If the GBC Was Honest And Believed in Their Own Yoga Deviations…

Would They Dare to Write Such a Letter?

Would the GBC actually be brave enough to face the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness—His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada—with a description of the slippery slope created by their promotion of the American Swami’s The Journey Home?  If they think their deviations are bona fide and are pleasing to the parampara, then they would have no problem writing a letter like this one that we have penned on their behalf …

https://iskconnews.org/gbc-organizational-development-meetings-continue-in-tirupati,4639/

Dear Shrila Prabhupada,

Please accept our humble obeisances. 

Now Radhanatha Swami’s The Journey Home, which glorifies many Mayavadi yogis, swamis. avataras and other perverted posers, has been widely accepted throughout your movement. Under our GBC leadership, The Journey Home is being actively promoted in temples all over the world in a dozen languages. Naturally, as your loyal servants on the GBC we have had our share of struggles promoting The Journey Home. It is hard to for us believe that there are still some backward Neanderthals among our Godbrothers and Godsisters who have advised us to take The Journey Home in all its dozen languages and cram it where the sun doesn’t shine! But we have remained steadfast and undaunted in the face of such envious fault finders who have nothing better to do than to criticize us.

We are quite pleased with our progress towards universal social inclusiveness. We are working hard to actively make Krishna consciousness acceptable to the world we live in. As the Hare Krishna Movement grows into a religion like other faiths around the globe, we are continuing to acclimatize ourselves in becoming whatever people expect of us. Certain changes have proven necessary for ISKCON to grow, adapt, adjust and conform to the times at hand. As your loyal GBC representatives, we have always shown our willingness to spend millions of dollars of your funds on lawsuits to defend the changes we need to make to keep the world pleased with our image.

To continue with our progress of conforming with the people that we share the earth with, the greatest need of the hour is for more yoga exercises in your movement. Nowadays yoga asanas are popular (and lucrative) at Hare Krishna Temples all over the world. Yoga is taught at:

-Bhaktivedanta Manor in England https://iskconnews.org/bhaktivedanta-college-announces-new-yoga-teachertraining-course,6354/, 

-Radha Desh in Belgium, https://www.radhadesh.com/en/yoga-2/ 

-Simhachalam in Germany,  https://simhachalam.de/courses/#articles 

-Hare Krishna Center of Culture and Spirituality in Cape Town, SA http://www.iskconcape.org.za/yoga.aspx, 

-Krishna Eco-Village in Australia https://krishnavillage-retreat.com/yoga-courses/, 

-Atma Lounge in Kent, UK, http://www.atmalounge.com/ 

-Vrajabhumi in Brazil https://voltaaosupremo.com/artigos/artigos/25-years-of-vrajabhumi-a-piece-of-the-spiritual-sky-in-brazil/.

And at Hare Krishna centers in India, too.

Here is a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHTTRST5MoU about a meeting of ISKCON Yoga Teachers hosted by Yoga Master Yadunandan Swami. The video also hints that Your Divine Grace supported such yoga exercises—so we are assured that our efforts are bona fide!

For those centers that are behind the times and do not have a purpose-built Yoga Ashram, we invite the karmis to come in and stretch their sweaty bodies right in the temple room in front of your Vyasa Asana. 

You will be pleased that we have now settled upon a genuine Yoga Acharya in the person of Ira Trivedi. Yes, that is how she is actually described on her Wikipedia: page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Trivedi. And since it’s on Wiki, it must be true!  Since Radhanatha has been described as a Yoga Master in ISKCON News, it was natural that he would invite a Yoga Acharya to Govardhan Eco-Village to give classes.

Ira the Yoga Acharya is also the author of some really progressive literature—including her bestselling Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century. According to Wiki, this book is about “India’s new social revolution in marriage and sexuality. It describes the major social changes that Indian society is going through today.” With a population in excess of one billion people,, most of whom stand around at the tea stalls all day, a book on sex like this one by Yoga Acharya Ira is really useful for the growth of the world’s largest democracy.

Not to stop there, Yoga Acharya Ira recently came out with a spiritually-focused shastra entitled Om the Yoga Dog, which was released on the International Yoga Day, 21 June 2016. Indeed, this invaluable addition to the world of yoga literature is a perfect companion volume to Yoga Master Radhanatha’s The Journey Home.

Yoga Acharya Ira is also the innovator of Hair Yoga which blooped brahmacharis will be happy to know about. And believe us, with sexy Yoga Seminars like this one in ISKCON temples, there are going to be a lot of blooped brahmacharis out there. So her Hair Yoga course is really valuable, and we are celebrating it with chanting Hair Bol. 

There is so much more to learn about Hair Yoga with Ira, so please see her enlightened video presentation:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZIVQMaBeM.

“Hair Bol” with Ira- Now at Govardhana Eco-Village

We have made a nice poster to advertise Ira the Yoga Acharya and her “Voyage of Self-Discovery.” Her course is perfect for those who wish to discover the wisdom that they are not only their bodies, but their hair. We are eagerly awaiting Ira’s courses on fingernail and toenail yoga too! 

Yes, the Hare Krishna Movement continues to make wonderful progress into the beauty of yoga under our astute GBC leadership, much of which has come to pass since the publication of The Journey Home.

Your humble servants on the GBC*

Letter written by Kaliya Mardana dasa Brahmachary

From the poster: “A 5-Day voyage of self discovery through Yoga with Ira.Hosted at the Govardhan Eco Village, the 5-Day Self Discovery Yoga Workshop with Ira Trivedi takes you on a journey to rekindle the connection between you and your spiritual being. Click here to know more https//irayoga.ecovillage.org.in/”