Allegations Made Against H.H. Narayana Maharaja

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Hare Krishna!

 

Re the ISO ontroversy, I found the following in the article by Jnana Prabhu

(disciple of Srila Prabhupada), which deals with the letter of RVSD. The

article

is quite comprehensive and defeats many of the false arguments. If anybody

wishes I can send the whole text either privately or to the conference.

 

"Ravindra Svarupa gives an example of a conversation in which Maharaja

supposedly minimized Srila Prabhupada's explanation of the Invocation of Sri

Isopanisad. Ravindra Svarupa falsely puts words into Maharaja's mouth when

he

writes that Maharaja "was telling me Prabhupada was in error in his books".

If

Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu had respectfully asked for an explanation of the

contradiction, he would have found out that Maharaja was not speculating his

own version or dismissing Srila Prabhupada's purports. Rather, his

presentation

was directly from Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana's commentary on Sri

Isopanisad.

Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu says that this presentation was "weird". Thus, in an

attempt to minimise Srila Narayana Maharaja, he inadvertently criticises

Srila

Baladeva Vidyabhusana. When we were very new devotees it was, perhaps,

appropriate to accept Srila Prabhupada's instructions as the last and only

words on Krishna consciousness. As we mature, we come to accept that Srila

Prabhupada has appeared in the context of our sampradaya and the present

Gaudiya community, whose members may from time to time emphasize different

aspects of siddhanta and practice. Srila Prabhupada writes that such

disagreements between pure devotees are on the transcendental platform.

There

is a danger that immature devotees, being unable to reconcile such apparent

contradictions, may choose to take sides, and may commit offences to one

Vaisnava in the name of following another.

 

Obviously we should be faithful to Srila Prabhupada's instructions. However,

we

should avoid making a cult of superficial interpretations. We may take our

own

incomplete and superficial interpretations as absolute, and reject any

apparent

contradictions as absolutely wrong and even irrational. In that case, we

will

mislead ourselves and others."