Srila Prabhupada said

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Mukunda prabhu wrote: Prabhupada said: that his

disciples were pure devotees, who had come to help

him. Bhavananda asked Srila Prabhupada, "How could

it be that we're all pure devotees? We're all born as

mlecchas, in meat-eating families, etc."

Srila Prabhupada cut him off and said, "That was all

superficial. As soon as you heard the Holy Name, you

came running."

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Hare Krishna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Even after such a great Acharya as our beloved Srila

Prabhupada has shown the way a genuine devotee should

behave, us insignificant little souls are STILL trying

to find fault with great Acharyas like Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Gaurkishore Das Babaji and

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, by talking about how they

had taken initiation, whether they had meat in their

lives before getting initiation, whether they are

genuine because they are not shown as wearing their

sacred thread etc.

 

Prabhus, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for this

vaishnava aparadh and especially guru aparadh, since

these we are in the same line as these great Acharyas,

so they are our gurus.

 

Haribol,

Brajhari das.

(disciple of H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami)

 

 

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