, my close companion’s first.  We stayed in the apartment of our sponsor and then departed the next day, by train (in third-class, i.e., the cattle car), for Mathura in what turned out to be a grueling ordeal.  Of course, when I met this couple in what is now called Mumbai, they asked me about my interests.  I had been in an intensive study of sidereal astrology over the summer, having only been first introduced to the science earlier in the year, so naturally I brought it up.  I was surprised to find out that the wife of our sponsor had no faith in it.

It had been my impression that virtually all Hindus believed in and accepted the science of the fixed stars, but she went on to explain the chief reason for her profound skepticism.  She opined that whatever the astrologer said to his client or inquirer, that person would immediately believe it; as a result, he or she would make it happen in his or her life.  The demigods, laws, and principles of the universe work in such a way that, whatever you think is the reality, they tend to reinforce that belief (at least in most cases).  This was her point, although she did not exactly explain it in that way.

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28 IF

by Kailasa Candra dasa

Fourth of a Four-Part Series

All emphases added for your edification and realization

In this, the fourth of our series, we must reiterate that twenty-eight examples of conditionality (“if”) are now brought fourth and completed with this final installment. Srila Prabhupada made few (if any) guarantees, because nothing could be guaranteed. Free will is what it is. If free will was misused by the leadership echelons of his organization, particularly after he left manifest existence, then all such guarantees (never made) would have been rendered phony.

The one guarantee he made is well known: He repeated that Lord Caitanya’s movement, in a bona fide way, will spread to every town and village of the world. He specifically stated that this may or may not be carried out by his ISKCON movement. If it deviated, then somebody else would take the credit. That’s certainly the way things are trending.

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28 IF

by Kailasa Candra dasa

Third of a Four-Part Series

All emphases added for your edification and realization

In this, the third of our series, we must reiterate that twenty-eight examples of conditionality (“if”) are going to be brought out after the whole four-part series unfolds. Srila Prabhupada made few (if any) guarantees, because nothing could be guaranteed. Free will is what it is. If free will was misused by the leadership echelons of his organization, particularly after he left manifest existence, then all such guarantees (never made) would have been rendered phony—as such, he did not make very many.
The one guarantee he made is well known: He repeated that Lord Caitanya’s movement, in a bona fide way, will spread to every town and village of the world. He specifically stated that this may or may not be carried out by his ISKCON movement. If it deviated, then somebody else would take the credit. That’s certainly the way things have been trending.
So, you will find two influences elucidated in Part Three: Emphasis of the conditionality implicit in Srila Prabhupada’s statements (concerning his movement in general and the GBC in particular), along with the nature of his statements to and about the GBC. As you probably already know, everything is presented here by way of chronological order.

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28 IF

by Kailasa Candra dasa

Second of a Four-Part Series

All emphases added for your edification and realization

In the second of our four-part series, we must reiterate that twenty-eight examples of conditionality (“if”) are going to be brought out as the series unfolds. Srila Prabhupada made few (if any) guarantees, because nothing could be guaranteed. Free will is what it is. If free will was misused by the leadership echelons of his organization, particularly after he left manifest existence, then all such guarantees (never made) would have been rendered phony. As such, he did not make any, because he could not make any.

The one guarantee he made is well known: Lord Caitanya’s movement, in a bona fide way, will spread to every town and village of the world. He specifically stated that this may or may not be carried out by his ISKCON movement. If it deviated, then somebody else would take the credit.

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As It Is and As You Like Him

by Kailasa Candra dasa

“Regarding your question about my birth, I was born September 1, 1896, Tuesday, at about 4:00 in the afternoon. My rasi is Mithuna.”
Letter to Jaya Krishna Thakur, Dec. 6, 1975

A initiative of this nature is meant to help you understand the science of sidereal astrology and to apply it in your devotional life, but it must be fraught with difficulties. This effort has been made especially so due to a rather vitriolic controversy recently splashed all over the Sampradaya Sun concerning the astrological chart of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the most recent shaktyavesh-avatar of the Madhva-Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya.

It is my duty to simplify everything for you–as far as that is possible–despite the fact that astronomical and astrological calculations and combinations are intrinsically and inherently complex. You can very easily get lost in the minutiae of these interrelated sciences. Indeed, that is just what has been taking place on the pages of the above-mentioned online newspaper in recent times.

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