Envious Demons Can Not Know the Supreme Lord

Renegades Who Are Destroying the Sampradaya

Living entities are blessed with the opportunity for liberation under the guidance of Brahmā, Lord Shri Krishna’s own representative

In the Bhaktivedanta Purport to Shrimad-Bhagavatam 2.9.19 Shrila Prabhupada explains the duty of bona fide members of the Brahma sampradaya, and denounces the activities of the renegades. The full text and purport to that verse follow:

taṁ prīyamāṇaṁ samupasthitaṁ kaviṁ prajā-visarge nija-śāsanārhaṇam
babhāṣa īṣat-smita-śociṣā girā priyaḥ priyaṁ prīta-manāḥ kare spṛśan

“And seeing Brahmā present before Him, the Lord accepted him as worthy to create living beings, to be controlled as He desired, and thus being much satisfied with him, the Lord shook hands with Brahmā and, slightly smiling, addressed him thus.” (SB 2.9.19)

BHAKTIVEDANTA PURPORT: The creation of the material world is not blind or accidental. The living entities who are ever conditioned, or nitya-baddha, are thus given a chance for liberation under the guidance of His own representative like Brahmā. The Lord instructs Brahmā in Vedic knowledge in order to diffuse this knowledge to the conditioned souls. The conditioned souls are forgetful souls in their relationship with the Lord, and thus a period of creation and the process of dissemination of Vedic knowledge are necessary activities of the Lord. Lord Brahmā has a great responsibility in delivering the conditioned souls, and therefore he is very dear to the Lord.

Brahmā also does his duty very perfectly, not only by generating the living entities but also by spreading his party for reclaiming the fallen souls. The party is called the Brahma-sampradāya, and any member of this party to date is naturally engaged in reclaiming the fallen souls back to Godhead, back home. The Lord is very much anxious to get back His parts and parcels, as stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. No one is more dear than the one who takes the task of reclaiming the fallen souls back to Godhead.

There are many renegades from the Brahma-sampradāya whose only business is to make men more forgetful of the Lord and thus entangle them more and more in material existence. Such persons are never dear to the Lord, and the Lord sends them deeper into the darkest region of matter so that such envious demons may not be able to know the Supreme Lord.

Anyone, however, preaching the mission of the Lord in the line of the Brahma-sampradāya is always dear to the Lord, and the Lord, being satisfied with such a preacher of the authorized bhakti cult, shakes hands with him in great satisfaction. End of Purport

The modern perversion of yoga is a perfect instrument for the sinful Kali since it is so far from the reality of genuine yoga that a dumbfounded public is basically afraid to openly speak out. Gymnastic exercises masked as the means to enlightenment have become the perfect device to keep its followers docile and obedient. While the yoga crowd applauds their imitation realizations with the sound of one hand clapping in the trance of pretended nirvana, their “yoga master” laughs all the way to the bank. Having reached a state of utter senseless illumination (read: stupidity) the “yoga students” can be spoon fed more garbage in the form of motivational wisdom. And from their cloud of feigned awakening the yoga flock gulps it down obediently.

Shrila Prabhupada taught that before becoming a student, a teacher’s character must be examined. That way, for example, it may be understood whether the one we have allowed to teach us is genuinely dear to the Supreme Lord as His representative in the work of delivering fallen souls, or is a renegade whose work is to (as stated in the above purport) “make men more forgetful of the Lord and thus entangle them more and more in material existence.”

In these days of the internet it becomes easy to investigate these teachers of so-called “yoga” that the GBC has invited to invade Shrila Prabhupada’s movement. Radhanatha’s headquarters, ISKCON Chowpatty, openly advertises classes by one Kush Panchal that help one burn fats (sic), tone up, and get free from ALL mental and physical stress.” Does this sound like it is the deliverance of fallen souls, or the activity of renegades?

Radhanatha’s picture ISKCON News here:
https://iskconnews.org/radhanath-swamis-new-book-is-on-the-new-york-times-top-list,5670/

So-called “yoga” has bifurcated into so many shadowy reflections that—and you can look these up on the internet—naked yoga and dog yoga have become popular.  Is this what the future holds for ISKCON? It may sound far-fetched but these things are drawing closer to home than the ostriches on the GBC would openly admit. 

Does the GBC actually believe that the propagation of gymnastic exercises is the reason why Shrila Prabhupada sacrificed everything—risking his precious life hundreds or thousands of times in the service of his spiritual master—so that this aberration of Vedic culture could be invited into his temples? Does this appear to be something that is pleasing to the acharyas of the Brahma Sampradaya, to Lord Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, or to Shri Shri Radha-Krishna? If not, then what is it doing in ISKCON? Or is this a symptom of (to quote the purport one more time): “many renegades from the Brahma-sampradāya whose only business is to make men more forgetful of the Lord and thus entangle them more and more in material existence.”

We close with a couple of photos from the Facebook page of Kush Panchal, teacher of “yoga” at ISKCON Chowpatty. Take a look and decide whether this is the movement that you joined—because apparently the GBC thinks that it is.

A dog doing human yoga, or a human doing dog yoga?Snoop Doggy Dog Yoga?