Another Letter by Prabhupada to JAS

28 May, 1972
Los Angeles

My Dear Jayadvaita,
Please accept my blessings.

I have received your letter dated May 26th, 1972, along with the blue-print copies of Bhagavad-gita As It Is from MacMillan Company. It is very nice. So I shall be
looking forward to seeing the entire manuscript and book sometime around first July, 1972.

Meanwhile, hoping this will find you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Prabhupada letter to JAS

18 February, 1972
Calcutta

My Dear Jayadvaita,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of February 5, 1972, and have noted the contents.

Yes, because no one else can do them, I shall do the sanskrit synonyms. You simply send me now the manuscripts as required by you, and I shall send back either dictaphone tapes or tape-recorder cassettes. There is presently shortage of tape-recorder cassettes here in India, so if you can send a few that would be a help.

One thing is you must send them in small packets of a few tapes each, clearly marked "unsolicited gift, value less than $5, no commercial value,'' like that. You may send to Calcutta ISKCON before 29th this month, otherwise send to Bombay....

Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swamiem>Prabhupada

Cloning!

Questions and Answers about Human Cloning
by HH JAS

Can they clone a human being?
They can. They will. They may already have.

Does a clone have a soul?
Yes. A clone has consciousness, and consciousness means soul.

How does the soul enter the cloned body?
No problem. It already happens in nature, with identical twins. One cell splits into two bodies, and by Krishna's arrangement a soul enters both.

Is there any history of cloning in the Vedic scriptures?
Yes, in Srimad-Bhagavatam. When the goddess Diti was pregnant, Lord Indra by mystic power entered her womb to kill the expected child. He cut the child to pieces -- but each piece, to his surprise, became a child. These children became known as the forty-nine Maruts. (An early lesson to cloners: Once you start slicing, you may not always end up with what you set out for.)

Will cloning be good for humanity?
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, always a waste of time. Cloning is but another attempt to coax nature into giving us a better life on earth, a life more like what we want.
But nature, by design, acts in such a way that we always get precisely what we deserve: a mixture of happiness and distress brought about, measure for measure, by our own karma. No matter what you do, you can't squeeze a better life out of it.
Real advancement of civilization lies not in tinkering with nature, vainly trying to make a better world, but in moving forward in self-realization and getting out of the material world altogether. If we're not doing that, we're simply wasting our time.

But as long as we're here, can't cloning bring about some good?
Some good, perhaps. But here's a secret of nature: Whenever we try to exploit her, get more, make things better, she always retaliates. Result: More comfort at the start, more trouble later down the line. It's "the rubber-band effect": It always snaps back on you.
As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.9.17), duhkhausadham tad api duhkham atad-dhiyaham: As long as we're in material consciousness, whatever we do to remedy our troubles just makes our troubles worse.
With the comfort of the car comes the poison of exhaust; with the efficiency of nuclear power plants,
disasters like in Chernobyl.


In the long run, will cloning make for a better world?
No. As usual, worse.

What kind of karma must you have to become a clone?
Bad. Good or bad, karma's all bad, because karma means repeated birth and death.

Apart from that, precisely what kind of karma must you have?
The ins and outs of karma are subtle, too subtle to consistently predict. The cell biologists at the Roslin Institute who cloned Dolly the sheep might come back in their next lives as sheep, perhaps cloned ones, bleating a truly excellent "baa baa" and wearing superior coats of wool.

What will cloning mean for bioethics?
It'll mean a mess. The pattern is becoming familiar: Science charges ahead, and human life becomes more vexatious, more dangerous, and further off from spiritual realization.

What does the Hare Krishna movement advise?
Live simply, chant Hare Krishna, get out of this material world, and go back home, back to Godhead.

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Vyasa-puja offering to H.H. Jayadvaita Swami 2008 by KKS

om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah

namah om visnupadaya krsna-presthaya bhutale
gurudasa jayadvaita svamin iti namine

Dear Srila Jayadvaita Maharaja,

Please accept my most humble obeisances millions of times at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam
anukulyena krsnanu-silanam bhaktir uttama

“When first-class devotional service develops, one must be devoid of all material desires, knowledge obtained by monistic philosophy, and fruitive action. The devotee must constantly serve Krsna favorably, as Krsna desires." BRS 1.1.11

This is Srila Rupa Gosvami's definition of pure devotional service which must be devoid of any other desire. We are coming in a glorious sampradaya where there is no compromise. That uncompromising spirit of 'Nothing but the best will do' is intrinsic to your nature.

You once told me that prior to Krsna consciousness you checked out university for some months and that you quickly lost all faith in what was going on there. Another time you described that people were there mainly for four reasons:

To avoid the Vietnam draft
Others were very career oriented
Some left highschool, but were not ready for the job market and mom and dad paid for them to spend four years in some park with nice people, -boys and girls-, have a bit of leisure and sometimes turn in a testpaper
People in the fourth group were there for knowledge and it seemed to you at the time that that was the group the most cheated
Your analysis of those days showed that you had no faith in a material career, nor in sense gratification and that you were looking for real knowledge. No wonder that you felt attracted to Srila Prabhupada and his movement, you were as Kuntidevi describes 'akincana gocaram', materially exhausted.

janmaisvarya-sruta-sribhir edhamana-madah puman
naivarhaty abhidhatum vai tvam akincana-gocaram

"My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling." SB 1.8.26

That uncompromising spirit has never left you or never wore out with time, but rather became deeper and more and more full of meaning in service and realisation of transcendence. Your heart has become soft and rich with devotion to Srila Prabhupada and Krsna, Now it is in their service, that 'nothing but the best will do'.

You kindly accepted us as your disciples, although you had no personal desire to do so and become entangled in that way and be distracted from other service. Still you did so because of your very kind and compassionate nature. For us you made an exception, how to repay it? I am simply remembering over and over; 'Nothing but the best will do'! I have not fulfilled that as yet.

Nonetheless by your mercy a lame man is walking, a blind man sees the spiritual sky and can speak some words that inspire others in devotional service, by your mercy a stubborn man's heart is also gradually melting. By your example you save me again and again from being a fool and engage me as your servant.

sarva devo mayo guru -You embody all the good qualities of the demigods. Your complete loyalty to Srila Prabhupada makes me poor in devotion. Your strictness in following him makes me aware of my duty. Your vast learning in his books reminds me that I must study. Your kind and compassionate dealings with people, the faith you have placed in me, win me over again and again. upadeksyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva-darsinah "The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth." BG 4.34. All your qualities are simply purifying me.

Even with all my shortcomings I can never forget, that 'Nothing but the best will do'. I pray that I may find the strength to fulfill your desires in this lifetime.
Your servant,
Kadamba Kanana Swami

Letter to Jayadvaita Maharaja from Prabhupada

"These books and magazines are our most important propaganda weapons to defeat the ignorance of maya's army, and the more we produce such literature and sell them profusely all over the world, the more we shall deliver the world from the suicide course.
So your work is the most important preaching work, may Krishna bless you more and more. Thank you for helping me in this way."
Letter to Jayadvaita Dasa( now Jayadavaita Maharaja), November 18, 1972

HH Jayadvaita Swami in Leicester

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I know it is a bit old, but nevertheless.

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10 Commandments for Kirtana

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR KIRTANA IN THE ISKCON RELIGION. by Jayadvaita Swami

1. Thou shalt chant as many tunes as thou canst think of.

2. Thou shalt not chant any one tune for more than three minutes.

3. Thou shalt not chant the morning tune in the morning. Or if thou start
with it thou shalt quickly switch to something else.

4. Thou shalt start fast, speed up, speed up more, then stop and start all
over again. The more times the better.

5. If thou art the mrdanga player, thou shalt always set the pace, following
whatever mechanical pattern thou art used to, and let the singer follow thee
or go to hell.

6. Thou shalt always chant "Jaya Prabhupada," "Jaya Gurudeva," "Jaya
Gaura-Nitai," "Jaya the names of all the Deities in thy temple (and then
some)," and as many other "Jayas" as thou canst think of. Thou shalt never
end a kirtana without those "Jayas."

7. Thou shalt always add "Jaya Radhe" to the kirtana. (And if thou canst
vary it with "Jaya Sri Radhe," so much the better.)

8. Thou shalt not allow the Hare Krsna mantra to take up more than ten
percent of the kirtana. And heaven forbid thou shouldest chant it all the
way through.

9. If thou art Indian, thou shalt try to sound like a professional bhajan
singer. If thou art not Indian, thou shalt try to sound like an Indian
devotee imitating one.

10. Thou shalt forget about the way Srila Prabhupada led kirtana.

Bless this House

Bless this house, O Lord, we pray.
Make it safe by night and day.

Bless our humble vestibule,
Bless the TV, bless the pool.

Bless our silly little notions.
Bless our week's supply of Trojans.

Bless, oh bless the internet.
Bless our liquor cabinet.

Bless our kitchen, for it features
Places where we roast Thy creatures,

Bake them, broil them, nuke them, fry them.
Blessed Lord, please sanctify them

While we're scarfing down their wings,
livers, legs, and other things

Breasts and tongues and blood galore,
Bless them, Lord, forevermore.

Bless the toilets where we sit,
Bless the urine, bless the ___.

Bless our fish and parakeet.
Bless our dog, who fouls the street.

Bless our dull routine behavior.
Bless our envy of our neighbor.

Bless this house, O Lord, we pray.
Make it safe by night and day.

Bless the children, bless the wife.
Bless our empty mundane life.

By H.H. Jayadvaita Swami