Guest guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Dear Deepak Prabhu, PAMHO. AGTSP! > Srila Prabhupada is making a GENERAL statement about how one behaves > towards the Spiritual Master. Srila Prabhupada is also a spiritual > master, therefore it also applies to him. Or are you saying > that the above passage applies to all spiritual masters except Srila > Prabhupada? Please carefully read my comment. > "The ritvik followers misunderstood the July 9th letter." > > It was the GBC that "misunderstood" the J9 letter. Who misunderstood it, those who had physical association with Srila Prabhupada and are directly initiated by him, or the others? > They concoted the unauthorised zonal acarya system, whereby the 11 named > ritviks suddenly became 'mahabhagavat diksa gurus'. Jayadvaita Swami > wrote an apology for this fraudulent system in BTG a few years back in his > capacity as editor-in-chief. What has this to do with the question whether the ritvik system should be continued or not? > The ritvik advocates simply take the face meaning of the letter. Can you > please tell me the EXACT words in the letter ritvik followers > "‘misunderstand", and HOW they "misunderstand" them? Even if you completely understand every word, you cannot understand initiation. See below. > The letter was signed by Srila Prabhupada, therefore he must have fully > agreed with it, therefore why does it matter WHO TYPED it? Where does > Srila Prabhupada ever state your injunction > that: "You cannot understand the system of initiation just by reading a > letter?" Krishna said that: tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya upadeksyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva-darsinah But if you still think that reading Srila Prabhupada's letters and books is sufficient to get the required transcendental knowledge to understand initiation, then please answer my question: Is for the initiation any action required by the guru? ys Ramakanta dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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