The personality cult

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>bhakta-class when the sastras

>have been quoted in regard of stressing the worship of guru and Vaisnavas

>as bing even higher than the direct worship of God Himself. That the

>surrender to the guru is prerogative to the surrender to Krsna.

5c

 

Well you are welcome to quote the sastras that you learned all the years ago

when you joined in (former) Yugoslavia, but honestly there is very little

said that the person who was put to you by the mistaken system of zonal

acaryas as all in all only-one diksa and only-one shiksa guru should be

worshiped more then Krishna. When it is in the verse 'visnuh aradhanam' that

worship of a devotee is even better then worship of Krishna (and in other

verses) -- it refers to the person who actually brings you back to Krishna.

yes gurupadasraya then diksa but then there is a lot more, so if in some

places it stops with the first few initial stages (because they

think/preached that it is more important then to serve Krishna) -- it is a

failure.

 

>From the other side if by a good good luck and/or your intelligent choice

the guru is THE person who can bring you the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha

Govinda and not just a link to the parampara of mahabhagavatas (and there

are symptoms of that) -- then fulfilling his desires is the perfection. But

anyway we all in ISKCON have this guru (i hope) and through his instructions

we can see Krishna face to face. And it is actually the symptom of eing in

ISKCON and accepting all that comes with that -- feeling that Srila

Prabhupada is actually our guru (siksa in my case) and (not just during Guru

Puja) allways.

 

PS

Please not that this is different point to what Bhakta Ivar makes, but the

truth is that the personality cult is '_the dangerous thing_' if not based

on REAL thing.