Siksa as most important guru

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> > > Is it wrong to allow a prospective disciple to choose between Srila

> > > Prabhupada and someone else as their guru?

> >

> > I settle for someone else. For Arjuna. Or maybe Sukadeva Goswami. I

> > don't know for sure now... Well, let me throw a coin... Either one of

> > them will be fine, I am sure.

>

>

> Here's some more fodder for your endless sarcasm. Glad to be of service!:

>

 

 

 

 

> Actually, I was speaking of Srila Prabhupada or his disciples who have

> attempted to take up the task of guru. Current parampara. If there are

> disciples of Srila Prabhupada, or disciples of his disciples, who are

> qualified to be guru, one should choose carefully one of them for taking

> spiritual instruction. Srila Prabhupada is the current acarya of the

> parampara. He can be accepted as guru. It OK, really, Prabhu.

 

 

Who said that? That Srila Prabhupada is the current acarya

of the Parampara. Why not Bhaktisiddhanta also? Or Arjuna, or

Sukadeva? What is it "current" acarya anyway? One who passed away?

Or what is it, this "Parampara"? Is it ISCKON? Or Gaudiya Matha?

 

 

This is the problem with the posthumous ritvik theories. The initial

error is being done ("a physical presence of an acarya is not needed

in order to have diksa taking place"). Then, in order to "keep the

head over the water", the whole series of errors and speculations

occurs.

 

You may see my answer on your proposal as a sarcasm (why not as a

light joke??), but that's what we are left with when coming into

the "rtvik waters". Just as someone may settle himself for taking

diksa from Srila Prabhupada, so can I "approach" Bhaktisiddhanta

and become a godbrother to Prabhupada. Or why not Arjuna or Sukadeva?

Any objection?

 

 

Yes, I see it just like that: "throwin'-a-coin". This concocted

"system" of receiving diksa from departed acaryas. It's a joke.

Or an irony. Or a sarcasm.

 

 

(ooops... I almost forgot to keep up to my endless sarcasm style,

but have just about starting becoming "serious&constructive")

 

 

 

 

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