De's Liniment

a. c. bhaktivedanta swami's liniment (pre swami ashrama)

thought some of the hare krishna's might think this cool

 

i believe price and address have changed so don't sent in any rupees

 

and after he gave up the liniment business

btw, these images are collected from a site known as gaudiya-repercussions.com

 

Those are great images...Srila Prabhupada was in the pharmaceutical businsess in India and manufactured some of his own products, which was apparently common practice in that time and place.


He was a special guest at the Avalon concert, I think Jan. 1967, his invitation arranged by Allen Ginsberg. There's a very colorful account of this event in the biography of SP's life.

 

I don't get it, why post this here? Seriously, one needs to discuss spiritual topics... not some trivial thing like an Ad that has something to do with Srila Prabhupada.

Let me tell you something, if Prabhupada were alive, he would first take down his "Golden Palace" in Wheeling , USA. He would then make it a "Golden Temple" dedicated to Sriman Narayana.
He wants to be remembered for the good things he said about devotional service to God. He does not want to be treated as God or as great man.

I went there to the Golden palace, nothing great. They talked about how the bathroom was made by the best royal stuff from spain and how much time they spent on it. They had the center of this palace dedicated to prabhupada. While Krishna was no where to be seen here... , you had to walk away from the palace toward a small temple where krsna is. Personally, I hated it and prabhupada would have too.

 

how one conducts their varna is conducive to their ashrama development and so varna and ashrama are inseparable and hence discussed as varna ashrama system

srila prabhupada, agree or disagree, lived his life as an open book that some may be so inspired to live as well and in this light, all aspects of his life are considered devoutly spirititual,... as are all of ours lest we not recognize it be so

 

What? - whatever,

let me make it simple for you : Krishna = Spiritual
Anything else= material .

 

Jedi, as a longtime follower of SP, I view these images as a fond reminder that he was indeed a human being who had lived a full life before becoming a spiritual evangelist in old age, and that as a traveling monk and preacher he possessed an extremely rare talent for bridging huge transgenerational and transcultural divides.

The Palace of Gold is another story...I've never been there but am on the same page with you in that regard.

 

it is that simple but i think we have different interpretations on that

 

By this logic Shiva = material then? Also all other god forms. Even the fairies.....

 

My beloved Jedi, if you have discovered something that is NOT Krishna, please do show it to me.

 

lol alright alright, you got me there, "beloved brother bhaskar". but for me its just annoying to see some one discuss prabhupada as spiritual with out saying anything about krishna. I hate this Indian mentality where people make their gurus into Gods, they are not gods , they are only men/women!. But they worship their gurus. To me , its a sickening display of ignorance. It is better to worship God through the guru and respect the guru. I don't know , its just annoying to see people discuss something trivial that the guru did as something great... when it is only a trivial aspect of his/her life.

 

maybe i should put it this way--- anything about God = spiritual
everything else= material .

The confusion here is that krishna for me is God, although for you it could be just another divinity in the hindu pantheon.

 

OK. But what do you mean by God? Many see Krishna as a symbol of the inmost transpersonal self.

 

what perplexes me is that i thought i would only say nice things about srila prabhupada and i still get flack...

btw, krishna was mentioned in the poster of prabhupaba appearing at the avalon ballroom

and my thought, for whatever we think about s.p., thank you s.p. for bringing the hare krishna mantra and lots of tunes to the west

 

He is the "Self" of everything, while remaining a seperate free entity. BBB, the similarity between you and me (atleast this is what I get out of hinduism), is that our innermost self is God, however once we realize that, the localized self does not seize to exist, it just realizes that it is part of the whole, if that makes sense at all. Krishna is God, once i realize him, I see that he makes up everything around me and I really belong to him, yet the conscious entity which i am will not seize to exist, it just becomes useless to contemplate upon when I have something higher than my localized self.

 

People in general however, IMO, delude themselves and think that they will somehow become God and will be endowed with powers to control maya, this can never happen. it is similar to a finger and the whole body analogy... How can a finger control your entire body? it can realize that it is a finger on your hand/toe, it cannot and will not control the entire body because it is just a small localized conscious entity, which is supported by your body. Sure, it has its own powers , but really it is wholly dependent on the body.

Ofcourse, I have come to realize that all of this is just a play on words, we will only realize the truth when we get there. As a matter of fact, truth is undefinable and indescribable, and trying to describe it in the limitations imposed by language create contradictions where there are none.

 

Pretty much the Vaishnava line. And I'm not disputing that this particular philosophy says these things.
However, given the emphasis that is placed on the concept of 'self-realization' one might think that to relaize the self is to realize Krishna. It is said that for one who realizes Krishna that this world is as good as Goloka.
The process of devotion is meant to result in the spiritualization of matter - but what does that mean?
I think it might well mean that the rigid division of spiritual/material would be dissolved.

 

I think the pics might well be of interest to many people. It reminded me a bit of one of the old time wild-west 'medicine show' type cure-alls. (Remember Cher's 'Gipsy's Tramps and Thieves'? - some years ago I know)

Can't say I'm much of an admirer of SP's musical talents though....Nor Cher's, come to that...