Vyasa puja homenage to Srila Prabhupada

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Vyasa puja homenage to Srila Prabhupada from Saltillo Mandir Temple

 

Dear Srila Prabhupada:

Please accept our dandavats pranam eternally. One issue witch to lot

of people, especially in the west, have be difficulty with: the

notion of submitting ones to spiritual master, to Guru. One of the

outsider Christian scholar said. "Let aside the significance of the

guru in the Vaisnava-hindu tradition. Our western culture witch tends

to be extremely individualistic and rationalistic and thus a little

uncomfortable with notions of a absolute spiritual figures… just

have admit that notion of guru is a very Asian concept, and I would

say Indian concept in its particular Vaisnava form." (HK p. 74.) As

a scholar devotee wrote:

" LET US EXAMINE EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT IN

CONTEXT. THE TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE WAS SRILA PRABHUPADA'S MINISTRY

TO WESTERN YOUTHFUL 'HIPPIES', WHO WERE GENERALLY REBELLIOUS AGAINST

THEIR PARENTS AND PARENT CULTURE INCLUDING THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN

RELIGION, AND WERE DABBLING IN PSYCHO-ACTIVE DRUGS, FREE SEX, AND

OTHER REVOLUTIONARY (or amoral antivaisnava) TYPES OF BEHAVIOR.

REJECTING 'ORGANIZED RELIGION', MANY HIPPIES NEVER-THE-LESS

CONSIDERED THEMSELVES TO BE VERY 'SPIRITUAL' AND HAD A GREAT

INTEREST IN WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND VARIOUS FORMS OF NATIVE

AMERICAN, AFRICAN AND EASTERN MYSTICISM. OFTEN THESE

SPIRITUALITIES WERE WHAT VAISHNAVISM CONSIDERS 'MAYAVADI' OR

IMPERSONAL. THEY USED FLOWERY GOD-TALK, BUT THIS WAS A COVER FOR

THEIR ACTUALLY ATHEISTIC TEACHINGS. AS A CLASS, THESE YOUNG" (

Vediculturegroup:LEVI, NOTOVITCH, GHULAM, ETC. FRAUDULENT

AND CORRUPTED SCRIPTURES Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:23:46 –0700).

>From the beginning, One of your disciples spread the criticism

rejecting Your title, Prabhupada, because It should be reserved for

Your Gurumaharaja. He also checked would relativize Your absolute

position, omitting the honorifics His Divine Grace and funder–acarya.

Similar Increasing challenges to Your absolute authority in the

behavior of certain leaders of Los Angeles Temple, in the guise of

protecting His privacy for His Translating, the leaders denied

devotees direct access to Your. In San Francisco Festival of the

chariots, there was not seat for Your on any of the carts. Thus,

Your saw in a number of places moves to minimize Your position. (AHK

p. 294-295.) En march of 1972, without consulting Prabhupada, eight

of the twelve GBC members held a meeting in New Yorkd to centralize

ISKCON's management. And Your suspended "ALL GBC orders" in such

time. And literally prevent to everybody: "What will happen when I am

not here, shall everething be spoiled by GBC?" (Idem p. 298.) Also,

in 1970, four of Your new renunciants had begun praching a strange

gospel. They announced that by leaving America, Prabhupada had

rejected his disciples for failing to recognize that Prabhupada was

actually Krishna himself. Your reveled the underlaying implication:

making to Your God, the seat of the Guru was now vacated to make room

for one of Your Gaudiya matha godbrothers. (Idem p. 295-296.)

So, in the time out of Your Vapu form and nityalila pravista, Your

sacred Vaisnava-sanga was traumatized, as migh be expected,

inaugurating an extendent struggle to resolve the issue. The

spiritual vacuum thus created had be cause of more havoc in Your

sacred wings ISKCON. Specificly, by the immature error of zonal-

acarya system and the falldowns of Your first disciples that Your had

recommended with opportunity of to be Disksa Gurus. So, many strange

concoctions arise and polluted the mind of many of your followers,

agains to the firsts bhakti principle. Take shelter in lotus feets of

one bone fine spiritual Master.

But, the point is very clear for us: A) You are the only one ISKCON

Funder acarya. B) The Governing Commission Body is the Ultimate

managing authority over all member of ISKCON (S. d. Goswami 1983,

VI;328-29.) But in the same way Your command is C): "Foolish men of

materialistic temperament do not take advantage for successive

authorized, The Vedic knowledge is authorized and is adquiered no by

experiment but by authentic statements of the Vedic literatures

explained by bone fine authorities. Simply by becoming an academic

scholar one cannot understand the Vedic statements; one has to

approach the real authority who has received the Vedic knowledge by

disciple succession… (SB. Pr. 2.2.27.)

The system for reciving Vedic knowgledge is called avaroha-pantha or

the process of receiving transcendental knowledge (S. B.2.1.20)

" My Guru mahraja is the tenth from Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I am eleven

you are (my disciples) the twelfth" (may 18, 1974. Lecture in

LA) "One who is now the disciple is the next spiritual master" (S. B.

2.9.43)

Any one following the order of Lord Caitanya under the guidance of

His bone fine representative can become a spiritual master and I wish

that in my absence all my disciples become the bone fine spiritual

master to spread Krishna consciousness throughout the whole world.

(November 2 1967, to Madhusudana)

I want that all of my spiritual sons and daughters will inherit this

title of Bhaktivedanta, so that the family transcendental diploma

will continue throught the generations. Those posseding the tilte of

Bhaktivedanta will be allowed to initiate disciples. May be in 1975

all of my disciples will be allowed to initiate and increase the

number of generations. That is my program. " ) December 3, 1968 to

Hamsaduta)

You can accept disciples without any limitations. That is the law of

disciple sucession. I want to see my disciples become bone fine

spitiritual master and spread Krsna consiusness very widely, that

make me and Krisna very happy. (December 2, 1975)

"The spiritual master succession is not very difficult. This respect

to my spiritual Master. I am nothing. I am a peon. Similarly this

parampara sistem is like this. I request you (my disciples) all

become spiritual master. (Vyasa puja 1969)

 

"Ghots are always very bad elements, always creating a fearful

situation for others. Similarly, the ghostlike nondevotees who have

no respect for the pure devotees, nor for the Visnu Deity in the

temples, create a fearful situations for the devotees, at all times.

The Lord never accepts any offering by such impure ghost. There is a

common saying that one should first love the dog of the beloved

before one show any loving sentiments for the beloved. The stage of

pure devotion is attained by sincerely serving a pure devotees of

Lord. The firsts conditions of devotional service to the Lord is

therefore to be servant of a pure devotee, and this conditions is

fulfilled by "reception of the dust of the lotus feet of a pure

devotee who has also another pure devotee". That is the way of pure

disciple succession, or devotional Parampara." (. 2.3.23.)

In this way Srila Prabhupada, allow us levanter the flag of ISKCON

and to go out on the battle field to fight against the illusion, to

distribute your books, to preach in all the levels, to always be

faithful to Your orders and to defend, until the last encouragement,

Your sacred mission of ISKCON. Let us to die with loyalty inside Your

lines with the Holy names on the tongue and exhaling: Alive ISKCON!

Alive the faithful followers of Prabhupada!!!

Your servants of your servants

ISKCON Saltillo, Radha Govinda Mandir.