Back To Prabhupada, Interactive, Issue 64,
Vol 4, 2019
"There are a growing number of KC practitioners
like myself who have been impressed by your articles and
prints of BTP and The Final Order. What are
your thoughts on Aindra Dasa?
Yours truly,"
- Nilesh Dalal, Florida, USA
In Aindra Dasa's book, The Heart of
Transcendental Book Distribution:
1) He imagines himself as a gopi.
For example, see pages 147-148 and page 154. He
writes about being dressed as a woman, then attending the "rasa
festival" and so on.
2) He writes fiction about himself as a gopi
relating and interacting with Radha and Krsna.
For example, see pages 160, 164-165, and 168-169.
He writes about Krsna "playing" with the gopis,
involving "kisses" and their "breasts", "buttocks" and so on.
3) He mixes his own fiction with real
pastimes.
For example, see pages 184-185. He writes about
being involved as a gopi when Akrura visits
Vrndavana.
4) He invents his own explanation of what
the Hare Krsna maha-mantra means.
For example, see pages 240-241. He makes up his own
meanings for each of the 16 words of the maha-mantra.
The above are just small samples, as a lot of the
book continues in the same vein.
Srila Prabhupada has condemned such sahajiya
imaginations:
"So to endeavor to become gopis,
that is also Mayavadi, that "I shall become gopis."
No. You have to become the servant of the servant of the
servant of gopis."
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, 2/10/76)
"Some become sahajiya, pretending
to be Krsna and Radharani and Her gopi friends."
(A Second Chance, Chapter 16)
In a similar vein, the ISKCON guru mentioned in the
previous letters, HH
Sivarama Swami, has also published books imagining what
it is like to be a gopi in Radha-Krsna's sacred
pastimes, e.g. Suddha-bhakti Cintamani and Na
Paraye 'Ham.
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