MASS DISTRIBUTION OF GAURA-LILA IS THE ONLY WAY! ONLY WAY! ONLY!

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Message by Nikhilananda Dasa (ACBSP ):

 

1. I doubt that many people would be interested in or even be able to

understand the Caitanya caritamrta, without the purports of Srila

Prabhupada. These books have to be received through the via media of pure

devotees. Your suggestion to print and distribute the CC -without- the

purport of Srila Prabhupada seems to be -not- a good one. Your enthusiastic

request that we will only be able to spread KC world wide if we immediately

translate so many other works by the six goswamis etc and distribute them

sounds nice but is not realistic. Nor does it correspond to the priorities

and instructions left by Srila Prabhupada. Some of these books were

published by scholars and Gaudiya missions before and they had hardly any

impact on people anywhere in the West. On the other hand, by the large scale

distribution of the SB and the CC -with- purports of Srila Prabhupada, lakhs

of people are becoming devotees. So the request by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta

Sarasvati M. and Thakur Bhaktivinode to spread the pastimes of Lord

Caitanya are being fulfilled by Srila Prabhupada.

 

2. Although it is important to get all the literature about Lord Caitanya

and the works of our previous acaryas translated by and by into the Western

languages,the Caitanya lilas have already been presented in a most

authoritative form in Srila Prabhupada´s edition of the Caitanya Caritamrta.

Many do not even take the time to study the Bhagavad gita, CC and Srimad

Bhagavatam carefully, what to speak of so many other books you have

mentioned. Many beginning devotees nowadays jump prematurely into all

these different pastimes which are published without purports and before

having sufficiently studied Srila Prabhupada´s purports. Needless to mention

that such lack of understanding is bound to produce confusion.

 

3. Srila Prabhupada has asked us in many letters ( as in one letter which

i received in Nov. 1972 ) to first dedicate our lives for translating and

publishing all of -his- books in all languages of the world.

Since we have not yet published all of Srila Prabhupada´s works in all

languages of the world, our priority as followers of Srila Prabhupada must

clearly be to dedicate our energies toward the goal given to us by Srila

Prabhupada - to first publish all of his books in all languages of the

world and to distribute the Srimad Bhagavatam and Caitanya Caritamrta

- with - the Bhaktivedanta purports - in all languages. Then all the rest of

it will follow. If we cannot translate Srila Prabhupada´s books ourselves we

can support the translation work by preaching and making devotees in

countries where we do not yet have sufficient translators and by supporting

the publication of Srila Prabhupada´s books.

Undoubtedly Srila Prabhupada knows better than us what is the best way to

please our previous acaryas. By jumping over Srila Prabhupada we will not

achieve anything. The Srimad Bhagavatam of Srila Prabhupada has a summary of

Lord Caitanya´s pastimes in the preface and the CC contains all the essence

of Caitanya life and pastimes. Then there is also the book "Teachings of

Lord Caitanya" which for example in Germany was published before even the

Bhagavad gita. What more do we want ?

 

4. By reading even fragments of the purports of HDG Srila Prabhupada, more

people than ever before in history have become aspiring followers of Lord

Caitanya. There have been many subtle and otherwise attempts in recent years

by misled deviants, to diminish Srila Prabhupada´s instructions and the

orders he gave us. Worse, in the last two years many even have even tried to

spread the theory that these purports are not so attractive or even

defective ( mostly those who hardly ever read or appreciated them in the

first place). While practically all difficulties we have experienced in

iskcon are due to the fact that some have not deeply enough studied the

instructions of HDG Srila Prabhupada with faith but pretend (-ed) to be his

great enthusiastic followers.