What a great comment: Taking the wool off to reveal the wolf she is. Like Butler hiding behind sweet krisna blah blah blah, everyone sees him for who he is. Those that still follow him are lost, sad, and beyond repair.
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KRS ONE exposes hare krishna recruitment tactics here. Basically: We'll feed you if you help us recruit people... A multi-billion dollar organization that blows millions on building fancy temples to their colorful cast of mythological gods and sending their sanyasi gurus all around the world to tell people to chant a random mantra as well as get fed, massaged, bought expensive clothing and l
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Jai! I recall hearing stories like this and in my brainwashed head this all sounded gloriously kosher: The most dramatic incidents of Viswambhar’s life may be said to have taken place in the period between his return from Gaya (January–February 1509) and his accepting sanyas (roughly a year later). One major development that commenced soon after his return from Gaya was the holding of nocturna
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Hi Corboy, Yes, that is the book. Of many many that I have read. And I can post dozens of such nuggets of culty goodness. Ironically, the books are not even biased or against Chaitanya Vaishnavism or Bengal Vaishnava cults. Just reporting things "as is". If anything they praise the epileptic charismatic religious cult leader in broader terms as far as social-political aspects are con
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From Chaitanya:a life and legacy: "Above all, Chaitanya consistently entertained a Brahmanical fear of the temptations of the female body and would come down very harshly on a follower who had violated the rules of male continence. In one such tragic instance, a devotee by the name of Choto Haridas (Haridas Jr.) was banished permanently from the community for daring to beg for some rice f
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I think the main issue with post vedic India is that Puranic Hinduism or "Santana dharma" aimed to assimilate too much all at once in an effort either to be more universally acceptable/appealing or avoid conflict with an expanding philosophically rigorous environment (hence making any Buddha into their vishnu and any Shankar into their shiva). Myth and ritual were fine for early tribes
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Religious fanatics at their best:
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I've been saying this for a long time:
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Power:
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I guess devotees are really getting bent out of shape about the oppenheimer movie. I guess there's a scene in the movie where he's having sex and it involves the gita, which he apparently had some sort of fascination for. You know, because there's no shortage of Hindu temples depicting all manner of sex and scriptural verses speaking of all types of sex acts with both humans of sam
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Devotees always claim that there are words in Sanskrit that have no translation in the English language. That somehow due to this purported lacking, this is the result of many devotees not understanding scripture properly and why the scriptures have been translated in so many different ways without agreeing on any single one point. Well I think other languages besides Sanskrit which nobody und
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Culthusiast Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some good puranic news for Japa das Joseph Bismark > and Vijay Eswaran: > > 28 Deadly Punishments Mentioned in Garuda Puran of > Hinduism > > > > QuoteSucimukham(Tortured by needles) > CRIME: Not doing good and amassing wealth by wrong > doings and stealing wealth, not buyi
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Tulsi out, this clown in: Basically, fanatical religious nut jobs (AKA not rational humans who believe in flying monkeys and elephant-headed gods) are trying to find commonality with other religious nut jobs to exert power over society at large. Controlling their reproductive rights, anti-scientific ideas and any manner of looney ass shit religious folks believe is true: Punishing gay/queer p
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How will butler reinvent himself?
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New video for Knocking on Heaven's Door
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Things to ponder:
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The Krishnas, from the time of Bhaktivinode and throughout history have a typical cult mentality of feeling they are above the law. They feel that the rules do not apply to them. Prabhupada wanted to build varnashram farm communities. The major experiments of that in the US, Canada, Europe, India, South America etc all failed and broke laws. You can say that Butler's own cult started in t
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BREAKING NEWS! After much deep research and study, scientists have finally discovered what the hare krishna mantra is good for. Putting your ass to sleep! In other news, all Butler's followers abandoned him and he is now working at Kailua KFC while living out of his car.
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Brahma has four heads, we have foreheads. Vishnu has four arms, we have forearms. And krishna has blue balls. And so do you. So many coincidences it makes one want to chant 64 rounds and drink butler's foot water. Everything is a remnant of something before it. A remix. An evolution. Run comrade.
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Culthusiast Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > RUN_FOREST_RUN Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > it's good that there are those who remember. > Because watching the FB / Meta profile of Tulsi > Gabbard, one has the impression that there is no > shortage of amateurs of cheap
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On dreams about the cult: Yes, I too occasionally dream abotu the cult. Mostly gurukula and beig stuck there. That is literally the dream. I canot leave or I have returned and am panicing that I cannot leave, miss my family etc. Never pleasant. Otherwise, I do not dream about the anything specific about this cult. My personal attempts here are not a result of not being able to let go of thi
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Religious movements are created all the time. Some gain momentum, some attract only a few followers then dwindle and die. Some are riddled with hypocrisy and corruption, some hide it well, and some are otherwise benign with simple teachings of brotherhood and communal service/kindness. We don't know much of anything substantial about Chaitanya. The supposed and claimed scholar left NO WRI
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“Kali Santarana Upanishad is one of the smallest Upanishad and contains the importance of the chant Hare Rama...Hare Krishna...” “The Kali-Santarana Upanishad, also called Kalisantaranopanisad, is a Sanskrit text. It is a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. The Vaishnava Upanishad was likely composed before c. 500 CE. ...” “The Kali Santarana Upanishad is widely
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Various SIF claims about the "Haribol Nitai Gaur" "Mantra": Haribol Nitai Gaur Mantra | Acharya Das, Insight Timer The transcendental vibrations of the "Haribol" and "Nitai-Gaur" mantras are not only all-purifying for the heart and mind, they are all-auspicious and can bless one who meditates upon them with full self and God-realization. To practice thi
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The land where god himself walked, home to a billion Hindus, where the Vedas and mantras have been chanted with sincere faith since the dawn of time: ZERO EFFECT The least happy country in the world... How much proof does one need to show that these ideologies, mantras, guru's and gods have ZERO effect on anything? If they do help in some way, please show me. Please show me what va
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Butler needs to be reminded of Ekadasi. And what is Ekadasi according to the hare krishnas? "Those who eat grains on Ekadasi and on the Day of Lord Hari (including Janmastami, Gaura Purnima etc.) obtain the sin equal to killing one's own mother, own father, own brother and own Guru; and they cannot reach the spiritual world, which is why one should never eat grains on fasting days.&q
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