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> >It is not that I disobey my real Spiritual Master and call someone else

> >as Spiritual Master. That is wrong. It is only that I can call Spiritual

> >Master someone who is teaching me purely what my initiating Spiritual

> >Master has taught. Do you get the sense?"

>

> It appears to me that if our understanding of the statement in this forum

> will be unanimous, then the discussion on Ekadasi prasadam, or any other

> of the kind in the future, will hopefully be more fruitful.

 

Madana-mohana prabhu, thank you for your nice point as well.

 

Looking at it from a practical perspective, how would you relate this

statement to the vast majority of the members of ISKCON who are not

initiated by Srila Prabhupada? The present diksa-gurus in ISKCON have their

respective individual approaches to Srila Prabhupada and his teachings, and

correspondingly they have a scale of emphasis on them. And one diksa-guru

will not always be of the same in opinion as the other, this is evident in

the light of the history. People adopt teachings according to their capacity

and inclination, and their followers absorb them accordingly. And even

Prabhupada has taught different things to different disciples. And one

person is never a xerox copy of the other, although the haircut may be

similar. Thus we are left with some 60 groups of people (that is, within

ISKCON) who adopt this statement and sometimes get on the case of others who

have absorbed a different mood from their diksa-guru.

 

What to speak of those who do not have a diksa-guru. I skimmed through the

member list of Krishna Katha, and noted that out of its 433 members, 135 are

not initiated, or were initiated by a diksa-guru who lost his good standing

in the course of time.

 

How would you help those who are not initiated by Srila Prabhupada to relate

to the quote you have presented? How about those who are initiated by

various persons with individual moods and emphasis on Krishna consciousness?

 

Some food for thought. I am looking forward hearing more in this regard from

our learned and wise assembly of devotees.