[world-vedic] The Appearance of Sri Krsna --reply to Toke

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Toke wrote:

This is not correct. In fact there is four translation of the

Bhagavadgita into English by Gaudiya Vaisnava authors available:

in the 1930's Swami B. H. Bon published an English Bhagavadgita

translation; in the 1940's a translation was published by Tridandi

Goswami B. P. Tirtha Maharaj; then came Bhaktivedanta Swami's

translation; and in the 1980's a translation was published by Swami

B. R. Sridhara, a godbrother of Bhaktivedanta Swami. Besides this

there are several missions representing Gaudiya Vaisnavism

different from Bhaktivedanta Swami who are distributing the

Vaisnava literature in English.

 

 

The ANSWER to above Mr Toke-- is simple those others as SRILA PRABHUPADA

says are :KANISTHA ADHIKARI WITH NO ABILITY TO PREACH. IN SOME OF THE CAMPS

THE ACARYA IS BEING CHANGED THREE TIMES A YEAR. THEREFORE WE MAY NOT COMMIT

THE SAME MISTAKE IN OUR ISKCON CAMP. ACTUALLY AMONGST MY GODBROTHERS NO ONE

IS QUALIFIED TO BECOME ACARYA. SO IT IS BETTER NOT TO MIX WITH MY

GODBROTHERS VERY INTIMATELY BECAUSE INSTEAD OF INSPIRING OUR STUDENTS AND

DISCIPLES THEY MAY SOMETIMES POLLUTE THEM.

 

Srila Prabhupada is UTTAMA ADHAKARI ---VAISNAVA of the HIGHEST STAGE, then

comes MADHYAMA 2nd stage----LAST comes KANISTHA the lowest stage.

 

 

SRIDHARA MAHARAJA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISOBEYING THIS ORDER OF GURU MAHARAJA

 

In the following letter Srila Prabhupada gives a HUGE amount of

information.

1) Notice how he gives Sridhara Maharaja -credit-for ONLY--- HE EXECUTES

THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLES-so we can understand Sridhara Maharaja was NOT on

prema bhakti level---this is why Srila Prabhupada again says AMONGST MY

GODBROTHERS NO ONE IS QUALIFIED TO BECOME ACARYA. How can a person disobey

the Guru and become Guru?

 

2) Srila Prabhupada KNEW the mentality of his "disciples" FULLY well-this is

why he says THEREFORE WE MAY NOT COMMIT THE SAME MISTAKE IN OUR ISKCON

CAMP-they all had the same ACARYA disease. As a Representative of the

Supersoul -he could FULLY understand their desire to be worshipped as

ACARYA---but as the

Bhagavad-Gita says from lust rises anger then memory is bewildered

then -intelligence is lost----so they went to the extent of poisoning Srila

Prabhupada---to grab the "ACARYA" disease.

 

74-04-28. Letter: Rupanuga

You are right about Sridhara Maharaja's genuineness. But in my opinion he

is the best of the lot. He is my old friend, AT LEAST HE EXECUTES THE

REGULATIVE PRINCIPLES OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE. I do not wish to discuss about

activities of my Godbrothers but it is a fact they have no life for

preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of

a temple, they engage disciples to get foodstuff by transcendental devices

and eat and sleep. They have no idea or brain how to broacast the cult of

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. My Guru Maharaja used to lament many times for this

reason and he thought if one man at least had understood the principle of

preaching then his mission would achieve success. In the latter days of my

Guru Maharaja he was very disgusted. Actually, he left this world earlier,

otherwise he would have continued to live for more years. Still he requested

his disciples to form a strong Governing body for preaching the cult of

Caitanya Mahaprabhu. HE NEVER RECOMMENDED ANYONE TO BE ACARYA OF THE GAUDIYA

MATH. BUT SRIDHARA MAHARAJA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISOBEYING THIS ORDER OF GURU

MAHARAJA, AND HE AND OTHERS WHO ARE ALREADY DEAD UNNECESSARILY THOUGHT THAT

THERE MUST BE ONE ACARYA. If Guru Maharaja could have seen someone who was

qualified at that time to be acarya he would have mentioned. Because on the

night before he passed away he talked of so many things, but never mentioned

an acarya. His idea was acarya was not to be nominated amongst the governing

body. He said openly you make a GBC and conduct the mission. So his idea was

amongst the members of GBC who would come out successful and self effulgent

acarya would be automatically selected. So Sridhara Maharaja and his two

associate gentlemen unauthorizedly selected one acarya and later it proved a

failure. THE RESULT IS NOW EVERYONE IS CLAIMING TO BE ACARYA EVEN THOUGH

THEY MAY BE KANISTHA ADHIKARI WITH NO ABILITY TO PREACH. IN SOME OF THE

CAMPS THE ACARYA IS BEING CHANGED THREE TIMES A YEAR. THEREFORE WE MAY NOT

COMMIT THE SAME MISTAKE IN OUR ISKCON CAMP. ACTUALLY AMONGST MY GODBROTHERS

NO ONE IS QUALIFIED TO BECOME ACARYA. SO IT IS BETTER NOT TO MIX WITH MY

GODBROTHERS VERY INTIMATELY BECAUSE INSTEAD OF INSPIRING OUR STUDENTS AND

DISCIPLES THEY MAY SOMETIMES POLLUTE THEM. This attempt was made previously

by them, especially Madhava Maharaja and Tirtha Maharaja and Bon Maharaja

but somehow or other I saved the situation. This is going on. We shall be

very careful about them and not mix with them. This is my instruction to you

all. They cannot help us in our movement, but they are very competent to

harm our natural progress. So we must be very careful about them.