Siksa guru as personal spiritual guide

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Mahanidhi Prabhu wrote on 23.6.99

 

>> ISKCON is one branch of the tree coming from

>> Lord Caytanya, but is it the only autorized one?

 

> I really don't understand why you are asking such a question.

 

Out of curiosity? nothing serious.

 

>> Why not cooperate with

>> other branches too in order to please our Lord, what could be wrong with

>> such a proposel?

 

> Yes, why not.

 

> Now, can you tell us on which particular way ISCKON is faulty

> of not cooperating with other branches? And on which particular

> way the other branches (like NM's Math, and Gaudiya Math in

< general) are to be credited for cooperating with ISCKON?

 

There should be some kind of cooperation if they all accept Lord Caitanya as

the Supreme Lord. I don,t know the Gaudiya Math or any other Math in India

I only ones visited the Gaudiya Math temple in Mayapur near the ISKCON

project, when I visited the Holy Dhama in March 1984. It captured my

atention because they where ringing the bells at the evening aratika.

 

> I am not intending to a priori defend ISCKON here, but simply

> to get a somewhat clear picture of what is it that is expected

> from ISCKON, and what from "other branches" in term of cooperation.

> A fair-play, so to say.

 

Do NM Mathas not cooperate with ISKCON?

 

>> I dont know this Narayana Maharaja but some things he is

>> saying make sense to me, from the point of view of logic.

 

 

> Which things that he is saying particularly makes sense to you?

 

That Srila Prabhupada is not the Founder of the Sankirtana Movement,

although the founder of the ISKCON organization.

 

That he is one out of many acaryas coming from Lord Caitanya.

 

That in "Lord Caitanyas family one should help each other." (of course I

dont know what NM really meant by this)

 

> Which things that he is saying particularly makes no sense to you?

 

That he disqualifies all ISKCON preachers, for example.

 

 

> One could discuss. If we would know what it is.

 

Discussions are always welcome to me. I think NM lectures depend on how one

is interpreting them. It seems to me that he is speaking very ambiguous to

his audience.

 

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Harsi das