Initiation (?)

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> My point is that I beleive Srila Prabhupada gave us everything, but that

> we have minimised his teachings. I also beleive that we need pure souls to

> enlighten us, and clear up the apparent contradictions in his works.

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There is never an end. Then an another pure soul would be needed

to enlighten us and clear up the apparent contradictions in

the previous pure soul's clearing word, and then another, another..

So you got that what is called "The disciplic succession".

 

Are we already so bewildered with what Prabhupada meant in his books

that we can't clear it up without assistance of another pure souls

(that we are missing currently, apparently)?

Sounds almost like "the broken chain of disciplic succession".

Already so soon, right after Prabhupada's departure.

 

 

 

> Srila Prabhupada himself says this in a lecture in Rome, May 27th 1974:

>

> "Unless one is svanubhavam, SELF REALISED (emphasis mine) [unless his]

> life is Bhagavat, he cannot preach Bhagavat. That will not be effective. A

> gramaphone will not help (listening to tapes?). Therefore Caitanya

> Mahaprabhu's secretary, Svarupa Damodara, reccomended, bhagavata pora giya

> bhagavata sthane, that "if you want to read Srimad Bhagavatam, you must

> approach a person who is life giving Bhagavata" Bhagavata pora giya

> bhagavata sthana. Otherwise there is no question of BHagavata

> realisation...

 

 

But this does not really mean that unless one is svanubhavam, he

cannot effectively present Srila Prabhupada's purports to Bhagavat

slokas to the people, does it?

 

I thought that out of the very reason that Prabhupada is telling

to us in the above quote, he took the intense work upon himself

in order to give us the explanation of Srimad Bhagavatam.

 

 

 

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