Суд над Бхагавад-гитой / Attempt to ban Bhagavad-gita

To hell with our enjoying the prestige of sitting at the feet
of such a topmost rasika Vaishnava as His Divine Grace A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, or any other for that matter!

To hell with strictly following the principles of
varnashrama-dharma! That is for the kanistha-adhikaris having
meager pure devotional shraddha.

To hell with playing “Mommy” and “Daddy” in the material
world!

To hell with our having opened hundreds of temples,
restaurants, and farm communities with the aim of delivering all
the fallen conditioned souls in the universe from the cycle of
repeated birth and death!

To hell with animal husbandry!

To hell with following from A to Z all the damn rules and
regulations of the International Society for Rules and
Regulations!

To hell with trying to become a Hare Krishna clone!

To hell with our having “advanced” through the fires of
years upon years of ordeal in the almost intolerable association
of blundering neophytes!

To hell with attempting to express our love for guru and
Krishna in terms of endlessly bearing the brunt of relentless
institutional strife!


To hell with toeing the party line!

To hell with the institutionalism of the institutionalists!

To hell with religio-institutional corporatocracy!

To hell with trying to reconcile ourselves to the neoteric
drift of a movement’s henpecked leadership!

To hell with being a Hare Krishna yes-man!

To hell with all the superficial role-modeling!

To hell with our profiling as advanced devotees when we
know damn well we’re not!

To hell with grappling for socio-religious eminence!

To hell with the institutional rubberstamping of
sampradayic supermen!

To hell with the “necessary evil” of (poorly) organized
religion!

To hell with all the meetings, resolutions, revolutions,
dissolutions, and no solutions ad-infinitum!

To hell with the ever-abounding, all-entangling crisis
(mis)management syndrome! What could be expected of an
institution that currently runs rather like a decapitated donkey?

To hell with our having supposedly heard and regurgitated
hundreds and thousands of Bhagavatam classes, dutifully
attended thousands and millions of mangala-aratrika and guru-
puja kirtanas, and perfunctorily chanted millions and billions of
rounds of maha-mantra-japa! Shnick, Shnick, Raam, Raam!

To hell with all our vehemently preaching about preaching
about preaching about how we’re supposed to preach about
preaching about preaching about how we’re supposed to
preach! What are we “preachers” supposed to be preach-
preachidy-preaching about? To what extent have we actually
understood?

To hell with the profiteering of the cash-covetous,
business-brained mongers of transcendental knowledge!

To hell with the Hindu-bindu Society for Currency (oops! I
mean Krishna) Consciousness! I say to hell with milking the
Hindu cash cow!

To hell with the cost-effective, vogue-wise Hare Krishna
phobia!

To hell with the painfully put-on sankirtana smile!


To hell with it! Like infatuated children, avidly engrossed
in the perpetual pastime of competitively collecting rare and
unusual coinage, we accumulate the hundreds and thousands of
unqualified neophyte disciples under the pretext of
perpetuating the sampradaya. I say, to hell with it!

To hell with, on the plea of concern for others, becoming
so blunderingly bogged down with all the petty little problems
of the hundreds and thousands of corporeally attached shisya-
praya “disciples” that one fails to oneself find the time and space
required to complete even the minimum nama-bhajana
expected of a new bhakta; what then of achieving the advanced
internal devotional realizations needed to become, for the
benefit of one’s disciples, anything better than a half-baked
cookie!

To hell with the undignified, artfully employed, hard-
nosed, cunningly politic, cold-shouldering, dog-eat-dog
bureaucratic religio-administrative spin control! Has anyone
ever achieved prema by this approach?

To hell with being a pawn on the chessboard of any mortal
being’s religio-institutional managerialism!

To hell with coyly compromising the truth to kowtow to
the cacophonous misconclusions of dull-headed under-
enlightened ecclesiastics of religio-executive clout!