Official Ramakanta vs. IRM discussion thread

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Posted by Yaduraja on May 17, 2006:

 

Dear Ramakanta Prabhu,

PAMHO. AGTSP!

 

Your position is that I have to prove that when Srila Prabhupada did

something, which in this case was to make himself recognized and accepted as

the sole diksa guru for ISKCON, that he actually wanted to do it.

 

> So please quote Srila Prabhupada's statement saying that if a guru made

> himself recognized and accepted as X, then he wanted to be X

 

But your position is self-contradictory.

 

If this were a valid challenge then it would hold for everything Srila

Prabhupada ever said or did. In other words if your challenge were valid

then one would be able to legitimately argue it is unproven that Srila

Prabhupada actually wanted to do or say anything he actually did and said

for his entire life.

 

Even if Srila Prabhupada said he wanted to do something, or be something, by

your argument it must hold that he may not have wanted to make that

statement.

 

Unless your philosophy is that the spiritual master only wants to do things

he directly says he wants to do, but never the things he did but never

explicitly stated.

 

If this is your philosophy, please show me where it is stated by Srila

Prabhupada that when the guru does something he may not have wanted to do

it, but when he says something he always wanted to say it? (Don’t forget

what he ‘did’ led directly to what he ‘became’ in the sentence you agree is

proven)

 

Good luck proving your unique and previously unheard of form of Vaisnava

philosophy.

Best wishes

Ys

Yadu