Re: Prabhupada Books Online Vedabase - pre 1978

Dear Vaisnavas,

       Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

      One thing I would like to warn everyone about these 'original books' business and other stories being spread on the internet. They are big myths being spread by some undesirable elements. I was obsessed with that once and it was later cleared up by Swamiji, who was himself in the BBT and who knows about how the books were made and also by Hadai prabhu, who is quite familiar with this and warned me about their wrong association.

       I know some posts with references to other sites. I am not being rude or anything, but I want to inform the devotees on our sacred sanga body about it.  They preach nonsensical ideas of philosophy in the name of Vaisnava Dharma and they indulge in all sorts of blasphemy against Vaisnavas and acaryas, both past and present and spread fanatic sectarian hate politics everywhere and various types of dangerous rumours worldwide.

       I am aware of it because about back I was associated with some devotees whose true identity I realised sometime before coming to this sanga. Since then I have abandoned that association. But they have managed to come to the city where I live not too far away from my residence and so I am aware of how degrading such association is.

        Let me tell you from my personal experience with them that these people are great blasphemers of Nityananda Gauranga Naama and those who chant Nityananda Gauranga. It is very bad association.  To go into the details of these asampradayas any further would be so contaminating and blasphemous that I will not explain beyond this. I hope by now you are aware of who they are -- I don't even want to mention the name for purity's sake and also in obedience to the forum rules.

        I would recommend sites like vedabase.net or vanipedia.org for Prabhupada's writings instead. These sites are authentic sources. and they have all of Srila Prabhupada's writings together along with many other things not there in the other site mentioned in the eariler post.

        So in the interest of our devotional before you post anything up on the forum or elsewhere, my advice is to please check the article's sources for their authenticity. Even if they write something that looks proper, according to the advice of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati in Chaitanya Bhagavata, such words are still very contaminating and degrading for our spiritual progress if they are contaminated with the offensive and blasphemous mentality towards other devotees. Reading those words brings us into that negative association.

        Internet is a place where people can hide behind the cover of computers and write anything without the readers knowing who wrote what. But nevertheless when we find something new on the internet, we should first take care to verify its credentials and authenticity before going further for our own spiritual benefit and those of others. So please be careful.

In your service,

Srinath

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