TKG on Srila Prabhupada's forgiveness

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Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO.ALGTSP.

I thought I heard that the only time Srila Prabhupada would not tyr to being

somone back was if the were eating meat.

your servant,

Pandava vijaya dasa

 

On 3 Dec 2002, Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

 

> Srila Prabhupada never gave up on a disciple. No matter how many mistakes a

> devotee might make, Srila Prabhupada wanted to see if that devotee wanted to

> continue serving Krsna and serving him. Many mistakes were made, but the

> wonderful quality of Srila Prabhupada throughout all this is that he never

> gave up on a devotee. He said about Krsna that if you once chant Hare Krsna

> sincerely then Krsna will never leave you alone. I feel the same way. Srila

> Prabhupada never leaves you alone. However many mistakes you might make in

> his service still he does not reject you but he accepts you just as a father

> accepts his child. He expects that there may be mistakes, he chastises you

> like anything, but he never gives you the sense that he doesn't love you.

> Despite all of the grand mistakes that were made I never got the sense that

> Srila Prabhupada loved me less because of them. I always felt encouraged and

> never felt discouraged.

>

> A Sikh devotee called Caitya Guru joined in Bombay, but later went off on

> his own course and started canvassing collections from Life Members. Tamal

> Krsna Goswami then said to Srila Prabhupada, "We have to write to our Life

> Members to warn them of this person." But Srila Prabhupada was hesitant to

> do so. He was not ready to give up on that devotee. But then when Caitya

> Guru took up living on Juhu Beach with a bogus yogi with the intention of

> learning the art of passing a coin from one ear and out the other ear, Tamal

> Krsna Goswami approached Srila Prabhupada and said, "Now this has reached

> the limit. This is the end. It's finished." Srila Prabhupada looked at Tamal

> Krsna Goswami and said, "You do not know about Lord Nityananda's mercy."

> "Why, Srila Prabhupada?There is no end to Lord Nityananda's forgiveness."

> Caitya Guru came back and Srila Prabhupada tried to help him and eventually

> gave him sannyasa. Srila Prabhupada is the manifest representative of Lord

> Nityananda Prabhu. His forgiveness is like that. Both in our own

> shortcomings and in dealings with each other we have to remember that it was

> very rare that Srila Prabhupada rejected a devotee.