Some pix of Gadadhar

Someone asked for pictures of Gadadhar Pran. These were taken by Anadi Krishna Das, who was there at the same time I was. He took many videos during the time there. I imagine he has posted some of them, only the most flattering ones I hope.





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Anonymous said…
A few more picture are at
http://gaudiya-bhakti.blogspot.com/

Some selected videos about
navadvip bhakti will be posted in the tube. By 1Gb after some hours the connection colapsed.
I have to cut the videos into small ones.
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
Jagadananda Das said…
Thank you very much Anadi. Sorry for not answering your personal emails.

These pictures are nice and they soften my heart to Gadadhar. I still insist that he is a special person and that Gadadhar Pandit and Vishnupriya Devi have sent him to reveal their bhakti to the English-speaking world.

Jai Vishnupriya Prananath Gaura !
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
Anonymous said…
do we have any pictures of the paintings alone? they look superb!
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
Jagadananda Das said…
Perhaps Anadi could give a URL. GP is actually fundamentally an artist, even his bhajan is visual by nature, but he says that he does not really like painting! These paintings were commissioned by Tamohara Prabhu.
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
anadi said…
Dear Jagat
I like you very much, as a person, even though I don't understand your type of sadhan... and I have to aknowledge, I still didn't read all you wrote on sahajaism related to gaudiya vaishnavism.

I've put a small video about Gadhadar reading from Omia Nimai Charita, I think.
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4K2MiJJBLec
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
Jagadananda Das said…
Not exactly the best images of me, with my missing tooth. I would have delayed taking care of that!
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
Anonymous said…
Anadi, please post more videos!
Tuesday, 06 May, 2008
Jagadananda Das said…
Good idea, but Anadi, no more toothless Jagadananda, prithee. I suggest posting some of Gadadhar's classes on Vishnupriya or the Gutika. I changed the file names, so I don't have the right dates.
Wednesday, 07 May, 2008
Anonymous said…
Whatta mean, I think the toothless Jagat is quite becoming..

LOL
Wednesday, 07 May, 2008
anadi said…
One can find a second small video, the continuation of the first one, under

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYuQ3Ymd90
Wednesday, 07 May, 2008
anadi said…
Anonymous said...

"Anadi, please post more videos!"

Here it is a third one.

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=9-mghoFtuko
Thursday, 08 May, 2008
Anonymous said…
So this is Gadadhar? I've heard he has married a much younger bengali woman. In a previous post you quote him, "Stay here and I will help you find a Bengali Vaishnava girl who will be a real bhajan partner". I hope he was not advising you to get a minor bengali girl as sexual partner. That would be very disturbing.
Thursday, 08 May, 2008
Jagadananda Das said…
Indeed, he had some pre-pubescent Nepali girls he had purchased on the white-slave market that he could not use himself, as his harem was running out of space, so he was willing to let me have them for a good price. They were pretty trained up to dress like Nadiya nagaris and call him "Gora Gora," but he assured me that they could be reprogrammed to dress like gopis and call me "Krishna Krishna."

It is all a question of money. Those sex slaves don't come cheap. What's a poor guy like me supposed to do?
Thursday, 08 May, 2008
Anonymous said…
Jagat said,

They were pretty trained up to dress like Nadiya nagaris and call him "Gora Gora," but he assured me that they could be reprogrammed to dress like gopis and call me "Krishna Krishna."

Well, I can only confirm it.
Some two girls, one from Hungary and one from South Afrika, came to Gadai Gauranga Kunja, because they were told a similar story, as they were staying in the ISKCon headquarters in Mayapur.

I was quite astonished to see Gadhadar Pran Das being disturbed by hearing this kind of stories about him (even if they are false) put on the market by "some good willing westerners".

We care too much about what people say.
Jagat doesn't care ...so much, ...
We care because we expect something from the people, and we shouldn't.
Friday, 09 May, 2008
Anonymous said…
Thank you for posting the videos, Anadi!
Friday, 09 May, 2008
anadi said…
Here it is another small video
from the same lecture

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBfj-Atyyg
Friday, 09 May, 2008
Jagadananda Das said…
Since there seems to have been some misunderstanding elsewhere about the above comments, I would like to say that the above statement about Nepali girls was intended as a joke. I admit that it was in poor taste, provoked by a poor taste suggestion from the anonymous poster.

I was going to remove both, but I have decided that it is really against my principles to do so.
Monday, 23 June, 2008
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