Siksa as most important guru

May 24, 1999

On 24 May 1999, Sthita-dhi-muni Dasa wrote:

> Many of

> the past "gurusappeared" emminently qualified to our naive eyes and yet

> proved to be not so.

> >

>

> Weren't these issues prevelant during the zonal acarya days, and thus

> something officially 'disbanded' with the demise of that system?

Are you saying there have been no serious problems in ISKCON since the demise

of the zonal acarya system? Let's not just put our head in the sand. I think a

long list could easily be compiled. Just the one fact alone that "they", our

eminent leaders, have failed to even come close for 25 years to establishing

varnasrama-dharma after mountains of emphasis by their guru would lead any

sane person to question the judgment of such leaders. That's besides the

continued abuse of women, cows and children over the last 10 years since the

demise of their bogus zonal acarya system.

> It is again most curious that we may say Srila Prabhupada is so powerful he

> can save us from material life, then in the next breath insinuate that none

of

> his disciples have been saved from material life.

Some were definitely not "saved from material life" before they were allowed

by our leaders to be put into positions which allowed them to mentally and

physically abuse their disciples. One would naturally be wary of the judgment

of such leaders. Are all those leaders gone now?

> Everyone in ISKCON should feel encouraged to develop a siksa relationship

with

> Srila Prabhupada. Of course, the loaded issue these days concerns a guru

> offering diksa after his physical departure. There are no examples of this

to

> be found in any of Srila Prabhupada's books, and he said he put everything

in

> his Bhaktivedanta purports.

If a person dedicated his life to reading, studying, worshiping those

Bhaktivedanta purports accepting Srila Prabhupada only as his siksa guru would

he meet with success? By success I mean Krsna consciousness.

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