Another posting from Bhakta Mark

[Guest guest]

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA

 

PAMHO Krishna Priya, I would rather be a perpetual foolish person following

Srila Prabhupada as He describes below than to follow their false diksa guru

philosophy.

 

 

 

Quote:

Then another man came. And then another—‘Acarya!’ Another—‘Acarya!’ So

better remain a foolish person perpetually to be directed by Guru Maharaja.

That is perfection.

 

 

 

Srila Prabhupada;

Why did this Gaudiya Matha fail? Because they tried to become more than the

guru. He--before passing away--he gave all direction and never said that

‘This man should be the next acarya.’ But these people--just after his

passing away, they began to fight: ‘Who shall be acarya?’ That is the

failure. They never thought, ‘Why--Guru Maharaja gave us instruction on so

many things--why did he not say that this man should be acarya?’ They wanted

to create artificially somebody as acarya, and everything failed. They did

not consider even with common sense--that ‘If Guru Maharaja wanted to

appoint somebody as acarya, why did he not say? He said so many things, and

this point he missed? The real point?’ And they insisted upon it. They

declared some unfit person to become acarya. Then another man came. And then

another—‘Acarya!’ Another—‘Acarya!’ So better remain a foolish person

perpetually to be directed by Guru Maharaja. That is perfection. And as soon

as he learns that Guru Maharaja is dead, ‘Now I am so advanced that I can

kill my guru and I become guru.’ Then he's finished.”(Conversation, August

16, 1976, Bombay)

 

Srila Prabhupada: "Only Lord Caitanya can take my place. He will take care

of the movement."

(Conversation, November 2, 1977, Vrndavana)

 

Guest: "When did you become the spiritual leader of Krishna consciousness?"

Srila Prabhupada: "When my Guru Maharaja ordered me. This is the

guru-parampara. Try to understand. Don’t go very speedily. A guru can become

a guru when he’s ordered by his guru. That’s all. Otherwise, nobody can

become guru." (Conversation, October 28, 1975, Nairobi)

 

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Mark